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THE CUMk!I rILEt,r . -1 - 1
14qement of
EARL Pr RCYS V.LIECTIONI tor WES! MINSTER,
urt deal, at H Agar'. • .. 1, Cee-et .iArd:r. sehAre all
C •nemeni,Atides aft redeemed re me swim, and Addressed to
the Committee

Frlhe I. MAC rOlt i O 4 WESTMINSTER, in
t tete i et F q.'l„, Pkit•lc, a,. ome-steo to meet at
Willies Dorm 11l ...n, King -stress, St. 3... e 'a, ell TUESDAY
NEXT, at Twat,. &Clock at noon, preaoly, to imp.ider of
proper leleteeree to *curing the ILlediesa of his Lemlahip.
Ifttept lent.
TO /HI INDEPENDENT [LECTORS OF WlVilr
mibisrait.
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ZICTLEMEN—My trainer address to yr.lsuLs B_l
seleansted principally capon the persuasion, that Lard
Percy and Mr. Sheridan, being both Members or Partiarns..it,
mold not, ender the circumstances, be candidates upon the
present meet allicting vacancy. That none!, turneenut to be
erroneous; and my retreat from any contest, upon the pre-
sent *erasion, follows as matter n( coin.' Had I ord Percy,
however, and Mr. Sheridan, been ineligible, their inel „'old?
involving that of others, whom I should prefer to myself—,t,
under these circumstances' a stranger had been obtriabedult -n
the City of Westminster, by whomsoever prop..std, by woom-
soarer supported, most assuredly in Wel 4 case I shoild nave
asked of you to deciii,• between such stranger and myself
But, Gentlemen, Is Lord Percy a stianger to the City of
Westminster' His oirth, in this city, arid the rich inheritance
in it, to which lie is heir—these, though landsman. ..illy far leans
nothing, are, iii my opinion, but small sod secetv'ssy in coo.
poison to the higher and mute inesot he concha anon. lb At
recommend Lord Percy. It COW• 11441 will, my itoositedg., a„d
with my knowledge best. I helms*, of any perfoli Wall spas
earth, that the cause of liberty and vines e i We.trininstelt, had
not a mote first' e•astset, *ad tfliciefit hissed, than the .seine
father of Lord Percy-emote especially •hen that cause was
least in fashros, and mime in proscripilisia at the himitain u,
newer. It coesists with my mesa pitfall Waldo*. Mat the
heart and the Lead cif Lad Peters nibble tither Site ever
ready and responsive, upon every exigently to Mini then im-
portant aid, in defending the committee from being awesome
by regulations quite lontign to it. genies i and in vindicating
faun violation the wholesome laws already eillableited.
So much of the public merits of the noble Leal% family :
now a. to their private qualities.
Let those, who are ignorant, inquire is the City of Went.
mister; especially in the parish, the place eV their abnde; and
of such inquiry the result will infallibly be this-wthat es suc-
couring the unfortunate ; in sheltering the wretched from s. the
petting iiii the stone •" in well applied musiiiimsoce, and in
bowlike charities of every kind, the family of Led Percy has
no egual.....Are princely poescasions, applied to sod uses, a
disqualification to Lord Percy' Eves the very side wh•els he
b-ars is a pawp.rt to his present pursuit. In English annals,
there is son a name which the history and the poetry of our
country have linos more captivating to the tool. miemesothing
to the u•ide of eat/Mel fseliag, than the name of Percy.
But Lord Percy
is ineeperioeml ; certainly he is and so
Le 4
were, In the beginning of their career, the brightest o *knit-
man race. Tear rouges, which lice mute, alas! for weer
to ire, began its wonder' at an 'artier age than the present' age
of Lord Party. Lord Perry is as old u Mi. Pea was, neon en-
tering the theatre of hi sewer-ewtse.forgotten fame • and, as I
have said in another place, the objection of semi is not to
Lori Percy, but to humus life.
It is true, the best amuses may be injstsd by injudicious
• partizanship. There is a style, which may weeds and disgust
even the best inclined to eves the best object; but the power-
ful unequalled writer, who warned Westminster spinet being
made a .s family borough," is too jam a man to 'Mt ape Lord
Percy the misconduct of others • aid is of a mind infinitely too
liberal to overlook, when he reads' this advertisement. what I
have here spontaneously, and unknown to all the world, set
down as those claims of Lord Percy apes Westrolastei, at this
moment, which, if the present Government (instead of bap.
;onto, to he anneal to his pietensions) were direc_tly hostile to
hi., would, in my opinion, seat Lord Percy for Wasuninamt,
in spite of this Government or of any mbar.
All that now remain. for me, is to say a few words of
myself.. _ _

The face of Lord Percy I never beheld till the slay of the
public memory:, yesterday. I have no connection' direct or in-
direct, with hos family. This my present act rs stirdisiesly con.
cealed from every person, till it appears in print ; awl this wee I
du for two reasons, and for none else--the love of truth ; and
the peace of ‘Vesto.imatee. I challenge the roust rigorous in-
qui .ition into In, motives ; and, in as plain a sense as wardscas
convey meaning, defy the emid to sully the part I new take
with the yl.glitera impurity. I aus always,
Feihow Citisens,
Craven street, 'foot most faithful serveak
September Oth, 1804. DENIS lIPAR TEM