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GENERAL ELECTION. TO THE GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX• GENTLIM It It. IMPRESSED with fentimenis of the deepef) grati-1 tude for the generous and difinterefted fupport that has this day placed me at the bead of the Poll (although the glow of hands was' againft me), I feel confident that the ultimate iffue of the eonteß I wig evince your friendly denomination to again sleet me as genre tentative of the County ; and I appeal to there principles that St ft introduced me to your notice. not doubting that, whiff I purfue the fame line of Independent conduit, uncomic/led as I have this day' pofitively declared myfelf to be, dircaly or indiretaly, with either pf the other Candidates, I &ail experience at your bands the fame fupport with which I was formerly lweourcel. and ultimately be placed In that flotation which win ever he conlidcred by the as the %wooden objet of mg ambition. I have the honour to be. Gentlemen, Your nielkohedient feithful Innate fervent. Buns hill Park, May 18. WILLIAM MELLISH. Sahli of the frit Day's PoU: Melia 42$ Baynes so 6 Byng ect The Committees for condoning Mr. Mellilh's Elesalos will St daily at his houre,l3o. its, Bilhoptgate ftreet Within, and at Mr, Thomas Mellins's Chambers, N 0.4, Stone-beildings, Lincoln's lon . - TO THE GENTLEMIG , I, CLERGY, YEOMANRY, and FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS. gettrLexcle, A CCEPT our warmeti and moll grateful Thanks AA- for the diftinguilbed honour you have again conferred on us by unanimoufly eltaing us to be your Reprefestativea in the enfuing Parliament; and permit us to allure you, that the molt ardent zeal in fupport of our King and Confitution. in Church and State, and an unremitting attention to the local lamas of our County, flail be the conftant line of our Parlia mentary conduct, and evince the gratitnde with which we have the honour to fubfcribe ourfelves, Gentlemen, Your molt obliged, and molt devoted bumble &errant% H. P. WYNDHAM. RICHARD LONG. TO THE GENTLF MEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OP THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX. GeNTLE MEN, YOUR Votes and Intereft are earnefily requelled for Colonel SERGISON, whole Committees will be daily fitting at the Houfes of Mr. Henry Heathente, Bouverle•flrect, Fleet item, and Mr Gwynne, Lewes. The Eledlion is held at Lewes. and the Poll will continue open every day from Ten to the Morning until Five in the Afternoon Any Information that can he given to promote the return of Colonel Sex c.SON, will Le thankfully received. The Rate of the Poll at the dole on Monday Colonel &ACUSON 1461 Mr. WYNDHAM 2634 Mr. PuLtea 1416. EE SOLD HY PRIVATE CON'TILACT, READY FURNISHED, 'THAT mot/ delightful Marine Villa EAST CLIFF LODGE, near Ramfgate, with or without a quan• tity of Land adjoining. Wines and Stock to be fold on the Pre inifes.—For further particulars enquire of MeErr. John Jackfon and Co. New Broad-itreet. FOItEIGN lATELLIGENCL. PATHS, MAY E. Twelve Imperial decrees, dated from the camp at Onerode, the 28th, 29th, and 3oth March, contain 53 new promotions. May 9.. —The Atoakerr of this day contains 13 new decrees, given at the Imperial Camp at Otlerr,de, on the 23th, 26th, 27th, and 28th of March, confining of military promotions made by his blajeny. M. Cailiard, who has filled with chflinElion feveral diplomatic miffions, and who has been for fame years thief of the divifion of archives, in the minifiry for foreign affairs, died on the 6th of this month. The mininer plenipotentiary from his Majelly the Emperor Napoleon to the Court of Denmark, paged through Bruffelsoit the 4th of this month, on the way to his place of deflination. They write from Aix la Chapelle, that the prefe6l general has announced to the confultative chambers of that department, that all Englifb merchandize has been prohibited throughout all the Ottoman Empire. This meafure, by excluding the Englifh manufaitures from the commerce of the Levant, prevents any dan gerous competition with our manufaelures, and fe cures to them the advantage of fupplying alone the Turkifh prOvinces. Thus the threats and siolenee exercifed by the Englifh Government towards the Porte, to force her into the coalition, and ruin the commerce of France, has ended only in drawing clofer the bonds which unite there two powers, to fe cure to the produas of our induary an important iffue, and to (hut againfl•the Englifh merchants all the ports of a van empire. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH ss. The Grand Vizier lets out on the 30111 of this Month. The army which he commands in perfon confills of more than fiaty thoufand men. He is going to the Danube. The preparations on the fide of Georgia are equally formidable. The Pacha of Erzerum has been inverted with all the powers of Grand Vizier in Alinenia and Colenis he marches for fah and the Phafis. A Tartar ar• rived from Erzerum has brought official advice that the Turks have made :hemfelves mailers of a fort which the Roil - tans h;:t1 ere fled on the Phafis between Anacra and Kumbal. Anacra itfelf was vigotoufly attacked. The ille of Tened , al has been attacked by the Ruf fians, but hitherto the efforts of the Ruffian fquadron and the troops on board it have been without effea. Two Englith con,iers have been arrefled with the enrrefprmdence of the Englith Minifter, Mr. Arbuth not with his dragoman, and with the Euglith dtago. wa n u refides at Bucharefl. L ‘ng eztraas are added from thefe intercepted let ter figned Summerer, and dated Buchareff the loth, I 'tit, 20th and aid of February. The pieces fubioined are orders iffued by the P..rte to the paellas and governors of the different provin ces, in met , . and cities cf the empire, notifying the was with England. and prohibiting any trade with Engties. Mechin, the French Conful at the Dardanelles, informs us, that the forts are in the bell flare of de. fence. That the Englifh lquadron, on its return to wa• met at Tened..s by the Ruffian fquadron, ?ad that difputes had arifen between the commanders .44 dm two fquadruns. The Englifh appeared very diffatisfiesil with the quarrel in which they had en gaged the Turks on account of the Ruffians. " Had you not," laid they, "invaded Moldavia and Walla " chia, every thing would have been adjulled, and " you wonW pot have given another powerful ally to e• France." Ratio has failed in her negociations for a feparate peace with the Porte and Perfia. M. Dupre, the Frotwil Conful at Erzerum with Juffuf Pacha, writes word that the Schah has refuted to conclude any *414 of tecaty.--Itioniteur. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY x 9. WHIT.TU 330 AT at OW Stock Exchange. A rumour prevailed yeiterday afternoon that a report had been received through a refpeetabld pri trate channel from Holland, of a battle fought on the 3d inaant, in which the French, according to the Dutch reports, were vklorious. No other particulars were mentioned, nor could we trace the rumour to its fource. At a late hour laa right Paris Papers to the lath inaant were received, from which we have given ex trees of every thing cleferving notice. Their con tents are not of much importance. LEEWARD ISLANDS MAILS. This morning a Mail arrived from the Leeward Inands. brought to Falmouth by the Limo lionm packet in 21 days from Tortola. The letters and papers were not delivered out when this Paper was put to Prefs, but by the LORD Ho BART we learn the following intelligence : She found at Barbadoes the Duke of Marlbo rough packet, which carried out February mails for Jamaica; the day previous to her arrival, (he (the Marlborough) had fallen in with la Confiance French privateer, of t+ guns, and tao men, from Guadaloupe ; which the engaged at three different times, and beat her off: the Confiance is fuppofed to have had a great number killed and wounded the packet had (even wounded, including Captain, Mat ter, and Mate, (lightly ; one feaman with his arms broke, one dittowith his thigh broke, and two other feamen slightly wounded; the Marlborough had again failed from Barbadoes for Jamaica : the Wind for Caftle with March mails had alfo arrived at Bar. badoes.—Paffengers, &c. per Lord What t, Mr. Do• naLa,a, Mr. Taras,aad Mrs. MONTFiSEILE. THE ARMY. We have known for Tome time back, that arrange menu were making for an expedition on a large kale to the Continent. We now can inform our Readers that thefe arrangements are nearly completed, and that embarkation will fpeedily take place at Rarnf gate, Margate, and Portfmouth, at one and the fame time. In a few days we hope :o lay before the rea ders of the STAR, a correet lift of the Staff of the Grand Army. We believe all ranks of our readers, particularly the military, will learn with pleafure, that to fo very able and energetic a leader as Lnrd CATHCART, the chief command is to be entrufted. His Lordship is arrived in town for that purpofe. Under him will ferve Generals SPENCER, M'FARL AN E. Lord PAGET, BAIRD, and others of our moll darling Officers. Betides the whole of the King's German Legion, Artillery. Cavalry, and Infantry, a force of 15,000 men, the Foot Guards, feveral regiments of our other infantry, a large cavalry force, and a very large train of artillery, will be embarked. In mili tary circles, the brigades are mentioned, the 7th, toth, and 14 , h Light Dragoons. Perhaps the fineft brigade that ever was formed, will be commanded by Lord PAGET. The gallant Colonel D3RR lEN is to have a heavy brigade, confiffing of the Blues, Scott?. Greys, and King's Dragoon Golrds• We have likewife juft heard the names of tome of our ablell Colonels, who are to have infantry brigades, with brevet rank. Several of the regiments of this Grand Expedition will come forward from Ireland, and fe. venal of the 2d battalions will be employed. Su many regiments will go on this fervice, that the duty at home will devolve entirely on the veteran and gar rifon battalions and on the militia, which laft are certainly the fineft of our troops. The noble and gallant corps, the tsith Light Dra goons, and 7ph Highland Regiment, who lately came home fkeletons from India, after having remain ed nearly thirty years there, are now beginning to recruit their numbers. Thefe two corps have now attained a name nos inferior to the Innifkillings, 4oth, 42d, the Royal. hint, the Scots Royals, or any crack regiment in the fervice. On their colours and dref., they have got badges, emblematical of their atchieve , ments. Report lays, that the gallant Sir Jow N Dov Ls, Bart. whofc regiment, the 67th, lately acquired fuch im• mortal honour, is likely to go out to command in South America. General WARD, of the late Horfe Grenadiers, is likely to fucceed Sir GEORG& NiVAT in the Lieute nant Government of Portfmouth. Among the regiments coining from Ireland for the Grand Expedition, the 111, or Royal Dragoons, com manded by the noble Colonel De Gat v, it is Paid, will be one. The Swifs Regiment de Meuron is now at Guern fey, and fall completing its numbers. The following Regiments of Infantry, are em barked at Portfmouth 13th. 3 Ob, 12 Danalion. slab, rft Bonißoa, or Cameronianr. soilk ad lbMabee. :oth. Vaasa Battalion. The German Battalion of the both Regiment, as well as the whole of the King's , German Legion are concentrating in Kent, and will embark from Deal, Ramfgate, and Margate. The 7th, Bth, sad, soth, and 63d, will come from Ireland to join the Grand Exredition. NEW PARLIAMEN't MEMBERS E.Litaran.. D: utast eta r—.l-Tenry Grattan and Robert Sbpre. DUBLIN TYNIVVISIT Feder. Him:mu —WM Beek teed and Benjamin Hashonfe. WILTON—RaIph Sheldon and Chatle4 Herbert. FAST Lnoz—Capt Butler and --- Vanderheyden. WVIT Loot—Ralph Allen Daniell and Janie* Buller. MITCHtLL—Hon Capt. Gower and George Gilway Mina. TR coon Col. O'Callaghan and Godfrey Wentworth. Taulto— the Honourable Edward tiofeawen and Colonel 3. Lemon. Lisit e A RD—Lord Hamilton and the Hon. W. Eliot. Pr N RYN—Charles Lemon and Henry SWIM. LISTWITHIRL ...•••••••••-• Maitland and HoWord. CA RMARTNRN COUNTY-I.ol'd Robert Seymour. Cu lonia c-T. Cholmondeley and Davies Davenport. CAR NA RYON Cot:wry—Sir Robert Williams. Pampa our... Hugh Barlow. Snoa an A as—Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart. and T. Shelley. Ba CCON COONTY—Coloncabomas Wood. GLAMORGAN—Lord William Stuart. STA FPO R Di WIRR—Sir E. I.ittleton, Bart. and Lord G. L. Gower 13RAMIII.R—Mr. Burrell and Mr. Shelley. Boobs tt.—Sir W. Oglander, Bart and DRVIoNg Giddy. CAMELFORDLOrd Henry Petty and A. Adair, Efq. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. Smaawsavay.—State of the P. - 11, 9.h day. Hon William Hill 495 Hon. G. Bennett 296 T. Jones, Efq Sat DORSIT.—State of the Poll. Mr. Pitt . 1332 Mr. Portman ' 93 8 Mr. Becket 1031 - NOTT11101i•14 9 MAT 16.—State of the Poll. • Sml:h - zoo Crompton 573 Coke . 7 8 7 PRLSTON, MAY 16.—State of the Poll. Lord Stanley - 1047 J. Hugon, Efq. - 943 S. Herrocks, Efq. - 1029 Lamcarrea, MAY 16.—State of the Poll, Bth day. Mr Patten - 1343 Mr. Cawtborne - 88.7 Mr. Dent 3344 Mr. DOeeton • 874 - ST. Ivan.—Final dole. Sir Walter Sterling • 147 Charles Ccekerell - 125 Samuel Stephens - 147 Capt. Woolmere - 123 Dustin llama:Ls:vv.—Final dole. _ _ __ ... - -- _ Mr. nailer --- - 4S Mr. Macklin - 4 NAWkr, Mar t I.—State of the Poll. Mr. Corry -4) Lieut. General Needham 17 . Sussex.—State of the Poll. Hen. Cba#s Wyndham 5634 Fuller • 1426 Colonel Sergifon 1461 ELECTION. ••- YENTH DAY—MONDAY, MAY 4. At the dole of the Pull this day, the numbers were, Fir FRANCIS BOIDCTT • s7lll Lord COCIIIIIINZ • 1158 ELLIOT .. • 1734 SI/ERMAN • • 658 Mr. SHERIDAN, having flepped forward on the front bar, began by cm:felling, that although he was not fo nimble as the Noble Lord, and therefore had not heretofore taken that pofition in which he now appeared, yet that he felt his fpirit and mind quite unbroken. To this pinion he was, however, today prompted to advance fr:)m the nature of the fubjeft upon which he had to addrefs the Eleetors ; and he felt the leis unwilling to occupy it, becaufe he was fore that if, in the eagernefs of attion, he ()mold fall either backwards or forwards, he would fall among friends [Loud laughter.] To the Speeches of the other candidates, he Aferved, that he had never taken (le. cation to reply immediately after their delivery, while all thefe Gentlemen who followed him had the ripper. (unity of making any ufe they pleafed of any thing he fail. He was not averfe that the other candidates made any ufe they thought proper of whatever he advan ced ; and he would go farther in laying, that he would not-attempt at the time to make any reply,— This was the fyftem which he had determined to put fue throughout the elelion ; for he was not afraid of any advantage that could be taken of any thing he laid, becaufe he fpnke ftraight forward. He did not want to fupport his caufe by the ahufe of the abfent—by throwing the flighteft imputation upon any of the other Candidates. He did not find it ne celfary to leek the eflablifhment of charafter for him kV by depreciating the charafter of other s,and inftead of (hiving to conciliate fupport by profeffions, he could refer to the recolleCtion of his pall conduel.- -[Applatife.]—To this cattle he had refolved to adhere. • To abflain from noticing the obfervations of any candidate on the evening of their delivery was his fixed putpofe. But he was ready to confefs, that this purpofe was put to a molt revert trial, and that he was Ilrongly tempted to depart from that rule on Saturday, from the manner in which mention had been made of the name of Mr. Fox.—[Load cries of hear I hear !]—The Gentlemen pretent had done themfelves the higheß honour from the feelings which they manifefled, when an afperlion was thrown out upon the memory of their old and venerable friend.—[Renewed cries of hear I hear I accompa nied by an explanation from Lard Cochrane, that he did not mean to afperfe the charatller of Mr. Fox : all that he reprobated was, the conchal of thofe who took office with him, who certainly had done no good to the country.] Mr. Sheridan returned, with the expreffion of an hope, that the Noble Lord would have the liberality to hear him through out, and then he would have an opportunity of making his comments. The Noble Lord had wit need that fympathy in the Gentlemen he addreffeds which mutt nave been gratifying to his mind, when an improper allot - ton was made to his father. —But that Noble Lord would allow him to fay, that there were feelings implanted in the human breaft quire as Ilrongas thofe of confanguinity ; that the influence of relationfhip was not more interelling than the recolleition of old and facred friendfhip, than the memory of that Multi-ions man whom fo many efleemed as a brother, and :wards whom Come that were young who heard him were entitled to look with fentiments of filial refpell.—[Applaufes ] —When Mr. Fox ceafed to live, he was perfuaded that the caufe of private honour and friendthip loft its higheß glory ; that public liberty 101 l its molt un daunted champion, and the caufe of humanity its molt alive and ardent Apollle I [Loud applaufes.]—Per. haps no man had ever lived fo eminently diflinguifh ed for tbefe qualifications as Mr. Fox, both of head and heart, which &rye to conciliate regard, and to command refried. In him was united the moil amiable difpolition, with the moll firm and refolute fpirit—the mildeft manners with the molt exalted mind. With tegard to that great man it might, in deed. well be Paid, that in him the braveft heart and the molt enlarged mind fat enthroned upon the hat of gentlenefs.—[Acclamations of applaufe.i—lt was impoffible then that he could (peak i.f fuch a man , much lets hear him traduced, without emotion. [Cries of hear ! hear !]—He knew him well. H e was fully acquainted with his fentiments, and he had not the flighteß hefitation to affert, that had not his eloquent tongue been now dumb, and his heart bea t cold in the grave—had he been alive to vritnefs this con'eft, he would, among all the other Candidata (for he put himfelf out of the queaion) have g i ves his vote in favour of Sir Francis Burdett.—[Lo u d plaudits, which continued for Tome minutes.].... The Noble Lord having difclaimcd an y Podo l i a ' reflection, mutt at leaft admit that his exprersan. conveyed an afperfion upon the friends and fol. lowers of that i'luftrious man. As to the expreffion WI, without pretending to any peculiar delicacy, or nicety in the ufe of terms, he hoped he might b e muted from offering an infult to the ears of th e audience by repeating it.—[A. cry of hear ! hear!] —But it feemed to mean this—that the Rower s of Mr. Fox had no other view in their political life than that of felfifli profit. Such appeared t o him to be the plain Englifh tranflation of shat l o ta f t b l i h r e . Noble Lord meant, without repeating the unfavory fimile which had been already alluded to. From what he knew of Mr. Fox, he was fully fatisfied that, I. were he alive, he would not accept any compliment I prefented to him at the expence of his friends.— [Applauft.g —He would elk, who were thofe the Noble Lord Paid had tailed of the bafer part Fox ?—[" Lord Melville I" exclaimed a voice in the crowd.]—Who halloos nut Melville? laid Mr. She. rldan. No, ho, I will do the Noble Lord the Office to believe that he did not mean Lord Melville.—[A laugh, and a cry of hear, hear.]-..-Now, whom aid the Noble Lord really intend to include in his cer.. lute upon the. followers of Mr. Fox ? Did lie mean to queftion the pure, the patriotic, and dill nguillse4 attachment of the Ruffells, the Cavendithes, the Howards, and the Pelhams ? or thofe who did nouri'ond did honour alma alone to the a: Mousey of the country Or did he in die Houle of Commons intend toisupeach the motives or condo& of fuch a man as Mr. Flamer, or fuch a man as Mr. Coke of Norfolk, who when be had it fully in his power to obtain it, (corned to hide in a coronet, that head which be is entitled to hold fo high in the country; who would not fink his name in a title ? or did the I Noble Lord mean to comprehend the whole of Mr. Fox's Friends in the cenfure he had fo delicately pro nounced ? For himfelf, he could fay, that for ay years, one year of which he had been in office, be had been the friend of Mr. Fox. He was one of thofe who preferred following that great man, in op portion to the participation of the profit or power which belongs to the poffeffion of office. I was one of thofe, Paid Mr. Sheridan, who had rather (hare in the exile of Mr. Fox, and participate of his poverty, if you pleafe, than pales any place or emolument in the power of any Minifter or King to bellow.— [Applaufe.]—l do not, of contfe, with to deprecate any cenfure that may be pronounced upon the friends of Mr. Fox On the contrary, there is no degree of poithumous fame I define m 're than to be ranked among thofe friends ; and when I die, the only epi taph I with to have infer ibed nn my tomb is tht— " Here lies the friend of Mr. Fox."—[Shunts of ap- plaufe—" Now at Elliot—Now for a wipe at the Brewer," exclaimed the crowd] —Why, this to be lure, is a firong call, laid Mr. Sheridan, and certainly right and left is but fair play. [Mr. Elliot Banding on his left hand.]—But I am a good deal exhaufled at pre fent. I !hell, however, take another opportunity, Gentlemen, of attending to this call, and thall give you a frefh tap —[A laugh.]—Here the Right Hon. Gentleman palled to the quetticn relative to his origi nal apparent irrelcluticn, which he maintained did not originate with him, but was attributable, among other things, to the deference he had to the preten. lions and reported purp , ‘P. f Lord Percy, in conic quence. of the;indication u: that Noble Lord's chst raCter, which he witneffed upon the difcuffion of the Slave Trade. It would be abfurd in him to pretend that he had funds of his ov n tufficient to encounter the expence of a conteßed elellion, but as far as de• pended on his own energies, he world yield his pre tentions to no man. He was, however, determined in cunfequence of the unfortunate refult of the mad! between Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Paull, not to enter into any oppofition agatrat the latter gentleman, who was underarm(' to be a CandiJate ; but conceit. ing both thefe Gentlemen, from their own declara tions, difinclined to Rand—as he heard with regard to S:r Francis Burdett from a particular friend it his—and with regard to Mr. Paull, from his own advertifemont. With fuch confederations in his mind, and aftuated by an opini it which he hoped was not vain, that he was fomewhat more competent to re. prefent Weßminfter than either Lord Cochrane or Mr. Elliot, he determined to tland—[lhauts of sp• plaufe.)—ln this determination, he confelled that he was influenced by the afrutance of thole from whom he received the feat which he at prefent held, that if he fbould be returned for Wellminfler, that feat would be transferred to his fon. Any man whohad a fon, would, he hoped, feel this to be an exeuiable motive for staion ; but the more prorninen , routire in his mind was this, that if he Ihould lucceed fcr Wellminfter, the people would thus, to ufe a phrafe of Lord Caftlereagh, have two things to their bow —they would have two fi iends to liberty in the Houle of Commons inked of one.—Cloud applause. j The Right Honourable Gentleman dwelt upon the opportunity which he bad afforded to chore who ought to Rand forward to maintain their own molt impoo cant interells. If they decline to do fo, for there yet was time enough to aa, they mutt be prepared for the confequences, but no blame could attach to him. The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded with affuring the Elators of Weßmintier, that what. ever might be the refult of this conteft, it thould ever be his pride to enjoy their confidence and promote their inteteßs ; that whether he Mould be the Re prefentative or not, they might command him their . fervant.—[Loud and long continued plaudit s followed this fpeech.] Lord COCHRAN I- 44 Gentlemen, I am plcafed if the marks of approbation which fell from you during tome parts of the Right Hon.. Gentleman's addreli to you, touching an exprellion which fell from met): Saturday, which I confefs candidly I ought not to have ufed ; I have felt the impropriety of it mo r e than i can explain to you : all I meant was, to con craft the merits of that great charadter, Mr. Fos, with perfons who appeared to be of a very different