Star.
London, England, 1819-03-15 00:00:00

DINNER VTHE
NCE V WEST FRIENDMORLANDSto THE INDEPEN-
DE.

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inity-(Akeee),4le-eeerehslalti do, as
change, and he joined with an boost orn hot*
they might Ilvetn- see such an expositor of
in awl
()vision, which, by the universalion, diffusion ef
Saturday the Friends to the Independence of West- ledge, was becoming mote efficacious and safe,
'Worland dined together at the City of LoadonTavern. as would .lead to effects. in improving the Cintetit!-
jar • ci blic
They were about three hundred id number, and were tion of Parliament and the admie--41411- 211, •
distinguished for wealth, talent, and respectability. affairs. which, however they differed on minor pomts;
About six o'clock Mr. CURWEN, who had to take they all wished fore-(Lond applaneeh--He eeneindell
the chair, came into the room, accompanied by Lord by drinking their. health:. a
Morava:ix, Messrs. LAMITON, WHARTON, BROOOH• Mr. CURWEII then plo
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HAM, GRAHAM, HARAISON, CRACKENTHoRPti ke. . it
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&c. and was welcomed by the loudest applause, . The nest Toast was-'t The 010 fenallandwe PROW=
whilst the music at the same time struck up the tune who voted ulth Mr. Brougham."- -dmie with throoduaairoe.
of " See the conquering Hero comes." Mr. CRACIEENTHORIin returned thanks, and stated
After dinner was finished, and the cloth withdrawn, that the hostility to the Lowthers with whidehe had
the Chairman gave the usual toasts of been charged was not hostility against their persons.
" The King,"" the Prince Regeat," " The Army and NaM" but against their, rinciples. With tepid to the M.-
which' with the exception of the ant, Were drank with three section, that the Lowther intended to withdraw one
times time,
of their sons, he begged the Electors not to believe
In the interval between each toast the Professional it, nor to allow.thew adversaries to add deceit to in,Gentlemen sang, " °"8"1 the Kink: " Hail Star
suit-0 d
of Brute:wick: and" Ruk Britannia.. " The health of Mr. Wharton, fil.P. foe Severely". being jives,
' The health of the Lord Lieutenant for the County of West- that Gentleman
shortly returned thanks
treriand," was given with three times three. The nest Tome we..-" The 200 Freeholders, blonds to the
The CHAt am AN then said, that the next toast which cause of Independence. who were pievedted by the Land Tax
he had to give bore more immediate reference to the Asereonent, and various other causes, from voting is our behalf..
object of the day than any of those which had pro. Mr. HARRISON, as one el those who had been pre-
ceded it. It was a tribute of respect to the hide- vented by accident from attending at Appleby, said
pendent Electors who had distinguished • hemselves •he acknowledgedthe favour chine him with mixed feel-
during the late contest for the representation of West- ! ings of gratitude ani regret. He felt more poignant
moreland, by their virtue and independence. That sorrow at having bean absent, since the independent
contest was felt by them to be a contest which in- cause had not been successful; thoughlheir adverse-
volved in its result every thing that was dear to Eng- ries might say, as Pyrrhus did of his victor/over the
ilishmen, and every thing that could confer grati€ca- Romans, si Such another victory will ruin us." The
tion upon an honest heart. It was a contest differing Freeholders had been justly cautioned ago nit bevies
from every other contest in the kingdom ; for it was a nominee of the Ldwthers put upon them. If the
riot a contest between two great families, who were proposal talked of should be carried into effect, he
desircius of obtaining a victory over each other-it should attend at his place in Appleby, and tell them
was not a contest between two political parties, who to their faces that the Freeholders of Westmorland
won desirous of trying each other's strength-it was would not be deceived .by such a juggle (Applause.)
not a' contest springing out of popular effervescence, The next Toast was-" The honest Wives
Gisee grow tred bonny Loves
or popular dislike to any particular candidate, but
Gt
Mr.e. licaorunduo.ner said, lac as the honest wives had
it.was an effort made by. the people to recover that
isee_n drank, he should propose the health of one ho-
independence which their forefathers had enjoyed.- honest; firm, and zealous friend, M
Though the victory had not fallen to the share of nest man, their
a.
&est,
John. Wak eta, Kendal ; and he had only to menr..
dease independent, exertions, the honour which they
um a circumstance, which the eompany, perhaps,
bad gained was destined to be immortal; for when
the Electors retired from the field, they mixed disap-
nwould like to heir; that this happened to be the An-
the of Mr. Wakefield's Birth-day.
pointed, but not disgraced ; and took along with them
" Mr. Wakefield, the donor a the Medals, and many happy
the regrets of everylionest man and of every sinLere returns of ads day,.. was then drank with great away*. -
friend of liberty. What, however, had beeu the Mr. Confine said, that he bad lived to see three
triumph of their opponents ? Scarcely had they generations of the family of a gentleman whose health
achieved their victory, before they began to be he should now.propose; and never had he knoin
haunted with visions of future defeat--whereas, the any measure hostile to liberty aided by the vote of a
very disappointment which bad befallen the efforts Lambton--(Applause.) . Happy :was it for the inha-
of the independent Electors, had bound than more Wants of Ditrhain that they had such a Gentleman
strongly than ever to the cause, had rivetted their at- resident among them. ,
tachment more clowly to its supporter, and had made " Mr. Lamborn , and the fadependett Sinful," was then
them more determined in their resistance to its op. drank with great applause.
Mr. LAMRTON, in returning thanks, said, that the
pressor. Their opponents, on the contrary, in the
nsidsi of victory, were anticipating defeat; ray more, worthy Chairman, in proposmg his health, had done
were openly confessing these anticipations; for, if too much honour to him and to his family. They, in
the
lie was to believe what he had been told, they had de-
long period during which they had represented
termined not: ro persist in their resolution Of always the County and City of Durham, had Dirt same
object at heart, beyond the support of independence,
• bringing forward two members of their noble family
to represent the county. He would ask them whe: the approbation of their fellow/ countrymen.
ther this alteration had been made by any sense of ,The mu, teali wee""" sir F. E. wee, Mr. Wiburibt Mr.
the former impropriety of their conduct ; he would "ni."' aau dm' *PPid.), c"laittuh
mr. WYBUltoli, is& returned thanks in behalf a
ask them whether it had originated from the awaken. his father. i
nye' of any generous fueling towards the independence .. The Kendal Committee." and " bf.r.Tbo'-aea," and of .'
'of Westmorland ? He would not detain them any Shepherd," were then drank. .
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longer ;be would merely desire them to charge Mr. SIIEPHIIRD returned thanks. .
their glasses, and in giving their cheers to his toast, Mr. CHAMP; thee proposed-
to
give " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altoge- 6. The health of Mr. Graham, of Netherby, sad the indepen,'
.thee; in order that their shouts might be echoed from deligemel a lieu:" .
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Mr. GRAHAM then Sato. no one *Mid feel deeper
vale to vale, until they reached in their career the 'a
• satisfaction than he red at being noticed by the
hi Is and dales of Westmorland. Friends of the lndepende
~ The independence of Westmorlaed t and its Champion.
nce of the County of West-
gemer Darnotesx!" morland. .He beheld their union and their efforts
Mr. BROUGH AA, on the toast being drank with with pleasure and pride; with pleasure, at seeing a
enthusiastic applause, which lasted several minutes, band of men, steady to their principles, advancing
'said, he rose with warm feelings, to express his with undaunted and rapid steps to victory : with
acknowledgments for the honour now done pride, because, though not a Freeholder of Westmor
Erland, he hailed the birth of. independence in thatitteitddrinking his health, and the manner in which
it was received. He congratulated them on the spirit County as the signal of Northern Emancipation-
of independence which had so powerfully manifested repplease). As, to the Noble Family, whom they
itself in Wettmerland. It was unfortunately tree considered, he feared too justly, the invaders of their
that his efforts were bailed on a late occasion by the rights, he should abstain from all animadversions,
paltry. artificesorMinistersandtheirparty. (Applause.) not only because he had been in habits of personal
Net he hoped the day would arrive•when. those aril• intercourse with them, but because the virulence of
flees should be of no avail ; and if he ever had the personal invective was, as had been truly said, the
honour to represent the independent interest in Par. sign of a weak cause. In that light he regarded the
fruitless att.-Mots to vilify the character of his Hon.
liameat he would never cease to maintain it. (Applause.)
The Hon. Gentleman commented in indignant terms Friend, Mr. Iliongham, who, as far as the British
upon the numerous abuses existing in the county, and name was known, was honoured as the Champion of
contended thit not Westmorland alone, but she Liberty, the Advocate of Humanity, the Defender
of British Rights, and the Enemy of Publicised Pri-
bemighbouring counties, and indeed all England, would
rate Fraud: Praised as Mr. Brougham had been by
boiefitedby their removal (Applause).-He would
not enter into any detail of his political opinione.__ those whose praises were much more valuable, it
m to add his tribute of
His public life in Parliament was before them. He might be presumption in hi
'was a friend to civil and religiout liberty-z•(Applause) applause ; but he could never forget that they had
such a man to fight their battles, and he was happy
e. to a rigorous reform in all abuses-to all manner
of retrenchment in the public expenditure-to those 'to hear, from the tidings of that evening,
.that their
reformations which every day's experience shewed adversaries had sounded the retreat. They were now
to be necessary in the legislative and judicial depart- ,told, that•two Lowther: would sot again be propos-
reents-and above all, to those 'reforms in the at,ed ; that two Sons of one Noble Lord would not
presentation of the People which were absolutely again make the County happy by Pregeotiall theme
necessary to secure its advances to a complete in- selves-(n laugh). They were now to hate. *some
dependence of the power of 'the Crown. and to se- undergrowth from the eaves-dropping of Lowther
cure to Cie Crown itself its legitimate, ;constitutional Castle; some Houk, some sapling, a hireling im-
• place in the affections of the people, without which a upon the County of Westmorland as 'one eif its
it was worth no honest man's wearing-(Applause),lresiVesentatives--(opplaasse). Such an artifice would
The Enemy of wild, visionary, impracticable schemes, .only redouble their exertions ; the name of Mr.
he was an enemy equally to that system which would Brougham and tht Cause of Independence were idea-
perpetuate abuses, disfranchise the people, and make tified ; they Must stand or fall together, If the Free!
the Crown itself unpopular. it had been now his holders were true to themselves. and true to him,
Tate to hale sat in three Parliaments. The first had they would both triumph-if they desestedhine the
been called the Walcheren Parliament, and though would be trampled upesi-(appiense). •
he was no friend to nicknames, he could not recol- The health of the Chaimaan was then batik' $164.
, )legit the flagitious vote of 1810, without rejoicing CURWEN returned thanks. • ;'• «r'.
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that that Parliament did not exist. He had next be- Mr. Baouou*u mentioned ,that the' itiiiiiiii; a
longed io what might be called the Indemnity Par., Kirkby Stephep; Kendal, Amihmider -
Lament; it had been his fate to see it note Bills to doubts in many other, parts
. deprive the people of the Constitution, to give arbi. that this dinner was to take
:ieere power to the Ministers of the Crown, and soon honour of the same cams
111111 r to pass a law to indemnify them in the use, and ",,TeeFliftd4 ef die thine'
root them in the abuse of that power, and to de- -Vic= hof ear-
Stewart
-seretee die injured of every chance for redress of their Simon of Stirling;
• tros,--( Apptiase ). Those two Parliaments limb*
-
paw.paiied away, and thanks to the spirit of ~......." The""......„eith et ~.."11" '
Rib. lrd" .betty end.universally expressed, a Pax. it", ;mama...a
• " "tee nosy ghost of which again he should North," and gave "an animated
. fa Say Tittle till he had seen more of their Anuses dealt alms.
bus qt. which the most cautious man might wen- " stir. Seim", and Cu'
•=te at that they wduld neither pass nays anni"111111."`" dn"
gees as diewaloossoi sise sea a Bill as die Maw 5111.1446114.4ineledwaide" waist. s hoiNatneeld.