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London, England, 1820-03-11 00:00:00

BATH CITY ELECTION

Came on yesterday morning, when the two old
Menthe's,. Lord JOHN THYNNI3 and COL CHARLES
PALMER, were elected without opposition--Lo►d
John being proposed by Mr. Alderman Togwell,
and seconded by MT. Alderman Clark the Colo-
nel was propo,cd by Mr. Alderman Crook, and
seconded by Mr. Meyler, the Senior Member of
,tire. Common Council. Some previous occur-
rences- bad created •an unusual interest to this
Election, which it is now useless to enter upon
ur to endeavour to explain.
LORD JOHN THYNNB briefly and warmly re-
„turns(' thanks tot-the honour thus repeatedly con-
ferred upon •him and it will long continue his
wide to merit the good opinion of his Consti.
menu ; and to endeavour to do all the service its

Lia power for the benefit of the city. He was
fullowed by his worthy and gallant Colleague,
COLONEL PALMER, in nearly the following
words :

" In returning you my warmest thanks for the honour you
have again 'eonferi‘d upon me, I wished to abstain front any
allusion to the events tvbi, h have taken placci; but I owes
'nut only to those to whom I am indebted for my present re-
turn, bat to my Fellow-Citizens at large, to endeavour to
prevent the recurrence of that danger to their Liberties and
ludependener, to which the late Contest had exposed them.
" The question of this Contest has been neither snore nor
less, than whether the Representation in Parliament, of this
great and populous City, should have been handed over, and
made subservient to the will of the Crown and the Adutins.
tration, or, that the Members of the Body Corporate, acting
in behalf of their Fellow Citizens, should be lett to the fres
exercise of their own discretion in the choice of their Repre-
sentatives.

" Whatever the motive which has put an end to this strug-
gle, I am sincerely happy to be spared the necessity of an
exposure, which a sense of duty to those who have so nobly
stood forward in defence of their own honour and character,
as the Guardians of the Rights of their Fellow-Citizens,
would have compelled me to gave made; and which, had it
been necessary, no consideration whatever should have in-
duced me to decline. But 1 cannot dismiss the subject with-
out appealing to those amongst you, fur whom I entertain the
most sincere and unfeigned respect, but who, am sorry to
say, have been made the unconscious agents in an attempt,
as unjust and prejudicial to your own interests, as improper
in itself, and subversive of the dearest rights and privileges
of our Constitution.—Consider, Gentlemen, the sacred trust
committed to your care: that, as Members of this Corpora-
tion, it is your bout►den duty to watch over and defend those
liberties fur which your ancestors have fought and bled; and
to suffer nu consideration whatever, of private interest or at-
tachment, to interfere with the discharge of that duty you
owe to yourselves, your fellow-citizens, and your country.
" For myself, Gentlemen, however anxiuus I may have
been for the honour of represeuting you, I have had no other
object in obtaining it than the performance of my duty.
" Looking to my profession, and the situation I have so
long held about the Personage who now fills the Throne, I
think if any Member of Parliament could stand excused in
bring the servant of the Crown, it would he myself ; and as
far as peisolial feelings sad attachment could influence me,
there ;tie those who well know that nutting but the stronger
ties ut duty to you and my country could have prevented it.
" But indebted fur thy seat entirely to your good opinion,
my sole amititoni is to deserve the confidence you have placed
in me ; and whilst I hope that I have attended to the interests
of My native City upon ell occasions wherein. my services have
bee❑ called tot, I leave to my political conduct, and the te-
em ds of the votes which I have given, to prove my indepen-
dents* of all parties, but that ot the Constitution and my
Country.-
The 1-1811 Was filled beyond all former prece-
dent, ants resounded with acclamations at the close
of every sentence of the Colonel's Address, which
was deliveted' with a flow of oratory seldom sur-
passed.

Advices fium. Linotmlign state, that the tumult
near Cutrain, in ltoss•shire, had hot been sup.
'•4pressed. It is stated, indeed, in an Edinburgh
paper of Tuesday last, that a letter had been
received by the LORD ADVOCATE, from the
Sheriff- Depute of the County, inforthing his
Lordship, thata a force of not less than five
hundred men, and three field pieces, wonlck be
necessary to quell the riot,,t,he Highlanders beiU4
in full poSiCgliioll of the distii.v.