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London, England, 1807-05-18 00:00:00

CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

SHREWSBURY.,—State of the Poll.
1-1,-in. William Hill 4S t Hon. G. Bennett $74
T. Jones, Frei 29!
BCDPORDSHIRS —State of the P/ ll on Friday.
Mr Pro - z 035 Mr. Morn - 933
c. reral Fitzpatrick 97 t
Clofe of the Poll on Saturday.
Mr. Pim - ic7 t Mr. Ciboria - 978
Gen, NI Htzpatriek mit)
The Pull will continue fame dare.
DonseT.—State of the P.• 11.
Mr. *its - 712 Mr. Portman • sct
Mr. Blokes - 574
NOTTINGHAM, MAY 14.—Share of the Poll.
Smith - 902 Crompton 421
Coke -74 t
tirMVIISETSMIRN.--.StAte If the Poll Fifth Day.
Dickinfon - 2553 1 aoston - 1399
Lrthhrit'ge ' 1999
LIVERPOOL, MAY 14.—The EleCtion for this town
finally cluPd this evening, at eight o'cl,ick—
For General Tarieton 1461 Mr. Denifea ' 39
Cetera! Gareoyoe 1277 Mr. C. Dykes . a
Mr. Rofene - 397
GRASTHAM, MAY t4.—Final dote of the Pull.

Ti-onra Thercenn, Efq. 42 Sir W kianners 352
Wm. Earle Wat y, l iti. ell Sir Gilbert Heatheote 349
Yoßx Ciry.—State t f the Pull sth day.
Sir William hlßner 1421 Honourable 1« Dunda, 91.3
Sir Mark Sykes - 1298
LANCASTFR, MAY 15.—At nne niclnck, 7th day.
Mr PUttrn • 1164 Mr. Cawtherne - 831
Mr. Dent - 1263 Mr. Dovetnn - 823
May 16, at half pall r.ne—Eighth Day.
Dint • 1343 Cawthorne - 871.
Patron _ . _ 1343 . Doertoo - . 871

St./ssuc —State ot the Poll to Saturday.
Van Chark, Wyndham 1979 Fuller 1105
Coltmcl Sergifon 1 69

%VESTMINSTEit ELECTION.

NINTH DAY—s.tryßovt, MAY 15.
At the clog: of the Poll this day, the numbers
were,
Fir VRANCIS BURDETT 2115
Lord CoctißANt 19-8
Fara° r i 314
S;11.:110AN • • 447
r A u - 269
Doris's, the thate of pilling, Berridge, the Broad
faced that, r, and a perfon decorated with the favours
of Sir F. Burdett, appeared among the. crowd. Tlia
latter was mounted . n horfcback in the midi/ of them,
and ftegnently harangued them. Mr.. Sheridan
fho:de hands with Bet idge.
Mr. SHFRIDAN was again received al ill (hoots of
tiprlante by the populace. He mighr, he laid, be
jolt li:d, in making A preliminary obleivation with
reipt..ft to the appearance of a man on horfehack
among the people, with tlicle colours in his hat.—
(Mr. Elliot's) '1 hey were an infantry populace, and
cavalry was quite (slit loud laugh.]—
Notwitt.llanding the appearance of the poll, he would
not yet delpair. He had received alturances of a
difpnfition to fupport him from all quarters ; but
thin it was laid, it was of no ufe. This fort of an-
ther he had received from more people than would
bun !he poll in his favour if they were to come for-
ward. This day had cornme.-ced aufk-icioufly for
Ern, by a reconciliation between himfelf and his
bene4 broad-laced friend, Mr. Bet t idge.—[A laugh.]
preferred the re•urn of gond will in one. who
bad fit It been his friend, and afterwards an enemy,
but an open and fair enemy, to the hollow profeffions
of a thoufand falle friends. He had before °bier ved,
that he had no new lubjetft to introduce. His princi-
ples and his co;idat they were already pet fatly well
acquainted with. He had therefore nothing further
to t.ty, except to take notice of fon.ething that fell
from one of the other Cand;datea on a Immer day.
An attack of a perfonal nature had been made on
tLe Nt:bie Lr.rd the other day, and they had felt as
became them to feel ; and he had often feen on other
occafions, as on this, that though they might be
fornetitnes wrong-headed, they we:e never wrong
hear !ed.— [A rplaufe.] —He wilhed the hot fe and his
lijer w- old fulpend their chorus.— [A loud laugh ]
In what he might have to fay to the Noble Lord, lie
lould always difplay the mind aid manners of a
gentlemm He would appeal to the Noble Lord
Lindell*. whether he had not a&ed fairly and can
didly by hint, when he met the objedtions
natal officers being rem, nett to Parliament, though
I.e utii i t tier city 1. eve it.jured his own interelf. He
alfo appealed to him, whether he had not Merl the
Pit of a trierd in advifing him to abllain from that
Language telpeCting Auks in the navy, which might
:tart: an effet9 ',try alitretent from what the Noble
lurJ ii.tended. rnough he was convinced, that the
%tie Lntd laelieved the faits %hick he Hated to be

vet Ile mull complain that he took up accufa
.
oily aid fuffiCietti etidenca ur 40 -
N had 1"-tid drat 8.);.:31. bad

''"ii •xPer,d..:J. by the Tr e.ftur y In the clenion of the
;WO I.tie Metribzis for Weitminfter. He p.otefled
.a his iiff,fir th..t not a tinzlz ibi:ling had ben ex.
'ended by. the 'ltcafury oo his account, and that he
ifo joint P.ccount with Sir Samuel Hoof.t. For
;;Ie truth of thi. he referred :rim to Mr. Booth and
Lawfutf, the Solicitors, and he :loped the Noble
retract his Ade:lion, and do him the
;alike which he would have ray done the Noble
:.old under fouilar circurndances. Much had been
!Ad about Miniticrial interference in elections. He
..drio:tee, that a !olitfilter as an individual and prt-
vstecleclur, might give his vote and lopvrt to the
,:affaffla c ":runt t'e preferred. But Croce the N4ble
to Burlington Hold:: to deuce the Mini-
tti y not to vote fur or fupport him, he atrured hire
1:.4 they %vete the nudi difobedieut adminiflratunt
st exiitcd— A ; l l.ruf. and La —U the
Llsrl had appiLd to bi.n, lie would certainly
11.1 ',ill more eff-L3, ts,,: he

` would have agreed to it—rLanghrefl—This effort,
however, did the Noble Lord honour, and it was
not his fault that his requell was not complied with
—[A loud laugh.]—Some, as FaWaif raid. were
born to honours, force achieved honours, and others
had honours thrult upon them. I' was nn fault of
the N,.ble Lord's if he belonged to the latter daft—
[laughter and applanfe.]—'this app:ication was the
very romance of independence, and if the Noble
Lord wi bed • to follow it up, he had only to refute 1
every vote that offered ender minillerial influence.—
If the Noble Lord adopted this method, he would
(land higher for independence than man ever flood ; j
but he would venture to fay, that le would lore his j
elealion—[Laughter and fhouts of applaufel—He '
felt it an unpleafant duty to be compelled to revert
to a fithjee which had better never he revived, with.,
refire& to the character of a gallant veteran, who
felt finely hurt at what had patted concerning him
on there hulling:. He highly refpeeed the character
niche Noble Lord, but when he took up accufations
againtt Lord St. Vincent on as flight groends as he
had the accufations againll him. he laid again, that
if the Noble Lord found himfelf in an error, he
ought to tetra& his affertion. He hoped the Noble
Lord would .flow, that the charaCter of Commodore
Keates (loud as high as any in the navy.—[Lord C.
" Ye% it certainly does."]—Mr. Sheridan tnen took
out a later from Commodore Keates, which had
been Pent, 'milked, to Lord St. Vincent, and laid
that he would read (rime paffages in it that referred
to the fubjee of naval abufes :
" PORTSMOUTH. MAY is.
" I have received with much concern in the public paperg Tome
add ars of Lord Cochrane from the litifting•, which, claffed by
him under the head of naval ahufe,, have in my opinion, and that
of all the (Acerb I have converfed with fince a tendency to injure
the rervice he has fo gallantly diftinguithed himfelf in, and whore
difclp'ine fo immediately interwoven with t:s prorperity and that
of the kirgdom, we have ore common Inter& in fupporting. Rut
as to th-: eircurnitances of the Atalante and Felix, which occurred
immediately under my command, and their detention at lea and
I'd-s, if any blame arifes th( refrom it mutt attach to me, not to
ymir Lortifliip. I fed anxious, though I owe no ithedieore to any
other authority than the Admiralty, a; Commander in Chief, to
take upon me the Wet (hare of refponfihility.
'. I entreat your Lerdthip to place without referee, all the it.
fponfibility nl the two cireontitsnecs 1 here mention, on me, to
I whom cTrtainly it alone belongs"
Mr. SHERIDAN having &tinted reading, again ad
drefred the pe• ple, and affirmed that the gallant
veteran, raid hy the Noble Lord to he fitting here at
home, with the addition of a coarfe fea phrafe, %Ilk h
he world to : mention, and (haring the prize money,
was not now Commander of the Channel Fleet, hut
had rcligned, as loon after the change as he poffibly
could ; and that the Channel Fleet was now com
mantled by Lord Gardner, who was now in London
[Applaufe]. He hated there circumflances at the
I equea of Lord St. Vincent, a ho highly valued
public opinion. He again exprefrA his fatisfaation
at the hate of the pill, becathe it gave them plea-
lute, and becaute Members of Parliament ought to
be the lice choice of the people. Notwithllanding
the crimes on
.the Continent which had difgulled
fume with the name of liberty, they aught to take
care never to part with this their molt invaluable
birthright. Though dives who had proved them
laves unfit to recover their freedom, had, under the
facred name of liberty, committed the moil abomi
nable aes of atrocity and tyranny, yet they ought
never to forge..., that liberty was toe parent or every
thing great, every thing excellent, and the molt pre-
cious bkliing that Goo could confer upon his crea-
tion— [Loud applanfes].
Lori COCHRAN 6 was c' nfident, from the known
liberality of Mr. Sheridan, that the attacks which had
been made on him did not originate with hint. His
expanded mind, and the feeling which he had di':
pla)cti, fh !wed him to be above Inch an at He had
been act:tiled of an intention to coalefce wi h other
candidates, and of haring afked the (import of the
Miniltry. He allured them that he would form no
email ,n, and that he derived no fcch fupport from
Government as had disgraced the late Miniltry in the
efeeiun of Sir Samuel Hood. He had - hated that
'the (UM ilfued for the late election did not come from
the pockets of the Miniltry, but that fums were railed
hy the fate of rotten boroughs almna in open market,
and applied to the expences of eleCtions for counties
and populous cities. He himfell was on the fpnt in
Cornwall, where he had leen undue influcnce,exertit :t,
and the clef:ion carried, nut by the free difcretion of
the peal";, but by money, connearions, and promises.
Sic had 'sated th.tt the only fum (pent by an indivi-
dila! of the late blemLers was I 6001. by Sir Samuel
Hood. He was informed that Scoot. had been the
jaint expences. They were aware what had come
nut at the lVehmithler Committee, though the Com-
mittee refuted to enter upon the examinatian of the 1
interference of Peers,. becasfe " inter ference. of j
Peers" had not been hated in the petition. Thefe
were the acts of thofewhohad come in under the broth
of Mr. Fox, and fmelt of his bafer part."— [A uoiver.
fat cry of flume ! thame ! and uff! off ! loud and con-
tinned, to that it was o ith great difficulty the Noble
Lord could obtain a further besting.] He Paid he only
alluded tothole who had accepted peorionsand places;
and with refine to Mr. Fox, if this great charader
had lived and continued in health, he believed
that great me:titres would have been brought fur-
ward, but he had n great number of needy followers,
for whom new places had been created. He could
enumerate places that had been thus created, he be-
lieved, during Mr Fox's illnefa ; and he referred to
one of the firlt ails of the late Adaninifiration, which
had been to :coattail: two places of great emolument
which before had been deemed incompatMe. He
had been attacked whh refpee to his Itatements of
abufes in the Navy ; but he affirmed, that the incr.
rior officers had been to reduced to the towel pitch
by a fy RCM of tyranny, that the carpenters feat to
inipad veffels a: lea would fcarcely venture to lay
tnat they were not lea worthy, for fear that unlefs
they were found, when they came into port, to be in
the toutl delpetate hate, they would be fubjeeed to
pun:finnent. He did not accufe Captain Keates,
whom he conlidered as one of the bell officers in the
fer vice, bin he did accule fome one, of having redu•
ced the inferior atlicers to Inch a Rate, that in a Slott
I time no man of charaaler would have been found to
1
• terve his country. With regard to the Atalanta
I aoop, he himiell, after having leen the vac], had
i limed to -- Sutton and Mr. Tacker, that the
I tir ft news they would hear from that Ration would be
that the vetfel was loft, and it was fo. He had been
accufed of fa)ing things that had a tendency to ex-
cite mutiny. Ir G .verriment had in time tedreffed
.1.-• 'a i - va, ces of the (camera there would have been

no mntiny. He Elated that men had been kept at
(ea eight months at a time within a day's fail of their
town cnatl, and then they were permitted to land for
fire daps, f.r that they had fcarcely time to tranfaCt
any brifinefs they might have, and were allowed nn
time for relaxation. He adverted to thefe thins in
'order to thew them that there ought to be a perfon in
Parliament who could bring them forward. He had
written at different times to the Admiralty on thefe
tubjelts, hut never could get a fatisfaetory anfwer.—
He again cnmplained that B"rnugh Agents had been
preferred to decrying Officers, and reaped the re
wart of valour and fervice. He then adverted to
fume queflions that had been put to him in one of
the papers, in I letter, figned "An EleCtor." It
was afked, how he had got his promotion fo early ?
He defpifed vanity, but he world anfwer, that he '
had been made poft; becaufe with a vefrel of fourteen
guns and fifty men Pe had taken one with thirty two
heavy guns and three hundred men—rapplaufel—
As to the promotion of his brothers in the army,
.
every one of them had been purchafed, fur tl,i. tea-
fon, that promotion did not always follow merit, and
becaufe he never afked a favour of any one. He had
been removed from the Pallas to a larger frigate by
Ln.d Howick, on account of the aftion with the Mi
nerve frigate, when the was fripported by three brigs
of IS runs each. He 'concluded by again pledging.
hirnfell againft a coalition, and he hoped the other
C4ndidates would do the fame.
Mr. jemarttos obferved, that the Noble Lord bad
concluded with declaring he would form no coalition.
Mr. Jennings declared he had not enalefeed with Mr.
Sheriaan, nor would he with Mr. Elliot, the latter
atfeilion -the Electors would give him credit for—
[Laughter.]—With refpett in cnalitionc, he had
been informed, that the friends of Mr. Elliot, in def.
pair, had been canvailing in the joint names of Sir
Francis Burdett and Mr. Elliot. lie mentioned this
to put them on their guard againft any manceuvres
of the fort.—[Applattfes.]-1-ie was furry to hear a
great deal of abufe larifhed on the late Adminillra-
rioon. The Elednrs would perceive, that the Noble
Lord, in his plenitude of abufe, had eautioully and
warily ft rborne to utter one word againft the prefent
Minitlers. There was an old adage, which might be
*lied to the N. ble Lord, it was, 4. Tell me your
company, and I'll tell you what you are."—[L uJ
applanfes.] —They would fee why the Ni ble Lord
had (pared his cenfure againit the prefent
who confift of fume of the rags of a former Adruini•
dration.—[Laughing and applaufe.]—With refpeel
to the navy, he thought it would be well if the Noble
Lord, in dealing nut his abufes, was to take care that
his Intl immahle materials were not dealt ton pro-
fufely.—[Applaufes —There was a hatncrr Cane and
place for detailing them. This was not the time, nor
was it the place. The Noble Lord knew his remedy,
and he might avoid incur ring the danger, which in
his opinion was extreme, by forbearing to entertain
the people with thofc which he was in the
daily habit of detailing—[Applaufes.]--It had been
hid by Mr. Sheridan, that the fyrnpattly of the peo-
ple in the feeling of the Noble Lord with relpea to
the calumny uttered againll his father, did honour to
the heart, " but this (laid Mr. J pointing to Sir
Francis Burden's numbers son the poll) does honour
to your head and heart."—[Very loud anplaufes.]
—There was reafon to expee, however, that on
Monday and 1 nefday, all the placemen under Gn
vernment would be brought to the poll. It there
fore behoved the Eleders to be on the alert. if they
returned the Candidate of the
.People, no danger
could be apprehended to the State. [Loud applatt es.]
Mr. Ewor returned that,les amidll match difip.
probation ; and denied that he ever authorized the
canyafling in his name and Sir Francis Burdett.
Bseetuou (the 6roadfaced orator) cried out—" I
can prove it, they came to my bottle to-day."
TIN TH DAY, MOYDAY, MAY 13—State of the
poll at 4 ,'clock this day—

BUROC*I - 2728 ELLIOT 1734
COCIIIIIINI • SISS EIICIIIDAN • 659

Mr. SHFRIDAN'S DlNNkst.—A large party of Mr.
Sheridan's friends dined together at the Bedford
CofF:e-houfe, on Saiurd.iy lan. After the cloth was,
removed, " The King and Royal Family, and the
Prince of IVales," were drank with every demonflra.
;ion of rtfpca and regard ; as was the ‘. Health of
Lord Milton, and fuccefs to his Elation for Yotk•
(hire; " The Memory of Mr. Fox, and the Caufe of
Liberty all over the World," Sec. &c.
Every member cf the company pledged himftlf to
bring up three votes on Monday; and after fume
longs by Mr. Wzbb and Mr. Graham, the Meeting
broke up.

HENRY GRATTAN and ROBERT SHAW. Efqrs. were
ele&ed Members fir Dublin on Friday latt, without
oppoli. ion.
NORTH LI MBELAND COUNTY MEETING.—.-Thllt MAT
IA a meeting of the County of N.-rthumber land took
place at Morpeth, in purl nance of a requifition from
the. High Sheriff for that purpofe. The freelu lders
affembled on this occafion were In much more name-
rous than were ever known before, that the town hall
was inadequate to contain them, and the Meeting
was accordingly adjourned to the mir'ket.place.—
Lord Howick was nominated by Mr. Cluttr.rbuck,
feconded by Sir John Sv. inborn, nephew to the Duke
of Northumberland ; Earl Percy, by Mr. Coiling.
wood, feconded by Mr. Burrell ; Colonel Beaumont
by Sir William Loraine, feconded by Mr. Cardona].
Lord Percy had not arrived. Lord Howick addier-
fed the county in a fpeech of nearly two hours length.
Colonel Beaumont followed Lord Howick, in au ex•
politic .1 of his general poi tical views. The numbers,
upon the {hew of hands, were in favour of Lord Per-
cy and Lord Howick. A poll is to take place.
Yousurts ELECTION.—The nomination of Can-
didates to reprefent the County of York, took place
at York on Wednefday lath Sir R D'Aacy HIL.
(WARD propofed Mr. WI LIR R roac 1., and was leconded
by BACON RAN, Efq. Mr. LASCELLES was propofed
by J. B. S. MORRITT, E'ci and feconded by Mt.
HARDY. Mr. FAKES propnftd Lnrd Mrt.rotr, and
was feconded by Sir FR AhCIS LINDLEY WOOD. The
feveral Candidates then returned thanks.

Saturday's Gazet.e contains Addretres to his NIA
PISTY from Worcefler, Salop, Haddingtonfhire, Ir.
vernefahire, Moraythire, Durnfriesthite, Stockport,
Kiddermintler, Ayr, !Arica(ler, Kidwelly, Hallam
(hire (Yotkthire), Great Yarmouth, Wakefield, Mad.
borough, Cardigan, Berwick upon Tweed, Incorpo-
ratiqos Weavers and Tay'lors in Glafgow, Synod
of Rds, Scarborough, and Stockton upon Tees.