Star.
London, England, 1819-02-16 00:00:00

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SECOND DAY,
• At ohtecicloci ye. :erclaiosoinlng iletnisinisi bf
&Election was resumed. -.Tile Hustings, competed
liith the erection at the last contest, is most incon-
venient; but, the High Bailiff has taken the precau,
tion of Writing to each of the Gentlemen proposed Oti
Saturday, to ascertain whether he was to consider
him a Candidate or not, in order that he might take
the necessary steps to reimburse- himself for the et.,
pense. To this Major Cartwright has replied by
disavowing having offered himself as a Candidate,
but stating, that he throws himself on the electors,
and as willing to obey their call, and support their
interests, to the utmost of his power, in whatever
situation he may be placed.
Throughout the early part bf the day the polling
went on but slowly, and without .any of those de-
monstrations of popular effervescence which have
usually marked the arena of elections for Westmin-
ster. The friends of Major Clitwright, indeed, early
announced their determination of relinquishing the
labours of .the canvass to those who were seeking
their own personal aggrandisement, rather than the
public good. Neither was the irritability of the po;
pulace excited by the presence or announcement of a
total Candidate (notwithstanding the prophecy of
Sir Francis Burdett), so that every thing went on
with great quietness. Several of Mr. Hobhouse's
voters came to the poll, preceded by blue and yet-,
low, and others by- pink banners, with the inscrip-
tion, " Hobheuse and Purity of Election." The Earl
of SEFTON, Earl NUGENT, Lord ARCHIBALD HA
MILTON, Lord WM. RUSSELL, Sir CHARLES WOLSD.
LEY, Sir GODFREY WEBSTER, and Mr. LAMBTON,
were on the Hustings, in the High Bailiff's box, great
part of the day.
At four o'clock the poll closed for the day, and'
the numbers stood as follows :

ilobhouse -
Lamb
Cartwright -

- a 247 •
- - 171
- 21

Mr. Hoeitouse then came forward to address the
assembled multitude, and was received with pretty
general applause. He said he had to thank them
for this fresh proof of their confidence in him.—
Their cause, the cause of the people, .was 76 a-head
of the other highest Candidate, which, considering it
was only the first day, was a great cause of triumph;
and he had not the least doubt, but their superiority
would be much greater on the following day. They
would, perhaps, be pleased to hear, that the large
and populous parish of St. James was then coming
up to the poll, with one of its chief parishioners, their
worthy Representative, Sir Francis Burdett, at its
head—(Applause.) Ile had listened with considerable
attention to the speeches of the different Gentlemen
proposed as Candidates on Saturday, and, as well as
he could hear, for cries of "No Whig, "No Whig,"
which every where resounded, there were one or two
of their observations which required some comment.
The Honourable Proposer of the Whig Candidate
told them but little of Mr. Lamb. but then he told
them a great deal about Sir Samuel Romilly, a name,
he would allow, which never could be mentioned
without respect, and he felt some difficulty its allud-
ing to it, for he had been brought up in a school
where he had been taught to pay some deference to
popular opinion. He thought, however, it would have
been more to the purpose, if the Hon. Proposer had
spoken less of Sir S. Romilly and more of Mr. Lamb.
All who heard him, would agree with him, that some
introduction on the part of Mr. Lamb was absolutely
necessary.. But in every speech, in every placard, in
every advertisement, it still stood coupled with the
great name of Romilly. This, he feared, was only
an artifice. The seconder of the proposition for Mr.
Lamb (Mr. Evans) first set out with an attack on
Major Cartwriht—that is, if the Newspapers re-
ported him truly; and next, with respect to himself
(Mr. H.) he dubbed him a Revolutionist. Now,
" the very head and front of his offending"-was, the
having written a book, in which he asserted that the
English nation had no ri4ht to force a despised and
rejected Sovereign upon France—(shouts Qf applause).
But it was singular to hear the advocate of pa Whig
Candidate inveighing against Revolutionists, for the
Whigs were continually milking about the Revolution
of 1688, and, indeed, without this, they had not a
rag to cover their nakedness—(laughter and applause)
—and whenever they were asked to do something,
they invariably answered with talking. about what
they had done. This Whig advocate, in his speech
on Satiliday, had also attributed to him the having
described the battle of Waterloo, as " the carnage of
St. John." This, however, was utterly false—they
were not his words, but those of the Quarterly Re-
view ! They ull knew what the Quarterly Review
was; it was a book published every three months, in
order to tell lies, rather in a decent form, for the
benefit of the Court—(laughter and applause). With
respect, however, to the expression attributed to him,
though he disclaimed having used the words; he
would say thus much, that with all his admiration
of British valour, he thought it had never been em-
ployed on a more unfortunate occasion than at the
battle of Waterloo—(much applause, with some dis-
approbation). To return to the seconder of Mr.
Lamb, it was strange that he did not get his Whig
lesson better before he came to the hustings ; for his
great leader, Earl Grey, had spoken decidedly against
the battle of Waterloo. He feared, indeed, Mr. Evans
was not a Whig of 1797, but a covered courtier. He
came now to the Hon. Candidate himself. " Now,
Mr. Lamb," continued the Speaker, " you have said
that you gloried in being a Whig ! GOD knows,
Gentlemen, what a man may come to glorify himself
for—( laughter). Shakespeare has made one of his
simple ones say, I thank GOD for my dettishness;
and in the same way I suppose thtlion. Candidate
thanks Con fur his Whigewhness I—There were, how-
ever, Whigs of various denominations. Some of
them, even the Hon. Candidese's brother, had voted
for the, suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.—
Others, who would not 'vote for the suspension of
that Act, voted an indemnity to the Mi,
the consequences of having suspended
when he told them he was a W , be,
them nothing. There were not a few of
Who took part with them (the people), thi
all did at ; and, doubtless, a remnant of
should be raved, as well as a remnant of

class. But Mr. Lamb also calk(' himself
the people. A plague of such friends '"
say and called he this backing his friends

hkket Ittek indring gritidt.latnia laic,
be did not 11kb bies(Mr. H. s) pritteiples. He coda
tell them, trimiever‘that it Was a pit di' then!, Only,
that he did notilkek He did not like his deelaratiott
that be was no party min, and that he neVer Would
be one.,!—(Applause, Qith some hissing.) Mr. Lamb's
objection tohim, on aceount of, having been chosen'
in a room, containing fifteen hundred persons, was
eery odd, when he -himself had been chosen br a
cabal, in a private room ; and whore the only other
person heard of; was " James Macdonald, Esq.
Chairman."—(Laughter, and hissing.) . He would ap-
peal to those present on Saturday, whether, *hen the
Honourable Gentleman was put in nomination, there
were seven hands-held up for him. That, however,
was a matter which would not trouble him much, for
no doubt he thought the only proper place for the
nomination, was one of the great houses in St.
James's-square. (Applause.) Some persons bad hinted
the possibility of his being a Ministerialist ! and the
Courier,—" You all know what the Courier is, Cxen-
tlemen,"—(o yes, very wel)—the Courier, in speak-
ing of their comparative merits, or rather, perhaps,
he should have said de.meritt, says, that of the two,
he would sooner they elected Mr. Lamb ! Who would
doubt the veracity of the Courier in this ? And what
would be now their opinion of Mr. Lamb's politics?
(Applause, with much hissing.) The Morning Post of
to-day, had repeated much the same thing, and had
called him (Mr. IL) a Jacobin. This was another
proof that-Mr. Lamb was chosen, as not very objec-
tionable to either the Whigs or the Ministerialists. I
am, however, well content to be a Jacobin, and he
shall be the coalition Candidate. Mr. H. then re-
tired amidst very considerable applause, mingled with
some disapprobation.
Lord WILLIAM Boum, nett presented himself,
we supposed with the intention of addressing the
Electors in favour of Mr. Lamb; but he was received
with such a volley of disapprobation, that not one
syllable of the few 'words he uttered could be heard.
He kept his post, however, with much determina-
tion; and it was not till several of his friends repea-
tedly urged it that he ;eared.
The Hon. Mr. G. LAMB said, that all his opponent
had to boast of was a superiority of about 70. This,
after the triumphant promises that had been made,
he considered a complete failure. It often too hap-
pened, that those who ran fastest at first were soonest
out of breath. It should be recollected, also, that
Mr. Hobhouse had been in regular training for three
months, and had been as it were, dieted to the occa-
sion—(Laughtei)—whilst he, .on the contrary, had
been brought suddenly and unprepared before them;
but though Mr. Hobhouse might have a little ad-
vantage over him in the first round, when they were
got a little further, he would find him more of a
glutton than he seemed to expect—(Laughter and
applause.) He' had told them he (Mr. Lamb) had
been brought there by a cabal ; but it was quite im-
material by whom he was brought, so that he had
but a majority of their votes in the end. There
was not one of the insinuations which he had heard
thrown out against him, to which he had not a
most satisfactory answer to bring before them.—
He had called the coupling of -his name with that of
Sir Samuel Romilly an artifice; but was his own
name ever mentioned but as the friend of Sir Fran-
cis Burdett? "My prototype," continued Mr. Lamb,
" is Most unfortunately not able to appear, but what
can be said of his, except that not content with hav-
ing so often himself received your suffriges, he
would force another upon you of his own choosing ?
(Hissing and -applause.) He had told him that he
(Mr. L.) was a White Now, though he himself had
been before them, three months, yet, when he came
to the Hustings, he found it necessary to explain his
principles. Really, he should be inclined to say, that
if he had not done it before, he could not imagine
what he had been doing all the time—(Laughter.)
He had said, that he was not a party man. If by a
party man was meant one that was to give up one
jot of the rights of the people, he would repeat the
declaration boldly, and say, that he too was no party
man—(Great applause.) But he was not so vain as
to think that he could be of much avail without able
coadjutors; and provided these coadjutors were ho-
nest men, he did not see where was the disgrace ol
being of their party, (Applause.) It was possible, in-
deed, to propose measures so absurd, that no other
Members in the House could be found to' second
them ; measures which nobody agrees to, which no-
bedy understands, and which. nobody brings into
notice, by thinking them worth opposing, (Laughter
and hissing.) ',Mr. Hobhouse had told them too, that
a portion of his friends had voted fcr the suspension
of the Habeas Corpus Act. To this be might very
justly reply, by advising them to :make no family re-
flections, ( Laugh:cr.) That measure, the Suspension ,
of the Habeas Corpus, ever had, and still has, his
most decided reprobation. He was a friend to eco-
nomy, and to civi/ and religious liberty, and being
so, he held himself entitled to be stiled a Whig, and
the friend of the people, (Great applaust.)
• Mr. EVANS and Mr. HUNT now came forward to-
gether, and as neither seemed inclined to give way,
• considerable uproar ensued. At length Mr. Evans
• retired,and

Mr. HUNT said, he should not detain them five
minutes. Other friends of Major Cartwright were
desirous of addressing them, and therefore it would
be presumptuous in hiin to do so. The other Can-
didates had the start of them to-day, it was true,
bat urmorrow, the Major's friends should be the
firdt to address them. They-had heard Mr. Hok-
heshoe—they had heard Mr. Lamb ; and he hope,
that if they were the friends of liberty and Ma-
jor Cartwright, they would hear every one patiently,
(Great ap*rute.) • Mr.: Lamb had told them he
was the friend of moderate reform, and they all knew
what that meant. He hits told you manfully what
be means; whilst Mr. Hobhousc has satisfied himself
with telling you What be -does not mean. And my
opinion ii, .that in the end you will at last find the
lars6 as good ai the mnstonl—(inughtei, nral some
kissing.) The utmost-we know of Mr.-Hobhouse is,
sif Francis Burdett,

be stiottid ifittbdtte* Mena bah to Mat anti 11i
cause, and to the liberties-of thi people. Bir Charlet
Wolseley intended to address them. Arid also Mrs
Northmoit, -of Exeter, and, if agreeable to their
wishes, Mr. Gale Jones—(No, I No Jones!)
' As M. Hunt retired, Mr. EVANS again presented
himself at the same moment With Sir CHARLES WOE.
SELEY, and all again was uproar for nearly a quarter
of an hour. Mrs Tstxtwata. too, taking advantage
of this dispute, mounted the rostrum, at the other
end of the hustings, and continued speaking a tonsia
Bearable time to a select posse at his feet. At length
he retired, and Mr. EVANS following his example,
Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY said, a little while ago, to
use a Westminster phrase, he was "in a 'huh, but
having the Electors before him, his heart in the right
place, and devoted to liberty, he did not fear any
thing—(l-I=a, Wolseley for ever !) Ile came there
with the intention of proving Mr. Hobhouse a poli,
tical humbug—(Hissing)—and Sir Francis Burdett
equally so—(flissing, and cries of" 1" with much
laughing). Sir Francis Burdett was one thing to-day
and another to-morrow, and Hobhousebeing his cavrt
child, was exactly in the same predicament. When
he was asked the other day whether he was a friend
to Universal Suffrage? he said, " No:" now he
would read them a proposition for a resolution, made
by that very Sir Francis, in the House of Commons,
on the 2d of June last, and then they could judge of
his consistency.
" That it is expedient and necessity to admit to a participa-
tion of votes for Members of Ptarliamtnt, all such persons as are
of the male sex, and sound mind, and of the age of twectptrae
years, who shall, for a limited time, have lived in one pla-e,
either as a hour...keeper or a lodger."
—Now (continued Sir C. Wolseley), if this meant
any thing, it meant Universal Saffrage ; and what,
then, did Sir Francis mean, when he said no? He
had seers shameful proceedings both on the part of
Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Hobhouse, and his Rump—.
(Laughter and great disapprobation)—proceedings,
within the last six weeks, which had opened his eyes
completely. What' did Mr. Hobhouse mean, when
he talked, on Saturday, of being " tortured ?" why,
that he could not bear being asked what his political
creed was. It was the question which tortured him,
the explanation required. Those, he would say, who
would not support an old friend, were not to be
trusted. They were." snakes in the grass." He would,
of the two Candidates, Mr. Lamb and Mr. Hobhousit,
recommend them to -vote for Mr. Lamb--(Hissing,
and vehement cries of " qf r)—as his principles
were more intelligible. Sir Charles then retired, amidst
considerable disapprobation, and made way for
Mr. WooLLER, who said, that while we could speak
freely, we must speak the truth, or we were unwor-
thy the name of Englishmen. They had before them
three Candidates on whom to exercise their judgment,
and he hoped they would exercise it severely, for we
were no longer in a: situation to be paltered with in a
double sense. We had been borne down by a rod of
iron, by those who thought that as the blow had
been so long delayed, it was impossible to reach them ;
hut let them beware, tic. The Whigs and others
talked to them of moderate Reform ; and, from their
want of success, he should think they were searching
for the Philosopher's stone—(Laughter and applause),
so long had they been searching ter what cannot be
found. These Gentlemen could not bear to hear the
rough roar of the Swinish multitude, it was ea inci-
vility grating to their delicate ears. He warned them
against relying on those who, having drawn from
the budget of Major Cartwright all the weapons
they have used, turn round upon him and tell him
he is unable to use them himself. Mr. Wooller con-
chided a long and energetic speech with observing,
that whilst he lived
" No rich or noble knave
Should walk the world in quiet to his grave."
It was quite dark whilst Mr. Wooller was speaking.
When he had done, Mr. I lunt came forward, and
he supposed, as- it was so late, he hoped they would
excuse Mr. Jones till the next night. This good joke
excited a violent burst of laughter, and the assembly
dispersed in high glee.

Tll.ltu DAY.

State of the Poll this day at one o'clock :
Mr: Hosuovn - - 396
Mr. &o at - 20
Major CARTIVRICIIT - - ES

EARL GPYY and MR. HOBIIOVSE.--+A rumour is
afloat, th.lt in-consequence of the application of the
epithet Apostate," in the Report drawn up by ;At-.
Ilonnoumes Committee, to EARL GREY' as head of
the Whig party, General FFROUSON and. Mr. Lima-
TON! called upon him, Mr. lionnousz, personally at
his house, to know whether this epithet had beei
used with his sanction; and if it had, to require
either a recantation or a disavowal. Mr. Hasuousi
denied that he had ever applied such a term to the
Noble Lord in question, or had given his sanction to
its use. Thus the matter ended.

We are concerned to lean', by the West India
Mail of yesterday, the death of the Governor of St.
Kitt's on the 15th ult.

Last night a dreadful fire broke out at the exten-
sive manufactory of Mr. DALBY, fellmonger, Old
Ford, near Bow, in Essex, which totally destroyed
the whole of the premises, together with the valuable
stock and machinery, to the amount of £7,000
£2,500 of which was insured. The fire was occa-
sioned by the too great heat from one of the fines of
the drying-stove. It was happily extinguished about
two o'clock this morning. The horses were saved.
ErrcurroN.—This morning, at eight o'clock, Jobs
Corderoy, aged 20, for burglary; and `John Fellow,
aged 21, for stealing in the dwelling-house of Messrs.
Morgan and Sanders, Catherine-street, Strand, were,
pursuant to their sentences, executed in front of New.
gate ; they were perfectly resigned, and met their fate
with fortitude. After banging the usual time, their
bodies were-given to their relatives for intetment.......
Fellows had been unwell for some days past, and
last' night, his •father obtained permission to sit up
with hurt his cell, where he remained till his un-
- called forth ascend the fatal
affecting—
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inisters, from that. he, comes under the wing`of Sir Fraticis Burdett, fortunate son was called forth to ascend the fatal
it; and so, but I will always lift-mthand against Westminster. platform. Their 'separation WILS truly affecting
in fact, told being made. a rotten-. Borough. ?'hope. the Whigs,' A. leiter was men 1:4 night by Corderoy to Mr.
of the Whigsi, from whet they sewheite; will cmite to 'ttre Peopk ;1 &Min to be 4ilivered to his parents, the contents of
though thg. ad if they tiov they will be:received, with open arins. which, in one particular passage, conjured them to
of the Whigs !New, (lentlaserwwhith da yon likibestnlflobAdifir.i wain others from keeping evil company and breaking
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f every other Haidseisels No Whigrl Ate)'. I was hOt goirtg'to 'all the Salibith.- Janies - ,Ejertoss,.:7ho was expected to
elf a Mend you which of the candidates' ?ow like hest, but tole' l'iivt:s tit atorl/25 'WO 'thetnatis Arryiteil for one
ir he would or rastani..(ll/iws4.-Etrough 1 ftdugh 1 Mr. iftsiit' 'Vele )ri dal' owl to some pftfticulAr citcnnt
iends ?-...44 A. then; lifter eulogizing Majoreatwright; shortly-sifitc; tide- irk g 'Ont &this case.-