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R a mp. I diretted it to thole perfons who accepted of places for which they did no duty to their Coun try. I believe it is now pretty evident to every one that I have not coalefced, either diratly or indirat ly, with any man, and I pledge my word 'of honour, that I have nor authorized any individual to canvafs for me, in conjun&ion with the name of any of the other candidate.. As to the queftion that had been put to me by Mr. Gibboils on a former day, it was, whether 1 had not been at Burlington houfe on the preceding night ? The fan was, that I had not been there at tiny time after the elation commenced. I had gone there about four days before the elation, to know whether they mtnnt to give their influence to Sir Samuel Hood, and to (tate that I thought it molt unconnitutional for Government to ufe any in fluence in determining popular elation,. It has been Rated to you, that there was no pecuniary interference on the part of the Treafury. during the former con• test for Weaminder ; but, Gentlemen, I have a lift of f o bf c ,iption., which will (hew that his Majefly's late Government did interfere in that Eleaion. I (hall read it to you, as it has been given to rue, in the form of an extra& from the inquiry inftituted by Mr. Paull. It Itates, Gentlemen, that towards the late Elation Lord Grenville fubfcribed tool. Lord Sidmouth tool. Lord Spencer tool. Lord Henry Petty tool. General Fitzpatrick tool. Mr. Grenville icol. Lord Holland tool. Lord St. Vincent tool. an illufliious Prince goo]. the Duke of Devonfhire scot the Duke of Argyle tool. the Duke of Qtreenlberry, Loco). and Lord nailer tool. Such, Gentlemen, was the freed of elation unon that occafion, and I lament exceedingly that it was fo, but I trult that you will now exert yoorfelves againft any coalition that may be formed againft you. I 'hall not detain you 'anger this day, but merely beg of you to con tinue your exertions. I have feveral fubjeds upon which I intend to touch to morrow. . Mr. JENNINGS Wet ved, that the Noble Lord had attended in part to the counfels he had thought it his duty to offer him on Saturday, namely, by abflain- Mg from any further details of naval abufes. But he was lorry the Noble Lord negleded another part— for he had liudioufly declined to utter one word of tenfure upon the prefent Government. [I liro,w it, faid the Noble Lord.] The Noble Lord had ufed every induftry to coiled materials for calling impu tations upon the prefent Oppolition, but not a word of cenfure upon the prefent Miniflers, againft whom material; for cenfure might be had without the cur ate of any induitry or trouble in collating them— [Applaufes.] With regard to the Noble Lord's allution to lubf , riptions, whether the fad was, or was not, as the Noble Lord had Rated it, he law no reafon why individuals fliould not be at liberty to gilt their friends, by fubfcriptions, to promote an eledion ccnrell. [A cry of hear, hear, and applaufes, accompanied•by an exclamation, " Sir Francis re ceivesfubfcriptions, and no one finds fault with that.] The Honourable Gentleman remarked on the Hate of the poll, and pronounced it fuch art isatidenee of popular fpirit, towards a man who had no ether fop port than what he derived frrm the !watts tf the people, as mull encourage public men to additional exertion. For, from this fplendid example, it was obvious that public men had only to purlue an ho. nett courfe of endeavours to rapport liberty, ar the people would Coppola them. The Honourable Gen. tleman inveighed againft the dodi ine laid down by Mr. Elliot as peculiarly dangerous and likely to lead to the wort! confequences. What, that a Candidate &mild declare any Minitler who had the fupport of a majority of the two Houfes of Parliament, lhould have his copra t ! Such an idea was no: to be en dured. Indeed if there was no other reafon top°• duce a refutal of any free man's vote to that Ho rourable Candidate, that tingle fentiment was fuffi. tient. But there were feveral other reafons—there was already a mul rtudc of fuch perfons as Mr Elliot belonging to the Houfe of Commons—there was no fcarcity of fuch men there, and therefore there was no occafion to fend Mr. Elliot there. But in fad all controul in the Houfe of Commons would be 1011, if that affembly conlifted altogether of fuch men as Mr. Elliot, and therefore it behoved the Eledors to take care not to fend fuch a Reprefentative there. The Honourable Gentleman concluded with congratu• kiting the Ele.9ors upon the appearance of the poll, which moll fatisfadorily dernnnttrated that a public tnin would Rand by the people, if they would Rand by him and ftippott him againft any Government, however profligate. Mr. Exernat then came forward, and attempted to (peak, but in Taira; the cries [Off, off! let us have na finall beer brewer, as a Reprefentative] were In loud and ineeffant, that he had to retire, ainidtt the Wes and groans of the populace. Mr. GIBBON! next prefented himfelf, but it was a eonfiderablo time before he could be heard He 11,11 Perfifted in afferting that Lord Cochrane was a poll ilea! apoflate, and he could (fate reafons for that sfertion. He again alluded to the ditty Chia, and the borough of Honiton, the abufes in the Navy, and the unfounded calumnies which the Noble Lord bad Rated again(' the Noble Earl of St. Vincent.--- , Mr. Gibbons then made fame remarks upon the Parliamentary confiltency of Mr. Sheridan, whom although he had formerly oppoled when in place, yet he highly approved of him now when out of it. He had received thirty anonymous letters to dz,er him from appearing again upon the hulling, but none of thefe threats lhould deter him from fpeaking his mind, and explaining the characters and views of the feveral Candidates. He exprelfed forrow at having been prematurely milled as to the circum dance he had dated, which had fn much hurt the feelings of the Noble Lord, which he never intended 10 do, but merely for the purple of elucidating his Lordfhip's political apoflacy. He could not conclude without allotting to Mr. Elliot, wham he denomina ted a " Weathercock Candidate." Mr. Tarim is SHERIDAN prefented himfelf to the notice of the affemblv, he laid, with confiderable dif iderce, being unaccutlomed to public !peaking. He only wilhedtn oblerae to them, that if they could find rco uptight men, (fuch as they all acknow 'edged Sir Francis Burdett lobe) who would bring up to men each to vote for his tatat e r, (Mr. Sheri dan) he Ihradd not dcfpair of his being Ail) reckoned an upright man, by all of them, by his bein s ph i e e d at the Lead of the poll. ELtIIIIMTII Dar, TUESDAY, MAY 19 —StAff of the poll at this clAy•-•- lvaners 339 I PAAIO7 (4. IRANI • 143 ggfRIO MIDDLESEX ELECTION. Yetteidai the Elation for the Cottnty of Middle. fez commenced at Breotford. Piecifely at teh o'clock, the King's Proclamation, Writ, ace. were read itf the ufual forms, and procla mation made for nominating the Candidates. Colonel TUFFUnt firlt addrtlTed the Eledors.— He Paid it was but a few months fince he had the ho nour of recommending to them,from the fame place. a Candidate who had, for a long feries of years, been their faithful Aeprefentative in Parliament. With his recommendation, at that time, they had been pleafed to concur ; and the recent dillidution of Par. liament placed him once more under the neceffity of requelling a repetition of that honour for the fame worthy Iteprefentative, Mr. Byng. The ci:cuna fiances which led to the late Difiblution of Parlia. ment, were fuch as involved the dearelt rights and privileges of the people ; and in detailing thole caufes, in which were included the motives for dif miffing the late Adminiltration, he would confine himfelf to a fimple narration offads. He deprecated in firong terms the abfurd and Aupid cry of " No Popery, which had been railed by the artifices of his Majeay's prefent Minillers throughout the court. try, for the purpofe of exciting a filly apprehenfion that the Church was in danger.—[Hilles and op pla-fes alternately]. The cry of the faction, inte refted in propagating that ftupid alarm, fhoold put him down, for in fpite of delays• and interrup tions he woulc be heard. His contempt would fcarcely allow him to - give an anfwer t i this rislico. loos and fanatical clamour, railed in every quarter of the country by the prefent Minillers and their fup porters, to miflead the people, while the true caufe was to juflify the diftoiffal of his Majefty's late Mini tiers, and the employment of their fucceflor's in their places. It was laid that a Bill was brought forward for difeullion in Parliament, for granting. certaitt in dulgences to perfons not profefling the ellabliffied re• ligion. But he denied that any fuel Bi:1 ever was I brought into difcuflion, for it was withdrawn in 11. :nine, when it was found to be ohjedionable .t 4) his Majefly ; no Member of Parliamont bad any (two• . tunity of delivering his opinion fur or again!! it, and the Bill never reached even the nage of a fectnd reading. The true cattle of the difatiffal was, that the late Miniflers eefufed to bind themfelves by a pledge for the future, to which, if they had agreed. they would have deferved to lore not merely their placer. but their brads. It was not fufficient for the •11111 to be reliftquiffied, it was not that which the ad vifers of the pledge wanted. The fit ft Law Officer of the Crown (Lord Eldon) bad pouted deception into the Royal ear. The true motive of the diftniffid was to prevent the ptogrefs of inquit y into the fyf. tem of plunder, profution, and peculation, in which the new Minillers and their adherents were implicat• ed ; and what was their &II ad upon their mum to office ? Why, the teftoration of Lord Melville to that Privy Council, from which, but a few months be• fore, he had been Mr:tilled in difgrace—(inlets and applaufes). There were always men to be found who, for the fake of being railed to office, would bind themfelves by any pledge required of them ; and lie raw no reafon to doubt that they would thottly fee the fame Minillers, for the fake of continuing in power, pledge themfelves to attempt the temoval of every barrier for fecuring, againft the power of the Crown, the bleftings of Liberty and the Conflitution.l Colonel Tuffnell argued at contiderahle length upon the fame fobjed. The prefent Minillers, he laid, firft obtained their places by deceiving their Monarch, and they now fought to retain them by continuing the delufinn. The late Minillers departed from cffi:e without burthecing the country with a tingle Chilling in place, penfion, or finectire to themfelves or their friends ; but the prefent Minillers would not affiume their places without ttipulating for finecure offices ith large falaries as a bonus, in addition to the emo luments attached to their fituation.—[A cry t f " What Lord Grenville do r' and a counter quenion, Who fupported Lord greaville ?") He concluded by firenuoufly recommending Once more to their choice Mr. Byng, whole faithful leivices for live fuccetlive Parlian:ents, had marked him as their faithful fteward, and the lit object for their choice. Mr. Bacon, in a aunt fpeech, bore tellimony to the Cervices of Mr. Byug, and feconded his nomina tion. • My. CLITHE tot next came forward, to propofe for the choice attic EleCtors a Candidate who had al ready had the honour a ferving them in Pat liamant, and who now felt the ambition of being re-dollen to that honour. This Gentleman was Mr. Mellith, of whom he bud nothing more to fay, than that his con ding, during the 'holt period of his fitting in Patlia meat, afforded the fit ongett recommendation for his being re ele&ed. • • Colonel Gistoss, at fome length, b-re teftimony to the merits of Mr. Mellilh, and feconded his nomi nation. He faid Mr. Melia had manifefted his in. dependence in Parliament, by voting for meafrres, notfor men. He voted with the late Minitlers f..r the abolition of the Slave Trade, a meafure honour. able to the caufe of h umanity; and he voted againit thrm on thtle propofitions which were calculated to tht oar ceninre upon his Majefly, for his adherence to the principles of the Conflitution. Colonel Gibbons took•eccalon, at the fame time, ftrongly to recem• mend to their choice Sir Chriflopher Baynes, in pre ference to Mr. Byng, who, he laid, had been'. weighed in the balance, and was found wanting."—[Load cries of !it)! no! no coalition ! fupport your own Member, and no afperfions !] Sir WILLIAM CURTIS then put in nomination Sir CHAU - I'OMA BAYNEII. He lamented that the re• commendation had not fallen to an advocate of much mote confequence than himfelf; but he affured the Ele&tors he never would have prefumed to come for. ward with a recommendation of any Candidate to their choice, if be was not thoroughly acquainted with his principles, honour, and independence, his loyal attachment to his Sovereign, and his love to the Conftitmion. There had been a cry of Coalition. —He knew of none. Every Gentleman there had the privilege of voting for two Candidates according to his choice, as he himfelf fhould do. He denied the afrertion of the Hon. Colonel who fir II (poke, that the Bill alluded to had been withdrawn. It never had. And for his part, he would never vote to s•opott any let of Minifters who would drive the King ant.- a corner to make him do as they pleated, or bring him t. the Bar of the Houfe of Commons to give an account of his condo& 104 114 Sir H. POPNAM (minded this nomination. The character of Sir W. Curtis was fuch, both inthe civic chair and in private life, that they Might be Allred he would recommend no improper perfon to them. So much had been laid on the quell nn refieeling the caufe of the difmilral of the late Minillers, that he would not take up their time with it. But it had been raid, that two words had been futhcient to de lude them. But where were all the talents? How was it that they had never found two words to de• lude them (it might have been Paid in reply; that the late Miniftry had never relied their claims to confidence on public deluflon) ? If Mi.. Byng hat.; fupPotted their rights and privileges it had been in filence, and he wifhed that half the Members of the Houle of Commons had the fame dilcietion. He concluded by again recomm en di ng Si r Ch t iflopher h ßaynes lototyalt, integrity, lteir y contct ieration; whore charaelei flood and independence. Mr. BYNO then came forward and eddrelfed the freeholders as follows: Gentlemen, the anxious day has at length arrived,. when I, with a jolt and deep link of your pall favours, come forward fir the fifth time to requelt of you to place me in the diaingtofhed fituation of your Reprefentative in Parliament.— During the many parliaments. Gentlemen, in which I have had the honour of fetving you, I have always endeavoured to do my duty towards you and my country, but I,n:tuft confel, that the tall Patliement was the proudeft of any in which I have lti‘herto had a feat, for though it was fhort in its dura - ion, it was honoorable in its career. [Loud Appleufe•]. In that Parliament a plati bf finance was brought forward which was adequate to meet the exigencies of the Rate without impaling any frelli burthens on the people, already ton heavily burthened. [Loud and reiterated applacfe.] A committee had been ap. pointed fcr the reform of abuler, and for regulating the expenditure of the country ; and the late Minif tees had brought in a bill to prevent either theenfelves or their fucceffors from granting places in tevertien ,to their dependents. [Applaufe.] But, howeier meritorious theft things might be, yet the a& v Lich did them moll honour, the act which mutt endear them to every real friend of humanity, to their coon tr y, and to paletity, was the Abelition of the Slave r Trade. [Applaufe]. After a firoggle of twenty years, [" Did y n fupport the meaTirre all that tittle?" from 'the crowd] Gentlemen, I fupported that mea fore leventeen years of the eighteen years during which I fat in Pa:lien:eat. [Applaufe]. During all that time, Gentlemen, I have Reed for your good and not my own [Applaufe.] I have trod in the fooifleps of a revered father, who reprefented you for a period of much the fame length as that in wlech I have had the high honour of fervnig you. During the forty years, Gentlemen, in which eve have fat in Par liament, I can fay with pride and with truth that we never gave a factious or an interefled vote, or facti • ficed your rights and your interells to any private in terell, or gratification of our own [Loud applaufe]. This Ready conduct, Gentlemen, has brought on me the enmity.of thofe who love not the popular branch of our Conflitution [Applaufe]. If I could bring greater abilities than I poirefs into your let vice—ahi. Mies equal to my inclination, that enmity would be hill ftronger [Loud and continued applaufe]. But, Gentlemen, I tear not the arm of power, and I need not fear it—my defence is in you—in the affeettons of a free and an enlightened people [bold applaufe]. As my efforts have always been directed with the moll anxious attention to your intereits, I fear 'IA the event of this conteft, for the caufe of freedom can never be unpopular in this free and independent county (Shouts of applaufe). Mr. MELLISH prefented himfelf, and ohferved that it appeared to be the fathion of the day to make long Ipeeciles : he would only claim their attention for a few minutes, and, knowing their liberalty, he trufted they would accede to this claim. Some things had been mentioned which he withed to explain, and this he would do on the condition that they would be ft lent, for he defired to be heard didinetly. For the honour they had done him, by the manner in which his nomination had been received, he offered his fincerett thanks. He would not go through the long fpeech of the Gentleman who propofcd Mr. Byng, but it was not furprifing that he felt fo much irritated on this occafion, three a relation of his had been turned out of a place which he had be fore reprefenled—[Loud cries of no perfnnality]. As to his principles, he refetred them to his con duet while he had been in Parliament. He would not enumerate the particulars of his conduCt. They had Peen what he had done. and he hoped they had approved of it. It had been laid, that he had attempted to coalefee with Sir Chrittopher Baynes, and it had alto been infinuated, on the other hand, that he was defirous to coalefee with Mr. Byng. He allured them, that he was perfeftly unconnected with either the one or the other of the Candidates, and never afked a vote fur either. He flood forward as an independent and an honeft man. No man was perftEt, and he himfelf was not perfeCt ; but whatever his faults might be, he was no hypocrite. He defired them therefore, after this, en catch him fuppOttleg the one or the other. He was acquainted with the one more than the other, but he would coalefee with neither. If they at any time thought he did, he defired them to tell him of it, and he would refute the charge. He trufted they would pay himehe fame honour as they had done before.— He had embarked alone in their vac!, and hoped that they would carry him fafe into Patliament. Sir C. &rats obferved, that he would, in a few words, Rate his plea for their fuffrages. He was unconneited with any body. He flood on the ground of his charafter. if they thought him worthy of the preference, and would return him as one of their Reprefentatives, he would be proud of the diltinc- Lion. There were many of them to whom his prin ciples were known, and fome to whom they might not be known. He would therefore fay, that he ve nerated our good and patriot King, and would fhed the Taft drop cf his blood in fupport of the Conflitu tion in Church and State. He had been accufed of railing the inflammatory cry of " No Popery." But he appealed to them. whether it did not felicitate with the 'oppofite party ?—LLoud cries of No, No, with hiffes.]—He would efteem it a great honour to be returned for the County ; but if they thought that others were better entitled to their votes, they would do well to give them to thofe perfons—(applanfe.) —He was of no party—he difclaimed all coalition. They would judge of the ether Candidates. If they dilapproved of either, perhaps they would give him their yotes.—aii'd he would terve them with dilipenec, And integrity.. He Would tilit.up nn inure of ditar time, but fubmk himfelf to their difcretion. „ .1 1 The (hew 13t hands w.zre then taken, a nd it a ppear. ing in favo ur of Mr. nyng and Sir Barnes, a poll was dem ended I , y ttleilint. The p 7•11 proceeded till three o'clock, w h en t h e books were doled. The numbers were—, For Mr. MC LLIt-if - 4 . S Mr. Erma - 4=.3 Sir C Bermes • • • 2G6 Mr. BYNO then came forward and obfereed, that he could not take leave of them wlthotit exprefling his thanks (Jr the fupport with whizli he had bc.n honoured. I-le hoped they would make every exer tion ir.dividually, to place him higher on the p , 11 to-morrow. He lvid thi: not merely to gratit y h m fell, but becitife their caufe and his weretufeparablY connected—(Loud applaufe ) Mr. fvfaxtisu thanked..Ahe. Eleenrs for..putting him on the head of. the poll ; and hoped they would to-morrow place him Itill higher above Mr, Byng.— He again alferted, :hat he was conneeted•with nobody in this cotatett. Sir CHRISTOTKRR DA Ytiti thanked the Eledors who had voted for him ; andthOugh he was at the bottom of by the maucetivres which had been praftifed, he hoped that to-morrnw the poll would wear a. different armemance. He was not fo hocknied in the arts of efeCtioneeting as his opponents; but he d:pended• on: the fpontaneous fupport of the Elettors, and he did not want say other. He was rblvftipported by-Dukes orrgreat men, but he hoped friends"vitafld to-morrow turn the poll in his favour. The Coorr , was then adjourned till nine o'clock to. morrow (this day). LORD Cot rises s's Ditissa.—Yeaerday his Lord. fhip arrived in great fpirits atWit.xiv's Rooms, King• Ricci, St: Jani:s'r, !tom the Huttings, a little patt five o'clock,. where he was received t.y a numerous and highly relpthable meeting Of Gentlemen. The Company fat down to a fumptuous dinner at taf pall tie. The cloth being removed, fevered conilltuti nal and appropti ite Toalls were drank with thiee times three; and Mcair. Drains( and GI aeons entertained the compay with forue fuitahle fongv, which wete received with great eothuliafin. At 9 o'clock, after declaring in a very impreflive fpreoli, and in the molt unerprivocal nimbler, the independence of his pin ciples, and recommending to his friends the m it unremitting exertion for the purpofe of teeming his I , ! erect n ion, L-rd COCHRANE withdrew, arnicill un bounded armholes. Mr WILLOCK then took the Chair, the duties of which he ditcharged with much propriety and regularity. The EleCtion of a!) the Burghs in Scotland. takes place, we underffand, on Saturday, the 3oth inflant. The following County - Eledi ns are fixed i—Dom. froefhire itith intl.; Baoff.hire 18th Intl. ; Perthfhire 19th inn. ; Eta Lothian 2I ft intl. Lan.irktbire 25th Intl.; For faill.ire 25th ha. ; Fifefkire 28th intl.; Stirlingai:re June i ; Ayrfhire June 5. It'4IUTIC 41, INTELLIGENCE. FALMOIIIII. MAY i 6. Sailed this day his M tjeliy's Ihip HUMBPR, of 18 gun', Captain HILL, with about to failtsnier convoy for the sin tins.--Arrived the Lord •Hubatt packet, Captain HA MILT N, wi;h mails from the. Leeward bland-, 21 days pafrage.—Wind S.W. PORTSMOUTH, MAY tB. Arrived the Ant lehooner:from a cruize.—Stiled hi, M...jelly's (hips LINNET and HARDY, on a cruize. Wind S.W. DOVER, MAY it His Nfajefly's•gun brig Futious his detained and rnt in here the boy Zeilern, Captain 1 .0, 4 1 '41NC, 4 . , f Pappenborg, bound from Marennes to Bergen, with a cargo of fall. Arrived in the Roads the Tickler and BLodhonnd gun brigs, from # cruize.—Wind N. E. and fine moderate weather. FROM 1.1.01 D'S LIST. GAVVESEND, MA Y t g.—Patred by the Three Sifters, Thom,. fon, from Falerm• 1 Titus, Eflnp,from Zante; Gorge, Laneltvp, koni Malta; and the IVincria, Sehoncr, from Norway .—Sao. .1 the Guardian, Mufgravt, for fonaingen ; and the Elizabeth, la lin, for Gattenbies. ARRIVALS. At Para - mouth, the Jane, Mintofh, from Charleftem.....o, Fri nv , uth, the Orlando, from Charleiton—in the Clyde, the Ann, Coke, from lifbon—At Liverpool, the William, Tolman ; and the Fleetwood, Tolfon, from St. Kitt's; Elsa, Stocks; Lucy, M'Nowcii; and Speculator, Little, from Savannah; Amphlon, Trowbridge; General Eaton, Bowles; Mercury, Barron; Hope. Coles; Mary and Jane, Hardy; and the Brothers, I).ligiey, from Cbarkllen—At Cork, the Amiable, Reinke', from Philadelphia— At Dublin, the Alhion, Randall, from Lontion•-At limerick, the Diana, Wylie, from London—At Charielton, the Ceres, Webber ; Sally, Rowe; and the Hamilton Moore, from Liverpool: Hunter, Forltcr, from Cowes; Governor Clairboorn, ---, Africa, Coruth and Daphne, from Africa. On Saturday the Betfey trawl boat arrived as a cartel at Plymouth from Mothit, which (he left the day befAre. She had carried over the Lady of Col:,nel Ha L t., of the gth regiment,. who was wrecked on the coati of Fiance in the winter of iBcs, and has rcsnainsd a parr ner ever fence—From the (oldies who were put on board the Betfey, as loon as (he entered 'Mortaix, information was received that a fquadron got out of Brett a few dayr ago *WI troops on board. Iheir dellination was not known. The Englifls prifoners at Verdun are Paid to be treated with unufual lenity. Their limits have been enlarged, and they are permitted to be abfent for three or even four days without a perfonal appearance at the Town•hottfe. A curious reafou is aligned for this mitigation. Some of the Naval and Military Officers ate Paid to have adopted the fingular expe dient of foliciting the in•erceflion of the Archduke CH miLas ; and to have addreffed a Memo►ial to him, as to the Bravefl Soldier in Europe, the Ackn•w 'edged Head of the European Military. This Memo vial is laid to have had its expeeted focceft. We learn from the fame authority, that there is a camp in the vicinity of Merlaix, and that the Conferipts of Brit tany were already collefted. The nsafter of the car' tel further adds, that a battle was momentarily re petted, and that the French flattered thensfelves will) a decifive victory. Provifions were in great plenty, and very cheap, both in Morlaix and along the coaft. There was in fait, little appearance of war. Two Edith had been publithed refpeaing the Eng• lith prifoners s—one prohibiting gaming—and ano ther allowing every naval and military man, but nn other, to fend for his wife. This latter has excited much plafAntry.