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throng, but who found what is according to the
Fancy termed " the milling system" quite unavaging
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so closely packed a multitude. One of these per►
sons, a black man, had his eyes swelled (we cannot
say, according to the common phrase, blackened) by
blows from some persons near. him. A man who
hoisted a banner, with the name of Ml. Lamb in.'
scribed upon it, received very rough usage, and had
both his banner and clothes torn to pieces in a mo-
ment. This led to a warm contest between the par-
tisans of both parties, which was carried on by push-
ir.g and thumping without intermission, until the
- close of the poll. -The presence of regular pugilists
seemed to excite general indignation, and kept alive
a tendency to disquietude, if not actual tumult, which
was certainly not observable on any previous day of
the Election.—At four o'clock the numbers were—
Mr. Lamb
Mr. Hobhoute
Major Cartwright
Mr. HosuousE then told the crowd that they had
this day gained about one hundred on the poll, and
be was confident, notwithstanding the majority which
still remained to his opponent, that there was time
enough-Lthat there were numbers enough, and inde-
pendence enough, amens the Electors of Westmin-
ster, to secure his triumph yet. He was sorry to re-
.mark, thin is addition to the inconvenic,cel thrown
in their way by the unfavourable btate.of. the %yea-
ther, hi.; friends had had others to encounter, that
were still more formidable, from the .means rwrieci

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'to by his antagonist to prevent his voters froth coming
pp to.the A Gentleman, who was then by his
side, Mr. :%lanby, cif Wimp°le-street, had been put-7
hued by several nicn—one of them carrying a hank:-
Mt:ln his hand—and shouting " LaYntifir ircr!"
lie had further to state, that two men, whohad yen-
tired to shoat " liothouae for era," had been at-
'tacked by.the opposite party. The cry of " Down
t'aern," was immediately heard, and they Were
acetdingly beaten down and were then bleeding at
Con-Jaime-room. fie charged this on those who
had recently aetesed his friends of outrage, and he
had on his mind a Artn conviction, that before the
eight was out, murder would be committed by same
of their party. He should make it a point to prove
before a Court of Law, that these men of whom he
had spoken were regulaily hired ruffians, He would
prove who they were, whence they came, where they
had been hired, and that they had belonged to the
party of his antagonist, who had had the effrontery
to ste in the hills which he had circulated that day,
that-his voters would have free access to the poll
from Henrietta-street. He wished to know when

cry Lad not had free access to the hustings? This
erns an old trick. It was that to which Sir Murray'!
Maxwell had had recourse at a time when a hired
bani of rain% with Caleb Baldwin at their head,
were parluling the streets and cOmmiuing the greatest I,
v;olences against the Electors. He did not know that
Mr. Lamb was acquainted with these cireumttnneet,!
b.:t if he were to speak to those who did the dirty
put of the Election for him on the subject, he
world soon be informed of the truth. It was singu-
lar that such measures should be resorted to by those
vino bad accused.them of doing Such things. But
that he was afraid some accident might happen; he
would designate by name those who had been en-
gaged in the proceedings he had described. Con-
duct like theirs, he con:ended, produced those popu-
lar excesses against which they were so ready to de-,
claim. Ile then Commented at sonic length on a
statement which had appeared in a i corning Paper
respecting tl;p support he (Mr. Ilobtiouse) had 're-
ceived from the Whi7s, which statement'he asserted!
to be totally false. • He denied that the Whigs, •as al
party, had done any thing in his favour, and ap-
pealed to Mr. Lambton, if he (Mr. Lambton) and,
General Tergosson, had not waited on him frankly to!
state, !that under existing circumstances it would mot
be in their power to give him that !assistance which'
they once had it in-conteinplation to afford.
Mr. LASIBTON confirmed this statement.
Mr. Hosnouse then appealed to Mr. Lambton, if
a private communication had not been made to him
on the-same subject.
Mr. Lasirros; answered in the affirmative.

• Mt. I Idimoose then contended, that to the Whigs,
as a petty, he was not indebted for any of the sup-
, p.n: which he bad received ; and he threw back on
liter to whom he had alluded, whazever had
be:l. imputed to him, and charged him with having
vitiv..e7 that whicli was false and malicious. As he
could,not obtain a free' heariug, frcm the tumult •
sch:::h prevailed, he would cor.clude, by requesting
his friend; to let everr breach of the peace committed
b. 2 clrArgeable on. their opponents, a-r.d he exhorted
thelq w trust to justice (for justice they should have)
for redress, as he would not sec them trampled upon
• by hired ruffiens.
NT. LAND spoke, but it was impossible to bear dis.
tinctly any thing that he said. lie was understood
to lairgh at the solemn commencaneut of his oppo-
reitt's speech, to deny that whi,:h had been advanced,
and to assert that the good humour of the people of
Westminster, on account of the state of the poll,
would in all probability take away every disposition
to engage in excesses that would terminate in mut.
der. The poll was to keep open but two days more;
but if, instead of two, it we:e to be kept open for 12
days, so completely had public opinion in Westmin-
ster been changed, that he was convinced the exten-
sioa of the. poll would only make the more against
his adversary. Mr. Ilohhouse had charged him with
being a Whig. Mr. Hobhouse was any thing that
would serve for the moment; and if he thought it
:would answer his purpose on this occasion to become
' a Whig, 'a Whig he would declare himself to.morrow.
• Mr. GALII'3ONES presented himself and seemed to
address the crowd, but not a word of what he said
could be heard, and he was compelled to retire.
• Sir F. BURDETT would have adhered. to the Reso-
lution he had adopted on Saturday, but that he found
Mr. Latnb had the means (which he failed not to use)
of-giving the speeches which were not heard there to
•the public through the daily press. Mr Lamb came
before them under a variety of 'names ; be was, the
friend of Sir Samuel Romilly, of Sir Samuelßotnilly's
principles ; he was the friend of Mr. For, of this mid
, of that, and of almost every thing, and he was a
friedd tat the poor He thought he ought rather to
..hare said be was the friend of poor's.rates, for he
. .1.4 A made thee the means of disfranchising many of
mama, He, however, exhorted the Electors to
Towose tollttortow.whether they had paid dub.

rates or not, as he was confident 41 le votes they ten-
dered (whether they had paid their rates. or nor),
would be admitted whenever the question came
before a proper tribunal. Whatever eh. Mr. AA2Pb
might be, he thought it would be seen from his con-
duct in this instance that he was no friend to freedom
of Election. Westminster, however, he trusted would
not be bullied out ofits independence by hired ruffians.
This he described to be an old practice now revived
by the Whigs, but he trusted the Westminster Elec-
tors had shewn too much spirit to make it probable
that they would be subdued by, such opponents. He
then replied to Mr. Lambton's comments on the Re-
port of the Westminster Committee, which he de-
fended. He denied that he had ever professed Whig
principles-when he stood on the hustings at Brent-
ford as a Candidate for Middlesex, and he had never
deserted Mr. Fox, as had been asserted, for be had
never enlisted under his banner. Instead of doing
this, he had denounced those who bad enlisted m
either of the two regiments of Whigs and Tories;
an& it was because he condemned the coalition of
Mr. Fox and Lord Grenville when they came into
power, that he had lost his seat for Middleset.
'Though the Administration had proved but of short
duration, it in the first instance, eremised to. prove
as permanent as any the:country had eier seen, and
then it teas, if he had any selfish object to gain, that
he might have pursued it with a prospect of suceess.
'But he had disdained to do so, and though he had
10-t his scat, he had cor.sidered it a great honour to
have 1200 men vote fof him on that occasion. lie
denied having decried Mr. Fox Na any occasion. He
had not objected to a fair Canvass being carried on
by persons of either sex. What he had complained
of was, the practice of threatening tradesmen with
the loss of their custom, if they did ''not oblige
them and give their vote for a particular Candidate.
His own conduct, he maintained, had been consistent
through the whole of his political life, and he thought
much injustice was done to Mr. Foi by his friends,
who declared that he lad never been friendly to Par-
liamentary Reform,as his words on that subject were
oh record, and he (Sir Francis Burdett) had heard
him with-his min ears declare, that though "he had
once.believed good might I it done without a Parlia-
mentary Reform, lie was now convinced that nothing
Qf importance could be accomplished without that,
and he would accept of rto situation, high or low, in
any Administration, that did net countenance a Re-
form of the House of Commons." Ile had left Mr.
Fox when heforsook the principles he had processed;
and acting on the same principles that had ever regu-
lated his conduct, it was not impessible if the country
should have a Whig *Administration, ;hat he should
hereafter be found sitting and voting on the same
benches with Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning.—
The Whigs might thed again accuse him of irtcon-
sistency, and he thought it was the more likely' that
he should expose himself to such a charge from them,
when he recollected what their conduct had been
while they were in power.
Sir FRANCIS Buenryn then retired amid loud ap-
plauses;.and the meeting dispersed, after an attempt
at a speech from Mr. Bowie.

State of the Pull this day at One o'Clock
For Mr. Liam - • - 4169
llr. Ilbsstorlsr - - - 5376.
).Zr. Laws po:4d this marring 140-31 r. liosuoves.lo4 •

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MairCH 2, 1819.
T 1E TON&

PRICE Or STOOK3 THU DAT AT OYE 0 CLCOK
Bank Stock 26I—Bank Long Anns.
3 per Ct. Reduced 74{ 73j—Cons. 12f 73+ 73{
Cons. for 4c.741}- }74 73f-31 2er Ct. 52i 83-1
1 r,er Cent. 92if 91; o`-5 per Ct. Navy 10411041
India Stock '22l—lndia Bowls 13 I 0 ?re.
Excllequer Bills ( J.) 8 10 dis.—Comm.Rcducecr4

The present state of the Money Market was pro-
bably the parent of a Motion made last night by Mr.
CALLAGUAN, for an account of the amount of llank
Notes and Bank Post Bills in •circuilation every day
.since the 25th of-January to the present time. The
CiLiNcit.noa of the Excitztatlot had no objection to
the Motion, compliance wi:h which would tend to
correct the gross exaggerations and iilisrepresentationt
which are afloat on this subject. The CHANCE:U.:aI
stated the importantlact, that the issues of the Bank
have been higher since the 25th of January than they
were before that period.—This fact is deserng of
particular notice; for the present. embarrassments,
being thus proved not attributable to the cause to
which they have been wcribed, their origin must be
sought for in the unfavouraLle result of commercial
speculations. Need we state, that an unfortunate bar-
gain at any time in the home market is generally to to
only one of the.parties-he other being commonly a
gainer to the amount of the loss sustained b y the suTerer.
By the country no loss whatever is 'sustained, for the.

property still remains, its place of deposit alone being
changed. But it is otherwise when the loss acernes
from speculations in foreign markets. If goods be
seat to South- America for which a return is made of
onlj 75 per cent. the individual in the first instant*
who shipped the goods, and the community ulti-
mately lose the difference of 25 per cent. and the
smaller the return and the cheaper the produce ob-
tained in return at .the home market, the greater
the loss to the community ras in the case of some
of the F.llitindia speculations, which. did not nett 50
per cent. in India, and the return produce for which
to this country must be sold at a farther loss of 50
per cent. making the, whole loss on the original spe-
culation 75 per cent. , •
The immediate result
Certain channels, in
chpital, ,are not only ,
Iput must be left to run
party cannot be induced,
**ream to reach the

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tar:wile by the fattier ondilberclal sbowevs—and
hence, invariably, the distress that ever follows a run
,of upprofitable speculationb when the streams have
emptied themselves on Ards* shares. For such
ems, time, to suffer matters again to find their own
level, is the only remedy.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning.

The Chamber of Peers lad a public meeting en
Friday, when they proceeded agreeably to the order
of the day, to hear the developement of she propo-
sition made by Count BARTHELEMY, on the subject
of the Election Law.

tollllt BARTHILLEbiT then addresed the Assembly
IBA brie, but animated speech, in which he pro-
, tasted that he was actuated by no other motive than
11 most sincere attachment to the Charter, in bringing
'bewail" the present proposal for a revision of the
iystein of Elections. ge arraigned this system as
faulty, chiefly in two particulars—first, in that it
gives to men of inferior property the right of voting ;
and second, in that it calls for too frequent an wet-
cite of the Elektion franchise, an evil which he ex-
plained, by stating, that when the place of a Deputy
becomes vacant by death, or resignation, the Electors
are obliged to proceed to a new election, a:trouble
which•the Count thinks might be wisely saved, by
electing at the same time with the principal Deputy,
a sort of Vice-Deputy or Deputy in reserve, who might
take the place of the principal, bn his death or re-
signation.

The Chamber ordered the Count's speech to be
printed; and a discussion then commenced on tl.e
question whether 'the proposition should be taken
into consideration ? •

The Martinis DEssnwes, the Prime Minister, first
declared himself for the negative, and avowed it to
be the unanimous opinion of the Members of the Go-
vernment that any change in the Law of Elections
at the present moment would be fraught with the
utmost danger. The effect which had been produced
by the mere agitation of this proposition was so&
.cient to shew its perilous tendency. It had roused
all parties, destroyed public confidence, and thrown
the capital into a state of violent alarm which was
rapidly extending itself through the departments.--'
The existing system of Elections ought to be judged
of by its fruits ; and comparing the present Repre-
sentatives of the People, with those of formerperiods,
he thought that they had as just a title to the appel-
lation of being a truly National Body, as. any which
France had ever had the happiness to possess.
The Chamber ordered the discourse of the iVi-
nister to be printed.

The negative of the question was also sMprorted
by the Duke de la Roccarroucautr, Ccunt Boni
D'AN3LAS, Count DE Clary the buke
and Count LANJUIN'AIS.

Count de CASTELLANE spoke id &your of the pro-
position.•

An amendment of the original proposition was
proposed, as a sort of conciliatory measure, by the
Niarqui4 de ',AULT TOLLENDAL, but combated by
the Duke di linociLte, on the ground of its being
irregular to deliberate on any thing but the original
proposition—an opinion in which the Assembly ap-
pear to have concurred.