The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-27 00:00:00

ulteatioo of life to deserve his notice. His ophsloo was
the very reverie: he deemed the Editor of a Paper,
if cendecled it with impartiality, awl to that im-
partiality added ability, to be a mao infinitely gape.
tier to the b soles. being who derived his ooly distinc.
lion from the d►coration of a title, or the enjoyment
of a splendid fortune derived free bis aocestors. lf,
however, a false colouring was pot open facts, and
circumstances were distorted, which oeght to be
fairly tepreamiteil, then he was the man who was the
most Wine to, and had the least right to complain
of, soy animadversion. The Editor of the Paper to
which he had on orlon had occisioo to anode, had said,

that in the Middlesex F.lection, in IBM (for the pre.
ago was not the only straggle in which he had
pnerd foetheir rights and privileges), he hail cern,
fnritarti as a Candidate on Whig principles. Now, it
was notorious that he hod never been able to discover
what Whig principles were. Were they the prin.
eiples of Charles Foa Z or were they the principles
of Lord Grenville, which were as different from the
former as light from darkness I If they were neither
of these, were they the principles of that monstrous •
coslitien, which, as Mr. Rnbitnose hail observed,
bed only degraded the character of the Whigs;
and for this very reason—that they were the oily
party which bad any character to lose ? for he
• was ready to admit, that among the Whigs
there were many 'Wanes and honourable men,
who had the interest of the country eeriossly at heart,
• and were the beat friends of public liberty. Ile did
not mean to conferred ell distinctions, and, there.
fore, in speak'ng of unprincipled Whigs, he applied
the term generally, if It was impossible to stop on
*very occasion to make the distinction ; should any
of teens, therefore, be offended by it, he had as
objection ; if the cap stied, he hoped they would
weer it: trusted also that he was
not carrying liberality too far, when he observed
that there were many honest men among the T...
ties; bet allowing this to be the case, It did sp.
peer to him wonderful that whew the country was
ground to death, by Whig and Tory mel.administra-
tint', and oppressed by Whig and T•ry legalises, end
when it was of little importance which of the two
parties was out, and which was is, any honest wan
could help seeing that there was something rotten in
the system, and that that rottenness principally
ley in the pause of Commons. Ile should not
detain them any longer from those exertions which
it was requisite that they should still make to en-
sure final success ; it was not of importance so
far as men, not measures, were concerned, that
Mr. llobhouse should be Warned to Parliament;
be ought only to be considered as the Candidate of
Reform, and it was only as he was connected with
that cause that he but recommended Mr. Hobhoaw
to their notice. Ability to support it that Gentleman
bad in abundance, and if he usight answer for an-
other, though it was !NV,' difficelt for a man to an-
swer for what he himself should become at lay dis-
tance of time, he had integrity enough not to de-
sert it.
After some further remarks en the odious nature
of the coalition which now /listed against the liberties
of Westminster, the glory the Electors wild &Noire
in denting it, and some panegyrics en the principles
which actuated hies and them, the Baronet soncteded
his speech amid very loud and general cheerings.
The crowd then dispersed. Neither Haut nor
Jones were there this day.