The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-24 00:00:00

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TRIUMPH OP IrENTMINSTER, AND
PURITY OF ELECTION.
Tha Eighth Anniversary of the Triumph of Parity
of Election in Westminster was yesterday eelebreret.l
at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. Soon after five
o'clock, Sir Francis Burdett, accompanied by Ma-
ier Cartwright, Mr. Hunt, of Bristol, Mt. P.
Walker, Mr. Brooks, and several other Genttempo;
entered the room, amidst the applause of ogwirdirof
300 Electors of Westminster. Sir •F. Burdett im-
mediately took the Chair.
. Unit*? having been conoluded, the CHAIRMAN
proposed—
The Peeple. the only smartest( legitimate power—which was
doe* with three times three. '
Tout—The Prince Repeat—and may the principles whirls
Prated kis Family on the Throne, govern his wince conduct.—
Great applause.
Tent - May the people of Figland determine to follow Cie
example of the City of Westminster, nod elect their uwa
yresruiatives.—Three times three.
Mr. W. ADAMS, in a short .speech, in which he
highly eulogised the character of Sir Francis Burdett,
as an honest and faithful steward of the trust which
the Electors of Westminster had reposed in him, pro-
posed—
Westminster's pale and Fnelarid's hope—Sir Fiaiwis Burdett
—which was drunk with three times mince, and loiveoutinued
• apptossa.
Sir F. Suanrre rose amidst the most lively de.
monstrations of respect, and proceeded, when si.
home was obtained, to address the Assembly.—The
Wm. Baronet observed, that it could not but be
very gratifying to a Representative of the People—
one who was really elected by their fair suffrages—
to meet periodically for a series of years, with the
approbation of his enlightened, independent, and
unsolicited constituents.—[Loud applause.]--The
very flattering manner in mm 66 the company had
been pleased, on this, as on other occasions, to
testify to him. the confidence they still reposed in
his conduct, could not but ensure from him, in re-
turn, every exertion within his power to ef-
fect those groat purposes which the Electors of
Westminster had in view, in common with him-
self, when thief selected him. in consequence of
the principles he had uniformly professed, to re.
present them in that House, called, for form's
sake, the Commons House of Parliament. It was,
however, a considernble drawback from the satis-
faction be would otherwise experience, on meeting
with the approbation of his constituents, as he
had done, on this day to reflect on the awful sites-
tion in which the country was again placed—after
hating suffered so many calamities in a former war,
undertaken, as lie believed, for the purpose of sup-
porting the same principles, and of effecting the
game objects, as were avowed to give rise to the
war into which they were again about to be plunged,
after so short a breathing-time of peace. It had
happened to him, year after year, except during the
shout period of the last peace, that he was uniform.
•1y obliged to speak in a despondikg tone, when he
noticed the situation of the people of thus country.
When he adverted to that which should be done to
insure their happiness—when he stated the wishes
he entertained for the permanent benefit and snfety
of the population of England—when he mentioned
these sejects, he hod therefore been compelled to
speak despondingly ; and, he regretted deeply,l
that he was obliged, on the present occasion, to
adopt a similar tone. All those who heard him must
be aware, that, 20 years ago, the country stood pre.i
teisely ht the same predicament in which it was at
.present placed. The only difference was, that we
•ntere not then burdened with that load of taxation
which now weighed the' people to the earth, and
.seemed to paralyse all their faculties.—[4pplause.)
—Rut, in point of principle, in point of conduct, as
pursued by our Government, we were placed exactly I
in the same situation as we- were at the beginning of
•the last war. To speak the fact, it was almost,
avowed, in terms, that war was to be waged, for
the purpose of placing a discarded Sovereign over a
-free people in a neighbouring country. —Pppiause
...It was necessary fur him, shortly, to call to the
.minds of those whom he was now addressing, the
• various pretences which were, at a former period,
,held forth to delude the people, by Mr. Pitt and
Abe Members of his Administration. The arts made
Ase of at that time did, to a great extent, delude
flue people—hut, he hoped, they would not be im-
posed upon a second time. The ,olject of the war,
though, at that time, Ministers had not the egrets.
tery to avow it, was at the present moment
witted. That object was to shed the blood, and
.hour forth the treasure of the people of England,
-for the vile purpose of enslaving the people of
,France. At the commencement of the war with
France much public feeling and spirit existed' in
this country. Numerous Gentlemen of great weight,
'from their talent, as well as from other considera-
tions, were ready to support the public sentiment, in
oppositiou to that war. It was, however, proceeded
-in on various pretexts, but with one object in view.
One assigned cause was the miserable pretest of as•
sisting our Ally, the Dutch Republic, against the ag-
gressioa of France—that Republic which we had out.
selves since annihilated—for, instead of that country
.being governed by a Republic, an upstart King, by our
exertions, was, now placed at the head of the State.
—[Applauee.]—Sometimes Belgium—sometimes Sici-
ly—sometimes Italy—was made the watchword of
. hostilities. But, in fact, the real cause was the same
—the cause of despotism against liberty—the es-
.sumed right of certain families to rule over the
people of the earth, as if they were so many
cat tle.—[Appluure.]—This odious and detestable
priuciple never could, he was assured, meet with
Jot support of the people of England—[No, no !":1

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