Star.
London, England, 1826-07-04 00:00:00

Day's Poll 172 25
Preceding Poll 1925 1353

Gras Poll

1678

2024

The majority of Lord Lowther is 719, and of Colonel
Lowther 646 votes over Mr. Brougham. The annun-
ciation of the poll was received with loud cheering by
the yellows both in the crowds and on the hustings, and
with loud hisses by the blues, who declared that it w.is
all gained by mushr.una votes.
The UNDER SHERIFF then declared, and ordered the
trier to announce, by proclamation, that the Lord Vv.
Lowther and the Hun. H. Cecil Lowther were duly
elected as Knights o: the Shire to serve for the county
of Westmoreland in the ensuing Parliament—(la/iv:se
cheering and waving of hats Fran the yellows)
Lord Lowruxa, who had just arrived upon the host--
ing% then came forward. As he understood that the
under-Sheriff had proclaimed him to be du•y el ctcd
to represent the county of Westmoreland, he now cattle

forward to thank the Freeholders for the lionoura!)le
position in which they had placed him on the p' 11, and
in which, he must confess, he did ant'cipale that
they would place him. He hoped th4„ltis future Parlia-
memory conduct would be satistacWy.to them, and
that when they should again meet each otfier on a similar
occasion to the present, they might do it under the same
kind feelings that now actuated them both—(Cheers.)
The present contest had not been a contest of indivi.
duals, but of principles, and Westmoreland had beta
chosen as the arena in which to try them. lie was
happy to find, and it was to the honour of the county,
that the good old cause of Church and King, which w4s.
still vigorous and strong, had been again successful in
it--(Cheer:). As the election had now,been brought to
a close, lie trusted that they would return to that spit it
of good fellowship and neighbourhood which had pre-
vailed before the contest commenced, and which, he
was afraid, had been disturbed by it—(Lc; :d circa:
from both parties).
Colonel LOWTHER said, he thanked them for rem-fl-
ing him by so I.irge a majority. He was sure before-
,
hand of this triumph—he was confid nt in his strength.
Much daring this contest had been said about mush-
zooms, and the Learned Member for Winchelsea had
been so kind as to inform him that a fungus was a
mushroom. It only corroborated his argument, for
what he wanted to say was, that tie Lt•arned Gentle-
man's votes were of the same kind as those to which he
objected. He could not, like the Hun. Gentleman,
make the worse appear the better reason ; but it he dis-
liked the term funguses for his m-ck-votes, he had no
objection to call them whimsy rigs.—(l.aughing)—.lle
now was going away triumphant, and he should
ready at all times to met t the enemy as often as th:y
thought proper to renew the contest.—Vond cheers )
Mr BROUGHAM.—If he had originaly come forsv,od
in this contest for the promotion of any purpo,e d 4 his
own —if he had stand forward as a candidate from a
desire to promote his personal consequence or ambition
—if he had entertained a wish to change his present se
for that of a County Member—if, in short, he had come
forward for the promotion of wry object but that of
obeying the voice of the independent freeholders or
Westmoreland, and rescuing them and their county
from the domination which bore it down, he shonld
look upon the result of this contest with feelings of dis-
appointment, peradventure with feelings of mortifica-
tion. But he knew, and the freeholders knew, and his
antagonists knew, and felt too, that his object was
neither personal pride nor personal aggrand zement.
He had been told, indeed, that it was presumption and
fully in him to presume to place himself in that dis-
tinguished and gifted class of County Members, but his
antagonists would not say so on those hurings. They
knew well, and the Lord Lieutenant knew as well as his
'two sons, that he never considered the represcitatinit
of Westmoreland an object of mere ambition. lie
was in Parliament before, and occupied a seat in
all respects as well suited, cielhaps,. to his views, as
though he had been sent to the House of Commons by
the unanimous voice of the county of Wesernotelan.l.
This might be known, and, he believed, was known to
his opponents, and he would now tell them what it was
that had induced him to come forward. When first pa:
in nomination for the county, he was ignotant of the
intention of those who had done it. To these persons
he expressed his unwillinress to embark in the enter-
prize, and his anxious desire to be permitted to pursue
his career free from the troubles and cares of a tie v

engagement. lie was told, in answer, that he had be.
put iu nomination ; that the succeu of the cause, in
great degree, depended upon him; that his humble nam •
,/isd called forth the spirit, even the enthusiasm of the