The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-13 00:00:00

`S7'4lln7stEß ELECTI'ONJ

,To the course of the poll yesterday a vast number
of Mr. Paull's friends Were cbie6ted to, in -come.
:quence of their not being rated to the pours' rates.
indeed many of those who ()tiered did not appear,
upon reference to the property. tax cr the pears'
fates books,- to- be at all reitident in the house's for
which they stated their
,right to votes. Severa's dis-
cussions took place upon these points; and the result
of them uniformly was, the rejeC,tion of the gentle.
men, the greater part of whom described themselves
:as shoemakers. A good deal of =llse:Tient, was
,produced by the replies of those gentitkinm,..most
'of wham confessed that they- were ignorant of•the
names of their neighbours, or evert of their land-
lords. Still all asserted stoutly that they lived at
such and such houses, and paid tie pours', rates.

When the books were taken away
Mr. Wiayrereedets addtessed the Meeting, He
observed, that, respeaing, as his principles ,taught
him, the right of every Eleaor to. follow the bent
of his own judgment, he did hut expea to meet,-
among any body of freeEngli sh men, a ditferent feeling.
Whatever way men voted, they ought not to be re-
fused the opportuhity of stating their motives of ac-
lima, and therefoee he begged to be heard.. Mr.
Paull had, in his address to the Meeting yesterday,
which he was sorry not to have heard, thought pro-
per to state, that he had called that Gentleman a
Jacobin. But he assured the Meetiegthatethe state-
ment was unfounded, In hi allusihns to the Hon.
Gentleman he had merely referred to the diiferenee
between the principles of the Hon, Gentleman and
those of the other Candidates, and expressed his
hope that this diErence would operate in favour of
the other Candidates. This hope the reAllt, of this
day's poll had realized ; and the issue would', he
bad no doubt, serve to coon lets the triumph for
which he so anxiously wished. He wished and
wasuld be glad of the vi&ory of his friend, and the,
Gentlemen on the other side were equally entitled
to enjoy any triumph the success of their friend
might afford. In any turn that had taken place in
favour of Mr. Paull in the course of this hard-
fought contest, they had a right to exult ; but he
trusted that no cause for their exultation would oc-
cur again. I should like, Gentlemen, to have some
conversation with you in a good-natured way, but it
should be over a pot of porter. Indeed, Gentle-
men, if I were to canvass fir myself, I would re=
commend to the friends of the Candidates to enjoy
each other, and that they should drink each other's
health in my porter-,--(a laugh). It has been stated,
Gentlemen, that undue influence has beets used in
the course of this EleCtion ; but. I declare that I
neither know of, nor believe any such thing. If any
thihg of the kind should_ be discovered, his sincere
wish was, that the persons coneehted with it should
be exposed and punished—(aeplause). It had been
observed, that he had assisted the cause of MreShes
ridan, by subscribing his name. He,certainly had
done so; and there was no case in which he had
put his name forward, no occasion in which he had
uttered an observation upon public affairs, that he
'did not wish to appear to the world. If he did
notentertaio that wish; and were not conscious of
the rectitude of the condua which he thought en-
titled to the approbation, of the people of England,
he should not have ventured to appear before them.
To hi's-countrymen he had ever been a warm friehd;
and he knew of no greater evidence he could offer
of his friendship for them than to recommend strong-
ly to the Deelors of Westminster to elea, upon this
• occasion, Mr. Sheridan and Sir"Samnel Hood.
The total numbers were, at the close of the p-01l
_ Sir SANiUEL. HOOD 43!'t
Mr, PAuLL 3401
Alf. SHERIDAN 3548
Mr. 'BRITTEN spoke at some length in farour of
Mr. Sheridan.
Mr. SHERIDAN stood forward; and addressed the
Electors as• follows h—Gentlemen; what I told you
before, I ant still perfectly convinced of, namely,
that net one of you, however noisy you may have
beet at theses, is in your heart-my enetny.—l repeat
what also I mentioned on a former occasion, that
none of - your desCription can be inimical to me ;
For, to the working part of the community, I have
been always friendly. I have the pleasure to inform
you that I ant, on this clay's poll es a-head °ferny
opponent ; I am sure that you will be happy to' hear
this; I cannot believe that you do not unanimously
wish me success. Some of you appear to look grim
at me, and inclined to abuse me. But neither von,
or any others ofa similar inclination, have produced
any taCts against me, although have 'lrequeotly
called for them. When any accusations are brought
forward against me, that are founded In. truth, . I
shall answer them. For such accusation I have
waited, but none such have appeared, ; 'ande I be-
lieve, that -those who know me will 'admit, that if
I wait for such 'charges, I shall
.wait in vain. What
can have credence only • with irreclaimable .fools, or
irreconcilable enemies, can make no iMpression
upon the candid 'or the, intelligent, it would be use-
less, and beneath nta to answer. Manyeef yoti,
Gentlemen, have thought proper to abuse me; but I
have borne your abhse with good temper, for I know
it was not the effea of have heard no-
thing to-day that would at all justify any feeling of
anger towards you. Some of you were conceived
to be rather harsh yesterday ; and the poor Green
Mali, who was such a distinguished orator, was taken
into custody., The poor man wrote to' the to-day,
stating, that he had no prejudice whatever against
me, but that he was paid for aliUsing me; adding,
he was paid so badly that he was determined. to
abandon his party if set at large.' I pitied the poor
man, and ordered his release. But although this
Man was influenced by payment, there are others
who act from prejudice, artfully excited by the
grossest misinfprmation. lam told the journeymen
of particular professions have been entrapped into
-the confederacy against me. What ! that a descrip-
tion of persons whh have always found in me the
stoutest friend, should become my opponents, does
astonish me indeed., Of these opponents I learn that
the majority are journeymen shoemakers—the very
cless of persons from whom I should'expea a de-
cided partiality—the very class by whom, I have
been chosen six times to Parliament—the very per-
sona, really, with whom I fbodly thought myself as
great a faVourite as CriSpin himielf---(l.aughter).
Weed I feel that there is no class in the communi-
ty with whom 'T ought to be so popular as with

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