The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-06 00:00:00

TO VIZ .ELECTORS OF TVESTkINSTER.

I • VE4Oiv- CITIZENS, •
AT a•lirne, when the peace of Westminster is
*disturbed by, as violent a rabble, if possible, ,tee
•those who endeavoured to force Sir FRANCIS BU it:.
AoE2'l' on the County of MiddleseTe, it is your interest
as Well as duty to support the tronattratld true inde-
r•pendenoe of your respectable City.—YOu have no
doubt readthe Address of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to
the Freeholders. Of Middlesex, and you see that it
contains injurious !nsinuations against a beloved,Vlo '
narch, .as well as against your late favourite Repre,e
tresentative. Of course, if Sir FRANCIS BURDET
were to offer himself as a Candidate fur Wesueii* •
ster, you would rejett,him with indignation, as
doubt not that 'the real Freeholders of Miekileex
Will do at the approaching Eleeton. But Mr. P4eer.
• has professed himself to be THE PUPIL of Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT, and to unite in all the views and all
the aims; of. that desperate young roan. Mr., p.tiULL
has no pretensions at all. to your favour, even if he':
had not declared his deterroinittion to fbllow the,con-
&id of a mah whom every. rational friend to .theCountry:W has deserted.—ho is Mr. PAULL). and
how did he.acquire the wealth he possesses ?—and
which he Seems- disposed indeed to imitate Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT in squanderieg in ambition and •
'vanity ? Why, Mr. PAULL is a imam who arose from
nothingeand who has not risen in life be the,dimlay •
of any abilities that entitle him to the smallest poraeh
of public reSpeci, or by any services; in any shim-
tion, that can,give him the least claim to the gra-
titude ofbis Countrymen. Ile was,,at hieowo earnest
entreaty, permitted by Marquis WneetSeee to go f,
to Ltiektiow; in order ". to Wind up his, accounts,"
as he termed it, and he took that Opportunity of.
quirhig what property he possesses. Ldo nOt charge
. him with obtaining it unfairly, but however he
might acquire it, ie was serving him Self, ..not his
Country. When he returned from that place he
• wrote letters, some of which'have been given to the
Public, and more of which, I trust, will•be.given, to
show what sort of a than he is, . in ,which he used all
the terms of the most tawning adulation in addressing
Matquis WELLESLEY, paying homage to the talents
of that Nobleman, to his integrity and to his justieee
and asserting that none could. appeal to him upon
• proper grounds without gaining.speeciyattentiOn and
tomplete.reckre4s. • Yet this said Mr. Piti et, in grOss
contradiction to all his servile adulatton, has attacked
the Nobie Lord with censure as acrimonious as his
praise was abjeCt. And what., appears to hose been
Mr. PAuee'sehjea p--,;411y, notoriety—and upon•this
.notoriety,, thus obtained by a libel upon himself, in a
complete contradidion of all his sneaking homage to.
Marquis WELLESLEY, he hopes to cajole you out of
rout VOtes. I shall not enter into the subject of
what is called Indian Delinouenial but even if it were
pOSSible to a3cribe laudable motives to. Mr. PAULL in
his prosecution agaihst the Nobleman whoM he
'once profeSsed to honour, Mr. SHERIDAN is much
more entitled to public admiration and respea upon
the very game grotrodS. ,
, Mr. SHERIDAN, upon the memorable occasion of
Mr.HAsTiNGS!S trial manifested the most eorhenande
itg;ind affeCting eloquence in behalf of the natives
of Ihdia, and•in zeal for the honour. and 'interest of
Great Britain. But, Fellow-eitizehs, h.lok at the
Public condliCt of Mr. SHERIDAN through the whiffle
of his political lite: Has he not, iii the midst bfri-
evate eni6arragSments, which rnight have watped the
4ihtegrity of most men, remained true rei prinei-
ples te Can any tnandoub; thht if he had been his-
,pos4d to desert his party, that .honours tinde'6Mofte.
meats *Wifuld leiVe-i;eierted his ileceptanee. 'He did
indeed dinr.with his Party; and with a Ike distin:
guished charaCker, who WAS at the head it, 'but it
wiiSupon public gtoondg,'and wiienhe thought that
by relinquishing his duty in Parliament,:thetti6ival .
SafeiYohight be brought into peril. He never for
a fnOnleM gavethe world ,reasen to beiieye he
would abandon his Party the Mean selfish en;' •. As
to the jetubarra'ssittents which Were so outrac4sly
urged against him before the hustings,' with the
desperate fury of a gallic mob, in the zenithof that
Revolution which ha'iebrOught France under the moSt ,
despotie Military. Gaeeninent upon the face-of
Globe, the Public have nothing to do withethe4eee,
embarrassments • or rather, they furnish the Public.
.with a topic for adudration' and -regret.: admiration .
that they could not. tempt a man froin*his duty to :.
his Country—and regret that it is theunforturiate
ebaraCter Of superior minds to be negligent of those
neheiths by which inferior men pa•S through life
Safety and insignificance. I am fir .feom meaning ,
to degrade that useful, valuable, a11:1 reSpC6taii.lo: ir-
' ttieealled'prudenee ; but I would observe, that men..
of great talents are 'not t 1) be rieldl; eoeasured by."
the satire rules which the apply to tie• common hulk'.
'of Matikind. The great poi
nt
of eoilehleratioe- with
the l'ubliC is the* public eand,:a of those mete who
aspire to its stipport. If in very trying Stan i n ous n,
private life a man preserves his pub/he hoie,ur and
inkrrity untainted., when the exiample of in,tny
would' sanClion a desertiOn of partychneeXions, such
a than deserves the confidence and support of his
cohntrythen.—Such a man is Mr. SHERtmer. He
remained attached to your late Representative, Mr.
Fox, for upwards of six-and-tWenty years, he never
would desert him, and he did not accept an official
situation till Mr. 'Fox and his' political friends were
called int& power. Can you the;:, with: any sense
of public' gratitude, desert such a man in a critical
moment, and prefer one with whom you have no
connexion, and who hashuit solid pretensions to yew'
faVoUr ? Come forward, my Fellow-citizens, and
resolutely support Mr. SHERIDAN, whose political
charaeter is unimpeached and unimpeaqtable. Shew
that you are not to be led away by clathour and
malevolence; and rescue your ancient City from an'
Upstart who' attempts to ride into its representation'
upon the shoulders of a desperate rabble.
As to Sir SAMUEL HOOD, FellOw-cititens, it
would be doing injustice to your patriotism, to your
spirit, to your love of valour, your gratitude to those
who hazard their lives in defending your Country,
and your attachment to ou?great National Service,
to doubt that you will give him your firm support.
PUBLICUS.

So ignolant are the rabble who support Mr.
PAULL before the Hustings in Covent-Gardent that
on the day ,when Mr. SHERIDAN appeared, they
assailed him by the name of the Peruvian. Chief,
exclaiming, " No Rolla—No Rolla"—as if they
thought that they degraded him in comparing him
with the hero, who,. according to the drama, de.
voted his life to the service of hii Country;