The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-06 00:00:00

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rrcii OF
MR. GRAVES'S • ADDRESS,
FROM 11E1TINGs. AT TIIE TIML
CLU.,I7. OF THE POLL, OCT. 17.

GEssr.rmsee,---I shall not- detain you Isere any
longer, as the time allowed by law, before the poll
nosy be closed, has all but elapsed. For Ihe mistal.e
in nay hived!. that ercasions this lapse, I am very
sores-, but my regret is fur the injury thereby ac..
ernieA to the cause, and not for any dieeppointment
of my own. The Electors who arc willing to sup-
port me arc very eumerous, but they have come
slowly to the poll by my express desire; I have
called ou them to poll hourly, till my support could
reach me in great foe cc from distant quarters, and
am now defeated by the delay of a few minutes. If
I were inclined to ask it as. a favour,' I donht not
the poll would be kept open at my intercessiou.—
I feel confident that those gentlemen who have
adopted such a foul-mouthed opposition to me iti
shame and repentance for their conduct, would ad- i
yocate such an indulgence; but I scorn to ask as an
indulgence %stmt. I cannot demaed as a right. '
I came here to try the strength of what some call
popular opinions, to try- the strength of chat some
stigmatize by another and a harsher appellation.—
Some Reprove, some colleen/is these sentiments.
mist' to display R 11!)Crality not manifested towards
me: I %s ill believe that the difference consists in the
opittian of what is tight, and not its the desire to
do right. I will believe that all the Candidates wish
to rends the same spot, though they take different
reads. I was anxious to see how far popular opi-
nions have gained ground in a County supposed to
be particularly barren in free sentiment; I was eager
to ascertain how many are advocates for Peace, how
many are tl-ie friends of Parliamentary Reform, now
essential to Our very existence; and am sorry for
the damp that must he thrown on the cause in gene-
ral, by the fact that I must suffer the Poll to be
closed, because in this extensive County, however
numerous the friends of Independence may be, there
is not one at hand to poll within an hour. I came
here to try how many are the friends of an equal
County Hate, and to try how many are the friends
of Religious Liberty; how many are desirous of re..
&clog the oppression of the Tithes, by freeing from
*heir operatioe all who dissent from the Established
Church, while the support of its own Ministers,
trantild be the (rely burthen nn each sect. I repeat,
that my regret proceeds only from a want of success
the onferprize, tent at all from my own disap-
pciintraent, for indeed I feel none. I came here not
to uprose either of the other Candidates, best on a
eee.acy, to take my own chance. To eiir T. Ac-
lied, who is, like myself, an untried man, it would
bo most illiberal in me to object. lam so far from
impeoeiting or insinuating even any thing to the
prejudice of Mr. Bastard, that I have borne testi.
snotty to his worth. I may approve or condemn his
politicol principles, his Parliamentary conduct, and
the judgment that directs them, but I estimate his
integeity as much as the warmest of his friends.—
From a circumstance till now unkown to me, to this
estimation of his character, I must add my own
heartfelt thanks for his conduct on a particular oc-
casion. His desire to protect the British Navy, the
best bele ;IA of England, and at the same time to
preserve an individual from unmerited injustice, in-
(laced him to advocate' the cause of my father, and
to urge his claim to reparation for the injuries he has
received in his professional career. For this I re-
new the unfeigned expression of my thanks.
-I must now advert to some of the very illiberal
opposition I hate received. In the course of yester-
day, a Freeholder, called Gullett, made an trek's-
tifiable gross attack on me, and concluded by asking,
if I was not an Alien Enemy? My only answer
was, that I should make no reply; but had I known
then as I do now, that he is a Lawyer, he should
not have escaped without some remarks. He should
leave know'; better,—he should have known that a
British ettbject cannot throw off his allegiance.—lf
his knowledge on other legal points, is not greater
than it is on allegiance, I am very glad that I am
not one of his Clients. 1 shall say nothing, of the
clamour from the Gentlemen, as they seem to be
themselves repentant for the sounds with which they
greeted me. I have Iserin told that the Ladies in-
dulged themselves in hissing: I am sorry for it, I
did not expect it from them, hut will only add, as it
regards them, in the words of Gloster to Lady Anne,
n-rer came poisan front sO's:,:ect re 'deice."
.",!y case rely by some be considered hopeless, I
cannot coes4ler it so ; it rear he imagined I hate
'loess nothing, because an accident, a mot lapse,
produces thus early It determination of the Poll. Let
it he reinerabered that I am the tirot to dieseminete
and protect popular sentiments its• gois.coutity. .
I
have polled very few votes, but intentionally, I polled
on:), a man in each boor, till the time Allowed fur
pausing hes expir.al before the next voter came up.—
t ni ceneeived I have do:ee nothing, hut is it
flouting to originate such an opposition ? Is it nothing
to ;woe formed ace iafaet Independence, which will
be_ ostered and matured till it attain foil and manly
vigour s it sh4;l return to cherish it at every oppor-
temily, at the (Lost vacancy, at everyvacancy—l one
60 much to the kiizd manner in which I have been re-
tetived--I will allolutely renew the struggle at every
opportunity. On the iKesent occasion •I lAsve not
Lisi.,ed a vote, I intvc stood alone, unaided, uusup-
ported, without counsel, without a committee ; what
then ist:F I rot expect at the next election ! when my
platts ss el he pre-arrauged, and when I shall have the
,eppyrt of rcgetar organizatiou to uphold
‘Vii:a. ;hall defeet„me then? I assure you I will not
desert the comey.

4, frotatukiou, to infuse into the county popular,
sentiatentf? and to support them ,if already, eater.
tainest,;,l;biv“ felt anxious that the very important;
sulijerlf nlhitilti mein to inseitigate, as they. are of
ir tli)hternineo ,and Very secret, should harp; the
vo;pcotes'..iouptv united to support ate.
I rillfiLniy:aiirtgatd of the disgraceful clamour I.
tatle,beau sisailecl with, and renew wy thanks to
those,njko have,givan, or promjsed theit true and
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