WESTMINSTER CANDIDATES. FOX. Whofe foul is above all meannefs---whofe ambition is to ferve his country---to protect the rights and privileges of the people---and (being poffeffed of the finer feelings) to love and cherish the fair-one, and the worn-out foldier. WRAY. Who is meannefs itfelf--who being bred a catholic would ftab at the vitals of this glorious Conftitution, and dead to every fenfe of feeling, would tax the moft lovely *, and devote to beggary and want the moft deferving of their country. Judge then for yourfelves, my fellow citizens---shake off thofe trammels of Court Influence which have hitherto bound you, and believe that by standing forth for Mr. Fox you may yet fave your country from deftruction. Do not be led to imagine that fingly your votes can do no fervice---they can---they will be ferviceable---they will preferve your liberty, that valuable legacy of your forefathers, and natural inheritance of your children. Come forward then without delay--fupport the champion of your freedom, and by your noble daring, fhew that the name of Briton flill is dear to you. More than Wonders! Miracles! Miracles! Signior Palmero, lately arrived in England from a peregrination over more than three parts of the terraqueous globe, and who has had the fupreme honour of accompanying the thrice immortal Montgolfier in his aerial expeditions, has had the happiness to obferve, in his empyrean flight, a moft favourable conjunction of the planets that govern human affairs, with the new difcovered Georgium Sidus, from which he fairly concludes, that the prefent conteft for parliamentary reprefentation, in this great metropolis, muft be in favour of the most illuftrious Fox, as a man the moft capable of conducting the concerns of this glorious country, and that the conjunction with the Georgium Sidus, as truly prognofticates his restoration to the councils of our mighty and much beloved Sovereign. To explain this more fatisfactorily, Signior Palmero has just arrived in an ærostatic machine, in vico vulgo dictum, (an air balloon) and fhall have the honour to receive his friends, the fupporters of Mr. Fox, and the public in general, on Wednesday night next, April 7th, at the Little Theatre, James-street, Haymarket, where a party will be formed to proceed according to law and decency, in fupport of that great friend to the liberties of mankind, Mr. Fox. N. B. Maid Servants and Chelfea Penfioners are particularly defired to attend, as Signior Palmero has obferved very favourable conjunctions and afpects in the planetary fyftem in their favour. Female Servants. Wounded and veteran Soldiers. Wonders! Wonders! Wonders! Wonders! The most wonderful philofopher in the world, the great Katterfelto, and his Black Cat, have engaged to infure Sir C---1 a quantity of votes, either good or bad, to fecure his election; the great Katterfelto having an influence, by his grand folar microscope, to look into the hearts of all infects creeping up the Back Stairs. ADVERTISEMENT. To the Worthy Electors of the City and Liberties of Westminster. Gentlemen, The advantage obtained by my opponents upon the poll, (though by no means decifive) is such as to render your utmost exertions neceffary. Your interefts, in this conteft, are much more deeply engaged than mine. If the caufe of the independent Electors fhould in this inftance be overborne, it is next to impoffible that any man fhould again venture to stand for this city, in oppofition to the nomination of the Court. The queftion now is not, Who fhall be elected? but who fhall elect? It is not between Sir Cecil Wray and me, but between the influence of the Court and the rights of the independent Electors. The number of unpolled votes is yet fo great, that there is little doubt of your fuccefs, if proper exertions are made. Nothing fhall be wanting on my part; I will spare no pains; I will fubmit to every inconvenience, rather than be acceflary in delivering you over to that ftate of fubjection from which you so honourably rescued yourselves at the laft General Election. The friends of Mr. Fox are particularly requested to tranfmit to the Select Committee, which will meet at Mr. Ireland's, Bow-ftreet, Covent Garden, addreffed to Mr. Reede, the names of fuch Electors, in their feveral parifhes, as have not yet been waited on by Mr. Fox, or the gentlemen who have canvailed for him. It is alfo requested, that gentlemen will cominunicate the circumftances of the feveral falfe votes which have already been detected in the poil for Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, and transmit them as above. To the Electors of Westminster. Sir Cecil Wray, one of your Candidates, by prefuming, in oppofition to Mr. Fox, to folicit your fuffrages at this important crifis, has the audacity to think freemen capable of preferring duplicity to candour, cunning to wifdom, and the moft contemptible bafenefs to real generofity and manliness of mind! What are thofe features which have chiefly diftinguifhed the public life of this filly, funpering, infipid fycophant? He has treated Mr. Fox with a perfidy, of which no man of honour could be guilty. To the author of his political exiftence he acted the part of a confpirator and a parricide. And is he to be trusted in a public ftation, who could thus ftoop to be a traitor in a private capacity? Is there an honest man among you, who fees him on the Huftings with Mr. Fox, who can help regarding him with abhorrence? He has already betrayed every truft repofed in him. Mr. Fox was deceived by his undertaking the bufinefs of the pavement in St. Ann's parifh, Soho. And did not the inhabitants of St. Ann's find him fhuffling moft fhamefully in their parochial affairs? Did he not, on that occafion, infidioufly join the Rector and a Select Vestry against the whole parifh? Sir Cecil may be ambitious of the name, but has not yet been fo forunate as to demonftrate, by his actions, that he is fond of the real character of an honeft man! Does he not infult every modeft woman among you by inventing a new fpecies of oppreffion, and degradation of the most deftitute of the fex. Is it poffible, hufbands or fathers, who have any real regard for their wives and daughters, can vote for one who would thus reduce, and render them infamous? Has he not dared, with facrilegious fury, to menace the venerable fanctuary of the aged and the brave; and to peep into the holes of the miferable, not to pity or relieve them, but to deprive them of that pittance fo many of them have earned with their beft blood? Are these the grounds on which fo notorious a load of prerogative ventures to canvass the free Electors of Weftminster for their votes? And are you difpofed to poll for him, merely because he openly makes a purchase of the affluent and independent, by debauching the poor and needy, by having a numerous gang of banditti to overawe the Election, and keep the quiet peaceable inhabitants in perpetual fear of their lives, by admitting an immenfe fhoal of fictitious voters, and putting the caufe of liberty at defiance, by employing in his favour the whole army of houfhold dependents; and by iffuing from his Committees as well as by his runners, a conftant fabrication of the groffeft falfehoods, to impose on your credulity, and blacken the characters of your best friends. From fuch a prostitution of principle and common fenfe, may God deliver every worthy and independent Elector! To the Electors of Westminster. Continue, ye worthy, free, and independent Electors of Westminster, in your present deluded ftate, nor rouze yourselves, till repentance can nought avail you. Go on, and give your votes to Sir Cecil Wray, and in future as you país, receive the heart-felt bleffings of every poor, old, wounded foldier, whom his well-timed parfimony has driven from a comfortable afylum, to beg his bread from door to door; and when the old veteran points to his honourable fcars, beftow not your charity, but fimile in his face, and cry, "Long live Sir Cecil." Receive the bleflings of every poor abandoned prostitute, who by his excellent tax was driven from the path of virtue, to that of infamy and fhame. And when the, weeping, deplores her fallen ftate, fpurn the mourn ing penitent from you, and cry, "Sir Cecil for ever." If thefe unhappy beings fhould prove your fons or daughters, it would be still more noble in you to have been his fupporter; because it will be getting the better of every feeling of nature, and of every fentiment of common humanity. Go on then, and immortalize your fames by voting for a man who has fhewn himself fo great, fo true a friend to the rights and privileges of man and woman-kind. To the Free and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster, Difpofed to lend their helping hand to prop and fupport that Conftitution, which was the glory of their forefathers---the pride of their youth---the comfort of their old age---the Jource of all our riches and greatnefs---the admiration of furrounding nations, and the terror of our enemies. Gentlemen, Do not believe that the words fecret influence and back-ftairs government are mere modern inventions or catch words to ferve a party purpose and inflame the paffions of the people. It is a grievance that has long existed, and was abfolutely complained of at fo early a period as the 12th of Edward the fourth. And it was then afferted, that there was not a back door about St. James's that did not coft the nation full 20,000l. a year. Gentlemen, from that period to the glorious Revolution our Conftitution has been de fended by the best blood the nation ever produced---fhed upon fcaffolds in defence of our liberty, that glorious inherent privilege that has yet never been separated from the name of Briton. Gentlemen, for Heaven's fake look round you! and as there never was yet in the worft of times fo ferious an attack upon our privileges as the prefent moment, fo I firmly hope, that with all the true enthusiastic bravery of Britons there never was fo refolute a defence as you will now make. Gentlemen, look round---behold the Viper Baronet and your own noble champion, the true defender of your rights and privileges. The one wifhes bafely to facrifice you at the fhrine of Prerogative---the other is ready to fuffer martyrdom in defence of your liberties. The one fupported that Minifter who daringly infulted and abfolutely turned the Houfe of Commons (your legal Reprefentatives) out of doors; the other bravely defended your caufe, and nobly expofing himfelf against all your enemies and their unconftitutional measures, has drawn down the indignation of every viper, Court fycophant and dependent placeman in the kingdom upon him. These are the numerous Hoft that has given the Viper Baronet his temporary fall fuperiority, over your own noble Champion and his independent friends. It requires nothing, my countrymen, but a finall exertion of the truly independent amongst you, and that every man fhould conceive his own fingle vote of confequence, and inftantly come forward with it, to convince the viper Baronet and all his prerogative adherents---that, in the cause of liberty, the British fpirit is invincible. Will you, the honest inhabitants of Westminster, fuffer the most free and independent citizens amongst you to be infulted, day after day, in Covent Garden, by a few watermen's boys, arrayed, marthalled, and led on by fuch contemptible fellows as the notorious. notorious Colonel Skeene, and fome white washed attornies and money lenders? I know you will not. And I know too, that true failors cannot be hired by a court faction, to moleft and affault, like fo many ruffians and affaffins, the honeft and decent Electors of Westminfter. To be Sold by Auction, By JUDAS ISCARIOT, With all the Live and Dead Stock. In which is included, the Cloaths, Crutches, Fire-Arms, &c. &c. of the poor worn-out Veterans, who have bled in their country's caufe! Their existence being deemed a public nuisance. Likewife, the virtue, innocence, and modesty of the harmless, inoffenfive Servant Maids. The fale of this laft lot was intended by Judas for the purpose of raising the supplies for the tax on Maid Servants. JUDAS ISCARIOT is extremely forry he cannot put up for Sale N. B. To be difpofed of a large quantity of patent dark-lanterns, and the best price will be given for a fet of fellows that will go through thick and thin for a rotten back ftaircafe caufe. Huzza for Prerogative !---A fig for the Conftitution! To the honeft and Independent Electors of Westminster, who are zealous and active in this great Struggle for the Prefervation of their.. Privilege and Right of Election.. Gentlemen, On the firft view of the majority in number, which appeared on the clofe of Saturday's Poll, in favour of the Court Candidates, you may perhaps with grief-fwoln hearts, lament that your manly efforts, and unwearied exertions, in fupport of the man who has uniformly fupported you, are likely to prove fruitlefs; but do not defpond, don't give up your Champion, or lofe fight of the glorious caufe in which you are now embarked (although a host of all forts of Guards and Hirelings braved you) whilst you have the power of ftemming the torrent, with hearts of controverfy---English hearts not to be biaffed, corrupted, or difmayed, whilft confcious rectitude, and unerring truth, point out the way to the hallowed temple of freedom and virtue. Be therefore not alarmed if a corps de referve of guards, in coloured garments, fhould be drawn up this morning on the platform of the Huftings, to poll against you---they are afed to the drill---they can ftand, ftoop, kncel down, make ready, prefent and fire at the |