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C01.1.F.0t OF PHYSICIANS

Mr. GA • ROW moved for a r Sir to strew Cl.ll°,
Why a erimi-al information sh nat be
Agosinst a physician. of the name of fleifitir Camp.
bell, fora gross and ':candaltous lihel against nee
President and Censors of the College .11 Physicians;
and also for the most gross, scandalous. indecent,
and insolent condu.s towards them, when cited tri.
fore them. '
It appeared upon affidavits, that. by the Charter
of this Institu•ien, every parson, praitising physic,
within a certain number- of miles in and around
London, was bound take out 4 license from toe
Collr.m, for that pu. pose ; and, in case of failure.
or ttegt-ftso to do, the College hail the power to
bring qai ia:A afions. and recover per...hies against
the riartiel so offending. Dr. Campbell had pro
and as a physician. in and ab ut the neighoonr.
hoed of this Metropolis for some time, without the
necessary hitnse ; and no in ►setup cited to apir errs
before the C••lie;e of Physicians, to irtswer fur this
negl-8, I.e treeed the President and Censors well
to- g-•atest rude its; and insole ee ; and tett them
without giving iny safairrirrFessoits for his ton
dutt. t.pon his return home, he wrote several let-
tere to Sir Weiss Pepys. the President. auJ other
Members of the (-allege, containing the bile,
Alined of. sit these letters, he d,sited them to
m .kr haNte, with their gei tant irnalol• against nim ;
or, if t.:ey choose be otoer method, of interdretion,
Ise would take care that their niessinger should
have his ear shone .ed lentithened kor pethe, s
cr4ped. k
Thy College 4fterw.,d.i. did issue their interdiAi in
to fir: CsThpbed, to prevent his further prattisini,
as a p without a license ; aed when he was
s•rued w tit it in tile usaal way, het ore rh- jteg ster's
pine .4 of i's made a filthff use of it, n..t fit to
be ward ; and then 3!,e t it back with 411 ins:iiient
and ungentlemanly iraessage.
The Court thougl t there were quite groui..
Enough to Brant a coilditior.al rule, which was Sr.
deed apcordinhly. '
In consequeate of the *once of the Attorney.
GlinesAls Vir Vicar/ Gibbs, who is attending the
Elation for the University of Cartirmtigs). must I.t
the important business of the Court stands over un•
til next turns.

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On Wednesday, at the present:nine. cf the =-
pert, ;TAP', which was presented by the Officer, Pt
the Coldstream Regiment of crualds, to his Royal
Ilighness the Duke of You's:, at York-house, as a
testimony of tlttir esteem, during the twenty-ooe
years he commanded that Regiment, the Duke
of Cosi memos delivered the Address, supportsid
by his Staff-Adjutant-General. H Csi.vser, his
Deputy-Brigadi:r-deeeral. Wits •ao.. and the
Officeis of the Coldstream ilegipnent ; among them
We noticed, Cencrais t OWELL aad Fisica, Lord
Votress, &c. The inscription on the Vase is at bd.
lows [his vase is presented to His Royal I ligh-
ne,s the Duke of YORit. by the Offices, of the Celd-
stream Regiment of Guards, as *a mark of tbeis
esteem. for the unremitting attention they reccivril,
outing the twenty-one years he was their Colonel."
The vase cost upwards o/ 20001. On Wednesday
vening it was taken in a post-chaise to Oatlasids, un-
der the care of Serjeants Dow, tea and Jonas, of the
Colds.ream Regiment ; they are remarkably stmt
m. n, and measure six feet tour inches each. The
serjeants continued at ()elands during the Pets
given there on Thursday, in honour of the Do-
C H Eq'S birth:days to lift it to His Maas's v,
the Qum., 'the Prince of WA Las, all the Royal
Family, and the Officers of Lite Coldstreasi:, Regi-
ment of Foot Guards, who were invited upon
the occasion, to drink the Duke and Du hess of
Yu n it's health. The bandof the Coldstream Regiment
Atari) led, by the command of the Duke of Votes
and played during the festival. Their MAJEITIST
and the PiIIiCiSSIS. :atm after dinner, set off on
their return to Windsor. The Prince of IVA Les
stopped to the ball, and slept at Oatlands, and will
reura to town this day. Their Royal Higness's
set yaws, in Lendoe; entertained their friends with
a supecr aad ball upon the j.,r.al occasion.
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Fri 37m/x.:T!? R. R IEC7YON.

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SECOND VAT.
The polling commencel this morning, at rim!
o'cloclr, on behalf of the whale ot •ti e five Can
dictates nominatod yearerday ; M. S`wridan
and Mr. PAIII having supplied the inforrnali:ies re
gar.ittig the reirriaitirm which had prevented the
poll on their account from commencing wooer
Mr Sheridan made his appearance in the morning,
and was welcom• d by his old friends, the crowd
before the ilutings, with the most unbounded
shouts and ;acclamations. An former al nirnosit4s
seemed entirely thrown aside, and of all the o.i, •r
Candidates. he indeed appeared to be the most
popular This partiality amongst the bled:fors evi-
dently arose from a conviaion of his p-messing cs,
trAordiriary talents, the great length ot lime he had
honourably served the public in l'arlia:nrot, and
what seemed not a little to increaae t'ae.r favour,
his being now entirely our of office.
The crowd continued gradually to increase to the
hour of four o'clock, when the polling ceased. At
that hour it was very gr. at, 7.,-.:%iirhs.anding the
, unfavourableness 1,1 the weather. The ',umbers
polied then stood thus:—

brat Cochr 'us . l2/: • •
. ,
• • 273
Sir F Hamlett . • . 213
• eV. Sheraton . Ds
Mi Pat. • .
Mr SMESIDAS first (.resented, himself to the
no•ice of the EteOors, bo: it *a; some ;low Uerote
he could coinrriond sufficient silence toorialte
bim-
sell heard, owing to the enthu•iartte appisinse oith
which be was again rent seed, :sot tho oeherat sr
iety W hear what he was about to state to eltOo•-e
• • Geotlesisen," said he, o the first thing I tecom-
mend to you is, to eonduirt this important Elution
• with good !lemon, Wr there is nothing thot shows
- such a strong proif at a bad cause, as tile twin
• ,Ireid of hearing (al•bough it be Out a feet-of you
•hat are so) what your adversary intends to ad-
- vonoe.•Throughout thewOole of the last row It, I'll i
vetoers to say, that no porson ever sow me for one
moment out et temper: You will find me now pre-
, cisely in the sterns dispositirri ; and I can tell you,
• .hot it the ElesOlon is to tett? urn the point of who
can bring op grerest homber to m .ke a noise,
I can bootemp many to make a nose also. Geiitle-
rafts, I are a o t e least (PM-y.4 by the site oil the
Poll OA dor, because h lye been uced. throunli
the whole of my political life. to tomb t aooinst
majorities. and agai ii d Cul rest bt,:asTo' through-
out • the hoe of my politic tl Carter, 1 have so tag-
gled for • the cause of liberty, and t 1 t• cause or
the people. (84triers and eci(iorposorre). Cootlemeno
1 am p arson pity opp iced to no tow of too Owls
JOSS. * 'Mere is not one of them to wnom I Jo nut
personally wisps will When •11 •pp!ic411011. was
made to me, by some o the respift• de friends of
Ole Paull; stating, that in consequence of hie
illness, they would now glee me their sop orto
I Crew out imputation upon those whOoop-
p red him, mote than I do Dow agonO those *so
support Sir Francs &nde% I soy, Geoil-men,
that I feel myself bound (a-d lam sae- your Ilan-
dour will wee yon patience to hear in) to say
sour thing upon each of tn. other cr dilates ; and
lastly, snmettaitg rego•Jiog myself. With regard.
to 81r Francis dordett, I have .11rs to say to his
friends, rot while kr: was in-Parlioruenc he never
to tk oto step to; the cause of the people, that did
nit fight by his side ( •beros of aosloare). With
regorg Miter. litfritt, herr pretersiens direst apeeit tor
themselves ; hut I must no, that timing the last
Eleotion- he Was friendly to Me, and therefore I
have notkioo to ore anaigst him.. As to Lord
Cochrane, whether it hints my eleilion or not, I
should despise nlysett it I could be capable of
en inconsis:ency, oy not uttering the sentiment
I shall now •touch upon. •I know there are
those who moimain tee opinion, :hat, upon piiu-
ipl
o of policy, a Naval Officer, .who may be
absent in Porno:Dent in toe service of his
country, is not a poorer person to .represent Lois
(Iry —( Reiterated wavily an) Gentlemen, I en-
. tr .0 you not to b- to precipitateb for I am afraid
that I shall in one minion forfeit the approbation
wi 11 ellichthwe weeds have bees received ; but I
must Ise siticere, mii.l if you' listen to ine, you must
et,ieCt t. tarts . I deny that the person so earploy-
ed. atithough he whet he t s be called birth in
•he bervice of his country, is an improper person to
represent his countlymen m Parliament—(Appisuo
and issenproSatim). ST S. ki eJ R• as my colr aotie.
and I cannot be capable of retrofLog my se.oicnen 5,
merely because Lord Cnchr.ne es. opposed to Me
It is a popular peerage, a gift which the Ele3 .rs ut
Westminster may, with justice and propriety, be-
stow upon persona of metio laying claim to their
countenance and favour. (Cats/aced shoal*, end
eli,evedniare of sentiment ) I beg nothing more.
Gentlemen, than y or attention. You will trent
loft, for a moment, that the person who is ads-es ing
rot, is not now merely in pursuit of a seat in Pal-
Itarnent. I am already the Member returned for
the &trough of Ilchescer ; but I should greatly re-
proach myself, if, became I have at this moment
a qoset and secure seat, I could peaceably and
heedlesly have listened to the multitude of ray
friends, who asked me to conic forward to
represent the City of Westminster. A mul-
titude of friends, too, may :ask me why I
could, under such circumstances, consent to met
the trouble, the anziecy, and fatigue of another
Iticnioo ? My answer is, that bare cent been an
independent in in, brought by no particular indi•
viduai into Parliament, and my ambition is to con-
tinue so. I know too, that the being chosen by
the city of Westminster, confers upon the that in-
dependence, in the proudest moonset in which it can
be caste:rest: As to Mr. Paull, I confess, that on
his:mei/not. I was not anxious at first ;o stand for
Westmioucr. I doclace that ao person could be
more glad thannyself, to hear that tnat Gentleman
and likewise Sir Franco:Bt rdett. were again restored
to a perfeft State ei heolth, after the unfortunate cir-
cumstance that has lately taken place. Applasse I.
But, Geoclemen, 1 was stating that I was applied
to by many of the most tespeetable supporters of
Mr. Paull, and that I have not the slightest fearing of
resentmoet either Ag.mbt Lim or his supporters. My
answer to i hem was 'tiro that as I ba..l a.t.t pat no•sen
forward doting the mast of the week, and was
not applied to till the .lay after he was placed to
the melancholy situation in wheal I.e now has, I
mould think it both ungenerous and uumanly in me

ito stand forward against that Go rithernen.when hew*.
4*-nstals-st situation. I was then issured by thews.
they'll• woold derdine, and I was ;Asa led to believe
that Sir Francis Burdett 9...Au1d nrit stand. I con.
' timed, however •in a state of uncertainty, until ety, unt IF
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saw a public reviler inserted in the Newspapers,
s .eing. that gr.Paull had resigned is guetensions t
hilt still I remained • iineerteine as to Sir Francis
Burdett. Ido sae, Gentlemen. that such has been
my feeling through My pelhical life, that Phases •
ever heen ieclined• to show the gr.,:.te I. rested to
mood •r candidates. and therefore it was, that 1 was
wilting to resign the rontrit to theist; but As to the
!Stehle Lord now before you. I cl•cl nor conceive
that it was my dolor to resign io his favour, or for
any that had no tinter preiensineis than I bad.--
I Load aNst.tiees ..nd ;haws/ I say.' Gentle r.en,
that when Air Rain's Llverticemewt appeared in
all the Paners, entirely withdrawing his preten.
sions. and accomnanied with a certificate sir his
h•al.h, wili& seem.d ti, put the trnssiiility of his-
-1 cotrii,g forward out of all 4
telly stated, that I olseeyvilshneocrnmeh ratannceds f &wmi4 of
ms fr:ends, and yesterdae I was accordingly arni-
natrd. I have to wake an apol-gy inr th .Islay
w'ea'l has since Iseervnecasirmed I :lad seen stir.
Paull totally withdrawn. and I -died up in the
fan that he was to refuse all invitation to come
fotward as a candidate; but teeerrlay. when I was
going to canvass; intelligence was brceght me.
that Mr. Nell was not withdrawn, but had bee*
aftnalit nenninated. My Agent thee, by my di-
rect; 'is, went to the Ugh flalif,.as4 told hims
:hat I would then withdraw triesel?". it Mr. Paull
hail really been advised to stand fare/rd.-..1 fel '
hmyseif, however, ton fir pledged to ssaeildrave
from a contest. which, co:withstanding th state of
the Pell, this day, Ido not frat.• rind now, Oen.
timer). to allude to th.e meet iasigrificant par: of my
subjeet, namely', yam liernble• Servant, I may
•begin be observing, that I have heard mane stories
-..•eisinse rue. One story was, that I bad formerly
betrayed the city of Westminver to the Idsiuse of
Nerthumbodand ; a dory which was afterwards
enntradieteri by the very innvillials who first
hroueht it forward, and whose support I have since
pmentaci The n-st storg.or ohjea•on that testa
raised agalnat ine was, that I was a plan-mean I ail
objeftion sehis?ti to some of you will app -es forte*
/sate', Terrors ed. ( f.,.ugh;.i. and shows . f ,ppredig.
tin ) . lam =Twit -a , mon very careless i i my
own aceilves; aa ' neglectful of my own affiir. ;
het a friend has taken the trouble to retnage dem
fat me ; and although he has attended carefully to
my ne,o,e mit ISl:,hmrnr, vet I can say with truth,
dr,: in a nsecuence of my havi g accepted the
office I lately held, tans just at this mentent poorer
by I,COOL thee I was before I had procured it. I
shouldsnot make this boast, if I did .rot en,* that
Westminster is to independe tto be won by bribes.
I have this en-Isolation in retiring. tnnt having been
upwards of •./7 years a pea tician and in Pariianirnt,
I defy any one of the Candidates, or their fr ends,
to point nut ails- one vote, during tie' time, that
1 ever gave, which was not on thj at ot hb. Irip
and on behalf of the people. ' I se**ltsven *dice
•witheut any plaiee, without any peniim. any never.
sion, os wishout one single shithig, us emolument of
any amt, drawn from the public Iles toe proves to
m.. an -adiitional consolation, when thus standing
here as a candidate for your choice. I. is an a
dints's.] recnramendetion to entitle me to your
.fisv.asr. .1 have to boast, Gentlemen. that it m y
easvioes in Parlintorns have not been at palahe
utility, yet still I retire without bring a public
burden. flaying giv en this challenge to any man to
point out a case iu which I irate not stohd up for
' the rights and !Mcrae* of the people, in support of
the Trial by Jury, and against the Suspension ot
the Habeas Coiens Aft, as well as many ether great
political questions, I have only this abort remark •
to make—l shall net raise any dcubt as to the
pre:emir:as of the othe; Crtailistates ; it remains for
them to per iorm their promises: but it yin cende.
scend au m Ike a wettest between the pretensions
zliat arise is my care, and those that arise in thrws•
y..ts must surely take into year view. alit you con-
trust• experienie ag.nnst experiment, practice against
prefessaons. and proofs agamst proreises. What I
base ben As a po.ltir•i mail I wins still be. No
price whatever that any man on earth can offer,
will ilducc me to rovervs trsan that lin- of cundud:
i have hitner 0 p ir.o d."—.slt. Sneriden's speech,
of whet;, t .e tcr. going is but an impelled 'latch,
was received nwoughaut with universal applause
and acclamation. and at the consists on tic was
loa.:ly ch. efed by the variegated multitude.
Lord Coc tteene stepped forward, and next
claimed cat atteetion of the multitude. He sai'd—
Gentlesnen,did I not feel chat tie In leper's:. nt Elec.
tors of Westinsnater Neese able to judge for them.
selves, I stitield presume to make many more ob.
.ftreations upon what you have now heard, than
what I shall do. I do think shat you are the
fit 'wenn, to make a choice, without being tna.brd
by any means whatever ; you already know enough
re the chatafiers of the Candidates ben re you, alai
have been sufficiently intornied of the course of their
political condua• They tbemselves must, :Is I
have Jona, judge of the p/e,igea which they nave
given, and you must take she czarafter ot the midi-
vidital as a sectatity for bus perforturance of these
pledges. It has been often stated, and as often
controverted, that Neva' Officers are nut fit pentane
to represent 'the Electors of this country in Parlia-
ment. Upon this Iraq I yestekday ammadverteci.
and shall again this 4.4 tepeat, that if there were
not men in Pa/Lewin acquainted with naval sub-
jects, I am convinced, that no other meniLe; clam
1 legislature c sell give corre2 mid decisive informs-
'Mu. There ougut to be men of all callings in the
House ot Commeas, and such as are able to give
propia• information on all seisjeds of great patient!.
importance. It has been said, that Officers rstii ad
irons the service are filly Able to give the meesstrr
Ll:ovulation. 'lbis I sieny,on account of the changes
to elicit that Itritral is liable ; for instaiic , an
efficetirho had ratted from the service iis the year
MAl:Must he as unacquainted with the present
orgaui.tation of the Navy, as tt be was never at sea 'll
There were abuses in use cyst .en, which he was .le.
tirotts of having remedied. Tire wean.. difficulty
i i 1 getsing a sear us Parbamem ; not he .h us...a
Iman melting up to sprat iii the Heuse of Com .ionss
no behalf of a smell borough, Mutt feel as it hi
had got A dirty shirt 0:1
/if. deetsives spoke ih behalf ta7 Sir Feascis

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Burdett. and extolled, with great forte, his teit•
aneenus crialtficstions, which entitled him toe ens.
tineance of the support of the EleAors of•Virest-
.arin.ter. As to Naval Officers sitting in Parka.
• 'tit nt. he observed. that they deserved well of their
country ; hut unless they had the gift of übiquity,
h,/'could never Approve of rewarding their services,
4k...bonging them into the House of Commons.
4Vflat might be the consequence of their ahsersce
spews such an occasion as that in which the
impeachment of Lerd Melville was deci.qtd in
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' • the liouse by a single vote, he should leave
An the E.:earns to emit-aunt. As to Colonel Elliott.
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.• ite• was quite untried; and was, therefore, even
=tie -tceptionahle than the Nnble Lord. At
egi moment. Government seemed ansi,sur to sop-
poet tneruselvet, by a cry of " No Popery." and
a' Church and Pine;" but when he recelleaed
what : ad passed seven years ago, when su:h saes
thep }spar cry. he was nit without• alarm, that
some important rpht was to be invaded. Sir k..rancis
Borde.l had declared that he would purchase no
♦O-ec t it was. thereon. their interest elm to main
.ben, the of jeA of their *tinier.
Mr. El. tinvr next addressed the Eleaoth but the
irate rup-in • from the multitude assembled, by fre-
s.inuts and cries of disapprobatien, prevented
qtr • fir part of Ito speech from bring heard. He
drsL for a Lon;[ time on the strong feeling at grati-
ittOr with which he was then aetuated, in consider-
• ing tlw :.ip,ll situation in which he was placed on the
-poll. It :s nor for him ro enter into en investi-
ation of the merits of elf respetbes candidates,
was stiff •i-nt for him to tel el that he was in-
Avenel- nt. • Ile challenged any man who heard
Ism. to 'mire out any circumstance in his life, in
which hr had ever &hewn any groveling oe sordid
.purl iple. • He called up in thew so print out the
tine and place sirs,ere and when he had ever for-
feited the eliaraii.r of a proud and independent
man. He had htat J much of independence. spe-
eirlative and it was no wonder to
bear men laugh as the pledge, when i• wit only in
the mouth and not ;n tie hi art. ( Laughter am!
kon•ns). U die the present cope of hi:
anthitian, there was cite cbje.S, fin the attainment
of whits, d-ar min was to has heat[, he was entirely
; dependent, he meant, upon the good
terse and appobation of the Eleaors of Westmin-
ster. the, ivr 4:rover. cried ene of doe crowd ;
'yet. soit 000ther, yea ise'ait take an raideva riats there
t. sr,
jr. l;ss2ows neat tame forward, on the pan
.of Mr. Noll, and addressed the Eleaors as fol.

Gt ,tlernen—l again big to offer a few obser.
underthe present unfortunate trite of Mr.
health, and in justice to that cabse, in
.which all of us have a common stake. At the state
• she pll. you will, I ain persuaded, feel no di:.
.may ; warn you r:erilltet th Mr. Estill only cam-
.thrsiced his poll tai. d ,y, that the I.7.leflots. to
,tbia boor, are scarcely anpriseo he has again become
Is Candidate for y our suffrages, And 614: the ether
,Candidates,atter a matured canvass. eommer.ced the
%%Pon yropeday. (.1 ) Gentlemen, I heir a:
-Say back, one subtle), serpent ; but. coasctoos of the
'medico de of my con..tiel in thOY great contest, which
•I At al; times fed nappy to submit to you. it I am
lunporied by your voice, such futile efforts of
•oosinteraetb.e. x .li meet from me their merited con-
teeryt,—(4,,,,....e). The printiples of Mr. Paull,
you have long sioce bees made acquainted with ;
Aveenever I find his praflice• rot to accord wish
•his theory, he auurrd no man will be more
read, tfau myself to withdraw my humble efforts
front rim ; but, hitherto. I will do him the justice
to say. that has not been the case, and I have the
best rea.on on earth to anticipate never will be.
Gentlemen, if you will allow me, I will read you
the soutinsants t f one public man given of ano-
ther— I mean the sentiments of that llampion of
British Liberty, Mr. Cobbett. You shall bear his
opinion of Mr. Paull." IA cry of Reed! Iteid!)
ble-• Mr Gibbons read an Extra& from Codlutes
Itrad'stor. of 31try 2, p. 822.
Mr. Gismo's. closed bis observations, by recorn-
tnendmg the Lleetors to apply their energy in sup-
port of their lasto4i ire Candidate. Mr. Pau.l.