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convrr OF IvEiro.To EhECTIO,Y,'
Kov E,te'att
This being thenlay appointed' by the Sheriff for
holding the Eleeinn Int Knights of the Shire for the
County of Wexford—the Candidate's tinning met,
surrounded by a numerounand respeCteble body of
their respeeive friends, drew for priority, when it
fell to Mr. Carew's lot to be tint in the return.
Preceded by their friends, they went in procession
to the County Court-house, where they were met by
the High Sheriff. After he had declared the pnrpose
of the Meeting, and taken the prescribed oatheff
impartiality and due return,
Sir I. Fi.ooo. Dart. rose, and addressed the
High Sheriff and Freeholders, at large, with great
senitt, eloquence, and energy. He said, he came
there as a resident Freeholder, in obedience to the
High Sheaf's teluisitinn, to propose two Gentle.
melt as fit and proper persons to represent this great,
eel now free and independent County, in the Im-
perial Parliament.
After some nrefetory observations on the clia.
reeler of the Cindidetes qaalinel to represent the
county, he proceeded :—" The first Gentleman I
shall propose to you, as a fit and proper Represent.
etive, is Robert Shapland Carew, Ecq. a man
kanem to you all, respelled and loved by you all ;
a malt residing in your county, in a Pt incely Palace,
with a large independent fortune, unfettered and
free from incumbrances. and above all wants; •
man living like an Irish King. with charity in all his
sags ; a man against whom the bitterest political fee
could not vote, and lay his hand on his heart, and say,
in so doing I have dcne right ; nay, he must say,
he was a h-trayer of his Country, and a false pro-
sessnr, who would do it—(firer! Hear n —A man,
whose condun for twenty frier years in Parliament
was :itch as gained hint the approbation and admi.
ration of all parties—his ancestor, the like for
thirty•seven years: a man whree public and private
character is too well known and revered, to require
any enlargement on them from me, and who is the
close relative cf the first and ablest Financier, and
the best promoter of the Tr.de, Commerce, and
Prosperity at Ireland, that Ireland ever experienced;
a man who has relieved the poor from burdens, and
whose constant Make is the prosperity of Ireland ;
who has set twice in the Impeti.il Parliament, for the
third city in Ireland, and I hope will do so again.
Aid when I come to unite Mr. Carew with another
Gentleman. whom I shall nee, present to you as a
fit and prepst person, in ennjunetion with him, to
represent your now free and great County, I feel
confident that I shall have your approbation and I
thanks, and unanimous voice, crying abaci -Hail !
bail ! this 11th day of November, 1906. that rriek• s
them our Representrives, and ons County tree.—
The person I meal is John Coltlnugh. Ecq of Tin-
tern Abbey, his country residence, and of Ross, his
town residence, from whence he diffuses his credit
and his property, with relief and blessings, amongst
his neighbours ; a MATS who unites and supports all
sees—a man who builds his fame, his strength. and
his, chat-after upon the union of all sells; and whit
embraces all His Majesty'; political children alike,
and avails himself, as others would do, and have
done. of the legal suffrages and the hearts of all
descriptinrs of His Majesty's subj-es, whnm the
Pews of the land have allowed to vote, and who
(endue themselves as good sunn•fts ; a TAM who
foes not divide man from man, except they
deserve it by their condu.9 a maa who is a
t ue Loyalist, by his utmott endeavours to eon..
tiiiate, and unite, and make all sects comfortable ;
who supports :he Constitution in Church and State.
and is en enemy to no Church; and who does net
divide the penp:e, and halloo one sea against an-
other, in order in extirpate one rare, and set up
another; as some little time-servers have done, to
gab) a snort-lived consequence and notice, in order
to aimed the ceunt. y ; a man who has the good
wishes for his success, of the first, able,', and most
virtuous Statesmen and others in the United King-
dein."
Mr. .1. Ken: Gaoo se, of Johnstown. seconded
Sir F'ederick Flood, in eroponng Mr. Carew and
Mr. Colclouge ; and said his film. Friend. Sir Fre.
article had gone so fully rino the merits of these
Genrlemen, Mar he left little for hint to say, but to
approve and support.
Mr. Er • re, Fance.--" Mr. Sherif. Gentlemen.
and Preehnlders of the country of We:nerd—lt is
the first time I ev nr had the honour to address
public assembly ; hut a period so import, t I can-
not let pass without expressnet my approbation
the spirit arid indep•ndence you are :.'sour to slew
this d iy, and which, I congratulate you, will suc-
ceed in rescuing y iur country from subservience amt
vassalage to a family, who have no claim to your
confidence. Titled, but not enobled, they have
purchased those titles at the expense of your interests
—titles, which I taupe will remelt; a stigma on their
cntraner in the memory of their country, to cirri-
trait with the hard-earned honours of our seamen
one sr Idiers ; a family, the tame servile supporters
of a Minister, the most unfortunate England ever
knew. De mortise noti Amens—not to calumni-
ate the dead is a maxim perteely coincident to my
feelings ; but when public cheraeers commit putelic
error,. ynts must expose those errors as a lessen to
future ages. A Minister, I say, the most unfortu-
nate that England ever knew ; a Minister that has
left you involved in a most bloody and expensive
contest, in which yen hive been for thirteen years
engaged, and to which now we can see no end ;
and tor what ! Was it to protect the throne of
a family, whose blood was ever at enmity with its ?
who, in the support they gave the Americans in op-
position to us, nursed the infancy off that spirit,
which afterwards proved fatal to themselves : Was
it to suppress public opinion, to put down revolution-
ary principles, by oppressing the nation with a mass
of taxes, and creating just cause of complain: ? flow
has be serceeded ? Ile hits raised a barrier impreg-
nable to the efforts of the It orrhons. He has act
mutated near four hunched millions of national debt.
lie has raised an hundred-handed giant to contend
with. In Ireland, what has he done? lie has given
701 a civil, a religious war ; the one, the effeet of
bah administration, the other the effeet of wn•se
policy; and both, that he migld make a breach in
emir Content:tier, by the sacrifice of your Parlie-
• Yes, Gennertern rebellion is the efts .t of a
had adminierretina, sod not of a discontented.neo-
ple. Mr countrymen. for lam proud rn call them
• are getr:ruut, brave, patsvot, and forbearing.—

Will any man tel me, that it people labonrieg as
they have done, for a century paw., Under such re•
strictions, paying their own Clergy for the services
they require, with one hand, and giving the Prn-
testant Clergyman his tythes (the most oppressive and
injurious tax, that Was ever wrung from the hands
of industry) with the other;—will any man tell me.
that it discontented, they have not cause to be so?
Are those men, who have fought with sn much
glory. under the immortal Nelson, who have dis-
tinguished themselves, in every cnnßia by sea and
land, and who are still pressing forward to the
foremost ranks of the battle, in defence of their
Constitution and their Country. are they rebels?
No—it is a people, in heart and intellen, not yield-
ing to any in the world, inhabitants of an island,
the most favoured, in sOil and climate, of any on
the surface of the glohe, that a bad Ministry has
made discontented, and then wantonly calumniated.
--less it was the illiberal praaice of that Ministry,
and its dependants, to blast with the foul breath of
calumny, to stigmatise, with the name of rebel,
every honest man who dared to raise his voice, in
defence of the freedom of Ms Constitution and Iris
Country ; and because there were some deluded
evil-minded men, looking t s rise on the ruins of their
country, to silence the voice of patriotism, by in-
clu ling all in one mass. It to love my country be
disloyal, I am than disloyal man; it to love the
Constitution, not as it regards any particular branch
of it, but as it is the best that human wisdom can
devise, to administer prosperity and happiness to
my country, be disloyal, I am that disloyal man.
If the deputed hireling of that Ministry, for scourg-
ing and torturing his fellow countrymen, and
smiling at the wounds his wantonness inflisged, is a
patriot, I am a rebel; and I would submit my neck
to the halter, in triumph, sooner than be classed in
char race Wit:l such men.

" But, amidst the gloom which has so long over-
hung these countries, a hr ight day at length appears;
and though this day has been overshadowed by the
tate c.f. a mats whose feelings were these of the
purest patriotism. the most general philanthropy,
untainted by either interest or amhirion, whose mind
was a day star, that c:intillated in the firmament in
the effulgence ot day, and compreh,nded the
universe in its yew ; whose heart was as enlarged as
his mind was enlighteuitd; who has died, a loss never
to be restsred to E.igland, to Europe, and the
world ; yet, I trust, he 'tie left behind a portion of
these fedi sgs..3 ray of that ifttellsgence, to illumi.
nate the bl.nistry or the ore‘ent day; to guide and
direct them in the difficulties in which we are inv.rl-
ved,
to the attaitimeot of that ohji.A which was,
and ought to be the 03jea of every Vlinistry—Peace
I have n r a ,orehension for the glorious termination
of 'hose difficulties, for our success against that
tyrant wh.s is devastating Europe with his crimes.
and his itl-gat power, u . _ier a Ministry mild and
prudent, economising the treasury, guarding the
Constitution, and cntselli sting the people ; and such,
lam sure, the present Ministry will prove. I have
every couiidenc in the gen:iern-n rn whom riu
are about to entrust the irri;s•rtaiit charge of your
representation, and I have no doubt they will con-
disA themselves with honesty and with honour ; and
I hope that spirit which will signalise itself this day,
rts ty last fur ever in the country "
M. Ei •It V k:Y,(kyle.) [Our limits oblige us to
abridge this Gentl*man's speech.] After a warm and
just prnegyric up.in Mr. Carey. and Mr. C,lchug
he observed—ft N i two men ever came to the rep; e•
sentatinn of your c-iunty on provider grounds ; for
no men were ever chnseis with Wile general appro.
batinn. And yet, Geidkmen, my Hon Friends
have hewn accused by th:ir- opponents, 31 having
recourse to ut•due ce—unconstitutinnal ii-
Bumce. I should pass over this as the unmeaning
cant of a fallen parry, but the e charges have beets
repeated, ard in a more •eiroits manner..

. -
" I allude to what has appeared tinder the signature
of an Hon. Gentleman, hut to wnich that Hon.
Gentleman himself may never have given his ap-
probation. I wish on this occasion, as on every
other, to draw a line of di tinEtion between that
Hnn. Gentieman, and that party with which, in an
evil hone, he was induced to conne't himself. If,
in speaking of that gent lemon. on a former occasion,
my words were either mistated or misconceived, it
was no fault of mine. lam as incapable of using
any word that cniild hurt his feelings, as I am sure
he would he incapable of calmly submitting to it.
He is a Gentleman whom I much esteem, and for
whom every man of the party with which I have
the honour to ail, hears a big. personal reined ;
and I ever wish to discriminate between his merits
and the demerits of his connenions I take these
assertions as coming from the party at large, and as
such I de•sy their truth ; and I thus publicly chal-
lenge them to bring forward one solitary proof of
that undue influence which they say has been sn no-
toriously exerted. I pledge myself, on the other
hand, that if it were necessary, I could bring proofs
of the most oppressive aifts being done by our oppo.
news since the late contest, to punish men, not for
refusing to vote as they were direeted, bur for ex-
pressing a concern that they were thus obliged to
as contrary both to their private wishes, and their
public and yet, these are she people to ac-
cuse my Hon. Friends of using undue influence—
unconsttruilonal intirference. These men, in whose
vocabulary the word .4 constitntional," was not
known till lately ; every political aa of whose lives
was a violation of your constitution—those men who
were instrumental in depriving you in lung of your
most valuable rights : your Halreat Carpet Ai ; the
bulwark of your liberties, the Trial by Jury; anti
substituting in its place, trial by court martial;
min who have lent their ready aid to every oppres-
sive measure which a tyrannical administratim, in
their rage against the people of this country, thought
proper to resort to ; these are the men who now,
all on a sudden, are become sn tender of the people's
privileges! Nest, what is this influence that has
been exerted ? tk what are your present Admini-
stration accused? Of using their influence, not in
opposition to, but in concurrence with, the people's
wishes ; " the head and front of their offending,
amounts to this, no more." But had they used that
influence in the most oporessiee manner in support
of a toenail, and to drown the popriar voice, you
would never h. ve heard a stro-d of tindoe iaff•tence !
Did yr: ever hear a word }rocs those Gentlemen for
twenty-three years pact, of unconstitutinnal sias
'Nose Gentlemen wore so long in the habits of con-
sidering themselves and their very numerous adhe-
-

rets is every thing. and the People as riatl,ir.g,
they stow talk of their deka, and the triumph of the
people, as a national misfortune. Wh.st necessity haa
my lion. Friends of restating to ondrie ii.fluence ?
They found themselves strong in the affedlions of the
E!elors of this county: the Eleetors knew that
they would not court their favour to lv.”ray their
confidence ; that they would not be guided by illi-
beral principles; that they had no titivate views of
their own to warp them against their public duty ;
that they have no hali.starved relatives to provide
far at the public expence ; that their steps would nut
ever be followed by a crowd of needy expeßants.
No ; my lion. Friends will not he ashamed to be sur-
rounded with every thing that is respedable ial your
county, in birth, talent, chars per, or property.
Their pride will be, not to excite animosities among
you; they will consider themselves equally the pro.
tenors and advocates of every description of His
Majesty's stibjelts ; and in a moment like the presents
big with difficiilties and dangers, they will use every
exertion to conciliate the public mind, and by pro-
moting national unanimity, increase the national
strength. •
" I have already trespassed miring on ynnr pati-
ence; but. ssith your permission, Mr Sheriff, said
Gentlemen, I will address a very few words to a
description of my fellow-siihjefts, whom I see in
considerable numbers in this Court. My Friends,
alter a long period of storms and tempe.ts—after
experiencing many of those evils, inseparable from
times of civil commotion, you at length finl your-
selves in the enjoyment of peace and tranquillity,
and in possession of the invaluable rights and pri-
vileges which distinguish you from every people in
Europe ; whilst other nations have fallen vidims
to their rash- attempts to alter what possibly might
be wrong in their political institutions; your liber-
ties have been secured in you, even though as-
sailed by some of yourselves in an hour of folly and
infatuation. Alt this you owe to the prorating
genius of that turns of Government, under which
you were born, and which has shielded you from
those misfortunes that hay, befallen other nations
in the eventful period of the last fifteen years. If
there be any man amongst you discontented a ith his
lot, let him compare his situation with that of
those around. and he must rest satisfied. Look to
that people, whose actions you were once thought
to oisides as ptopet ()fleets for your imitation.
See the French, at this moment, after all the sa-
crifices they have made, all the miseries they have
endured, all the %swings they have committed, and
al: tilt blood they have spilled, at length reduced
to one vile het d of slaves, crouching to the nod of
the most sanguinary and unprincipled tyrant
that ever disgraced the face of the earth.—
Look to that ti,asted land of liberty, and you will
ther• see the fatal effeets of those visionary schemes
that h ive ende I only in the complete oppression of
that unhappy people amongst whom they origi-
nated. And ate they such men that any person could
set ioosly think et introducing into this country. Will
you, because there are some shades of eliffereni.e
among us, which a few years, a few months, or
weeks, may do away ; and for the removal of which
we may look to the wisdom and enlightened policy
of our present Governors, the known wishes of him
who is to reign over us, and to the liberality of the
age in which we live; shall we, because our insti-
tutions are net as perfect as they ought to be, throw
away all those blessings we enjoy, and which make
as the envy and admiration of the world ?

Should the ►our of trial ever arrive—should the
disturbers of mankind, escaping the thunder of our
ships, ever reach our shores, remember the deeds of
your countrymen, who have never, in vain, mea-
sured swords with their enemies. Remember you
fight for every thing that h, dear to man—that you
combat for the independence et your country, your
national freedom, the liberties of mankind, your
homes, your wives, and your children. Remember,
that the safety of all depends on individual
tion ; and let this he never out of your minds—that
a great and united people, resolved to live free, can
never be subdued.'

The Hiou SHERI, r having put the question, upon
Mr. Carew and Mr. Colclough being chosen Repre-
sentatives in Parliament for this county, and the
same being unanimously carried, with loud plaudits
of approbation, in the affirmative, the Sheriff de-
clared them doly sleeted.
The business being concluded, the Members were
handed to their chairs, and proceeded amidst the ac-
clamations of an immense multitude, through the
principal streets of the town.

A letter from Ayr, dated Dec. 23, says :—" On
Saturday sehmight, at the time rd the great tide and
storm, as eight cows were grazing, on the Troen
Point, the tide surrounded them, and seven were
swept off into the sea ; the eighth, by the ailivity
of a woman who got a rope fixed on the animal's
horns, was guided ashore. l'he seven were driven
ashote again to the north of the Porten Craigs, more
than two miles off—one of them only was alive,
which is now quite well.
Yesterday se' 'ght, a ball and supper were given
at Cadbury House, in Devonshire, the seat of
dawns Busse?. EN. to which almost the whole
of the principal families in the neighbourhood were
invited. Upon entering the noble apartment', espe-
cially the ball roam, it was impossibli not to be
struck with the display of ta•te and elegance with
which they were prepared for the occasion. At one
o'clock the supper was announced, which, it is
needless to say, consisted of every delicacy the season
could supply, and of which more than 100 partook.
It has happened, for many Lotteries past, that the
Public have derived the benefit of sharing the Ca-
pital Prizes, which is a gratifying circumstance to
the Office Keepers, because it contributes to the in-
crease of sale ilt every subsequent Lottery ; there-
fore, it is presumed, that the present brilliant Scheme
will be of more importance to the Public than any
former one, and cannot fail of attrafting the atten-
tion of those who never before adventured. Twenty
'I housansl Pounds is a dorreur worth having at the
commencement of the Drawing, and may be accom-
panied with A Thirty Thousand, Twenty Thousand,
Ten Thousand, Five Thousand, &c. on Tuesday,
the 13th inst. Hommel, and Co. will pay due at
tentinn, and feel !mien obliged by any order for
Tickets and Shares, transmitted to their Offices, 26,
Cornhill, Se, Charing-cross, and St. Margaret's-
hill, Borough. Nos. 33,979, and 42,369, Paizes of
30,0001, were sold by Hoaassr and Co.

INt?LtIbENCE.

PON TSMOU tH. J c.
SAiled the Dinntotid frigate, On a cruise ; 0,2
F,,,y bomb, with A fleet of transports un ler colirof,
for the Downs.—Wind W.

PLYMOLTH, JAN. 5.
Arrived yei.terd+y the Spanish brig Al Cupido,
from Mon:evideo, !Aden with copper, cocoa, hides,
caotured, on thc 29th ult. by His siajesty's orm.d
brig and the Phonic tripte; the MAs'cr
of the I.:1 ['raids brings an account of the re-car,
tore of Buenos Ayres on the 15th of August. Sir
Home Popham WAS cruising of Montevideo on the
27tb of September last—all well.

•
This morning arrived the PicUc schooner, of sy
guns and aEI Calloway, and brought in
with her a heairitul French privateer, called the
i.f I 4 guns and 70 men, %%Inch she tag.
tured nine leagues south of the Liaard, alier half an
hour's 16 sun ; when, notwithstanding the great di.,
pasily of men and guns, this gallant and mer,t.l-.
ous officer carried bet by boarding, without the la.;
of a man. Mr. Hawkins, the Sub•lieutenanr,
slightly wounded, and the Master and oae seE. r 1
badly. The privateer had or.: killed and t
woun,ied ; she is quite new, out two days
lbe:bnurg, and hail tak.nt nothing.
Arrived also the Nei, is,u, frigate, Captain Hal.
colm, from the Channel Fleet.

A gallint from Bremen, bound to Spain, laden
with ►inen, WAS sent in yesterday, by the Almada
privateer, of 'L'orpint Dock.

I'ALMOUTI4, j4N. 4.
Arrived His M.•jesty's brig 18 guns,
from a cruise, having, in comp my with the Pirlit
schooner, of 10 guns, captured the French cuffs'.
privateer i.e &WM, of 14 guns. and seventy-five
m-n, from St. Mains, out three days, and had mate
no capture; she sailed from thence in company wits
seventeen others; this privateer engaged the P,4,
for one hour and half, in which the latter lost one
man killed, and two woun-ied ; she would not hoe
struck, had not the Scorpio" appeared in s•avt ; tit
Ptak and prize are gone for Plymouth.
Arrived also, this day, the American ship 7,,E4.4,
—, from Plymouth, tolrad fish for the Medi:er-
ranean ; a.id His Majesty ship HentB/r, of IS pm,
Captaiw Hill, with a fleet of coasters, under convoy
from the I)owus,

DEAL, JAN. 6.
Arrived the Phrele frigate from a cruise, me,:
mains in the Downs with His Majesty's sbips is per
last.

CORN EXCHANGE, lAN. 7.

Wheat is in middling supplies to-day, with some farther
arrivals ; wimples of beit quality nearly maintain la, p,a.-4,
but others are heavy in sales. The supialses of Barley art
very considerable, and excepting best samples, are Weer.
Malt, likewise.. Very tew White Peas, and those drare..-..
Thine are tolerable supplies of Roans of each kind, and isthst
cheaper —The quantities of Oats are considerable, and tlawe
of second and onfiniry qualities, ale also she epee..—Flour goo
off heavily.—Fine American, Irwin 16s. to 51s. per band.

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