The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-29 00:00:00

GLOUCESTER COVNTY ELECTION.

Monday list. agreeably to the public advertise-
ment, a dinner of the principal Freeholders of the
county of litnueester resident in -the Forst ur
Deno, took place, at the hear tun, New,iliani ;
Roynon June., jun. Ell. in the chair. The Meet-
ing war unin-rously and respectably attended by
the Forester• iu the interest of the worthy Baronet 1
anionast i.thers we noticed the Rev. Mr. Setidttirtl,
Mr. Pyrite (our of the Verderers) and his brother,
'the Res. Mr. Pyrke, Rev. E. Jones, Rev. I'. Jolter,
Mr. J. Feudal', Mr. Jell, Mr. Lloyd. Ite.

After several appropriate blasts, the worthy Chair-
man rose, and told, be felt highly gratified by the
attendance of so respectable a company of his
Friend' and brother Foresters, and would hove
been more so, if Mr. Prohyn, the Father of the Fo-
rest, (who was from home) had filled the chair. 1(e
begged leave to propose the health of Sir
Guise, his friend and relation, with Nieces' to luta
in the present contest far the iudependenee of the
County. This toast was drank with the greatest
rtithusiesni, and repeated cheering. The seclunie-
tion having subsided—
Sir %Vit. Guise ruse, and said. he felt gratified
with the enthusiasm which so numerous and re-
spectable a Mertitig of the remitters had sheen on
the ouhject. Ile was delighted to say, that ill
every part of the county he met the most Battering
encouragement, and even in that part inure iinme.
(finely ender the infiarnee of his opponents, lie
found • spirit of goodwill, and anxious desire fur
the success of their independence. lie now gave
the County his solemn pledge, thet it should have
the mean. placed in its power to return an bide-
peedret Member, as he would give every Free-
holder an opportunity to declare his seutiments by
his vote. Det.reged leave to propose the health of
the worthy Chainuan, to whom and to whose fa-
mily he was V/ highly indebted on the preset ut.
cation.—Tbi• toast was drank with repeated accla7
usat:otis. and three tint's three.
Doctor Humeri addressed the Meeting nearly in
the following words:—Gentlemen, not having the
boisour of holing known in this part of the county,
',wept to the worthy Chairman, and to a few of his
friends, it may be deemed an intrusion in me to
take up much of your time ; I shall, therefore. con-
sent myself. with making very few other; ation..
In the first ploce, it is not necessary here to pay
soy thing in praise of the smithy Baronet, as you
Ose all aciuninted with his merits. Ile is your
Verderer sad your friend. You know him, and
viii love him. The cause we are engneril in. I
iseve already explained to you at the County Meet.
ingest is the cease of Freedom ard Inclepepil-
enee—• cause that all are interested in. hom the
highest to the lowest—a cruse that mint triumph if
the Foresters are united awl Inc. Geodesist:lh
the two great Pests in this County have long consi-
dered us a Borough in their families by hereditsty
right, mot if they succeed in this instance, it will,
instil probability. in future farm a part of their Kill.
and merrily settlements.—( Shorts efNe, .14, from
the Foresters, it shall hot bt se, we here berms a
Berough long trough. j—Our adversaries are con-
Wen' ire shall succeed, if we are united; and,
therefore, have endeavoured to create a di-union in
the 01.1 Whig It.temst of this Counts. by repre-
senting their Tory Candidate as a Whtg. They
have hitherto succeeded in very few itivaiit:es;
Gentlemen'. they have attempted to raise that foul
hand, the Demo* of Discord. in the Forest. though
I am filly couviuced without success; for the Fo-
resters of Dean hove always supported the %Vhig
Interest in a body. sad it is only by being united
that they can be formidable to the reetny.—
insets end curs, We will be rceitecl.)—The motto
of our adversaries is, 55 ilitide a impere —the
mute of the Fore stews will be Vega. rids. 'dd."—
erSkettis of applatoe). Gentlemen, remember the
Bundle of Sticks ; apply the mend to youreelves,
and coo will convince guar enemies that their boast.
ed rieclaratioos of being, able to divide the Forest
will prove uaftipialed.
Gentlemen, it has been asserted by some, that
55 the country is not vrotth saving ;" the asorition
is false; we have a glorious Constitution. the envy
and admiration of the world; sortie few abuses have
certainly crept into it, but those may all be coy.
ee-led by a moderate and temperate Reform. such
as our worthy Friend will support : others have
soid, that. supposing we should succeed in this in.
stance, the nation is too deeply sunk into cornm-
non. f..r a • &trey instance of the fliCfra, of an 111..
d.pendent Cm:lidate to Le of ally armee. It err-
teinly, Ciesit'emen, is too far gone. if we 1101101
exert ourselves to sate it ; but we must apply our
shoulders to the *heel, sad then our emanate will
be imitated by the, country at large. That single
plant, the spirit of iodepeodetice, nourished and
fostered county, however it may at first be
exposed % the chilling frost. or scorching heat.
will still take ront, shoot out. sod beer fruit iii die.
tent comities. and we shall have the honour of
16 st cultivating it upon our own toil. Gentlemen,
we justly glory in the nonse of free-born Britons, and
the same spirit that iodates as to oppose these do-
smartie invaders of on, rights and privilege., will
equally incite us to repel a foreign for; and when-
ever the common enemy of the world shall dere to
approach our shores, who do you 'outwear will lie
the firat to stand forsranl in defence of their corn.
try ? lent the hoe sycophants for power and prefer-
mere—not these who have butteoed like locuute
noon the country-4ot thou, nho are omit !eel{ in
the (internment for every thing they poesess-..eln,
throve are ion toe peteitieS to be dle,wort d oii w the
heti? of but ours, Ives, (ientlemen, wr flint
have been calutusitstird—we thot have been tra-
duced bectinee we support the Worthy Baroot t
who has coin• forward so noley to support no—
we. I say, sh be found the furciaost at-our
poses—we shnil it, the first to rally Town! the Altar
and the Throiler—( P.Suudcr Vappfasse)--and yon.
Genilenien -if the Forest, I. I.ait
the Si-tuber for that !tray wieeo rates trium:iliiit•
on the nor,.l—loo. who vii' carry tt.e t•e•-•• et

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ill Mr. Nlot;.teitesie health b••ittr
T.''. anti -.4.41-1 have not the honour. C.:cit.:fewest.
of tninz a l'orvvier !and a hoz,h honour I v!inal.l
',ea. IM tr.. hut I te.tde .In the same side of the Se-
etre, mad I hope to OM the dal veheu the whole o!