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1,r2 sam».o3l. rpt-outcArAct I 7 ... . . 7.417h7 11 10 7 • o • ••1 .• o• • . • ' o l 7 k 4 n /11/41.11(1 LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, ma (M: Ili .1 Ica 1634. GESERAL .ELECT/O.Y. MIDDLESEX ELECTPD,i. 7ttiF, Frio - 1415 to the Independence of the County 01 kliddleset. and of Reform its Parliament. estveittr revegted to attend a Meeting of the Free work 10 ix. !rid at Freemasone-hall. Great Qneen-aireet. os Timor. the ;tit lima. at twelve o'clock, in order to adopt worm t o secure Ilse return of S. WHITBREAD, that Eounty. _— T v THE woIITIIY %ND OF LONDON INDEPENDENT 1.1 V ERY F sin thing could add to the stmng feelings of I rtandestion with which I accepted the hatitnUon of my h er-l'iiisenv , to become a Candidate to represent the City 1, 0 men• it would he the flattering success whit+ had at the Cuirass of lay active and zealous Reloads, and w a di inyiiires ate with elntitirnee that you will attend ~,ioopport my nomination at Guildhall, on Tuesday neat. '„, 4 e emies.ly to place tae iu the dietingulisbod station of )0 0 Riprardtative, white I held in adz anampesive sests. Patdie ahaultl I have the hollow of being elected, I pledge my self le discharge the anxious and arduous duties of Mat isr i ollee with the same faithful Sigel. industry, and In ,sepredesee, which acquired and retained your etmfiiimer ' e lf i u ge7 years of the most eventful period of the history of my eesatry. hive the honour to be, Gentlemen. yonr devoted sad infidel servant, W. CURTIS. cedos Turfs, 2d March, MO. The Committee for conducting the Liection beg leave to evress their warmest acknowledgments to the Livery, le Me very great 'nem... which has attended their Can vas on the part of Sir William Curtis. They meet daily, at as above plr.ce, where all commonicatlons respecting the Leedom are requested to be addressed ; sad in consequence of misrepresentations which have bees circulated, they feel it iseymbent upon them publicly to declare, that their ean lass is neither in conjunction with, or in opposition to, say efts Candidate. TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF LONDON. OrrrLturs, T --- - • HE ELECTION being axed for Tuesday next , penult me earnestly to solicit your support on that liy, and your early attendance at the Poll on my behalf. The opinion of say conduct so unequivocally expressed in ' t typrobation of one of the most numerous and respectable risings ..f the Livery ever held on • similar secession, and ' it renewed assurances of general support which lam daily tiv r ing from every district, have impressed me with the conedence of success. and call on uty put for th e 1 t expressions of thanks and gratitude to say fellow . b aseurvi. Gentlemen. that I shall always endeavour to e your rights and interests, and render myself the *Cal organ of your opinions. I therefore place my self In Ph hands, and rely on your active and persevering exer t..., le sour several wards and districts, to promote my Mem, sad at the same time to counteract eery attempt Akins, be made to intimidate or unduly influence you In 1 tie exercise of your elective rights. I an most anxious to wait upon every Liverymen in per g'a.swai . and will perform this duty as far as the lists and the ties w 4 wink: hot If I should be unable to fulfil t h e s e - --I hope II will In ne ease be attributed to want of I mod. Csme%Owe for conducting usy Election sit ever) day at the Gultdkidl Case-house, King-street, Uhearvide, w herr clef* information will be thankfully received. I have dr honour, to be, Gentlemen. Your faithful and devoted liervant, ROBERT N A ITII .k New Bridge -street, March 2. THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD ELECTION. PYIN COMMITTEE meet Daily at No. 1,1 HI. SOUTHAMPTON-HTREET. BLOOMSBURY. where all communications relative to this Election are re goeited to be made. February, 1110. TO THE FREE BUROF.SSF.B OF IPSWICH. Gurr LLLL A REPORT having been circulated that we !IL have withdrawn from offering ourselves as l'amlidateA to represent the Borowgb of Ipswich in the ensuing Parlia ment. we think it right positively to assure you, that having met with the most flattering and encouraging success at 1p- wieh London. and sit parts of the country. it is our fixed and unalterable determination to persevere in dm contest. riLilm the enemy is in the field, until every Freeman 11411 have had an opportunity of exercising his elective timichise. We have the honour to be. with great respect, your very obedient and humble servanty. THOM R ‘RRETT. LENNARD, WILLI %NI es. Chaneery-lane. 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T HE LONDON NIAGAZINE, No. 111., FOR Pub'Med by Baidvin; era dock, and Joy, • Contains the following Articles:—Notices of some of the eery French Poets ; News from Rome; Tne Phenomena of Diveased In ; A Literary Hem ; On the ('ompsrative Red:semen' of tile. Age that preceded, and that which followed the Commonwealth; The Priestess of Vesta; On Duman Perfeetahlt;t), and the Progress of Society ; The f.ast dung ; The Traveller. No. III.; Charles V. and a Monk; Living Authors, Nn. If, Wordsworth; Sentimentalities on the Fine Arta. No. li ; Midnight Hours, No. II; Postscript to the Newt from Rome; The Collector. No. 11l ; Extract from lord Rs roo's Journal; The Contrast; the Drama; Report of Mn,ic: Notices of the Fine Arts; Meanings (tom the Foreign Journals, Medical Report ; Rural Economics ; Commercial Report; Critical Notices of New Hooks, I. Poems h ) lore. It. Poems by Smart, the Translator of Harare; Literary and Scientific Intelligence; Historkal %visionary of Public Events—llia late Majesty'. Reign ; Colony,' Intelligence; Public Documents ; News, foreign and sintive4tie : Works preparing for Publication, and looks reemitly published, &c. &c. DINSER TO MR. HUBHOLSE. -..,...- The great room at the Crown and Anchor Tavern was completely tilled yesterday, to celebrate the liberation of Mr. liolshonse from Newpite. The company was 13,rbly respectable, and in excellent spirits. They all seemed excited by the same emotions of seal and attarh meld toward the individual who was the cause of their assetohlap. At b o clock he made his entrance, accompanied by Sir Francis linrslett, the Chairman, amidst the most en thesi.ustie acclamations. Four hundred persons sat down to dinner; at which time several patriotic airs were played, by a hand stationed in the gallery. After the cloth was removed the following toasts were proposed. and drank with three times darter.— " The People, the only source of legitimate power."— Tune, " Britons, strike home." " The King—may he always remember the principles whi.it caused - his Fa . ruily to be seated on the Throne. 1 — i Tune, " Rule Britannia." To this snrceeded the following popular toast : u The only remedy for all our grin ances, a thorough Reform's in liarliament." This toast was received with rapturous applause, which continued souse moments.—Air, ‘• Kirk the Hoge. s out." The Cu siestas' now rose, and said it would he need less fov him to make any remark ots the next toast which he had to propose, as the very mention of it would be enough to declare its merits, and to excite the enthu siasm of all present. He should, therefore, without far ther preface, propose the health of " John Cam Hob house, Esq. the vigorous and able defender of the people and may he, by the unbought and uninfluenced ears of the electors of Wessuinster, be placed face to face with Isis persecutors." This toast was drank with reiterated shouts of op planse, which continued for a considerable time. Silence heiusr obtained, Mr. floanottse rose, and commenced by represent( his sincere thanks for the honour they bad done him When Government was at variance with the hest in terests of the people, it was very natural that those w h o ere persecuted should rather enjoy the confidence of the people than those who indicted punishment.—(Rp planiw.)—There was an old maxim inseparahly as. nested with the British system of jurisprisslenen e bit which, however, had been violated in his person—that there was no wrong without a remedy. This .s*t had been entirely disregarded by his persecutors—or, be ought rather to have said, the persecutors of the nation.—(Applause.)—He had, as it were, been put out of the pale of the law, and found no remedy for his wron i g n those quarters where he hail the greatest right to expect it. Yet there was still a place where he found redress; he found it with the people—with the devoted friends whom he now addressed. From them he expe rienced that justice which those denied who sought only to indict on hint, and on the people generally, every in jury which a British subject could be made to suffer.— (Cheers.) —So long as he hail this remedy to resort to, he had nothing to fear; and he knew that the people would always he ready to stand up in support of that man who should come to the people for his best reward. —(Applause.)—lt had been observed by a great mats, hut whose maxims were now, perhaps, thought of little weight by the authorities of the present day—it bad been said by the Lord Keeper Finch, that though the Romans, the Danes, the Saxons, and other invaders, had conquered the people, still that they could never con quer the free laws of England ;—yet what neither the Romans, who were the must polished tyrants in the universe, nor the Saxons. nor the barbarians of the North could effect, was reserved to be the fatal conquest of these times. But, alas! to what a degraded state were the Nobles of England reduced—to what a de plorable degree of subjugation was the manly spirit of Englishmen brought, when a gang of spies and inform ers, who paid no respect even to the Sovereign on the Throw, sought to overturn, by arts of fraud and perfidy, what whole ages were not able to destroy.—(Cheers.)-- Yet they were not to depend for victory on such means, nor was England to fall by such hands. Even here, this assembly, which was met to protest against their mea sures, proved that the country was not to be subdued in the base manner they proposed. Nor could he for a mo ment hriug himself to believe, that it would be sithjn gated by force, because the firmness of the people would ineariahly resist any open attack. The great apprehen sion was, from the fraud and subtlety with which the Government would endeavour to turn the very virtues of the people against themselves. Wherever there was a great object to be attained, it was uatural that there should be a proportionate anxiety in pursuit of it, and this not unfrequently led to excesses, which were to he deplored. Yet of such excesses the Government was in variably prepared to take advantage, and the fact was exemplified in a recent tragical event. The public mind received a shock ; but the people were not disposed to pronounce judgment in the first instance on the unfortu nate parties accused. They knew, however, that a great *rime had been committed, and they felt regret inconse quence, because the truest advocates of liberty were the best friends to order. But it was not so with the flovernnient, who made a traffic of popular excesses, while those who supported the cause of freedom were always sorry when any thing was done of an equivocal nature. It was a barefaced outrage upon the laws of England, which presumed every man innocent till his guilt was established in a Court of Justice, that Minis ters had put into the mouth of their Sovereign a verdict of "Guilty" against the persons taken up, before any trial condewine:d them to punishment.—(Cries of Shame' s ) —This premature sentence came from the seat of mercy, because it was suggested by the advisers of the Crown; this emanated from the very source of justice.—ln fact this, as it had been well observed by a journal, was making "an unnatural use of the power of the Crown." None would suspect the friends of liberty of any wish to screen the persons accused from justice, they only waited the decision of an impartial jury, before they offered any opinion "pen their guilt or innocence. They only dm sired, that the fi rst authority in the realm should hot agree to the previous condemnation.—(Cheers.)—Let oot the wretches go forth before the public with the verdict of their Sovereign stamped on their foreheads. Force he knew could not avail the Ministers, but fraud and cunning would do much towards effecting their ne farious purpose. He should therefore caution the friends of liberty not to let them insinuate themselves into their confidence, that they might the more easily despoil them of those rights which were purchased by the precious blood of their ancestors. There was at last a breathing time, fur Parliament had expired. He hardly knew how to write an epitaph for the dead—(a he • hardly think himself an impartial chronicler ; yet he email not forbear saying something en the merits of A* late Parliament. We had in this coantrzzany bad tirrusnwota. They bad bean aeasateand time to time to cheat the people out of whatever degree of liberty they bad obtained by the Revolution. But the annals of England did not supply one iustance of any Parliament having done so much towards the overthrow of freedom, as the late wicked and most corrupt Parliament bad done is a few months.—(4 h: Bring.)—He might say, in the language of their truly noble and independent represen tative Sir Fr4ncis Buriett, that children might complain of the mere exercise of the power claimed under the pre sent system, but it was nut for turn to complain of it. Yet at the same time, he (Mr. Ilobhouse) could not a. a man belp complaining of it. In the late short Parlia ment, every thing was done that could possibly be done to destroy all the remaining liberties of the people of England. The press was attacked, the right of having arum was attacked, and, by the new laws, for a wan to hold converse with his neighbour was an offence, which was liable to a must severe punishment.—(Cries of hear, hear!)—ln short, no man arose in the morning without expecting to see in the papers something which was an afringruient on the freedom of Britons. The statutes which secured our liberties were abolished, and the vic tims were left to congratulate themselves upon the igno miny of only wearing their chains for five years. It was observe that nothing bad might to be said of the dead, but he should say with more justice, as was said before him by a great moralist, that we ought to say no thing of them but what was true. It appeared to hiui most extraordinary, that men should be found willing enough in sober sadness to support such a system; yet a great deal had been said in the late debates about the magic of the Constitution, and by one good young man in particular, Lord John Russell, who thought that this magic lamp ought not to be changed because such won ders had been effected by it—because fine palaces hail been built by it—because Corinthian capitals and Tns con columns were reared by its influence to the amaze ment of all, who were surprised how they got there, and did not know how long they might be allowed to stay there.—(Laughter.)--Ifut Lorl John Russell, though he eras by no means it Ming is change the lamp, still thought that something might be dons to "cower it.—(Laugh s )-ant nee. moo who had read the Aenlitso /WOW lintertaiwasesit4, knew the disastrons consequence of 'cowering Alladin's lamp. When that renowned character attempted to scower his lamp, he instantly called forth the sieve of the lamp, and it was broken in pieces; thus when Lord J. Russell endeavoured to scower his magic lamp, he instantly excited the Lord Chancellor and the other Cabinet servants to the utter discomfiture of hit hopes and his purpose.—(Laughter.)—But he would cease this allegory. Ile would ask any one who heard him if he was wrong when he stated that no man would feel the least interest in Lord John Russell's motion, ex cept Mr. Perry. Ile must end as he began ; but the mis fortune was, that the good which was done in the first part was done away in the second. The magic was now done away—it was only to be found in the story-hook. In fact, the obl battered walls of the Constitution only reminded him of those old ruins which he had sees at Home, and which did not serve to beep out the water, but to (lam it up, and rather hastened than retarded the progress of dilapidation.—(Cheers.)—lt was said, for sooth, that the people were to have no voice in the Le gislature, because they were said to barn no understand ing; yet it was some credit to their understanding, that the higher orders were beginning to adopt their opi nions. The Whigs at Norwich, in the North, and at Bristol, now allowed that there could be nu perusanent security to the State, without a Parliamentary Reform. But though the people were willing to give them all the merit they deserved for this approximation in Sen timent, while they ought eatertainerl these opinions, only because they found them deposited with the people.—(land applanse.)— He had read of many struggles against the en croaching power of Parliaments; against septennial Parliaments; against the Excise Laws, and various other obnoxious proceedings ; vet all this was only a in•re name, compared with the Memoratiffo of the late Parliament. Ile there found it stated, he the eloquent Member for Liverpool, the Right lion. 'Mr. Canning, that if the nation attire stripped of the nobility, the cler. gy, and all the distinguished orders, the thing which remained would be no more like the people, than the hied of Iliozenes was like the man of Plato. But if lie (Alr. Hoblionse) hail been in Parliament at the time the eloquent tientleuian wade 106 an assertion, he would, in his humble way, have offered a word or two In fa vour of that poor two-legged +Weathered thing the pro plc.-0 loud laugh and cheers.)—Vet they took care, however, that when it wits to he thrown down, none should have the pinching of it hot theinseive..—(rion tinned laughter.)—lts splendid plumage was stripped by their ruthless hands, and they well knew how to traffic with the feathers. But though they had stripped them so closely, still there was something left to command and and ensure respect. It was to this people we must look for whatever of manly spirit could be found any where, for in no country in the universe did it at this moment exist hut in England.—(Cheers.)—Among this people only was to be sought that earnest perseverance in the cause of reform, which alone could be the salva tion of our unhappy country. He had no doubt but they would ultimately rise triumphant over their op pressors, and confound the projects they had formed for the destruction of national and social freedom. During the time he had been in confinement, he had received addresses from that poor featherless two-legged thing, the people, which might have done honour even to the Right lion. Member for Liverpool. He meant this only as it regarded style and composition, for he could nor suppose that in any other respect Mr. Canning could write any thing such as the people of England would write or approve of.-{Applause .) — The kind ness of that people, he (Mr. Hobhouse) should newer forget ; and whether in or out of Parliament, he still Should write and speak libels against the House PILICI SZVRN Peace. of Commons.—(finmense applause and laugh'er.)— The only difference would be, that if in Parliament lie shodld speak more libels than he should write. Bat he wished not to be misunderstood by libels, he meant truths; for he knew if hr spoke falsehood the House of Commons would never molest him. He then proceeded to notice the circumstances connected with the charge upon which he had been confined. Ms Hon. Member of the Hoes* of Commons, be said, was of opinion, like the character in JoeepA Andrews, that because the pamphlet which he had written had a Greek motto in the title page, therefore the book itself must contain treason against the State. Yet be, Mr. ['calaboose, would not have used that Hon. Member so harshly, nor would be open such slight ground impeach either his purpose or hts judgment ; he would not have said of him, that he was a stupid booby of a Yorkshire squire, who wrote stuff which no one could comprehend.—(A laugh.)--e That person, speaking of the pamphlet which he (Mr. Hobhouse) had written, used the contemptuous words, “ These radicals," and misinterpreted the garbled ex tweets be had .read. Ohl is the style of a Yorkshire gentleman. But was it, lie would ask, upon inch grounds that the people of England were to be sent to prison ? He would ask those who heard him, if they would bas e sent Mr. Stuart Wortley to prisoa for having so ante I towards him ? No, they would rather have sent hint t school.—(A laugh.)—There was one only assembly lit Europe that would bare sent him (Mr. lloidmuse) t• prison upon such grounds—the English House of C. m mons. Mr. Courtenay and his brother, the Secretary to Mr. Canning, felt that they obeyed the dictates of their conscience when they voted for his imprisonment.— it might have been so, but the fact looked somewhat suspicious. In Parliament, if, in the listlessness of a te dious hour, any Member sought to pass it away by doing a man an injury, he had nothing else to do hut stand up in his place, lake a pamphlet out of his pocket, and call the attention of the House to such passages as be might please to consider objectionable—asserting, at the same tome, that the people had no riht to use such langnage against the House. He would - be sure not to find one man only, bat many, all ready to join him, all eager kr the prey. Not only Mr. Wynne would be prompt upui the occasion, but every idle Member who could find no better way of passing his time. Not only would the man who was looking to the Speaker's chair, and as a qualification, had read from one end to the nth. r the first volume of Hatsell ; toot only would this man. who was a precedent poacher, be alert at conolemnatioot, but he would even adduce precedents to show why the writer of the obnoxious work should not even be place I on a horse with his face to the tail ; and, in fact. he (Mr. Hobhousr) might consider himself well off, in having been sent to prison, as he might have been conchoortei to a ride.—(A laugh.)--After a few more observations, he concluded his speech, of seventyminstes, by assuring the Meeting of his earnest wish to devote himself to their service, whenever occasion should call for his ex ertions. The nest toast was--" The only remaining security of linwlish liberty—Trial by Jury.'` Tune—" Old En i :- lantl, to threlf be trove." _ _ _ A Mr. Murphy smog a song composed for the wa viest, taisams—ivrillse -ensuing eleetTon, to Hie tune at •• Scots wha bac." He song It in ■n admirable style, and was encored. Mr. Rourolthwait next proposed, " Sir Francis Bar tlett, our inc ))))) parable advocate; may a British Jury vindicate his noble address on theManciiesterinassacre. ' Tone—. While happy in my nati►e land." The lion. Baronet rose amidst thg loudest cheering. After remarking on the pleasure which he ban in meeting such an asssembly as the present, and the great necessity of Parliamentary he proceeded to vindicate the claim of Mr. Hobhouse for Westminster. He congratulated them on the further acquaintance they had acquired of the character and abilities of the grew soon whom it was their wish to make his colleague.— Ile then referred to Mr. Lamb. In looking over the Chronicle of that day, be said he bad been struck by an advertisement of 7 a very extraordinary nature, I.' which be thought that the attention of Mr. O. Lamb ought to be called. It stated, that any gentletnan wishing to have a seat for an ancient borough mi g ht 1. 1 accommodated by applying at a certain number in Ta cistork-street, Covent-garden. If Mr. Lamb attended to this recommendation, he would have a better chance ot ob taining a scat in an honourable assembly than he woti,d have by giving himself all the trouble which he did abort; the electors of Westminster. Much as the principles ot Reform had increased elsewhere, they had increased no where more than in Scotland. Those pries, iples had been recently introduced into the capital of that country by one who had hero a great luminary here, but who had uri • Finally come from that country, whose public service-, in spite of some observation., email never he forgotten ; he meant Lord Erskine—(loud applause)—a man, who, as he was in l"20 the same ni..n as he was in 171111,1ez s r.ot to be confounded with the coininun herd of Lands. (Chrers.)—He then went over most of the arguments used by Lurd Erskine at the Winner given to h;rii a t Edinburgh, and spoke of thesis in terms of warm pane gyric. He then described the principles upon which he hail opposed the late Bills, and observed, that they were generally held by honest men, whether Whigs or la nes, aids very little difference. This was not extraut dinary, because, in point of truth and fact, little Jitter ence of opinion could exist amongst honourable men, no matter how they were denominated, as to the great and vital question. whether a Government should be carried on by corruption or by pure and eonstititional means. Fur his own part lie Lod alwars heeidesitoit that these two nick-names, envied in spite by one party to another, should he entirely dropped and forgotten— they no longer had any intelligible Mr:ailing. The circumstances which gale rise to them had been forgotten, and he wished the names themselves to be obliterated from the minds of men. And yet there were brings so insensible to the alteration of circumvent..., so blind to the present state of society, that they wou:.% if possible, perpetuate acrimonious f;elings, founded riti a distinction so foolish as that tis which he had adverted. Those who were assembled on this occasion recognized no such difference. They proceeded on the principles of just feeling' and true reason—feelings about which ow two unbiassed men could fall out. Ihe only sensible, the only impartial distinction between men in this coun try, at present, was to be found existing between tio,se who endeavoured to justify and to uphold the notorious, the acknowledged, the openly-ronfessed corruption ot the House of Commons—corruption confessed by the Members of that House themselves,—and those who wished to hare an independent and incorrupt House or Commons—emanating from the bulk of the scion — emanating from those who were the support of the throne and of the government—a House of Costumers, Lasing the same interests, and being susceptible of tie seme feelings, as those by which* be people were imine , ,,d. _ a House of Commons that should be, in troth sad Lot is