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Sir Fasacts Buena re and hi friends immediately
proceeded to the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the
Strand, where an elegant dinner was prepared. The
Elettors prefect comprehended many of the moil
intelligent and weidhry lduals in the CrAinty.
About ball pall five, I:4d WILLIAM KUISILL
took the Chair. After the cloth was removed, the
Noble Chairman gave--
- The ladepennent-Protpaden as. MIMI& and In rhuilr; a
els Parliament, away racy confult
litiSetiwirt Vi
ay drank with extratadir...l) applaute•
After a &oft interval.
Mr. Isaac,' role, and propored
rr Tire Heald' of Sir FRAMCIII Boar., r., Pr the gram Fri•rd
of Itisaisaity, so rM indignant lirillterof Ort•re:anr, tad the
*tad/ Allow at East& Liberty r
This was drank with three times 'Lice, and every
dernonaration of enthufiafin.
After the appl.aufes hod nitifseed,
Sir FRANCIS 'hut oil T rr,le, .irJ atnreire4 thi
Meeting to the foil ovir7 purr. Gent.i.rntn, 4
I bad any pet fon al Tamer IV Alit yto l;:ls rr ntell, t:
IrOtlid indeed be nir.R •nli.t• Ly
• the very Vall7l and arietsionale ntaar tr r. )nt.
have jull stow done Inc the honour t.rnk my
health. I am. however, fore, that I t...l F.: ur i•
verfslly br.l,eted by yctl, when I riii.Jra ti
greatell, au.l indeed the only gr.:itins3 io3
ceise, is in the cont.roplarion thou t. c contel
to
vilticti I am of Vt cr.pged, is fur the puletsi.:

p:aut!4l.

fending the tights, from:hire:, and Independence of
the fieehulders t,f the County of Middlefea. If nay
•ff ,eta Mall he crowned with foccefs, I than Aeon
at.yreil r! ,re than abond mtly overpaid; if the con•
tear v nould onfertmutely be the cafe, I than feel
myfelf repaid in the reneaions of my confeiesee,
which will every moment affore me. that I have. on
my part, never omitted the 'lighten effort which
might, in any degree, tend to loiter and keep tip the
drooping fpirit of Liberty in this free Country--
Gentlemen, the many foul and falfe calumnies, which
have been fo indutkrinufly circulated againfl my con-
dua, I have ever difdaioed to contradia ; Waldo I
was certain they could never make an itopreiffon on
any other minds than fuch as arc liable to be warped
by the jaundice of the ilightell prejudice ; and tha full
attendance, which I have the honour and pleafure to
fee this day, convinces me, that Rich prejudice has
not pet vaded the minds of thofe who once have pro.
feffed themfelves my friends. I can, indeed, truly
affure you, Gentlemen, that the Rroggle I have
lately made, as well as.that in which I am at this
moment engaged, is for yon, and not for myfelf. I
have never felt the flighteft inclination for the enjoy-
ment of power in my own perfon. My principle,
and I may indeed fay, uy fole with, has been, that
my country fhnuld enjoy the means of checking and
controuling unbridled and unconftitutional power.
At a moment like the prefent, when the efforts of
every individual now here are fo effentially need.
Cary towards promoting and forwarding the interefts
of the Eleaion, by an aftive and unremitting can-
rafs, it would ill become me to detain you by any
length of (peed), more than will (office to allure
you, char, from my earlielt knowledge of the affairs
of the world, and of the conilitution of my own coun-
try in particular, I have ever found myfelf impreffed
with an inveterate hatred to tyranny and oppreffion,
and with an inflexible abhorrence of the chara&cr
of a Tyrant, whether it bore the name of Pits or

Bonaparte I
I come now, Gentlemen, to the particular caufe
which occalioned the calling of the prcfent meeting ;
and it is almoa unnecelfary tor me to fay, that its
primary and moll effential objet is to form the bell
plan which can be devifed for moll effeanally can-
walling the various diltrias and divifions of this ex-
tenfive County, fo as to fecure the Eleaion. Gen-
tlemen, it behoves me to remind yon that this can
only he done by a flrenuous and uniform fyltem of
;tensity in canvaifing every department ; nay, I may
even fay, every recd' of its vaR extent, where a vote
is even likely to be found. lam induced, Gentlemen.
to be the mote particularly urgent on this head, be.
cattle I have the molt pofitive affurances. and even
proofs, that the efforts and exertions of the oppofite
party, though fluent almoft as the grave, are aaive
and indußnous as the fiimula of ants and bees for
their future preferv4tion. Thofe induflrious infeas
are ever labouring to lay up a 'tore which may de-
fend them from the rude attacks of an uncommon and
protratted winter. Our opponents are equally flimu- I
lated by a dread that the fucceft of our efforts fhould
be crowned by the downfall of corruption, on which
they haw. C... I.nos fed suet irtuttcci. you fee, there-
fore, Gentlemen; the Rrong incentives by which they
are (linsulated to be ever on the alert; and, at the
fame time, it mutl be evident to you how great the
difadvantage is under which we labour; for the vir-
tuous are ever confident in their open and undifguited
cattle; and, depending on the intrinfic value and
Iweight of that, are fiequently too apt to relax in their
efforts. This is an error againll which it is peculiarly
incumbent on us to guard. It is therefore necellary
for me to remind you at ibis moment, that our whole
fuccets depends on the aetive and unremitting exer-
tions of zealous friends.; that it is abfolutely I equifite
every one, who wilbes well to the caufe in which we
are now engaged, thould ufe his moll cantons endea-
vours to prevail on his neighbours, and all wi It
whom he has infinence, to come forward as fpeedily
as potTibk. The enemy are well difciplined, pettedly
{killed in the arts and wiles of eleftioneeriag warfare.
We may be laid to be but young in the field. unhack-
neyed in thole trammels, and anxious only to promote
and forward the caufe in which we are engaged—she
immortal eauji of hien,. Under dude circumftances, I
am fore, Gentlemen, you will mute my endeavour
to imprets on your minds, that, furrounded as we
are with ;Clive opponents, votes can only be got up
to the poll, by the molt Ilrenunus, uniform, and
unremitting exertions of individuals; and, I hope and
trukthefe will not in the fmalleft degree be wanting.
•+Gentlemen, having (lazed thus much on that
head, I beg leave to call your attention to another
very matenal point, in which I have indeed been
very ill and very wrongfully treated. I have been
moll egregioufly mifreprefented and traduced, as
differing very effentially Irt.rn Gentlemen, who are,
' and have been long known to hr, the 'launched mid
that determined mends of the Conithuti.m..l Free
dnm of their Country. I b,:z leave to take this op-
poitunity of denying this foul aid tw.liAnailt charge
in tte molt une.mivocal macner. I la.in2t. It. mmy
cashed ynutli, been independent in my piinciples, I
canny, perhaps, have been guil-y rf that error • inci-
dent t t a /cling and ardent miod. of following too
imihritly the hots of my own 'Liniment+ ; but in to
doing, I have never been aauated by an opinion, that
t'-ofe Ft iends of the et,littaution, and of the Gantt
of Freedom, wee nui itrialy rig:li, or from a with to
exit:eh a diff:rence of roNticJl fentiment from them.
This is, ht wever, not a time when men, aanally en-
7, tged in the fame noble and difinterefled castle,
wail i fuffer the „thlves to fplit on finall differences.
Unanimity can .lone give foci-efst to the patriotic ad.
Yoeates of the Conaittnional Freedom ot this cou
try. I hope, therefore, we 111411 all aa wills one an-
cord in that glcriotts caufe, and that henceforth our
only uill...ten,e dull be. who (hall exert himfelf Isl.)11
to tecute the bleitings of our invaluable Conftitution,
and to preterite thole tights and privileges, which,
under that, have been handed down to us by our
anceltrirt.
" Gentlemen, I will not at preterit trefpafs fur.
Cher on your time. 1 Lel usyfelf moll gratefully im.
re? d iiy the very kind and affeitionate manner in
•vhirh you h.tve drank my health ; and I beg leave,
in return- to drink yew's, with every fentiment of
refpcel, ellecm, and affenion."
This fpc.cli was received with loud and reiterated
horliv rf ..pplaufe.
S.r f. Iit'IIDITT then pave as a mall-
- A tr, .1, 41 to the c.nota• .: ."f.,.., C....t.. in! the am
( if.. 1.1,.; 4,1 attcLtiau wthufc f:..,....,:. a them vLich re-

Drink v.ih three •ima

'.ICCs amidittL•c lcudcf,

Alice
Mr. TowstiVlD (fon of the Late c etebrated
man Towafend) then offered himtelf to be heard,
and, Menge being obtain's'. he began by firing—
•• Gentlemen, in delivering my fentiments at the
refentimportant and momentous crilis, I !hall en-
deavour to detain you as thort a time as podible, for
this h a moment whets we llsould be more engaged
in canyailltig than (peaking ; but, as an old Freehol•
der of the County of Middlefet, I think I have a
claim to give my opinions °fluty and explicitly, at
a time when I conceive the very vital rinciple of the
country to be at Rake. Gentlemen, I (ball endea-
vour to be as little perfonal as poffible ; but, in the
firft inflance, 1 mutt fay, that I conceive one of the
Candidates to be every way improper for your choice—
not only om the manner i n which he has been brought
forward, and from his want of independence, but
from his deficiency in that dignity of charader which
I confider abfolutely necefary in one who willies to
have the honour of fitting in the Bikini Senate. Gen-
tlemen, it is certain that the condo& of one of the
Candidates, which I witneffed the day before yefter-
day, was more fitting for the purlieus of Jacob's Well
than for the Hollings at Brentford ; but though the
Candidate himfelf is fufficiently objeCtionable, I have
(till weightier reafons for oppoßng him in the prefent
conteft, by every pcable exertion. This is not a
contell between individuals, but the grand quettion
is at iffue, whether we (hall be free and independent
like our anceftors, or that the minifter thould put his
foot upon our necks, and treat us like bondfrnen and
Raves ? Gentlemen, the prefent blinitter has done
more to ruin his country than any man ever did
before, or, I hope, will ever do again. He has pot-
forted every fou:ce of freedom, has blighted every
virtue, and perhaps, if the people were.to confider
rightly, there is hardly an individual in the kingdom
who murk not feel him as his bittereß enemy, and the
man to be moll (punned and avoided. Mr. Mainwa-
ring, for example, who many year; filled his office
of Chairman to the Sawn', with honour to himfelf
and benefit to his country, never felt the real-ores of
his public life embittered, till the laws, to which all
flinold be equally amenable, and which, in WI, are the
true fources of liberty, were flifponded and laid afide,
and bum de racial adopted in their place. Gentlemen,
it mull be allowed that. thofe who are to execute the,
laws fhould not be the makers of them; and it was
therefore, ftrongly dilputed formerly, whether law-
yers ought to be returned to fit in Parliament ? It
mull at leafk be evident, that they who are to delibe-
rate for the public gond, ought to be uninfluenced by
individual feeling or intereft ; which is not the cafe
with any of the gentlemen who (import Mr. Boulton
Mainwaring, and whole puppet. from the mauner
in which he is brought forward, he mutt of cootie
be. 1 111411 pal. over the minor fupporters, and flew
you clearly that the fyltem of the prefent !slinkier has
poifoned every fource of Freedom, and blighted every
virtue. • I know of no cher4oer that Rood fo high, I
know of no charaCter fo worthy of public eßeem and
admiration, as the old Britifh merchant—men who,
poffeifing landed property (the fureft pledge to their
counts y for au belief inteation), an, notwidsftand-
ing, like the indußrious bee, bufsly employed in traf-
Se In; the good of the Gentinunay at large.—Sneh
charaCters are, I know, concerned in the prefent Elec-
tion; but there has been too clofe a conneetion be-
tween the Minifter and the old Lady of Threadneedle-
Oreet, for me to think it admit:Mole that any of the
old Lady's Sant ihould interfere in the Middlefex con-
telt—Gentlemen, I am told many are lianding neu-
ter on the prefent occafion from thinking the Candi•
dates are two extreme:. I know one of the parties fur-
ficiently well to affure them that as far as be is con-
cerned the idea is falfe—but for the fake of argument
I will admit their pofition ; and, granting it, let me
beg, let me entreat, let me implore hcm to lean to
the popular Candidate—cordially thank, and effec-
tually affift the man, who, by reviving the old Leg.
lifb fpirit, will fecute us fi om the attempts of 800 is.
parrs, and the deplorable fituation of Holland, Swit-
zerland, and Italy."—On fitting down, he gave as his
toaft—
May Eneliflumn have fire mind, nue beam one fool in fupport
of Public Men adtiug au principles of Conftitutiorud Integrity.
The toalt was drank with three timtsohree.
Mr. CLIFFORD then came forward, and Paid, " If
this meeting had been called for convivial purpole..
he would not for a moment intrude himfelf on the.
time of the company ; but as it was called with the
intent of forwarding the cank (.1 the EleCtion of
Sir F. Bu TT, hr c-nceived he was only doing his
duty in flatir,g when he thought to be the bed mode
of fecinitig that deniable event. He ribterveo that
it was vets, extraor..itho y that on the f th day's
poll, when the Count was by no means exhautted,
there had been polled no more than 447. On the
fame day, in the lift Eleetion, upwards id (Soo
had hzen polled. Now only taco and odd; which
kit a defieie• cy of Pe; and, comparing the polls to-
gether a. they were, and are at this day. Mr. Mme-
WARING has now a deficiency to what he had then
of pe. He mentioned this only on the ground to
thew how relax the poll had conparatively been on
both fides, and particularly fo on that of the Go-
yernment Candidate. He would, therefore, advife
that the prefent Company fhould, in different parts
of the county, endeavour th form committees, and
agree to take as many to the next day'. poll as
they poffibly can ; and that all prefent (hall fay
when they thonfelvcs will poi-nicely poll. He la-
mented that the friends of :Sir FRANCIf BURDETT
were fo late in the day before they brought up their
votes. This very day eso votes for Sir FRANCIS bad
been objefted to, mei cly becaufe there was rya 1011.
cunt time to dircufs their rights. This was a deep
and cunning tick of the enemy, and ought to be
guarded againit by every putlible means. lie
hoped, therefore, that Gentlemen interelled in this
ghaitius conteft would, to morrow, endeavour to
Ming up votes early in the morning. Mr. PLUM.
sit, and he would be at the Hollings at stifle
o'clock, and. if they were brought forward at that
time, much progrels might be made in dikuffing
their claims, and fuhaantiating their right to vote.
He begged leave to inform thole who were concern-
ed in committees, that every attention fbould be
paid to the eel part of the ercrty, where the moil
unparalleled exertions were made by the of
prs-
fire party. He mentioned a clergyman having
brought up thirty votes that day, which were all de-
!fined for Sir Francis Burdett. He overheard his
converfation, in which he listed, that th 1e nic.. had
believed that Sir Franck Burdett was a loyal man
but, land the *taper clergyman." I Lave u.. ictei

them, MO now the tide runs as !Leong for Maitrear
ing, as it lately did for Sir Francis.' He alladtd
to the advertifement of Sir FraneW Burdett, in whist.
he had congratullted the Freeholders of the county
-in having done away the whole tribe of bell-ringers.
feztons, gravediggers, &e. of Weßminder Abbey;
and the gentlemen of he law in the various Inns of
Court. nett gentlemen of the law had, however,
again tendered their votes for Mr. Mainwaring,
nn
the ground that what was determined by Qom
Committee of the Houfe of Commons, might be re-
verted by a fubfequent one. There votes had. how-
ever, been objeaed to ; and Mr. Knnwlys. the Com-
mon Setjeant of the City of London, who was the
AfrelTor for the Sheriffs, had decidedly faid, that
though his private opinion was that theta law otficet:.
had a right to vote, yet. (landing in the fitoation he
then did, he would advice the Sheriffs to decide ae
cording to Cie refulution of the Houfe of Common; ;
and they were accordingly rejeaed. He therefrci-
would recommend the moll general and unremittir,.
exertions ; and faid. that if every man prafent
only bring np one Mdividnal in poll, he would pledge
his life for the fuccefs of the conteft."(Latd *Paolo.)
Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL from the Chair then gave
as a toall:
The &merman, whole genius and temper are toss of the Bet-
ties Conititution, combining besicaubaam wish wlfdaa..ae Ind&

ads with erergi—Mr. Fox.
This was drahlt with three times three, anlidff a
thunder of the molt enthufialtic plaudits, which con-
tinued for a confiderable length of time. As loon as
they had fomc degree fublided ;
Lord WILLIAM RUSSILL, in the Chair, fitoke
Ihortly to the fulluwing purport
44 I am happy to find, Gentlemen, that the ha
waft has been drank with all thole demonftrations of
er.thnfiaem which might have been expeaed. In the
abfence of m y illufti tout friend, I think it my duty
to fay, that no one feels more ansious than he dots
for the iffue of the prele,lt conica, and that nothing
but his unavoidable abfence from town, could have
prevented his pretence among us this evening. Nu
man can feel more ilruogly than my illations friend
for the fuccefs of the tootell in which all our feelings
are fo &Orly interelted. As to the qualificati ns of
my Honourable Friend, Sir F. Burdett, to teprefent
the county of Middlefes, it would at once offend his
own delicacy, and too much gratify his enemies, to
occupy much of your time.
Yau are acquainted. Gentlemen, with the prim!.
pk on which he has offered himfelf to your fupport.
There is, however, one point, which you will allow to
be of the hightft importance, and you will forgive
me for introducing it to yonr attention on the relent
occafion. You sinderitand, that Sir Francis Burdett
comes forward to allt your fuffragcs under the fanc-
Lion of the name of my illullrious-Friend, Mr. Fos, a
name refpeaed in every quarter of the world---a name
to which all Europe looked up as holding nut a poi-
pea of honourable peace or glorious war. You are no;
Ignorant, Gentlemen, that at the prefent crifis the ne-
raffity of a broad comprehenfive adminiftration was
admitted. Contemplating the prelent afpea of affairs,
it was thought that nothing thort of loch an admins-
ftration was at all adequate to the falvafion of the
country, at a period of unexampled difficulty. You
know, alfo, Gentlemen, that many perfons, the molt
confidcrablc in this country for their talents and public
character, did ad under a funilar imprefGoti. Thef
did, indeed, agree to but y or ner differences in obli-
vion, with the view of prornotiiig a great national good,
arifing out of oppofition to a ly Rem of court intrigue,
which, for forty years and upwards, has been under-
mining whatever is good and great in this country.
During that period, you know, Cei tiernen, that this
fy item •if dark intrigue has prevailed. This at fy nem
oppolite to whatever has elated of patriot dm, or vas
toe in the kingdom. The immortal Chatham in-
veighed spina is with all the energy peculiar to his
coatarier. Mr. Burke. in the happier days of his
Political labours, railed his voice spina it. It was
by a profeffiora of oppofition to the tame fyftern that
Mr. Pitt first attempted to introduce hilteeh to public
fupport. I need not tell you that by the influence of
dark intrigue, the jug 'tithes of the people aqd the
independent call of Parliament have been equally difi
appointed. Againft this fy &leen Sir Fa is cis Boensfr
has manfully Rood forward. He has entered his fo-
lemn proteft agarnit the unfair and unconstitutional
exercife of court influence. He has united himfelf in
the honourable body whore wait it was to unite in
the adn,hl..t,..!ion whatever is great and venerable
it; the etupite. and his greatell fault i., that he has
encountered the hotlility of a let of men who are des
' to mined to lupport any fee of Minders, howevir
venal or infignificant. lam aware,Gentlemen. that
Sir Fraud. nordett bas been -.coifed by the advo-
cates of the oppofite patty of entertaining (intimates
inconliflent with the feisty. honour, or dignity of the
country. Permit me, Gentlemen, to fay, that fuch
reprefentations are equally groundlefs and =ahem.
What my Hun. Friend Sir F. Burdett has laid, he
will not be alhamed to own. To Alin that be seer
infinuated that the country was not to be defended
at this cribs of danger and difficulty, is 111001401111
and Wind. The infatuation is repugnant to every
feeling of his nature. It is ear, for the Hon. Baro-
net's enemies to circulate theft idle afpetfions ; but 1
have too high an opinion of the charades of the
Freeholders of Michllefex, to believe that they will
produce the flighieii impreffion. When I am told
that Sir noise's Bo !DIST uttered any fentiments of
the nature alledged, I mull entertain a throng dnubr
of the trout of the flatement, and a powerful filfr::
cion that the whole is a rank fabric:don. When
am told that men are guilty of expreflions calculated
to dcprels the fpirit of the country, I am roach morn
difpofed to think, that fuch language proceeds from
an individual, or a body of individuals, hired to any,
cante, than from one animated by the nobleft princi-
ples if lieedoM, and the molt senerous love of
li-
berty."
The (perch of the Noble Lord was received with
a degree of applaufe which it it quite impoffible to
dcfc the. The applaufe having fublided,
Mr. Ctria Ewa then role and feid—.4 Gentlemen,
the sentiments you have jug heard In ably delivered,
came Irons a Member of an Mulattoes I amity, whole
memory cannot fail to be ever dear to every one who
lows the Conititution. and is a friend to the ights of
Log:amen ; • tinnily who beet torward iq
defeir:e of both, at the ,ilk weir fortune , their ho-
omit., their rank, and e' en their lases.
I need oat iutvrw you it is Load William Ruffed,

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