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put you in nomination at the enuring Election. We further
'Trisect you to *Walt' foam all personal attendance, t
and expense. We retptire from you no pledge; since the
uniform tenor of your honourable life, your known attach-
ment to the Constitution, your sealons and unremitting
efforts for the melioration of the lens, the correct' of
abuses, aid the suppoot of the rause of flee-414,m, justice
and hhmanity, wherever assailed, are a sure pledge to us of
you► cinalifientious fur our /trivia., in common with that of
the country at large.

Wie have the honour to hr, Sir, your faithful Servants,
John Markey Gi•orge illetralfe Gro. Yuan
John Roilwell George Lamb A. Ritchie

Wm. A II:111011 James Stoilart Tbos. VVright anti
J. Aruuhl ',ironies Thomas Co,

Eaward ydrery George Lane James Sutton
Rohm Linerly Henry Jur.* John Wund
Rohl. H. EMI/ Geo. Atteuelc ICAO!. Hubert.
G. Philips Ruhl. IValpole J. Dunn
H G Kennett James Chninhers S. YDekiley,low, mod
Daniel Giles H. Dunslilswi. Yuri:Airy
Harvey Ciimhe I'. :Dunce Julio Paternoster
R. Payne Knight Remy Burgess Gen, gi. Austen
Ja. Perry J. Willis %I'. [CUM'
Royce Cionbe K. Gridiu Julia Wilson
CliffAduure V. Kn.'s Johu Smith

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J. Mills T. Cliamberlayne Jas. O. Petiilt
J. Fisher R Whitcruft Wm. Vicki ry
Roll Spencer J. Oliphant Berne and Botsford
Geo. Bainbridge R. W. (lin kson Richards sad Soli
Th. Hughes Jao. sash Christoplii r Allen
Joseph Del.ifield Cbm. Prater Stephen Lewis
J. Hairuniiiid Sefton 'r. Field sail Sots
Geo. Clarkson J. T. Walker George Deane
Rirhd. Henderson Thomas Tuestkison Charles Sunlit.
Richard Tail

GRNT ***** answer to the Requisition it hieb I have
this day had the honour to receive from you, I do not
hesitate to say, that though I should never hive presumed
to offer myself as a Candidate to represent the City of West.
minster in Parliament, yet if it should be the pleasure of a
majority of the Electors, without any solicitation or later
fereute on my part, to choose me for oae of their Represeii-
tatiVes, I shall think tb it the highest honour has been coil.
(erred on me that it was possibly for me to attain. 1 shall
be proud to accept such an honour; and I shall endeavour
to discharge to the best of my abilities the important duties
which it will impose upon me.
I have the honour to he, Gentlemen,
With grand respect,
Your most obedient and faithful Servant,
SAM. ROM I LEY.
June 8, 1818.

•s• In consequence of doe above avocet of Sir Samuel
Rumilly, a MEETING of the COMMITTEE will be held
TO.JIORROW (TUESDAY), at the British Cuffee-bunae,,
Cockspor-street., at Three e'Cluck precisely.

JOHN MACKAY, Chairman.
British Cuffee-huuse, June h,lBlll.

Yesterday the Sardinian Nliiiister hail an audience
of the PRINCE lILGHST at. Catritoit•lloU6r.
It is reported that Earl ST. ArtricENT iotru is
visiting Plymouth shortly, for the purpose of
lug tlw sea air.
Sir 11-15Nar HOTHAM is about to quit the Admi-
ralty, at the reco eeeeee emlut• of ph) iiicions. Sir
PULTENEY NIALCOI.M. it is EMI, will be his suc-
cessor.

It is remarked as somewhat ominous, that all
our naval repairs and additions are made in the
line of frigates, at.d such ships of war as would be
most wanted in the event of a contest with America.
Extract from a private letter, dated Dublin.
Jane 4, 1818 :—" Although un the eve of a (ie.
octal Election we have little of hustle, and I do out
conceive there will be six seriously contested
elections in Ireland. Is this despair, apathy, or
acquiescence in the measures of Mististers? There
will be no opposition to the return of the present
Members either in this county or the city, and in
the University the public 19,64 of Mr.S has saved
that Learned [Judy from the disgrace with which
they were threatened in turtling out Mr. I'm; X lESTra
and it is now said, that this Gentleman is secure of
a decided majority. In Newry Mr. GRATTAN. jun.
is expected to resign in favour of Mr. BEN NETT."
A °WU LTURE.—Througle all the northern rho.
tricts of England the spring corn is looking re-
markably healthy and abundant ; but the wheats
appear to be a general failure, and scarcely ;
rug to repay the expenses of seed. Against this
event we trust Government will be prepared by an
ad. guide supply of foreign grain for the year en.
suing, as our own produce cannot be oufficient
our demand.

MEMOIRS OF LUCIEN BON APARTE.—M. ('EL-
TIER, to his " mibign," strongly corrolsorairs the
opinion alieady given of these interesting Memoirs. Hr ob.
, that they are entitled in every respect to be dist ingu ish-
ed from tlw mesa of scent histories, so called, which have
hitherto appeared respecting the family of BONAPANTE.
They can may have been written by a rtiggiblenliel Secretary,
by one who less followed the steps and witnessed the actions
of LUCIEN for tour-and-twenty years, and who now openly
exhibits him to public view. A Nobleman, olio figured a
little in the Revolution, avid who enjoys • high distineti
in the career of Art, happened to be in London during the
printing of the neck, said as be had been intimately con-
nected with the individual in question, he was consulted
respecting their authenticity by the English Editor. lie
acknowledged their veracity sills the exception of a
rectifications, which lie has made to entail' anecdotes, aial
some farts which he hail added in a letter addict*, il to the
Editor, and whirl, is !printed at the end of the Vol
This appendix gives to the work a double veal of authenti-
city: the reader will find a great fund of curious aneedoic,
and the historian rich materials fur Ilse atuals of the Reso-
lution.

'intact's nor la emnr et r Inierieur de la Fanoille
d, ANopoleon Bonaparte. Such is the title 4.f
Woik which is on the point of appearinf, and which it is
repotted is written by nu less a personage than the Countess
de lIIONTISQUIOU....•••The following is an extract from tha
preface :—" The object of the present Work is principally
tu elucidate the domestic character of Napoleon
therefore is advanced that is uncertain or duublfl—facts
alone are recorded that are personally known to the Authors."
The Ludy to whom we are chiefly indebted for it resided its
Napoleon's Palace, accompanied the Court pp its jouruits„
and when the Emperor was in France it day never elapsed
un which she did nut maintaiu ;whitest relation, with Into;
thus she was necessarily the witness of a great part of lair
private aid domestic life. Attached to the interior awl
private service of the Empress Maria Louisa, she Aver/ frr
a moment quitted the young Princess from the period of her
arrival in France until her departure for Germany. The
various fact* which abe nuw submits to the public, and of
the chief part of which she was herself au eye witness, are
therefore drawn from the most unquestionable source ;
besides her situation, by placing her on an intimate routing
with the individuals of the Court, enabled her to collect
informatiou which lay beyond the public rench. Her
ity may be the more firmly relied on, sine r the has
nothing either to hope fur or to fear, and no niedit e either
to flatter or calumniate. Her chief object is to present
to the Historian, who may hereafter wish to trace an sat.
partial picture of the reign of Napoleon, some trait; the
correctness of which cameo be callerl to quertioui