Star.
London, England, 1806-11-17 00:00:00

GENER4L ELECTION.

WESTMINSTER.--.TWELFTH DAY.
IsATIIRDAY, UOV. is.
At the elofe of the poll at (oar o'clock, the Dam
ben were—
ar Saatual. Hone. K. 3. Pin Day,
Seemed •
Third -
law* •
PIM - 794
Sixth . 379
• Seventh - 613
11ellth . 314
NW& - • eye
Tenth - $46
Eleventh . ally
Twelfth £45
.
Total .... •••--- 4591
VIM Bea & 3. Sur ma w, VIA Day, iyil
socoo4 • . 116
Wed - v 4 tS

- r6t

Irma
Stith
INsth
Se►enth
Eighth •
Ninth
'faith
Eleventh
Twelfth
Total
jASIIII PA Inf., Efq. PIA Day
Second -
Third •
Fourth -
PH& -
Sixth -
Seventh -

391
714
370
769

scot
261
24*
266
16g
--- 421$
31
-46 S
- 2u

326
141
619

iliAtts • -
Ninth -
Tana
Eleventh •

170
141
ass
Twelfth 67
'Fetal eose
Mr. P. Monet came forward, and addreffed the
nseeting on the part of Mr. Sheridan. He obferved
that Mr. Paull had become derperate in his ha.
tangoes againft him (Mr. Moore) fince the day Sir
!.Burdett had left the huAingt forßrentford. He had
as a former day, when the little fatellite (meaning
Mr. Paull) was 930 a-head of Mr. Sheridan, inform
ed the Elators that Weftminace fhould not be dli.
graced by its reprefentative, and he fhould therefore I
go and prepare an extinguifher for Mr. Paull. Ha'
had done fo, and he would congratulate the penp/e
on the Middletfex candle being nearly extinguirhed ;
and as for the Weitminfter rufh-light, it was quite
gone out. Mr. Moore concluded by comparing the
language and cnndofl of the Candidates, and begging
the fupport of the Elators.
Mr. SHRIDAN, in a fhort fpeech, tending rather
arnare the lower orders, Paid that all the handrailstt
women in Weftminfter werehis ftrentious rupporteta,
although tome of their hufbands flood in need of a
curtain leAure. He entered into a refutation of the
falfehoods which had been afferted, refpeeing his hav-
ing attempted to fell the City of Weßminffer to the
Northumberland Family; Merits Hewling and Sim
mons, on the oppofite Committee, could give the lia
to the llatement. It had been hated (laid Mr.Sberidan)
that I was the enemy of journeymen tradefmen ; and
that the journeymen printers, in particular, had
formed an affociation to vote againft me, as an ene.
my to the liberty of the prefs. But I appeal to the
conduit of my whole life, whether I have not been al-
ways the Arenuous advocate of the liberty of the
prefs ? or whether, upon every occafion wheri that
liberty was hi danger, I have unified s the gag for
its defence. There is a perfon now on there hulling',
who has dealt pretty largely in the liberties of the
prefs—l mean a Mr. Cobbett (No! he is gone away),
and who, I fuppofe. has pretty handfonaely shored
me in his weekly publication this day. However.
though there are Come parts of Mr Cobbett's politi-
cal produAions which I may admire, these are yet
others which I abominate : for inllance, hie recom-
mendation of a breach of public faith with the pub-
lie creditor, to the produCtion of a national bank-
ruptcy—(6erfb of ensiestfi). But there are other
particulars in the life of Mr. Cobbett which I refpeil
namely, that by his iaduftry and abilities he has
railed himfelf from the hembleft fituation in fociety
to property anJ refpeelability ; and I admire the
ntanlinefs with which he avows the feet ; but I
would adirife him, and remind you, that the chil-
'then of the humbles amnigh you may, by fimilar
exertions of amoral abilities and indurtry, be railed
in this country. to fimilar property and refpea, and
that this is a hate of fociety worth fighting fur. Now
:the revenge I (ball take of Mr. Cobbett at, that I
4311 continue to defend the liberty tithe prefs to the
end of my life. He may continue to Made the
I Honks of Lords and Commons ; and I will always
I endeavour that he may do fo with impunity ; and
that there never (ball milt in this country, if I can
prevent it, that fyftem of tyranny over the prefs, to
which Citizen Palo became a viaim, for publi(hing
his own fentiments. Gentlemen, I never intended to
motel the feelings of Mr. P ull ; but I underhand,
he has tired roe ards me the mutt grofs feurrility.—
Let him abufe use hill. It may he faid that all is fair
at an elation. I have met Mr. Paull before now in
imamate, company. Nay, Gentlemen, you may hare,
and it may perhaps furprife you ; but I can allure
you of the fel. I may pollibly meet him in fimilar
company again ; and I have no doubt he will then
fay to me, 4 I am arbarned of what I Paid at the
Eletlion, and I beg you'll think no more of it." No-
thing, however, (hall tempt me to depart from the
gentlemanly conduct I have maintained, and I (hall
now take my leave of you. Mr. Paull may make
you a long fpeech, and, I dare fay, a very entertain-
ing one ; thole may flay and liflen to him who chore
—but they mull excufe me from being of the pat tr."
Sir SA mutt. Hnon, in a very few worth, expreffed
his thank. to the Elelnrs for their honour:I:le and
conflirtitional fopport : and hoped that the itroe of
Monday would completely terminate the contett•

Mr. FAVLL, fpeech of very eonfiderablo
length, addicted the Multitude, amidfl confiderable
interruption. We could, however, coital his fend-
manes to he. that fo far from confidering the majort:
ty, fo triumphantly boaßed by the Treafurer of the
Navy that day, as a defeat to himfelf, or a triumph
to his adverfary, he felt it eaally the reverie; for, if
the Eleaors would compare the combined fources of
influence which his adverfary commanded in coercing
votes to his purpofe, with the only fource which he
(Mr. Paull) could boat, namely, the free and un
Naffed fuppart of the independent Delors of Well.
r thinner; and that on the clofe of the t wel'th day's poll,
he could only effeel the miferable majority of sot votes,
when upon the fame day of the Eleai,m, in the con-
telt between Lord Hood, Sir Cecil Wray, and Mr.
.for, the lan, with the whole popular interell, and the
influence of the ten Dukes in his favour, had to bear
up againft a majority of tyo votes more than the
prefent majority ; the refult of this day's poll was to
him a triumph, and to his enter-mitt, even though he
lhould ultimately fucceed, a fignal defeat. But the
Gouts of triumph in which rho antagonift and his
friends now indulged, would be but that lived, as
the refult of Monday and Tuefday would certainly
leave him in a decided minority. Mr. Paull then
adverted, with his wonted feverity, to what he term.
ed the degraded charaaer of the Treafurer of the
Navy. and espreffed his aflonifhment that Mr. Whit-
bread, whom he always confidered as a man of ha
`sour and veracity, who would not connive at [elle.
hood, Osoold come forward to fuppott him. Mr.
Sheridan had his day thought proper farcaftically to
fay. thit be had once met him (Mr. Paull), in Gen-
tleinen's company; and that if he met him in fimilar
company again, he, Mr. Paull, would apologife to
him, and fay he was forty for the language he ufed
upon the hullings. To ibis he would anlwer, that
for any language he then ufed towards the Treaforer
of the Navy, be would fcorn to apologife, for in
whatever company he fhould meet hint, he &mild
conceive himfelf rather degraded than honoured by
his affeiation. As to his own perfonal rank. he
could GI, ha was the Am of an honeß indultrions
man: whatever was his prefent fortune, he owed it
to honourable, commercial porfuits, not difgraceful,
hved, in the eftimation of this commercial
country. He challenged any man to impeach his
integrity ;—sad therefore flooding on the compa-
rifon of perfonal refpeltabilky with the Treafurer
of the Navy, he felt nothing like inferiority to the
inn of a firolling player, however diflinguithed by
the accidental countenance of ariflocracy, or dignified
by a palace at the end of Catherine•Rreet, and a line
cure penfice wrung from the difireffes of the people.
He had been libelled with charges of having folicited
a coalition with the Treafurer of the Navy in this
eleaion, and with having written a note to him for
that purpofe : but he utterly difclaimed every with
of coalition with that degraded charaeler, and denied
having ever written any note to the Treaforer of the
Navy, or any of his partizans, that could by poffibi.
'kJ be tortured into fucb a conftruaion—fave a note
to a Mr. Finnerty, whom he Alefired to hire as one of
his infpators ; which note had been, in a violation •
of private confidence, publifhed in a correfpondenee
on the (übjeCt. in (note of the papers of the morning.
Here Mr. FIIINFRIIi flepped forward and caution .
ed Mr. Paull to beware of laying any thing difrefpeet-
ful to his character iefpeeting the publicatis.n of the
letter alluded to ; it was the ad not of him, but of
Mr. Sheridan's Committee.
Mr. Num. refumed, and contended, that from no
part of the correfpondence could it be interred, that
he had promifed his fecond votes to Mr. Sheridan.
The clamour now became and continued fo very
bolflerous, that it was imporlible to coiled a fentence.
MIDDLESEX—SIX CH DAY.

At the dole of the Poll on Saturday, the numbers
were :---

WILLIAM 114iLans, lA. - - 1966
°Rollos Price. Fig. - - 137$
Sir FRANCIS BOIDITT. - - 313

Mr. Brno returned thanks to the Eleftors for the
honour they had done him in giving him the pofition
on the poll which he enjoyed. Further he had no.
thing to fay.
Sir Fannon BURDETT, in takingleave of the Elec-
tors this day, felt himfelf called on to return his warm-
eft thanks to thole Eleftors who had voted for him.
He was aware of the difficulties which, in the circom.
(lances attending the peefent elation, accompanied a
caufe like his. Saturday was, however, at all times
a flack day. Monday, he hoped, would be britker.
At all events he fltould do his duty by giving the
Eleftors an opportunity of afferting their rights to
the 'aft. If any ambiguity as to his principles pre-
vailed, he prefumed to hope it did not proceed from
any want of an explicit declaration on his fide, but
from that (yam which he was forty to obferve, wan
too prevalent, of trying things in a partial way. He
hoped, however, by evincing himfelf at all ti nes not
aftuated by any fpitit of party feeling, but by an im.
plicit regard to the Contlitution of the Country, he
fhould feel, at length, that fupport which was due
to him from the People of England.
Mr. MELLISH again thanked the Eletors for the
honour they had done him. Underftanding that it was
the intention of the Honourable Baronet to keep the
poll open to the left, he could only beg of them to
go on as they had began, ■nd to place him (Mr.
/vlellifh) higher and higher on the poll.
The Meeting immediately adjourned.