The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-02 00:00:00

TfESTIIIIIC3rAIt ELEcnoY.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT does not stand for West.
opinster.—The following is the answer he has re--
turned to Mr. PAULL's application in the name of
the Committee of Ele4trfs appointed at the Aleetitlit•
on Friday last :
" Piccadilly, Sept. 29, i2c6.
" I beg you, Sir, to express to the Gentlemen •
whom you represent, the gratefUl sense I shall ever
entertain of the.honour I receive by this declatttloft
of their good opinion of me; and to assure them,.
that I bold a seat in Parliament by the uninfluenced
choice of a free people beyond any' office of honour
which the Crown or it's Ministers can bestow ; and
that I value the opinion of the people much beyond
.any seat. . . .
" It is, however, impossible for me to be a Can-
didate upon, the present occasion ; for I didvery
:early declare to numerous applications that I :would,,
not be a Candidatel'and afterwards, as a singl%and,,
private EleCtor, I did declare that I would give my
vote for Lord PERCY, andl did so, beCansel had heard
of no other Candidates but such as' had recently.ac,
cepted'of very lucrative offices under the Crown ;
'
and I cannot think such Gentlemen,.however fitted
for-those offices, and however -otherwise estiMable,
can, at any time, become the fit Representatives of a
free, uncorrupt, and independent people.
" I arn, besides, bound in gratitude and honour
to the Independent Freeholders of Middlesex, and
I never will, on any personal account, forsake them.
But
,or any advantage to be derived froth it- to the
I would cheerfUlly relinquish all my-preten-
sionto-mcierOW. Nor would I ever have presumed
to be s Candidate for the County, but that I am per-
suaded, that, in order to rescue this Country from
its present calamitous and disgraceful thraldom, we-
.stand more in need of integrity than of talents.
That integrity must not expe& the countenance of
any Administration : for though a single individual,
.or many individuals, in
,Parliament, can do no more
• than speak the plain truth, Ministers cannot bear
with patience to be plainly told, some of them NOLA
they have done, and some of them what they have
not done. I remain, Sir,

"Your most obliged, &c.
(Signed) " FRANCIS BURDETT."
J. Paull, Esq: *M. P.

Mr. CURRAN has also been solicited to stand for
'Westminster, but has declined, and seat the follow-
ing letter to Mr. Now.. :
." DEAR SlR—That those Gentlemen, whose wish
you have so obligingly communicated, should at the
moment of so severe a calamity, and at so arduop;ia
crisis as the present, consider me not unwOrtlV7' to
represent their City, is an honour which I feel.
beyond the power of any words to- express ; have
the goodness to assure them that I am deeply and
respeafully gratified by it. I should feel infinite
pain in declining the high favour of their support,' if
I did not reflect, that in the great assemblage of
qualities which formed the illustrious being that has
been lost to them and to the world by the death of
Mr. Fox, they must, even if their choice had fallen
upon me as his successor, have remained unre-
presented. In one point only should I not have
been utterly unworthy of their confidence; I am
conscious I should have been faithful to the trust
reposed in me. But I am aware that their par-
tiality to me could not be carried into effect without
,a contest, of which the trouble could not be com-
pensated even by the ultimata success. They Will
permit me, therefore, to rest contented with the high
honour of having been thought of by them at the
same time with their distinguished Countryman Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT ; and in this last circurnstdtce
have a pleasure beyond any merely personal con-
sideration ; because in their willingness to place'sn'
sacred a confidence in me, they give a proof how
superior they are. to those local and narrow preju-'
dices, that, wherever they exist, must be fatal
'that. commullity of interest and affe6tion --wtith
the only foundation of prOsperity and indepeuderice.
" I am, my dear Sir, with the strongest sense of
the honour you have done me on this occasion
S. . " Your obliged and faithful Servant,
James Paull, Esq. 4g JOHN P. CURRAN."

. , We:yesterday mentioned that the Corporation
Nottingham, a&uated by the most patriotic and hni
nourable feelings, have determined to pay nrnarked-
:tribute of respea to the. memory •of Mr. Fos, for
which purpose the following Resolution has been
unanimously agreed to by that Body : • .

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TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM, (To WIT).-
At a Common Hall, or Meeting of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of the said Town, held at the Guildhall of
the said Town, on Wednesday the 2.4 th day of Septem-
ber, 1806.
it appearing to this Hall that the cause of civil and reli-
gious liberty, and the genuine interests not only of the Unit-
ed Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, but also of Eu-
rope, perhaps the World, have sustained an irreparable loss
by the death of the Right Honourable CHARLES iAmas
Fox, uniformly their most able advocate and zealous de-
fender—a man to whom, on account of his extraordinary. po-
litical sagacity, the artipttzuft arnt cuin.itneas of his views,
the clearness and strength of his conceptions, the honesty
and generosity of his heart, the fitness and promptitude of
all his measures, and the full confidence of the Public in
his talents and virtues, we were looking up for direction in
the present most difficult conjuncture of our public aftsirs,
and for the restoratiou of a safe and benehcial Peace to
this Country and to Europe at large t Be it therefore unani-
mously Resolved, as a just and grateful tribute of respe& to •
The memory of this exalted Charader, and as a public mark
of our unfeigned sorrow and regret for the oath of a Man
whom we have constantly admired and loved t sorrow and
regret moderated only by our belief hi a wise and good Froyi-,
dance), that the Mayor and Town-Clerk of this Corporation
he direded to aceornpany.his Funeral Obsequies to that grave
to which his mortal remains will be tommitted, but not the
remembrance of his splendid talents, his amiable,qualitips,.
and his patriotic services.
Examined with the original Entry in the Mayor's
Book, soil is a tree Copy.
GEORGE COLDHAM, Town-Clerk.

There never was a more pitiful measure than the
attempt of certain low obscure men to resist the Heir
-of one of the first !louses in the kingdom in -his
laudable ambition to represent 'that City in • which
his 'venerable Family resides—a young ..Nobleman
'too, against whom no reasonable, or even spNius of
objeaion can be urged:—whose taletw
mising, who possesses the. advantage of a liberal edit: ,
cation, and :in whose charaeler malignity itself cant-
not discover a flaw.—Such is Lord PERcv and
when we consider
,also, that his pretensions pre:sup-
ported by the mot respectable charaLiers in the
Kingdom, for rank, -property and abilities, what
but mortification and discomfiture' can attend his
officious, obtrusive, and inSignificantopponents !