Star.
London, England, 1807-05-21 00:00:00

NEW PARLI4MENT.

MEMBERS ELECTED.
NOTI3 N C A Pit —D. Parker Coke and John Smith.
Cltlrra N max —Mr. Maitland elccled ; Mr. Dawkins and NI .
Blake equal on the roll.
'LlaccArr ea —John Dcnt and Peter Patten.
GRA t 4 FoU ND rhe Hon. A. Cochrane Johoton.
Cutl NT Y OF EDINBURGH—The Right Hun. Robctt Dwolas of
Melville, unattintouny re-facetted.

CON TESTED EI.ECTIONS.
SOMEREETSHIRE, MAY 19.—Seventh Jay's Pal.
Diekinfon - 3359 Langton - to JR
Lethbridge - 1732
PRLSTori, MAY t7.—State of the Poll, I Jib day.
Lord Stanley - 1155 Colonel !Latin • 11.1
Mr. Hor rocks - 1139
MAY 19.—Final cl,:fe of the Poll.
Lord Stanley - 1619 Colonel Har fon -
Mr. Hurrocks - i 616
NOTTINGHAM, MAY IS.—State of the Poll.
Smith 13,16 Crompton
Coke - 973
Sussex, MAY 20.—State of the Poll.
Hon. Charles Wyndham 3346 Colonel Sergi:on
NW - 1590
DonsET.—State of the Poll.
Mr. Pitt - 1454 Mr. Baukss -
Mr. Portman . 1103
BEDFORDSHIRE, MAY 19.—State of the Poll.
---pym, Efq. - 1113 ---•-• Ofborn, FAq. 1039
General Fitzpatrick 1e53
LINCOLN;HIRE.—State of the Poll.
Chaplin - 1044 Pelham ..- 6.3
Ellifon - 709
SHR EWSRURY. —State of the Poll, loth day.
Hon William Hill 537 Hon. G. Bennett PS
T. Tones, Efq 329
Q.I,EENBOROUGH.—At the final clofe of the Poll.
Pillars - sot Chichtdcr . 63
Hunt - - 116

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WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
TWELFTH DAY—WEDNESDAY, MAY 20.
The crowd was, as ufual, great and clamorous,
and difplayed more heanty than on any former oc-
carton. One half of the furtounding fcaffolds was
alma filled with ladies of refpedability, who feerrel
enthullaflically unite with the populace below, in
exprefling their pat tiality to their layout ite candidates.
Mr. Elliott did not make his appearance upon the
Hollings, having publicly announced, that he had
withdrawn from the conten. The Clerks and In•
OeCtors, employed upon his account, ceafed giving
t'szir attendance ; hut as no official notice was fent
to the High Bailiff, as to this Candidate's intention,
his name Rill continued upon the Poll Books, and a
few Voters came forward in his behalf.
At the dole of the Pull this day, the numbers
were,
SIT FRANCIS BURDETT • • 33[7
Lord COCHRANE - 2949
Mr. ELIA° r 2078
Mr. SHERIDAN • • 1C96
Mr. SHERIDAN R-od forward, and fupported by
Mr. T. Sheridan, addrelled the Meeting: The Right
Honourable Gentleman obferved,that he was not now
fapported by that A jax-like man, Mr. Felix Macat thy,
who had been fo kind as to lend him his affiflance
on former dayc. But he was fupported by his own
fon, who, in corning forward to aid him, was not
inflirenced merely by filial affedion, but by a con-
vidion that he was flipporing a man who had fol•
lowed that c-urfe which he himfelf was, he knew,
determined to purfue, namely—a devotion to the
people and their rights. After remarking upon the
notice taken yenerday by his Noble Opponent of his
omiflion to exprefs pleafure on the (late r.f the poll,
the Right Honourable Gentleman Hated, that he
thculd be happy in any Hate of the poll which gave
a triumph to the people's choice, and at the fame
time he could not help cool-ening his fur prize that
Mr. Elliott had not, after his hopes had failed, en
their withdrawn his name from the poll. He de.
dared that were he rernlved to withdraw from the
coma, lie would at once take away his name alto•
gether, for he would never content to purfue a courfe
by which mifchief mull be done to other candidates,
without any ponible good to himfelf. But the Ho.
oourable Candidate aced with Come degree of con
fillency, for after having In Log continued to addrefs
the people without being able to obtain a hearing,
he now continued to folicit their so ices without any
hope that they could be ufeful to him [Laughter and
applaufe]. The Right Honourable Gentleman, ad.
vetting to the number of bandfome well dreffed
women who daily attended the hutliogs, repeated
the ohfervation which he took occation to make on
the former Eleilion, and the carafe which gratified
him man cordially, namely, that twothirds of all
the beautiful women in Wenmintler were in his fa-
vour [Applaufes and laughter]. His Noble Oppo-
nent had, no doubt, 'lime favourites among theLdies;
fir there was no gallant tar who had not reafon to
hope for the fmiles of an inglifh woman. He pre-
fumed, therefore, that the Noble Lord had fume
who were partial to him ; but this he knew, that
another Candidate, Sir Francis Burdett, was a molt
panicular favourite among the ladies. For himfelf
he would fay, thaf.nr t having either black, brown,
or red locks, he mon be contented whit any (hare of
female favour his fare might allot him. There was
a topic mentioned yetierday, to which the Right
Honourable Gentleman thf.tigh: it his ditty again to
advert : lie meant that with regard to the publicans,
and the propriety of refcuing them from the extra-
ordinary pt.wer to which they were at prefect fubje.t.
He had been told by many of his friends, that he
ought to have touched upon this topic before; and
mention that he had a Bill in preparation to remove
the grievance complained of, as it would have done
him confidcrable fervice with the Eledors—[Ap
plaufes]. His anfwer to the friends who had made
fuch rentaoks was this, that lie did not think it
necelTary to bring forward to the Elet9ors what be
meant to do—to make profenions as to. what he had
in contemplation—conceiving that the public would
recoiled, arid that he might nand upon, what lit
had already done—[Applaufes]. He would afk,
whether it was tight, just, GI- fit to be borne, that
she profeffion of a publican, which was fo ufeful to
the public, and fo produdive to the revenue, fhould
hz more the fubjed of rentidive regulations than
that of the mercer, the fhoe-maker, or any other
trade ?—[Applaufes]. Why fhould the one any
more than the other hold his profetlion and fob-
finence at the difctetion of the Maginrates ?
[Loud (flouts of Applaufe J. If the principle were
right, he Paw no reafon why it &sold not be ex-
tended to all trades. But in fait, the principle was
inexcufable. It could not be reconciled with any
notion of freedom or
_Office, that a man who em-
barked his property in the profetEon of a publican,
thould be liable, at the mere will of the magiltrates,
to have his licence withdrawn from him, without any
seafon affigned, and himfelf and his family left to
Rarve (loud applaufes.) He begged it to be under-
Rood, that he did not fpeak from furmife or from
aril apprehenfion of the evils which might arife from
filch a fyllem, but from pofttive fads—from what
had 4.aually occurred. The utmon potlible abufe of
the power yelled in the maginrates had already taken,
f.,l•Le. Among other cafes of abufe of which he was
11 pi fr. 111,,n, one was with regard to a widow in
-Lfner King-ftreet„Weliminner, which he could not
forbear Rating:--This poor widow had received the
rioll exemplary charader fur integrity and indunry.
Tee had paid her hufband's debts, to which (he was
not at all legally bound to attend; and yet her licence
was taken away from her by the maginrates, without
even the imputation of improper conduift. For what
reafen then, Gentlemen, laid Mr. Sheridan, do yon
think this poor widow was deprived of her licence ?
Why, becaufe it was determined that her houfe Mould
be taken down, with a view to certain improvements
in the neighbourNood of Wellmintler Abbey—fo
that after the Legitlature, which ordered thefe im-
provements, And decreed that full compenfation
thould be granted to every individual for any lois
fultained in confequence of fuch improvements—
thole magifirates deprived the poor widow of her
licence, in order to diminilh her claim for com-
penfation (a loud cry of hear, hear.) Although
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abufes in the Nivy, yet he ftibmitted that they were
quite as worthy the attention of a free, a great, and
a wife people, and even more, confidering the man-
ner in which the Noble Lord brought thole abufes
forward. All he would fay at prefent, as to the cafe
of the publicans, was this, that he pledged himfelf,
whether the Reprefentative for Weftminfter or not,
to bring the fubjelt before Parliament, and not to
remit his endeavours until complete redrefs Ihould be
obtained—(loud applaufes.) -With regard to the
friends, or pretended friends, who were fo forward
to exprefs their regret that he had at all Rood for
ward for Weliminfter, as he had not announced his
intention earlier, he would fay that he timid never
regret having Rood forward—for although he might
be beaten, he could never ceafe to recoiled: what he
had done. The fentiments which he had uttered in
the caufe of freedom were lillened to with an attention
highly gratifying to his feelings, and not lefs honour-
able to the feelings of thofe who heard him—(Ap-
plaufes.) He fhould never regret that he had the
opportunity of vindicating the charafter of the late
Adminißration from the charge of having pilfered
from the public pude for the purpofe of fupprriing
the late eledlion—he Arnold never regret having been
enabled, with the aid of the liberal audience he ad-
drefled, to defeat and put down that abominable and
iniquitous cry of " No Popery," which had pro-
duced loch mifchievous confecptences throughout the
country—that cry which had among other evils pro-
duced the exclufion of Lord W. Ruffen from Surrey,
of Mr. Fawkes from I'm kibire, of that gallant officer
and noble minded man, Colonel Graham, from
Perththire—and of that highly meritorious and excel-
lent man, Mr. Rofooe, from Liverpool (applaufes.)
If no other good effe& refulted from his exertion than
that of the utter extindtion of this warwhoop againft
common fenfe and humanity, to fuch a degree in-
deed that no man durff mile his voice in it's favour,
it was enough to recompenfe him for all the toils of
the eleftion, and mike him feel happy that lie had
engaged in the content. But there were other caufes
which would render the recolleetion of this contell a
fource of pride and pleafure to him. He had been
able, by fair and liberal capitulation, to difidade
the Noble Lord from peifevering in the abufes of a
venerable officer ( Lord St. Vincent) who was, with
all who really knew him, an ',Nee of refpedt and
efteem, and alto to produce a dircontinuance of that
detail of naval abufes in which the Noble Lord bad
really too long indulged, and which detail at that
turnings could lead to no poflible gond, while it
might be prodative of incalculable mifchief in the
Navy (A cry of hear, hear,) But the higheß pride
which any occalion could furnifh to his mind, arofe
out of the onortunity which this eledion afforded
him of vindicating the charafter of his illußrinus
friend Mr. Fox (Applaufe). There confiderations
were quite enough, whatever the refult might be, to
render it impollible for him to regret that he had
commenced this centeft. He had before Paid that he
would not abandon it while there was any profped
whatever of fuccefs, and he now pledged himfelf to
perfevere to the lag moment (Loud applaufes, ac-
companied by (bouts of—" Succefs to you Sherry,
for you deferve it.") The Right Honourable Gen-
tleman took notice of hand bills circulated to day
which retie& in the moil fcurrilous !elms upon his
own private charaeer, and that of many of his
fiends—but he could not fuppofe it poffible that his
Noble adverfary, or any gentleman, could have any
thing to do with fuch a produdtion. Fur his part he
would fay, that he would difown the man, and arrelt
the arm which fhould attempt to Me the flighteil
perfonal refleition upon the Noble Lord or any of
his perfonal friends (Loud plaudits.) The Right
Honourable Gentleman affured the meeting that
whatever the event of this eledlion, nothing could
gratify him more than the opportunity of ferving the
Eledtors of Weliminfier, either collectively or indi
vidually. For twenty feven years that he had been
in public life, he had never had the means of making
of an old fervant a tide waiter, excepting for about
one year, doting which he had ufed his bet endea-
vours to evince his gratitude towards thofe who had
had claims upon him. Had his means been more
ample, he cold allure his friends, that his difpofition
towards them would have been fully proved. The
Right Honourable Gentleman concluded with
Rating, that one of the fief objets of his ambition,
was to be one of the Reprefentatives forWeltminfter
—that to be the focceffor of Mr. Fox would be the
proudeß objedt of his political life--(loud applaufes).
Lord COCHRANE declared, that the independence
which had been (hewn by the EleCtors of Wellroin-
fter, reflefted great honour upon them. He trotted
that they were then convinced that no undue influ-
ence had been exerted on his behalf. He could not
fay the fame of the other Candidates, becaufe he had
never known or feen any one of them, till he had met
them upon the Huflings, except that he had feen one
of thenrin the Houfe of Commons, the only two
nights he had been able to attend there. He had
been confident of the independence of the Ele&ors of
Weflminiter, and it was upon that ground that he
had prefented himfelf to them. He had never foli-
cited the fimport of Government ; on the contrary,
he had waited on one of his Majefty's Minifters to
deprecate fuch interference, and to declare that it was
unconnitutional and improper. It had been bid of
him, that he continued his charges againft the late
Adminißration, and he had been sliced why he had
not preferred charges againft the prefent Minifters ?
The prefent Admmillration had not been long in of-
fice, and they ought to judge of them, not by recur-
ring to the pail, but by looking to what they would
do—(Some difapprobation and applaufe.) If the late
diffolution had done no other good than to free the
independent Eledlors of Weftminfter from the Can
didates that had been impofed upon them, the whole
country would rejoice at it. They had heard much
of annual and n iennial Parliaments, but his
.opinion
was, that the oftener his Majetty exercifed his prero
cative of diffolving the Parliament the better, becaufe
it would cut up the corrupt praCtices in venal bo-
roughs. He trolled they would give him credit for
not having cnalefced with any other Candidate, and
were convinced that he had not folicited the fupport
of Government. When he had prefented himfelf to
the independent Eleitors, it was impoffible for him
to be Cure of any man's vote, bemile his charatier
was not known, and it was for that reafon that he
took every opportunity of explaining his principle.
to the independent Eledtors, wherever they had a
meeting. Each had two votes, and it was on that
footing alone that he had applied for one for him