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iIIBETLIGI OF JO.
:TIERNErS FRIENDS.
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About SOO of the real friends of this Right Hon.
Gentleman, Met yesterday, and had a splendid
dinner at the London Tavern, Sithopsgatc-street.
Mr. SOLOMON DAVIES in the Chair.
After dinner, several loyal and ccinstitotional
toasts were gives, and several songs followed, al-
ternately.
These toasts were—
The King—.the Queen an/ /amity•-thy Prince er Wales
ease Cause ut rational Liberty .11 over the Viturld...the la/e-
-rn/en% Electors of Southwark.
Aftdt which, an address to Mr. Tierney was de.
livered by Mr. R. H. Newest+. Chairman of that
Gentleniau6s Committee, and read aloud to the
Meeting. Its purport was as follows:—" Sir,
Web the ItedtpOdmt floors of Southwark, do
hereby assort Too, that wi highly improve of your
conduit, during the whole period you have repre-
sented Mlie Borough, and else during the time you
laststooll a Candidate. We not only applaud your
integrity, but the attention you have paid to our
local interests ; and it is a pleasure to us to refled,
that we, as individual Sledors, have not been in-
strumental in depriving the Borough of such an able
and upright Representative. We are convinced,
that the welfare of our country is your sole objet ;
and, therefore, in whatever pursuit you may be
engaged, we S, in the most cordial and sincere
anasom. prarfor yews proves*y and welfare." •
This address was signed by a great number of
**Free and Independent Elettets. The reading of
ls was followed by loud Aimee.. and applauses from
-alt present.
The Cnatasas then proposed Ms Ifrabh of
George Twroar, k.:aq. which. as might be expeCted,
was drank with enthusiasm, mad followed by loud
applause:.
Mr. Ti v, who sat on the left of the Chair-
atan. the, roie, ancladdreased the Meeliog.—" Gen-
gleams.* said he, " it is now more than 50 years
since I fret experienced any difficulty in addri.ssing
you, because, I then felt myself an intire stranger,
and perfectly untried, and consequently not de-
SCI wing of your support. I felt what a man ought
to do, in such a situation, who feels a proper sense of
his own inferiority. Gentlemen, if at that day I had
ell
itobatelerftomeregt,heiois In hivey
oafmuch
ail. ittlielsalhheve insi-
ght", . gieri leas. In stand-
togiure, as 1 do, I dOtteloly feel very much stf-
feted. Alt appeasing is the situatioa of a
oa
de-
feated caner I still have the same degree of good
hummer - pp all occasions I ever evinced. ; and
I aft. ben? I 0 perceive, that that good humour is
recipeoad, mei such es I have uniformly endeavour.
eel to deserve. My felicity is in a great measure re-
tained, by enyhavingmuch more support, than, milder
all circumstances, I originally expeeted. I may say,
with truth, that no candidate in England ever came
'into Parliament as I did; 1 may add, that no candi-
date ever went out as 1 have done; for, throughout
the whole empire, I believe, there never was an in-
stance of a person going out who was accompanied
by the good wishes of so many sincere friends 5 a
Lane peOjrortitall of whom I now see around me.
il applasass.l I Baid.iald, that I feel 'many
grounds of ezelsatiem Can it be doubted, that any
maa most feel the greatest degree tf gratitude,
when, Burin 10 years of the greatest Parliamentary
difficulties, he comes out in such a flattering man-
ner, after being tried by such an ordeal. I bold that
to be a triumph of the highest kind. It certain-
ly is with the deepest regret that any man must
he called upon to avow that he is to be separated
from those who have 'hewn him so long, en cor-
dial, and so sincere a friendship. At the same time
that 1 inwardly feel this regret, 1 must say, that I
this day shall nut make lamentations. On the con-
trary. I must express myself boldly, and inform yea
that I feel, upoo this occasion, still farther grounds
of exulted's. I scorn lamentations. I make no
attack upon parties; nor do I envy any man the
superiority which be may have gained. I only
boat of the manage in which I have been treated.
Some apology Is due to you, because, I believe, any
other Candidate would have had a better opportu-
nity of defending your rights end liberties, than
what was allowed to me. -I mean, when first I was
called on to mod a Candidate, I believe it was
know., that one who would not ge through the
dm of paying his personal respetts to every Eledor,
could not succeed. Under such circumstances, I
should think it ettremdinary that I have held so
many votes as I did. I warned you, however, of
the dangers you were about to incur, and begged
you to subsume another Candidate in my place.—
lint, so long as the Borough of Southwark thought
me a fit person to represent them, so long did I d&-
termini never to leave them. I have most faith-
fully kept my word—l did stand by yaw to the
last; and 1 only lament that my stand has not
proved more effeltual. tinder all fernier circum-
stances, 1 felt highly gratified; but, I mist coldest,
that. under the present circumstances, I feel still
more sot, because 1 have now lied an opportunity of
seeiog an address to the EleCtors from Mr. Henry
Thointon. IS that address I find that that Gentle-
man Is pleased to assign reasons Go my losing the
EleCtion. Mr. Henry Fharnton, however, would,
i think, have done aa well, had he been pleased to
assign reasons, shearing bow be came to gain it.—
I mean to .:tack no one ; but in that address
it is stated, that in the outset I made professions of
independence and disinterestedness, which the re-
sult has by nocr.eans justified. To this he ventures
t i attribute the I, as of the eleltion. He should
nave told me of this when we were fete to face ; I
then might have had a proper opportunity of op-
posing that charge; or, if I hAd known that it was
Inserted in any of tae Papers, previous to the Elec-
tion being over, I might hevc taken an earlier oppor-
tunity of noticing it. It has, however, I find, been
only Inserted in one Paper ; and in that he says, that
1 have lost the Election by a derelietion of my prin-
"Pies and former prolecsions. Gentlemen. 1 never
.sid profess (and you all know of it), that I should
tnr ever declipe the acceptance of an t ffi:e. I have
str.:torinly held in the utmost contempt any man
'alio could come forward in the face of his glee:Los,
and make such a profession. Ido not know what is
meant by a public character, if a public character is
not fit to serve the country in every capacity into
•viiich he may be celled (!Dail marls of ar...ission).
r ;--...sstmt, be mean: that I stn Sat is.Japeodenty


if I am net in place. before be asserts Ai/ ati si
ffie, however, he ought lest to prove, that a man
in office is thereby rendered independent, or to
prove that one in no office is not independent. It
is a thing not quite Unknown in this country,
that a man, having no fixed appointment. may
still, by various detain, derive to himself con-
siderable advantage. I believe Mr. Thornton
deserve* no such designation. I shall feel more
candidly tinier& him thso he does toward. me:
shall only endeavour to vindicate myielt ; ana it
becomes the more necessary to do so, as it is ay
observation which refers to many besides myself.
There has gone out a popular clamour, that no one
in plate can sit in Parliament, but he (Mr. Thorn-
ton) of all others, I should have thought, from the
general information be possesses, and the known
gravity of his character, would not hays lent him-
self to such a monstreus proposition. It is one
which I aver rips up the Rights of England from
the roots. Who is it, I would ask, that can be
trusted with any one portion of the management of
our glorious Constitution, it he be not deemed ca-
pable of gaining the applause. not only of his
Eleflors, but of- every description of his Fellow
Countrymen? What perplexes me moat is, that a
favourite doctrine of mine is thereby thaown down
I have at all times boasted, that whi n you have
el:fled a person who has commiited no offeace,
you lend him a justification to all his moist&
and thereby you evince how cordially may be
united the powers of the Crown, with those of the
other branches of the Constitution.-1 know of
no situation in which a man can he placed, which
shows more of the advantages, more of the excel-
lence and stability of our admirable Constitution.
than the one which ends in the appro":ation af the
Sovereign. Atter the violence of a popular Elee,oe,
I know of no coincidence se striking between the
Crown ani the people. Ihave been a striking instance
of it myself. When I accepted the 'Freasu,ership of
the Navy, I had the good fortune to be returned
for ti.. borough of Southwark, and notl,ing gave
me snore pleasure than finding the establishment of
that deertne which I am now esplaining. That
degree of clamour has remained longer than I could
have thought. I speak from no iutcrested view ;
but I say, that nothing is so likely to give A death
blow to the Constitution, as establishing that prin-
ciple, that popularity is only to be measured by
a peesoe's unfitness for of or by his abstaining
from it. (Loud endears, ). If such principles be
once establi,hed„ yt u will increase the number
of Candidates who will say, that they will never ac-
cept of offices, while, at the same time, they
may not be tto do so. The declaration of
M-. Titornten. that I have not maintained my in-
dependence, is untrue. I aver, that I have ever
asted as fairly and unequivocally in the House of
COM!.:01111, as any ma,' that ever sat its it.--(..11,rks
aveclf, cad apptaurcls.) I have followed my own
opinion, as my only role. I have often stood in the
way of my own interest. Ea following that opinion.
1 have often too been in the way of fiends wham I
loved, and for whom I had the highest tripe&
Feeling that I seed fairly and independently, I
!rarest not to stand to the consequences. Do you
believe there wan any thing is me which could
have induced His Majesty to honour me, as he hat
done, had it not been my public charaeer ? It was
alone the charade? I obtained, by a strict and ho-
nourable, a conscientious and upright died:ergs of
my (hey. Whatever I hue been, and •hatever I
am, I was pnt in the way of being made by the
free, the public-spirited, the independent Ideflors
of the Borough of Southwark.—( Lead ead ecliterated
@Awe re apprei trios When Mr. Thornton made
that heavy charge against me, I am in hopes he did
sot know, that there was not one Member in the
House of Cosansons, eelba had refused sa many si-
tuatiota as I have due. The taking of two places
has arisen from lay not thinking it injurious to my
character. It I had ant resigned the first office, I
should not have had occasion to accept of the se-
cond. This is whit( I owed to the public, to my
constituents. and, what is last, though tot least, to
my own charaeler. I shall conclude this sab;sB, by
saying, that had not Mr. Thornton made this un-
founded assertion, had ant such a popular clamour
gone abroad, I should r.ever have thought that I
needed to enter into such a vindication of my clot-
rafter or conduft. Gentlemen, we must now, at
length, part. It is a hard word to say, but I can as-
sure you, at the same time, that I can have no objet
whatever in keeping up what is called an interest in
the Funnies of Southwark. I shall not be charged
with showing any want of sincerity, when I say,
that I should be blind if I did not think I had pretty
substantial means of establishirg it. I feel the ut-
most regret in parting with such a large body of
my friends. During the ten years we have strug-
gled together, we have, I may very/turf to say. uni-
formly preserved our good charafters, and.this day,
here we are, what we always were, as rood citi-
zens as are to be found throughout the realm, to
support oar Constitution.--14nitheares We have
survived ail those storms and turbulent days,
which, I trust its God, will never be renewed.
When the time shall come, when we need to rally
round the throae, without any degree of inconsist-
ency. I may say, that no man shall be so ready as
myself to join you in defence of our privileges, and
the dearert rights of our country. I shall persevere
to weigning all circumstances ; tint contending
against the people, vilest' I find that the great por-
tion Of the pevae are in the wrong. If ever there
was a time wh nth- people were cordially united, it
is certainly at this pres-nt moment 1 but in whatever
sitaation you may be placed, my services shall ever
be etrrted for your benefit. Afrplaare) Gentlemen,
there as one charge more to which 1 shall allude, and
that is, that I had, to a most extravagant event..
employed the inftwace of Onvernment, to secure
my Elet ion. It that was in; the event is most ex-
traordinary Although's:or one of my friends have
deseited me, yet I ens not so strong as before. This
is surely a very forcible T. 01011 to show that I have
not had the utdoetwar of that Ministry, to which I
belong; yet. it has be it mid. that the influence of
the Crown never was carried so la', at any one per -
al, as at this ceetion. The patriots •eao have started
up agsiest that all•ged irillue-.es stand rather In a
curious piedicament ; because, amongst their
trades, there are s.inie who formerly carried the
influence of the Crown to much greater extent
than ever was before known It is not, however,
a thing very, sum ,rural to a:plinth that one per.

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son in *Fat should hare Ilse mistime of anothdr .l
hut to say, that should I person holding a sitnal '
tion tint conform himself to that vii.hee oft Minis*
tern, he *mild lose that situation, is a thing highly
absurd. I defy any man to say, that ever such
threat had any inficence mama me. I will not dis-
guise—it is neither unnatural nor unennsiitutional—
it is in the nature of things, that people should ima-
gine such consequences to result from power.
never threatened one MAI% nor exercise.' my autho-
rity to deprive him of Ms bread, if he deprived tee
of his vote. It that was the line I formerly adopted,
see how merciful 'thawe been since See hose many
cif those who are connefted with Government have
aftually vented against me! Nay, this you will
find to be twist the ease, even in that quarter
whets it is said my influence should most prevail.
To us: the word. of an Hnnoerehle &meet, I say,
n look at the poll," and tell me where that alleged
degree of undue infloence Iles. If any one be
found when has lost his Situation. or been deprived
of any comfort through such id! toner, then you
may say that I have been eiiihy of a dereliaion of
principle Whether tie influence of the Crown he
too extensive or nit, is a question perfefily inde-
pendent of what 1 have teen adverting to ; bur, I
say, that no person, whatever he his influence with
the Crown, should be iejeaed by free and lode
pendent Eleaors, unless he has forfeited their esti.
'nation. I, however, stand eatitely above rash 'me i
pudent ettatko I am the lover of popular rights, just
as Much as ever I was at any one period of my life.
I know of no eat thly reason why popular rights
should not be happily entwined round the King,
and united, as it were. with the preingAtiees of the
Crown. It there be any one who can lay claim to
having done some good to popular eleftion, I think'
I am that individual. 1 believe that the benefit
done to the Borough of Southwark has been ex-
perienced as a subs.enciobaciventeee throughout the
whole kingdom. We were the first who gained
that battle,of which the whole country have weaped
the benefit. I have now no longer the honour of
representing vola ; but your rights and liberties are
to be maintained by two Gentlemen. whom I have
no doubt you will find ounduil themselves with
honour, and aft in the manner most congenial to
yOur real interests—(Cris of Nu! No! and vow
tons of ditopp-olidtion.) Gentlemen, it is most
desirable, upon this occasion, that we avoid
party selijetts. In the one of your Representatives
you have considerable abilities, while, in the other,
you have ao irreproachable charedal." (thee fifteen
enprestiont of a rostra', ar”Sitofitt versed to ilitevoi/
:broadens, die mined war appirares.
crafted a lerveNiqo snorreprim).---•• Gentlemen,"
continued Mr. ifietory, evorticag with you, I
have no doubt that me wish
you all Met be mod every degree of pros-
perity. Mew ma, irre same time. with some de-
gree ad vanity, to say, that L hope your Repreeents-
fives will es anxiously watch over your rights and
interests, as 1 have done. There eras cever one in.
ditrieloal in th • borough of Southwark, who did not
rd in me a zealous supporter of what was unit
t. your good ; and. I oust, that those who ate
now your Representat;vel. will follow a similar
coarse. Although lam not endeavouring to keep
tip my teleran-in your-beromigh ttf thnolvervebs
shill be ever happy in rendering you any as-vice
for our old acquaintance/ sake, Lord ?meat .f ape
plisse, and . I Niel really much mortification
at our separation, ant have to apologize to yon for
taking open much of your time, but as ticisiothe but
time i shall ever have an opportunity of Radresing
you"( Here Mr. Tierney was apparently emasiderable
stefhd, and was interrupted hyenas of No! No / we
hope not, accompanied with the loudest cheers and
applause' that had occurred during the course of
the evening.) " Probably, Gentlemen (continued
Mr. 'l'.) the space of the duration of this ensuing
Parliament, or the period perhaps of sin years, may
drat great and important changes. It you feel
discontented Me your nercent Representatives, leek
for some Carmiukre who will wove you as I have
endeavoured to do, to the best of my abilities.
(Here more applause' conned, intermingled with
cries.of • Tarrant, yearn/ f!') I urn mach flattered
with the warmth of your approbation and cannot
easily expsess my grateful feelings and friendly at-
tachment towards you, who have, hitherto, thus
uniformly contributed your support. To you, who
have always been much more sparing of my pocket
than your own, I lie under ilifinite obligatioes--e
obligations which I can only at present repay, by
dnnking your healths; a toast which / give horn
the bottom of my soul."
This speech, it is almost needless to say, was
followed by universal bursts of applause, and the
toast was drank with the utmost enthusiasm.
Mr. Tierney, accompanied by a few friends, left
the room between eight and nine. greeted as he
passed along by hit numerous well-wishers, he him-
self seemingly much streaffed.—Much about the
same time we Left the company to drown in wine
vid music the sorrows. occasioned by such a se-
potation. An excellent regimental band attended
dunng the whole of the evenino.
. ..-retreemeseenere
The Harriett, Hatay, from Jamaica to Halifax,
is lost near Turks' Island.
The follovrino is an extras of a letter lions a
Gentleman in the Isles of France, to his Friend to
Philadelphia, dated July 3. 1506:
v A French frigate has errrved at Pun Smith Last, wah a
very valuable prize, an I,tteisla EMI India Company's ship,
bound from Cihne to Euroi.e, fiats anti richly laden. We have
not heard what her cargo crammed of, tiA t hi immen.es as
the is a ship of WOO tons Amtheol, well Mut pd, er:d fougist
the frigate. carrying 44 14-pounder., during four leao, and a
half. Si. was separated from her Itensort (.he Gaol s) in a
rite of wind. The frigate and a privateer are out ru search of
the eon.-
The above is supposed to relate to the capture of
the Warren ifnetily.
An swims Oracle mentions, when tome of For-
tune's Sinter's complained of their Istd luck, and
that she was both blind and deaf to them. that she
made them this reply, " Yoe delayed your suit too
long; and when you commenced making it. aott
relayed in your attentions. Perseverance should b
a principal chareeeristic of my votaries 1" What a
useful lesson tnis to Lottery adventurers! Particu-
larly, when so momentous a Scheme as the present
one is ofored to their ertantace 1 It is evident, the
many lost the opportunity et not participating of
her favours in the late lice eme, either from delaying
their purchases too long, or by ceasing in tl.sir put-
cat, when they ought to have perigee: ed.

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JUDGMENTS. A,
Tea moo C. witti•id iasiestliti• - t.
t Defendant ie this cam was betilght IP rest
seat. being Siouan ISI puilliet a libel del
rarborough, of Hostingeon. Mar the city of
; the particulars sews isendoard is oar Paper
rnday last
. Justice Gaols. is preamocing tee isertents
Cosh. observed epos the charge • tee
;dant had made against the P
it he matit to take away MB life, NV=
bodily harm." This the Leartled iodge oda-
il as a must mischietroot sel, itlislysu lc 't.•
Jwith the matt dangerous eiteMmeisets. Ott •
in t• a h, imputing to the Promenter• the Iteet
rof an awAss;n. Wicked as ibis titienipfliid
he confessed it at false. sod -yescadsell'ileee
iblithed. is order to make 'Wilma/ bill**
true. He rot only pahlishsi 1 14•1111.
Herald. a politic new armee et.-essieside
lotion, hut also in hand-bills. Thatch it/re
aggravations of oleo's is this ceder 'WIC
srotession of the Detitedom at; .mot Nab lee . '
:e he so long, brooded irtolioit the rft4ill•
He man, or at least ocAlat t. bus Ibkr.oll.
it the charges he geode stteiniA die Ittr-
ot were tree, it was a* in liflibleoleotte. add is •
way ally be ought to have sufkied bid
he
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to other aggravation was =
serl
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the affidavi a. Io the of -
Weariest had told a r adverse. dike Salk
to Mr. Yarborettgb, until he obltga Ors Se
' the town ; And to October.. be VIA O
be lt
in, that would purchase a whiner wicks
4, on purprow to log the Prassetwar. •100,4611. .
been well for him if he bed resillelled. flet
i who Meese innate. (reopens:ly' iliciSSO all ,
us of their own hotetolcm. la toarptiepirlit
said, that these libels were the e aFesw4 ,
,any irritation, ono ;he Learimil Immo
could that irritation be arelted bf 1:1131
inswances, which he knew to be false t Bet be
;buten to do that, which neighlsoura. on ebod
•t wollid disdain to thick if. The Cm%
'fore, in order to give his es appercasiityrelf .
tag .upaa the impeepristy cif WS arebtai.litd.
rote& the Prosecutor frogs Iva worliiiiii, um. •
d and adjudged, that he sbaeld pay a ins of
. that he should be committed toilet eeetediper
Maraltal of the Marshals** for three ca seder t
tbs. and, at the ea:siration of that pesiod, to end
:icy for his good behaviour...himself in SOOL
two sureties in 1001. each. motto belember hoe
toed until each fine be paid, lad sash security
red into.
Ina Coto tr. vetoes' eatatme. 1
'his D4eodaat was also brought op for kids. I'
it, ronrCr.i ot having a clammy of naval loxes.
the King's mark upon them. is his possession.
.rary to the AEI. He wall sentenced to three
sibs imprisn•iment. sad ba-d lahosir is the House • I
:oriel:lion ; and within that petted. an be once
tidy whipped. fur 100 Tends, 10 the deem front- 1.
the Gaol of the itouaty of barren kr Norma
nger-lone. ' -•-•‘•••t"•.• - ,
'esama,,b Urns', minified of a similar dime. was
anced to /twelve montt:s imprisocarme, in the
ninon gaol for tbeemoty of Kan. at Maidstone. ,
reo-pb tl.irdie, tool see. his wite, were also
ught up ter )'u,,gm-nt. nark• d of *smoking and
trusting a Reveme OS. er. is -lie Skenergo 4
dory. The Defendants bad resisted the search. os
grounds, that it was not feta to search max. /
;Ise a woman- •f he Ironed Judge wished chit iii i
.tails* to be rectal !:1, and that alpersens is thee, ''' .
cation in life sh sod know, that amber age one
can be a prot*Sion against the violation of the
rs. In nce of the Mangler which was
en to 11)&1;4 thug; the Cairn ivisbea, lo aegis
store, to mittgate the pisasimmat p they. them •
e, ordered and -adjiidged. that the lestradaats -
sold be severally committed to the custody of the
tribal of the Marshes.* for oae month. and be .
to discharged. ' ..
Clwr'es alteoni, for counterfeiting, or forging.
: certificate of the baptism of a sail•ir, in Order to
lain a proteaion from the Admiralty against Cm-
cis, was sentenced to sixteen *ninths wipeout.
wt. i: Navigate.
*tante .. AMMA Illialli lellAßClii.