The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-07 00:00:00

lINTURNID.

ROCIMITIM, MA o.—vrh• election for this borough
terminated this (lac before 2 o'clock, by show of bands.
Lord 'tinning and ..11r. Bernal are the returned Members.
• .•lonel Torrens was proposed, but declined going into
a Poll, which was demanded by his friends, but not per-
•osted iu.—hlr. Ifernal is the late ilensher fur Lincoln
Fe made a most eloquent speech on the nteasion ; by far
Ihr best we hare beard at Rochester of Idle years.
Doraa.—Edward Bootle WilbrileaM. Esq., and Joseph
Butterworth, Esq., returned; Sir John Jackson, Bart.,

Colonel J. H. Streit and J. Haskell, Esq. were Tester-
oJc retnrned for the borough of Mahlon, without oppo-
sition. Colo;lel stratt was attended on this ocra•tun
by a nnnwrons body of the principal lientleuten of the
minty.

Mr. Denman has accepted an invitation from the Whig
interest in ltiottingiutut, and is making common CAILie
with 11r. Birch.
Colchester Election is fixed for nest Thursday, and it
was expected that the late 31euitirrs, 31r. Wildman and
13:r. P. W. H . would have come in %Mount
but a gentleman arrived front 1 otultin on Satur-
day night in the Itlinittterial interest, alttl a teem cow
test is therefore expelled.
Thr Honourable Major-lieneral IMff. the brother of
the Earl of Fife, bas declared himself a Candidate for
the Banff district of boroughs; and we understand that
tbe 3lveistrates and Conticila of Banff and Inverary
have already expressed their unanimous ilrterminatious
to snwort the General at the ensnini; Election.
A brisk canvass has been commeneed fur the Aber-
deen district of lusrgbs., on the part of 3lr. Mitchell, of
London, in opposition to the sitting Member, Mr. Hume.
both the Cantlidatos are natives of Nliintrose.

It is believed that the llonour.ible'Him Mani.
will be resented for the county of rorfar without oppo-
sition.

Mr. Lindsay. it is said, will be the successful Candi-
date for the launder district of burghs. St. Andrew's,
L'ionolee. and Cuyar, have declared in his favour.
Robert Downie, of Appin, has started fur the
Stirling district of burghs.
Lord James Stuart, it will be seen, retires from the
representation of the Illatuorganshire boroughs. Mr.
barrister, of Bristol, is said to be a Candidate
is., slice:est Lis Lordship. sin the 'initial interests of the
Peke of Beaufort and the Marquis of Bute.—Lord
.'awes, however, will he solicited by several spirited
h irgesses to forego his determination, under a promise
t f being returned tree of expense.—(Caisibrien.)
At 'lesion, the three candidates, Colonel Bai!lie, Mr.
Shaw, and Mr. rarrainl, are all confident of success.
s.f course there will lie, in all probability, a sharp con•
test on the day of election.
It is now certain that there will be no contest for the
s oanty of York. Lord Milton aii.l Mr. Stuart Wortley
e.-. 11 walk over the course, without a competitor.-11r.
S•nart Wortley, in the course of his canvass at Leeds, on
.ittirday, was assailed with hissitigs and ',outings, in
his passage through the streets of that town ; and, hail
rut a 'number of !seminal friends rallied round him, be
nould wore than (nice have received bodily injury.
':.siere was an incessant cry among the multitude—
" Down with " Are you not a tool of Mini-
sterai" st Who supported the Manchester murderers?"
-sail, in fact, every opprobrious epithet was profusely
swished upon hiss,.
Mr. C. Tennyson arrived at lirimshy on Monday. ac-
companied by 31r. ltuncossibe. of launcembe-park, York-
• sire ; they were wet by a large concourse of gentlemen,
with a bawl of music, liars, kr. at liar *ouch Isar of the
town. The horses were taken from the carriage*, which I
was drawn by sailors through the town to the lock,
1-oisi whence they returned to Mr. 'frintyson's head-
I; "inn's, and having halted, the two candidates mounted
On the top of the carriage, and Mr. Tennyson made a
s;:eech of considerable length, after which Mr. Duo-
I waist fullowei:' and spoke for sonic time; they were
greatly cheered. The above candidate* have einu-
vasneed canvassing the borough. J. P. Grant, Esq. was ;
to make his appearance un Thursday ; three other can-
iiiilaties are also expected. Treativ h/i nut commenced, ;
and it is devoutly to he wished (except by a few)tut-
seellopiag 'mow) that it never may.
Iltltlll 6.—Tho election in this cite has
proceeded, during the past week, as the friends of liberty,
civil and religions,roubl wisb,—tbeWhigsand the People
united, whilst their adversaries exhibit symptoms of
urganixation and indecision. The usual organs of the party
• divided in opinion as to the merits of the Caudidatea
toot were likely to be put in nomination, each deprecia-
rung that which,the elyr supported, vet afraid to deliver
their aentintents freely, under an evident apprehension
Cat the person whose pretensions they uphold, may not
he the object of the electors' choice. The an kward
41"h.lniiii• to whirls they have liven iihiseately reduced,
tbrir protege's prospect of success has given them
cause of exnliatioo or ilapressiuti, have afforded iliain-
tereeted bystanders an imitate fund of amusement ; and
t•se state of uncertainty is which the city has been kept,
a; to wka wotW nitimatehe be favoured wiih the aggre-
grate support of the Blue P•rty, has excited a degree of
su:icitude trite unusual.
The Whtga have steadily pursued their pnrpuse, and
porhaps never was the result of a canvass mare presidia
sag of success than that which has just concluded for
:tir.Bright. But, though thus united, and thus triusni.h.
al?, they bare never. at a body, directed their view' be.
yowl the success of their favourite Candidate. It'e know
That a very' general feeling exists amongst a number ea'
individual and swat respectable electors, that any root
promise that tends in effect to deprive the eity a any
• la. Parliament, which, whilst it admits the
propriety of sending to the !louse of Commons
Isle advocate of the HIM* of the people. one guardian
of the public parse—tolerates the negativing his exer-
tions by seeding a coadjutor who will assist the Minis-
ters is trampling upon our liberties—who will nplsoid
tiers its instigating the lower order of the people to in-
fractions of the peace that may afterwards be used as a
plea for suspending the dearest and most important bul-
warks of our freedom, and who will afterwards exonerate
than from that responsibility to the laws to which an
eseelmiTe Am of the powers entrusted to them renders
them jastly liable, and who will lavishly vote away the
diflleulty-collected produce of an excessively burthen-
some taxation in grants, to purchase the performatsee of
what would be eontiidered, in the most barharons age or
state, a mere act of filial duty, and to support the pro-
file expenditure of an ineMecent Adininisirmints.
We know that the objections to the compromising sys-
tem are met by the argument, if it deserves that name. that
the Tory as well as the Whig sentiments of the City
should herepresentml is Patliansent. If this principle
wore generally aesed twos in every county and borough
in the kingdom. the Ministers would never obtain their
revert overwbeimiag majorities; bet as the Tories. as-
✓ued with all the What're of floveranteat and the
Treasury, ere enabled to return a very great majority of
the Members of the Ham. the Whigs and the popular
rizoselreld unite their Interests whenever the slow
rally extensive. and wherever it is praeti
to obtain a return of two Members, to counteract the ad:
viusinges which their adversaries obtain elsewhere. This
is time only method of obtaining any Mee of cheek on
the promos ruinous system, till a Reform Is the Repre-
sentation shall render the Hiss. of Comelootir . wbat It
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