The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-24 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

IT is with regret we observe this contest linger
on from day to day, and the peace of the County
thus disturbed. If Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has
any strength remaining, why does he not bring up
his votes, and if he has not, (which appears most
probable) why does he not give up the contest ? In
not adopting either of these alternatives, he is fairly
chargeable with vexatiously continuing the contest,
and disturbing the peace of the County.
We are sorry to and, that on the small number
of votes polled yesterday Sir FRANCIS BURDETT
was seven above Mr. MAINWARING. This, how_
ever trifling in itself, will, we trust, serve as a
stimulus to the exertions of Mr. MA.INWARING'S
friends to give him a majority upon the Poll each
day that Sir FRANCIS daises to continue the contest.
—The sma►l number of votes polled yesterday were
thus distributed : for Mr. BY'NG 84, Mr. MAIN-
WARING 70, and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT 77.
At the close of the Poll the aggregate numbers
were,

For GEORETIYNG, Esq. 2925
WILLIAM MAINWARING, Esq. .2534,
Sir FRANGIs BIJRDETT, Bart. 2032
Nothin4 worthy of notice occurred.

It will give great pleasure to every friend of do.
vernment, of Peace and good Order, to be informed
with what unanimity that great commercial and
populous County of Lancaster has returned its old
Members, Colonel STANLEY and JOHN BLACK.
BURNE, Esq. who have served it with unwearied
zeal and attention in four successive Parliaments.
A numerous body of their friends met them at
Preston, and proceeded with them to Lancaster,
where they arrived on Wednesday the t 4.111 inst. to
dinner : the following morning, they appeared in
the Shire-Hall, attended by nearly the whole
Landed Interest of the County, together with the
principal Merchants, iVianufaCturers, and the Bo-
roughreeves of Manchester, Bolton, and Salford,
Szc. •&c.

Colonel STANLEY and :twill BLACKBURN!, Esq.
were again proposed to represent the County in the
ensuing Parliament, and seconded in the usual form,
after which, no opposition arising, they were elated
amidst a succession of loud and repeated bursts of
applaUse. "Ca. STANLEY then delivered a manly and
firm speech of about ti keen mitfutes, which it would be
impossible to do justice to, ‘vitht,ut a repetition of
the -whole. Mr. BLACKBURN!, nearly overcome
by feelings to which he could not give vent, rose,
and expressed himself in a manner that did credit
to his honest heart, and firm attachment to the
Constitution.

The business of the day closed with a string of
Resolutions unanimously carried, the substance of
which was, that a Service of Plate should be pre-
sented to each, as a token of resped for their faith-
ful discharge of their Parliamentary duties.
On their return from the Eledion to Bolton,
where they were invited to a public dinner on
the 16th with their friends, they were greeted
through every Town with loud huzzas. Four
miles from Bolton they were met by Major PM_
KINcToN and about too of the Bolton Light
Horse Volunteers ; their nearer approach was an.
nounced by cannon belonging to private indivi-
duals ; about the distance of two miles from the
town they were met by about fifty Gentlemen on
horseback, with the CoUnty Favours in their hats,
and an immense Populace ; their. horses were then
taken from their carriages, and they were drawn at
the rate of seven miles an hour, by ups,/ rds of zoo
Bleachers, all in one . uniform, .and cockades, &c.
into the Town, amidst the reiterated plaudits of a
numerous concourse ofspeaators-, to the Nag's Head,-
Where they:received their friends with that polite-
ness for which they have always been so much
distinguished. From thence they went in proses.
sion with the Boroughreeve, Constables, &c. to, the
Sessions Room, where an elegant dinner was pro_
vided, of every thing the season could afford. Many
songs by Messrs. MEREDITH, BoDEN, jon.andother
Gentlemen, Were sung, and amongst other loyal and
appropriate Toasts were, the KING, QUEEN, and
Roy At. YAM I L the Pilot that weathet'd the Storm,
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, &C. The
Niembcrs for the County being given, the Company
were favoured with a speech hum each of them,
ri vetting, if possible, more than ever their attach-
ment to ;hem.

Men whose unremitting zeal in promoting the
Ccmmercial Interests of the County for twenty
years, and whose firm and unshaken loyalty to the
Constitution has displayed itself during a period
replete with events the most alarming to the peace
o± the whole kingdom, deserve our warmest praise,
and relied honour on the whole County, inasmuch
33 it convinces every one, that however Disaffec-
tion m:ly chirp, like the noisy grasshopper in the
presence of the low ox ; yet it may be silenced,
or perhaps, trampled upon, if it presumed to im-
pede the progress of Loyalty, or the deserving
applause given to its friends and supporters.

Mr, WopEnoosE would hardly have demanded
a Scrutiny without the most positive convition
that he had a majority of good Votes, Thus, the
triumph of the •Oppobition will be very §hort.'
lived upon their acluisition in Norfolk.
The Freeholder.; of Norfolk have pretty cicarly
displayed ti:eir political principles, by &hewing-that
they were cletem)incti tp Ilan a Jacobin

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