There were now four candidates in the field, and for each there was a newspaper. Mr. Cobbett's cause was advocated by the Manchester and Salford Advertiser, edited by Mr. James Whittle, a good hater, who wished to send to the House one who would tell the whigs that they were base, bloody, and brutal. Mr. Philips had the earnest aid of the Manchester Times because he was a thorough free trader, and a progressive reformer, considerably in advance of the whig administration. Mr. Hope, as a tory, was consistently supported by the Courier. Mr. Loyd, as a professed whig who would not practically be much ahead of stand-still conservatism, had the earnest, so far as it could be earnest, advocacy of the Guardian, which gave a faint support to Mr. Philips, not on account of his political opinions, which were too decided to suit its taste, but because there was next to a certainty that he would be elected, and it might as well sail so far with the stream. Wheeler's Chronicle also gave such support as it could give to Mr. Loyd.
There were four candidates in the field, and each had support of a newspaper thoroughly devoted to his interests; but there was not a candidate for the votes of each of the four distinct classes of politicians amongst the electors—radicals, whig-radicals, whigs, and tories, for Mr.
