Star.
London, England, 1807-05-13 00:00:00

do, and what they are-:-It heiottles file to call to
your recolledion what I have been--and what I have
been I now am, and will' be to the end of my politi-
cal life. When I far what I have been, am now,
and will continue to be, I fay this of myfelf, That I
have been, am, and will, be loyal to my King :—I
have been, am, and will be a friend to the Conftitu•
tion of England :—That I have been, am, and will
be, a fupporter of its ?wily ; but no protedor of its
abufes, or the corruption which has crept into itz-a-.
That I have been, am, and will be, a man whofe
proudell boaß is that he is the undaunted Advocate
of the Rights and Liberties of the reople.—[Great
Applaufe.]
Lord COCHRAII a then came forward and obferved,
that after the facetious fpeech which they had heard,
he would now addrefs to them a few ferinits obfer.
vation; with yelped to matters on which he had be-
fore touched. He adverted to an anonymous letter
that had appeared in one of the Newfpapers, relative
to the abufes of which he had complaited. If that
writer would give his name, or come forward on the
hutting', he would prove the abufes. He had been
accufed of fwearing—but he denied this (wearing.—
He had only tiled an oath on one occation, at the
beginning of theEledtion, when it was extorted from
him by the natore of the fubjed of whiCh he was
treating, and the ardour of the moment. He had
bought no paper, he would have recourfe to no finch
means to enfure faced's, he came forward as an inde-
pendent man, and &fired only to be returned by the
independent Elektors of liVeßminfter. He again re-
ferred to the fubjed of naval abaci ; and alked, what
they thought of purchafmg, inftead of the bell, the
worn wilds for the navy, for the fake of teeming
borough intereß ? [Applaufes]. What did they
think of fuch abufes being reforted to in order to
force forward a man who bad no territorial connec-
tions to carry him on ? He might lead them along
the Channel, to Gibraltar, and up the Mediterranean,
and diftlofe fuch abufes as they would be of onilhed
, at. Thole to which he particularly alluded happened
I tome time ago, and it was, perhaps, nqt worth while
now to particularize them, but if the author of the
anonymous letter would now come forward and avow
himfelf; if any perfon on the part of a Noble Lord,
or any refpeetable man, would come forward and
avow his name, and require explanation, he was
ready to give it. What would thole who heard him
think of (hips, wholly unfit for fervice, being Ivor.
chafed from Borough Proprietors, under the aulpices
of the Noble Perfon in quellion, for three times their
value, merely to enable a man who had not a foot
, of land in the country, to raife himfelf into Tome
confequence by purchafing in this manner an intereft
in rotten boroughs ? Every one who heard li!m mull
1 tinderftand to whom he alluded, [a cry of Lord
Melville! Lord Melville !] No, he laid, it was not
Lord Melville, but a Noble perfon who had the nom..
' mand of the Channel fleet. He affirmed that veffels
had been fold out of the navy, and afterwards bought
into it at three pi ices. With refped to provifions of
the fleet, &c. he laid that the Navy was in loch a
(late, as to make the blood boil in thole who were
acquainted with the whole matter [applatv-e]. He
afferted, that inftead of reward in the fervice being
conferred on deferving veterans, they• were lavilhed
away on Borough-brokers. This he wiffied to be
underftooct. [applaufe]. ' He was a fiend to the
liberties of his country, but he was not a friend to
licentinufnefs. He believed the Conflitution .of this
country, in its purity, to be the bell in the world.
He hat been in many countries—he had been in
America—there undoubtedly liberty exitled, but it
degenerated into licentioufnefs, and every man
thought he he had a right to infult.his neighbour.
He begged of them to be Allred that he would
never coalefce with any body, he requefted that they
would attend only to what he Paid on the hußings,
and not to the (wearing afcribed to him in the Newf.
papers. He thanked 'them for the patience with
which they had heard him, and allured them that if
they repofed confidence in him they would not be
difappointed.
Mr. Jerry/twos next (poke, and Paid he was ex•
tremely happy in congratulating the people that their
fellow.citizens had enabled him to perform his pro.
mile, that their favourite Candidate Should this day
take the lead. The enemies of the Independent Elec-
tors of Weftminfler had heretofore called them a
factious cabal. But now thole eleitors were enabled
to retort upon their enemies their own taunting ex-
preffion-44 Look at the Poll !"—[Applaufe].—Al
though the fame ftratagems had been adopted this
day, as at the lag Eledion, to fecure the fuccefs of
the Court Candidates—although the fame refources
o(-fweeping the public offices of their clerks, to note
for the tools of the Minifter, and the fame tyrannical
means ufed of fending the tax gatherers to menace
execution upon the indufrious, though indigent hook-
keepers, who happened to be in arrears, if they dared
to vote for the Candidate of their affeainns; yet thefe.
' Eleaors had (hewn, in (pile of fuch menaces, that
they (till retained the good old (pith of Englithmen,
and ezercifed their rights like freemen, equally re,
gardlefs of menace and influence. If the tools of the
Minilter already began by reforting to Inch means,
what might be expetted from them, when they Would
get into power ? The names of the perfons who had
been guilty of fuch daring menaces, Should be pub-
licly announced, as loon as they were properly afcer-
taMed. He hoped that the fuccefs of this day would
not lead the Eledprs to relax in their exertions; but
that they would unremittingly perfevere, until they
Should have finally Succeeded in obtaining a great
and immortal triumph, for the independence of We&
atinfter.
Mr. Guiana, now came forward. He addreffed
himfelf to Lord Cochrane, and Paid, that as the
Noble Lord had call the fouleft afpetfions upon
the fyftetia of Borough Reprefentatign, and had not
thought proper to anfwer him the queftion he afked
three days Since—Why the Noble Lord, in violation
of his avowed principles, had defcended to become
the Reprefentative of the Borough of Honiton? he
would now aft: 'the Noble Lord another queftion,,
gamely, Whether the' Noble Lord bad not gone, lalt
night, on a 'Wit to Duilington•houfe?
Lord Cocuaara Said, the only anfwer he had to
give to this qu'efllon, was, "the Lie ifiree P' which -he
feveral times repeated: • .
Mr. Gipson', after tome time, replied, ht did not
make an affertion; he Only 'liked a queftion, which
the Noble Lord halthOught 'proper. to anfwer, by
calling its lie. But he 'had a right, as in Eledlor,
- to call upon the Noble Lard for an miner to ano-
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