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WESTMINSTER ELECTION
THE Worthy and Independent ELEC rots
of WESTMINSTER, wit" haw. not yet polka, are
Pe400111114 to lemur tbo Hen. BERKELEY CRAVEN, a"4
Sir JOHN SHELLEY. Bart pith Ilii•tt Company to RREAK-
F AST, THIS MORNING. at Ten o'Cloch precirciy. at the
DROWN REAR, Horse Ferry y in order to proceed "0 fl
dramas in a booty, to Vote ter the Right Hon. It 11, SIIERt-
. DAN, and Sr SAMUEL 1100 D, K.S. •
• WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
THE Worthy and Indevndent. ELECTORS
WJLSTVINSTER, oho hare ant let loonca, ard
requosted to favour THOMAS SHERIDAN, te4. sail RO.
BERT HEATII;Orr, Esq. with theca Company to BREAK.
FART, MORNING, at Ten n•Cluck precisely, et tlts,
GUN TAVERN. Fish;.; in order to proceed front thence
in ' body to Veto to the Right Hon. R. B. SHKRIDAN,
and Sir SAMUEL HOOD, K.S
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NEWSPAPER ANICDOTZ.

The Courier of Saturday republished, from Tits
Ba Iran Pa ess, of the 30th of July, 1803, the Speech
made by Sir Francis Burdett. at the Crown and
Anchor, en the preceding day, which it thought fit
to introduce, with the following observations :
" As aitempts were made, during the last Mid-
dlesex Eledioe, to deny t'sat Str Francis delivered
such a speech, it is necessary to state something
leveeing it. On the 29:h ofkly, 1305, the Free-
holders of Middles-a were summoned, by public
Advertisement, to dine together at the.Crpern rind
Anchor Tavern, to celebrate the Anniversary of the
EleBion of Mr. Byng and Siy Francis Bardett.—
Mr. Byng and Sir Francis both attended. The time
was one of greet alarm at invasion ; the French
were espeded soon to make a-descent on our coast
the Volunteers were not formed, ner were any suf-
ficient military arrangements made. In this mo-
ment of pen, and anxiety, Mr. Byng, on his health
being drank, very patriotically recommended una-
nimity and exertion in defence of the country,
though he disapproved of the tortnistr). Sir Francis
followed, and made the atrocious speech annexed.
The report we now insert. is copied from l'ssa Bat-
Pa Liss of Saturday, the SQth of July, 11105; it
w is given by a very coma reporter, an aJmirer of
bit Francis, and is not liable to the least objection
on account of inaccuracy, unless it be that the vio-
lence of the speech was perhaps mitigated. But to
prove the treasonable nature of tl.e speech. and the
horror with which it struck those even who were

favouring Sir Francis's cause, we will mention an
anecdote, leaving it to the parties named to deny, the
fails if they can. On the Friday night, about ten
o'clock. mos after the Meeting, Mr Spankie. then
and still Editor of The Mont* Chmetiele, went to
Mr. &eau the Editor of The /*raja, Put, and
asked him if he had an account of Burdett's
Meeting ? On being answered in the affirmative,
Mr. Spankie inquired if Mr. Stuart intruded to
publish Sir Francis's speech ? adding. that he (Mr.
Spankie) though,' it so atrocious. he was afraid to
publish it; that Fineriy was • tepeatieg it for The
Chronicle; that he (Mr. Spankiey had been cutting
it down viiiitiosti)ilas it to alibi k if po
hot tbat it vas otiosity so re was no
satin k soisrahlo for itsoi abet he
woad omit k ahripotber UM The Clittaide. if
Mr. Smart ottoillfitoit it from The Nero* Pea.
To this Mr. Slam osascoir that lobed roquottad
deo °meta.. Itooil• mow me me en The
'OM* • she . ttios ..4.13,
te tainw k • tOis mid Alas-
nor. ea to shoat k M /So 101.41146 AN,
at MAOi slater Primeirgles eight Imo ',raid
the mom, m.ende a Rememe by retutamending
union, might gesehre the execriablimief the rublic ;
and &ache (ikapeett) should fah, op tha publi-
cation. bpol,llllllllPlLMilmailseniiiii lapis paper on
Monde!, Spa* then retired. saying. he mast
insist . to 'trim it GUM cautiously. and
that he matild endear*. to make it pas-
, sable. it WI of ma* importance to
publish, for elm purpose of proving the treasonable
nature of the speech Sir Francis then made; a
speech which his Committee. at the last Bledion.
in print,d.bills. denied he had ever delivered. saying,
false and tab, kilted Accounts of it had been publ.shaJ
so injure the Baronet ; and The Abram, Chronicle,
yes. The AlereiNg Chronicle, conduced by Mr.
Spankie, held the same sort of language I Now, we
challenge any one to thew or to name where a false
account of that infamous speech was published, un-
less accounts, Mitigating its violence, can be called
false. S:r Francis's Committee. during the eleetirin in
1844, endeavoured to confound the animadversions
of The.Mernreg Poo on the speech and Conduct of
Sir Francis. with the speech itself; but here is the
speech, whole and entire, eopie. from Ty t Sat run
Puss. Let the Freeholders of Middlesex read, and

say if the man who made it is fit to represent them."
. The someormetesest. we repent, *Wm, from The
Cowrie, of Saturday night, and we could perhaps tell
a cock sad 6 bolt story abase this famous speech,
' as well as The Coarser. bet we are confident that
oar readers will forgive the omission. We notice
it merely oa acconot of the following olucrvation.
The Carrier aseraato. that the only report of the speech
entitled to the law asstiee or credit, appeared origin-
ally in Tat Barrie* Pas's, la/which, it says, .. it
was given by a very lowered r spatter, ee sooner
i bee Femme Davviets, and that it is, not liable
so the least objedhoo, on account of inaccuracy,
mishits it he that the violence of the speech
was perhaps mitigated." Now, in this ob.
lervistimn, there is something very like a blunder ;
hut wilohnutodwelling upon that, we wish to know
why it has been found n otessary to represent the
faithful Reporer of the Speech in 'fat Bat rise'
Poesy, as an admisir of the prineipiesof Sir Francis
Burdett, At therm moseent there pri ncipf et,farmerl •
the principles of Tie Coarser sod its present concluc•
tors. ate stigmatised as treasona. The accuracy
of the ltepoiter in Ti.. .Si-er issi Paass we readily
acknowledge.; 1.t.:: the Editors of The Covrier are.
we be...eeto, the only persons, in the circle of figs
iicartaintanee, wl-o have had the t.igt:if y to disco.
vet that the gentleman alluded to, 'Abuse name we
du not feel ourselves at liberty to mention, is, or
was, eirieJsairec of the viaciides at S.r Fe•mcis
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