The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-18 00:00:00

WASTAINSTIA MZZTLNG.

(Cadionl•• cf the Svccebet, atc. ea Thocky.)

After the " Coureatri e Society of LiTerpool,"
the .eceeedioi tout wet, tho health of

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It was received witbleig continued Peels of appro.
bane's, which lasted some minutes.
Mr. Houston's rose in the midst of them, and
when they had salificseolly subsided, be observed, that
he and the Electors might have expected to meet un-
der circumstances which, in the eye of the world,
might be considered as more auspicious.; hot for his
oat, opinion, and he knew theirs weal with biro,
no circutostantes could be more honourable, and
therefore none could be better. When friends meet
after sustaining defeat, it was a proof that there ex-
isted between them honourable ties,—( ease)—it
was a proof of mutest approbation, end Malacca was
no cause of criasination,at to the pale condud of either
party.— Liipplesse.l--Thos did be feel towards
Westminster, and he hoped be bad never yet shown
himself inclined to act contrary to the wishes of that
unparalleled portion ofEisglish freemen.--[Applayse.]
—He eas confident in whet he had asserted re-
'peeling the number of independent am who had
voted for him. H. had said at the close of the
Election that they had suffered oo defeat ; he
sow again declared that the crown which they
won that day was far more triumphant, more impor-
tant and valuable than'sny honour which their adver-
saries were able to take off the field.—(sipplasise.)
After the estraordinary exertions of every kind
which their enemies had made ass of, and their
.own gi..rioas end a, it was set too much to
bops that England would admire sod follow so
greet en 'ample. It was long since that West.
',Coster bad followed something beyond mere see-
ress. Twenty years ego, Westminster had immor-
talised herself, not by success, hat defeat. They
knew well, many of them were cotemporary with
the fact, that Westminster had shown by one ensue-
rewire' attempt, that nothing was to be done in
defeating the views of tyranny bet by the efforts
of the People.—( Muck applause.)—Mr. Tooke
on that occasion gas not defeated; he was really
victorious.--(Loud applause )—Wbea that greet
man was so triumphantly applauded by them, he
knew that they would believe him in saying, II at he
did not presume to pair himself with that great name,
eacept in the way of opinion, bat they knrw well
that Mr. Tooke's defeat had sown the seeds of subse-
quent triumph, by which Westminster had been set
above the whole of her enemies. (*pining.) Immedi-
ately after thiAmerican war, as the greatest Bishop that
bad ever sat upon the Bench (Dr. Winos), had aver.
red, the Whigs forfeited the confidence of both the King
and the People. This was lint the declaration of a
pony m■n, bet the avowal of a *rimier, sitting in his
philosophic solitude, aad calculating with precision

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flounced that they had for ever lest the coofitteece of
the People. Tido man, who was calculated not eely
to ship. as a Bishop, bet had serpassed is all the
&perennials of stance, had declared, that from that
period,thereweedd be oinking enderstood by.the terms
Whipiam orToryism; sad the only signifiatiou which
was left in either was setrina.—( ripplosee )—H.
to be able the. to back his poor opiate*, by
Mille whom the Whigs were so glad to cisme, elan
they arse do se in their own favour.—(Applearte.)
—le Mr. Tooke's cm they bed eufered no defeat ;
like Cicero's patriot, they had town seeds for the
advantage of faders ogee.—(Much apples:o—MM
set have been the state of Whiggism • hen not even
es
tappable* to the war against the French Rao-
leads* had Mae able to motors them to 'abbe cowl.
deuce? (e4pplaare.)lf what Fez, Sheridan, Col. Fits-
, Lord Rowell, and other greet men had oat
been able to do, what could their pony followers
de is ameba ease, when they neglect even the limited
esemple of that good let them by those great poi.
sees. The Whigs talked of their uninterrupted sec-
ession • bat he would inform them in doing so they
shonedignorance is the commonest points of their
Wive history. Did not Illy. Foe prom, means
for materiel the cenotection and confidence which
had subsisted between the People and the Whigs?
What did restoration imply, bet provioes *reline ?
Did not they seek, for this purpose, a coalition of and
with Lords VsrntpLLL and SIDISOUTO fe 1800,
the People showed their resoletion to abolish the
erietocratic bondage in which they had been held ;
they then proved the propriety of Mr. Foes declara-
tion. That declaration was tree, oetwithstanding
Mr. lAmbion had come to the besting. with
Lord Holland's avowal to the costrary. It was too
each that they should be deprived of the evidence of
important facts, brume Mr. Perry, who reported
them, chose afterwards to deny them. Were they
that to he robbed of psyche, testimony, avid set at
nought by this imitation of Irish evidence (he would
I borrow a term from that injured coontry), whereby
when a murder is proved by 15 eye.wituestes, it k
attempted to be overturned by 100 who never saw
any shag of the matter. Mr. b'oa's name, though
it should always awaken respect in those who love
their ..entry, it was yet not • sufficient qualification
nor a reef that • Representative using it was
folly qualified thereby. It Wks to the coalition
of 1806 that they owed " Westminster's pride
I and England's glory."
" 7-(elpplauie.)—To that they
owed it, that they were not represented either
by Whig or Tory. They keel, well in what manner
Westminster toasts bed been received through Ease
land before that; they knew well hew Lord Clash.
rano had been received in the Harem of Commies.
Did they believe it was against Lord C. that calumny
and malice were so beady directed ? No, it wee
against the People of Westminster. In the eye of
the world be was defeated mud disgraced ; but us their
winds, and in those of all honest wen, he stood me.
tirdy clear. 'lke Whip were glad enough to take
advantage of every supposed division among Roo
formers; they Came forward, ascribing to their
body the merits of Individuals.
succeededpeessmed
that Sir Samuel Rowdily bad in his
election because he was • Whig; whereas his
came in with less than 500 undivided votes, while he
divided seedy one half of the votes of each of the
other Casdidates. The Whip bad the indolence to
talk of treating the People with corresponding kind-
gess, if they would raters to their defy. Is it the
Whip that talk thus, er the Autocrat of all the
Remiss, manumitting two or three latitudes of slaves?
" Corresponding kindness lied morn to duty !"
What did they mean? Was that 3. way the People
were to be talked to bye body of men emanating from
themselves? They wiped to imagine the People would
greedily swallow the lees and dirty dregs of that
Whiggiern, when they had disdainfully declined tasting
at its brisk and sparkling fountain. They must have
thought that they were going to makes fourth power
in the Sat.. They were now, however, after ease.
coootalde fronts at assumpties, conviecod that they
had no hove. After naming at the late Election the
Meteor Russell, aud what they would call the Houle
of
Whitbread, and many other know, they would
have assumed, that if he (Mr. li.) had been returned
without opposition, that he was the work of their
hands. Instead of which he had felt, in common
▪ the Committee, that they had no iodeeoce, nor
any right to influence the city of Westminster
that no party man could represent that city, still
less a .11on• Reforostr.—[Applause.]—After
this, the whole anxiety of the Whigs will be to
smother the opinions of Westminster—their wholes
aim will be to throw their worthless weight into the
adverse scale, and make the Reformers kirk the
Wan. They wore pretty Reformers to be sore, who
not only acknowledged se plan of Reform, bet who
were interwoven and strictly connected with those
who had forsworn Reform altogether.—(Appiemer.)
—He mild not kelp referring for an instant to the
behaviour of the Whigs, who bad charged the Re-
formers with those disgusting practices daring the
Election, which none bet themselves bad committed.
, For • time such was their damper and assurance, the
Press was made to believe, that such was the calm—
Tneir sitin7e too ant off r, of untop ;vocal refut.tion
first betr yed them, and then they acknowledged that
they were obliged to throw a few Tory practices
into the reale

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