The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-18 00:00:00

yet scarcely fully and certainly known, and Whilst
the whole country, as this important intelligence
wres communicated, was overspread with one ge-
neral and deep feeling of respect and regret, we
.ew et that very moment', with indecent haste, an
Address setst forth to the Freeholders of IVestmor-
hied, disrespectful, on many aecounts,ao the me-
mory of that beloved Monarch, and grossly in-
co, sistent with the trite feelings of the county.
Our lion. aid worthy Representative has treated
.this address wils a just severity which.does.him
honour, and which has compelled its author to
ditavow the meaning imputed to his address ; and
if there is any meaning in language, that
addIUSS indisputably beats. It nor, said Mr.
IVilsoo, an event which is, on every account, a
subject of congratulation—a subject of ctingratu-
fatibu ots accouter of that which occasioned it, viz.
the death of the King This is the weaning of the
words, and it requires no moderate degree of as.-
suratice to maintain the contrary, whatever press-
ing necessity Mr. Brougham May have felt of at-
tempting to appease that just resentment which
amongst his friends, etptally with his opponents,
Isis address had excites!. It is not, however, my
intention to press this meaniog. Mr. Brougham
hai disavowed it. He is the best judge of his own
intentions. Let him take the lull benefit of his
disavowal. I shall grant it (Although his words
admit no otherinterpretatioe) that Mr Brougham
did not intend any thing so monstrous, or evinc-
ing-a want of judgment quite so complete, as to
coperatidate the Freeholders of Westmulland,
direct terms, on the death of the King. There
still remains in the whole tenor of the address
in yeestiou, and in its date, an indecorous want
of respect to his memory, and an absence of all
proper psteicipetion in the common feelings of
the couu'ry. Mose I insist up,in, and what I ant
sure is apparent to every individual seises hears
me, and in theconntVe, is, that in a public paper,
issued by a public m to, for a public purpose,
there is in its whole tenor, when taken in con-
junction with the time choien for its publication,
a metked disrespect to the memory of our deceas-
ed overeign,•antl a %vie! of propet participation
.in those deep feelings with which his steadfast
virtues and melancholy sufferings, not less than
his illustrious station, had actuated the whole
couutty. It is because this paper is addressed to
the Freeholders of Wes;morlend, that it becomes
necessarily connected with the business of thisday
and the purport of this meeting ; and it is thus
rendered, its my opinion, necessary for us not to
pass it over without some mark of reprobation and
dissent, and this as moderately as possibly is ex•
pressed its the Resolut lois proposed. The ob-
servations, Applied by Col. Lowther to Mr.
Brotigham's AVress, have caused that Gentle-
man tardily to declare, " that he feels as deeply
as any mass in the country the melenchely event
in question." His conduct has not been consist-
cut with this feeling; and it is that with which
we have to do. lie cannot, it appears, make a
parade of his feelings of loyalty tor tlec'ioueering
purposes.. No parade smf such feelings is revisi e.
Let hint keep such .knowledge to himself, and it
is not .required that he should profess them ;
but he cannot pursue a mode of conduct' incon-
sistent with sods feelings, without offending the
common sentiments of the colonise Let hint learn
that feetinge of regret for the death of the King
are incososble of serving electioneering Imposes.
All parties coecur in one general feeling of regret,
occasioned by that mel.thelsoly event ; and it was
bsPeved to be felt only in common with every
individual throes: how the kingdom. No man
could recconmeed himself by shewing that he was
not destitute of such ft.efilu.;, nor could he pro-
mote by it tiny electioneering purpose, though
such purpose nosy be injured by cooduct or ex-
pressions itecousistent nit!! those feelings ;, and
this Mr. Brougham will assuredly sxperience,.un-
less, the Freeholders of ‘Vestmorland,-of whatever
party, have lost that character of attachment to
the Throne, and of veneration for the personal
character and inestimable virtues of our deceased
Sovereign, by which they have been always, awl
I art confident, are still, dist ingiiished..
In moving the second Resolution,
Mr. SAVAGE said,. he was convinced 110 opposi-
tion was before, or is now, nay lie would add, or
ever could be intended against Lotd Viscount
Lowther (deeply coustected as that Noblemen
would ever be With the interests of the County) ;
even to surmise any such opposition would be
highly discreditable to the Freeholders at large.—
He sronld, therefore, its a few words advert to the
Hon. H. C. Lowther, boldly asserting, that be
was a Geptleman of as great integrity of charac-
ter as any men in the county or in the country at
large. As an Officer in his military capacity, to
say
,he was respected by 11104 i WFIB saying little, for
he believed he was deservedly beloved by them all.—
It was universally known he was easy of access,
kind and eoasamooieg in his manuers, his professions
aud friendshie were alike sincere; in fact those
who knew hint best esteemed hint most. Re-
spect able as the present Meeting was (anticipate
jug their support) he would invite them not only
to give their own 'suffrages to the worthy Colonel,
to secure his re-election (though that he cousider-
cd certain), but to unite in tecommendieg bins to
their friends, and through them, to the county
at large ; thou should a pole be demanded the
Honourable Colonel may be returned, along with
the. Noble Viscount, by a sweeping majority.—
He then moved time second Resolution which was
seconded by Mr. Highrisoor.
At the conclusion of the Meeting,
Mr. Tito:smote shortly returned- thanks for the
honour conferred upon him, and said he consi-
dered it to be his duty to lend his feeble aid to re-
turn such friends to the Constitution of the Coun-
try es the present Members for Westmorland were
proved to be.