The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-16 00:00:00

SIXTH DAY.

Immediately. hcfore Mr. LAMB'S appearance at
4 o'clock, a pole Was hoisted, which afforded
great diversion : on the top of it was a lamb's
toll, 'ant ically dressed up with a la‘vyer's
tt ig ; a paper foolscap, ortramented with bows of
yellow a(i blue holdino between the
teetlii, a rat, to whose tail was luting an imitation
of a co, k's-comh. Underneath the aeatl was a
placard, bearing, on one side, the words—" Be-
hold ratting; Lamb, witb a coxcomb bung to his
tail :" and, on the other,—
" If silly Lambs go a ratting,
fit' key get this s,irt of hattilq.'' •

The state tit Ita 1)(0i, at the close of the clay's
bosihesi, teas as S

Sir Francis Il,trdi•t;
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Sir F. l'itianuTT, alter the e-xhihition of these,
rownhers, said, the state of the 1u as they all
saw, continued to be as satisfaeory ns it had hi--
titer o beet, to all parties. Ile had no doubt it
was quite so to Mr. Lamb, who hail agnio to hail,
in the r,-stilt it .that (I,y'+ polling, all that pros-
p(iity to wet i, it be was so errinently entitled ;
and which he had so manifes.ly obtai:ted in the
eoorse of the present contest --(L,,uo,fer.)—lt
'was remarkable that the More that Honourable
Gentleman became depressed in his station on'the
poll, the more were his hopes exalted, an the
more strenuously did he persist in maintaining
that he-had good grounds of conclitsion that the
oHmate issue would be favonrable to him.—
(Laughter )—A great many 'of the friends of their
rause were so persuaded of the cettaiwy ot triumph
that nothing could stove them in their (Vitriol' that
there was no occasion for them to come forward,
or to give themselves any F-,rt of trouble in pro-
meeiii e it, lierteise they would have polled a great
• nasty more on that day than they had. Never-
theless,when the great injority they had already
polled was considered, and that'they still conti-
nued to place themselves at the head of the daily
poll, he believed such s,ccess would be found to
be unexampled in the history of elections; and,
under the circumstances he had mentioned, it was
not to be anticipated that there would be any very
heavy day's polling during the remainder of the
contest. If they continued, however, as they at
present were, is would be amply sufficient for
their • purpose.—(Cheers.)— He had yesterday
mentioned the race of the tortoise and the hare,
as applicable to the present contest : Mr. Lamb
had dl,o allowed it to. he applicable ; but, brut
interpreted it in his own favour. inasmuch as the
tortoise lint! eventually •heeo the victor. But
When he had compared his owo and his Hoo.
Ftiend's superiority over their opponent to that
of the hare's over the tortoise, he had only meant
with refereuce to the superior speed of that ao,i-
mat. It certainly waa not to he supposed, that
having got so much a-head of Mr Lamb, they
meant to imitate the. itopr;ukot sluggishness of
the -hare—(Laughter)‘—reat they meant to fall
asleep, and so let Mt Lamb creep unobserved
np,;ll thent.—(Moch laughter )—No, if by any
vet y great exertion on die paft of that Gentle-
mat), tie should happer: to get one vote io-advauce
of them, then, by following the suggestion of his
honest friend, whom, as tic had mentioned, he
met in the street the other day, he thought they
could, without dinch tl,fficulty, bring down such a
body of voters as would " pull him back again."
--(Continued laughter )---Be that, however, as it
might, it was gratifying to reflect that they had not
attained their present high station on the poll from
any one day's exertion ; but they had from the
beginning been carried on by a well filled poll.—
He confessed that Mr. Lamb had that day polled
better than he had expected. Still, however, in
his opinion, his best hope was despair.—(Ap-
Plause.)—Setting that aside', however, the cause
they were fighting 'was of much more consequence
to theta—the Elettors of i',Vestminster—than it
would he to any individual who might happen to
stand in that place before them.—(Applause.)—
The great principle for which they were contend-
ing was, as he had already said, whether the
House of Commons should have the right of send-
ing people to prison.without giving them a hear-
ing--a monk of proceeding, which, if it were al-
lowed, would certainly give that new direction to
the Temple of Honour mentioned by Mr. Lamb.
Indeed the road to honour, in all times of tyranny,
bad always been thrOugh a prison. Political per-
secution had often exacted that as a penalty to the
attainment of virtuous distinction —(Cheering.)—
His Honourable Friend, who stood next to him
(Nlr. Hohhouse) never dreamt of mentioning the
circumstance at all, because he was sore it would
be borne in mind by them. The only hope of re-
ward that public men had to look to, was the ap-
plause of the nation, whenever they suffered, uu-
dc4•ervedly, in the public cause.—(Great ap-
plause )—The principle they had to contend for
was, that there should be no power of arbitrary
imprisonment ; and if the King did not possess
that flames., hr t houghs nsib.siy smis,itcvt, ought t,,
exercise it ; still less the House of Commons,
• which, as the House of Representatives of the
people, ought to be the asserter and guardian of
their rightsanrl privileges.—(Great applause.)—As
the time was drawing so near when he would be
Compelled to go into the country, in order to go
to his own trial, that would be the last time he
would have the honour of addressing them on the
present occasion.- He assured them that be con-
templated the present appearance of success with
great satisfaction, and anticipated a recurrence of
the same feelings .whenever he should learn the
result of the contest.—(Applause.)—He should
employ the few remaining days in preparing his
defence, which he hoped would pi event what
would otherwise take place, a conviction for the
Attorney-General; and he assured them that he
went to trial with as calm a mind, a,m4 with as
much confidence of a favourable termination of
it, as he po,“essed in coining to those hustings,
--(Loud cheering )—Of one thing he would as- •
Bute them, that whatever might be the result,
'rocking which depeoded on his exertion should
tie left ondone to pronwte the cause of public
and the. impreseriptib'e rights of the
,eoole.—((;heering.)—ln the Hies 11 time, it w
left to client, before the conclusion of the elee-
• , to do all in their power to do justice to.that

tritein notion which Was entertained of their hide-
pendent character. Thy were before the eyes
of thtCoutory, and had an opportunity of plac-
ing themselves on.such high ground as there was
every reason to suppose would prevent any one
from attempting to displace or disturb them.—
(Great applause.)—Under these circumstances,
he strongly exhorted them. not to slacken their
exertions ; and having said tions much, he would
take his leave of them.—(Long continued ap
plause.) -
Mr. L A lI'S after waiting the usual time for a
hearing, spoke as folloe's :—ft was yesterday
stated of him, that he had said he felt satisfaction
in replying 10 the Hon. Baronet. He had, how-
ever, never expressed himself to that effect ; for
he knew too well the' value and authority of that
trausceudcot eloquence with which the Hon. Ba-
ronet was so emorently gifted, not to be aware
of his ow n disability to reply to him.—(Bravo.)—
What he had slid was, that he always felt -satis-
faction in speaking after him ; and one great
source of that satistection was from the art the
Horrourahle Baronet had of always leaving his
auditors in good humoeir.—(Expressions of ap-
probation from different quarters ) He in-
tended to tremble them with very few words,
and if they would grant him a patient hearing,
he 'should titbit; himself more than usually un-
lucky it he did not succeed its potting them also
in good humour. Whether he felt satisfaction
or not, in speaking after the Hon. Baronet, he
certainly had heard with pain that this was the
last time they were to hear him on tnipse hust-
ings. He trusted, however, that he might return
in time to appear before them again, ere the con-
clusion of the contest and he could assure him,
that no one would welcome him with more plea-
sloe than lie woidd.—(General applause )—fie
would take permission to remark, with respect to
the nt. Berooet's addreic, that, in proportion
as he represented him to be buoyed up with hopes
of prosperity, as he was declining on the Poll, he
(Sir F. Burdett) seemed gradually to sink in epi-
lets as the names of himself and his protege were
rising ; for certainly, in his address to them that
day, whilst he strenuously exhorted them to come
down to poll with all dispatch, he acknowledged
that he had not 'expected that he (Mr. Lamb)
would have presented so full a day's poll.—(Dis-
approbation.)—lndeed, to horrow a phrase from
one of the Honourable Baronet's earliest
speeches, he thought his discourse to them that
day was poor, spiritless, and woe-begoue.-44-
platne tnid disapprobation.)—With regard to his
friends and the state of tine Poll, it could not well
be worse, and if he was not mistaken, it would
soon be better. His friends were now awakened
to the necessity of exertion—their activity had
spread over the whole city ; so that his hopes were
trow greater than ever. It was a remarkable thing,
that the friends of his opponents were deterred
front coming to poll by being too sanguine, and
that his friends were also deterred trout precisely
the same cause.—(Laughter and disepproba-
tion.)—ln the present stage of the contest, any
man who judged of its issue from the numbers
already polled would come to a false conclusion.
He would advise him to lank at the numbers re-
tnaining if he wished to torus a
cot tee, estimate.—(Clamorous disapprobation )
He claimed their silence only for one moment
longer ; and he was sure they would readily grant
his request, when he informed them that moment
would be employed in doing an act of justice and
courtesy to Mr. Hohhouse. When lie had com-
mitted an error, whether from indiscretion or
otherwise, he was never unwilling to acknow-
ledge it amid make any reparation in his power.—
(Applause.)—ln his speech yesterday, lie regret-
ted having charged Mr. Hobbouse with writing
his pamphlet, and hiS subsequent conduct in pri-
son, as proceeding from a view to an electioneer-
ing manoeuvre.—(Genereel applause.)—Having
said this, be was sure that in throwing himself
upon their liberality and candour, he should be
well received; and having obtained this, he thought
he could not do better than leave them in the en-
joyment of that good humonr which he had pledged
himself to call torth.—(Applause with some dis-
approbation.)
- Mr. HoaHousa then stepped forward, and was
greeted as usual with every clamorous demonstra-
tion of joy. Before he would say a word in re-
spect to the state of the poll, he begged to state,
most explicitly, that Mr. Lamb having retracted the
charge he had made upon bins respecting an elec-
tioneering manoeuvre, and expressed his regret for
the same, he wished it to be understood that he
also was sorry that he had been tempted to an-
swer hint in such terms as he found set down to
hint. Mr. Lamb having now recalled that charge,
he also begged leave to recall the expressions lie
had used in repelling it.—(Applause.)—He would
now turn to the poll, He believed he was that
day 860 a-head of Mr. Lamb, and this majority he
had obtained in the course of five days and one
hour—a success, which he believed, was unex-
ampled in tine Elections at Westminster.—(Ap-
plause.)--He did think, therefore, that lie had
some claim of affinity with a character to whom
Mr. Lamb had yesterday compared .him. Having
been abroad at the time of this personage's ex-
ploits, he was yesterday unprepared to meet this
allusion ; but having since then looked into the
history of this fortunate youth,' he was ready to
acknowledge the similarity of their fortunes, wirb
this exception, chat though all the noTes of the for-
tunate yduth' turned out to be forgeries, his Votes
would not turn nut to be false ones.—(Laughter.)—
Whatever Mr. Lamb's feelings were on their re-
lative situations, he could assure them that he telt
perfectly contented—a contentment which no sud-
den change of fortune could -bestow. Whether he
should gain his election, as it appeared to him he
should ; or whether he should lose it, as appeared
to Mr. Lamb would be the case—(Laughter.)—
he should still be contented. Haviug adverted to
the state of the poll, lie had now something to
sly respecting his adversary's advertisement which
he had that mornieg noticed. It certainly was a
very short one—so short, ineleed, as simply to
state that there were etrtain Committees ap-
pointed in different parts of the town for the
purpose of re-electing Mr. Limb. That was
the exprcseioe—his re-eler.ntioe,—(Clarnour and
laughter.)—There was nothing said on the
score of principles—it was net now " on the
principles of Sir Samuel iturnilly," of .Lord

Somers, or of any other person ; nor sbouid he
have noticed it in any of these accounts, had it
not been for another short notification at the
end, wherein it was signified that there was "free
and open access to the poll." And pray, who
ever doubted it ) And what was the occasion
of such a statement, unless it was meant to imply
that there once had existed an interruption on
his (Mr. Hobbouse's) part, or on the part of
his tai-ends ? He might as. well have said, that,
whereas a report being in circulation that ten
men had their throats cut, the other day, in
coming up to vote for Mr. Lamb, this was to
certify that it was no such thing—(Laughter.)—He
therefore contended that it was meant by this to
insinuate, that no friends of Mr. Lamb could ap-
proach the hustings withont meeting with ob-
struction and ill usage.—(Groans and hisses.)—
And from whom did this insinuation come ?
From those who in the last election employed
iron) seven to eight hundred bludgeon-men !
(Cries of " No, no !" mingled with groans,
and cries of " That's true !")—The truth of
this assertion had, at all events, been sworn
to, and he could not offer better evidence than
that.—(Continued applause and uproar.)—Al-
though no impediment bad been offered by him
to Mr. Lamb's voters, there still, however, did
exist an impediment which would prevent
them ever coming up to poll ; and that was, they
had rather, not I—(Laughter.)—He had rather
reason to complain of an impediment offered to
his friends, who, from the course which had been
pursued against many of those known to nave
voted for him at :he last Election, were terrified
from giving him their support en the present
occasion. What, he would ask, was the inten-
tion in leavi4g cards to solicit votes at the
Electors' houses, of putting on them the names
of persons of power, as it the Honourable this,
or my Lord that, bad any thing to do with the
unbiassed vote of an Elector ? It would have been
better, in his opinion, to'have put at the bottom
of the advertisement, that the boarnaker and
other tradesmen of such and such Hollow Ales,
were at fiber y to go to poll and vote according
to their consciences. These, he thought, look-
ed some►hing like impediments.— (Cries of
" Shame!")—He felt convinced, however, that
the Electors of Westmioster would shew on the
preeeot occasion that they were not to he swayed
by this or that name, but that they would record
by their votes their imprescriplible partiality for
independent principles.—(Continued
The Candidates then retired.

THEATRICAL RIOT.—Mr. YOUNG concluded his
~ngagen►ent at the Norwich Theatre on Saturday
se'nnight ; and on Monday Miss BRUNTON ap-
peared in the character of Rosalind, and on Tues-
day in that of Miss Dorillon ; but, notwithstanding
the excellence of her performance, the house was
but thinly attended. After the play on the latter
evening, much confusion arose in consequence of
part of the audience calling for ", God Save the
King," which was sung, whilst others vociferatrl
c' God Sace the Queen." At length two reg.::..t•
battles took place, the combatants in one of which
actually stripped. At the commencement of the
farce, on Miss BRUNTON'S appearance, loud ap-
plauses superseded the tones of displeasure, bust
nothing was suffered to proceed. Mr. BELLAMY
led her off, and on his return obtained a hearing ;
be stated, that '' as the servants of the public,
they were of no party, and could scarcely be
asked to do an act to oblige a'few, which could
not fail to be disagreeable to many of the au-
dience. A parody, be said, had been handed to
him, so ill constructed, indeed, that his own taste
would compel him to reject it." Here the yells
were again resumed and continued ; the actors
were driven tom the stage, which was occupied
by some of the rioters, and the respectable part
of the audience immediately left the house. Sonic
of the ringleaders were taken into custody.
Mr. YOUNG is gone to Manchester where be
was a distinguished favourite before he appeared
on the Loudon Stage. •His engagement there is
to pet form eight of his principal characters.

DRSTRUCTIVE FIRE AT COVENNEY, BLICKS.—A
most alarming fire broke out in this village at
midnight, on Monday, on the tarm of Mr. SHOR-
TER, which was occasioned by the negligence of
a boy in setting fire to some straw in the stable,
on the return home of his master. In less than
ten minutes the stable was consumed, and seven
pigs were burnt in a stye at the back. The flames
communicated to two barns, which were also con-
sumed in a very short time. A strong wind com-
municated the flames to the timber root of the
dwelling-house, and at this time the fire was seen
many miles off. A range of houses, seven in num-
ber, fell a prey to the devouring element, but
most of the furniture was saved. A Watt of the
name of Bartholomew was dangerously hurt by
some timber falling upon him.
Tuesday last, a large diving-bell, weighing five
tons, cast at the. Irou-foundry here, and intended
for France, was let down to the bottom of our
river several times, with different gentlemen un-
der under it, who remained at the bottom a con-
siderable time without the least inconvenience.—
(Liverpool Advertiser, March 13.)
On Thuridy a novel species of imposition was
attempted in Glasgow. A person of rather a gen-
teel appearance called upon an eograser, wishing
hint to execute a copper-plate of the diploma
granted by the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.
At the same time he produced a pretty exact '1
written copy of the diploma in a varied style of
penmanship, somwhat like the original. The en-
graver gave iuforutation to a member of faculty,
and promised to send for one of the office-bearers
when his employer returned. The Candidate for
the surgical degree was rather abashed at the in-
terview. He pretended to have been an as-
sistant surgeon of the 7th Dragoon Guards, and
that he wanted the diploma only to satisfy his
fat her, who had promised to bestow an estate upon
him, if he obtained one. lie never intended to .
practise, and said he meant to destroy the plate
and diploma as soon as he had gained his object
with his father. Engravers %sill be aware, that
iu executing any thing of this kind, they would
be abettors in a scheme which would impose on
the public in a very material point, and woulribe
very iniutions to the interest of the Faculty,—
Glos.goie Chronicle.)

YORKSHIRE ASSIZES, Mitaca 13.

DEWSBTJRY RIOTERS.

This morning the Judges proceeded as us94l"i
their respective Courts, when l-G persons tver..
placed at the bar charged with committing a 4.11 P
tl
at Dewsbury a few weeks back. When the •81.:
raignment was read, they were asked to plead, 41°r
they severally pleaded -Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK then addressed thetn.'"4ea
observed, they bad all been connected with i*'"o
pleaded guilty to the same charge, and were dal.,
receive the judgment of the Court. The chief 4",
jeer in the punishment of offenders was by inakl"
examples of the guilty, to prevent a further 0111;
mission of the saute crime. There was, howeve,,:
another and a most important object—an attettivr-
to the welfare of the community. It was Del;
sary, in order to preserve peace and tranquilliti
the realm, that ail rioting and -tumultuous,ita6,l,
blies should be put down. He undo stood Uteri
soners bad been charged with creating
riot, for the purpose of raising their wog;
and of procuring work. This was in ill
an unlawful act, and he wished, thew
understand that such assemblies could not II;
cure the redress of anitr,,rieVances they might itote
give, nor even of those of which they might.4l.,
reason to complain. In assisting'at such,talli°l
ful meetings they not only neglected the clisa„,
..;
of employment, but injured those who looked
to them for protection, brought on the ruin of 41'4,-
family, and became a. scandal to their friellie
Their prosecutors had informed him that
general conduct was good, and that no speQi,
mischief had resulted front their meetings.
though violence bad been threatened to el;
Individuals. They bad, therefore, request
that the mildest punishMent might be is
flicted on them. Lie trusted, then, that t$
leniency which they might experience wotail 'I, •
only make an impression on their minds, 80(1't4
gulate their future conduct, but also conviist/
others, that, while violence was certain to oleo
with punishment, and the authority of the Ole
was vindicated from _outrage,,_ be great peinace
of the English Law was mercy, when it eoakiii,
extended with safety to the public. , His Lo
Lef
ship then advised them to return to their britij
and families, and to attend to their business, Ifre-
ordered that they should enter into their own rid
cognizance of 501. each, to appear when csl
on ; which being done, they were all discharged',
James Newton and Edward Rothey were colio;
ed of highway robbery, arid sentenced to Deal'

EXECUTION OF 1100Til FOR MURDER. ,cto
This morning, Samuel ;tooth, who was co,“1
ed an Friday of the murder of William riol4lo
gamekeeper to Mr. Stuart Wortley, underwent,el
sentence of the law.• At half past 12 .the 1101701
imitate man was conducted to the platform bet!io
the chapel. He was accompanied by the chaPl:4
to the gaol, with whom he joined in pr- y•:'
,thont 10 nti!lu'.e,, ing wt!ich time, thousll he
et intervals to attend seriously to
lieverend Gentleman, he occaii,Nially 10"°,4
about with an air of composure, almost border'
upon indifference. When placed upon the drolit;
he looked towards the immense crowd which Weft
assembled, and said, with the utmost coolse!.•
" Good bye, lads Uie innocent !" The d.(
immediately fell, and he died apparently witt",
a struggle. The two young men who were 1090,
tenced to death for the same crime have hg
respited.

•
EXECUTION AT AYR.—On Friday, it7/1"
ill'Gheer and Charles Britton were executed
Ayr, for housebreaking and stouthrief at the Ore,
of Borland, on the 18th of December last, in 17_4?
senceof a great crowd of people, who had ass's
bled very early in the,day, from the surrouoill,
country, to witness the melancholy spectglij
In order to render the scene as striking andi
posing as possible, the Civil Authorities ordero
out a more numerous guard of military tblilt
usual in such cases, consisting of a party of the 11;:e
Hussars stationed there, the 4th Veteran Bovi
lion, and the Ayr Armed Association, amour)°,
in all to about 500. The unhappy criminals
attended to the place of execution by the 1007;ti
strates and other authorities of the place. 014
ton was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Gog-900
and M'Gheer by the Rev. Mr. CAVAN,
,bOlll
man Catholic Clergymen, the former from 61'e;
ock, and the latter from Paisley, who bad cly
to administer to them the last offices of religi:oo
M‘Gneer addressed the spectators in a
speech. Owing to some blunder of the 40,
toner, it was about a minute after M'Gheer sek
the signal before the platform was droPPoif
M'Gheer had got rather a good education 10r1,
station in life, and it is said had once beetle?
tended for the office of the priesthood in the )
tholic Church.—(Edinburglz Courant, March

COAL MARKET, Mnacu 15.
Shipsat Market. Ships sold.
ISi Newcastle
R10•-•to 40,4:di0
14 Sunderland lj lig Gal to 4

BIRTHS.
94'
On Tuesday morning, the Lady of Sandford Grall3,ll3'
M.P. of a daughter (still born.) OP
On Wednesday morning, the Lady of David D. Dav-b
of George-street, Hanover-square, of a son.
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MARRIED. -
On Tuesday, Dec. 28th, 1819, was married at St.
Church, Kingston, in Upper Canada, Lient.-Coloael,,
foot, C. B. A. Q. M.G. to Miss Cornelia 7 00!
daughter of Capt. Edward Williams, Royal Nary. V •
At Taunton, on the 14th instant, Robert-Grant, Esq'c,4loPA
44th Light Dragoons, youngest son of Sir Archibald 00‘,4
Bart., of Money Musk, Aberdeenshire, to Charlotte, YQ,i 1,1,V4
daughter of the late tVw. Walter Yea, Esq. of Pysl'u! •
in the County of Somerset.