Star.
London, England, 1806-11-15 00:00:00

70 YRS woßrifr ELECTORS OF
WESTMIIVSTER.

I am a plain man, and have palled a long life in
this metropolis. I nave witneffed every eonteli for li
popular favour, from the days of Wilkes down to
the prefent time. Among the many Candidates who,
during that period, offered themfelees to reprefent
thi. great city in Parliament, Come were of the molt
dillingoifited abilities, leveret were of high prolef-
firmal fame, and a few were exceptionable ; but all or
them were perfons well known. There was no am-
biguity of charaßer in thole who prefented them-
(elves to our choice; we eflimated men from their
affioos, and the tenor of their lives, and we decreed
the palm to the molt worthy.
In the prefent day a perfon has Rafted op and
chant, I the MOO clink • in you have the power to
bellow . who, nil within the lag year, was never heard
of in this city—, Weigle frampr—one unknown to
Fame, as to the inhabitants of this Metropolis, and
who. amid( the clamour which he has railed, care•
fully avoids informing us what is his hiftory, a hence
be came, or what other preteofions he has to our fa-
vour than arife from his grofsly 'attiring, and
groundlefsly aceufing, every augolt, high, and ho-
nourable Charaller in this kingdom.
I need hardly add, that the Candidate I allude to
is Mr. James Paull, who oppofes with molt out-
rageous virulence two Competitors—men of whom
this nation may be jullly proud ; one the lopport of
Britaio's Glory ; the other (whatever may be his,
private foibles) undoubtedly among the m9lt dif-
tinguifhed orators of the age.
Who is this Mr Paull t I am credibly informed,
Plato?", that he is the fon of a tailor in Perth, in no
great line of hufinejs, and that the fun (creed pert of
his time to his Father's trade ; yet far be it from me,
wOes am in Trade myfelf, to decry a ufeful and ho-
rift occupation ; hot I conies I feel a decent pride,
an honourable ambition, to be reprefented, and to
have this great City reprefented, by perfous, who,
from tbeirbirth and abilities, are worthy of that ho-
nour—the Defenders of their Country. the guardians
of our laws, Statefmen and Orators of tried and ac.
knowledced talents, loch are, in my mind, fitter to
reprefent Weßminfter than a Tailor. Every pea
is relpellable in proportion as he evinces merit in his
proper fphere. Mr. Paull miAht, among Tail •ra
and Salefmen, be entitled to regard ; hut, as the r e•
prefentative of the greateß City in rite univcrfc, his
pretenfions are really as abfurd and comtemptible,
as would be eonfidered thole of a Barber, a Black-
fmith, or a Chimney Sweeper.
I have an extenfive acquaintance in Leadenhall-
ftreet, and number among my friends many gentle•
men who held dittioguifhed offices in India I and
from their concurrent tellimony. I do not learn that
this Mr. Paull is a harmlefs, mifguided, ill judging
man, who only mittakes his talent, and means well,
though he alts otherwife. I have made diligent en-
quiry refpating him, and I find, that he is not only
a low ..m1 Ignorant upttart, but that lie has violated
the moll imperraiit moral obligation that cements So•
eiery, and which al: good men hold fatted; that lie
is dellitu,e of Gratitude, and Mkt), traduces the
molt dignified charaAers in this country, with a view
to create Mute charaetcr for himiell ; but I boil,
that the people of England will not allow thern•elyes
to be made the dupes rt tu-Ii a wothleii fellow :
Let us flop a moment melamine what is known of
Lib hillory, she outlines of which will taffies to give
a pretty accurate idea of the &inn. piece.
Mr.•PauU clofeevided from his father's board about
thirteen or fourteen years ago, and went to India to
ineadlis fortune t Ram after his arrival io Benaal.
• gentleman, who 'traded at Lucknow, in the Com• .
party's civil finite, gave him encouragements toOki

'irn into his employment, and foend dila'
Mr. Paell; ie that &nation. acquired Come money,
and then fet up bufiners for hisefelf. Early in the
Year 1804 leta Warned to England with the gains
which he had Rot; and, although the mofi important
tranfatlions of llaiMsquis Wellefley's adminitleation
.had taken place previous to Mr. Paull's depamore.
from India—fuch ar, the treaty with the Nizam,
the (subjugation of Tippno, the ruin of the French
interefis in the Deean and Myfore, the arrangement
of the Carnatic, and the fecceffinn to Surit—not-
Withflanding all there tranfatlions were titers recent,
and as well known to Mr. Paull, and to the world, as
they are et this day—yet Mr. Paull, at that time,
took no ileps whatever to divulge the criminality,
which it teems he has only diliovered jive be hyl tame
isexv. Mr. Paull then 'looked on theft sac in a very
different point of view from what he profeffes to du
at prelims. His mercantile concerns occupied mere
of his attention than politics; in the profecutlon of
which, having procured an Ain Intent of guns, china.
glafs-ware, and trinkets, he folicited and obtained
letters of recommendation to the Marquis Wellef-1
ley ; and in the year Iftoz, again embarked for Ben-
gal, without having once breathed a cenfure on the
adminiaration of the noble Governor, or difcovered
any criminality in thofe efts, which he sear
that he wasched, repeohated, and eassdemessrd, from fo
early a period as the year 1798. Yet, to this very
r Governor, whom he fo watched and condemned, did I
he, in the year 180 z, humbly prefent the letters
be had procured, and humbly solicit pernsiffion to
return to Lucknow; and of this Onvernor•General,
whom he now fo grof.ly abufes, did he crave inter-
eeffion with the Nabob of Oude, to filler him to re-1
turn and refide at Dianna, on a folemnpromife to '
wbferve good condutt, and &fill from dirty intrigues
and knavifh (peculation.; and the Governor-General,
prompted by his natural benevolence, did intercede
with the Nabob of Oude, and obtained permillion for
Mr. Paul( to refide at Lucknow. Mr. Paull accord-
ingly proceeded thither, and, on his arrival, was re-
ceived by Colonel Scott, the Britilk Minifier at the
Naboh'sCourt, with every mark of friendly attention;
and Mr. Paull lived is the botsfe, aid at the talk, of
Colonel Scott, and by that diffingnillsed Officer was
cherifhed and protetted. What fort of return Mr.
Paull made for inch kindntfs will appear in the fwd.
Mr. Paull, during the time that he lag refided at
Lucknow, that is, during part of t Boz, and the whole
of 1803. (the two years fubfeqiient to the treaty of
Lucknow) wrote letters, erpreding, in the Itrongea
language of acknowledgment, the high fenfe he o+-
1 remained of the favours conferred on him by Marquis
Wellefley : of theft letters one has made its way to
the table of the Houle of Commoncedated at Luck
now, sth December, rBO2, nearly a year after the
final arrangement of Oude, and in this letter Mr.
Paul, Ibex on the jpot where the oppreflion is laid to
have been committed, and twelve menthe after it had
taken place, thus addreffes the Marquis Wellefley :
• Although Incelfantly espied in eke drain of a tnoft mighty
empire. I am, however, well aware, that the concerns of an
humble Individual are oat beneath your Iteeellency's notice. That
ear-Roe wife, liberal, and enlightened policy that marks every
289 of the Adminiftradon of your Lerdlhip, to whom no man
ever complained in vain, that complained with Jullice

" With ao indelible fet.fe of part obligation, with great ooader-
ation, and the Ligheit relpeta, &c. (Signed)
" J AMES PAULL."
Readers —Eleftors,—judge of this man from bit
own mouth;—what is now become of that excfartee'
56era1, and entigtnied pofrj, ate.? Mr. Paull can.
not plead ignorance ; he was on the reuse where the
tranfa&ions took place, and twelve months had
el a pled be ween the ceffion of territory, and the date of
Mr. Pacll's letter. Yet he now secures, of the mob'
atrocious oppreMon, him to aborts no man who eon?
pained with jollier ever complained in vain. The inetliale
grazier& of this Paull proves to be the ma envenomed
rancour. Him whom he one day avows to be the
mull jej omen, the next day he denounces as the mob I
cruel! Which of his allegations are we to believe
Why that which he is able to prove ; certainly not
that which he only alerts.
Mr. Paull, well aware that the Houfe of Commons
would :equity other evidence of leas than his mere
declaration, fummoned oral evidence to the bar of
the Houle, to prose the charge whiO he had laid on
the table refpe&ing Oude ; for this purpoie he called
the mob unexceptiodable witneffes, namely, Lord
Teignmouth, late Governor General of India, Mr.
Cowper, late a Supreme Corcillor in Bengal, Sir
A. Clarke, late Commander to Chief and temporary
Governor General, Sir James Craig. Major OufeleYs
who was Aid de CarOp end the confidential friend
of the Nabob of Oude at the very time the
tranfaeiona alluded to took place, when, brittle
to tell, every one of the before mentioned wit-
nolo, as well as feveral others, inked of lublian-
tiating the whole or any part of the charge pre.
ferred by Mr. Paull,save a flat contrataion tp every
fate that he had alerted, and furnifhed the Houfe
with a body of evidence, fuch as, I believe, never was
before adduced in any court by an accufer. in 98
folio peen, entitled Minute, of Evidence on the
Charge, there la not only no criminality proven againfl
Lord Welleacy, but alinelt every page Ja4-fir4jor
Mr. Paull. " It would be a tedious talk, brother kite.
tars, were I to enumerate the feveral inflanes of
fal/4,fread which Mr. Paull has keyed wile
both the charge and the evidence are printed, and in
the hands of every Member of the' Houfe of COM.
mons ;—read them, and then ray what loft of emu'
is this who afpires to be our Roprefentative. '
Bur, as if the full meature i.f turpitude was yet,
incomplete, the papers produced, by Mr. Paull ft".
ply another iritlance of this Gentleman's contempt
of that fame which the worhilifitally pages, fuch
as I think can hardly be paralleled in the records of
human depravity. Colonel • Scoot. the Briti'4l Re
s.4ent at Lticknow, who had roved his Country
abroad more than thirty years, Mr. Paul's Friend.
Patron, Hen, and Prote4sor, ft in the difcharga
of a rook arduous duty, and left a reputation for
talents-aod integrity, that will long be reMeMbered
with honour; yet the memory of this good and
eminent mar, as if the contrail of character to his
own, cxcitrd Mr. Faull's indignation, is foully, and
falfely traduced, in the charge preferred alpine the
Noble Marquis. Forgetful of every perk obligation.,
regardlefs of the reverence due to the dea, Mr. Nall'
attempts to flismatile the sieceafsd Colonel, by 11C•
cufsng him with being the abjea tool of oppreffion
—the unworthy inlitument of another's tyranny.
Happily those was in the Houle of Commons a Sta.

tlenian well acquainted with the merits of Colonel
Sontr, who called on mre.Aoll., °gin *Mace to ve-
rify the clinearaer•given y Mt. Bpi
Read, and attend to the following wnflattell"i
%settles(' to Lord Teignaloutti.--Yoiir Lordthip, I believe, war
augueinted with Colonel Scott.
Anfwer—l had the honour of knowing him well.
State to the Commlree yoilr opinion of hi, chandler.
Of his public charaCter, and Mi charader as an *Meer. I do
. not mean limply a military offsceritiet en ollieerof Government,
!• I had the 14,:L./1 • tf Si. ietwity eel ebilety. I oan to far
• fpeakche opinion of Lord C0f,17,1141i1 of his merit ; when I re-
• turned to Bengal. In 1793, I recoUe4 Lord Coniwallletelliog toe
" be regretted he Nelms been /Sour fn well unpainted with the
• merit of Colonel Scutt. sake was &crime time " •
Mr. jedinflone—" I' had not the good Girton, to know Colonel
° Scott very Intimately,but every thing t have heard of Mm leads
" me to concur to the opigion sr lek has been *arvd. lam dif-
• pail to &f lea be vale man if vat high honour, and very
° high Inttgrliy."
Mr. Carpel!, fr) 'Wender of the Syron. Comma.
Q. Did you know Colonel Scott
A.: I bad the honour d hoowing Colonel Scatt.uted a better
wile man mire beloved and refueled than Catboat Scott.
am fere Pair went to India, nor died In India Perhaps es the
fuhiet of Colonel Stores tharaela I can mention a elreuenitance
whkh will br of more importance to it than any thing I could fay
on the fulled. On an ocesfion of the mention of that Gentleman
In the preface of lord Cornwallis, then Orecoor .Citneral, his
Lordiklo ccpreiLd to me the Matadi refpet as theta for that
Oat/emu's chandler.
It wont I be fuperfluons to quote any farther refli-
I monists. Colonel Scott is in the psacifultowb, and his
fame will be honourably tranfmitted to pofierity, by
1 the very evidence which hie accurer has adduced--
and whole atrocious attempt fuses only so perpe-
tuate his own din race.
Eleraors of Ytrellminfter ! Is this a mid defers'.
ing our patt-inege, and worthy to rtprefent us in
Parliament ? l'he only credit that he arrogates to
himfelf is, that he is the accufer of Marquis Weilef-
ley ; but if to accufe is merit, what dignified charae•
ter mill nut be traduced ? What rafcal will not create
for himfelf a claim ? Even admitting that we are
to judge of the Marquis's anions • by the evidence
only which Mr. Paull has produced, no min can de-
terve the grater& of his country more iniMittian that
nobleman; and no perfon ever merited more juttly
the innsgoasiom ofallgoosli4eBl than his accufer. You
fee in him a bold, bafe-born man, with (mall talents,
and no fcruplcs, drivingheadlong a demagogue courfe
that leads to anarchy and public ruin, in order that
he may be a vonfpicuous ailor on the (leg e, and de=
rive advantage from the general wreck. For the fake i
therefore of all we hold dear. let us not be acceffory
to violence Ind injullice, at once In humiliating to
co46felves and injurious to the community ; let us,
my friends, calmly difmlfs Mr. Paull, and tell him,
that we mutt know him better and that taw eut 10
browof him nullk garret, before we de& him our
reps elentative. I do not mention as matter of re-
proach his being a Tailor ;—but, when ignoble birth
and a depraved mind are united in a man who if.'
pires to the need of eminent virtue and dignified
rank. I fisnuld hold myfelf highly criminal *ere Ito.
fupport fuch a perfon in his unwarrantable presets-
lions : I therefore am determined, and I earnefily
exhort any Brother Eleitors of Weamitater, to vote
eggitsj Mt. Paull.
AN OLD IMHADITANT OS WitSTMINSTIR.

DAY.

FRIDAY, nova 14.
It will be Peen from the Rate of the pnll this day,
at its termination, that Fortune, that fickle and un•
certain Goddefs, has turned her wheel in favour of
Mr. Sheridan.

Atr the elofe of the poll at four o'clock, the nom•
hers were—
Sir Satinet. HOOD, IC. IL FUR Day, • int
Second . 391
Third 7211
Fourth 646
Fifth 796
Sixth 379
Seventh 613
Eighth 314
Ninth - 272
Tench • 246
Eleventh 265
TOW ••• ---• 4112
Right Non. R. B. Su MOAN, Flat Rev, IA
Second . St 6
Third - ' 4t5
Fourth 395
Fifth 724
Slack 370
Seventh - 369
Eighth • • 291
Ninth 261
Tenth 242
klevcoth 066
Total N 77
P OSII PAtset,Efq. FUR Day - • 39
Second - 465
Third - 714
Fourth - - 627
Fifth 374
Sixth 141
Seventh 659
hiskth lit
Ninth - • 270
Tenth 14t
Ekventh 155
Total -- 39.64
Thus leaving a majority in favour of Mr. Sheridan,
above Mr. Paull, of 103 ! A prodigious clamour
took place when the numbers were announced.
Mr. SHIR !DAN then prefented himfelf to the peo-
ple ; Shouts and huzzas prevented him from fpenk-
mg for Tome moments, at length he entreated them
to Wien to him ; affurinst them he 111,,n1d not long
detain them, as he felt his voice weak through the
effeas of the weather. He was not fur prifed at their
unwilangueft to hear him, as their reluctance was,
doubtlels, the refult of their joy and fatiblaftion at
gig triumph which he had in fo Real and glo:ious a
Ityle, obtained over his antagonill. He had tuw to
congrAtidate his numerous and refpeflable friends nn
the iffue of to.day's poll. The triumph thus aichieved
he trufled, would be maintained, and he hoped that
the Rate of things new, would convince hit antago-
nift and his fupporteri, that the conteit on their part,
from it. commencement, had been fruitlefs, and had
bow become vain and idle (lotig eitflaufes). Mr. She-
ridan proceeded to make fever's' very pointed remarks
in regard to the folly and abfurdity, on the part of
Mt'. Pettit of perfeeering In the contefi. He then
adverted to Mr. Paull, and to the invatives be had
thrown upon his (Mr. Shetidan's) condua on In-
dian affairs. He laid, that as a Member of Parliament
he bad no objeaion to Mr. Paull ; and that if he
Ihnold be returned,' and Osoilld bring forward one
particular charge againft% Marquis Wellefley, to
which he (Mr. S.) Rood pledged. Mr. Paull Should,
in the profecution of thet charge, have his fopport.
Ur. Shctiden concluded, by tweeting his ftiendi to

exert themfelves in maintaining his afeetlency on
the polL
Sir S. Hoop laid a few words expreffive of the high
fence be entertained of the honour they conferred
him, in being thus Readily fupporteß at the bead of
the poll.
Mr. PAULL next came forward, again a tumult
of uproar and conlifion, and cries of—No Pad(!
! and Paull for over ! and Ivo Sheri** ! When
the voile had a littlr'abated, he began py t king
fome oblervations on the nature of the coalition be.
tween Sir S. Hood and Mr. Shetidan. The condo&
of the gallant Commodore was- yeflerday unworthy
of his charafter ; as when feveral Elettors some to
poll for him, he told them he did not care for any
more votes, but laid they might give them to. Mr.
Sheridan. On the firfi day of the poll, Mr. Sheri.
dan was infinitely chagrined, and deeply niordded at
his (Mr. Patin's) great limed's. He propagested •
Rory, that be bad been [truck by a marrow hope, af-
ter he had left the honing,. Whether this was true
or not, lie did not know, but Mr. Sheridan had that
day dined at the Crown and Anchor, and (pent the -
evening, and if he had felt his heed uneafy. it molt
have been occafioned by blows of a different deferip-
tion, and of his own Witting (Ira le direr. asdairt
of bravo!) Mr. Sheridan had laid. that mould be
(Mr. Paull) be returned, and thould he briugloo•
ward in the Houk a particular charge spin& Lord
Welkiley, it dsuuld receive the fupport of. Mr. She.
ridan. What kind of rapport he thould be glad to '
learnt The Government had bought the borough
for which he (Mr. P.) bad fat in the fan Parliament.
and now that he endeavoured to be elefted for -Weft-
minder, he was oppofed by Mr. Sheridan, who
Wight have been returned, had he writhed it, for the
town of Stafford. Betides, it was proper for him to
Rate, that Mr. Sheridan had for five Seffions, flood
pledged to the country, to bring forward a motion
for an inquity into the molt inhuman and diabolical
murder ever perpetrated, that of the Nabob of the
Carnatic, but this he had never done. although he
(Mr. Paul!) had offered to bring it forward himfelf,
or to fupport Mr. Sheridan in the motion. Nay.
even the 101 l lemons, when he (Mr. Paull) had laid
upon the table of the Houle of Coesmons a charge.
alerting high crimes and mifehuneanors aloha
Lord Wellefley,, and after that document had beta
ordered to be printed, !down came Mr. Shetidul the
following evening, •and moved that the order ler
printing the charge Mould be recinded, and this was
done, notwithftanding every effort he (Mr. Paoli)
could make again[[ it. He therefore was fairly en-
the titd, from there fatts, not to place any reliance oors
e affedted fupport of the Treafurer of the Navy.-4.
In regard to the prefeat Rate of the poll, he orll
proud when he controlled it with the flirtation in
which their late illnetrious Membee4,Zr. Fox, Rood
on the eleventh day of the poll, upo ne oecidlon.—
At that time the tiruggle ran Co high between Mr.
Fox, Lord Hood, and Sir Cecil Wray, that there
was a majority of 240 againft Mr. Fox on the s sib
day. The numbers natal* him (Mr. Paull) on the
eleventh day were not to great, and he trotted they
would Coon be left, and that be Mould regain his
majority. He could allure his friends that they had
no caufe for difrnay, as he had been polo:ilea the
fupport of eight hundred independent voters, who .
would certainly come to the poll in the courfe of to-
morrow or Monday. He concluded by declaring
his firm purpofe of keeping the poll open to the last
moment allowed by law.
Mr, Sheridan and Mr. Paull were then dragged
to their refpe&ive abodes by the rabble. the band
of Mr. Sheridan playing—" See the Compering
Hero comes ;" that of Mg
r. Paull—" Britons Strike
Home !"
MIDDLESILX—FIFTH DAY.
At the dole of the Poll this day, the numbers
were t
Isoeerase Mite:lll, 14. - • JOS
()WOE JIVNO. are. L 46
Sir FR•11C111 BURDETT. opt
Mr. Brea thanked the Eleftors foe their exertion,
in his behalf, but nit words wore completely drown-
ed in the noife of the contendingartieo—one eager
to procure him a hearing, the offer, anxious to pre-
vent him from being heard,
Sir F. BVIDSTT and Mr. Mattiso then Repped
forward. Sir Faarcts was received, as atoll, with
applaufes. He begged to return his fincere thanks
to thofe Gentlemen who had favoured him with their
votes. As they %ife few in number the obligation
conveyed was the greater. He had in vain code*.
vnured to draw from the Gentleman neat him (Mr.
WWII) a declaration of his• political fentiments.—
That Gentleman had even denied his right to require
fuck declaration ; though, as a freeholder of Middle-
fez, he prefumed w think he had loch right. But
the Elators in general did not with to be informed
on this head, he thould acquiefce in their decifion.—
Thinking, for one, however, that it was the duty of
every Candidate to make a fair and explicit declare-
tion of hi. principles to thofe whom he wilted to ref
prefent, he could not allow himfelf, in his own per-
fon, to follow a contrary praßice. Finding, that in
almoft every inltance the declarations made by him
were either mifuoder Rood or mifreprefented, he molt
beg to be heard !hardy on this fuhjeft. In the firft
place, however, he mull Rate, that the Advertife-
ment in the Papers of this. morning, calling a Meet-
ing of the Eleftors in his intered, was infected with-
out his knowledge, and without coal-tilting his opi.
nion on the fubjelt He would have been particu-
larly obliged to any perfon who would have pointed
out to him what part of his principles were inimical,
as they had been reprefented to be, to the Conßitu-
tion of Great Blitain. That nor having been done,
he mull look to the Ratements of thole agalln,t him to
know in what they differed. That a refpeetable Gen-
tleman (Mr. Whitbread) did differ from him, he
knew, and fo differing, he could not complain that
he not only did not fupport him (Sir Francis) but
that he oppofed him. Mr. Whitbread, in his letter,
alerted, what feemed to him (Sir Francis) so,be ir-
rational and uncontlitutional. He faid,that Minifters
were appointed—that they might rule.over us, and
that we were to look to them for protalion. This
he (Sir Fraticis) denied. By the Conßitution, the
King was appointed to rule over us, and Minillers
were his fervants, refponfible for their eonitift,
the people having a (Meld in their Reprefentative
Body, to whom they had at all times the right to
apply. It might happen, and had happened, that
Coalitions were formed by which a (et of Minißers
made theMfelves mallet of, and took to,fleMou of,

the perm of the King, and ruled in his name..—
Would it, however, be maintained that this snade
any alteration in the cafe, or that the right of ruling
was hereby transferred from the King to his fervants.
t The ea* was Rill that of the Bing, not of thole who
bacluturped his power, and for which they were liable
to exemplary punithment. It teemed alto to be inti-
mated that he was mete from the bellowing ade-
Oat, rewards, either pecuniary, or honourable, on
thole who had ferved their countty, "'Ms he folemn-
ly and totally denied. He had only Rated, that re-
ward% timid not precede the Cervices in confcquerce
erbith they were underttood to be bellowed. The
otir.urs and rewards conferred on the gallant Lord
Welfon had been alluded tn. He declared that he
• 'jogs the lea man in the kingdom to maintain that
Wier Imo-ors or rewards were ton liberally bellowed
i•ate•that truly great man "while living, or on his me-
mory after Tin glorious fall in his country's caufe.-.-
He rbjeited that melt and Cervices were not uni-
formly and fully rewarded, While, on the other hand,
unmerited wealth and honours were heaped on men
yrho had never at all &weed their country. In this
*my, and he was afraid, by no means a folitary in-
flamer, he &sold allude to -the cafe of a worthy and
1111oritnrinu. Gentleman, Mr. Scott, who fell by the
fide of the gallant Nelfon, in the battle off Trafalgar.
That Gentleman, if his own eoterprizing fpirit had
not prompted him to exile into the heat of aelion.
might have been in a place of fafety. Zeal. however,
. for the public krviee, made him regardlefa of per-
focal danger, and he fell at the time moment with
his brave Commander. Ye what was the reward
attached to his fetvites ? Was it not with difficulty,
and after many docbts, and with much helitation,
that a pention acme hundred pounds per annum was
mluelantly fettled on his wife and children ? At what
Trafalgii; he would elk, had Mr. Sheridan been
patent ? or, in what manner had he ferned his coun-
try, to merit a remuneration of fo many thoufands
of pounds annually, drawn, as in the prefent (titration
of the country they mull be, from the hard earnings
of the poor ? Such were his fentiments. and foeh the
only objectionable parts in his profeflions, fo far as
he had yet underact:ld them. In there tentiments he
was likely to continue, but if he fhould be convinced
before the fiaal cloth of the Poll, that he had ad•
vanced any thing contrary to the true and ancient
fpirit and principles of the Conflitu.thit, he thould
candidly, avow his error.
Mr. MELLISH again repeated his former declara-
tions, as to his independence and; pointing to the
State of the Poll, faid, he taw there tuffiefett to at-
Cure him, that a great majority of the. tleetors at
lean had confidence in his principles. He hoped
the Fieetors would continue, as they had hi.herto
done, to place him the bight!: on the Poll. -
The meting then adjlurned.
Lift of returned Members, in addition to shah be-
fore given :
Carcecasa—Lord Porehefter and Tlaornas Gallen!.
Larsurnoowsala t—Hon.Alexandez Hope.
inatauaomana—Hon.Rolscrt Dundas.
No a TROIS se a wan (Couoty)—Lord Howick,T R Beaumont.
Cmtotoansunta—Thonats Mutts, Efq.
CONTEST FD REACTIONS.
Saaawsauar —State of the Poll on Wednefday
Ham William Hill - sac
Hoa. H. G. Bennett - 311
Mr Jona 293
HAxswtu—•state af .tbe PaU yefterday—Flftb day s
Thlftlethwayte arm Chute - iPro
Herbert - aOBB Mildmay 1740
NO/ 11iA1t470144111112---Clofe of tite Poll yetlerday :
Lord Akborp - arca
Mr Cart Wright 17E4
eur W. Lansham - a tyi
NORFOLK El EC runt
At nine o'clock, on Thurfday morning, the Sheriff
(Haney Lae W , Efq ) opened the Meeting,
and, after the dual forms, the Right Hon. Mixture
Wiaorrear. the Hon. Celonel Wonsmou a, and
TWAIAS WILLIAM Coil, Efq. were feverally put in
somination.
The thew of hands appearing to be eonfiderably
it favour of Mr. WINDHAM' and Mr. Cm, a Poll
was demanded in favour of Colonel Wonennuse.
Mr. WINDHAM, fetonded by Colonel WODINOVSF,
moved the thanes of the Meeting to the High Sheriff.
As all parties were anxious to proceed on the bull
• nets of the Eleetion, the Candidates and their friends
declined addreffing the Court, and the Poll immedi-
ately commeneed.
At the dole of the Poll on Thurfday, the twenbers
wcre—
Mr Coke . ins
Mr Wyndham - rasa
Col. Wodehoufe - $74
Yeßerday great exertiont were made by Colonel
Woornouse's friends to recover their 101 l ground.
The numbers. however, at half pall three, were—
Mr. Coke
Windhatn - tBr6
Wodchou:e 176 i
SURREY Et.certole.

The Elnaion for the County of Surrey will prove
one of the molt flogular cm the tte;,edi of NI lis Inca.
Mr. THORIITOR, when tunic than too a-head of Sir
icHN FRIDIXICIt. appeated on the Hulling', and,
thanking the Freeholders for the foppritt that they
had given to the nomination of him by his frknds in
his' abfecce, Paid he was unwilling to &lads the
peace of the county, and therefore he &mild decline
the conteß ; on this the bnoks were immediately doled,
when the She tiff. on calling up the numbers, found
himfelf unable to comply with the apparent wins of
Mr. TWOR arrow t for, at That Gentleman flood fecond
tt number on the poll, he watt compelled to return
Lord W. Russets. and Mr. Tune erne duly elated.
.0.90ry, Will Mr. T. folicit the Chiltern Hundreds,
in fend SR Joni, or will be refl fatisfied with ci.m.
ti to fit himfelf.

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