The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-26 00:00:00

S 4 7 URDA Y, ju'NE 26, 1802.

GENERAL ELECTION.

To the WORTHY and INDEPENDENT ELECTORS
olthe ClTY'and LIBERTIES of WESTMINSTER.

• CENTi.EMEN;
lEMBRACE the earliest opportunity; after my
return to England; ,troni that Professional Service. to
which my Sovereign was pleased to. call me, again to. O.F-
FER MYSELF TO YOUR CHOICE at the ensuing
GENERAL ELECTION..

lf, during the War, I have been called upon by the thity
Which I owe to my Sovereign and my Country,• to exert my
humble effirts, rather in, assisting to execute than to deli-
berate, I trust I shall riot, on that account, have forfeited
any part of the ciatihdence you have been pleased to repose
in me. •

The blessings -of Peace being happily restored, it will be
my ardent desire, should. you thin-ine worthy of being con-
tinued in the important trust of RepreSenting you in Parlia-
ment, to discharge the duties belonging to •it with zeal
fidelity. • -• •
As the glory of the British Arnis has shone forth in every
part of the globe, with a splendour unrivalled by the HiSim'
even of our own Country, I trust our Commerce will feel
its influence in a more extended circulation,.and,that our Na-
tional• Wealth will keep pace With our National Glory.
I have the Honour to he, •
'With the utmost respect and gratitude,
:'GENTLEMEN,
Your most Mit-Mail, and devoted Servant,
GARDN L R.
Portland-place, June. 23, iSoz.

'loam GENTLEM EN, CLERGY, an,IFRELHOLDILItS
of the COONTY of LINCOLN.

GE,NTLEMEN,
'y 0U R very worthy and. respeatd Mem-
3er, Mr. Vvner, haYing doctored his intention to
decline iepresentin,; you in the ensuing Parliament, and
presuming that, on the.dissolution or the present, so speedily
to b'e expeeied, a General Meeting may be coifed, for the pur-
pose of nuininating Pc.1%,.0ns tar that dr
istinkuished Situation ;
I am encouraged to oifer you my 'respeeVul Services, and to
solicit the Honour of your Support on that occasion. ..
If I should tie so tortunate as to obtain your favourable
opinion, and .eventually become your -Representative in Par
liament, you may be assured
.of my constant, endeavour to
support our invaluable Constitution, and promote the wel-
fare of the County of Lincoln.
1 have the Honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your most obedient, and very humble Servant,
CHARLES CHAPLIN.
Blankney, June iSth, ISoz.

STATUE OF AIR. PITT.
WITHIN the Merchants' Hall of Glasgow, the
EiOth'llay of June, One thciusand Eight Hundred
and TvroLearn;

pittsLxv,
101-iN LAUIZIE,,,3sq, Dean of Guild; and his Council of

the DierchantS' House.
The Comthittee appointed uiz the Ist inst. gave in the fol-
lowing Report :
Bth lime, iSoz.
' Report of a CoMmittee of the House, with resped to a
Motion made and adopted, " That this House thinks it
" proper. that some public mark of resped be paid to the
"Right Honourable Pitt."

Your Committee; deeply impressed with sentiments re-
` spelling that illustrious Statesman;_ Pettedly coinciding
with a late decision of the House of Commons, are of op:-
' nion, That it would be superfluous to add any thing to
these eulogittms on his public services, so recently, so elo-
' (pent ly, and so truly proclaimed to the world as the voice
of the Nation, by which it has been incontrovertibly esta-
' blishxl, that the firmness, the talents, and the magnanimity
of that most distinguished and upright Patriot, have, under
Providence; and, with the aid of his colleagues in Admini-,
stration, preserved this Country from experiencing any of
those Revolutior:ary Horrors; with which a great part of
Europe has, for ten years past, ben afflith:d.
' Under these impressions' and with the view of affording
to the numerous friends of Mr. Pitt, in the City of C.; las-
gow and its vicinity; an opportunity of manifesting their
high regard and attachment to public and private charac-
' ter, Your Committee beg leave to prKpose to the House,
the adoption of the following Resolutions :
That a Subscription be immediately opened, for the
purpose of erecting, without delay, a Statue of the
Right lion. William Pitt in the City of Glasgow:
' Tlrat the House, in its individual capacity, Will lend
every assistance-towards promoting the Subserip-
'

(Signed) JOHN HAMILTON,
JOHN LAURIE,
' CUNNINGiIAM CORBETT,
`,GI LIH. Rl' HAMILTON,
EN RY G LASS FO o,'
LAURENCE CRAIGIL.'
The Question being,put, that the foregoing Report be ap-
proven of, was agreed to, with only two dissentient voices.
The' House farther resolved, That the Dean of Guild,
M.,:s:;rs. Gilbert Hamilton, Cunningham Corbett,
C lasslord, Robert Carrick, David Dale, John Alston, Jaines
Hook- M'lntosh, Nicol Brown, and James Mac
Dowall, be appointed a-Ceininittest at this House,( Mr. Cor-
bett, Convener), for procuring Subscriptions, as also for the
purpose of co-operating with the Committee chosen by the
Lord Provost, Magistrates, and' Council, for Carrying the
measure into efic6t. •

• That a Copy of these Resoltitions tie transmitted to the
Right Hon. William Pitt, with-.a request that he will ho.:
flour the City of Glasgow, by giving an Artist the opportu-
nity of fulfilling.the intention of the friends of this measqie.
That the Proceedings of the House on this occasion be lin-
liShed in such Newspapers as the Committee may ihink
Subscription Papers will be lodged at ail the Banks in
lasgow. ; at the Office of Mr. John Alston ; at the Tontine
Cylfee-room.; and at the Shops of Messrs. William Aitken,
and Millar and Ewing: