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more distinct and enlarged view of all the subjects which are now in agitation; just as men get upon a hill when they want to see the relative bearings of all the mansions, homesteads, meadows, woods, and arable land, spread about over the valley below. For these reasons, here I am in NORMANDY; not, however, that NORMANDY from which the GRENVILLES and the GRINDSTONES "I know what I have to encounter ; I know "that I shall be told that I have been praising (now called VERULAMS), and the Bas"Sir FRANCIS BURDETT for several years; I SETS (now called DUNSTAN VILLES), and "know that this will be flung in my face for the rest of those people, who, in their "a long while; I know that even those who pedigrees, published in the PEERAGE, "hate him will join him against me; I know "that it will take a long time to deprive him insultingly tell us, "THAT THEY "of the popularity which he once merited," CAME IN WITH THE CON" and which he merits no longer; I know that " QUEROR," and who may very rea"that base part of the public, who think it an sonably be asked, why they did not go "honour to be numbered amongst his adherout with the CONQUEROR; not that "ents, merely because he has twenty thousand "acres of land, will adhere to him more close- NORMANDY, my friends, but the tithing ❝ly than ever, and will most grossly abuse me of NORMANDY, in the parish of Así, in "for my exposure of him; I am fully aware of the county of Surrey, the church of "all his craftiness, and of all his great talent which parish is just about four miles and "at deception; and I well know that it will "take years before he will be seen by the a half from the sand-hill, rolling down " public in his true light, and before he will which constituted a considerable portion "be pulled down to his just level. But I of my education; the rolling, however, "know also, that if a thing be not begun it being associated with the very edifying "never can be done; and, therefore, I am pursuits of whipping efts about amongst the heath, and finding out rabbit's nests and taking the young ones; I having the misfortune to begin my life before the "schoolmaster got abroad," to teach us to write in the sand, and to sing in heavenly tune the "Magdalen Hymn," "God save the King," "The Apostles' Creed," and the "Pence Table," all which I heard the little "antalluctal" beings bawling out in BollDEAR FRIENDS, court last Saturday. Half maddened by TIRED of lecturing and speeching the sound; irritated at the chattering, and jolting and sitting up till twelve gabbling, senseless sounds of the o'clock at night, I have been resolved to WEN, I started up and exclaimed: be, for a short time, at any rate, at a" Go and get me a place in the coach; distance from all the rattlings of those" for I am resolved not to endure this coaches, the wheels of which are quite any longer." "It is too late, sir:

"now going to make a beginning upon him." -Register, written in Long Island, 21. July,

1817.

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

TO THE

PEOPLE OF OLDHAM AND MANCHES-
TER, AND TO ALL OUR FRIENDS IN

THE NORTH, SCOTLAND ALWAYS
INCLUDED.

Normandy, 28. November, 1832.

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tify the cormorant appetite of WAITH-" me hack, cab, cart, dray, wheelMAN and such-like politicians; and from" barrow, get me something to convey all the turmoil and strife of politics; I me away from these maddening have resolved to come to this country," sounds!" After coming from the that I might have a more distant, yet sensible people in the North, to be

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of WESTMINSTER, who are now going to decide, in the most solemn manner, upon A GREAT POLITICAL PRINCIPLE: they are now going to exhibit to the whole kingdom a proof that the people of this kingdom, either are, or are not, to be duped by fraudulent contrivances, or to be overawed by impudent aristocratic pretension.

compelled to endure the botheration, | very greatest importance to the people the senseless gabble, by which I was half stunned, seemed to me to be a punishment, not only too great to be endured in case of necessity, but too great to be described. It was towards evening, and, therefore, I took a place in the coach for the next morning, and off I came, with a resolution to have a few days' respite, at any rate. And here I am, looking out of the window of a In order to convey to you, in the farm-house, upon a green common, in-clearest manner that I am capable of habited by sensible cows, sheep, and doing it, my account of the state of this geese; and, with the satisfaction to re- struggle, and my opinions with regard fleet, that I am five-and-thirty miles to the conduct of the electors, as far as distant from the sound, the pious sound, they have hitherto gone, and of what of "God save the King," and the ought to be their conduct in future, it "Pence Table," by no means excepting will be necessary for me, even before I that of the "Magdalen Hymn," which, proceed to describe to you that which however, really haunts me; and, about took place on Monday the 26., at four o'clock this morning, waked up by BURDETT and HOBHOUSE's meeting of a sort of monotonous sounds, I suddenly electors; even before I do that, it will started up in my bed; and, from having be necessary for me to give you a succhanged beds so frequently of late, and cinct history of the elections and memit being dark, scarcely knowing where bers for WESTMINSTER, from the time I was, I thought that it had been "God that BURDETT began to be a member save the King" that had saluted my ear. for that city. This is quite necessary, But sitting a little while preparing my-in order that you may see how he has self for resignation to my fate, the worked the thing along until the presounds from half a dozen voices (respon- sent day: how he has continued to keep sive to each other) were renewed. a seat, of which he has been wholly un"Oh! God be praised, it is the crow-worthy ever since the year 1816; and ing of cocks!" Down I lay again, re-to show you his real motive for now lieved from all my alarm; and here I making it a point, making it a sine qua am thus removed from the scene of non, a neck-or-nothing, that HoBHOUSE noise and of nonsense, to address you shall be the other member. After I upon the important subject of the WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

If, my friends, this coming election, affected nobody but the people of WESTMINSTER, it would not deserve all that attention which I am desirous that you should pay to it. It would deserve great attention under any circumstances, seeing how great the number of electors is; seeing how industrious the far greater part of them are; and seeing the weight which must necessarily under all circumstances be attached to the example of so great, so populous, and so opulent a city. Under ordinary circumstances, this election would, therefore, be a matter of great importance; but, under the present peculiar circumstances, it is a matter of the

have inserted an account of the present proceedings, I will add my observations and state my opinions; but first of all, it is necessary for me to give you a plain history of BURDETT's connexion with WESTMINSTER down to the present time; down to this moment, when that virtuous and spirited people seem bent upon recovering their lost reputation. Pray, my friends, look at the motto to this Register; you see, that it was fifteen years ago when I set about the work of demolishing this false pretender's false reputation: you see, that I was well aware of the time that it would require to accomplish the object; and of the great difficulties that I had to encounter. Nevertheless, I then began; and, now, before this struggle be over, every man

of sense; every man of understanding; was a little too bad; and, besides, the and of information upon this subject, Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND of that day who deserves to remain unchanged, had six or seven seats, which were not will be of my opinion, and will act upon things for the Whigs to disregard. They that opinion. Events, as I told him therefore made the old sot, SHERIDAN, from the very first; events, as I told give up his hereditary right! PERCY him, would finally put him to the test; was elected; but at this time I had would finally drag him up to the bar of begun to rouse the electors of WESTpublic opinion, at which bar he would MINSTER; and, in twenty-three letters be sure to stand condemned. Those which I addressed to them in the Reevents have come. In one of his quaint gister, the first letter in the Register of and rubbishy addresses, in 1818, he the 9. of August, 1806, I made them said, that he had been for many years clearly see all the villanies of the two "trying to find a public." "Poor political factions; and, as Lord GREY "man," said I at the time, " you will told to a man who told it me again, I "find one by-and-by." He found one" destroyed the character of all public round the hustings at COVENT-GARDEN, men;" for this is the appellation taken in 1830, when he and HовHOUSE were to themselves by all those vermin who returned “without any opposition," but plunder us. Certainly, I did “ destroy" with being pelted off the hustings with their power to rob us any longer, withcabbages and turnips; and he "found out the robbery being perceived. PERCY a public" again, even on his old dung-was elected, but amidst the hisses of the hill, the Crown and Anchor in the people of WESTMINSTER; and, for my Strand, on Monday last, the 26. instant, part, I know of no disgrace to surpass a full account of the proceedings of what he had to endure at his chairing, which day I shall insert, after having except, perhaps, the disgrace endured given the history of which I have by BURDETT and HOBHOUSE, at the spoken above; and which history I now proceed to give.

Until the year 1806 an election for WESTMINSTER had been, for many years, a mere boroughmonger farce. The two factions had agreed together, each to put in its man. Fox was the man of the WHIG faction, and an Admiral GARDINER, who became an Irish peer, and was called Lord GARDINER, had been the man of the TORIES. The Parliament was dissolved when it was about three years old, soon after the Whigs came into office, late in October, 1806. They wanted a Parliament of their own, and therefore they got rid of ADDINGTON's Parliament, which had been transferred to PITT, and had one chosen for themselves, early in November, 1806. But there had just been an election for WESTMINSTER, on account of the death of Fox. Upon which occasion the Whigs put up Lord PERCY, the present great ambassador and lord-lieutenant, Duke of Northumberland. That base fellow, SHERIDAN, put himself up as the lineal political descendant of Fox; but his -party seemed to have thought that that

cabbage and turnip election of 1830. The Parliament had not the advantage of listening to the SoLON-like suggestions of PERCY, for it was dissolved, almost immediately after his election; and then there was another election to take place.

At this election, which, as I said before, took place early in the month of November, 1806, PERCY was not a candidate. The indignation of the people had been raised so high against him at the former election, he had so narrowly escaped an overwhelming shower of mud and addled eggs at his chairing, when de la matière fecale actually, in one instance, saluted his lordly dress; PERCY had had such a foretaste of that which was to come, and had seen such preparations making for another bout, that he very prudently declined being a candidate; and the two factions came to an agreement, the Whigs to put up SHERIDAN, and the Tories to put up Admiral Sir SAMUEL HooD. The electors were roused by this time to a sense of the indignity offered them by these two factions, and

a large body of them proposed to bring brave little Scotchman. This is amongst forward Mr. PAULL, who was a Scotch- the most shameful acts of his life. He talk of foul play on the part of Colonel EVANS! we shall see, by-and-by, what his play was with regard to Mr. PAULL.

man, who had been in India, who had been in Parliament during two sessions, who had brought articles of charge against the elder WELLESLEY for his However, observe, I am anticipating conduct while Governor-General of here; for what I am now speaking of India, who was a little man in point of took place at the election of the next height and size, who talked pretty well, year, when the Whigs were turned out, who wrote better than one-half of the and when PERCEVAL came in. I am six hundred and fifty-eight, who was first to speak of the election in Novemperfectly honest and disinterested, and ber, 1S06. Hoop was the Tory candiwho was brave to the back-bone, and date; SHERIDAN the Whig candidate, persevering beyond any man that I having WHITBREAD and PETER MOORE have ever known in my life. The for his bottle-holders. They beat the Whigs had all along been deceiving people; but it was such a beat as prothis Mr. PAULL, as they always have nounced their doom for the future, as done every one else who has trusted in far as WESTMINSTER was concerned. them. They, by leading him to believe But, at the close of the election, HooD that they would support his charges and the base SHERIDAN slipped away against old WELLESLEY, induced him from the hustings into the church of St. to go on with the charges until they PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN, just opposite themselves got into power, and then they the porch of which the hustings stood, turned against him, and set all their and there they were locked up nearly all whispering myrmidons to work to spread the night, with constables and policeabout that he had been a tailor, and that men to guard the church. It is curious he was only accusing Lord WELLESLEY that SHERIDAN and HooD should have in order to get some money from him. been driven off, in 1806, just as BURDETT I became acquainted with Mr. PAULL, and HовнOUSE were driven off in 1830. from his having been introduced to me The latter scene was in exact imitation by Mr. WINDHAM, who strongly urged of the former, except in as far as the me to render him any assistance in my weather made a difference: the latter power in his undertaking against WEL-being in August, the "constituents" LESLEY; and I can truly say, that a more disinterested and honourable man I never knew in my life.

were driven to the use of cabbages and turnips; but the former being in November, there was a plentiful supply of mud, with which the honourable representatives were covered all over from the forehead down to their shoes. I never shall forget them. They looked just like a couple of rats, raked up from the bottom of a sewer; and the High Bailiff and his books and his clerks and his beadles were all covered over in the same manner.

At this election, therefore, Mr. PAULL was fixed upon for us to put forward, in order to break up the infamous combination of these two factions, and to rescue WESTMINSTER from the disgrace of submitting to them any longer. This was my work: it was my own project: I paved the way to it by my addresses to the people of WESTMINSTER: I was the proposer of it in the meetings that But, the most curious circumstance were held upon the occasion; and BUR-belonging to this election, and the most DETT had no more to do in the deliver-useful to be borne in mind at this time, ance of WESTMINSTER from the joint is this, that both the factions, though hands of the boroughmongers, than he desperately at war with each other; had to do with making the great crops though more desperate against each of apples this last autumn; and we shall other than they ever had been before, see, presently, what an infamous part or have been since; though thus ready he acted, in order to get in for WEST-to tear each other to pieces, most cordiMINSTER himself, and to keep out this ally united in order to prevent the peo