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the infamy of which, if repealed to-morrow, they!
can no more get rid of, than a female, who had been
once violated, could get rid of her disgrace.—
Mr. Hobhouse now proceeded to justify himself from
the attacks made against him on account of the
pamphlet he had published, the purport of which had
'been mistaken by Mr. Lamb, as much as by the
Yorkshire country Squire, who did not know the
meaning of a note of interrogation. He only stated
in that pamphlet,. that the House of Commons was
protected, not by the love, but by the fears of the
People. He did not suppose that Mr. Lamb was one
of those who voted for kis imprisonment in New-
gate, as he had done him the honour of calling on
him there ; and yet Mr. Lamb ventured to say, that
it was proper for the House of Commons to send a
man to jail without a trial, or hearing what he had
to allege in his defence ! and this too was said by a
lawyer—by a man who had read the works of Lord
Chancellor Fortescue ! He was sure the majority of
Mr. Lamb's party did not agree with him in that,
doctrine, for they detested the act done by the House
—(Shouts :applause). Was this the Member who,
at the last Election, came to the hustings, and called
himself the friend of the oppressed, and the friend of
freedom ? Could he be a friend of freedom who ap-
proved of the act of unjustly depriving another man
of his liberty by saying that he had been properly
punished? indeed they would be very properly
punished if they elected such a man—(Applause).--,
If, on being elected, he should happen to take up a
Pamphlet, and read some passages in it that dis-
pleased, or suddenly affected him with some trifling
illness, he might, on the same principles, go to the
House of Commons, there make a complaint against
the author, and move that he should be properly pu-'
nished by being sent to Newgate. As to the letter of,
Mr. Lamb, the reading of which that Gentleman
so much complained of, he (Mr. Hobhouse) had seen
it lying in a common room, where it had been left
to the care of the retson who received it, where it was
read by every body ; and the reading of it before the
Electors at the hustings, could be no breach of ho-
nour on his part. It was a regular canvassing letter.
With regard to his committal to Newgate, he (Mr.
Hobhouse) did not mean to make a merit of that pu-
nishment, although Mr. Lamb thought proper to say,
that he had made use of such punishment as a means
of recommending himself to the Electors of West-
, minter—(No, no—it was not should now
take his leave for that day ; and trusted that the
Election for Westminster would be placed on a basis
from which it could not be dislodged by the efforts
I of any party.
The Election was now adjourned, and the People
dispersed quietly. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and Mr.
HOBII0I;SE were loudly cheered as they went away.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

GENERAL ELECTION.

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FRIDAY, MARCH JO, 1820
THE FUNDS.
PRICY OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
3 per Cent. Consols 683A1
5 per Cent. Navy 103% 7/3
Bank Long Annuities shut •
India Stock shut
India Bonds 14s. 15s. pr.
Exchequer fill,. (W.) 2s. 3s. dis.
Consols for Account 6834 Vs.

Although our accounts from Ireland this morning
do not as yet enable us to announce to our Readers
the restoration of the Western Counties to a state of
tranquillity, they shew that such exertions are making
by Government, as afford every reason to hope that
this much-desired event cannot be far distant Not
only horse and foot, but cannon, have been dis-
patched to the disturbed districts.
" This town," says a letter from Athlone, " has for
the last week presented a scene that I do not recol-
lect to have been equalled at any periA during the
war ; the continual passage of troops of all arms,
'two or three different descriptions of a day—their
baggage, billetings, trumpetings, and drummings,
give dreadful note of preparation.'"
The Magistrates of Galway have issued a strong
recommendation to the Landholders to reject all
conditions offered by the refractory at present. Such
an admission they justly think would be ruin to the
peace of the County—afford an opening to fresh ex-
actions, and put the Landholder
.at the mercy of his
tenant, the Master at that of his servant. The
Ribbonmen must be put down, as :'violence always
ought to be put down, unconditionally. It will be
then time enough to think of future arrangements,
for the removal of any grievances of which they mar
have had reason to complain.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon.
--The Annual Report from the Commission of Su-
perintendence of the Sinking Fund was presented
on Monday to both Chambers.
In the Chamber of Deputies, on the same day, a
long debate took place on the Project of Law respect-
ing Individual Liberty.
M. GRAVAREND, one of the Members of the Cen-
tral Commission, who reported it, differed in tato
with the majority of the Commission, and was for
rejecting the Project, not only as presented by Mi-
nisters, but as proposed to be amended.
M. DI CARDONNEL thought the principle of the,
Project good, but submitted several amendments of
his own, the most material of which was, that the
period, of three months, to which the Commission
proposed to restrict the power of detaining an indi-
vidual, should be extended to eve.
General For was for the entire rejection of the
lay/. His speech on the subject was particularly dis-
tinguished for its spirit and eloquence, and excited
so math sensation, that even the andkorsia the Gul.