The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-20 00:00:00

AIDDLESEX ELECTION.

Yesterday morning a Meeting, of the Free-
holders of Middlesex was held at the Mermaid
Tavern, Hackney, for the purpose of proposing
two fit and proper persons to represent the County
of Middlesex in the ensuins. Parlilment. The
Chair was taken by the High Sheriff, who stated,
that in consequence- of a Requisition which he
had received, hearing the names of forty Free
holders, he had convened' the present Meeting,
and begged any Gentleman to come forward, and
deliver his sentiments.

CHARLES STtJTFIRLD, Esq propose() Mr. 'Brig',
as a fit and proper person to represent the County. The mo-
tion was seconded by Mr. A.. 1. Strickland, and received by
the Meeting with great applause.
Ml' IRVING said he s'.onld propose Mr. Mellish,
one' the late Members, whom he knew to be a person in
every wily qualified to discharge the einpvrtaut duties of that
responsible office.

•
A GENTLEMAN Sairl, he would second the mo-
tion. He had had frequent. opportUniiies of Observing. the
conduct of Mr. Mellish whilst iu Parliament, and he could
bear testimony to his upright and uniforiuly in,!eperolent
conduct. In him they would find the supporter of the King,
the Crown, and also the rights of the people. He,was sure
no person in the room, who had taken the least notice of his
conduct whikt a Member of Parliament, could say he had ever
sacrificed their rights. He had been able to judge of his con-
duct, and was sure there was in it nothing hut-what deserved
their -approbation..

Mr. BrGGs .ialliented the .painfut ditty imposed
upon him that day, that of proposing a pers'.n in opposition
to the Gentlemen .already put in nomination. He concluded
with proposing.'. W. Clarke, Esq. -of Swaithley House, near
,t7zbridge. as a Cand;date.
Mr. SW EEN LY seconded the Motion.

Mr. Ilicas • then reatka string of Resolutions,
the purport.of which was. mit as-Mr. Mellish had voted for
every meast:te of Minister's; .hr was declared 'unfit to repre-
sent the rounty of Middlesex, and unworthy of the soffrage
he sought fur; and that Mr. .flyug and Mr. Clarke, being fit
and proper persons, were deserving of support..
On the resolution which conveyed censure on Mr. Mellish,
the room divided three times; but such an uproar took place,
that they could come to no conclusion for some time. The
High Constable interfered in vain, and it was not till the
Sheriff threatened to dissolve the Meeting that peace was re-
stored. The. question was then left for the decision of the
Chair, and on a show of bands, it was declared to be carried
by a very small majority.

Mr. tivtco declared that he shn,►ld ever continue
the same line of conduct that had for 28 years ensured him
the.snpport of the Freeholders of Middlesex.

, •
ith:.MELListi said, that he had received such
assurances of support from the respectable part-of the Free-
holders that he should stand the contest. To promise that
he should do mote than vote conscientiously would be de-
grading to himself; and as a pouf that he had done his duty,
he challenged the room to thention an, instance in which be
voted for his own particular interest.

The UNDFR-SHERIFF said, 200/. each had been
deposited by Messrs. Byng- and Mellish, to cover the ex-
penecs of the flustin,;s, &c., and asked if any Gentlemen was
prepared to Make a deposit on behalf of Mr. Clarke, but none
appeared.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who, in a short
speech, acknowledged ale' honour done him, and Meeting
broke up. .

*4,4t- For the Accounts of the Meetings of the City, and the
Borough, see the Last Page.

•DEFINII lON OF A JACOBIN.

FOR THE SUN.

Enttort,—A4 the Jacobins are now en-
de'avnui ing lo get a footing in Parliament, it will
,not be unseasonable to send you a definition of.
the term Jacobin, which I have lately met with
in the course of my reading.- That term is, in-
deed, of Ft encb origin, and it denoted, in the
-first instance, the wretches who brought about the
French ReVolution.- - But it is applicable to a
nespetate faction err this country, whose object is
evidently a ltev'.lution upon French principles,
The means .puts led, in hoth cases, are the SWIM,
and if those means should be broughl into action
in this happy Country, the end will be the same—
Anarchy, Pillage, and Massacre. •

MOti~IT9R.

" A Jacobin is one who maintains, as his first and funda-
mental piinciple, that every individual, excepting only infants
and females, has a right to concur in the choice of Represen-
tatives; and that Representatives, so chosen, can alone con-
stitute a legal Government. In order to introduce such a
system—the theory of which must necessarily be pleasing,
because it is 'flattering, to the great mass of society, which
'has never yet exercised such powers-r-he addresses himself to
the multitude, in order,by their instrumentality, to overthrow
the existing Government, whatever it may by. But he does
not direct his attack merely against the existing Government.
He wars against all the institutions, Religious and Civil, of
his country—and of, all countries. Every thing, that time or
usage has consecrated, is odious in his eyes. His object is
nothing less than a complete change in the very frame and
being of society. His ntind is so puffed up with vanity, that
he thinks himself capable of regulating the whole world, in
all its social and political relations ; and he even fancies, not
only that his system involves absolute perfection, but that it
leads ultimatele to the perfectibility of human nature. At
the same time his heart is so callous, that he is ihsensible to
all the sufferings which he may inflict on his fellow creatures,
in the pursuit of his plans. Nay, in adopting, in its fullest
extent, the truly infernal principle of Jesuitism, that the end
justifies the means, he considers the energy of crime as con-
stituting.t he very essence of virtue ; and he thinks it merito-
rious to shed torrents of blood, and to spread desolation and
anarchy over the earth, in order to compel mankind to be
happy, according to his notions of 4appincss.''.