The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-28 00:00:00

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21,11.DALZSP.,1s. ELL-CTION.

At tile final rlose„of the Poll yesterclay,
o'clock, the Tiuniber • • '

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kor Me Esq
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•larFlit-Assistatit lindt.r. Sheriff. having given. out tl'e
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'f-41:;14,0 :Sh.erid".werel-nfevdeclaTed _
Esq. and G. BY G, Esq. duly elec-ted.
Sir._ \V. Gi IcE j.,,addrcsssf,4,4lat
; wassi-ire Nvoul'4,4 agree with him, that the
Stier iir t•eti.'tntriried to the thanks ot, the'
I‘lcetiii'g- for their upright and Irtiphrti3l t:ondud
%.itkikielsufse% 61:7, tpe2ElZOtriii.ctile suovtdrliwiiks to

hrn accordingly. . .
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This motiatPtuktirsecontled hrMr..CLIFY3RD,
Avls unanimously ii,,,,ce,ed.t0..-,
The Ceotr.t. .Deiug.ed
.ity the usual rnimr, the
three C?,,4diites.szoped for\-c,ard for the purpose of
aclressii 41K Eleatn:'- . -7- •
i.i.t.
Mr. IV isn, as tlw person-highef.t on the Poll,r
first presenteCiiilwelf,._ anil_was received with
mingled appr9batics and, hisses.' •}le asured them;
his address sboula na.be .long ; but, if they would.
.n.ot 1 :4411 m 4,l_9nioness, Lehould only,r4laike his:.
bow- Jul retire. NYl:l4:l,,silen'te was procured, he
t!)uS 04ressod tliera :---." Gentlemen .I.lreeholders,.
.12-,Akid:lam., as I ought to be, of the trust you have
:,ttis*,;(l4 reposed in toe. The voice of the County
is so dk.‘6l(iedlY in my favour, tiiat it is not necessary
. for toe licr,s to say n
iy any thing more than that I .a
.
proud- and grateful-for the honour you, have con-

Terred on roe.-
was also received with a mixttire.of
lam;rob:ltiou and displeasure. When he could at
leßgtria• procure a hearing, said---' • Gentlemen
Freeholders, I beg leave to return you ruy.grateful
thaeksfer the honour you haVe this day done me."
. The: two Members immediately retired, and were
• chaired in theusual.manneresurrounded by, a caval-
" cide Of their friends.
,SiteFetiNcts Zulu:met waited till thelffecessions
bad passed by, and then addressed himself to the
:Meeting, which ss-as • very crowded, to the follow-
ing effect i-e" Gentlemen—So humble' a man as I
ant, though I have been falsely represented as lofty,
aspiring, and ambitious, I do_ not at all envy the
triumphant retreat of the Candidates who have lust
past • by; 'but am far more satisfied with my oWn
situation, accompanied'as it is by the feelingS Which
I possess; •. The first duty which I feel myself called
on to discharge this day, is to return my sincere ac-
knowletigme.Dts to those. Freeholders wisteria the
course of the present, Eleaian, have honoured me
...with their: voluntary support--a support as he-
. nourabe to themselves as it is to me. -Elaying"done
se, I shall proceed to make a few observations before
I take leave of you for the last time. .
When I used -the expression, " for the last time"
I anded only to the present. contest. shall be
Iroud and happy at all times-to be the servant of the
ndependent Freeholders of Middlesex. They
: be satisfied that 'in me they will never find any ter-
giversation, nor any derelielion of those principles
which I" have once professed ; :that :I will never
• abandon their rights and privileges ; but that,l shall
be ready at all times to protect them to the utmost.
"- lam efraitl that what I may have to say to-day shall
:not.bebetter relished, by a certain class of persons,
' than my observations were yesterday and the day
'before. • ,Bite still 'I think it 'my duty, standing in
the situation I do, to. give my opinion openly and
candidly on the subjeti which 1 consider of the
very highest importance. Though I yekerday
cote-
pleine;.l of an attack upon, Me; in. a letter under the
• signature of " A Freeholder," proceeding, us I was
convinced, from the patriotic 'arid independent pen
of Mr. Bowles, or the- equally respeaable one of
'-Mr. Redhead Yorke, the spy—l have to-day"to no,
-tice another, under the- same signature, proceeding,
I haye,fio: doubt, from the same channel ; and a
third, in Which the libellers tintriaSks himself, and
appcsari in .the proper -signature- of Mr.' -BoWles.
Proceeding, however, as they obviously do, from
the same shop--coming from. the same forge---4
: shall, in the observations Linaye have to-throw out,
- make iodiscriminate Jmention of them. In the fit st
of those iof this day:are reiterated those worn-out
' topics. of J.!cobins and-Jacobiuism, with which the
public has been.. so 'long- arid: so "often .deceived.
Yesterday I .Was'eharged with b'eing a .anion, or,
least, vvitn being at the head of one. I • spewed,
On that-occasion, what wire the characteristics- of
' .a.faCtion . on such persons • at!; these to
whomi have alluded, to say, if the term. did not
. more mopetly,epply to themselves. I stand in the
• - teeth 00161 parties, and I have no reward to 'give to
,those ho suppori,rne, *xcept that most gratifying
of all rewards—a consciousness that they • were
consulting the good of their country.. As to me,
‘- therefore, the word Faction", had they consulted the
dictionary, they would 'have- found was' the most
senseless they -conldrhaVe adopted, - But it seems I
am an enemy to the Corstitution---e-I -wish to . over-
.turn the State and Government. •Vihat ik'omplain
of is, not any thing amiss -ht our, Constigition—
. any thing radically wrong iii our laws—but adepar-
., ture .from the principles of our Constitution, 'and
'from our Laws, by means of which we are brought
into a .situation of comparatively less safety.:
. question-is asked me by Mr. Bowles, if I call bin]
a libeller in the legal acetptation of the Word only ?
because, as he seys, -though shale immediately
• phew he does pot understand the meaning -of the
word, truth may be a libel. With this great Lawyer,
this prefohl. Legislator, I am at issue on this point,
and I deny that by the law of this Country truth can'
be a libel. We all knos-Y, that by recent_decision;
this'dosarine has'been sanctioned, but it was first laid
dawn, only of late years, by Lord Mansfield, a Judge
ewhointroducedlirinciples most mischievous and in
Lulea! to the well-being, god advei-se'to the Law's'-
-amt Constitution of 0.4-Country. When I called
. Mr. Bowles .a libeller'i I called him so in` the-plain'
, • meaning. and. acceptation of the
.word.. I meant
, that he- was a 6lse and malicious libeller. . We
hay. liis own confession that be is a libeller. On
OneUeessien, iii tlie: case ef the Nottingham Eke-
tioneeon auether, against the-i/uke Bedford.--
But I say he is lot=iinly it libeller` 4y-confession,
.but
be is a hired libeller. I know well that in bad.
- • tittles the very best of menarethe most likely to be