Star.
London, England, 1807-05-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

TO/MTH DAY-.--THUIREDAY, MAT 2t.
At the clofe of the Poll the numbers Rood thus :
For Mr. ',locum - - xBi7
Mr. BT NO • .• 106
Sir C. BATHES - 855

Mr. Brac--..4 Gentlemen Freeholders, Ece. once
more I beg leave to thank you, for your exertions in
my favour this day, and for the honourable fituation
you have placed me in upon the poll. I am confi-
dent the longer this poll laths the higher will that
fituation be ; becaufe 1 am confident you all feel that
this caufe is your caufe and that in every exertion
you are making for me, you are caving yourfelves
more than me.—(Applaufes, difapprobation, and
bites.)

Mr. MSLLISH—" Gentlemen, Sec. I return you
my tincere thanks for the diftinguilhed fupport I have
met with filke the commencement of this elation. I
will not, Gentlemen, detain you long.—(A loud
laugh-.)—At the fame time I murk take occafion to
mark how extraordinary it is that Mr. Byng thould
imagine his caufe to be yours. He has no right to
effuse fuch a diftinaion. To me it is a clear in•xif,
that my caufe is more yours than his, inafmuch as
you have placed me fo much higher on the poll.—
(Applaufes.)—lt will, hotvever, be neceffary for you
to continue your exertions, and keep r.:e in the fitua-
lion in which pu have placed me."

Sir CHRISTOPHEit BAYNES••-4 Gentlemen Free-
holders in general, and my friends in particular, the
firfk of you I thank for the general fupport you have
offered me this day, and the nett of you I thank
for your generous exertions in my favour. The awe
of the poll flews what I have already told you,
that my numbers would increafe, and would con-
tinue to increafe—[applaufes ] I know, Gentlemen,
bow much you all detett coalition • and I have rib-
(erred the jealoufy you very properly expreffed at the
fuppofition that I had eoalefeed with one of the Can-
didates. I a ill now therefore tell you rimething new
on this fubjelt : I can affure there is, if not a coali-
tion, at lead an underianding between the two other
Candidates.—[Lood cries of no, no; with bravo,'
bravo.] I fay it is a fat —(tumult and cries of hear
him, hear him.) An underftanding does exift be-
tween Mr. Byn&and Mr. Mellilh—[Hear, hear]--
and I hope this will prove what I ttated to you in
the beginning, that I am now• come before you a
free and independent Candidate, depending on
no fupport but that of the free and unbiaffed Free-
holders of the County. Furthermore a paper has
been (luck upon lateral carriages, and various places,
afking..."" who is Sir Chri(lopher Baynes ?" If you
with to know who he is I will refer you to the 855
llama men who have already given him their unbi-
ailed fuffrages.—[Bravo, bravo, refounded from all
qcarters.]—ln order, Gentlemen, that you may
sill further know who I am, I will tell you in the
Slit place, that I now am, and have been for feveral
years, Serving my country as a volunteer, without
fee or reward.—[Lond and enthufiaftic Shouts of ap-
plaufe.]—ad, that I am, and have been for 17 years,
an alive maginrate of this county ; and during all
that time never took one penny from the public for
my trouble; and in the 3d place, in my private na-
tion (for my opponents were all the time iscabers
of Parliament) I performed a fervice which they
cannot boalt of, and promoted that molt important
undertaking lo highly advantageous to the City of
London, and a great part of the County of Middle-
fex—l mean the London Wet Docks—an undertak.
jag which had for its objeEl, to protect your com-
merce, to prevent pilfering, peculation, and loffes
and promote your general profperity.—[Lnud ap-
planfes intermixed with hiffes.]—All this trouble I
tooknpon myfelf without fee or reward. [Applaufes.]
"Now, Gentlemen, as the queflion has been put,
who I am, I will alit, Who are the other two candi
didates ? They have been in Parliament, and I have
not ; they had many opportunities of retying you ;
have they done it ?—[Bravo ! bravo ! and cries of
" No, No—nor never will."]—Upon my leaving
the huttings yetlerday, a remark was made that I
had quoted an expreffion which had been ufed by
another candidate, my opponent—that of wifhing
you a good appetite for your dinner ;-1 will now,
then, purfuea different courfe, which is, to thank -nu
for the public duty you have performed here, and to
espiefs my with that when you go home, you will alto
do your duty there.—[This facetious addicts was fol-
lowed by peals of laughter, and loud Stouts of ap-
plaufe.]

Mr. MELLISH, in rctliing from the battings, called
out chltingly to his friends, and milted if they were
now convinced that nocnalition exited between him
and Sit Chriilopher Baynes ?