The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-30 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

meet have rather canvassed In the clouds than upon the
roli.l ground. and that his wishes and bores bad im-
posed upon his understanding, if be really sperulated
up.stt the performatiee of tint promises to which he had
a;lverted.—(Applause.)—He *humid have thought that
31r. 3tellish would have yesterday discovered the veto-
neoustiess of his speculations bat still it appeared that
the Hon. tiesitleman way B.:t opinion that he must sne-
ered, that the county shoat be degraded, it um-
jurity of the freeholders should not deride in leis fa-
To:tr.—(l.4l4liter and applansi.)—Mr. Mellish, in his
ele,!etarite,g• address of this day (for derontling it err-
taialy was, clearly speaking, as it did, the spirit which
characterised despair) thought proper to declare him-
self a friend to liberty and suslependence. But as the
out Spanish proverb said ••• Sieve me from my friends, I
ran save myself from lily enemies," he sung pray to
save the livered principles of lilwrty and Independence
from the friendship of Mr. i'•leiiiale.—(Applause and
lanzleter.)--But Mr. 'Mellish, in his professions and pear-
; tier, at present searre!y knew what he was about. so
tone It was hr *Witted at the prospect of parting from
i the elector. of : and he must confess, that
Inuits what lie already kuew of those eleeteirs, I.e him-
self (Mr. W.) remit! not contemplate a separation gr;tl:- •
out feeling all equai pang.—(Applause, ant erirs of—
't there's 1..1 113:1;:er of thal, 111:V dear fellow.")—lf he
and the electors shuttld be wesudrd together, and the
nuptials wereim the point of being- erlebrated, hr most
! say that he could not, hating the separation before his
eves, by aby means etedeire the contemplation of the
dreaded catastrophe, it' it were the mind of an inability
to explain and instife his conduct to the trientls of fere-
demi wind itedepetdroce.—(Applause.)— Alr. Mellish
had, ill his athirebs. ‘er.\ infs.:lF:ll4y act-used his friends
of apathy and waist of rt.-al; but lie (Mr. W.) had the
satistartiein to feel that nu sorb ensttplaint
pus-
sic ly he made against those dispose,' to lioneettr
with their sopport.. Ile therefore looked kern aril
Voldidetli e that Nlr. 31ellislo's resolution to prose-
rule his hopeless eall%e Serve to afford all
opportunity for still wore treeltuleirrs to esinee forward,
anti record their Haines as iinliliendent oxen, &termite:tit
to sonport the eliaraet;•,- of this errat county, and to
I promote the interest of lopular liberty and Patliauten-
I
tart. Refurni.—(Uni.er•al plaudits.)
Mr. M rm.!. It, after some interruption, adverted again
to the • barge of coalition against Mr. Hng, obverting,
that the vote to-lay of an lion. Baronet (Sir William
Uneti., as we limb, ratting!) in tai our of \I r. Over and
himself. 1.'3. no proof it liate‘er that the majority of the
freeholders did not ley liege in the existence of that rukt-
litiaill.—t" If there is a coalition bettt•ern livng and
Whitbread, it is all right.- exclaimed a voice in the
erowel.l--31r. Mellish admitted that any candidates had
a right to form a emilitiien but tiers', after it was form-
ed, no camli.late bed a right to deny its existence. Ilia
late colleague lining lienicd 111;,t he had entered into
any coalition with .It. Wis.:thread, lie (Mr. Mellish)
could not tee! ii .'.self institieel in reentradieting him.—
Fs eery e•etlieliellte had a riche to it.. as be pleased, buts
alone all things, hr was lemoul to please the electors.
I lie wishes' tII please the rlel•tiers, atoll it was leer their in-
' ; terest, it hide he hail at heart, that In. had determined
to keep the poll open, in order that every freeholder
should hair an opportunity tot gisitir his tote.—(liises
and laughter was not snare what the lion. Strut-
ter; tort its r, had N 1.141, us he had rot lie.trt! kiln : and
hr conhl that help thinhisog it irrewniar that any sole
should Ices. Leen heard before the e it:etiolates addressed
the siseetits:!. nut there was no ch-erge in the power of
the /km. Member for t ovenity, or an) other person,
here go elsewhere, to bring Writ acionst Ida charac-
ter, irPiich Ise was nut fully prepared to answer; it wpa,
indeed, satisfactory to kii.kolierra to find. dial WISP
course ut his canvass. no one, however adverse to his
principles, ever attempted to express ant- ob-
ject' tee his pepsin:el character. Hitt it :Illy one slimild
feel sits h objectieos, let his 111.4 user I.e beard, and all he
" asked was, that he might he heard in Isis tielNier. Here
the Ilou. tired. complained that his freelsolil,•rs were
prevented f • ' to the pull, f a tear of being
pelted 'title mud and dirt, or ut experiencing sense
hodily injury. Stich conduct leotards Isis friends was,
lee flutist say. quite pusilianiumus. :Those was of no
consequence, lint it was unmanly and eeeee leg candid
Englist •ii to tae lIIIV liitieller to deter their country-
mos !rum exercising their utielouliti•el right. If uu VW-
Wife or intiu,idation were employed, and that Isis friends
would exert themselves, he had ow doubt that voters
enough would yet c up, as there was quite titer
enough to place him above Mr. Whitbread, and to se-
, cure his Ideal success.—(laughter and hisses.)
' Mr. Wittruitetti called 'you lie. Mellish, before be
left the hustings. publiely to explain what he meant in
his address of this moriiiiig, in whirl' he appeared to
charge himself and Mr. fling with a want of principle.
—(Applause.)--Mr. llleltish ought to I. that he
(Mr. W.) was not with o t priariple, and he would show
that gentleman, that lee was not without spirit.—(Ap-
plans.%) -In Isis address of this tun rising, Air. Mellish
bad thought proper to assert the eXistenre of what he
called an unprincipled coalition Iwtweris himself and
Mr. Bytig. Hit he (Mr. W.), as urn us Mr. Ityng, nt-
terly deaden! any coalition on their part, and therefore he
called upon Mr. 3leliish, nay, he di had lido, to prove the
i justice of his assertion, ue the eximesire of any coalition.
Ile Not only called upon the lbws, nentlesoati to prier
his allegation, but lie asked the electors to call spots him
I also to prove it.—(Applause.) •

Mr. Itvss: said. that lie was ready to make great al-
lowances Ibr what Mr. Mellish might say in his ',resent
'jot:aims ; hut lie must cypress Isis surprise at the hop.
lientlemais's repetition of the dial gent santlition, after
lie (Mr. It.) had so often denied it. The tact wan, an br
bail repeatedly stated, that he never canvassed fur any
freeholder's second vote, Isecastse, when hr ro •nrrd
his canvass, and for same time afterwarrhs, he Lad no
Idea that Mr. 11'hitbri•ad would have twerunie a cam'''.
slate. Hall he expected that, lie certainly should have
canvasses! in a different way.—(Applanse.)—lfa County
Meeting had been called, and that Notch tu.•rtingg bad de-
sired a coalition between himself and Mr. Whitbread, be
should have thought such roalition quite a legituate
nuiun. Ile certainly could nut have deemed it at all
illegitimate, or unprincipled, to unite with a gentleman
of independent opinions. Hut if lie has' united in his
1111V3.11 uilli Mr. Mellish, that indeed might well Ise de-
nominated an unprineililed roalition, that gentleman
haying never agreed with him is lion any Parliamentary
question fur the last fourteen years that both had heets
returned for this county.—(.lpplause.)—lle was not so
bigtorrd or lerant as to rondenin those who differed
from bins in support i the Ailusiuistration which lie was•
nrgeil by a seine of ditty to oppose: hut lie should clef.
tainly feel it impossible to coalesce with such an elm.s
nrnt.—(Applasis,•.)-111th regard to the politiral
plea of Mr. Whitbread, it was imeossible for hint pre-
nsely to answer for thran. He hoped that they were the
amine as those of his universally admired ana lamented
father; and he recollected that for twenty-six years he
never happened to differ in opinion from that great and
govd —(Loud plaudits.)—llist Isis canvass having
commenced three weeks before Mr. Whitbread was ex-
pected to stand, the fart was, that he never canvassed
tor a second vier in his favour. Ilail thar gentleusai,
however, stetted sooner, be miw no reiessoi why he
should not have coalesced with him.—(Applause.)

I Mr. MILI.LIBII declared that he was not aware that any
!observation in the addresv alluded to, had /illy reference
to Mr. Whitbread. It oectAitolv was not his intention to
litoint st that gentleness. thr aim•Jaiuled the purpose

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of saying any thing personal with tegard to either
Rent or Mr. Whitbread. ‘Shat he *savant was, that ;As
friends believed Mr. Bytig to have entered into I coa-
lition with Air. Whitlorad, and if curb were lint their.
otnion. how canoe he to I.7lLitt if!iltnprtfl. tomtit' 01
w tots noald have otherw.se voted fur .11r. ljytig ? Say.
he knew that he should Lave had several wore plun.p-r-,,
if it carte hut that votes bad been promised tollr. living
before any coalition was suspected. Alr. livng had
stated, that he would have coalesced with 31r.Whitb_read
if so desired or reel tttttt 'ended by a county meeting. But 1
this declaration teas mere electioneering. for Mr. Bpi,:
knew that he dared not In have entered at the outset ut.
or previous to the election, into any soh coalition ; fur
if he had, he would have been turned out of the retire-
sent:ohm of the county.--(blunting and hissing).—Mr.
Ilyng baring charged Itios with the disposition to be
Radical, he could not feel that •ny delicacy
sl:ould he cunsolteti in his retort on that gctitlentan.—
(Ilisses.)
Mr. Sheriff PAS LINs denied that the freeholders could
experience any uhoruction in coming to the poll ; but
from what Mr. 31ellish hail just said, he felt it proper to
renew his injunctions to the consiahles to enforce the at-
rangements %illicit he hail ordered at the outset of the
election, anti he cautioned the agents of the several can-
dilates nut to impede any voter's approach to the boo.
• lugs, as such impetliownt might serve to annul the elec-
tion. The Sheriff again us--ertell the right of any free-
holder to address the 'fleeting, and announced that Mr.
Clarke was about to u., so.

Mr. CLARAE %aid, that Ise came forward as an avowed
Radical jitefortster, haring souse property in this county,
to :nukes few observations. lie took .haute to hinsselfi
far nut having sooncr tleciare-I in favour of one of the l
candidates, who hail expressed his resolution to support
a thorough Reform. But confidence, as it hail been well
ols.erved, was a plant of slow erowtls, and although Mr.
Whitbread was the sou of a truly great. and truly good
mall, whose memory was deserving of annual celebra-
tion throughout the empire, he thought him at lint a
mere Whig, likely to ••• as any leaders of his party
dictated. Upon further itoptiry and information, bow-
ever, he fotand this young gentleman a Whig of the right
sort —a really indepreolent i'hig, who WAS determined
to follow the example of his illustrious father, by voting
according to his town ronseienee, without any regard to
the dirty,. of party, or any leader. Therefore that gen-
tleman had his confidence, and Planuld have all the sup-
port in his power. (If Mr. ityng's genets! principle.,
Ise really imolai not srak with any precision, although
he load *often met that gentleman in private, and licarsl
him deliver his opinions in public. Mr. Bente, no doubt,
declared in fasoloor tie Reform ; but Mr. Whitbread, he
found, went farther, for he pledged himself to act in sup-
port of that great me: came. lint as to the declarations
of opinion, what did they Nig:dry? If the Administra-
tion merely declared in favour of Toryism, he should
not he disposed much to complain; hut when they yin-
hodirtl their derlarations in at bitrary measnres of legi-
slation, then, indeed, there was round for romplaint.
The same argument, be apprehended, might be applied
to the Reformers, who contented themselets with mere
professions. and if they diel not act, they had, in his
view, no claim aro" the confidence of thr yetiple.-011-
philiae.)—Mr. Whitbread had declared in f.iyour of tho-
rotoOt Reform, also declaring that to be a !railing tines
thin which be pledged himself to support. Hence that
gent leman's claim to public confidence was much strooger
than that of llr. Byttor, especially as he regarded Reform
as the primary, vital, paramount question to which the
attention anal exertion of the country ought to be di-
reetell.—(Applanse.)—On those grounds he would most
ardently aopportilir. Whiihreasi, and be lisped the votes
illhis favour would routinne solo multiply, as to distin-
guish the eharaiter of the county, and decide the fate of
his opponent Isy an overwhelming majority.—{Loud
and long continued plaudits.) _

Mr. I'. Moons!, adverting to Mr. Me:lisle's complaint,
that his ireeholders were prevented from coming to the
expressed hilt readiness to act with the conatalth s
to making way for those freeholders himself if they
would rouse forward, but he most sincerely believed
that no such freeholders were to he found. Why, then,
sl hi Mellish pruseente theitrontest, and dies pier
trouble to the comity. cud delay the return of the two
hereditary patriots, in whose favour the great majority
of the electors felt such a derided interest :
Mr. Sheriff Names complained of some asisrepre-
summations of his conduct in the press, with regard to
which he declared his intention to appeal to the law of
the lanml. Ile bad been called a Itattlieul, but his radi.
calisum consisted in doing all the good in his power to
the people; for Listener, he had eontrilmted UV. some
time ago to relieve the poor of Carlisle ; but this lima,
with some hundreds advanced for the senor purpose, the
corporation of that city hail scandalously applied to ins-
prose the banks of the river. Some lime afterwards, he
furnished Noll to 1,300 starring individuals at Carlisle.
at the comparatively trifling expense of about 311/. And
what a shame open the rich inhabitants of that district,
that so many people should have been allowed to want,
when their *ants could bare been relieved by so small a
anus. These were a few of the instances of that radi-
calism which be had evinced, and which be should con-
'lime to evince throughout his life.

3LILIGNANT DISORDER IN TUE ISLE OF FRANCE.

Extract of a letter from Captain Surfien, of the
Alexander, dated Port Louis, Nov. 28:—
I arrived at this place on the 15th. where my stay
has been protracted on account of it fever which broke
out the (by I finished delivering. amongst the Negroes,
said to have arisen from the importation of some fish in
a hod condition. The French inhabitants are so alarmed,
that they have LA up the countty with the whole of
their Negroes. the conseqaence of which has been a
complete step pnt to all business. and the town is quite
deserted. Not one white has steered."

Extract of another letter by the Bainbridge, ar-
rived at Liverpool, dated Isle of France, Dec. 18:
" A pestilential disorder, onkaovra to the faculty, has
been introduced here about 3 mouth sitter, and has
caused a very alarming mortality throughout the island,
particularly among the Negroes. The tows of Port
Louis is nearly deserted, all business Is at a stand, pay-
ments are suspended, and, in a word, 1 know not where
this will end.'

On Saturday night, a most calamitous accident oc-
eurred near Brahma Castle. On that evening Sir Hugh
lanes, of Lochalsb. was proceeding in his own carriage
from Dingwall, where he had attended a public dinner,
to Itraban, accompanied by 31r. tiillanders, of Highfield,
when just below the farm sin are of Britian, the carriage
wheel unfortunately came .• contact with a large stone
on the side of the way. The carriage and horses went
over a sloping Iseult, and made a complete somerset—
the driver was pitched to a great distance, but happily
escaped unhurt ; nt the butler, aho had been seated
beside hiss on the dickey. was killed on the spot. The
situation if Sir llngh and his companion may be better
imattined than described. Both gentleusen providen-
tially escaped with their lire•, though severely hurt,
Diliandera having his collar bone broken. Sir
thigh and Mr. °Wanders were immediately conveyed to
the Castle, and medical aid was quickly obtained. so
that they are now in a Lair way of recovers..._(Ed;,6.
Erasing Conrad.)