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But 11. err vino no ground of apprehension whatever
HPipt H the slailtame ol the pollmg was considered,
As has Meisel LW observed. the highest nambe► this
erriliog was below the c•onrslwss'diig toe on
Hie shoal evrintig of the Itt,t election; but his
friends might tot he at all afraid of coming for.
ward ; they looked to a reserve, but for all ones-
wores of that tort, they might safely rely on his
Committee. Let them press to the poll et once,
and hi. Committee would take care of ewesy thug
else memory to Inquire *sleeve*. It was obvious
Hatt he stood there in a very !recisioar situation—
tt clear that he WHII the individual against
whom the pu►h was to he made by the opposite
party. that he loot been ',ogled oat as the special
4ij.ct of their attack. What the reason was they
pretty well knew. He had always *tool ap against
public abases of eve.), description, and the grenter.
any abuse we., the greater was the odium told
calumny attempted to be throws' on the individual
Mb hut had the courage to expose it.--(hear.)—
fte sl Id give them one itotaiicr. Who would
say that he had not done what was right in the
effete of Claim's Hospital ?—yet he was inatailed to
every way, privately and publicly, in speeches and
in pamphlets, merely because he had endeavoured
Is introduce a reformation in the mode of present-
ing cittlelten to that rstablisment. Again, his con-
duct with regard to the Clergy Bill had stirred up
against him no little dislike and violence. It was
nut a little extraordinary that he hail seen on this
occasion Gentlemen come up to vote against him,
who had been members with him on the Committee
relative to the Clergy, and who had warmly aiw
proved, and eagerly urged him to every step he had
then taken. He had often said, that merely to
obtain a seat in Parliament was no object of his
ambition—that he would not Walk across the room
to compass it ; unless he were sent into the House
of Commons on public grounds. and as a pledge of
the approbation a•id confidence of his fellow-citi-
zens, he should not think the boon worth accept.
tug. It would be no honour, but only NH irksome
and troublesome situation. Therefore. whether in
or out, it (ha not matter one fartlitng to him,
excelit that his name hail been connected with
the ',Odic cause.—((:reed oppl•ruse.)—The wor-
thy A iderman then alluded to the prosecution
pending fur the transacts on Michaelmas-day.
It seas for this assertion of their rights, that an
etitteavoter was mode to force him out, and to
thrust its his very provecutor.—((,'tier of " Go on,
go nit to which the speaker replied, " won't
smother it.")—Ile knew very well that his ta-
lents had been overrated. and no individual
could be more conscious of his deficiencies than
himself. But all things were to be judged of
by comparison; and looking to those persons
who hail represented then► before, it would be
false delicacy its him to sty that he thought lie
suffered any thing from • comparison with► them.
It was the duty of the Livery of London to look
a I among themselves, and from themselves
'elect a man who could stand up in the House of
CO4lllllO/111 and .hew that lie was slot wholly unwor-
thy to be their Itepre*entativr. It oremeit that the
enemies of their rights had systematically etidea-
roared teem!) theta, by having introduced into the
flutist of Commons men unable to make any stand
in their defence: and perhaps the opposition he ex-
perienced was imputable, in some measure. to the
same motive, fur wit hoot vanity he might say, that
he loosoessed in a tolerable degree. very wlerable
indeed, the faculty of expressing his sentiments.
If he could art the mute, and bey •' ajt" mid
•• no." like soother, he would do as well as mother.
Belt did it become the City of London to vend men
iota Parliament who could not speak on any sub-
ject witfsout exposing themselves to ridicule and
cordempt—persons who could not speak good sense
foe five minutes togrtlwr ? It was degrading to the
City of London that her Kepre►entatives should rank
nt the house of COMMOM below those of every little
borough in the itingdom.—(ngdettse.)—Though
there might not be one in sonde, there was a prac-
tical roalition against him. The worthy Alderman
then repelled mod retorted the charge represented to
one of the Papers to have been made against him
try soother candidate .(Sir Win. Curti.), of having
nerd insidious arts to his prejudice. He then cons•
;dinned of the istodne influence voila among, the
electors, and warmly exhorted •'tbbsa to hazard ■
'tette Itemisel damage. and satellite • little private
advantage. for the sake of the pbb!ic cause. which
they thought would be benefited by his success.--.-
Alter a variety of other observations, he concluded
wi•h advising his hearers to adjourn from the Hall
till pine o'clock to-morrow : let them spend the in•
tertoul in going sinning their friends and canvassing,
awl he would ensure H triumphant majority on the
following evening.—(Hepeated plaudits.)
The Hall was then cleared.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION,
THURSDAY. MARCH 9.
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THIRD DAY'S POLL.

The numbers at the close were—
Cleßrlet Calvrot, Ev.q.
Sir R. Vl'llson 1 COS
Sir T. Torione &rt.
Mr. CA LVERT said, he could hardly express the
gratitude he felt for the sitinitiou in which their
exertions had placed him this day upon the poll ;
he had never obtained ouch • height upon any
wilier occasion in the same short spice of time,
even when merit sucrevrtni, Fie ettrii,,,,„l it not
so much to the respect a inch they lidel for hem
Personally, as fur the cari-c %Inch ui•ited them.
The Hon. Baronet was now 700 behind himself, and
in•two days more, if he litsted so lung, he would be
twice as many. He cordially thanktd them fur thr
exertions of the Pay. He bid them beware of the
Ilion. Baronet's flattering tongue. They could con-
fide much more safely in the plain sitrech mid sue
eerily of a JUIIII Bull like liituself.—(opplasise.)
Sir K. WILSON advanced, and after the cheers
lied subsided, begged them to receive Iris sincere
:beaks for their exertions sal Ins behalf during the
day—exertions which. he trusted, would mituedi-
cutely put an end to Ilie.lreiful stud fruitless contest
iu which they were engaged.—The lion. Batu-
mi had said that he would not give any pledge to
esiapport Catholic Emancipation, as the oilier
Candidates had 'dope."--[Sir 'l. Tortoo denied
this.]. (Cries. of ‘,lle she worthy Bo-
" 11" disenaied itell)ere weeps sod of matter.
Bela amid Mid lei ibistalsists se selected ea
ft askelis I

hist {Stu R. William). explanation was mail more
than 1w was entitled to. Catholic Einenctpatinit
was a de-licate and impuremt sill+ et, which ought
never to be iisiroduced but (riter eiretrusitances
whirl' would wholly exclude the angry feelierga ge.
excited by relig questions. He was
very averse to their introolosetion to general, hut
more especially 00 the husfinga, the moat impro-
per place for their discussion army. Bat all the sub.
jest was lowed rip if ions, he owed it to himself, to
she electors, and the public, to cajoling, himself.
He was roue of those fortunate or unfortunate per.
eons, who happened to receive an education. ficr
had in the course of it imbibed all she spool preju-
slices—lie attributed all the good qualities of Rog-
hishinen so their feeding on beef mod plum.pudiliiig
...thought a Frenehniau was better than a
hog—arid all the rest of inookiiiil were mere sa.
wages. There op' were 'maul to on one lint
I self, who frequently suffered reproof and mor-
tification on account of their folly. He thought a
Catholic was a WWI ilaggsfiabiy armed with fire awl
faggot, to destroy the Protestants—nod that as
there heal 'Well religious ware ill Ibis country 200
years before, they were quite as likely to happen
thess--and that Catholics ought to be extinguished
with tire and sword, in order to icreVecir 11..e111.
IVrth these notions he went abroad, where lie islet
with, sod fought its company with Catholics, most
of whom were good fellows, shedding their blood
with alacrity for the rights of Europe. and helping
to establish the security of those kingdoms. Then
he found out that the Catholics were no less active
in the emu, and that they had slistingisiohrd them-
selves by their virtue under lluWr and Nelson. and
assisted in seizing the trident from 11w grasp of
oilier cations, to lay it at the fret of their enalniry.
Ile observed in Germany, that Catholics mid Pro.
irritants lived ill the utmost hut y togeolier
the same in France; awl they all knew that in Ame-
rica there existed the most pr rfrct religious totem.
ti on, yet no excesses were ever csoninitted in the
United States on religious pretences, nor was there
any suspicion of any evil effects from such a canoe.
No man ever paid so ill a compliment to his own
faith as to suppose that Catholicism or any other
religion could make proselytes from his own. At
the French Revolution, which hail rele3sed up-
swards of 20,000 prisoners confined by hurts de
cachet and other arbitrary acts, there we. II (10111.•
ethanol feeling of repugnance to the dreadful conic
of those tunics among the supporters of Catholic
Emancipation, because they sew Thal it 111,:a1 lead
to the removal of the ol 00000 xious tyrannies which
were practised upon the French Protestant sub-
jects. Afterwards lie went over to Ireland. There
he found is brave, kind-hearted people, just deprived
of a Parliament, I,erhaps more corrupt than that of
England—oppressed to such a degree, thou winoy
seemed enthatied among their calumnies. Ue fell
them and came horse, and on goiug into the I louse
of Petro, he heard the champion of the Protestant
faith, Lord Liverpool, referring the exclusion of
Catholics from the Constitution to • refusal of
theirs to acquiesce in certain state (urine, to which
when they should submit themselves, it was stated
that there would be no other obstacle to their eman-
cipation. From this he went into the I Iroise of Coma
mons. There lw found the same subject under dis-
cussion. He these voted for a resolutinu for resolving
the House into a Committee, to take into consider-
atioti the laws and regulations ulfrirtiSig his
;city's' Romeo Catholic subjects, and to consider
whether it may not he exjwdient to alter and modify
the saute," &c. What was this but that which lie
was bound to doss at honest man, and their Reines
sentative ? Suppose the petit of the it Catholic
brethren which poured in at that time had bees
scornfully and silently tressed over, and this had
been dorm in obedience to the wishes of the Protest-
sots, what right would there be for complaint after-
wards, or neglect upon the subject of any pe/ili 00000
even the Alaiicheister outrages ? They hail only
asked fur a rule to chew cause. Suppose the Judge
had granted the rule, that would not hare decided
the question. • Had the Committee been granted,
he would have come bar It to them and stated the
condition in which the question stood. He would
have felt himself bound to consult with them upon
such a subject, and had he found it impossible to
agree with them upon it, lie would have given
up his seat to some one who did agree with
them.—(Very loud cheers.)—Vet he did not
altogether approve of bringing that question be-
fore the present House of COIIIOIO9B ; it would
he much better treated in a reformed House.
Was it not better, he would ask, to risk the suppo-
sititious danger which fear and bigotry chiefly con.
jured up. then to leave the Catholics to seek an
opportunity fur emancipating themselves by force
of arms, which must be the itiesitable consequence
if they were to Ise left iii their present state.—The
Hon. Baronet had quoted an observation of Sir Robert Wel-
pole's yesterday, namely." that every man had his price,"
and surmised that he (Sir Robert) load his also. The
Hon. Baronet afircwarcla acknowledged that it via so
hypothetical assumption; hat it was not. He owned that
he had his price, but • hat was it hut a regiment. He
might have bees baited and spurred, and oo his saddle lung
ago, bad that been leis amhitiow—fione even of the highest
objects of his profession, for he might have bad that price
lung ago. His price then via% else acquiescence of Ministers
to such measures as were required by them and the country,
for the reduction and amelioration of the oppressions of ail
wets which weighed down the country. Such was his price,
Irbil& if be mould get, be .would serve them withertake or
reward. If be could not get them, soul all the treasures of
the empire could purchase him.—( Loud applause.)—He
thanked them ; he hoped on the morrow ito meet them,
merely to the way of form, to close the election, and peohaps
to be chaired.
Sir 'l'. TOR/Olt Next came forward. It was so chilling,
and he bad get such • cold, that he begged to ask if he
might put on his bat .—• Yes.)—Welli then, though he was
lower on the day's pull, he was higher in the poll while ad.
dressiog them. Before he began be would say, that it was
essential to she ends of justice, to enable those who were
to report what was done, to pep ort fairly. It was therefore
necessary that those who sarrouuded biro should not inter-
rupt him ; and then again those who dial report, should take
cite and set down what was raid, and no more than what was
*mid. He had been represented in one of the Mornirg Papers,
**hos Mg used expressions " too indecent for repetettose" If
the Editor of that paper did not come forward with sonsekind
of acknowledgment of error or disaiowal, be would lie
ohliged lo Cahill a remedy by a ceiminrl prose( lotion. He
looped that he was incapable or utteriur, that which was too
indecent fur 'twins's. As to the. poll, he had been oils.
taken by his opponents entirely, if they supposed that he
was soy thing more than jest warmed by tier first two
rounds. There bail been as yet Do close hitting, and out one
pour. The contest, to be sure, could not run like the
others, to thirty-eight or *bitty nine ruoluds; the Coo-
venation only allowed him fifteen et the atioust; but
Abele it did allow biro throe, mid if lie chose be might
have them; besides, his opponents slouuld remember that

three One noels a thing as a kwaCit.dowli blow. Al the sous
wise he west tett thecae Not if his dross& amid WIMP
hotdeis slid sod pie* hint op wow, thoi Ise*aa,n• hr nithoeuld
&Ivo,
•••••1 beteg Ism to time, why Istinissa yield. „Mw it
might he with usher trades it Sotithersak, he owl poi &liras
but e. riaisily the triode reialiog most he in • atom *Agin
aide. books to him sad dm inroad, of his opponents
there costa lee lia wool of bosioers in that hoe, to which
hr vecoessuseonst all person wo•occesolful is their preseat
portions imurirrhielely b. tang, and they mars hr aeceriassi.
Hr woohl forty to some of the wriiiis which hail berm im-
part' by his rippmessio, Mr. John /fast—(Hisses, and other
..ties)—(he hoped as armee: it was a title he abroad be
wood wf )--and the other, the gallast Koichi, he was Not
MM wheelies' he was on Pnertishoona or • foreigner; there he
mood, very well pleased with his emboli ou the poll, which
hail miigirsiod Issue more than any body else Well, Mose
rho' ived in glare homers, as he said yesterday, shook' be
careful not to throw none,. Now shire was a placard,
which enticed the gallant Knight sod John 801 l with
voting tor Catholic Einsoeipatiuse. It certainly must
leave beeu mistake, as far as regard& John Rull ; he
'NMI a fellow always inveterate against Catholics. Rat
they were to mark the obiervatisma of Ilse gallant Knight
sou the bravery of Catholic antihero in fighting fur
the hberties of the reentry. There was so mention of Pro-
imams, valour engaged is the Sallie cease. What times
were they living ? This was a Protests.* Government,
wish Protestant esiablielonenta, sod they might as well in.
nuttier Ildnhonielaniont as tatholirison Mi.) the coun-
try. The Knight had proved in his heart that he was
a Catholic. He owned that be had dune all dist he could
all that OH proposed to hem he dial. the other
subjects he hied skews himself a airstream' partisan. fin
, this he lead akusMed, sad mine tardy off. The question
was, would he, or emelt, he poi, sappurl Carbolic Eisen-
float' ?—(fnlerruplion muttered for imams 'armsful—
Ile begged to lee heard, especially as they had been told that
would be his last speech. He wished to ask diens lime plain
rimple te:estiou. They were wort locket Iwo KI preset,-
tatives Those who need forward were semiutis to tusks
Southwark a close borough. It was as if Ilk, had said, " We
will go hanil-ia-howl. seed exclude Me cleaner of • tined per-
son." They lead ue.ly to look at the pull Is be cutevineed mf
this. Were they prepared for such a rubmission ? He
would reply to oue 'moth, which charged hint with dissulv-
ing • metlisig of freeholders assembled to petition for
the dismissal of &buboes-li, under the Riot Aft; fur which
service is was said that he had received a Baronetcy.
Su far was this from the truth, that the meeting look place,
and the qaestior, on a divisive, was decided by biea in fa.
your of the Oppositiou. Mr. Fox was present at the meet-
ing, so was Lord Derby and Lord William Kieseell, who
afterwards sent him a letter of thanks fur his impartiality.
—(Applonsc.)—The Baronetcy which be had the honour to
116141 was given him by his Sovereign as a reward for his
teal, in assisting to put shown a foul, turbulent, awl
sanguinary riut, which took place in Southwark, when the
King's Reath Prison was about to be broken open, and
wretches were lying about in the houses and neighbour.
Mond of St. George's-fields dead drunk, with bottles of
phisidered liquor in their pockets. He bad performed
the duties of Isis office with great personal risk,
and hid been rewarded with a Baronetcy. Again,
he had hen charged with seekiug so Indent. Judgeship. He
wit. WA so ambitious ; he h:.d not travelled like the gallant
K night, whose excursions seemed to him to comprise more
space mid more romantic incidents Haan " The Arabian
lohfs' Entertainments." He was perfectly content with
England, awl it when the gallant Knight's friends should eel
there shoo lit be any propos:Mos fur making him (Sir T. T.)
an Indian Judge, incintploeed the Gallant Knight to pre vent
the appoiiiiineut. After several digressive sallies of humour,
which he pt the crowd sometimes laughing and sometimes
previrh, he recurred once more to the slate of the cull. He
smiled that It was not very encouraging, and if it slid not
improve in seven or tight days more pulling—(a 1a54914)
rains,• be would give It in. Hr would out do it at the
wish or advice of his opponents ; neither the electors
nor his uppoui tits were to believe, though be might be
beaten, That he auuld not come again. It was must likely
Hest be would. When he had coetteated the Borough before
with • Treasury Member, he had been told by that Member
that he 11311 nu more chasm than of getting into the moon
(meaning, perhaps, that he wait lunatic.). He had then ob-
served, Why, Tierney, perhaps you will beat me now, and
perhaps a Rd, but yuti will nut Meat ate the 3d and 4th times."
nit had proved tree; for the third and fourth tines he beat
Mr. Tierney snowily. At all meats, after all the equibs and
trick*, the litile bickering,. and jukes, which had passed,
there ass one thing they might he assured of, that he loved
the electors, and that his attachment was Rot abated, even
when they voted against him, MI he valued them fur their
independence 'of spit it —( Loud applause, and crier of
!/rats,"—" that's noble.")-IVith this he took his leave
for the day. If he found that the electors had made a
reserve of their votes, and were ant determined to sup-
port him, still, as he was determined to support them, he
would keep the pull open. There were plesty of votes left
to de away the majority in a tingle day. If, however, they
did not come forward 111 seven or tea days--;Lasighter)—be
knew his opponents wished hive to determine in three or
four, but be would not underlain to *Mtge them—be would
resign the contest.

The CATO-STICE AT GAAG of ASSASSINS.
BOW-STRSILT.
Yesterday a minuet belonging to the oritllery
attended at the office from the Tower of Loudon,
to rxauunr the hand-grenadei which were found in
the loft over the stable in Cato-street, on the 22d of
February. The object of his inspection was, to
describe their manufacture, their nature and pro-
perties. and their dreadful operation, on the up-
proaching trial. Information on the same subject
was also procured from Woolwich, &c.
Early yesterday morning an elderly man. by pro.
fesvion a schoolmaster, was brought to the office,
charged °it suspicion of being concerned with the
gang of assassin., and after he had undergone a
short examination. lie was conveyed to the Secre-
tary of State's office for the Home Department.
He is much afflicted with the palsy.
Robert (George, who was apprehended by Salmon
and Ruthven, in the Dundee A►ms, Wapping, on
Sunday night, on ■ charge of being in the loft
at the time Thistlewood stabbed the unfortunate
Smothers, was removed yesterday morning from the
House of Correction, Coldbath-field., by al
of the officers, to tl►e office of the Secretary of State
for the Home Depliessient The ciressmstar sea
that led to the di-covet,' of this man was, a musket,
■ pistol, • sword, and other deadly weapons, bring
observed by a boy, who had lost a marble in the
back of his father's premises, in Chapel-strset,
Paddington, in a closet under a staircase. The
Prisoner kept a small house also in Chapel-sheet,
Paddington, opposite to his father's. and on the
night of the discovery and apprehension of
part of the gang, he absconded from his wife
and family. and l►e, like the others of this sangui-
nary gang who have been taken and committed,
proved himself a profligate end unfeeling man, as
he did nut appear to have any concern fur his wife
and family. His brother, who took the lodging
for Mm, where he concealed himself previous to his
intended embarkation on board an irdianian, in
the capacity of a servant (had he not been prevent.
ed by his being apprehended by Salmon and
Milian)), knew of his connexion with Thistle-
•ood awl his sanguinary gang, and frequently
persuaded him to discontinue Ins association with
them, but he had not sufficient influence over him
to induce him to abandon their diabolical senti-
ments and sanguinary conduct.
Thomas Prestos, the cobbler, sad Simmonds,
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