The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-06-22 00:00:00

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bpect, Sir, year obedient servants, .
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To Sir Free& Borden. Bars,
Slit FRANCIS BURDETT'S AIIIVITtR.
Sawardoy Evening. June O. 1818.
Gesntsuge—Mreeleellifor the ooderstandingawd
lodepeedeoce,•r the Electors of Woerselemer, end:
the grateful sense I entertain of their handsome eel.,
duct towards me on every occasion, make it my duty
$6 well as soy iodination to use every 'tertian in my,
power, at all times, to serve them: bet highly as II
estimate my ditty towards them, and anxious as I am
to fulfil it, there is still a higher duty to perform to..
wards myself: sod which, if negleMed, wools' be
alike prejudicial to es both; as k wield strip use of
all petunial consideration, and thereteee of ailment
of discharging my debt of gratitude to thaw.
This first duty, the foondatiou of every other, is
self•respect r it can only be presorted by lair niusik
honourable dealing, and consistency of conduct to,
offer it a sacrifice together with public priaciplei ttlss
She sitar of espedieecy, in order to obtain a seat id
-the House-of Commons., would be a wretched aid
mistaken method of attempting to advance the pdhlie
cause.
I am free to confess, that upon every occasion like
on present, whether as a candidate, or proposed
without being's Candidate, my object has beets wet
to bad a seat, but a public; my endeavours have
bees oiled to rouse that public; to give it an oppos.
'unity of displa)ing itself in its fairest light ; to show
giros, her own image, for the purpose of securiug the
esteem of the wise and good, thereby advancing in
the most irresistible asautter, the public claim to mei.
versa! freedom.
am not ewers of any selfish motive, either of
avarice, vanity, or ambition, having ever tainted my
mind in this pursuit. The patriotism, spirit, sod intel-
ligence of the Citizens of Westminster, bate long
presented to the creatures of corruption, an object
that " seared their eye-balls :" they started at it
4' like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons." Seth
was the effect produced by your spoutaromms sod
spirited exertions, onparalleled before in the history
of Elections. it was the grand and imposing spec.
tack of a people who knew their rights, and tau.
log, were resolute to obtain them. .
The reverse of this picture would be a mmitogocte.
elm to exhibit to the eye of an expecting world; if,
however, the People of Westminster are unequal to
the task of sustaining the noble attitude they have
taken, if it is bet a semblance of patriotism andl
',Woe thit hoe Steen assumed, I am the moat ntslllll
person upon earth, by any compromise of thereio
pritrciplats and professions upon which we have eel
long acted, to Wile to uphold a cheat. If a mask, •I
es is continually hinted at iu the public Prints, hall
been worn, I am desirous that it should be made
dent to all the world that it has not been worn bigrs;
and, in my opinion, by whomsoever worn, Ilsp
sooner it falls off the better.
If there are those who, .noble by nature, hem,
nevertheless pot on the Jinn's bide only, " doff it feel
shame, arid bang a calf 's skin oat those recreant'
limbs." Ilse great question now at issue in West-
minster, is not, whether this or that individual should
be returned; therefore, I say nothing of any candi-
'ate ; bet whether Reform, or no Reform, shall
take place ; whether, as far as the'Cilisens of Weer. '
minister are concerned, corruption and despotism
shall be countenanced, or the rights and liberties of
the People of England restorer'. The important
point sso prove, not the influence of any
slue', of any name, or the effects of any personal
',tertian', still less of any electioneering tricks or
cajoling' = but the force of principles: to prove the
People of Westminster at least superior to the former,
and equal to she latter ; to throw in the great weight
of example, preaching practically, more eloquently
" than angels trumpet.totigued" in sepport of tlie

public cause. _
These, and not indolence, nor Juke-warmness, nor
want of dee respect towards the Citizens 61 West-
minster, have been the motives (and, l trust, they are
fair an./ honest ones) of my conduct ; nor can I now
repeat it, or be indteed, though so urgently pressed
by those whose requests would, in ordinary cases,
operate es commands. to change it, for the sake of
obtaining, by ietonststency of conduct and compro-
tnise of principle, an paltry an object as a mere seat
In the House of Corruption. A wet in the nooses:l
Commons has no valor in my eyes, bet inaserech as
it can be made conducive to the recovery of the PPD.
pie's Rights. How far any man's beiag placed therein
is a matter of any importance, it is now yoer pro.
since to judge: should you think it of any, you will
perform your easy duty, by walking to the Poll, and
electing for y our Repsemsotative ehomsoever yoe con-
fide in.
As to myself, whether in or out of Parliament, I
shall at all times be ready, zealously to co-operate
with my Fellow-citizens of Westminster, and the
rest of my countrymen, for the purpose of checking
that system of 6scal spoliatioa and political corrup-
tion, which takes his tire reward from the poor, his
inheritance J.; oar the rick, and liberty from all ; and
most terminate is the establishment of despotic power.
It Is against this formidable &meaty we have heckled
on oar armour, and, I trust, we shall keep our" ker-
mess on our backs" until we have obtained the Peo-
ple's inalienable rights, recovered their fair and rea.
tenable share of the Government, the appointment
of/We own guardians in a Rouse of Commons freely
and constitetiogatly chosen by themselves. More
than this they ought not to demand, with less they
cannot be tratisfred.-11 remain, Gentlemen, your very
grateful amd very obedient bumble servant,
FRANCIS BUBOUTT.
To tire Electors or Westraimoer, in earner
et OS RelphielPas &G.

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. , t.,,.111011D1.4. JUNI 22, IRIS.
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. , • -w n ."WHIRIMPr'ei Airs,
The seam of Net impertent ermines On on in
the Metropolis,were again trended this meriting at en
early boor, and the besinest of Election was reformed
with more alacrity and earnestness than ever.' Tile
Gist thing thee we hive to notice in regard to West-
minster, is the retirement of the wares of Mr. NM.
GLAS KINWAIRD aid Major CARTWRIGHT from the
list of Candidates, int, the sheration in the mite of
the Poll in leaner Qt Sir Fa 4 RCIS BURDETT. The Cor-
rospoiedesce between some friends of Sir FRANCIS and

the Revonet's rarity, which we ismer., as documents
handing about, explain the circumstances that have
led to the situation of things in Wegtininster. which
has occasioned so much surprise, and excited the re-
gret of thousands. The unfortunate differences that
had Winn tearing the Friends of Reform, and pa-
rely zed the pet doge intentions of many, we rejoice to
find, has given place to a firm union of sentiment end
effort which, we trust, will yet defeat all the ',Apo.
veers of the Court party to plant the standard of
corruption

in Westmiestet. This is'a most necessary
and seasonable event. Sad and extraordinary indeed

would the spectacle have been, had we been doomed
to witness, after so many triumphs • to disinterested
TWIN and honourable sentiment in the spirit and
coldest of the Citizens of Westminster, these very
men, to whom the nation has been looking
for so example of consistency and adherence to po-
pular rights, eagerly prostrating themselves before
the feel of a Court Candidate, and swelling the tai.
ernphs of a CASTLEREAGU Administration, whilst
almost the smallest borough in the kingdom that has
the freedom of choke has paid homage to the princi-
ples of independence, and returned the Candidate
who professes to espouse them. The spectacle of
Westminster falling beneath the standard of even a
country Borough, we yet hope to be spared. The
want of concert end corill'al co-toperation among the
Friends of Freedom, se injurious to the cause of
Reform, and which, in the face of astonished mel.
Wades, bad allowed a professed friend of all the arbi-
trary and oppressive measures satire present Mini.ery
to be placed in the criterion of suffrage above the
most distinguished worth sad talents, we have ear-
nestly deprecated, and most regard as a blot ijs the
character, and a stigma on the understandings, of
the Westminster Electors, until their exertions its
favour of the tried and faithful supporters of liberty
and public right shall have atoned for the disgrace.
We have, indeed, reason to believe that the mortify.
ing error which endangered the preservation of so
many interests, and the repetition of the first city
in the kingdom for public principle, bat been in a
great degree repaired by an art of politic wisdom,
which should not have been delayed so long, and
which cannot fail yet to insare the return to Perlis.
meet of two indepeudeat Representatives for West.
rninster. .We have beard it stated this forenoon,
that the parties espotthing the cause of Sir SA/SUEL
BOSIII.LY and Sir FRANCIS BCRDETT, have come to
a proper and cordial understanding ; and, if this be
the case, a circumstance that would be equally ho-
nourable to both parties, the Election of both these
Gentlemen cannot be doubted. The letter of Sir FRAN-
iCIS BURDETT is consistent with his public declare.
lions, and the principles which the Electors of West.
Waster have themselves sought to establish. It
proves that he has not deserted their cause, tboagb I
be refuses to solicit the continuance of an honour
which he has certainly mot fbefeited, and it is their
dirty to give. Tine es= of she voters who came
forward to-day, toad(' their voluntary telltimony to
Sir Fasecrs's merit, eseieently evinces tbestrone and
general sentiment that prevails in his favour.—
Abnat 12 o'clock. above 303 persons with blue ribbeissmalli
Sags acing, with the iastriptioas. " Hold fast by the Laws,*
" &MDR'? sad Parity of Erection,- der. accompanied by a
bawd ofelfasie, wiled at the Hastings. he vote for Sir Faaucts.l
'mid aitalsenparty df 110. similarly decked with the baguer at'
hilituustew sad Reform." came ep front Breed-street. is Mires
boor afserwarew it was expected that a thousand at least wound
be polled to.day for Sir Fasscts Restorer. They were deter.
mined to give him plumper. until his unmher should be placed
abuse that of the Court Candidate. A c•rcusristance occurred
wbil-t these voters were pnersing to the Poll, which appeared,
to discrete:eft Sit Molithebtszsrets. not a pore. A sailor, who
asserted that he bad sailed within., cot upon the frost of the
Hastings, seek of his 'lair?. and exhibited the marks of the
stripes upon his both, which he said be had received whilst wi-
der the eathamad of Sir littneasy litstwata. The ermseterms
Keit* at this otipleisant imbibition withdrew to his carrier'.
aad the sad shoats of disapprobation were load and trionsi-
mom from as immeme cescoarse of spectators.
Me. Meat mast tie the /lassiert, but he had oar patted one op
to the time the following state 4,T the. Pull was taken t—
wrnitoiseupytaxtlyr !the o'cLocu.
3ir S. Roititsv. l3l/1 1 Sir t. MIR trefr...... leg i
Sir N. MAXIIIIILL•... libb6 I Mr. MINT— 41.30.1..; St
la the City Mr. AldermanAram has it itistinisie freilis Ilitel
neatest, test reereasieleg 6141dg/weal Candidate appease yet
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State of the Pki it Geildhall• this day trig Ti.
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Am' are orgative wlrreis ue este to
• lb* product of Mioisiera is tie rite;
are ackasirledired on all look im
, of bisiippisoems. attailased the lam
try eau., feign o'cLock.
Ahlermeo MS I Sir W. ulna $675
Mr. Wilms . 401 Aldermaa Tireirp ... .3517
Mr. Weidman —UV Alderman Maims 16tht
-trench Papers to the 19th. heart arrived. 'The
Date of WELLINGTON still remained at Pm* The
Royal Family of France were expected to begin
their residence at St. Cloed, on tge. 19th. CliAttLis
IV. of SPAIN has returned from Naples to Rome-.
A letter from Algiers, of the 20th alt. states, that
the new Dot has consented to pay 125.000 fr. 8s a
recompense for a Sardinian vessel ceptered in defiance
of the Treaty of 1816, and 25,000 fr. as a portion
for each of the young women, whom the last DIY
carried off This arrangemeht is imputed to the visit
of an Eagash frigate and brig, which threatened the
Dot with another expedition from England, sled a
severer correction than even that inflicted by Lord
Eamousu.—The Emperor and Empress of Aurreta
have reached Ragusa.—The Arch•Dochess MARIA
Louisa, was speedily 'erected at Vireos, with her
son. The young NaeoLeon his commenced his mi.
liter, ezercises—a proof, says one of oar Corre-
spondents, that the Church will not be his destine.
tion.—The execution of the woman Bancal has been
indefinitely postponed. She has made some new dis-
coveries, and has added some particulars to those
proved against Basta, and Jsunlon.
A Royal Decree has been issued at Madrid for re.
diming the Spanish army ; notwithstanding which, it
is asserted that the naval and military preparations
at Cadia are going en with activity ; and it is ex-
pected the egeadros destined for Smith America wily
be ready to weigh anchor towards the beginning n
July. Letters from Sintio, according to the French
Journals, assert, that the Duke de SAN CA ELM has
been nominated to repair to the Congress of Sove-
reigns, as representative of Fraoteasto VII.

Intelligence from the West Indies confirms the
accounts we have already published respecting the
successes of the Veneererlean Patriots. Le•ters of
4th May, from St. Bartholomew's, were on Saturday
received by several mercantile houses in the City,
extremely satisfactory es to the late shipasents made 4
to the above groaner, and quoting details from various
parts of the Main. The advance General Bouvan
pushed on to the sea-coast, after the defeat of the
Spaniards at Sombrero, and which penetrated to
within six leagues of Valencia, it now appears, did
not retreat its consequence of the hard fighting of the
Spaniards, but because this was a concerted plan.
The Spaniards were evacuating the coast, and two
corvettes and foer schooners, filled with emigrants,
had Arrived at Granada. Montki.n. if is saki, 'Enor.
tally woasided, had been conveyed to Puerto Cavello,
where he resigned the command of the army.
We are given to andel stand by letters of " high
authority" from India, that military possession wlll
be taken by Greet Britain of the dominions of the
Rajah of BERAR ; and that the Government of that
extensive country will be administered pretty esech
as the affairs of Mysore have been coniivcted since
the death of I'z:woo—namely, by investiog a British
Resident with all the real authority; and leaving,
or placieg, a nominal Sovereign en the Throne. We
farther learn, that the PEIOIEWA will certainly be de-
posed, and the office abolished; that there is to be
henceforth no ostensible head of the Mahratta Em.
pine; bet that a relative of the present Chieftain will
be entitled Rajah of Poona.

The Quitew reforns to town to-saorrow. The
Duke and Dachas of KENT are expected to be in
town to-morrow, or on Wednesday.
Lord YARMOUTII has decliued cemiog loLa Peril...
meat again for the t;onety of Antrim.
Viscount CASTLERNAGII left tuwu yesterday for
Ireland.
Letters from St. Ilmisholouteur's, dated hloy 16,1
received in town on Saturday mosniag, state, that
intelligence was &steely 'sported there of the fall of.
Lageira. Admiral Bolos was is the steighlitiorhood
of the island. The British vessels, the. Britannia
cod Emerald, were preparing to soil for Lavin,
(confident of finding that place in the hands of the
Patriots), to receive the money doe to them for the
Mores, &c. supplied to Admiral Baton's sqoadroo.
anion had captured a basetifnl schoonet.rigged pi.
rate, carrying 11. eighteen-pounder carrooades and
116 men. The Utplain Made his maps before the
was takes possessiou of. Admiral Buono had
suited her the Yotrog Victoria; after his owe weasel.
litlaslsa Oeista.—This Theatre wised oe Saturday for its
Awn wanner smote; upon which accusing sloe ver good
randlliales for public apisnEhation were hvoteglst frrwa to the
penes of several native Aieseldtbe Lidiews is duet tresine
costume, who exhibited their national dances, war-sonr. and
whet ceremonies. Tbe Cmaspany has bees mat* sfrObethenall
by the arena:on of mid ilNill reblims 4161,ir•—'
These. oaAted aids Masan. C4IIATTIFALIIY. Ottottitears
and Miss Canso, who Is odOerthed. pVisasise Ilvilearae
Mr. ANLIGOLD. Ike enierKitieß eOrliri.g" 4141 L ore.
It is hoped that the Lieery of Lottidotat • ejsriyet
uniformly espresso/1 their op prebatial .4
of Election, will sot xolootarily dpi
selves, by permitting the 'distance of gr., itgl_
from the Pull, to prevent those who -*pa he
the Country from ezpressiac their seut4iteliti in
foveae of the Independent Candidates, Wormy
and THORP, upon the occasion of as
Election unparalleled in the Annals of Election
Contests.
Coen Edictla au. 'limit—Miens Mode mho-
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parr.-1114 Oats and other articles as ahreatitio.
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