3. And his heart yearned to ferve the people if that it in him lay, and to relieve them where it might be done. 4. The fame went in unto the inner chambers of the King, and he lifted up his voice, and faid, O King, live for ever! Doth not my Lord the king behold the iniquities of the Gothamites, and the cruelties which they daily practife upon the innocent inhabitants of Afia, and along the coafts of the fame, even unto the Red Sea? 5. How they bow their necks unto the yoke, and make them pafs through the brick kiln; how they bind their Princes with bonds of iron, and defpoil them of their wives and concubines, and rob them of their marriage fettlements; and alfo deflower their virgins, and take the jewels from their ears, and the bracelets from their arms, their gold, their filver, and diamonds, and precious ftones, and fmite them jo grievonfly, that it penetrates even unto the bone. 6. And the famines they have caufed among these people, by with-holding from them rice, which was their daily food, on account of their infatiable thirst after riches? Know now, O King! that the blood of millions of thefe farved and flaughtered inhabitants, like the blood of Abel, cry aloud from the earth for vengeance upon them for thefe their evil deeds. 7. And the mifcreants who have done thefe evil deeds, inftead of punishment, and making retribution, and repenting in fackcloth and afhes, have clothed in gold and in scarlet, and have taken their feats in the high places, and made Princes in the land of Gotham. 8. Suffer, then, thou thy fervant to frame a ftrong law, that these things be done no more; fo fhall thy name acquire honour among the Princes of the earth, and nations unknown fhall blefs thy name. And these words which they spake feemed good in the eyes of the King, and in the eyes of the Counfellors of the Sanctum, Sanctorum! and the King faid, Let this thing be fo; and the chief rulers faid, Let it be fo. . 9. Then went Carlo Khan to the Sanhedrim, where the Elders of the People were wont to affemble to debate upon weighty things, and faid unto them the words he had uttered to the King and the chief rulers in the Sanctum Sanctorum. And he faid unto them, "If now this thing feemeth good in the eyes of the Elders, let it, I befeech thee, "be made a law." 10. Now it feemed unto the Elders a wife measure, and they rejoiced exceedingly, and were glad, and they faid, Aye, aye; but fome few (who were of a faction) faid, No, no but the ayes had it by a great abundance. 11. Then arofe Hurlo Thrumbo (who had been heretofore Chief Scribe) a morofe man and furly, a great winebibber, and he curfed Carlo Khan with a grievous curfe. And he confpired with the Chief Priests and the Scribes, and the Princes of the land of Eden Brough, and those who dwelt upon the coafts of the North Sea; 12. And with the Princes who flept in the King's chamber; and they laid their heads together in deep confultation, how they might thwart the wife meafures which Carlo Khan had meditated, and faid, Let not this fellow bring these things to pafs; for fhould it be done, there will be left no plunder of the Eaft for our fons, and the fons of our concubines, and they will be poor as the multitude, even as the fcum of the earth. 13. Some therefore went unto the King up the back flairs, at the dead hour of midnight, with dark lanterns in their hands, and they whispered falfe tidings into the ears of the King, and fet up falfe prophets to utter things that were not. And the King took privately a part against Carlo Khan, and gave orders to the Princes who flept in the King's chambers, and the fixteen Princes from the land of Eden Brough, and the Scribes, and the Chief Priefts, not to fuffer this thing to be made a law; and the law was not made. 14. Then the Merchants who traded to the East, and thofe who held dominion over the national treasure, and the Miteites, and the Dippites, and the Tartites, raised great T 2 tumults tumults against Carlo Khan, because he was the friend of the people, and had devised great things. 15. But Charlo Khan grew in the esteem of every wife and good man in Gotham. 16. At this Solomon the King grew wroth, and his fpirit was forely troubled within him, and he rolled his eyes in anguish, and gnafhed his teeth, and faid, Of a truth this man shall not prevail, for I will fend him from my councils, and hide my face from him, and he did fo, and if peradventure my people fhould be on his fide, I will cross. over the great water, and fojourn in the house of my forefathers, even in the land of turnips. 17. Howbeit Hurlo Thrumbo fet up a youth, who was just come from the breast of his mother, (he was vain and arrogant, as is the custom with young men) and he reviled the wife men of the nation, and laughed at the People and at the Elders, and held them. in fcorn: As it befel in the days of Rehoboam the King. 18. Then faid the King, I will rule this people with a rod of iron, and I will scourge them with fcorpions, and I will lay upon them heavy tributes grievous to be borne, (now at this time there was a great dearth in the land of Gotham, by reafon of a great froft) that it might be fulfilled which was written by the Prophet, "A wife King is the joy of his fubjects, but a foolish King is the heaviness of his People." 19. And he difmiffed the Elders of the People, and faid, Get ye home about your bufnefs, and let me have other Elders chofen who will follow my will and obey my orders, and let not the Sanhedrim be the Houfe of Privileges, but let it be the Houfe of Prerogatives. And this deed of the King's coft Gothan many thoufand fheckles of fine gold. 20. Nevertheless the People departed not from Carlo Khan, but they faid, We will chufe him for our Elder, for he has widom, and he takes our part and fupports our caufe; and they caufed the inftruments to found, and clapped their hands, and fhouted aloud, Carlo Khan for ever! and they held feafts and drank wine, and fang, Carlo Khan is the man, Carlo Khan is the man for me. 21. Now the reft of the acts of Solomon the King, are they not written in the book. of the Chronicles of the Kings of Gotham? ADVERTISEMENT.. To the Worthy and Independent Electors of the City and Liberties of Westminster. Gentlemen, When the popular delufion in favour of the prefent Miniftry was fuppofed to be most. prevalent, I was confident that the good fenfe and fleadinefs of the Electors of Westminfter would be proof against every art and every temptation. The unparalleled fuccefs which I have experienced upon my canvafs fully juftifies this confidence, and I have the greatest reason to expect, that your partiality towards me will appear to have increased in proportion to the perfecution of my enemies. As I have ever ftood forth, and am always refolved to continue firm in the cause of the people, fo it is not to be wondered at that I fhould at all times be the object of the enmity of that pernicious faction, whofe principles are as adverfe to the Conftitution as the dark and fecret manner in which they have endeavoured to enforce them. It would have been my moft earneft with to have paid my refpects in perfon to every individual Elector, if the extent of the city had not made it impoffible. The very flat tering reception I have met with among those whom I have had the opportunity of feeing, cannot but add to my regret on this account. My public conduct is too well known to you to make any profeffions neceffary. Upon that ground I first experienced your partiality; upon that alone I can expect to retain it. To you who have approved it I need fay no more; and I will not be guilty of the unbecoming flattery to those who have differed from me, as to pretend that I'fhall in any degree deviate from that line of political conduct which firft recommended me to your notice. Upon these tried principles I once more beg leave to folicit your votes, intereft, and poll at the enfuing Election; and I do affure you that no expreffions can do justice to the fentiments of gratitude and efteem with which I am, Gentlemen, Your moft obedient and devoted fervant, C. J. FOX. To the Electors of Westminster. QUESTION. Why does Mr. Fox now ftand alone for the city of Westminster? ANSWER. 2. 1. Because he had once before joined with a man who deferted HIM and betrayed YOU. 2. Because he offended fo many of you by his last recommendation, that he is fearful of venturing upon a fecond.. To the Electors of Westminster. The agents of Sir Cecil Wray have been endeavouring to circulate a deceitful notion with fome of the Electors for Westminster, that because they figned the Address propofed by Sir Cecil Wray, they are therefore bound to vote against Mr. Fox. Surely nothing can be more weak than this. May not a man think very highly of another on the whole, although he does not approve fome particular action of his life? Admitting Mr. Fox, for the fake of argument, to have been wrong in fome fingle inftance, does it therefore follow that you should set one act against the conftant uniform conduct of years? This is a point too obvious to require argument; and the good fenfe of the Electors will undoubtedly fuggeft to them that they never can be bound by a fignature to an Addrefs to withhold their approbation to the general conduct of a tried favourite. An INHABITANT of WESTMINSTER. WOOD's The attention of the fober and independent Electors of Westminster is earnefly requefted to fome of the late proceedings that took place at the Committee affembled at this houfe. They publish an advertisement, flating that the words ufed in the House of Commons by Sir Cecil Wray, on the subject of Chelfea Hofpital, had been malignantly. mifreprefented. When it is fuggefted in reply to this, that not one of thofe perfons who took it upon themfelves to explain the Baronet's words upon this occafion were prefent when he ufed them, they come out with a violent and angry defence of their conduct ftating, that although they were not prefent in the Houfe of Commons, yet they heard Sir Cecil fay fo and fo in the Committee. No perfon ever doubted that he would ufe qualifying expreffions concerning this infamous propofal, during the time of the Election. But what is that to the purpofe? Is it any proof that he did not use the words imputed to him in the Houfe of Commons, because he did not afterwards repeat them in an Election Committee? If Sir Cecil's friends can contrive no better defence for him than fuch a one as this, they had much better be entirely filent. The fact is, humanity is a quality that every plain man underftands, and the violation of it is what every honeft man abhors; even the ingenuity of John Churchill, therefore, could neither explain nor juftify this oppreffive, fcandalous, and barbarous propofal of his friend. An ELECTOR. Queries addreffed to Sir Cecil Wray. Did you ever conceive the idea of feceding from your first friends, till you were taught to diflike them by the back-ftairs cabal, with whom you had formed a confederacy? Was it not to curry favour with the Court, that you broke with a man who from nobody raised you into the confequence of fomebody? Will your trite repetition of a few vulgar farcafis reconcile the people of Westminster to fuch an inftance of foul ingratitude and treachery as marks your conduct to the man of their choice, and the champion of their rights? Do not cruelty to the veteran defenders of their country, and humanity to the fair, fuit fuch habits of perfidy and duplicity as are only to be found in the worft characters ? What are your pretenfions to be a Member of Parliament? Are you intitled by a fingle action of your life to the confidence of your fellow citizens? By what exertion, or in what capacity, have you done any material service to your country, or your late conftituents, either with advantage to them, or credit to yourself? Is there not fome degree of effrontery in prefuming to expect, from the independent Electors of Westminster, a preference, in competition with one of the greatest men that ever vindicated the franchises of freemen? Have you any arguments in your favour not founded in the blackest ingratitude to Mr. Fox? Your nibbling at him in private, and your impertinence to him in public, as if an empty parade of public duty ought to obliterate the most facred of all private obligations? Are you filly enough to imagine a mere femblance of fimplicity, honefty, and principle, fufficient to hide from the common fenfe of Electors fuch a craftiness and fubtilty as are only to be found in the weakest and most worthless minds? Will the Electors of Westminster think you a better man than you anxious endeavours to make Mr. Fox appear so much worse? were for your Are you not a dupe to the artifice of that virulent and vindictive faction, who, by infpiring you with a ludicrous conceit of political confiftency, load you with derifion, and give you a temporary confequence, which can only cover the whole of your public conduct with ignominy and contempt? Can even you, Sir, be fo weak as to flatter yourself with the hopes of raising a name at the expence of Mr. Fox in the city of Weftminfter, or are a few cant words artfully bandied about among your creatures, and the various abettors of fecret influence, capable of producing the fame effect on the independent Electors at the Poll, as on the tools of power in the vicinity of St. James's? Question and Antwer. QUEST. What makes CHARLES FOX ftand fingly? ANSW. For fear a Second JUDAS should pull down CHELSEA HOSPITAL. To the Electors of Westminster. I am a man of no party; I have concerned myself little in politics, and am totally unacquainted with any of the individuals who take the lead in them. I have juft feen enough, however, of the world, to be convinced of this, that a man who is capable of a deliberate falfehood is not a perfon to be trufted in either public or private life. An inftance of this contemptible quality has appeared lately in one public man, from whofe age of ingenuoufness and fituation in life, better conduct might have been expected. I mean Mr. Pitt. It appears, by a letter, which has been inferted in all the papers, and has not been hitherto contradicted from any quarter, that three days previous to the diffolution of Parliament, this young gentleman wrote a letter to an Elector for the Univerfity of Cambridge: ftating that as that event had actually taken place---as Parliament was at that time diffolved, he would be obliged to him for his vote and intereft. Was there ever a falfehood of fo bafe and deliberate a kind? Was there ever a falfehood of fo dangerous and unconftitutional a tendency? Such a practice evidently perverts the freedom of Election, and fuch a daring violation of truth could proceed from no mind, in my poor opinion, capable of one generous, or amiable feeling. This has made me a politician for the first time in my life, and induced me to give every countenancee and fupport (which I affure you is not very inconfiderable) to Mr. Fox, for Westminster. I recollect no falfehoods of Mr. Fox's. I recollect no fraudulent artifices for ftealing a march upon his Electors. Whatever faults he may have, he appears at least to advantage from the comparison, and therefore fhall have the friendship of An Independent ELECTOR of WESTMINTER. CAUTION. |