The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-03 00:00:00

WESTMORELAND ELECTION.

This subject increases in interest. It is now
announced, by " The Committee of Kendal," that
Mr. BROUGHAM has accepted the invitation to
stand forward as a Candidate to represent the
County of NVestmorland at the next Cieneral Elcc-
tion, " on die broad .basis of Indupentlenee." We
are informed that " The Kendal Committee" till
make theniselves known to the Public without:
delay, and that they seem to entertain hopes of
success. We have received the following letter
from Kendal, horn a most respectable Correspon-
dent, who pledges himself for the accuracy of its
contents:—

" Kendal, 29th Jan. 1818.
" On Monday last, air. Jaturs Brougham,
brother of the M. P. made his entrance int►► Ken-

dal by the mail coach from the South. This im-
portant event had been notified to the public by
placards, diligently distributed many miles around
Kendal the day before. The consequence was
what might have been anticipated from the pre-
vious extraordinary exertion in distributing the
news—the most numerous mob ever collected in
Kendal was brought together. By this mob, Mr.
James Brougham consented to be chaired through
the principal streets, and he gave audience to the
heads of the party in the King's Arms Inn. At
night the mob again assembled, and publicly in-
sulted in the streets and pelted with mud such
persons as appeared respectable from their dress,
unless they happened to be recognized as being in
opposition to the present Members ;—by mistake,
one of those was insulted.
On the following evening, the mob again as-
sembled in farce, and under cover of the night com-
mitted the most scandalous excesses. Not con-
tent with insulting, by language the most ob•
scene, all those known to he of opposite senti•
ments to Mr. B. who happened to come near
them, they added similar vollies of mud to those
which they had poured out 'he preceding night,
as well as showers of paving tiT ones ROM the
street. One Gentleman, a tacLed in this coward-
ly and detestable manner, collared one of the mob,
al,d in spite of their number secured hint. 'mice
others %vete also pointed out, and wnh their com-
panion, tvho had been previously seizA, were
brought before a Magistmate to answer the charge
of an Array. In consequence, two ts etc com-
mitted ko,,the Kendal 1-louse of Correction for
want Of bail, and the remaining two offellet
were held to bail, to appear at the next (nester
Sessions, to answer to an indictment then to be
preferred against them for that offence.
" The Magistrates of the Burgh instantly pub-
lished the following Caution to the Public :
" PUBLIC NOTICE.

" I3u►gh of Kirkby its Kendal.
" Whereas the peace of the town, for the tw•o last even-
ings, has been disturbed by the riotous assenibliv,e of toune-
rous persons in the streets, and tuatsy tespectable people have
beets personally insulted and.ill-tteisted ;
" The Magiitrates of the Burgh therefore
" GIVE ,PUBLIC NOTICE,

" That they are determined to appoint a number of Special
Constables, the butter to presiTre the public peace, and to
bring before them all persons who may be found riotously
assembled, that they may tie dealt with according to law.
cc JONATHAN HODI,SON, Mayor.
JAME, I),puty Recorder.
" ROBERT HARRISON,
Senior Aldermen
" JOSEPH SWAINSON, }
" Kendal, J.inuary 28, ISM
" Since the commitment of the rioters, and
the publication of the above notice, the town of
Kendal has tetnained quiet.
" Mr. Henry Bro.ighatu has not as yet offtred
himself as the Candidae for the County; anal we
I►tophccy, in spite of his btother's appearance in
Wcs:lnorland, that the opposition will be all
sham."—(CarlislesPalriut, Jun )

Sir CHARLES HULSE has, in the most handsome
manner, declined being a Candidate for the va-
cant office of one of the Vcrderers of the New
Forest, in favonr of Mr. COMPTON, who is at pre-
sent the only Candidate. Sir CHARLES HULSE'S
manner of retiring, and his fitness for the office,
from his property and residence in the Forest,
will no doubt insure him success on a future va-
cancy.
The Dean and Chapter of Winchester have
caused 522 bushels of coals to be distributed
among the poor of that city and suburbs.
JOHN JULIUS ANGEPSTEIN, Esq. of Leigh, near
Havant, has transmitted to the Rev. C. B. HEN-
VtuLa ten pounds, to be applied to the funds of
that very useful Institution," The Distlict Com-
mittee for the Deanery of Droxfotd, in aid of the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."
The Charity Ball, at Gateshead, on Tuesday
evening last, was extremely well 'ativuded, by
nearly 200 persons) arid gave genrral smisfactiou.
The surplus of the receipts for the charitirs of
the palish, after paying all expences, ‘e di be up-
wards of 45/.

On Friday evening last, a grand Ball and Sup.
per were given .t the Matision House, in New-
castle-It:ma-Tyne, by the Right Worshipful Ito-
BERT CLAYTON, IS.SII. Mayor, and were attended
by all the beauty and fa.drion in the town and
neighbourhood. The ckeellent hand of the 54[11
Regintent,..from strAerland Barracks, Was 5 &-
tinned in, the Lail, and entertained the company at
intervals with martial airs. The nto;,etous Ni-
Fitors were most highly gratified with the, triagni.
ficence of the entertainment, and the 'ul!arity of
'Ale scene.

~~1Ll;iI`•'(i OVEN A SUIiSCRI PU ON
FOR THE MESSES. EVANS AND OTHERS.

Yesterday a Meeting took place at the Crown
and Anchor, the object of wiiirlt was to propose
Sohscription for those who had been confined
under theliabeas Corpus Stispeisisbm Bill.
At a quarter past one o'clock Sir F. BURDETT,
accompanied by his brother and Lorti toc lin a N
elitert-41 the room.
• Sir F. Bulincrr having taken the Chair, said,
that having had the honour of being called
op, ,n to preside at so numerous and respecLahle a
It;celing, it became his duty to explain to them
t rd-ject of it was.
_lle would not at pre-
's.-nt take up their time by entering into the topics
cohoected it,.as there were, no doubt, many
who were desirous to address them, and parti-
cniarly such as had sntfered by long eontinuance
in piis.on. The Resolutions were pr-:pared, and
would be submitted 'immediately to their consi-
deration.
- Lord C'ICIIRANE said, that upon coining into
the Crown aim Anchor, vat ions Resolut ions had
been put illy) hand, which indicated the ob-
ject or the Meeting. It 55 as a pleasure to him to
see that the spirit of the people was thus awake
to the conduct of Government; and that a Meet-
ing so nunterow, and so respectable had been as-
se he same spirit prevailed in France
-under its ancient: Givernment, the despotism
which oporessed the people would not have con-
tinued so•long. Oppr'es-ive, however, as it might
even a y despotism was not. more
ruipons to the libertii s of the people than the
sit-pension of the Habeas Corpus. France, by the
aid of I.lriti•h troops, joined to those of the other
• t:espws of Europe, was kept in a state of negrad-
lug suhjue,ation. What necessity was there fur
this ? It the French Government was a good one,
why did not Frenchmen themselves support it ?
The sante system of military tyranny prevailed in
this country. They could not walk through a
single street without meeting soldiers in every
direction. What was the use of those jattissaries
that were now, to be met with everywhere—at the
theatres, at exhilthions, at every place of public
business, or public amusement IVas this the
state in which Englishmen should be placed?—
Hoke ditirteut 'ins the simation of America, as
represented in the last Speech of the President

There the people were completely free from taxes ;
•thvy had no military establishment, or at least a
• very small one. Justice was iatpartially and rea-
dily administered in their Courts of Law. They
were allowed to be. their own protectors, and in
price of oppressing them with a large standing
army, 1 00,000 muskets were placed in the hands
of the rople. No power was exercised in
that country but by the people themselves.—
There a person was in no danger of being
oppressed under the forms of law and justice.—
The iniquities practised in our Courts Were .not
to be met with. Here there was no justice tube
had under any circumstance in which the Govern-
ment yeas concerned. He hoped the Resolutions
adopted that day, by so numerous and so respect-
able a Meeting, would prove that the people of
14.;ngland would not be put down by tyranny, but
that their spirit would rise in proportion to the
despotic efforts that were made against it. lie
cone;nded by reading several Resolutions, among
which were the following :-
1. flint experience has lamentably proved that
the tieqnent suspensions, during the last 24 years,
o' the 3i st of Cilailes the Second, commonly de-
nominated ‘• The Habeas Corpus Act," have not
only deprived the people of the valuable benefits
of that statute, but under the colour and pretext
of nu-rely suspending that act, powers have been
vested.iu his M je,ty's Ministers, by these acts of
suspensions, wholly incompatible with a free
country, placing every inan's person at their dis-
posal ; %ditch is a total stlbvCrSloll of the CO[ll.-
110)11 law of the land, anti first' principles of so-
ciety ; thereby creating a despotism worse than
that of Algiers, because its injuries ate inflicted
under the mask of
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ThAt this Meeting views with alarm the in-
decent and dangerous precipitruion ‘sith which
laws a ffectiNg the dearest interests of the country
have beet carried thro:igh Parliament ; because
slid, pit Cipitailey has depriNed the people of the
exeicise art their boasted right of petition ; and
this Meeting particularly laments that the recent
reveal at the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act
should have been sit hasti!y carried, as it may
h,realrer be resorted to as a precedent to justify
the passing of injurious laws with similar pred-
pit,itimi.

3. That the suspensions of the Habeas Corpus
Act were a wanton outrage of the laws, and the
liberties of the people ; intended by a corrupt and
Vella! Administration to silence the prayers of
more than a million ot glen who have petitioned
for refut

4. That the arrests which have taken place were
ineat►t to delude the nation into a belief that the

oppressive nteasu:es of the Ministry were neces-
sary and just ; and to colour an affected alarm at

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tumults, generdlly excited by hired agents of the
(..;civernment, in furtherance of its views to subdue
toe s;,irit Of reform.

5. filar the sufferers under this malignant per-
secuti-ou have been treated in a cruel and arbitrary
manner ; branded from county to county, from

pri,oit to prison ; exposed in letters to the public

; suipiected eves► to privations of food, and
(loomed to rigorous soliteiry confinement ; their
tors intercepted, and communication with their