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London, England, 1802-07-07 00:00:00

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gkfinitite.l,ivery no further trottbl.-

A Poll was demanded on behalf Of Mr: Aid'ernian
Cuivris, Sir, JOHN WILLIAM ANDERSON;

Mr. LUSIi INGTON.

Oa' the close of- the Poll yesterday; the number
were as follow

HARVEY CHRISTI.XI4 Con.zr.E, Esq.
CHARLES PRICE, Esq..
lAM CußTis; Esq.
Sir j. W. AND Cip)N, hurt:
BEN !AMIN TR ./VERS, Esq.
Sir W kTKIN LEVIES,
Wm. LUSH/NC:TON, Esq.

W.ESTmiArsrEk EiEcTION:.

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I E' STERMIY, before ten o'cloek;. pursuant to offs:
chii notice, the atting High Bailiff, and the stibOr:
dinate Offieers,, attended on the Htistings; in front
of Covent-Garden Church.

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In little More than half, an hour after; the re-
.
.speaive Candidates made their appearinee.Mr;
-Fox first entered the Hustings ; he was accompanied
by Lord JOHN TriwksHENO, Mr. O'BkzEr, Mr.:
WISHART; Lord W,Russit.c, Messrs. PLOWDEN;
SHOlt E, and several Other Of his friends: •
Lord GmtrigEti. soon followed; attended by-
several Naval Officers; Mr: DtrICCO2OEj Mr;.
ANC ilisttim, and other Gentlemen.
&third Capdii3ate, Mr. GRAHAM; we un.:
derstarid is an AtiCtioneer, had been sortie time'
previouslY upon the liti.stings; and was heardto ex-
presS hiMself confidently as to the event of the Elec.:
tiOn.--;:AS Soon as the Candidates had taken their
ploccs, and bidet Obtained; for the Gentlemen rthitl%..
onl the Hustings were rather ii.pivezi.;6l'is on the cc.:
casiontlie. Precept, and Writ of Election; toper
titer with the Regulating,Aas; suet: as that against.
Bribery, and Eleaion-tbrin of the VOtets' Oath;
•were read by the High Bailiff, to whf:ei the cus'
tomary Oath, as to the performance of his ditty; Was
adalinistered by Mr; Justice WitLotk;
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.The Candidatei were then put in nomination
Mr: Wisiimtt,a Tobacconist; in -..soVentrY-stuer,
first canieforward; and; in a SPeeeli of SOtnelength;
expatiated on the various merits and quatificationi
Of Mr; FOx as a Statesnian; an Orator, and a Pot; ti_
cal leader ; he reminded the Eleaors that they were
'about to execute the ntogt Valuable of their priL,
vileges; panegyrised.the genuine COngtitution of
Great Britain, which; if administered in its Original
purity; and if those deleas in it, which the lapse
of ages must
guardians;necessarily produce, were remedied.
by the wisdorti or virtue of its must havi
is ained the envy and admiration of all ages.
These considerations, joined to a review of the
circumstances of the times; and the situation of thd
Country, rendered.- it pectiliatly necessary; that the
Electors of Westminster shoUld delegate that most
sacred truss, their Parliamentary keprekntation, to
none but worthy persons::—The Gentleman who he
should have the honour to Fit in nomination was'
Well known to the Eleaors, and had on repeated
former occasions rendered hiniself worthy of. their
Suffrages.: He was a man; who " dare be honest in
the Worst of times was one who never• pat
his own advantage or ease in competition with the.
comfort and proSpetityof his Constituents ; he
never employed the energies of his mind to inakd
the worse appear the better cause; lie was never;
like sothe,of his former
.conipatriots; alarnied into
the aceeptanee of Place; PenSion; or Peerage. Iri
short., witli.the: various claims
.which that Gentle.
than had tothe favour.of the Eleaori of Wesemin,-:
ster; it would•be but.to libel their principles, and
their good sense, if he dWelt fUrther on his Merits:
HoWeveri-Mr: ..WisitAß•rcdritipued to adVert to
other points,in which he express&l his conViAion that.
Mr. Fox was entitled to the thanks of. his Conntry;
and the warmsupportof his late_Constittients, and
after. alluding his occasional gec.e'ssion;.which the
Speaker- considered as justified. by the' circumstances
of the iim6, he±concluded that. part of hiS:panegy...
tic; with *citing from. 1"Or .as folloWS,

“ EXiledMarceilus more true, joy feels;
” Than Cesar with the Senate At his heels !"

And, he said, if the..T]leaors were aware of the
necessity there was of the first City in the world be.
ing represented by a person ofabilities and integrity,
they would certainik ie.:elec."l Mr: FQX. He, cog_
dirtied -hy moving, " That the Hon. C. J. Fux is
a fit and proper person to represent the City or West.
minster in Parliament."

Which nomination was seconded by Mr. O'ER r E
of Craven.stteet.

Mr. DuNcemkE then came forwardi and after
generally alluding to the merits of Lord GAR UNERj
as An able and distinguished Sea Officer;- the great
respeaability of his charatiet; and the propriety
With Which he discharged his duty, when the oppor-
tunity offered as a Representative of the City of
Westininster, proposed the. Right Honobtable Lord
G.3Ant4Eß7'.'as a fit, and proper peisOn to represent
the said City in Parliament.

Mr. Ar,fE AST N seeohded the iquininlition:

Mr: m K ictuAAS'i£, who; we Understand, Wag a
Clerk tOMt. Dt DIET; the Bookseller; said a few
Words touching the propri!...ty of having an Independ-'
ent Candidate; and proposed Joni •Glihti_km,' Esq.,
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as a fit and' proper' person; &'.c.
The Nomination was' seconded lit, annilier Mr.
B.t.t.6t.'4A:s.r.g it; who; we Weie. informed, 4•as by
profession a Taylor:
Mr. Fox then came forward to' addreSs the As.'e
sembly.. The noise and tumult Was so great, that
it was some time befoiesilenee eonld he efF..tanali7
obtained; and during which interval, Mr. GnAm..i.mi
addressing himself principally to those rivithc,l4: tho

hustings, said, "."Gentien'tenilll come For Ward acdr
speak to you." When sirence was obtained;
Mr. Fox said, that having had, for 22 years, the
honour of repressmtiog this City in ParliaMent, lie
again cameforward, anti solicited their Votes upon
the present occasion. He should not have made such'
a request, were he not informed by several persons,
that his doing so would, at the'present moment, prove
favourable' to --the Feace and Independence of the'
City ; and arty thing called for by such-Constituents
as they were, would, if refused on his part, sub-
jea hiln-to the imputation of being the most un-
grateful of men,—an imputation, which he trusted',
could not fairly rest upon hiin.—His principles, he
hoped, it would be then .'unnecessary to expound ;
he trusted they were well known to the Electors of
Westminster; but as they were short, he_ would
again repeat ,them.-s-His principles were those of
the Constitution of Great Britain, as uniformly under-
stood by the most enlightened Pao iots of the Country,
---which principles might briefly be resolved into two
points :—that in theory the Sovereignty is in the
People (oit-cwhich some of the Mobility exclaimed
" Ay so it is—here zve are!") and in pratlice,
that those who -administered the Constitution,
ought, to keep in mind that Sovereign from whom
they hold it.—This had always been his of
—it was then his opinion, aid he believed would
continue so as long as he lived. With respea to"
what' had been said relative to leis not regularly -at-
,tending in his place in Parliament, he would con-
fess, that in that resped he had aced from his own
• judgment ;—that he saw no occasion to repent of
his condua He would observe, that after 30-
years of inisy ,ife in Politics, he could not help
thinking--nay, he would boldly say, that•as, be-
twetn the- E'leticas of Westminster and him, there
was rio doubt of his honesty of intention, he should
be allowed a little to use his own judgment. The
best of :that judgment he bad followed,. and would
continue to fallow. It was the pride of his life,
that ever since the memorable period of 1780, there
had been, inevery.instance, a great majority of the
Elettors of Westminster in his favour :—his prin-
ciples tl ere.fore were congenial,
,and his conduit
apPrOved by them. But it may be said, " Why
not have both Representatives of similar princi
pies ?" In answer to which, he would recall to
their attention the" events of the period when a
friend, dear to him, and who was one of the most
honoUrable men in the Country, Lord JOHN
TOW NS 1•0 ND, was united with him in the repre-
sentation of this City,--the struggle at that period
was well known to many,-and the consequences
which folloWed, upon the wholei. rendered it ad-
visable . not to persist in that line of opposition ;
and if such a determination was wise in 1788, it
was no less so in iBO2.—A- Noble Lord was pro-
15OSed; who; if the majority could not agree upon
other principles, had, claims to their consideration
as a gallant Officer ;—one who had served the
Public with fidelity aid zeal, and who had added
to the national stock of honour, by: the splendour of
his aitions.—lf the which
.regulated the
condtiCt of the majority of the Eledors of West..-
minster, 'at the period to which he alluded, were
not deemed advisable •to be recurred to, he did
not see- that -they could elect as a colleague,
a person more worthy, than the Noble Lord who
has been nominated. With- respet 'to himself, it
may be said, " if you despair So much of the situa-
tion of the Ciiuntry, why stand in the way of men.
Who entertained hopes.of retrieving it ?" His in-
tention was not to stand in the way of such. men.:
let it be shown, even in the next Sessiorrof Puha_
meat, that' men
.of more youth, .adivity, and of
greater abilities than himself, were willing to come.
forward---;-and that from circumstances they were
likely to be successful ; if any such can be produced,
he would most freely give way to him, and in the
next Session solicit the office of the Chiltern Hun-
dreds, with as much cheerfulness as any other per-
son could,Possibly
rsolicit an office of honour or emo.
lurnent ; but upon the whole, taking all-the present
clicutriStances into consideration, he thought it best
to proceed as he had latterly recommended, unleis
they 'meant to be reduced to the situation in which
they stood previously to the year 1780. it was
on these general principles, and on . the grounds
which he expressed in his Advertiement, in which
he candidly spoke his mind upon the subjea, that
he now solicited their votes. Should he be again
retUrned, he should, in favourable, eiticumstances,
and Whenever he' saw the possibility of being of
Service by his attendance in of course.
in•Ost Zealously_come forward, and exert his best
abilities' in the service of his Constituents arid
of his Country; but at the present Moment, as
he had declared in the Paper he alluded to, he saw
no prospeet of being of service that way. He ex-
pressed his gratitude for the favours he hadre-
ceiv,ed, 'and for the attention with which they were
then..pleed to', hear him, and assured the Eleaors
'-
that' were he _again returned, he, should, on all.
TirattiQable- 'occasions', zealdliSly exert himself in
their-, service:
Mr.'Fox's Address 'was hard with many tokens.
4prnbation, and followed -by the loudest, expres-.
sions of applause.
Lni-d-GARI}NE a. 'next 'came 'forward : it was some
time before those assembled oatside the 'Hustings.
"woulthsufFer Ishii to be heard.—The Noble Admiral
bore those interruptions with, the greatest colleded;
neo and good humour : at-length he was sufFe.,red to
express' the a"mbitiori he felt to be one of the Re-
prese6tatives for the City-of Westminster ;it was
ati:.hiiriotir, if confernd Upon him, he said, he
shouldreceive with the deepest gratitude.: As for
prinCiples, he hoped they wexe known to
the Elc'tors of Westminster ; and against,..those;
nothing fairly could he alledged. It had been in-
sinuated, that the ,late .Nlembers: for Westminster
did,not attend to thei'rParliliMentary duty. „With
:/e..spe:Ci_to himself t's, answer •,vas :short: it :was
to. be in t.,vo piii.:2o-; a: the same moment;
He
,hoped, however, in the situation in which be
Was. ,1 Sod, he had given sonre degree of saris.fattio,, to,his Constituems,, trod which, satisfaClion,
be hoped he should continue 'to give. , He had seen
in the history of Westminster, 'that it Was usual
pop die,Efeaors to' manifest their partiality to Naval
-Officers who had distinguished themselYes in the