The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-11 00:00:00

CITY UP LOSIPP.V ELECTION.

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TOWATIII PAT.

The poll was rarrinl on in a very slow wanner thi.
•lav, as on the otll.•r clay..
The election for the honingh having terminAte,i, Mr.
Charles t•alcert raor• to 'he Hall shoot a q....rtre !Awe

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Wood, Waitlintan, and Thorp.
The numbers were declared to be, at the close of the
poll—

Mr. Wtt.son
Sir W. RTIK .
Mr. Alderman Woofs
Tar Loan M.tvon
Mr. Alderman Tlli,nP
Mr. Alderman W reit u

Mr. WiLsox now elute forwards and was resseivell
with rather more applause tlses on Ilse preceding days.
If he hail reason, he said, to express his sincere grati-
tude, yesterday, far the disfinzuisise.l support he hail
:net witis, there were to-slay double claims Upon him.
Not only did this lad's pull give him an *dean:age over
the caw:hit:ate who stomi next to him, but alfonlesl hint
even a still more
...owing prospect of ultimate success;
for the superiority to whirls he IValm raised, lie owed to
the votes of indiyitlitals upon %vision lie (lAA had no rea-
son to calculate, not being at all in the 'mother of his
immediate friends. After such %fromg manifestations iu
his favour, he coold not deity himself the pleasure of
contemplating a favourable result ; and while he en-
treated his fr,ewls to roltitine to the last the efforts they
had made, lie agai,i himself to du all in his
pewee to d e them by a faithful, independent, and
conscientious ilisehArge of his duty. He should not
trespass on their intliiteetsce with another word, further
than once more to express his sleep gratitude for their
kindness towards him.—(Applause.)
31r. CURTIN then iire‘cti!i9l himself to return thanks
for his father, but not being more tortunate in obtaining
a hearing than on the previous occasions, he retired,
waving his hat three times, in token of the triumphant
state of his father's poll.
Alderman Woon presented himself amidst every
demonstration of applause. They would observe that
he stood in tke sank situation upon the 'toil in whirls
they had placed hins yesterday. Ile observed, that
there was a difference of tIOU votes in the poll of the
highest candidate than he I self had polle.l on the
fourth day of the last election. There could be no
donbt that very ninny of the Livery, by far the greater
portion, had not yet roam forward at all t he was en-
tirely uncosiscione of having done any thing, by reason
of which his friends could have been indareil to with•
draw their snffragrs from him. Ile could not butt feel
most confisleut as to the final result of the poll. nor did
hr doubt that a very large portion of the :lOW voters.
who still we:. waiving to equal the numbers of those
who had you il in the same interval last election, al-
-1 though they ital hitherto hung bark, would now rotor
forward and pull for him—{applause) ;—but at the same
I time, he did n it mean to tell them that he had great re-'
serves to brim; up to the hustings by a thousand or two
at a tame, though an Honourable Friend, who stood
that day near him, stated the contrary.—(Laughter and
applause.)—ll.s only reserve was in the independence of
mind of eve:v individual.—(Continued elieers.)—lle
never had used any influence whatever with the decors,
nor should he ever do so. When he applied to an
elector for his vote, and met with a refusal, he said,
.4 Why do you refuse use I.'"f Ise answer was, " I have
no objection whatever to you, but to your
politics "
This was always sufficient for him (Mr. Alderman
Wood), and he never repeated the request.—(Clieers.)—
In all his d..alinrs. little or great, it should newer be
said that he would deny his custom to any tradesman,
merely beealse lie could not obtain his vote.—(loch
applause.)—He had already said, that it was immaterial
to him, so far as the discharge of his duty was concerned,
whether he stood first on the poll, or had only the fourth
place ; yet he had no doubt that it required only the
seal of his friends to rise him again to the enviable sta-
tion which he held in the first instance. Let them use
every exertion, so far as mig,lat he done by simple solici-
tation, and the result, he was persuaded, would be, that
by tomorrow he should be in dist situation so grateful