Star.
London, England, 1806-11-08 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION,

On tie clofe of the Poll, at four o'clock, the stub.
bens for the Candidates flood thin :
Slr S•st u at. Hoc)°, K. B. Fitt! Day, - t6t
&mood - - 393
Third - - 730
Fourth 646
Filth 796
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Total ..• --• 3923
I/Mal PA ULL, Eri. Firft Day . 317
Second - • 465
Third . - 724
Fourth - • 637
Fifth 374
Total ••• .—.. 451,
Right Hon. R. 11. glittlOAN, Flrft Day, 178
&rand . - 196
Third . • 415
• Fourth 542
Fifth • 724
Total -•.•••-• 2054

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The votes for Mr. Paull yellerday were chiefly
plumpers, while thofe of the other Candidates were
molt!, for both.—On clofing the books,
A man of the name of Bistros advanced and ad-
dreffed the people. He fincetely congratulated them
on the *eels of their exertions this day in favour of the
gallantrOfficer, Sir Samuel Hood, and Mr. Sheridan,
and the complete triumph they would fpeedily obtain
by their perfeverance over Mr. Paull. The memory
of thofe fplendid talents, by which their jrfeat city
had been reprefented for above twenty-five years, in
the perfon of that lamented patriot, the late Mr.
Fox, demanded at their hands a fucceffor worthy of
his great charaeler. That fuceeffor was now pre-
kneed for their choice in the perfon of Mr. Sheridan,
the bolom friend and compatriot of their late glorious
Reprefentative. •
Mr. Prrtt Moots congratulated the independent
Eleators of Wedminder upon the triumphant fuccefs
of .tisis day's poll in favour of the gallant Admiral
and his Right Hon. Friend. He told them yeller.
day what would be the refult of thole alive vier.
lions on foot for his Right Hon. Friend. He told
them that Mr. Paull would fpeedily flag in his ca-
reer. The refult had verified his predittions. Yef-
terday his Right Hon. Friend polled as many as Mr.
Paull :—to-day he had polled three for his one. Bet'
what would the Eleflors lay when they thould be
told, that out of the two limy-wad and odd votes
which enabled Mr. Paull to boatl fo high a majority
ye4terday, no leis than fix hundred and thirteen were
deteaed to he bad ? given by men who paid neither
houfe rent (or poor's rates ; but who voted under
the influence of the porter pot, fo powerful a Rime.'
louslin Mr. Paull's eflimation. Tomorrow his Right
Honourable Friend. indeed of three, would ponies
to one with Mr. Paull, who, if he had any good fenfe
remaining, would now refign a conceit which it
would be impoffible for him to maintain with the
flighted probability of fuccefs, and repair, with the
Chattered remnant of his forces, to fupport his friend
Sir Francis Burdett at the Middlefex Eleaion. How-
ever, his confequence, asa Candidate for Weflminfler,
had but another folitary day to live. He concluded
by apologizing once more for the abfence of his Right
Hon. Friend, whole illnefs continued, from the Choke
of a bludgeon, received on quitting the Hollings,
from a ruffian, on Monday. Hoping that he would
be able to return them his thanks in perfon. on the
dole of to-morrow's Poll, he trolled they would now
join in a hearty cheer of three times three to the file-
eel's of hi: Right Hon. Friend, and the gallant Ad-
miral.
Sir SAMOIL HOOD thanked his friends molt cor-
dially for the new proofs of their zeal which they
hid given him that day, and the refult of that zeal
in a triumphant majority—in the fulled confidence'
that thole exertions would be manfully continued,
he hoped that the majority of to morrow would be
decline of the Etc ion, and prove their determines
tion manfully to fupport the Conditutional reprefen-
tatives againd a man inimical to the Conditution
itfelf. 1
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Mr. Palm., in his tarn, claimed the attention of
the people. He repeated his former profefflons of
the principles upon which he had ventured to nand
Candidate for their fulfrages; and Paid, that the (tort.
lived triumph of this day'. majority to the llant
Admiral. when he confidered the mode by which it
was obtained, did not at all damp his hopes. It
was notorious that, in order to molter the forces
which appeared this day in the gallant Admiral's
fupport, not only had the Navy Office, the Admiralty
Office, the War Office, and all the other Offices of',
Government in Somerfet-place, and throughout the
City of Wefiminfler, been rummaged, ranfacked,
and (wept of every Clef k who could furnifh a vote—
but even the Offices and Counting.houfes of every
Army Agent, Contraltor, and Tradefman, (ant-
tioned or influenced by Government, were fubjed-
ed to confcription for the hke purpofe. to eke out
this boafled majority of the gallant Admiral. and_
Ewell the numbers of his new ally. But they knew
little of his difpofition who fuppofes he was to be
frightened into a refignation by the majority of a few
hundreds thus obtained, in the prefent nage of the
Poll. He could not command his fupporters into the
field—he could not drag them to the hullings like
eonferipts, manacled in the chains of the Treafury :
his reliance was upon the free will of a free people ;
and he looked only fur a fpontaneous fupport. In
his reliance upon that, he Ihould continue the Poll,
if neccfrary, to the laa hour of the fourteenth day,
and give the Independent Eleltors of Weltminfler
an opportunity to prove to the world, that not all the
influence of Minifters, with all the gold in the Tree-
fury, could induce them to forfeit their indepen-
dence, or yield to the mandates of a junto leagued
for their fubjugatioo.