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Sir Rouse Wassit -
Sir Taunus Tunes - 210

Various Placards and Papers were exhibited during
the day at the Hustings, and in several parts of the
Boronich, such as—" No Brewer— Porter at 4d."—
" Consistency—did not Mr. Calvert vote for Sir Wil-
liam Curtis To the Ladies of Southwark—the
Turn-coat Baronet's Proverb:
" A woman, a spaniel. a walnut-tree,
" The more you beat them the better they be.
" See Sir T. Turtoe's Speech," kr- •
Mr..CALURT was greeted with loud and general
cheers. He thanked them most sincerely for the
thuation in which they placed him on the poll. It
was no more than he had expected from their pro-
mises now, and their exertions formerly. He had
prophesied yesterday, and the poll proved him a true
prophet. The Baronet had been beaten every hour
to-day as much as for one hour yesterday: It would
be the same to-morrow—(Applause).—The Honour-
able Baronet would find him a bit of blood; he
would shew him his heels, and the devil would not
overtake him I—(Cheers).—He observedt wo pla-
cards, one entitled 44 Consistency ;" the other, " No
Brewer, and Beer for 4cf.` Now was this con-
sistency? How could they have beer at any price,.
if there were no brewer?—(Applause). But he
could tell them how they could have beer at 31,6 d.
fourpence was too high a price. Let them go to the
Ministers, the grinders of the poor, and let them
oblige them to take off the duty, and beer would be
sold at 31,4d.—(Great Applause).—The saddle
ought to be placed on the right horse. He had only
row to entreat the continuance of their exertions,
that he might continue a true prophet. But he was
afraid the Honourable Baronet would not allow him
the continuance of this gratification : for, if he did
not withdraw this evening, he would to-morrow.
Sir ROBERT WILSON was received with rapturous
hnzzas, which continued for a considerable time.—
When he had rested his hopes on their zeal, as well
as on their principles, he had rested them on a sure
foundation. Their exertions, and the state of the
poll, fully authorized his hopes. He offered his best
acknowledgments, and assured them that their exer-
ticais would be ample encouragement to him for dis-
charging his duty. This was a contract not only be-
oveen him and them, but between them all and the
Public. When good was to be done to the commu-
nity, they owed it to GOD to exert all the powers
and faculties he gave them, for the improvement of
humanity—(Repeated chcers).—The Honourable Ba-
ronet had returned to the contest, notwithstanding
the result of one hour yesterday; but he had done
well if he bad taken the advice of his worthy col-
league, and made that his last hour—(Laud cheer-
i77g).—His first loss would have been his least. He
was surprised to hear the Honourable Baronet, in his
speech yesterday, say, that notwithstanding his vigour
in entering, and his energy and talent in conducting
this contest—he was surprised to hear him represent
himsclf,notwithstanding, asan old,broken-down,worn-
out, dying veteraa in their service!—(Laughter).—
He had, therefore, thrown himself on their compas-
sion, and solicited their protection. Ile thought they
would have been quite overpowered by this appeal.
He did not think that they could have resisted one
of the two greatest of temptations, according to the
Chinese proverb. The one was, love and opportu-
nity ; the other, the voice of an enemy in distress—
(Much applause).—lle observed, however, that the
Honourable Barcnet solicited their votes, not because
Ile Was afraid of any of the opposing Candidates, but
that they might put :t gag in his mouth, in order that
be should not ausw er what he called painful, but
they considered Constitutional, interrogatories—
( ifppiause).—The Baronet had told them that he
was attached to the King and the Constitution. So
wcie they all—(Cries (f " .411, all:C)—Who was
there that was not ?-L.(4, None, none r)—But the
same words meant different things is the mouths of
different persons. His personal attachment to the
King was unbounded ; but his political attachment
was connected with the authority of the laws—(Ap-
plause).—ln France, it had formerly been said, that
the King's thoughts were laws ; and Itapin, the best
of English historians, stated, in the reign of Henry
VIII. the nobility and clergy yielded such submission
to the King, that he might do what he would. This
was not the obedience of freemen. Then there was
a Constitution, there were rights, there were sacred
laws—there were dear and invaluable privileges,
purchased by the blood of our ancestors ; this was the
Constitution—not a nonentity, a shadow, a name, a
phantom which never existed when the People re-
quired itH.Shouts of applause).—Who was not at-
tached to his country ? Who would not fight for
it ? He hoped he should be thought no boaster, but
he believed he had. proved his devotion to his coun-
try : but country meant different things with diffe-
rent persons—country was not the soil en which they
stood. A soldier will say the camp is his country ;
a courtier the palace. Sir Robert Walpole said, that
every man's country was in his purse. He had heard
of a man who had a very confined view of his country.
V: hen the Bastile had been thrown open, a poor old
man, ivlio had been confined in one of its dungeons,
asked the National Convention to send him back to
his dungeon, because he had no other country !
Thus they who avowed their attachment to their coun-
try had voted for the Suspension of the Habeas Cor-
pus, for the Indemnity Bill, and for similar measures.
They had, therefore, a very different view of country
from what he had, and what he thought they would
wish-their Representatives to have (Immense applause).
Those who voted for taxes, found their country in
these taxes. In order to shew them the value of
such a country, he would state to them the increase
of taxes during the late reign. At its close, one
million was paid for the collection of taxes, more
than the whole revenue amounted to at its com-
mencement! They who voted for those taxes de-
rived great profit from them : it was not so with the'
People. In the year 1785, bread was sold for six-
pence the quartern loaf—beer, for two-pence thel
quart—beef and mutton, for two-pence a pound—
and veal cutlets, that delicious dish!. (An. uproar of
applause)—" Veal cutlets!" continued Sir Robert—
" think of that Gentlemen, for four-pence-halfpenny!
butter, four-pence or six-pence a pound. At that
time, many would be seen round may-poles with sil-

ver tankards in their hands. What A diraseneenow.
existed! and this difference was occasioned by the
taxes. They saw also that Are taxes 4.1 d. toilduceri a
total change in the character of the Engr people,
One of the greatest men in a foreign country had
said, that of a German he would ask, what number
of quarters he had in his shield? of. a •Frenchmany
what place he held in Court? of a Spaniard, whether
he wasiGrandes? but of an Englishman, what sort
of a man he was? (Applause). BUt now the character
of Englishmen abroad was quite changed. He would
shew them what the Frenchmen thought of the Eng-
lish character. He had received by the Post yester.
.clay what was called a French caricature; but they
would judge whether it was a caricature or a true
portrait—(Herehe exhibited a Parisian print). The
person represented was styled ",a free-born English-
man." He was heavily ironed. Near him was a
town in flames: it was Parga—a Christian town, de-
livered up to the Turks, contrary to the principles of
humanity, and the faith of treaties. They knew the
story, for they read the Newspapers. Next was re-
presented a prison, which contained as many in-
mates as would fill a town, all for political offences
and libels. They might look at them through the
iron bars. There they saw Mrs. Bull with her chil-
dren, whom she was carrying out of the house (Loud
cheers). In one part were represented Taxes, in ano-
ther Political Publications, in a third, " Liberty"
trampled on. Then came the outrage at Manchester,
still uninquireJ into (Cries of Shame! shame!) The
free-born Englishman had a gag in his mouth ; not
that which the Honourable Baronet wished to have,
:but such a gag as the Bills which the Baronet ap-
proved had put upon their mouths! (Great applause).
He meant the Bills against Public Meetings and the
Liberty of the Press. If the Honourable Baronet dis-
approved of the Seizure of Arms' Bill, there were
four others equally obnoxious, of which he had ex-
pressed his. approbation. Under the present system,
the very best man—the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
a very good man, as he certainly was—the very best
man was obliged to att in a harsh and cruel man-
ner, and to levy taxes, not as the People could bear,
but as the Revenue required. It was so in France
before the Revolution, where a Minister had said in
irony, when the People were talked of as unfortu-
nate—" What! unfortunate!—is that all? Then we
must have a great deal more from them." Out sys-
tem, if continued, would in like manner produce a
Revolution. In Parliament, he had heard men pro- ,
pose that the People should be kept in ignorance!
Ignorance, they knew, begot idleness, idleness begot'
vice, and vice a halter! (Applause).* Such was the
mode in which this country wai made to resemble
what a foreign country, Naples, had been represented.
King Robert, he was proud of his namesake, had
gone to a picture shop, and asked the painter for an
allegorical description of his kingdom? Next day he
returned, and got such a representation, in which
the painter, in consequence of boys and girls being
prohibited primers and horn-books, and the People
being kept in darkness, as they were proposed to be
kept, had represented the kingdom under the alle-
gory of a—what? a dying jack-ass!-,(Blost Glamour-
ous applause). They were agreed, then, as to the
meaning of. country. It was not the soil, but the
happiness, the honour, and welfare of the society ip
which they lived. Since Government existed for the
many, and not for the few, they had all a eight to
see how this society was regulated and protected.
Accordingly, they thought that no redress of present
grievances, even if redress could he obtained, was
sufficient without the restoration of confidence be-
tween the governors and the governed (Applause).—
The only means of restoring such confidence was the.
admission cf such improvement into the Commons
House of Parliament as would purify the sources of
legislation. The Honourable Baronet would not say
whether he was a Reformer or not. The Baronet,
he confessed, stood in. a difficult situation ; for if he
thought Reform necessary, and should say so, al-
though a great objection would be removed, the Ba-
ronet's friends would, as they had done once before,
not turn their backs upon the Baronet, but, a; Lord
Castlereagh expressed it, turn their backs upon them-
selves, which was the greatest miracle ever performed.
—His. (Sir Robert's) object was, not to have it
said that he had been so. many years Member for
,Southwark, but to have it inscribed upon his tomb,
that he had served the Electors of Southwark in the
most useful manner, and consulted the good of his
country while he gratified their feelings (Shouts of
applause). It should never be said of him, as in the
parable, that he was a bramble occupying ground
better adapted for the vine, the Olive, or the fig-tree.
If he could not pay them the attention which ought
to be paid to them at this time, and if he were not
so active as he had. been before, he trusted they
would not ascribe it to any presumption of success,
but pardon him, as his dearestrelative in the world
was now for five months on a bed of sickness.—The
gallant General retired amidst enthusiastic applauses.
Sir THOMAS TURTON was received with an im-
mense uproar of applause and hisses. It wits, he said,
impossible for him to contend with the flowing speech
they had just heard; He could not at once let off so
many tricks and so much charlatanry. The. Electors
ought to. have paid sixpence each for the print, of
which he had only seen the back, as was done on
similar stages (Hussar and kisses). He thought he
had seen a mountebank prepared to collect the six-
pences (Cries of " That's ungeekmanlj ; Mat's inso-
lent; sff, ef"). He would not attend to the flies
that were buzzing behind him; but he would an-
swer such questions as were asked by the electors
before him (You are not a Catholic, Sir Thomas),
No, he never would pledge himself to support Ca-
tholic Emancipation (Hisses). They who lived in
glass houses ought not to throw stones. What he
had said thirteen years ago had been,stuck up against
him ; but he never did say anything like what was
represented. As to the state of the poll, he was
frightened at it, when he considered that no sooner
bad the candidates yesterday stuck their knives into
the fish, than they .ran down stairs, exclaiming—
" Good Goan! Sir Thomas will beat us if we don't
canvass immediately."—(" No, I drank a good bottle
of sire oiler dinner," apemen in the crowd cried.)--.
He had itfrom one f the candidates that he had can-
vassed after dinner, which was not pleasant; and he
ventured to add, that he canvassed in great fear.—
He entreated a hearing, for the other Candidates
made their speeches out of his. (By this time the pa-
per containing the proverb had been handed to Sir
Thomas). He appealed' to them as Englishmen

Insbeaser attacks as were made upon him •werel
ITV:?.bat he was as littleafraid ofthem as of those
made them. • But he had been speaking of the
state of the Pell. It was evident front the state of
the nunshars that there was a coalition between the
withouteould
thotheyerbepartlie?se.thatetmthaekenuthinabtearsclwoesemßosoroeluguhal.
a coalition to keep out one Candidate ? (Here he
amuains It complained
abilutht ehintni.se made by
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Ecigliskrnen that any Candidate should be treated
hvyery such
diasg set
disgraceful
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with insult, or even with disrespect. The indigna-
tion se generally and pertinaciously expressed at the
t
use of the term " raggamuffm," obliged Sir Thomaso
say that he never forgot a kindness, but that he
at once forgot injuries. If he had used any expres-
sions which were improper, or offensive to any per-
son, he was-very sorryfor it—(Bravo! that's fair).—
A 'great deal of allowance ought to be made for a
man in his- situation, having, in the first instance,
large numbers against him on the poll, and supposed
to feel very sore. He disclaimed, from his heart, any
intention of using any disrespectful terms. The gal-
lant General had charged him with having never
declared his political principles. He had yesterday
declared that he would support the Constitution in
Church and State—that was his political creed. As
to pledges, he never would give any--(" What ! not
for IlsArnt?") He had voted for it, and that was
better than any pledge. There never had been a
motion for making the Representation co extensive
With property, as it was in that Borough, which he
had not supported. There might be a wild system
of Reform, such as Uaiveral Suffrage, which he would.
not support—(Cries of ,g We don't want it :) He
would vote for the abolition of rotten Boroughs.-
-The gallant General had alluded to the term
"country," and quoted the saying of foreigners, and
an observation of Sir Robert Walpole. He had not
lived in Sir Robert's time, and therefore it could not
have been applied to him. Sir Robert Walpole had
said, that every man had his price ; and, if that
were true, the gallant General must have his price.
If Sir Robert Walpole had attempted to buy him,
and the General had said, " You are mistaken," Sir
Robert Walpole could say, 4, I have always found it
otherwise !" Beer had been sold at the same p. ice be-
fore the late tar, and therefore the worthy Candi-
date bad no right to ascribe the high mice to that
tax. He disapproved of all such sq.stibs, but they
were justifiable in self-defence. Ile would tell them,
therefore, the prices of the several ingredients from
which beer was made. Barley was from thirty to forty
shillings.—Dlr. CALVERT, " That's not true rj—
Perhaps the price.had risen since the Election com-
menced, in consequence of the Honourable Brewer's
lavish use of beer ! His speech, thirteen years old,
had been called forth against him. Another squib,
nineteen years old, was now attempted to be used
against him. All who knew him would laugh at a
squib which charged him with not loving women.—
CHere the worthy Baronet entered into the history of
his youthful adventures a little more eiplicitly than
we can decently report.)—He was conscious of no-
thing in this respect which afFected his honour, how-
ever prudence may have been violated. The chief
happiness of malt depended entirely on lovely, de-
lightful woman. GOD grant that he might never
bow but to woman and to the laws of his country—
(Applanse).—The gallant General had ti ave}led
through Arabia, China, Ttirkey, France, Spain, and
England, in order to exhibit the degraded character,
of an Englishman. But if such a representation were
true, there was nut a man of those who-were said to
have oppressed them that would not feel it as keenly
as themselves--(Great confusion).
th—They ought to
hear him without interruption, oerwise it would be
said that the other Candidates were clever fellows, but
that he was an ass ! He would give no pledge,
either to those who now supported him, or to
the Electors of Southwark, if they.. elected him.—
, He would go into Parliament unshackled, or nut at
all. He would not, like the other Candidates, pledge
himself to support Catholic Emancipation. A foreign
Sovereign had been employed, very improperly in a
political view, but very creditably for Religion, in
making a petticoat for the Virgin Mary, He would
rather be.subject to a Minister who might be some-
times right, than to a Priest whose- bigotry must
make him always wrong. lie then again adverted
to the charge .of beating women. He was not a turn-
coat, but the espression imputed to him he bad used
when a Magistrate was vary active in supporting a
Treasury Candidate, Mr. Tierney, who was himself a
turncoat. He had upon that occasion told the Ma-
gistrate, that he would take personal notice of his
conduct. The Magistrate was afterwards civil to him;
but it was in allusion to him that he had quoted the
couplet, " A woman, a spaniel," &c. This was now
brought against him for lack of better wit. Mr. Cal-
vert had then gone back 19 years for such a sqltib
" There are wham Haves, has giten great store of wit,
" That want as much again to manage it !"
As to his prophesies, prophets, soothsayers, and wo-
men, were all alike. He recollected to have formerly
polled 3000. He was not, therefore, dismayed, al-
though the other Candidates were 300 a-head at the
expense of their dinner. No one liked to be told that
Ire had lost his dinner, as he could not recover it by
eating two dinners next day—( A laugh). Mr. Cal-
vert would chew his heels, not by outrunning him,
but by running out of the Borough. He would exer-
cise his own judgment if they returned him to Par-
liament, but the other Candidates' voted on every
question against Government, which could not be
right, as every man was sometimes right and some-
times wrong. They were obliged to him for giving
them an opportunity of choosing their Candidates—
(Much laughter). How could they know that their
Representatives would be steady in their principles
for seven years, if he had not put them to this trial?
—(Hisees and applause.)
Sir RORERT Wilson said, that two charges had
been brought against him, which he pledged himself,
to refute to-morrow, or to withdraw from the bust-11
ifigs. The first was, that he had pledged himself to
Catholic Emancipation; the second, that he would
vote against Ministers, whatever measures they pro.
posed. He was now told that the latter charge had
been matte, not by the Baronet, but by Mr. Allan
Shutter ; but he pledged himself to vindicate himself
from both charges. He had formerly declared, and
he could' do so still, that he never would go into Par-
liament
,but as an honest and independent man.—
(Great applause).
Us. CALvaar said, that the assertion that he had

pledged himself to support Catholic trretnciraeol
was not true. Those measures of Governruent which
were good had never been opposed at all. 4:he..0
pobitton only suggested Ametio thews that Appeared
to them beneficial ; and he never supported an
measures which he did not consider important to th,i
interests of the People—(Applause).
The Candidates then lett the hustings, ar,d the
crowd dispersed.