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9, itt gmetbe sotrooncling scaffolds. At the claw of the poll the numbers stood thus sir ►. Ikaudett . Lord Cochrane . • )4r. Elliott . Mr. Sheridan . . Mit $l5B ):3• 6:14 Mr. &moons then addressed the Eledorr, and upon this ocrasi..o advanced to the outer hoot nt the hustings. being supported by his frisnd Mr. Fe. lie *earthy : " Gentlernin." said he, 6. having formerly confessed to rui that 1 am not nom SI) nimble, or in possession of such vod sea legs as the Noble Lord, or as !formerly have he.ui in posse,- sive of, this is the first tine 1 have venture:l to ac cost you from this perch. However deficient I may he in point of of body. 1 trust I am yet as aefive in mini A> ever I was ; 1 advance forward with more cnefilence, because I am more than ever assured, t bat it ,t'ir.‘ugh eagerness of Aa ion. I should chance to fall backwards or forwards, I should fall amongst my friends.—( nand applause.) Nothing has been more gratifyiiig to me, than the constant attention with which you have honoured me. I have never yet had an opportunity of making observations upon the speeches of the other Candidates, who have followed .me in addressing you, as I thought it would only be making a dis • respeitful intrusion upon your time.—Therefore the coon Candidates have had all the advantage of heating me first, and making such reply as they might . think proper. They shall be heartily welcome to that advantage, becaose 1 am not apprehensive of any use they can make of it.- 1 have spoken to you straight forward, and have not wished to support my cause, by making any attack upon the charaßer of absent men ; nor have 1 thought it necessary to throw the slightest imputa tion upon the charatter or conduit of any one of the candidates opposed to me; nor have I thought it necessary to conciliate your esteem, by making professions, as to my future practice, but merely to fecal to your recolkdtton the tenor of my past condudt. In stating to you, that soch has been my tale of procedure, I must, at the same time, confess, that my determination upon this subjea, was, upon Saturday last, put to a severe trial. Could I ever have been tempted to depart from that rule, it would have been, when! heard the revered name of the late Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox mentioned disrespeafully. I give the Noble Lord full and implicit credit for the expla.na• tion, which he afterwards gave, as to his not mean ing any personal refietlion upon the memory of that Illustrious Chataaer (I did riot. said Lord Cochrane). The feelings which you expressed, when you resented toe imputation which was made as to a near relation of the Noble Lord. were such as did you honour ; but, n, he will allow me to say, that there are te.oings as strongly implanted in the human mind, as those from Atacliment through relation ship, I mean the feelings Al wag from the recollec tion of sacred friendship. There are many of us who knew him, and who must think-, that it is our right to claim for his rnemoty a filial respell. When this world lost that Ilium ious Charafler, I think the cause of friendship and honour lost its best support and ex impie ; public liberty lost its most resolute tool deco:milted champion ; and humanity lost her *poets. Gentlemen, if ever there was a man, who, f ro m eeei, snAlification of head and heart, was en titled to your vttention, and to command respet ; if ever there was - is man in whose head and heart were to be found the Z,nost amiable qualities, it was Charles James Fox. (.;:osefr al approbation.) in speaking of him. I cannot trot expiess myself with some degree a emotion and teti.ng. I speak now of his political choisiner, and 1 state the plain and sincere truth, when I say, that were he now alive, and knew of this contest, he would give his voice for Sir Francis Burdett. (Harraing, cheering, Tool clapping of 4.4(410 The Noble Lord afterwards told you that he meant nothing personal upon Mr. Fos ; but he will excuse me for reminding him of the nature of the remark he made, without any affected nicety, as to terms, with which I shall not insult your WS. The meaning of it was this, that ttscugh he acquitted Mr. Fox himself, yet those who were tounedled with him—those who were his folluwers, and adise.e.: to him in supporting his claims to power. were oauated by selfish motives, and not the good of their country. I would ask the Noble Loid. who are those persons who are fol kwing the baser parts of Mr. Fox ? (Lord Mel edLT, Tsdanaed on, of toe crowd). I sooll du the Noble Lord the justice to declare, that 1 du not think lie meant Lod Melville. One of the prominent features et Mr. LA'S charafler was, u.at 00 man living bad such followers.— Tniy uere amongst the best and moat worthy men of this country, and who aeted from the most disinterested of motives. Are they not the descendants of the Russells, Cavendishs, Howords, and Pelhams, some of whom bled for your Liberty, and all of whom did honour to the aristocracy of this country 3 Did their attachment to Mr. Foes, proceed from base motives 1 Were any such to be Miami iu tne House of Commons ? Where were there such mess as Mr. Plummer, er Mr. Coke, of Norfolk; who, to his immortal honour, when an opportunity was afforded him of hiding his bead in a . Coronet, or clothing himself with titles, re fused them ? Perhaps I shall bear of the place. hunters, and myself amongst the number, who, although 27 years in Parliament, was only one year in office. There was not a rich man amongst us, the rollovers of Mr. Fox. We were proud to rank with him, upon the chill seats of Opposition, ra dio; than share the ri:hes of the Court. We were prouder to share in his difficulties and panties, than to accept of my place or emolument that could be confuted. I am sure, that the facetious thrown out by the Kahle Lord, must have originated from his long ab.enee from this country. and not knowing the real characters of the followers of Mr. k oz. ImAy be Allowed to say, that as a follower of Mr. Yoz, I deiire iv) other epitaph to cover me, than ~ Here /yes elm fieeesai of For."— I ifisraa, basica, c,ace Sh4erte, •` cow sire the Braver a w!pe," ezeLtme• • mice ;tear the Cutaway," cont:oued hir.Shernian, "there is a strong call upon theta say something about Mr. Elliott, also, as I that the right and felt ought to have fair play (awl lqui l Ling and bass vr, g ) but ailow me to say, Lila; I am a gond deal exhausted, and therel"re must delay touching ttirots that other Candidate, till another opportunity. I fatal a difficulty add Alia wardnecs in passing front such a momentous and important subject. to one so insignificant as that concerning myself ; but I think it necessary to say something further than what I formerly stated, re ,.po,oing my irresolution io first standing a Can did.oe upon this occasion." (Here Mr. Sheridan en tried into an explanation, enforcing strongly the est uses which gave tine to his being so late in offer ing htu,aelf for the choice of the .Eleaurs of West• minster, similar to former explanations he had given. both at the Hustings, and at the Crown and Anchor). 6* My great gratification," added he, 6• would be, that you should persevere in the contest. so as to return whomsoever is the undoubted choice of the people. I have only to add, as to myself, that it I shall, upon consultation with my Committee, and an examination of the returns made of the can vass, which has been so late in taking place, be ad vised to withdraw from the contest, I shall most re speafully retire, should there appear no prospea of success; but if, upon the contrary, I should find that there is a prospers of following up the symptoms of this day, as far as I can command exertions, I shall persevere to the last man that remains to be polled. My motive for wishing to represent you was this ; at the time when some degree of hesitation was in my mind. I was informed, that if I had the honour of being returned for Westminster, the same persons who gave me the Representation of Ilchester, would do me the honour of returning my son for that place. I am Imre there is no man but would feel that this was an inducement to such a determination; but I can assure you, that the same principlis of attachment to liberty shall ever exist is my breast, whether I am 'lofted to represeut one place or another. In either case, you may command me, colleaively and individually, as your servant." Lord Cocuaanz—" Gentlemen, I am pleased at the marks of approbation which fell from you during some parts of the Hight I loneurable Gan tlensan's address to you, touching an expression which fell from me on Saturday : which I confess candidly I ought not to have used ; I have felt the impropriety of it more than I can explain to you: all I meant was, to contrast the merits of that great character, Mr. Fox, with persons who appeared to be °fa very different stamp. I directed it to tkose persons who accepted of places for which they, did ao duty to their country. I believe it is now pretty evident to every one, that I have not coalesced, either di redly or indirealy, with any man, and I pledge my word of honour, that I have not authorised any individual to canvass for me, in conjunction with the name of any of the other Candidates. 'fhe question put to me by Mr. Gibbons was, as to whether or not I had been test night at the Duke of Portland's, soliciting the assistance - of Government ? This insinuation I was surely war ranted in deity ing in the ntamer 1 did, as I had not neon any of His Majesty's Government for four days before, when I went to inquire asto whether they. were to support Sir Samuel Hood t It has been stated to you, that there was no pecuniary in tertsrernt on the past of the 'Treasury, during the former contest for Westminster; but, Gentlemen, I have a list of subscriptions, which will show that His Majesty's late Government did interfere in that Election. I shall read it to you, as it has beea given to me, in the form of an extraa from the inquiry instituted by Mr. Paull. It states, Gen tlemen, that towards the Lite Elettion, Lord Gren ville subsctibed 1001. Lord Sidmouth 1001. Lord Spencer 1001. Lord Henry Petty 100/. General Fitz patrick 1001. Mr. T. Grenville 1001. Lord Holland 1001. Lord St. Vincent 1001. a Noble Prince $OOl. the Duke of Devonshire 2001. the Duke of Argyle 1001. the Duke of Queensberry 1,0001. and Lord Thanet 1001. Such, Gentlemen, was the freedom of Medina upon that occasion, and I lament es. ceedingly that it was so. but I trust that you will now exert yourself against any coalition that may be feared against you. I shall not detain you longer I this day, but merely beg of you to continue your exertions. 1 have several subjeas upon which I in tend to touch to-morrow. _ Mr. .1 stesteos-" Gentlemen, I find, by the address of the Noble Lord, that he has followed souse part of .the advice that was given him 6 he has not gone into details of naval abuses ; but I am sorry to see that he still indulges in inveitive against the late Administration, while he cautiously avoids meotiouing the other' He has endeavoured to cast censure upon the present opposition ; but as to the paper which he has read to you, I shall only observe, that there is no law, not rule, to prevent any g.entlemin's private friends subscribing to defray the expenses of his Eletieou. Supposing his statement to be coned, as to its having been a Government Subscription, it ought to afford you the greater joy, at the present state of the poll be ing so favourable to Sir Francis Burdett. It gave encouragement to every public-spirited man to come for ward, and stand upon the broad princi ples of English Liberty. It shows clearly and Jistinaly, that however much Government may marshal its bands of placemen and pensioners, you, the Elettors of Westminster, can support the man of your choice, against all their strength.— As to Mr. Elliott, 1 have only to beg you to recol lect what be said to you on a former day. He gave you his principles, and stated, that he would afford indiscriminate support to every Minister, a support which might lead to the most mischievous consequences to the country. (Mr. Elliott here begged Mr. Jennings to state his (Mr. E's) princi ples fairly.) Gentlemen, continued Mr. Jennings, I shall comply with Mr. Elliott's request, and I think what he stated was to this effect, that who ever was Minister. and whoever should have a majority in the House of Commons, should have his support. (Load Laghing.) Gentlemen, if you had no other motive for refusing to give your votes to Mr. Elliott, that siogle sentiment would be suffici ent. Would you send such a person to the House of Commons, where he would find a multitude of ir.dividuals wlts possessed the same sentiments?" Sec. &c. Mr. Et tio rr aien came forward, and attempted to speak, bat in vain ; the cries of " OP Of! Le• as /woe Rs wad leer tresorr. as a Repreavitiative," were so loud and ince-s,anr, that he had to retire, amidst the blues and groans of the populace. Mr. Go saut•s next presented hinise:f, but it was a considerahle while tiefore he onuid be heard. He still persisted in ancrt/rp; that Lord Cochrane was a political apostate, 4r.J !.e could state reasons for that auscrtioa 1k dq; • lie alluded to the duty shut, end the borough of Honiten, the Ames in the Navy, and the unfounded calumnies which the Noble Loud bad stated against that Noble Earl of St. Vincent. Mr. Gibbons then made some just remarks upon the Parliamentary consistency of Mr. Sh..ri.!an, whom, aithough he had formerly oppos ed, when in place, yet lie highly approved of him now when out of it. He had received thirty anonymous letters. to deter him from ap pearing again upon the hustings ; but none of these threats should deter him from speaking his mind and explaining the cliara&ets and views of the several Candidates. He expressed sotrow at having been prematurely misled as to the circum stance he had state'', which had so much hurt the feelings of the Noble Lord, which he never intruded to do, but merely for the purpose of elucidating his Lordship's political apostacy- He could not con clude without alinding to Mr. Elliott, whom he denominated a Weathercock Candidate" Mr. THOMAS SHBAID•11 pwesented himself to the notice of the assembly. he said, with considerable diffidence. being unaccustomed to public speaking. He only wished to observe to them, that if they could find 100 upright men, (such as they all ac knowledged Sir Francis Burdett to be) who would bring up 10 men each. to vote for his father, (Mr. Sheridan) he should not despair of his being also reckoned an upright man. by all of them, by his being placed at the bead of the poll. roRtsHIRE NOMIN,tTION. (Caneladed heat yesterday's Paper.) We are sorry we are not able to a particular account of Mr. Vilberforce's S p eech. We can only stavb some of the principal heads of which it con sisted. He began by returning his thanks to the Freeholders, for the repeated instances of their kind ness which he had experienced, and presented him self once more as a Candidate for their favour, with more confidence, bec.:use he had so often received the sati&ion of their approbation. He apologised for detaining them in the rain ; but felt it necessary to state a few words, in consequence of what had fallen from his late Hon. Colleague, Mr. Fawkes, to whom, in the first, instance, his acknowledgments were due, for the friendly language in which he bad expressed himself ; and here Mr. Wilberforce de clared, that it was with pleasure he should pay to his late colleague, the tribute of his acknowledg. menu, and avow, that all he (Mr. Wilberforce) had seen of him in public life, had only tended to confirm the opinion, he before had entertained, of Mr. Fawkes's talents, patriotism, and integrity.— Still Mr. Wilberforce felt himself bound to animad vert upon two or three of the topics on which Mr. Fawkes had just now insisted. Mr. Fawkes bad condemned the present Ministry for resisting a par liamentary assertion of an important, constitu tional principle ; that a *titter of State ought not to give pledges, with swipe& to the advice which he would give His Majesty, as a Cabinet Counsellor. Here, however, Mr. Wilberforce maned at some length, that the incidents on which the motion C OD. cerning pledges was founded, were such, as it was utterly unconstitutional for the House of Commons to hear or entertain ; and that therefore the previous question was the proper mode of proceecfing in that instance. Would it have been fair, in the case of the most humble individual, to form a judgment on a case in which his toadied came in questain, with out his having an opportunity of stating all which he might have to urge in his defence t And since it was declared, that His Majesty had in the instance of demanding a pledge, no adviser, and that there fore it was his own cause which was at issue, would not the House of Commons, in condemning the re quisition of a pledge, under such peculiar circum stances, have acted in a manner contrary to the fundamental principles of justice, and have treated the King in a way in which they would not have behaved to the very meanest of his subjects ? Mr. Wilberforce also commented on the remarks which Mr. Fawkes hail made on His Majesty's pre sent Ministers ; and spoke in the highest terms of the talents, integrity, anJ patriotism of Mr. Pet ce val, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; of whom he could speak with confidence, because he had known him well for above 2S years. . . Mr. Wilberforce declared, that by some opinions of a contrary sort, which had been uttered, he felt it a solemn ad of duty to declare publicly, that the Abolition of the Slave Trade, after a struggle of nearly twenty years, had been chiefly effeded by the talents and efforts, both in and out of Parliament, of the principal members of the late Administration. Without them, he was convinced, that great measure would never have been effected. On this ground he must ever declare, that he himself, nay more, that the country at large, owed them no small return. The debt of gratitude which was due to them from himself, he should ever be ready to acknowledge, and by all legitimate methods to repay ; but he had no right to recompence those services by his parlia mentary support—that was not his to give or with hold at. pleasure. kle Jail ever borne in mind, that he had received from his Constituents, nor a proper ty, but a trust ; and that be was bound to administer it, on every occasion, in such a manner as might appear to him most conducive to the weltare of his country. Aduated by this persuasion. he had ne ver enlisted himself under the banners of A N v Peet,' ; but looking to Maasuess, and not to Mist, be had made the public good the great object of his atten tion. He had learned from his Coustituents a lesson of independence, which he bad endeavoured, in every instance, to reduce to predict. He bad uni formly borne in mind the principles of our mixed Constitution, and had made it his care to as.ign to every part of it its due and wholesome exercise. He witnessed therefo e with pleasure. or the one hind, that love of liberty, and on the other that spirit of loyalty, which, in the British Constitution, were hap pily united in harmonious and beneficial cornbinatioo. He witnessed, whit satisfadion, the affection of the people towards a Sovereign, who had reigned over them for seven and forty years, and whose paternal care of his people was justly returned, WI their part. with a corresponding measure of gratitude and confidence. He doubted nut but that His Ma jesty valued this attachment of his people. as the fairest and best possession of his Clown. Ila en larged on these topics, and others connected with them ; and concluded by declaring, that, if he should again be placed in the honourable station which he had now held for twenty-time path he should endeavour to discharge ti.e duties of th trust reposed in him, in such a manner 31 to Prove not unworthy of the kind partiality of the Frreholl. ers of Yorks'lirt. In reply to a _question from W. N. W. Hewitt, Esq. whether Mr. Wilberforce would or would in any event, coalesce with Mr. Lascellgs Mr. Wilberforce replied, that he straq alone and independent, nor did he think himself at liberty to unite with any other Candidate. huh A compromise might suit a small Borough, alle le burgagee were barrereil and trafficked in, but w as unworthy the dignity o the situation ut a Itekr e . sentative for Yorkshire. The Hon. H. LAIC EL Lis then came forward, sod addressed, in a very audible and impressive manner, the Freehold-Ts. Alluding to his former condua i n Parliament, he said, with regard to the put he lid taken in the dispute between the Merchants and MAlltlide*UrelS, what his condua had been befnte, he should continue the same again, if he had the honour of being chosen their Representative. , tIS . 6 (he observed) should all this clamour be against me in particular ; when the Comtnit:e e an./ the House of Commoas were unauiraous on the •isa. jest Had the bill been carried, which was intstid-, to be introduced, it would have lessened the Ca;, t.; and ruined the Manetactures of the country, 4•,i the trade must have gone into foreip,n markets," The domestic system of the thief manufatlate of Yorkshire s he asserted was expiring; he mi g ht „d. most say extina ; and therefore be sapported a Manufueure upon larger capitals, where Iris profi L would be expected, consequently the articles would be sold at a cheaper rata, and would coiduce more to the National Interest. The clamour he said that had been raised against him on this account arose from a ,polltited He had adied from a full conviction of doing !is duty to his Commercial and Manufadturing Co n y,. tuents. He replied fully to several part s o f M r . Fawkes's Speech, particularly to a part of it which Mr. Lase elles apprehended to intimate, that in coesequenonlif his (Min Lascelles's) private assidnity in strengthening his own interest, Mr. Fawkes found it prudent to retire from Parliament. Mr. Fawkes here interrupted, to assure him he hed not the slightest intention of conveying any such insinuation. Alluding to the conduit of the late Administration, and Mr. Pin's condltdt on the Catholic Bill, a name Mr. L. said ht could not mentioa without the deepest regret and veneration ; what did Mr. Pitt do when he found that the measure was disapproved by his Sovereign ? did tie attempt to keep his place, and at the same time to abandon the measure, or stipulate to bring it forward again at a future time! Nu ; such conduct would have been inconsistent with Isis superior character. He retired from dice. He was not a man that would have brought his So. vereign before the bar of the nation. Besides, he observed, the Bill which Mr. Pitt wished to intro duce, differed widely from the present. He do. fended the present Ministers, and thought the late highly wrong in endeavouring to introduce the Ca , ;:nlic Bill, contrary to the inclination of his Ma jesty, contrary to his oath. and contrary to the wed being. or , safety of this Protestant` country; on these topics he dwel: a considerable time. ilmpecz ing the abolition of the Slave Trade, he said it met his approval; and declared, that shonld it ever again be brought into the House of Commons, on a a view to its revival, suds should have his most decided opposition, if a Member of that House. Lord Inlioros began with declaring, that hs offered himself to the Freeholders of Yorkshire, up. on the broad basis of the British Constitution. He made no stalking.horse of 6 , Church" or " King;" though he was proud and happy to anniunce him self as the determined and in&aible friend of both! not. however, more so, than the determined and inflexible enemy of all the public robbers who had sn long fattened on the spoils of the nation. Al. hiding to Mr. IVilberforce's speech, he observed, that it Wss not Mr. l'erccval who was at the head of the present Administration, but a certain wen kaosue character, who was at present, for good reasons. kept behind the curtain; but who *used, probably very soon, be brought forward into pus lic view. He proceeded to state. that he had its honour of descending from a long line of ances tors, to whom the County of York had been as custonted to look with the highest veneration ; and of whom he should feel himself most unworthy, !I he ever shrank from the great cause of the people. He regarded, with devout attachment, the illus trious charadler of Sir George Savile ; whom, though he could never hope to equal in abilities, he would resolutely follow, and boldly vie with, is principle and integrity. He offered himself to their acceptance. because he wished them to be rep:e. seated by eta independent woe ; a man, shacent and fettered with no pledges. To his indusen many of them could bear ample and satisfadtl testimony; and it should be unremittingly eon cised in every thing which, nationally or prone. chilly, Jelled their interests. Colonel Herron. of Halifax, then came knead to address the Freeholders, but the continued an clausation fee " Show of Hands." obliged him ir retire. The Hien &miry having requested a show bands for the respeftive Candidates, declared On in favour of William Wilberforce, F.sq l and t:.) Hon. 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