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London, England, 1807-05-08 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK ALECTION.

At the close of the Pull, yesterday, Sir Watkin
Lewes, Km. High Wild, announced the numbers
as follow :—.-
Str T Turtnn . • . . 1829
Mr .I..oruton . . . . 13,;6
C Glvc,t . 1421
- -

Mr. TIVJMNTON then came forward, and returned
ill:talcs to his friends the Elediors, who. by their
exertions, had given hum a maj irity t.,1 141. over
Inc of his opponents, and assured them he would be
perkftly satisfied it they would give him 44 majority
mote to-morrow, as he always preferred a place of
safety to a place of hotiour. His adversary had
employed the aid of public-houses against him, but
he trusted all that would not do, and that by their
exertions to-morrow, they would place him in a
situation of perfed security.
Sir I 11014A$ TURTUN said, the kindness of his
friends, this day, had placed him in a situation far
beyond any of his competitors ; for it appeared that
he bad a majority over one Candidate of 466, and
above the other, 324 ; and it that did not speak for
itself. all the sophistry in human wisdom could not.
111 had been said, that he had influenced the public
houses in his favour, but he thanked God his voters
did not come from thence ; not that he had the
least objeflion to recreation ; and in this respeii he
condemned the Treating Aft ; for, in his opinion,
upon those occasions the voter ought not to be
without some refreshment ; at the same time he ab-
horred the dreadful sc.2ncs of drunkness which so
frequently happened upon those occasions ; but to
the honour of this Borough, be attested, there never
was a more regular, well-condufled set of p:ople
came to vote beft.re any Hu.tings. Mr. Thornton
had told them, he was satisfied with the second best
place, it he could not get the other; for his part,
he liked the place of honour best, because it was
always the be.t place; and the situation they had
given him this day upon the poll, was sixty times
beyond his most sanguine expectations, and called
sixty times the more for his gratitude and thanks.
Mr. CA v ear also returned his sincere thanks to
those who had given him their free, unbiassed, and
independent suffrages, to the nuniber of 1421 ; not
one vote of which Lad been influenced, but through
personal attachment and friendship. Although, upon
the whole, he was in the minority, and, upon cams
parison,it might be found in some parishes, that he
had been out-polled, yet in others he had a decided
majority ; and in the parish of St. John's, his ma-
jority would be still greater. He could easily ac-
count for the numbers against him this day; for,
being a holiday, the bankers' clerks, like so many
sheep in a fold, were first pent up, and then let out,
one by one, upon him. He concluded by returning
thanks ; and he trusted that their exertions, to.
morrow, would ple-e him in that enviable situation,
which was his greatest aL7)!.1t1011.

NORWICH. MAT 6.

CITY tLECTION.

On Monday morning, at nine o'clock, earn* on
tlf eleaion of two Representatives in Parliamentfor
this city. when Robert F•llowes, Eiq. of Shotesham,
John Potte.on, fisq. Citizen and Alderman, and
Wm. stnith, teq, of Parridon, Essex, were seve.•
rally nomin tied by their respeotive friends at the
Guildhall It wohld be needless to give a detail of
the previous proceediegs on the present occasion ;
suffice it to say, rho Mr. WT. Smith, (who lost his
last eleCtion by a very small majority) was again
oi-iced to I ter himself; and his son. Mr.
Benjamin Smith, (a young gentleman of pro.
mixing abilities), solicited the Eleetors on Ina
half of his father, who siid not arrive its the city till
Saturday evening. Mr. Patteson having declined
all solicitation to unite his interest with any ether
candidate, each of the above gentlemen stood on
their own divine grounds, although various at-
tempts were made is the course of the day to in-
duce a belief that the two former Members had
joined, and printed boards were carried about to
this ere& Mr. Patteson and his friends, however,
very honourably gasiv a dire& contradietion to such
a rumour, and suppressed these bonds, whiCh were
ineffeettally issued for the purpose of upholding the
cause of Mr. Fellows, who, shout half-past five
o'clock. declined the contest. On -a ting tip the
polls about half an hour afterwards, the nuntLcts
stood as follow
Fee JAhn ?Anew'', IN 1245
We. Smith, Li .. 1.14
—R. irtlnwe..El .

The books were, howeei•r; kept open, pro Anna,
till seven o'clock the same evening, before which
hour the writer left the city. '!'he number of voters
wrixeh had then polled was 5136, beii g 781 le,s
than-at the Eletlinn in November last. There were
scarcely any London or di,tant voters present, but
such as travelled at their own expense.

paying the day, as is peculiar to this city, each
candidate was repeatedly chaired round tFe Market-
place ; Mr. Patteson in his Aldermanic robes and
sash, as bet Ore, decorated with purple and orange
colours Mr. Fellowes and Mr. Smith were both•
plainly attired ; but the tormer no longer retained
his original colours, but changed them for the more
gaudy and variable °rang.. alone, leaving the latter
candidate to be decorated with those emblems of
steady principles, blue and white, which have ever
been as unchangeable in the party, as the man
whose cause. on this occasion, they tepresented.
Various futile attempts were made to raise the
clamour of " No Popery," Ste. hut the populace
were not to be caught by such delu.iens ! This at-
tempt, howeinsi , principally rested with that party
which thought it might promote their interest to
promulge the vote given against tl.e late Admi-
nistration, and which subsequently produced so
aukward an apology, that many lornwr supporters
of that interest preferred the Gentleman who openly
avowed the cause he espoused, to the o who had
deviated (whatever the motive) ts JAI Me wishes of
his late constituents.

The election was concluded in a far more peacea-
ble manner than any we ever before witnessed, as
the spetators were by no means so numerou-, ; the
polling proceeded very slowly, but with the aC•
custatited good order and regularity. Some people
expressed themstilves dissatisfied at the want of the
usual animation on this occasion, (we hope they did
not mean MUM riot and insult), upon which a gen-
tleman very acutely assigned as the cause, .4 That
the Pantomime was too *Na repealed "
We sincetely cnngratttlate our tellow-citisens and
4, the friends of civil liberty and universal tolera-
tion." on tl-is their second unbiassed choice of Mr.
W. Smith, whose independence and integrity have
peen long and faithfully tried in Parliament, and
who is equally respelled by all partie.., for his un-
blemished character, and general knowledge of the
commercial interest. of his country I

jklist,y, APRIL 27.

We have here witnessed a mostdistressing scene,
which has excited sensations that no language can
describe. Some solders belonging to the 34th regi-
ment, having committed some depredations here,
were hrourit to trial, and two of them condemned
to .uffer death Only one of them. however, was
left lot execution, named Haim This poor fellow
WAS constantly visited during his confinement by the
Rev. G. Du ficaume, to whose instruttions he paid
great attention, confessing his crime, the justness of
his sentence, and imploring forgiveness from God.
lie became resigned to his fate, and expeeted the
awful moment with manly but Christian fortitude.
Saturday last, the day fixed on for his execution,
he was accompanied to the fatal plate by the Gentle-
man who had so constantly attended him in his con-
finement. fle joined him in prayer for about a
q tarter of an hour, when the poor fellow ascended
the scaffold with a coolness and comp .sure which
every one ascribed to the hope infused into his mind
by the truths of Christianity. His deportment inte-
rested every speiltators of whom there was a great
number.

At length he was turned off, and when he had
hung about a minute and a half, the executioner,
horrid to relate, taking hold of his convulsed body,
suspended himself on it, by whose additionwl weight
the rope gave way in such a manner, that the mise-
rable sufferer's feet touched the ground. The exe-
cutioner then pulled him sideways, with a view to
strangle him, and being unable to effett it in
this way, got upon his shoulders. To the great
surprise of all who witnessed this dreadful scene,
the poor criminal rose straiten upon his feet with
the hangman on his shoulders, and immediately
loosened the rope from his throat with his fingers.
No laaguagecandeAribe the sensations which were
excited among the bystanders by this sli,tcking scene.
Tile Sheriff ordered another rope to be prepared.
but the speasiuts interfered. and the Sheriff, dis-
tressed beyond description by the shocking speaacle,
agreed that, befote proceeding to the execution of
the sentence, he would wait till the will of the Ma.
gistrecy should be known. The Civil Magistrate
not being in town, orders were sent by the Com-
mander-id-Chief to carry the mar. back to gaol. By
the time this order arrived the poor fellow had re-
covered his senses. The interest which the scene
excited cano•tt be described—all became deeply in.
t.-rested in the man's fate. Captain Nicolls and
another Gentleman took him under the VIM to

lasers& him, ani by their usistanee was able to
walk back to the prison.
The Court is now s'stiog to deci.le the poor maws
rite. May the voice 01 mercy prevail t
P. 3..1 open my letter to inform yna. th,,t the
Court has drcisi rd that the whole nutter relAtiee to
poor Hal -a shill be tranoni•red to the King .
thews:ion of the sentence, in conseipience, it tu:.
pendel till His Majesty's pit.asilee be
tior.s, I rodeista.id, art preparing by the inbabitan
to Ise torwarded to His Majc•ty, so that we has.
now every hope that what the poc.r man has alma,
st:Grecl, awl his apparent contrition, will obtain
Lim His Majesty's gracious pardon.