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cc2lty, and that if he withdrew it, all tore of the'
emancipation of Westmoreland a•as from that moment
at an end. He therekre suffered himself to be put in
nomination, and be after wards came among them, ex•
erred himself, heart and hand, not in his CAM!, but
their can e, and now, as they saw, had brought to
a close tie third contest—but not the last—(Loud cheers)
—and he appealed to every man who heard him, whe-
ther fi ieud or foe, if any man could have exerted

himself mute firmly or more strenuously—(Cheers,)—
The example was now set ; the spirit of the county was
• excited; the desire for independence increased; and,
4 would increase until the final consummation were
brooklet about, which was the glorious object of their
exertions. So lung as he had life and strength, the
cause should have his support, and " Again and again"
should be their motto.—( Loud cheers ) [These words
in blue are chalked over all the walls of Appleby.]—
'To himself, personally, as he had said, the result of the
struggle was a matter of perfect indiffe:ence. Let uo
one drink that he fought the battle to make a County
Member of himself ; he did it to make Westmoreland
a county, ant! not a close borough, like Appleby. It
was therefore that he decidedly agreed with the Noble
L 'rd, that this was a contest of principles, and not of
person-. But he felt some dith.ulty in discovering
what were the principles of the other side, except that
the Lord Lieutenant claimed the privilege or right of
putting in two m:nrbers, and those members his two
sons. Was it a principle that property should rule
the rein esentat-on ? (4' No, no", from the crowd.) Ye.,,
he aJuiltied it —(A laugh.) He admitted that the eh c-
use franchise Nsas strictly connected with pioperty.—
And acre there no other persons in the county possessed
of property and rank, except the L rd L eutenarit ?
Writ tom in it no S.ickvilles, 'lotions, Clittons, Gra-
hams?—Nu blood in Westmoreland but the blood of
the llouse of Lowther? If one man possessed of pro.
petty to tire extent of 30,0001. had a right to influence
the election of a Member i f Parliament, surely a
number of persons bad the same right who could
muster 30,000/. among them—(Clreess). And, from
the Kendal Ward alone, he could select two per-
sons on his side of Vie cp.estion, who had as much pro.
perty as the Lord Lieutenant possessed. But he would
jut those out of the quesion and take his stand on
the will and the voice of the independent freeholders,
the best and only principle which ought to prevail in
county elections. And now, in justice to his cause,
he would say that their want of success on this oc-
casion bad not arisen out of any defect in the cause
itserf, but out of temporary inconveniences, which,
not being foreseen, could not be obviated. They
hal not been defeated by the yellow cry of "No
Popery." 'They had not tailed on account of the Ca-
tholics, as had been asserted by the friends of his oppo-
nents. He held in his hand a list of persons who pro-
fessed to have left the blue standard, and gone over to
the other side on this account. On referring to the poll-
books, he found that out of seventy-nine names in the
list, tbiity-one had refused to vote against them, al-
though they had signed-their names to tire declaration.
boats names on the list be Low.' on the poll-book
amonj those who had voted on the blue side. Several
persons neither signed the docuurebt, he was told, nor
authorized any other person to sign for them. And
• some who did sign, or gave authority to sign, were
told that the document was a petition against Catho-
, licism, and had nothing whatever to do with the
election . But there were names there which unques-
-1 'dollishly stood in the list of his friends; and therefore he
, hid a right to inquire a little if the reasons which they
assignee for seceding, were in reality the true motives?
I lie rather thought that the reason, if known, would
prove to be as unconnected with the Pope as with the
limpetor of China. For instance, Mr. George Steele,
i of Mosland. Would he say whether he now farmed
under a blue landlord, as he did in In% or tinder the
Lowthers, or a friend of the Lowthers? What did
! Jelin Bewther say to the Pope? Why, he knew as much,
I about him, and cared as much about him as about the
Great Mogul. Let any man look to Pooley. There
v.as a great house to be built there; and if Mr. John
1 liewsher, who was a carpenter, were not employed
1 in building it, why then John Bewsher, he would say,
was the worst used man in the world. (Cheers, and
I cries of Shame, shame.) He deeply regretted to be
obliged to drag forward the names of individuals in
this manner; but justice to the cause which he
espoused demanded it. First on the list, he found

the naives of two Clergymen, who professed to have
changed their sentiments. Now it ,might be the fact,
that t .ey themselves believed the reason wl.ich they had
assigned to be the true one; but ha thought he could
point out one whose blue ;ation being dead, had sought
a yellow one, to %WM he would remain faithful till he
could find another v.ho had More to give. Another
gentleman was much in the sante piedicament; but if
a. the end Of a dozen years, he remained stedfast to his
bew-ieund opinions, and had no addition to his prefer-
11).nt, then he (Mr. li) would believe that he had gone
liver Int COMCIeI:Ce !Ake, and not from a hope of gain.
AiLl now for another Rev. Genttemaii, the third upon
e list. He ni ed not ask his motives tor originaLy sup-
Pi Ling hint (Mr. 13.) because they acre stated in a
speech delivered sonic years ago at Biouglh with equal
lAlent and zeal. On Saturday last, when the a ot thy lien-
inan eniei ed Appleby, he made another speech, and
tricii he said that hem iginaliy supported Mr.B. because he
Ainmefi his exertions in favour of the Queen. • Compare
this with the speech made at 13rough in 1818. Bat even
flan was unnecessary. It would be sufficient to say,
that Cie Que. n's case was not heard of tnl 18'20. • But
Cie cry of "Nu Popery" h d been heard ot ! Ay, that
had. And &at the Rev. Gentleman could nut be.
seourant, of his (Mi. IV)) sentiments on that subject, he
would q tote a passage from his own speech delivered at
th.t "'hes which the 11ev. Gentleman must have seen,
because printedolot only in the newspaper which he lead,
but in evely other newspaper in the kingdom. " The
Catholic Question is one upon which l Can never think of
changing nay sentiments. I shall them fast with the
most unswei sing integrity; a.id 1 would rather resign alt
•"ope of rep esenting estmoi eland than act coati airy to
i•hat I conceive to be my duty in this particular." What
I! he had. seen this, and read this? and seen it and read
lie must have done. And it was equally certain
teat lie cotild not at the tune have known anything
(1 what alterwaids occuired in the case off the Queen,
noless he were gifted with the faculty of second
sight. but he would quit this subject and return to a
more important part of the question. He had told then)
t"') contest was a conteetuf piincipies, and not of indi-
viduals or a Mere patty. Let them be encouraged by
gehecting that defeat had not hindered, them bow Art-
ito of that part of t're Minittry which was hostile
to everything like freedom, winch hung on the count' y
i'••• • •6110.6ftie, 1:;th wuulJ have Wig up the consti-.

tution by the toots—that part of the Ministry, of the
lingering and narrowed portion of which the Lowthers
are among the most strenuous supporters. They had,
in spite of want of success at the beginning, succeeded
against them by perseverance. Had they been dispirited
by defeat, they would not have persevered to save
the country from the worst forms of home policy—to
free commerce from its trammels—to relieve the people
from the grinding weight of taxes. They would not
have succeeded in delivering England from embarking
to her eternal disgrace in the cause oithe infamous Holy
Alliance abroad, and at home have prevented the
thraldom of oppressive taxation. That these evils had
been averted was entirely owing to the exertions of
those who fought the battles of freedom at home and
abroad, all over the world. If they looked elsewhere
they would find enough of examples of success to pre-
vent this defeat from so dispiriting them as to relax their
efforts. These examples should give them fresh spirts,
encourage them to renew the bdttle. They nould see
the friends of freedom in other pates of the kingdom
crowned with success. In the capital, four Gentlemen,
firm to the cause of freedom, had been returned. London
had sent Aldermen Wood and Wai.hman to Pell liamenr.
Succe-s had attended them at Worcester, at Dover, in
many ether places, and last, though indeed not least,
in Southwark, where his friends, his estimable friends,
Mr. Calvert and Sir Robert Wilson were returnei in
spite of all the exertions of bigotry, in spite 9f the raising
of that base cry which they heard here againsc them.
Let them be cheered. Defeat has not sunk the spirits
of his friends who had failed elsewhere—uf Ltd Tavi-
stock, or Lord John Russell. cr Mr. Evans, than %%horn
a more honourable man, or art retied friend to freedom
does not exist. They were not depressed by momentary
defeat—nor should he. Th it motto was Again and
again;" a mott3 which should be that of freemen all
over the world, as at present of the Greeks fighting fur
all that was dear to man—of the Spaniards oppressed
by a yoke which they long to shake off. ln fl ght, as in
victory, such should be their watchword ; it was the
watchword of Washington in North and of Bolivar in
'uth America.—(Cheers.) Their struggle had this
peculiar merit, that its success would not only benefit
themselves, but it would also benefit their adver
series; he meant their adversaries such as be saw in
the crowd; he meant the freeholders driven up to
vote; not the adversaries whom he saw on the hust-
,
ings about him ; they were beyond the power of
conversion, for self interest and prejudice had com-
pletely blinded them and their party ; but he meant
the people of the county, whether they voted for
them or against them. This consequence of their triumph
would be the most gratifying of its results, next to that
of the approving voice of their own consciences. Let
them not be dispirited. Though for a moment their
day might seem overcast, though their prospect might
appear dark before them, yet the clouds would br ak
at last before the influence of the glorious sun, which
would again burst forth to warm and enlighten, not
only its worshippers, but even those who might have
reviled its beams—(Loud cheering).—EMr. Brougham
drew his illustration from the day, in the course of
%Mar it was very dark, in consettence of heavy thun-
der clouds, which burst in loud claps aver the town,
leaving the afternoon very fine and bright, as it was
when Mr. Brougham was speaking.]—fir. Brougham
then bowed and retired.

Dr. ADAUTHWAIre addressed the fierholders, amid
cries of 44 Turncoat," which almost rendered him inau-
dible. He said that be did not stand forward as the ad-
vocate of the cause of the Lowthers, for their cause
needed not his advocacy, but as the defender, of his
own character, which had been violently and unjustly
assailed. He was obliged to come forward in this public
manner, or to labour far ever under the imputations
which his late Learned Friend had thought fit to cast
upon him. Though be could not equal that Learned
Gentleman in talent and eloquence, there was one point
in which at least be would not yield to him, and that
was integrity. When he had said that be supported Mr.
Brougham because he was the friend of the Queen, he
did not mean because he was her hired advocate, but
because he was her great friend and adviser, the oracle
to which she looked up for advice long before she left
England. He then proceeded to defend the present
Administration, and to boast of our having 80,000 mer-
chant ships; but a tumult which suddenly rose in the
mob cut short his oration, and preven:ed him from pro-
ceeding any further with his intended justification.
The two parties ranged themselves almost instanta-
neously for battle; but the yellow party was so nume-
rous and so well armed with regular bludgeons, that
the blues durst not face them, but retreated slowly
up the hill towards the Castle. From the acclivity
they poured down vol.ies of stones ucon their oppo-
nents, who immediately charged up it. tinder the chin-
mand of Lieut. Henry Pennington, R.N. commander
of an 18-gun vessel, called the Pike, who made hirnseh
particularly conspicuous by his veciferations, and his
waving of his yellow-ribanded bludgeon. The yellows,
in return lot the pelting they were receiving, began to
pelt the windows of the house where the Blue Commit-
tees were held, and in doing so, flung several stones
through the hustings at them, by which some Gentlemen
were wounded. The hustings were soon emptied of half
their occupants, some Gentlemen dropping off them, and
others hurrying with breathless haste down the steps.
Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Holt, and Mr. Holmes, M.P. chain-
guibhed themselves at this time by theirefforts to suppress
the tumult, in the course of which the latter Gentleman
was several times hit by stones. A blue applewoman
distinguished herself during this skirmish; she seized
bold of one of the boards of her stall and swept down
etery yellow wh..) came within the circle in which she
stung it. A comparative tranquillity was restored by
the inter fereuce of the leading Gentlemen on both sides.
A Gentleman of the name of L layering, who was a par-
tisan to the yellows, was going at the request of Mr.
Brougham, among his clan party, to persuade them to
enjoy their triumph without insulting their adversaries
by their vociferous exultations, when a bludgeon thrown
irons the top of the street into the crowd, hit him on the
head, knocked him down, and renewed the riot. Mr.
Brougham called out, Shame, blues, shame," and ap-
peared much annoyed by the conduet. of his partisans.
The stones began to fly agate in all directions, and the
blue committee-rooms were again ritte ked, but not as
the yellows say, until some stones were thrown at.them
from the upper windows of the house in which they are.
The yellows having cleared the street of their oppo
nents, became at la-t tranquil ; but before that time the
hustings were entirety cleared of their occ opal ts.

The Under Sheriff retiied during the uproar With
several of the leadlng Gentlemen id the county into his
house, where the nidenture of the return of the two
Lowther: to Parli.rnrent was signed, staled, and etre-
, cum!. lie then came back to the rustings, and having