Star.
London, England, 1819-02-18 00:00:00

FOURTH DAY.

The Polling yesterday was carried on for Mr.
Larnb with progressive and triumphant activity.
some of the most respectable of all classes of the
Electors of Westminster appeared at the Hustings.
The crowd upon the whole were less turbulent than
on the preceding day. When the Poll closed at
four o'clock, the numbers were as follows :
Mr. Hobhouse - 622
Mr. Lamb - - 415
Major Cartwright - - 24
Mr. HUNT came forward, while the Poll was being
cast up, and informed the populace that the give,
Sir Francis Burdett, would not be there to-day. He
had put on his seven-league boots and had left town.
Mr. Hoseouse addressed the Electors, and said
the exertions of their opponents had raised them con-
siderably on the Poll that day. At the. same time he
could see no cause for despondency— no reason for
supposirs. the People of Westminster had changed,
their opinions on the subject of Parliamentary Re-
form. The exertions of the supporters of Mr. Lamb
had not only been great, but such as he believed had
not been resorted to for many years in the City of
Westminster. He found that he had been represented
by some of Mr. Lamb's canvassers (who were of all
parties) in colours which be had not merited ; and
which, if ever he became a public man, it wduld be
his study to prove that he had not deserved. In morel
than one instance he had been represented, and by
those who in all common concerns were entitled to
be thought persons of credit, to be a Tory. He could
name a much-respected Nobleman who had told the
Electors they ought rot to vote for Mr. Hobhouse,
because he was a Tory.—(Cries of Name! name ! )
He could not name the Nobleman, for this reason,
that such a step on his part would be totally different',
from the course usually pursued in contested Elec-'1
tions. Such a line of conduct having been adopted
on the other side as he had described, accounted for
the state of the poll. Among the canvassers for Mr.
Lamb were persons connected with the Government
Ofices—partiians of the present Opposition, and be►1
hind them sometimes one of the friends of those at
the other end of the Hustings. This was the most
extraordinary composition ever heard of. The Coa-
lition Government, described by Mr. Berke as a Mo-
saic tesselated piece of most curious manufacture,
was nothing at all compared with this strange union.
In the course of that day a Commissioner of the
Navy, who at the last Election voted for Sir Murray
Maxwell, came there to vote for Mr. Lamb. His
vote was very properly objected to, but it was ad-
mitted by the High Bailiff. This, however, stood
but for one, and he did not fear all the Commis-
sioners of the Customs—or of the Navy, in London.
He was accused yesterday, by Mr Lamb, with being
'out of temper. If he bad been so, he hoped some
'allowance might be made for hitt:, as he was not yet,
accustomed to the calumnies of a contested Election.'
He had 'expected open abuse from Gentlemen in the
livery of the Court, but he had not looked foi that
description of trick and artifice to which he had allu-
ded en the preceding day, for till now he had never,
stood a contest with a Whig. He had not suppola
the Whigs would accuse him of not being enough of
a Reformer for them. Aker the course they had,

puisnea, he would notv, in inswet; to a plia-
had appeared in the form of aletter to
rim Ph which
in a Morning Paper, thew sehat the Whigs had
formerly professed to be, and what they new were.
Mr. Pox; In the debate on the Assessed Taxes, in Ja-
aliorre.l4/98, had contended that a radical reform of
Pailiament was necessary ; and he then declared, that
'without a change in the system, he, for one, would
never accept of a shale in the Councils of any Ad-
ministration, or consent to hold any responsible situa-
tion. livivr, after this, would it be denied by any one
that Mr. Fox had made reform in Parliament
sine qua non of his accepting office? Such \vete the
Whigs of 1798. He would now' ompare them with
the Whigs of 1818. In a Manifesto which theybal
published in the Edinburgh Review of last June, when
speaking of the pledge which the country would ex-
pect froth any newAdminktration, it is said, that if

the Catholic Question could he carried, and a mo-

dente Reform expected, much would be gained for
the country; but np such things ought to be made a
sine qua non. The Whig of 1798 would accept of no si-
tuation without a radical Reform ; but the Whig of ISO 6
did accept of office without a Reform, and doing so,
formed a coalition with Lord Grenville, who, in the
debate just alluded to, had declared, that so far from
voting for, a Parliamentary Reform, he gave his vote,
and he hoped all his friends would do the same, as
'a pledge against Parliamentary Reform. The Whigs
of 1807 went out of office because they could not
carry the Catholic Question. That question was, it
should seem, now strongly believed to be given up,
and GOD only knew what they would give up next.
In the present day there were certainly some Whigs
who voted in favour of Parliamentary Refortn,
though,they did not consider it of paramount impor-
tance, as the Whigs of 1798 did. If they did, would
their present Candidate be supported by the Court,
as Mr. Lamb was—by Commissioners of the Cus-
toms, by Commissioners of the Navy, and by the Se-
cretary at War acting as one of his canvassers? He
:oak the present Whig Candidate to be one of those
pliant, supple Whigs that might be turned about any
way—now on this side, now on that, meaning no-
thing, but always blundering round a meaning. He
held him to be one of those feather-beds, always
placed between the Court and ahe people to stop the
shots thrown by the latter against the former. Now
that his Seconder had retired, Mr. Lamb had accused
him (Mr. Hobhouse) of being the advocate Of Napo-
leon Bonaparte. lie had never been the advocate of
the tyrant Napoleon Bonaparte ; but he had contended
that the French nation had a right to choose what
King they pleased. In the Morning Chronicle he had
been called a Republican. Had he been so born, he
would have died in defending it; but as his fate had
given him birth under a different form of Govern-
ment, he was well content with that share of liberty
which with a King might be here enjoyed under the
Constitution, such as it had been originally framed.
Ile w'as no more a Republican than the writer of that
article himself. But then lie was accused of being
loose in his religious principles. When it was intended
to attack a man of spotlessiife and character, he was
always called an infidel, an atheist, or some such impu-
tation was urged against him whi.:h he could not rebut.
In one respect he was an infidel—he had no belief in
the Vtligs. He did not believe they would do :my
good for the country. To the charge made against
him that lie was Sir I'. Burdett's protegee, he replied,
that he felt it no disgrace to participate in that in-
fluence which the Honourable Baronet had so virtu-
ouslyatequited. It would be no disgrace that he was
esteemed by him whom all the country esteemed.
Mr. a Jones bad accused the Honourable Baronet of
ingratitude. This charge came well from that man,
seeing, it was well known, that his efforts to get him
out of prison had sent the Honourable Baronet to the
I Tower. Did Mr. Jones, when he spoke as he had
done; forget that Sir F. Burdett had been himself
consigned to a prison, because he came forward in
behalf of him as a suffering and persecuted indivi-
dual? He could repel every other charge made
against Sir F. Burdett with equal ease; but it was
for the Electors to decide, from what they had already
heard, whether the combination, he had alniqst said,'
the conspiracy, which had been formed against him,
should be countenanced by them. He (Mr. Hob-
house) had been accused of not being sincere in the
cause of Parliamentary Reform; he would now prove
that he was so. Mr. Lamb had yesterday said, that
be wished the elective franchise extended to scut and
lot voters. This was not going so far as he (Mr.
Hobhouse) wished to go ; but if Mr. lamb would to-
morrow bring a paper, signed by the leaders of his
party—(e laugh), or if he would promise, he would
take his honourable word, that the leaders of his
party would pledge themselves never to come into
power without endeavouring to-effect this small Re-
form, he would, with the consent of those who pro-
'seised him, retire from the contest. Gaining this, he
did not think enough would be done, but something
would be gained for the people ; and, if -he were.re-
turned to Parliament, the effect might only be to raise
one more feeble voice in their favour without avail.
Mt. Lama noweansb forward amidst considerable
disapprobation; and it was many minutes before be
could obtain sufficient silence to ask, "Gentlemen,
do you mean to he''ar both sides? or only one?" ' This
had the effect of producing some little cessition of
the uproar, and as he proceeded, it gradually sub-
sided. He congratulated his friends on the state of
the poll, which he considered as an omen of com-
plete triumph. Mr. Hobhouse had said he was not
in an ill-humour yesterday afternoon, and he was
bound to believe him ; but, at the same time, he
must say, that his good )tumour seemed to be of 'a
very unpleasant cast, (Laughter.) "It has beett
said," continued Mi. L, " that I have a very imper-:
fectalelivery, and cannot vie with Mr. Hobhouse in
the elocutionary graces: Now this was very un-
pleasant to me; but since he has promised to learn'
temper from me, why I will learn oratory from him;
and so we shall both be benefited, (Laughter and
applause.) I; cannot help complaining, though, of
one practice that he has—that of coming here with
a parcel of extracts and quotatiOns, of which 1
know nothing, till I hear them from his mouth.
Thii is very unfair; but if he would have the kind-
ness to give me notice of what he intends to quote, I
might be better able to answer him--:-(A
Li igaJ—
Not that I mean to call upon him, in his earnest
manner, for an avowal, fort did not even ask him to
avow the sheep's head yesterday, and 1 DUI sure it
ras a very suspicious-looking thing—(A load laugh'.
it certainly would be very desirable if he would
;3t t • , •

lease' & discatirses to which lie is achileted,
and favour us with a little wit now and then-.(Mort
latlhter).—He has told you that n 7`d'oble Lord has
endeavoured to disparagis him, by calling him a
Tory—whatthen becomes of his charge against me)
of having Courtiers to cans-ass for me ? One word,
Gentlemen. on Parliamentary Reform. I think it
would be but fair, if Sir Francis Burdett, whose
speech of last night I could no more hear than he
could mine. were to come and hear what could be
said in reply to it !—(Skouts of laughter, trith z le*
scattered cries c, " Enough, Sheep face !")—Err Fran-
cis his told you that. Mr. Hobbouse's plan of Reform
is intelligible. -Now, Gentlemen, I hays" looked into
•the Dictionary, and I find that the word intelligible
means, " possible tb he understood," and so, at some
Mature time. soma studious character, like Major
Cartwriglajor instance, may make it out !—(.4.re
laughter and applause, wild; " None of yourganmui r)
Even the Egyptian hieroglyphics may be made out •
again sonic time or other-s-(Laeghter and skout4)--
Mr. Lamb then made some observations on Mr. Hob-
house's quotation of Mr. Fox's words " Radical Re-
form," and centended that Mr. Fox, in all probabi-
lity, might not apply precisely the same Meaning as
Mr. Hobhouse to those words ; and his answer to his
demand of a pledge from his party, he could erev
say was, that he stood.there for himself alone, ..ad
44 was net pinned to the tail of any patty."
Mr. NORTIMORE (the late Candidate for Exeter)
never felt such anxiety for the liberty of WestiniustsT
as lie did at present. If, the attempt to return Mr.
Henhouse proved successful, they might expect to
see in the next edition of Oldtields Boroughs—" West-
minster, 14,000 voters ; Patron, Sir Francis-Burdett."
He adverted to the ages of General Blucher, the
Austrian Minister Count Colloredo, and the Mike of
Roxburgh (who had been returned to the present
Parliament), •to refute the assertion that Major Cart-
wright was tits old to sit in the House of Commons.
He hoped the Electors would to-morrow come for-
ward by hundreds to vote for their old and faithful
friend. It had been common at the Westminster Din-
ners to give the health of Maier Cartwright, and the
song of Steady she goes was then sung. He would
ask Mr. Brooks; and those who now favoured Mr.
Hobhouse, if the Major did not go on as steadily as
ever? He was persuaded that Ministers were so
hostile to Major Cartwright, that if the Whig Candi-
date had not started, they would have been disposed
to support Mr. Hobhouse against the Veteran ; and
he should not have been surprised to see " Old Bags,
Derry Down Triangle, and the Docter," going up to
dive him their votes.
Mr. GALL .Toms t idicaled the pretensions of Mr.
Hobhouse. He maintained that he owed his impri-
sonment to the rash, puerile, and contemptible inter-
ference .of Sir Francis Burdett, but for which he
should have been liberated from Newgate in the
course of three days, and went 0040 examine the
general conduct of the I-Immutable Baronet, who he
spewed had done no good in Parliament.
Mr. Hoar came forward, but could not obtain a
hearing till he had promised the crowd that what be
was about to say should be 4 short and sweet." He
had yesterday put threequestions to Sir. F. Burdett.
He had given no answer to them, and was not there
to-day, because he knew he could not answer them
satisfactorily, without telling that which was Hot the
truth. He had said, as lie (Mr. Hunt) learnt from
the Newspapers, that he (Sir F. Burdett) had never
deserted a public or a private friend. Ile would ask
them, did they remember Mr. high, who, twenty
years ago, lent him f,30.001 on one occusioe ? Was •
he now his friend? No.—Did they remember
Mr. (limier, who accompanied the lion. Baronet
when lie went out to shoot poor Paull ? Was Mr.
Lawler now his friend ? No.—Did they remember
Mr. Paull? Did not Sir Francis Burdett betray and
desert him before his death ?—Did they remember
'Colonel Wardle? He (Mr. Hunt) had no hesitation
in saying, for he had it from Col. Wardle himself,
that the treachery and abandonment of Sir F. Burdett
forced him to fly the country. Did they remember
Mr. Jennings, who had stood on those hustings for
fifteen days? He stated, Sir F. Burdett had aban-
doned him, and had never done him any favour in
his life. Who had been the friends of the Honour-
able Baronet for the last seven years? Major Cart-
wright, Mr. Cobbett, and himself (Mr. Hunt.) Ile had
never asked a favour of him in his lite. if he (Sir
Francis Burdett) had ever conferred on him an obli-
gation worth sixpence, he doubted nut he would have
come there to reproach hint with it. He had deserted
Mr. Cobbett ails! Mr. Cartwright, but he (Mr..llunt)
scorned to wait for his turn, and had abandoned the
Honourable Baronet. They all remembered the con-
duct of Blue Beard, in the play, who killed off all
his wives. Sir Francis Burdett was the political Blue
Ikad. He had
,killed off all his former friends, and
if Mr. Hobhouse should turnout to be an honest man
he would kill him off at last.
The business of the day here closed, and the crowd
quietly dispersed.
FIFTH DAY.
State of the Poll this day at Twelve o'clock :
Mr. Laws - 925
Mr. Heitman - 690
Major CA atirawas -30

.
ONE 0 CLOCK.
Mr. Loan .A.,, -
Mr. Hossouss -
Major CAST W SIGHT - .

- 990
- 705
30

W. P. HONEYWOOD, Esq. one of the Members for
Kent; is confined at his house in town by a severe
attack of fever.
Yesterday, about one o'clock, the Earl of Lion*.
DALE, while sitting in the Committee on Bank Affairs,
became suddenly indisposed. The Committee, in
consequence, adjourned immediately. The Nob'e
Lord remained in the Committee. room for some
time, and seemed to recover considerably. He was
then conveyed home in a carriage, and from the
latest accoudts which we hake had, his Lordship was
not beliesed to be in any imminent danger.
This morning, at six o'clock, a fire broke out at
the house of Mr. EDMONDS, No. 21, High-street,
\Yapping, which totally consumed the premises
where it began, besides damaging the house of Mr.
VENABLEs, cork-cutter, N. 20, and Mr. Ronson's,
iionmouger, No. '22, before it was extinguished.
Another fire broke out thisrno
aboutnine
o'clock, at Mr. PINKNNY's, No. ti, vveit Smithfield,
near Hosier-lane, which totally destroyed the upper
part of the house.