Star.
London, England, 1804-08-29 00:00:00

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A Meeting haeittg been appointed by circular let-
ters, to the Gentlemen in Cie 'interelt of Gana
~riu LT ON Marawskino, Efq. yelierday Hall of
this Tavern was opened at one o'clock, and before
two a numerous party of his friends had aticinbled
among u horn we ohterved Mr. Trrotwosi, Sir Wl:s.
Glaaorts, Mr. MELLISH, Sir WILLIAM Coasts, Sir
Ira Hoasywoori, Mr. Wicsaam, Mr. BLACKBURN,
r. COCKEREL!, Mr. Writs, and a great number
of Members of the Houle of Commons, HANKY
Twoasioa, Efq. in the Chair.
in a very long and ciofely conneeled fpeech, Mr.
Tstoawrost called the attention of the meeting to the
objet for which they had been convened, namely, to
irnteft Mr. Mainwaring in his Ittuation as Reprefen-
Wive for the county of Middltfet. In the amide
of his fpeech he entered into an invetliptinn of the
different motives by which the two Candidates had
*en aeluated in the original cooled. The caufe of
Sir F. Burden he reprefented as entirely depending
on an unfounded charge of inhumanity againtt Mr.
Aria, to which Mr. Mainwaring waiheld out as ac-
celery. While on the other hand, the friends of
Mr. Misinwaring had to contend not for Mr. Main-
waving merely, but for the very .exillence of the Ma-
gillracy itfelf. This he firungly inferred from a
View of the perCms with whom Sir F. Burdett had,
according to his natement, alfociated. Condemned
and acquitted felons, and of his agents employed in
the elation. Meas. Bonney and Frog, who could
lay claim to charaeters little better. The lacworth
Voters, and the opinion of the Committee of the
Houfe of Commons on the nature of their vote 4
nest occupied his attention, from which he inferred,
that the elation in favour of Sir F. Burdett, had
been procured folely by partiality on the part of the
Returning Officer, and by perjury on the part of up.
*arca of three hundred and feventy perlons, who,
without any claim, had ventured to take the oaths as
Freeholders of the County. By comparing this with
tha coodua of the prefent Eletlion, he nraiinained
that a Gmilar train of perjury and abufe had crept
%mit, tliotigh uncountenanced by that Ipirit of par-
tiality on the part of the Returning Officers which
had eharaderifed the preceding elation. To per.
!bade the Meeting to Rep forward to oppufe that lyf
tem of perjuryi and corruption which he reprefented
*shaving cited on the Eleetive Franchife of the
Comity of Middlekt, he begged their attention to a
few oar at the various imputtures on their rights
which had been made maniicli in the courfe of the
elation. On one day it appeared that forty perfons
bad polled for. Sir Francis Burdett, of whom no rs...
tidsdkory information could afterwards be obtained.
Advertifements deferiptive of this circtundance had
alltertrards been pobldhed, and alibi:rug!) it unfortu-
nately appeared that four of them did not lie undet
the imputation there attributed to them, it was un-
contradifted that the remaining 36 did. On the
third or fourth day of the poll, it having been ftated
da Mr. Conthorpe,Counfel lot Mr: Mainwaring, that
Certain fulpici:ois perfons were come Up td poll, he
band on Peer whole phyliognornies did not .picalc him,
and of thefe three run away, when coming round
to the Sheriff 'i Box, and the other, who was after-
wards advertifed for under the name .of Williams, it
appeared, had alto gone away without polling.
As to the proceedings on the lalt day of the elec-
tion, Mr. Thornton anted, that it was a fit, that the
Sheriffs had ufed every degree of promptitude in de.
tiding on the fuperfeded votes, which had not been
allowed to accumulate ; and although the sheriffs
might have given the agents fur Sir Francis melon
to believe that they would determine the objedions
to fuels as unavoidably lay over, after the hour of

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three o'clock; he could tee nu ground on which it
could be objeited to them as unjultifiable conduct; to
revert to what was proper and legal, fo loon as they
found they had deviated from tint path. (,1 the um
ISMS, however, which it was laid they had put on
the poll after the hour of three, and by which it had
been alledvd a colourable majority had been cre-
ated in favour of Sir Francis Burdett, he was conS•
dently &bred, on the mull mature invelligationr that
not one of them was good. Six of them did not re-
fide to the places they reprefented ; two had no right
to the freeholds on which they claimed ; cne of them
was a freeholder, but under the turn of aos. yearly,
and the tenth was an Ifleworth miller. The object
of the prefent meeting, he therefore concluded with
Rating, was not political merely, but moral, and to
protest the Sat county in the kingdom from falling a
facrifice to perjury, fraud and deception.
Mr. MILLISII laid, he thould have very little to
offer after the able manner in which his Honourable
Friend in the chair had opened the but-inch. It had
been his fituation to be prefent during the principal
part of the tranfatlions at Brantford, and he had an

opportunity of being perfuAded, by what pAlfed un-
der his own immediate obfervation, of the correfi-
nefs of the Statement which had been given. He then
justified the clndoet of the friends of Mr. Meinwar-
tug, And esprit-cd the litigious difpodtion manifefted
by the oppofite !nuts, in objcaing to Mr. Jullice
Cede, Mr. Garrow, Mr. Gofer, and many other
perfons whole property is great, and whole charac-
ters wer: beyond the reach of fufpicion. He corn-

mented on the irregularity of examining the votes
after three o'clock, and noticed the protctt which the
Coastal of Mr. hfainwaring bad entered agaistli it.
Mr. Melia then faiJ, he had propokd a few refoln-
time.f regarding both the eleetion of Ittos and the laQ
dabon, which he lbonld fubmit to the difention and

&tenni iztic-s of the Geode:nes prekot. He had ao

particular attachment to the fOrm, and thould bs
happy to hear, and to adopt the correaneh.of any
sot who would take that trouble.

After a Ikon explanation from the Chairman, Mr.
MILLIS!' propored the firft Refolution, which being
fccoodcd by Mr. Watts, was read from the Chair,
and carried unanimoufly. The other &Cautions

werethen read is order, and (mended by the fame

aenclenun, And were all paged with tie Came p-
aces' concurrence.

What the Grit recohnicm, defcriptive of the fenti-
meats of the meeting, as eennetgestwith the la elec.

tioo, tru brought fOeWard, great difficulty teemed to
rrevAil as to the mode is which it lhould be framed,

D as while they lila imputed the aim of fubornatiosi

f perjury to one pink, !tamely, Sir Feeler's Bulk-

ris , . . .. .
niv agent", to relieve from that imputation their
friends the prefent Sheriffs.
The Mott mate6Al tefolotion was a declaration of
neceflity of a raw fabfcrirt ton, which was order-
! to be iniveitifesl in the town and country Papers.

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IvitUficta pvntLicznE.
MAILS THI4 DAB'.—Wind 8.3 W.
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Waterford

FALMOUTH, Auc. k6,—Arrived Ibit der his Ma-
jelly's brig l'uncoifi, of t 8 guns, Captain Motets,
to give notice of the near approach of the outward-
bound Welt India convoy, but no vcfels here being
bound to the WeR Indies, the immediately failed
again. Soon after about 8o fail appeared o# the
harbour, under convoy of his Majefly's (hip Hynes.
of 38 guns, Captain MUNDY, and the William
flare fhip,.bound for Ligon, Oporto, end the Mediter.
ranean, when the Naacv cutter, Lieut. M.Dokacu,
failed from this p at: with the following venbls under
convoy to join tb:m, viz.—Three Sißeno Joust,
Rebecca, CUMIN, ind ALlive, PIDGION, for Gi-
braltar; John, Watc:ir, Mary Ann, W ;
Biasses, STE rims, and Iroquois, COUCH, for
Oporto; Laura, Rows, and Broil ers, /hemostat,
for Li(bon.—Sailed yellerday evening the Dux,.
packet, Sr. Avaym, with mails of the sift ink for
yeßerday evening the Flatter,
TRENEY, and Thais, (traders) Rosswsa, with bale,
goods, groceries, Bce. for this port ; and the fchooper
Antwerp, Diczarsoe, with hemp, &c. from Pe-
terfburgh.—Wind N. W.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 57.--Came in the Vigflahta,
' Captain Pas rats, from Longfound ;--the Count
Lerwick, Captain Bloats, from Tonflatrgi—the
Friends, of Lond,ii, Captain Ramos, from Anholt,
all laden with naval ftores for this port—This vef-
fel being off St. Alban't Head laft Thurtjay even-
ing, about fix o'clock, law a French fchooner priva-
teer with two captured brigs in company, which the
had juft taken; they were 'leering S. 3. W. St. Al-
ban's Head bearing N. W. diftant four miles, the
wind, at that time, N. by E. and moderate. Alfo
arrived the Happy Return, of Guernfey, Captain
DADD, from duernfey, laden with 265 calls fp • ,
betides fait and tobacco, prize to the HIND Revenue
cutter, Captain Azzaw ; the NUTUNI of 98 guns,
from the Channel Fleet, to refit ; and the Rs ?rota, of
18 guns, Captain Fa* 2'. sa, front 1 cruize. Sailed
the Larwrao frigate, and the PAZTTY Lass, armed
(hip, on a cruise. Arrived the William Heath-
cote, Pniczits, from Demerara for Liverpool, cap-
tured on the 4th inft. Ireland by a French pi iva-
tar, retaken by the Nauru Lous (loop of war.
Peiarsmoura, Auo. aB.—Sailed the DEFIANCE,
of 74 guns, Captain DUaHAM, for Plymouth, to re-
ceive bullocks on beard far the Channel fleet. Came
into harbour the STI-Poi floop of war, Capt. GOATS.
DIAL, Atm 28.—Arrived the ADAMANT mall bf
war, and Scouacs floop of war, with a convoy from
Pprtfmouth, which are failed for the River, with the
Tellieherry tranfport. Sailed the Loyal Briton wan!.
port for Plymouth. Arrived the SHINDY floop of
VW from a cruize off the Teed ; and the CHAM-
PION frigate from the northward, with a retaken brig
in tow for Delver Pier. This morning the Prefident,
Ws Lt.s, from the Cape of Good Hope,detained by the
Lawrie° floop of war, ran On the Goodwin Sands,
but was gut off by the affidance of the Deal boatmen.