The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-31 00:00:00

NEW PARLMME NT.

The following Members were elected yesterday.
OLD WINDSOR,----001. D,ESROROUGH ; R. RAMS*
BOTTOM, E6l;
ARUNDEL.—Sir A. PtOOOT, Attorney-General;
Col. WELDER.
WEN,DOVER.—Lord Viscount MA ZION and GEORGg
SMITH, Esq. instead of the Right Hon. CHARLEg
LONG and JOHN S'MITII,. Esq.
SOUTHWARK..—State of the Poll at 12 o'clock to-
day :

Mr, TIERNEY - - - -
Mr. THOIINTON - - -
Sir T. TIT/11'0N - -

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ELECTIOIV DIZTIVE2.

A Meeting took place, yesterday at the Crown
and
,Anchor Tavern, for the purpose' of supporting'
Mr. PAULL in his canvass for the Representation of
Westminster. Sir FRANcis 'I3I.TDTT. took the
Chair - and as soon as the cloth, was. removed, ad•
dressed the company. .He began with stating, that
Mr. PAULL was a man whose independent prin-
ciples rendered him a proper object. of their choice.
Lord GARDNER had signified that his profes-
sional duties employed him so much as to in-
duce him to decline offering himself as. Can,
didate again. Sir FRANCIS observed, that this
Was .a very.proper plea for the gallant Admiral, and •
that it constituted a ground of obje&ion to Sir SAsi,
HOOD. He 'honoured both these. spirited Officers,
but he thought that the only place in which British
Admirals could not appear to -advantage was as
Members of the lionse of 'Commons. As to Mr.
SHERIDAN, he conceived that he was disqualified
for a seat for -Westminster, being Treasurer of the
Navy. - But the Baronet gave no other reason than
the mere possession of an office under Government.
He concluded with recommending Mr. p.AULL in
strong terms, for having been active in bringing for-
ward the subje& of an inquiry into the condud of
Marcinis WELLESLEY, alledging that the chief rea-
son for the Dissolution of Parliament, in his opi,
nion, was, to put- a stop to Mr. PAULL'S investiga-
tions; as if there was no other person calculated to
take up the business bUt Mr. PAULL. Sir FRANCIS
concluded with moving a string of Resolutions upon
hacknied topics, the last of which was to recom-
mend Mr. P.tum., whose health and success he pro-
posed to toast.
Mr. PAULL thanked the Company for the honour
they had done him, declaring that as he was quite un-,
known to the Eledors, except for his etforts to
bring forward an Inquiry into the condud of Mar,:
quis WELLESLEY, he could ascribe the support he
received to nothing but an approbation of those ef-
forts. Contrary to the opinion of Sir FRANCIS, he
declared, that Mr. SHERIDAN, whom be den°,
minated an illustrious man, was entitled to the
choice of the Eledors. He avowed that in politics
he should consider himself as the pupil of Sir F.
BURDETT, Whpsecondua he should imitate, even if
it should bring him to the gallows.
sir FRANCIS then addressed. the Company again,
and after paying a Compliment to the Eletors
Hampshire, proposed their Health, and success to
[- their Cause.
When this Toast had been drank„ Sir FtlANets
made a few observations upon the mode of canvass-
ing which would best promote the object of the
Meeting, and declaring, that he was obliged to at-
tenda Meeting of Middlesex Freeholders, retired.
The rest of the Meeting, was chiefly devoted to
convivial enjoyment, and the Company separated
soon after nine o'clock, without any riot or dis-!
turbance.

The Barnet's Roberspierian Address, as well 4
Paul's Epistle to the Illestminsterians are laid before
one of.the new' Sheriffs for his opinion, who. has,
been requested to decide thereon, and carefully at-t
tend upon the authors.
Mr. SHERIDAN dins • strong pretensions to the sop,
port of the people, if it were only for his patricitio
condo& during the Naval mutiny, and his fire.
perseverance in adhering to his parliamentary du,
ties when his Party thought proper to secede.--,s
Mr. PAULL has no merit but in attempting
to bring disgrace .upon a . Nobleman, whouu
bit a short time before, he addressed in tb.e
lowing terms :—" The wise, liberal, and .etitmi
lightened policy that marks every- 4,t of the Ady
ministration of your Excellency," as well as " your
Excellency, to whom no man ever complained in
vain with justice." A multiplicity .of fulsome com-
pliments of the same kind were addressed. to Mar...
clues WELLESLEY by the very man who now rests,
his only claim to the Support of the Eleaors
Westminster on his abuse of this Noble'
Ski REWSBURY ELECTION. -- AL". TY'RWnITT-
: JONES closed his canvass for Sbrewsbtiry on Tues-.
day evening, which was a most snccessfill one. The
populace took the horses froM his carriage and drew
him home, amidst the loudest aoclainAions.
-1
• By accounts from Honduras, receNed. by the way
of Boston, it appears that Settlen;ent is under great
-apprehensions of an attack third the Spaniards,. 1:11p
following Extrad is from a Letter, dated
fe HoNDonas, AUG. 22.—Here we are in great,
alarm and bustle .of preparation, in consequence of,
. information received from different quarters a few
days ago, of a formidable Expedition fitting out.
. against our Settlement by the Spaniards in our neigh-.
bourhood. _ . _

The troops destined for the at'. Aare on their-
march from all quarters to Baccalar, and the Naval
,part of the Expedition is principally preparing at.
Campeichy, where twenty-three of the Gun-boats,
destined for the Expedition, are stated to be com-
pletely equipped, and they are to be joined by others
from Baccalar, and large Vessels from the Havan-
nah, which are to assail us in front, while we are
attacked in the rear by the troops. Nature has done
'much for us,
,and we do not despair of holding our
ground ; but, however the business may end, the
consequences must be highly distressing to us; for
if we find the danger as immediate as we have ma-
' son to fear it is, we shall be obliged to call in our
Negroes from their occupations to prevent their be-
. ingcut elf, and to embody them for our proteetion,
as was the case in 1796 and 1797.
" Brigadier-General MONTHESOR, who is here
pn service; and our Superintendant, Colonel HA-
DILLTON, have bad some consultations here with the
Magistrates on the snbj4.-fot, and prepjrations for de-
( fence, and thq prevention of surprise, are making."

• , • L //YES • - •
Occasioned by the Dirge performed, Oarther 27, at St, Pa-
trick's Chapel, Soho-square, On the Death.of the Countess
OIKENMARE.

a future world, the ptire'of.mind
Are for a space to Pain's dread Dome consigri!d ;
If Friendship's priy'r, it sighs from Sorrow's' breast,
Can charm the suffering Sprit into rest.;
Then hastening Angels will descend from high
To bear their Sister to filer kindred sky I

IRELAND.

Coak; OCT. affray-of a most unhappy
termination occurred on the 1 eth inst. at Clonakilty.
--Three soldiers ,of the 32d regiment, wbo"'had
been out of their barracks, drinking with a man
named Denis Sullivan, an their way to see him
- home were met by several other countrymen ;
some conversation ensued, -Which 'concluded in a
scuffle of much violence; in which Sullivan took
the side of the countrymen. The 'unfortunate
result was,' the death of two of the soldiers, who
were found with several stabs in their bodies.
--Thee soldier who escaped related the affair,
and informations were' lodged against the party Upon
Lis statement. Whether the soldiers or the country-
men were the aggressors is a-matter not clearly un-
iretstoo&—the rencontre is considered to have been.
rurely accidental. An 'lnquest was held on the
bodies. Every possible'exertion is using by the Ma-
.gistrftes and Gentlemen of the'country to apprehend
all those,coucerned in this melancholy business.
One niu-ht last week an alarming -hie broke Om in the town of Larne, which, 13}i the humane and'
hazardous exertions of its inhabitants, was extin-
tuished, aftet having destroyed two houses. It was
occasioned by the carelessness of a woman, who
left a candle burning on a bed-post; and, alas ! she
severely suffered for her iMorudence : ,one ;of her
children was consumed to a
.Skeleton, and herself so•
shockingly burned that her recovery is yet uncertain.
Last,night the Youglial Mail was robbed be-tween
.entire
and' Fermoyi by
.two armed men, and the
_entire bags of letters taken,
On Friday night last the house of John Young, at
Killester, was entered between the hours of eight
and nine o'clock, by a gang of robbers, who took
away property, in cash and bank-notes, to the
amount of 2001. Young keeps the turnpike at An-
nesley Bridge, and the money he was robbed of v,,e,s
The receipts of the last fortnight. The specie taken
amounted to-261. in tenpenny tokens. Seven of the
robbers were in Young's ,house ; four ethers were
stationed at a neighbouring houSe to prevent the in-
habitants from giving any alarm, 'while two more
.were on the road to prate& their comrades in the
house against any surprise from passengers. They
all had their faces'blaekened, and, after completing
the robbery, effected their escape.

Tnn TIIRATRE.—We had not room to notice the
first apPearance of Miss BOLTON, on Tuesday last,
iat Covent-Garden Theatre, as RoSetta, in Love in a
Village. .She. assumed that clarader again- last
right, and made a more respedable appearance
than could reasonably be expeded from so juvenile.
and inexNfienced a performer. She sung the airs
with taste and simplicity, and in her a&ing displayed
trait, of humour and spirit. She, however, grossly
erred in one particular; for, instead`of sympathizing
with poor Madge, she joined with brutal Hodge in
langhw4 at the distress of his deserted vidim.—
merit in giving the airs of Young lifea-
Vows is well:known.—Bni.Amy is one of the best .
.Haivatorns wohave seen. He played the part with
a, true manly. humour,' and sung the airs in the same
style. He was particularly exellent in "My Dolly
was the fairest thing," ,in whi:-h he was loudly and'
most deservedly encored. Hodge could not have
been better' assigned ths:n to EMERY.-'-IVIONDEN'S
justice fPoodcock Was as usual very whimsical and
diverting, and the charaCters in general were sup-
ported in
,a respedable manner.
On Saturday last, shout ten o'clock in the mot n-
ing, a violent gale of wind came on at Edinburgh,
which threw down chimnies, overturned carriages,
and occasioned several serious accidents.
Dr. BEATTY, who was 'with Loan NELSON on
board the Vielory, is appointed Physician to the
Fleet under the orders of the Earl of Sr. VINCENT.
Mr. Fox's Portrait, painted' by DRUMMOND, and
a View of Wadies' Park, the seat of JAMES REED,
Esq. are the ornamental parts of the EUROPEAN-
MAGAZINE for OCiober, which will be published the
Ist of NoVember, price is. 6d. by J. ASPERNT, at the.
Bible, Crown, and Constitution; Cornbill wilt
also contain the Declarations of the Kings of Eng-
land, Prussia, and Sweden, and the Emperor of
Russia ; and of course must' prove a most pleasing
and acceptable present to friends abroad;:as it is aeon-
stant source of agreeable amusement and useful in-
formation at borne.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCT. 3r.
This dars-inaiket afforded a middling supply of
different kin/s of Cattle; Beef sold at last price;
Mutton, Posrk are somewhat cheaper than
Monday's market, and the trade for the most part
was not over brisk.---j he sales in the Haymarket
were rather dull ; Hay,.Straw, and CL,, i &tch'd
better priCes than our last report.—We annex an ac-
curate statement of the prices' and numbers : -

To sink the 0 fF4I per stone of 81b.
Beef 4s. 6d. t od Mutton 45. od. to 4s. rod.—Vcal
6s. od. to 7s. ;Lamb6d. os. od. to os. od.—kork ss: 6d. to
6s. od.
beasts, 620. Sheep and Lambs, 42,0.--Calves, to 7.—
rigi,, 400.

HAYAR KAT.
Hay 21. Iss. to 51,SMITHFIELD os.—Clover 31. M 15s. to 51. Jos.—Straw
11. 'ZS. to 21. 6s.

CORN-EXCHANGE; OCT. '31.-4—There are several
fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day,' and few'prime sam-
ples -at hand, the trade is very dull, and second,
with inferior qualities, are at less price ; Barley in
considerable quantities, and rather ; Malt
almost without buyers ; White and Grey Pease
now come, and nearly keep their price ; hats are
in large supplies, excepting those of good quality,
and are rather cheaper ; and Flour. remains' with-
out variatiOn.
V‘ heat 55s a yos a 84s ad
Fin ditto 85s a 88s ad
Rye - -40 s a 44s at
13aney 405 a :Os od j
Malt 705 a 7s Dit
14 hit, Pease • 152 s a 9ocst
re)F ditto
,46$ a szs

Reins 44§i Sos 00
Tick Beans 36) a 43$ od
Oats zls a 265,a 3os od
Poland ditto 32Ca s3s 6,1
Rape Seed
,231. 271. ,7165.• od
Fine Hour, 7cs a 754:
Seconds - 60 a 7os 90

F~ r
y

SOUTHiVARK,ELECTION

. . . .. ~
YEsTi-tRDAY the Ele&ion.for Members to. serve JO
the.en.siiing Parliament for ,the -Borough of South-
wark commenced before Mr. TOWNSEND, thej)e-
puty High 'Bailiff, in the absence of his superior, Sir
WATKIN LEWIS. ‘ .
.. .
. ,At eleven o'clo'ck Mr. TOWNSEND proclaimed.the
lint-pose of convening the Elea-tors,. and read the
Writ direCted to him, by the proper Officer, for the
return of two Members to serve in Parliament. He
then announced the names of three Candidates,
namely,.. HENRY THORNTON, Esq. and the Right
HOn.-GLoaoL Ttimfire:Y;(late Members for South-
wark), and Sir Tiitira,ss TURTON, Bart. • '
Mr. SHAW immediately stood forward-to proppse,
for the choice of the Ele&ors, , his Hon. Friend
Henry Thornton. The confidence he felt in the in-
tegrity and independence of that Hon. 'Gentleman,
joined to his cOndu& in, four successive Parlia-
-1 ;mews, in which he hadbeen chosen ,to represent the
Free Electors' of the Borough of Southwark; was'
1 ,ground which he conceived fully to authOrise him,
f on the present occasion, to call for the • confidential -
1 suffrages of those Ele&ors to return him to a fifth. -
lie felt confident that the Electors themselves,'con-
vinced of the fidelity with Which, his •4-lon'. Friend..
discharged his former trust, Would determine them
now to renew it by a fresh. pledge .of their eonfi-
-1 deuce ; and he felt that, bencefbrward, as he'had
always done before, his Hon. „Friend would dis7'
t charge. that trust, unbiased by the prejudiees, and
I uninfluenced by the dietateS of any man. or party,
I to the best of his independent judgment; far ,the;in-
-1 terest of his Country, as truly would become ail Eng-
l'iSh Representative: Sure he was, that if either.of ,
the Gentlemen v-ho were his competitors on the pre-
I sent occasion, had a second vote.to,dispoSe of,, they
( Avould cheerfully devote it in • favour of his-Hon.
Friend. It was now 20 years since the Eledors of '.
Southwark had first chosen him as 'thein7Representa-
-1 tive. On fermer. occasions they. had. given- him
their suffrages upon trust ; but they tverenifw Called
upon, to continue their Support, on the . ground of
• experience, convinced as they must be, that he had :
-always acted in consistency with the principles he ~
first professed, and which . first. obtained for him
their confidence. He Was a maiinot only attaChed
to'their political principles,: and a zealous friend to
our happy Constitution, but a man conneded with,
and extensively conversant in, commerce; and con-
sequently the better qualified to 'represent a xirealthy,.
populous, and, commercial,borough.' It peculiarly
behoved, then, that Borough, 'by t ..ie choice of such
a Representative, to -set an example to. the great,
populous;. *and. independent boroughs' throughout
the kingdom. Mr. Shaw concluded'hy, recom-
mending strongly his Hon. Friend Mr.. Thornton .td.
the choice'of the Ele&Ors.: ' . ..
His reeornmendatiOn was ' seconded, by Mr.
Thornton, of the Borough ; audit was received with '
loud and general applauses.
Mr. SWINE next stood forward'to recommend to
the choice of the Electors his Right
,Hon. Friend
Mr, Tierney. The Ele&ors were, 'he said, this day.
called on to exercise an invaluable franchise, and to
discharge a most important duty in the choice of Re-
presentatives to serve• them in Parliament. In the ex-
ercise of that right, and in the , discharge of that
great duty, it was most peculiarly incumbent upon
them, if they considered the present most critical
posttire of affairs in England, and the disordered
situation of the Continent of Europe, to choose men
of talents and in terigrity, who understood the political
and commercial interests of the country—men, not,
carried away 'by chimerical notions, but who would
do their duty to the country uninfluenced by party.,
Such a man' he would now recommend; a than
whom they had tried, and who had before been
placed in that situation, where the weight of his
talents had recommended' him to the high station he
now fills in the service of his country. : With Mr.
Tierney it had been their fortune to struggle, and to
conquer ;. and he had-the fullest confidence
,t,hat
their experience of the integrity, talents, and services
of Mr;Tierney would determine them 'now to re-
new that confidence they had so repeatedly reposed,
in him; by sending him again as one of their Re
presentativeS to Parliament.- He knew that his
Right Hon. Friend stood in the situation of what
was called a placemati. But he would ask, i;f the
acceptance of a public office, in the service of his
country, and under such an Administration as the
present, was to be considered a reproach Of his po-
litical principles, or to disqualify him for the confi-
dence of his constituents ? The same argument would
have applied to that illustrious charA6ter so recently
and irreparably lost to the country ;•••• and, he trusted,
was too contemptible, under the present,compleximi
of Government, to have any weight with the dis-
cerning assembly whom
,he had now 'the honour to
address. HecOncluded by recommending the Elec-
tion of Mr. Tierney.
.-
Mr. SwArNE's recommendation was seconded liy.
Mr. ALcocx.

Mr. C..Dufqx.:lN then came forward, and strongly
recommended his Worthy Friend Sir Thomas Tur-
. ton, who twice before had the honour of presenting
himself as a Candidate for their choice ; and who,
notwithstanding the influence which had been C9O-
- against him, had borne so high an estimation
amongst the EleCtors; that the majority against him
at the close of the last Eleetion• was but 72 (several
voices called out 98); he would let 'Gentlemen have
the, number their own way, as it was not now
worth disputing. But, as his Honourable-Friend
had, upon the former occasion, pledged himself to
come forward again upon the first vacancy, to offer
himselfibr the'honour of their choice). he now stood
forth to fulfil that engagement, and he, Mr. Dun-
kin, did not hesitate to rely that his cause would be
successful—pledged to him from motives of private
:friendship, as well as from the most intimate know-
ledge and long experience 'of his 'personal worth,
high honour, and political integrity. His indepen-
dence and public spirit were well known to all who
heard him ; upon such grounds it was-that he now
had the, honour of proposing him as a fit Repre-
sentative for the choice of the Ele&ors of South-
wark. He could not, it was true, speak;'lapon the
ground of experience, as to. his Parliamentary con-
duEt,.as he had not the good fortune to have been
before elected ; but he was confident, that had be
succeeded in the former Eleetion, the whole tenor
of his political conduCt would have spoken still more
forcibly in his recommendation..
Mr. PRESrON seconded the reccamendation of
Sir Thema Turkon, and coincide must fully in

. :••!, t *es l
the encomiums shestew ed"-upenehirns t,a
rtheelast
Speaker. That S .
ir Theatias lid not beeil befote,in
Parliament, was, nor owittK to any difficulty or jai-
pediment he could have met .in sbeing, returned for
other boroughs.: The_ reason -was,.. that he had
never,Sought eleaion through any other. source. and,,
1 indeed,- by the veryesvarin and liberal- support be
had twice before experienced from the free-Elea-161-s
Of; Southwark, *be :came fors,ard , once more in
hope of being more successful. He, alltide.d fo a
former occasion, when -the Electors of South-
wark were called together, to • consider of the'beSt
.tuode of contrin,uting their zealous and loyal sup,
Tort-to- GovernMent and to the Nation ; but the
question wasetiOt in what Manner they could best
contribute
.their support, -but whether Or not they
should return to Parliament the Right Hon.. George
Tierney ? There Was no, man better disposed, than
he felt, to support his Majesty's Govermlient, and
more-especially his i‘ilajesty's present. Ministers ;
ant,- though he felt the itriporance of returning. to
:Parliament as a Represetitative for this great and po-
pious - trading- Borough a man con, errant in, and
cOn-hee-red with, commerce ; yet, he would prefer the, •
independent'spirit of such a man as :Sir Thomas
Tnitton even to the boasted Jtalents of Mr. Tierney,
which might prObahly recommend him one day to
the- Office of Chancellor of the' Excheqner, but
W .
whose vie
s , personal- interest were no pledge of
fidelity to the trusts cif a retiresentative. He there-
fore, earnestlyrecoi'iimencied Sir •Tholuis Turton,
and' relied that, he would, oil the present occasion,
become the man of their choice. '
Mr. Teton:sem-sr next came forward. to address
the TleaOrS. 'He said, the dissolution of Parlia-
meti*t took place so sissidenly, and at a period so
tblicalty miexpecied by hint; as to have left te.m-
siderably behind those Gentlemen who were his coin-,
petitors, on . the groutet of previously can-
vassed. the'Eleeto,'. Me telt, he the disadvan-
tage under which he mtiSt. labour t: re that circum-
stance ; out he hoped it Ywonld net Ise imputed to
hiirr Ps arising from ally want of personal reseed to
his Constituents, LlSAnoured,-. for- above. twenty
years, with their suppOp and 'confideve, and cons
sHous. of having discharged the
iv add to the best of his abilities, be came forward
now; once more, to offer ii;uiself for their judg-
merit' ; and lie hoped those friends who Were de- 1
termined to suppor; tirm on the present -occasion,
would endeavour to palmate the disadvantage, under
which Ife laboured in- a late- car)Vaes,b*y giving- him
their votes sing!y. He trusted too, that the cir-
cumstance 'would -be considered by the Ele&ors at
large,: upon whose liberality he now threw him-
selletand he had the satisfaction to declare; that
amongst those feW-•parties of his friends whin he
had time-hitherto' to consult, theio'zeal and- assur-
ances .of support were stronger than ever.. All..
THORNTON then called the attention of the Assem-
bly to a short and cursory view of his political- con-
(ist since he first had the honour of being returned
by them to Parliament. • He had been chttrged with
early and continued attachment to Mr. PTT. It
*as true, he. was - early attached to that- great man
on his entrance into political eminence; because he
considered him the friend Of the Constitution, and
the friend of Liberty, of Parliamentary Reform, and
of Peace with America; and he voted with .him on
every question in favour of thoSe principles. But
he • voted against. the War with France as the friend
of Peace ; and he rejoiced in what was conceived to
be the, 'establishment of French Liberty, under the
French Revolution, because he saw no reason for •
this Country:then to envy the 'commercial prospe-,
rity of France ; and he hoped that the establish-.
ment of Liberty there would lead to the intrOduc-,
tion of more.light•and more freedom in this Conn-. ,
try, and tend gradually to the extension of freedorn
throngh the workh But when he saw that Liberty iii
France degenerate into the most atrocious and San,'
guinary licentiousness ; when he saw it swallow lip,'
the 'French Moitarchy, and attempt
,the establish-5
ment of a pure Detnocracv; when he saw the ill-.
feaion spreading to this Country mid tai Ireland, and
endangering-the subversion of our own happy Con
stitution, he -voted- certainly for-, measures, which,
however unpopular, he eonsideredaanlyeas desperate
remedies fora desperete disease, and' Lis • indispensibly
necessary, at the moment, to save the-State from and the Country from anarchy. He was hap-
, py to observe the phrenzy of the moment subside
' with- the delusion which excited it ; and he avowed
himself still the unchanged advocate for constitu-
tional liberty, and -the ' friend of gradual and mo-
. derate Reform in Parliament as oceaSinn and pru-
dence should warrant He had in -the course of
his Parliamentary condu&, voted -with Ministers
' when he conceived them to be right, and against
them,' when he thought them wrono°e He was
the advocate for Peace, and he voted in support
of the Administration who obtained it,; he was
adverse to the, present war, because he thought
it at 1031 of questionable propriety. He had -ever
discharged , his duty to the best of his conscience,
-and for the general interests of his Constituents mid
his COuntry. There were some points in which
he had differed from his Constituents; but on all
,great questions of general. interest to the Country,
he hoped he had always spoke their sentiments ;
he disdained-that sort of representation, which,- be-
cause it binds a man to beriefit one part of the
Country, precludes hirri from serving any other.
He never bad voted in Parliament from the parti-
cularinduence of any man, or set °linen. He con-
ceived it to be as necessary to -exercise a constitu-
tional vigilance againAt the- coOduel of parties in:op-,
position, as against ,Ministers in power ; against
those who were anxious' to get into places,- as
against those whopossessed them. He meant no
illiberal refleCtions on any set of men. With re-
spe6 to the Right Hon. Gentleman, now his com-
petitor, he. owned his talents had justly recommend-
ed hint to the
,place he now filled ; and he saw no
reason why lie could not discharge- his duty in
perfect consistency :with the interests of his Conn--
try. . But whatever that :Right Honourable Gen-
tleman possessed in- talents, as .1 competitor, he
would be bold to say, he had the advantage of him
in point of independence. That characteristic he
had ever maintained.: what •he always. was, 'he
ever should be'; and relying upon the proofs he had
ever given of his principles, and the continuance-
of the favour he had- so often experienced, he hoped
that whoever they were inclined to reject upon the
present occasion; they would not expel their old, in-
dependent, and faithful Representative.
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Mr. TIERNEY next addressed the Eleaors; -anal
afes reminding them of the confidence they 60 long

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were pl6.stA, icit• repoae:tfrS.
id -au` of a 4 previ.out .and personal cantssa aa
had Re!) imptited to hina, by the lion.. Gantleman.
Qa the contrary, alter had specifically stated to .his
friel'ats.,iti:Southwark, that if d'peraonal canvas j was
an indispecisible .ingre-dient in 4 Parliaiperhary
presentativea.he,must be: leave to Oeclit!,, alte poll;
,as be could not-Comply with the ceremony Without
gross ,:and injurious negled of his otliaall duty.--•
Many Obje&ions had been Made ao him—but he'was
at a loss to meet them in any palpable or authentic
form. , chle.partya on a former occasion., had called-
:him a Jacobin, another found fault that he- was a
Patriot--a, third charged him with being a runt!;
Courtier—=another styled 11,i/13 a Turn-coat—another
again called him a •Placenian 'and Pensioner—ani
another said, he was gone to live at Bohloane. It
any man- were. to avow some of those cha.-2e,,
'to publish them with his name to them, he should.
be ready to give them a personal answer and. refit-
tation. But he was too old in the business of eke;
tioneering to, tansy himself in the silly and impraati-
cable task of answering all the anonymous placards
and elMion squibs posted upon all 'the walls in
,abo
Borough of Southwark ; and there only, he believed,
were such charges exhibited agaius. him. He would
own he had indeed.the atrocity to go to Boulogne in
the lan sho'rt interval of peace; data he really never
accepted a place from Bonaparte, for he never offered
him one. Pensioner he Was not; nor ever looked to
be: a place he certainly had accepted; there Vag no_,
thing incompatible with the spirit of the CUl;i;tUtioll
in being at once the Seryaut of hiiKi7/4 and theniead
to his Country—or that the Eriend of his C.:atin:ry
should accept a situation fah- the se'-vice of the pw.)-
Tre—on the contrary, he conc\aived it to be theap,:c
liar beauty 'of the Mitiali Chivit:tution,\ that ;lie
Country might have its friends in the Goveraaheat,
As well as the Court its ladqueys. He could a,a.a,a;
thb Honourable. Geut:canan who was pleased aa c
knoWledge his competeace tier the Chattazellarsa: cA:*
the f;xchequer; that he ;le\ aapired to 'th a
at h -'S
situation, ileither did he c.: aitCobe an ei, -
able enc—and if he ba aa is coat by aataaaHaj;
a place, he 'hoped !, ainced his ,
deuce ny kaowhig a..a20 to aaa
Mr. Lanz:Ey, after ha .Th ai aa,, aailia at
of; bia own political co: • Lit if he had
been c aischaas of haviaa, a:a any t his
betrayed the trust of his can:a intents, ha va?.iuld not
have ventured again to face ttteuu there—a; he could
find no dijiatthy in securih a teat for ao,ciird
borough-af But he' preferred apaaaiing to ria •,
-menu of thbse who had so ():tell aiready,gi% eh him -
itheit,• suffrages. -By his conduct to them, he now '
begged tp be, judged. What he ever was, he still '
should be•-'--iand:, notwithstanding the opposition of -
'certain partisans against him, stiCh was his confi-
dence in the truly respeatabie and independent lute-
rests of the Borough of Southwark, that' he was con-
vinced nothing could prevent his retnrn.
Sir TnomAs Tbreros• then addressed the Assem-
bly in a speeclv of considerable length ; but Se inter-
rupted by the hisses of one party, and the applauses •
of
.the other, that' it was inipoasible' to called any
considerable, portien of what the worthy Barouet
uttered., His speech, however, geherally Consisted
of strong professions` of approved and incorraptiule
independence. He reminded the Electors or the
abject state of dependence to which their iioaiiait,
and their ereaiv'e franchises were' reduced, b) the
influence. of GoVerntheht, and the corribtien of
Contra&ors, Lean JObbers;aand. Lit India arec-
tors, when he .first' came forwaid to r'es(ue:the
from dependency, and to excite them to assert and,
vindipate their rights. He now came forward .or
the -'same purpose ; and said, that he too naaat
truly say, as the Right Honourable. Gentleman ti al
Said, that if a, seat in Parliament was his sole objea,
he might haveatasily found one through some
score and de.pendeht Borough ; but he preferred an -
tibjeft ntiore'whtthy- his ambition, in a desire to re-
present the first- •Borough in- the Kingdom: - He
complained that both his cOrnpetitors had., on this
oceasion, joined their caIrqSSQS, and coalegced
in their Committees, against him ; and be heu-
tioned the name of a Mr. Y ods.G who t),td -
the Chairman of-Mr. THORNTUN'S COMfilitLet;, WllO
had canvassed for bath.: His concluded by ex-
the successful 'support :,I<cl4 •
.peroenissitnitguu lsis reliance on
tits.

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• Air. YuuNG with .great ,arinth, denied thi: im-
putation, and professed himself, exclusively, the
friend and supporter of Mr". TIIORNTON:.
Mr..THORNTO'N ',and Mr. TIERNEY both solemn-
ly aisclairned having either directly or indirectly
countenanced any such principle upon the canvass:
The question was then put upon, the name of
each -Candidate successively, and
,the show of hands
was. declared to be in favour of Sir T. Tußrox and
Alia TIERNEY.

Mr. ,THORNTON demanded a. poll. Upon the.
close of which, at four o'clock, the numbers stood
thus :

THORNTOII: -, - - - 149
Sir T. TuRTON' - - - - 139 •
Mr,TIERNEY
Irnmediately afterwards, each Candidate, in a
very few words, returned thanks to the Eledors, and
expressed a full coAtidence of better success to-
morrow.—Adjourned' at a quarter before five,• to
nine this morning. •