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I ITESTMIN STEM MIMING. A numerous meeting or the friends of Mr. Paul,. EleClors of Westminster, yesterday dined at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand ; bit FRANCIS BURDETT in the Chair. When the cloth was removed, the health of His Majesty was proposed from the Chair, and drank ' with en , huliastic applause. Sir Francis, then gave, The Independent Elellors of Westminster, with three times three. Sir FRANCIS Boar:seri. then rose, and said : ' •00 Gentlemen, I never in the whole course of my life rose narsre &mildly to perform my duty to the public r never did 1 feel a more sincere satisfattion, than in proposing the health of my Honourable Friend near me, Mr. Paull, in the most sincere and manly manner. I shall not detain you by any un necessary comments, but briefly state to you a few ohservattons, which, from their unanswerable ten dency, I am confident will meet your unanimous and rational acquiescence. In the advertisement of your late representative, Lord Gardner, he fully assures you of the impossibility to fulfil the duties of his profession, at the same time with those of a representative of the people.— In applying the natural conclusion, from this ac knowledgment, to the case of the gallant Admiral who now seeks your suffrages, though I most since: • I y hope not to be misunderstood, yet I must ins:sr, that the only situation where an English Admiral is improperly seleCted, is where you appoint him to the performance of duties, which it is perfeEtly out . of his power to execute ; farther; that the dig. 0 nified trust of being the representative of the people. is the only possible situation, where a gallant Of is, in any degree, liable to be found , hostile to the liberties, inoependence, and true in- 1 '`,(2te t ests of Britons. On the gallantry and merits of i et Samuel Hood, I could with pleasure expatiate. I Was the objet of his wishes any marked token of re,oeit, any reward in consequence of his renowned exertions, and acknowledged valour, I am coo vinced there is not amongst the Independent Elec tors of Weitminster, one man unwilling, but, on the contrary, rather minus to grant it. But the present ohjee at which he aims, is no sinecure office ; it cannot be deputed : it is not less important, in the exercise of its &ties, than that profession to which • the Gallant Admiral is so honourably attached, ad mitting of no absence, and incapable of no further delegation. Ina word, it is that duty which an Ads mita!, who is animated with a desire of devoting himself to the service of his country in his profea-. sional chariater, cannot psi form My Lord Gard.' . set has bequeathed, as a legacy to his country. the necessity of not committing, to his 'professional brother, the exercise of that trust which is incon tinent with that path of honour he has already trod, and to the advancement of which, his pre. genre and exertions are still turthe• waiting In not supporting the gallant Admiral, there can not be any personal dislike, as it• arises frost that experience which the eondua and lens trage of your I late representative fully elucidates. Having draw" I your attention.to two C...did:hes, I will briefly adv. vert to the pretensions of the third Gentleman.-,s My opinion of his ineligibility is already pu slisheds but, again, I ['WWI retrain from expressing my, conviCtion, that the Treasurer of the Navy is not a i • fit Casidishnitior a frea..achgWirsi, sad eacarrgit • people; tech as, lam confident, the Electors of West minster wiil prove themselves. Now, Gentlemen. I claim your attention to the pretensions of Mr. . Paull—a. Gentleman who, though isolated and un connened, has, in the very opportunity Be has given to you of "%etching your unbiassed judg ment, some strong appeals to your ardent support. ' But his merits are nut restritted or confined to that individual inducement. No, he has proved to you, what one honestly sincere Member of Parliament can effeCt ; that unsupposted by party or influence, he hes evinced, in this period of political apostacy, an unparalleled perseverance in prosecuting public oppressors, in !ringing before the tribunal of the eituntry, the misdeeds and misgovernment of men, most powerfully proteßed ; and this patriotic con -4,1a he has displayed under circumstances the most discouraging, and with an earnestness which few men would dare to exhibit. To whatever, in the shape of expedient, trick, or device, either open or underhand, it rias possible to resort—to all these have the opponents of Mr. Paull resorted, for the purpose of creating insurmountable obstacles, or of Mama :26:1g him from the pro:sedition of this work of national justice. When those failed m their re : spe..sf!ive effeete, and the perseverance of this Gen tleman could not be prevented, one fortunate alter native remained in the dissolution of Parliament. i I d• not pretend to assert, that this was the only =olive ait i Ministers for adopting the measure ; tbut I most sincerely declare my conviaion, that one , or the strongest inducement, in their adopting this unespetff.d measure of Parliamentary dissolution, was merely to get rid of Mr. Paoli. Here. then, • 11124 one o f rhe strmageit reasons why the Elstelors of the independent city of Westminster, when it was ascertaieed t h at Mr. Paull could not, from an unj irrifiahk inflaence, procure a scat for his two pence, or his money, should give to that Goad,. man a free, incorrupt, and energetic support. Pro acribed as he was. in the AR orprosecuting a great. public all:ged Isliti.piency, an inquiry of such im. pot-finer, that he alone cotrid do it with effett ; it was toile in such a city as that of the great, the pub lc ',Poked city of W. strninster, that he could find a rock from which he could not be removed by all the power and influence of the broad-bottomed 11d ' ministration. Having thus stated to you some red. RODS, etch, individually, sufficient to minute the sop; 1 port of the rational and disinterested, I shall now take the liberty of submitting to your consideratiorki"' a few resolutions, from which, as a criterion, You may Easily estimate the pretensions of Mr. raull., and fully ascertain the line of coodne which he is determined to pursue.—( Fo• Romlatious, see M. Adetrlisement) —Nothing now remains, but to re comnmd to every gentlzman the oneself of re tiring the means in his power to further the great obi -se of our wishes, arid thus to insure the success of Ms. paull's EleCti• n, whose health 1 have now the honourto repose." The toast being drank with three— Mr. PAULL rose and said-00 Although. Gentle. men, I. have on former occasions delivered my opt- Lion upon public questi ir.s. I never rose with stronger emotions of diffidence than at this moment. I wit not trespass opus your time by unnee.nary proles- ----- - SO U 7 HA' ASK EL ECTIO N. ' Yesterday, the Eledion for Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament for the Borough of South• wark, commenced before Mr. Townsend, the De puty High Bailiff, in the absence of his superior, Sir Watkin Lewis. At eleven o'clock, Mr. Townsena proclaimed the purpose of convening the Rieder', and read the Writ directed to him by the proper Officer. for the return of two Members to serve in Parliament. He then announced the names of three Candidates, namely, Robert Thornton, Esq. and the Right Hon. George Tierney (late Members for South wark) ; and Sir Thomas Vinton, Bart. Mr. SillAW immediately stood forward to propose, for the choice of the ElePors, his Hon. Friend Henry Thornton. The confidence he felt in the in tegrity and independence of that Honourable Gentle man. joined to hie coedua in four successive Parlia ments, in whit* he hail been chosen to represent the Free Meatus of the Borough of Southwark, was ground which he conceived fully to authorise him, en the present occasion, to call for the confidential suffrages of thou Eleaurs to return him to a fifth. He felt coafiden: uses the Elettors themselves, con vinced of the fidelity with which his Hou. Friend discharged his former trust, would determine them now to renew it by. a fresh pledge of their confi dence ; and he felt that, henceforward, as he had always done before, his Hon. Friend would dis charge that trust, unbiassed by the prejudices, and uninfluenced by the diftates of any man or party, to the hest of his independent judgment, for the inter ests of his country, as truly would become an English representative. Sure he was, that if either rri the Gentlemen who were his competitors on the pre sent occasion, had a second vote to dispose of, they would ace:filly devote it in -favour of his Hon. Friend. It was now 20 years since the Electors of Southwark had first chosen him as their representa tive. Oa former occasions they had given him their suffrages upon trust ; but they were now called upon - to continue their support, on the ground of experience, convinced as they must be. that he had always sifted in consistency with ere principles he first professed, and which first obtained for him their confidence. He was a rusts not only attached to their political principles. and a zealous friend to our happy constitution, but a man conceded with, and ettensively einvcrsaut in, commerce i and con- . . . ions ; lay erOfesaions, which, lamentably, is the his- : etrently thrbetter qualified to represent a weal^ tory of public . charafters, are too of tin indulged iii, ) populous, sod commercial 'borough It peculiarly without even the intention of being realised ; but 1 behoved, then.- that Boronit. by the.ehoiee of och cordially and affeEtionately I feel mere than Lan- a representative, to set an eximyile to the great, triage can express. My future conduct will, 1 ! populous, and independent boroughs throughout trust, evince to you, that the honour you hay ! the kingdom. Mr. Shaw concluded, by recom done rate this day is not improperly conferred, and ; mending strongly, his Hon. Friend Mr. 'Thornton, be assured, that whatever may be the issue of i to the choiceof the EledoftL this national contest, for so I must call it, the re- , His recommendation was seconded by Mr. collellfon of this day will be to me a greater source I Tnoasion, of the Borough ;'-and it was received of ptide and sell-gratulation, than my return for with loud and general applauses. Westminster, devoted as lam to that hononteble Mr. SWAltsr. next stood forward to recommend to distinaien. I have appealecltcryour City, not upon the choice of the Eleaors his Right lion. Friend pretensions, impudent, presomptuous.and audacious, I m e . Ti erneys _(w r ,„,,„ an d st un , o i l s lb cr y o f as my opponents have stated. No ! I never should no Plattman ! tre taro-teat ! fer mi As apes/481k.) have attempted, single and unconneEted as I am, to Th e EleCtors were,' he said, thisclay sailed nn to offer myself to your notice, before I was entitled by eiereise an invaluable franchise... andto discharge a the strongest of all claims—the claim of proicrip- most important duty, in the choice of 'Representa tion ! proscribed tot conscientiously exercising my tives to serve them in Parliament. In'the exercise juigmeat and duties on a great question of Lational of that right, and in the discharge of that great im,•ort. Where could I have, with m duty , justice, ullty, it was Most peculiarly incumbent up on appealed, than to a city whose Electors are not to them, if they considered the present most critical be bought, however an undue influence may be posture of affairs in England, end the disordered indirectly applied. From the period 1 first heard situation of the Continent of Europe, to chose men the name of the great and distinguished patriot, of talents and integrity, who well understood the who now honours this Meeting with his presidency. , political and commercial interests of the country — I had fixed my determination to live and die men of cool jefteaing judgment, not carried away in his 'principles. The effeas of calumny he has by chimerical notions, or a vain pursuit of empty poe witnessed ; he has grappled with it in the breach, polarity, but who would do thew duty by tbe aliellee only ,to insure •its complete defeat. I rejoice, that try and faithfully discharge the trust teposedilaidseus we truly behold the man of the people ; that' l l th i s to the best of their judgment, uninfluenced by party. crisis of universal peril, there is one charalter, by Such a man he would now reconunend to them. a man • whose side, step by step, it shall ,be the summit of who ,. i ntegr i t y the bad tried (hisses), and who, b my ansbition to attend. opt/being, awry inroad of car- their suffrages. had before been placed i n t h at i is n „ ruption. arid every encroachment on the rights of the anon, where the sterling weight of his talents had people ; and if liberty can be again proa:colly recommended Mds to the high station he now known in this county, to be an active though humble fills rn the : public service of his country. With assistant in restoring the Constitution of our fathers. Mr. Tierney it had been their fortune to strug- To one point I distinctly pledge myself, that, if the gle, and to conquer together ; and he rested in enemies of human liberty endeavour to put their de- the fullest confidence, that their experience of signs in execution, and that the Habeas Carpets A!t, the integrity, the talents, and the services, of the great birth right of Britons, and only security Mr. Tierney, would 'determine them now to re for our liberties, be again suspended (an event which new that confidence they had so repeatedly reposed I most seriously apprehend), with my friend shall in him, by sending him again as one of their Re- I be found, struggling for your dearest interests ; presentatives to Parl•ornent. He knew that hid or, if defeated by means out of our power to con- flight Hon. Friend stood in the situation of what trout, attending him to the scaffold. I must again was called a placeman.. Rut he would ask, ff the return to you my most heatfelt and sincere thanks, acceptance of a pohlie office, in the service of his ender the strong pre-possession, that the friends or country, and uta:er such as Administration as the liberty will individually exert themselves, and that present, was to the considered n repedxch of his the spark now kindled, will. under your cherishing political principles, Or tad: qualify him for thieconfi- protetlion, animate into action the Ele/tors of Co. dente of his eciastituourf Ike same argument would Empire. Nor can I better &seclude, than in pr,i. have applied to that illustrious .bat alter, so recently Peeing " the health of Sir V. 'Burdett, and the In- and irreparably lot to the country ; and, he trusted, dependent Eleftors of Middlesex;" which was drank was too contertptible, Mid& the present cernotece amidst the most animated plaudits, with three dates wow of ~ G0,,.,„,,,„,...,tiv,„ any we i ght with the three. discerning assembly whom be had now the honour Sir Faancts BURDITT observed, there was one to address. He concluded by recommending the toast, which the Eleitors of Westminster. so bell Elefli.in of Mr '1 iierney. acquainted with the satire of Ministerial influence, Mr. Swap's's recomMendation was seconded by would sincerely drink— Mr. Ascocc. Sueieo re thehideperident freeholders efidam pshire, in their Mr. C. Donate then eame forierd, and strongly aontions against the aggression of an arbitrary Minister. recommended his. Worthy Friend Sir Robert Tur- He then begged to take his leave. having recom- ton, who twice before had the honour of presenting ' mended the immediate appointment of small can- htmseli as a Caediilate for their choice ; and -who, yawing committees, which rendered the duty easy notwithstanding the influence which had been cow , to the individual. at the same time that it was ma- Pined against Mph had borne so high an estimation terially serviceable to the peat object of.their at- amongst the glutton, that the majority against hies tain ment. at the close of the last Eleetion was but 7t (several Sir Francis Burdett and Mr: Patel bevies retired. voices called oat 94i); he would let Gentlemen b" - Mr Cobbett was tatted - ter threhidr ; end **eller else efenifeelifFE don Nosy, ad It' Val - ,St:_ - place proposed f: e health of worth disputing. ,But, as his Honourable Fiiersd " Sir France 11Jviett—with three times three;" had, upon th'e loniser occasion, pledged himself to which was drank with enthusiastic applause. After come forward again upon the first vacancy, to offer proposing some regulations for a uniform and eine- himself for the honour of their choice, he now stood teal canvass of the city of Westminster, he proposed forth to fulfil that engagement, and he. Mr. Dun a toast, kin, did not hesitate to rely, that his cause world be The Independent freeholder of Hampshire, and success successful—pledged to him from motives of private., to the exertione they a,u now making for the preservation of the remains on the , r freedom, friendship, as well as from the most intimate know-, against the attacks of se odegaat led e, _ l _ of his personal . Administration." g and ong experience This toast was received with universal applause ; high honour, and political integrity. His independ; and atter a few patriotic toasts and songs, the corn- *nee and public sprit were well known to all who pang separated with the utmost harmony, declaring heard him ; upon such grounds it was that he now their anxious wish to support the cause in which had the honour of proposing him as a fit Reim they had assembled. 1 sentative for the choice of the Elettors of South wark.l He could not, it was true, speak upon the ground of experience as to his Parliamentary con- I I duet, as he had not the good fortune to have been before eleCled ; but he was confident, that had he succeeded in the former Eleflion, the whole tenour of his political cOndon would have spoken still mute forcibly in his recommendation. Mr. Pe eserim seconded the recommendation of Sir Thomas Turton, and coincided most fully in the encomiums bestowed upon him by the last Speaker. That Sir Monies had sot been before in Parliament. was not owing so any difficulty or im pediment he could have met in being returned foe other Boroughs. I'he reason was, that he had never sought eleition through any other source ; and, indeed, by the very warm and liberal.: sdpport be had twice before experienced lions this free Eleaors of Southwark, he came for ward once more in hope of being more saccesethal. He alluded to a former occasion, when the Eledors of Southwark were called together, to emedaire of the best mode of contributing their zealot's and loyal support to Government and to the native; but the question was not in what menace theyeeold best contribute their support, but whether or not they sh uld Roam to Parliament the R,ght Hon. George Tierney ? Them was so man better disposed, thee he felt, to support His majesty's Government, and mote especially His Majesty's present Minissers; , and, though he felt the importance of returning IS I Podimment a representative for this great and pop loss trading Borough, a man conversant in. aid cooneded with, commerce; yet he would prefer the independent spirit of such a man as Sir Thomas fusion, even to the boasted talents of Mr. Tierney, which might probably recommend him one day to the Office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, but whose views to personal interest were no pledge of fidelity to the trusts of a representative. He, there fore. earnestly recommeotled Sir Thomas Turton, and relied that he would, on the present occasion, become the man of their choice. Mr. THORNTON next came forward to address the Fleefors.-•tie said, the dissolution of Parlia ment took place 13 suddenly, and at a period so wholly cater:led by him, as to have left him con siderably behind those gentlemen who were his com petitors, on the ground of having previously can vassed the Eleaots. He felt, he said, the disadvan tage under which be must labour from that circum biataCe ; but he hoped it would not be imputed to him as arising from any want of personal respeft to 5 Wt - 7 -- • hit enfatillienti itineneved: for'abeve tvtrtf Tetra with their signor and arn fi .lence, and e nations of having discharged the trust conscientiously and to _ the best of his ahilit.th- he came foe ward now, once h m t7ed w tho o se ffe fr r iheinncts"4„wthionrwrorheie r det il e i r 'i tni tme nrd c t 2 o n en eti ' lu .,e t him enthe pies nt occas;on,would endeavour t 7 pial:. ate the disadvautate wirier which he la4ourzetifi s a late caevais, by giving him their votes singlX.„.,He trusted too. that the circumstance would be.'cr,nsi dered by the Elerftcws at large, upon white We- • . ..:4 ralitv he now threw hitissell ; and he had be sitisfaaion to declare, 'drat amongst those few per- : ties of his old friends, whom he had time hitherto to consult. their seal and assurances its; surpnit weed stronger than ever. Mr.. Thorntpn then called the • attention of the Assembly ti a short and cannily ~.., view of his political cen , lua. - iince be first bad the Donner of being returned by them to Parliament. Ide had been charge I with early aid ecmtineed et taclonent to Mr. Pitt. It was trite, he wo•Warly • attached to that great man, oo his emrasce into .p . o.' litical eminence, because he considered him the friend of the Corstitution, and the friend of liberty. , of Parliamentary "reform, and of peace with Amos rise, and he voted with him on every tonna, lit favour of those principles. But ha voted the war with France, as the friend of peace, rejoiced in what was conceived .o be the • 1 went of French liberty. ander the French revoletion v because he saw no reason for this country than ' 44 envy the commercial prosperity of France. aid he hoped that the cite ilistment of liberty sheeny would lad to dm iturodedtion of lama light and more freedom is this comas', ; ~acid tend gradually to the rxtendos, of freedom thrash . ' 4 ihavorld. But when be saw that liberty its Tromso degenerate into the most atraciens a.-41 eau- i f gutnary licentiousness , when he saw R alreaslSSlP *4 the French Monarchy, and at the matirsav 21 went of a pure democracy, whrb i t t o arietbli Wow ,' fern spreading to this country mad to' Wall* sag endangering the subversion of eat Gent Istifreet stitution, he voted'. certainli for measures, eibich i , however unpopular, helOnsidered only asdeohosso „remedies for a desperate disease. 'srd es lidisemsai• bly necessary, at the moment, to savelbe State &on subversion. and the Country from anarchy. fie was happy to observe the, phrensy of the rooms.' setailis with the delusion which sicked it ; asollie eves ed himself still the,uochanged advocate for eenserter tion'al liberty, and the "(fiend of grease& and itedarate Reform in Parliament. as wean sot , getslance should warrant. He had, is tits cosine of his Parliamentary combs% voted wilt • Ministers when be coacolved them to ha :tights s E and alphas them, when be thong* dme 5 ,, 5 1 0,4 4. lie was the advocate for rms. sad NO *. in wipport of the Admintstratioii . wise,' ed it; he was adverse to the pram. war, he thought it at least of geratieum 4 Alt. peitienty.:Z4 He had ever discharged his duty to the beet. et his 1 coosciesce, and fat the general itemises of Income stituents and his country. There was w e re poste in which he had differed from his minstitsmslt hot en all great questions of' going intim* so if country. he hoped he had always spoke Oa* mil. meats ; he disdataeri that tart t 0 24. 44 4m which, because it binds al ft flees Om pan 1 --snatry, precludes him from nerving nsi...l--- Aro weeds calm influence of arty man, or set of men. He cen ceived it to be as necessary to exercise a cousins. tional vigilance against the condo& of parties in op position. as against Ministers in power; ageism* those who were anxious to get into places, as phut those who possessed them He meant to relleßions on any set of men. With resiele to the , Right Hon. Gentleman, noir his sot pence, be *wad his talents had justly reconmidlded bees to .sbe. place he now filled; and be nor no reel -en why he could not discharge his 4 ff i r perk& consistency with the interests of tee= try. But whatever that Right Hat. Gentleman possessed in talents, as a anicitiaor, he would behold to say, he had the advantage of bin •is point of independence. Tbat eharateristic be lied ever maintained : what be always was, he ever „Ahead be ; and relying upon the proofs be had ever sidelf his principles, and the coniseence of the .~a had so, often experienced, he hoped tbksr6eeves they were incensed to reed upon the =occasion, they would nit expel their old, dent.•and faithful representative. Mr. Mattis , next addressed the Eledmi ; end after rewinding then of the confidence they es lose were pleased to repast in him, disclaimed all seek %-riblembilles of a previous add perecoal t - Isierhen hoptited to bhp, by the Hon. I. New contrary, he had "sprcilically fp74l334laltehwisit, thit,if e as • ingredient in Ile must beg leave mime td not comply with the a, reel and injuti , ws neglea tikatilliisaions bad been made eta ins so meet them in any , form. One patty, on a former him a Jacobin. another Round patriot ; a third charged him courtier ; another stited hits again called him placeman another said, he b.O gone to any Man were to alrlaw some . to publish them withiliihassie se be ready to give them - personal ration. But he was trio old hi tioneering. to busy hims if iM' cable task of answering all the and eleOion squihs, posted-urns Borough of SoutharA k ; and were such charges exoibitecl own he had ind,ed the atrccit) the last short interval of peace accepted a place f r 3171 Bonaparte, him one. Pessioner he was not be : a place be certainly had detained iocompatible with the *writ of the being at once the serve:at of Lis ' to his country ; or that no *ould accept a situati , n for s. he • on the contrary, he cunceu liar i•eauty of the British ' country aught have it: fr:ei as well as the Court its lac: the Hon unable Genders L.l knowledge his competence for penonal castes., as the Hoa. Gentleman cifically_ stated to his piteoo.l °MTV. W fl a pialalleliarY TIP los to decline the pod e the cerernwl. vtithont R of his ortal dory. eta so bin; bet he eqe y palpieln ei satheatic ler occasion. had called tel fault that he im With being ante a a tnru.coat I a Ln and pensioner. ; a i live at Boulogne. lf to of those charges. op as to them. he should rsoaal answer and refs- iii the Bonne', of elev. SI the silly and impraSi., the anonyinou• plicarte • upon all the wall, in the d there only. be believe?, against hint He would :try to go to Boulogne, .n ice : he really Tweet. ',ate, for he never offered s out. sot ever looked to accosted ; being nothing itd the constitution. .n Lis King and in, friend o frienl a his country w the so vice ot.the puh. Inceived tto be Iho torte'. h Con &novo the ..11 in Gov n isernet t o ccoe7s. lie c.,uld i sm tt .1 who was pleas J to asp for the Chancel'. $ up if ear Rer fter- DOT. MCI. Ring Stet'• rey. ilt to Hll. Mt% I K. 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