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To the GENTLEMEN, cLERGY.aad EEHOLDEAS of ttle cOUNTy of NORTHUMBERLAND. Cf. NTLEMEW, TUE information brought the by this Morning's • Post, of your having again eleiled me as your Repre sentatiye in the ensuing Parliament, demands my wannest il,c. - krrowledgments, Petrriit me to assure you that this new procif of your Con fidence will'be an additional motive to a diligent and faithful ,discharge of elle important du t ies of the Trust with which ypu have honoured me. , 1 I am, with the truest respea and attachMent, PENTLiNiZZ!, Your much obliged humble Servant, ' ' ' kIOWICK. Downing-sqeet,. / , lovernber :3, a a 6, Q T HE 4 .L,eTQR§. OF If/T47:417N,Fr.p. GENTLEMEN, It is with much pleasure that I congratulate you , on' the increasing success of Mr. SHERID.AN on the poll for the Representation of WeStminster. I , re ioice on this occasion, for you as well as far Mr. 'SHERIDAN, because it Would haie been an indelible disgrace to your City if such a man as .Mr. -were aeinally to become your Member. I shall 'not dwell on the , want Of pretensions in such a man,, because it .must be evident to the least-informed among you. This man is chiefly known to you by NS ingratitude towards Marquis WELLESLE, to_ whose indulgence he was indebted for all that for tnne.Whieh he seems disposed to squander away in fruitless contest,tforcibly illustrating the old adage pf fc sefa beggar'on horseback," &c. But . he is also known to you by his connexion with the silly yonng Man who has renounced all his reSped-: able friends and former political allies, and resigned 'himself wholly to an evil Counsellor, who, has long trained him In the most ruinous schoOl of Jacobini cal Principles. Mr. PAULL, with a cunning, which is the principal feature in his chara&er, has cajoled this desperate riling man into a support of his cause, and llas' declared that he is disposed to run into any 'eitretility of peril, in order to maintain the same principles which Sir EitA.Nots has avowed. But . than& Mr. Piwt.r says he would follow Sir FRANCIS to the gibbet, it becomes Sir' FRANCIS to consider whea l er hp would not be more likely to bring ,him liPre,aS (he' Devil served the Hermit,in a tale which you must; all recoiled. It becomes Sir FaANcis to regea whether he ought to trust that man Who has o 'grossly 'attacked Marquis WELLESLEy, to whose kindness he is indebted for the very, bread he eats. Mr. PAtnr.,, though indebted to Sir FRANCIS for some notoriety and some little support, is not under the same obligation to the Baronet as he was to Marquis WELLESLEY, against whom, in the teeth pf his own servile adulation,'he has proved a veno iitotis accuser. But to turn from this desperate up start, who has clOne nothing for you, and only'wishes to make you tools for his own advantage, let me gliort, you to examine fairly the pretensiobs - of Mr. SHERIDAN, whO was the firm, consistent friend of your late AepresentatilT, Mr. Fox, and never desert him bur upon grounds which you yourself must approve. Mr. SHERIDAN wtis dazzled at first by the false lustre which broke out on. the Revolution in Dance, and separated, like his friend Mr. Fox, from their old friend' EURKE ; or/ rather, the latter renounced all connexion with them on account of their declarations in favour ofthat lamentable etierit. - Mr. SHERIDAN,. with the candour and manliness has :always marked his public character, haS acknowledged that hp was mistaken. Indeed the dreadful state to which Frenchmen are reduced un der a military tyranny, which -will not permit them to Speak,' and . which drags.theth without mercy to , the armies of ambition and injustice, has opened the eyes of all men, here and in every part of the world. Yet, as Sir FRANCIS and his avowed pupil, Mr. PAULL, tell you, that the. Country is not 'worth defending," you may fairly. conclude • that they . would give no resistance to BONAPARTE and'his fero cious hordes if they came to bring massacre • and destrudion upon the British Empire. Such, how ever, are not the principles, and such is not the con due of Mr: SHERIDAN. Sit SA at Hoori has told you that the wise, temperate, firm, and manly language which Mr. SHERIDAN held in Parliament tended, in a great degree, to save our Navy during that unfortunate' mutiny which a few years ago must have given so much pleasure to our enemies abroad and'at home. Mr, SHERIDAN, by, .the sentiments he then uttered, gave increased confidence to Government, and pre vented the dreadful contagion from'spreading among our gallant. Naval Defenders, who, by their subse quent glorious - aaions, have effedually•removed the partial stain frOm the high charader which they rnaitunin wherever the waves of the ocean can bear the British name.. Mr. SHERIDAN was als6 the firm friend and ardent eulogist of the VOLUNTEER SER VICE, which enabled us, in conjun&ion with those heroic troops who have triumphed over our ene mies in Egypt and at Maida, to bid defiance to the menaces of invasion. 'Mr. SHERIDAN procured the Thanks of Parliament to those.PATRIOTIc VOLUNTEER BANDS, who, doubtless, if the hour of trial bad oc curred, would have shewn themselVe; worthy of co - - optrating with those regular Veterans who so glo .riously • distinguished .themselves in the athons which I allude. . • • 'No .man has been More freely attacked by THE \PItrEsS than Mr. SHERIDAN, yet he has at all times a zealous friend to it, as the great bulwark of popular freedom ; and he has never rescrted to the law in order to punish any 'of his political adver earies,' who liave .so frequently assailed him with ttrary warfare. .There is,no view in which yoU can look at the public, character of Mr. SHERIDAN. with i)at seeing that he has been at all times the friend of Ills country and of the people. He tells yon that he is not afraid of ,an English mob, because he knows ihat though they may be for a' time deceived, and hurried into an occasional violence, candour, 'gene rosity., gratitude, and justice, are their unchangeable Charataeristics. 'As 'to 'the rabble 'who immediately surround the hustings, they are either paid, for thCr outrages, or they are of set despeiate a description, ihk they would rather clime what they may deem a dcuer fellow from the purlieus of St. Giles, than an enlightened friend to the interest and honour of the , I have before observed that‘ I am sure many per sons‘tVho voted for' the upstart PAULI. are now ei bremely sorry for their rash precipitance, which has rought some disgrace upon Westrinnster, even clingh there is now no likelihood that he will de grade it so far as to become its itepreseritative. Ter.: tevere, then, my Fello* Citizens,' and give your hearty sniTort to Mr. SIIEIIIIIOI .for th 4 credit of Youttsit elms. Let it not ever be slid that so resped- able a city as yours is capable of such ingratitude and injustice - as to desert a.ii an who:has 'beep so up- -right in biS public condo t,' and that you gavp the preference to a man Who has really neithet virtues nor talents to do you any honour, or to render you any Service. As to the JaCobin chjedion 'to Mr. SHERLDAI , !, that he possesses a place under GoVern meta; every real friend to public worth and .unde viati4 consistency•of condua must rejoice at such a circumstance, because it affords some' recompence for the patriotic efforts of a man, who, in the midst of f4.lYerP private embarrassments, never would swerve from his attachment to his Party.-- 7 lt must - give pleasure to yeur generous hearts to see that Office conferred on a man, NA , ;ho, with the highest talents for politics and literature, had not provided against the pressures of necessity, but who, how ever careless of his,own concerns, was always a watchful guardian of yours. Can it be doubted, that if Mr,.SIIERIDAN had devoted as much time to his own private interests, as he has to those of his country, that he would have• been placed far above any advantages which his official situation .can rif ford him ,? But no—my Fellow Citizens, hp has ern ' ployed his time and his talents for the chief part of six and twenty years, the greater portion of his life, in the public service ; and none but low, illibe ral, and unjust spirits, caii repine that he has some thing that may contribute to give ease and comfort to his declining days. But do not think that do mestic ease and comfort will ever induce him to re lax in his public duties. No ; if he could resist all the pressure of those private burthens with which he • was so indecently reproached before the hustings on the first day of the Poll, you cannot doubt that while his. strength and his faculties remain, they will be as zealously devoted to your cause, in his present corn . partitive prosperity, as they were while he was in a situation in which men of less enlarged and patrio tic matures would have been attentive only to the calls of sa-interest. PUBLICUS. MAILS. AXIMED--1 Dublin, t Waterford. llux—i Harnburgh, Gottenburgh, i Dublin, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Tnts DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - 61 I Omnium - - 4i LONDON, • yRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, ,1806. THIS morning the Gentlemen who intended to bid for the Lottery waited upon Lord GRENVILLU at the Treasury. The following were the terms offered : . . Mr. COPE, Zl6 14 3 Mr. Blsu - - - 16 II o Mr. SWIFT 16 o 3 Mr. TOWGOOD - 1 5 1 7 0 Mr. HENSLEY • I 5 17 0 Mr. COPE was, therefore, declared the Purcha'ser. The Contractors have the power of fixing the Days of Drawing, but the whole is to be concluded by . the 14th of February. • WE • have this day made some further Extrakas froth the French and Dutch Papers which arrived on Wednesday night. The 'accounts from Naples prove, that the French meet with much more deter mined resistance from the ill armed and undisciplined Calabrians than from the Prussians, who have hither to enjoyed such high military reputation. It is ad mitted that MASSENA advances but slowly, and, from the very cautious and general manner in which the details are given, we are strongly inclined to think that the French have met some severe checks in their progress. No intelligence whatever reached town this morn ing from the Continent. We sincerely hope that we shall soon receive some authentic information re speaing the advance of the Russians, though, if the French Bulletins contain any thing like the truth, we very much fear that they will not find any con siderable Prussian force to join them. It is stated, inOed, that the Prussian Head-quarters are at Bres= lau ; but it does not appear, that any part of the Prussian Army - that was in the Battle of the 14th took the diretlion for Breslau. SINCE writing the' above, we understand, that accdunts were this morning received in Town from Edinburgh,- which state, that the Master of the Ship Francis, of Hull, arrived at Leith from Dantzic, which place he left on the 27th ult. had deposed, that just before he sailed a Courier had. arrived with an account that a very bloody battle had been fought subsequent to the fatal one of the . 14th, in which the' Prussians refused to give or take quarter, and that it had ended completely in their favour. The battle •is 'stated .to have taken place on the Eanks-•of the Oder. We sincerely hope that this account may be confirmed, to which we leave it to our Readers _to attach what degree of credit they may think . it deserves. His Royal Highness the DUKE of CUMBERLAND . left town yesterday for Windsor, on a visit to Their MAJESTIES. The Earl of L.V.IDERPALE, and a select party of distinguished perSonages, dined yesterday with His Royal Higltheis the pux.} of Yotm, at his new're- : iidence, m the Stabl \aid, St. James's, The 78t1i,.a Highland Regiment, landed at Le'l6 last week, after an 'absence of 26 years from their - native country. *They were marched .to Stirling for . w • • •.. mter quaxters, • N 4 VA L N E IV S. FLYlNfnunr, 1%70v. 12.--Sailed the Amethyst Fri gate, :of 38 . guns, rapt, SEymopp, for Portsmouth ; the Snake Sloop of War with a convoy to the East : - ward ; and Plover Sloop of War on a cruize to the Westward. Arrived the Carolint hired Armed Brig from Dartmouth ; and the 4mpltitritt, 'Capt. ANDERSON ? from Ilintzic. Pourslkioirra, Nov. 12.— r .Arrired the F iery and Devastation Bombs, from the Downs, - with a large Convoy, ; among which are, the General Stuart outward-bound Indiaman ; Anna Catharina, BEHARSEN, from Dantzic; pildernehmini , from Riga ; Expedition, SALTAU, Hope, GERAY ? Primrose, RAILL, from St. Potersburgh ; and Coin-H mace, CROSS, from Archangel ; with about. 20 Sail Of outward-bound West Iridiamen. Sailed from Cowes this morning the Blonde Fri gate, Capt. BALLARD ; and the Abundance Store ship, with a Convoy of about 12 Sail for Jamaica. Went out of the Harbour the Camel Stole-ship. On Sunday night last a mutiny broke out on board the Travers outward-bound Indiaman, which was not got under until the Boatswain, vkbo was the principal ringleader, was shot by one of the Officers, and the desertion of 10 or 12 of the crew, six of whom are since secured and lodged in the Gaol of Gosport. Nov. 13.--Arrived the Amethyst Frigate, Capt. SEYbIOUR, from off the Irish station, and the Bar fleur, of gs guns, from the Channel Fleet ; also Penelope, LAMB, Lazard, SEEPMERD, and Lein !! skell, WEBSTER, from St. Petersburgh ; and Perse verance, WARD, from Riga. SHEERNESS, Nov. 13.—Yesterday the Tonnin gen Convoy, consisting of five-Sail of Merchantmen, with a Sloop of War, sailed from the Nore. Sailed this day His Majesty's Ship Emerald for Portsmouth. FALMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Arrived the Insolent gun-brig from Plymouth ; Saracen Sloop from Portsmouth ; Crane and Jackdaw Schooners, from Portsmouth, to join the Expedition; Industry, BAKER, from Cowes; and Medina, RISTON, from Loudon for pork. Sailed the Iris Frigate to the Westward. Also sailed the following Packets with Mails : Toutshend, DODD, for Lisbon ; Princess Amelia, STEVENS, for Jamaica ; Diana, GIBBON, for New. York ; and Cornwallis, ANTHONY, for Malta. His Majesty's Ships Ganges, Captain, Theseus, Nereide, Paulina; Haughty, Jackdaw, and Crane, have'the Signal flying for Pilots, and Blue Peters flying, and wait only for the wind getting round more to the Eastward, to proceed with the Expedi tion. DEAL, Nov. 13.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Edgar from Yarmouth ; Leveret and Combatant from a cruize ; and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per last ; also the IVeiv Jersey, Coox, wait ing orders ; Marlborough, MENETON, for St. Kitt's; Diana, JOHNS, Mentor, GOODWIN, Thetis, SEWERS, and the John, BtRTIE, for Jamaica. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONFY. To the Officers and Company of His Maj , ‘:sty's Ship Pal las, for the Capture of the Tapageuse 1 reach Ljorvette, on the Erth April, 1806, the proceetls and head-tnoney, on the Isth lust, at No. 13, Great George-street, Westtninster, and tor three months atter. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's hired Arm ed Cutter Doty, aor Inc detention of the Dalush Brig Provi dentia on the , ist Feb. 'Sol, on the 12th inst. at Lyne's Of fice, Clymouth, the condemned part- of the cargo of the said Brig, and on every Tuesday and Friday tor thre years. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's anip Nar eisSus, for tile Destruction, of the Napoleon and Prodente French Ships of War, on the 25th Dec. iklos the head-money arising from the same, on the 15th inst. at No. 6, Stanhope. street, Strand, and every day for three months. INDIA HOUSE.-:—Wednesday a Court of Direaors was held, when the" Ship Retreat. of 505 tuns, was taken up for four voyages in the Coinpany'siservice. Captain CARNEGIE was sworn into the command of the Ship Baring, consigned to Madras . and Bengal. . A Proclamation was issued at Madrid on the sth ult. of the following tenor : " In circumstances less dangerous than those in which we find ourselves at present, good and loyal Subjeas have hastened to aid their Sovereigns by voluntary gifts and succours proportioned to the wants of the State. It is urgent, in the, present situation, to shew ourselves generous towards the Country.. The Kingdom of Andalusia, favoured by nature in the production of hoses fit for light Ca valry ; the Province of Estremaddra, which render ed services in this way so important to PHILIP the Fifth ; will they see with indifference the cavalry of the King of Spain reduced and incomplete for want of horses ?"—Then follows a long and pa thetic appeal to the patriotic feelings of the people of Spain, exhorting them to raise the military aid re quired. The instrument is dated at the Palace of St. Laurence, Otober 6, 1806, and signed by the Prince of Peace. A Circular Letter has been addressed by the Prince of Peace to the Intendants of Provinces, and the Corregidors, to 'recommend and enforce the ohjeas ofthe Proclamation. The Clergy are espe ci4lly recommended to exhort the people to repair to the Standards of the King, and the rich to Ariake the necessary sacrifices, " to support 4 contlid which they should, perhaps, b! forced to statain fur the good of - NEW P,IELLIMENT. MEMBERS RETURNED. L/N . LITEGOWSIIIIIE.-41 Q 14. Alexander Hope, F4I)INGBURGHSKIRE-w-HOII. Robert Dundas. NaRTFIUMBERLAND (Colmsy)-,Lord Howick Thomas 4ichard Beaumont, Esq. CitainGAtFsglnE--Thomas Johnes, Esq, DUBLIN I.lDqviuszyr—_-Hon. George Knot. CRICKL4I)B—Lord Porehe - 4er; Thomas God• dard, CONTESTED ELEcT!ow, State of the Poll. VrtattTESDAY. SHREWSBURY—Hon. Wm. Hill - 604 Hon. H. G. 13;nnett 3 1 I Thos. Jones - - 293 THURSDAY. No F 0 L F.—Coko • IS I ORO. Windham - r - - 940 Wodehouse - - • 794 HAmpsitrß4—,-Thomas Thistlethwaite 1867 Hon. Win. tierbert - 1839 William Chute - 1609 Sir H. P. Delildtpay 1556 NoxruAmrrozi—Althorp r - 1265 Cartwright r. - 1199 T.,angham 799 Minnr.zsglt--Mellish r - - 1415 13yng _ ll9l Burdett - - - - 248 WESTICINSTEN ELECTIoN.—State of the Pon at one o'clock to-day.: Sir S. HOOD Mr. SHERIDAN Mr. PAULL 4710 3961 3879 MIDDLESEX ELECTION. At the conclusion of the pail yesterdu, the nunr: bers were, For Mr. Mzz.l.4sk - - - 1415 - Mr 137N0 - 1191 Sir F. BURDATT - 248 Mr, BYtcp, addressing the assembly in front of the hustings, returned them his best thanks for the P• continuance of their support. Sir F. BURDETT then - stepped forward. He as sured 'the Elettors that he - felt, in the strongest manner, the honour thoSe who polled for, him this day had conferred - on him. He did not yet despoil Of the issue of the contest, because he knew what Middlesex could - do. > One vote, however,* given now, in the present cireannstances, be considered, because lit was an 'independent vote, as ef . more con-; sequence than one 'thousand' 'giv'en . in different ,cir cun3Stances. He yesterday,alled on the Gentleman who now stood Opposed to iim (Mr. Mellish) to state what were the grounds an Which he solicited „ the support Of the. Ele4ors, and :on, which, if he; were honoured with their approbation, he intended' afterwards to aa: Ttlis however he had evaded, and > had contented hiinOlf v.:iith' returning thanks to th© Electors who had voted for. him. tie (Sir Vra46*, notwithstanding, was Stitt of 'opinion that thiS was not the way in which'Eleoorshad aright to ex peel to be treated. It wai . not sufficient to tell them what they had done for the Candidates; the Candidate ought also to . be, prepared to say what be intended to do for them (the EleCtors). Of one thing, however, he (Sir "erancis) slicalct assure them, that time should not be' denied them to refleCt on their situation. He slip* keep the poll open to the last day. He knew that Many of his friends were at present employed in the West= minster Eledion, who would, of course, come for ward when their services were no longer required there. At all events, he should perform his part.ri If they chose to do their duty, the track was easy. -.1 Ire should attord 'them an opportunity of asserting. their own freedom,and 'independence, and of extri• eating the County from that state of subjection and dependence into which it had been attempted te.) sink it.—(Loud applauses). 'Mr. DIXELLtat intreated the indulgence of thew sembly while he 'endeavoured to extricate himself' from the charges with which the Hon. Baronet had attempted to load his character. He had already dist claimed all professions, but declared he should ad independently.' He should vote- for measures, not for men. If that was not sufficiently explicit, he . would thank any Elettor to give him words more pointed, and he would adopt them. To the Hon. Baronet he by no means regarded him Self hound to 'make a declaration of his principles. It would he sufficient that he did so when called on by the great body / of Electors. That they', however, regarded such declaration as unnecessary the state of the poll suf ficiently proved, arguing, as it did, the, confidence they had in his independence. He thanked •thern for the honour they had done him ; and concluded with begging they would not relax, but would raise him still higher on the pull, as he knew much more wits in their power.—The Meeting immediately ad journed. WESTMIASTER ELECTION. Mr. SHERIDAN appeared on the hustings about two o'clock, and was received with acclamations of applause. As soon, however, as this had subsided, some of the orators of the mob addressee) Mr. She ridan, and he answered them with the utmost good humour, succeeding at once in overcoming their animosity and exciting their laughter. One of the more distinguished orators told Mr. Whitbread, that if • his porter was as strong us his assurance, it would sell astonishingly well.— But," retorted Mr. "Whitbread, " if it were is strong as your impudence, I should get nothing by it." This retort produced much laughter, as did many of the remarks which followed. The mob complain that they cannot at all succeed in tadger ing Sir Samuel Hood, who never shrinks. from their attack, and who, throughout the day, never quits the hustings. Mr. T. Sheridan had also some whimsical alter catiOn with the multitude, in which they were de cidedly overttnatched. The total numbers were, at the close of thepoll; Sir SAMUEL HooD Mr. I'AuLL Mr; SkikovlDAN 4547 3799 3791 ••••••••• T, 3E SUN. SOLZM QU/S DICERS FA.LSUNI AUDICAT