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Mark"M`Mattkiin, Cha4pBi:le. ureHr.ella-inaker, to surrender
Octo.er SI, November 7, and l's,,ceraber 5, at eleven, at
Guildhall,- London. .:S.tto.-nel,, Harvey, Cursitor-street,
C:iancerv-lane,
Thomas Palmer, late of Bow, slr)e-malzer, October 29, No-
vember s,.and December s, at eleven; at 'Guildhall, • Lon"-,
dOn. Attorney, Mr. Ilenry llsynes .I.)oncomb., Lyon's-Inn.
Thomas Sliephrd, North Andley-street, ironmonger, October
22, November 5, and Decenilr 5, at ele.ven, at .Guildhall,
London. Attornics; 11Ir. Watson, Cliiford's-Inn; or Mr:
Ross, Hammersmith. - - •
John Clark, Pleat Kni-rlat-Ritl_er-street, stationer, October
29, November 5, and fk.ccmber, 5; ateleven,•at
London. Attornies. Mese,rs: Tilson and Preston; Chatham-
place,New Bridrie-strcel.
Thomas Cat' Liveepool, wholesale grocer, November 16,
17, .and December 5, at eleven, - the. Globe Tavern,
John-street, Liverpool. Attornie., Me--isrs: parr a ndTlioni p-
son, Ferrivicl;-street, Liverpool, ~11' ;'llp.ssr:;. Shephard,
Adlington, and Gregory, Bedford-rAw, London. . .•
John Samuel Randell, Bristol, sail-elotli-manufacturer, No- ,
vember 7,9, and December 5, at twelve, at the Cornmereal
Rooins; Corn -street, Bristol. Attornies, Messrs. Lunbert
aud.SOns, Bediard-row, London, or Mr. Cooke, Bristol.
John Seppings;DOwnham-market, Norfolk, butaer, October
39, at five, 51, 'h December 5, at ten, at the Crown inn,
Downbana-maNet. Attornie,„ Sir. William Wiles, Down-
- ham-market, or James Hove Furniyal-Inn, London. -
William Wotton, Bradninell, 2Devonshire, shopkeeper, Oc-
tober 29, November -4, and December 5, at eleven, at
the Hotel, Exeter.' Attornies, Ml'. Turner, Church-
yard, Exeter, or Messrs. Collett, Wimburne, and'. Collett,
Chancery-Line, London. „
William Drabble, Hol beck, Leeds, maeliine-maker,NoverAer
11, 12, and December 5; at eleven,' at the Saddlt? Inn,
Leeds. Attornies, Mr.: Charles Wilson, Greville,:street,
Hatton-garden, London,, or Mr. Charles Couph:.ed, Leeds.
.Charles Wilkinson, ‘Alcesthury-npon--Trym, Jucestershire,
-voter; October 29,Novepil;cr oral De-,miier 5, •at 'ele-
ven-, at the Pommier Taverb,
Attornies, Messrs. Brown and Cary, .T.',ro-,7,1-4,reet,
or Mr. Philip „Hurd, lng's-bench-.7kalhs , Temple, T.,ond,n."
Thoma Ellison., litigewatcr-squere; silver,,antO, Octobcr
31, November 7, and December 5, at eleven, at Gniltill,lll,
London. attorney, Mr. Mang null, Warwick-square, ::Cew-
gate-street. ,
John Jones, I\la,whegter, patent .candle-wick-mannfaeturce,
November 11,12, and D'ece.;:iber ai ele --en at the Do;.;
5, ,
Tavern,: Manebester, Attornies, Messrs:- John,ou tuici
Lonsdale,
_Manchester. •
Andrew Paton, Thoinas Gill'. and Lames troWn, Old Gravel-
-lane, Pateliffe-bighway, • sOap-nia,lilfil7turers' Ocrober 27,
31, and Dee:eh:her-5,, at twelve, at -Sul-lab:ill, London. At-
ternies, and Stotes,Laiugball-street.
Wifli.an-i West. Me:ton, Surrey, calico-printer, October 27,
NOyeinber":i; and Des-elither 5, at eleven, az Guildhall,
- London. ~;:ttorneY, Mr. t'.'l4‘ll7,arn, -Earl-Areet,.Blackfriar,
Robert Tippler.and Leonard Leadley, Towcr---t reet. broker.,
October 27, November 3, o:l.lDeCerdb.er 5, at eleven, at
'Guildhall. London. Attorney, Mr: G. 115,..)b0t, Ahehurch-
. yard. Cannon-street. • - _
Jame:: Hamper, Tooley-street, and Ilig-117-treo, Borough,
Oc*ober 31, November' 3, and December 5; at ten,
at Gailihal.l, LOndon. Attorney, Mr. Parton, 7,7a1br00k..
John Newman ,Lawrence-lane, Cheapslde, vie;
.00tober
21, Noscinller 7, and Deember 5, at (write; at dnadlxall;
m London. Attney, Mr. Parton, Walbrook. '
William Henry Johnston; PizcadillY;_hattcr, Octol),i,r 31, No-
vember 7, and December.s, sat teff, at Guildhall, London.
Attorney, Mr. W. S,Mith,Bedford-row. • ,
Kerneys Radcliffe, Craven-street, ha:ll,er, November and
December 5, at ten, at Guildhall, London. Attornies,
Messrs. Sherwood and Hutchinson,- Cushion-court,:Broad-
street.
John Bailey, late of Kin;sland-road, 'coach-maker, October
.31, November 7, and December 5, at twelee at Guildhall,
London. Attornies, Messrs. Aspinall .and ftriloinson, Qua-
lity-court, Chancery-lane.
Daniel Paulin Davis,"Bloomsbury-square, builder, November
3, '5, and December 5, at ten, at Guildhall; London. At-
tornies, Messrs, Aspinall :and 'Robiason, Quality-court,
Chancery-lane. .
[Dividends, Bc.c. to-morrow.]

as, might naturally be enpected, the .llonourabie
Ge,utlemali, the propcet of American iecon:ilift-
tion, resents himself—l rather to ay is
presented by .soine. ainong you,-7m be chosen as
y one representative ,11 furfianiehf. Yesterday 'll€7-.
left your town, disappointed of this honourable
object; .and.. by another singular coincidence, the
defeat of :lie prophecy upon which his expecta-
tions were founded is math: known here on the
.very day of the defeat of those eXpecta.'tions. For,
yesterday, the declaration, the tardy declaration
of war by this country against. America • arrives
here; and tells us in teinis too-plain to be mis-
understood, that to seek peace through humilia-
tion; is a course neither of honour nor of advan-
tage. -
Gentlemen-, it has been further attempted
.to
deter you from the cheicc.which youihave done
•me the honour to make, by saying that I had
been in office at•rd am likely to be in ,office again.
I have been in office. How soon, if ever, I may
be in ofi-ice again, I neither know nor do /tare,
for-nay other reason than as it might afford me'
grc,ater opportunities of promoting the interests.
of the country, of which your. interests constipate
so essential a part. •
" But, Gentlemen, what is meant by this im-
putation? Are the gentlemen who Urge it so little
read in the principles, the democraticalprinciples,
of the British Constitution, as not to know that
it is one of the peculiar boasts of this country,---=
one-of the .prime fruits of its.free Constitution,
and one main security for its Continuing free, that
Men as humble as myself, with no pretensions-of
wealth, or title, or high family, or wide-spreading
connections, may yet find their way into the
,a-
bitiet- of -their. ,Sovereign, through the fair road
of public service, aml stand there upon ,ft fOot-
ing of equalay With the proudest- aristocracy of
the land ,?

"is lit cOtirtiers of the people, from ad-
mirers of republican virtue,..andrepublicin energy,
that we hear doctrines which would tend to ex-
clude,. front the inarta;tement of public affairs all
who arc not illustrious by birth, or powerful from
heredits:..-,' opulence ? Gentlemen, in `this •
limited monarchy there are undoubtedly contests
fOr office, contests which 'agitate the elements of
the Constitution,: which keep them alive 'and
active, but witlwut
,endangering the Constitution
ib,,,e11.. A repahlic is-nothing but one continual
'struggle for office in every department of the
.State. . .

Genticinen, if I-have held office,- nope I have
held it hut out ably : I will never hold it-again nnt
on the same tern's. Gentlemen, it is not: my fault.
that I must state facts in my own defence, which
might appear to be stated ostentatiously, but 'I
mean them simply as desensive-:—they are extort-
ed from me. If is entirely my own fault, that • I
am not now addressing -you with the Se is of Se-
cretary, of State in my pocket. Twice in the
course Ot the last six. Months have the Seals of the
office of Secrtary of State been tendered to my
acceptance, and twice have I declined them. .1s
this like hankering after office ? I declined them,
not because I was unwilling to render any ser-
vices of which my poor abilities were capable to
my country,..---not because 1 did .not acknowledge
with. ail due gratitude-and humility the gracious
disposition of my Prince,—not because I shrink
from-the difficulties of the tituef;, to the encoun-
tering and overcoming of which I shall feel myself
from the public situationiniwhich I have the ho-
nour to stand, bOund to render whatever aid was
iti my power, if I could do so with effect, by doing
so with Credit :—I declined office, Gentlemen,be-
cause it was tendered to me on terms not consist-
ent,as-I thought, and as my immediate friends
agreed in thinking; with-My personal honour ;
cause; if accepted on such- terms, it would not
have enabled Me to serve the public with effi-
ciency.

" (gentlemen,. I trouble you not 'with any de-
tails upon tins subject 5' but what I have stated,
and what: is before the world, is I hope sufficient
tajustify tneugainst the accusation .of hankering
after office. 'Whether von will ever see me in of-
fice Leann ; but this I can assure_ you,lit shall
not be in' a way -dishonourable to myself or to
you..
" I dare not indeed reckon upon the continu
unce of such unmerited partiality antlaffeetion as
von now so kindly heap upon me; but.,this I can
answer' for, that neither in nor out of office you
shall have cause to be ashained. of me.

" Gentlemen, I stated to you, two ,nights ago,
my opinion of the conduct of my adversary, Mr.
Brougham, in determining, at that time not .tO
debline the contest. I told you thatl thought he
could net-do otherwise than act upon the opinions
and persuasions' of his friends ; and that he had
explained his motives with the utmost .candour
and frankness. I think so still. I thyself know
nothin,', to the contrary. But 1 have certainly
beard that Speeches delivered in- another' place
were very different, indeed, from those which. were
delivered At the hustings. And while I beg not to
be understood- as intending to give any colour of
my own to expressions which I did not hear, .iand_
.cannot, vouch for, there is one-topic7—which I un-
derstand to have been brought forward, and, to
have made considerable impression upon the au-
dience which I owe it to the GOvernment of the
country. (however myselfunconneeted with it) not
to suffer to pass unnoticed. -The Declaration of
Tiaragainst America was, as I understan,l-, stated
_to have been delayed' by' she Government of this
country for the sake of sweeping iuto the Royal
Chest a large sum of Droits of Admiralty;' to be
disposed of, at the pleasure of 111]niters, for the,
purposes of prodigality and corruption. Gentle-
men,- I would fain believe that this assertion can-
not have,been Made. An account of the diStribu:-
tion of the Droits of ..A.drniralty has, . as is well
known, been submitted to the house of Commons
the la:=:t two years ; dad, surely,, to attribute a
measure of peace or war to a desire oh 'the part
of Government to disappoint our own Captors, for
the sake of getting possession of a sum, of which
the disposal is, after all, to be made public, is to
attribute measures to motives not altogether un-
worthy, but utterly inadequate and absurd.
" I say this the rather, because I mast fairly
. own that, differing as I do entirely as to the causes
to which the delay is to be attributed, I am in-.

fn agree tlr?.4,_ tile7,-"-__-.lc.ration of war .against
too tong.---4111:•ni:aii
hop, ~- were vanished,,ltAhi:lg;

re :r f.n this Govenitticht

. • ~;,' , .Ir. 'lt was the Only'.
:.-Jnntry. It would have;
;.• •.: bringing the Americati°2
!•7S.

.:;;ious which I now ex,:
press a! I.lll‘ ,;! toe which I took the
liberty of expr.,‘, place in 'Parliknent;
when that cones,-iota was ogreed tobythe:Minis
tern,,. at Mr: Brougham's suggestion, upon the
strength of which -Mr. Brougham has heel pre-
sented Co your choice. I then ventured tb state
my doubts whether that concession would propi-
tiate America ; whether it ;world ,not rather 'tend

. _
to confirtn•the hostile polic.y of that Goverament,
and to enhance its pretensions. In fact, how is if
that our concessib n n has bee'! ? .13. y reciprocal
concession ? by abated pride, asuaged malice; and
returning goad will? Na "suebithing, They'ha.ve
rise...a in their terms: as' unreasonable concession!.
will alyvav3 induce and encourage an unrcaionable
eneil*. to-do. •

Gentlemen, to you I 'speak as froely of-the
conduet and policy of our Government, as 'of 'the
conduet of those to wham I am politically oppoBed. •
To one man; while he lived; 1 was :devoted With

all my heart, and with all my soul But, since the-
death Of Mr-. Pitt, I acknowledge no leader.- My
political allegiance, lies :buried'in his giave.- 'But
I haVe, though not his immediate counsels to fol-
low, his memory to cherish and revere. So far
as I knew his ,opinions'-on subjects which were in,
his time, as swell :as now, of great pubic intei eat,
I have,adhered and shall adhere to those opini Ai&
asthe guides _of my public conduct. - Where I can
only reason from anaLogy n'ew questions which
niay sn ise, .4-.1 shall endeavour to apply to those
questions, whatever they may be, the principles
which I imbibed and inherit from him
pies \which I well knoW have alone re.coannended-
me to your choke this day. •„,

- .
"-Of the cause of gooci gov'ertiment, in what-
ever. .
hands. the Administration. of Government
mayfbe placed, even if in the band.; of those
to 'whom I have been politically opposed,•l shall
always be a faithful and steady-supporter. But I
Rio not pledge myself to ,yOu, I WhHiever pledge
myself to .env man;. to be the blind and subser-
vienisuppOyter of the Adin;nistTation in any bands
whatever. general disposition is to suppor,t
the..oovernment. But what I find annsS, 1 will-
brvie With freedonr:----but I will•not do so wits
any. desire to excite -discontent, nor at the hazard
of mischief to the country.
" Gentlemen, if I did not retain the independ-•
.ence'of.my own judgment in the IlouSe of Com-
mons,J should be but an unworthy reliresentative-
,ot the- independent and enlightened community
Which -sends me thither: it may halrien
t
judgment may occasionally crime in conflict with
my. own. Meii of independent minds may honestly
differ on subjects whi;.4l'eiritit•Of a variety Of vie
in Xll such 'cases,' I promise Vou,--not indek.A.
NI-11011yt0 `;'OUTS ; you would
ilospise me if 1 madc so e*.travaglint I:,role'ssio-n, but
I prOmise pp, that any difrei-crce of opiuioi:
tween us -will aiw:.r,-s lead lite to distrdst

views, carefully to .e'xfituirte, al!,1 -if erron•;io t.:,
frankly to COITCCI. ''Gent_fet2en, our 04,--
menislll2-; CLISII, l.)nt our interests no,ver : tio inte-
rests amine shall ever come in competition with
.1 promise You further, that hoping, as I.
earneStly do, that the connexion, -of which the
foundation is this day auspiciously 'laid, may last
to the, end of my political life—yet. if unfortu-
nately occasions should occur (1 cannot foresee or
imagine any such) on which there should ariselQ..-
tween us, on points of serious importance; a radi-
cal and irreconcilable difference of. opinion, I.
will not abuse my trust; but will give you the
earliest opportunity of recalling or reconsidering
your delegation of it.
Qentlemen, With the most heartfelt acknow-
ledgment; with feelings of gratitude which words
are too weak to convey, and of pride which I dare
not trust myself with expressions : with a sense
of the honour which you have conferred upon me,
less gratifying only than my sense of the kindnesS
with which you have overwelnied me; with senti,-
meats such as till this day I never knew, but
which I shall recollect with delight the
latest hour of my life ;—I take my leave of you
for the present : praying that Providence tnay so
direct my conduct as,never to give you cause, in
your better judgment, to look back with regret
Upon the choice which you have made."

yours

• BIRTHS.
Yesterday, at Brompton, 'the Lady- of J.D. Hose, 'Es‘i. of
a Daughter - •

On Ti'nesdAv last, at the Priory, Downhatn, Norfolk, he •
Lady of thitl.f.ev. J. 'f hackeray,. of a Daughter..
On Saturday last, Mrs. 1, n :lackezie, of Southgate, of atiorl.

AIU D.

Yesterday, at St. Faith's, in the City of London, hr the
Hatch, A.M. Rector r.f St. Matthew's, 'Friday-
street, William. Broeltlehurst, Esq. of Macclesfield, in Ci,e-
shire,;to Ann Coare, eldest danghter of the, late William
Coare, Esq. ca Islington.
On• the 17th inst. John Taylor, jun. Esq.. of the Hot Weir*,
eldest son of J. Taylor, Esq.. .1.W.1-). of Toole, Dorset, to
Eliza. Barham Hansard, danghtvr: of the late Major liansaro..
_ _

On the tsth inst. at Enfirld, Joseph, the only surviving .son
of Wiiii:9n Layel, Esq: deceased, Of Stratfordfio ;-larriet, the
only daughter of Mr Stent, M;ller, of Stratford, E,sex.
On Wednesday, at Po4le, Dovet, Mr.Charle.s
NeNon=square, to Ann, eldest daughter of Thufnas
Esq.,of the former place., ' •
On Thariday, at Hornchurdh, in Essex, 'James .Thoznzis
Morgan, Esq. elde,,t,'son of the late -Colonel Morgan, .•1
SGuthatnjoton, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Richard t 3.
Ws Ate, Esvt of Hornchuret; Lodge.
On ,Satufaay, at St.- James's Church, Lewis Duhoison,
Esq. Qf.Newington, to Miss A. Flalsosi, of St. James's-strt,e,.
The stimesday, at-Chelsea, Samuel 'Wall, Esq. Lieutenant-
,Colonel of 'the Worcester Local 'Militia, to Eliza,
,rmngezit
daughter and coheiress of the late John Brans, Eso,. Ban!cer,
of 1./!eds,_
The same day, Bordenave, Ekq. of Freeman's-con.
Corabill, to Miss Finlay, of St:•eatham.

DIE(0.
On the ISth inst. at Battersea Faso, in the 77th year of her
age, Sosannlh Jane .Delat-and, relict of the late James De-
lava:id, Esq.. : •
On Monday last, at Bath, Mrs. Fisher,,.widow or the late
John "Fisher, Esq.
On the 22d lust. at Auberries;- near 11,(Ibury, the ,seait of
his brother-in-law, Charles Greenwood, Esq. after a Ilug.:r-
ing illness, in 66th year of his-age, Thomas.Haminers-
le-,-, Esq. Banker, °noniron.
On the 2:3d itist. after a short illness, Mrs. Deane, .wife. of
Mr. M. Deane, Solicitor, Westminster-roai.
On the 24th inst. at Knightsbrilge, Jean Lidderdile, Was:
daughter of Thomas Hatton,