The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-14 00:00:00

WESTMIASTER ELECTION.

Mr. SHERIDAN appeared on the hustings about
two o'clock, and was received with acclamations of
applause. As soon, however, as this had subsided,
some of the orators of the mob addressee) Mr. She-
ridan, and he answered them with the utmost good
humour, succeeding at once in overcoming their
animosity and exciting their laughter.
One of the more distinguished orators told Mr.
Whitbread, that if • his porter was as strong us
his assurance, it would sell astonishingly well.—
But," retorted Mr. "Whitbread, " if it were is
strong as your impudence, I should get nothing by
it." This retort produced much laughter, as did
many of the remarks which followed. The mob
complain that they cannot at all succeed in tadger-
ing Sir Samuel Hood, who never shrinks. from their
attack, and who, throughout the day, never quits the
hustings.
Mr. T. Sheridan had also some whimsical alter-
catiOn with the multitude, in which they were de-
cidedly overttnatched.
The total numbers were, at the close of thepoll;

Sir SAMUEL HooD
Mr. I'AuLL
Mr; SkikovlDAN

4547
3799
3791

•••••••••

Mr. WITItBRF.
AD then announced, that Mr. Paull
was, upon the whole poll, only eight a-head of his
illustrious friend, Mr. Sheridan.. He therefore wish-
ed the friends of Mr,•Sheridan joy, and begged the
others to keee themselves in temper--(applauses
and hisos).

Mr. SnERIDAg repeated the words of Mr. Whit-
bread, exhorting-, the people to preserve their tem-
per ; and.he was the More induced, to press this ex.-
hortation, because he felt the. best wishes towards
every one of them. fie knew. their diSpositioh,_and
was certain that- hot 'tine among them was his:ene-
my ; but, On the !contrary,
Ethan they now felt
ashamed of having been so long made the dupes of
the vile misrepresentations and 61selioods which
had been propagated respe&ing his Conchla and cha-
raeter. The contest would ticit, he was sure, ter-
minate until the public would. be fully convinced
of the turpitude of his accusers, and that he had
never declined,: in any instance, to do all that was
in his power t: discharge every obligation to which
man was bound to attend, either by the pre-
cepts of justice or the feelings of.,generosity.=
To loose and general caluthnies, however, it was
im-
possible for him to answer, and with thoSewho could
be imposed upon by such calumnies, it would per 7,
haps, be absurd to argue. Against the suggekiotiS
of the prejudiced, and the clamours of the igno-
rant, no- man could protect his reputation—but to
precise Specific accusation, for which he had locked
in vain in the course of 'this contest, it was the dutir-
of a man to make a. defence. -.l\lone, such having
offered, he must leave .it to the candid, the just, the
refieEting payt of thecommunitk, to refute.,the ma-
lignity,of his opponents., Returning to the state of
the poll, the Right Honourable Gentleman thvelt

upon the .omen-whieb ,it attOrdeci. of ultimate vic—
tory. This vietory would, he trusted, be borne by .
.his opponents with the same temper as that 'which
he, declared, he should feel were it his lot to be de-

feated—(applauses-and hisses). He. regretted. the

absence of his' broad-faced . friend, for he S sure,
that although rather harsh in his attacks upon him,
he would still have the good-nature and good-tem-
per to procure a hc,aring from.him in reply. The
interruption he had .meta with augured;, ill ..of -the
cause it was meant to sustain. His cause required,
'not the aid, 'but would be injured by the interpo-.
SitiOrl of irregularity, and therefore he dePrecated
every thing of this kind on the part of his trien&.
Here the Right Hon. Gentleman adverted to the
Dinner which was fixed for this day at the, Crown
and Anchor, where, he assured the Gentlemen in

front cif the Hustings, he should drink all. their
good healea3, and he should not trespass longer on
their atterrflon here. As the days were shorter, he
felt that so should his speaking be shorter—for he
'did not like to prolong the Meeting until dark night
—wishing, as he always.did, to speak and to a& in
the face Of 'Open day. He did not care,. however,

Awhether the days or the speaking was long, pro-
vided he was longer on the poll than hid opponent.
After repeating his resolution to bury every thing
in oblivion that bad been offered against hint in the
course of the Ele&ion—to forgive, all' who had in-
...lured him; as ,he had forgiven the man who struck
him the first day; and the green orator, the Right
Hon. Gentleman exhorted the Meeting to make a
long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, in
support of Sir S. Hood and Sheridan.
Sir S. HooD, in returning thanks to the Meeting,
repeated the concluding exhortation Sheri-%
dan, and his contempt for the disposition and power
of his calumniators.

Mr.. Nord. expressed his:satisfatlion at the state
of the poll. Notwithstanding all the influence that
had been used, the 'popular Candidate was on the.
lotb day of the Fle6.lion' still eight-above the Trea-
surer of the Navy,. :He. complained of the manner
in which the votes of hivantagoniSts had been pro-
Cured, and the hired Ruffians who, at 'the head of
Mr. Sheridan's band of Forty Thieves, had, impeded
the business. of the hustinas. It had been, his. wish -
that the Eleation...sbould he conducted as. Calmly
as possible, but such had not been 'the, disposition'
of Mr. SheKidan: He knew that a great nunibef.of
the EletiorS who intended to. support him had beeti
prevented from getting up to• the hustings this day,
in time to vote: He pledged himself, however,
that he wou:d bring up 760 independent Ele6tors- to
poll for him to-morrow; Henever would believe
that the spirit of freedom; Which he. knew prevailed
in \Vest minster, could be defeated,. until he should-
find that '.he 'High Bailiff had finally closed the
poll, with a declaration of the numbers against
him. The Ele&ors might' therefore rely, that he
would stand forward to the last moment in their
cause.
.If the result of the poll should at last prove
=favourable, he: pledged himself to have .a strict
scrutiny, and to prove the illegal and uticonstitt.
tional praaices, by *llia the votes of the' Court
.Candidates' had been obtained.

MR. SHERIDAN's DINNER.

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SAMUEL' Floon dined at the 'Crown and Anchoi
Tavern, in the Strand.

Nr. WHITBREAD in the Chair.
After' Dinner, the worthy Chairman proposed the
health of

" The King, ;" with three times three ; enthuiiastically
received.—" 'Fhe Queen.and Royal Family ;"-with three.—
." The Constitut;un, the whole Constitution, and nothing
but the ,Constitution ;" with three times three ; cheering
_and loud applause.—" "The Prince-0i Wales ;" with thicv
:times three.
_
He then proposed—

" The united hettiths of Mr. Sheridan and Sir Samuel
Hood, And Success to them in their Ele,clion ;" with three
times three; and the loudest and inost'unbounded applauseS.
Mr. SHERIDAN then rose -And• said
_men, in returning you-,my . most heartfelt thanks
for the high honour which you have: done me, I
feel it doubled by the manner' in .Which you have',
conferred that faVour.- Having already experienced
your indulgence, upon forn-ter'occasiOns,, I wish tb
be as brief as possible.- The 'happy union which'
has w lately taken place mV..be:propitibus to the.,
King, the Country, and the Constitution ; 'and, L
trust, no person here can, for a motnent, think, that

I feel the slightest mortification at being below
Sir Samuel Hood upon the poll. I 'teel ho-
llowed by it,• and disdain. to answer such in-
sinuations. . A union bad been offered me from
another quarter,
,anti you see the publication
of some letters of Mr. Peter Cobbett and Mr. Paull,
this subjea, in the publi
c prints, to which I

4).A‘N

bl,g
the attention of every man who is free and in-
dependent. But for an unfortunate misunderstand-
ing, the brave Commodore' and myself 'Would have
acted together on the poll from the first ; and I
protest if it was in my power to pass the gallant
COMmodore, I would not do it. He is in the
place .which belongs to him ; he' is where the hearts
and NiNshes of the people of Westminster would have
him ; he has shot a-head, as he. did at .Aboukir;
(loUd applause) and I trust the event of to-morrow
Will compel Admiral Paull .to heave a-stern. I
said at the last
_meeting, and cannot help repeating
now, of the gallant Commodore, that the Rritish
Navy, could possibly furnish a maw who
,Was
his equal, but it was impossible to point out
a man who was his superior. must make
another repetition. Mr. Paull says, that Sir
Samuel Hood and I cordially hate one another.
,A.S._a private individual, I will sav, that if there' is
one class of Men I admire above another, it is our
Gallant Naval Officers; but, as a public man, I do.
say-and feel,.. that they are the true, genuine; and
most
.effethial bulwark on
,whom we most depend
for the proteetion and preserVation of our King,
Country, and Constitution. It may be said, that
his duty as an Officer will oblige.bitit to neglect ,his
duty as your Representative; i can only say, that
if I shall hate the honour to be his colleague, he
shall find-in _me a' faithful agent for hiS part' of the
duty. ,I have thus. a double ,tie am proud to be
your Representative, it is the utmost ambition of my
life;
_but it would be" still further my pride.to tie
the representative of Sir S. Hood. I have now only
to remind you of the great struggle we are engaged
in. The spirit and independence which is manifest
in thus,i must say trituriphantly,carryina tne through,
will be tin example to-all England, that the spirit
and yigour o a free and independent .people must
ever prevail." -
Sir SAMUEL HOOD returned his most sincere
thanks for the high honour done him, in drinking
his health. 'ln support of the King' andigonstitu-
don, his Right Hon. Friend. had :always stood for-
ward ; and he looked up to him as the, best advo-
cate the. Navy had with 'the people. One' of the
tnost dangerous conspiracies that ever was known in
the Navy of this country, was in a great measure-put
au end to by his speech in Parliament. He, there-
fore, trusted, the Ele6tors of Westminster would
bring him forward against the 'Man who was now
at the head of a faetiOn which be was unable to S'lll3-;
port. He had offers to combine himself with that
person (Mr. Paull) ; but be kneNy no 'advantage
could possibly derive from such a, coalition, and
he trusted neither 'himself nor his 'friend, on any ac-
count, would join'such a man.

Mr. WEBB sang a most appropriate song, which
received loud applause.
The CHAIRMAN then,proposed a toast, whiCh he
prefaced by saying, should be drank without those.
marks of approbation which generally accompanied
a favourite toast. He hipped the 'most solemn si-
lence and respect would prevail, and gave,
. .

" The glorious and tmmoital memory, and never fading
example of Mr. fox."

this toast was drank standing, in an awful and
solemn manner, throughout the room.
Mr. •SdERIDAN then rose, and after some obser-
vations upon the different degrees of rank in society,
and the manner in which a mixture Of the young men
of rank, with those of the Middle and lower Classes'of
the people, would atied the whole, and the utility
of calling up to high honours and situations those,
who, by their zeal and arduous endeavours for the
good of the State, had rendered the.nselves worthy
that situation—he gave
_ _

Mr. ‘V hitbreird, witTi three times three ; loud and reiterated
plaudits.

Mr. WHITBREAD returned his thanks in the
handsomest manner ; and trusted, that under Pro,
'vidence, his health, and that of the EleCtors, would
last, to use their exertions in the present contest,—
He hoped he had taken not only an active, but an
effe63ive part, on the present occasion. And he was
ANTellcOnvinced, the two persons whom he was so zeal-
ous to support, would, at last, convince the world,
that they were the truly popular Candidates for Wes-
tminster. It., was by no means `necessary that the. Pe-
ople and the Government'shonld always beat variance,
and, hoped and trusted, that upon such occasions as
the present, anal such charaaers,' thepeople would
alWays.be ready to elect those men who will support
Government. • The arguments adduced 'against this
ro
.pposition were built upon . a fallaCious reason-
ing. .He 'd,eprecated the idea. of threats or bribes
to compel any man against his inclination, and
protested his conviction, that no single instance of
,that kind had been resorted to on the present Occa-
sion ; and he contended, that Mr. Sheridan and Sir
Samuel Hood would be eleCted- solely by the voice
of. the free and independent- Electors. Notwith-
standing the prosperous state of the poll, he hoped
no relaxation whatever _would take place. He
then entered into a very. considerable explana-
tion of his ideas of a man accepting a place for mere
emolument, and for the purpose of being of service
to his. country. He wholly denied the charg -of
seeking for a Peerage, and declared that was only. due
to those brave fellows Who had fought, bled, and
conquered for their country. He thought it would
be a degrAdation to a man in his situation in. life.
He trusted there was still virtue .and spirit remain-
ing in the House of Commons to prosecute or ac-
quit Marquis Wellesley, if he should be found
guilty or innocent, besides Mr., - Paull. He con-
cluded by expressing a hope, that he should retain
-the name merely of Mr. Whitbread,, that his. name
might ever continue honourable to himself, and his
situation useful to his country. •
..•

Ati excellent and appropriate song was then sung
by Mr. THomAs SIIERIi)AN, whose health was that
drank ; and he returned his thanks in a handsome
Manner, concluding with a witty allusion to Mr.
PAULI;.

Col. MELusx and Mr. BERKELEY CRAVEN were
then severally.drank, and these Gentlemen expressed
tbeir sentiments in the most spirited and eloquent
manner. We regret our limits will not permit us to
ice a -sketch of them. Several other Constitutional
and jovial Toasts and convivial Songs., followed.

About ten o'clock Mr. SHER I DAN and Sir SAm.
HOOD retired, and the remainder of the' evening
was spent in the utmost ,harmony and conviviality.

Tables had been laid for 360, but nearly double
that number attended.—Among the Nobility and
Gentry we observed,
,Lord WM. RUSSELL, Mr. P.
MOORE, Mr. STANHOPE, Mr. MLLLASH,, Mr.-EL-
LIOT). and several others.

`WA

'APE

, .
PARIS, Nov.. 2.—Within • a few•!clays -past ;the
wOrds " -I.vedish. Legation" have been
.retuoved.
from over the door of the late- SwediA-Minister ; and
the few Swedesremaining in Paris haVe received no-.
tice to depart. ;- , .
FRANKFORT, Nov. I.—Fresh troops are .still st-
riving froM France to join the. Grand
.Arrny,„ NY.„,e,,
are assured that the King of Prussia's bead-quarters
are at Breslau, in ,Silesia.

'NAPLES, OCT. 6.--,-The head-quarters.of, Marshgl
I,MASSEt4A approach the promontory of Calabria.,
t. though-slowly. At the latter end of September the
head-quarters, were from Monteleone to Palmi.. The
kingdom
.is eVery where pnrifyina from the bands
of robbers Who still dare to shew themselves in dif-
ferent places. A troop Of National Guards have
been Sent against some of that description, Who'
having assembled in the province of Principiato,
threatened the principality of Benevento. Irow-
ever, the province of Terra de ..avora has lately
been the theatre of their irregularities; there FRA
DiAvoLo had t early made hit9self master of the
town of Sora ; but he did not succeed, though the
last landing of the English Upon the coast between
Sperlonga and Fondi was made in his, favour, and,
bioveth had a narrow escape to' the moun-
tains, Sora being ,taken el.' General ESI'AGNAC, on,
SepteMber Mere of the robbers' have been
driven from Atina and Abruzzo to' the Papal ter-
ritory.
TitE,-.DANKS OF TIM MAII4F, NOV. 2.—The
great -rtirther of Saxon Office:s who had been made.
prisoners by the Treneh are on their return to
Saxonyy. It is positively said, that the Emperor
:NArcii..coWhas carried his generosity so far as'to re-
mit to thOSe who lost their baggage, and were with-.
out money, -Very handsome pecuniary supplies, and
that he told'lliein 'he -Should soon 'be at Dresden,where he hoped to find a good reception., it ac-
tually appears' as if the Ele6tor of Sakony does not
any longer consider himself -as 'being at 'war with'
''ranee. He
remains in his capital, which is ac-
tually occupied by the'troops of Bavaria. It is the
.same-body-of- the Arrny, which, under the corn-
• mand of Prince JgROME, passed through the coun-
try of Bayreuth and Voigtland to Chernishitz. In-
stead of marching to' Leipsic, as' was expe&ed, it
proceeded by Freidburgh to Dresden, whose gates
Were iminediately opened, though it is a fortified
City. ,this position, the French and Confederate
troops command all the upper part of the Elbe-L--
the Frifnch occupying the towns of Meissen, Tor-
gau, Wlttenburgh, and Dessau. It is asserted, that
;the .EleCtor of Saxony has consented to give up
the famous fortress of Konigstein, to the Bavarian
,troops. .

Notwithstanding
the reports and the news pro--
Tagated'bv the Public 'Prints, we are this day po-
.sitively informed, that the Russian Army corn-,
manded by Yield Marshal KAMENSKOY, and the
Generals Kvirtizow and BAGRATHION, did not
begin its March to Prnssia before theAsth of Oc-
tober. The last letters from Warsaw do not make
the slightest mention 'of these troops, which, froM
the late' events, will probably be.obliged to mike a
retrograde motion—if they do not prefer being
driven from the Prussian States as they were last
year from those of Austria.

A LETTER FROM HALMSTADT, IN THE DUCHY OF
BRUNSWICK, REFERRED TO IN THE EIGHTEENTH
BULLETIN, DATED OCT., 13,, 180 U.

`‘ TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN,

Amidst the rumours of war :which approaCh
our peaceful dwelling, and which •is announced by
'the bands of Prussian fugitives that pass by, that
which to me is the most lamentable is, the loss' of
my two eldest sons : such is my anguish, that I am
Scarcely capable of writing or t-hinking with any de-
gree of propriety.
", Our good Duke is mortally wounded.—.
Prince I..oufs- 'of PRUSSIA is killed :—.MoLLEN-
DortFy has-ruceived several wounds and is obliged
to keep his.bed. The King escaped with difficulty.
Halberstadt is full of the wounded—God only
knows
_what is become of my sons, particularly the
eldest. WOuld to God he had died.'with arms in
his hands in defence of his country, instead of
fiohtin,, for the Enemy !—But to die in this disho- •
• z'
nourable' manner ! It would have been essentially
different:had I learned that he had been one of the
sacrifices of the day in which the French have,
avenged their defeat at' Rosbach, a thousand fold, '
and which will.give the death blow to the martial
glory of Prussia.. Of the Duke's Regiment there,
are only a feW hundreds remaining. It will be im-
possible 'for. the Prussians to fight such another
bittle; or to repair the loss 'they have sustained.
So .say the 'Prussian Generals who pass through
this place. And when they are asked what is be-
come of their brother soldiers, and • where they
have taken refuge, they can give us no satisfaCtory
answer. - They should say their army has been.
scattered over the four quarters of the world.
At levth I have done as you required me to
do, andnotv. behold the consequences. This is what
'the good.; King WILLIAM FREDERICK May justly
say to his young Officers, who did not scruple. to
express their 'discontent openly upon. the parade ;
• only because he so long neglected to attack the
French;

." It is time that the Prussians, Russians, and
Austrians.: should be convinced that the French are,
and .will •remain, invincible, so long as the rest of
the Powers -of Europe, in spite of the lessons of,
experience, will remain onstinately attached to,
their antient taCtics,:instead of adopting the French
system, and at least endeavouring to fight them
!with them• own weapons. A Prussian Officer, who
passed through this place, said, The French are
little flows, dwarfs 5 and if it were possible to be
pitted against them man to man, I 'could throw
half a' dolen of them out of a window ;• but in
the ranks; with a musket on their shoulders, they
are devils-they march—they ad with a celerity
beyond example :—he balls fly, over their heads
and while': a great lazy Prussian is performing one
.manoeuvre, the French will' perform half a dozen.'
Whai can be added to the opinion of a very able
Officer ? Vv'e may say- for example, that these hale
'fellows are not beaten. into inere military machines
by the use. of the cane. For the most part, they are
made heroes from a principle of lionour. It is true,
.that when compelled, ,they, as well as the Prus-.
sans, Commence the .military life with aloud deal
of.o.lu6lan cc ; but in the end they prefer it beyond

every ti,ing
,not merely on .coonnt, -tha.ktitii„i..
with- .which :theft are ,treated;
to the path of honour,
~which is:open, even to ,the
common soldier in the French Army.
f., Notwithstandhig the TiMpossibilitz that., each.
. Man in four hundred thousand can ;arrive :at
..the
rank of an Officer, or much lesS attain to. the high-
est military,' honours; is still true., the soldier
May say. to himself, :There is-no impossibility ha:
that I, as well as another, may become a Marshal
-of the Empire, a Prince, or a
.And this
'operates as a strong-encouragement. A man who
has no idea 'of honour might .possibly get posses-
. i
slot]. of some sense of t, when once he has made
himself familiar with -such ideas, and: will go to
battle 'with -a .degree
.'of courage unexampled, espe-
daily when he knows he is tighticg..for an obje&
far above a
,few stivers per day... Now whenever I
think of any poor devil of.a soldier in ,this or that
Sovereign's prty--,-when I think of the innumerable
strokes of the cane Which he receives -when .1 see
Soldiers grown grey in this 'kind of serviee,. and
Who, after a number of campaigns, .can only hope
for the rank of Cornet or Ensign—l say, when I
take a view of all these circumstances together, L
cannot Be amazed for one Moment that the Prug-
sians should te beaten by the French. On the other
band; I should be astonished if the French should be
beaten. . - • •

" At Rosbach things were quite upon a differ-
ent, footing. None but men of rank commanded
at that period—men who owed their promotion
entirely' to their rank, their birth, or their interest
with Madame Pomp:knout{ ; —men , who had un-
der t'nem what they called soldiers ; but who, after
their flight, left nothing behind them. but their bags .
and hair-powder.—But things • are strangely altered
since then.

It is ,extreinely Unfortunate that the Belligerent
Powers should have. paid so little attention to these
changes, and taken so little trouble, to adapt them-
selves to neW circumstances. They would rather be
'defeated by the French than be instructed by them.
In the Mean time nothing remains bit to make their
election, while there is a possibility of •preventing
their utter ruin." •

P. S. When upon the point of sealing my let-
ter, it struck me for a moment, that the particu-
lars I have mentioned, though they are derived
froM a good source,. may seem to have been ex-
aggerated, and will increase your unavailing care—
but, untZmunately, I must assure ydit, that the news
since received, is still of a more discouraging cast, add.
may be yet-more so. .
" This day, Monday, I have had one of General.
BL,UCHEII'S Officers at . dinner with we. He be-
longed to -one of the 'regiments whieb, .\vith hi§
Majesty 'and his escort daring the night, passed
right through a small separation in the French
Army to avoid being made prisoners. All night lung
they could hear the shouts of rejoicing in
both the French ethos, who were celebrating their
victory. The Prusslan.o:licer says, 'that it will be
impossible for the Army to " coiled itself dgai,ll
under a month, sp -as to make bead against the
Enemy. It is still doubtful whether an' Russian
Army is iti the.. neighbourhood, or on march,
&c. &c."