The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-03 00:00:00

Tr ES TMINSTER MEETING.

The adjourned Meeting of the persons whe have
endeavoured to OppoSe Lord PERCY in his preten-
sions to a Seat in Parliament, as one of the'Repre?
' sentatives for the City of Westminster, took place
yesterday at the Crown and Anchor. , Mr. MAD-
DOCKS, sen. took the Chair a little after one o'clock.
1-le began his address to the Meeting with heavycorn-
plaints against the Public Prints for having stigmatiz-.
ed its proceedings with the charaaer of faelious. He
referred to the. aro 'Meeting, and paid high coin-
plitnents to the eloquent SpeeCh of Mr. SHERI-
DAN, and asking if there was
.any thing in that
Meeting which could properly be deemed fac-
tious ? The following Meeting be declared was
of the
,saaae nature, and took place chiefly for the
- purpose of sele&ing some person qualified to repre-
sent the City, and follow so great a man as Mr. Fox, as
Nr. SHERIDAN had, much to the regret ofall, declin-
ed that honour. •He declared that he had been an
Eliaor between thirty and forty years, and would
not have taken the Chair if he were not conscious
tlia, his principles were congenial with that of the
firs Meeting. He said, that before they proceeded
to the immediate object of the Meeting, he begged
leave to observe, that as we had a hundred thousand
of our gallant Countrymen 'in arms, ready to repel s
the aitempts•of a Foreign Despot to enslave us, be
hoped that the Eleaors of Westminster, at 'such a
moment, would not lightly treat the important obli-
gations which fell upon them -in consequence of the
loss of their late meritorious RepresentatiVe. He
then read 'the letters from Sir FRANcts BURDETT
and Mr. Cu aRAN, which we have already inserted,
-wherein they 'declined. the invitation of the Com-
mittee to offer themselves as Candidates. After
these observations, he called upon any Gentleman
.present to bring forward any Resolutions which he
might deem it proper fur the Meeting to adopt. •
''He was folloWed by Mr. Gir.soNs, who declared
that he telt it to .be oecessary to defend himself,
against the misLatatementslwhich had been made of
his condua, particularly with respect to the letters
of Mr. Burgess and Mr. Walker.
Mr. SHAW inunecliately called him to order, oh-
serving, that he ought to confine himself striElly to
the purpose of the Meeting. Some disturbance arose,
but at length Mr. G. was sutiered to proceed. He then
expressed a doubt whether the Letter signed by the
name of Mr. WALKER was written by that Gen-
tleman.

Mr. WALLER avowed the Letter in question, and
desired Mr. GIBBONS to refute any part of it.
Mr. Gtzsovs resumed the subje&, but
The CHAI RZIAN here interposed, and declared that
Mr. GIBBOb/S had been fully justified by the Reso-
lutions passed at the late Meeting, and trusted that
no further comments might be made on the subjea,
but that the objea of the present Meeting should be
taken into consideration.

Mr. lizw;aNG, however, insisted upon vindi-,
eating his own charaeter ; but the confusion was„ip,..',
„great that he was obliged to relinquish his intention..
The CHAIRMAN then read some. Resolutions
given to him, by Mr. GIBBONS. The first Resolu-
tion stated the faCt, that Messrs. BURDETT and
CURRAN had. declined the invitation to offer them-
selves, lamenting that fad, and proposing thanks to
them for the principles they avowed in their letters.
This Resolution passed unanimously. The second
Resolution declared, that the Meeting was not dis-
couraged by this disappointment, but trusted that a
proper Candidate might yet be fOund to resist a
confederacy formed against the independence of.
Westminster.
Mr. FINNERTY, who spoke. on the last Meeting,.
opposed this Resolution, and begged to ask the Chair
man, whether, under cover of that Resolution., it
was intended to propose Mr. ATADDOCKS, jun.: -in
case he was.anwered in the negative, he should have
nothing further to say ; but that otherwise he should
state his reasons for objecting to the Pretensions of
that Gentleman:
The CHAIRNIAN,. after observing that he 'could
answer for the principles of his son, said, that though
his zeal in the cause might, be admired, it was cer-
tainly -not a proper measure to nominate him for the
Representation of Westminster. He said, that his
son, from motives of delicacy, was not present that
day, as it had been resolved at the last meeting that
Non-eleCtors should withdraw.
The Resolution was then carried:
The purport of the third Resolution was to state,
that the present Meeting was united in sentiments
with the two former, and that they would do every
thing in their power to frustrate the designs of those
who.tnight be -enemies to the Constitution. The
other Resolutions imported, that the Letters from
Messrs. BURDETT and CURRAN, as well as the Re-
solutions themselves, should be advertised in the
Morning Pape.rs.
Here the business of the day in fact ended ; but
there was some subseqUent speaking as to the pro-
priety of seeking fur some other Candidate, and
Mr. GIBBONS was stopped by the Chairman from.
urging the ineligibility of Lord PERCY, as that ques-
tion had been decided on the former Meetings. At
length the Meeting was. adjourned . sine die, after a
Vote of Thanks to the Chairman for his impartial
condua. -

It is somewhat curious that any complaints should
have been made yesterday, at the Westminster,
Meeting, on the alledged abase of the public Prints
against its proceedings, considering that several of
the persons who have forced themselves into notice
by their turbulent harangues, indulged themselves
in the most rancorous inreaives against Lord
PERCY, his venerable father,, Lord GRENVILLE, and
the whole of the present Administration. The Pub-
lic Prints have, in fa&, been very moderate in their
notice of these officious Upstarts, who have done all
they could to raise a storm in Westminster, not
merely to oppose an Amiable young Nobleman, who
is supported by the very men whom these Upstarts af-
feB to revere,.sucir as Mr. SHERIDAN, Mr. WHIT-
BREAD, &c. &c. but to force their own obscure
names into public notice, and illustrate the old say-
ing of " How we apples swim."
We feel great pleasure in acquainting our Readers,
that a Subscription was yesterday opened at LLOYD'S
for the Widow and five Children of Mr. PALM, the
Bookseller, who was tried at Brannan by a French
Court-Martial, and shot, for having dared to publish
some works, containing animadversions upon the
conduit of BONAPARTE.