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

THE 87 ATFSMAN._

pond work the honest man joins heartily with the thieves. s
Ilse honest suais was therelore one of the gang, accord-
ing to .Ir. Lands.—(6reat Cheering.)—He really beard
pardon of the Whip for the on ry compensate, hut
they must thank their unfortunate friend fur it. Mr.
Mont:Quer, in order to be neither Whig nor Tory, slutel.l
should have a seat for himself in the centre of the House,
and a bus, in whirl' he should vote by liissoself.—(Langli-
ter.)—But this was too ludicrous fur the enlightened
electors of Westminster ; it 14011111 not go down in any!
part of the worI•1 but its the !louse of 11111 l outs, where I
they had an interest ia countenancing sham arguments.'
As to Reform it-cif, it never stood so high in West-I
minster as at this time. No candidate could stand um
these hustings, without 1.4141,4111 e solute Reform, though
not the raltoary Reform slessre'l by the country.— I
! This he considered as a proof of its uverwhelmine pro.
I greys. Ile hoped soot) to see the distinctions of tl big I
I and fury done away. They existed limier haloes which
he detested, and u gich only served to keep alive aniteto-
sities. 'f here urn.. wane Well among the Whigs, !
and some amongst the Tories; these lie uished to see
acl-
ing together, tun ler the banners of RetUrns.—(liravo.)-
1 lien u ue Id the country be divided, not by childish slits i
fr, curet, hut by principles, and the voice and nishes of !
the 'movie would lie nollerstooti.--(Clieers )—lle week!
nun I:epart, leaving. Mr. Laub to all his pleasing ills-
siunr, antl go himself to tame more solid
Ile %timid do well to go On, awl perhaps in the end lie
aoutd c up like the Hare arid the *I ortuise—kw the
Harr too bad hopes to the last.--(l..sughing.)—He ens-I
chided by repeating. that Itefonn was making great '
progress in 11 estminster, and hr slonlited nut the lassie
of this contest uunld place it upon a ruck from whirls It
%MIMI Ise impossible to :nose it.—(Lond cheers.)
Ate. LA SI II neat presented himself amidst bison and !
exeeretion, mingled with partial applause. He said he
feared lut• had caught flit' cold which the Huts. Barottet
(Sur r. Burdett) hail appeared jail to have ',anvil with.
In this respect Ise rould assure the electors lie was wore
unfortunate than in arty other way pointed oat by the
Huu. Barons t. lie denied having said that he had ob.
taints! prosperity. yet lie was equally far from being
that unfortimate gentleman just thowribegl. The plea-
santries of the worthy Baronet reminded lain: of the
story of the Fortunate loseth, oho was represented to
br raised at mire to sudden wealth; and when the story
of this you•ls was compared with that of Mr. Hobbs:nay.
the result, he firmly lwlieved, would be found to be the
satyr iii both. He thanked the Hon. Baronet heartily
for the introsluetiun of the fable of the Hare and Tor-
toise. Every one who knew that fable would remember
that the Tortoise, which started nisch slower than his
aotagspnist, is tbr end non !berate. 1k was spared the
trouble of stating that Isis opponents were in a state of
disappoluttnem,hy t lie frank acknowledgment of thellon.
Berson himself. The truth was, that be (Mr. lamb)
salt- much less in present situation of the poll to
excite dismay than during the course of any of the pre-
ceding slays, for, upon making inquiry. hr found that
upon corresponding days he had polled murk less daring
the last election that': upon lint, yet he won the last
election. He hall aiready e‘pressed his coalidence that
the result of the election %mild prove Leonel:Me to him;
and he felt himself justified in the fullest manner in en-
pres.ing a COM it 6.11 that the majority of the electors
was in his f.tVolir. The li-srpfir.ir) superiority appearing
on the poll in fat our of Ids opponents, was achieved
rutirrly by !lie excess; e esertisin• of their friends. There
were 1114 tiy reason., operating at this 1U 1111 l eta to retard
his progress. 11111 lass friends were beginning a coarse
of activity at this moment, when they boon!! it behoved
them to eshilsit their strength, nor would they. after
receiving his call. allow a Represeutative to Ire placer)
over thesis through their indolence. It was with ingsrlt
pain that he spoke to theist, particularly as he found thst
his athirers was by nu means agreeable to them. But
there was one topic not to he passed by, notwithstanding
an untiiilingness which be felt to introduce it, us ac-
count of the neersolty of notiring the Panes of several
th•ntlesseen who were then Moen". However, the vindi-
cation of these lientlrmen and himself th•niandell a sa-
entire. 11 r. Noblesse c plainest that he had been
cusimaitted to Newgate without being heard, and even
witlsosst has ing any legal knowledge of the author.
With respect to the first part of the assertion, he would
reply by statin:;, that a friend of 31r. Hoblinuse came
down to the Hostile of Commons, and publicly declared
by authority also the author was. During the whole of
the discussions regarding the pamphlet, 31 r. lloblumse's
friends were present, and the whole of their dense:it:oer
impressed hien (Mr. Lanib) with the belief, that an ad-
dress at the liar of the House on the part of Mr. Hobs
house would produce no benefit, and would he only
throwing rwarls bt•fore swine. If Mr. llobbouse did
not intend to have himself declared Ilse author, the
acts of the lientls•usan's friends were to he settled be-
tween them. ;slid if he wished to he heard, a hearing
might bare burn obtained for hint.—(Disapprobation.)—
lint lee (3lr. Ilehlsonse) did no such thing. Why 1141 ?
Because Itr bad procured the grievance he wished for,
to nurse it up and convert it to a means of ingratiating
himself wills she electors of Wrionsinster.—(Disapprobas
tion.)—The tientleman had exactly got possession of
s the alleged ill usage, and thus the blouse of Commons
furnished him with a stepping-stone to a seat for the re-
present:oi of Westminster. The Hentleinan was well
versed its ancient history, and would no dotalt recollect
that in Rouse the entrance to the Temple of Iln 11111 l r was
through the Temple of Virtue. But now it appeared
that the avenue to the honour of being the Representa-
tive of Westminster was through a prison.—(here be was
interrupted by a storm ofdisiopprobation, which rendered'
it impossible for Isien to make himself audible.—Shoats
of " off, off," were raised in all shires lions, to which a
few voires replied, "fin on, go on.")—To that prison,
however, Mr. Hoblioese had nut been sent with his con-
Neut.—Were the tumult became so great that Mr. Lamb
bowed, and retired from the front of the hustings.)
Mr. llonuoter. amidst loud acclamatious then stepped
forward, and said, " It is a great pity that you will not
continue to hear Mr. Lamb, for he snakes himself so
notch your favourite by his speeches that it is very un-
fair out to allow bins to presume lois interest by Isis very
fair, s•andid, and honourable discourse."—(6o on. Mr.
Lamb ; finish if you please.)
Mr. Lime then came forward again. and repeated
that 31r. lloblionse had not been sent to prison with his
consent, for be had voted against his committal. He
certainly did not anticipate at that time that an elec-
tioneering use was to he made of that occnrrenee, nor
did lie then suspect him of any intentions of the sort.
He should have been most happy if amy efforts of his
could hare saved Mn, Hobbs:use frum going thither, and,
las a conscientious man, he had voted against that pro-
iceeding.—s(Gruatis and hisses.)
Mr. floatiocse raid, he was glad they had allowed
lassub to dwell as long as Ise wished on Isis prison
topic; wad lie henget, them. when ilse Hon. Hentleusan
talked either of the Temple of Virtue or of Newgate, or
of any other places of the same dr. cription. with which
he seemed to be so well acquainted, to give him a pa-
tient hearing. Ile knew nut, indeed, whether their lis-
tening to Mr. Lamb would be to his advantage or not;
hut he via/ suer it mould be of advantage to them, fur
it would souse make them acquaiuted with his character
—he meant his public eliar.srter. He had again chosen
to 'speak of Isis (31r. Holshouse's) couspnittal to prison ;
and, forgetting whom he addressed, and overlooking the
forms of politeness and goud umunerr, had said that his
snbolitting to go to Neargate as he did. without being
heard in his ono defence, a as subtly an electioneer-

ing inantenere. Now he should like to ask them, whe-
ther this treatment of bins by Mr. Lamb cause home to
their notion of those persons who dared present them-
selves before them as candidates for their favour? This
was 1101 the way to sector the support of the electors of
Westminster; and he would tell l!_r. tainib that his sup !
'coits was (disci—it was false. Because be bad expressed i
his opinion respectiug the tive,Bills passed be the late Par-1
liansent—because he had put upon paper what was in the
!mouth of every man in the street—because he had been i
imprisoned on principles which no man bred in the prin-
ciples of jurisprudence could defend--Mr. Lamb thought
proper to tell them that all this load been dune as as
elect' ering trick.—(Lund applause.)—He repeated
I
that what Mr. Lamb said was not true, and be knew it
was nut true. It was impossible for any man of the
! slightest humor to have conceived, or to lave acted on
swch a plan.—(Cheers.)—How conk' hr
know that Pat,
1 Bement would Grosset' dissolved? How could he know
that the late King would die so soon? There had been a
! meeting of sump forty of the electors of Westminster, for
the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the live new
Bills; 31111 they hail done him the honour of sending for
him to draw op their petition and remolutions. (in
that occasion he hail proposed that a cute
of thanks to Mr. Lamb should lw inserted in the re-
solutions; and he believed ilicre weir several per-
SOUS present who knew he had clone so.--(At
this time several persona', both on the !sowings and
in the crowd, roofirtued its truth.)—(•• What do Coll
VP, to that, lambi"—Mr. Lamb—" 1 dual deny it.'`)—
Ne trusted his conduct, in this respect, was *different
from that which he h*J expenienced from Mr. Lamb.
--'bears.)—Vet this gentleman now came forwat•l
talking about the Temple of Virtue, and representing
blow (Sir. Ilubliouse) not as attempting to arrive at ho-
honour by fair and lounootrable means, hot as sneaking
tun arils it, :loom,' a dirty prison.—(Cries of shame.)—
lint as lii arms this who talked about the Temple of
Virtue: lie never knew those who entered that temple
to be in the habit of writing letters detracting from
the characters of those who were candidates for the
same honours with themselves.--(Great applausr.)—
He slid ono know where Mr. Lamb had hominess Temple
of Virtue but let it be his Temple of Virtue, or what-
ever other temple he might choose to call it, he was sore
was one in which no good man would wish to have a
shrine. Mr. Lamb showed he did nut know him (Mr.
Ifoleloouse) aloe thought him capable of doing any thing
mean fur the purpose of gaining the greatest honour to
which men could aopire.—(Lond cheers.)—But it was
worthy of notice that this subject had been first intro-
I shweil. for electioneering porpows, and as an engine
against him, by Mr. Lamb himself—(applause);—and if
there bad been any martinis re, it was the mean dirty trick
which that gentleman bad practised. lie bail repeatedly
j told Sir. Lamb that he did not mention the subject al
his imprisonment as a reason to intlnee the electors to
grant him any favour ; and if the Homer:Able Gen-
tleman himself' hail not brought the subject forwards
it would never have been mentioned at all. lie did
not wish to pat himself forward on these hostings merely
o as the opponent of Mr. lamb, either on lois own merits,
or un that I:rostrum's's demerits; though he knew not
what Gentleman standing there iO competition with Mr.
Lamb would nut have a chance of bang preferred by
the electors.—(Chevrs.)—But Mr. Lamb had said, that
o he had nut cud for Ida (Mr. iii,bhouse's) committal.
So lee had told dloena before, and therefore he felt great
surprise on Boodles% that Mr. Lamb afterwards approved
pf float proceeding. His mal:ing a merit with lass (Mr.
Holohuiroe's) friend., of voting against his committal,
and vet secretly approving of it to other', was worthy
of s .lientleseasi who talked so much of the Temple of
Vistue.—(Oreat applause.)—lt was painful to speak so
much of •ne's self; but , Own he was charged with a
meanness which was foreign to his nature, and whicls
was not so likely to be practised by any as by those who
saspected it in others, he was called un to come forward
arid deny a charge, which, if established, would justly
disgrace a man, not only in pubile, hnt in private life.
' lie would now leave Mr. Lamb in that Temple of Virtne
to which he was so melt attached—(cries of" Shut the
door upon him")—and he was sure that, while he was,
Ithere, no good man would wish to be along with him,
antral he could give a better definition of virtue than he
! hacl Isithern dope. As to the state of the pull, he should
' only say, that if Mr. Lamb was pleased, so was lee.—
!The Hon. liesitleman's satisfaction at the situation he
1 ! held could only be explained by the line of the poet:—
" In Folly's cup still laughs the bubbl. Joy.—(Cheers.)
131 r. Lamb bad said, that be load pulled more votes this
I slay than on the same clay on the last Election, but it
I happened that h had actually polled '2 less. Accuracy
lin lwrs, calculation, argument, or assertion, formed,
!however. no very prominent features in the character of
' the lion. lientleman. The Hon. lientleman then expa-
tiated on the merits of the great question of Reform,
with regard to which the Electors of this great City
were in this contest to determine, and he Impeld their
determination would appear from the re.nit to be such
as to evince, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the decided
character of their opinion.
The Meeting dispersed about six o'clock.

sTATE OF IRELAND.

(RECEIVED TIIIS MORNING)

COYNACWIT.—We have received letters from the West,
which represent the condition of Galway. The princi-
pal facts niay be collected from the following extracts
Irvin the tialway, Timm. and Mayo papers
6. tv, nett 9.—On Sunday night last, as Mr.
iturke, accompanied My his servant, arrived at his gate.

41101t0., he demanded entrance, but, to his astonishirsent,
instead of obtaining it, as he expected, there were two
'shots fired at him from a wall opposite the gate. Mr.
liorke fired Isis pistol in the direction from whence the
shots cause, anti exclaimed, Murder.' Five other shots
were likewise tired at him, and Mr. Burke directed his
servant to fire, who inunediately complied. Mr. Bnrke
at this moment had the presence of mind to call out
in a determined manner, with a view of intimidating
them, " Come us Dragoons, and seize the villains."—
This is supposed to have the desired effect of restraining
them, as no doubt is entertained, if this subterfuge was not
resorted to, the assassins wonld most probably advance
mad accomplish their nefarious intention. the gate-
keeper, in his depositions, taken by that vigilant !Magi.-
'trete, James Daly, Esti. Dunsandle, admitted that be dia-
-1 tinctly heard the words expressed by Mr. Burke, and
the shots ; but that the gate was not opened until the
`following morning, when his master's hat was found
close to it. It is supposed the gate-keeper was not int-
' plicated in the transaction, but being so tmpressed with
'dread, that he would not venture to come to open the
gate. Mr. Burke attributes his escape in a great inea-
sure to Isis servant having taken his horse by the bridle,
and turning it from the gate, while &heavy Are was coo-
-1 tinned from within. Seven hnllet shots were found in
and near the gate; and the gate-keeper states he heard
several shoo go over the gate-house. I.7pwanls of SOUL
has been subscribed by the gentlemen of the neighbour-
hood for the apprehension of the delingeeets.—(Cem-
antght fourtiaL)
Committed to the comity gaol, on Tuesday lest, eight
persons, from the neighbourhood of A haseroogit, charged