The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-14 00:00:00

SIXTH DAY.:

AT the CIO3C of the Poll yesterday tla; nulithers
Were__
Ear Sir F. ButtrIEtT
Lord COCHRANE
Mr. ELLIOT
Mr. SHERIDAN - - 306
Mr. PAULL

Mr. SIiERIDAN. came forward,- and said, that he
felt confident that they would continue to hear the
Candidates, as they had hitherto done, which was
honourable to than, and nothing but justice to the
.Candidates. He observed' that they were delighted
With the state of the Poll, and it vms net in insna-
ture, when he saw a great body of the people happy,
tot to partake in their pleasure. So nrany voters
Were-still unpolled, that he could not despair of an
alteration in the poll ' • but if he had his wishes on
the subjeEt, It'Should be such au alteration'as should
not be displeasing to. them... Those who had given
Ptomises to others he could not obtain ; and he

scorned to ask any man to break hii promise. If.
the Candidates, however, would a6t with so much
magnanimity as to release the Ele&ors who had en-
gaged to vote for them, from their promises, he
Would be very much obliged to them, But.n6 such
thing as chivalry was to be expeaed,at a contested
election. ' In the days of chivalry and romance,
When a Knight had got possession, by any accident,
of his antagonist's sword-, he restored ;it again ; but
the age of chivalry was now paSt, and he could not
hope that the exailtple would be followed at a con-
tested Elektion. • He had-heard a great deal about.
the abuses in the I\Tavy. It would be an:insult to
their understandings to remind them' how warm a
'.friend he was to that service. There was one abuse,
'aclong Others, which he intended to have brought in
a Bill to reEtify, When he was Treasurer* the Navy
..--a•situation which some :had considered as so ob-
Jef-liOnable.; • but he confessed that, in his circum-
• stgOces, the, house and salary attached ' to the si...
Nation was no inconvenience. The abuse which ha,
• intended to reify was that abominable pra6lice of
diScharging persons who were brought before police
-'-,l‘,lagiStrates, even when there could be no doubt of
`!"eireriminality, upon, condition of their serving in
the Navy. The charaaer. of the true British sea-
man ought to be sound as the oak which formed
„ best planks of his vessel.. To this praelice was
wing the disposition to mutiny, which, in some
rare instances, had manifested itself--,for true seamen
abhorred any machinations against their king or
coUntry. Instead of saying that such: men as
he had adverted to were fit for the Navy, he would►
they.were fit for officers of the Customs or of
toe Excise. That they were
.fit to be Treasury
.itillerks, or Gentle Men Ushers, or even Justices of
Peace, or any thing rather than British seamen.
• 1! 1\ Oble Lord said, yesterday, that he bad made a
f
~ecetious speech ; his forte,. however) be hoped did
at consist in his powers to entertain them, and !here-
''e he would ptoCeed to make a few very serious
.1),)
'ervatiahs. He gave the 'Noble Lord credit for a
:lief in the truth of' what he. stated, but he. would
Thmit to him, whether it was. 'consistent with mag 7
r2:llitnity to accuse a person in his absence. He was
„ ,
1;,7)t competent to speak to the-suoject to wnica tne.
Lord referred of his own knowled-e but he
as ormed t in.some cir his statements at least
the . - . . . .

, .
{itnra had stated tint the Atalinte sloop rid goti~
.`down froth being unfit to .11e_at sea, and that the
whole, crew velithed. He: was infertile& that; she
went down from a different causes, and that the
crew was saved. In* the oarliament before I.Ht an
inquiry into the condu& of the peraOn alluded to livid
been required even by his friends under the Admi-
nistration-of Mr: Pitt, and that ingaitywasnOt ene
into. He advised the Noble Lord tO consider that
these statements appeared in the Papers;•and • went
on board the fleets, and he was sure the Noble Loiel
could not mean to injure the discipline of the Navy.
• The abstaining from these statements at this time,
k when there was nobody to answer them, he was
crin-
fident, would do no injury. to his Lordships cause.
He concluded by declaring his determination to sUpa
port the Noble Lord when in Parliament in his in-
quiries into abuses.
Lord COCHRANE maintained, that his statements .
were in every instance perfeally corre6t. He had
stated that when he'was ordered to ~provision the
Atalante sloop he saw that she was making twenty
inches of waten-ahe had said, that her masts and
yards had• sprung, and that she had gone to the
bottom, but he had .pot said that the crew had
perished. He had„,hoWever, said, that the crew of
the Felix schooner had perished, except one man,
and he himself had carried out to that vessel one of
the ablest men in the service, who had also perish-
ed. His reason for entering into these details was
to convince the Electors that there.ought to be men
in the House of Commons to bring these and other
abuses to light. He said that there ought to be
men of all callings in the House, and a House thus
composed would be 'much better informed, than
one consisting of persons who could devote the
whole of their time 'to the business of Parliament.
With regard to the Borough with which his name
had been connected, he might have returned two
Members for it if he had pleased. He had .been.at
sea for some time-ahe had read the History of this
and other Countries—he had learnt what the Con-
stitution really was, but he had no idea till of late
of the corruption that ptevailed in these Boroughs.
He thought the late Ministers ought to have began
by restoring the Law which excluded Placemen
and Pensioners from the House, who voted for
Ministers right or wrong. He desired , those
who were advocates for Placemen and :Pensioners
to- hiss on. He said if the -House had been.purified,
its condu& Would have been different from What it
had been, and many of those burthens. and • taxes
might have been spared that now crushed the people
.to the dust.' The only way to purify it was for the
Candiclgtes to give a pledge that they would accept
of ,no sinecure place or pension. He never would
accept of a place.to which positive duty was not at-
tached. As a Captain in the
,Navy he had. 1331. a
Year, and it was impossible to imagine that for, that
sum he would swerve from his duty. He had said
• that the Clerkship of the: Pens ought to have been
abolished. But the late Ministers had not thought
of that, though they had suffered a Commander in
Chief of the Channel Fleet to reside here in London,
deriving a revenue from the bloed. and the' exer-
tions of the Servants of the Navy. This was mak-
ing the appointment a mere Clerkship of the Pells,
which might he filled by a child, or by a
Whatever might be the state of the health of the
Commander in Chief—and he had not heard that
even ill health was ailedged as an excuse—this
ought not to have been. He did not accuse this
•man of not employing Admirals under him for
the sake of profit to himself, but he did say that
Captains, who had never before been. heard, of, had
-been appointed to the command of seven Sail of the
Line, and as many Frigates, B,:c. &c. As it was long
before he could be an Admiral, he might have ex-
peCted to derive benefit from this practice, but he
scorned to derive benefit from the abuses in the sera
s ice. if any relation of his should accept of a sine-
cure place, he would cut that man, and never speak
to him more. He abhorred those who, with great
estates, acceptedasinecure places and pensions, when
the poor .ought rather to be relieved of so much of
their taxes. If they -had any spark of public spirit,
they would serve the State for nothing : yet to the
very man whom he had alluded the Itianks of the
Commons Were voted at twelve o'clock at night with
.a very thin attendance.: He Concluded by declaring
his. determination to oppose abuses of every kind,
and-his resolution to answer no more questions of a
person who had been questioning 'him before, as he
wlis totally unworthy of his notice, and a very unfit
representative Ot the man he appeared for.
•
' 'Mr. JENNINOS came forward and observed, that
he had no occasion to trouble them long—it was his
pleasing task again to desire them. to look at the
poll. They saw the. effe& of their courage and
their perseverance. .The present state of the poll
was the best proof that Sir Francis Burdett might
'l6e:useful in Parliament ; and, ,if he shoUld be re-
. turned, there would be ground for hope, that cor-
ruption would soon destroy the means of corruption.
This would give, confidence to their advocates in
Parliament. But they ought not to abate their exer-
tions, nor. forget- that the viaory-might possibly be
still snatched out of their hands. The promises for
to-rnorow, however, 'were so flattering, that he
begged of the voters to come early, for the- numbers
-were so great, than otherwise-they would not be
able to pull them.
Mr. ELLIOT came forward and said, that he had
no place or pension, and it was very improbable he
ever should.. The age of chivalry was not past, for
_ be would absolve his Electors from their, promises,
if they would vote for Mr. Sheridan. [The hissing
and uproar became so loud and unremitting that no-
thing further could' lee heard.] • . _
• Mr. GIBBONS then advanced, and alluded to the
gentlemanly condnal of the Noble Lord the other
day. But he would still ask whether the 'Noble
Lord had not resorted to abominable bribery and
corruption at Honiton ?. But in order to tavoid
• replying to sueli'disagreeable questions, the Noble
Lord had said
,he Would answer no nuestions put to
him. The Ministers might send the Noble Lord,
if he shoilld be ieleaed, to sea, but he had
now sent him to Coventry (tor Lord C. lei& retired),
Mr. GIBBONS then proceeded to advert to a pare-
graph_ respeaing him, which appeared in a Paper cir-
-celated by-the friends of Sir Francis Burdett, and
;read a letter from Mr. Paull contradicting' the state-
anent. , A great uproar succeeded.; het we under,-
_stood...him to say that..Mr..2a lialigiyea up the
contest.-

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• .t.A.7t OP LONDOh...--Y7.:Bic;i:c", o:CtoCk.,
Ptilltitta.:iyelo,,ed.. To the ;act a . few of the
Liverypofled fog ti ?r,rdrt.hy AldennAn who dietroil
the 'Chit; of Ther':followlilkitate of
the Was annouttec4, And the four first. were con
cleelAred duly eldeted

Af :e'rmaii Price
teriei:T Curtis
A I,terinxii Shaw•

3117 Alderman Combe - aill.
3 0 Alderman tiankey - tz6
286-

of the Candidates then addressed a few. Words
to the Ereaors..:,

Alderman CutTts. observed, that .*ben he ad-
dressed the Liveiy last Novemii:tr, he t'acil them that
his condo& would be agreeable, to the Mnu 'ei had •
now shewn that he was right,, ar:Al he thanked tlivm
heartily for the support they given him. He
-repeated his pl'otei3lon of attachment to the Consti-
taiony and proptised to continue the same line of
conduit a that- which had been already pursued
by him. - I

Mr. Aldernian.tomßE,after most sincerely thank-
ing the Livery for the support which they had given
him, again assured them that it was now, as it ever
had been, his fixed determination to support the
rights and privileges of his Fellow-citizens, and to
SI in ,strip obedience to the advice of his Con-
stituents, whenever they should think proper to, de-
clare their sentiments for that purpoSe. He had
most conscientiously and most independently given
his support to most of the public ads of the late
Ministers, because, from his heart, he believed them
to be the most upright and efficient st of men that
could possibly bp united nigether for the management
of our public affairs. In the retrenchment of public
expense, and the detection of abuses in the depart-
ment of finance, be promised- to persevere upon his
return to the ensuing'Parliament. He again returned
thanks, and assured the Livery of his .most invariable
attachment to their interests.

" Alderman PRICE declared, that he was never more
likthly gratified at any period of his life than when
he looked at the very flattering situation in which
he ,was then
.placed ,by the sinfrages,, of so large a.
body of the Livery. He expressed his attachment
to the
,Protestant interest; and assured the Livery
that, it was his determination to support 'to the ut,
most orliis abilitie‘s the Commercial Interest of the
'City.of London..
Alderman SHAW also thanked the Livery for the
distinguiShedlionour which had been done
It was With.soine difficulty that he was, able to pro-
ceed, with his speech; he stated that he laboured
under some indisposition. He assured the Livery,
that he had the highest esteem for them personalty;
and the utmost attachment and veneration for our
most gracious Sovereign:=-The c'Ourt then ad=
jourued sine die. , .