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London, England, 1818-07-02 00:00:00

requ'r, d a severe investigation of the manner in which
such eti• ,ordinary powers had been exercisrd—
•u,l Mix, ti•laily, would never have tolerated any in-
'wawa, inovever elevated by fortuitous eircym-
at•e►ices, or distinguialud by boletus, to indulge in
course ra►l6•ry upon the misfortunes hr bad created,
nor have tortured that he should play the buffoon
at the exoesive y. Let every Elector of
westoonster, who, if in Parliament, would thus
act, give hie viite, without lose of time, to Sir
SAMUEL KOMILEY anti Sir FRANCIS Soaps/T.-
10 returning these Gentittuesi t« the House of
euminims, the people of Westminster will send to
Parliament tau tneu capable of t xercisiiig a sound
discretion upon every measure submitted to their
comideration—and who, in pursuing the honour-
able course dictated by their own unbiassed feel-
togs, will best represent the purity and iiitelligence
of this great city ; but if, on the contrary, they
'Joint with ride r, Si► MURRAY MAXWELL, they
deprive the people of one efficient advocate in the
House of Co 11111 l ons, and neutralise the other by
associating with him tl►e dead vote of the Govern-
me►st Meinbo. Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, will not
be the representative •f the feelings and sentiments
of ‘Vestieisister ; lie will only represent those of
Lord CA,TLEREADH, or of those wise Ministers,
BRAME* IitTNURST and Lord SIDMOUTII. Sir
Iduatty MAXWELL, we doubt not, is a very
excellent officer, ■nd a very worthy man, but
is lie iadi•prudent of the Ministers ? Will he
',resume to differ from them on any important
question ? Where have his political principles
been formed, and on what model, that he
should thu., unknown to the great body of the
Electors, be put in competition with Sir SA-
RuNILLY and Sir FRANCIS BuRDETT,
and he invested with the title of a Representa-
tive for Westminster by the underlings of office,
who could not breathe but in the atmosphere
oh the Treasury, and who uow think to dif-
fuse the poison they have inhaled over the pure
and winod parts of the political body ? How dare
such men prate about bribery and corruption,
when, like vampires, they feed in the very charnel.
house of pollution ! With what matchless effron-
tery du thr Treasury Papers venture to charge the
friends of the popular Candidates with the pur-
e!) se of sotes, when it is notorious that the puppet
set up by the Court, to take advantage of the un-
happy differences among the popular party, is
upheld i xelusively by those who derive their very
extotence tr,.in the broken meats of the national
profusion? We trust that the lodependeuts will not
be disheartened by the forces brought up from So.
li►erset House. Let them discard all wiuor consi-
derations, utitl apply themselves in this hour of date.
ger to the paramount object of excludiug the mi.
material puppet. Huw contemptible it is, in the face
of danger, to dispute about which of the popular
Candidates shall take precedence of the other.
There will be no distinction between them in the
House of Commons, but such as will arise from
individual merit. Let there be ao plumpe►t; the
foetid* of fierilorn should never lose a vote from
•uy foolish devise of pulling one man or the other
at the head t t the poll. Let the filends of Rositemr
vote Also fur BURDETT, and Tire versa, This day
will be al►ttost decisive of the contest, and nothing
can endanger the result but the procrastination of
the real Irmo& of liberty.

We Inlet received the Paris Papers of the 48th
The General Election in Eogland," says
Mositrur, " at the preemit moment fixes the
attuntims of France rather as A singular spectacle
than a crisis expected to product an extraordinary
resu:t. 1i is a sort of saturnalia, after which every
thing will rtturea to its usual order. London has
item solidi more agitated in the time of
Lor:1 W. Councils and of WILKES, And particu-
Lrly so at the time of the American war. The
prmcii.lrs real liberty are too swell understood
Eotzlioitl ; moral and religious sentiments are
too *lady diffsvoed, and too strongly con-
hrined ; the muss of the people are there too deeply
retrat.-il w,ih th. no, to allow the adiucates of
d.i.,.!asazavon to obtain real and permanent sue-
. e". Theme can oily succeed among a people who
I. air I:etther learhing nor habits; who are, in a word,
mud, as philosophy has tirade to prepare us for
a r..volutom."

The !Like cr ItEnnio succeeds on tht lit inst.
the Duke of TA RENTE. in the servitors' Major-
. • ...
Gruen! of the Royal (;uard.
The Five jnr Cent. Cunsuk wt,e, Oi Saturday,
't I-1.0 fr.-13Jiik Actium;

•tettl.ty 3 Court of Directors was bold at the
E.•• I dm llowie. when the following •Capt..it.s
lir:t :i.to the committal of their rellitctire
%11. .iit P. Rirt.EY, Regent, end
S. 1.11., ihjistr, for Chios direct.
'111.• p.. 11 for tile City of Westinioster must close
S ,tarday.

itiiikroiniti tint it is determined to publish
the full tile present Westminster Elec. I
i'", wish reworks. this it will be seen who
tiLly one pulled fur, uhtu they pulled, and where
the *greens u/ rules were paid up. in to this could
be 'Oiled, 111 wine-where the money canoe
from to pay nil ouch anrepr, it would be a curious
ductilittoiL al.alerd. it will Or- phew 11"°' great a
tsuitilJer hue 'well so eN tertnely prudent as not to
vote at ail, ilitreby giving one adversaries the great.
r-t is/wattle sthantne,e.