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referred. 'From'.tlJs p mplhAet gppeare Oat thsre ' was indaid the • mote reason to. calculate. .as -Mr.' C.,tairxt-teitproposeciMr.-}iiikaisc.—lliis
Mr. Waid Vas Superinnuatediiilllo6, and ever Since , there was in. this instance no reason to .etpeet-tlias 'WA secondtd .by: Mr. DATE et.
allowed E. 1904 a-year,
.alithatigkhe was-
engaged in :.elitraordinary kindof coalition whickserved so, much Mr. Honstovan then came forward; :rid was re-
.ml' active office, in ase perf4rnaaice Of the duties of i torprdmote the- return of Mr.-L*mb at: the last -Elec-Iceired with the most enth utiastic apt/tante. He began
which he thibited stinssi.nf suieranktation.—. ricm. Such a coalition was, ha undetstood, not to be by alluding to the pledge which he had given them
But the fact wits; that this.Gentlemai, of Whose pub- calculated upon on this occasion. But whatever at the last-Eieerien, always- to Ise ready when e.pp.or.
lieseinvices he had never heardanything, 'was super- 'might be done on-the part.of his late colleague, he tnnity offered for serving-them ; that pledge he had
annuated at the age of thirty-sii. He was, however, ensertained • a hope and Confidence • that the -jade- 'already partly redeemed; and he now came forward
the brother-in-law of altlotaeruais, at preient a .€ll7 Nendeht Electors of Westminster would support their to redeem the rest. -He might say, that he bad never
bidet Minister, and this pensioner bad, he beliesied, osen dignity, and consulting their reputation and in• been far behind in the fulfilment of his promise ;tthat
throughout flowed Smoothly. 'down the stream of teretf, 'make adequate provision, by activity and 'he had taken every opportunity of making thartiro-
-cortuption.(4jifassat). the Hon. B:;ronet thankdd, ardour, to insum a triumphant issue to this great mice' good ; and had shewn what he might bestha-
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the Meet Ors for the frequent marks of apprObation
aid cOnctirrence with which Die) hid honoured hiin;
but they formed an. honest -Jury, . pronounCins 'an
unbiassed 4erdiet upon the 'merits or. the ica:se, and
he hoped he should meet With an ettstally honest in,
dependent Jury at LeicOstii' *he-reins was shorty
to appear, (Laid-appleisse). T-othat-Jary he would
confidently appeal; for there be wotild .-avow his.
desire for a substantial, Jectual Reform, and, hi.
would add, a Radical Reform,- that is, a .Reforrn
which should tear up the cerruption of the -House
of .Commons by the eery roots (Loud ANA use).
In looking for this Reform, he cared not to what ez-
tent the right Of Suffrage might be carried—whether
to persons of 21 years of age, or of any age. His ob-
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ject was so to diffuse the riiht of -Suffraii as to ren-
dor the Howe of Commons the organ of independent
public opinion : and for himself he would say, that
if every man in England, with a reienuz of £lOO
year, were invested with the right of voting, and-to
such a plan none but public plunderers could object,
he was persuaded that great good would be the re-
sult. Here the Hon. Baronet, disclaiming any per-
sonal ill-will, took occasion to refer to the practices
at the last Election, especially in producing the dip
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contest—(..Lewd plaudits).
Several persons then called ont for the nomination
of Mr. Hobhouse; but upon the High Bailiff ob-
serving that it .had always been the custom to give
precedency to the nomination of the old Members,
silence was restored, and
• Mr. WitiRART addressed the Meeting. The Gen-
tle Man (Mr. Lamb) whom he had the honour to pro-
pole, had sat for two Sessions in the House of Com-
roCais, during which he had uniformly supported the
interests of the Country, as well as the local interests
ref this City. He had, indeed, uniformly voted for
Reform and Retrenchment, and this was acknow-
ledged by the thank, with Which he was honoured
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upon unanimous vote of a full meeting of the
Electors, not long since held in that Garden.
Mr. EVANS, in seconding the proposition, ex-
pressed his entire confidence that Mr. Limb would
be re-elected by a most triumphant majority-44p
plause and hisses).
Mr. LAMS then stepped forward, and, amidst a
tumult of :tpplause and hisses, commenced his ad-
dress. He could assure them, that it was no wish of
his to take preCedence of Mr. Hubhouse. Had the

I bled to do, if allowed to act in a more extended
sphere. He now again stood forward a Candidate
for
their suffrages. He felt perfectly the necessity
If union in times so perilous, and they might rest 'as-
sured that he would not have come forward to dis-
turb the unanimity of the Election upon a tiieitig -
•occasion. -But it was no trifling point upon which
'he differed from Mr. Lamb. It was a point which
concerned essentially their welfare and existence as a
free people; and knowing, as, he had many opporm-
siit:es of doing, the opinions of the F:lectors upon th:s
subject, he conceived that the return of Mr. Limb
upon a former occasion -had been effected contrary
to their wishes. It was a well-known fact,. that- if
those persons whose votes had been rejected, •hitd
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been permitted to vote, that Mi. Lamb would
never have been returned, and that .he (Mr..Hob-
house) would have been their •Representative:s—
boubtless many who beard him might be of a very
different opinion; but he stated it ai his •solettm.ffe-
liet; in the face of the Electors of Westminster, and
the country itt large, that -such was a positive fait,
and that had not the tight of voting been violated,
Ur. Lamb would never have been elected. Batthe
great point upon which he deemed M. Lamb am-

High Bailiff decided that Mr. Hobhouie should ad,
dress them first, he would willingly haye agreed to
it; because it appeared to be more satisfactory—
(Hisses). It was a poor compliment to Mr. Hob-1
house, if they would not listen to him. In addressing,
them, he should endeavour to imitate the worthy 1
Baronet, in abstaining from all personal remarks, and'
stand before them merely as a Candidate for their
suffrages, without any diminution of that friendship
which he certainly felt for Sir Francis Burdett. It
was a very short time since he had lait addressed
them ; so short, indeed, that he thought the noisy
advocates of Annual Parliaments themselves must
now be convinced that Annual Parliaments would
not constitute a panacea for all their grievances—
(Loud disapprobation). However averse he might
be to Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage,
still it was his opinion, that a Member of Parliament
and his Constituents could not meet too often ; and,
for his part, if, as it had been said, he really was
not the choice of the Electors of Westminster, he
had much rather retire at once. to a private station,
than sit for a place which he could not with pro-
priety be said to • represent—(tkrlause). He, how-
ever, felt that this was an untounded slander.—
He felt that his connexion with Wegtdrinster had been
strengthened by recent oircumstlinces, and that they
had, as well as himself, derived from it considerable
satisfaCtion. The circumstance of so short a time
having elapsed since he last stood before them, was
to him a considerable advantage. It frequently hap-
pened that a Representative, in the course of a long
Parliament, forgetthe professions which he made to
them at his election. He felt confident ahat his con-
duct, during the short time which had. elapsed since
his election, had fully redeemed the pledge which he
had given, and had rendered him worthy of again
receiving their suffrages. Upon the subject if Re-
form, he would make one ottwo remarks. He would
ask the Honourable Baronet, what vote of his he
could object to ? . Certainly none. The Honourable
Baronet had said, that he did not receive from him
all the assistance he had expected. He now asserted;
that in the grand work of Reform, he had given him
every assistance. But the Honourable Baronet's mo-
tion was an indefinite one, and in speaking upon it,
he (Mr. Lamb) had given an independent opinion ;
he had acted as an honest and upright man, without
paying any regard to the opinion of those with
whom he might be associated, or to whom he might
be opposed. The Honourable Baronet had misre-
presented what he had said, respecting the punish.:
meat .of bribery when it was discovered. Whatever
he had said, it was rather singular that the Hotioutu
able Baronet had not noticed it at the time.--
He had treasured it up for a Whole year, and now
brought it forward, whea he probably recollected it
better than he (Mr. Lanib) did. The opinion which
he then gave was this; he wished to see the right of
voting given to those large towns which did not now'
possess the privilege, and, when bribery and comp-.
tion were discovered in any Borough, he wished the
right of suffrage to be taken from that Borough, and
placed in the hands of the People at large. He
thanked a' friend for calling his attention to one sub-
ject which he had nearly forgotten. It was true, as
the Honourable Baronet had stated, that he had said
that Reform was making little progress. But, in say-
ing this, he meant that wild and ihcottsistent plan of
Reform (Lead tiproar)i which, he had no hesitation in
saying, was impracticable. He agreed with the Ho-
nourable Baronet in believing that Ocient Reform
was making progress, and he could assure them, that
in Promoting such Reform, he would always be found
zealous and consistent, and sirduld JO:trance it with
all the ability which le possessed, and which,, for
their sake, he was sorry was not greater. He had
no*, he hoped, answered thane charges which the
Hon. Baronet had made against him. He felt surprised
that the Hon. Bart. should have adopted this course.
.For his own part, he had steadily ',adhered to the
practice of making no allusion to past tient'. But
he Might reel to their rettillietiOn hclii he ?Witten
interrupted and hooted—,ho* his firiendstad been
insulted and Abused, itid host, int ttOlit Octasionsi
Ile I'frld been silent& Ma ihottiVasttided. Otrr word
4dfe 'open the idhitierot flit *lridela charge. The
libridred OTOSiutiteri hOcl been called upon in put--
Wince
sof one Of otri' Most ancient It Anti he felt
that the. Worth Biltaret shOuld declaim
it hew *Mattis pr Alta, Major- Cartairighti
had sd Rattily itiptituded,oiril hlinsilf
diktiered batf tetideaf cif, new 'that it we
'twined agaitist'hirttielt W W "rep.rd tn beitti!ai
he had always op'phieit thlnti. it tail tall the
girtineN fur* till Aar+
ftl add: 10 thetfie .teddld she* the vitfltf
Nit- he *0 *ot eititt
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franchisement of so many Electors by thidecision,
he would not say of the High I3.iilif, but by that of
his legal adviser, or what was called his Assessor.—
This Assessor was, it seemed, a sort of perspn who i
took from the proper Officer his due responsibility,l
and Ministers had their Assessors in the House of
Commons.; for, notwithstanding what was said of
their responsibility, the fact was, that they had no
real responsibility, thoe who we•e to judge of that
responsibility being always participators in their acts,
as those acts were uniformly sanctioned by the House
of Commons. But with regard to the Assessor of
the High Bailiff, those decisions of his which disfran-
chised so many voters at the last Election had been
set aside by a Court of Justice, lay which it was laid
down that a resident householder was entitled to
a vote, whether he had paid his rates or not.—
It would, indeed, be very unjust if the determination
were otherwise, particularly as there was reason to
suspect that Collectors had kept out of the way at
the last Election, in order to avoid receiving the
Poor-rates from people ready to pay them. There:
fore the decision of the High Bailiff, which was now
reversed, would, if it were persisted in, enable the
Collectors of the Poor-rates ro trick men out of their
elective frariphise. Now, however, it was settled,
that whether men paid their rates or not, the law.did
not subject them to disfranchisement. aid this been
allowed to be the law at the last Election, he had no
doubt that Mr. Hobhouse would have been the suc-
cessful Candidate, and that Mr. Lamb would have
been rejectedipplause). Another unworthy prac-
tice at the last Election was, the employment of
armed ruffians about the hustings and elsewhere, to
knock out the brains of persons coming to the poll..
But he was not surprised at this conduct on the part:
of the partisans of his late colleague, for they must'
know, that unless the Electors of Westminster lost'
their brains, they would not vote for that Gentleman!
—(Laughter and applause). There were also obsta-
cles to ale progress of the poll at the last Election,'
which did not offer at present. Of the persons who
created those obstacles he would not now say much,
as they were not present ; he would only observe of
them, that he believed the Meeting was not less re-
spectable in consequence of their absence--(Applaese).
There were also some Cavalry introduced at the
last Election, which, however, did not much injure
the cause of independence, by the advocates for
which both horse and foot were soon put to Sight.—
But as to the breaking of windows on that occasion,
it would be remembered that some persons were
obliged to pay &tiers' bills who had nothing to do
with the outrages. TM's exaction was, however,
made under an old law, not at all applicable to the.
present times—for that law wa's enacted at a time
when, according to law, every man was a peace
officer, and being bound to preserve the peace, was
very naturally answerable for its violation. But now
that Government and its officers were alone armed
and competent to preserve the peace, it was palpa-
bly unjust to make the unarmed people responsible
for acts which they had not the power of prevent-
ing. Such a course of proceeding was indeed as
oppressive as die conduct of the Egyptians, who
were charged with calling upon the Jews to make
bricks without straw! (Ai:phases). He called these
circumstances to the recollection of the Meeting
without any desire, he declared, of etching the
slightest pet sonal animosity ; on the contrary, baying
nO Mich feeling himself, he hoped it would not be
entertained by others, but that the Electors of West-
rainster would continue to conduct themselves with
that good order and good temper which had hitherto
marked their character, and which had operated so'
much in favour of the prineiples of Parliamentaty
Reform. The Electors or westroillstef would, he
trusted, uniformly present this respectable example
—that they would- comport themselves in such a
manner as not' to deserve reproach, whatever tricks
or artifices aliglif 14 eldiploy*d against them, and
tricks and artr6ces they. had reason to apprehend
from thearperiunce of the last Blettiets (Appiarees).
Arndt tistr-WOrett of these artificer was the attempt
of filet eppotfftf riot only to tetta upon them any
provocation- that might have been °feted, but to
charge them with being the' worse of the very evils
under which they therntellits hid suffered. 'Thus
their assailants, ihstead of she‘eing any toMpiltietiOn
for their misconduct, imputed to themselves that
very misconduetfrOm which. they smarted. tiothlng
'could be baser than-welts-system; but the expedient
mkt not. tot:reed *vein, and- chi riCollertiOn a it
ust serve to stimulate the friends Of Keratin ofd
dependence to increased elestiticis en this qsdasiOno
iegainst opponents of such a deseviption. Through
exertion, he had no doubt tififtifit Oentelti vihishlit
,;nowaitsfgned to the hstsft et v stitt_ttvi %reiti di
produce a tiVeIIITA :in t. VOA' flew r 'Ow

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worthy of their suffrages (and upon many minor
points he had no hesitation in saving that heagreed
with Mr. Lamb), was, that he did not agree with
the Electors of Westminster as to the essential add
paramount importance of a general Reform. Let.
Mr. Lamb put whatever interpretation he pleased
upon the speech which the Ilonourable Baronet had
alluded to, still he never would convince them that
his sentiments upon this subject accorded with, and
were similar to their own. Mr. Lamb, in advert-
ing to this speech, had referred the Electori to the
Parliamentary Register. He could save them the
trouble, for he held it in his hand. The report he
possessed was extracted from The Times, and he be-
lieved that, generally speaking, that paper furnished
as correct and faithful an account as any other.,-
His speech did not contain one word about Annual
Parliaments and Universal Suffrage (for by these
terms had Mr. Lamb endeavoured to explain it)'; -it
was expressed in plain unequivocal terms, and the/
might judge from it the nature of that cordial -0-
operation which Mr. Lamb asserted he had given to
Sir Francis Burdett. If this was that Gentleman's
method of seconding, it was like the Irish custom
of yoking two horses before and two behind a car-
riage, and thus effectually preventing its program:—
(Lmigliter)-.—They would find, that what Mr. Lairlb
called seconding, was, in fact, a banter, and a must
senseless and tasteless banter upon the speech of Sir
Francis Burdett (Applause).—[Mr. Hobhouse then
proceeded to read the speech in question, accompa-
nying it with comments, which alternately excited
the latighter and the applauses of those who sur-
rounded him,J—He would now refer then to a letter
which had been written by Mr. Lamb, relative to
the Election. and they would find whc was virtu,ally
the Ministerial Candidate.—The follow ing is a copy
,of the letter alluded to: -
.. Whitehall Yard, 1%1.0-eh 2,182 C.
" Sik—llaiing had the 11l luck of not finding you at hc;ine
isiten I called some time ago, and being now confined by teri-
-literary iltdisposition, I take the liberty of writing to reqtett
.your support during the ensuing contest for Westminster. ..iks
there is no Ministerial Candidate, I should have reckoned my
success certain, had it not been for the committal of Mr. Hob-
use to Newgate by the House of Commoni. That, llowreer,
"as inspired a teal into his frltnds, and 'the loWer classes, width
threatens a sharp struggle. If esenions are not made in rimy
behalf, the House of Commons will have the morrificAlan of
seeing a rejected Candidate obtain prosperity, il:erely from 02e
circumstance of their having ventured to punish him, for a flt.
grant in*lt and libel.—l hope I shall have your pardon for ttfe
intrusion; mud have the honour to be, &c. " G. LAMB."
—Was this then the production of a person who had
professed so much candour and civility ? Could he
thus express himself upon a proceeding which evert
enlightened man in the Kingdom received hi the
same light ; .avid unanimously concurred in repin-
bating ? It was a fact *ell known and easily CR.-,
pable of proof; that half of the persons, who, upon tt
tormer Election, had given their votes for Sit M.
Maxwell,' and refused them to Sir S. Romilly, had,
upon the last Election, voted for Mr. Limb, al-
though he stood professedly upon the same ground
as Sir Samuel Ilomilly, Did not this clearly sheir
that Mr. Lamb was in reality the Ministerial Candit-
date ? And did not the letter which had just bees
read to them, prove that Mr. Lamb calculated upett
•Ministerial assistance? Having said this, he feti
confident that, in the eyes of the country, and even
-of the Whigs themselves (many of whom he adMired
and esteemed), he must stand actioitted in having
.c me forward in opposition to a person who hid
clearly shewn that he felt no sympathyotocongenia-
lity Of opinion with those he wished to Represent,
tie now left his cause in their hands.. He ,knew, from
what he had seen in Westminster, that the friend's Of
Reform would ultimately succeed in supporting liiin,
in opppsieion to a person who, if we mighk believe his
own speech, had "the greatest respect for the` listill
of Commons," and who hoped, ~ that in the tuarrp
of debate he had said notiving. which could be •c
derogatory to the dignity of the Honoutabie
,House." Mr. Hobhouse hire cone-hided a speeih,:de-
[livered with ranch energy, and which was repeadsitlif
interrupted with amhighest applattse.
• The Hints BAILIN? •trubmitted the names of
the Candidates to the El s, and declared theshevs
hands to be in favour of Sir Franca Burdett and
Mr. Ilutphoure. A poli was detnaildeckfor Hi. Lamb,
:which was adjourned until three o'clock.' . . .
.." At a. little after four o'doCk• the state of the 'Poll
was declared as follows 1 . -* , .
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