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ever stood firm on the high ground of indepen-
d-o,ce—l.e had ever defended the prmciples of the
Constitution.lr. Whittoread came before them
I nil by all the sacred ties of blood—by the
great example of his father to rapport the crowns
Ma toinitry. 110 seal an 'herrisalll-IToltllll/
be mods, the swilivest, the fairest, and the mint
sinequivoral professions, sod he trusted that thee
would 'dimity tee alsat hiaoctinsis would.easresposid
with thsyse profession.. .They were bound
.to Ises,
here. Independent of his own pure and lumnorable
character,. that the son of In. distinguished father ,
a auk! fcithfislly„ and religiously pesfarus cow
pronviosa thsjt hr ,n;Lti,t mak...-I.4lkplavar.)-3416
11'hitbreed was entitled to their clionslence,heepoose
ht stood ,On • 1111virrit4ielik gr Is, ,Thsr anseetissa
the freeliehlsope had to decide was oolt t+ltiglt.in hale
shoal wacto. be preferred, whethAr ,DYRII9. Of
Ms. littlish, or Mr. ‘Vhithretid, but Ahoy !tole to
consider the ;white principles of those men,4kod the
stspport which the country might reilsuolkh/I:ax.
joect from them. He had no possible hostility
towards Mr. Menial', lie wpoke merely of him es a
public man ; judging of him as such he. would say.
ttset he pas not the lit lispresentatisa of that great
metropoliton county—the effect of his conduct in
Parliament had been such alto leave (Middlesex only
half represented. The county, in fret, was worse than
not. being represented ut all, and the county of
Middlesex, after 14 years of imn-representation, %vas,
he hoped. about to recover its honour and its free-
dom. Such was the elate of the county in conse.
quence of the politics of one of its late Representa-
tives. Of the other (Mr. Byng), he was a 111311 who
ever performed his duty to his country ; he felt
nn interest but for the people, and was therefore
entitled to their support. Ile (Mr. Moore) had
meted with him in public life—he bad acted, too,
with the late Mr. Whitbread for a series of years—
mod he should always reflect with sentiments of the
purest satisfaction, that he had so acted with our of
the poorest and most devoted patriots that England
ever 011 W. He had little doubt that though he was
gone from the face of the earth, his noble and
sir-
tonns spirit would again •pirear, as it were, reani-
mated in the breast of leis sion.—(ilpplanse.)—He
(11r. Monne) would have been mast happy to put
him in oromiontion, but he was glad to see that Mr.
loped did not want his support. That Gen-
tleman came before the electors of Middlesex with
a heart full of honour, untanned by corruption,
and glioetitg with the purest sentiments. He
%ranted 119 assistance 1/11i theirs—that assistance
had been already most liberally and most houour-
ithly extended. and he was sure that they knew too
well the duty they owed to their country, not to per. ;
severe in their exertion*, mold the cause in which
they engaged was crowned with entire success,.
%wit respect to Mr. Mellish. as a private Gristle.
man, lie certainly felt nothing for him but esteem ;
lint those were not limes to oiticrifice public duly to
private regards. When that worthy Gentleman
strew the haw, he aunt his arrow as far as he could.
—( 4 lough.)—He 114t1 said that lie was for four-
teen years their faithful Representative in Parka-
inset—Mr. Byng. his late colleague, that:he sat
far thirty years in Parliament, and he claimed their
present 'import solely on the ground of his ;oast
titer viers. Now both these Gentlemen were directly
natioscal to tido Other in Parliament—they pulled
opposoe directions. If Mr. Byng was right,
MSS i' possible to ray that Mr. (Mellish was
nsht also ? How could the independent elector...
common consistence, return two web who sat at
optinsiie miles of the House, and were so much op. ,
palerl to each other on every great political
riasation ? In the one he recognised a Gentleman
who
acted for the people alone, who always sacri-
ficed his own interests for the good of his country ;
in the other, he saw one of that class of men who
seemed only to watch for the word of the Minister,
to vote through thick and thin in support of every
measure he rtughtmrdpreie.—(Applause.)-.He (Mr.
Moore) whilst in Parliiiment. hail the miafortune of
seeing many instituters of corruption—many act., in
his opinion, llamat prejudicial to the country. lie •
might be wrong in that opinion, but the electors of
Coventry at *least thought he was right. He flaw
those met:ores with regret, but he saw Mr. Mel-
list) vote in support of every one of them.. He
thanked the electors for the reception they had
given him, and the patience with which they had
heard him. lie desired a hearing before the poll
was declared. because if he had attempted to ad-
tires+ them afterward., he knew that Mr. Mellish
would not have remained to hear loins out ; he feared
at least that this might have been the case, fur he
saw the Mies always take to flight.—(4 laugh.)
There was one point more cm which he would
merely touch. It was this—that Mr. Mellish most
are that all hopes of being returned for Middlesex
were vain—that the sense of the county was now
declined against him. The freeholders of Middle-
sex would no longer brook to the sacrifice of their
best interests; Mr. Mellish must see that he no
longer enjoyed their confidence. 11 the friends of
that Gentleman would be but sincere. if they
would tell him fairly that the public opinion was
against lum. he would not persevere in a contest
which was altogether hopeless. The lion. Gentle-
man retrain returned thanks fur the hearing he bad
received, and retired *mid the applause of the
electors.

The state of the dsy's poll was then drelered,
Whet) tht !lumbers stood OS follow :
Om 31176
li iihread
Mellisis' 4,93S

Ales Dirac-presented himself to the electors, and
war greeted as loudly as 1101141. He begged to re-
tom thanks to the demi.; who had supported I
that day as *ell us doting the entire contest
Thong', he w:64 lint at the head of this day's poll,
the majority agaiiirt him was too trifling to name.
It was now pretty evident from the conduct of the
electors. that the story of the coalition had but
littk effect ; that it was, in fact, not at all credit-
ed. He hoped that every independent elector
would feel it his deity to give him his second rote,
for lie could not but. think that. from the whole
tenor of his public life he deprived their support.
Mr. WHITIIRZ•D- next stood forward, and was re-
ceived as usual with loud expressions of applause.
'Hie begged, lie said, to return thinks to the electors
for the spirited amenities. which they had made in
hip favour. Ide thongist that what he had said yes-
. Wiley would have proved to his (Torment that the
freeholders who i.somised biro such overwhelming
support were not forthcoming.. 'Me opponent had

set not tin • ertiite ti coved, and round only
clouds and vapours, when he expected to light
s►Peti the solid ground.—(n iistsgd.)—lt well, lion-
ewer; to be looped that his reckoning was at length
set right, and that lie isnsr saw 11114 i Illt re Wall no
1134* 4.r diatirliginiWitinelt itnnierous free-
holders of which they hall heard so n►dch. ft n►tist
now appear clear to his warmest friends that his case
was Impedes*, WWII they appeared an outlaw, to em-
brace the last opportunity that was left there to
give their votes *Omit the rights of the people.
Hence it was, that yesterday an Honourable Ba-
ro►►et had voted for Mr. Mellish—ftleers).—los
hi* address of that day his opponent talked of
the degradation In which the county would be
reduced, if they would not return him—he wa-,
lie said, the foiewl of the convoy. This declas
lotion reminded him of the old Spanish pro.
verb, " Save me from my frienda. and I will de-
fend myself Isom my enemies." Sn might the
freeholders say, save 'l4 from our friend, Mr. Mel-
lish, and Mr will defend ourselves from our
tne►►ties.—(e laugh.)—Hr wee not at all surprised
to find Mr. Method; unwilling to leave them—the
feeling was station% and he would participate in it.
If lie should ever he reduced to the painful nave,-
Pity of parting with them, should he be once
nominated the advocate of their right., attrel should
the bond be ever broken, lie hoped' it.would not be
through any fault of his, to any neglect of his
duty, or any abuse of his trust.—(applause.)—Nis
I lon. opponent talked of keeping the pull open to
the host ; but he must he convinced it would be
useless.• He had also said that his friends had not
divan sufficient zeal in his cause. This might be
true ; but lie was proud to sat• that he could make
no such accusation against Ins friends, of whom,
indeed, lie could tell a very different story—whom
he could praise for their spirit. their indefatigable
exertions, their unbought and independent sup-
po►rt. He only hoped that a still greater body of
Freeholders world vomit themselves of the oppor-
tunity or recording their names as the friends of
independence. . . .

Air. !OWLS!t next addressed the electors. File
said that the pill of the coalition had become more
soil more bitter to his late culleogue—this was evi-
dent from so oftenadverting to at. He would not
have Mr. Byng imagine that the sease of the coun-
t• was with hie►, hecatise an lion. Baronet had re-
cently given him his carport. It was a fact that he
(Mr. Mellish) got 1,700 freeholders in consequence
:rif the coalition between Mr. Ilyng and Mr. Whit-
bread, He was hound to belie►e Mr. Byng when he
asserted that hr had not entered into that coalition,
-yet that such coalition clod exist was beyond dispute,
it appeared evident on the f►ee of the poll-books.
Undoubtedly every man had a right, on an acne-
'ion like the present, to act as he might think lit ;
but then he wished to have it dune openly and man-
fully. It had been recommended to him by Mr.
Whitbread to retire from the contest, but he had a
charactOr to support, and he would not alnindosi the ;
freeholders till they should first abandon him. It
was not his cause in which lie was engaged, it was 7
their own; he had only their interest at heart. Ile
always acted under his sense of duty and according '
to his principles. After ngain adveuing to the
coalitiou, which he called unprincipled, he said,
that many of his friends had been deterred from
coming forward to ;roll for him by the apprehen.
siting of being insulted and abused, though he
was ready to give all due p►aise to the merito-
rious conduct of Mr. Sheriff Rothwell in lite.
serving good outer, and generaly in the fair and
impartial exercise of his duty.
Mr. WHIYOREAD again 'stood forward, and with
much warnith repelled the charge of on ;ninths-
cipled coalition. Ile was above it ; he called on
Mr. Mellish to come forward, and to prove what he
had said to be true. He could tell that Hon.
Gentleman that he (Mr. Whitbread) was neither
wanting in principle nor in rpirit.—(Lard cheers.)
—He not only called upon Mr. Menials, hut he
hoped the whole body of the electors would call
upon him before he left the hustings to appear and
prove the charge if he could do so.—(oppictase./
Mr. thrall oleo denied, in the moot positive man.
ner, the charge of it coalition ; but even if he had
done so, it would .he a coalition of iesteresta for the
common► good, and it could not deserve to be term-
ed unprincipled ; but a coalition with Mr. Mellish,
a Gentleman who was opposed to those principles •
of liberty which he (Mr. B.) professed and ataits. ,
tented, might justly be called odious and unPrito.
cipted,
Mr. MELLISH, in explanation, disclaimed any
personal allusion to either of his opponents, but
contended that a number of the freeholders of the
county were strongly impressed with the fact of the
coalition.
Mr. CLARKE addressed the freeholders K some
length, in favonr of Mr. Whitbread.
Mr. PETER MooRE again I•resented himself.—
He said, that if the complaint of Mr. Mellish were
well founded, if his friends were really impeded
or p►evented by their fears from -going to the
hustings to poll, then lie (Nit'. Moire) would
wish to be made a special cunata►le—he would
take care that they should meet with no interrup-
tion; but from every thing lie saw and heard, he
believed that in this department of his business be
would have very little to do—(A
The election was then adjourned till to-morrow.
Mr. WHITBREAD. as usual. was drawn from the
hustings by the people, and met by an inimeose
crowd as be approached town. The marks of popu-
lar favour which have attended him throughout the
contest, were, if possible, increased during his pro•
ruts from the hustings yesterday evening.

Jcntsat.All his, Esq. an Alderman of Norwich,
died on Friday list. This i 4 the fourth Ali.rmen
of that city Woo lies died 'Mice Christmas—three of
there were bankers.
Yesterday rennigitt.'at &Stitt. is win and his
wife, of the name or COA7n. who bed,beeu mar-
ried only about ten drys; were both found suspend-
ed by the neck—one in the stable, the other in the
dwelling-house. The former, when found (though
his fret touched the ground) was dead; the latter
had taken a more eligible station, but when cut
down the spark of Life was not gone—she is likely
to live. The wife states that they lived comfortable
during the first week ;. they then begin to quarrel,
and so continued oulil the abase drelidfut event
took place.—Verdict, Lenacy.--(Reckieghent
Poper.)

T E RITISH PRESS.

I.ON DON,
THURSDAY, MARCH so, Ib2O.

We apprized our readers yesterday that It was
on the fourth count of the indictment that Mr.
HUNT, JOHNSON, KNIGHT, MALY, and KAX-
'soap, were found guilty. The verdict finds that
these five defendants had '4 assembled with onlaw-
ful banners en unlawful assembly, for the purpose
of inditing the ',erde to hatred and contempt of .
the government and constitution of the realm as by .
law established." But the Jury at the same time
expressly acquits then' of the conspiracy, and of ea
intention to excite terror in the public m1,0100(1.
dirotok the safety of :Winchester, or to Mutat'', in
any manner the general tranquillity of the country.
The charge of conspiracy and of previous evil in-
tention being thus negatived by the Jury, we natu-
rally begin to inquire in whist the crime erf the di.
*Mains consisted. It was truly stated by the in-
telligent and impartial Judge who presided it this
momentous trialohat it was not illegal to assemble
• meeting fur the purpose of framing petitions or
eemonstrances to the Legislature upon the expe-
diency of s refnrth in the constitution of the 'House
of C 016030115; sad limbo, that numbers alone Jed
not give a character of illegality to a meeting. In
the professed object of the meeting, therefore, and
in themeltitude df the people collected, there was
nothing unlawful. The illegility of assembly
must consequently have arisen from some subse-
quent circumstance, tvimected with it, and as the
Jury acquitted MT. Hiner and the four other de-
fendants of the prediatit'eonspiracy. it must be fair.
ly prestrisied thiit kith these circumstances the de-
fendants had no concern, and could perhaps exer-
cite no control. It was given in evidence that Mr.
HUNT, on arriving at the hustings, expressed his
disapprobation of the black flag. saying, that h was
very foolish ; and it was also strewn, that he had
held no concert with those who hid prepared any
of the banners there exhibited. There was no evi-
dence that be had expressed one word tending to
incite the people to hatred and contempt of the
government, and no time was followed to him fur
the display of his actual intentions. The same may
be said of the other defendants, so that these five
individuals are acquitted by the Jury of all concert-
ed intention of -doing mischief, mad are found guilty
of a purpose collected by ingenious reasoning from
subsequent circumstances. aot created by them,
nor subject to their control. 'lt was not Mr. HUNT,
eirJonxion, or Knlntrr. who rendered the assem-
bly unlearn!, but thou* who pulluted the Meeting
by unlawful banners.
The Treasury primate exult in the verdict of tLe
York Jury, as if it in any degree confirmed the
'NM and wicked statements 'with which they &w
gibited'tlie public mind respecting the proceedings
'at 'ilimaiester. They affect to think. fOrtoolh,
that this verdict exculpates the Magistrates and

mousy of Muitchoster. for the condo ct they adopted
nn the reelsetturty.tiffair Of the 16th .of August.
There is such a perversity of understanding in cer-
tain of these viriters,.or such a disingenuous willing,.

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nets to persevere in making 'frontons represents.
tit'', of public events, that it is frequently necessary
to repeat g.eis an obrions tenth, either to moist
their o prelieo-inns, or to secure the public from
the ill effects of their:449ra. theies is not
sari its
telligent man in the empire, wlro hiving read. the
port. of Mr. Ilunr's trial at York, is not aware
that the rineetion of the defendants' uilt or '
nocence a. anbaritted to the inry, did not in nut
degree involve the consideration of the condnet
pursued by the Magistrates and yeomanry. This
itistinetion eat 'throughout the trial cautions!?
observed by the Learned and upright Judge,
and was by him pointed out to the parties and to
the Jury, not only during the examination of the
witnesses, but more eiti idiotically in his final charge.
Yet notwithstanding this, the Treasury journals
hold out this verdict as deciding the point that the
interference of the. Magistrates was seasonahk and
judicious, and that tl:e yeomanry in attacking the
multitude displayed eitemplaty moderation and
temper. It is evident from the trial at York, from
the observations of Mr. Justice BATLEY, and even
from the verdict of the. Jury, that the confidence
of his Majesty's Ministers was very grossly abused
by those who undertook to initruct them upon
this subject of the occurrences at Manchester.
The delusive impressions which their early com-
munications were calculated to create have been
now effi-ctuillY retruntell, ithd the result proves the
disingenuommess of the arts used to prejudice the
understanding and fittings of the public. It is
now upparent that tie drilling of men was roof
nightly sod clandestine, bOt ptactived openly and
at noon-day for an innocent ind ivtia •a laudable.
purposethat those who called the meeting of the
16th had no intention of exciting terror or disturb-
ance—that the professed object of the meeting was
legal, and that its unlawfulness arose from subse-
quent circumstance!, over which those who devised
the assembly had no control—that on the day of
the meeting the ordinary business of the town was
not interrupted—that the people were not tumul-
tuous or riotous, but singularly, and according to
some witnesses, alarmingly observant of good order
and propriety—that they offered no violence to any
Individisil, and that the meeting wore rather an air
of gaiety and festivity than of a dark and malignant
purpose. There were no staves shouldered
muskets; no pistols fired ; no resistance offered
to the constable!, who formed • line from Mr.
13Ortott's house to within a few yards of the
hustings; no want of respect manifested in the
crowd, except by the constables, to those tunes..
which are generally reputed tests of loyalty, to
-God save the King end Kale Britannia and
what was most important, as it was indeed molt
extraordinary, when, without proclamation made,
the yeomanry cavalry entered the crowd, no
opposition was made to their advance ; no stones
or brickbats were thrown at them, no bludgeons
were raised, but the crowd Simultaneously opened
a passage, that the troops might proceed to tie
talfilment of their object. The peaceable disposi-
tion and 'conduct of the multitude stood upon evi-
rtence which could not be controverted, and which
tore conviction to the minds of the Judge and the
Jury ; and this point being fully ascertained, the
Jude very properly prevented the evidence fresi
being carried farther. Mr. Justice BATLEY well
remarked, that no evidence was offered to show that
the civil power minim was unable to execute the
warrant of the Magistrate,. NADIR. although in
attendance, was not produced, nor was any
notice taken of the 'Magistrate, who, while readimg
the Biot Act, was trampled by the multitude, but
who, we must now conclude, lived ouly in the iraw.
ginations of those who furnished the Ministers with
the information on which they spoke and acted io
'Parliament. Well now may the Corporation of die
City of London retort upon the Ministers the vent'
ungracious observation winch they put in their mas-
ter's mouth. when they instructed the PittNer. Re-
DENT to tell that body that the Common Council,
in expressing its opinion upon the unhappy
at Manchester, had been Misinformed. Where.
the error lay the public now can tell, nor can all
the ingenuity of the Treavary writers and orators
distort the verdict at York into a justification of
the Magistrates of Manchester for sending cavalry
into a mixed assembly, nor of the yeomanry for
wantonly and without provocstion attacking an
unarmed sod peaceable multitude.

We have received Paris Papers of Sunday lett.
By an extraerdinery courier which arrived on Sa.
toed.), at she hotel of the Spanish Etnlw•sy in
Paris, we terWu front Madrid that on the 14th of
~• Mardi the Cardinal llowtorta. President of the
Provisithisit /Onto, the Ministers Secretariei of
. State. and all the pervons composing the KIN a's
household. were admitted into the KING'S Cniun-
, her, and there in the presence of his MA, &STY,
-the ireeettl•Mernbers of the Royal Fancily, and the
Great Dignitaries of State, they severally took the
I •oath prescribed by the Constitution.

Ou the preceding day the 'members of the
•Stsprente Tritrunal of Jostice, and of the Speritil
Vrilnitials of War and of the Marine. took the oath
for the n►sinteusnee of theVonstriation.

The Constitetion of the Cortes was proclaimed
at antis no the Sth or 6th of March. before the
intelligence of the staffs in the capital had reached
that city. Some excesses. we lenient to ray. west

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on that occa+ion comtititted its Carlit. nod tit
splendour of the event,was adlirtl he blod.
The general adoption of the emvott,flinn will
possibly throw some further allTictiltte. tit the „r._
Sty. of ,the negociations ing hrtwt `+l„;d
rind the United tales of North Antrti
to the cession of the two Ploriol.l+. I'muoi.
ivion eiipregsly deitniiiiribli The Rtto rstmet
alienate, cede, nor sreirressilet:truts 'warmer.
Swan, or village, nor *my portion, timer-Ter sandli
or the Spanith teesiltrey." The +pretties
the principal parti of the typitaries of so,"; :am!
fipfciallk nominiies the bra IlkkU,s. Tit. 14-,
geticiation with th* United Sheds «II Ai. 0N444.0,
intlitt, of course, he immediately iiihniitteit id tk
Cortes on their meeting in May neat.

The Madrid Gazette contains a Noelmitation,
addressed by the befoul Dow CARLOS to the
lihtitestol Aro'', in which hip Hoye, I Ugliness elll -
gratulates himself on bring their Ctimmander.ii..
Chief, and informs theta that " FraniNsits VI ;.
their beheficent Monarch, the/in:oder of
liberty, the /other of bit eottottry, will be the nap.'
piest, as well as the mast powerful of 11,rn:►reh•, 114
founding his authority o►► the teldestroeilide [mak of
the love and veneration of his people."
In the French Chamber of Peers, the law rela-
tive to individnal liberty was ,liseu•sed in tie
sititingi of Friday and Saturday, and w.,s finally
adopted on Sathrday oftertionti by rt msjority of 33.
there being 121 votes in favour of the law, and 8O
against it..
In the Chain/mi. 6f Deputies the discussion was
commenced on the articles of the law for sal jeer.
log political writings to a previous censorship. An
intendment was proposed to the 1-t Article, limit-
ing the operation of the law to the end of the ',resent
Sesiiren. 'rile totes were sheik in he collected upon
this point, when the Chamber Na. disturbed by
sudden blaze of fire. It seems that nor of the ser-
vants of the Chamber, who were employed in ligh..
ing the lustre, improderitly Wilted his match in it
double horizontal curtain, whirls Serves to screen
the Members from the rays of the suit. The fire
rapidly communicated do the drapery, the burying
fragments of which fell upon the Nirsnlmes.
fire was quickly extinguished, and as soon as tra::-
quil;tty ass restored the ecintiny was reitimert.
The amendment was negatived I,y n majority f
14 votes, there being 127 against it, and 113 in
favour of it. The further consideration for the Ist
article was then ■djounted.

The French Fends here mitered w Might fu'O.
The Five per Cents:tite f. e. Illaiik Actioto,
1,465 1.

American Papers tract been vereirea to the 3ti
instant. They contain the following iinporinnt in-
telligence :
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