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London, England, 1804-07-24 00:00:00

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• .AT about half past ten o'clock yesterdays tloPti
after the arrival of G. B. Mmartaimt INC, Esq.
.
at Brcntford, the business was opened in the uitfal
form.
• Mr. P. MOORE, in,propo,,ing Sir FRANCIs BUR_ WITT, addressed the 'Freeholders from the -Huitings.
• , This Was not the firtit bccaaion on which it had been
his fortune to, nominate a Candidate who was to se-
' cure the'Freedom and Independence of the People,
and to maintain the Constitution of England in its
purity. This, the Freeholders of Middlesex would
• recollefl, was not a question between two persons
erely ; the queititin was not solely whether one
andidate or another' should be successful.—lt de.
pended upon the issue of this contest, whether the
County of Middlesex was to be free and irlapendent,
as it ought to be, or whether it was to be a rotten
'rind corrupt Borough, subjeCt to.the will of a court,
and deprived of the priVilege of asserting its own
fights. It depended upon the issue of this contest,
whether the County of Middlesex'was to he tree and
independent, or whether it was to be.subjed to the.
Will and caprice of a nefarious combination of jobbers
and Contradors, and completely lose the pride and
glory of its unbiassed franchise. The Opponents,.
of Candidate whom he bad the honour to
• nominate, proceeded upon the very principle Of
jobbera,. and Contradors, for here, a combination
Was formed in order to thwart him who defended
• the Independence and Freedom of this County; by
"crebiiirg fur a Candidate. According to this
.„latlneiple a Candidate was found. and bargained,
for. This was. no misrepresentation. It was
thing openly avowed by themselves in their. Ad.
vertisements in the Newspapers, which, no.doubt,
the Freeholders had seen. There the whole of the
• proceedings of this nefarious combination was
openly avowed in the face Of the Poblic. He called
upon the Freeholders of the County, as they shook].
answer to God and rn their own consciences, Cony.
pcfrt the Candidate *of Independence,- and deliver the
County from the Jaws of this oll,devouring combina.
tion, of johbers and Contractors. It was neet•slarY
for this purpose that there should be a long
and a strong pull, and a pull altogether. As the
second point for their consideration, he.would entreat
of them to consider the diff:_rent situations of the
.•two Candidates that nvw appeared tor their favour.
They. were .not to judge of the Hen. Baronet by
Ilia clamours that on some occasions had been raised
against him—they were to judge from his aEtioris
they knew. what his public conduCt had been since
the last Elettion. 'He himself had, during that rime,
tat in Pitliament with the Hon. }latonet—iie had
laitnessed his public conduct, which hild been, high.
iy praise-worthy. Night- and day lie and his Hon..
Friend had laboured to bring about an Adtnioistra_
tion that should he agreeable‘to the Country, foeind-
ed upon that btoad basis which would be the surest
pledge of a gun, active, and, at the same time, a
Constitutional and Patriotic Government. At the
time of the last Eleetion, he was scarcely acquainted
with the Hots. B.tronet. He then, however, sup.
ported him, upon just and independent principles,
totally uneontteded with any
.personal attaclunent.
Since that time he had an opportunity of observing
Lis Hon. Friend in private as well as in publiClifc.
He had found him an excellent son, a most afrec.
4 tionate husband; and a kii,cl father, and conduding
himself upon the same liberal principles which re.
Rotated his Tiublic behaviour.' He had stood for.
ward on this occasion certainly not with a view to
his own private advantage, as most of those who
heard him well knew ;but to absert the Independence
of this County, and to rescue it front the nefarious
• cOmbination which has been formed for the purpuse
t •
'of rendering it subservient to the nod of a Minister.
He called upon his enemies, if so excellent a shame.
ter could have enemies, fur he, very much doubted
*tether his Opponents could be his enemies in their
beans, to contraliA his assertions if they could do
it. Whet had been urged ~g 4.10,/ him on the..•cca.
lion of a late event, %:41 a most nefarious fiber.—
' The Hon. Baronet had never attacked the CoristitU•
• tint) of the Country, though he
ts had always endea.'
votired to support the interes of Independence
ag4ii.st Ministerial. intrigue.' This he hoped would
be to them no objedion, and therefore, he proposed
fur their acceptance Sir FRANOs BURDETT.
A.s soon as Mr. Mootte had ended -with putting
Sri PRANt Is BURDETT in nomination, the proposi.
lion was
sa
seconded by Mr. K, ti d,
he
thought it unnecessary tti detain the Eleflori, after
the able speech that had been delivered bhis Hon.'
Friend.y-
• ;. Sir WILLIAM LEIGHTOWS Clerk then inquired
4 any other Candidate had been proposed; on
which G. B,NIAItiwARING, Esq. attended by his
advanced to the front of the Hustings,
When Sir Wm. R
CuTI, immediately rnerrioned the
name this „ •
t s Candidate, and was proceeding. to ad.
dress the Eietiors in his behalf, when a loud rode.
cent etartinUr •. „ interrupted. the worthy anti honour.
.
(41)(3'seinftg',1. ehT,".'" fthwhich Mr. Slieriii:SH w.s,, 'oter
were serum '1'4;4"(1 the 'multitude. He said, they
-and in, ntd this day to exercise a ver valuable
tI • gther country of the
—spOrtant •
pilifltege, which was enjoyed
. in no
the
Win .
11 • it Was nothing
ht uf Electing an Individual to hold a
less- than
place
in
the .great of the Nation, as4l on the dis.
aed greet fzeteise of this immunity,
the Public Liberty He hoped
essentially &Fetid
that Ge , erly and :Happiness.
' tar-, , nfleMen would give to the Friends of each-
tom. re a fair opportunity
to express their sen.
afterit id
which, would be or the Elec.
• t°l4 tt Wll 0
was most deserving of their
xhuiee,
Sir W. ca Cuter didy subseri >e, t
ta 'ben proceeded Gentlemen,'
ofnSirlo the justice of the enumeration
F
-F. —URDETT'S rival* charatter, made by
•
the Hanourable Gentleinan who proposed him. I
revere them
as much as any man. His domestic
tilartlEler is not the point in question.. I trust ton
,that you, Gentlemen,rtvere
will believe me,-to respect, to
and , and to be as tenacious of your Civil Rights,
Constitutional Privileges, as any other man in
1; the community. I have already declared my
opinion of the .Honourable Baronet, and regret
that my Public Duty requires that I should op.Eois,e, him. In oppusing him, Gentlemen, I, ant
1Y to come Lewarti and to introduce tO the ree.
holders of Middlesex, s -f F • •n-1 Mr.
. I
le on o my tie ,
- Cs B
• At/meats° ; a young man not yet
•

known in public-life i but, Gentlethen, I knot, Ma
wo?th, I know his talents, his virtues, and his pub.
lic spirit. I know the 'seeds of public virtue to
have been early implanted in his breast : I know
him to have been timely reared and ed9cated
sound, constitutional principles. I present to you a
than whose private and public charafter are pure
and unsullied. I do not propose to you a man
who has ever said that " Englishmen had no.
thing to fight fur." I allude to the Meeting at
Hackney, and request the- Freeholders to recollea
that on a Motion of mine, Sir FRANCIS was
precluded from attending the Sheriffs ,'and Mr.
By:co, the. other Member for Middlesex, with
an Address to. His MAJESTY ; certainly.: because
the Freeholders of Middlesex did not then think
him a fit and proper person to appear before
our beloved Sovereign. If Sir FRANCIS was so
considered at that time, which undoubtedly he was,
can any one tell what he had done since to retrieve
his charatter I—He had not retrieved his character
by disqualifying the father of the Hon. Gentleman
of his right,'merely because he suffered some of the
roast beef of Old England, with a little brown stout,
to be preiented to his friends from home. No, he has
not yet cleAred up his Charatter. He has not yet
answered my call on him 'at Hackney, and therefore
I think myself justified in proposing to you as the
best, by far the best of the two, G. B. MAINWAR.
INC, Esq. to represent this great County in Parlia.
men'."

Captain WOOD (son of Col. Wool)) in second.
ing the n miss titm of Mr. MAtsw.te NG. said,'
" Gantleinen, my worthy Friend has so clearly de.
tailed the Ohjeet of this contest to you, that it will
not be necessary for me to trespass king on your
attention ; yet I trust I shall meet with your indul.
gence in expressing my sentiments on the occasion.
Gentlemen, the County of Middlesex has been for
two Sessions of Parliament most shamefully mitre.
presented. A colourable (najority, obtained by
unjustifiable means, prevented the father of my
worthy triend from being returnel as your Repre.
sentative.. When it was found impossible by fair
means to defeat his claims .to represent you, recotirse
has been had to means the most illiberal to disqoa.
lilt him from becoming in this instance a Candidate.
for the honour of ',representing you. This, Gim.
tlemen, is the first rime I ever heard that,the exer.
cise of the old English hospitality disqualified for a
.seat in Parliament. (Loud and general plaudits).
I must say, Gentlemen, that the lather of 'my Wor,
thy friend his been treated shamifullTiond
berally ; he has been linked with persons with whom
he has no connexion, and, unwarrantable means have
been taken to vilify and traduce him. Gentlemen,
I beg pardon for haring trespassed so long on your'
attention, and shall conclude by recommending to
you to commence 'an aftive and spirited Poll, by
which you shall place Mr. MAINWARING at the
head of the. Poll, and prevent the County of Kid.
dlesex from being hereafter disburbed by a similar
contest."

, .Sir FtAxcts BUILDETT then addressed the Elec.
tors. He had seen some disposition in the Gentle—
men who had just spoken, during the short manage.
tent of the cause they had undertaken, to disclaim
their hien& in the-last contest. He had the satis-
faCtion to say, that he had no reason to. resign his
own, and was happy to observe, that they had as
little inclination to dese,t and he was encou.
raged to expect their unequivocal support at the
present Moment. It was rather ungrateful in them.
thus to cootiat themselves, and he hoped they
would think better of it. Mr. AIM, however, was
among their fast friends ; he canvassed for the Fa.
ther, his very useful. associate, Mr. Justice .vlAtN-
WAßtNG,andlie certainly did not charge Mr. Au is
with the same species of ingratitude if he now de-
voted his willing services to the San. Nothing .seems
to be more, natural than that Mr. ARts, the sailor,
should be endeavouring to support the offspring of
his proteaur ; bur it -would appear rather extraor-
ciinary that he, whose business it war to prevent
robbers by confinetnent from tut t her plunder, should
himself attempt to plunder- the Electors of their
rights and independence. The
.worthy Alderman
(tor so he must call him) has talked in a way that
was readilLexpetierl from city -habits, about hospi.
tality, attl beef and ale ; tor an attention to these
things was no small partof his Magisterial duties;
bdt those he addressed, had to. much good sense
about them to barter' their Freedom for a mess of
pottage. Gentlemen were apprized the last Election
• was succeeded by a Scrutiny ; his Aniagonist- had in.
deed a very, very small. Majority, after his Voters
had been examined,. and before the opposite side had
undergone the same minute research ; yet, after all
the 'vigilance that Party Spirit.eotial inspire, he had
the. pleasure of seeing nearly zoo° Voters, the ad vo..
cates of his cause. With this flattering view, after
such a decisive proof of integrity antl- Independence
of the EleCtors, he should think he, both deserted
them and the County, if he did not offer himself on
this o,:casiori. Gentlemen knew the grois and mon.
serous charges which were made by the ottset- party
,against limit the lait EleCtlon ; not one of these
had been proved ; 'and' the only matter that had
been established, had ended in the disqualification
of his opponent. It had been said that one of the
Candidates was purchaied. They were
.all aware
how illegal it was to buy Voters, and they would
not think it was less an, perhaps, to buy Can-
didates. in both cases the manifest object was to
destroy Independence, and their solicitude should he
direCted to defeat this nefarious design. Gentlemen
would, probably, hear of legal opinions in the course
of this Election, and these might be extended both
to Voters and Candidates. A recent camisole, how.
ever, was afforded us'in the person of His Majesty's
Attorney General, which would tend to spew that
these law authorities were not infallible. Gentle.
men would be persuaded that this new:-.contest was
both disgraceful to:him and to thenialmt with their
alive assistance he expected it would be-soon ter.
minatcd.' He would riot attain them at this time
by a tong and laboured harangue ; it would be more
respectful to them, arid moreconvenient to himself,
to invite their immediate exertions at the Poll.
When 'Mr. G. B. Ivia'rtswAß ING addressed the
Meeting, the clamour of the rabble was so great, that
he could with difficulty be heard, even by those who
were near him, although he spike with great energy
and firmness. We could, however, coiled the sub.
stance of his speech. which Ise began by cosign tu.

Wing the Freeholders Upon the opPortuoit':, now of.
feted themOf:deciding upon the merits of his oppo-
nent. At tilt lasr.eleaion, the Hon: Baronet Made
many promises: hid he perform :4 one of them ?
He rl:en. stood forwiird as the chitry„:,lon,of the.ol)..
pressed. He promiSed to Open the pilion doors ; but
he ha's sat two years in:Parliament, withOtminstitut_
ing a single inquiry into the many supposed griev-
' ances which he pledged himself' to redress. The
truth was, that those grieranCes had beetifithricated,
•
-for the purpose of raising a prejudiee against his
much.vilifiett,Father, who had displayed (as. he
thought) soo -MLA forbearance, and had horric4 ltis
facultiestB6Aletly." But he was dettrmined not
to aa in Matisairrter; he was nor to*be intimidated:
Although the Horkßart. had the effroniery again to.
stand on ground -which had been polluted by crimes
and perjuries at thelast Eleelion, he (Mr. M.) was
deterniined to oppose him, foot to foot, and band to
hand, until he ;should he the fortunate instrument.
of his expulsion from the County, ' He cared not
for Clamour, but trusted to the support Of goott sub.
stantial votes,. being 'persuaded, that she Freeholders
of Middlesex could not, return his opponent, since,
by so doing, they would identify themselves with
the eulogist of Traitors.
Mr. SheriffSHAws in vain again interfcmd ; the
disturbince augmented ; and . the attempt to speak
was the signal of riot.
The two Candidates were then proposed by the
Sheri.fs, when the shew, of hands was declared, to be
in favour of Sir FRANC is litianEit, on which a
Poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. MAINWARING,
by sie WILLIAM CURTIS, which being seconded,
was imMediately acceded to. The qualification of
Mr. MAI/WARING was then required, which was
accordingly delivered in, and the iittati+n 'of the
property stated to be in the parishes of Edtnonton
and Enfield. In consequence of these causes of de.
lay, the Poll did nut commence until twelve o'clock.'
At theiteginning of the Poll, the Peace-sheers,
who were most numerously assembled, were unable
to prevent riot, Until Sheriff SHAw E, with becoming
spirit, leaped over the barriers of the hut:ings, and
seized two of the rioters, whom he committed to
custody. In consequence, some degree of order
was preserved while' the Poll went on till aye o'clock,
when the Sheriffi proceeded"tnenuMeratethe votes.
At near six, the number, were declared to stand as
follow :
For Sri i'RANCis BLIRDETT, 6111 •
For Mr. MA'rsw.kalso, • . • 518

Majority for the former - Sa

Sir FRANC IS BurtneiT addressed the Meetin4.
He said, he should.detairk them but for-a few. mt.
,notes, in expressing the satisfatlioo he felt on that re.
suit which, under the favour of,their exertions, had
this' day mtrked their • opinion 'and approbation of
his condua frOm. the 'day he' had before been h 0.."
noured with their support, anti which had again in.
(loud him to meet them for th.: purpose of soliciting.
a repetition of that support; He trusted that the same
cootie& which first recomsnended him to their favobr
would again procute him their support. They would,
he hopet4 be aware that ihcpitsent was riot merely
a contest between two jpaiv idttali fut a seat In Parlia.
ment, because, if thatkrire the ini?eviljed of his
ambition, it might have been secured fo' tituself and tl
his family for ever, fur less than
..tt)- nth _of the
trouble it had already cost him. The present coutest,.
on the contrary, was one in' Which he hoped they
would feel he had engaged'solely.with a view to res.:
cue the independence of the-great and
,respetable
County of Middlesex from the corrupt grasp of a
combination of distillers, of brewers, of publicans, of
contraftors, of tax,gatherets, anti other perons of
similar description, tu complete, under the tilluence
of His Majesty's Ministers, or other untierst rappers,
a junto. of trading Justices, who could scarcely be
thought to exercise any will of their own. It was a
zealous wish to free the County from their grasp,
that induced him *to come forward on the present
occasion; and so far was he from regretting the
exertions. he had already made,, that he was proud
of the opportunity which the tesUlt afforded him, of
appealing once more to the opinion's of his Consti.
tutors, and resting his hopes of their future favour
on his contiod for, the past. Mist .gratefully con.
vinced by the result of this do's Poll that he had
not lost that, he rusted those friends who had this
day supported him, would persevere in their exer.
lions in endeavouring to bring the contest to a
speedy issue. He disclaimed'all personal animosity
to his opponents, and declared that their condat
excited in. him 11:3 other sentiments than those of
sorrow and pity.

Mr. MILL isit shortly addressed the Meeting,
and observed; that notwithitan.ling the eemporaty
and trifling superiority of the lion. Baronet, he had
no hesitation in pledging himself that he would ultic.
inately lose the Eledion,
Mr, WAI NW AR ING then rose to address the
Meeting, but was not suffered to speak a single
sentence that could he distindly understood ; and
such was the torrent of noise and insult,.that it was
impossible to collect any thing that fell from him
At half past six the Poll was adjourned. •

The concourse. of people attending the
.EleCtion
yesterday at Brentford, and along the road, was
immense, beyond all former example. No 'serious
mischief, as we have yet heard, took place. Seve.
ral attacks, hlwever, were made on Mr. G. B.
MAINVIARII46, the Candidate, and' large gravel
stones were thrown into his carriage,. but without
doing any material injury.—Mr. MAIZIWAR.IimS
Senior,• was soon, after attacked by a large body of
Tpffilria at the White Horse public.house, near Ull.
land House. A large stone was thrown at him,
which hit him on the face, and which was followed
by several handfuls of gray.el... Mr. MAI NWAR G
jumped out of his carriage and seized one of the
ruffians, who yvaal, spot% rescued out °fills hands ;
two constiabhcatne up after the ,transaftion, but
too late to :afford any assistance: and it must be
observed that no constables were placed on the road
between Tomball' Gieen and Holland lieu e. Wese
constables placed on the toads as watchman are in
the streets at night, it would have the best erre&
• A child fell out of a windinv two pair Of stairs
high, yesterday evening, at Kensington. The poor
infant was riot killed on the spotk but was tqcilica
to survive only a. very short time.