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London, England, 1820-03-13 00:00:00

MONDAY, MARCH 13; IE2O

NAVY-oFFIcE, NIARCII 11, 1-Bio.
.4; ••
riI""..rRINCIPAI, OFFICERS and COM-
MISSIONERS of His MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby
give Notice, that the CONTRACT for CANADA MASTS,
whi'ch has been a4rertized to be made on the ldth'instant, is
POSTPONED, bnlithat the same will. be adrertized in due
time this year, for the supply of such Canada Masts, &c. as
may be wanted.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, March 13, 1829.
TIT E COURT of DUtECTORS of the UNIT-
ED COMPANY of MERCHNNTS of ENGLAND
TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice,
That the following Proprietors, qualified agreeably to Law,
have, in conformity to the 6th Section of the ith Chapter of
the Bye-Laws of the said Company,. signified, in writing; to
the Secretary their desire of becoming Candidates for the Di-
rection, at the ensuing Election of Six Directors; on Wednes-
day, the 12th April next

JACOB BOSANQUET, Esq.
JOSEPH COTTON, Esq.
WILLIAM TAYLOR M ONEY, Esq.
EosyARD rARRY, Esq.
THOMAS REID, Esq.
WILLIAM WIGRANI, Esq.
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.-

Cii`V OF LONDON ELECTION.

. FIFTH DAY.
On Saturday, when the poll closed, the non
bers were as tallow :

Mr. Wilson
Alderman Wood
Sir William Curtis

3200

2990
2961

The Lord Mayo‘r.
Alderman Thorp ,
Alderman Waitl►man . 2203

.2596

.29.15

. Mr. WiLsoN came forward and returned thanks
to the Li very for the high situation in which they
hadplaCed him on this day's poll. He hoped his
friends would continue 'their exertions, as only
tyro days remained tor polling, and he assured
them that if they did him the honour of confiding
their interests to his care, he.should never be un-
mindful of their kindness, and they would at all
times find hint ready to promote their best and
tru,st rights and interests.—(Applause.)
Mr. Alderman W'ooD thanked his friends for
the increased efforts they bad made this day in his
behalf. It was a spontaneous and impressed
effort ; for though be told them yesterday be had
not a reserve c 1; thousands, yet be had his Com-
mittee, -Which was very numerous, still unpoiled.
effurt,.he said,. had yet been made equal to
that of the twolast days of the former election.
The people would ever find him ready to pro-
mote their liberties and independence, and he
could not in that respect be too offers It ouhled,
either iu public, or private, in their cause
(Gr,,at applatts.)--Ile relied on their continuing
their efforts to the last.
Mr. T. Cu RTIS (the son of the worthy Baronet),
Carrie forward to return thauks,• in the name of
his father, but the- uproar in the Hall was' so
loud and continued, that he way obliged to de-
sist, after setting the example of three cheers,
which was wonily followqd by his frientk.
The LORD MAYOR, who. Wes loudly greeted, re.
mined thanks lor the honour they had done hint.
The position which be occupied on the poll ought
to animate his friends to still greater efforts, for
they ought to recollect the good old instruction,
11)11 a victory was never gained until the battle
was completely won —(Applause.)— 1-le also
thanked the Livery for the good temper will,
which the present contest was conducted, and as.
sonic] them that he had, as was his duty from the
situation which he filled, taken ample careihat
means should be provided on Monday to secure a
free access to 'every Liveryman coming to the
poll-desk.—(Applause.)

Mr. Alderman THocP gratefully acknowledged
the liberal and unbiassed support which hod been
this day conterred •upon him. When he under-
took this contest, he-did it under the confidence
that their liberality and spirit continued' on this
occasion as high and as marked as at the last
election. lie hoped that, since that period, no-
thing had occurred which forfeited their good
opinion Of hint. He did not yet despair of final
success. - The Livery bad still the power of at-
settini their independence. For his own part,
he should ever remember with gratitude the high
end honourable station in which they placed him
at the last election. Should the independent
Electors still conic forward, as they night easily
do in the two days which yet remained, he had
no dotibt of final success.

' Aldermin VIPAITHMAN said, that notwith-
standing hi, bituntitm on this day's poll, the ob•
servaiion he made yesterday had been fully jus-
tified, He had this day polled lA mote than he
had polled. on the -sth day of the last electio..,
Resides; they should recollect, this was Saturday,
aday most unfavourable for the voters in his in-
terest to quit their business and come to the hunt-.
ings. Monday was, on the contraq, the day they
were more in the babit of sparing, and he looked
with confidence to the result of the next, day's
poll.

.The Election was then arlinnrned until this day,
and ihe crovid in the 'l-1,111 ,epatated, atter giving
three dicers. The Lord Mayor was drawn home
in h:s carriage by the 'populace. The Lord Mayor
of Dubiin was on the hustings at the close of the
clay.

A large oak tree, almost as black as jet, but in
good condition, was discovered last week by some
men employed in digging- a' reservoir at Grint-
tl►orpe, in Yorkshire. .1t is supposed to have been
buried ►many centuries.

LI VER POOL ELECTION.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, MANCH 8.
•
The Election for this Borough commenced this
mornin-g,, at nine o'clock, at the hustings in front
of tlw Town-hall. The Right Hun. GEORGE
CANNING Was nominated by JOHN BOLTON, Esq.
and seconded by .11. B. HOLLINSHEAD, Esq. Ge-
neral GAscoyNc was` nominated by John Bridge.
Aspivall, Esq. and seconded by J. Leigh. Esq.
COluDel WILLIAMS then stood forward,. and said, that he
Was prepared to ninninate a third candidate. The two gen:-
tlemen who had just been proposcil had been tried far a long
space of time, and were, in his opinion, very unfit men to re-
present Liverpool. He should propose a gentleman whose
conduct, if elected, would be very different front the conduct
of •the two gentlemen before him. They had been told by
the Right Hon. G<titlentan, that he had been invited by
nearly 900 persons of the town; but he was very much mis-
taken, 1f tie- imagined that these were spontaneous invitees.
The gallant Colonel then, at great length, entered into au
examination of Mr. Canning's public conduct, and the share
which he had had in bringing, forward the restrictive mea-
sures. He also descanted on the subject of. Parliamentary
Reform and on a variety of other topics. He concluded by
nominating Dr. Crompttm, of Eaton-house, as a, candidate
for the lionottfof representing Liverpool in'Parliament.
The nomination was seconded by a Gentleman upon the
hustings.
Doctor CuourroN next addressed the audience. He
stated the masons which had influenced him to conic forward
as a Cittididate on the present occasion. Ile then intimated
the mode in which be intended to conduct the contest. He
intended to rt'quire that every freeman, before he was per-
mitted to pbtl, should take the oath against In ibery and cor-
ruption, the oath of allegiance, the oath of residtnee,
all which he yrad to the meeting. - He then descanted, at,
considerable length, on the public conduct of Mr. Can-
ning, the distressed state of the country, and the necessity of
Parliamentary Reform. .
Mr. HARVEY rose to prop,se a fourth Candidate. He
dwelt; for some time, on the system of corruptitm which,
he said,-obtained in Liverpool, particularly at the annual
elections for Mayor, and which, instead of diminishing, was
rather on the increase. After alluding to a variety of other
topics, he concluded by nominating Mr. Leyland.
Mr. RuswroN seconded the nomination of Mr. Leyland,
in a speech of great length. He reviewed the public conduct
of Mr. Canning. He alluded to the case of Ogden, and ex-
pressed his indignation at the manner in which the Right
Hon. Gentleman had treated it in the House of Corn pons.
He mentionedsthe interviews which he (Mr. It.) had had with
Oliver. the spy, and reprobated the conduct of Ministers iu
employing spies. He then reviewed the acts of the late Par-.
liament ; arid called upon Mr. Canning to explain certain
points to which he had alluded in the course of his speech.
Mr. CANNING then spoke to the following effect:
" Mr. Iklavon, —I am very far, Sir, from finding fault with
any part of the speech of the Gentleman who has just ad-
dressed you ; I am very tar from finding fault with any
part of the speech of the new candidate whom I have the plea-
sure of seeing before you, or of 'that of his friend who nomi-
nated him ; so far as they were directed, in the due exer-
cise of tjie right and the duty of freemen, to the calling upon
your representatives for an account of their principles arid
conduct.

" It was not my intention, Sir, to hare taken up is single
moment of your time on this occasion ; intending merely to
present myseif before you again on those groontis on which
I was originally selected by you ; the grounds of my ktitiwn
political principles, and of the cnnduct which I hare pursued
in the lace of my country. But, called on as I have bce❑
for more,partiruhr explanations, - t need not apologize for.
foregoing my original intention, and fur replying to that call
as briefly as I can.

" Sir, it may he expedient, for clearness of arrang,etnent, to
divide tlte charges which have been brought. against me into
two heads the first, arising. ant of my connexion with the
town of Liverpool ; the other, relating to my Parliamentary
conduct.
" It has been averred by the Hon. 'Gentleman whom I see
opposite to me, (Mr. Harvey,) that corruption obtains in the
elections of this town to a degree which ;..throws all other ex-
amples intu the shade. Ido not exactly :strides stand whether
the gentleman intended to imply, Iliatlthis corruption had
increased since the time of my first becoming connected with
the town; or simply that such liar been always the character
of its elections, and that I as well as others have benefitted
by their corruption. Icm only reply, that 'I, as an indivi-
dual, am utterly ignorant, and in I hat ignorance anran utter
disbeliever, of such practices as the gentleman has imputed
to his fellow-townsmen. I, at least, am no corrupter of the
free'hlen ; and I desire not any voice that is not begowed
freely in lily support.
" if it is meant to state, as a charge against me, what is
perfectly true, that I have been in the habit, ever since nay
first connexion with you as your Representative, of receiving
Irma men of 'all parties in your town applications—some
upon subjects of mere business, sonic for what is understood
the term interest, in the fair and allowable sense, and
some„of a mixed character, in which interest and business
are inevitably blended; and that I have not•lieen backward
in rendering, my assistance to those who have su applied to
floe ;—I plead guilty to that charge, and I am only at a loss
to discover what there is of criminality in it. But have
I, on such occasions, ever prefaced the exertion of my
humble talents or influence, in behalf of any one who now
hears me, by demanding to know what vote bad been given
by him at the last election, or what were the local or the
public politics of the person who happened to apply to me ?
If there be that freeman present who can come forward,
either for himself or others, and say that he or they have
suffered in their fair interest, or hero deserted in the fur-

therance of a just claim, or have been put aside by roe, even
in the prosecution of troublesome and complicated concerns,
because he had not voted for rue, because even he had taken
the most active part against me ;—I. call upon that free-
man to bring such charge forward as openly and manfully
as the Gentleman before me (Ur. Rushton) has . brought for-
ward his charges of other binds.—[Mr. C. here pauses! fur a
reply, when Dr. Crompton observed,. that he could bear. his
testimony to the troth of what Mr; Canning had just said.
Persobs the roost opposed in polities to Mr. C. had spoken to
him (l)r. Crompton) of the benefit which they had derived
front Mr. C.'s assistance in their concerns.] Then, Sir, I un-
derstai d, front the observations of my new and Honourable
Antagonist, that in that part -of the duty of a Reprtsentative
I have never
" I come next to an insinuation brought forward by the
Gentlernan who spoke last, respecting the disposal of patron-
age, and the appointment to those small otlices in your port,
to which, after all, some one must. be appointed, and for
the appointment to which some one must recommend. Un-
doubtedly such recommendations have been made by i c front
time ro time.; and undoubtedly for the characters and fitness
of the persons to_ be recommended, I have relied upon the..
testimony of differeHt 'freemen to Whom they were known.
It would be idle to afFert any disguise upon this point, and
I know not why I should affect any. Nut in Liverpool only,
hut in every oilier place in the kingdom, it has always been,
considered the duty as well as the privilege of a Represen-
tative to offer such recommendationsi and I know no other
node through which he cools) satisfy himself, in each in-
stance, of the worthiness of each particular applicant.. But
the insinuation is, Witt such appointments have been corrupt-
ly bestowed, and that this patronage has [teen scandalously
bartered. On.this point, again, I !affirm my entire ignorance,
and with that ignorance my utter disbelief of the charge.
Confident in the purity of my own conduct, I have no hesi-
tation in also disclaiming such a charge'on the part of my
friends. But, as no man earl pretend, upon any matter of
human conduct, to affirm an universal negative, all I can for-
t her say in support of my assertion is this—Let any freeman,
let the Gentleman as ho has made the charge, mention to me
any instance in which my patronage has been unworthily
abused, and I will join with him, and twill exert myself as
earnestly as he can, to probe to the bottom such tillegtd

abuse.

'• nnotherGentlematt (Mr.Thishton) has, in a vcryelognent
and impressive manner, invoked, in aid ot the present con-
test, the substance ot that shadow which, as he represents, so
much appalled me in I IG. He promises me, at last, to ex-
hibit something u,ore to my dicouifitute than the battle of