The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-05 00:00:00

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JUNIi 1A

. The High Shea ff haviag opened the besiaess of I
the day, the lion. EDWARD MoNCTON, of So.
enerford, rose, and said, that Lord Granville Leve.
ems Gower hating 'vacated his at for the county,
by his acceptance of the office of Secretary at
War, he begged leave to offer him again as the ob-
ject of their choice.
The lion. IVAStrinGTON SnIRLET seconded the
nomination, and said, that he thought no man
could he found more proper as a Representative
for this county, than the Noble Lord.
Cif ARLEs M'uLszt.irr, Esq. of uVolselry Park,
then rose, and spoke as fulloos :—" 1 copilot
help objecting, as a Freeholder, to the nomina.
ties% that has just been made. I object to the
Noble Lord, as a placeman and a pensioner.—
Did he vote against the Duke of York ? Has he
ever voted for the doing away any of the public I
abuses f What has be ever done for us?. [‘f edge
from below said—" Nothing."] Where is Sir J.
Wrottestcy Why is he not here? He formerly can-
vaned the votes of this county, and gave us a pledge
that he wuuld comelorn aril and assert the inde-
pritlesice of the comity—hut perhaps he feels
himself fettered by his connexion with • certain.
Noble House. Mr. Sheriff, I move the thanks'
of this Meeting to our worthy Representative, Sir
Edward Lyttleton,for his upright and independent
conduct oa all occasions."
The 'sheriff, limo. Lovett, Esq. then roses
and said, that thanks to Sir Edward Lyttletent,
however he might merit them, bring totally mi.
eonnected with the business of the day, ho must
object to the motion.
Tuovi.is LUITSII, Esq. of Armitage Park; thdn
ruse, and said—" I had hoped that the business
of this day would ha,e pissed without oppposi-•
tion ; as that has not been the Mel I think it in,
duty to offer a few words. The Honourable.
Gentleman's principal ground of objection to
the Noble Lord is, that be is a placeman, and
that he has lately accepted a distinguished Situ.
anion under
,his Majesty's Government. Now,
*upon this very ground, I think the Noble
Lord entitled to an additional share of youi
confidence and esteem. He has a peculiar
claim upon our approbation, when we see
him foregoing all those temptations to indolence
and inactivity, afforded by his splendid fortune and
*salted rank, and undertaking the fatigues of an
office of great labour and responsibility. It is nut
the first time he has devoted his very excellent abi.
Wits to the service of his country. It must be a
great satisfaction to us all, to think that the No-
ble Lord, from his habits of business, from his
constant residence at the fountain-head of political
information, from his strict attention to his Parlia,
mentary duties, and from the confidential situation
he holds in the administration of public affairs, is,
. in an especial decree, qualified to promote the
interests of this great and opulent county. I will
net omit this opportunity allaying, that I perceive
there is a system on foot, whose object is to-drive
every thing respectable in talent, and exalted in situ-
ation, from thegovernment uf public affairs; and an
attempt to impute to every man hi a public capacity
Demand dishouourable motives ; to reduce all the
"grebes of talents, and an honest ambition, to the
low and sordid minden! of pecuniary considera-
tion. Some men seem to thialt, that no one cam
accept of office but at the expaince of his virtue.
'!'hey appear to suppose, that it is the nature of
power to pollute all whom it touches; and yet,
py a oral* inconsiitency, these very men wish
us to believe that were they themselves once
put into official situations, they would pass the
Very ordeal, and come out pure gold ; but I
am not in the habit of so appreciating the needy
levellers and inexperienced reformers of the pre.
seat day, as to believe that they would escape
from this trial of their honesty one iota more Cr.
taut's, or more uncorrupt, than those they so se.
dulously endeavour to degrade. I wish to refer
the Hon. Gentlemaa to the records of his own
family ; certainly it is a very ancient and honour.
able one. I wish him to mark the footsteps of his
ancestors, who (like himself perhaps), to use the
words of a great writer, commenced in apeculative
./upublicanism, and coded in practical toryism.
This distinoniebed ancestor, under the banners of
Oliver Cromwell, began with levelling all distinc.
lions in society, and was at last himself created
one of the Lords under that usurper. I wish the
lion. Gent. to apply the capacity I believe him to
possess, to the circumstances of those times ; they'
*may aford him a useful lesson ; he will then learn
that a system so similar to the one attempted to be
brought forward in those days, beginning with the
complaint of some real, hut more imaginary pier.
anccs, ended In a tyranny the most severe and un.
relenting which this country ever knew."
Tuou*s SWINDERTON, Esq. of Buttertaps then
rose, and said, ho objected to the Noble Lord,
for not having opposed the . Stoke Rectory Bill,
which he might to have done, as
,the interests of
. so many of his Constituents were injured by it.—
Ile then went into a long detail of the history of
that Bill ; bat further discussion on this subject
was put a stop to, being deemed irrelevant to the
business of the day.

Lord GaslTtt.r.s LLvssos Goleta then rose,
and made a most able and impressive speech ; bo
declared his entire...co-operation with the present
Ministers, to who; he was bound by ties of the
strictest private friends*, and by a union of po.
liticpl sentiment ; but if evee it wu required of
bias, by them, to support measures hostile to
Lis own honest opinion, at that moment the cos.
'section would be dissolved. He had no hesitation
in saying, that be did vote against the &etersl
motions tending to criminate the Dote of York ;
and this he did upon the purest and most en.
fire conviction. Lie lainented Indeed the many
'scenes of indiscretion Mkt were brought fur.
ward, and these rendered [t' more difficult to
reparate the real merit of the ease. As to
his being a piesionerl he hit to owe, that he
received none Of the public money. Ileilsightilave
claimed it, on account of the situation he bad held,
ittssl which his predttessor had donf; ',Ad he de-
clined it. The Noble Lord concluded by (banking
lul aumerdtts ffieils;'and ktat4.4l his determination