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tr rST Af fIf.TER EtECTION.

SEVEN 111 I)AY-WA♦ 14.
The eloquence which was displayed, this day,
attratied a great asstrnhly, notwithstanding the un-
favourableness of the weather. At the close of the

poU the numbprs stood thus :

Sir F HurA.,rt .
rrrl Cochrstra
Mr. Molt
Mr. Shrtedan .
Mr. Paull
Immediately when the state of the poll was an-
nounced, a person of the name of Fe DISSITY got op

. . 17N1
. 1546
. 1201
. 341
. 260

on the front of the hustings, and addressed the po•
tce thus :—.14 Gentlemen. I beg leave to claim

your attentioe, for the purpose of submitting to
you the propriety of putting a fete questions, but
uone of them shall I press, unless you approve of
them. They are such as are proper, in order to
make you judge of the prev-nnons of those who
have offereu themselves to your notice and appro-
bation. If any Candidate despise the questions
which ate put here in your name, he assured that
be will neglea you in the House of Commons. The
great objet is to have an interpretation of that
loose word "indcpead.•n:e " The first question I wish
to put is, whether Lord Cochrane had any prorni,es
of Ministetial support ? The second, has the
Noble lord not had interviews with the Duke of

Portland, at Burlington House ? The third, has
he not had interviews with Mr. Huskiscon, at the
Treasury t And fourthly—did lie not refuse to pre.
sent his thsele's Petition to the House of Com-
mons ?"
Mr. SiIiRIDAIS then addressed the crowd:—
"Gentlemen," said he, " I am very glad, before I
begin to address you this day, to find, that I have
been instrumental in bringing the poll to its present
state, as I perceive you visas st with such approbation.
I repeat what I said yesterday, that it is my nature
and temper, when I see many, like yourselves,
pleased and happy at any event, to partake in their
happiness acid satisfation. The person who has
just addressed you, has, as I understand him, put a
question, not to a single Candidate, but to all of us.
I stand here to say, that anyanan may catechise me,
in any manner he pleases, as to my past political
life, or my future condo& and to that man I
shall give a fair, frank, and sincere answer.--
He has stated, truly, that the word lac/qua/we
is not perfeitly well understood. I must go
this length, to say, that the confidence placed in
a public man can only arise from a recolleetion of
his past cctuieta. We hear much of respea and re-
gard to the Constitution. 'I here are four distiaa
descriptions of persons who will speak of their love
and apprehensions regarding it. flie first are those
who have a blind and habitual reverence towards is.
ithout admitting that these is any cause of reform.;
with them I do not agree. The second are those
who look so strongly into the abuses which they con-
ceive to exist, that they scarcely think it worth their
preserving ; from them too I differ. Th.r third
class consists of those who look at the Constitution
with reverence and ♦eneration, but who are not
blind to the necessity of sp Jy reform in abuses
which are acknowledged to exist. Wan them Ido
most sincerely agree. There is a fourth class, who
love the Constitution, and who will not deny those
abuses, but who wish them to remain unreformed
and unrepaired, because it suits their selfish pur-
poses; those are the persons whom I most of all
detest. (Lead appiauvr,.) Those are the men.
who I venture to predict will ultimately prove the
destruetion of the renowned bulwarks of our glo-
rious Constitution, as established by our ancestors.
have no hesitation in saying, that those who ate
too enthusiastically anxious for its reform, are to be
blamed, as well as those who thrive by its disasters,
and who think to succeed in proportion as the peo-
ple are burdened for its support. Having said
thus much. I shall only add, that it is impossible for
any man who profes,es himself to be a real friend to
freedom of eleAion, not to be gratified when he sees
the people gratified. When they are so, I am sa-
tisfied. I shall, however, make this declaration,
that I do not look so much for my success on this
occasion to those who have already polled, as to
those who are yet to poll. If I had been the per-
son likely to be dismayed by d:fficulzies, or to be
awed by majorities, I never should have had the op•
porrunities which I have had to stand op as I have
done in support of the rights and liberties of the
people "
Lord Cocurtas e—'l Gentleman, I do profess
myself satisfied wi.h the state of the poll this d:ty,
equally so as I have done upon every day on which
I have had the honour of presenting myself before
you. I trust that the independent vita of West-
tnieste r will sopport those only whom it thinks
most fir, and that the Eleaors will agree- with me,
that every candidate ought to stand Acne upon this
occasion. I have already most unequivocally
pledged myself upon my honour that I shall stand
alone in support of that which I am determined to
pursue. Several questions have been put to me,
which I shall endeavour to answer to your satisfac-
tion. In the first place, with respell to Ministerial
influence, I have all my life deprecated the idea
of the interference of Ministers in popular elec.
tions. I have presented' myself before you,
not to be brought in by any faFfion. I am
independent ; that is, I hold myself wholly uncon-
nected with any Ministerial party, excepting
so tar as their conduft and measures tend to the
good of the country. In answer to
.the first
question, as to Ministerial influence, I may state,
that I never made any application, or request, such
as that which has been alluded to. I should despise
the man who would mike such a request, as much
as I despise the person who made the insinuation.
With reaped to the Deke of Portland, I can truly
state, that I had heard a report. that the whole in-
fluence of Ministry was to be given to Sir S. Hood.
or to any man who would be subservient to their
views. Ido not say, that Sir S. Hood was one of
that description ; but I do affirm, that one member
was brought in by means of that gallant officer. I
went to the Doke of Portland, and a.kedif the report
which I heard, was founded in tact ? The answer
W 4,, that Sir S. Hood had the good wishes of His
Ma;es•y's. Government. I stated that I thought
that the interference of Government, in popular and
all other Eleetions, was highly unconstitutional.
With respell to the other Gentleman (Mr. Hus-
kissoti) whose name has been mentioned, I stated
what I have already mentioned to you here, that

no interference shout I take place, either in my INN.
half, or that of any ether Candtdate. G•ntlemaa,
I have been reproached with not having brought
forward measures for the amelioration of the St•Ee
of the Isfavy, and the reetifying of *Slims, when I
was in Parliament; and, Gentlemen, it bt`er'mos

me to expl47n my reas Ins fo. not having dme 4,„
I had suffered extremely in my health ; and
when I Landed at Plymouth, I was sot able to

walk. When I came here I found myself on-
able to attend Parliament ; I wai present, however.

at the ihtroJitetion of the Cat lic que,tion, and
had it goneforwari,l should certainly have given

my vnte. The only division at which I wits present,
WAS upon t!te discussing of the atostrad question,
of •:ihich rpi have heard enot4eh. I- apieered to

me, th.it a degree of blame was attempt i to be
thrwan upon His Majesty, who I think did not de-
serve a:,y blame ; so tar from it, I are convinced he
has been the protetor of top Constitut;,m, and the

defender of oar rights. With respe.ft to the pledge,
of which ycu are all pettedly aware, I was or
opinion, as I still am, tnat His Maj..,ty had a
right to ad in the ta-inner he did, and tia:

he has afted according to the ConAi,ution.—
I understand thatt was accu.ed of several other

matters, after I left the hustings yesterday.—
Gentlemen, as to these accusations, I may observe,
that he ought to be a petsem of some degree of clue,
raider and reputation who sh-astt d: Av. an aesw.e
tram RV. upon such an occilpitilk• (Great j'eterrii"
idol and Lanes.) GentlenY, I shall say at least,
that the person who brows forward such accusations,
ought at least to give some degree of proof for his
assertions, hr. without some degree of evidence,
no such quassia= as those which you have

heard. ought to be pet. $y accusers seem
to expea that the proof should come from
me. and not from them. It is easy for any ind:vi-
duul in society to trouble the peace of Lis ne'.o-
- by saying to him. in the presence of A large
a.sembly, ". Did you kill such and Such a perssm,
or did you steal so and so from anothe ?" But 1
put it to your candour, whether such irnpliod accu-
sations ought to be at all attended to, unless some

evidence be at the same time adduced to tupport

them ?" The N ride Lord concluded, withirettaning
his grateful acknowledgements to the Eleaors, far
the exertions which they had used in his behalf.
Mr. Jeer:was next presented himself to the notice
of the turbulent and rejoicing multitude--'r Gen-
tlemen," said he, " I have to lament. i^fr
reasons than one. that your candidate, Sir F. Bur-
dett, is not here CO answer the questions which have
been put to the several candidates who have offered
themselves for your sniffles; but. Gentlemen,
there can be no daub:, the: it he had to answer those
questions. there would have been no equivocation.
There would have been a straight forward and dire&
answer. He would havetold you plainly and roundly,
that he is a friend to Patliernentary 'Reform—
that he is the advocate cf the people, a friend to the
• Prerogatives of the Crown. the staunch friend
to the House of Pznrs. and the supper or of the
dignity of the people. Gentlemen, I must relent
your silence when Col. Elliott addressee you, as I
think it most essential mar he should not be per-
mitted to escape this day in silence. Bring him dis 3
tinaly to pledges. Let him convince you that he
is your friend, and he will and:avonr to reatify
abuses in Parliament. I should wish to ask him one
question, in addition to those which have already
been pot ; and that tprestion is, whether he was not
one of the brewers who made an application to Par-
liament for the extension of the Excise Laws ? (Ae.
claseations and lead applause). I should wish to
know whether he did not intend to force the people
to drink of his brewing, instead of allowing them to
partake a little of their own brewing ? There can be
no question, Gentlemen, that both this Col. Elliott
and Lord Cochrane have the support of Go.
vernment ; although I do not think that the
Noble Lord would be capable of asking it in
the same way that Colonel Elliott would do.—
Although Sir Francis Burden sta.sds high upon the
Poll, when you recollea former great contests for
Westmioster, you must still continue aarve, for I
warn you against the tricks and snan=uvrea of the
Ministry. Gentlemen, I am unwilling to detain
you with long speeches. We have seen and heard
of very long debates in the House of Commons, and
little good growing nut of them. What are you to
expect from military Officers in Parliament, when
we have seen many of them cashiered without any
reason being assigned? It is true, that Naval (Meer.
are not under such great controul or power ; but
still, from various reasons, they are quiet ineligible,az
your Represeloatives. I have to tifenk you for
your exertions in favour of the popular Candidate.
and have only to repeat to you. that he is not yet
entirely nut of danger. so then I have to beg of
you not to relax in your endeavours."
Colonel Et. awe declared his immediate readiness
to answer the queoion put to him by the lion. Gen-
tleman who appeared on behalf of Sir Francis
Burdett. He appealed to the attention of those who
heard him, and as he valued his honour as a man,
and his eharaaer as a Candidate, he solver
was a Member of any Committee of Brewers, hav-
ing fur their objea the extension of the Excise Lasts.
On the cortrary, he thonghr the Tax upon home
brewing oppressive and inefficacious. Was theßight
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. oheridan), then cootie
Hustings, he would do him that justice. because he
well knew that the Tax alluded to originated entire;
with that Administration, of which he formed a
part. The Gentleman who first addressed them on
that day, had, in auather place, charged him with
being the friend of the three last sue. nee Adminis-
trations In answer, he shoul4 say, that he did
support the i. fides of Mr. Pitt, because he con-
ceived that sush a system advanced the glory of his
country. /1., supported Mr. Sheridan, because,
although he differed from him in certain point:,
he btlll had admired those unrivalled taierits,
and that ardeat patsiotistra, which ever aatiat:d
him on great public questions, carelets of the si•re
of the House whence they were proposed.
With Mr. Folio polity he also differed ; but that
difference of opinion never prevented him from
duly appreciating the patriotic and enlightened views
of toar truly great S.etesman lip:4l all occasions
he gave him his eleaive support, because oe sop •
posed him the most able man to represent the city
of Westminster. As to his own poli.ic,l opinioils,
he argued upon this loyal principle. that wh at tae
majotity of the two Houses ut Parliament agreed ip

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the plc pi iet) cf. great legislative measures, it was
t!ii: duty of ever v gond subject to support them.
Ti.e disapprobation of the multitude, and their hoot-
ings, weir both so loud and continued, that the
Hon. (So dictate thought it prudent to withdlaw.
Mt. GI 1160t41 rose, and immediately direded his
eyes to Lord Cochrane, who was then retiring. He
is gone, said that Gentlemks, but his departure
shall not prevent me from giving that explanation,
which is due to my own charades, and to the great
cause in which we are all so materially interested.
I do pronounce that Noble Lot d, I mean that
Offiset, to have forfeited every pretension to the
charafter of a gentleman, and to be nothing more
than a political impostor—( Much applause, and some
disapprehaison).—l repeat the assertion, because I
Call prove it. Upon a former occasion, I did ask
the Noble Lord, whether he bad not called upon the
Duke of Portland at florlington-house ? His an-
swer to me was, " that my assertion was a lie."
With all his equivocations this day, he bas been
obliged to confess, that he did call, not only
.upon
the Duke of Portland, hutalm upon Mr. Huskisson,
the Under Secretary of the Treasury. (Hear! hear!)
That officer did also, upon a former occasion,
state, that he bad no conneCtion or relationship with
Lord Melvin/. What was the fad ? It was this:
that the Noble Lord, or rather that officer, was
intimately conneded with that same Melville.
(Hear! hear! near 1) Hest again was another
proof of that base imposition and political fraud
which he attempted to
st aiftise upon the people of
k
Westminster. Liberal is he dealt in professions,
in a delusive declamation of independence, he in-
sisted that the conduct of the Noble Lord was a
tissue of duplicity and dissimulation, in every way
hostile to the feelings and views of a free, honest,
end disinterested Candidate. For his own . part,
be (Mr. Gibbons) despised the insinuations of that
Officer. Such insinuations could not deter him ;
he was embarked, as one of the people, in their
great common cause: and he would strenuously and
sincerely perform his duty to them and his country.
(Great applause.)
Mr. Powea, in an animated speech, addressed
" the Electors, amidst long and continued shouts of
approbation. He observed, that the great question
was not to discuss the personal altercation of indi-
viduals. or to investigate those objections which
were made against one Candidate on account of his
hrofessional duties, and against another, either as to
is privjate callings, or his party attachment;; the
Eledors of Westminster were called upon to exercise
their most important privilege, ant in the exercise
of that privilege, they had to consult the di Cates of
genuine patriotism, and the claims of their proud
and ancient charaffer. They were to recoiled,
that from those Hustings they were used to hear
the manly, liberal, and determined principles of the
enlightened lox. And when they carried their
recoiled:oil back to those times, with what indig-
nation, or rather with what contempt, must they
listen to those professions of independence, which,
when interrogated and examined, seemed founded on
pelitical stratagem, and could only be supported by
palpable equivocation. The Noble Lord who pre-
sented himself for their choice, had been properly
asked, had he not visited the Duke of Portland, and
paid his devoirs to the Under-Secretary of the
Treasury ? His answer was, that he bad called
rthe Duke of Portland, and the Under-
etary of the Treasury, to ascertain whe-
tber it was the intention of Government to give
the Ministerial support to Sir Samuel Hood? It was
for the Eleetors of Westminster to ask themselves
this plain question, If the Neale Lord was sincere in
his repeated professions of independence, where was
the necessity, or rather, why should be be found
anxious to ascertain the opinion of 'Government as to
their intentions witis tripe& to Sir Samuel flood, or
any other Candidate ? There was a time when a
laudable )ealousy actuated the great City of West-
minster. When to find a Candidate canvassing on
popular pretensions, and at the same time intrigu-
ing for Ministerial support, would have consigned
that CandeLiot to the condemnation of every honest
and unbiassed Eleder. It was for the people to re-
coiled, that he had not only seen the Duke of Port-
laud, but that the Noble Lord had also found it ne-
cessary to see Mr. Huskisson, the Treasury Secre-
tary, that Secretary to whom was committed the
disposal of the secret service money, for the purpose
of conduaing Ministerial Eletions. (Cries of Hear!
Hear !) Again he should repeat, that if the Noble
Lord was sincere in his numerous and so frequently
repeated professions of independence, it was his
dut to have avoided any thing in the shape
of Ministerhl intercourse. If, in his own words, the
influence of Government was unconstitutional, he
should have observed, in his own conduct, a regard
for his professions, and carefully have retrained
from the remotest communications with the Govern-
ment. Had he stood upon independent grounds, it
cooed be no object or concern with him, whether or
for whom Ministerial influence was to be exercised.
The Noble Candidate had, on a previous occasion,
denied any relationship or connection with Lord
Melville. The fad was, that he was conneded with
that Nobleman. and though he (Mr. Power), did
not attach criminality to any man, because he was
unfortunately allied not to the most reputable con-
nedions, (for who could guard against the misfor-
tune of having discreditable relations ?) (A loisi4)
yet, when he found a public man hesitate to admit
a plain fad, because it might tend to frustrate his
personal views, he could not prevent himself from
attaching a strong suspicion to such conduet, and
particularly when other circumstances tended forci-
bly to encourage that suspicion. Who had the
Noble Lord daily calumniated ? The gallant St.
Vincent, that patriot, who originated and promoted
those inquiries into the public expenditure, which
brought that very Melville to trial. Upon what
occasion did the Noble Lord first vote in the House
of Commons? Upon that question which restored
that Melville to power and patronage.

Fourth Day of Drawing, No. 9,949, the First-
drawn Ticket, entitled to Twenty Thousand Pounds,
was sold by Ricamensois, Gent:mum and Co. on
the Ist of last month. It i, very remarkable, that
this Ticket was written for from Southampton, and
procured front the Bank by Rica•ans,,u, Goon-
tact, and Co. who continue selling Tickets and
Shares, warranted Undrawn, at their Offices, corner
Bank-buildings, Cornhill, and facing the Gate of
King's Mews, Charing-cross.


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PARSON TOOKE AND MR. PAULI:.

Wednesday last we gave an Ettrael front Parson•
Tooke's Pamphlet, in which he disowned any par-
ticular intimacy wilt Mr. Paull. The following are
Copies of Letters from the Parson to Mr. Paull. The
originals are in Mr. Paull'. possession:—

DIAS Sta,
You wUI give me great pleasure by your company on Son-
day, and at all other times I shall a.:kriowlidge it as a favour.
Mr. Curran, Sir Francis Burdett, and the public, have obliga-
tions to you, foe your conduct; but you will never be knot-
ten by any tie the futvits, who by turns pillage the country
Sir Francis Burdett ha; an ericapment of long standing at
Weybill Fair, for this and the following week; °Omelet, 1
am sure he would have bee happy to ride from Berkshire,
and to Pun our party on Sunday ; but 1 trust he will de so, on
some other opp.tunilF, before Mr. Curran gene England;
for I much long to see you all three togethpr.
I am, dear Sir,
Your übligc.l, humble Servant,
Wimbledon, Oct. 9, 1806. J. 11OltNE TOOK 1:.

Mr DIA R
It is a grant muitiication to me, to Le intder the necessity of
declining your agreeable party on Friday next. But lam pre-
cluded from all parties, except at my own house, from this time
till May next; when I hope again to be able to quit my dor.
mouse state. In the interval, I trust to the commas:km ut my
friends, whose health permits them, in cold weather, to travel
so far as Vi Wimbledon and in that number, I mean, of friends
and healthy friend;, I hope fur your long contallUillCV: Being
very truly Your most rasmlient s•rvaut,
Wunbledeet, Oct. 1.5, 1805. J. HURNE TOOKE.

"My Di*. Ste-11 give you joy ofa Meet excellent co tr.
mencaneet. Your Advertisement is excellent. Your yr.tvt-
day% Resalotions most excellent. I wish you not to cat a
thought about me. If was not A -actep d, I would c utsa
through the streets fur you. I understand, tio:n good aut:.e-
tity, that Snertdan is surely alarmed.

Concerning tie Hustungs, yeu used not, and ought nor, ti
come tinder any engagement. You are not bound to pay a
farthing for them. The first time I stood fee Vl(eatntinfiter, I
deposited in the Deputy High Bailiff's hind four bundled
pounds, previous to the thy of Election, because he told me,
that Mr. Fox and Lord Hood had so drove. But I !carried
rterwards.t'sey had not done to. After the Election, he gave
me a bill of his expcmliture. The greater part of Ins charges
was (or dinners, &e. for hititsudf and Clerks. This was in
1794. The second time I stood for 'Westminster was in 1796.
I then depuited in tam Deputy High Sailitrs hand, without
any slercsity for 141 believe about a hundred and Fifty pounds;
and I did so, because that would be about onesthird of the ex-
pense of the Hustings, and I had determined in my mind nut
•to my for the dinners, &e. of the Deputy an his Maks.—
When the polling had advanced about a week, be demanded
of me two hundred rod fifty more, which I refused.
There is a special modern Act of Parliament, compelling
Candidate, for C.oliaties to pay the Sheriff's expenses; but it us
evOired to Carotin, and the Candidates for Boroughs need nut
pay a farthing; nnr should they, is my opiates, ; and least of
all in Westminster. The High iial:ts office is a very lucrative.
one : it is purchased openly of the Dean and Chapte• • they
have great einoluments, and the holding °film tf,tection is vile
of their privileges, and the burden goes wi:kthe privilege, 314
rests upon them. Their interest will eat be with you, awl
would nut pay them for their ma:teatime. My lost Election
cost me between Or tee and foar thousand pounds, when I easel
about 1700 rtral glfctots, for I went in person afterwards to their
houses, where I found all my voters, but one, to return them
thanks,' trough 1 had not previously solicited a single vote,
nor given them a moment's notice. I merely engirded at the
Hustings ahem, and romiested myself.
My second Eleftion cost me 'only 685 pounds, and vet I
polled double the former number, and mu:e reef Elkhart than
either of my adversartes.
Your Letter to Lord Folkstone is, In my mini, not only
justifiable, out meritorious.
I write in great haste.
At all events keep your temper very cool, and do not spend
to., much meney. 1 understand young Sheridan w.ll lose
Stafford, and it you throw the Manager out of Westmu later,
you will defter to be cemeted, for you will assuredly IL.ll.sic
up this Coalatron-Administratini. They totter already.
I am, with every gotNt wish for your success,
Most truly your's,
Oinober 31, IPO6. J. filittl4E

SPEECH
OF THE HON. LAWRENCE DUNDAS,
AT THE GUILDHALL, AT YOUH, MAY 7, 1807.

Gentlemen, Sherifs, and Brother Freemen,
But six months ago, you were called upon to ex•
ercise your Eledive Franchise. a privilege, in my
estimation, &Neater than any that is enjoyed by any
nation in the world ; but, valitable as I think this
privilege is, I cannot but regret that you are again
called upon so soon to exercise it : not that I am
an enemy to the sense of the people being frequently
taken, but I cannot approve of the sudden, and, in
my opinion, the uncalled for manner in which the
dissolution of the last Parliament has taken place.—
Gentlemen, of an the Parliaments within the recol-
ledion of any of as, the last was by far the shortest.
It sat but little more than four months ; but in that
short period it slid more for the good of mankind in
genet al, a;,sl attempted to do mere for the benefit of
this c entry, than all the Parliaments in which I have
sat. Gentlemen, I will, as briefly as I can, state to
you what appears to me to be the principal measures
of the last Parliament : The last Parliament has
done that which I am sure you will say with me,
must ever redoand to its honour—to its immortal
Flory : it has done tlizt wbich will for ever endear
its memory to the hearts of Englishmen—in a word,
Gentlemen, it has abolished the Slave Trade; it has
wiped away the only stain from the charader of
Britons. ( Here some ',own raid out, Wilbert :wee I:2r
ever !/ I thank the gentleman for reminding me
of the name of that strenuous advocate for the cause
of humanity ; and I can moire you, Gentlemen, that
he shall ever have the small tribute of my applause
for his conduid and his perseverance in that cause.
This calls to my recolledion, Gentlemen, for what
a length of time Mr. Wilberforce struggled to ob-
tain this objed ; he never lost sight of it since I
have been in Parliament (seventeen years) ; anJ,
indeed, I believe he had brought it forward before
that time. He was supported in it by the Minister
of the day—a Minister of no small power ; but, not.
withstanJing all the influence of that Minister on all
other questions. there appears to have been, on this
particular question, an influence somewhere or
other, that always defeated him; and it was left to
His Majesty's late Ministers, and to the last Parlia-
ment, to accomplish the glorious work, and give to
Great Britain the glory of standing foremost among
the nations of Europe in the abolition of this in-
famous traffic in human blood.
What remains for me to say on the condiad of the
last Parliament, relates more to what it intended to
do, than to what it has accomplished ; for it was
not permitted to live to accomplish it : It establish-
ed Committees to examine into the Public Expen-
diture, and to inquire into the State of Offices and
Places, for the purpose of abolishing such as might,
without injury to the public service, be dispensed
with. Unless I have been much misinformed, Gen-
tlemen, on the very day on which Parliament was
prorogued, the Finaace Committee would have pre.

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rented a Reo-A, in which great abuses world have
been brough, to Itgil ; and I am confident that she
offenders (if such there were) would have been
brought to justice. Although we might all be sorry
for any iodividual who suffers punishment, we must
reckon the example necessary, especially in times
like these : fur. G-ntlemen, when you are called
upon to contribute lartely, and di contrihute cheer-
fully to the exigencies of the State. you• have a
right to *spelt that the public rcsfurces should be
expended with prudence, with integrity, and eco-
nomy.
Gentlarnen, there is another sishielt on which
must tiouhie you wi,h a few words ; I mean the
Bill called, improperly, in my opinion, the Catho-
lic Bill ; for its priivisions extended to all classes of
Protestant Dissenters, as well a,: the Catholics. In
170, an At passed the Irish Parliament, enabling
the Catholics to enter, into His Majesty's service:
the 13:11, to which 1 have alluded, with the excep-
tion of allowing them to be appointed Generals on
the Staff, granted them no more ; this Bill, howe-
ver, was given up. As the law now stands, a man
may be induced to enter into the army in Ireland,
and if sent with his regiment to England, he be-
comes liabk to a penalty. Surely. Condemn, in
common justice, this ought to be reel:Red.
Gentlemen. I am a friend to toleration, where
toleration can be granted with safety to the Estab-
lished Church. a.:cl no farther: I am a friend to
toleration, because I am a hiend to freedom—
freedom and toleration go hand in hand.
I have now to return you thanks for the patience
with which you have heard me ; if you approve of
my conduit in Parliament, and of the measures pur-
sued by the last Parliament, I trust I shall have the
honour of being again chosen one of your Repro-
sentatives.

N.4F411. BITE I,I.IGLACE.
PORTSMOUTH. l•1Ai 13.
:The Mail frigate, Capt. Gage, which is to take
Sir Aythut Paget to Constantinople, is ready for
sea ; she is waiting the arrival of the Ambassador.
Yesterday, the Juno frigate, from Malta, was
released from quarantine; and this morning the
transports, which came under her convoy, were re-
leased. Colonel Fvers, of the Royal Engineers,
came home in the gene.
_ _

my gouts, KAY 12.
Came in the Fancy, Itovre, from Dublin ; and Le
Rite, Gillet, 50115 New York, detaiaed by the Busy
priva:su.

YARNOUTtI, MAT 13.
The if,n)tu bye-beat, arrived heri last night, at
twelve o'clock, from Gottenburg, and landed Mr.
Stewart, who set off :or London immediately,
charged with dispatches,, containing an a-count of
an engagement between the Russians and the French,
in winch the latter were defeated, with Limrnente
loss.

The corpse of the Piineen Briatinsky, late the
Misz Dutton, was this day landed from
L'Aimake 1i ;;ate. and convened fotward, to be
buried in the family vault.
.

Remain in the !toads the fleet under command of
Adatibd Russell.

rzst., KAY I.
Arrived the Demo/mita: Lomb, irr,rn YArmouth,
and remising in the Downs with the ;Lips as per Inst.
—Wind S.W.

TORBAY, MAY 12..
The following are the ships which ret tuned Leret
the night b, re last. undei the commAncl of Sir
James &imam. viz. Prance of Wales, Hibernia,
Dreadlmage', tandean, St. George, Monarch, and Reuq.
and still remain.

Arrived this day the Li;frit( brig, and Sprisktly
cutter, from a cruise.

DRtADFUL STORM.

wiIITAIIAVEN, WAY lg.
We bad a mnst tremendous thuader-storm, last
Wednesday afternoon, which commenced about
five o'clock, and continued far the space of an
hour. The peals were the most numerous, for the
time. that have been known by the oldest per-
sons living. The flashes of lightning did not ap-
pear remarkably vivid ; certainly, net nearly so
vivid as they would have done at a later hour.

It was areompacieJ by a bfavy fall of /mi.
stones; and its course was peafy frum south to
north. Some c,,pious showers of rain succeed-
ed it.

A melancholy accident was occasioned by it, in
the vicinity of this town. William Murray, a per-
son employed as a drayman, at Parton Brewery,
was descending the hill, on the road leading from
the turnpike to the brewery, with a dray, when the
horse, it is supposed, had taken fright at the thun-
der, Sic. The unfortunate man was found upon the
road, not long after, speechteu, and apparently in-
sensible. Medical assistance was procured, and
every possible attention paid to him ; but he ex.
piled early the next morning. It is supposed that
the dray had passed over his back.
The thunder-storm, on Friday evening, the Ist
inst. about eight o'ci-ock, produced some unhappy
consequences in the North. The eledric fluid situ, k
the house of Mr. Jopling, marble-cutter, in Pil-
grim-street, Newcastle, arid did coaxiderableinjary
to several rooms, and to several pieces of furni-
ture. At Hepburn, a stable, in which there were
three horses, was also struck, and one of them was
killed.

At Poulton•in-tke-Fylde, and the neighbourhood,
on Thursday the 50th ult. and the two following
days, there was the must tremenduous thunder
and lightning ever remembered by the oldest per-
sons ; on Friday particularly so. As a girl, aged
thirteen, was returning from school, in Poulton,
about seven in the evening, she was struck dead,
within halt a mile of the tows, her bonnet. cloak,
stockings, and shoes, were burnt or torn in pieces ;
she bad a gallon of rum, in a stone-bottle, wrap'
up in her apron, which, there is no doubt, exploded,
as several pieces were found at a considerable dis-
tance from the spot.
Two sheep were killed near Poulton, and the
ground, near to the place where they lay. was per-
forated in several places, and burnt. Cleat Mar-
ton Mill had three of its sails shivered in pieces, and
the top wet on fire ; a large iron chain, which draws
up the co►n, was melted to a rod of iron, and, as
the bottom did not reach to the A,ror, considerable
dame was done below iv, such as tulips up the
Ward!, Iltc.

OLD 411111V04 NI r 14.
- INTY.
frilimit • rtdowd4 P '''lM %Vat' indiftedlor MATT) n, Reheeea Niirrpa. knowing that his Intrri.:
wile, Maria Poeltir,s, was ma slice. The Pit..-1-r'r
was a handsome dashing young fellow,
though only the son of a washerwoman, p,..esi
himself off as the natural sort of a Duke. At atidi.e
time, he said he was the son of the Margravine
Awed). By this means he got introdneed to ftt,
Maria Perkins, a young lady of some fortune, and
'married her on the 931 of Avon last, at Slat.
garct's Church, Westminster. He irrme:±:ately
handsome lodgings at Knigh!tbridge, and, in tiv.)
months, contrived to spend 3001. of ter rnon..y iset
her on the 2rlth of ()Sober, and married, on the
same day, Miss Rebecca Wilmer,, at the chilrefi
of St George in the East; but soon Iseca:..
.dcf
the second wife. He returned to the li st ;of Gb-
mined from her another !um of money• fhe pre,
sedation was ins:itived by the mother uf tl.e first
wife. Verdia—GroPy.
Wdlirw Lewin, alias Jaws Pazifie, was i,icract.;
for horse-stealing. Oa being first brought 11 6,
Bar, the Prisoner fainted away. After a
trial. he wag erreitiril for want of direct evidence.
Thn Brava V: 43 capitaly covvret.d of stgeliag,.
in the dwellinßhouse of Thom is Duncan, watch...
maker, Chancery-lane, within the Liberty of the
Rolls, a gold watch, value 201. and a silver watch,
value 21. as. the property of Mr. Doncaa. The
Jury recommend:l.iaim to mercy, r 0 acwurit of !fa
youth.

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WLETINOS OF CR Et..l TORS A I GL'ILDHAILL,
Yearns ROO%
. .
Themes Clark, Chatham, Kent, eorn sr e.
-dealer
• Timothy auchmore, Market-ttritet, Garold nsarke, 11
Middlesex, vier rater . . . .
William Tacker, the lounger, Exeter, D.,vonshire,
sage manufacturer
•• 1 1
.
Nothainel Wilmer, Wyrardisbury, Buckingharnsh,N,
wheelwright .
• . 3 HI
. . .
Jame. Grey, East Smithfield, 1141.1Jlesex, baker •2I 10
Jonathan Wilson, late of White-bursestreet, Ratcliffe,
Middlesex, dyer . . - .3 13
John Ball, Hatterfett, Hirr.i'.lc. engineer . •$ I
James Dodd, Pall-mall, Middlesex, hatter and hosier . 2 11
Liebe Pearce, Hayesorkot. Mold:escx, merle silk, . 2 I
William Nixon U4lls,ll.Telscrnacles,ivare, Fillbdt,
diaper
• - 211
. . Bethidoinew Short, Fineburrplace, Middlesex, mer-
chant
• 2 1
. . . .
Eleard Gwyn, late of Belvidere-ruw, Lambeth, Surrey,
tinsbeeenerr hang . • 111
Thomas Hug::es, Nurfo/k-street, .;nand, wine•rme
chant
• 1 II
. John Dovr!ing Burke, 1.,:o of Queen's Elms, Little
Chelsea, Muhl *sea, osarelsant. . . 1 111
Joseph 1141, Fieur-de•lis-cuu.t,Spital•fielits, Middlesex,
respenonufacturor . . 1 13
. .
William Berle Out-place, St. James's-street, We*.
mintier, broker . . 1 1$ •
Ar:hibahl•Cotqulionn, Highlereet..Lambeth, Surrey,
vca,t•mercrant . 2 10
• Richard Vaughan, fore•atreit, London, I inen.draptt . 1 1
Joseph Park..., R ingooA, Flompolaire, grocer . 2 10
Thomas Squire, late of %Vert. square, St. George's-fields,
Surrey, deal,/ and chaprnan . 2 ID
John Borger, JAW of Cheapside, London, waraL-mase.•
man . . 2 II
. .Th nue' May, Sheoperton, Middlesex, shopkeeper . 1 lli
James Piny, Great Portland-etreet, Middiesex, lines-
draper . 1 13
• Joseph Sayer, Upper North-place, Grays-lnn•lano. end
John Jeffery, Tircisheld-street, MAry-la.bonnc, coach
.z..d liarnassenaers . g 11
. .
Jo'..; Isaac Hawhi.is, Dalby-terrace, City-road, Mnidle-
a-c, manure:hue' of and dealer us musical muse
.
meats . 2 12
. .
.
Jacob Bonwick, Ireir•stiees. Kerley-Down, Surrey,
vocer . 2 1
Andrew Brad, Frith :treat, Soho-square. Mlddlsl42.
baker 2 10
. .
Samuel Levy, late of Mansell.,trect, Goodroan's-fields,
jewallea . • .. 1 1
Thomas Dawson, late of Portlan.Lro.d, i'Priland. Aiimet,
dealer .r.:!,haismaii . . 1 11
• Thomas Ilibbs and Robort .'„:axby, Wuely, Essex, gro•
egos . 1 I
• . .
Henry Cross, late of Albany-house, Piccadilly, cook and
hien . o•kez.,er , 1 12
•__ •_____ •

• 3 15

VIDINDS.
Hue! Lloyd, Maddls Temple-Lane. London, moony.

. ..
scrivener . - - 12
. .
&soca Browne, Veryd's Coffee•hoa+-, Landon, and
South Lambeth, Surrey, ineuranee-look. r . • 1
John Copp and Robert Walker, Sinitic/id, Essex, ca.
luxemriuteis . . .
William Charles Titlei-1, B.thopsgate•striset Withal,
London, linen.draper . . . . 12
Andrew Hetherington and Jolin Mackie, Dmry-lane,
Meddles's, perfumers . . . 16
Spencer CMopton, lite of New .street, 111 shopsg ate-
street Without, I.,mMun, me;rna.it . . . 1
John i)akes,Altilan..treet, New Bad street, MalJ:eses,
cl..l.merchant . . . . 13
William Edwards, New Bond street, Mi lalcseit, gold-
smith . . . . . . .10

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