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GENERAL .E:,E::TION.

TO THE WORTHY ELECTORS OF WESTMIN.
sTER., •

GZNTL7MZN,
T TRUST I shall not be deemed presumptuous
in offering my Services to.the City of Westrninster upon
the present Occasion.
li I should be so fortunate as to be distinguished !ay your
favour, I shall be anxious on every uccasion to evince my
gratitude to you by an upright and independent Conduct in
Parliament, and by continuing to devote my best faculties to
the Service of my Country.
My health is not sufficiently re-established, to adn3it of my
soliciting your Support by a personal Canvass; but I am
confident this involimtary omission will not be permitted
to opefate,to my -prejudice- I have no doubt of being able to
make my appearance fhe Hustings on the day of Elec..
lion, and/here to assure you,: in perton, 'of my attachment
to your Service. -
1 have the honour to remain,
C. a wr LEMEN,
- With the grcat,:st truth,
Your most obedient and ne faithful humble Servant,
Wimpple-street, Oct 27, 0306. SAMUEL HOOD.

WESTMINXSTER ELECTION.
HE COMMITTEE for concluding the ELEC-.
lON of,Sir SAMUEL HOOD, Hart. Knight of the
Bath, -sit ,latly at Fisher's• Rooms, King-street, Covent-gar-
den, to consider the best Means of securing that Gallant Of-
flzer's Return for the City and Liberty of Westminster.

WESTMINSTER ELECTI')N.
QIR. SAMUEL HOOD requests the WORTHY
1-3 ELECTORS of 'W E STM IN ST ER, who honour him
with their Support, wili,sive their Vote and Interest to Mr.

. • •
Hall, South Shields, Nov. 5,, 0306.
AT a MEETING of FREEHOLDERS, MER-
CHANTS, and, SULP OWNERS, of this Town,
North Smeids, and Neighbaurhood, held in pursuance of
public nonce, for the purpose °fan:11(10K proper arrange-
ments for NOminatiag and Supporting' ROW LAND BUR -
DON, ESli. at the ensuing Elettion for the County of
Durham : •
jo,stitlitiLsEa, Esq. in the Chair, •
kesolve.i Unanimously,
Thatthe'grateful Thanks of this Meeting he given to
ivtr. Bullion for the-great benefit which the Trade of' this
Port; and the County' of Durham, has received by his un.
wearied assiduity, both in and out ot,Parliament, fur the last
sixteen years.
'IL That,. notwithstanding Mr. Burdon (in consequence of
the unmerited, and alinost unexampled, misfortunes wino')
• haVe befalh:n him, and which we must deeply lament) is
extremely "desirous tia retire. :rum Public Lite, yet it is most
essentially necessary, for tiie Prosperity of the Comnieree of
_this Kat and County, that he should be required• to continue
our Representative in Parliament.
111. That William Russell, Esq. I, whei eame'forward in
so diking'uisheda manner at the last Eleetton for the County,
to -nominate Mr. Burdon) be requested. to come forward-in
'like manner on this' occasion. •
IV. Tnat the Chairmen do write to Mr. Russell, and re-
quest he will nominate Mr. Suidon as a Candidate at the
Eiectivn for this County on Monday next, the loth instant,
and that lie send Mr. Russell a Copy of these Resolutions.
V. 'That the Chairman do' also transitut a Copy of these
Resolutions to Mr. Burdon.
VI. That the:4: Resolutions be printed, and inserted in
Tug-. Su N and Newcastle Papers of Saturday next.
JOSEPH BULMER, Chairman.

Resolved UnanimouslY,
That•the Thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman
for calling the same, and for his proper Conduct in the Chair.

TO SIR FRANCIS BUIDETT, BART.

The following Letter from Mr. WHITBREAD to Sir Fa AN-
CIS,BOR ourr is particularly entitled to the attention of
our\Readers. We tear, however, that the person to whom
it is addressed is too much imbued with, l A COAT !!: r 5 M to
derive the least advantage trom the.solid arguments and
constitutional sentiments which it cOntains, and which
must excite the tipprohation of every man anxious for the'
security of regular Goverqments, and the tranquillity of
Mankind.

DEA4 SIR, •
I have received a circular Letter bearing your sigh
nature, and accoillpat*4 by an Address to the Free-
holders of Nrid(!leseii. ; upon the grounds contained
in which alone you ask my support at the present
Election for that'Connty.
I am sorry to tell you, that, upon those grounds,
I tel it itppgisible to comply with your request.
Having tqice had the honour to poll for you at
Brentford hp,ving anticipated the pleasure of see-
ing you re,:eleavi
.without opp,:sition, or of using
_my utmost 6ertions iu your t-woUr, and having a
rent personal respol ,tor you,, I cannot conceal the
mortitkati.no t feel at b-ein conivvlled to adopt
this line of condo& ; nor eau I refrain from point-
'ol:t. to you
,sotne of those pa,sages of the
Address make it incunibent on me to with...
ht,id the sqport I have hitherto been happy to af-

•
You assume tlo,it two Parties in the State have
joined—not for .the purpose of bettering the condi;
non of the people, but with, a base and scandalous
intention of pillaging those whom they are called to,
rule, and are bound to protect. It would have been
well if you, who have called for details, bad pointed
Out the pm ticular instances which justify such an
a;sertion to ycinr mind, in order that persons, as in-
dependent of the present, and every other Admini-
stration, as yourselt, trii4ht have had an opportunity
,of mare cOrrectly judging how far they had been dr..-
.as to the past, and what precautions they
ought to take for tho future: I have supported Tthe
present Administration from,a conviction that they
Were united noon principles of real public utility,.
and for the purpose of carrying into execution plans
of great national iniprovenient, both in our, foreign
and domestic,cireumstances ; and I cannot abandon
fiem; because in a situation more difficult than
that in which any their predecessors' have ever:
stood, they have itut been able to etfea, what I
.13qieve to have been nearest. the hearts of them
all-4. mean a Peace with France—seeing such a
Peace could not have been obtained upon terms con-
,,:nt ith national honour, and becau,.e tine has
not sufficed to mature and execute the schemes of in-
ternal improvement which they have manifested their
determination to pursue.
You assume, that whenever. the .Leaders of con-
tending Parties in a State unite, that it never is in
favour of the people ; and that the history of the
warld bears evidence of 'the truth of ,yptu- assertion.
It appears to me that the doarine you -
maintain—
that the political animosities of honest men must be
irreconcilable—is most fatal to the existence of a
popular •Governmen. and if carried to the ex-
treme, must tend to tue s&jugation. of the Coun-
try, or to the abandonment of Liberty, in order to
pbtain ,secnrity from foreign Conquest ; and to his-
tory I reter you for, the fad, that if the Heads of
discordant Parties could riot tie united in . the
cause of the people,, the Aevolution of 1689, in
which we glory, could not have been btonght

•
about.
You assert that a double imposture is pow at-
tempted upon the: People ; and you ascribe to each
Of trso .)ar 4t;b a watch word, neither of which I

have found to be in u*, have no hesitation,
however, in saying., -that attached as I am, by pre-
,ferenco to the more popular parts of our Constitu-
tion, I consider the Throne as indispensably neces-
sary to the perpetuity of our liberties, by preventing
,any usurpation upon them by individuals, either of
the Aristociaticalor Democratieal Estate : but how- _
ever a Sovereign ruling these Kingdoms may be per-
sonally beloved; his name, cannot be brought in ,
question, nor his virtues, however eminent, stated,
in order to give strength to the Ministers he may
have appointed, without a violation ofthedignity of all
the Constitutional Powers, and I am not aware that
such has been the praaice now. Neither do I
know that the other, watch-word, as you term it,
has been used for any sinister purpose. If the
friends and admirers of the late Mr. Fox have, upon
every occasion, both public and private, spoken of his
transcendant merits in the most forcible language!
their imaginations could supply, I will venture to say,
they have in no one instance been able to adequately
express their sense of his worth, or the poignancy of
their grief, for the irreparable loss which has been
sustained. The term, " ,the beSt of Patriots," is, in
my estimation, of right pre-eminently his ; and if
you would.condescend to refer to the particulars of
his glorious and active life, you would *ld that, for
near tbrty years, lie was .the most assiduous and dis-
interested servant any Country ever possessed; that
he withstood every encroachinent attempted upon
public liberty ; that he proposed innumerable mea-
' sures for the relief and, prosperity of the people
that he obtained some, and endeavoured to obtain
many more, diminutions of restraint upon civil and
religious freedom ; that he did his utmost, and was
capable of doing far more than any other individual,
by his . own personal exertions, could ever do, to
prevent wars, .which he thought neither just nor
necessary, and to obtain or preserve peace, when he
thought it could be either achieved or continued
with security and honour ; that in the pursuit of
the great objeas he had in view, he i.vaOnsensible
to ail that could intimidate, all that could tempt, all
that could. persuade -minds of an ordinary stamp;
and that, in the cause of the People, which he had
espoused, and he was prqof against the allurenlents
of ambition, wealth, pOwer, popularity, and friend-
' ship itself.

In the paths of his political wisdom and integrity
I desire to walk.; and if you are not only not alive to
Lis merits as the best of patriots, but propose to your-
self means of rescuing your country from the ditficul7
ties of its present 'situation, totally different from
those which 'Mr. Fox would have pursued, had he
lived to counsel us in this hour of 'trial, you must
pardon me for 'saying, that such an avowal d,ecido
use against giving you my vote.
I do riot perceive in your present Address any al-
lusion to an opinion promulgated by you on the late
41edion for Westminster, which is, " That a persqu
holding an office under t he Crown, however other. 7
" wise estimable, cannot at any time become the fit
Representati%T'e of a free, uncorrupt, and indepen,
dent people;'.' if such opiniou be loprided in truth,
which I utterly deny, a law ought to be passed to
exclude all the Executive Servants of Government
frOm seats in either House of Parliament. I have
not heard that it was iu the contemplation of any
one to propose such 4 measure, and if proposed, I
am sqre,it would meet with resistance from all de-
scriptions of persons, who have tl;e power or the will
to_ reason upon its consequences. The people, by
the acceptance of your dodrine, would reduce them-
selves to the hard necessity of being governed by the
worst of mankind; for if they absurdly brand every
man with disgrace the moment he becomes the official
Servant of His Majesty; they will render ;that service
disreputable, and, of course, disgusting to every ho-
nest manand independent mind. Then, only, can a
public man be said to-have forfeited his honour or
independence, when he shall have accepted or re-
tained a place at the expellee of public principle, or
fora dereliction of public duCy. •
These radical differences render it impossible for
me to assist you in becoming a Member of Parlia,
ment. Itespeclive opinions, may be maintained con-
sistensly with mutual and entire personal respea ;
such I Unfeignedly profess towards' you.
The 'determination you have taken to avoid the
ekpence ,of conveyance and decorations, SO conspi-
cuous at your former elections, - does you honour,
and I wish such an example could be followed by
all otlfer Candidates.'

The freedom of your Letter an.d Address pre-
cludes the necessity of any apology for the openness
and *tail of my observations ; I have therefore
only to add, that . '
I am, Dear Si;',
Your very Obedient humble Servant,
SAMUEL WHITBREAD.

Soutltill, Nov. 5, 1806.
Your printed Letter and Address reached me, only

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SOLESI QUIS DICERS FALSUM AVDZAT?

L 0 ND .0 N,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1806:

IT is with the utmost satisfaaion that we lay be.
fore our Readers the following Statement of the
operationi of the Sinking Fund, up to, rqv. 1, 1 806 :
Redeemed by Annual Million • 4 61,668068
Ditto by the t per Cent. per Ann, upon all j,oans 52,156,410

Ditto by Land Tax ' 22,645,280

Ditto by per Cent. per Ann. on Imperial Loan - 719,016
Total
The Sum tp by expended in the ens. ing Quar--
ter, 2,267,1711. 75.

dificzences between the Americans and the
Spaniards, respe&ing -the boundaries in Louisiana,'.
are' by no means in a state likely to be adjusted, as
our Readers will see in the Extra&s which we bave
made from American Papers to the 14th ult. They
will see also that the destrualion of the French Ship
Impetiteur, of 74 guusj by the boats of the Melam-
pus, has been the subjea of complaint, as,a violation
of Neutral Rights. Indeed the French Consul at
Norfolk will not acknowledge her crew to be Pri-
soners of War, 'upon the plea, that she was taken
within the boundaries of the United States. So far,
indeed, had the disputes' between the Americans and
Spaniards proceeded., that 3000 of the latter had
passed the Red River:. and the former were pre-
paring for a vigorous resistance.

SEVpIAL private Letters were yesterday received
by a Vessel which arrived in the 'lliver from Hath-
burgh., They of. course contain a number of re-'
ports ; but iq the present unfortunate state of
fairs upon the Continent it is impossible to ascer-
tain, and ditlictilt even to guess, what degree 9f era.
dit is due to them, It is said, that the Corps un-
der the command of the Dukes oftlausswicK OELS
and WEINArt have etTe4ed their retreat to.the Oder.
Another account states them to have been repulsed
in the attempt to force their passage. It was strongly
reported at HaMburgh, when the Vessel sailed, that
the
,French had taken possession of 4rertien'; and
the following intelligence, which we received this
morning:, renders the report highly probable:—
f‘ The Efambrq' „P(.440, Capt. §Titom4x, arrived at
Leith on the 4th inst. from Varell, and reports, that
the Dutch Troops were within four miles of that
place on Friday, the gist tilt. A Gun-brig was sent
in by the gtlicers on that station to: bring the 1-4
hr o' Packet and other Vesels •out of the Weser.
Her Cargo, though at hand, the Master wa§ not al-
,
'1 lowed time to take in."

There aremany rumours on the Continent of tbe,
defeat of the Prussian Army having b,een occasioned'
by treachery;; and the more we consider the subjea,
the more we are inclined to believe that they are
founded., In early times, we read of whole •
armies being destroyed iu a single battle; but sine
the adoptiou,of the modern system of Wiles, though
great and decisive, victories have been obtained, we
have never known an instance of a well-,disciplined
army having beep so completely routed, and, as it were,
• ~
broken to pieces,- as the Prussian Army is repre-
sented to have been, unlesS it were betrayed 'by its.
commanders. We do not meta to thrbw out any
insinuations
_against the Vetetan generals who
,
fought and conquered under- Fit EDRRICK the
GREAT, and whose personal honour is as unques-
tionable as their militaty skill; but in a general.
A6ion much depends upon subordinate. Com-
manders, and if they are treacherous, they can
at all times render abortive, the skill of the General
in Chief, and, the courage and discipline of the S6l-.
diets. We have heard some statements upon this
sttbjea, which we do not think it right to publish
until we receive them in a more authentic shape. We
know that there are Letters from the Continent,
which mention the name of a Priassiangeneral;Who is
stated to have beep Conviaed of treachery in the Bat-
tle of the 14th, and to have been shot at the head
ofhis Regiment. But it is not only against some' of
:the Military that the charge of Treachery has_ been
prefered ; some of the Councillors of the KING of
Piussta are openly accused on the Continent of
having betrayed their Master. ft,,is impossible that
we should be in possession of faas to enable us to
decide one way or other upon this subjea, but it is
a • circumstance well worthy of observation-, that fl
in the French Bulletins, written previous :to the
Battle of Auerstadt, BCINAPARTE appears to have
been fully informed of all the proceedings of the
Prussian Cabinet-'-,he speaks of the uncertain ty which
prevailed in their Councils, with a degree of confi-
dence that seemed to indicate that he received his
information from very good authority., ,

Her Royal Highness the Ducugss or YORK left
town yesterday evening, for her seat at Oatl; rb.
His Royal Highness I)t.ilst;of CI'MBEKLAZ4D
is expeaed in town the beginning of next week,
from Winchester. _

•
YeSterCiaLcielleral FITZPATRICK arrived in town
from a visit to Lord ROBERT SPENCER, at his COun-
try. seat at Chislehurst,,in the County of Sussex
Yesterday Lord GRENVILLE, Lord Ho vtcx, Lard
HOLLAND, and all the other Cabinet Ministers in
town, were entertained to dinner by Earl SPEN.CER.
Mr. MILLS is appointed Chief JUdge of the South
Wales Circuit, in the room of Mr. LLOYD, deceased.

Capt: Hilv4En is appointed to the Me/ampus, at
Halifax ; and Capt. POYUTZ is come home in the
comman of the Tartar, from that,station. •

The great popularity of.Mr, WILBENTORCE in
Yorkshire, is, a striking proof that his Parliamentary
condu6l has been generally approved. In all the
chief manilfaeturing towns of that populous county,
and even in .the villages, he was received, on his
canvass, with such demonstrations of esteem and
affealon as have rarely attended even the greatest
favourites of the people and the determination to
s ipport his re-ele&ion was very nearly unanimous
in every district he canvassed. The horses were
t ken from his carriage by the people, and Ni as
drawn by them for sevccal miles. Th.e Elediun is
. ,
fixed for pext Thursday.

NER/ PARLTAMEA