tempt his panegyric. Neither would I wish to fet off his character by vilifying that of his opponent: I know him not, nor do I believe he is known amongst us. You know how he came to reprefent us; you know how he has reprefented us, and you alfo know, that having been found fit for a Court purpofe, how he is at the prefent moment attempted to be forced upon us. I fay forced upon us, Gentlemen, becaufe I am too well convinced of your good fenfe, to fuppofe that you yourfelves would ever think of giving your fuffrages to Sir Cecil Wray, at the expence of lofing for your Reprefenta. tive, the wonder of the age and glory of his country. For Heaven's fake, Gentlemen, then exert yourselves: the conteft is now ferious---may the end be glorious! Confider well, it is not fimply an electioneering bufinefs to be decided. The struggle is not between Mr. Fox and Sir Cecil, but between the Crown and the people. Whether by the mandates of a Minier, you are to return this or that man, or afferting your rights, you nobly dare to keep your confequence in the ftate, by fupporting your old patriotic Candidate, and fend again to the Senate the man who contends boldly for the rights of the Commons, determined to the laft, never to give up to hereditary Peers, the facred and invaluable privileges of the community at large. Again then, I fay, Gentlemen, exert yourfelves: let us light up the funfhine of our own understandings to difpel this courtly damp that defcends upon us, like a November fog, and feems to chill and ftupify our fenfes. Let us come forward and unite as one man, determined to be free, leaving to pofterity a record of our fpirit for liberty in choofing a Reprefentative of our own; unconnected with fecret influence, ftanding alone on the grounds of true patriotifm, against courtly mandates, and unconftitutional aristocracy.

Gentlemen, a great deal refts with ourselves to do in this weighty bufinefs. Mr. Fox cannot fave us, if we will not affift in the work; I therefore recommend it to his Committees, from this moment forward, to be doubly diligent: I am fully convinced of Mr. Fox's diligence and affiduity in the prefent as well as in every other inftance: fecond but the endeavours of this great ftatefman and I doubt not of fuccefs. The bufinefs is great the time, the inftant, and the opportunity, once loft is not to be regained. Now is the moment! your adverfaries are mighty; but the conftitutional weapon is yet in your own hands, I therefore urge it again and again; come forward, unite in the caule of freedom and your country, fo fhall-ages yet unborn bless your endeavours, and triumph in your fuccefs!

The free and honeft Electors of the city of Weftminster may fee, by the above state of the Eleventh Day's Poll, that the arts and threats of the Court have now fpent their force. The independence of the moft diftinguished city in Europe is yet in their own hands; let them ftand forth like Englishmen, and affert their rights.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Ireland's, Bow-ftreet.

It being now abfolutely afcertained, that Mr. Fox has a majority of legal votes upon the Poll, his friends are requested to pay no regard to the falfe appearance of advantage obtained by the moft fcandalous means on the part of his opponents; but to continue their efforts to render the number of legal votes on their fide as great as poffible. It is determined to keep the Poll open till the independent Electors have had a full and complete opportunity of vindicating their rights.

SELECT

Ireland's, Bow-street.

COMMITTEE.

FALSE VOTES FOR HOOD AND WRAY.

The Select Committee think it their duty to inform the friends of Mr. Fox, that they have already received the moft indifputable teftimony of above two hundred falfe votes polled for Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, and that they have every reafon to be convinced that Mr. Fox has at this moment a majority of legal votes upon the Poll.

An authenticated ftate of fome of the extraordinary cafes of flagrant impofition, practised upon this occafion, is preparing to be laid before the public immediately. R. MORRELL, Sec.

Wood's Hotel.

To the Worthy and Independent Serjeants, Corporals, and the Gentlemen Soldiers belonging to the Guards, refident in the Savoy, or dwelling in or near the City of Westminster.

Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens,

You are earnestly requested to ftand forward this day, to lend a finishing hand to the great and virtuous work, which you have hitherto defended with fo much zeal, difintereftednefs, and fuccefs. You know we mean the Election of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray for Weftminster. Your exertions in that caufe will never be forgetten, while the idea of a Conftitution, or the name of Liberty remains in this country---Never let it escape your recollection for a moment, Gentlemen, that if your mafter should triumph on the prefent occafion, it is to your virtue it is principally, if not folely owing.--Never forget that your activity, at this crifis, can only be equalled by the unexampled. novelty of your endeavours; and that you have, without bloodshed, completely effected at least one half a foldier's duty, whatever may be the confequence to your country.--Let these glorious reflections ftimulate you---ftand forward---Is it any good reason that a man fhould not have the right of voting at an Election, because he happens to fhare in the apartment of a friend; or because, from a mere principle of fociety and friendfhip, ten of you should chufe to affociate and dwell in the fame habitation. Nonfenfe ! Thefe are the quibbles of a defpairing faction! Let not fuch idle ftories intimidate you!

Recollect

Recollect alfo, friends and fellow-citizens, that even double diligence in a good caufe is an offence very easily pardoned, what every true Life-guardfman will applaud, fave one, and the employers of every true Life-guardfman will, without much difficulty, be prevailed upon to overlook a tranfgreffion fo cafual and inoffenfive. You understand what we mean---double diligence is the word---your early appearance is expected. HOOD AND WRAY FOR EVER!

To the Free and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster, who love their Country, and are determined to be Free.

Friends and Fellow-citizens,

I fincerely congratulate you on the event of this day's Poll. Our Champion and Friend has outdone Sir Cecil, by a majority of forty-five, a number propitious to English liberty, I rejoice to find you have taken the hint I threw out to you, and have fpoken out like Britons; I confider this as a mortal wound given to the enemy, who at this moment is exhaufted. For God's fake then, Gentlemen, as you value your lives, liberties, and properties, exert yourselves, fpeak out, inftantly unite, and come forward, follow up the blow, do but perfevere, and the day is our own; we are led to the field by as brave a General as ages past can boast of, who will fooner part with the last drop of his blood, than defert or give up your cause, there cannot therefore be a doubt of fuccefs. I fee Victory hovering over us to crown him with laurels, and liberty with extended arms, panting to receive and prefs her beloved Hero, her Fox, to her bofom; fo fhall we in the end fecure to ourselves, to our children, and to pofterity, thofe bleffings which none but the noble, the virtuous, and the free, are intitled to, or can inherit. I am, Gentlemen,

Tuesday, April 13, 1784.

With great truth,

Yours, &c.

ÁN INDEPENDENT ELECTOR.

In the Devil's Name, help Judas!

At a Public Council, held by command of His King of Hell, the Princes, Potentates, &c. &c. following refolutions were agreed to, and

Refolved unanimously,

Pandemonium Palace, April 1784. Moft Diabolical Majefty, Lucifer, of his kingdom being prefent, the

"That every effort be exerted to fecure by the most illegal and villainous methods "the Election of our well-beloved fubject Judas Iscariot, Knt. of the Back-ftairs, he having proved himself on divers occafions a fteady friend to our interefts. "That his truly infernal conduct (however misreprefented) in propofing a tax on Maid "Servants, is fuch as merits the particular thanks of this Affembly; as it tended to diftrefs thofe innocent beings who were defigned to be protected by, and add comfort " to man!

"That his ungrateful behaviour to his patron and friend, is a fresh proof of his loyalty to us, and entitles him to the approbation of all lovers of vice and "ingratitude.

That the thanks of this Affembly be given to thofe Gentlemen pick-pockets, returned "tranfports, and others of our fubjects, who have during the conteft, ill-fed the friends of Judas's opponent, he being the declared Champion of the people's rights and "privileges, against the attacks of our dark-lanthorn allies. CHURCH-HELL, Secretary.

To the Worthy Electors who wish well to the Election of Mr. Fox, and have not yet polled.

Wednesday, April 14.

It must be evident to every man who has attended the canvafs in behalf of Mr. Fox thefe three laft days, that there is ftrength enough among the friends to the cause he fupports, to carry it triumphantly. I rather put this addrefs upon the cause, than upon the Candidate, highly as he deferves refpect for his talents and his merit.

The iffue of this conteft, confidered even in a confined view, is decifive upon the independency of the city of Weftminster. The question is, fhall this city be faved from becoming a burgage tenure borough to the Court and Lords, or Lords that are to be bartered in recompence for favours received, or as the price for favours to come?

The conteft, confidered in the extenfive fenfe, is that of the people of England against an attempt to deftroy them in their great effential privilege, their collective voice in Parliament, as one of the three eftates of the realm.

It is not my purpose to demonftrate these truths for the purpose of making converts--our caufe wants no converts. It claims only the general and due exertions of that great and glorious majority, the believers, and the convinced in thefe truths, who nevertheLefs procraftinate their appearance at the poll. It is to you, my fellow citizens, of that defcription, that I appeal, and I call upon you, by your confiftency, by your confequence, by your honour, and by your private interefts, ultimately (if private intereft can have place in breafts open to thefe noble feelings) to follow the example of those five thousand companion advocates of the fame caufe who have already nobly committed themfelves, and to avow your public principle in the face of the world.

Examine, for a moment, as men of honesty and fpirit, the excufe upon which fome men have been perfuaded to hang back, viz. that they have friends on both fides, and "would difoblige none. Afk your own hearts, as Engliifhmen, as guardians of our Comtitution, as entrusted with the prefervation of the people, delivered down to you from your ancestors, and now depending upon you to be transferred inviolable to your pofterity. You are as effectually acting at this moment, in this great public capacity, as your Delegates will be after the affembling of Parliament. Think what would be your thoughts of them, if they proffered to you, upon any great national struggle, the excufe fometimes tendered upon thisscanvafs, that private intereft must be preferred to duty. Be affured, you affront yourfelves grofsly, when you let it be fuppofed, for a moment, that you put the risk of a few perfonal refentments against you, in competition with the great national truft now in your hands. You have no right to with-hold a franchife, in which the public welfare is concerned; it is part of the common stock of the people; to keep it unemployed, or to mifemploy it, is the fame; and you incur the centure of the gofpel upon the man who buried the talent placed in his hand for beneficial purpofes.

This reafoning ought to have weight in the minds of Englishmen, were private intereft the most deeply affected; but I deny that it is fo, in a fmall degree. You pay an ill compliment to your customers, when you fuppofe you can give any material offence in voting for the men of your choice. Few, very few indeed will be fo illiberal, and their refentment will recoil upon their own characters, while it will ferve to recommend and endear your conduct to every admirer of justice and of fpirit.

Neutrality may make as many enemies as decifion---it cannot make one friend. Neutrality in a great public caufe, and in a free nation, has always been held a crime; and it is the more odious, as it is a mean crime. There is an honeft pride in the Electors of Westminster, that will never bear the poffibility of fuch an imputation.

The fecurity of fuccefs to a great caufe, and of honour to the fupporters of it, depends upon every individual acting, as if victory was the confequence of his fingle exertion. A NATIVE and CITIZEN of WESTMINSTER.

Second Chapter of the Times!

1. And after the people had proclaimed that Fox fhould be one of their Elders, the tribe of Judas arofe and faid, "It shall not be fo, we will have one of our own kidney, "yea one that will fupport the Back-flairs.

2. "And lo we will have a Poll demanded, as in the times of Trentham and Vande"put, and moreover we will fend forth our bludgeon-men and terrify the people," and they did fo.

3. And they thought themfelves fure, and fcoffed and reviled the Man of the People, faying, "We have conquered."

4. Now it came to pafs that there arose a fair and wife woman from the weft; and fhe faid, "I will prevail against the unfaithful, and will join in the cause of "the juft."

5. Then fhe ordered the fteeds to her chariot, and girded herself with the armour of truth; and her face was bright as an angel, and her voice as a fine toned cymbal.

6. Then fhe went into the city faying, "Hearken unto me, O ye matrons, our fa❝thers left us a free people, let us break the fhackles preparing for us, left our children "be bond flaves." And they bleffed her, yea women with infants at their breasts fang in her praife.

7. But as fhe paffed by, a certain Dippite reviled her; and his face was as the colour of a tallow candle, and on his head was a cap like unto his heart, for behold it was black.

8. And when he faw the daughter of Truth fucceed, he fmote his breast and gnafhed his teeth, and called upon Satan to bring his Rains forth to trouble the children of Truth.

9. Then the men of the city arofe as from a deep fleep, and their eyes were opened, and they faid, "Let us go up in numbers, for our caufe is good; and let the fin of ingratitude fall on Judas Iscariot."

10. Now this Judas was a lanky man; and when he faw the people's champion prevail, his jaw dropped, and his face was an ell long; and when he would have fpoken, a certain quivering came over him, yea even from the crown of his head to the foles of his feet, and he fell flat on his back, even as a flounder.

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11. And