Star.
London, England, 1826-06-26 00:00:00

and his amhition unh ,nntled. He had already z-st i ~
Pariiatnent ; but nut satisfied with the seat whic'i )I,s
had got, he came from the Land's End (whe e he 1,.,4
liven assisting one of his family to a noble s:atl to
agitate the County of Westmoreland. Ile (Col. 1.0•5i1,..1
was determined, however, that the Learned Gerole,
man should not come in, if he milli be kept out, and
• in that sentiment he felt satisfied that the great n ajo.
rity of those who heard him coincided. (rippia,rse..
Mr. Buouonass then came forward anrid.ilie cheers
of the blues, and the outcries of the yellows,' t,e
Colonel in Iris present address had to!cl the m, and-hal
told them very truly, that be (Mr. It ;rI 1
..fOll-lACTI, 'Via); 10.
ready returned to Parliament, and had asked them, tt by
being there, be wanted to have any, and what, tii.ng
further. He would give the gallant Colonel an sotto
to his queseno. For himself he wantednothing ; fig- it
was not his interest that was at stake in the !u-eserit co,l-
- ; he had nothing more to do with it than the loon.
blest freeholder in Westmoreland—( Cheers). But at
the Hon. Colonel wanted so much to know what more.
he would be at, he would tell him and the freeholders
together, though the latter knew it already, that he
w•ntsd to see the c linty of W-stmoreland tree arid iii-
dependent—(Load cheers). He wanted to see an end
put to the haughty and intoleralsle domination cf t?re.
,Lord lieutenant, by which in Westmoreland alone, of
all the English counties, one man, and he, too, a Peer,
a placeman, and a Lord Lieutenant, named two of his
family as its representatives, just as if the county v ere
one of his close rotten boroughs—WA/1A.441/T)
They had heard from that respectable Gentleman, Coi.
Wilson, of Dallam Tower, who must bavelrhoured
under considerable misrepresentation as to the st,te of '
the county, that the sense of the resident freeholders of
Westmoreland was decidedly against the byre cause,
and that as it had already been taken twice, they were
not justified in coming forward again to distu, b what
was called the peace of the county. That the tense of
some part of the resident gentry was against them, he
would admit; he knew that they had the sense of the
resident Clergy against their cause—he knew that they
had the sense of a much more powerful, thbugh not
more active body of persons, namely, the attornies, '
against their cause—he knew that the sense of the resi-
dent placemen and pensioners; unfortunately at very
numerous body in the county of Westmoreland, against
their cause.—he knew that they had against their cause,
'wandering up and down the county, those who were •
incapacitated by Act of Parliament from giving their
votes at elections—he knew that they had against their
Cause the collectors of ;tamps and of taxes, and other
placemen and pensioners, who were running up and
down canvassing again't them, though they were pre- %
hibited by law, under heavy penalties, from giving their
Totes against them. The Hon. Colonel, however,
who was proposed as a candidate, went further 'than
the Honourable Colonel who proposed him. He said
that the majority of the resident gentry was against
their cause. He (Mr. Brougham) did hot think that
it was; but at any rate, neither the Honourable Colo el
not any one else had ventured to say that the majority
of resident freeholders was against their cause. Did
they then mean to say, that the Gentry al ne were to
decide the election, and that the freehold rs were trs
have no voice in it? Surely not. He (Mr. Brougham)
said, that the freeholders, the good hottest gray costs of
Westmoreland, represented the sense of the county-a*
(Cheers); and he repeated, that if they compared the
list of resident freeholders on both sides by the returns
of 1820, and took out every nonresident vote, they
would find that there was a clear majority of 40 on the
side of the blues—.(Cheers). He heard from that quar.
ter where an unanimous sense appeared in favour of
their opponents—he.nteant the quarter where the yellow►
band was situated—a cry of 4' No Popery." Those Gen-
tlemen appeared to have been well disciplined', for never
did he see men cheer more cordially or take off their
hats more harmoniously than those self same musicians.
He heard from the band, he said, the cry of " No
Popery," and he had often before heard that base cry
used by some who knew better, with a view of influenc-
ing others who knew no better.—(Cheers.) lie hal
never, however, heard of an election in which a candi-
date had ventured to come to the poll with that sense-
le.s, bignued, hypocritical, and inflammatory cry
blaaineJ on his banners.—(Cries of " Never : it's a great
shame.") Who were they, he should like to know, se's()
had got op this cry in their peaceful county ? Those
who called themselves the friends and supporters of
Mr. Pitt—those who owed to him their t ties, their
honouree and their places; and yet that Minister, if he
had been alive, would have been the Minister above all
others against ohms that cry most have been direr ed.
he having resigned his office in consequence of the
clamour which was raised to prevent him from giving,
,as he desired, equal rights, and civil and religioui
liberty, to millions of his fellow subjects.—(Cheers.)—
That great Minister was at the head of the ettholic
question, and had made the sacrifice of ()Mee to it, arid
had continued its firm and untotsprortii.ing supporter
to the very end of his life.—(Cheers.) Was any one a
better friend to the Protestant religion than the Univer-
sity of Oxford ?—(A fellow in the crowd here ex-
claimed," A Protestant Government, if you please, Mr.
Brougham ;" on which Mr. Brougham turned round,
and thus apostrophized)—And so you will have, my
dear friend, a Protestant Government, no matte
whoever comes in ; and no person is more anxious to
give it and to preserve it to you than I am individually,
and the friends collectively with whom I have the honour
of acting. Whom, he would ask, did the University of
Oxford choose as its Chancellor? A" No Popery'
man? An enemy of the Catholic question? No snch
thing; but Lord Grenville, who went out with Me. Pitt,
when he could not carry the whole questions of Catholic
Emancipation, and who afterwards went - out in 1807
with Lord Grey, when he could not succeed in carrying
a part of it, and who had ever since been a steady and
consistent friend to the same cause—(Cheers.) Who:
better friend of Protestant ascendancy could there he
found than the University of Cambridge? And yet
had
within these few days that learned University
heat down the infamous yell of " No Pipet y," arid
had returned Lord Palmerston to ParliaMent on the
avowed principle of his supporting the Catholic claims !
Every where, at every election, had that monotonous
and dismal yell been defeated and put down ; and
'it had in consequence now sought refuge in West-
moreland, where, thank Goo, they were going to give it
another beating—(Loud cheers, and cries of.. We will.")
He had now given them several instances of persons of
undeniable orthodoxy in Church and State supporting
this great question, and being assailed as they were by
the base outcry of no Popery. He would now give
them other and higher authority for it. (A yellow here
cried out, 44 Gae away mon, and get a brie " ) When
that worthy collier had slackened his pac ~ be would
'proceed. lie w .uld hive t. ern the Rath lily of the