11. And it came to pafs that there iffued from him an unfavoury fmell, infomuch that the people cried, "Caft him out, caft him out." And they did fo.

12. Then they brought forth their champion and feated him in triumph, crowning him with laurels, and finging,

LONG LIVE FOX !---MAY OUR CHAMPION LIVE FOR EVER!

Found in Covent Garden.-A Manufcript Tragedy.

The Owner may have it again without further Expence, than procuring Twenty V---s for Judas Iscariot. Apply to George Antifox, up the Back Stairs, No. 3, Crown-court, Cecil-ftreet.

D-V-L.

BART.

D-V-L.

BART.

D-v-L.

BART.
D-V-L.

The following is quoted from Act II. Scene I.

The curtain rifing discovers a tall Baronet fitting in penfive mood.
Enter the D--V--L.

Well! fay my faithful fervant, what request
Haft thou to make?

I know thy influence o'er the minds of men,
I know thy fov'rain pow'r,

Name but thy terms, thou knoweft all I want
Before I crave.

******** then I

For every fubject added to my kingdom,
Will fend thee an Elector.

Thanks worthy mafter, but devise a scheme
That may infure fuccefs.

The shortest way t' accomplish this design,
Is to drive merit quickly to defpair,
And then 'increase the number of the fair
Seducers of mankind.

But how?

Destroy the nobleft charity on earth,

Then bring (with caution, left the truth appears,)
A bill to tax each virtuous fervant maid,

Thus burthen'd, I my agents will employ,

To take advantage of their dire distress,
And catch the yielding prey.

BART.

Agreed, to-morrow's fun fhall witness bear
That I obey.

EXEUNT OMNES.

To the Worthy and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty

Gentlemen,

of Westminster.

I cannot find words fufficient to exprefs my fentiments to you upon the prefent occafion; your conduct is fuch as ought and I doubt not will be followed by every true Englishmen and lover of his country.

Gentlemen,

Gentlemen, In a land of liberty there is always a trait to be difcovered which characterifes and marks the people; in you it is that this character now fhines forth in its brighteft luftre; at a moment when we feemed upon the very brink of the precipice, when, through the threats of Minifters, the fmiles of Royalty, and the powerful workings of Secret Influence, every thing was carried away, and feemed to yield to the defperate efforts of a Court faction. I fay, Gentlemen, at this awful moment, feeing the danger before your eyes, you have nobly ftood forth, and by your manly exertions bid fair to fave the liberties of your country; you have come forward with firmnefs, and spoke out that language which fouls like yours only are capable of speaking, as men who felt their country's wrongs, and are determined to redress them.

But, Gentlemen, we must not rest here; we muft prefs forward, and perfevere in the caufe. Our enemies are practifing every manoeuvre that art and cunning can suggest to deceive and betray you. I therefore conjure you, by the love you bear your country, to be vigilant, fir up your friends and neighbours;---come on---speak boldly---support your tried Champion, and tell the man, who dares to deceive and betray his country's beft friend, that he fhall, by your deferting him on the prefent occafion, fall under that chaftifement from your hands, which his ingratitude and his bafeness merits.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your's moft truly,

Wednesday, 14th April, 1784.

AN INDEPENDANT ELECTOR.

To the Free and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster.

Gentlemen,

It affords me the highest fatisfaction to find that the fenfible and pointed addresses of an Independent Elector, recently distributed, have had every effect the patriotic philanthrophy of that gentleman could wish. Your understandings are now lighted up, and the courtly damp he fpoke of, rolls back on its promoters and confounds the enemy. Purfue then, Gentlemen, the dawn of conqueft that now breaks in, and ceafe not to perfevere in your exertions, until victory in meridian fplendor fhines out to crown your caufe in glory. My heart at this moment exults in the thought that places once again the friend of his country and darling of the people above the reach of a Court faction, alfifting his Sovereign in reftoring to a state of vigour the Conftitution and fplendour of a kingdom, that on the acceffion of his prefent Majefty, had become the envy and admiration of furrounding nations. It is painful to reflect at this moment, Gentlemen, how rapidly fince that period we have declined as to weight and confequence in the political balance of Europe; the fame Sovereign is ftill on the throne, but wretched Councils have prevailed to destroy---I will fpeak out, Gentlemen, ever fince the Butean fyftem found its way into the Cabinet, not one great or comprehenfive defign has diftinguifhed our politics ---That little, narrow, moloworking principle, governing by intrigue has been the Dragon of the Court. During Lord North's adminiftration, this phantom of cunning and wickednefs bewitched the nation and loft us America. Indefatigable in his endeavours to deftroy this demen of Scotch Extraction, Mr. Fox perfevered to the laft and conquered ;--he came into the Cabinet and gave a jubilee to his country---but alas! fhort was the triumph!---Secret Influence ftill operating, he found his colleagues in office going over to the tyrant---Immediately he refigns---But again nobly attempts the caufe of the people--A convert to his principles, Lord North unites with him, and they jointly fucceed,--By this Coalition, the nake in the grafs trembled for its exiftence,---There is but one

refource

refource fay they, Damn the Coalition.---Now, Gentlemen, I fay, Damn the union,--but not the union of North and Fox,---Damn the heterogeneous mixture in the prefent Cabinet, where a Pitt and a Jenkinfon, a Gower and a Richmond, a Dundas and a Sydney, all coalele and form a mefs of Viper broth for the good of our tottering Conftitution! Gentlemen, can ye fwallow this, and facrifice your liberties at the altar of folly !---I hope not, no,--A city inferior to none in the kingdom for the refpectability of its inhabitants, and hitherto fuperior to all in independence of principle, cannot fure in this awful moment at once refign into the hands of ariftocratic power every thing dear, every thing noble, every thing characteristic of Englifhmen,---Yet this do ye do, O ye Electors of Wimingler! if you fuffer the meddling Peers of the day, to wreft Election out of your hands, and return a creature of their own, who has already betrayed his country and his friend, as the firit step to gain their favour. AN INHABITANT OF WESTMINSTER.

Thuriday, April 15, 1784.

SELECT COMMITTEE.

Ireland's, Bow-ftreet, April 16, 1784,

The friends of Mr. Fox undoubtedly have not expected that the Select Committee fhould pay any attention to an anonymous advertisement, dated Wood's Hotel, pretending to reply to the authentic information given to the public by this Committee relative to the falfe votes polled for Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray. However, as the Select Committee have fome reason to believe that Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray's Committee at Wood's, do really avow that advertisement, they beg leave to intrude on the patience of the public by making a few remarks upon it.

The Committee at Wood's think it "neceffary to inform the Electors of Westminster, "that the several Parish Committees in the intereft of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray "have taken the utmost pains to prevent any illegal votes being polled for them."Here is a direct confeffion that fuch have heretofore been the habits and the practices of the fupporters of the Court Candidates in Weftminster, that it required the utmoft pains, in thefe pure Parish Committees, to prevent illegal votes being polled for their friends on the prefent occafion! If thefe great exertions have really been fo made, it is truly to be regretted, that the pains of the Parifh Committees fhould have been wholly defeated by the determined zeal of the numerous lodgers, foldiers, failors, King's menial fervants, and others, in the intereft of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray!

The Committee at Wood's however deny this notorious fact, and further, inform the public, that "they are well affured, that fhould a fcrutiny take place, the majority "of legal votes of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, willbe found much larger than it "now ftands on the books!" This confidence muft arife from the number of illegal votes prefumed by the Committee at Wood's, to have been polled for Mr. Fox: fo that thefe affiduous Parish Committees, who have taken fuch infinite pains to prevent bad votes being polled upon their own fide, profefs to have taken no pains at all to prevent bad votes being polled against them. A point which, as they had the parish books in their poffeffion, was completely in their power, if the practices alluded to had been attempted by the friends of Mr. Fox.

However, the best answer to these flimfy evasions of undeniable truths fhall be given to the public, in a few plain facts to-morrow; containing a fhort fpecimen of that rectitude

rectitude of conduct, which the Committee at Wood's are fo anxious the public fhould give them credit for, as well as of their peculiar regard to the rights of the real Elec tors of the city of Weftminfter.

By order of the faid Committee,

R. MORRELL, Secretary.

April the 16th, 1784.

To be SOLD by AUCTION,

This and every day during the Poll, at SUFFOLK and PATERSON's Auction Rooms, Covent Garden, a parcel of

Riotous and pretended ELECTORS of WESTMINSTER. Who cannot (fince the eyes of the friends of Virtue, Fox, and Freedom, have been opened,) be of any further fervice to their late purchafer, Sir Sillyman Wronghead. May be viewed, and particulars had, by applying to the Auction Rooms, or to Long Legs and Tax Girl, Auctioneers, or their Spaniels, Meffrs. Dip and Twifthead, at

Timber's Hotel.

To the Serjeants, Corporals, and Privates, of the Three Regiments of Guards, Electors of Westminster, the following plain Questions are addreffed:

Will you vote for Mr. Fox, who, when Sir George Howard brought forward, in the Houfe of Commons, a propofal for augmenting the number of Letter-men at Chelsea Hofpital, gave it the moft ftrenuous fupport, by which means alone it was carried through the Houfe, and confequently infured a comfortable provision for a large numbet of your body? Or,

Will you give your fupport to Sir Cecil Wray, who actually propofed, in that fame Houfe, to have Chelsea Hofpital itself demolifhed, and confequently, when old age or cafualties fhould render you unfit for fervice, to fend you to the Parish Workhouse, as that would then be the only place left to receive you?

To the Electors of Great Britain.

Permit me, at this awful period, to call your attention to the real ftate of the kingdom; on your prefent determination the fate of it depends. It concerns you, therefore, in a peculiar degree, to be circumfpect and collected; to defpife equally the bluftering of party, and the bellowing of the mob; and to be cautious, in the extreme, how you fuffer your judgment to be perverted in a decifion of fuch infinite importance.

When Mr. Fox formed the Coalition with Lord North, which has fince been fo frequently, and I will venture to fay unjustly, reprobated, his comprehenfive mind took in at one view the multifarious evils which weigh down this unfortunate country, with their refpective remedies. He perceived that extraordinary exertions were neceffary to relieve us from the burthen of a debt of two hundred and forty millions, and an annual deficiency

deficiency of two millions intereft. He knew, likewife, nothing effectual could be done, nothing adequate to the prefling exigencies of the State, unless he could obtain an equivalent fupport in the Houfe of Commons. He therefore formed, without hefitation, a junction with the powerful intereft in it; and having formed it with thefe views, in what confifts the criminality? Whence originated the maledictions with which it has been to amply loaded? From the very party who aimed at the fame object, and envied him the acquifition.

Of the India Bill, I will only fay at prefent, that it was calculated to retrieve the national character, and the Company's affairs in Afia, as far as the antecedent mifconduct and peculations of their fervants would admit. At leaft, it would have operated as fome atonement for the oppreffions, barbarities, and aflaffinations, that have fo long contaminated the eastern hemifphere under British patronage. But the damon of party beheld its progrefs with a jaundiced eye, and exulted in its influence over a deluded nation, facrificed its honour at the fhrine of defpotifim, and stifled its fenfibility in

the birth.

If the fame malignant fpirit fhould permit us to attempt any regulation there, in future, a twelvemonth, at least muft elapfe, before it can take place, and what may occur in the interval, is too obvious to require a comment. The difpofition of the natives towards us is already written in characters of blood. While the collective power of the House of Bourbon hangs over us as our evil genius, and waits only for the precife opportunity to defcend and crufh us with its weight.

Such are the confequences that will probably attend the luft of defpotifm, and the mifguided fervor of puerile ambition; fuch the effects that may be expected from the late premature addreffes, and the prevention of that union which alone was adequate to the falvation of the country.

The machinations of thofe mifcreants who, in the revolutions of human events, have effected the ruin of their country, have been generally too fecret and refined to attract immediate notice. But, in the prefent inftance, there is an oftenfibility of treachery, that can only be accounted for by the notorious audacity of the traitors, aud the credulity of the betrayed. The principal promoter of all the mischiefs that have, or are to happen, has had the unexampled temerity to declare, more than once, in a certain great affembly, that the Peers have an equal right to move for, and to bring in money bills of all denominations with the Commons.

If the eyes of the nation had not clofed beyond the reach of euphrafy, this daring affertion could have opened them. But wrapped in a fatal confcioufnefs of its fecurity, the open attacks on its moft facred rights and privileges are unattended to; a convincing proof that the meafure of its iniquities is nearly full, while it lies proftrate at the foot of pride, regardless of its humiliation, and feif-devoted to deftruction.

If the Minifter fhould meet a confiderable majority in the next Parliament, the first ftep will be to refcind all the refolutions of the laft, refpecting the peculiar privileges which it derived from the conftitution; by which means the finifhing ftroke will be put to the boafted liberties of Englishmen, and having no conftitutional protection from the moft arbitrary and oppreffive measures, the people muft either fubmit to the fhackles they have forged for themfelves, or have recourse to their laft dreadful remedy.

It may yet be in your power to refcue the kingdom from thefe impending calamities. You have yet to determine whether the conftitution fhall be unhinged, and your country expofed to the ridicule and invafion of its enemies; or whether you will unite your exertions to raise it to its former eminence, and make it what it once was, the admiration and terror of furrounding nations.

JUNIUS.

CARD.