The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-23 00:00:00

WORCESTER ELECTION.

We mentioned on Saturday theexcel!ent Speech
Which Lord .I.hk.Auuttsr radressed to the Electors
of Worcester on Tuesday last, at the .commence-
ment of the poll. tar tha‘ city; and as it contains
an a vOtva I of those manly'sentiments and indept n-
dent principles which ought always to animate a
' British Senator, attached at iirCe trythe interests
of .1 PEoPLE and the honour of Tug (AtOW N,
we are persuaded that by inserting it we shall gra-
life all our loyal and constiiutiou:al Readers.. We
(to not think it necessary to insert the Addresses
of the other Candidates, as those Addresses con-
tained Mattel* too innirediatelv relating to each,
other, though we must' again testify our approba...
!ion of the candour with which they united in
doing justice to the principles and the conduct of
the Noble Lord :
Lord DER tutu ItST rose, anti spoke as follows :
" Mr. Sheriff and Gentlemen,—For the third time I am be-
fore you as a Candidate fur the high and distinguished honour
of representing you in Parliament, an honour which it
is your duty properly to bestow-,and will be mine duly to •
appreciate. I consider this, Gentlemen, to be a most mo-
mentous crisis, when you are called upon to exercise that li-
berty, which in this happy country is your birth-right—that
liberty over which the hand of power should have no sway,.
or the voice of revolution alltment's bias, sweetened how-
soever it may be by its attendant seductiou and allurement.—
You are called upon fairly to exercise, and deeply to cutolider,
the responsibility .of your Elective Ft anchise : -you are nut
;net upon a common occasion, but on the fulfilment of a most
solemn duty—you are to reflect that you pot your voices into
one mouth,. and that what is so dear to man—his honour, is,
to an extent, implicated and in the bands of another. Does
this not awaken you to a sense of the magnitude and iin-
portartee of the moment ? I am convinced' it does'. and as
your neigliblitir, your countryman, your friend and tried -re-
presetitative, I face you with respectful, but unshaken confi-
dence. A short review of in:. Parliainentaty Conduct may be
necessary upon this occasion, aud though aware of the great
difficulty of pleasing every one, without vanity allow Inc to
say, that the count enalice I have net with h Mil the Freemen
of Worcester would almost persuade me that I have, by steer-
ing the middle course to the best of aiy.judgment, met with
the approbation of all parties, even actuated as they will'be
by different sentiments, hot .let me say I firmly believe with
but a general view to the iuterests, of their Country, as far
as applies to the Freemen of this ancient and loyal city. A
short time after I had taken illy seat, a• Petition for Parlia-
mentary Reform was brought to me by deputation from this
City,-1 gave it my voice in the House, praying as it did fur
that salutary reform which, if it could be effected, would, in
my humble opinion, be beneficial to the best interests of
your country—hut had snub petition been woven in the loom
of revolution, instead of my sanction, every nerve shoulti
hare freest raised to oppose that which might have then form-
ed a part of its prayer—fur Annual Parliaments and Univei sal
Suffiage. How little do those loudest in the cry fer such a
curse to the country understand the nesery it would einal on
us—the fluctuating voice of discontented revolutionists would
not be the sea upon which -an honest. Eng!islinyin wmild
launch his hark to a certain and inevitable destruction, and
.you could alone be represented by desperadoes, who, having
nothing to lose, end every thing to gain by the overthrow of
all established order and decorum, would, after- using you as,
the tools by which they had arrived at the summit of their
execrable ambition, pounce upon you with the iron talon of a
Tyranny that carries with it the poison, and happilyt he an-
tidote! For after desolating the wrioched country in whalt
it has burst forth' and becoming intolerable, it rallies (sa-
tiated and glutted with destruction) upon social order and
View (as you will with horror) ii. this page of
history the French Revolution, and pray to Heaven to avert
limn this island such dire calamity, by nerving the arm of
the Loyal and palsying the pernicious efforts of the 'Fiaitor.
I the less desirable as voirr Nlem!ter from having a. pa-
tiiaittny in this country-?.. 'You will say thus is Our great se-
curity: this that must an.th veil ohm as to your pubtic
duties, and forms tiros at once the strongest pledge that it is
your interest to maintain the glorious Constitution, whilst we
know that any inroad upon the liberty of the ..übject has been
equally- resisted by you. Yes, Gentlemen, your reflection
leads me to the vote given upon the second proposal tor the.
Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. It was then that 4
had it in my power to prove to you how closely connected
with my sense of real loyalty was the interest of the 'subjea,
and I am nett ashamed of owning that 1 saw the further peti-
tion to the house of Commons upon this measure, over a
recess in Parliament.- in a point of view that appeared to ale
to he alarming to the people, and, dete,miovel to oppose the
measure,, I was also' decided in Inyiug down.my grounds for
so doing. Those grounds were stated at the time in the coarse
of the debates, attd you will have judged whether I did my
duty looweeit the Crown and the People upori that importetat
question. My conscience assures rue that in ail public mat—
ters counected with your city I hare dour my duty. Whilst I
retain this precious monitor in its original purity, I can offer
myself to you] upon grounds that inspire the liveliest confi-
dence, antl muter the bill conviction that in the days of trial
you will prove to me that an Enellshman's word is his pond.
I hope to be returned your Alember by the largest majority
ever recorded in the annals of yogi.. former election,-1 -WO
%holly unconnected with either of the other
Gentlemen who are Candidates with me. Too well I linow
the pleasure of sailing upon smooth rather than on trouOied
water, and my hope is, that those Members may tie reins-mot
to Parliament who may most conduce to the public god and
the interests of a City to which I am attached by every ho-
nourable and grateful tie."

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