The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-15 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER ELECIIUN.

TIALSDA I.—(FIFTH Day.)
The polling went on as usual. Considerable cheering
from an immense c,owd, who had been collected round
the hosting. the whole day, greeted those who rutted for
toe popnlar candidates ; while the partizans of the other,
as well as hintwelf, were treated with every mark of die-,
aeproleation and tioutempt. In fact, the hooting, the
;ion ling, the whistling, the bleating, which to certain
tones resembled a flock of sheep, was astounding, at the
same time highly ludicrous.
At the close for the day, the neuthere stood thus :
ten F. ftts RD, re
Mr. Huanut,bl.
Hon. U. Idols.
Mir FRANCIS presented himself amidst loud clapping 'I
and sowers. Ile sago lie addressed them this day with ,
more satisfactions than he did yesterday, though their
potation ou the pull was not so great as he expected. At
one same time they hid nothing to do but to go on in
the saute roarer, sod there %mild be no doubt of final
sreciris.—(Applause.)—eroui the begriming he hail an-
ticipateil victory, and lie would be greatly disappointed
indeed if they bad nut the must decided success. Mr. '
Lamb supposed that be spoke yesterday ul sentiments
a inch be Lad not telt, and that lie had terrain means of
kiwering he (Sir t'.) was in fact itioappointed. It was
not his wish to bolo out feler or di:feting hopes, either
env:ours/le his triensls or sink the spirits of his oppse '
t outs. What lie really felt at the time, he spoke. They I
ail knew bow bard it was in inch a populous place as
Westminster, to say at what precise time it vomitl be
rise nottenteme of all his friends, consistent anis their
:enteral trashes sod occupations, to rouse forward and give '
sisal support a bkh he haul 11.11 A 411111111 of receiving.— !
(Oravo.)—One thing gave him great satisfaction. As
Le stood yesterday upon the Inistines, he felt something
Oar compunction at tucking sissy alias's lts 3k. Lamb,
t.lso was like a fallen candid sty surrounded on all sides,
iel encompassed by slistre.sing and emba Aug cit-
e must:incest : but it sersisele be ti as entirely mistaken as to
low effect of thew uputs his opponent, whu, instead of
I ananlcring then, as misfortunes, said it a as prosperity. If
each like circtriesstancea had happened to hies, they would
unpleasant and ilisagreealsle ; hut to Mr. Limb, it
'vas a situation of 'tope, joy, anti eistmolation.—(Lheent.)
--What would have plunged ordinary mete into despair,
:alined up Mr. Lamb to higher regions of expectation
and success.—(Shouts of opplause.)--The Honunrable
Ileettleman, so snceessfid in writing, speaking, and act-
ing, ti as peculiarly tutfortimate. lie was 11111.111411*Aie
IS his friends—he was unfortunate in his cause—he was
unfortunate in his commies. having the independent elec-
tors of Westminster tur Isis enemies. Ile hail been on-
tertunate in hating his fat-sedation,' in a theatre bard-hy.
lay the way, he hopes' the lion lientlemau did nut mesa
to coati:me the rarer on these loo.sr•Is much longer; if
it WM damned at the Theatre, it moult' be doubly slime-
e bere.—(Langliter.)-31r. Lamb aunld begin with a
Vetter, but, it appeared tsi him. he aunlil end in a Trio,
}edy. Lis was altering the antler of things, it was
tote. 31r. Lamb kept tip his spirits wonderfully; lie
I unlit look upon a rainbow of hope, and the inure dark
the surrounding ennuis appeared to those about him,
tiro brighter the rainbow appeared to I . —(Applause.)
- -In has last speech, Mr. Land, said, but lie dial nut
mean to lay mark merits upon it (for Mr. Lamb soften
'slid what he did not wean), but it was met for bus words
hat the torn of his argitmeut, that he (Sir F.) quarrel-
]el with him. Mr. Lamb said, that his (Sir F.'s) object
c.nes not to reform the Cunstitution, but to take it as
it then was." This was not precisely what lie slid
• sy, fur the addition of three three little words, " as
it te," altered the whole sense of the passage. The
• 17apintitittiun he was /triennia for, was not one a hich a tor-
: opt blouse of Commons could alter or destroy, but that
i_olunitotion tt hich mss founded on the threat Charter,
awl in defence ut which oar ancestors hail shell their
lima It was that Constitution which declared that so.
sass property W. 1.1 to be taken from him its the time of
I:buries L. and which was afterwaras asserted at the
irevolottiun when the Stuarts were driven out for not ad-
' ering to it. This was the Conetitutiou lie wished for ;
I. ot Mr. Lamb. added to his other anishortuttes, eat not
-tunate enough to understated bint.—(Latighing.)—
Every one must have had souse correspondence with unr
;,iiou is as an unfortunate geutlenian. Ile had often re-
• tivell many letters, which, after stating a variety of
1 • reumAtances, described the unfortunate gentleman as
possessing vast and utilitatindeil benevolence to all inen-
nd, and gave assurance that lie would do great good,
is not stinted of your small boon. Hr never could ascer-
tain who this unfortunate gentlemau W" and whether
)• now knew he voids' nut say —(much laughter); lint
a more unfortunate gentleman than lie alto stood with
t..eru on the hustings could not be Found in all England.
It It what was the Constitution ? mid .t he compered
to a nosegay, consisttug of 1.361/11S flowers, roars, !dies,
j.:itainines, carnations. But if one purloin the dowers,
and filled up their place with stinging settles and
bramble", and then held it up to your nostrils, asks
t‘ if you were not much okliKlstrol with it, would
tory think that fair ur right ? (threat cheeritee.)—
'sloe Constitution ut Log land was fotitsiled on nature,
sanetiorted by eternal justice. It said, that the eels-
t of a cuttistry, net a slave, hail a right of Property in
awn goods. Mr. Lands 'night call this v isiosisiry
a 111 iiintelligible, butt it was the Coto.otitutiuot of Eng-
land.—(Applause.)—lt WAS the doctrine at rot 00000 un
.serve and common law. 't he coon 000000 law of England
ts.a., founded on common sense, not the law which was
comaineil in the Statutes, piled up as high A. those hos-
ling% anal not pretended to be ntideistood lye any wan,
but the mount ttttt law of the land. Every one of the old
lawyers (it wits :mother of Mr. Lamb's misfortunes to
.oppose that he had sneered at those) held, that what
was colorant to common sense was contrary to cououon
law. The next part of the t'oemoitation was the rig& to
be judged before a Grand Jury of the cunntry beforeany
Plan was tried, and the further right to 1w tried by his
equals, before be could be finally punished.— Applause.)
—The five Bills, which be was said to support as part of
the Constitution, were gross violations of the Culmina-
tion, and the people of England were not, and ought nut
to be, satisfied till they neer reitraled.—(Applause.)--
Mr. Lamb had limber been unfortunate in saying
that Mr. Hob)tits/sr would be a Whig as soon as he gut
i..fe Ilse House of Commons ; that the Hun. Baronet was
a;trays abusing and suppenting the Whigs. This he
innit have stated by mistake, because Ise could not wil-
fully have stated OW was so 'nitrite and unfair. lie
wal for neither Whig nor Tory, but for the people of
England ; and, while fighting their battles, Is. fought
always in the ranks of those, who, by locality, by their
seats and benches, were opposed to the measures which
besought die country to its present calausituns
—(Applause.)— lint, suppose that by env accident the
parties changed plan ces. what herame of .Irian then? A
Whig in place WAS west like a'l'oe, end a Tory in op-
position must like a Whig.—(Cheers.)—But it eas Mr.
Limb's tide of misfortunes which hail intruslueril this
vehject. They hail never meant to wiristion the Whigs
'Vete. Ile had never done them the injustive to say that
in. great body of the Whigs were not the moat inde-
pendent anal bunion:Me men in England.—(Applatrie.)
Rut when it was ereril that their Representatives were
compelled to Ise Whigs, he would illustrate the cam to
them without nseanirg any offence to the Whip. An
1 vocal man, returitiag to Lis home in the utorte.•;g, pees,
a hinge on Itr : thieves are returning home it the Mime
tune ; all hands join in extinguishing the tire ; iu this