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'WE this morning received the Pari: Papers of
t!le isr inst. Tile 41;w:iteur contains a Messa.ze from

the Consuls to the Conserv;ltive Senate, referring
to their colsideration tl:e Rec.:stets of the Votes of
the. Peu.ile of France, upon :Ict question %vile:her
BONA? ARre b ellosto.Consul for life. The.
Senate is requested to make known to the Public
the result of the Votes, and to take suds measures

upon the occaion, as they may think necessary.
The Coincii of State have given an opinion upon
flur questions referred to then respecting he effe.Ct
'of the Seumetis C;nsultum, which granted an Am-
uesty to Timigrants under certain conditions. The
opinion',ll the Council is favourable to the Eraiavants
upon a!i the questions.
Letters from Hamburg; state, that by the last
'Treaty between Frame and the Parte, the former
is to have the Morel: and the bland of-C).prus; but
as ‘%e have had/more proofs of the invention of the
German Journalists than we have of their veracity,
we may be allowed to doubt the truth of the re-
port.

The EL ECTO R of ME NTZ klied at Aschaffen3laurs
on the zgth July, in the 84th year of his age.
The French Funds are at 5.3.. zo.

This morning ►_he Dutch arrived which was
due on Sunday evening last, 'the contents of which
will be found at length in a subsequent Column.

Fr was our intention yesterday to have resumed
the tenor of our Observations on the Events of the
late Ekelions, when a long Article in The Morn-
Post, diver/ed us from our course, and induced
us to suspend, for another day, our general Remarks.
The Article to which we allude, is written in a
a tone of afFeele2 Moderation, calculated to insinuate
itself into the minds of the unwary, and to weaken
the jealous vigilance of the friends, of the consti-
tution. There is no style of writing more difficult
Co unravel, than this gentle sort of language. It
compromises no Party, makes no direB accusation,
wounds no personal feelings, provokes no antipa.
thies ; but it is the best adapted to throw a cloud
over sophistry, and to raise cloab:s in the under-
standings even of the most rational. Without.
pretending to dispute the sincerity of the Writer,
we shall proceed to animadvert upon his opinions,
beginning' first with a concession to which he can-
not except, because it is his own sentiment and
language, namely, that his “. is not written
to serve either Party, and will probablj the
displeasure 'of both."
" That Sir FRANCIS BURDFTT and his Party

have obtained, a triumph, is a fw±l:, which cannot
.0* be disputed." We admit the fait, but we deny
the conclusion which this Writer has drawn frcim

it% Vie see with the deepest :ever, in this mo.

rnentary ebullition of the Spirit of Fa&ion, a dis-
position to Mischief, which, if not restrained by
prudential Measures, will very soon lay waste this
Country. The Public must have seen in the Coup-
tcoances, ,u-a hoard amidst the shouts of the sense-
less crowd, Sentiments and Expressions, which in-
dicated no respect whatever for those io,Ototiops
in our Country, by which Vice and Crime have
been successfully repressed. With all these glaring
fads staring us in the face, we are justified in as.
sertirg, th.r it was not the cause of Sir aANCIS
Butto£TT, and the Cold-bath-Aelcis Pi-ison, which
rroduced his Majority on the Poll, but the cause
of Disorganization and Mischief ; the love of no-
velty, the hatred of an upright and vigint Magi-
strate, who had made the Laws respeEted hy those
who It idled to subvert them, and the opt orynity
which was aff;rded to licentiousness long suppress_
ed, of giving vent to its wonted turbulence of
;haraatr.

The W Titer of this moderate article, who is at

the Lame time quite impartial,. urges aq anothet
ground of the triumph p!.Sir FR t't,.•!Cii, the! vi;:,
toiy bas been obtained io despigl,t of the ' exer,
titvis ot. Government, sitting in tie heart of the
;t is ;tppo:isible, after re::sding tbits pas-
-01,7,e artl those folly.y it, ec.luady rqlete
with Wars' and f.dv. deciu6iion, nct to deny the
ciutraftef of IVlocieration, Ivhicll he
e:]tahtisb ittit.ng his Readers,
ti•ove:PiPent Wirt. tfipr ezetted io pf

MAINwARIRG—.-his. friends even complain th4.lle,
has ncen deserted on this occasion ; and :he infeence
resreting the acquisition of a triumph in a diniia
which is the seat of Government, is inconclusive
and contradietory in itself. For every School-boy
the least experienced in the history of the world is
;Imre, that in a Capital principally, and Under the
very eye of the Governarnt, have the licentious
an unbridled Populace always attempted and 3iten
succeeded in their most criminal enterprizes.---
very circumstance of the residence of the
Government, conveys an opinion of its clikient
power, Which ofren lenders authority less vigilant ;
but when this opinion is either weakened or destroy-
ed, the disaffected are ever prepared to seize the
favourable moment for the execution of their mea-
sures. If any proofs Of thiS were necessary, the late
EleClion for Westminster would demonstrate our
position, where, in the heart of the Capital, an il_
literate Broker polled nearly zoo votes, in defi-
ance, not only of the Ministerial Candidate, but
even of the Man of the People. Will any man in
his senses assert, that this doughty orator had any
claims to the confidence or estimation of his fellow
citizens ? No! what then procured him such num.
bens ? The answer is obvious ; •a spirit of licen-
tiousness, a disposition to insubordination, which
so strongly predominated in the minds of his voters,
as would have led them to the Hustings to vote for
an Ass,, had a greater one started than the one who
offered himself to their notice as a Candidate. So
conscious was Mr. HORNE TooKE of. this truth,
and so contemptible did the igajesty of the People
appear in his eyes, that he 'travelled above eighty
miles distance from the Metropolis, in order to be
eleeted by the more grave and sober inhabitants of
Old Sarum.

Let us, therefore, hear no more of Viaories ;a-
chieved in a great Capital. If Population be con-
sidered as the test of sound judgment; if the power
of numbers be sufficient to constitute the highest
energies of human,wisdom, then has Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT triumphed indeed. But if Folly, Levity,
Inconstancy, and Ir-refleetion have ever been the
charaacristics of the Populace ; if, as the Comic Poet
of Greece has justly stigmatised them, they are col-
leelively but a tremendous Tyrant, then has the re-
turned Candidate derived no honour whatever from
the event of such a choice. Far be it from us to
imply any thing contemptuous against the great
mass of the isrople ; we revere the Constitution of
this Country too much, to suffer ottrindignation at
recent Events, to induce us to depart from that
stria line of Demarcation which exists between the
sense of People and Populace.

Let us now examine the characters of Mr. MA z
wAxiNp's Voters, and that we may not be accused
of misrepresentation, we shall present them to our
Readers in the very words of the Writer in The
Morning They are, in the first place, Legal
Voters, because, according to the Pest, the "local
knowledge" of this Gentleman enabled him to dis-
cover them ; and because he had " the best informa-
tion with regard to the Freeholders ; Whereas, his
opponent had only " zeal, and popular opinion ;"
secondly, " the whole body of Magistrates of the
County," who by taking this public mode of ex-
pressing their favourable opinion, evidently belie
the statements respeCting the Cold-bath-fields Pri-
son, in which they must have been particips
which cannot well be asserted of a whole body of
men more " numerous and powerful in this County
than in any other :"—thirdly, " the whole body of
the Clergy,;"—lastly, " the worthiest part of the
Community," (these are his own words), " whose
Votes he had obtained by the excellence of his pri-
vate charaaer." Such were the men who voted for
Mr. MAINWARtNO, and these men, " the worthiest
part of the Community," we call the People, and
consider as the true organs of popular opinion.
Hence, according to the comparison' of this pro-
fessor of Moderatiot, Mr. MAINWARING has ob-
tained the greatest triumph which can possibly be
desired by every honourable mind, the triumph of
an upright man in the confidence of the worthiest
part of the Community. What then becomes of
the triumph cf his Opponent ? It is a triumph over
the worthiest part of the Community in the person
of Mr. MAutwAßtrto ; it is the triumph of the
Populace in the person of Sir FRANo Is BURDETT.

We who " have been eye witnesses of the
scene," blush for the issue of the contest. We view
with odic gust every advancement of the power and
licentiousness of the Populace. It is not against
the personal charaaer of the returned Candidate
that we objea, it is against his Principles a it is
again;t that pernicious association of ideas by
which his triumph is connate(' with the triumph
of the ;Able over their Magistrates ; and if he
ascribe his viaory (as the the Writer in the Mar.7_
Post avowedly does) to the zeal and attachmen t
of a class of men, to whoa alcim an House of Cor.
redion is an o:ojea of terror, jie must have derived
his suppori from the moit vicious and worthless

part pf the Community; from a part of the Com-
inunity, whose smiles no independent mind will
ever court, and whose frowns every honest man
will despise. If, therefore, the Prisowhas been the
ground of contest (and no other has been adverted
to), the question is already decided. ',That this is
the faa cannot be disputed, for Sir FR.I.NCIs BUR-
DETT himself, in that most extraordinary Political
E3s:ty which he continues daily to insert in the
Public/ journal, under the ludicrous title of an
Address " To the Independent and Public.spi-
tired Freeholders of Middlesex," does not scruple
to- consider the Cold-bath-fields Prison as '' a
roc,k from rwhich he came: be removed by any
hired Magistrates, Parliaments, or Kings." We
will not assert it. as our wish, that the Baronet
should nevet be removed from this Rock ; but we
sincerely counsel him and his advisers in future,
when Composing an Address, which must be read,
by the Virtuous as well as the Wicked, to pay
wore attention and respeet to the Established Laws
and Constitution of his Country, of which he be
trays, in the Passage we have jtiSt cited, a degree
of ignorance, which merits whipping in a School-
boy, but the highest censure in a Senator. The Con-
stitution, and the People of this Country, neither
recognize, nor ever heard of such Institutions, as
hired Magistrates, Parliaments, and Kings. An hired
King (unless he means the KING of ETRURIA),
is a Solecism in Politics, hired Magistrates are on. •
known to the Law and Prat-lice of England ; and
if Parliaments be hired, what is he ? This marked
inattention to the rules of propriety and fait, evi-
dently betrays a degree of thoughtless fanaticism,
to use no harsher language, which is more conge-
nial to the character of his Constituents than-to the
dignity of the Representative. If, indeed, any
additional'argument were necessary to substantiate
the validity of our allegations, this incautious ad-
dress"would suffice to uphold them, and to stamp his
viaory as the triumph of Jacobinism.

Whether the Event of the Middlesex Eleetion
will prompt the adventurous Spirit of Sedition to re-
new its former machinations, or whether the rest-
less genius of aspiring Demagogues, shall be pushed
into-action, is a question that Time alone can un.
ravel. Certain it is, that the Writer in The Morn-
big Post, who perhaps is in the secret, threatens us
with its probability ; and while he announces the'
" encouragement," which " the splendid success
at Brentford" will probably give to mischievous-
persons, thus unguardedly conne6ting viftory with
mischievous consequences, he deplores the fatal con.
tingency which may befal the cause of Public Free-
dom from this source. In this single passage,
the whole scaffolding of panegyric which he had
raised to Sir FRMZOIS BURDETT, has fallen to the
ground; the veil of Moderation which he assumed

is stript off by his own hands, and Jacobinism
stands confessed in all its native Deformity. Thus
self-convi6ted, we leave him to his OWI3 refleaions.

The payment of the Civil List, so long kept back
by unavoidable circumstances, is now in course.—
Four Quarters will he paid next week, which will
bring the Arrears down to the first day of the pre-
sent year.

Although Mr. I,ls-row's appointment is in the
G.zette of Tuesday, the -arrival of the Baravian
Minister is no; expefted till the end of September,
when HIS MAJESTY will return from Weymouth,
as it- is not usual to deliver Credentials but at the
Court of St. James's. The same reason retards
General ANDREOSSI'S arrival, and Lord WH IT-
W ORTH'S departure.
Mr. FR ER E will be the new Ambassador at Ma-
drid ; and be succeeded at Lisbon by Lord R. Furz-
G E RAL D.

Mr. JACKSON is going Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, with Mr.
ROLLESTON, jun. as his Secretary.
Sir JOHN BoaLAsu WAtt,REN leaves London to-
wards the beginning of September, on his Embassy
to Petersburgh. lie waits to see the nuptials of
his daughter, who is going to be married to Capt.
SEDLEY Of the Guards. Mr. GARLICK is to be
Secretary to his Embassy.
We were under a mistake, instating in our Paper
yesterday that Lord HENRY STUART was going
Secretary of Legation to the Hague. His Lord_
ship having lately married Lady VtLLIERS, with
a fortune of to,oool. a year, has declined pursuing
the diplomatic career. His Lordship was formerly
Private SeCretary to Mr. LISTON.

There has lately been a change in the Govern_
tnent Stationary • CAce, in Palace-Yard. Mr.
thcicrxs, of the Four and a Half par Cent. Office,
in the Customs, has succeeded Mr. WOLFE, as
Comptroller.
Yesterday a Court of Direetors was held at the
East India House, which adjourned at six o'clock
till Wednesday next.
A Letter lately received from Bengal, informs
us, that Licutenant-Colonel OLIVER has been ap-
pointed to the charge of the whole Administration
of the Civil and Military Power at the Molucca
Islands. Colonel OLI VEA proceeded in the Com-
pany's Ship True Britoil, which, with the Princess
Chaagtte, Capt, HURRAY, and the Asia and 'Mary
Tr:trisports, put into Penang, but sailed the 16th
of December for Amboyna,
I.le old Members for the County of Carlow in
Ireland have been thrown out by Sir CHARLES
B1.1?.Icozi and Sir R:iCHARD BVTLEU!2 Batts,

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