The Statesman.
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of that gentleman. A strengei es tabs to hit.,
would become rite to deny et to doubt 'thee.
Indeed, from what I have heard, I believe hint to
be meet UeeiPlary in all the relations of
.private
life. Still these are nut the qualifications which'
establish the claim to a public trust. It is not ?p-
-ate domestic qualities, but upon political principles
and conduct that freeholders should depend for
the performance of those duties which they hue
a right to expect from the man to whom them-.
trust their representation. Try Mr. Yorke Ity
this criterion, and then judge of his-present ist•
tensions. Has he not been the uniform, undeviq.
tingsuiaportcr of that Administration, underw horn
this country has been most lamentably affected hi
all its interests ; an Administration by irhom the
pressure of taxation has been increasing until
it has become almost intolerable; an Adini.
nistration under whom !mils of .foreign troops
have been introduced into this country, in deli-
ante of every positive conatitutional provision,
and to the dangerous hazard of our rights and
four security [Hear, hear!]--an Administration
ender whom the calamities of England, and the
power of France have advanced, with equal
force ? Yes ; amidst the active supporters of
such a system) the Right Honilurable Mr. Yorke
will be found to be the must prominent.. [Crie
of hear, hear! ] Was he not the man to revive)
upon ti late public Inquiry,' the old exploded
cry* of Jacobiuical Conspiracy ? Did that In.
quiry furnish ahy proof in extenuation of suck
on unjustifiable expedient ? Or, rather, old it
not fully evlnca to the country, that such an ef.
fort was but tat) artifice to prevent the honest and
übprejudicetiopinioniebich the Ware of thecharges
was calculated to produce ? , Such has been
the public conduct of the man whom the Free.
holders of Cambridge delegated as their Beim.
imitative. What conclusion does it now enforce?
It proves beyond controversy the necessity of your
sending to Parliament one who will take his stand
on the. broad ground of the Constitution—who
will uphold our liberties, and eoutend for the
lass and printiplcs of our forefathers, against
the excesses of popular violence on.one hand, and
the no less dangerous encroachments of the over.
growl power of the Crown on the other. .[lfear,
hear, hear!] Can you expect to find suet% a
guardian 'of your interests hi Mr. Yorke? [No,
No !] Ho who has been the suppoiter of
the present Ministers-,-men who possessed Aem.
selves of official power by the most unfounded and
degrading pretences, and who have used it only
to tarnish the character and disgrace the Coati
ells of their country. Will' you select him who
availed, himself of the Standing Order of the
House art Commons (an Order *mooted foi fir
other purposes), thus depriVing the people of-this
country of the slender and melancholy consola-
tion of knowing who were the authors of the ca.
lamitlee under which they are labouring, Of the
accumulated miseries under which they groan,
with 'a patience and a forbearance unexampled
in the history of nations? When each have been
-the political acts of that Right Honourable.
Geetlemen, were the people of the-country fully
.sad„ fairly eeptesented in Parliament, be might
-go froM coenty to county, from city to eity, from
town to town, and would not get onesiegleitective
body. to-wade in Mm. Under these dream-
stance, d feel myself called upon to recommend to
yeetar notice, and to propose for your choice, a
friend to civil and religious liberty, to the free::
dom of the press, to the just security of the
Throne, and the right; and liberties of the people
—a decided enemy to faction and intrigue to- ail
the devices of peculators, to all the artifices of
corruption, to that long, catalogue of abuses
which new obscure the fair forts of the British
Constitution—l propose Lord Francis Godolphin
Osborne."
The Hun. Mr. BRAND stated his desire to se-
cond the nomination of Lord Francis Osborne.--
[The Hon. Gent. was here interrupted by an in-
itividual in the crowd exclaiming, " Off, off, you
Jac4big.")
Mr. BRAND resumed. "I am interrupted by
a persou nut a Freeholder. His name is Hodson,
a plater in this toted, and both froM his conduct
and his character, too contemptible to attract my
notice, were it nut fur the expressien he has now
made use or. 1 tell him and his supporters, Alt
I am no enemy to my country, that I am no Jaw-
bin : iudeed, the man seems as fully
.ignorant
of the me.ining of thu terms which have billets from
hint, as he i. incapable of,appreciatitig. the value
of that privilege which this Meeting is summoned
to exercise, aid which that Mr. Hodson is so
buoultuoubly endeavouring to interrupt [from the
Frechoklers, cries of " &ire Hodson oasis—
At present, I shalrcontent myself. with simply
the iiutiliaation of the Noble Lord,
fWn`anz,osservation upon the
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polo ical conduct ormi. aurae,
allowed the opportunity of repliktg to what has
been advanced."
Lord FRANCIS OSBORNE then came fora
ward amidst shouts of applause, mixed with dis.
approbation, and assured the Freeholders that he
would trouble them but for a very short time. lie
uttered himself with the proud consciousness of
*Wittig to be a servant of the people, and not a
sin sant of the Court. The cause in which he stood
forward, was not his, it was that of the country.
Ile was merely the instrumeat to afford it the op.
portunity of performing a great public oteigation.
During the time he had been in Parliawent, he
had the satisfaction to teel that he had honestly
and patriotically dune• his duty, vs,iihout
,any
personal view—indeed it was well ascertained
that his utasharkk:d parliamentary conduct had beam
attended with private circumstances, uotof thement
beneficial nature. With respect. toll's, local in..
bursts of the County, both from his ate and in:l
experience, lie could not be • stipposed •io be as
conversant with them as the Right Hon. Owntichsl
man, Mr. Yorke; but he trusted.to supply tlis de-
ficiency by anmaruestnetia and a seal nO4 at all-in.!
feriur to that which he understood waajustly epos
this point attributed. to Mr. Torke. Doling the
period of his.being in the Homo of Commons, eh
though he sometimes concurred with Mr. Yorke,
yet apes most rent political questions, he felt it
to be his duty to ski 14 opposite side.
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