The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-27 00:00:00

ry was now in such a eta,e. yet he hoped that England
wo oneP again become "the envy o surrounding aft
liqn• snd the admiration of the world." The Honourable
13..0net concluded amid the hisses and plaudits of the
n.reting.

Sir It. Mom Bart. M. P. next stood forward and was
rveriTeti with repeated cheering and 'ravine of hats.
After the perfect good humour with which the Hononr able
tairome addressed them; after the very gentlemanlike
!flllfiniOrinachirh re disclaimed all intention of offering
Olaf prf.onal affront to him; it behoved him (Sir R. Heron)
itrs:take care that the freeholders should not receive in any
,other sense whatrver might fall from him in the coots, of
.the, present canvas% Before he proceeded (nether he felt
.it necessary to notice a hand bill, which he regretted to
o.y had been industrionsly circulated shone the • county,
and which he still more deeply regretted in• consequence
'of the very hononrable name attached to it, that of Sir
Charles Anderson—a name which he highly respected and
which ought never to bare been attached to that bill (up-
. planes.) ' • nay more, the bill itself ought not to hare been
pntilished at all; for he' fermi that though he did not
eontradict, it gave a different colouring to the letter of
hilr. J. Thorold. Why was it that the signature of Sir. C.
Anderson was put to that hill: because that name give a
weight to the statement which the names of the Gentlemen
who compesed the deputation to (,Sir J. Thatald (they,
tbough reapectal•le, being not so known) etruld let give.
It was said in that bill that be (Sir Hobert Heron) would
• arlain Sir .1. Thorold'e sentiments to the 'Freeholders..
11' an, by what right was it that any other persons took upon
t',.va to publish that stotement?—{applause). And then
:foe what purpose was 014 statement made? The Honour
,able Gentlemen were verytesy in bringing up their friends,
whit...they published a statement calculated to keep back
the friends of Sir J. Tborold—(shame ! shame!) This was
,an interference to which they had no right; and he could
'venture to assert, that were it riot for the intlnstrions circa-
lation of.that.paper, the untidier of light blue ribbons in
tb it assembly, great as that number was at that moment,
MOUld Ii •ye been doubled—(loud cheers). With re pert to
!Hyoid, he assured them that no man could feel
/11. ore deeply than lie did, the marks of friendship which
had been shewn him by all rank., in all parts of the counts':
ne.l whatever might be the resultaie(SirJ.l'herold) would
have vet eivrd the highest honour that could be bestowed
upon him—(applause.)
An old GINTLEMAN in the crowd. asked whether, if
elected, Sir John Thorold would take his seat ?
tiir R Heithe said, he shonld answer. the question in a
few minutes. Sir J. Thorold had not offered himself is a
candidate ; he, with that modesty peculiar to merit, de-
eined to do so, thinking that, partly from ill health, and
per'mps partly froxi a fondness of that enjoyment which
be found in the bosom of his amiable family, lie should be
uriabic.adequately to discharge the public ditties which
would devolve upon him. There was besides • another
reason ; Sir John was not the only individual of his
friends who, when lie (Sir !R. Heron) retired from the
contest, promised to support Sir Wm. Ingilby ; that
pretense he (Sir J. Thorold) ,could not retract ; it was
given unconditionally, and hr felt himself bound io honour
So fulfil it. And now he came to the question which the
Gentleman on the ground put to him; his answer to which
was., that if they thought fit to return Sir J. Thorold, he
would retire—(lied and reiterated cheering).—lle (Sir It
) said this, not upon conjecture or surmise ; it was i'paialt
which, when conversing with Sir John, he could not
to remain doubtful—(applause),—nod therefore be cling
assnred them;that Sir J. Thorold would. ifelacted,
charge his duty to the best of his abilitat—i4l;...
planlke )—Thus far he had somewhat reluctantly
discharged the duty it-Web had been imposed upon hired,—
He had now to apply himself to what regarded his own
character, as well as to deliver his opinions upon *e
comparative merits of both the candidates. First, then,
with regard to what had been laid of himself, sod which
be might perhaps have been inclined to consider abusive,
he begged to say a few words. Fortunately for the Meeting
it was not necessary for him to trouble 'halo with a detail
of the causes which induced him to offer himself as a
Candidate for the County, and afterwards withdraw, as
his reasons for so doing bad boom already given wah
candour ti the public. The only difficulty he felt was,
that so many circumstances had occurred since that state
meat, it would be almost impossible to carry the minds of
so many men back to the situation in which lie then was
placed. He must, however, be allowed to say, that having
witnessed so much apathy, with respect to Parliamentary
lf.eform, at the last County Meeting, he did not expect to
find much real or enthusiasm in support of Reformers at
present. He, at that time, imagining that Sir W. Ingilby
was of the same political opinions with himself, felt what
a considerable advsntage any division among his friends
would give to any Tory Candidate who might offer him-
self, andative him a political triumph. He did not then
anticipate that there would have been put forth an address,
*bicb, however little the Honourable Baronet (Sir W.
Itigilbv) intended it, had the effect of riming the Coun-
t+, (!leering). He did not then think that the Honourable
Baronet would have persevered in refusing to state what
li se of politics he meaot to support. He could not they
think the Honourable Baronet would have treated the
county with such contempt as to pass through the several
towns, calling only on a few, and neglecting the rest of
the Freeholders (cheers). This, however, lie had upon
hearsay, and it might be incorrect (cries of " it is correct :
ho called upon the great ones, and forgot us little ones!")
As to the address of the Honourable Baronet, it might, for
aught he saw, bad been signed by Cust, a chaplain, or
iedeeci. by any person belonging to his Majesty's Ministry.
Ms first address contained coarse invectives against his
(Sir R. Heron's) public character. Now, unfortunately,
he was quite as tenacious of his public as of his private
character (cheers, and cries of •• we all know you anti
respect you"). That attack was uncalled for, unpro-
voked, and altogether without foundation (cheers, and
cries of "shame.") As to what had been said about
anonymous publications, he declared most solemnly that he
was party to no document of any kind, nay, he bad not
'written a line to which he bad not put his name
(load itpplause).—What! did the Honourable Baronet
deny him the character of an independent man? (Cries of
"he can't.") Such. en assertion was, in fact, ludicrous.—
He would tell that Hun. Baronet, that there existed not the
man who possessed the right or the power to control any
thought, or word, or action of his. (Loud cheering.) The
friends of the lion. Baronet had proceeded in a good hu-
moured and rather singnlar kind of way, and in a late pub-
lication had compared him with Sir W. Ingilby. For him-
self, he was not in the habit of comparing himself with any
body: there be was, and the Freeholders knew hint well
enough to form au opinion of him without comparison.
(cheers.) The Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Ingilby) next spoke
of the property which lie possessed in the county,and seamed
to think that he possessed it as the Archbishop of Canterbury
held his revenues--by Divine dispensation; whereas it
descended to him quite naturally on tile death of
hie father. Farther on, in one of the Hon, Baronet's ad-
dresses, be said, that he hoped scree day to be as much
respected as one Amcotts, an aocester of hie, teas; of which
ligneous he (Sir R. H.) believed in his conscience the
Freeholders of Lincolnshire knew as little as they wished
to know of his descendant (applause.) Now he would do
what the 800 Bart., would no doubt thank hint for—be'
would make the Freeholders better acquainted with his
(Sir W. Ingilby's) pretensions, anti in a Owner time than
they were otherwise likely to learn them (a laugh). Sir
ir,,,A.lngilby, Bart. was in 1807 a Member of Parliament
forßetford, Lincolnshire (he spoke upon the authority of
Parliamentary Register). He sat in that Parliament
during six Sessions • it was a Parliament in
Jawbieb questions of vital importance were discussed. The
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