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London, England, 1812-10-21 00:00:00

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Coauweet—Sir W Lemon, Dirt. end J. H. Treiluilligst , •
Basex-1. A Honblen, and Cbat!esp. Western, &qrs.,
Idincs;titite-I.6ed Stanley, and ••Lik-4 Blackburn, Esti'.
Thin y—General Needham.
Buttsunsente—Sir G. Heatbcote, art. and C. N. Nod,
jkagsntaE.—rState of the Poll Eiglit)u Day t
Dendas, 116Q—NevWe, ‘SOlkerldallett, 361.
1 SURREY, Ocr. 20.—State Of the Poll Eighth Day :
Sumner, 18d7—Sutton, 1726—Turtan, 962,
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
The following letters have passed between the Committee
ap-
pointed w conduct the election of this City and their Represen- I
ally,. Tile Resolutions of the °tonal Meeting on the loth
• hid lien previously transmitted to Sir FAA it cis Bouts,
and CoCHRANt
To gilt FRANCIS BURDETT, BART, M. P. FOR T}IS
• CITY OF WESTMINS TER.
• Sig—ln announcing to you that you have ,beea
again returned to Parliament for the City of West.
/twister, we cannor suppress OW iiat4sfaction• we lee!
in observing the steady, though slow advance of
public opinion, manifested in the'cli*ssitibn offhe
Vectors of Westminster to do their duty to them.
selves and to their country—to the utter dismay of
all Parties, and the destruction of the formerly
overwhelming- influence of base, corrupt, and in-
famous Administrations, who havg merely regarded
the ruling, not the lienOtting she nation ;—who
hive considered power as every thing, the peace,
properity, and happiness of the people as nothing.
We would willingly a spare you the motu-
fication of passing a painful life in undignified
efforts to stem the ton ent of• corruption ;" hut
when we contemplate the effects produced in this
great City, exemplified as they now are, in the re-
turn of yourself and your late worthy colleague,
eithout expense or personal trouble; without commu-
nication with either and without a struggle—when
we hear from various places, that the People, roes.
ing from their apathy, are endeavouring to imitate
the example of Westminster, we cannot 'but indulge
the hope, that at the next Election, better informed
by precept, by example, and by experience, they
will so exert themselves, that the .a torrent of cor-
ruption" *ay rio longer be irresistable, nor your
hohodrable and manly effects be a unavailing" in
preinoting the happiness of your country.
By Order of the Committee for conducting the Election for
the City and Libeny of Westminster, appointed at a Pub-
lic Meeting of Electors, Friends to Purity of Election, oh
Monday the 6th October, 1812.
SAMUEL BROOKS, CHAIRMAN.

Coinmittee Room, 38, King's-street,
Coient-Carden, 9th Oct. IRIS.
(A Lifter to the same effect was twines to Lord Cochrane.)
Oxford, Oct.l6th, ISIS.
beta Siit.-1 found your very nattering Letter on my return
heft Rom Tiverton. The noble behaviour of the Hectors of
Westininnor towards me, makes it impossible fof me to refuse
an, exertion in my power which they may think advantageous.
The eucloied An.wer you will have the goodness to coMminii•
get if oites very sincerely, F. BURDEIT.
To Mr. Samuel Brooks.
TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTSIbISTER.
CFNTLEMEN.4-It is impossible for me to be in-
sensible to the extraordinary mark of confidence with
'which you have recently honoured me. And al-
though I am thereby again placed in an arduous
and difficult situation, from which I should gladly
have withdrawn, I cannot, under such auspices, re-
fuse to undertake the forlorn hope of combating
that wide-spreading corruption, which seems almost
-So convert the severity of satire, " that not to he
enriupted is the shame," into mere matter of fact;
or, at least, to gibe room to suppose such to be the
prevailing opinion. Nothing, therefore, retrains for
the friends of their country, but to stand it out as
long as they can, prepared, at all times, to make as
descent an exit as their enemies will permit.
Gentlemen, the small portion which remains of.
:the real Representation of the People (the sole.
Constitutional Guardian of our Liberty and Pro-
perty) is now confined to the Counties and great
owns ; and even in them, for the.most part, GO=
bernment patronage, places, pensions, promiset,
threats, and the various methods practiced at Elec-
tions, render an uncorrupt body of Electors no
more to be expected than an untotrupt Parliament.
I may, however, Gentlemen, be allowed t) say,
without incurring the suspicion of flattery, that,
your conduct forms a shining exception. A con-
duct unparalleled in the annals of this, or, perhaps,
' 'elf any other country ; proving to demonstration
' le faltel-ood of those malignant assertions of un-
fincipled men for traitorous ends, that the great
i
mass of the nation is corrupt, and that Reform is,
therefore, neither- desirable nor attainable. This
outrageods doctrine, invented by knavery to pal-
liate plunder, yob lave nobly eonfuted, and fur.
ttished a practical and unanribetable argument in
favour of freecioM of Election:
GentleineH, at the Revolution one honest line se.,
curing to the People freedom of Election, won].
have been worth more than all that tedious and '
ostentatious display of principles and objects set .
Itirth, but really never provided fir, by the Bill of
Rights. I would fain hope, that the example given
by the Electors of Westminster, might encourage
other places still to contend for that small portion
of Independence which yet remains in the country;
and thereby keep alibe, at least in the remembrance
of their countrymen, their ancient constitutional
tight to a flit!, fair, and free Representation of the
People in Parliament, their only quiet and peace-
able steerity at all times fcr their rights and pro-
pertyiagainst the despotism and plunder of the few.
For these purposes you shall always find me, ei.
den' ill or out of Parliament, ready to ldy down my
life.
Gentlemen, I have receited the highest honour
/ egh reteite and the best reward—the approbation
°f those who trusted me on the expiration of the
trust.
_That I should have, and that the Eleetnrs of
Westminster should think, that l have coniucted
Myself in it with honour and integrity, will be a
'ever failing source of satisfaction to me, as long
as the powers of recollection shall ref:Plain to,
Gentlemen,
Your most affectiuuate, and devofed Servant,
FREIPCIS Built/VT.
9eords 161 b Oct. tilt
I) 12, Portman-square, Oct. 14, 19115.
Stu_ Spk—Yon will oblige me by handing the enclosed to
Cmtauttee for conducting the Election for Westminstel.
20 m,..saraud Brooks. Believe me sincerely your's,
eocusAst.
TO Tilt LIACTORS OF WESTMINSTER.
theORNTLa-Being unable to convey in words
sensathms I experience in reflecting on the man-
. ter in Which you have returned me to Patli.ement, I