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II k . : • • GENERAL ELECTION.. FO THE artiT' EMFN CLFRIIY. AND OTHER FREES HtH ARKS OF THb COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON. r BEG leave to Tod my Bali "flanks, for dui honour of your attendance and flipped on die day of natal , notion 1 Had I at an early period of my Canvas received my anoints. "Ism the bwiewersderace of the Canty of Northampton would he effecituelly faired. ne had I perceived thole general efforts which were abfolusely necersey to produce that drat I °sould not have fa the gracility of perfidies, under ddadvantegeous eircumftances, In off,ring my Service• as one of your Reurefentatives The events. however, of the day of nomination. have jellified mein the courfe which I have purfued ; and I now careeftly re• quell. that my 'amine,* in the arduous Coated in which I ant en gaged. may meet with eorrefponding exertion on your pert; and though I feel the s R couddence dm the leeptodent ?rind• plea upon which I have offered myfeif to your nerice will ultimate • ty Ware my Needs. yet whatever may be the rrfvlt, I Mall always feel gratified at having afforded you an opportunity of recording your fentiments on the prefent towelling medlar and of trail - - modulo; the fame to inficrity by mean. of a Poll. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, with the errata repeel, Your moll obedient,husable Servant. Northampton, N0v.8,1806. WM. LANGHAM. T) THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL - . GSN TLall. N. AFIER an ardomis conteß for feven days, your willies are acceospileted. You have not only returned me as one of your Reprefentstives to Parliament, but have placed me at the bead of the Poll. That abufe of yore franchifes, fo much relied on, and fo long fuceefsfully pradtifed, by which a minority of Freemen Is converted into a majority of Votes, you have at leogth remedied; and whilft many of the fupporters of my oppo nents divided their fuffrages between them. and thereby iskrealcd the number of votes Nairn me during the deft four days of the Poll, you Readily perfevered in filling my tallies with your tingle votes. The refute has been precifely what I preditted to you.— The generous fait of the Freemen of Liverpool was roofed; and when the no t' of my opponents were exhauftsd, hid/student Platers continued to crowd to the Hulling., all eager to Rare in the honourable dlfilation of having afferted the rights of Fros tneo At thi. aids your triumph was complete, but you difdain ed to prattlfe yourfelves that which you had condemned in others. You continued to the :all in the fame plain Simple path of Integrity and in apentlence, in which you 6rft let out; and the choke of In , L . -lb - ago , was left, without your intertereoce, to Hanle who bud engaged in the carnal, apparently in the fulielt confidence of rennin 1g both your RepreUntatives. Of :he there which I have had in your cautions. it Is not for me to (peak. To have been (doled by you. on Foch an ocesfion, as the ;salon to Rand forward in defence of year privileges. is for toe the hirheil honour ; and the initances of petfosial friendOdp and attachment which I have experienced. will be remembered by me through life with the mon lively gratitude. To fuppofe that I Wall rice ahan lon that independent line of ronduel which alone has entitled me to your favour, is to female that lam infenfilale to thee diem and approbation for which I have fo long conten ded ; and that I could change all the principles, feelings, aid ha. bite of any former bk. What I have been I Dud continue to be; and I mull I (hall bear wkb me to the Reprefentatives of the Na tion. lonic portico of that firm. temperate. and independent ipirit which basal this occafion fir eminently dittinguillscd the blatars of Livery...l. I have the honour whit, with rite grcattit attach. auntatsd refped, Gentlemen, Your waft faithful and devoted fervent. Allston Hall. Nov 8, dal. WILLIAM ROSCOE. TO THR OLINTLIMIN, CLERGY, AND ALI. THS WOK. I THY AND INDEPENDENT - FREEHOLDERS OF THE COON flf OF SALOP. Ottsvases a BZ I NG ablent from home, and on my road toßath. when I heard of the DilTolution of Parliament, aad having but jun returned into Shropihire. It was not in my power to ad drefs you On a more early median, in order to return you my an: ft grateful Thanks for the long experience I have bad of your hindneis said fupport, w one of your liteprefetuatine is Parlia ment- Seallble as lam of fueb repeated teltimonies of your efface and gondriefo y t coder my prefect infirmitka. and at my advercod period of life, I certainly ought not to be folicitnes of prolonging an honour, which. for ahnoft thirty years of health and aalvity, I have looked upon 4 one of the moil flattering and dUlloguifhed which could be bellowed on as individual—an honour, however, upon which I humbly truft, the long tea you have had of my Portia • memory condutft, has can no bke, either through the power of corrupt hittuence, or by an undue bias to this or that fet of men; I steer leaning to Oppoff tics or Malley, but as I was perfueded in my eunfelenee that OppoStion or Military leaned to the public good kinweinses voting with one fide. fometinws with the other, though I have always fupperted Govertunent fo far as 1 thought Government meafurea were for the good rat the Nation ; purfuant to that declaration of the mat perfect Independence with which I ice out when I &ft took my feat. Confelous of thefe falls, and that from my Age and declining State of Health I cannot longer do you that jullice which has been always my higheft aim and ambition to do, I beg have to retire fatty impaired with the dcepeft (cafe of the obligation I am under from your bind partiality, and which can never be effaced on this Sae the pave. I have the boomer to be, Gentlemen. . . Your ever faithful, and truly grateful humble levant, Hawkllons. Oft. z 3. ao6. RICHARD HILL. P.B. I hope, and ant perftiaded. that every one of my numerous lied Friends and Conftituenta will be fo indulgant to my lofinui. dm, as not to take it ami's that I do not wait on them to return my perfonal acknowledgments for their relocated favouts ; and. that I have not thanked them by letter, any otkenv.fe than by the preterit Advertifernent —I mutt offer the fame plea for not at• tending t►e County Meeting, and for my abfence ou ftvcral other public oucalions within theft laR two Tears, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. . ISM THE STOCKHOLM OAZETTP, OP OCT. 29. Defrau 06tobcr 26. Thin learning Captain Dorville, Aidde-Camp to the King of Pealia, pallid through this city, as courierom his way to Berlin. Me la the bearer of the unfortunate intelligence. that on the tath a hard bottle was fought between the Pru Sans and French armlet. in favour of t h e latter. The particulars, which 1 have hero able to tolled with certainty, 1 Stall herewith communicate :n you. The plan of the Prts4o army was to move from Weimar to Maumburg , in order to occupy the banks of the Saak, and thus to cover Berns. with this view the King of Pruifia broke up his camp, near Weimar, on the title in the mnn ley, and marched yo,oee men, In one celwain, to Aticritadt, to which he marched In the evening. and the Pruffian army remained under arm. the following night. Prince Hobenlolie and (unseal Ruche' followed with their columns, ellimated at mono men, by two other roads, to Naundnirg. from lens and Weimar, and formed the right and kit wing of the Kira', army. On the teth, at (even o'clock. Fri. cc Iloherlohe fell ao with tenon. commanded by Bonaparte in perinea, and about half an how alter, about hat way between Amelia& and Nun! erg. Ot nem' Schmet tae, who led the van or the Kit column, was atraeked icy French light troop, who were retuned b) the Prullian Cavalry. But the cavern rut h."I It. march. and yaiTed by a tows' the name el which I canna accurately fiats, oh. re they raw a corp. of 60.000 French troops. under the orders of General. reveal and Drones, which iron the darknefs act the %scattier they had not be fore ban Wed. This map. bad crated the Seale. and occupied a pulblam be- Mean the Pe ullan armies and the break road to Beier. 'I At hat • els began on the Prufilan fide by Minh. re. Fight battalions in partkailw attacked the rrcuch four times, hot atter a Severe con est of three hoots dory at Lail were repelled. At eleven o'clock the King feet orders to Get crel Rocket ..he had not yet advan. cad far et.oegh to none a line with the other two columns, to }Wa the corps of Prince Hokerainh o. which fielfered fimerely. lillonoltlallandieg the tam.dt screams were made by the Prof i ea trier. enraged, the hank was cerneetely decMed in favnuf 40 die lifOnCh. at half pail three o'clock an the afternoon. The loft a ., bubo, W raid fl he very con:lerable unripe file of the Prof. Sam. err elally lath. Prelim artillery was of VW, little Me, while on the contrary the heath was incomplete order from the very hea.aning or the bank. The hang of ?Was, who enneded hienfclf very much, as well ashis two beethats, had two War's. killed under him, and each of Ms hr. than one he Oohs of brunfwick received a feverfew. tubes usa loth his eyes by a Leapt dint. Genetelltuclaci WAS Ilsot through the Star cube Order be wears; but his wound is so mortal General Armin is Med: fervent other Generals are either wounded or fldn The artillery and tutorage fell, 1.,r the molt part, into the bands oftbe French. The Pruffian army retreated that day is Frankenbaufen,and there reccivcd orders to rally near Nordic , ufen The kre.ch army, which has fuflained a confident* toff, and Whith, according to the molt credible accounts, was °boon &rang. confennently double the number of the Pruffisns, had al ready advanced Nom Weimar on the zeth.in the ermine. having let fire to that town. Schhis, Aunn, Gera, LutlelJ. RedoMeth. Au rttadt, Nilhathurg, and Zwickau. have Oared the lame &sad' ful fate. The Prugan magazines ellablithed in thole places arc laid to be all deftroyed _ . . In eonfequenee of the above intelligence. the Court is to remove to Stettin, and theuett to Cuitritt. All valuable articles are paclud up to the Capital. PR ACUF, OCTORER 17. The . day before yenerday Duke Albert of Saxe Tefchen, pallid through here on his way from Dref den to Vienna. The Archduke Chalks, it is now afcertained, takes the command of the army of neu trality, confining of t 00,000 men, which is appointed for covering the kingdom of Bohemia. The Arch duke John will command in Moravia. WEIMAR, OCTOBER 20. An affelling fcene attended the funeral of the Pruffian General Schmettau, who died here of hit wounds. A whole regiment of French attended the corpfe to the grave; the French Officers wore mourning, and M. Vogt, the Superintendent, pro. nounced an oration over the deceafed. HALLS, OCTOBER 21. When hiarfbal Bernadotte, who was at Eifleben on the 17th, learned that Prince Eugene of Willem berg had arrived at Halle, he marched and attacked him, making soon prifoners, with two Generalr, three Colonels, four dandards, and 34 pieces of cin• non. The red of the troops were difperfed. BRANDENBURGH, OCT. 26. Yefterday the Emperor Napoleon arrived at Ber lin, and held a Court at the Celle in the evening.— This day three columns of the French army marched off, one column towards Cu(bin, another towards Stettin, and th• third towards the oorth-eaff- EISENACH, OCTOBER a 9. This morning at eight o'clock, M. Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento, arrived here with his fuite, on his way to Potzdam, td join the Emperor Napoleon. BRUNSWICK, OCT. 31. It was on the 17th of this month that a Courier brought the afflilling advice that the battle of Jena had proved difaftrous to the Pint:San and Saxon arms. Towards evening the Major of the Huf Fars, M. de Funck, arrived likewife as a Courier. This Major, who had been wounded anti taken pri. loner, had been eonduilled to Artern to have his wounds drelTcd. The Emperor Napoleon was, after the battle, at Artern, and Major Funck was prefen , ted to him by his orders. His Imperial Majelly having enquired whether he was able to repair to Drefden with difpatches for the Elelor ? he replied that he was. On his arrival here, orders were given o put up the travelling carriages, and we learned that the E'erllor would not quit the city, and that the Emperor of the French pro poled to make him a •rifit as a friend. On the 18th couriera were lent off to bring back the valuable dials that were conveying to Silefia. We expel in a day or two, the Minifler of War, the Prince of Neufchatel, to regulate the preliminary articles of peace. According to all appearance, French and Bava rian troops will occupy this country in a military manner till the peace. BRUNSWICK, Nprv. r. We can now give the public the agreeable afro' , ante. that on the part of the French Government the mow perk& fecurity bas been promifed to all the polls. and that no perfon has any thing to fear. MUNICH, OCT. :6 Numerous divifions of the Imperial Guards are Hill striving from Milan, and proceeding towards Br andenburgh, to juin the French Grand Army. It is fated in our Gazette, that if the French heavy ea. vain', which on the 13th was thirty.fiz miles (Ger- man) from the field of battle, had arrived in time, the retreat of the Pruffian corps would have been rendered much more difficult. GOTHA , OCT , Si. As the military road to Frankfort paffes this way ; we have already ken twenty thoufand PraGan pri• ners marched towards that place. Many of them whu are feverely wounded, are tranfported in wag gons condudled by peafants. The prifoners, in pal. ling through this town, ate lodged in the churches and the Gyninafia, and el cry pi (ale care is taken of them. Yetlerday thr whole regiment of Trelkow cunlifling fill of icon men, with the General, march ed through this place wit-utters. FRANKFORT, OCT.aL On the evening of thesah the lira Pruilin prifoncn who belonged to the garrifon of Erfurt arrived here. They amounted to more than gOOO men, and were yellerday forwarded to Mentz. We expea more her►, in a few days. A part of the Cafernates in the town Is prepared for their reception. Quarters are prepared here for a part of the Parisian guards. The corps of Melf (hal Augereau and Lannes, which made a forced march of thirty lesgues through the Pored of Thuringia, during which they bad only a few hour' red, contributed much to the great viaory of the t4th. It was not until after the sudden appear ance of there two corm. each 35,000 thong, that the Pr Ann Gtnerals reckoned on the battle's being de• STETTIN, OCTOBER a. We are affured. that there was an allion yeher day. between the Prince of Hohenlohe's corps and the French, near Neufiadt. Wt wait for the parti culars. ROSTOCK, OCTOBER ST. Between Sravenhagen and Malchinottafair has taken place between a Pruffoin and French carps.— The wounded Proffuns have been brought I?ere.. On the 39th of Oitober, it is raid, the French troops marched into Stettin, and igo44 the Oder tha fol- lowing day. _ .. .. VAREL, ocroluta %11. Baron Von Iteeden, Deputy Goverunc of this place, has jul returned from 'General Daenaels' head quarters, and brings the official information that the Duchy of Oldenburg is to remain paten) , neu... tral and unoccupied by troops. DORSTEN, OCTOBIR 30. Yefterday and co-day a few fmall detachments, mofily of Dutch cavalry, have naffed through here for the army of the North. Since the 25th ;ottani the Fluffiest Eagle has been taken down from the gates, the guard houfes and poll offices, &c. in Mun fler. It is Paid that the lately diffulved Chapter of Munfter will be reflored. It is alto raid, that all the former Munfter Officers, who were not aftually in the Pruffiaa fervice, have received affurances from his Majefty the King of Holland, that they will be taken into his fervice. As the Dutch and French troops have been fo well received in Munftcr, the King of Holland has Med orders to the troops, to prattife the utmoft kindnefs towards the inhabitants. Within there few days four French foldiera have been !hot by the inhabitants of Hamd, the capital of the country of Marck. The perpetrators have not yet been difcovered. The affair will be en quired into in the ftrillell manner. On the 25th, fume Pruffian prifoners were brought into Mun ftcr. The Heffian troops have again left us, and the cavalry are returned to their garrifons. The huffars and the light infantry ftill remain on the Darsnfladt frontiers. AMSTERDAM, OCT.a. Much to the fatisfaeion of the Commercial men of this city, the Portuguefe Conful has officially an nounced, that the Englith fleet under Lord St. Vin. , cent having left the Tagus, the neutrality of Porta. gal was thereby fecured upon the molt permanent footing. HAGUE, OCTOBER 31. _ _ The following is the Firft Bulktisk9o44o l 7 of the North, as publiffied this day ; " The Dutch troops forming the ierisso guard of the Army of the North, have left their quarters at Wekl. On the sad and 23d of Oflober the French troops fpread into the county of Marck, and into the territory of Munfter. Upon their approach the Pruffians drew back. On the 24th the advanced guard of the firft divifion had taken poffefflon of Munfler. Magazines filled with provifions were found in the fortrefe. Various detachments, in the name ofthe United Armies of France and Holland, have taken poffeffion of the Ofnaburgh territory, Embden, Dort. mund, the county of Merck, &c. " The Dutch troops diflinguifh themfelves by their good conduit. They zealoufly vie with the French troops in making forced marches. The King has ex preffed his particular fatisfaftion with the condutl of the 2d regiment of Hullers, and the mounted artil lery. The koyal headquarters are removed from Munfler to Paderborne. " Nov. I.—The Pruflian and Hanoverian terri tories in Weflphalla are now taken poffeffion of, in order to be incorporated with our kingdom. The Governors of the various dilly kis will be immediate ly named. Such States in Weflphalia as belong to the Confederation of the Rhine remain unrnolefted." QUACKENI3URG, OCTOBER 19. _ _ A courier from Hanover yeflerday brought or ders to our Regency to employ the fame feats and formulas as at the time of the occupation of the French, and to place polls on the frontiers with the infcription " Neutral Territory of Hanover." As, however, two days before, potrefGon had been taken of onr country in the name of the King of Holland, the Regency judged it proper not to conform to the (*aid order for the prefenr, but to wait flr orders from our new Sovereign. MEC/CLENBURGH STRELITZ, NOV. s. Our Duke has applied to the Prince of Ponta Corvo. Marfhal Bernadotte. for a fare guard for our country. The Marfbil favoured the Duke with a very flattering letter. Duke Eugene of Wurtemberg, who commanded the Pruffian Army of Referee, is reported to have left it, and General Von Wobnfer is laid to have taken the command of the troops. There is a vague report that Prince 1-Inhenlohe has been taken prifoner in an goion with the French. RATZEBORG, NOV. 3. Intelligence has been received, that foreign troops are already on the frontiers of Swedifh Pomerania, that the French have entered Anelam, and the for. trefs of &reVend has been declared in a Rate of liege; badea this, an affair took place on the t ft latent between Hernial BerneOntte end General Blucher, to the advintage of the former, in confequence of which French troops have marched to the Mecklen burg tenitories. In confequence of all there events, the Swedifh tromps have this day proceeded on their marsh towards Tray. Mende (the mouth of the Trave) to embark for Stralfuad, in ordereffeattaliy to 4152 that fortufs. in* mot of its bcing barna, SAM OF THE EIRE, NOV. j. Alter the defeat of the Pruffian army in Saxony, the remains of the army having affembled, and form ed near Magdeburg, palled the Elbe, at Tenger made and Sandau, on the 261 h and 27th of 041ober, bet their march was greatly interrupted by the French troops, who had advanced to the environs of Magdeburg, and who alto palled the Elbe, in (mall divifions, on the 28th. The Proffiant, in marching to the Oder, met other French troop who had par fed. the Elbe, at Deffau and Wittenbtrig, and who were confesuently fever al days match in advance of 3seir enemies. Daily combats were the scruff, of the ,details and importance of which we are ignorant. — All that is known is, that, on the 28th. the French were expelled before Stettin, for the defence of which great preparations are making: Some of the public journals fate, that Rollie only took part in this war upon the condition that the King of Pru&a would not make peace without the coetfent of that Power, whatever might be the chances of war. The Herediteit.Prince of Weimar. after having paffed 2 4 hours with his angel fpoufe at Eulin, fet out to return to his capital; having received an in vitation from the Emperor Napoleon to refame the poffeffion of his States. The Army of the North, tinder the orders of the King of Holland, advances but very flowly. STRAI.SUND, NOV. To • Within there few days every think here has *gain affunted a warlike appearance. The inhabitants et the fuburbs muff retire within the toWs.'whb Their. effects. The houfes in the ruburbs, which lie he the line of the cannon, ate begun to be pulled down,. Such as are not pulled down by a certain time, are to be let on fire. The inhabitants molt provide themfelves with from four to Ga monthaprovilions. The old regulations are renewed, ref - peeling the Oriel examination of all (hangers arriyink here, and Come new ordinances decreed on die fAce of par-- ports. Orders have boo awed 60 ramisredeflotars from the 'ruffian amp.- • • • A royalties has beeillitsleitthillehdiabitanti of '8 wcffilit • Pernethnlai 011111MtftatiiVi 8011ari•foi each hide - . 4,/a , ask /ty . lip' oil' •, cowtutt sad. *Ai tl da , 7-! 0 : i . 1 . 34 P4 1t 10iF.144 1- 4diGl : **VS oar. AIM • VibilkifBßAS.Ora: to - lee , allsVuu4otifiair;ll — oratis con triblition.- an of the Ism fern thoilliiipirair. A uropht, • A latter - 11411 - Polith - Pru ersoi s ibgt. ;moo* RtileAgforeitiFive4 raiSsrtWai4mpc ror ef 1414 c ii* - 411141104 611 - soiSsioell *Worm. in order to ottlithuite Od'lmOr in 'alt fieriburakle Man ner, both withiirpeet .to hinsfelf, and thst . King of Proffia. Or, the arrival of the French at Erfurt, all the Martha's, Generals, and Officers of the Ftenablarroy. vifited Feld Martha! fie Molleadorf, who had been wounded, in order,to Inclify tq him their confidera tion. The Mails frost ihmffia and Ruffia have not artived. coSrNZA, ignippALAVRIA, SEPT. 2P. To-morrow or antler u general attack will be made upon the fortified camp of Asnantea, confin ing of tome thoufand Englifh and Tome Sicilian regi ments. General Verdier will attack them in front, General Marmont on the lefr. and General Fran. cefchi on the tight flank. All the three Generals have confiderable columns of troops under their com mands, and have already let out for their dellination. Should the undertaking fucceed, it will be attempted alto at Reggio and Scigliu. NAPLES, OCT. TO. No ofEcial accounts have yet been received of the attack which was made upon the camp at Amantea. near Cofenza, in Calabria. The report that it had failed requires confirmation. TRIESTE, OCT. 16. As Cattaro is tli3 in the hands of the Ruffians and Montenegrins, an agreement has been entered into, as it is Laid, between France and Aoaria, by which the former power is to keep poffeffion of Gertz and Gradifca, until Cattaro is delivered to the French ; in confequence of this arrangement Brannau will fpeedily be given up to the Houle of Aullria. Private letters from Venice, fpeak of important events which have recently happened there, but we muft wait for more authentic particulars. It is cer tain that on the sth irritant, a Proclamation appeared at Venice, forbidding every perfun, as well foreign ers as natives, from either leaving or entering the I I City, on pain of death. Thereafter a very keen recruiting took place, which gave rife to the events above alluded to., It is Paid that Martha' Maffena is dead, but this report wants confirmation. PRIVATE LETTERS—HAMBVROH, NOV. 4. I.ord Dower went on Friday lift to Copenhagen. 4 . The Duke of Brunfwick continues very ill, and is at pretest quite blind with both eyes. He has removed from his former houfe into an inferior habitation. Even there he is not permitted to remain in report. The Prince Royal of Denmark has fent a melTage to him, exprelEve of the with of hie Danish Majerty that he would leave Holstein. It is highly probable that be will reek an Britons in England. The Inhabitants of ibis place, connected wits England, enter. taro very ferlous apprehenfions. The more rangulne hope that Le Bonaparte has Lid that he would take the Hans Town. under his protetion, be wi►l fo far refpeet his ward as not to nlign them to contributions or plunder. ° The refiftance of the Lubeekeri to the parrage of the Swedli troops, no desk proceeded from policy—from a with to conciliate ponaparto—end not from =malty." 0 Not. :owns Conful kae not only cot intd Lie order at