The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-03-13 00:00:00


majority of 36 (4 tile }louse of Common*, on the
t.Air.sorditiary question relatiog to a Noble Com-.
in inder, afforded an incootrovertible illustration
)( what had so frequently been asserted. lie
coo'ceived the period to have arrived whets it ha-
cacao every person in the United Kingdom to join
in support of the independence of Parliament,
anti the freedom of the elective franchise, and con.
eluded by propoNing, assn toast,
Tae Freedom of Election.

This was succeeded by the song of " Or Give
*e Beath or Liberty."
Mr. BURGOYN E .that in the Toast hi
as about. to peopeae, he had in view, pried-
' Pell', .the'distreetioa of that system of corn pro.
'Seises aildels'had tiow misted fur more than forty
rites* Ibe Comity of Essex. He then entered
deetription• of the manner iu which the
,Paunty Members bad been eustomarity appointed
by a dozen Whig and as many Tory families. The
,'lreeholders had long been out of the practice of
'Thinking . and- judging for *themselves-Ole had,
• rhowever;:laboured in their cause through a fifteen
nskilerit was not for himself, but for the
4 euse,..and he was willing in that cause again to
vocounter, the laborious task. lie could not,
however, sit • down without observing, that he
:could net give credit to any Gentleman who would
.go to Chelmsford to vote against a free Represeu-
tationl whilst lie was talking here in favour of it—
lte could-form no idea of that sort of Whigeism
• which tirade the min who professed those pried-
. pies n4Whig In London, and a Tray at Clieltns.
aiord. He should have the honour of proposing—
The Mitpiiidence of the County of Essex.
.After'whtelt Mr; Difinum can;, " Seas' who
ha' ree Walloo bled."
4' Mr. lIGETWIIITE then addressed the corn.
many.; nod after handsomely adverting to the late
pseposed as. a toast
The. -champion of oar Inderndence, Montagu Burryoe,
Emit. : . r .
IWitCOYNE wished that the Freehold-
ers of Essex liadO youugor and more able Cham.
•
pion—although he would presume to say they ne.
'ifer snuld have one more honest, more -persever-
ing, r-r more disinterested than himself. The si.
.isuation of the country was such, that if we • did
pot
,treail in the footsteps of the Constitutiou,
"the blessings that we bad hitherto enjoyed
• under' it would be of very short duration.
*Sacrifices most he made—bat those who thought
Altey had the power to persuade.others to make sa.
~eritiees in the hour of danger, but ill understood
mankind. Those below expected those above
'them to mate sacrifices—we were all required
4y our eltualon to make many. The County of
Essex being so near the metropolis, might netorally
be looked to for setting an example to other coun-
ties in &Miming the syt•teisi of compiomiie—it was
a national disgrace. With respect to the event of.
'rise late electron—hi fait, though defeated in the
Wit, as barring triumphed by the spirit which
jiartjeeen excited—and he fully trusted that at the
trot election the friends of Independence would
'4iitiii-fOrwatd, 'as hill been jocularly observed in
She Wdttlie of Cotiscaiiiii,- " like giants ft.r-ethe
,Ittifk-osisie.° if there could be found two teen
who would camet forward ip the County, sad
,p)e4g. oniktres to support that.•_Reform which
was *Wight, be would resign his pretensions, and
giive. them his strenuous support—but the, County
yhould. never want, a Candidate—and should, be
succeed he should feel more satisfaction in the
plieption, of having been the restorer of their
ights them in being, the object of their choke.
ha Qiee of " My Love is like the red, red
,Reset',' then .sung with exquisite taste and ex-
pression. After which
Mr. .W3.4;01 YNE observed,he was one of those
plil-fathioned politicians who could slot get rid of
the opinjun that our ancestors who framed the Bill
of flights 'were' perfectly correct in their ideas on
the subject of the important, matters it contaioed.
Ile had beeteat the Isle of Wight last summer, and*
Mere, }lad au opportunity of witnessing the; conduct
;of the Duke of Brunswick's corps that made their
escape from the Cuntinent-e.he meant those men' on
whom we had so liberally bestowed a bounty •
of four guineas, who, hoWeVer, were obliged to
be finally marched away, in. conseqeenee of their
bad behaviour. It wes far from his intention to.
speak disrespectfully of the Rouse of Common!,
but he was certainly astonished" that those very
Men who had pis Ced a vote tif censure on the Eail
'of Chatham,' should have afterwards given their
sanction to the rvcriviflg into our pay 30,000 Per- ,
lugeese. Ile had been a Soldier, and, had himself
raised a regiment, but lie was decidedly against'
Vaising u military force floin amongst those Oleo
'who had been generally found more formidable. to
Their friends thin to their enehnies. Ifr as his ho.i.
aieurable and venerable friend on his right -hand
Piajjor Cartwright) had told them, we trusted to
.04f only trite constitutional defence, by ptittleg
'urnis into the hands of the people, e:Ohad nothing'
`to fear from 'the power of
.France. But if we
trusted to whiskers and tails, we should find
ourselves miserably deceived. lie concluded, by
*givitiK as a toast— .
The honourable T. Brand, Iltirseywond, ,eanisel Vlhit-.
bread. Peter Du (..ine4hVileinarstillth, timuiree,tuidalte rest
pt supported the IndFisendence of Es..,ex.
. Mr. pigniim, at the particular, request of the
company. again sung tt Sots 'who ha'
.Irallace bledty . t
. Alr BUttGOYNE reinarked, that he•imagined
;very pee knew that not attire than one-third of
Ow rte.:holders of Essex heal polled at the Eke-
limn. The Whigs had been exceeding sulky, and
eppeered determined not to come out till the next
General Election, lle had been accused °thaw-
ing declaimed *spinet theWhige,andof saying, that
'both partite were .43 to those who prfic-
fihgti; genuine Whig prinotpleet if they never left
Jinn, die nese( woeititteereehem-e-but the compi.p.
joisd he near; would stsp.psitt ; he had never said
xhit.lawth parties aver° alike,' but he hail said he
moll eleeliable, to change. and he would
Only to no 14 ft.nsen longer tailyi WIC they
.0411010 to these panciples. •-. • •
- The C„.0"0"47 40f, t4ou faTaWS litho ill) fie
cello( Wee, • •
*J. apitoquil, °lsm* that ills 40414