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CITY OF LONDON ELEcrioN. FOURTH DAY. This contest was resumed yesterday without any abatement of ardour on the parts of the Com mittees of the respective Candidates. The insig nia continued the same at the different Committee Rooms as on the previous day, nor was there any diminution of the crowd. At three o'clock the poll closed, when the num bris were as follow : Mr. Wilson 2207 Sir %I'dliant Curtis 2064 Alderman Wood.— . 2062 The Lord Mayor Alderman Thorp Alarrman \Vaitliman Mr. Wit..soN came forward amidst general ap plause. if he. had had reason to be satisfied with the situation in which he had been yesterday plac• cd, he had this day the greatest satisfaction in ex pres%iog his gratitude for the proud situation in which they had now placed him, and tar the ex ertions dint had go kindly inside in his behalf. Not only hvi they continued him the mjority of yesterday. but he had even this day increased his ma H r iry very considerably, which gave hint a neli grounded cortfit.eoce of ultimate success.— (nlpplatise.)—Witt these feelings he could but exhort theft, to exert.themselres as much as pos sible to continue him in the situation he then stood, and he could assure them that in whatever situation they might place him, he would exert himself to the best of his abilities, to promote the interests of rite City of London, and the public in general.—(Applause.) Mr. T. Ctiims came forward to return thanks for his father, amidst the cheers of his friends on the hustings, and in the body of tie Hall, and the expressions of opposition by the ft lends of the other Candidates. He was, however, unable to obtain a heating, and with great good humour, paining to the poll, thanked the Livery, and, having given the signal for three cheers, which were returned, retir,d, Mr. Alderman Woon expressed his confidence of still being placed at the head of the poll, in which he was strengthened by the tact, that there were now nearly a thousand voters less on the board than were polled on the last occasion. in fact, he might say, there were eleven hundred, as he had actually not polled so many thi s ti me as on t h at occasion, and consequently be might na turally anticipate, that a great number of these would come forward in his behalf. lt had been stated that he had got a large re , erve ;. that 2000 were coming up for him on Monday. He wished they would assist liim•to. poll so many. • He never at•ked a second time for a vote; for if he -met with a denial, he merely said he hoped that' his private conduct had not lowered him in their esteem, to which he generally received for au ewer, in such cases, that the Elector did not like his politics. He could only say, that in whatever 'situation he were returned, he tar - ild endeavour to do his duty. The Loan MAYOR came forward amid great ap plause. He begged to repeat his most cordial thanks for the honour done him that .day. gowever fa-• vourable his present situation was, it was - hot yet sufficiently secure, and: therefore it behoved his friends to exert themselves; and this done, be felt assured of final success, when the Electors' might depend that every exertion in his power to make, should be made, to secure them their-rightt , and libertine. lie thanked them for what•they bad already doge in his behalf, and exhorted them to fresh exertions, when success must inevitably crown their et arts. . Mr. Alderman THORP expressed his gratitude for the exertions made in, his behalf, and said, when he recollected that there were yet bOOO voters to poll., he could not anticipate. a failure; particularly as he had received so many promises from peri.ons who had not yet voted. He could not forger (be spirited exertions that had on a former occasion been made for him, and as one hoor's polling would again place him in a similar situation, he trusted his friends would notrelai in their exertions. Mr. Aldurrnan SVAITHMAN said, for the sakes of the Livery es well as his own, he should nut this day detain them so long as he had done yestera day ; not because his opinion was altered its to the final result, but because their time would be better occupied in soliciting the attendance of his fiiends. He exhorted those of his friends to im mediately come forward, and not throw away the chance they possessed at present, as if they did not do so to-morrow, it would he almost int possible for them to do it on Monday or Tues day, when the Election would close. It was a matter of congratulation, that, on looking at the hooks, be found that very many of those who had promised him their votes, had not yet polled. An injunction had even been given to persons not to vote fur him.--(Hisses—" it's false.")—He remarked, that 900 voters yet remained, who had polled for hint on the last occasi,n, and most of those who had polled for his opponents, had ac tually refused him. The Meeting then broke tip, and the Lord Mayor and Alderman Thorp were drawn home in their carriages by the snob. WESTMINS rim MAC 11ON. SECOND DAY CFURTHER PARTICUIARS,:3' Yesterday, at the close of the l'oll', the numbers were as follow : Sir Francis . Burdett Mr. Huhliouse Mr. Lartit) Sir F. BURDETT congratulated the Electors on the state of the Poll. So tar as be was informed, the station in which the popular Candidates were placed at the end of the two first days' Poll was unexampled at the heginniog of a Westminster Elee!ion. in general, those who stood ori popu lar principles in opposition to Candidates that calculated on Ministerial interest, laboured under the distitl7;ktage of being unable to rouse their f.1eia1:4,16: exertion at the commenC'ement of the eun•vt; On this occasion, the Electors had made a 1 ,44 1 :e caw; to support their character for inde peniience, and this, if persevered in, would make ti(2cesi certain. Labouring still under a se vet c cold, and finding much difficulty in making i m stif heard, he should pet haps have re frained from addrestittg them at all, but for a remark made by Mr. Lamb on the preced ing night, as he collected from the report of his speech in that Paper which was atyposed to be most favourable to his interest. There lie saw, that the production of the letter which had been read on the first day bad been treated as a most serious breach of honourable confidence ! between man and man. He did not wonder that Mr. Lamb should feel nettled on account of that letter having been read ; but if he spoke of the reading of it in the terms which he was repre sented to have used, he laboured under one of the grossest misconceptions that man could fall into, for, connected with that subject, there had not been the smallest breach of public or pri vate confidence. He (Sir Francis Burdett) had certainly considered the letter to be most impor tant. Corning forward there, as Mr. Lamb did, to offer his opponent the hand of private friend ship, and preaching up the propriety of treating each other with civility and respect, it to him appeared almost incredible that he could write such a letter. At all events, it was little con sistent with the professions which he had made of treating those opposed to him with all kindness And respect (as he was disposed to do), and it therefore was not what lie had expected horn Mr. Lamb. The detection of such conduct was enough to lose a better cause than that of Mr. Lamb in the minds of the Electors of Westminster. The robe of candour, which the lion. Gentleman had chosen to wear before them had been lifted up by accident, and nothing was found beneath but " filthy dowlaa."—(A laugh.)—tle did not know th+t they could do better than quote to each other front that great volume of nature, the works of :Sloskspedre, and lie would presently apply a quo tation to Mr. Lamb, to return for that which had been quoted on hint yesterday, to which Mr. Limb might do well to reply by another. The Honourable Gentleman had quoted the lines be ginuiug— " O Cassius! thou art yoked to a Lamb." But, with the exception of the word " Lamb," he did not see that it contained any thing that was notch to the purpose. it was doing hint (Sir F. Burdett) great honour to compare hint with Cassias, who was one of the greatest men that 11.,41 ever lived among the greatest people that had ever been seen on the face of the earth. Of Cassius, i t b a d be e n said, that he was " the last of the Romans." He (Sir F. Burdett) hoped, and was confident, that he should never have the honour of being called the last Englishman. Though he could be content to sacrifice his life in the cause - of his country, he thanked God that he for this could not be the first, nor the last of his nation, but vas merely one among millions who were ready to do the tome. It was true that at the lasttlee tion he had the misfortune to be " yoked to a Lamb," but he now hoped the people of West t7►it►ster would unyoke him, and unite him with a man who defending their rights would not seek to promote his own views by advancing one set of principles in . one place, and another in another. The-letter which had been read, Mr. Lamb bad written „neihaps,lo some great contractor.—(A latt,gh.)--By,contractor he meant some supporttr of, the present system, (for he did not know the person to ; whom it . had been sent), but it was to some person supposed to be friendly to the .existing corruption, whose feelings it was utcess . ary to appeal to in a tone rely differ ept from that which Mr. Lamb adopted when he came before the Electors on the Hustings. After the part he bad acted, he was inclined to view this. Lamb ,as a full gro‘‘n sheep, or rather as a wolf in.aheep's clothing. If lie stood any chance pf l sticcess, he most look for it to the Itiends of the Goyernment ; and to . the Ministerialists he nOght soon be expected to call, in the language of Shakespeare, " 0 help me, Cassius, or I sink Ile seemed to have availed himself of the advice which one character drawn by the same author had beta made to give to kinothtr, to instigate him to commit some bad action, and which counselled " To beguile the time, look like the time, to look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it." In giving up the letter, there had - been no breach of .confidence, for none could hare been exacted. lie Would put a case to the Honourable Gentleman as a Lawyer, and he denied that he had any objection to the old lawyers, who bad been the best friends to the liberties of England nor (lid his objections extend to all modern lawyers, many of whom were engaged in the cause of the people, animated by a love of justice, and anxious to tight the injured, and protect the oppressed. The lawyers to whom be objected were those who sought to make a seat in the House of Commons a step to the Bench, who made a trade of` politics, and acting on no principle but that of pursuing their own personal advantage, were ready to support any meanies of any Administration, in order to obtain the elllo - held out to them in their profession. lie would pia a case to the Hon. Gentleman as a lawyer, though he believed he was no lawyer. Ile would ask, if "a person wrote to him a note containing a proposil ion which disgusted him as an honest man, if he were hound in honour to conceal that letter On the contrary, he would contend that it was an act of duty and of honour to expose it. But the Honourable Gentleman thought it nu disgrace to write such a letter, while he held it to be highly disgraceful to make known that such a outshad been received. There was no disputing on taste ; but for himself, if a scaffold were there elected to execute him, he would prefer mounting it to be ing the writer of such a letter. He concluded by exhorting the Electors to go on as they had be gun, and come torward without delay, as one tore at the beginning of an Eltction was often of More tote than ten at the end of it. Mr. LAMB, on coming forward, was for a long time unable to obtain a hearing. Silence being kit length obtained, he said, it the confidence of suc cess expressed by the Hon. Baronet was supposed to be accompanied by a corresponding despondeucy on his part, he could assure him and them that they were most egregiously mistaken. The state of the poll was not very different from what he had expected it would be at this period of the con test, and he should certainly keep it open till every elector bad had an opportunity of giving his vote. The Hon.. Baronet bad said that it was ry , 1 1 3 11 :,1 for the popular Candidate-3 to take the lead of the Ministerial Candidate at the beginning of the Election. But why was he (11r. Lamb) to he considered to be the Ministerial Candidate ? If he had mitten the letter which had been pro doced, according to them he had already el ird out to the Minute, ialists, " () Cassius, save me or I sink !" and what had been their answer?—" We'll see you d--d first!" He now wished to say a few words on what bad fallen front Mr.Hohhouieon t he preceding night. Because from the situation in which he had stood with Mr. Hobhouse, he had Voted with the Hon. Baronet for the more lenient course being taken in his case ; and bee -Anse, as a matter of civility, he had called on Mr. Ilob house, in Newgate, that Gentleman had no right to assume that he disapproved of the course which had beer taken. It sometimes happened, in the hurry of speaking there, that he said that which he aid not entirely mean.—(A laugh.)— When on the preceding day Ire said that Mr. Hob- • house had been properly punished, he did not mean to go to the extent which had been un derstood, nor was he aware of the extent of the meaning that might be put upon his words, till he heard the comments of Mr. Hohbouse. The power exercised by the House of Commons in that Gentleman's case was a power which ought to be rarely exercised, and always with discretion and mercy. He would have been disposed to speak in mitigation, when the subject came tinder discussion, to suggest that the House should ra ther instruct the Attorney• General to proceed against the work, that the case of Mr. Hobliouse might go before a Jury of his countrymen. Bit he was restrained from recommending that such a course should be taken, front A feeling that were this dune, the punishment might have been much more severe than the short impri sonment which he bad endured. It it were ne cessary, he could bring forward many of his friends to prove that such were the seittiments which lie had expressed at the time. With re spect to the pamphlet itself, that which he dis approved in it the most was not than part which had been taken up by the House. In that there was certainly some little boldness, though but little wisdom. What he objected to principally • was, the attacks made on an individual, who had done more for the liberties of his country than any man alive—he meant Lord Erskine. Ile thought he was justified in saying, that the Hon. Baronet felt as he did on this subject, as he had handsomely endeavoured to mike some repara tion for the wrong which had been done Lord Erskine, in two speeches which he (Sir F. Bur dett) had recently made. He believed that the hopes of his opponent on the present occasion were principally founded on his late imprison ment.' -He (Mr. Lamb) bad been told, that Mr. Hubhouse's committal made his case quite hope less: he, however, did not yet despair of the re sult, and he thanked Sir F. Burdett, in conclusion, for that part of his speech in which lie had spo ken more favourably of lawyers than he had ex pected he would do, after what had fallen front the Hon. Baronet on former occasions.' Mr. HORHOUSR said, the cause of the indepen dence of Westminster had that day gone on, as he hod expected it would, from the effort of the preceding day. if they continued to exert them selves as they bad dune, while the friends of Mr. Lamb did th.e same, it required little knowledge of at ithmetic to satisfy them, that they would have abundant reason to be content with the final state of the pull. He laboured under peculiar disad vantages in commenting on what fell from Mr. Lamb, as it seemed that that Gentleman did not always know whether or not he meant what he said. When he wrote, too, he did not always say what he meant himself, but what he had heard others say; and this, though it was not said, was always to be understood. Mr. Lamb had now very handsomely said, that he did not n ".n to say that he (Mr. Hobhouse) bad been pH,perly pu nished by the House of Commons, but he wished them to look at the manner in which he hod ex plained the way. He had said,—that the power which committed hint to Newgate, unheard, ought always to be exercised with mercy. Ile might ars well have said, that die power of hanging men for nothing ought to be exercised with mercy. This would give the Electors some idea how Mr. Lamb would defend their liberties if ever they should lie at the mercy of the House of COMIIIOII3. He then animadverted, with some severity, on the course pursued by the House on that occasion. Mr. Lamb, when he was first set up for West minster, had been said to start on the principles of Sir Samuel Romilly, having none of his own. But, for his part, he was inclined to think, he knew nothing about the principles of Sir Samuel -Romilly, for Sir Samuel had made one of the b no blest stands ever made by man against the power of 'the House to commit at all. lie (Sir S. no milly) haul not thought when he made that stand, that ever such a committal as hit would take place, which was at once a bleach of common sense, of common reason, and of all the laws of the land. Stith a committal infringed Magna Charta—the Bill of Rights—the Petition of Rights, and all the Acts that bad been passed eon , firmatory of Magna Charts. The committal was even against all the former practice of the House. This he could state with confidence, as he hail in vestigated the subject with more attention than Mr. Lamb had bestowed on that or on any other subject. He then recurred to the letter, and at tacked Mr. Lamb for calling the people the lower orders, as his Countel, Mr. Scarlett, had called them the rabble. Mr. Lamb himself was one of the lower classes, if such language might be used at all ; for in this country we had a and a House of Lotds, and all hut them were of the lower orders, including Lamb himself, for he had not yet heard that he was a Lord. But Mr. Lamb had talked of speaking in mitigation of his pamphlet. He did not know that he understood him, but when he said that he did not do so from an apprehension that greater punishment might tallow, he would ask how it was possible for any thing worse to befall him than that which he complained of ? He had been sent to prison unheatd. What else could have been done to him fo,. writing a hook ? Would Mr. Lamb have hanged him for it 2 In the pamphlet which he had published, he had render ed a much greater tribute to the general character of Lord Erskine than that noble Lord had ever received front Mr. Lamb. He entered into a history of the pamphlet, and his motives for writ ing it, and contended, that Mr. Lamb had not redeemed the pledges he h a d g i ve 4 on the subject of Reform ; that he was inconsistent with him. self, at variance with the principles on which Sir S. Romilly had acted, tinder whose name he bad been brought forward, and opposed to the most popular Whigs, who had now found it necessary to hoist the standard of Reform ; and, finally, put it to the Electors to choose between him and a , Gentleman who considered tlie [louse of Come mons, as lately assembled, the Constitutional Re presentatives of the people—between a Gentle• man who maintained this, and a Gentleman who contended, that if i! were not for the army kept up, such a House of Com , nons would be in great danger of personal dispersion. The business of the day then closed, and the Candidates retired. ESSEX LENT ASSIZES, MARCH R. CIVIL SIDE -BEFORE A SPECIAL JURY. JAMBS BREWSTER, BSC'. V. SBWELL AND SYMGOTT . • This was an action for a libel.—The declara tion stated, that before the grievances committed by the defendants therein aftermerrioned, the plaintiff had been insured in the Essex and Suffolk Fire Insurance Society, for his house and pre. mises, and that a fire having happened thereon, he had received a compensation for the same ' from the said Society, and that the defendants contriving and intending to injure him, &c. pub lished a malicious libel of and concerning him, imputing that he had falsely stated his loss, and had received a greater compensation than was fairly due to him from the said Society. The defendants pleaded, first, not guilty ; and, second, a justification, that the supposed libel was true. The plaintiff replied, that the defendants had publislifd the libel of their own wrong, on whirls issue' was joined. . The damages were laid at 5,0001. This case excited very general, interest in the county, on account of the opulence and respec. rability of both pat ties. At the .last Assizes the case was tried before the same Learned Judge, but the plaintiff was nonsuited upon a technical point, totally independent of the merits. The Court of King's-Bench having granted a new trial, the case now came on to be disposed of upon the merits, The cause was called on yesterday afternoon} about one o'clock, and after the Court had beets occupied until near eight in the evening, the' fur t her proceedings were adjourned until this morn ing, when the trial wa r s resumed, and it did not come to a conclusion until about four o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Gurney, : Mr. Walford, and Mr. Brodrick, were Counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Marryat, Mr. Jessopp, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Chitty, were for the defendants. The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff--- Damages 20001. SINGULAR CIRCUMsTANCII.-7There IS at pre ' Mit living at Varmington, near Northleach, a worthy and respectable old Geßtlentan, wl►o was' appointed Churchwarden of the Patish on the very day of our good old King's accession to the Throne. He has retained the office uninterr u ptedly for every succeeding year ; and, on ~the occasion of the Jubilee, the parishioners accompanied the ex! pression of their portion of the -general joy, by giving a dinner of commemoration to their ve' nerable friend the Churchwarden, whom they are resolved to leave in undisturbed possession of hif parochial honours for the remaining years at his life. COAL MARKET, MARCH 10. Stiipsat Market. , Ships sold. Price. 91 Newcastio 2 Sundt:A:mil 2 17s ud fu 41s a COURSE OF EXCHANGE, NIARcu 10. Amstet dam • Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam Antwerp l2 3 . flanitifirgh 36 5 If Vs. Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 20 ( Us. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frankfort on. the Main Madrid . Cadiz Bilbua . Seville Gibraltar Barerlooa Leghorn Genoa 4 ,14 -Wilier, Ital. Lir. 27 30 Malta 4ti --Naples - SSI Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin 10 Cork 10 per Ceot. BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 per O% Foreign Gold, in Ba►s 3 17 10f New Vouhluous New Dollars 0 4 Ilf Silver ►n Bars, Standard 0 5 If BIRTHS. Yesterday, at his house in Bedford-square, the Lady of Andrew Sputtiswoode, Esq., of a d•Au;lits: r.' On Tuesday last, the 7th,inst., Mrs. DiClii l V son, of a daughter. MAaRIED. On the Ist inst., Lieut.-Colonel Colquhotin Grant, Forret. to Miss Margaret Brodie, second datightts of James Brodie , Esq., of Brodie. Yesterday, at Isiington-church, John Eaton Joyner, E. 19 ., of High-house, Essex, to Miss Jane Culiius of ChadWC ll ' place, in the sante county. DIED. Oa Friday, the 10th inst., at Newington-green, Mrs. SVYat t ?- widow of the late Robert . . Wyatt, Esq. S;aturday, the 4th inst., at Wendleburt, in the count/ of Oxford, after a long aura stetre Jolnt Walker, Esq . On the 3d 'last., at Dredenliall, Kin's-Norton, Worcester' shire, Sarah, the wife of Dank( Chase, Esq. aged 84. On the oth inst., at Kennington, in his 7 Isci,car, Robe r t Atkinson, 14:sq., late of the Minories. On 'filasday, aged 54, Mr. James Morris CZOruhs, book' seller and printer, of Chippenham. . - a LONDON: Printed hy 1. B. C;ATISTAIItS, of No. 49, 6re.‘ t Ormond-street, Qucen-sylare; and vutilistied by SCIUIFTS, of No. 7, Solidi :11,44,,q 7 strevt, at Tilt St °dice, No. 112. Strand ; whoa Alive' tisentents ; (post-paid) mint Inc adilytisrd. •