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tie ms Jae 1W oil As have not yet had your dinners, I will not take tip any e of your time.—( Loud huzzas.)" i'he populace furtounding the huaings t' en dif per fed. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. TWELFTH DAY—WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. The crowd was, as ufual, great and clamorous, and difplayed more heanty than on any former oc carton. One half of the furtounding fcaffolds was a lma filled with ladies of refpedability, who feerrel enthullaflically unite with the populace below, in exprefling their pat tiality to their layout ite candidates. Mr. Elliott did not make his appearance upon the Hollings, having publicly announced, that he had withdrawn from the conten. The Clerks and In• OeCtors, employed upon his account, ceafed giving t'szir attendance ; hut as no official notice was fent to the High Bailiff, as to this Candidate's intention, his name Rill continued upon the Poll Books, and a few Voters came forward in his behalf. At the dole of the Pull this day, the numbers were, SIT FRANCIS BURDETT • • 33[7 Lord COCHRANE - 2949 Mr. ELIA° r 2078 Mr. SHERIDAN • • 1C96 Mr. SHERIDAN R-od forward, and fupported by Mr. T. Sheridan, addrelled the Meeting: The Right Honourable Gentleman obferved,that he was not now fapported by that A jax-like man, Mr. Felix Macat thy, who had been fo kind as to lend him his affiflance on former dayc. But he was fupported by his own fon, who, in corning forward to aid him, was not inflirenced merely by filial affedion, but by a con vidion that he was flipporing a man who had fol• lowed that c-urfe which he himfelf was, he knew, determined to purfue, namely—a devotion to the people and their rights. After remarking upon the notice taken yenerday by his Noble Opponent of his omiflion to exprefs pleafure on the (late r.f the poll, the Right Honourable Gentleman Hated, that he thculd be happy in any Hate of the poll which gave a triumph to the people's choice, and at the fame time he could not help cool - ening his fur prize that Mr. Elliott had not, after his hopes had failed, en their withdrawn his name from the poll. He de. dared that were he rernlved to withdraw from the coma, lie would at once take away his name alto• gether, for he would never content to purfue a courfe by which mifchief mull be done to other candidates, without any ponible good to himfelf. But the Ho. oourable Candidate aced with Come degree of con fillency, for after having In Log continued to addrefs the people without being able to obtain a hearing, he now continued to folicit their so ices without any hope that they could be ufeful to him [Laughter and applaufe]. The Right Honourable Gentleman, ad. vetting to the number of bandfome well dreffed women who daily attended the hutliogs, repeated the ohfervation which he took occation to make on the former Eleilion, and the carafe which gratified him man cordially, namely, that twothirds of all the beautiful women in Wenmintler were in his fa vour [Applaufes and laughter]. His Noble Oppo nent had, no doubt, 'lime favourites among theLdies; fir there was no gallant tar who had not reafon to hope for the fmiles of an inglifh woman. He pre fumed, therefore, that the Noble Lord had fume who were partial to him ; but this he knew, that another Candidate, Sir Francis Burdett, was a molt panicular favourite among the ladies. For himfelf he would fay, thaf.nr t having either black, brown, or red locks, he mon be contented whit any (hare of female favour his fare might allot him. There was a topic mentioned yetierday, to which the Right Honourable Gentleman thf.tigh: it his ditty again to advert : lie meant that with regard to the publicans, and the propriety of refcuing them from the extra ordinary pt.wer to which they were at prefect fubje.t. He had been told by many of his friends, that he ought to have touched upon this topic before; and mention that he had a Bill in preparation to remove the grievance complained of, as it would have done him confidcrable fervice with the Eledors—[Ap plaufes]. His anfwer to the friends who had made fuch rentaoks was this, that lie did not think it necelTary to bring forward to the Elet9ors what be meant to do—to make profenions as to. what he had in contemplation—conceiving that the public would recoiled, arid that he might nand upon, what lit had already done—[Applaufes]. He would afk, whether it was tight, just, GI- fit to be borne, that she profeffion of a publican, which was fo ufeful to the public, and fo produdive to the revenue, fhould hz more the fubjed of rentidive regulations than that of the mercer, the fhoe-maker, or any other trade ?—[Applaufes]. Why fhould the one any more than the other hold his profetlion and fob finence at the difctetion of the Maginrates ? [Loud (flouts of Applaufe J. If the principle were right, he Paw no reafon why it &sold not be ex tended to all trades. But in fait, the principle was inexcufable. It could not be reconciled with any notion of freedom or _Office, that a man who em barked his property in the profetEon of a publican, thould be liable, at the mere will of the magiltrates, to have his licence withdrawn from him, without any seafon affigned, and himfelf and his family left to Rarve (loud applaufes.) He begged it to be under- Rood, that he did not fpeak from furmife or from aril apprehenfion of the evils which might arife from filch a fyllem, but from pofttive fads—from what had 4.aually occurred. The utmon potlible abufe of the power yelled in the maginrates had already taken , f. ,l •Le. Among other cafes of abufe of which he was 11 pi fr. 111 , ,n, one was with regard to a widow in -Lfner King-ftreet„Weliminner, which he could not forbear Rating:--This poor widow had received the rioll exemplary charader fur integrity and indunry. Tee had paid her hufband's debts, to which (he was not at all legally bound to attend; and yet her licence was taken away from her by the maginrates, without even the imputation of improper conduift. For what reafen then, Gentlemen, laid Mr. Sheridan, do yon think this poor widow was deprived of her licence ? Why, becaufe it was determined that her houfe Mould be taken down, with a view to certain improvements in the neighbourNood of Wellmintler Abbey—fo that after the Legitlature, which ordered thefe im provements, And decreed that full compenfation thould be granted to every individual for any lois fultained in confequence of fuch improvements — thole magifirates deprived the poor widow of her licence, in order to diminilh her claim for com penfation (a loud cry of hear, hear.) Although .hefe things did not found fu lofty and great as >ro ave to Fon ba voU abufes in the Nivy, yet he ftibmitted that they were quite as worthy the attention of a free, a great, and a wife people, and even more, confidering the man ner in which the Noble Lord brought thole abufes forward. All he would fay at prefent, as to the cafe of the publicans, was this, that he pledged himfelf, whether the Reprefentative for Weftminfter or not, to bring the fubjelt before Parliament, and not to remit his endeavours until complete redrefs Ihould be obtained—(loud applaufes.) -With regard to the friends, or pretended friends, who were fo forward to exprefs their regret that he had at all Rood for ward for Weliminfter, as he had not announced his intention earlier, he would fay that he timid never regret having Rood forward—for although he might be beaten, he could never ceafe to recoiled: what he had done. The fentiments which he had uttered in the caufe of freedom were lillened to with an attention highly gratifying to his feelings, and not lefs honour able to the feelings of thofe who heard him—(Ap plaufes.) He fhould never regret that he had the opportunity of vindicating the charafter of the late Adminißration from the charge of having pilfered from the public pude for the purpofe of fupprriing the late eledlion—he Arnold never regret having been enabled, with the aid of the liberal audience he ad drefled, to defeat and put down that abominable and iniquitous cry of " No Popery," which had pro duced loch mifchievous confecptences throughout the country—that cry which had among other evils pro duced the exclufion of Lord W. Ruffen from Surrey, of Mr. Fawkes from I'm kibire, of that gallant officer and noble minded man, Colonel Graham, from Perththire—and of that highly meritorious and excel lent man, Mr. Rofooe, from Liverpool (applaufes.) If no other good effe& refulted from his exertion than that of the utter extindtion of this warwhoop againft common fenfe and humanity, to fuch a degree in deed that no man durff mile his voice in it's favour, it was enough to recompenfe him for all the toils of the eleftion, and mike him feel happy that lie had engaged in the content. But there were other caufes which would render the recolleetion of this contell a fource of pride and pleafure to him. He had been able, by fair and liberal capitulation, to difidade the Noble Lord from peifevering in the abufes of a venerable officer ( Lord St. Vincent) who was, with all who really knew him, an ',Nee of refpedt and efteem, and alto to produce a dircontinuance of that detail of naval abufes in which the Noble Lord bad really too long indulged, and which detail at that turnings could lead to no poflible gond, while it might be prodative of incalculable mifchief in the Navy (A cry of hear, hear,) But the higheß pride which any occalion could furnifh to his mind, arofe out of the onortunity which this eledion afforded him of vindicating the charafter of his illußrinus friend Mr. Fox (Applaufe). There confiderations were quite enough, whatever the refult might be, to render it impollible for him to regret that he had commenced this centeft. He had before Paid that he would not abandon it while there was any profped whatever of fuccefs, and he now pledged himfelf to perfevere to the lag moment (Loud applaufes, ac companied by (bouts of—" Succefs to you Sherry, for you deferve it.") The Right Honourable Gen tleman took notice of hand bills circulated to day which retie& in the moil fcurrilous !elms upon his own private charaeer, and that of many of his fiends —but he could not fuppofe it poffible that his Noble adverfary, or any gentleman, could have any thing to do with fuch a produdtion. Fur his part he would fay, that he would difown the man, and arrelt the arm which fhould attempt to Me the flighteil perfonal refleition upon the Noble Lord or any of his perfonal friends (Loud plaudits.) The Right Honourable Gentleman affured the meeting that whatever the event of this eledlion, nothing could gratify him more than the opportunity of ferving the Eledtors of Weliminfier, either collectively or indi vidually. For twenty feven years that he had been in public life, he had never had the means of making of an old fervant a tide waiter, excepting for about one year, doting which he had ufed his bet endea vours to evince his gratitude towards thofe who had had claims upon him. Had his means been more ample, he cold allure his friends, that his difpofition towards them would have been fully proved. The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded with Rating, that one of the fief objets of his ambition, was to be one of the Reprefentatives forWeltminfter —that to be the focceffor of Mr. Fox would be the proudeß objedt of his political life--(loud applaufes). Lord COCHRANE declared, that the independence which had been (hewn by the EleCtors of Wellroin fter, reflefted great honour upon them. He trotted that they were then convinced that no undue influ ence had been exerted on his behalf. He could not fay the fame of the other Candidates, becaufe he had never known or feen any one of them, till he had met them upon the Huflings, except that he had feen one of thenrin the Houfe of Commons, the only two nights he had been able to attend there. He had been confident of the independence of the Ele&ors of Weflminiter, and it was upon that ground that he had prefented himfelf to them. He had never foli cited the fimport of Government ; on the contrary, he had waited on one of his Majefty's Minifters to deprecate fuch interference, and to declare that it was unconnitutional and improper. It had been bid of him, that he continued his charges againft the late Adminißration, and he had been sliced why he had not preferred charges againft the prefent Minifters ? The prefent Admmillration had not been long in of fice, and they ought to judge of them, not by recur ring to the pail, but by looking to what they would do—(Some difapprobation and applaufe.) If the late diffolution had done no other good than to free the independent Eledlors of Weftminfter from the Can didates that had been impofed upon them, the whole country would rejoice at it. They had heard much of annual and n iennial Parliaments, but his . opinion was, that the oftener his Majetty exercifed h is prero cative of diffolving the Parliament the better, becaufe it would cut up the corrupt praCtices in venal bo roughs. He trolled they would give him credit for not having cnalefced with any other Candidate, and were convinced that he had not folicited the fupport of Government. When he had prefented himfelf to the independent Eleitors, it was impoffible for him to be Cure of any man's vote, bemile his charatier was not known, and it was for that reafon that he took every opportunity of explaining his principle. to the independent Eledtors, wherever they had a meeting. Each had two votes, and it was on that footing alone that he had applied for one for him felt. It had been fitted yelierday, that he had ail.' plied for the fecond votes of thole who polled for Sir Francis Burdett, and offered his fecond votes in re- turn. But he allured the Electors, upon his honour, that he had never Aced a vote for any other Candi date, and that it was only for the purple of obtain ing the fecund vote of the independent Etc/tors that he had:made any application. He had never afked a vote for any other Candidate, and on that ground he had abßained, during the conteß, from making any comments upon the qualifications of the refpec live Candidates, only as to a queffion which be had looked upon as his duty to notice, the freedom of eleCtion. With refpe& to the illiberal remarks that had been made refpetling his being only a political impollor, he left it to the Elea , rs to decide what weight was due to them, confider iag the perfons from whom they came. He had then only to thank them for their fupport, and to allure them that, if they fhould return him, he would maintain the principles he had avowed, and (tumid luppor t all good meafures in Parliament, whether brought forward by Mini tiers or by Oppo(ition.—[Applaufes and hiffe..] Mr Jra pros began by Rating. that what he men tioned yederday relative to the Noble Lord's appli• cation to fome of Sir Francis Burden's voters, to give their fecond votes to his Lordfhip, and that he lhonld have no objection to make a return, was com municated by the Chairman of one of Sir Francis Bur den's Committees. But, as the Noble Lord denied this llatement, the Eleitors would have only to put the credit r f this Chairman againli the denial of the Noble Lord, and form their opinion from the com parifon—[A cry of Hear, hear !] 'rite Honourable Gentleman proceeded to animadvert cn the Noble Lord's indultry to coiled and infifi upon charges againli the late Miniary, while he fo fludioufly ab- Rained from any cenfure upon the prefent. The Noble Lord, however, teemed to think it jolt to wait for a fair trial of the prefent Minillers, befo-e any decifinn was formed as to their charafter. But was it necefftry to try them ? Were they not fufficiently tried already ? Could any man, at all acquainted with their pames, hefitate to pronounce upon them ? [Loud applaufes]. The Noble Lord had laid, that as yet thole Minitters had done nothing. What, had Lord Melville done nothing? [Applaufe.] Had Lord Hawkefbury done nothing ? And would not the friends of humanity any where, but the people of Ireland in particular, he forward to elk, had Li - rd Call lereagh done nothing ?—[Lund cries of hear, hear.] As to the minor protpedus of the frefent hliniitry, (laid Mr Jennings). to mention their names would be fufficient to infure your contempt. —We fee that their reptile fetibblers are endea vouring to abufe the man whom you fupport. But we know them, we are in poffeffion of fame curious information refpeding them, and unlefs they mend their manners we will expole fuch proceedings as mutt excite univerfal execration—[Applaufe] They accule us of being the fpreaders of (edition, but we fpurn the accufation. We are loyal to ourdovereign, we refpe& the true dignity of the nobles, but what we love and revere molt is the independent principle of popular rights (loud applaufes). If we but loc. teed in obtaining purity of election, all die we defire mutt follow, and the gond old fpirit of the Britifh Conflitnion sill revive ; lawlefs power will be re !trained, and the liberties of the people will he re• eltabli•hed and fecured. The Honourable Gentleman concluded with exhorting the people (lilt to continue their exertions in favour of Sir Francis Burdett. They had fought a great battle, and they had conquered; but the more confpicuous their victory, the more important the recult. The greater the numbers that tiipported Sir Francis Burdett, the greater the autho rity which would attach to his exertions in their fa your in the Houle of Commons, and of courfe it was defirable that he ffiould be returned, if puffible, by a majority of thoufands. Mr. THOMAS SH6RIDAN flepped forward, and was received with acclamations of applanfe. He proceed ed to (late the reafons alligned, not the objections offered to the fupport of his father in this conteft.— Some complained that his father had not made a per fonal canvafs—but he fly uld have thought that the whole of his public condo& was the bell canvafs that could be made for him. To thofe, Paid the Hon. Gentleman, who make this complaint, I fhould fay, look at the progrtfs of my father's political life—look at the principles be has aliened, and I may add, the talents which he putrefies to maintain thofe principles, and then I would alk whether this be not the bell felicitation for your votes?—[Applaufe.]—lf you fee your friend contending agaiati a powertul enemy, or on the point of drowning, would you decline to afford him any Alliance unlefs he called cut for aid ?—[A cry of Hear ! hear !]—Let grangers intreat your fupport, and fecond their intreaties by promifes—but let the tecollettion of his Cervices ope• rate upon your minds—and let you be as voluntary and ardent in his fupport as he has been in fupport of you and your rights.—[Loud plaudits.]—The Noble Lord, Gentlemen, has Rated among other claims to your fupport, that fince his eledlion to the Houle of Commons he attended two nights. [Laugh. ter and applaufes.]—He has alto Rated, if I meat& rightly, that the late difrolution was an unmixed good, becaufe it gave him an opportunity, Gentlemen, of reltoring to you, the Eleetors of Wellminfier, your liberty, by removing my father and his colleague. How conies it, Gentlemen, that this Naval Lord Mould be fo anxious to fupport your liberties ? Bin that may not be the object he has in contemplation. Perhaps, the unmixed good he means is his own dif miffal from' Parliament, which is a good I hope that you, Gentlemen, will confirm to him upon this °eta lion.—[Laughter and applaufe.]—One word, Gen tlemen, as to the Rate of the other Candidates, which I with to be heard within the Millings. There is one (tip the Burden, which fails a firtl rate upon the cur rent of public opinion, and there is another which fails along with it, calling itfelf the Independence.—[A Jaugh.]—This veffel pretends to be a neutral ; but I ffirewcity fufpeet, that it belongs to the enemy, al though in confequence of being Rrongly preffed, it has thrown its government difpatches and fecret in fir udions overboard. [Loud laughter and fhouts from the croud.]—Yellerday this veffel hoilled the Union Jack, but the lignal was not attended to ; and if we could prevail on Commodore Burdett to lie-to a little, and lend us a few bands, I have no doubt that we lhnuld (non give this veffel loch a broadfide as would fend her to the bottom.—[Peal. of laughter and ap plaufel—You are.Gentlernen, very naturally anxious that Sir Francis Burdett fhould be fecute, and let that be the care with all my heart and fool : hot re coiled, that by neutralizing any' of his votes with refpeit to my father, you are afting the part (.f hot: tility againa ns, and expofing yourfel7m to the On• ger of returning a candidate whore tenets y Ave every reafnn to doubt.—[A pplatifes.] therefore, of Mr. Jennings's fpeech, which recanstann ded this neutrality I cannot but deprecate.—[Ap , plaufes]—and exhort you to a different line of con- Applaufes 3—ln the courfe of my canvafs, many Voters have told me that they would came up if they could be dant ; and have Aced m: has be any. chance ?" to which I have anfwered. every chance, if you will give i• to him."—[l.an2,h • ter and applanfes.]--,I beg the Eldlors •to remember the dellion of that great man Mr. Fos; who WAI the greated [soak and the greatelt lots this country ever had—who had the honour of a diltinelion higher Oars any King could give, namely—that or reprefenting this celebrated city. It will be remembered that u; - on one of his eldliont he had on one day but tore votes, on the next four, and yet when the tide I.f public opinion fet in his favour, he polled t too v..ters in one day, which gained him his eldlion. Why then, I laid Mr. Sheridan, let ns exert the fame energy, t which I know yon are difpofed and capable, and there ( can be no doubt of the fame refult. l'his fpeech was followed, and frequently it.terrupted by the londeft plaudits.; Mr.G11130?4, declared his determination to ftipport , both Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Sheridan. Mr. Powart energetically called upon the people of Weaminfler to make the vietory conclufive, by return ing men whore talents and virtues would, throughout the civilized world, reflex honour upon thole who chore them ; and such men they could eafily find in Sir F. Burdett and Richard Brinfley Sheridan. THIRTEINTH DAY% THUIL:DAY, MAY st.--State of the poll at I o'clock this day—• BURDETT COCIIRANt 168 18222164 N 124 ELLIO7 NAUTICAL INTELLIGEN:CE. 09 PENZANCE. MAY 18. Since my lall arrived the Ranter of Scilly, frim Cork, with provifions for this place ; and this morn ing the SWALLOW (loop of war, Captain MILNER,. from a cruize, having with her the fmuggling curter the Lord Nelfon of Guernfey, which was dilcovered in the aft of running her cargo near the Lizard, but was boarded before fhe run the whole, yet not in time to prevent the people from (loving near 200 ankers nn hoard, in confequence of which there were upwards of two feet brandy, &c. in the hold. FALMOUTH, MAY Sailed this morning, the outward bound Mediter• ranean fleet, under convoy of his Majelly's (hips Ss. RAPIS, of 44 guns, HERALD, and CHILDERS ; alto the following packets, with mails; the Princefs Augufla, Sr. A onyx, with mails of the sth inftant, for Malta and Gibraltar; Duke of Kent, CoaTiswoarte, with mails of the 6th infant, for Jamaica : Duke of Mort trofe, Dva PLY, with mails of the 6th inflant,for New York and Halifax ; Princefs Elizabeth, KIDD, with mails of the sth and tub inflant, fur Lifbon. Ar rived the (hip Weymouth, Lieutenant LLOYD, with floes, from Plymouth. Sailed the American brig Romeo, CURRAN, for St. Übe's ; the (hip Vrow Ma ria, LUCAS, for Senegal; and the (hip Ceres, Paxson, for Jamaica. Arrived his Majefty's brig RAVEN, of 16 guns, Captain GRANT, from Plymouth, with the outward bound Lifbon and Oporto fleets ; the (hip William and John, Captain Hstassa, from Pont mouth, for Quebec, very leaky. Wind E. PLYMOUTH, MAY 19. Sailed the Mans's icatrr, of 74 guns, to j )in the Channel Fleet ; WEirmourn, of 36 guns, for Fal mouth; Haitt.Eqpitt, of 18 guns, for Scilly; and Mosst.LE, of t 8 guns, for Falmouth, to take the trade for the Streights. Came in the EMULOUS, of 18 guns, from the -Eaftward. PORTSMOUTH, MAT ao. Arrived his Majelly's (hip laconsraks, from a cruize.—Wind E. DOVER, MAY se. Arrived the brig Anna Maria, from Norway, with timber, bound for this port —Wind E. N. E. Blows It rong. DEAL, MAY so. Came down from the River laa night four fail of tranfports, and failed again early this morning with the Sitters, George, Beatrix, Elizabeth and Lione(s, tranfports, for Sheernefs ; alto, the Diligent Rare (hip, for the River.—Arrived his Majeay's (tips KANGAROO ani TURBULENT, from a cruise. Yeller. day afternoon Vice Admiral Rowzar, returned to this place from London, and has again hoifted his flag on board the PRINCESS of Claamc a, man of war, in the Downs.—Wind N. E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVZSEND.—Paired by the lfabella. Green, from the Rivet Plata; Navigation, Forbes, and the Friendfhip, Anderfon, from Smyrna.—Sailed the Flora, Webßev, for Peterlburgh. ARRIVED. Off Cowe', the Ann, Forties. from Oporto—At Liverpool, the Hercules, Hewitt, from Baltimore—At Guernfey, the Reward, Green, from Virginia—At Antigua, the Good intent, Taylor, front Belfaft—At Barbadoes, the Renewal, Cromartle, from London ; and Irlam, Keyfer, from Liverpool--At Baltimore, the Abeona, --- ; and Fame, from Liverpool. The iana (an American) Tibbetts, from Africa to the Rivet Plate, is captured and carried into Buenos Ayres—Cargo fold. The Sifters, Lewite, from Liverpool, was loft in the River Plate on the t tth of January. The Alexander, Atkies, bound to Madeira and Janulek, was (paten with (all well) in lat. 39. N. long. 13. W. ou the sjth ult. and expelled to reach Madeira in three days. The Nabley, Capt. Crandell, from Portland, arrived at Liver. pool, failed on the 17th ult. fell hi with a frigate In lat. 411, long. so. the Captain of which informed Captain Crandell, that he had retaken from a French privateer an American (hip from Liverpool, and fent her for Halifax. The crew of the privateer had taken out of the American two brat loads of good*, and the jolty boat. The Margaret, Pippard, from Beffift for the River Plate, is loft on a reef of rocks on the eeaft of Brazil—Part of the cargo faved. The Charlotte, LOWTHER, from Philadelphia, is on (bore in the Eyder, and bilged.—The cargo is ex. peed to be Caved. The Aid, Hu-romans, from London to Cardiff, wag driven on (bore near Dieppe, on the 18:11 of February, and taken prffeffion ot. A letter from a paffenger on board the Alta, Capt. WALKER, from London for Sot;lam (captured and carried into Gondaloupe), dared Point a Petre, 13th of April, Oates — " Since I have been here the priva • teers have captured nine car iral pi ire., fuppofed to be worth 3oo,ocol." ffii&A