We are now come to the Selection of Advertisements and Hand-bills for Mr. Fox. Strict Impartiality obliges us to give them as we have already done thofe of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, with all their unmutilated Periods. More Writers having voluntarily entered the Lifts for Mr. Fox's Side of the Question, than for the other Candidates, of Courfe greater Variety of Matter appears collected for him. The Merit of the refpective Productions we are now entering upon, we leave to be determined by a difcerning Public. We shall on our Part only obferve, that many of the firft literary Characters have handled their Pens in Behalf of their favourite Candidate. ADVERTISEMENT. To the Worthy and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster. Gentlemen, His Majesty's Minifters having thought fit, in contradiction to their own declarations, in defiance of the fenfe of the Houfe of Commons, and without any public pretence whatever, to fubject the nation to all the inconveniences which muft infallibly attend a Diffolution of Parliament at the prefent Moment, I humbly beg leave once more to folicit the favour of your votes and intereft, to represent this great and refpectable city. To fecure to the People of this country the weight which belongs to them in the fcale of the Conftitution, has ever been the principle of my political conduct. Conscious that in every fituation (whether in or out of office) I have invariably adhered to this fyftem, I cannot but flatter myfelf that you will again give your fanction to those principles which first recommended me to your notice, and which induced you, at two fubfequent periods, to honour me with your fuffrages. I have the honour to be, St. James's-ftreet, Gentlemen, C. J. FOX. N. B. The Committee meet every evening at eight o'clock, at the Shakespeare Tavern, Covent Garden. ADVERTISEMENT. The worthy and independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster, in the intereft of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, are requested to meet this day, at twelve o'clock at noon, at Suffolk's Auction Room, late Barford's, Covent Garden, to confult on the proper means for conducting the Re-election of that tried friend and able fupporter of the rights, liberties, and privileges of his fellow citizens. Sa ADVER ADVERTISEMENT. At a very numerous and refpectable meeting of the Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster at the Shakespeare Tavern, Covent Garden, this day, it was unanimoufly refolved, That a General Meeting of the refpective Parochial Committees, appointed to conduct the Re-election of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, be held at the Shakespeare Tavern to-morrow (Thursday) at eight o'clock in the evening precifely, to report the state of the canvass. By order of the Committee, 24th March, 1784. JOHN ROB. COCKER, Sec. ADVERTISEMENT. Mr. Fox begs leave to return his moft grateful thanks to the worthy and independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Weftminster, for the very flattering and generous affurances of fupport he has received on his canvafs, a continuance of which cannot fail to enfure fuccefs; and as, on account of the fhortnefs of the time fince the Diffolution of Parliament took place, he has not yet been able perfonally to wait on all the Electors, he hopes thofe gentlemen to whom he has been thus prevented from paying his refpects, will impute it to the real caufe, and not to any want of attention on his part, as be proposes to have the honour of waiting on them as early as poffible. St. James's-ftreet, March 30, 1784. ADVERTISEMENT. The Committee for conducting the Re-election of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, are requested to meet at the Shakespeare this evening, at eight o'clock. ADVERTISEMENT. If Sir Cecil Wray entertained fo contemptible an opinion of the Electors of Weftminfter, to think they would again choose him for their Representative, could he find no other way of offering himself, but through the medium of the most fruitless ingratitude that ever difgraced a man, or ever infulted a refpectable city? I fay, I would not infift upon Sir Cecil Wray's wishing to stand again with Mr. Fox. I do not know that Mr. Fox would have agreed to it. But Sir Cecil Wray, if he did not ftand with Mr. Fox, ought certainly to have stood alone, and not with any other Candidate whatsoever in oppofition to Mr. Fox, who certainly brought him in. I do maintain, that Sir Cecil Wray has forfeited all pretenfions to refpect and confidence, unlefs ingratitude and a palpable want of understanding can now be esteemed the best recommendations of a member to reprefent the city of Weftminster in Parlia ment. Of the mockery of offering Lord Hood as a Candidate for Westminster, I fhall only at prefent observe, that independent of the objections that lie against him for accepting the countenance of fuch a man, I have no knowledge of what pretenfions Admiral Lord Hood Hood ftands poffeffed of, to expect that one of the principal and moft independent cities in Great Britain fhould rely upon his abilities to fupport the cause of the people in the Houfe of Commons. So fays one, who was once the friend, but now the opposer of Sir CECIL WRAY. SIR, To the Printer of the General Advertiser. The termination of the prefent Election muft decide the honour of the city of Westminster, and perhaps our existence as a free people. Weftminster has ever been diftinguished for its fpirit and independence; and that fpirit and independence were never more ftrongly confirmed than by fending Mr. Fox as its Reprefentative into Parliament; and he was the first member who ever ftood distinguifhed by the moft honourable of all diftinctions, "The Man of the People." When Admiral Rodney was called up to the Houfe of Lords, Mr. Fox recommended Sir Cecil Wray to be elected in his ftead. He was then a refpectable character, and believing him to be alfo the friend of the people, fupported his Election even at the lofs of fome of his firmeft friends; but thofe gentlemen who oppofed Mr. Fox in his choice of Sir Cecil Wray as his colleague, appear now to have known Sir Cecil Wray's real character better than Mr. Fox did; but it is no reproach against the wifeft man to be deceived. I have no intention of laying any blame against Sir Cecil Wray for differing with Mr. Fox in the Houfe of Commons: on the contrary, I hold it a maxim that every man has a right to vote according to his confcience, and if Sir Cecil Wray differed with Mr. Fox upon that ground, he would be entitled to the fupport of every honeft man. A man acting from an honeft heart may find fome allowances for the weaknefs of his understanding. Of Sir Cecil Wray's goodnefs of heart, we need no ftronger proof than his patriotic wifh of demolishing the only afylum of a very few, out of the great numbers who have been neceffitated to become the objects, by having been the defenders of their country. A wounded foldier wants comfort; nay, has a right to demand it, and ill befal the man who would wish to disturb the little repofe that men worn out in their country's cause have been accustomed to look up to as their laft, their only right; but Sir Cecil Wray's laft effort, was to wifh "Chelsea Hofpital razed to the ground.' What opinion muft Sir Cecil Wray entertain of the humanity and juftice of the city of Westminster, to think fuch conduct a recommendation to their future fuffrages? I have already ftated, that Sir Cecil Wray, though certainly brought in for Weftminfter by Mr. Fox's recommendation, was not therefore bound to vote with Mr. Fox, if he did not agree with his politics; neither was he bound even to join Mr. Fox again in the new canvafs. It is impoffible to give a greater latitude to a man who owes his having been a member for Westminster to Mr. Fox's popularity alone, than I allow to Sir Cecil Wray. I am too great a friend to the free exercise and noble independence of the mind, to fee it fhackled even under pretence of gratitude. But what fhall we fay to Sir Cecil Wray's now joining another candidate in oppofition to that very man to whom he owes whatever footing he ever poffeffed in the city of Westminster? Lo! where he comes in full poffeffion of the blackeft vice of the human mind, INGRATITUDE. Το |