The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-29 00:00:00

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

WEYMOUTH, AVO. 27.
E never had a mi:re crowded Esplanade ; we
never were so well attended since HIS MAJFSTY did
us the honour to visit our town : the houses are lett'
at most extravagant prices, and it is with the great-
est difficulty a bed can be procured ; but we hope
those who ask extravagant prices, will be served as
many have been in other towns,' and not be able to •
lett their apartments ; and the visitors, we have no
doubt, sooner than submit to the impositions, will
travel miles out of the town to sleep.
This evening the Rorom FAmity will honour
the elegant Promenade Rooms, at the Royal Hotel,
with their presence.
The rum. of the Clergyman who preached before
the ROYAL FAMILY yesterday, at the Church,
Ei4OL AND ; he delivered a most excellent sermon:

The Getman Legion and the Simersetsliire Mi-
litia will be upon the'-Parade this and every evening
during the stay of the ROYAL FAMILY, and their
bands will play for the amosern lit of the Royal •
Party and • the Public. Lord HINTON commands
the Light Company of the Somersetahire Militia."
Last night the RorAt. FAMILY honoured the
Rooms at the Royal Hotel with their presence,
which were fitted up in the first style of elegance • •
for the reception of the Rat Visitors, and every
respedful attention shewn them by the Master of the
Ceremonles : the company c, fsisted of between three
and fn... hundred. The RQYAL FAMILY left.the
Rooms about teno'clock.,
At the early hour of aeveno'Clock His MAicsir
was on hoi,eback, and ode on the D ,rcitetter,,
road, where he met the 5.311.4 d Militia on their
march, pr-ce-ded at their lead into the town, and; •
tuarcNed w.th them t ilteground •which is marked •
out for their encampment, and where they pitched:
their tents. , Acierwdrds 111 i MAJESTY rode to
where the S nfierseishire Nilitia were mustered, and
them.
List night- the whole if the Officers belongil
to the 11.0overian Legisn were presented to ill• ; •
,ROYAL FAMILY, at thezing's' Lodge. •
Tne R.YA.L FAMILY die received cyst), white -
with acclamations by the pipulace• . ,

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CO;7C, NUGUST 23. .•
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with arrived.
a .
m ALIA:LTA nNiDg,ht
mounting 30 guns, t z :nd 9.potrnders. The gene- .
picLeaLL:BirleoLer,igoatti3e,:ioCrdAcPatu.aixf:
rous and manly condud of Capt. MMTLAND gene-
th- family of the late Capt. DI xott. 1111$ ren"
demi km univ, tsAily poi ular in this city.
11.hMIILE is playing 11,'re to overt)wing ilOilleSt
notwithstanding the extreme heat 01 the weather;
his he9rfit is fix..ll for Thursday next.
Thi troopttrom Mallow,FCCiml,Cork, Bandon,' .
and Kinsale, this day encamped (for a inon,h, as is .
s.ii,i) .1: Killeady WI, hilt.way between Cork told'
1.,,,t1un. 'file Yeomanry are doiig the garris-n duty.
The Country has every rrospca ola nubt plead...
ful harvest.

DUB LIN, AUG. 2s.—His Excellency the. Edil
Of 1-IAkDW ICKE, and his Suite, were to leave town •
at five o'clock this morning, to proceed to the
North, to accompany up to town the Countess of
HARDW MKS, who is at the Woflll4lr
GA.1.1.11, Belfast, where she arrived ou
last, after landing at Donaghadee from Scotland.
Our Letters from the South of Ireland contasn •
tl.e must gratifying intelligence of state of De-
fence of that part of the Country, and the excelleng
discipline of the yeomanryand the Troops.
Island, near the city of Cork, is fortified in a
eff: etual manner, and also the beautiful Island of ,
Wfoddy, at 13,, nry 13,y. The Troops are solli"
posed of, that a large Force can be concentrated asa
very abort notice.

CORN 1 Xcuw?G.4,:Auta. 29.

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. TAR late redu(tions in the prices of Wilct, andi
presumi a
ng on further, causes .few sales t0.41,Y, and
those at 3.. and 4:. pi:t yietit,t 1,04 price; VI, 8
have a tewtoreigh caigoes, I tic filicst .s.imp,les at 70'.;
13 itiey and Malt at less ; Pease. and' Beans rather
so ; Prim- GI ry Pease at 404. ; It-tviug so fewirclti
Oat air.V.att, this article is quoted ralltsi &Jilt i
Flour at los. ncr sdck sent than last week. lod
wheat, Sol. a Eras. a Ms. od 1 Tick Beans, 3os. a 30' aj
Fin* do. - bp. a pi, pal Oats. 255. a am. a qi: 0.1 i
Rye - 343. a 373: od 1 Poland up. pi. 3 3":, 1,
Barley . ps.. a 363. oil i Kane Seed, -
.310. z 3..goci
M3it - 655. a 715 cd hue Fl,Ju'r, sss. A (I''' od
White Pease 443. a pa.
,od Seconds, - ses. a Si'
'.Cans, - 365. a 425. ad'

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CIiE4TER, AttOtTsT are happy to be ahle,
to state, tfit.at our Ass::an, upon the trial of boos"
Hurnphrei and two others, charged with being c°o"
corned in the' tumult which took place in till+ city
on the 28th of Decrtiber last, it was proved IT a
very respectable Magkttate, who was pr,nloced
)') ag
a witness on the part of the Crown, that not alve
tqui.tve of the Roy"' Chester. Volunteers were c.°ll- •
Ceined in the riot.- It w.is al,O proved that the Coq'
contained about twelve bnndred men.
DoiL.--In the Duel which took' place. r S"ra
Cid Camp, on Sunday last, between two ()Inca*
of the R:fle..4egiment, as mentioned in our last,
one of the party was Wounded in the thigh, .I'u
the. ball having been extraded, he is now !int
'favourable way; the other was slightly wouit-7`t
and is said to have abi6;nded .in consequence °
the doubtful state in which the life of his attig'
gonist was in the
.first itfsta,,ce said tq .he. ,
Q:5 Sunday night the Post Horse Oaicc, ttt Pitl4na'
street, was baoke open by the most violent exert
by an iron crow, supposed to be t tVo inches
The lock of the street dour, which Is extreme •
strong, was Set into the wall, but the violeoce
was s.) great, that it was forced out of the l't4
The villains proceeded to break open the clerk
desk, which only contained a 201. note, with wh"e
they made off. They attempted to break opt" the
front Ace; they also attempted to break open h
iron chest, but could nor succeed.---l-fad' theY,aof I
tamed it, their booty would -Itave been
toool. Oo Friday was the general rcceivsng Lt"iof •
the receipts of which amounted to upwitl49,,,„„
30,0001. and it is supposed the villains were,
.15-1
prised of this, and expetted to get possessiop !
enurmous sum.

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("3, THE
FRIENDS OF We. AININWARIIyG,

AT FREEMASON'S TAVERN.

A Meeting , having been appointed by Circular
Letters to the Gentlemen in the interest .of•Gitox,cts ,
llouvrom MA 1 NW ART NG% Esq. yesterday the• Hall.
of this Tavern was opened at one o'clock,. and be.,
fore twos numerous party of his friends had as.
sembled ;- among whom we observed Mr. THoRN-
-701, Sir \V-rd. Gfartoms, Mr. MELLISH, Sir WIL-
LIAM CURTI", Sir JOHN HCNEYWOOp, Mr. WI.
CRAM, Mr. 13LACKIIURN, .Mr. ,COCKERELLI Mr.
WELLs,r.and a great, number 'of Members of the
House of Commons, and other OCTSUIIS of the, first
consegoenee in the City.
Mr. FIENItY THORNTON hiving been called to
the Chair,- ii was proposed that the doors should be
shut; to which Sir WILLIAM CURTIS immediately.
objetted„declaring it to be expedient that the con.
duct of the preient Assembly should be exposed to
the whole Ctluntry, for the bake of presenting an
example to the• People -of England, so Well'worthy;
their imitation.

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Mr. THORNTON then addressed. the Company
'nearly as follows

" By the Circular Letters Gentlemen have re.
ceived, they are already informed of the, general ob.
jet of this Meeting. • It is in Consequence of the
proceedings at the late Elation fur Middlesex, to
consider of the best means of maintaining Mr.
IVIAINWARING in the seat to which he has• been
eleded, and of supporting the insulted rights of t!!-.
whole County.
" I think it right to represent to you what ap.
pears ito:nle to be the present state of the contest ;.
and,
Sin so doing, I shall take the opportunity of
observing on the rise, progress, and.conclusion of
the traosaftions; touching slightly on. some parti-
culars, and 'dilating on others, as their•respettive
importance shall demand. * -
,1 We all recollea the contest of 1802. Sir ti RAN-
Cis BURDETT thought proper, on that occasion, to
offer linnseif to the County. Few thought that it
was at all likely that lie would succeed.' This
opinion was riot only entertained from the reweet
and conli4ence Mr. MAINVARING had nitrated,
but Item the universal understanding that the Ba.
inner Wati connected with those who were ill.affcct...
ed to the Constitution ; and that the violence of
his own principles would admit very few to ap.
pear in his support. Ile, however, grounded his.
claims, on the County, on the situation .of .Mr..
MAINWARINO, as a Magistrate, and on the con.
duCt of Mr. AK is, whom he was supposed to pro.
led. These were the topics on which the Parry
Most vociferously declaimed. To you, Gentlemen,.
I need'say very little on such a subjea ; but it is
the general sentitnent, that however faulty Mr.
Anis *might haft been in many respeds, in point
of hunianity his character has hitherto been un.
impeachable. 'I mention this to slim, that this
was only the meteor of a moment ; it was exhibit.
ed before the Public to dazzle' their eyes, and then
to be cast upon the winds, and dissipated for
,ever.
have read the Report of the Committee respeti.
log Mr. Aft is, with very great attention ; and I am
hold enough to avow, that the delta of .Mr. Ants
was not severity, but an indulgence excessive
and indiscri:itiate. Biit,•-Gentlitnen, this Offi.
err Was. but the instrument ; the objet of the
rarty was • to disgrace Magistracy' itself through.
tht: the'Country.. It was nut the grave office in
Middlesex only that was• to be defamed, but all
the justices of the CoUntry were to'bc represented
'as • leagued with Mr. A it ts, for the purpose of
outraging every principle of huttianity. By these,
'leans, the contest for Middlesei was not a rival.
Ship between two individuals,—it was a confliet
Anarchy .and Order, between. Law and
,nlVe.ree) hetsieen every \Wog sacred in Society,
f•-` "%niacin Government, and every thing pro.
pnaigare, and abandoned. This is one of the
'prominent features in this business. Another is,
e tterogatory
c is connr.ations with which Sir FRax.
BuaDETT is united. . He has not affeeted to
Cc.)nceals, that he has made his- agents and compa.
..it'l°llilhe most notorious .charafters, some of whom
Dar
been acquitted, and others convidesl at the
of their Country.' One person who has been
most adive on his canvass, was Secretary to the
%;orrespanding Society ; another man was the De.
Fury at Paris, and was sentenced to be. exposed on.
ti; with these Men around him, Sir FRAN.
BU R D ETr may - br supposed to elevate the colours
°,,F; Mr. BONNEY, and to found his preteiisions on
"Hireftion and dishonour;
1" -Under these circumstances, it is no wonder. if
m%',e. should have thought the designs of Sir.T,RANc is
vaus'ir %ere merely to excite a tempest'iii the
succeed the.porulace, without the smallest hApe of
iiuteceeding in. the objett to which he has, thought'
‘'Pite. The Venerable Magistrate felt rational
to-warrent
'15,.,Pne1°,,;.".in5. of success, and the state. of the Poll
" But
there e decisions
of his judgment.
Sir F was one •• circumstance which gave
alas aaNCIS
apart' no s • ,
advantage over
nOpOnent• He
and Was a than Ili& rides of great opulence,
the tu Were lavishly dispersed to answer
'• r.Pse of hi Eleftion. We all know that
I.h.one.y 'will, at its. c:unmant), Produce-a6ivity ; that
w:11 colle4- votes; and that, by jta.itssiptance, a
le.ndid figure may be, made, by means, in other
fle'Peass apparently inefficient.. But this was not
the Only -cxpedienr; prodigality was assisted by method in its aPpliCation.
" All this did not seeiff adequate to encounter
the difficulties that were opposed to it ; and Mr. i
I•44lstwAtt_iNc complained that Sir FiAwcts BUR-
nITT kept • open the Poll with Out any proira of
success. .Sir FRANCt I, it seems, -was hest acquaint-
, ed with his Own resources, and, on a sudden,
Within the last two or three' days, the Elettion
los oak a turn, new and unexpected.
":It is impossible not to advert with peculiar at.
tention to what haVe been called the Mill Vores.-.--.
Of these votes; .three hundred and, seventy were in
favour of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. i• have looked ins() the 'evidence upon this sUbjett, and the incur.
tnationJrum which 'I have drawn my conclusions,.
is from a person who voted 'in favour of the
Ctuner". Mr. MILIAN, in-his evidence • before the
ommittee of tlisi`HouSe of Commons, says, that

:subscriptints to the Mill; ankthat, from that time
to the 4th of August, there were not more th-an cane
hundred Proprietors... In otte part of his evidence,
he says eighty_ or .ninety. The three httnicreir% 41.
'seventy- votes were.given in July, •18oz ; thit if
,this evidence .of the friend of Sir FRANCIS be at
-
taltcorreCl, 'kw° hundred and seventy votes, in
!single afFair,Artust be a nullity. There might•ise
laboot two or three hundred who had a , right to ,
•seme share ; but whatever qualification they' had,
was posterior to the' eleetion ; yet they ventured to
swear diredly the contrary. Many of them voted
on the very day after they became Partners in this
concern. They gave forty. shillings for their pre.
tended right on Tuesday, and on Wednesday. pre.
smiled ,to vote. Many. of these persons were.day.'
labourers, and: in the meanest situations.' Some -ek-
cuse might, :on particular occasions,, be admitted
from the ignorance 'of people of this description ;. but
the words of the.oath are so plain, and the nvore
,of
the obligation is tao sacrrd, that even among these We
ate at a loss, to eplain this utter degradation of the.
human mind; •all .regard, not only to private faith,
but to public decency, .was abandoned, and;by these
means, the temporary success FRA.NC IS
BURDETT, was obtained. These traniatiions are
the more extraordinary, because, the profits whiCh.
1. were the foundation of these pretensions, haVe
never been received, for the -itself was not
hallcompleted." . [The chairman here- adverted
Co the evidence before the Committee of the House._
of Commons, and, read, at considerable length,
several extras from it.]—‘6 I dwell upon 'these,
remarkable fads, that it may be potettly clear,.
that these men had not the smallest pretension fur
the vote they dared to give ; the oldest member
could have no right to vote. The property was in
such a state, that ,it is loth fair anti candid to
conclude, that no doubt on the invalidity of the.
claim to vote could exist in the mind of the most
ignorant. The payment of 21. or zl, 45. 61, on
the pretension bet up, was to enable, two or three
hundred persons to swear to a Freehold of forty
shillings per annum, than which no absurdity could
possibly be presented to the understanding more
palpable.
" If in a case so gross, which was SO likely to
submitted'be to the attention of Parliament, they
adopted such means, you may judge what other,
ways were pursued, what other,arts were prattised, •
to subvetse the same designs. I really think, after •
what I have now represented su conclusive, that
will not examine any other instances of fraud to
which the adverse party have resorted. I(nOwing all
these circumstances,' you will n,t, Gentlemen, be
surprised that Mr. MA I NWARI NG went before the
Committee of the House of CommoOs in perfect
security and confidence. He objetted to no less
than two thousand two hundred votes polled in
favour of Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT ; a number much
exceeding half the poll of that Gentleman. He
afterwards, to prevent delay, waved his objection
to a portion of these, and limited the inquiry to
about fifteen hundred votes. It will scarcely he
credited; that out 'of this reduced number, thirteen
hundred and six were found 'to be nugatory.
Gentlemen, from this specinien of honour and fide.
lity in support of the Baronet, I leave you to judge
of the glory of the victory they afFed to have. ob.
mined, in what they
.venture to denominate the
cause of truth and virtue.

4, It, is lamentable to see the perverson of which
the mind of. man is capable, and it will Oludantly
be believed, that when these fabricated votes were
iliought forward, Sir Fit Is BURDETT congratu.
laced the persons around him, that then, and not
till then, the real Election had commenced'. Ile
felicitated the Country on the purity of his own in..
tentions, and on the integrity of his friends ;'and he
attempted to represent the malignity of the mo.
Lives with', which his adversary was aftuated; anii
by which those who • supported him were etltially
impelled.
" Thus has this County been represented'by Sir
FitANcts BURDETT, without the shadow of a
title. He has enjoyed a seat which btlunged to his
competitor,' and the County mast consider itself
aggrieved by this usurpation. 'lt was not surprising,
that there was not any serious attedipt to support
the votes of the thirteen hundred and six,' In truth,
there Was nothing to, defend. Mitch this fact before
us, it is quite'unnecessary to go into the varinus
•fabricatiOns for the purposes of the moment ; it I
wera to do sO, the whole Would exhibit a scene of
villainy hardly to be paralleled in the history of
•

" It is to be lamented that the question on hri.
fiery, by Sir FRANCIS gURDETT and his Agents,
'during the late Scruiiny, was not pursued with the
attention it manifestly deserved. I ought to state,
that, it shoUld not be understood Mr.
,MAI N.
WAR ING has given up the idea. of prosecuting in
consequence of the various outrages committed
„doting that contesi. It was thuugtit.by his .Cuun.
sel, that the Petition ought to precede all legal
redress.. • . .

' "Of the number .of the votes of Mr. MAIN.'
WAR INC: which. were set aside, the greater portion
was owing to mistakes* stating their places of
residence upon •the Pull. There were not ten per,.
lons who were not Freeholders, and there k not a
single Charge of fraud substantiated. It is a great
source of satisfaetion to me, in. the ostensible situ.
ation to which I have been called, that the purity
of Mr. MAINWARING'S charader and condo& is
thus established. lam equally solicitous to detea
perjury in the voters fur Mr. MAI NiVAR ING as
the supporters of Sir FRANCIS Bo R I TT. LI
a case, it is not the vote .4';,-iwhich I attend; it is
the perjury to which I.apply- yself ; a crime which,
fur the sake of public morals, must not he disregard-
ed; and I am bold to appeal to public morals, to the
cause of individual truth and general virtue, when
I intreat your support on the present important oc.-
casion.

" Sir FRANCIS BURDETT being thus disappoint.
ed in point of pumbers; turned round, upon his ad.
versary, and attacked hilts on the ground of treat.
ing. I should be extremely sorry if Mr. MAIN.
RARING Were to have been discovered to have in-
tentionally violated any law on which the freedom
of the Country, and the purity of the Constitution
depends. The law, however, is sometimes ambi-
guous, and the best and, MACS{ men may be some-

iog at Fleetitin's, has; not been, oniform. it, has
held; in tl.ie case of ilornug4s, that it is la 4ful
rn conduti Voters to fre, place of "Eledion, and to
dive 7thein she refreshment nature 'requires.. It
:imps 1114 is hot the:l3W of the. land:with respeek t 3
Counties; anj Mr. IVlA'rw.vait4c was declared
cap:ltie of obtaining hi, S,ar; bec.lo3e he hail not
leaf date diAtinaion in this nice point of Parlia-
mentary Brit; Gentlemeni by whin was
thistclarge brought forward.? It was made byrfSir
FitANcsi 13-UkDE ;. and it' was in evidence- before.
rho Co'mmitree, the t 11.3:14, were openiM for the'
'entertf-inment of hi.: own Voters: 'One of the inn.
keepers at Brentford:frankly acknowledge'a, he was
applied to for this purpose, by the-Agent of Sir
FRANc Is. Irott see, then, the decency oithis pre.
tension is much like all the rest ; it was: neither
honourable or'creditable to the Baronet ; and.who.
ever should have supported ibis charge, ,Sir FitANCIS
BURDETT vas the last person by 'whom it should
have been maintained.

.41 I will not omit to -advert to the Report orthe
Committee of the House of Commons, which -
high authority, after a long and la.bAious exaMina-
. lion, declares the true judgment on the nefarious
.cbodigt during the Defiler' to which T have refer.
red. 'That Committee has announced, that on the
13th, 14!h, and tsth days, there was gross nth-
.eonduti : that R. A. Cox and Sir W.tik. 'RAW LIN.S
were the instruments : that they did Wilfully and
unlawfully admit to poll,. for Sir FRANCIS BUR.
DE TT, -three hundred persons, by-which a colour.
able majority was obtained for that Candidate. The
.CoMmittee declared, that the Sheriffs objefled to the
validity of votes which ought not to have been rejeft-
.ed, aitd abed in contr idiCtion to their known'cluty;
that, in favour of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, they af-
forded opportunities to persons who had no right to
poll ;and that they held out temptations to Perjury,
contrary to the - meaning of the authority with
which they were invested.
." After this exposition of the decision of the
E. Committee, is it possible, with any regard to fair
argument, to coofine the censure ? Is it not appa•
rent that the culpability is nercolifined to the She-
riffs, but that it has extended to the Partizans of Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT?" The former permitted, the
latter committed. the wrong. Thus- the. 'Most dis.
graceful Perjury has 'teen tolerated by Sir• FRANCIS
Bust Darr and his -Counsel ; has been pra:lised .by
his supporters ; and all the epithets applied to the
Sheriffs are most silkily applicable to the former.
Will any man doubt, under: these circumstances,
that this short triumph was obtained without the
. exhibition of the most.scandatous scenes of political
iniquity? I take this Report, then, of the Commit..
tee, to be a. const tative declaration uf.the rectitude
of Mr. MAINWARING's CODthin, androf the con.
srary on the part of Sir FRANCIS • BUR DETT ; and
I shall, be extremely :frricerneki it the County in
general have not understood this Report to be an
exposition, by the 1-I,,usi of Comin,ms, of the
.cot_
rapt means by which Sir FRANCIS. Birk D ETT
tamed his Seat.

I have detained you a lung time, but I am fear.
ful I must request your attention yet longer : for
in what re:yeas the second contest, I have not'
yet arrived. at 'the threshold. • , •
Some Gentlemen 'will recollea the difficolty
there *was to 'procure a Candidate to oppose „Sir
FRANC IS- BURL:JETT, nut certainly Rom tespeft for
the buptriority of his legitimate pretensions, but
from tbe apprehensions which were felt. cf..the inor-
dinate expence. The charge of the ..Eledion. of Mr. -
tNW AR trio, stn. •was very gicar, the Scrutiny
involved an additional expellee, and for a consider-
able time the qtgstion seemed ro -be, not Who had
the fairest pretensions, 'but who, had the longest
purse. With this experience before him, Mr.
IVIALIwAtwio, Sun. would, not 'venture to under-
take the contest until some' prospen of indetr;:iii.
cation %v.', presented. Nothing, thirefore, could
be more proper than the SUbscriptian which was
adopted, and with this liberal support, lvlr.GE.uttGe
BUULTON AtIINIVAAING declared himself a Can.
didate. _ _ .

" The first, ground of Objeaion. to this Gentle.
man was, that t.kiiiiSubscription Was itself illegal:
The opinion of 'Gentlemen learnel in the l'aw %vas
obtained; *.their sentiments were treated with con-
tempt; and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT invidiouli7 re.
mirked, that a recen t determ nation of a Learned
Gentleman high in office had been given, but his
judgment bad nut been found to be infallible.. It
is curious to remark,. that notwithstanding this
formal,a Subscription bas now been en.
tered .i.4-tut in is our of ttie Baronet.' It seems
that the sPfentlanr of hit fortune, and the muni.
licence of Ilia mind, are not esteemed., sufficient for
the support of his cause, and new means must be
resorted to, to prop, up the nodding edifice.

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.st We all know what .a torrent ta abuse has been
poured forth upon those who have dared to oppose
„,.
Sir. FRANCIS BURDETT. Mill all the. readiness
feel to alloW for prcciritation of mind, and the
violence of Orty-leelirg,' I can supply no apology
for this intemperate calumny. We ate not only
all of us charged with being Contranors anti Place.
men, but we. are dead to all the sentiments of 'Li.
betty, and insensible to all the blessings of the
British Constitution: Surely it is nut too much
to say, that those Of) c.in degrade themselves by
this indecent and indiscriminate cen•uire, are not
:fit to represent an'lndependent Como y, which has
important rights to he proteded, by the calm exer.
cise of political wisdom. •
(4 But, by Muir') is this virulence employed
Is there a man, who possesses a loyal heart, who
does not also poisess a sufficient discernM;nt to
discover some consistency in these pro;ttedings ?
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT' has' been connctied ith
men who have proVed traitors to their Country ;
anti. he has received into the list of his fritrids.one
'individual, who is publicly known to beat this time
assisting in the destruaive projeds'of BONAPARTE.
If any thing is competent to awaken the sen4ibility-
of Englishmen, in one common cause, it is the cir-
cumstances which I liave now relutlantly exposed,
because, they are diatractful to Me; and to my
Country.
Ii was natural to expel, after what hiid passed
' in the former Election, that the same scenes would
he again presented. The same, houses were opened ;
the saute Agent; wets employed; and all the external

. . . _
3:frerent were the Officers wilo were placl io au-
,
*thurity ori,the recent occasion. . .
" I must nut intrude upon your not.',ee. coarse
remarks on the foul praaices which hay fern re..
sorted ..tO, without giving you some part ictslars ,of
the eirpedients which have been empl .yed. -1 thill
not.mention trifling fatts,; but the trwre rerntrl:able
circumstances must not escape, your attention, at-A
from these you will,be Capable of deciding, if the
nutni)er of votes in favour of Sir FRANCI4
_EU it.
n ITT be not, at this Eleetion, as well as t.fie hst,
merely a colourable pretence, without linf'thlrig
s'ubstanlial by which it can be supported.
...
histnry of the prOceedings Will eNilaio tri itgtirr:
t
...,.,
ing." "

(Tire Chairman then instancerta vasiety. q(' tin; 'l674tlitri—ks
and infimpus practices ditAraceit•
the Partizans of Sir Ffi fre BUYiStVe, ;ti, et; -
tion ; and continued ;1

Whatever may have been the arts empioved on
the otherside, those who have sided fir MAI ti-
WAR 11.16 !fare been Mlsr anxbus to vvid intro.
during persons to the Hustings who were: not en.
titled to vote ; and,it will be a Listing's:m*l;44m
to our minds, that we have not condescended to
disgrace a British Eletlion by such•derogatory ex.
pedients.

" This is 'not a contest merely of a personal
kind'; it is to restore the,County 'to its tights,
which have been so injuriously violated; and it is
,at least consolatory to see, that the effeft of the,
system adopted by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, must
be, that if an investigation for three ,Jr five muntlrs
should again take, place, Mr. IVlnt xwAitt /NG will be
confirmed in his seat by a decided majority."
Mr. TkORNTON next advtrted to the condud of
the Sheriffs,' and on comparing their trans Jethro,
with the words of the Ac't, he cuncladed, that the;
had been entirely governed by a correc't view of
their official 'duties. He commented with much
force on the artifice praetised by the oppsite
Party, in not polling their votes at an early -hour
in the day, in order to facilitate their infroanelign
upon the Poll during the confusion in the Aequel ;
and remarked, that Mr. Ct.ii:FOltO was himself very
late in his'attendance towar.l4. the conclu.4on of the
contest. With these obstrudions, the Sherifts'ltad
a very dinicalt part, to act, yet they acquitted
themsclees in a way that justly intitled die
thanks of ,the Country. But notwithstanding the
Sheriff; have thus taithfully*.discharg,:d their duty,
it is said by Sir FRANCIS Buitosyr,lhat MAIN,
VI :I.R I N has usurped the situation to.which
have returned him as duly eieelell, although Sir Vit A N.
cts himself reposed on the same seat fir two years,
and to which he had no pretensions whatever. It
Must noC escape him
,to state to the respect "I)! et-
number' .of Freeholders then assembled, rtlat
ries had been made, with as much, accuracy
timehad admitted of, resperling the ten votes whiLh
were said, on'the 15th day of the Poll, to 'have
given Sir FRANC Is a majority of one Ildoll the
nerd Poll ; the. result ofd which was, thzi' not vne
was found.to b; valid; ant •it will be rucolleetell,'
that, the charge of usurpation is founded solely Oil the
efficiency of these v o:e

An at'empt was suisst•luently mid:: to ch:rge the
,
ground., ann-tr tvas pretended, that the rx.oninations
by the Sheritri, after there o'el.!ck thu [silt
day was a.:scrutiny. Mr. :Tttba.NTOS ithin pro.
ceeded to compare the short and irtvgl!ar
sion, with the scrutiny 'referred to in the. AZI, and
slimed that there tv:ts not the Sm3tieic aitnilarity,
c.lnsequent:y t,o ground wh4tevet fvr,thi3 new
experiment.
_

• i:3,:ntlenten were not (continued the Finn. awl'.
rriaii) uninforined, th..t the itiench of Sir FILMIC It
Butt orrr had entered it.to a sulis::rip:ion, either to
he applied .to new speculations, or to relieve their
Ctndidate froM some portion- of the pecuniary bor..
thens I,e -had sustained. It was not for him to
judge' of the'applicarion of those funds, bat they
affinded a motive for a contribution on th,t other
side, which should inset the purposes the Gentle,. •
men ..he addressed had unitormly. presenled. to
theinselves. SJ much zeal awl JihertlifY had
been m foliated, that he was confilunt these'
qualities would noron this iecasi,in be found deli..
Cie.nt. Every motive existed for the present exertion,
in opposition to the artifices which have been ern.
i,loyed to alienate the minds
,of • the people froM the
bleNsings of our happy Constittiiion ; and' he
ltii-
.pealed, with grewanimation, to the real Eleaors
of the County, to unite fur the preservation of their
rights, for the ptotettion of the pority'of the me,L._
tive Franchise, and of• whatever i 3 valuable. to
Englishmen.
;),Ir. Mgt.!. said,:he should have very little to
offer after the able manner in which his Honour-
able Friend in the Chair had opened the business.
It had been his situation to be present during
,the
principal part of the transactions at lirentford,7 and
he had an opportunity of, beim, petsuided, by
what passed under his own immediate observation,
of the corrcitness of the statement Wtijelt had been,
'given. He then justified the conduct of the friends
of Mr. MA INW AR 'No, and' exposed the litigious
disposition manifested by the opposing party, in oh.,
jetting fo Mr. Justice Goose, Mr.Cmt4tiow, Mt.,"
Go>P:V, and many other persons whose property is
great, and whose charatlers were beyond the reach
'of stispicion He t otn,tnenteJ on the irregularity of
examining` the votes.. after
,three o'clock., and no-
ticed the PlVeSt, Which thteCol.loSel Mt. MAS NI
WAR ING hid entered against it., Mr, I\IE4A-10i
then said,.he had proposed a few Resolutions, which,
he should submit to the discussion and determina.
of the Gentlemen ptesent.• lie had no ,

cola!' attachment to the form, and should be happy
to hear, and to adopt' the correttions of any une
who, wou4l Like that 'trouble.
Alter a spurt explanation from the Chaircrhin,
Mr. Mit.t.tsti proposed the first Resolution,
being secu-,:sett by Mr. WELLS, was read from the
Chair, and carrled unanimou4ly. The other Rtso.
lotions were then r,:a'd in order, were seconded by
the same Gentleinso, ,11,1 were all passed with the
same general Q.o.,,:urrcnce. '

r, is said that GcnerAl CAULINCOVIT, who iOCk
'the Duke of EN4fII4K tt has died bud»
denly at Buol
Yesterday tits Lotto. MAYott ordered the Fit e
of Bredd to continue 4 ts. dm varitrn. lay t~
whe,Lten; and ro d. housettad, at

',cm the LONDON AZETTE, Aug. 6, x'804..

. Majesty having been pleased to appoint -the
Right Hon. John Foiter, the Right Hon. Sit Evan
•Nepeati, Bart. Chief-Secretary to.the Lord Lieute_
nant. of Ireland, of the Chiet Secretary to the Lord
Lieutenant tor:the time being, or, in the absenceof
the Chief Secretary, the Under Secretary for' the-
tittle being for the Civil Department of the: said*
Setreta6-'i4 Ofike, the Right 'Honourable Lodge.
Lord Frankfort, the Right.Honourable John Loftus
Loftus,. cOmmonly called Lord Viscount Loftus,
and the Right. I.l9nOurable Maurice Fitzgerald, to
be His' IVlajesty's Couurnisioners'forexecuting the
Office of Iteasorer .of Majesty's Exchequer in
Ireland, Letters Patent have been passed under the
Great'Seal of Ireland accordingly. • . -
And His Mdjesty, been, pleased to anpoinr
the Righi Hon. John Foster to, he Chancellor of.
His:Mdjesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, Let.
ters*Patent have been passed •under the Great Scal
of Iteland.accordingly.

.C./702M. Office, August 18

MEMBER. RETURNEP TO ARVE IN TillS PRESENT

It 1.; I,A M NT.
o) ough of Tiegwy.

George Woodford Thellusson, Esq, in the room of the Right
lion. George Spencer, commonly called Maiquis of
Blarxiford, who, since his Election for the said Borough,
-luth accepted The Office of one of the Commissioners for
executing the Oilice.of Lord High Treasurer of Great Bri.
tain.