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with grout unmixed goad. He wished to ask him, if he thimeht it a gr. at good to dissolve Parlia ment, in order that he might obtain a few dirty vOOO, while the natioo was to stiffer a loss of millions of mosey? He , wished to ask him, whether he thought it was a great good to set man against marl. brother against brother, by starting a question which reason did not ora ginice, and whoh reason could not controul ? —lt had been remarked, that religion was a bell-rope, which in this coutatry none should ever pull. He thonoOt that all the bell-ropes in de church of St Stephen might be particularly well applied, in that quarter. He had heard a story, to which he soight refer upon this occasion ; the prin cipal elitlSseer in it was of the same professiod with the Malik Lord. An Irish sailor happening to be overtaken in a storm, in the midst of his fears, knelt down and prayed, and said he would light a candle as long as his body in honour of his tutelar Saint. if he would get him out of the storm ; but a brother sailor. said, Arra, by my soul, there is no such candle on board. so you mast go on shore to buv one." ro this the supplicating sailor replied, " Hold your tongue, my friend, for if I get ashore, the Neil burn me if I'll light a far,hing rush• light to him." (Apo/antra and flaig,hi , e.) he Noble Sailor, who was now a Candidate before them, might be like this Irish sailor, for he (Mr. S.) was aft ii 1, that although he pledged himself to light a large and valuable candle now, they would find he would give them nothing but a lead dipped one when he got into the House of Commons. (Mare op pkiises.) There was a topic to which his father had alluded, and he was not surprised at it. It was the support which he had received from the ladies. Neither his father not his forefathers could hold the fair sex in greater estimation than their descendant did, and be thought the result of the contest lay its their hands, as might be preyed by a simple arith metical calculation. Every one of the ladies must have an admire: besides himself. Now if a thousand of those admirers would prevail upon their father, brother, cousin, or any relative, over whom their perseasion could opc rate, to come for ward, they would load the poll so completely, that there must be an apology made to mail others coming up, as it should be the rule to give the preference to the ladies' votes. He should only further repeat an observation alluded to before, by his father, th it it was despondence not want of means, which was the cause of their being so far behind upon the poll. He trusted, howev r, that if the contest was yet pur sued with vigour, the result would be one not only creditable to the Eledors, but highly satidadury to his father is well as to himself. •Me Gt Naomi declared himself determined not to yield to the mea .s which were practised by L 'id Cochrane and his unfledged Attorney. to put him, an independent Eledlor of Westminstio, down ; with whatever feeling he attacked the con,'.utl and politics of the Noble I. od, he wool.' still maintain, that the cause which he supported was that of the people, and the opposition which he gave, was to guard his fellow-eit:sens from imposition. Ilmiton, and his silence in two successive Parliam.nts, would con viace the country, 'bat the Noble Lord was c orupt when tie could succeed by corruption ; but he was the declaimer of independence when the city of Westminster was to he eajaled. Mr. Vows, was loudly tailed for by the people, and when he addressed them, forcibly inculcated the necessii y of ereigy and perseverance. The Noble Lord. I e contended, had pistol chase is two different dire ions, in both of which he failed. In endeavour ing to bring charges a34ast the gallant Earl of St. Vincent, he had dealt to severe and acrimonious re- Seaions. How were they disproved ? By the letter of Commodore Ks ats, to which the Noble Lord would not dare to reply. With professions whica, if serious, there were no talents to circa, and charges which were not oath unsupported, bet denied, the Noble Lord laid his claims to the City of West minter. If the Electors approved him, there might be no question of their right of choice, hut it would be di ffi cult to find nut either their in dependence or gond sense (Loud op:douses.) The multitude then dispersed, anxious to forward the cause of Free dom, ono of course the return of Burdett and Sheridan. MJDDLLStX LLCT lON. Fut7H 1 If D IY. The P.ill proceeded a little tricker than on the preceding Jays, hut still heavily; at tour o'clock the numbers .sere declared '.V M.llOl. Esq. . 18 .- ti lesq. • 1:P:5 Sir C Berea , Sal . 815 Mr. Brno—" I thank you most sincerely, Gen tlemen Freeholders of the county of Middlesex. for the situation in uhieh you have placed me on the poll. an.l 1 have nn doubt that the longer the poll cond. rite., the higher we shall be—for I still remain of the opinion I have fni met ly expressed, that our interest is to inseparohle, that by serving me, you forward yn.ir own interest as much or more than you do entne"—(dipplarits.) Mat.t.sse briefly returned thanks to the n ea holders for the continuance of their support, and par tirolarly for their eiettions this day. lie would only detain them for a few minutes, by observing on an expression of ow W his opponents (Mr. Byng) 6. that is cause was that of the Freeholders at large. " flow much more reason had he to say so, from the nnmber of them who had come forward to support him? jalpp/inse.) Sir t7Natsvoraica Bevels then came forward on the bar, and declars d he was at a loss to Ind words sulLient to express hie thanks for the generous and gonerall support he had re ceived. Ile had before adverted to that point, and now expressed his firm reliance on their disinterest ed support, which would daily increase the num bers .oi his poll, and diminish that of his opponent. A coalition had beep more than hinted at 6 but new something new was to take place, in the shape of an understanoingpootatitotis soi‘r ;) this would, of all other things. prove that he, as he had before stated, hood before them single, free, and independ ent. It was put in placards on his opponent's coaches, as • ytuution, " Who is Sir Christo pher Haves r-55.-i answers had already been given to this question at the F.. 11 Honks, by so many Independent Freeholders; hiss as that was not. as it appetite 1, satistaanry N toot, ss h s opgoord him, Implettaast as 'deb a task Inuit be w him, he w. i 11 endeavour to explain it. Sir Christopher Baynes was, and is, an independent Freehnliler of, and a re sident in, the county of Middlesex. He had very much exerted himself in promoting the Volun teer Establishment, in which he had served many years. without fee or reward. He had ailed impartially as a Magistrate in the C nosy for seven teen years, and had never teceived one penny either from individuals or front the public, and he prided himself further in his exertions for the completion of the London Docks, a concern of national ni igni. tittle, inabmuch as it tended to prated our commer cial interest, and prevent pillage. 1' What," he asked. 1 . has my opponent ever done, in what has he ever served you ?" He concluded with thanking his friends for the public duty they had done here this day, and requested they would go home, and do their duty there. (Load peals of tang/tier, isi which /hr ladies were not the mod beeksearti) NORTHUMBE RI. .1 I) NOMINATION. Speech of Lnrd Howsea, at the nomination of Candidates for the representation of the County of Northumberland, at Isforperh, on Thursday the 14th inst tot : Gentlemen, my friend Sir John Swinburne having done me the honour to propose me to this meeting, as a proper person to represeet this county in Parliament, it becomes my duty to state to the free and independent Freehold ers of Northumberland, my pretensions far as piring to so important a trust. Should I be favour ed, Gentlemen, with a renewal of that confidence, with which I have been so often honoured, it is my determination to govern my political conduCt by the same free and independent principles which have, for more than twenty years, procured me your sup port. But it is not upon professions alone that Ide. pend, in soliciting the distinguished situation to which I aspire. 1 can, with confidence, apdeal to the experience you have had of my past conduct, during the whole of my political life, as the best pledge for my future exertions in the service of my cottutry. After having had the honour to repre sent you more than twenty years, and in seven suc cessive Parliaments, I could have hoped that this appeal would have been sufficient to entitle me to the honour of your suffrages; but, Gentlemen, I feel it indispensably necessary, upon this occasion, to enter into a full explanation and detail of the im portant trans:idiom which have occupied the atten tion of His Majesty's Government during the Last twelve months ; tra isaetions in which I have borne so conspicuous a part, and which have produced the event that occasions me now to appear before you. My conduit in these transaftions, Gentlemen. has been the subjea of the most foul and infamous ca lumnies—calumnies, which have been propagated in the most industrious manner, and for the basest of purposes ; and which those persons who have been most actively employed in circulating them, could not but know to be utterly false. Strange as it may appear to you, Gentlemea, I have been ac cused of an intention to subvert the Established Re ligion of my Country ; and well knows. as I am to all of you, l am almost asnarned of the necessity which compels me to make, on this occasion, something like a declaration of my creed. Know 'kn. Gentlemen, that I am a sincere Christian ; a Christian of the Reformed Protestant Church of England, as ►y law established, and to this faith 1 am attached, not from mceives of blind seal, but from a deep rooted conviltion, that it is the best and purest sys tem of religious worship existing upon the face of the earth. In this faith I and the whole of my fa mily have always lived, and in this faith I shall die. But, Gentlemen, though I have the utmost rever ence for the Esnablished Church, I sin not insensi ble to its abuses ; and with all possible respell for the Clergy of that Church, I can by no means ap prove of their mixing politics with their sacred fume - lions. These professions of my religious senti ments, will, I am persuaded, be considered by most of you as unnecessary ; and 1 should not hay* trou bled you with them, but that the rancour of party seal might have taken advantage of my silence, and still maintained the absurd cry of the Church being in danger. But I trust--[Here the scaffold ing from which his Lordship style, suddenly gave way, and a short interruption took place. On arising, his Lordship good humouredly observed, ' In what I was about to say to you, Gentlemen, I was unex pestledly interrupted; my period was broken, but my neck escaped.'] I trust, said his Lordship, the objet of those persons who have been instrumental in propagating this absurd clamour throughout the kingdom, has been sufficiently understood, and that their inferno', condu& kill meet with me rited contempt. ss It is unnecessary, Gentlemen, to enter into a his tory of my political life : the part I have taken has been conspicuous in all the great questions which have been agitated for the last twenty years. I shall content myself, therefore, with an explanation of my conduit in bringing forward and supporting that important measure which has been the subject of so much misrepresentation and alasm. When His Majesty's late Ministers first came into power, very serious disturbances existed in the western par us of Ireland. It was urged by many persons, fonder of exercising force than I have ever been, that we ought to have recourse to measures of extraordinary severity, to check this insubordinate spirit of the people; yet we determined to confide in an active exertion of the known powers of the law, and suc leeded in restoring tranquillity, without recurring to those severities, which less politic, but more intem perate adviser,. had wished to recommend. But, Gentlemen, after these occurrences, it became ne cessary to look to measures of a conciliatory ten dency. Among several measures which engaged the attention of His Majesty's Ministers. that which I had the honour of introducing into the House of Commons, appeared best calculated to ►ecure the affeetion of the Catholics in Ireland, while, by afarding a vent to a superabundant populati,n, it contributed to the strength and security of the empire at large. By this Bill, it was proposed to admit persons of every religious persuasion to serve in the army and navy, on their taking an oath of allegiance, and subscribing a declaration to sapport the Protestant Succession. It also enabled them to inllow their religions persuasions. without the law.- ferenee of their commanding racers. What had particularly dawn the attention of Ilia Majesty'. Government to this subjed, was the strange eau maly which existed in consequence of the Aft of 1793, by which the Roman Catholics in that coun• try were enabled t., held commissions in the army, and to attain to any rark, except that of Corn mander in Chief of the Forces, Master General of the Ordnance, or General on the Staff. In conse quence of such permission to the Catholics of Ire. laud, there was this striking incongruity :--If a Catholic, who by law WAS qualified to serve in Ire land, should be brought into this country by any circumstances which demanded the presence of his regiment. he would he disqualified by lie from remaining in the service, and would have only this alternative, either to continue in the set vice, contrary the law, and thus subjea himself to the penalties and disabilities consequent thereon, or relinquish a profession in which he had ri ,en to the rank he might hold, either by the sacrifice of his fortune, or, more probably, by a succession of meritorious services, such as proved him qualified to defend the prosperity, and assert the honour of the country. ('his absurd inconsistency it was a principal Mika of my Bill to remove. I also wished to take away the restriaions which prevented the preferment of the Roman Catholics to the highest ranks in the service : Fur, good God ! if a man has, creditably to himself, obtained the rank of Colonel, and in en terprise and genius distinguished himself beyond all others, shall he be left behind by persons of inferior merit, because a Roman Catholic ? It has been asserted that these restriaions are felt by few, and that to remove them could be of little importance. But, Gentlemen, it must be evident to every one, that a stigma, however small, attached to a mat's name, must discourage him from entering upon any profession where it exists, or prevent him from pur. swag it with that ardour which is necessary to in sure success. The measure gave rise to the most absurd accusation of our wishing to place the power of the sword in the hands cf the Catholics. Gen tlemen, I ask the elementary writers on the consti tutional laws of oar country, in whom the power of the sword is vested, have we, the Protestants, at this tinse, the power of the sword ? Certainly not. The power of the sword is vested in the King, and in the king alone. The Rill would only have given the Catholics a capacity to serve ; and if it had been passed, where would have been the danger to be apprehended from it ? The King must still have sanifi:•aed their appointments. 41 Gentlemen, as this Bill was to encourage the Ca tholics of Ireland to enter into the military service, I proposed that they should also be admitted into the navy, which weiald have given employment to a number of persons in that country, who have otherwise hardly the means of procuring a subsist ence. In the year 1793, a pledge to this effea was explicitly given by the Lord Chancellor and Secre tary of Ireland (Lord Clare and Lord Bucking hamshire), and therefore we considered it not m re a measure of general policy, than an as of good faith, to allow the admission of Catholics both into the army and navy. Gentlemen, another objea of the Bill was to remit the resuiaion with tespea to Prote.tent Dissenters, that numerous and respeaa ble body of His Majesty's subjeas ; for I consider the Test Laws in the highest degree impolitic and unjust, and I never would have beers a party to a Bill by which Protestant Dissenters would be excluded from indulgences granted to Catholics. Such, Gentlemen, were the important objeas sae proposed to accomplish. But finding insurmount able objeaions to some of the leading provisions in the Bill, we determined, after anxiously weighing all the circumstances of the case, to abandon the Bill altogether. r , Gentlemen, since the late dissolution of Parlia ment, I have heard a general cry that the Church i. in danger. I wish to know in what that danger consists? I should like the present Ministers to in form me hew the safety of the Church has been en dangered? Will the Duke of Portland, who, in the year 1801, wrote a letter to the Command.r of the Irish Brigade, pledging himself to support the Catholic claims, will he say, that 14 the Church is in dangi r?" Or will Mr. Perceval, who, in 1804, as Attorney-General, made many promises to the Catholics—promises which he had certainly nn in tention of violating—will Mr. Perceval undertake to shew that there has been any foundation for this alarm ? " Gentlemen, Mr. Pitt's Bill of 1804, and most of the present Ministers were then aEling with Mr. Pitt, gave Foreign Catholics the right of entering into toe English army, in any numbers. It allow. d Foreign Papists t 3 hold any commission whatever in regiments so formed.. It (teed all such persons from taking any oaths, sleep: such as His Makisty should direCt, and allowed His Majesty to station ten thousand of these Foreign Popish in any part of the Kingdom, and to billet them exactly as he dces his Protestant British subjects. I ask, then, shall German, Italian, nay even French Papists-s•Mtli who owe no allegiance to His Majesty, and who are not even required to disclaim those tenets which all our fellow.seblefts of that persuasion have solemnly ab jured—shall they be admitted to hold the highest ranks in our army, and yet the Catholics of England and Ireland be deemed unworthy of the same c 05.... deuce and tavuur 1 1 will ask, then, Gentlemen, was it proper, nay, was it decent, to refuse the Protest ant Dissenters and Catholics of England and Ire. land these privileges which had already been grant ed by Mr. Pitt to Foreign Papists? •• Gentlemen, when His Majesty's late Ministers came into office, they hoped, by a conciliatory sy.- tem ut Governme it, to keep the Catholic Question fur ;some time at rest, and whatever little intiuvitte I personally possessed was exerted with that view. But irritated and disconteat.•d as the people .4 Ireland continued, I would ask, Gentlemen, what the conse quauces might have been, had that man, who pre tends to give to all nations liberty and equal trgt.ts. but who may properly be said to make all equ.l slaves, effetted a powerful invasion ? I dreaded the consequence, and to avert it was the ohjed of the Bill winos I proposed, and which bas been so un fortunate in its issue. But the clamour is, the dan. gerous tendency of the Bill. I ask this plain ques tion, if it is not dangerous to have Catholic soldi , is in Catholic Ireland, can it be dangerous to have Ca tholic soldiers in Protestant England ? Gentlzmen, the lee AdminiAration have been accused of katiention to the Shipping In terest of the counts ) ; (I wi.b now to be un deo stood as addre,:ing myself more particularly DJ the freeholders from Newcastle and Shields,) I thou' I be very happy, if any gentlentin would enme forward, and state in. what manna the sit,. ping interest has been neg l e tt e d . I believe the troe. rican Intercourse Bull h as g i ven r i se to comnla s Now, it must he stiffi:lently knows,, t h at ner Aro, Indian Islands are in a great measure dependent Tien America, fur the articles of lumber sod provisions. That previously to the passing of this Bill, tie c„ . Vernon of the Islands, on their own reponsibilitv. instantly kept up an intercourse with Amnia, to obtain such supplies as were necessary; and, in re. turn, permitted the America n s to p urc h ase and take away articles produced in the I s l an d s. B ills of fo„ d•mn;ty to the Governors, on a cc o unt o f this illicit but necessary troffic, were every y ear appliedlori aad passed in Parliament. I s ub m i t , then, was i; not better to legalize at o nce t h is interrolose with America, and vest a general power i n the Privy Council tor its regalation, than trust to the discretion of the West India Governors individean, for procuring such supplies as the Island: migh t be in want of ? Great complaint* have also been cached against us on account of treaty we lately negotiated with Arnerks, though it would surely have helm time too , u;:, complain when the mini of that treaty tame folo the public. The Americans have not, hostooo, thou& that the advantages were entirely In their favour, for it is probable the treaty will not be ra tified by their Government. Gentlemen, the gr e ,; aid unfortunate changes which have been effeCto., in the North of Europe, caannt but have ooerate/ severely upon your interests, and it leas been in.. possible to afford you any adequate relief. Restriso tions were imposed upon neutrals, which produced the strongest remonstrances from the Governments of their respe.live Countries. One of my last arts, while in office, was, to write a long letter to Deis mark, in vindication of our measures in respea to neutrals, and I wish to God I could lay that letter before you, to convince you how utterly unfounded have been your complaints that H is M a j esty ' s 14 e Nlino . ters were inimical to the Shipping Intetesu of the Empire. "Gentlemen, I shall make but a few more obser- vations, and conclude. I think the late stration the least objectionable the country ever hot. It was a phenomenon in politics. We had intenCed to render Ireland safe and tranquil, we had in con siderable preparaton, a plan for the modification cf tythes in that country, and were not without &din Cant prospnet of ameliorating the tything system :a England ; tor I am convinced that without some measure of this kind, the agriculture of the king dom will never be carried to that pitch of improso. meet of which it is susceptible. I hope that the present Nlinisters are pursuing schemes equally ad. vantageons to the Empire. Those measures would have been brought forward, not for the purpose harassing and vexing, but to promote the bat in terests of the country. " Gentlemen, when out of office, I wished for the retom of Abuses in our expenditure—when in cite, I endeavcured to entree such abuses, and d:sooer public defaulters; and His Majesty's 1 ste Mininen were on the point of bringing forward delinquents, when the dissolution of Parliament put a stop to their proceedings. When cut of office, I was an advocate for the abolition of that inhuman and *to minable traffic, the .lave Tr./oleo—when in :floe. that ()Ned was accomplished. The abeithiouor,ne Slave Trade will always be the glory of the late Ad ministration ; it is a measure which Mr. Pitt, torn all his vast popularity, seas never able to effe't. " Gentlemen, after the Catholic Bill had been withdrawn, in deference to His Majesty's opinion, a pledge was required of us, with whicO we found it impossible to comply consistently with any idea we entertained of duty or honour. The consequence was, our dismissal from the Councils of his Majesty. I have been accused of wounding tho feelings t,t . my Sovereign. The best answer to this infamous ca lumny, is afforded by His Majesty's gracious apps bation of my conduct. And here I declare, that oa every occasion where I hove had to communicate with His illojesty, I have uniformly witnessed his gracious and benevolent intentions towards his people, and his desire to promote their happiness and welfare. Gentlemen I have detained you long to clear myself of the wicked imputations and calumnies which have been spread abroad with a view to my prejuJice, and have to thank you for your atten tive haring. If you have found any merit in my well-meant endeavours for the interest of you And of your country, I entreat you to honour me with your votes. If, in my confident ekpeetatiou of be ing returned for the Bth time yen/ R,presentative, I should be disappointed, I shallretirc into private life, conscious of my good intentions, and still grate. tally rem-rnber the obligations you have already cQuterred upon me." NAVAL INTELLIGIINCK. tORTIIIIIIKIT•. MAY G. Art ivcd His 1/lajesty's &iglu* Isceastuni,, from G►!ernsey. 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