The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-17 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF AHDDLESEX.

GENTLEMEN,
N consequence of Lord Henley having with-
'. drawn himself as a Candidate for the Representation
of this great County, I have been earnestly solicited by a
numerous body of the Electors to offer myself for your
suffrages at this important crisis.
I feel honoured and gratified by the anxious solicitude
which has influenced my decision to place myself in your
hands.
My Parliamentary conduct, during the last 20 years,
is recorded with that of other independent Members. If
it has been such as you approve, and you should be pleased
to elect me one of your Representatives, it is my determi-
nation to pursue a similar course.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
CHARLES FORBES.
Fitzroy-square, Dec. 15, 1832.

HERTFORDSHIRE.
THE COMMITTEE for CONDUCT-
ING the ELECTION of LORD GRISISTON
SIT DAILY at GREEN'S HOTEL, LINCOLN'S-INN-
FIELDS, from Eleven o'clock to Four, where every ar-
rangement will he made fur the Conveyance to the Pull
of the Electors in his Lordship's Interest.
The Polling is fixed for Thursday, the 20th, and Fri-
day, the 21st instant.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1832.

The Borough Elections having concluded so
triumphantly for the cause of Reform, we think it
no unfair presumption that the county ones will be
equally satisfactory. Already they have commenced
under flattering auspices, Mt.SM'S. BRISCOE. BEAU-
CLERK and HUME, Lords MILTON, PALMERSTON , I
and ALTHORP, being the favourite candidates for
the respective divisions of the counties for which
they stand. To-morrow the polling commences for
the Eastern Division of Surrey, and though scarcely
a doubt exists of the return of those two staunch
Reformers, BRISCOE and BEAUCLERK, yet in order
to make " assurance doubly sure," we call upon
all the electors who have their country's good
at heart, and are superior to the mean paltry
temptations thrown out by the Conservatives,
to hasten to the poll and thereby s?..
cure the return of the two only candi-
dates that have yet presented themselves, who
are likely to do them effectual service. Mr. BRISCOE
is already well and favourably known to all Re-
formers; a word from us, therefore, would be almost
superfluous; of Mr. BEAUCLERK, who has hitherto,
from lack of opportunity; played a less conspicuous
part, we think it right to state that he signalized

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Judging by present appearances, it seems likely
that a desperate struggle will take place between the
Tory and Reform candidates for the representation
of the two divisions of Warwickshire. But the
electors will, no doubt, do their duty--for shame,
o,delible shame, it were, that a great county like
Warwickshire, which was among the first, if not
the first, to sound the loud trumpet of Reform, and
bid all England bestir itself at the summon., should
now sink back into lethargy, and return those men
who are sworn to do their utmost to neutralize the
good effects of that measure, which the brave men
of Warwickshire made such herculean efforts to
secure.

Our accounts from Oporto come down to the 9:h
instant, at which time matters continued much in
the same state. We have been favoured with the
perusal of Letters from an Officer of high rank
at that place, which completely disprove the state
ments of the person who addressed a letter to the
Morning Chronicle which appeared on Saturday
I.r. We have not time, however, to day to give the
particulars. A general sortie was to take place
in a few days. The army was in good spirits end
full of enthusiasm.

We understand that orders have been sent
from the Home Office to the different districts in
which election disturbances have broken out, coal.
mandinga rigid inquiry,with a view to the punishment
of those by whom too much or too little zeal for the
preservation of the peace has been shown.

The French Papers of Saturday contain nothing
very important.

FRENCH FUNDS,PA RI 9, DEC. 15.-Five per Cents., 98f. 45c.
fi 50c. 45c. 50c. 55c. 50e. 45c. 50c. 45c. 50c. ; Loan of 1832, 98f. 50c.
'c. 55c. ' • Four per Cents., 82f. ; Three per Cents., 68f. 30c 35c.
39e. 35c. 30c. 35c. 40c. ; Bank Actions, 1,68.. 1,685 f. ; Rente
de Naples, 80.6 oc. ; Rente de Romain, 79783', ; Bente (PE,.
pagne, e ent., 12% ; Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cent.,
'33li 14 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 821 A ; Rente Perpetuelle
',agile, 583 i AN% %Si % %N; Belgian Loan, 7634 5.6 ;
Ilaytian Loan, 225t:-Exchange on London, one month, paper,
;25f. 80e. ; money, 25f. 75c. ; three months, paper, 251. 63e. ;
money, 25f. 65c.

We have only space to refer to the accounts from
Antwerp, by which it will he seen that Fort
Laurent has been taken by the French, a:td that
the citadel is likely soon to follow.

German Papers, received this morning, refer to
:he situation of the PORTE as being critical. Par-
iculars to-morrow.

THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.—" If
we say that Mrs. ['ALL has entirely succeeded, we do not
overrate her merits. She has not only succeeded in the
invention of an interesting story, in the creation of a gal.
lery of portraits in which each face is stamped with a dis-
tinctive nature, and in preserving dramatic consistency to
the close, but she has, with remarkable skill, diffused the
spirit of all that was really most admirable in her Irish
sketches through the piges of her new novel, without corn-
promising in the least degree the national lineaments it is
her object to depict. There are in The Buccaneer ' the
same amiable philosophy, the same under current of chid_
ing wisdom, the half-revealed satire, the mirth that melts
into patho., and the sadness that flashes into joy, which
are to be found scattered like precious gems in her short
pieces. In fact ' The Buccaneer' is a work of very high
merit, and will take rank with some of the best actions in
our language."—Atlas.

According to the table of returns, which we
have given in another page, and from the additional re-
turns that have been received since it was drawn up, and
which we give above, it appears that out of 328 Mem-
bers, not more than 68, at the utmost, can be deemed
Anti-Reformers, and there is hardly one of these that is
not a Reformer on some points. Of the other 260, about
230 are Miniaterialists, wholly, or almost wholly ; and -of
the remaining 28, there are certainly not more tb.:in 10
or 12 who will not go with Ministers on almost all ques-
tions. The Ministerial majority, as the returns now
stand, is, in fact, not much short of 201 The remain-.
ing returns from England will add 70 or 80 at least ;
Scotland will give 40. Ireland wlll diminish the majo-
rit scan 20, or it may be 30. The actual majority will
thge from 270 to 280...--Spectator.
ANECDOTE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.--
A butler of the late Sir •ALTER SCOTT quarrelled with
the cook, and having rather unceremoniously accompa-
flied his argument with a few cuffs, he was reprimanded
by Sir WALTER, and sent down stairs with the following
advice:—" Recollect in future, when you wi,h to con-
vince a woman, do it by fleeching, (or you will never be
able to do it by fighting; women may be led, but they will
nut be driven."

A FEMALE HORSE STEALER.--On the
night of the 12th a black mare, the property of Mr. J.
PRICE, and a black gelding, the property of Mr. J. Core,
were stolen out of a meadow
at the Lakes, in the par
gence of their horses for some days,ish
of Withington. The owners
could not pin any
when a person named
EDWARD LEWIS told Mr. PaJCE that if he would go to
Walney, it was a likely place to find his mare. A mes-
senger was accordingly despatched and the mare found
there. It is supposed the thief did not find the old mare
able to travel, and therefore turned her adrift before she
arrived at the Leominster turnpike, as the mare did not
pass through that gate. The friends of Mr. CoLE pursued
the thief through Ludlow, Bishop's Castle, and ti om thence
to Long Mountain, in Montgomeryshire, where at an inn
they discovered the horse in a stable; the animal had been
brought there by a woman, who was secured and conveyed
to Montgomery county gaol. The thief is the wife of E.
LEWIS, the man who informed Mr. PRICE where to find
his mare. The woman had offered the hors,. for sale at
Welshpool fair, on the 16th ult., but could cot get sk
higher bidding than 121. which she refused, the borm)
being worth 201. It is worthy of remark, that Mr. Cot.):
has kept a horse, free of expense for LEWIS,
harvest; LEWIS having lent Cora a tr:4gpin Ic, gat!,i
his corn. This is black ingratitnde,--R4C.

himself by his incessant exertions ire the great cause,
during the late eventful ,ti uggle between the
boroughmongers and the people, and when
the issue of that struggle appeared most doubt-
ful, was among the foremost to move at
an influential public meeting " that a re-
spectful petition be presented to his MAJESTY,
and both Houses of Parliament, to take into
their serious consideration the necessity of a Reform
in the House of Lards." Am. ng other calumnies that
he Conservative faction ha ve circulated against Major
BEAUCLERK, two of the most prominent are that he
is an advocate for the repeal of the Union, and a
member of the National Political Union. To the
first, the Gallant Candidate has given a prompt,
,nqualified denial ; the second he also denies—not
hecause it is at all to his discredit to be a member
of such a body, but simply because he happens just
it present to belong to no Political, or other Union,
whatever. The principles of Major BEAUCLERK are
the right sort ; he is a stiff, energetic Reformer,
within the limits of the Constitution; one of those men
in short, wbose success will reflect honour on the
county that elects him. To revert to another
pqually important matter. Mr. HUME, as will
seen on reference to another part of " The
Sun," was this day put in nomination for Mid-
dlesex. We need hardly call on all friends to a
true and efficient Reform to rush forward to the poll
and secure the return of this most honest, most ie..
defatigable, and most experienced Reformer. As
for poor Sir C. FORBES—the " Conservative," as
the silly old man calls himself—he can only have
been put into nomination by way of a joke, though
the joke is such a villainously stupid one, that even
Sir C. WETHERELL himself, despite his party pre-
judice, would be, we are convinced, among the very
first to repudiate it. Sir C. FORBES, may rely on
it, that he has not:an atom of a chance for Mid-
dlesex ; the electors of this great county are too
actively alive to their duties.