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London, England, 1802-08-07 00:00:00

THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR TO THE PREFECT

Pula,Themidoe x 6, Year act, (Await 4, am:

14 I fend you, Citizen Prefe&, the Senates Con-
fultum, which proclaims the will of the French
people. You will caufe it to be folemnly proclaimed
on the tsth of Auguft, throughout the extent of
your department. That day will in future be
confecrated by the remembrance of this great
event. It will recall to our Weft pofterity, the
the memorable epoch of public happinefs, peace
of confcience, and of the greateft of of fovereignty
ever eNercifed by a nation. The 15th of Auguft
is at the fame time the anniverfary of the birth-
day of the FIRST CONSUL, of the figning of the
Concordat, and of the epoch when the French
people, defirous of enfuring and perpetuating
their happinefs, conneet the duration of it with
that of the glorious career of NAPOLEON Bo-
NAPARTZ.—What fweet remembrance to excite
the enthullafm of the French people ! What pow-
erful concurrence of events and circumftances to
awaken in every heart thofe generous fentiments
by which the Nation is charafterifed !
This grand day may be celebrated by ads of
beneficence ; and I invite you Citizen Prefer to
devote it entirely to happinefs, by uniting in mar-
riage individuals recommendable by their virtues.
I falute you; c HAPTAL.

NEW PARLIAMENT.

MEMBERS RETURNED.
County of Sutherland—Right Hon. Wm. Dundas.
County of Kinrofs—Wm. Douglas M.Lean Clephane.
Kirkwall, Wick, &c.—Right Hon. John Charles Wigs,
Orkney and Shetland—Capt. Rob. Hournan.

At the clofe of the poll on Saturday for the City
of Waterford the numbers flood thus : _

Sir John Newport 208—William Congreve Aleoek, Ffq. 2c6.
At the clofe of the poll on Tuefday at Dublin,
the numbers were declared to be—

Brresford 169—Latouctte zaa—Ogle 90—Barrington ig.
Crofs foil.—Beresford 1883—Latonche 1595—Ogle 1252-•
Barrington 616.

The Scrutiny for Norfolk commenced on Wed-
nefday.—The following is a flatement of what has
already taken place in that bufulefs

On Thurfday, the 22d of July, at a (pedal Court, held before
the High Sheriff in perfon, a Proteß was delivered in by Mr.
Coke, which having been read, and after a variety of Obferva-
tions by different Gentlemen prcfent, the High Sheriff adjourn-
ed the Court till Tuefday, the 27th, for the purpofe of confi-
dering the Prnteft, and the propriety of proceeding in the
Scrutiny....On Tuefday the Court met, purfuant to adjourn-
a eats but the High Sheriff not being prefent, the Under She-
' r ff, according to directions which he had received from the
former, further adjourned the Court till Tburfday the 29th.
On the morning of that day, in confequence of the abfeuce of
the High Sheriff, a further adjournment of the Court till
Two o'clock of the fame day, was made by the Under. Sheriff.
In purfuance of this laft mentioned adjournment the Conn
met at two o'clock, and was opened in due fortis before the
High Sheriff, accompanied by Stratford, Efq. as his Af-
feffor.—The High Sheriff having declared his intention of pro-
ceeding in the Scrutiny nntwithftanding the Proteft already
delivered, Wm. Adair, Efq. in behalf of bine& and certain
Freeholders and EleCtors, who had voted for Sir Jacob ARley
and Mr. Coke. prefented another Pruteft, the reading and
delivering of which was prefaced with a Speech of confiderable
ieugth, in which, with great ability and animation, be Rated
the grounds on which the prefent Proteß relied, and his rea-
funs for deprecating any further proceedings in the vexatious
and handling meafure of the Scrutiny. He faid, that the pee.
tent Proteft was not a repetition of the former, but that it was
founded on eircumitanees which lad occurred fince. He con-
ceived it to be an undeniable polition of Law, that the judicial
power of the High Sheriff molt be exercifed by himfclf in Kr-
im, and that utiles the Law of the Land had exprefily fo pro-
tided it, he could not delegate his judicial authority to any per-
fon whatever. That in the prelim cafe the High Sheriff hay-
ing doted the Poll, and granted a Scrutiny, bad thereby laid
I afide his minifterial office, and affirmed the judicial deader.
• .. OW. .vanes. sod the

mlnifterlal became fevered from the iudiel.l petee, the !!:e4
•licriffihould have himfetf, in perfon.tuperir,teLded proe:eo-
ines, and that confec;oently any delegation of hi. au:ttcr.,, f. 4
the Under Sheriff was fuch a difeendluaance of the exere.:l
his judicial lima ions as to completely put an end to the pro:ced-
ing of the Scrutiny.—Mr. Male then read the Pretett.
To the HIGH SHERIFF of the County of NOR COL!.
The Reprefentatioa and Proteft of William A.iair ant fteteet
Plutuptre, &quires, two Freeholders of this Coarey, v.. 1
have given their V cites at the late Ellvaiol, of t..voiccigLu
, at
the Shire, to terve in Parliament for the fame,
SHEWETII,
That the application for the Scrutiny made by certain Fleelot,
in the intereit of the Hon. John Woelehouk, atter your waits
declaration of the numbers or. the Poll, and the Majority to
favour of Sir Jacob Henry Miley, Eart. and Monts Willi on
Coke, Efq. was unfupported by any evidence whatever its
neceffity.
That the Grounds upon which, in confequence et fuel) 3p-
plicatiom, a Scrutiny was in the firft inftance adeally awardei
by you,appear to have been fo far from amounting in your ore
judgment to that obvious and decided neccfilty which alone
could juftify your fufpending the return of the writ ; that at
the time and place appointed by you for holding the faid Scruti.
ny, you did not determine that the fame fhould be oroceetled
in, but did adjourn the Court for five days, to wit, from Thurf.
day, 22d, to Tuefday, the 27th July, for the esprefs purpefe of
confidering the propriety of proceeding in the laid Scrutiny.
That on the faid 27th July the Court was held, and further
adjourned by the Under Sheriff to Thurfday, the 29th July,
yett,the laid High Sheriff, never having been prefent at the fail
Court.
That on this prefent 29th of July, a Meeting was held at
nine o'clock in the morning, and further adjourned by the
Under Sheriff alone in your abknce, and without any audio.
city from you.
That fuck adjourntnent on the 22d July was, in our opinion,
Illegal, being made without the confent of the Candidates, as is
respired by the Stat. of 7 and 8 William and Mary, c. at.
Chat the Meeting on the ark of July, and the laid Meeting
on this prdent 29th July were alfo, in our opinion, illegal, bring
held before the Under Sheriff alone, to whom, in proceeding
upon a Scrutiny, no power or authority whatever is gives' by
the law of the land, or can be delegated by the High Sheriff to
do any one judicial adt ; and becaufe the Statute of the asth of
the prefent King, C. 84. empowers the High Sheriff alone to
proceed on a ferutiny ; and that the faid adjournment of the
27th and 29th July inftant were alto, in our opinion, coefe-
quently illegal.
We therefore, the underfigned, protefting againft the afore.
laid Scrutiny, becaufe the demand of it Was not fupportcd by
any evidence of its neceffity; protefting againft the fi.it men-
tioned Adjournment of the 22d of July, as being made without
the content of the Candidates; and protefting agalnit the la*
mentioned Meetings and Adjournments of the 27th and 27th
Intl. as being contrary to Law, do demand that you, in com-
pliance with the Exigency of his Majefty's Writ to you directed,
do forthwith make a Return of Sir Jacob Henry Attley, Bart.
and Thomas William Coke, Efq. the Perfons upon wham it
appears, from your own declaration of the Numbers on ths
Poll, the Eletbon has fallen.
Charles Harvey, Efq. as Counfel fur Mr. Wodehoufe, re.
plied to Mr. Adair, and obferved at Tome length on the proteft,
contending that by the Law of the Land, whatever power was
given the High Sheriff, was alto exprefsly or built:ally given
to the Under Sheriff.
Mr: Cooper on the behalf of the Hon. John Wodehoufe, was
proceeding to A ddrefs the Sheriff on the fame fle, when Mr.
Stratford obferved, that it would tend unneceffarily totals:ha
the proceedings, if more Advocates than one were beard on tie
behalf of each of the ponies.
Robert Alderfon, Efq. then addreffed the Court as Crrrfel
for Mr. Coke, and emended that the nature and extent of
power of the High Sheriff muff he fought for either within the
yth and Bth of William and Mary, or in the 2.;th of Ceerge
111. That if we looked for it in the former of thole Adis, aLd
fuppofed that all the preceding tranketion had taken place, in
what was called in that Adt a Special County, Court, we fhould
find that the Sheriff or his Deputy, had no power to adjourn
without the content of Candidates. On the the other hand,
if the zsth of Geo. 111. was to be regarded as the fountain of the
Sheriff's authority, it would be perceived, that that Statute had
exprcisly confined the exercife of any power in proceeding one
Scrutiny to the High Sheriff alone. On either of which rend:,
therefore, all further proceedings were void ar.d illegal, h,caufre
the Court had been twice adjourned by the Under Sheriff alone,
without even any authority or order from the High Sheriff, and
without content of the Candidates.
H. Hutton, Efq. as Counfel for Sir Jacob "alley, enforced
the arguments and legal infers:need Mr. Alderfon.
Mr. Coke then delivered in a demand to the Sheriff to roans
biotic': and Sir Jacob Attley.
Upon which the Hon. John Wodehoufe addreffed the Court
faid, that he felt hisnfelf called upon to &dards the Court
atter the Declaration of Mr. Adair, that the meafure of a Setae
tiny was to be confidered as vexations and oppreffive, and ana
his appeal to the Sheriff to avert, if poffible, filch a mist atone
from the Country; for his part, be could not confider fuch a
meafure as an act of oppreffion, the at% molt to he ed
of was the introdudtion of Illegal Votes. He declared he h.d
not come forward from any perfooal oppolltion toddler of the
Candidates, but becaufe he had been called upon by a cong,le.
sable number of Freeholders to Rand forth on political ground.:
alone. He had twee charged with difturbing the peace of the
Country, if, indeed, an oppofttion to Candidates of the fame
political prieelples as the two Gentlemen who bad late,' refer-
tented the County, was to be eonftrued into a difturbanee of
it, he mutt, for his past, fay, that he thould ever Rand foo
Ward and declare eternal warfare to the Peace e the Courier.
Mr. Coke (aid, that from the majority of numbers in his and
Sir pooh Aftlers favour, declared by the High Sheriff, lie oat
juftl&d in concluding that the political principles wheb he pro.
fed for many years were not difapproved by the County at
large, notwithitanding the confident declarations of oppofinen
on the part of the Hon. Gentleman ; that there was no perhin
for "Atom be had higher perfonal refpcdt than the Hon Candi-
date who had oppofed him : that he gave him credit for the
confiftency of hie political principles, and that he doubted nee
that he would perfevere in them (Certainly, certainle. it op
rupted Colonel Wodehoufc) whoever Mould be Minifter; that,
notwithltanding the menace thrown out by the Gentleman of
Eternal Warfare, he matted, that when the tin' •of cutneft
Dame again, his lion. Colleague would feel as (taut end hearty
as he had proved himfelf, more particularly, after the majority
of the County had jullifted his confidence in its (import.
Mr. Coke concluded by laying, that a report had been in cir-
culation refpedting him, and which bad been traced to Mr.
Thomas Cubitt, he therefore would call upon that Gentleman
to declare whether he had ever fern, or raid that he had km,
Mr. Coke Duke his purfe at the Fle6tors ; that he had indeed
loft his pocket book and his money at the commencanun of
the Eleetion, but that he bad not worn a mirk for tone wan.
Mr. Cubitt denied that he ever had (aid fo, or that there tear
any foundation for the report as coming from him. and (aid he
mould be obliged to Mr. Coke to mention his informer tc him.
Sir Jacob Attley faid, that he had never been biaff.d in his
political Condadt. by Mr. Coke ; that he was lure his lion.
Colleague had a foal above the attempt. That the latter never
knew how he had voted but by teeing him in the Dicifi,n, or.
having learnt it in coon:tattoo in the Lobby of the Hoeft
Commons or elfewhere; that if any thing could hies him, it
would be the generous and manly fupport he had given hint in
the prefent Conteft, when he had been fo unexpedtedly or
pored,and his charade: had experienced fuel, unmanly and unfair
attacks. That he had entered into Parliament s2n independent
man ; andthat as long as he merited the (import of the free-
holders at large, he had no doubt he finial receive it as ho-
nourably and effeaually in any future cortelt with the HOD.
Gentleman, as he had experienced at the late Eledtion.
RICHARD CARSON lir.lUtY,
Manflonboufe, Sth Auguft, tBo2. Solicitor, Charlutte-row.

Yefterday morning Mr. Scorn arrived in Town
with difpatches from the Court of Vienna.
According to an agreement entered into between
the Ruffian and Pruffian Courts, Louis XVIII. i 5
to receive a penfiln from both. The Emperor ei
Ruffia's gift it 75,000 roubk. annually.
A few &yrs ago the Rev. JoHN Loy ELL SALTA.
DOR, A. M. Student of Chritt's Chinch. 0;:on, WAS
appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to his Royal High-
nth the Prince of WALes. I