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your satislaCtory actOunt of our procredings. As
Yet we have lost only one Officer, Assistant Sur-
ge". The Spanish and English 'merchants con-
4, vented with Jamaica, aware of the approach o
4PGaGort's expedition, were in the ntmost
alarm at lamaica, on account of seven millions of
dollars which they were getting over land, from
the country becoming the theatre of war. We
bad a quick passage of ;35 days from
r-rhe Officers and troops behaved with great pro•
PrietY; there was not a single sick man 'rot- officer
on board. Two of the Members of the Govern-
them of New Granada were at Aux Caye, ; they
came front Jamaica. The Officers of the Expe-
dition were kindly received by the Authorities of
Aux Caves, having waited on them with the
troops, and were permitted to pitch tents on shore,
which was a great luxury in that climate, being
Nulatly encamped. The Officers were visited
Iffy the General of r,.e native troops, a polite little
Irtlack, a man of Parisian manners, and all the
Principal people of Aux Cayes."

The purity of the Elective, as well as of the
neVreseutative, Bodv, is of the utmost, importance
to the st,bili,y of THE BRITISH CoNSTITUTIoN4
our' MiniStelS nave
arid as we. are persuaded that.
6inrerely at heart the integri' y of that.i Constati-
linn. as well as a due regard for the interest and
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less
. I
lionour of the Empire ill general, we
fitsi,ty for the sit...cess " THE ELECTORS'wiII
f eelt
)OATH
P'ILL," because we are sure that they
1)4" a measure so c.ll calculated to excite the
v".'fideuce of the Pe,ople, by convincing them,
thlt though our Rulers are tiechiedly hostile to
the (1 danger of Unirersal Suffrage, 57;1
11'41 >lre by no mean,: inimical to.
)u thesnc
fio.
t lain itti
"<1 gradual Reform, as, by lessen"
tnce of corruption in the Constituent Bo(ly, may
14"41"fe C,e put ity of Parliament at all periods.
l'his laudable purpose " THE ELECTORS' OATH
11LL" seems admirably' adapted to promote,
tel,
4" therefore we had in compliance ith
to
Wishes of many of our Readers, intended ffer our sentiments upon the subject at large;
is °tit finding in a Morning Paper of Ibis day, which
'formly stea(!y in support of Government, and
4: the same ;ime watchlal over the rights of the
p--"eaPle, the followint! article on this interesting
r
i'l)sifte, we shall adopt it for the present, anti e
le "le our Own emit' ks for a future occasion
;gent
ral
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We observe with great pleasure the gt
I"valetice of an opinion, that ' The Electors'
Path
will
ultimately pass with the concur-
.
ter'ce 6Cthe great body of the Country G 7tie.
vntii.oo,
311" t ; and as it is considered an open ow,:
si,n
trwit US i itiport it acesto adiscus-
„ll Hk treePublic
ti, we way eoogratitlate the
Bill ProhabAity of its success. We consider this
1))
0%, of the mos, important which has for
pie
Years been ioonitted to Parliament. Its sun-
an ()hjeet is to remove a dangerous and invidious
•
namely. which has engrafted itself on the Re-
hal)teSentCive System, in violation of the Comaot
• %''tlie rules of the House of Conutions—., ntit
leifi4hee of the Statute regulations which con-
"le itioas of other Electors throughout
.1-me King` out: To intpress our Readers the
.11‘ee"litY of this measure, cannot be retlisite after
pose I'4 p
phe 8 been said upon it ; nor can it be sup-
, 'l that in a Parliament which has shown
itist lind Prompt an inclination to check cor-
:Ptilt and venality, this Bill will not be
a-
eti'll'ablY f
entertained and honourably stipport•
1,4 It would indeed he,
tito4t difficult on any
14%t1i" Plinciple to justify the infliction of pu.
/),(:ier" Upon a poor ignorant voter, who,
coti )4ulY., when his necessity and not his will
‘vi!itilts.' accepts a trifling
stint
for his vote ;
• at, ttle,n° attempt is made to prune the more
Wl,wend extensive growth of corruption,
rerci 11'3'16416 in the arrangements made fur the
sent
tii 4tion of Close Boroughs in Parliament.
Pips, et4tter case a double offence is committed.
cop e
tl,e
.1
the occasionality which is created to se-
e4ts t° election,
by compelling needy depend-
.rtsev.. f •y 0 di gloss moral offence in re-
rag them•elves as the owners of property
eml do
es not belong to them ; and sect-61)111Y, Y,st4:ceiving money for the seat. In some in-
at -th the P4lron has had the hardihood to attend
i?ile
l cti°n, and vote himself for his Colleague,
ily, Whrl) he is to receive the price of his vena-
•
all
t circumstances like these - loudly
LRGISLATI /' is VII ihterfereoce vend when the
theso sitnple, and widivlit't danger either to
lie rid' c"trY or to the State, we think we should
ilhe'
in4l eithleille
ll 58 "ring a shadow, were we to ap-
e liter House of Parliament a success-
Ilp •
"Inn to this Bill. It contains, in tact,
ate on
innovat ii
the , the object
tl being merely to
,•„
the eums in Freehold Boroughs
saute utt-
regtilatioliS as the Freeholders in
lees,
and in Towits which are CounCes
ayes, and
which, , in all other
fur
ficec‘‘. s
lotus or Occupancy are like-