The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-15 00:00:00

JPIESTMINS PER 'ELECTION;

CORRESFONDEVCE OF MR. COBBET'F, MR. PAULL,

AND THE RIGYST HON. R. B. SHERIDAN.

SIR,

Fr is the unanimous opinion of. the Committee,
that, in' justice to yourself, to the great cause you are
engaged •in, and the honourable condud of yoUr
Friends, emulating yours, the Papers submitted to
your consideration, and-your Letter to me, should
be forthwith made public, together with Mr. Fin-.
nerty's Statement, and the Resolutions which the
Coinmittee have conic to ; in consequence; .as you
have left,this matter to our
.diSeretion, I -have ac-
cordinglydirecaed the whole to be published. I have
the honour to be, your obedient Servant,

SIR,

PETER MOORE.

Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan

SIR, Somerser,place, Thursday, Nov. 13.
In cOmpliance with your request, I send you Mr.
Cobbett's Letters, and leave jt tO'you and the Com-
mittee to decide whether they should be published
or not. I have never suffered Mr. Cobbett's first
Letter to me to pass from my desk -; nor should I
now consent to the publication of any • Letter not
avowedly meant to he published by the Writer, but
that you will perceive that cobbett hiMself calls
for its publication how discreetly r for the cause he
supports-is his affair. I need' not tell you how de-
cidedly .1 have disdained to. allow this Letter, or
that of 'Mr. PaUll 'to Mr. Finnerty, and by him
placed in my hands, to be used for the purpose of
gaining ine_a single :vote from the supporters of
Mr. Paull. What their object was, and what ad-
•vantage I might have made of it, had I been base
enough to have stooped to profit by their advances,
is too evident to re,quirea,comwent. My conduct
has been without diSguise or Aerve. It is known
to you, Sir, and to the Committee, and to you and
them I leave the vindiCation of it. I have the honour
to be your very obliged humble Servant,

R. B. Sheridan, Esq.

R. B. SHERIDAY.

To. Peter Moore, Esq.

SIR, No. c, Panton.square, Tuesday Evening.
To -be dire& and frank has always,been my course,
and I think it right not to lose:a moment in inforth-
i ogyou, that upon hexing that Lord Percy had declin-
ed, that a Pittite was to be set up in his-stead, and that
Mr. Paull 'Meant to-otTer himself, I immediately set otf
for town to lend this latter Gentleman all the zissist-
ance in. my power, however trifling that may be ;
.ankas the niaan objeCi of this Letter, I think it right
to. infarm I am well assured-that Mr. Paull
does not mean' to be considered as opposed to you, and
that, if there shOilld, be any hostility shewn between
yoU, the fault trill not be his; or that his friends.
Lam, Sir;your, most humble an& obedient Servant,
Wm. COBBETT.
Hon: R. 13. Shericlin, Somerset-place. ,

W. Cobbett, Esq.

DEAR SIR, Nov. 13, tSo6.
answer your Letter, just received, with unqua-
lified truth arid sincerity, but with ,the promptness
and brevity ixhich the pressure•of the. time, aecord-
ing to your requisition, requires.

proper and useleSs, 'to, weaken, -in any shape, you,:
attachment to Mr. Sheridan. -We 'differ, however,
with you totally abouj our success,•-.
. . I am.really and sincerely your's,
JAMESPATJ'
Thursday, Nov. t 3. 4 To Mr".- Finnerty.

Charles,street, Nov. 72, tgo6.

Having seen, in the Morning Chronicle of this
day, a Paragraph purporting. to '.be the report of a
Speech made by you at Willis's Rooms; last night,
in which paragraph it is stated, that an offer was
Made by me to you " to give you Mr..Paull's se-
cdnd Votes, if you Would stand neutral ;" and
knowing, as I do, thL thiS statement is grossly and
scandalously false, I cannot, of course, believe that
you made it—but- must regard it as a trick of 614
candid and independent Mr. Perry. As this state=
meet may, however, .be believed by the very few
readers which the Morning ,Chionicle has left, I re-
quest you to dehy the -statement through the chan-
nel of that Print, or, which will have the same et-
fed, to publish my Letter, upon which the statement
is said to be founded.

I can have no doubt of your complying with this
request; but- should yoU. not do it, Justice-to Mr.
Patin, and to the cause of the Free and Independent
Eltetors of Westminster, striving against the opprs.
sive intluence‘of Coalesced Fa:!:tions, will comyel me
to treat you as the author of the falsehood.

With . a very sincere wish that.l may not be thtis
cowpelled,• I remain, Sir, your must humble licla
most obedient Servant; • • •

COZEETT4

Somerset-place, %Vcdnesdq Etening, Nine o'cicck.
SIR,

The bustle of an EleEtion day, and occupations
fitter for me to attend to :than any cornmunication
from you, have prevented my noticing the Letter
you have honouzed-me with till this-moment. I am
very much amused by the folly of and very little
provoked by its insolence.- I shall not, howev.er, be.
deficient in gentlemanly respell} to the call of any
man, and you `will receive from me to-morrow sucti
an Answer as I shall judge proper to'give to such a
Letter. I have the honour to be, Sir,
•
Your Obedient Servant,

R. B. SHERIDAN.

COMMITTEE at the SHAKSP EA RE, Nov. t 4, zBO6.
Resolved unanimously, That it is manifest -that
Mr. Paull and-hiS.filends.did make, previous to the
commencement of the Elettion, the must paipaJid
efforts to induce Mi. Sheridan to admit of their alli-
ance to his cause.

Resolved unanimously, That it is Within the
knowledge of all the most aPive Members ot ,this
Committee, that Mr. Sheridan did steadily refuse to
solicit, or eneourage any such support, constantly
exhorting all: his friends to-Canvass fof Sir Samuel
Itud equally as tbr , .

, .
Rego.lved unanimoosl), That NTr:Sheridan's con-
dlit:t throughout has been •marKed by the highest
and nicest :sense 'of. honour, and has been such iu
every respea.as to entitlehim'lO the Cohfidenee,sup
port, and admiration Abf every man who values ad-
herence to good faith and integrity in' a :public
man.