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UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION.
gpt,„„
SThe SEVENTEENTH • ANNIVERSAR Y of the
fri,„'lH and FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIA-
Zsia will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant,
*Tip a SERMON, in aid of the_ Funds of the Society,
-177 be preached by the Rev. CHARLES WICKSTEED,
° `'etda, at the Chapel in Essex-street, Strand. Service to
"farence at Eleven o'Clock precisely.
pill
the close of the Service the Subscribers and Members
111,1,- Meet in the Chapel for the transaction of the usual business.
let 116 Subscribers and Friends will afterwards adjourn to a
Is;;preakfast at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The Chair
se
Preeiseltaken by Richard Martineau, Esq., at Three o'Clock
of Tickeyts (for Ladies 55., and for Gentlemen 65.) may be had
of the Stewards and Members of the Committee, at the Office
attheA,ssociation, 31, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street, and
avern.
AILEMENT OF AUSTRALIND, WES-
TERN AUSTRAtTA.
COIIDL'A 'RECTORS of the WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
Of T6,SI Y hereby give notice, that they are now disposing
the f"L'4 and RURAL ALLOTMENTS in this Settlement,
Pap '`riaS andof which may be had at the Corn-
eiers rim particulars
I) ea
ellioiPat,,_elles have been recently received from the Company's
~,oramissioner, which report the continued prosperity of
tla,—""Wthe uninterrupted health of the settlers, and confirm
siletehavnedurzbille. accounts previously received, both as to the cli-
-411 the Town Sections had been surveyed and marked out ;
repicee survey of the Rural Allotments was proceeding
f
thers.:"aaers ef Laud are, consequently, now enabled to locate
th'evid'el on their own property immediately upon arrival
_(:dony.
eis;"le utrectors have the satisfaction to add, that they have
the
fort a Plan of the Town of Australind and a Sketch of
his °lt both of which are now in course of publication by
-33111. Smith, Elder, and Co., No. 65, Cornhill.
By Order of the Board.
C. H. SMITH, Secretary.
tern Australian Company's Offices, 33, Old Broad-street,
kre• „ Slay 7, 1812.
rurchasers proceeding to the Settlement are allowed
ths. ioe.amount of their purchase-money towards the
landsasage of
s..,taaelves and their families ; and all purchasers of to the
trZtlent of three mixed allotments (3031.), are also entitled to a
an 14suge for any agent they may appoint, who shall become
lets. le_r in the Colony. •

TO ARCHITECTS.
''''YSSELL ASPHALTE COMPANY,
, • CLARIDGE'S PATENT, established March, 1838, for
ti:/tKing the MINERAL ASPHALTE ROCK of -PYRI-
"42NT SEYSSEL.
fi
st 'hie valuable material has been extensively used since its
introduction into this country, for the following purposes :
,_ Foots ion pavement!, public and other ; in the carriage approach
Mans garden-walks, and terraces ; the flooring of kit-
cuaebni:
st:n cidoot'gh.e r basement offices ; also of .coach-houses and
kennels, barn-floors, cow-homes, piggeries,
Poultry-houses. tun-rooms, and maltiugs; for roofing, covering
of railroad and other arches, the lining of under-ground cellars of
rivers, to prevent the ingress of the tides ; also in covering
d'ne. ground line of walls, to prevent damp rising, thereby ten-
Z'ritig the basement stories in the worst situations both dry and
arro• It is an excellent cetrent, as replied to dock-, break-
atrs, or walls built for resistance to the encroachments of the
4a, lining of tanks, fishponds, and other hydraulic purposes.
pSeveral extensive works have been executed by this Com-
any for the Board of Ordnance and her Majesty's Commis-
hollers of \Va.:ids and Forests. The Asphlate has been used at
kthe Thames Tunnel, also at the London and Greenwich
4ilwav, where it has been laid over a surface of 400,000
perGial feet, to prevent the percolation of water ; at the
Clreat Western, Birmingham. NJidland Counties, South
Western, Brighton, and other Railways ; at the South Metro-
Politan, Highgate, and Nunhead Cemetries.
he Asphlate of Seyssel is perfectly free from smell, and is
hot acted upon by the change of temperature.
Books of testimonials, with scale of prices, can at all
times be had at the Company's depot.
J. FARRELL, Secretary.,
Stancrate, Surrey side of Westminster-bridge, April, 1842.
ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND OTHERS.
For the purpose of securing the use of the genuine article,
thirtilitects'and others are particularly requested to insert in
eir specifications The Seyssel Asphlate, Claridge's
Rattot," and not merely " asphiate" or " bitumen," as in
ang case where these terms have been used, gas tar, and other
d offensive compositions have been introduced.

HANTS.
TO be LET, Furnished, for a Term of not less
It • than One or Two Years, with immediate Possession,
HBROOK HOUSE, a commodious Vila Residence,
ViightfullY situate at Bishop's Waltham, about ten miles from
44ester, and the like distance from Southampton, and con-
-4:ql. a handsome drawing-
;room and ante-room, with folding
bessie;. t
°Pt'ing with French windows on the lawn and shrub-
Uhro I,4ltitice hall, ditlng-room, gentleman's-room, small
gestic oft-(44‘kaeper's-raom, servants' hall, and various do•
rPiner—,,,B; ten bed-rooms and dressing-rooms, and two
'or elk6-zurns for men servants ; two waterclosets; stabling
garde; "rses, double coach-house, excellent garden, with
can er's cottage. The pleasure-grounds are very pretty; and
kites! ,rkelpt at little expense. The railroad is distant three
rides in Waltham Chase are beautiful, d
t.... 13 Particularly healthy. A kennel of foxhoundsant is
144dAp to
~1) 7 t° Messrs. Adam Murray and Sons, surveyors and
let'ts, 47, Parliament-street, London.

,st,---,---------z,,.„
.1r,,-----, SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
gu ]anted-a" injurious metals called Nickel and German Silver
1), the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless
411.14 41 , 1 rE. . C. WATSON (late ALDERMAN)
tmio,- 2, narbican, aided by a person of science in the. amal-
kostl:Zveetra.h, has succeeded in bringing to public noticer. the.
Iless of a,'.ltifol article ever yet offered : possessing all the ich
'''`"ith • in appearance—with its durability and hardness
therlf Its perfect A weetness in use—undergoing, as it does, a
tttl rely PrDees3, by which all that is naseous in mixedm 1
ise4vser
atuiri.l7 eatracted--resist ng al acids, may be cleaned ,
bctit,d: manufactured into every article for the Table and
Side-
ableT ~„
..?P°llias and Forks, s.
d.
been u? 1 ..... . ........... 16 6 I
tish ie.% :per doz ..... 12 6 I
kxlis
,aives .......... 5 6 /
Sa„!_i•aliles .. ' ............ 6 6
-7;.;:e Ladles . ... ......
1 9
it ...itt CV•ats:Viegs“thePublic will understand that this metal
4(,411111141YI!s °%lll-, and that Silver is not more different from
ttt:ithiti—ill:noildimmetallrisfrom ll others ; the Public will there-
y in discoveringa the animus which directs
Itlfreii-tng tlellt attackus made against him, by a party who is dally
Nth e.! 'Toth the unparalleled success which has marked the
si,
11:11 isfj-ii„!4 H4s New Plate since its introduction.
t teitdiZponents, courts comparison, feeling confideCn't thaq
41
incil
4i ;, tiklblishil pre-
AR IsCANemcoirrtneenrceof Princes-street.
ii.....„;.........L0reign Orders promptly executed.
t10%)tC11{)12/.‘, .WATCHES, LONDON-MADE.—T.
-:_. e,„,.,-; SAVORY Watchmaker, No. 47, Cornhill, Lo.n-
WIL 1: eitetl.;_' SAVORY,
from G'racechurch-street, submits for selection
oleh "'lle STOCK of GOLD WATCHES, the whole of
"ltaiselre eareftilly examined by experienced workmen on the
Pi% v and each is warranted for correct performance.
SIZE FOR LADIES.
ed
Fine Watches, jewelled, in engine-turn
£lO
10
t VE.7*, and old dials warranted
1, Niit-Z4N w.tghes jewelled, with double-backed
12
IS d.,lntned golde
oases' and gold dials, warranted 12
-010.-v,tell •
W -•teitt, ed Lever Watches, jewelled in four
lirreilt,,' double-backed gold cases and gold dials,
P 4.,. '.- ....
kledlles". L SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN.
t•& .-''' bed Lever Watches jewelled in four
t.ty,n.'o' 7nds, and double-backed gold cases, war-
-'2ll . • . .
sit
.dita•e, ................ -- • .
.. tu2tole, ."(1 Lever Wet ches, capped, jewelled in
vs,t,„,- 75%17dfte_eonds, double.-backed gold cases and
ii,-I'Vtleti.l7., `warranted
htlioles`ll4l Lver Watches, capped, jewelled in
We; dial; ..._llecoods, double-backed gold cases and
~1 0 0
tif thie'wranted
N's.
Gentlemen's Watches may be had in gold hunting
Sease., for 3/. 35 each extra.
--'uncl-band Watches purchased in exchange.

s. d.
Mustard Spoon ...... 0 6
Tea Spoons, per doz 5 6
Gravy Spoons 3 6
Salt do.
Sugar Tongs

1,,,.,.i.
14 -ft---'--------- ---- iopposite the
hOtAtE-S CREET, PICCADILLY
114/Ynti 76, KING WILLIAM-ST ,
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,I tilt ,itiesflNTheilKinlig aEn:i&tßheTlNateGQ—ueePn
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2: i.id their
ks if he's
dantrievel4incess So-
RetfrHonized by their
ti,41,,,h) her ea the late Prin ess Augusta, a
l'4:l h-7,-esli°t'l,en. Arell (ihranceessthtehepPewringceerss
DEsuteerhnaszye,f the Ptertindc.eassheds
Cii-`-`040,...!0 hbi,hop of Canterbui y, andetshe DukeLsetadf
HNiplrl,-
t4.,1q:, ge, Ar li Manchester, and Marlborough,
q .3. Efl ,
Nli4slkalat4.(J 8. soLomoNs, Opticians andhaluarreistvel., duringepper..
,41,,Terience of thirty years, ae_
l't liZ4 ~tlesi,..7,ifig that the Organs of 'l4Bs fism'at ,'Y rehted to each otherv.
fet the sense
allii,-, ka ko-ilet, the fo mer becomes impe e.
Sinigh•tuchanda HpeCealrliiinagr
fact is admitted by sci-
-1434 fillibritil,l'sles . rapidly dull . this
1iever:1:4144,4,,
tb4tual:
tilnu(sl glruesut,hsbtaencebds_erwv.tlcleh by
is
dsesweTilln f viewll
many thtoue.
for 1,,,, tfifieli„s attention. The Messrs. Solomon s,
their whole
f r ePert,Ntr affection and after they have devoted
oih':_
'tits_Pecti„,,lsl„esingbraiich of stience,
s arency
I,P-"`N —iti''' - •VS improvement in a 'lran yi
,_.
-o.alio riiii„ most scien i c
P f r Deathess; they nav la,
dialiteeptpetst 4 j.krventive and cure a
have succeeded, in effecting
t el h„_ 'tilt , voice Conductor, upon a very sminadlilvciodnusatln!ancl°e7
brt th-,l?raty' it
requires no holding, and t
~ Binh, v fro h_ ohe 'of. the party in the ge.neemdel
feceotiiivveersvaitsii7n.
Wet; tO rttant discoveries not only .is .
„4,94pted, deui::tbre, but the sense of hearing is restored to its
t'Ples-' ~ w,, ,_htsi ; those Lenses arc so constructed
_aLici.
"010 NINA -4a and imperfect eye.ight upon such scientific "
°ft," ~!led with the I ng - ' s 'e' experience ef the Messrs.
Peti,:„lef, iyi,l"at they Will °b6 efttuenndi‘to ' effect s. ch an extent
by i....0ni. ht
Will fare xceed their utmost and most sanguine
the :)._ or ca„.4l nlacing those I.enses before imperfect
distincti ether
klainZest Ini"nulelight, every object becomes clear and a
atki"'aptis
inn seen with exact distinctness. The Messrs._s
ty
~,,itr inn ein their possession, without one exception, Spectacle
tht"nilier inditylif!rietits of every kind which are offered to the public
tet‘oh,"et all utiles' to point out the superiority of their impro.ve-
.ht,,,i,,,hdattons'eorfs.thibe.patronage of Nobility. and Gentry,
eeannels
*61114 CT;;alid througlgrriehact"Wrlipoulist Physicians and Surg
The iii")o numercus for insertion
tikolit'hibithdet's ~...,ri, solpmons are anxions that the public should not
oniitil,-.; with persons
hfnitzighhe!
.that ysa t.ai. 1
nenhve
4::r a
cat y.er.. ipatn,
cbdt ea
ent
maybes admi t t e d by
Tta css, surpass any *pi_
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,fndotbhOseepe.krvirnedad
..,:urituitues._ p_ _lc _ey request attention to the first part
ZEZtitaarthewy4ourg Lsodtreesi,a,ard,, A,sl4:Kminagrhstreet, Piccadilly, u,:illialu-street. Bank.—No
directly
""9"01.1erl are eraphayed.

FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH
Price Is. I%d. per box
This excellent family PILL is a Medicine of long tried efficacy for
correcting all Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, the common
symptoms of which are Costiveness, Flatulency, Spasms, Loss of A ppe.
tite, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Sense of Fullness after Meals, Diz.
silicas of the Eyes, Drowsiness, and Pains in the Stomach and Bowelis:
Indigestion, producing a Torpid State of the Liver, and a consequent
Inactivity of the Bowels, causing a disorganization of every function of
the frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, by a little perse-
verance, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince
theafflicted of its salutary effects. l'he stomach will speedily regain
its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will
tepidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaun.
diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, will be the
quick result of taking this Medicine, according to the directions accom.
pasying each box; and !taken after too free an indulgence at table,
they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose
Persons of a FULL HABIT, who are subject to Headache, Giddi.
ness, Drowsiness, and Singing in the Ears, arising from too great a
flow of Blood to the Head, should never be without them, as many
dangerous symptoms will beentirely carried off by their immediate use.
FOR FEMALES, these Pills are most truly excellent, removing
all obstructions : the distressing Headache so very prevalent with the
Dullness of Sight, Nervous Affections,
Sallowness of the Skin, and give a hindth y and
Blotches,sextrpreissmipolnes, of
a Snpf
Sits
uvenile bloom to the complexion.
As a pleasant, safe, easy Aperient, they unite the recomirenda
don of a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require
no restraint of diet or confinement during their use ; and for EL-
DERLY PEOPLE they will be found to be the most comfortable
Medicine hitherto prepared.
Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London, Price Is. 14 d. and Qs. Pd.
per box 4 and by the venders of Medicines generally throughout the
Kingdom.
Ask fn r FRAMPI ON'S PILL of HEALTH, and observe the
4.1 !rein PlOguts Strand, London." on tlos
Name and Address of
Covorirmeurlitamo

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
On SATITRDA r, the 14th of May, was published,
No. 1, of a New Weekly Newspaper, entitled the ILLUSTRA-
TED LONDON NEWS, price 6d. stamped, containing 30
engravings every week, from designs by eminent Artists, being
pictorial representations cf the most interesting events of the
day, in addition to 48 columns of news. The object of this
publication is not merely to register the current events of in-
terest at home, to give lengthened details of occurrences abroad,
but to heighten the cne and make clear the other by the in-
troduction of pictorial representations of the scenes described.
Calling in the aid of pencil to depict that which can only be
but partially accomplished by the pen, we are but following the
text of a learned writer, who has said that " we can convey to
the mind by means of a picture those circumstances of relative
situation, and peculiar interest, that no written description could
ever achieve, but which the pencil must at all times materially
enhance." The war in Affgh3nistan, the sad defeats and suf-
ferings of the British Army, and we hope its also glorious tri-
umphs, will open a wide field for pictorial representation, and
our artists will not fail in their task. Foreign circarnstances,
however, are but a slight feature in our gallery—the realities of
London life, the physiognomy of its police courts, its theatres,
exhibitions, public amusements, its out-door society, its daily in •
creasing public buildings, its works of art—all that has the charm
of novelty will be brought before the reader in a pictured form,
and will give to the country resident that exact impression of
London progress which no other Journal, by description alone
can convey. Correspondences have been opened in each of
our provincial towns to insure a quick transit of illustrations
of all matters of interest. Racing and sporting scenes, rowing
and sailing matches, military reviews, public festivals, cattle
shows, and other agricultural assemblies, will be reported with
the pencil as well as by the pen ; while, for the particular en-
tertainment of our fair countrywomen, engravings of the
fashions, gardening, fancy needlework, sketches of public balls
and concerts, will be from time to time provided. A vigorous
tone will be adopted in politics, freed at the same time from all
party views. Arrangements are made for giving with more
than usual effect the fullest and latest reports of the Parlia-
mentary debates, public meetings, police intelligence, theatrical
information, &c. Critical reviews will be given of all British
and Foreign literary publications of sterling interest. The
latest accounts of markets, &c., with the fullest commercial
information, and all the usual contents. The illustrations are
entirely confided to Messrs. Vizetelly and Co., and will be en-
graved under their superintendence, to insure the public against
anything of an inferior character being introduced into the
columns of this newspaper.
Orders received by every newsman and bookseller through-
out the kingdom. Office, 320, Strand, London, where adver-
tisements, books for review, and all communications are re-
quested to be addressed.
Her Majesty's Grand Fancy Dress Ball.—No. 1. will con-
tain numerous engravings of the varicus e Atumes, and every
particular of this interesting fete,

M. Horace Vernet has entered into a comma. With
Messrs. Bulla, Delarue, and Jeannin, prin.sellers, of Paris, in
virtue of which the paintings of the great artist, as they may
hereafter be produced by him, will be engraved by the first en-
gravers of France and England, and published by. the two
above•mentinned houses.

REPORT Op THl,' COUNCIL TO
THE SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE
• NATIONAL ANTLCORN-LAW LEAGUE, ..NIAY
11, 1812.
The circumstances which have induced the Council to
convene this Special Meeting of the Members of the
League, and which they trust you will consider fully jus-
tificatory of such course, may b.e eery briefly stated.
Subsequently to the adjournment of your Delegates
assembled in the metropolis, millions of bread eaters have
again petitioned the Legislature for justice, and have been
cruelly answered by the re-enactment of an iniquitous
bread tax.
Each succeeding day of the intervening period has but
aggravated the disastrous effects produced by monopoly
upon the commercial and trading interests of our country,
and the privation and misery inflicted' upon the great
lacidy of the people, as it were in fulfilment of all your
previous. predictions.
Convinced that there can be no great-and permanent.
improvementin the condition of our industrial popula-
tion 'so long as the necessaries of life shall continue to be
taxed; and considering the re-imposition of a bread tax
by the legislative landowners as a reckless refusal of the
just claims of outraged humanity, yoUr Executive Coun-
cil have felt it to be their (hay to advise with you, as
their constituents, on the course of action which, under
existing-circumstances, it may best befit the League to
pursue in the further prosecution of their legal and
righteous purpose.
Not perceiving in the present aspect of affairs any rea-
son for doubting the final issue of their labours, and re-
garding the blind infatuation of a monopolist Legislature
as the best guarantee of an eventual, and the most sig..
nificant assurance of an early triumph; your Council
take leave respectfully to observe that, as the League is
banded together for the working. out of a great and vi-
tal principle, there can be no halting on its onward course
without grievous dishonour and irretrievable disgrace.
Seeing no present necessity for occupying your valu-
able time with any detailed recurrence to past efforts, or
with evidence of the signal effect of those efforts upon
the great political parties in the State,- or upon the
general intelligence and right feeling of the people, the
Executive advisedly abstain from such gratification; but
impressed with a deep sense of their duty, at this unpre-
cedented period of national embarrassment and indivi-
dual suffering, the Executive Council invite your earnest
consideration of a scheme for the future operations of
the League, which, after bestowing upon it their most
serious and anxious attention, they beg to submit for
your approval and confirmation.
Your Council believe that to hold out further encou-
ragement of popular hoperfrem petitioning the monopo-
lists, who, in the arbitrament of their own cause, have
scorned the oft-preferred • prayers of famishing millions,
were cruelly to trifle with the outraged feelings of the
people, by fostering a miserable delusion, and sanctioning
the performance of a legislative farce, pending the enact-
ment of a national tragedy .
With what reluctance your Executive have arrived
at this conclusion may be deduced from their nnremiting
exertions, for nearly four years, to direct the just dis-
content of the starving masses into the constitutional
channel of Parliamentary appeal.
Happily there is other outlet to national complaint,
and other and better hope of national redress. The
prayers of the oppressed and despised millions should
now be addressed to the SoVereign on the throne, as the
last pivot for the leverage of hope to a much-plundered,
greatly-suffering, and long-enduring community.
That these appeals to our beloved Queen may be most
worthy her beneficent attention, and most conducive to
the success of our labours, because best calculated to set
all opposition at defiance, it would seem imperatively
necessary that the League.- should greatly extend its
efforts to enlighten all classes upon the momentous sub-
ject.on which hinge not merely the usurpations of a
landocracy, and the happiness or misery-of a nation, but
the honour of our Sovereign and the stability of her
throne. The voice of truth must be made- to penetrate
the darkest recesses of error and ignorance ; the demand
for justice must be shown to be reasonable throughout
the thousand serfdoms of the monopolist oppressor ; the
requirements of religion must be proclaimed among the
huts and hovels of the miserable peasantry, and the
stately domes of collegiate and episcopal bread-taxes ;
in short, the empire must be traversed by your agents,
through all its sinuosities and to all its extremities, that .
the public mind may be excited to a full comprehension
of this all-important question, and led to a due appreci-
ation of that free trade in-too:land fair play for industry,
by which alone the lives of perishing millions may be
preserved, and national insolvency, beggary,- and anarchy
be averted.
To this end, your Executive have caused that portion
of the United Kingdom. comprising England and Wales,
to be mapped into twelve districts, (and they are extend-
ing such -plan to Scotland and Ireland), that the accre-
dited lecturers of the League may be located in these
several divisions of the empire, charged with the special
duties of---the instruction of the people ; the organiza-
tion of every-borough, town, village, parish, and hamlet
in the .counties assigned to hem ; and the enrolment of
every loVer of justice as a Member of the League:
The Council is not unaware of the very heavy expense
with which this national' effort will charge the ffintle
within its control ; but, thanks to the Christian zeal of
its best allies,- the fair philanthropists of the empire, it
has thousands at its command for the vindication of the
honour of God by the furtherance of the bappiness of
man.

And, now that such object of the League is freed from
all suspicion or factious or other sinister purposes--now
that, by years of faithfulness to its principle, the League
has approved itself the honest and earnest champion of a
good and a holy cause, the Executive Council cannot,
for a single moment, entertain the remotest doubt of that
national support, which shall enable them, unceasingly
and effectively, to war against the oppressor of the poor,
until the right of all, freely to participate in the bounties
of our common Creator, shall have been fully recognised
and firmly secured.
By order of the Council,
GEORGE WILSON, Chairman.

MR. WARBURTOIPS PETITION.
The following is the petition of Mr. Warburton, pre•
sented by Mr. T. Duneombe, on Friday night:—
"To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED

KINGDOM OF CHEAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PAR-

LIAMENT ASSEMBLED :
" The humble petition of Henry, Warburton, of Chelsea,
in the county of Middlesex,
" Respectfully showeth—That your petitioner was re-
turned a Member to serve in Parliament for the borough
of Bridport at the late general election in June last, and
resigned his seat, by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds in
the following September.
" That the conduct of your petitioner, in resigning his
seat, was shortly afterwards commented on at a public
meeting by one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of
State, and has since been alluded to in public by other
persons in other places.
That your petitioner perceives, from the Votes of
your Honourable House, that your Honourable House
has resolved to appoint a Select Committee to inquire
whether corrupt compromises have been entered into in
the cases of election petitions presented from Harwich,
Nottingham, Lewes, Penryn and Fahnouth, and Read-
ing, for the purpose of avoiding investigation into gross
bribery, alleged to have been practised at the election for
the aforesaid towns, and whether such bribery has really
taken place.
" That your petitioner has been informed that a
motion may not improbably be made in your Hon-
ourable Honse to extend the proposed inquiry to
the borough of Bridport ; and believing, as he does,
that the circumstances ; leading to, and attending,
and consequent upon the resignation of his seat would
properly come within the scope of the inquiries of the
Select Committee to be appointed, he earnestly prays
your Honourable House to give that extension to its
inquiries ; since he neither wishes to avoid incurring any
blame which your Honourable House may think he de-
serves, nor, by reason of mystery and concealment, to be
:objected to unjust reflections on his public character
and conduct.

following
"That your petitioner conceives that it is necessary to
state some grounds to your Honourable
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borough returning one Member ; that the elections of
1832, 1834, 1837, and 1841 were all contested, two islem-
'aers
professing the same political opinions with your
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petitioner, being returned at each of those elections, ex-
ception that of 1834, when one Member of opposite opi-
nions was returned.
" That in 1826, when your petitioner first became
connected with the said borough, he found it to be the
established (custom and practice in that, as it then was
in many other ' open boroughs, for each successful can
didate, a twelvemonth after his return, to pay to every
elector who had voted for him, and chose to claim it,
'head-money,' which, in the case of the said borough,
was 101. for every vote ; and. that, though no previous
promises to pay were ever required or given,
.;et. pay-
ment of such sum of 10/. was expected ; and the major
part of the electors usually claimed payment. And your
petitioner begs to state that, a twelvemonth after his re.
turn, he paid into his agent's hands the sum of 2,0001.,
which, he has no doubt, was applied iii payment of the
said head-money.
" That in 1830 your petitioner was re-elected under
the expectation that, at the usual time, he would comply.
with the ancient usage ; but that shortly afterwards, on
the introduction into Parliament of a fill for reforming
your Honourable House, the principal political suppor-
ters of your petitioner 3n the borough assembled and de-.
termined that the custom of paying ' head-money'
should be abolished, and required your petitioner., on ,
pain of losing their support, to abstain from paying the

head-money' for the previous and any future election ;
and that your, petitioner obeyed their direction, but de-
voted a much larger sum than the head-money' for his
then last election would have amounted to, in the erec-
tion of a public building for the advantage of the town ;
and your petitioner begs to add that, to the credit of the
poorer electors nt that period, not more than two indivi-
duals complained that your petitioner had disappointed
them ; and that, from and after the period referred to,
the practice in the borough of paying head-money en-
tirely ceased.
"That, at all the above contested elections, your peti-
tioner was always returned at the head of the poll and
by a considerable majority ; and that the return of your
petitioner at such elections was always an event, as
nearly as such events can be, morally certain, the con-
test lying entirely between the two candidates ; and that
the body of the electors who, at every election from 1831
to 1841, supported your petitioner, did so from disin-
terested motives and from approval of his political prin-
ciples and conduct; and your petitioner trusts that, if the
inquiry he prays for should be granted by your Honour-
able House, and it should appear, on investigation, that
some of the poorer electors have occasionally yielded to
the temptation of bribery, ydur Honourable House will
not judge them severely ; for your petitioner begs to de-
clare to your Honourable House that, so far as regards
the general conduct towards him of those electors who
have been his supporters:it has been the reverse of any-
thing mercenary or corrupt.
"That it has been the ivariable practice of your peti-
tioner, at all his elections, not to have any committee to
assist in promoting his return, nor to interfere himself in
any way in the conduct and management of the election ;
but to employ one agent for that-purpose ; that, with re-
gard to any second Liberal candidate for the borough,
whenever there has been one, the practice of such second
candidate 'has in all cases been, to employ a separate and
distinct agent, and also to have a committee to assist in
promoting his separate return.
" That your petitioner's knowledge of the occurrences
at the different elections at which he has been returned,
is derived almost entirely from the statements made to
him by his sole agent ;.but _so far as your petitioner
knows, and as he believes, no money inducement for a
vote in favour of your petitioner, at either of his said
four last elections, was offered, or paid, or promised to
any voter, by authority of your petitioner's said sole
agent • and he aVers that, if ever any such inducement
was held out, it was utterly without his knowledge, and
would have been disapproved of and strongly reprobated
by him.
" That the usual expense of 'your petitioner's election
was from 1,5001. to 1,700/4 of which sum your petitioner
believes that from 700/. to 8001. was the cost of dinners
given after the election ; that from 2001. to 3001. or 400/.
was incurred in processions, one at the entry of the can-
didate into the borough, and the other at his chairing,
and the remainder in agency costs and in public house
expenses preceding the test of the writ. And your pe-
titioner begs to state that, on the Bth of June, your pe-
titioner, being then in London, received a letter from his
sole agent, stating that your 'petitioner's expenses at the
ensuing election would not.exceed the usual average.
" That the actual amount which your petitioner's
agent stated to your petitioner that he had incurred on
your petitioner's account, and which your petitioner
paid as soon as demanded, was 2,1661. 17s. Id., and
that the extra cost between the usual average arose, as
your petitioner is assured and believes (and is accounted
for in the bills), from breakfasts which were given to
the electors on the morning of the polling. TLat your
petitioner was apprehensive that this electors' breakfast
would come within the law of treating : that he was not
consulted before-hand respecting it ; that he did not
know of such breakfast at the time ; that he believes.
and has been advised, that if he had been petitioned
against, and such breakfast
.had been brought home to
hun, he might have been unseated in consequence, by
being legally guilty of treating through his agent.
" That the candidates to represent the borough, be-
sides your petitioner; at the late general election, were
Thomas Alexander Mitchell, Esq., and Alexander
I)undas Baillie Cochranb, Esq., neither of whom had
ever before appeared as a candidate at the election for
the borough ; that the former candidate professed the
same political opinions with your petitioner, and the
latter candidate opposite opinions.
" That the former of these
,gentlemen, as your peti-
tioner has reason to know, determined to become a can-

didate for the borough at the next vacancy, so long ago
as in May, 1839 ; and was induced to do so, not in con-
sequence of any communication made to him by your
petitioner (with whom he had no acquaintance) but of
his own accord, in consequence of a commercial con-
nexion of long standing he had with some manufacturers
in the borough.
" That, from a correspondence which (with the ex-
ception of one letter) your petitioner' had, for the first
time, the opportunity of reading in February last, your
petitioner believes, that there existed, on the part of a
person in London, hereinafter named, at that time in
direct communication with Mr. Mitchell, a deliberate
intention of carrying Mr. Mitchell's election by force of
money. That your petitioner is confident that if the
Select Committee of Inquiry be granted, such fact will
be proved.

That on the 14th of May in last year, when a speeiy
dissolution of Parliament appeared probable, your pett-
tioner was informed, by letter from his agent at Brid-
port, that the success of a second Liberal candidate could

riot
be confidently expected ; for that, making allowance
For all the doubtful votes, the majority for any second
Liberal could not exceed four.

" That three days subsequently to such letter, namely,
on Monday the 17th of May, a letter from your peti-
tioner's agent was delivered to your petitioner, in the
lobby of your Hon. House, by two gentlemen, agents of
Mr. Mitchell, stating that a difference had arisen between
Mr. Mitchell and those agents, and requesting your pe-
titioner to endeavour to mediate between Mr. Mitchell
and them ; and that, in consequence of such application,
your petitioner on the following day saw Mr. Mitchell,
for the first time since your petitioner knew of his being
a candidate ; and, in the course of that interview, your
petitioner informed Mr. Mitchell of his estimated very
narrow majority, and warned him, in case he should
continue to be a candidate, carefully to avoid having any
difference with his agents, and advised him to weigh well
the discretion of continuing a candidate under those cir •
cumstances.

"That Mr. Mitchell had no further consultation with
your petitioner on the subject of their previous confe-
rence ; but, on the 19th of May, in an address to the
Bridport electors, announced his intention of becoming a
candidate, and on the 21st personally visited the borough.
That, on the same day, an active canvass began in favour
of Mr. Cochrane, and, on the following day, a similar
canvass for Mr. Mitchell.

" That Mr. Mitchell's first canvass was completed on
the evening of the 26th of May ; when, it appearing to
Mr. Mitchell's agents that the success of such canvass
was not sufficiently decisive to justify them in calcu-
lating upon a certain majority, they came to the deter-
mination of buying votes, and acted on that determina-
tion from the 27th to the 30th of May inclusive, Mr.
Mitchell and his agent, Mr, Matthew Hutchinson, jun.,
being at that time in the borough.
" That the said Matthew Hutchinson, junior, quitted
the borough on Monday, June the 7th, and returned to
the borough on Sunday, June the 13th ; and that on
Monday, the 14th, the buying of votes, by order of Mr.
Mitchell's agents, was resumed, and was continued during
the remainder of that week.

" That Mr. Mitchell continued at Bridport until the
2d of June, when he quitted it, returning to the borough
on the 14th, and remaining there until the Ist of July,
two days after the election.
" That your petitioner remained in London until
Monday, the 21st of June, on the evening of which day
your petitioner entered the borough.
"That, from the 22d to the 28th of June inclusive,
the time of your petitioner was busily occupied in can-
vassing the electors in the, company of his agent, and
another elector acting as an assistant canvasser.
" That in the course of this canvass, your petitioner's
agent having incidentally observed in conversation, that
he had consented to allow such assistant canvasser to
aid Mr. Mitchell in hiS canvass, and also that during
Mr. Mitchell's absence from the borough, he (your pe-
titioner's agent) had lent the sum of 1501. to an agent
of Mr. Mitchell, your petitioner became, for the first
time, aware that he might be thus implicated in the
proceedings of Mr. Mitchell,. and as the rumour was
current in the town that Mr. Mitchell's agents were
having recourse to bribery, your petitioner expressed
to his own said anent his regret that a common can-
vasser had been so lent in aid of Mr. Mitchell, and that
money had been lent to Mr. Mitchell's agent ; and also
your petitioner's fear that such connexion between him-
self and Mr. Mitchell might endanger the return of your
petitioner.
"That, at the said election, your petitioner was re-
turned by a majority of GO, and Mr. Mitchell by a ma-
jority of 38, your petitioner receiving 304 votes, Mr.
Mitchell 282, and Mr. Cochrane 244, 555 electors having
voted out of 594 on the Register, and 272 electors
having split their votes betlieen your petitioner and Mr.
Mitchell.

" That, in the month of July, disputes having arisen
between Mr. Mitchell and his (Mr. Mitchell's) agents,
respecting the settlement ofelection accounts, your peti-
tioner was requested by one of such agents to intercede
with Mr. Mitchell for their adjustment and payment,
which your
.petitioner consented to do, and subsequently
did. That in the course of such agent's conversation
with your petitioner, that agent intimated that the ques-
tioning of Mr. Mitchell's return might involve also the
return of your petitioner.
" That your petitioner, On the occasion of such, his
communication with Mr. Mitchell, repeated his warn,
ings to Mr. Mitchell of the peril he incurred by giving
offence to his agents and he informed Mr. Mitchell of
the hints thrown out by one of them that the entire re-
turn might be questioned.
" That part of the balance of account demanded of
Mr. Mitchell by his agent, was paid to that agent in a
manner offensive to him, and a promise was given to
your. petitioner's agent by Mr. Matthew Hutchinson,
jun. (an agent of Mr. Mitchell), that the remainder
should be paid before the - meeting of Parliament in
August but which promise was not kept.

" That, on Monday, the 24th of August, your peti-
tioner's agent arriveli in London with information, that
the agents of Mr. Mitchell had placed in the hands of
Mr. Cochrane's agent decumentary and other proofs, es-
tablishing in a conclusive manner the fact of an exten-
sive system of bribery having been practised to- return
Mr. Mitchell as Member for the borough.
" That your petitioner thereupon instructed his agent
to ascertain, in the best way he could, what would be the
effect of these disclosures on the legality of your peti-
tioner's return ; when your petitioner's agent returned
with the intelligence that there were proofs in the pos-
session of Mr. Cochrane's agent of your petitioner's agent
having lent the use of a person in his employ as a can-
vasser to Mr. Mitchell, and also evidence of that person,
while acting for Mr. Mitchell, bribing certain electors to
vote for Mr. Mitchell with money borrowed of your peti-
tioner's agent by Mr. Mitchell's agent.
"That, coupling these facts with the further fact that
most of the voters so bribed for Mr. Mitchell had split
their votes between your • petitioner and Mr. • Mitchell,
your petitioner could not but be apprehensive that though
himself guiltless of the bribery committed by the agent
of another candidate, nevertheless he might, in a legal
sense, by the law of Parliament, be implicated in Mr.-
Mitchell's proceedings, so far as concerned the validity
of your petitioner's return.
" That your petitioner further ascertained that Mr.
Cochrane was principally minded to unseat Mr. Mitchell,
and was desirous of not unnecessarily questioning the re-
turn of your petitioner, or subjecting your petitioner to
useless annoyance and expense ; and that, if Mr. Mit-
chell would resign his seat, and the political supporters
of your petitioner and Mr. Mitchell would consent to re-
turn Mr. Cochrane, no petition would be • presented
against either of the then sitting Members.
"That your petitioner's agent at once communicated
these facts to Mr. Mitchell, suggesting to Mr. Mitchell
that, as he and his agents had both conceived the execu-
tion of the bribery and directed it, and as they were his
agents and not your petitioner's, who had disclosed the
secrets of their employer, and as it was his refusal to pay
his election accounts, and his neglect of the warnings
given him by your 'petitioner, that had led to that dis-
cosure, it was just that Mr. Mitchell should resign his
seat, and not your petitioner ; and other reasons were
urged upon Mr. Mitchell,. arising out of the conditions
on which he was supported by your petitioner's friends
in the borough, viz., that your petitioner's seat was to be
the first secured.
"That various representatens to the same effect 'were
made by your petitioner's agents to Mr. Mitchell and his
agents without effect ; and various personal communica-
tions took place, the particulars of which your petitioner
is ready and anxious to make known to yourHonourable
House.
" That, after two or three days thus spent in negotia-
tion with Mr. Mitchell and his agents, your petitioner,
fearing that many of his old friends anti supporters in
the borough were compromised more deeply in Mr. Mit-
chell's transactions than your petitioner was aware of,
your petitioner suggested to his own agent that he, 'your
petitioner, should resign. his seat for the purpose of
saving those friends from danger, and he directed his
agent with that view, to see the agent of Mr. Cochrane,
and report to him, your petitioner, the result ; which
overtures ended in two meetings, which your petitioner
and his agent had with Mr. Cochrane and his agent, on
the 26th and 27th of August, for the purpose of arrang-
ing the terms and conditions on which your petitioner
should resign his •seat ; but before the conclusion of any
such arrangement, information was given by your peti-
tioner's agent to Mr. Mitchell, that your petitioner was
then negotiating on his own behalf, and your petitioner's
agent distinctly and repeatedly informed Mr. Mitchell's
agent, that one seat must be abandoned to secure their
common partisans from danger.
" That the conditions which your petitioner enteredinto
and stipulated to perform towards Mr. Cochrane were
the following :—That at the end of the fourteen days
allowed for presenting election petitions, he, your pe-
titioner, would accept the Chiltern Hundreds, unless Mr.
Mitchell, within that time, should agree to do so ; and
further, in case of the vacancy to be created by your
petitioner, or Mr. Mitchell's resignation, neither your
petitioner, nor his agent, nor their mutual friends in the
borough, should oppose Mr. Cochrane's return, and that
so far as regards that part of the understanding, your
petitioner begs to say, that his and his agent's under-
standing has been carried into effect, for that he resigned
his seat on the Bth of September, and that Mr. Coch-
rane was elected and returned on the 15th of that month, ,
and that on the 27th of September your petitioner re-
ceived from Mr. Cochrane's agent a letter, containing
the' following voluntary acknowledgment, :
" Allow me to take this opportunity of expressing,
on behalf of Mr. Cochrane and myself, the deep sense
we entertain of the honourable and straightforward con-
duct which has marked the whole of the proceedings of
yourself and Mr. Nicholetts in this matter.' And to
your petitioner's agent, on the same day, a letter was
addressed by Mr. Cochrane's agent, front which the fol-
lowing is an extract :---‘ Allow me to take this oppor-
tunity of expressing to you how deeply both Mr. Coch-
rane and I feel ourselves indebted to you and Mr. War-
burton for the honourable, straightforward, and ener-
getic manner in which you have carried out our London
arrangements.'
" That it being stated at the meeting of the 26th of
August, that no stipulation could legally or safely be
entered into that would affect Mr. 'Mitchell's seat, your
petitioner requested Mr. Cochrane to take no further
proceedings on the petition against that gentleman's re-
turn ; to which Mr. Cochrane replied, that it was his
fixed determination to unseat Mr. Mitchell, and that he
could not entertain the request made to him by your
petitioner.
" That the conditions which Mr. Cochrane entered
into and stipulated, with regard to your petitioner, were,
that no petition should be presented against his (your
petitioner's) return ; that his letter of application for the
Chiltern Hundreds should not be made known or used
before the expiration of the fourteen days allowed for
presenting election petitions, and should be returned to
him in case Mr. Mitchell should, within that time, agree
to vacate his seat, by making a similar application ; that
the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return, which Mr.
Cochrane declared he would not abandon, should be pro-
secuted in such a way as to save the legal liabilities and
reputation. of your petitioner's friends ; that on this
matter your petitioner was informed by Mr. Cochrane
and his agent that reliance must be placed on their
honour.

" That on the 7th of September, the day before your
petitioner resigned his seat, on his expressing his
doubts to Mr. Cochrane and his agent, whether they
would be able to comply with the last stated condition ;
Mr. Cochrane's agent stated, that of evidence to prove
Mr. Mitchell's bribery he had such an embarras de
richesses,' that he would have no difficulty in proving the
bribery, and at the same time saving the reputation of
your petitioner's friends.

_
" That in further elucidation of the nature of the per-
formance intended by Mr. Cochrane and his agent, in
part of the above compromise, your petitioner begs to
give an extract from a letter, dated the 27th of Septem-
ber, addressed by Mr. Cochrane's agent to your peti-
tioner's agent :

" I need not assure you that, except to carry out the
arrangement for the benefit of Mr. Warburton,'and your
friends as well as his, and in strict conformity with the
honourable understanding between us, Mr. Cochrane and
I have no wish to take any steps whatever ; and that,
therefore, we feel ourselves entirely in your and Mr.
Warburton's hands, to act as you may direct, as to the
actions and petition for Mr. Warburton's benefit. You
will see Mr. Warburton's very correct and honourable

feelings towards us in this matter, and all I beg of you,
for his sake, is, not hastily to decide on steps as to Hut-
ehinson's actions, &c., which may have the effect at last
to leave Mr. Warburton the only sufferer.'
" That, at the instigation of the above-mentioned Mr.
Matthew Hutchinson„jun., a petition had been got up
in the borough against the return of Mr. Cochrane, on
an allegation of bribery committed by Mr. Cochrane,
when a candidate at the election in .Tune ; which peti-
tion was to be presented to the House on the 28th of
September, the day following the date of the letter last
referred to.

" Thal, on the morning of the 28th of September, Mr.
Cochrane and his agent called on your petitioner, mid
asked him to be a consenting party to the withdrawal of
the'petition against Mr. Mitchell, as, in that case, the
petition against Mr. Cochrane would not be presented ;
which proposition your petitioner said he should refer to
the consideration of his friends.

" That, on the 29th of September, your petitioner ad-
dressed a letter to Mr. Cochrane's agent, stating that
your petitioner had referred the proposal of the former
day to his London agent, to whom he (your petitioner)
had stated the view he took of that proposal, in the fol-
lowing terms That, in my judgment, I stand in that
position, that no appeal made to me, as to what Mr.
Cochrane shall or ought to do, can with propriety be
answered by me. If 1 advise one course, my friends will
consider me as abandoning them, and as sanctioning the
most monstrous injustice ; if I advise another course, it
may be Imputed to me that I have conspired to turn Mr.
Mitchell out of his seat ; that to Mr. Cochrane and his
advisers, therefore, I must leave the undivided responsi-
bility of determining on their course of action.'
" That, on the Ist of October, Mr. Cochrane's agent
called on your petitioner, to state that he had received
from the agent of Mr. Mitchell, a proposal that his client
should resign his seat at the end of two years ; and Mr.
Cochrane's agent begged to know whether your peti-
tioner would consent to that proposal ; to which your
petitioner answered that he would not.
" That, on the 4th of October, Mr. Cochrane and his
agent again proposed to your petitioner that he should
consent to the abandonment of the petition against Mr.
Mitchell's .return ; and if he would not consent to that
proposition, that he should avow himself the prosecutor
of the petition, and pay the costs of prosecuting it ; both
of which proposals your petitioner declined.
" That on or about the 24th of January it was signi-
fied to your petitioner's agent, by Mr. Cochrane's agent,
that Mr. Mitchell's agent had intimated the willing-
ness of Mr. Mitchell to refer all matters in dispute to
arbitration ; and to that proposal Mr. Cochrane's agent
begged to know whether your petitioner would consent ;