The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-06 00:00:00

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which he had`io -claim, he and his factious and. heartless
friends have done their utmost to slander and disfranchise
more than , three thousand of their fellow-townsmen,—
electors who, if they were then corrupt, have nobly re-
deemed their errors, and which corruption, if it did exist,
was the work of EWART and his agents during that con-
test when the compliments to which we have alluded, and
which we are about to quote, were passed upon them.
The Mercury reports Mr. E. RUSHTON to have spoken
as follows :

" He implored the friends of Mr. Evart and Mr. Denison to sink
all petty jealousy, and exert themselves to the utmost in the endea-
vour to return two reform memlwrs. (Loud cheers.) By so doinq,
the freemen would restore Their character in the eyes ej the nation, and
pre,erre to themselres that portion of the franchise which must be taken
from them if the reform bill were not carried."

Our very honest and consistent contemporary proceeds
to state, that. on the arrival of Mr. EWART*S party at the
Ade.lphi, Mr. EWART appeared at the balcony, and ad-
dressed the multitude in the following terms :
" Gentlemen, if ever in some distant place, I hare heard the name
of Liverpool uttered with disrespect—if ever I have heard imputed
to the place, faults originally imputable to the system of parliament-
ary and ma;isterial elections here, those moments of great pain and
anxiety are now repaid; our character is palliakd—il is redeemed! To
whom is that redemption owing ? To THE SPOT_ NEOLS SUF..
FR WES OF THE FREEMEN !

Mr. EWART, in another speech, is again reported to
have said :

" I again repeat, what I said last night, that to the freemen of this
great town, who hare redeemed their tarniJed character, we are in-
debted for the means and instruments by which we have achieved
this immortal triumph."

Mr. W. CurnuE next comes forward, and is made

to sav

had expressed his conviction, that the freemen of Liverpool
would redeem their character and act in such a manner as to cast a
veil over all that had passed. Tea RESULT HAD VERIFIED MS PRE-
DICTION ; and he felt assured that, in the London papers, no place
in the kingdom would receive such just, such general, and such DESERVED
AITLAUsr, as the town of Lirerpool !"

Mr. WM. EARLE is next reported to have favoured the
freemen with his testimonial of their integrity. He says,

" It had been asserted in Vie House of Commons, that Liverpool
was the most pure of all boroughs. (if laugh.) This assertion, which
was not true at the time it was made, was true now. The electors of
Liverpool had shown that they were both pure and independent. Now
they stood ire-eminent for patriotism and principle. They stood, in
short, on the pinnacle of independence, of honesty, and patriotism.
(Cheers.) He most sincerely congratulated them on the glorious re-
sult of the election. The conduct of the free:nets, on this occasion, had
done them immortal honour; the fame of their achievement over cor-
ruption would resound to the utmost extremities of the empire.
(Cheers.) The triumph had been the triumph of purity, of honesty,
and independence! !"

Mr. F. JORDAN follows Mr. EARLS : he is made to say :

" He also gloried in the triumph of the freemen, who had nobly re.
deemed their character for purity, independence, and trite palriotism."

Mr. RUSHTON again makes his appearance, and his
second panegyric is still more lofty and unmeasured
than his first. He bursts out like a five hundred horse-
power engine in the following thunder—Mercury, as
before, being the bearer of it:—

" Mr. Rushton said, that this was the first time he ever had to con-
gratulate the reformers of Liverpool, and that he could not express
the feelings which were swelling in his bosom of admiration for the
mode in which the codext had been conducted, and, above all, for the
glorious result. It was totally impossible for him to find language
sufficiently strong to express his respect FOR THE MANLY, THE !SDP:-
PENDENT, TIIE PURE CONDUCT OF lIIS BROTHER FREEMEN SINCE THE
POLLING COMMENCED ON TUE NEW SYSTEM. This town had, on all
past occasions, been split into factions and parties, in'which the man
was every thing, the principle nothing. The freemen had abandoned,
at la: t, their al habits rf corruption, and with them he hoped they
would, forgetting men, fix their attention, in future, on principle
alone. Their triumph would carry gladness into every heart which
full for its country. All the work had been done by the freemen
themselves."

A Mr. JOHN TAYLOR is next reported to have said
The freentm of Li terponl hand noh'y supported the King."
_ _

Mr. HEYWOOD is presented as the next orator on this
interesting•oecasion, and the following words are put into
his mouth :
•

" The cause of reform had triumphed this day in Liverpool. The
result of the election was so triumphant that it would be the polar
star to direct all other elections; and he was fully persuaded that the
electors of Liverpool had, in the estimation of the public, wiped away
all the asperv'ons and epithets which had hitherto Ipen cast upon them.
(Cheers.) They ka com:iletely redeemed tkir eharact2r. .rTh influence
lad been exerted, but that of a due regard to the interests of the nation
and the advancement of the general welfare !"

Mr. COGLAN seconds Mr. HEYWOOD thus :

" In a former instance there was some extenuation for the cornhie,
of the freemen : had they acted in like manner now there would have
been none. (Cheers.) If any fle!;radation still remained attached to
their character they had m,Uy redeemed throw:fres from the Wpm? by
their conduct on the preseet cceasitm. They had fully established their
character as HONEST AND INDEFENDENT MEN 117 placing the two re-
form candidates, Messrs. Ewart and Denison, in a triumphant situa-
tion at the head of the poll."

The whole affair is wound up by an old woman, like a
witch of the olden time, adding her incantation to the po-
litical spell. Twaddle has its uses sometimes. and we
therefore have tuna pleasure in republishing the senti-
ments of Mr. EGERTON SMITH, reported by himself:—
" Mr. Egerton Smith congratulated the freemen of Liverpool on
their glorious achievements of that day in support of a great public
principle, by which they had prored thentseln?s 'WORTHY OF THE RIGHTS
OF FREEMEN. One con§canence of their very proper betariour on this
occasion ought to he a petition from the inhabitants of the town gene-
rally TO DEPRECATE THE DISFRANCHISEMENT OF TIIR DUPOE3SES.
and if such a petition were proposed, he had no doubt it would be very
nuaterausly signed, and that it :could he:wee:VW in its ()Ned ! !
Now, reader, throwing all party predilections over-
board, and contrasting the sentiments above expressed
with those recently uttered in Liverpool and the House
of Commons—contrasting the praise with the censure—
the truth with the calumny—the triumph of the reformers
with the defeat of the reformers, or 1831 with 1833
contrasting these wide and opposite shades, we beg to
ask ifyou ever witnessed conduct, on the part of public
men, more disgraceful, more perfidious, more factious,
or more dishonest ? The praise lavished upon the free-
men fir returning " two reformers" in 1831, is un-
bounded. They are represented as the purest and most
independent body of electors in the whole kingdom—
they are said to have redeemed their character—to have
Wiped away past aspersions—to stand upon the highest
pinnacle of honesty and patriotism. And by whom was
all this said and sung ? By the very men who have,
during the present session of Parliament, held them up as
the most demoralized, degraded, and corrupt. wi etches
in England—as men unfit to act oonestiv—as unworthy
of trust—and who merit instant disfranchisement as a
punishment for past errirs, and for mer delinquencies.
If ever there was a factious question, that which Messrs.
lixrunoNE and Co. have raised is one. The facts we
have stated clearly prone, that had Mr. THORNELY been
t turned at the Li
Lit contest, not a word would have been
heard about cit'oPtion. If he and his friends had been
allowed to ride upon the necks of the burgesses, there
would have been no charge brought against them. The
triumph of the faction would have hushed into silence all
past offences, and the 'reform bill would then ha ;LI been
considered an act of amnesty and oblivion. They, how-
ev.er, were defeated. The freemen returned Lord SAN-
DON. TurraiEny and RATHBONE spent their money and
wasted their oratory in vain ; and then began the " ‘var to
the knife" against the men whom they had seduced once,
and not. being able to seduce the second time, they
would now destroy. While the burgesses voted for re-
rfmloiromeerns they :s
t. daredtohTheirstkt fur
Iheinoilisnealcv.,terlsa,taen;(rebxuetretilsiee
their own judgment, they were held up to ignominy,
and menaced with disfranchisement.
We • kliow it will 'be said that. the burgesses accepted
bribes in 1832. It has-been so said; hut. we deny that the
charge has been proved. A person of the name of ABER-
CROMBIE saw a five pound note given to a voter, and being
a sharp sighted person, he saw the transaction through the
body of another man ; and a lady of the name of ROBIN-
. soN saw some three sovereigns and a half given to a
child, but she had sworn, she said, not to divulge who
was the briber or who the bribee. There were also some
few half-crowns seen to exchange hands, and various tan-
kards of ale were administered on the same occasion ; hut
as to-general bribery there was no proof whatever. The
case was only rotten on the part of the petitioners, and
so rotten was it,,that the committee did not recommend
any further proceedings. In what a position then do
Messrs. LWART, RATIIBONE, RUSHTON, EARLE, HEY-
WOOD, and ethers before-mentioned stand, who exoner-
ated the burgesses in 1831, who declared that they had
triumphantly redeemed their character, but which' bur-
gesses they have recently persecuted and slandered in
the most cruel and vindictive manner ? If these men
had any feelings of shame, they wculd fur ever seclude
themselves from the public gaze. They stand convicted
by their own confessions. Out of their own mouths are
they condemned. They have lent. themselves, volun-
tarily, to do the dirty work of a disappointed faction.
They make war upon poor men, to avenge the soured
ambition of a discumfited candidate, who is an alien in
Liverpol, and who is no more qualified to represent the
interests of this great community in Parliament than
Mr. RusturoN is to he Lord High Chancellor of England.
Mr. LWART'S conduct however is still more reprehen-
sible than that of his more reckless compeers. He too
exonerated the freemen in 1831, and declared that their
conduct in returning him (the more fools they,) had done
theM infinite honour, and had redeemed their character.
He did -nOt upenly enter the. ranks against them—he did
not vote for their disfranchisement, to he did not happen
to be cute of the ,weica conuaittee—he.did not libel theta

ill 'the HOnse, as ItITAsOs; 13 ZErT, • and • Pirtui4.ltlid
but he was the secret, the artful, and the sneaking enemy
of the freemen nevertheless: .6-ratitude would have
induced any other man to take part with the burgesses,
bat he was too much identified with his faction, eitaer to
be impelled by gratitude or a sense of justice. No e;.-
case whatever can be made for him ; his whole conduct
is mean, treacherous, .disingenuous; arid that Mr.
Lwakr will be told, in far plainer terms than we write
it, if he should ever again have the audacity to present
himself before the electors of Liverpcol.

TRIBUTE TO MR. NICHOL.

We are requested by the committee appointed at the Meet-
ing of the burgesses ana usher intlatntants ot. Liverpool, he.d. on
Thursday last, to insert the fthlowing cortespunticuce :
" Liverpo9., AuguA 1, 1833.
"My dear Sir,—l was requested to take the chair to-day at
a very -nu aieruas inetqui,; of the f.eemeu aad other iuhalntauts
of Liverpoot. The teso.utions which I now enclose to you were
passed unanimously.
" I assure you I feel graifi3l in conveying them to you, be-
cause I know how much they are merited.
" I ens, my dear sir,
Very faithfully yours,
" John Nichol, Esq., M.P." " JOHN MOSS."

" 28, Curzon-street, August 3, 1833.
"My dear Sir,—l have just had the honour of your letter,
enclosing the reso.utions unationlusly passad at a public meet-
ing of ill,: burgesses ani other inhabitants of Liveretail Cu the
Ist instant.

I know not how adequately to give utterance to my heart-
felt gratitude and proud satisfaction at the favourable judgment
which has been inaulgenilv tinned of my co.:duct during the
late in {wry, nor at the kind and flattering manner in wmch
that ja i4alcut has baen e.yressed. I beg, noarovcr, most ear-.
nestly to assure the burgesses and inhabitants that this mark of
their approbation is most giatifyiug to my feelings, and
that uasuccessfut as were oures.e.timis and u.,favoursole as.
was the repot of the committee, so entire:y am I convinced ot,
the justice of our cause, 1111 a of the cruel and oppressive ten-
dency of the late proecedin,xs, that. I shall ever be rea ty to ma-
nifest not only the sincerity of my gratitude, but the holiest
conviction of iny reason, by exerting iu the same good
cause to the utmost of my abilities, and with toe most enure
zeal.

"To yourself, my dear Sir, and to those gentlemen who, by
their countenance and support in London during the investiga-
tion, so much coutribu,e.l to tighten my anxiety, and who, by
their too partiai report, have procured for tnJ this distinguisheu
honour, my moat grateint acknowtedgmalts arc pecaiiariy due.
—I remain, my dear Sir, with the greatest resiwet, your •very
gratelut and ooedieut hu.nole servant, :•'
"JNO. NICHOLL."
"John Moss, Esq., Ike., &c., &c."