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London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

STATE OF THE POLL.

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' MIDDLESEX ELECTION.
THE CQM.ViIrisEE for conducting the RE-
. ELECTION of Mr. WILLIAM MELLISH, basin;
reason to apprehend that .many of the Gentlemen Freeholders
have not been canvassed, or applied to by the District Com-
mittees, beg leave to apidogize for such neglect, and hope it
will he ascribed to the only cause, namely, the incorrect state
of. the,Lists.

The Committee beg leave to return their best Thanks to
the Freeholders who have already favoured Mr. Mellish with
the promise of their support, and' sulicit their early atten-
dance at the Poll.

Bishopsgate-street, March 20,1820.
District Conitnittees are sitting in the following Places :
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill.
Crown Tavern, Cletikenwell-green.
Ship Tat'ern, Fitishury-place.
Star and Garter, Islington-Green.

Angel Inn, Strand.
Percy. Coffee-house, Rat hbone-place.
Waite Hart, Holborn.
Stratford Coffee-house, Oxford-street.
Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
Hoinie's Hotel, Parliament-street.

New Exchange Coffee-house, Strand.
Golden Eagle, Mile-End.
Crewe and Angel, Whitecliapel.
Narrow-street, Littlehouse.
Ne. 44, Welklose-square.
Marciuss of Wellington, Shoreditch.
Green Men, Betllll4l-green.
DM) Saltere's Tavern, Chelsea.
Catherine Wheel, 80, ough.
Cock and Lion, East Sinitlifield.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. SoTH EBY.
At his House, No. 3, WELLINGTON-STREET, Strand,
on MONDAY, March 27, 1820, and Nine, following Days
(Friday, March 31; Saturday, April 1; Sundays, and Mon-
day the 3d, excepted),
THE Extensive and Valitable MEDICAL and
MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY of the Late JAMES
CURRY, M.D. F.A.S. &c. one of the Physicians to Guy's Hos-
pital. and Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Medicine.
'tethered from his Residence in Grafton-street, Bond-street.
To be viewed, and Catalogues'had at the Place of Sale.

COUGHS,- COLDS, ASTHMAS, &c. &c.
ARNOLD'S-PECTORAL BALSAM OF COLTSFOOT.
" More Consumptive Patients date the beginning of their
Disorders from wet feet, damp beds, night air, wet clothes,
or catching Cold after the boys has been heated, than from
ail other causes."—Buchan.
IT is notorious that Coughs and Colds are ge-
nerally the forerunners of that most deplorable Disor-
der ConSumption, and well would it be for ainili‘rs, did they
but pay a.little more attention to these Complaints before
they assume a character which may battle all the powers of
Medicine to remedy.
The Proprietors of THE PECTORAL BALSAM OF
COLTSFOOT urge, upon all those labouring under recent
Coughs and I;olds, to. make use of this Medicine; in a few
hours, frequentl,' they yield to its efficacy. Those afflicted
with old Coughs, recent and long standing Astlunas, Wheys-
ings, Hoarseness, Shortness of Breath, &c. should be in-
duced to make trial of this Medicine. Numbers have expe-
rienced its good effects, indeed, the Pectoral Balsam of Colts-
foot tae reached a distinction which nothing but its merits
-can support. By an easy and safe expectoration, it removes
viscid and concealed phlegm, gives greater liberty of breath-
ing, strngthens the stomach, promotes appetite, thus istford-
ing to the afflicted individual that relief and comfort which
he so much needs. As a remedy for the Hooping Cough it is
highly and deservedly celebrated. Nothing can he better
adapted to prevent the ill effects of damp air and foggy
weather ; not to take when wet, damp, or wet in the feet, cold,
•or shivering in the bOdy, after a shower of rain, &c. &c.
'!'he herb (Coltsfooti trim, which this Medicine is prepared,
has been known and esteemed foe more than 2000 years.
Ask for Arnold's Pectoral Balsam of Coltsfuot.
Sold by the 'Proprietor, J.. 1 Arnold, Barbican, by all
respectable Medicine Venders its Town and Country, and
throughout Europe, in Bottles, price Is. 9d., is. 941., 45. ed.,
aced los. ad. each.

" It would he a waste of time 'and of labour to chew that
'such practices do exist and have'long existed. Their pre-
valence is proved by numerous instances, ancient and modern
recorded in the Journals of the House; and the personal
knowledge and information of every Member must flunk!'

satisfactory testimony to their minds without the statemen

of particular facts, or recurrence to recent instances.
• "It is not the object of this Bill to introduce any innova-
tion in principle, to invalidate any charter or preset iption, or
to destroy any established right. It makes' no attempt at ge-
neral reform, or the subversion of any known or established
franchise, hut has for its aim and end the simple and satis-
ractory design of making the rule of election more per feet,
and more consonant to general principle, by removing, one
dangerous and invidious anomaly, whiehsenables, the pro.
prietors of freeholds in certain parts of England to create
voters for occasional purposes, by means which have at all
times been declared to be contrary to law ; and have been by
repeated acts of Parliament, particularly by stime of those
which are referred to in the preamble 'to the present I3ill,
guarded against with all the vigilance of the Legislature, and
all the power of the law. It proposes to effect this beneficial
object, by requiring the voters in towns and boroughs to tals'e
'an oath, previous to their voting, similar in every respect to
that imposed by the 18 Geo. 11. c. 18. s. 1., and 19 Geo. II:
c. 28. s. I. on Electors of Members of Parliament for Coun-
ties, and for Cities and Towns which are Counties of them-
selves, except that the oath prescribed by the present Bill
does not specify the value of the freehold, and consequently
the right of voting in the boroughs and towns to which this
Bill applies will remain unchanged and unaltered. •
" Upon principle, nothing could be more absttrd.than to
state that in a place, where ',by charter or by custom certain
persons qualified in a prescribed manner.are entitled to select
an individual to represent the community in the House of
Commons, some person or persons, possessing a large''share
of
that which constitutes the qualification, may by a mere colour-
able or pretended distribution of it among friends or depend-
ants taken for the purpose without any beneficial interest or
title whatever, over-rule and destroy the will and franchise of
others, who have a real, permanent, and incontestible inte-
rest and possession ; and who, by every rule of law, of jus-
tice, aurl'of common sense, ought to return the representa-
tive. It is not more unjust, nor more destructive of the piln-
ciples of the Constitution, to propose that numbers, without
regard to property, shall return the Members to Parliament,
than that property shall be so used as, by creating fictitious
or occasional numbers, to annul the rights of those, who, al.
though duly qualified to vote, have not such a redundant
property as will enable them at a giver] moment to qualify
great numbers, or such an influence as, if they should qua-
lify them, would make them certain that such persons would
conform to their wishes.
" If the onlyadvantage to be gained by the present Bill were
the-establishment of an uniform system, and the placing of
all rights on an equal footing, such an advantage is of very
high importance, especially in a community where all men
reason on their rights, and where every departure from the
general system, or the declared law, is viewed as an attempt
to commit some wrong, or to invade the liberties and rights
of the subject. But in the present case the evils are not ima-
ginary, nor Ii e wrongs speculative. It is known that the
making of occasional and fraudulent votes to,Support a parti-
cular person or to answer a present purpose, has been the
source of much real injustice; and, if it has not. been, in all
particulars, repressed by Parliament, it has not been because
tile law seas unknown or not sufficiently declared, but because
in all attempts at correcting abuses or establishing systems,
it has beets found that the earliest attempts were defective,
and that the first enactments required frequent alterations and
additions before the views of the Legislature could be fully
acompllshed.

" Before the Grenville _Act had fixed the practice of Parlia-
ment on contested (-Auctions on the basis of purity and cor-
rectness, and even before the Revolution bad established the
general principles of representation, the law was strongly
and clearly expressed against the making of occasional votes

" This evidence making the impression on the Court which
Was so well calculated to produce, the Reg:older of the Bo-
rough, who was of Counsel for the Defendant, had the im-
prudence;to justify the proceedings, and to say, it was part of
the Constitution of our Government to do so. 'At this,' says
the Learned Reporter, ' the Court seemed very angry, Hod
wondered that any one, especially of the gown, should say so;
and said, Du you think our Government bas no better Con-
stitution ?' With Which the Gentleman not being satisfied,
he was told by the Court, he deserved to be taken notice of
for saying so, and that he seemed to have advised the thing
done.' Respecting the making of fictitious votes at former
elections the Patron of the Bqrough attempted to say some-
thing in the way of excuse, but• the Court told him ' It was
too bad to be excused.'
" Under the direction of the Learned Judge, a verdict was
siren for the plaintiff; and in the course Of the evidence, the
Court having observed one indivklual to be so active and busy
iu the, cause as to leave no doubt of his being an instrument
in the illegal transactions which were disclosed, compelled
him to give sureties to appear in the following term, to an-
swer to an•information for a misdemeanour, and bound over
Mr. onslow to prosecute him.
" This case the Learned Reporter justly entitles memo-
rable case.' During the whole trial, he says; the cause was
managed with great care and circumspection, the Court de-
claring- it was of great weight; as great as any that ever came
there to be tried.

" The Court," he adds, ' had great reason to hew an ex-
iraordinary abhorreucy of such practices, for that the :Ms-
Chief is grown almost general., and •to rectify and punish
which abuses the HOUSE' of Commons in every Parliament are
compelled to pass more than half their But be-
cause,' he continues, here is by statute law no particular
provision made against such practices, many by sordid means
haVe endeavoured to perplex Elections and debauch Parlia-
ments, and think themselves nut punishable for it. This
case and the reason ;of it will better inform them, that by the
rule of the Common Law an offence of this nature is punish-
able; for will any man think that small frauds, cheats, and
practices should undergo a censure in the ordinary Courts of
Justice, and not such great violations of truth and honesty
in matters of the greatest moment?'
" Such were the declarations of the law, and the reflections
arising from them, at a period when the rule of the Constitu2-
tion was not perfectly fixed, and when the independence of
the Judges was not secured by Making them immoveable,
while they should conduct themselves properly.
" Since that period, none of the doctrines thus laid down
and promulgated have been over-ruled, or even controverted
debate; hut in practice they arc set at nought at every
'1 he difficulties and disadvantages under which a
plaintiff or prosecutor must lie who'should institute. a suit

EleCtion.

for any of these malpractices, deter them from going into
Courts; while the Patrons of Boroughs, unawed by decfara-
lions which impunity teaches them to disregard, and eucou-

raged perhaps by the accidental omission of the particular
right of voting pointed at in-the present Bill, hare gone Liu
violating the law, and deriding its prohibitions.
"The present Bill, therefore, is framed for the purpose
of gising .effect to the law as declared, not by Sir Francis
Pemberton alone, bat by many othergreat men on the Bench,
and in arid out of Parliament, since his time; for the purpose
of bringing the practice of the Lase of Election's to that state
of uniformity in which all reasoning lien delight, and in
which alone true justice can be found ; and tor the purpose of
repressing abuses ton notorious to be denied, ai?d too gross
to be defended.

'' VERAX."

* In the first edition in Vol. is the late edition by
iValter Scott, in VOI. VIII.

The trials of INNIS BRUCR 'for shooting At
RCH, and that of Sir CHARLES ‘VOLESLEY Mild

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LONDON,
7'HUESI).3I-, M/IRCII 23, 1820.

lce received list night and tl►is rnottiiiig the

Paris Papers of Sunday and Alonday last. The
latter contain !lie following new frco Spain :

ll•'rone the Gazette de France.)

" The Madrid Gazette Extraordinary, Of the 9th
of March, contains the following Article :
Ilaving determined by a Decree of the 9111 inst.
to sweir • o the Constitution published at Cadiz. by

tie General and Extraordinary Cortes in the year
1812, 1 have taken the oath provisionany before
a Junta appointed par interim, and composed of
persons who enjil the confidence of the people,
intending before the Cortes, which 1 propose to
convoke, conformably to the said Constitution, to
take solemnly the same oath in the form prescrib-
ed by that Constitution.

The individuals appointed to compose the said
Junta, are the Reverend Cardinal de Bourbon,
Archbishop of Toledo, President ; Lieut,Gene-
ral Don Francis Ballasteros, Vice-President ; the
Reverend Bishop of Valladolid de Mechoacan,
Don Manuel Abad y Quezpo, Don Manuel Lar-
dizahal, Don i\lateo Valdemoros, Don Vincent
Sancho, Colonel of Engireers, the Count de
Tapoada, Don Francis Crespo de 'Nada, Don
Bernard Tarrine, and Don Ignare Przuela,
All the measures emanatingfirm the Govern-
ment until Constitutional Installation of the
Cortes will be submitted to this Junta, and pub-
lished with their coment.

This determination shall be published through
our the Kingdom, in order that it may be prompt
ly and immediately executed.

(Signed with the King's own hand, at the Palace,
9th March, 18R0,)
' D. JOSEPH GARCIA,
DE LA TORRE.'
" In the ordinary Gazette of the same day, the
following Decree is published :
The King considering the constant testimonies
of fidelity and attachment to his Royal person of
Lieut.-Gen. Don. F.Ballasteros, and his wellknown
military services, of which he Ilas given so many
proofs to the nation, his Majesty has appointed
bins General in Chief of the Army of the Centre,
the formation of which has been ordered for such
objects of service as may present themselves.
I communicate this to your Excellency, by
the King's command, in order to its execution in
whatever concerns you.

4 At the Palace, 7th March, 1820.
6 To the Captain-General of the Province

.of Madrid.'

By a Decree of the 813 of March, his Catho-
lic Majesty has ordered to lse set at liberty all
persons detained on account of political offences
or opinions, and permits all Spaniards now in
Foreign States, for the same reasons, to return
to their Country.

The Royal Press is now called the National
Press ; this is remarked in the Madrid Gazette of
the 9'l►.'

" appears that there is an interruption in the
communication between Cadiz and Madrid; no-
thing is said reipecting the former City. From
Blyonne it is stated, that General Freyre had re-
ceived orders te proceed to Madrid, with the
Army under his command.

(From the Moititcur.)

" Letters from Madrid of the 9th March,
state, that there was on that day a Court at the
Palace which was numerously attended. The
lii ig tninife►ted calmness and affability. In the
midst of the effervescence which the Revolution
of the 7th naturally produced,it was impossible not
to remark how much the person of the King was
dear to the people. When the garrison, consisting
of the Regiments of the Guards, came to the deter-
mination of going to join those who were called
the Jusuri.:euts, if the King did not accept the
Constitution of 1812, they resolved to leave two
Battalions to watch over his Majesty's safety.
We are autimoui4cd to publish time following
aricle

His Catholic Majesty fAavir,g on the 13{h inst•
i+sur_►i a Decree, according to whirl► all Spaniards
now out of the Kingdom on arcuunt Of political
opiiiions, may rett►ru to ti►eir homes, the Duke
de Fanan Nunez, Ambassador ui his Catholic Ma•

y ro Ills alost Lllllsllall
ildajeSly, LISS Elle 11011 OUT
to inform all Spani,-trtis included in that Decree,
now in France, thut he has orders to deliver to
them the ncctssary passports. lie therefore in-
vites them to pre,ent themselves at the Hotel of
the Emblssy, where passports will be delivered
to them, or to the Spanish Consuls in the towns
where they reside.' "
The Journal des Debuts has an Article from
Midrid, dated the 10th of March, stating that the
Capital had been illuminated for three nights. The
King repeated his oath to the CoUstittition in a
balcony, in the presence of the assembled people.
Ou teleasing the persons detained on account of
political opinions, the malefactors also endea-
voured to escape, and killed three sentinels ; but
after 19 of the offenders were killed, the rest were
seemed.

The French news in these Journals is of little
importance. The King held his usual Court on
Sunday. On Saturday in the Chamber of Peers,
the prujet respecting individual liberty was, re-
tared to a Special Committee of five.

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