The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-08 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES-Jvyv 26.

W. Barton, Doncaster. Yarkshite: maltster —J. IT. Cromther.
Great Gamlinan's.firld-, spirit-merchant—A. Dunn,
St. Mary, Lambeth, victualler—t. o:nary, sea. Chaer,

Mr. Swirl. (a person, as we were informed, from
Loudon,) their addressed the Freeholders in terms
of great asperity and coarseness, against the conduct
of Mr. Brougham and his friends.
The newly elected Members were then chaired in
great parade, front the Hustings down the High-
street, through the principal cross-street, and hark
again to the great Cr ,•!;S before the Castle. The zeal
of Mr. Swift was here conspicuous. Ile tore down
a standard of Mr. Brougham's party, which was
erected ill the street entirely out of his way, broke
the pole in pieces, threw the fragments among the
Yellows, as trophies of their victory ; end, after mal-
treating a poor old woman, who protested against
this sacrilege, gave her in custody to the .bludgeone
men. The M..robers agtin mounted the Hustings,
and returned thanks to their friends, on which the
ceremony elided, and the crowd dispersed.
During the whole of this procession, the Blues be-
haved in the most peaceable and orderly manner.—
They showed few symptoms of disapprobation, either
by hissing, or groaning, or clamour. The only re-
lunation which they took for their defeat, was the
pardonable one of parading the streets with a calf's
head mounted on a pole, 4114 decdrated with yellow
ribsods. The Lowther.' left town almost immediately
lafter their chairing. One of their friends requested
from the Iliastings, that those Yellows who hind not
yet polled should go to the Lowther Committee-
room, sod enroll their names on the hooks, as a re-
I cord of their principles. We have not heard whether
many complied with the invitation. During the
whole of the contest, we have heard only of one in-
stance of violortre, and that occurred last nigh., whet .
the son of Mr. Wyhergh, who has been so active fe4
Mr. Brougham, was knocked down by a !dodgem'.
man, to whom he offered no provocation whatever.
We hope the fellow will be apprehended and pu-
niched.
The following may he regarded as an accurate
State of the Poll on the last day of the contest. It has
been drawn up after a careful survey of the Poll-
books, and we give it (for the same reason that we
have anaiotply given the state of the P..11s in differ-
ent parts of the country) as ap indication of the di-

The good esuse has triumphed. Victory has
crowned the standard of Ebrington with her wreaths.
As the champion of the People's Rights-4 these
rights which nature hes implanted in the bosom of her
childreh, and Oar laws have sanclifirel, the most cr.
dent zeal has inspirited his followers, and tile most
fervent love of the cause has taught them how to be
successful. Of little importance would he this pre•
eminent success, if it placed his Lordship In the este
viable situation of a Representative of this import'
ant county, merely for private advantage, or indivi.
dual gratifyatioti. The race was not run for such
objects. It was t race between men, ectuated by
enlightened opinions ; against men, avowing their
revrd for antique notions and half-worn-out prey
judices—between the lovers of liberty, the best gift'
of Heaven, and the benders in obsequious reverence,
to fallacious maxims of social order and social law—
between the friends of the People, and the partizans
of the Court—between those, who would see man•
kind lifted higher in the scale of being, in the culti-
vation of science and the arts ; and these who would
suppress their attainment of intellectoal gsin—be.
tween those who sigh for the amelioration of reir laws;
who sigh for the diminutive of ittorditiete taxation;
for the reelection of an useless .staining Army;
for the correction of public abases, and the controut
of profligate expenditure ; and for the restoration of
our glorious Constitution, to its pristine purity,
against those, who would tie their suffering brethren
to the wheel of care, like Ilion, to spend their days
in unelleviateri labour, and unalloyed pain. The
period is stoned, when men begin to banish 'he
wretched prejurlires, which paralyze the vigour of
the subject, without adding to the power of tart
Crown—which conceal eno• mous defects under the
egrets ost fiesitiessa utility —.stolen prev-wt wa feriae prat
filing by the lessons of the past, to correct the errors
of the present—which impede the march of knowledge.
interrupt the path of reason, and render truth and
justice subservient to private interests and graceless
pride! Fruitless indeed would be this glorious vic-
tory, were it only to snatch the direction of the pub•
tic will of the freeholders, from the fete, to give it to
few. Useless indeed would be the 'ruble exertions
the manly exertions which paved the way to success,
if they terminated in bursting the old sheckles to en-
twine on the Electors new fetters, more securely.—
The ((tett labours of the friends of LORD MIRING-
TON are sacrifices to PUBLIC PRINCIPLES ; and, as a
man boldly avowing and ably maintaining, in defiance
of private interest and private affection those public
principles, he was selected to give INDEPENDENCE:
TO DEVON ! Thank [leaven ! it now weirs stew
appearance. The dark clouds of despondency have
passed away. A brighter light illumines it ; and the •
freeholders, Gemmed of their former follies, in obey-
ing the dictates of those, with -whom their pithiest
principles were iu collision, have, with gigantic
stiength, thrown the presuming party prostrate na
the ground. Unendued with the qualities of An-
tmus, it will rise no more. The county will no longer
he the asylum of Toryism ; no longer that favourite •
clime, in which grew, in wild luxuriance, the nations
that disgraced the weak headed and coldbloodedStua ri a,
and produced the all glorious Revolution of 1688.
Who is not animated by this change? Who does not
from his soul rejoice? What man is there, in whom
the love of liberty exists, who repines at this great
event ? Who is so dead to generous feeling, so dege.
nerate from the spirit which inspired our noble ances-
tors, as not to join in this proud triumph ! If the
welfare of the People be the supreme law—if the ad-
vantage of the many be the basis of Government) few
actions have occured in our history, more important
in their consequences, than this delie fitful change. The
freeholders of Devon have set a noble example before
their brother electors. They have considered the
preservation of their liberties and their lives, from the
caprice, folly, and pride of Ministers, above pecu-
niary interest. They have profited by the extension
of the intellectual Itorizou, and learnt that their
political felicity depends on their Representatives
being zealous friends of the People, and able advo-
cates of their rights. Tories and Courtiers will no
longer snit them. The false notions that govern
their public conduct are now tried in the fiery cruci-
ble of public opinion. A moral sun has risen in the
political hemisphere, the blaze of which, whilst it
scorches up the blossoms of error, will give savour,
strength, slid size, to the fruits of itelopendenea.—
Institutions erected on the inversion of princiele
intro rtt.e4y ; and inst:totioris formed MI duty, con-
%teetetl si it li • igh t 9. la it! fiti their 1,1..ce ; and, by
giving greater stability to tite Throne, will more se-
curely iieserve the pri•ileges of the People. Lovett,
to ;Vintners will he (-hinged for loyalty to the iii,ss•
and toe lutes. The shadow will no longer supply
the place of the substance! No longer will our
county be disgraced by a loyaky, the offspring of
but if ue loyalty,eitolrrbuypttihoetts,taanmd:rrdkeolefsthhl:,cr;teoatosuortly7, rising or stak-
es delved by one of our own Divines) Tupledy,