The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-08-01 00:00:00

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31ajor Cartwright and Returns

being drank, '
The Majar rose and paid, that he felt himself
highly honoured in having his name combined
with the great cause of Reform. it was then, he
felt, rather too late AU hoar to offer to the company
one of what were called his " long 'sermons"
[a laugh.] He did out mean, indeed, to Tres.
of the tom patik for many
pass upon the attention
minutes, and he would begin by telling them an
anecdote :...Ssone years ago, after he had written
twat, the means of calling forth the energies of
the Constitution for the defence of the coup.
try, be was asked by a literary friend, how
he could write so much about non-entities, but
he answered, No: that he was not writing about
00„.eateies, but advertising for• stolen goods.
[a laugh and applause.] These stolen goods
the country was now, he hoped, in a fair way or
recovering. The cause of reform war, he was
happy to see, daily gaining strength, but it was a
misfortune that so much was said, and by some of
its friends, too, about the merit of moderate re-
form. For himself, he would not hesitate to de.,
Clare he never was, that he never should be a fries
to what was called moderate reform. ppplaases.l
The object of his search and i-oliestdde always
the Constitution,
was, and always would be,
the whole Constitution, and nothing but lee
Constitution. [Applause:.] The Moderate Re- '
Partners proceeded, in fact, upon principles and
calculations which betrays*, a complete disac.
quaint:wee with the character of the common
enemy. They seemed to consider the borough'
mongers mere drivellers, 'who could be induced to
make a concession dangerous to their power, who
could be persuaded to allow their foes to advance
one step against the citadel of their authority.
Bat, no • the borough-mongers were not to be
BO delul;ll....thes would Stflitoile to the last to
maintain their isianence, and the only way in
which any effected struggle could ee mode against',
them would be by national unanimity, by a cot.
dial Helots of all the friends of Reform, and in or.
der to produce this desirable effecte"hothina etiould
be left mlons, to enlighten thiedederstending, to
!omit the hearts, and to' animate"the hopes of '
the people.---(Applostacs.)---The venerable ota-
cur concluded with proposing the following toast 1,
..." Representatives without rotten Boroughs...
Defence without Foreigner's...and Laws without
Military Execution."...(Applause).
Mr. MALLET next presented himself. lie
observed, that their worthy Chairman had done
him the honour of putting into his hands a toast,
of which he so thoroughly approved, that he
should seem to he insincere to the sentiment it '
contained, if he did not preface it with a few ob.
serrations. He did nut mean to trouble them with
a long address ; it would be futile thus to waste
their time, after the speech which they had heard
delivered by their illustrious Representative, the
eloquence of which, if it could be equalled,
Could not, he was confident.; be surpassed. He i
would think he acted wrote; if he it d not,
thus publicly, bear his indieistual
_testimony toe
the great wisdom and virtue displayed by the
Freeholders of Westminster, in having selected
for the honourable situation of their &pre.;
imitative, the greateit and most didisterested Pa.
triot that this or any other country could boast.
That great man thought so little of himself,* in his
solicitude for the public welfare, that he had scat cely
adverted to those circumstances, personal to him.
self, which had led to the present meeting. When
he looked back to the situation in which the COUS•
try stood when .their worthy Representative lint
started into public ,notice, when he contemplated
the progress of that spirit which commenced in 1
Westminster, sind which, on the demise of Yr. Pitt,
had gained an aseondancy in she City, he mast eels-
fess he had changed his opinion as to the possibi-
lity of effecting that Reform which, at the period to
-which he had alludes), seemed hopeless. • When he '
saw so much performed by the stein y. applicants' 1
of moderate means, against the 'id exertions
of the Berough-mungering factinf, felt his
hopes greatly increased. tat. fiWifiali had often
stigmatized Sir Francis Burdetras a. ruined man ;
because, knowing that he was right, he chose to
shut their path, and to go alone. That factions
mare dangerous than the worst foreign enemy Eng-
land ever had, clearly perceived, that if the priu.
ciples espoused by that true patriot once became
general, their downfall was inevitable. He was the
last Ann who would condescend to flatter any indi.
'ideal; but this virtue of Sir F. Burdett steed the
seterest test ; if his conduct were not pure, he
would immediately give him up • but he had &hewed
myself to be incurrisptible...nrither favour nor
intimidation could drat a change. The consist.
ency Which was observable in their honoured Re.
presentative, they would in vain look for amongst
that faction Which did not hesitate tozeluninite
him. When that faction came into power, they
forfeited all their !itemises to the' people. They
coalesced with Lord Welkeiley4 and DU every oc-
casion they gave up their public principles.—He
Would nut stickle at men doing some good, by
giving up matters of •no dissolute moment—but
they gave up principles of the first int meta
thee tame into. power band:hound and manacled.
All their malice was directed against Sit Francis
BarJett, but their darts fell harmless; from the fine
mind of his virtues. At one time they dodge
11"te-i him as a 'helping, conning, datigerdus
lean •
, at another time he was depicted as the
innocent tool of a crafty monk.—They eut their
°Wit throats; they told two stories contradictory
of each other, and, of course, olio of them must
he false. however unpopular it might be' (and
there was a time when it wools, have been ea
trendy unpopular), he felt it his duty .tiic,4thei;
attention to a niatie whose talenti lad ''hose
virtues well deserved their admiration-e-one.who
hel been a thinking man before ho became au
'ten's: man--whose foresight had been much
greater than theirs....whe had virtue minuet to
°Prom both factions, when their simplicity was
wrought upon to support ono of those factions
'phut the other. I will not longer conceal the
n un,
. of this celebrated individual. Europe, per.
to . i
PS the world, d•in such another...
1 pleat oes nut c°me . that eminent scholar, and bowie to his