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It would be invidious, perhaps, to criticise the different candidates for

the representation of London and Westranted, that they are as sincere in their professions as their

opponents, which at least bleaches away much of that turpitude of which

their political conduct is accused by those who are of a different way of

thinking But it is quite evident, at least to ed with that subjection to public opinion to

which Sir Francis Burdett and Mr Hobhouse apparently subht to exist a single day that

would act in complete defiance of public opinion

I was surprised to find Sir Francis Burdett an unco ination a dark

and morose character; but, on the contrary, in his appearance,

deport, he is eminently qualified to attract

popular applause His style of speaking is not particularly oratorical,

but he has the art of saying bitter things in a say In his

language, however, although pungent, and soularly incorrect He cannot utter a sequence of three sentences

without violating coraures are so distorted, hashed, and broken--such a patchwork

of different patterns, that you are bewildered if you attempt to make

them out; but the earnestness of his manner, and a certain fitness of

character, in his observations a kind of Shaksperian pithiness, redeem

all this Besides, his manifold blunders of syntax do not offend the

taste of those audiences where he is heard with the most approbation

Hobhouse speaks es of personal appearance; and his physiognoth ofHe is evidently

a man of ,