The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-02 00:00:00

• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETINrs.
TtIURSI)AY, Der,sen I.
The King's Plate of 111 Jes. fur 4-yr olds, carrying lOst. .11b..51t
olds, ilst. tills. li-yr nicti, 12iii. and aged, 12st. 21b. B. C.
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Sir. C. Ilitiihury's Rival, 4-yrs old - 2
Mr. Payne's r. c. Mountebank, 4-yrs old - . 3
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Burrow.
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Eagle. ht. 911). T. Y. C. lOilgs. 6to fragst Scrub.
Lord I:. 11. Cavendish's Caber. let. 111 h. heat Mr Sholin
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Lord toley's Bodkin 11. t. 71b. agst Grosv:•nor's lazyliiive,
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OF ELECTIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Stn,—lt- is the right and duty of Freeholders
and Burgesses of Great Britain, to examine into the
conauct, and to know the opinions and intentions of
such as offer themselves to their choice. And they
bad once the frequent means and opportunity to re-
sent effectually; the corruptions of those who had
basely betrayed their sacred trust, and of rejecting
with scorn and detestation such traitorous paracides,
and of sending up honester and wiser men in their
room. This, my dear countrymen, we had once the
frequent means of doing ; make use now, 0 worthy
and flee Britons! make good use of this present
dawn—this precious day of liberty, to recover once
more that invaluable privilege. Do not wildly chuse
any one who has given up, or attempted to give up,
your birth-rights—and, above all, that right which
secures all the rest. Admit no man to be so much
as a candidate in your counties and boroughs, till
he has, in the clearest manner, and in the most ex-
press words, declared his most hearty and vigorous
aesoktions to endeavour to repeal all laws which
under you incapable to serve y our King, or to punish
traitors, or to preserve your original and essential
rights. This, Gentlemen, is your time—lf.you suf.
fer it to be lost, 'twill• probably be for ever lost.
There are a sort of men who prowl about. .the
country to bey boroughs—creatoros who iticast-yOis
for your vote in the manner of jockeys, and treating
you like cattle, would purchase you for less or more,
just as they think they can sell you again. Can you
bear this insult, Gentlemen, upon your honesty,
your reason, and your liberties ?—Or if there are
any amongst you who countenance such vile and
exec!able harpies, which affect and involve you all
In their consequences, ought they not to be treated
like public enemies, as indeed they are, and be
bunted from aniotigst•lnu ?—I have often wondered
bow a little_contemptible corporation, consisting, as
some of them do, of broom-makers, hedge-breakers;
and sheep-stealers, &c. could stand the looks and re-
bukes of a rich and honest neighbourhood, after
these dirty rogues had openly sold at the market-
cross, perhaps, for forty-shillings a-piece, not only
their own liberties, but, as far as in the lay, the
liberties of a rich neighbourhood, and of all Eng-
land. Such saleable vermin ought to be treated as
persons excommunicate, as the pests and felons of
society ; and if proper abhorrence were every where
she wn towards them, and no commerce held with
the m, they would soon grow honest out of daces-
tity.

The majority of you, Gentlemen, are yet uncor.
eupted. The body of the Freeholders know not
what it is to take money : and Chums their Represen-
fati‘e., from amongst themselves, and from a thorcitals
acquaintance cither4ith the Men or with their chits
faders. The little beggerly boroughs only are the
pool: of corruption ; with them money is merit, and
full ef recommendation. They engage fcir men with:
Out knowing their names, and chose theni sometimes
Without seeing their fares ; and yet their Members,
when they are clillsett; are it good as yours ; that is,
their votes are aelhorl. It is in your power, Gen-
tlemen, and in thit 'of your hdnest neighbours, to
sure this mighty exit, which has hitherto been incurs.
ble, or not suffered to be cured. They are but a few,
and an inconsiderable few, in comparison of you,
and cannot lye Without you, though you can without
them. Try this expedient Which I propose ; neither
buy nor sell with those reprobate mercenaries, who
sell themselves and you. Would you allow the com-
mon laws of neighbourhood to such as steal or plunder
your goods, rob lett of your Money, seize your
Louses, drise yOu from your possesslonsi enslave your
personsond starve your families? No,su re, you would
slot. And yet will you and can you continue to treat
Sc neighbours. and friends, those rash, wicked, and
merciless profligates, who, as far as in them lies,
would bring upon you and your posterity, all those
black and melancholy evils, by committing the
mighty ands ayred trust of all your lives and proper.
ties to men wo hire them to betray it ; and having
first made them rogues, may afterwards, for aught
they know, make them slaves, and you with them ?
Alas! Gentlemen, with tears I tell you, the cure of
corruption is left to you. A cure from gnother
quarter is cruelly denied to us. A worthy attempt
was lately made to destroy it effectually, and we
hope that no man, or set of men, pretending to com.
mon honesty, would have had the face to discourage
,or frustrate that attempt; but it was frustrated, and
we know where, and by whom, and for what ends.
Those who owe their whole figure, and fortune, and
force to corruption, rather than part with it, seem de-
termined to see the nation consumed and perish in it.
Your help must be from God and yourselves; be
honest and make your neighbours honest; both are
in your power, and I glory that they ire. AS you
love your liberties exercise your virtue--they (Wend
upon it. Yours,
G.E. T.

Mn. EDITOR.--The awful appearance of the fire-
ball which exploded, apparently over Stepney
.fields
this morning, was exactly similar to the bursting of a
shell, shooting out horns around its circumference in
all directions ; it seemed to fall in a perpendicular
direction, and might be about twenty yards from the
surface of the earth—its report like an 18-pounder,
double shotted. You may possibly conceive an idea
of it from what I have slid.
"Rogicial-ressi, 0ct.1,184 AN sy4 WITNESS.

'ME ST.

PARSIKAO OF '
MR. If AMMAN'S_ FRIENbt

Yesterday the indepeedeot Liverynieh, -Electors
of the City of L?ndens ressembled at the New
London Tavern, in Cheap' side, for the ptirpisse.
of eoncerting measures and adopting regoltitiani to
secure the. Election Of Robert Waithmati, *Esq. to
be one. of the Representatives lit Parliament, fOr the
City of London.
SAmetr. FAvtLL, Esq. waS voted unanimously
WO the Chair at one o'clock,. and pioeeederi to
open the purpose and objects of this Meeting.—Toey
were assembled together to Support the Erection of
Gentleman on thote . independent principles, for
whiCh the citizens of London; for the last ttienly
years, had so zealously contended.—They had it
now in their power tb make their courage in the
Cause of Free Election, manifest to the kingdoms
-and he hoped to live to say, that front their eiampie
the sacred fleet& of independence had spread Melt !
over the whole EMpire. Formidable obstacles, how-
-1 ever, presented themselves, but theft. their 'eatural
courage would !nib& them to oveittome, and he
hoped altopposition would fail before the Gentle:
man's endeavours, with- wet*, iheritti they had beeti
so long acqeaiilted; Ile rounded not his regard for
that Gentleman, on hit participating to directing dud
spreading I new current of fceedom over the land.
but he did it frOM a lively rementlirince of his goad
condticti dt a period when the utmost fortitude and
courage, which d London Citizen possessed, was
required to be exerted. It was during those times
Optioning the French Revokable) that he observed
and milked attentively the talents and resolution of
*that*Gentlentan. lie hoped; therefore, filet the'Ci4
tizens of London would rally round One Candidate,
I usually distinguished foe his eloquence and his love
of freedom, and that. Candidate was Robert Waith-
man Esq.—( Meth applause.)
dr. Alderman ‘VOOO said, that he.was extremely
anxious to have Mr. Waithmais elected a Member of
Partiament..for the purpose of setting his foOt oh
I the neck of corruption, an undertaking in which he
had himself the honour of being concerned. He
•
really, however, from the present aspect of affair,
anticipated a short Parliament, for the Borooghmnn-
gers were become clamorous to dispose of their pro-
perty. A Geittletnati (a friend of his) actually
waited on him yesterila, and offered him a bargain
of a borough for 20001. Another person with n hum
he was acquainted in the borough-mongeling county
of Corn.sall, offered him a thither sit nation at a very.
reduced price. That conduct really looked as if the
I borough proprietors were alarmed, and expected
Somethh. He hoped, hen ever, that Mr. Wait it.
' man, Alderman Combe, and himself would be re-
turned letnbers for the City, and from their union
he anticipated happy events. He requested that any
person ebb Wished him well would meet him to.
morrow at the Paul's. Head Tavern, iii Cateaton
street, witert- a meeting of his friends was to take
pace. Those oho a ~re phrased with his conduct hi-
therto tnight vote fur him if they pleased, and should
they think otherwise, they were Welcome to reject
him.

Mr. Qom said, it would be a task of considerable
length and difficulty to follow the progress of Mr.
Weithmin, and applaud, as he passed, his postlit
acts, wfiich hid to eltite.rvedly pleed .him in the bo:.
lotus of all the Lo den Gitigetts. lie would like.
*vise refrain from counielline them to put their entire
confidence to the capacity end probity of Mr. Waith-
man ; for it would be absurd to think that a Gentle-
man who had served them faithfully and powerfully
for twenty years, would abandon them now. But
they would require to prepare their minds to en-
counter most formidable opposition ere they attained
the object of their desires. For they had not a plta-
line to cope with, they had to wage war with a,
hydra, hd he trusted they Would estinguish the
monster for once. Howeter, he saw every reasona-
ble ground to warrant his assertion, that their en-
deavour's would have a favourable termination ; for,
on the morning of the day on Which he was address-
ing them, he and five friends perambulated a few
streets, in which they canvassed 73 electors, and
obtained most solemn pledges from 55 to support the
presemt.cause, and only fdur absolute refusals. He
then concluded by moiing several Resolutions, for
Which see Advertisement in front of this Paper.
' Mr. WAITIMAN could not suffer a meeting on a,
subject so flittering to himself to separate, without,
in some shape, expressing the sense he entertained ,
of the honour conferred on him. It was not, in- I
deed, his cause alone, it was that of the Livery them-
selves,
and of the country in general, which they
were now called on to support. An attempt had
been made by his opponents to cast ridicule on his
pretensions, by representing him as nothing but
" a poor shop-koeper." lie thanked them for
this mode of undermining him, for it only shewed
-their own want of generalship. lie had already, In
the course of his canvass, found its good effects, and
he hoped they would persevere in it. N-ty, he re-
commended to his friends, in the course of their can-
vass, as the best mode of proceeding, to say—" I
come to solicit your vote for Robert Waithman, a
•Foltop.keeper."—Was it fair, he asked, that the Shop-
keepers of London should be thus insulted, and
i that after going through the drudgery of business in
their youth, when they came to that period of life
when the reward ought to await them, they should
be told, " This, the representation of your native
city, and of your fellew,citizens, is too great an ho-
nour for you ; it is fit only for a merchant." The
merchants and landed interest of the country had al:
ways, when their interests were attacked, been en.
aided to drive the Ministers back ; but it was with
difficulty, and after a severe struggle, that the Shop-
Tax had been abandoned. Nay, there was at this
moment a shop-tax in existence, in the shape of a
tax on their servants; and for this simple reason,
because shop-keepers were not represented. There
were occasions on which he had exerted himself in
behalf of shop-keepers, which, he believed, they
themselves did not know of : it was to his interfe-
rence that, in the payment of the income Tax, tbey
were entitled to a deduction of two-thirds of tha
rent and taxes of their shop. Did the shop-keepers
of London, then, he asked, not deserve to be repre-
sented? He bad been the mean', too, at the price
of great calumny cast on himself, to procure the ad-
mission of children Of Wooer Otisens of London into
Quiet's Hospital.; e, p 4 bp. bicjlatkrl7 been enabled

.TESMAN

htnce he became a GOiernOr Of thirt Hospital) td
ave an abominable practise; by .whith parent* were
Obliged to pay a tax of half-a4uinea, before they
eonld procure a list of the Goterneri vrho had pre-
sentations, abolished. Thete *ere services he had
rendered, iri his humb}e Sphere, whith %Verb not ge.:
nerally known. lie submitted, •On the *hole, that
It was by mind and character Hutt * man thould be
measured; and nior by hig ProfeoiOn;—(7Ysis *perch
wer received with repealed plaridits.)
A lubscription; to the ;in:Witt Of several htindred
pounds, was filled upat•the moment, and the Meet
bug adjourned; it being preiioutly resOlVed to held
District Meetings.

GENERAL ELECTION.
Mr: Thomas retires from Chichester; Mr. Hos;
klstnn comes in.

. •
Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hasketh Offers hlintelf for
Preston.
Mr. William Rowley; of Tendring Hall, has or:
fered himself a Candidate for the County of Suffolk,
in the room Of Sir Charles Bthibery. The worthy
Baronet assigns the following reasons .for declining a
renewal of that honour :—« Having been elected at
the ecnc.mencesnerit Of his Majesty's reign, and hay;
inn, through your favour, continued in yotir
with little intermission; till the present hoot.; having
lived to see a new generation of Representatiies in
the Commons, I feel with regret it is time for me to
retire, and Make room for a younger and abler sue-
cetsor; more fit to discharge the arduous duties of
Parliament, to encounter its multiplied business,
and to undergo the fatiguing. length of moderb
speeches; by which that business is so much impeded.".
The Hon. William Hill, by an address, dated
from Cagliari; in Sardinia, has apprised the electors
of Shrewsbury, that he does not mean to offer him-
self for the Representation of that Borough, in the
tingling Parliament; as his diplomatic duties are
likely to occasion his absence from this country for
a c nsiderable time. The Candidates for the Bo-
rough are, the Hod. Henry Grey Bennett,
Gen. Sir Rowland Hill (now serting in the Penin.
sula), nominated by hit father Sir John Hill. and
Ilmjamitt Benyon, Esq. A. smart canvass has com-
menced.