The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-07 00:00:00

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hired to poll for you ( some more Man once) who had no'
qualification to entitle them to rote at all—that they were I,
raid for so doing—paid l—,by wlioni?)—from the purse that
defrayed the other expences ? There was no subscription at
tl;at time—the money then came from the pocket of the
candidate, and with it men were procured to perjure them-
selves in order to obtain a majority which would deprive
the freeholders of their real choice. Ignorant and unthink-
ing men, to whom seven shillings was an object, were pre
sailed on to commit an offence against the Almighty, that
night endanger the peace of their souls, to gratify the vanity
of an individual, and at the same time an offence against the
laws of their country, which (as they were subsequently
t! ansported for it) brought suffering. disgrace on themselves
and unmerited miery on their families. Was not this cor-
ruption? Was it not undue influence ? Was it not any
thing rather than public virtue ? In what haunts of iniquity
can you find greater offence ? In what hot bed of political
infamy can you discover a crime more foul ? " Oh, shame,
where is thy blush ?" ivies • were made widows in losing a
husband's protection—children became orphans by the loss
of a father's support,—was this the work of humanity? Can
the poor man's friend reflect on the agony of those poor
creatures without a keen and tender feeling? Does not
their distress create a pang more bitter than the soft influ-
ence of pity ? You are said to be humane—you feel for
the woes of mankind—there is much wretchedness far your
consideration—there are many children of sorrow for your
adoption—hungry mouths and aching limbs claim charitable
kindred with the rich—the victims of misfortune find some
relief from affluent compassion—sympathy is a generous in-
fluence ; it proceeds from God like the attt ibute mercy,
but, like every other virtue, presenting a fair and beautiful
image, it tnay obtain more favour than in some cases it merits.
When pity springs from remorse it can no longer be con-
sidered that sweet influence of the mind, that spontaneously
partakes of another's woe ; it is no longer that 4. milk of
human kindness" which philanthropy engenders.
That money may be misapplied by agents without the
ptivity of the principal, is certain ; but however ignorant
you may have been of the circumstance at the time (which
I do not pretend to deny) even of that pretext, i' is not
certain you can avail yourself, for it is within the recollec-
tion of the public, that bills of indictment were prefetred
against your agents for that work of iniquity, at-the time the
validity of the Sheriff's return was under the considerati:m
of a Committee of Members of the House of Commons, and

it is asserted you gage up your claim to the seat on condi-
tion that the prosecutions should be dropt ; or in other
words, that you withdrew your opposition to Mr. GEO. B.
AINIVARING, expressly to prevent the rigour of the
law from visiting offences which every honest man must
hold in abhorrence, and which considered either as of a po-
/4, litical or moral nature, should excite disgust and indigna-
tion. It is believed you compromised the interests of the
Electors of Middlesex, to screen offenders who had invaded
the liberty of the people ; that to secure such miscreants
from punishment, you bartered the inderendence of the
country by relinquishing your claim to be its rep eentative,
in favour of a man whom you had puhlicly and insultingly
declared to be the tool of a corrupt Ministry.
By such conduct you have sacrificed every political re-
spectability. destroyed the effect of all your professions, and

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4 specLaointy, uustroyeu Luc cuccc of iur your proiessious, JUCISJI ca6asis ......
made them offensive to the people. Consistency in a public of the people—ere you presume to the country with
man is of first rate importance to his reputation; witnout it, repeated declarations *f your devotion to the cause of pub-
lie becomes contemptible, and is regarded as a hypocrite.
k. • You wo profess be the peoples aho to peopldt the champion
.advocate, ‘. • Vide Sir F. BUR DITT'S speetipt the Crowu and Anchor, on ths
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