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As our only objects are troth and i m p art i a li ty, tve f ee l i t to b e Our duty to insert the follnwinz letter, which appears in a Morning Paper this day ; but at the same rime we beg leave to oh- Ilrve, that our letter troth Covent, y came from a G entl , tnan, upon whose veracity, and opportunity for obercdtion, we place toll reli,iiee. We five o , thiitg to do with CuBI3FTT or his connec tion, and holt: them in the same abhorrence as they must be held in by ail good mcn, as well by the s ubscribers to the subjoined Letter. They do nor, however, deny the fact of the attack on Sea. ‘EANT'S House, though they deny that it was bl ade by their own agents : To TILE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Coventry, March 15, 1820. SIK---We cannot sufficiently express our regret and dis aPpointinent at seeing your respectable Journal made the of the infamous exluurnies and falsehoods published "Y Cubbett, relative to this Eleeti.m, and giving the confirmation which could induce the Public to pay the Sl ightest atteotion to them. „ Whilst these statements were con fi ned toMr.C o bb ett ' s pub 4leations, their character contained the best refutation of tL ,to ,but we think it necessary to inf orm you, that every de 'rag SUN of Tues.lay, respecting what is called the attack on Mr. Sergeant's house, is utterly desti ttite of truth. During the whole Election the abhorrence and detestation of his pretensions and principles has beta deservedly expressed, and it has nut always been possible to repress the public feel tog; but we LIR, quite certain any excess which has been com ttted li;is be e n p ro d uce d by t h e part i sans of Mr. Coubett, hisrd particularly as r es p e ct s M r . S ergean t' s h ouse, from which host of Kenilworth ant) Birmingham Radicals here have "t'en iegularly armed with bludgeons and stones, and from Which the populace were assailed with them in the most Caroling, manner on the day of Messrs. Moore and Elli ce ' s itrance. AMC CAMP. JOS. KIRKLAND E. %V. PETERS. GEO. MOORE. CONTESTED ELECTIONS.—STATE OF THE POLLS. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 15. Ca Ns • (i 4 'ulng Elected 1635 I Uromptou 345 wins 133 . 2 Leyl,. 1532 , ..eyland 125 - 40. BEnroßnstuag, Airmen 16. 'stock `lla 686! I. DURHAM COUNTY, MARCH 14. P 4rnbt °n u Wittt Ut irror SUSSEX, MARCU 16. urteis <ll - 1229 1 CHESTER, MARCH 15. 1 ° rJ nelgrace 4 • G Egerton Il ar' Iv m g TAUNTON, MARCH 15. titl e 170 I Seymour , lO7 127 tj r ,, k NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 14. b ai r eh ................ 1731 I Smith 1676 44 1 , 44 1731 Rolleston l inr PRESTON, MARCH 15. t i rwail ocks 777 W illiams 765 '7O H. Hunt 761 ~ ABINGDON, MARCH 16. IN:t;es D undas 784 I Hallett 65 bit .............. 769 1 , ,,i,_ RADNOR, MARCH 15. -. .................. 200 I L ew i s 52 )t obi h CA LLINGTON. t v .SOD} Elected .... 68 I Thompson gai i . .... 68 Attwood Le • CARDIFF. I%l s (Elected) ........ 457 I Ludlow 245 tr ..sp..-- MEMBERS „ 114,7,. " u gdolishire—W. F e ll ows, E sq. and Lord John Russell. tieti 4 ‘ l iire—Sir G erar d N oe l Noel, Bart. and Sir Gilbert a tlicot e . ,:lforilshire— S i r. J. G. Cott re ll an d R o b ert Pr i ce, Esq. alt.A.orukealie—Sir John Owen, Hart. i ' , 4: uue llisliire—Si r R. Willi ams V aug h an. . li,„us- -- William Taylor Money, Esq.- and Si r G. T. Staun taii'l Ham I, art. . C. R o bi nson an d the Hon. Colonel Edwa r d lk , ' Nuu. u tt„„ ~, , -4td• " B assett -_ -- Twiss and -- Phillips, Esqrs. 1.),, 4F-•-Wyndhain Lewis E ti, a Vinnor i— 'Hon. Thomas Kn ox. ilkiniotiaru"--Horace Seymour Esq 4 iluls—Captain Cliffo ' rd. . „ - i r I) -,11,04c; a r k •IS ...U/ZDETT tins lett town for Kirby l il3 it . "Is seat in Leicestershire, to prepare for tie,i+:4l. which is expected to take place on Wed ,. riext, at Leicester. 4'4E, :;;ExcIIANGE, i•cti 7.—Although the arrivals have t ot s Iti yet all Grain was dull sale this rnurniDg. prip74 &ti• ley full is. per quarter cheaper, rNcept 4 4 0 r d,. '"v picked sainpl e ,, Nvhich with ditheillty obtained of ; Oats, lie - ans, and Peas were heavy . sale, at "jol t i s• per quarter ; other articles there is no al . • 441, 1 . I..trlELn at 14 11 w4s MARKET, NlAitcli 17. The Market this "(Ily supplied, but prices were lower than 1 11 -. the s • 4 Y; Mullou also lower in plice ; Veal and ILiy-inarket remains as per last wcel Praw and Clover, nu alterFrion in the prices, WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—EIGHTH DAY. The follo , vit4; was the state of the poll this day at two o'clo-ic This morning, soon alter nine o'clock, the Stirstn , Fs arrived at Brewton!, and having taken their seats in the 84,0 th erected for them, pro ceeded to make the necessary arrangements for the Election of t wo Gentlemen to serve as Repre sentEives in Parliament. Some short time after 111 r. CHARLES SAMUEL ‘VHITBREAD, attended by a tunsiderahle number of Freeholders, and accom panied by Mr. Alderman Wool), Sir ROBERT IVIL SON, and others, appeared in an open landau. Mr. hlkwsn, accompanied by many Gentlemen of the County, next arrived, and was greeted with a mixture of applause and disapprobati on . M r . B YNG 'text arrived, and was generally well received.— The necessary forms having been gone through, Alr. MARTIN, M. I'. proposed Mr. BYNG, and Was seconded by Mr. TREPAUD. Sir JOHN GlUsHosts nominated Mr. MELLISH, seconden by Mr. JEREMIAH HARMAR. Lord JOHN RUSSELL P r °PoSed CHARLES SAMUEL WHITBREAD. Esq. seconded by Air. Alderman Woon.—The show of hands was in favour of Mr. WHITBREAD and Mr. iYNG. A poll WdS demanded on behalf of Mr. ATELLIsu.—The polliog was proceeding when our Reporter left Brentford. li•N3'S THEATRE. The Concert announced by Madame MARA, but delayed on account of her indisposition, took place last night iu this Th eatre . P rev i ous to her appea rance, Mr. BBLLAM? came for ward and stated, that Madame MARA had been some time oppressed with a very severe cold, under which she was still suffering, but that the Public might not again be disappointed, she was resolved to appear before them, and trusted to the usual indulgence of a British audience. This apology was well received, and she came forward and sung a fine air, composed by GUGLIELMI. The ctrec:i of her cold were very evident, but she contended against them with great resolution. Though her power on this occasion, was of course, much inferior to what it was in the zenith of her fame, yet the same pure taste pet waded her performance. Her divisions were given with the same precision, and introduced with the same judgment. Her shake, perhaps the most perfect ever heard, was admirable, arid long continued. Her next song was, " (V/tat though I trace" from HA'DIDEL, which she gave with increased strength, and with interes , ing expression. Her last song was a flue composition of Nee, which the return of her cold in some degree affected, but it was still an admirable specimen of science, taste, and expression. Upon the whole, it would be unjust to decide upon her powers from the impression of last night, on three wounds first, because it is, we . understand, nearly 18 years since she sung in public, and she consequently must have felt the agi tation of a novice ; secondly, she ,bad a new race of connoisseurs to encounter, who, perhaps, are more prone to the modern taste of singing than to the better school of a former period ; and, lastly, because she was obviously labouring under a severe indisposition, that might properly have retarded the Concert, which a laudable, but inju dicious zeal prompted her to hasten. We are in duced to dwell more on the last cause, because we remember that in the very perfection of her powers she was seized with a cold at one of the Covent-Garden Oratorios, and rudely driven by a cabal front the Stage, because she hid attempted to sing and failed. The audience conducted themselves very differently last night, and greeted her with liberal applause through the whole of her perforraance. There was a cousiderable nutty. ber of Vocal Performers present, who, we find, declared that what they had heard ought to be treasured as' an admirable lesson on ate art, as well as a specimen of that sound taste and judg ment which will always be cherished by true judges.—The House altogether, considering this bustling period of a General Election, was very welt attended.. The Band was led by Mr. F. CRAMER. BR AHAM VAUGHAN, BELLAMY, the KNYVaTTS, and Miss TRAVIS, were the other Vocal performers. In justice to the several Morning Papers, it should be added, that they have in general paid a liberal tribute of respect on this Occasion to a Singer, who cer tainly eclipsed all Vocal Performers of her clay, and who came forward under disadvantages, which we hope, will in a great measure disappear on her next appearance in Public. It may not be improper to observe, that the noble sacrifice of Moscow, by Russian fortitude,which destroyed that ancient capital, to disappoint the hopes of an ams bii ious and perfidious Invader, also consumed the property of MARA in the patriotic conflagration, REGIsfElt OF FASHION. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Yesterday, his Royal Highness the Duke of York gave a (limier to a large party of Noblemen and Gentlemen, at York House, st. James's. Yesterday, the Earl and Countess of Coventry bad a grand dinner party at Coventry House, Piccadilly, and in the even ing her Ladyship entertained a select party of distinguished friends with music, &c. The Ambassador of the Netherlands entertained a party of distinction yesterday, at his house in Whitehall-place. Yesterday Lord and Lady Holland gave a grand dinner at Holland House, to a large party of their distinguished friends. Among the personages invited there were present, the Nlar guess and Marchioness of Lansdown, Sir William Scott, the Earl of Stair, &c. The Duku and Duchess of Northumberland gave a grand dinner yesterday to the Earl and Countess of Powis and a select party, at their house in St. James's-square. Hon. Robert Clive entertained the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and a party of distinction on Wednesday, at his house in Berkeley-square. Yesterday, Count and Countess Lieven entertained the Duke and Duchess of San Carlos, Prince and Princess Esterhazy, and a select party of distinction, at a grand dinner, at their elegant residence in Harley -street. Alniack's Ball on Wednesday evening was attended by nearly 150 distinguished fashionahles. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. The Dowager Duchess of Northumberland has left town on a visit to the Marchioness of Exeter, at her seat Langley, Kent. The Marquess of Camden has left town for his seat, Bay ham Abbey, Sussex. The Earl of Abergavenny is arrived at his house in Berke ley-square, from his seat, Eridge Castle, Sussex. Viscount and Viscountess Hampden are arrived at their house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square, from their seat, Glynde Hall, Sussex. Viscount and Viscuuntess Strangford and family are arrived at Iterldish's Hotel, Jerinyn-street, from Sweden. Sir J. Mackintosh, Bart, arrived yesterday at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Yorkshire. SHIP LAUNCH.—Yesterday the Launch of the Admiral Hawk, a new 74, took place in his Ma jesty's dock-yard at Woolwich. All the shipping in the river, a: an early hour, hoisted their flags and colours ; and about 12 o'clock the river was graced with numerous pleasure boats, filled with well-dressed company. The town likewise, dur ing the whole of the morning, was bustle front one end to the other, in consequence of the great number of persons who came to view the impos ing scene. The whole of the church-yard, which , has a commanding view of the Dock-yard, was completely thronged. Commissioner CUNNING HAM had made very extensive preparations to ac commodate the Nobility, the Officers of the gar rison, and the Gentry of the surrounding neigh bouthood ; but what was never before witnessed, upon a similar occasion, there was not a single band of music. At two o'clock ple!ilely, orders were given to strike off the slips, which occupied the men about half an hour, when, every thin g being got in readiness, the signal was given, and the Hawke, in the most majestic manner, glid e d into the middle of the deep, in about two minutes, amidst the huzzas of the surrounding multitude. She was completely filled above and below decisti, but nut the slii;b test accident happened, LI VERFOOL ELECTION. (From the Liverpool Courier, fl'ednesday, March 15, SECOND EDITION. Courie;.9fice, Four o'Clock. The Election for this Borough has just termi• nated. Dr. Crompton was unable to bring up another voter in time. The Town Clerk then fl made the proclamation, and Mr. CANNING and General GASCOYNE were declared duly elected. The MAYOR now rose, and congratulated the Candidates and their friends on the harmony, order, and good humour which had prevailed throughout the contest. He and his Assessor had endeavoured to act with the utmost impar tiality. He hoped they had succeeded in their endeavour ; but if they had inadvertently given any Freeman, or any other person, the slightest offence or cause of complaint, they were sorry for ir, and they hoped that such individual tvould par don the unintentional offence. Dr. CROMPTON bore his sincere testimony to the impartiality of the Returning Officers during the Elect iota, and expressed his acknowledgments for the kindness and the attention which he had experienced at the hands of the Mayor. General GA!COYNE also expressed his acknow ledgments for the kindness and the attention which be had received !rout all the parties which bad been engaged in the contest ; and bore his testimony to the impartiality of the Returning Officers. Mr. Canning was not on the Hustings when he poll closed. He was sent for, and arri‘ed there n a short time. General Gaseoyne, accompanied by his friends, moved from the Hustingc first. Dr. Crompton and his friends followed, The numbers at the final close of the poll stood as follow :- Mr. Canning General Gascoyne - Dr. Crompton Mr. Leylam! The total number of votes is 3637. The total number of Freemen who have polled is 2162. The Chairing of the successful candidates lake place to-morrow forenoon, at eleven o'clock. The processions will move from the front of the Town-hall. 1635 1532 345 125 SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING, ON SATURDAY, MARCH 11. GENTLEMEN-1 thank you for this kind visit to a sick man ; and I lament only that I can hardly expect to make my acknowledgments to you au dible. I thank you particularly for the care which you have had the goodness to take of my son, whom, in my unavoidable absence, I deputed to represent rue on the hustings. In my present inability to address you, I should he very glad to devolve upon him the task of offering his own thanks as well as [nine ; but he, Gentlemen, is of a profession much better than any of those whose business it is to make speeches—he is of the pro fession of Ntlson ; and I shall be better pleased hereafter that be should achieve actions which may be the subject of speeches, than that be should make them, bow ably suever, himself. Gentlemen—Th e poll, as it is reported to me to-day, stands thus :—Commencing from the lowest, Mr. Leyland has 99 votes ; Dr. Cromp ton, 234 , General Cascoyne, 708 ; myself, 767. The total number of freemen who have polled is 1096 ; which, compared with 2876, the amount of the total poll in 1818, and the largest, I be lieve, that has ever been known at a Liverpool Election, 3bows, that even with all the obstiuc tion which has been thrown i❑ the way of our progress, more than one-third of our work is done. Gentlemen, what possible advantage our anta gonists can imagine they derive from a protraction which evidently has no reasonable object, it is not for me to conjecture. But I trust, that a few days more of a calm and steady perseverance on your part will prove to them, that whatever game they are playing, they are playing it in vain; that they may increase their unpopularity, but can never augment their numbers by it. Gentlemen, it has sometimes occurred to me, to consider whether this mode of conducting an election can have been devised with the view of exhibiting a practical specimen of the benefits which would be itnposed upon the country by that wild Parliamentary Reform which our an tagonists are in the habit of recommending. It will probably appear, if they persist at the rate at which they are now going and at which they are, unfortunately, enabled to force us to go with them, that a contest hopeless from the beginning, and without the excuse, thertfore, of expectations rationally entertained, and after wards unexpectedly disappointed ; without any of those vicissitudes of success which raise alter nately the spirits of either side, and tempt to continual exertion, may be so carried on as to absorb the full time allowed by the law for ex hausting all the resources of conflicting parties, in the must vehement struggle of .balanced in terests. Fifteen days of industry, , fifteen days of busi ness, fifteen days of that which, to a populous town, is invaluable, the useful application of ta lents and of time, will have been lust to this com munity, in a strife which, after all, is, from be ginning to end, a mere sham fight, and which might have been ended in half an hour. Couple with this waste of fifteen days the project for mak ing elections annual, and 1 would desire political arithme►icians to consider what would be the loss to this great commercial country, if such a system were established, and acted upon, as it is now against you, in every part oldie United Kingdom. Gentlemen, though in this town, more than in any other, the general opulence and prosperity.of its inhabitants, the generosity of the wealthy, and the.regular habits of the labouring classes, may make such a temporary suspension of business an , evil of comparatively less fatal infliction, yet even to you it must be a matter of no light inconveni ence in its pressure and in its example. Let it be our satisfaction that we have no share in produc ing this unnecessary and prodigal waste of time. And if we must lose our time, let us keep our temper, in the assurance that the period cauttot be far distant when a system of vexation, at once so feeble and so misebievo,is must break down. SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING, ON MONDAY, MARCH 13. Geart.amabt,-.-The occurrences, and the result of this day's poll, have been somewhat more sa tisfactory than those of the days precedinv.— There has also been some novelty in the course of our proceedings. In the first place, Gentle men, Mr. Leyland has appeared ; in the second place, Gentlemen, he has disappeared ; he has ap peared as a voter, thereby disappearing as a Candidate. He, was, as lam credibly inform ed, visible above the horizon for near five mi• nutes, while he gave a plumper at the bar of Geo. Gascoyne. Gentlemen, in that appearance and, in that plumper, he has, first of all, redeemed him self from a situation of playing second fiddle to the first fiddle assumed to himself by Dr. Cromp ton ; and he has lett behind bins an injunction to all his friends, as solemn as if it weie written in his will, that whomever else they vote for, they shall not vote for Dr. Crompton. With respect to the second of our antagonists, I hardly know in what words to communicate to you what has befallen hint. Gentlemen, we have lost our Crompton ; lie is not to be found in Li verpool to-day : but as when the sun sinks into the West, it is a consolation to those who lose the benefit of his light (if they have any spark of generosity in their nature), to know th.a it. is rising upon another hemisphere ; so we, who can no longer bask in the beams 'of Dr. Cromp ton's countenance, have a benevolent satisfaction at !causing that it rose, through the window of the morning coach, this day, upon the people of Lancaster. Gentlemen, why Dr. Crompton has betaken imselt to Lancaster, it is not for those who are or in his councils to conjecture. We are told, ideed, by his friends, that it, is not for the pur pose of proposing himself as a Candidate there ; that he is gone to propose souse other Gentleman. But, surely, Liverpool has a right to complain even of such temporary dereliction. He is no very warm suitor who can leave the Lady whose band he is soliciting for himself, to plead with another fair one the cause of a friend, however dear to him. We are assured, however, that he is to re turn on Thuisday from this suit by proxy, in the hope that Liverpool will forgive his little infide lity, and take the dear deceiver to her arms and her favour again. Gentlemen, during Dr. Crompton's absence, his place is supplied by Colonel Williams ; a man of whom I mean to say nothing nor perfectly re spectful, but of whom I must, in trite h, say, that, since my arrival in this town, my ideas have become exceedingly confused. I thought him a professor of the most popular principles ; I thought him an adorer of the power and rights of the . people. Judge, then, what must have been the surprise with which, on the first day of the election, I heard him publicly declare on the hustings, his incapacity to canvass clubs, and " squeeze the . dirty palms of the freemen,"— Stich, Gentlemen, was the declaration that I heard with astonishment, on Wednesday last, from Co lonel Williams ; and judge what must be the surprise with which, after that declaration, I learn that he hes been squeezing the palms of Dr. Crompton's voters to-day. Gentlemen, when I heard these words uttered by Colonel Williams, I could not help reflecting what would have been the misconstruction —nay, 1 should rather say, what would have been the just indignation created among the freemen of Liverpool, if, from any less popular friend of freedom, they had heard a declaration of such a kind. I could not help considering with myself, if unfortunately I had been betrayed into an ex pression so offensively disrespectful—B u t no ! that was impossible. I will not, or even for argument's sake, admit such a supposition. But whet if I, in the middle of an Election, had taken leave of the Freemen of Liverpool, or bad set out without raking leave, to canvass for some one else, in so me other part of th e country; what, 1 say, would, in that case, have been the declamation of Coinuel Williams against me ? How should I have been held up as treating you with contempt, as reckon ing upon your suffrages without an effort to ob tain them ? But, Gentlemen, the lesson which every sober MAD will draw from these, among other instances, is, that habitual protestations of extravagant, excessive popular feelings are to be received with a caution, proportioned to their extravagance and excess. Distrust all such protestations ; be as sured, that whatever is exaggerated in profession, whatever pretends to be peculiarly disinterested, or peculiarly devoted to the popular cause, is to be watched with peculiar caution ; and that the chances are very great, that some opportunity will arise, when temper or policy will betray the worthlessness of such professions and pretences. Gentlemen, under the circumstances which I have described, more auspiCious than those of preceding days, the progress of the poll has more nearly kept pace with our former experience and with our wishes. The numbers are, for Mr. Leyland, 117 ; Dr. Crompton, 286; General Gas coyue, 954 ; for myself, 1041. The total num ber of freemen who have polled is 1453, being somewhat more than half of the number of the year 1818, the greatest (as I stated to you on Sa turday) that ever polled at a Liverpool Election. I told you on that day, that one-third of our work was done ; I may now congratulate you on hav ing probably achieved more titan one half of it. The same indisposition, though happily dimi nishing, which prevented me from attending at the Hustings on Saturday, has kept me at home to-day ; and I have again to thank you for having, With the same kindness, been ple.ised to accept the services of my son in my behalf. By the in dulgence thus extended to me, I have Nide d , olbt of being able to nicer you at the Hustings to. morrow. But it is suggested to me, that as the poll is now happily going oe at an accelerated pace,as it is possible that two ur three days may bring us to a conclusion ; and es, during the absence of our only remaining opponent, nothing of any very lively interest can occur, it may be convenient for all parties to dispense with our further meetings here until the close of the poll, looking forward to the meeting on that occasion as probably very near, and assuredly as most triumphant.