Star.
London, England, 1819-02-20 00:00:00

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Mr. Hobhouse spoke of the Nobleman and Noble-
wads Stewards that canvassed for him, he wished he
would be a little more explicit. He could wish to
know who they were. When it was stated that the
Tories accompanied his friends to canvass, in order to
intimidate the, Westminster Electors, he would appeal
to them if this were at all likely—if it were probable
that the Electors could be intimidated by any thing?,
He denied that he had complained on the preceding
day, that Mr. Hobhouse was too witty, or that he
was a second Joe Miller. He had said that he came
on very prettily, and might in time become a Joe
Miller ; not that he already deserved that title. As
he found the noise increased, and that he could not
be heard, he would retire, and he trusted his friends
would consider it a token of respect that he did so,
fell a fairer opportunity for addressing them occurred.
Mr. HUNT experienced much opposition, but was
at last partially heard. He wished to know where
Mr. Sturch and Mr. Wishart were on the present oc-
casioul They, and all the most respectable persons
in Westminster had left the rump, and only the fag
end now remained to support Mr. Hobhouse. The
Honourable Baronet had fallen as low as ever Luci-
fer had fallen ; he bad fallen from the very pinnacle
a popularity down to the bottom of the well, from
which he would rise no more. If he should address
them to-day, he hoped they would hear him, as the
more he spoke the more he would commit himself.
'They had been told a great deal about Whigs and
Tories by Mr. Hobhouse, but that Gentleman him-
self, he (Mr. tient) must say, was neither the one
nor the .other, but. something bettveen both, awl
between the vats stools he had •fallen to the ground.
He then proceeded-to inquire where Sir F. Burdett
had been when Mr. Bennet brought forward his mo-
tion respecting the Transportation of Convicts, and
when the Chimney Sweepers' Bill was in the House?
He was then exerting himself to procure the return
of Mr. Hobhouse.—( The noise increased very much.)
If the friends of 'Sir Francis Burdett would nut hear
him, he hoped his friends would listen to the Hon.
Baronet, for he most fervently hoped that he should
be out of existence if ever he failed to meet the Ho-
nourable Baronet on any public occasion. He had
abandoned the People, and he (Mr. Hunt) now aban-
doned him. On one occasion the Hon. Baronet had
kept away from a public meeting because the snow
was on the ground. He (Mr. Hunt) would not keep
away' on the same account, and he called upon the
Electors to see if, let the snov: lie on the ground as it
might, he did.-not conic and beard him.
Sir F. liveontr could not but congratulate the
electors on the state of the poll. When they remem-
bered that every species of trick and delusion had
been resorted to ; and that every exertion of power
had been made to seduce and to drag up to the poll
all the scowerings of office, and the dependants on
the great; it was most gratifying to perceive that
the stream was almost exhausted, while they knew
that the sp!ings of liberty were fresh and untouched,
and ready to flow in a way which he trusted would
overpower and confound their enemies, and place
Westminster in that situation in which it stood before
the commencement of the election. There was no
cause for despondency. It was more difficult to rouse
a lion than to start a hare—but the Lion of West-
minster was beginning to grow warm and to rouse
timseif, and all the puny efforts of those who had
endeavoured to delude or to bully the electors to'
support their favourite candidate would prove of no
avail. An unnatural coalition had been formed
atlatinst the people, and this was strengthened by the!
ettraordinary spectacle, they had just witnessed in
Cie course taken by the last speaker. They had. ar-
rayed against them all that art, maliguity, corrup-
tion, and power, could oppose to their rights. They
saw all these, and they would see all these overcome.
Mr. Lamb had said Mr. Hobhouse was a great jester.
Mr. Lamb w.arld fain be a great jester himself, for
if not witty when he ought to be, he was always
witty when lie could he so. lie thought the conduct
of Mr. Clark, who had been brought forward 'on
the preceding day, highly commendable, notwith-
standing the sneer that had been put on him, be-
• cause, as it is said, he was a barber. Mr. Lamb

seemed to think, that because he was a Whig,
all Barbers must be his enemies—(A laugh.)-
- But putting aside this paltry equivoque, he really
thought the Barber had shaved the Lamb's head 'very
close ;—(Laughtcr)--aad if the Lamb's head were
often to come before him, he should not wonder if
at last he were to cut off the Lamb's ears. To be

serious, the question was, not whether Mr. Lamb or
Mr. Hobliouse—whether Whig or Tory should be
returned to Parliament, but whether the great prin-
ciple of Radical Reform should or should not be up-
' held by the people of Westminster? He would iay
that Mr. Lamb had deluded them by affecting to be
a Reformer. He cane there in the disguise of a
Reformer, and pretended that the plain and intelli-
gible statement of Mr. Hobhouse was not to be un-
derstood ; but when he was asked a question about
the Rotten Boroughs he c2uld not Understand that,
and he had replied that he had not as yet studied
their history.
Mr. LAMB denied having ever said so.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT understood that he had re-
plied he had not studied the Borough System so well
as the Gentleman who had questioned him.
Mr. Loma here pressed forward, and with some
warmth denied that he had used the words imputed
to him. He had said that he was not acquainted
with the local affairs of the Boroughs, but that the
evils which had been described ought to be corrected.
Sir FRANCIS Buffoorr contended, that no man'
professing to be a friend to Parliamentary Reform,
ought for a moment to have been at a loss to answer
a question like that which had been put to Mr. Lamb,
when it was on record, as it appeared in a petition
presented to the House in 179'2, that 150 Borough
Proprietors returned a majority of the Members of
the House of Commons. He now called upon the
Electors to exert themselves in the cause of liberty,
and to prove by their adherence to the principles of
Reform, that the people of England were not that
fickle and deluded multitude they were in certain
quarters represented to be.
Mr. ARMSTRONG declared all rotten Boroughs
must be hewed to pieces. He announced himself to'
be the author of a book called " The Triumphs of
Mr. Pitt r and taking a view of the merits of the
Whigs and Tories, he asserted both to be the very
tissence of corrs!ption. _Every party ought to have
flir Flay. For hanrelf# he would now wand as firmly