Corrected Advertisement of Wood's Hotel, dated April 19, 1784. It appearing beyond all doubt, that there are many very refpectable inhabitants of this city fincere and hearty in the intereft of Mr. Fox *, who have hitherto, by the most · illiberal threats, and every fpecies of undue influence, been diTuaded from voting for The Committee, engaged to conduct the Election of the above worthy Candidate, beg leave to fubmit to all fuch friends as have not yet appeared in § his favour, whether in confequence of the many bafe and illegal means practifed by § his opponents to force a member upon the real inhabitants, contrary to their avowed inclination, the time is not come, in which it is abfolutely neceffary for all well-wishers to their country to determine to facrifice every private confideration to public principle, boldly, as men and as Englishmen, to affert their own independent opinions, and to ftand forth in defence of that most valuable of all privileges---the freedom of election." SELECT COMMITTEE. Ireland's, Bow-ftreet; April 19, 1784 The following fhort fpecimen of the boafted rectitude of conduct of the fupporters of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, is fubmitted to the public. The Select Committee have given their reafons for having, upon legal advice, taken from the lift which they. had fent to prefs, the whole of the fpecimens of bad votes. merely as lodgers, polled for the Court Candidates, the inftances of which, though referved for the Scrutiny, the Select Committee pledge themselves to prove to be infinitely more numerous than they had related them in their advertisement. April 6, 1784.] John Lewis, living in a house belonging to the King's Mews, and for which he pays no taxes, certifies, that he has polled at this Election for Hood and Wray, and that he has reafon to believe that most of the perfons belonging to his Majesty's Mews have done the fame. William Broughton, JOHN LEWIS, King's Mews.. John Taylor, have polled as Housekeepers in Westminster for Hood and Wray ;--their votes are illegal, as they receive a bounty called, The Woolftaple Charity in Westminster. of 51. 6s.. per ann. paid to them by Mr. Zouch, Deputy Receiver of his Majefty's Quit-rents for Westminster, London, &c. No. 15, Duke's-court, St. Martin's-lane. James Schrainer, No. 69, Strutton-ground, Westminster, certifies, that he went up to poll on Saturday the 17th of April, and stated himself his doubts. upon the validity of his vote, when he was affured by the Inspectors and other officers, at the Books, that his vote was perfectly good; but when he came to be asked who he polled for, having answered, for Mr. Fox,--he was inftantly and abusively rejected by the fame perfons. JAMES SCHRAINER. § Their. John John Stenfon, at the White Horfe, Clare Market, certifies, That though he could not enter into his house before the 8th day of April, yet he pays the taxes from Midfummer laft; that he proceeded to poll on Saturday for Mr. Fox, but was rejected; at the fame time he certifies that John Grigg, a Chandler, in Pullen-ftreet, entered his houfe within a day or two of the fame time, and paying no taxes before that time, yet he was fuffered to poll for Hood and Wray. JOHN STENSON. Mr. Martin has polled for Hood and Wray, for the King's Arms, Poland-street, which he left at Christmas laft, and which has been fhut up ever fince. Mr. Stapleton, Cook, Chandos-ftreet, though he quitted his houfe fome months fince, has now polled for Hood and Wray; certified by three gentlemen, who have left their names with Mr. Jarvis, No. 283, Strand. N. B. These fpecimens to be continued occafionally during the Poll. By order of the Committee, R. MORRELL, Sec. A true Character of one of Judas's Committee. A well known gentleman living in the environs of the Broadway, Westminster, à pretender to the Holy Cloth, was employed as an acting perfon in Sir Cecil's Com Inittee, but having the ftomach of a Dyer, he preferred his gut before he did the caufe in hand. But a report being made to his mafter, the Small Beer K----t, he was dif miffed from his office, and in order to gain favour, has fince taken up the honourable profeffion of Thief-taker. Judge me, Gentlemen, if this is not a true friend to the cause. AN ELECTOR. PROCLAMATION, By His High Mightiness, the Moft Puiffant Potentate, JOHN CHURCHILL, Prince of the United Parishes of St. John's and St. Margaret's, Westminster, Whereas it has been reprefented to us, that divers of our fubjects and vaffals, Electors of the city of Weftminster, refiding in thefe our dominions, the united parishes of St. John's and St. Margaret's, have neglected to comply with the orders, iffued in our former proclamation, bearing date the 1ft of April, 1784, to give their votes in favour of our well-beloved Candidates, Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray;--we do hereby ftrictly enjoin and command all fuch perfons, under pain of our high difpleasure, to repair forthwith to the Huftings, in Covent Garden, there to poll for the above mentioned Candidates. And whereas it has been further reprefented to us, that a refractory and rebellious Spirit has, during the prefent Election, manifefted itself within thefe our dominions, infomuch that fundry perfons have prefumed, in contradiction to our exprefs commands, to vote for the Right Hon. C. J. Fox, our open and declared enemy, who, upon a former occafion, contemptuously rejected our alliance, when we graciously were pleated to offer ourself to be his Colleague, as Reprefentative for this city in Parliament; we do do hereby declare, that every perfon fo offending, thall, upon conviction thereof, be debarred from all benefit of our profeffional aid, in cafe of ficknefs, and that we will not, upon any terms whatfoever, purge, bleed, vomit, blifter, glifter, potion, lotion, cup, fcarify, or adminifter any medical affiftance whatever, to any person who fhall appear to have been guilty of the above-mentioned high crime and mifdemeanor, in contempt of our authority, and in open defiance of our declared will and pleasure. By command of his High Mightinefs, Given at our Shop in Parliament-ftreet, this 20th day of April, 1784. BENJAMIN BOLUS. Ireland's, Bow-ftreet, April 21st, 1784. SELECT COMMIT TE E. The Select Committee congratulate the friends of freedom on the decifive event of yefterday's Poll, as affording complete demonftration, as well of the exhausted state to which the caufe of the Court Candidates is reduced, as of the increafing spirit of the friends to the real dignity and independence of the city of Westminster. They take the liberty, at the fame time, of foliciting the moft ftrenuous continuance of the exertions of Mr. Fox's friends, which it is now evident must be finally crowned with deferved fuccefs. With regard to the various fcurrilous advertisements which iffue daily from Wood's Hotel, this Committee will take no further notice of them than to join most cordially in that part of one of them, which calls (however burlefque it may appear from fuch a quarter) on the Electors of Westminster," to facrifice every private con"fideration to public principle, and to come forth boldly as men and Englifhmen to "affert their own independent opinions." And for the coarfe abufe and vulgar invectives which appear in certain manifeftos, figned John Churchill, the Select Committee are only forry to fee the friends of the Court Candidates fo very angry at this period of the Poll, as they will probably stand in need of fome portion of temper at the close of it. With this caution they leave the Committee at Wood's at full liberty to rave about bribes and bludgeons, perjuries and butchers, lodgers and wounds, weavers and cleavers, and according to their own difcretion to decorate their advertisements, with all that Election quackery fuggefts in defperate cafes. By order of the Committee, R. MORRELL, Sec. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. Shakespeare Tavern, April 21, 1784. On account of the many falfe reports propagated by Mr. Fox's opponents, that the Poll will finally clofe this day or to-morrow, the Committee for conducting Mr. Fox's Election, to undeceive the Electors of Weftminster, think it neceffary to inform them, that near two thoufand voters are now unpolled; and that fo long as of that number there shall remain fufficient to counterbalance Sir Ceceil Wray's inconfiderable apparent majority, the Poll will certainly be kept open, to enable the independent Electors to affert their own rights and privileges, by giving their fuffrages for that tried friend to the caufe of the people. By order of the Committee, J. R. COCKER, Secretary. IRELAND's, Bow-street, April 21, 1784. SELECT COMMITTEE. SUBORNATION OF PERJURY. Among the many bafe and contemptible arts practised by the opponents of Mr. Fox, and detected by this Committee, it is not without concern they inform the public, that a new inftance of the miferable depravity of the Court party, and one of the very blackest dye, is now come well authenticated to their hands. Two unfortunate wretches have confeffed that they have actually received a fum of money to fwear that they were bribed to poll for Mr. Fox! The friends to juftice may reft affured, that proper legal fteps are now taking to bring the matter home to the unprincipled managers in this dark and deteftable tranfaction, who, in the eye of reafon, are undoubtedly more guilty than their deluded inftruments, who have now a proper fenfe of the iniquitous fnare they were drawn into. By order of the Committee, R. MORRELL, Secretary. Truth, Decency, and Common Sense, violated! * Whereas a most foolish, falfe, and flimfy fallacy has been this day attempted to be impofed upon the public, by the advertisement of a reward for apprehending certain perfons concerned in a riot which never happened, under the fignature of a Secretary, who, in all probability, never existed: this is to caution all perfons from wafting their time. in the idle purfuit of endeavouring to obtain the faid reward, as the authors of this weak device were most affuredly well fatisfied of the impoffibility of their being called upon for the payment of the twenty pounds in queftion, before they thought proper to offer it under the fignature of J. P. ATKINSON, Secretary to the Scrub Committee for conducting the Election of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray. ORDER OF THE At a Grand Chapter of the Order held this evening, April 21st, The GRAND MASTER in the Chair, Refolved unanimously, "That it having been induftrioufly circulated by the friends of the Court Candidate, "that the public declaration of this Order in fupport of the Right Honourable Charles "James Fox, was a forgery of that gentleman's, Committee, and that the Order of "the Star were friends to Sir Cecil Wray, it becomes abfolutely neceffary for this "Order to declare, that they are determined to fupport the Right Honourable Charles James Fox with all their influence, That a great part of the members of this Order, *See page 107 of Hood and Wray's advertisements, for the advertisement of which this is a parody. B b "who "who are Electors of Westminster, have already polled for Mr. Fox. That fome of "their members have come from the continent for that exprefs purpose. And that "they have no doubt of the Electors of Westminster obtaining a complete triumph over "Secret Influence and Court Candidates." Refolved unanimously, "That the thanks of this Order be given to the Right Honourable Lord George "Gordon, for his patriotic and manly conduct in not only polling for Mr. Fox, but "having convaffed for him; and that the Secretary be ordered to request his Lordship "to continue his exertions, and they have no doubt of their meeting the defired fuccefs; which will redound to the lasting honour of thofe glorious fupporters of confti"tutional principles, who have diftinguished themfelves in the fupport of the Cham"pion of the rights of Englishmen, and in oppofition to the corrupt influence of the "Crown." Refolved unanimously, "That the Secretary be ordered to fign these Resolutions in behalf of the Order." CHARLES WILLIAM SMITH, Secretary. Wednesday evening, April 21, 1784. A most wanton and unmatched Outrage has been perpetrated by a Brute, in the Shape of a Conftable, this Day, at the Clofe of the Poll at Covent Garden. A youth of Weftininfter School ftanding upon the Huftings, and crying out Fox for ever! was knocked down by the aforefaid conftable, and feverely cut. The constable was immediately taken into cuftody, but to fecure him from that rage which his own barbarity provoked in the populace, he was given up in charge to the high conftable, who engaged that he fhould be forthcoming for profecution. The object of this hand-bill is to requeft, that those who were witnesses of this base unmanly act, will fend their names to Mr. Claridge, Attorney at Law, in Cravenftreet, for the purpose of bringing this wretch to immediate justice. Four o'clock Thursday evening, 22 April, 1784. Shakespeare, Covent Garden, April 24, 1784. Meeting of the Independent Electors of Westminster, in the Interest of Mr. Fox. The Committee for conducting Mr. Fox's Election have learned with great concern that many Gentlemen were yesterday difappointed at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, owing to the very numerous attendance of Mr. Fox's friends, in not finding places, although dinner was provided for more than four hundred perfons. They lofe no time in acquainting the independent Electors in Mr. Fox's intereft, that another meeting will be given notice of as foon as a proper place can be fixed on, where it is hoped the whole company affembled may be conveniently accommodated. WEST |