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SONS or THE CLERGT. „ the Anniversary was celebrated at St. ithedral. The music, which consisted of re Of Esther, Mr. H rinses Dcoi,se,, Ind Ablate, with bis Chorus from /be lal'elniah. jar Me Lord Gad Omnipotent Anthem composed on purpose for this Dr. Boyce, and Mr. HANDEL'S Grand Anthem, under the direftion of Sir PAWNS, were admirably perfnrmrd. excellent Sermon was preached by the Virs t.ti 54 Coxe, M.A. Archdeacon of d Ream . of Bemerton, from the 6th Hebrews, and the 10th Verse. 1 lighness the Duke of Kent. and suite, lonourable the Loan MAYOI4 Slimly's. Aldermen, in their gowns ; his Grace .rchbishep of CA NTSSIILLY ; His Grace scl.liishop of Du (MIN ; Bishop of BATH 11 iii,llop of BANGUS Bishop of Heim- Atop of Bets rm. ; Bishop of Otranto; t number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, it. They adjourned to Merchant Taylors' tea most sumptuous dinner wai prepared. ion at the Cathedral and Dinner amount- . 298 . 196 . 188 THE m: Yesterday, 401% Cathed Overture e Mum, an, pi! WV' Ha s. b.' an ti a •IctritY by ll [,/.Vial awl A LLIaM P d ' • "t A most ex( le. pretend W Writs, and Niger , r ° ;, • Royal I t he Right He ••r^d selPt At 4 tht Lord Al u v Lard Ar ,AViirer.l.6 1 f ew ; • e d a great w ee present tla• where • The collean • el to 9561. • 5 ;trey --Mr• Muntia • reerburouth• NEW P MEMBER Y .tr. S. Thomann and Mr G. H. Sumner. ny...Sir S. Ron.'ilv, Kal and L P. Jones Pan r. dertuta. Stanley and John Bwitirto rue. ronin..-Wm Fillet and Ft -neh Law , t lre k ...bet A. M Leckart, Ban and Lieut -Col. Allan. Pin ••••Chl ries Diu ..das Una lirogden and Earl Percy. tieoplat,Cornival.—.Wm. Pin they and Edw. Nforris. Suatounrd•-•Gan• Leland and G.ll.lllertie J St Autry.. Bart. and Rd. Richards. 5 rodey--Cavt. W. If "ward Yysit and J. H Wharton. Kaal...Sit R. Rnatchnull, Rad. and Wm. Honeyrrood. soropahire--J Ke reason Powell and John Cotes. &than's Cavite...4f in Clive. wrpoth-yi.Wni. On: and Hon. Was itoivard. Nunn:none u,Km Tyro-.lu M. With: Bart. awl Ciliflea John Wwv! 'nig. Illidon—Lord Headley and Non. M I)undas. P Pollington AA R. P. Milues. M.. Lees. D v voithstitm..Sir W. W Wono• , Bart. C. tNTESTED ELECTIONS. ICILLT4IIII—MAY 12. Main? . Do.rdea • Laid HeAdler erran Cook . Isaac Leathern • • Mr L,rtiia.9 resigned this el en t ing. b o w s t h e wet of the sartawsouay.—rir LH Day• lirrn. W. Hill T. Jones. Esq. NOM H. G. Bennett 153 241 196 129 atorososunta LLECTI9I.I....TRIID DAY. -•—.... Pyiu. Esq. 230 Gen Itupatrack . 02 . Osborn, Esq. . 842 LIVZR POOL—.4I Al 7 12. State of the Pull walk., a (ee, nt..nutes of its close. General Ta.leton . 1447 Gen..ral Gateeytte . . 1253 Mr. Rosom . 908 Somerset Eketion commenced on Tuesday ; at the close of the Poll on which day the uumlwrs were— tras:•,, ou . 334 Lethhr.elge . 243 . Li. et ,, o 130 • • ' The fnP :wing' is the stat- of the gross Poll for the City ut York est the 4th tis) : Sr. W. M. Milner . So %1 M. Sykes H.,st L. Donets& • 1219 1170 990 WAT.ERFO RD, MAY 7. The Right Hon. Sr John Newport and his Lady returned to t!:is city last evening, about eight o'clock. As soon as thsir arrival in the packet was known. a great 'somber of gentlemen, on horseback, and a vast concourse of people on loot, went out to meet them. They came in two car r.ages, accompanied by time friends who had joined them by the way. The crowd took the horses from the carriages about o mit from town, and drew them to the house of Sir John's fatl.er, on the Adelphi, where the worthy traionet warmly expressed kis thanks for this new proof of their attachment, and assured them, that the best exations of his life should be devoted to the interest of his fellow-citizens, and to the prommion of the general prosperity of his native country.— The joy•bells wete rung, and the vessels in the river hoisted their colours, and fired several guns. We cannot sufficiently describe the proofs of esteem and gratitude, which were testified by every description of people. MI were emulous in expressing their high sense of the private virtues, public integrity, and eminent talents of their Representative. 'These were not the transient effusions of the moment ; but a solid and Listing tribute to those constitutional priticipl's which have already been brougf t to the test, and which remain unshaken and firm. It was a scene equally honourable to the discernment of nor fOlow.citizens, and to the reputation of the in dividual. In the same packet arrived Messrs. Ca rew and Coklough, of' Wexford ; General Wal pole; Mr. Jephsoa, of Mallow ; and Mr. Power, of Clashmore! Eztvv.'t from a private letter, same data t " When Sir Joh , ' retired. a gentleman offered money to the crowd, when there was a general cry -.! tie money, wo money. Mars ao mob, we ere Sir !ve7:7l,ilet friends !"—Sir John's canvass goes fa ...m-361y on, and there is little doubt of his success; hot the Church in danger" has hut him several bleach. It is no unusual thing here, and in other p.. , t% of itched, for Kleiflors to be asked, will you vote for the Pope or the King? The County of Vieesiord will be hotly contested." Ruh chance and fortune seem to combine to SIAM!. the am of the present Lottery with uncom mon intere-t. *ro.itiorrosv morning commences the List tFt , or week of this nr:st opulent Scheme, with 10.6001. to the first draw,/ Number : and most ez tra•adtnary to say, with every beating great Capi tal stil in the wheel Twenty-one Capital Prizes, from 10,0001. to 5001. Are yet in the Wheel, besides the Prizes of 1001. and 501.. with the full proportion of 2JI. Prizes, And uo Advance in Cie price of Tickets and Shares. The twit day nt drawing will be Saturday, when the First•dtao zi Ticket will receive 10,0001. TLe Luny Kill fiuis'a met week. LAW IN'TELI IGENCE. ••• COURT OF KINGS WEvractusrel, MA/ = 4. - Sitting; at Nisi Prato, 6thre Lord Chi , ' Juiti , e FALstisoliovon. AtiOrrory, V, BLAKE. This was an aCtion of slander. It appeared that the Plaintiff was an Attorney of this Court, residing at Newpntt, in the Isle of Wight, where he follow ed his profession with credit and respettability, har ing previously setwed his Clerkship in the respelta hie Offi-e of Messrs. Warton and Co. in the Tem ple. He was employed by a Mr. Philip George Dodd, in his professional capacity, reepeeting a dis pute between him and a tenant of the Defendant, about a mill-course, and having met upon the sub jeet, Mr. Dodd told. him he could no longer employ him, as the Defendant, Mr. James Ruffin Blake had told him that he was incompetent, the winals charg ed in the declaration being, tt Why do you go to such a petty-fogging fellow as that ?" (meaning the Plaintiff) ; et Why don't you go employ some re speCtable man, who knows his business; as to him he knows nothing about business r. The Learned Counsel for the Plaintiff here observed, that there was a case in the tooks, where an Attorney of the Court obtained a verdia against a person who called him a daffy-down-dilly, the Court conceiving that this epithet meant to convey something inju rious to the Plaintiff's eh-trader, hut the phrase of p nty-fogger did not require any translation. being already well known to the world in general. In consequence of the,e observations brfhe Desndant, Mr. Dodd entirely withdrew his business from the management of the Plaintiff, to his considerable loss and injury, and this action was brought to recover compensation. The ATTORNLY-GINTR•L. on the part of the Defendant, (when the Plaintif f had proved IA observed, that no man respelled the character of an Attorney more than he did, but the fait in this c:t:e was, that Mr. Dodd was the real Plaintiff, and not Mr-Griffiths- Dodd had had a dispute witha miller, a tenant of the Defendant, about cutting down a mill bank, which was a great loss to the poor miller, aiid Mr. Blake wanted Mr. Dodd to give up a lease he had of these premises over the miller, in order to pre vent further disputes or disagreements, but this he refused to do, and in revenge determined to throw Mr. Blake upon the Attorney, by imputing these expressions to him. If, he continued, any one of the Gentlemen of the Jury, who resided in the City of London, and whose mercantile transactions ware solely confined to the metropolis, had been aspersed and calumniated, it would be thought a most ridi culous thing were he to publish a vindicatinii of his charafter in Yorkshire, in order to clear himszlf from such imputations in the eyes of the people of York. So it was in the present case, for the Plaintiff, wholly unknown in this city, had brought his adios here, when be should have tried it in Hampshire, where he end all the other parties were known, and to which place the whole of his professional pro Rice wesconfined. The fall, however, was, mat the veers was originally laid in Hampshite, and the Plaintiff discontinued that aftien, and commenced pre sent one in Middlesex. Under all the circuimtences, he trusted the Jury would be satisfied it was not a case which called fur more than nominal damages. Lord EL I. Le.I3(..KOUGH observed, that the words being attionable, and proved to have beet spoken by the Defendant ; the question war. whether, in consequerice of these words so spoken, Dedi did withdraw his business trom;the Plaintiff.wno tocreby sustained a sa.:cific loss? But if the Jut y believed that Dodd, bsing irritated against Blake, did thus pot him in the has d. of his Attorney, and that lie had sustained no to ; by this conversati m, then they would negative the special damages, and give such as they thou A ht him entitled to. The Jury found a Verdi ft for the Plaintiff, One Shilling damages. We have authority to state, that these were the words uttered by Mr. ELLIOTT. at the close of tine poll, on Tuesday, alluding to what had fallen from Mr. SHERIDAN. He said " For my part, 1 declare, that the day of political chivalry is not Over ; and I here solemnly protest, that I absolve every West. minster voter, who has premised me, from that pro mise, provided he will vote for Mr. SHERIDAN." Ten Thousand Pounds for the First•drawn Ticket To-morrow Morning. Ten Thousand h.unds for the First-drawn Ticket on Tuesday Morning.— Ten Thousand Pounds, Five Thousand Pounds, for every succeeding day, besides six of One Thousand, and seven of Five Hundred. The Drawing will finally close on Saturday se'nnight. Tickets and Shares are selling, warranted undrawn, by Hoarissir and Co. 26, Cornhill, 52, Charing-cross, and St. Margaret's-hill, Borough. Tne Ticket, No. 14,317. drawn on Tuesday last a prize of 5001. was sold ia sixteen Sixteenths, by J. BRANSCOM a and Co. at their Lucky Lottery Offices, No. 11, Holborn, No. 37, Cornhill, and No. 3.8. Haymarket ; likewise No. 24,505, the first and only 20,0301. ever shared, drawn on Thursday the 23d of April, was sold in One Half, One Quarter, One Eighth, and l'svo Sixteenths ; where Tickets and Shares are now selling, warranted undrawn the 4tb day ; and sth day of drawing will be to-morrow, when the First Drawn Ticket is entitled to le,oool. A LAUNCR.—One of the most complete little things will be launched this day, that has been turned oil' the stocks for many years. intended far Noblemen. Gentlemen, and the public at large, en tirely for their use and pleasure ; the name to he given her is Etendio ; there are .many more from the s.rne. stock. May be viewed, and on sale at Pim tsv..ion's Dock-Yard, No. 16, Gracechurch. meet, London; she is built in the form of a Razor- Stroo, a new experiment to give a razor a sharp, keen edge, to shave with pleasure, price 21. 12s. 61 to 51..5.. lagenuity has been at work to meet the pn'ilic eye ; to conceive the nature of their use is to see them. Noblemen, Gentlemen, kc. that will honour Mr. P•ccwoo o with a call at the above Dock-Yard, the only place of sale, to view the ar tizle, will be eiteemed a favour. Alba, on sale, a large assortment of his celebrated Razor-strops Is, rernave .notches .from Razors, Penknives, &c. pa tronized by a generous public upwards of twelve years, price ss. tid, ss. and !Os. 6d. each, wish composition, per box 2s. 6d. to repair them, St:. Sold by the above Mr. PA C awooo, and by his agents in different parts of Larupe. tr rST Af fIf.TER EtECTION. SEVEN 111 I)AY-WA♦ 14. The eloq u ence which was displayed, this day, attratied a great asstrnhly, notwithstanding the un favourableness of the weather. At the close of the poU the numbprs stood thus : Sir F HurA.,rt . rrrl Cochrstra Mr. Molt Mr. Shrtedan . Mr. Paull Immediately when the state of the poll was an nounced, a person of the name of Fe DISSITY got op . . 17N1 . 1546 . 1201 . 341 . 260 on the front of the hustings, and addressed the po• tce thus :—.14 Gentlemen. I beg leave to claim your attentioe, for the purpose of submitting to you the propriety of putting a fete questions, but uone of them shall I press, unless you approve of them. They are such as are proper, in order to make you judge of the prev-nnons of those who have offereu themselves to your notice and appro bation. If any Candidate despise the questions which ate put here in your name, he assured that be will neglea you in the House of Commons. The great objet is to have an interpretation of that loose word "indcpead.•n:e " The first question I wish to put is, whether Lord Cochrane had any prorni,es of Ministetial support ? The second, has the Noble lord not had interviews with the Duke of Portland, at Burlington House ? The third, has he not had interviews with Mr. Huskiscon, at the Treasury t And fourthly—did lie not refuse to pre. sent his thsele's Petition to the House of Com mons ?" Mr. SiIiRIDAIS then addressed the crowd:— "Gentlemen," said he, " I am very glad, before I begin to address you this day, to find, that I have been instrumental in bringing the poll to its present state, as I perceive you visas st with such approbation. I repeat what I said yesterday, that it is my nature and temper, when I see many, like yourselves, pleased and happy at any event, to partake in their happiness acid satisfation. The person who has just addressed you, has, as I understand him, put a question, not to a single Candidate, but to all of us. I stand here to say, that anyanan may catechise me, in any manner he pleases, as to my past political life, or my future condo& and to that man I shall give a fair, frank, and sincere answer.-- He has stated, truly, that the word lac/qua/we is not perfeitly well understood. I must go this length, to say, that the confidence placed in a public man can only arise from a recolleetion of his past cctuieta. We hear much of respea and re gard to the Constitution. 'I here are four distiaa descriptions of persons who will speak of their love and apprehensions regarding it. flie first are those who have a blind and habitual reverence towards is. ithout admitting that these is any cause of reform.; with them I do not agree. The second are those who look so strongly into the abuses which they con ceive to exist, that they scarcely think it worth their preserving ; from them too I differ. Th.r third class consists of those who look at the Constitution with reverence and ♦eneration, but who are not blind to the necessity of sp Jy reform in abuses which are acknowledged to exist. Wan them Ido most sincerely agree. There is a fourth class, who love the Constitution, and who will not deny those abuses, but who wish them to remain unreformed and unrepaired, because it suits their selfish pur poses; those are the persons whom I most of all detest. (Lead appiauvr , .) Those are the men. who I venture to predict will ultimately prove the destruetion of the renowned bulwarks of our glo rious Constitution, as established by our ancestors. have no hesitation in saying, that those who ate too enthusiastically anxious for its reform, are to be blamed, as well as those who thrive by its disasters, and who think to succeed in proportion as the peo ple are burdened for its support. Having said thus much. I shall only add, that it is impossible for any man who profes,es himself to be a real friend to freedom of eleAion, not to be gratified when he sees the people gratified. When they are so, I am sa tisfied. I shall, however, make this declaration, that I do not look so much for my success on this occasion to those who have already polled, as to those who are yet to poll. If I had been the per son likely to be dismayed by d:fficulzies, or to be awed by majorities, I never should have had the op• porrunities which I have had to stand op as I have done in support of the rights and liberties of the people " Lord Cocurtas e—' l Gentleman, I do profess myself satisfied wi.h the state of the poll this d:ty, equally so as I have done upon every day on which I have had the honour of presenting myself before you. I trust that the independent vita of West tnieste r will sopport those only whom it thinks most fir, and that the Eleaors will agree- with me, that every candidate ought to stand Acne upon this occasion. I have already most unequivocally pledged myself upon my honour that I shall stand alone in support of that which I am determined to pursue. Several questions have been put to me, which I shall endeavour to answer to your satisfac tion. In the first place, with respell to Ministerial influence, I have all my life deprecated the idea of the interference of Ministers in popular elec. tions. I have presented' myself before you, not to be brought in by any faFfion. I am independent ; that is, I hold myself wholly uncon nected with any Ministerial party, excepting so t a r as their conduft and measures tend to the good of the country. In answer to . the first question, as to Ministerial influence, I may state, that I never made any application, or request, such as that which has been alluded to. I should despise the man who would mike such a request, as much as I despise the person who made the insinuation. With reaped to the Deke of Portland, I can truly state, that I had heard a report. that the whole in fluence of Ministry was to be given to Sir S. Hood. or to any man who would be subservient to their views. Ido not say, that Sir S. Hood was one of that description ; but I do affirm, that one member was brought in by means of that gallant officer. I went to the Doke of Portland, and a .kedif the report which I heard, was founded in tact ? The answer W 4 ,, that Sir S. Hood had the good wishes of His Ma;es•y's . Government. I stated that I thought that the interference of Government, in popular and all other Eleetions, was highly unconstitutional. With respell to the other Gentleman (Mr. Hus kissoti) whose name has been mentioned, I stated what I have already mentioned to you here, that no interference shout I take place, either in my INN. half, or that of any ether Candtdate. G•ntlemaa, I have been reproached with not having brought forward measures for the amelioration of the St•Ee of the Isfavy, and the reetifying of *Slims, when I was in Parliament; and, Gentlemen, it bt`er'mos me to expl47n my reas Ins fo. not having dme 4,„ I had suffered extremely in my health ; and when I Landed at Plymouth, I was sot able to walk. When I came here I found myself on able to attend Parliament ; I wai present, however. at the ihtroJitetion of the Cat lic que , tion, and had it goneforwari,l should certainly have given my vnte. The only division at which I wits present, WAS upon t!te discussing of the atostrad question, of •:ihich rpi have heard enot4eh. I- apieered to me, th.it a degree of blame was attempt i to be thrwan upon His Majesty, who I think did not de serve a:,y blame ; so tar from it, I are convinced he has been the protetor of top Constitut; , m, and the defender of oar rights. With respe.ft to the pledge, of which ycu are all pettedly aware, I was or opinion, as I still am, tnat His Maj..,ty had a right to ad in the ta-inner he did, and tia: he has afted according to the ConAi , ution.— I understand thatt was accu.ed of several other matters, after I left the hustings yesterday.— Gentlemen, as to these accusations, I may observe, that he ought to be a petsem of some degree of clue , raider and reputation who sh-astt d: Av. an aesw.e tram RV . upon such an occilpitilk• (Great j'eterrii" idol and Lanes.) GentlenY, I shall say at least, that the person who brows forward such accusations, ought at least to give some degree of proof for his assertions, hr. without some degree of evidence, no such quassia= as those which you have heard. ought to be pet. $y accusers seem to expea that the proof should come from me. and not from them. It is easy for any ind:vi duul in society to trouble the peace of Lis ne'.o - by saying to him. in the presence of A large a.sembly, ". Did you kill such and Such a perssm, or did you steal so and so from anothe ?" But 1 put it to your candour, whether such irnpliod accu sations ought to be at all attended to, unless some evidence be at the same time adduced to tupport them ?" The N ride Lord concluded, withirettaning his grateful acknowledgements to the Eleaors, far the exertions which they had used in his behalf. Mr. Jeer:was next presented himself to the notice of the turbulent and rejoicing multitude--'r Gen tlemen," said he, " I have to lament. i^fr reasons than one. that your candidate, Sir F. Bur dett, is not here CO answer the questions which have been put to the several candidates who have offered themselves for your sniffles; but. Gentlemen, there can be no daub:, the: it he had to answer those questions. there would have been no equivocation. There would have been a straight forward and dire& answer. He would havetold you plainly and roundly, that he is a friend to Patliernentary 'Reform— that he is the advocate cf the people, a friend to the • Prerogatives of the Crown. the staunch friend to the House of Pznrs. and the supper or of the dignity of th e people. Gentlemen, I must relent your silence when Col. Elliott addressee you, as I think it most essential mar he should not be per mitted to escape this day in silence. Bring him dis 3 tinaly to pledges. Let him convince you that he is your friend, and he will and:avonr to reatify abuses in Parliament. I should wish to ask him one question, in addition to those which have already been pot ; and that tprestion is, whether he was not one of the brewers who made an application to Par liament for the extension of the Excise Laws ? (Ae. claseations and lead applause). I should wish to know whether he did not intend to force the people to drink of his brewing, instead of allowing them to partake a little of their own brewing ? There can be no question, Gentlemen, that both this Col. Elliott and Lord Cochrane have the support of Go. vernment ; although I do not think that the Noble Lord would be capable of asking it in the same way that Colonel Elliott would do.— Although Sir Francis Burden sta.sds high upon the Poll, when you recollea former great contests for Westmioster, you must still continue aarve, for I warn you against the tricks and snan=uvrea of the Ministry. Gentlemen, I am unwilling to detain you with long speeches. We have seen and heard of very long debates in the House of Commons, and little good growing nut of them. What are you to expect from military Officers in Parliament, when we have seen many of them cashiered without any reason being assigned? It is true, that Naval (Meer. are not under such great controul or power ; but still, from various reasons, they are quiet ineligible,az your Represeloatives. I have to tifenk you for your exertions in favour of the popular Candidate. and have only to repeat to you. that he is not yet entirely nut of danger. so then I have to beg of you not to relax in your endeavours." Colonel Et. awe declared his immediate readiness to answer the queoion put to him by the lion. Gen tleman who appeared on behalf of Sir Francis Burdett. He appealed to the attention of those who heard him, and as he valued his honour as a man, and his eharaaer as a Candidate, he solver was a Member of any Committee of Brewers, hav ing fur their objea the extension of the Excise Lasts. On the cortrary, he thonghr the Tax upon home brewing oppressive and inefficacious. Was theßight Honourable Gentleman (Mr. oheridan), then cootie Hustings, he would do him that justice. because he well knew that the Tax alluded to originated entire; with that Administration, of which he formed a part. The Gentleman who first addressed them on that day, had, in auather place, charged him with being the friend of the three last sue. nee Adminis trations In answer, he shoul4 say, that he did support the i. fides of Mr. Pitt, because he con ceived that sush a system advanced the glory of his country. /1., supported Mr. Sheridan, because, although he differed from him in certain point:, he btlll had admired those unrivalled taierits, and that ardeat patsiotistra, which ever aatiat:d him on great public questions, carelets of the si•re of the House whence they were proposed. With Mr. Folio polity he also differed ; but that difference of opinion never prevented him from duly appreciating the patriotic and enlightened views of toar truly great S.etesman lip:4l all occasions he gave him his eleaive support, because oe sop • posed him the most able man to represent the city of Westminster. As to his own poli.ic,l opinioils, he argued upon this loyal principle. that wh at tae majotity of the two Houses ut Parliament agreed ip , 9