« ftrongly called to that Parliamentary Reform, which alone can preferve this country "from, deftruction. The city of London has fet a noble example, worthy of imitation "by the whole kingdom. The principle is liberal, conftitutional, and juft. It is my "purpose therefore to call upon your Candidates to exprefs their affent to the following "declaration :

"I do declare upon my honour, that upon a fair fignification of the wifhes of a ma"jority of my conftituents, I will either act in conformity to their inftructions, or embrace the first opportunity of vacating my feat."

Dr. Jebb then proceeded to express his abhorrence of that coalition which had effected fo much evil to the country; and pointed out, by variety of arguments, the neceffity of marking it with peculiar cenfure. He declared, that if after fuch defection, men found they could regain the fupport and good opinion of the people, others would be encouraged to trifle with the moft folemn engagements, and at firft delude with falfe fhews of patriotifm, and afterwards at their pleasure infult the honeft feelings of their countrymen. He then entered fully into the character and conduct of Sir Cecil Wray, whom he warmly recommended to the citizens of Westminster as a truly honeft man; that his parliamentary conduct had always been fteady and confiftent; that he had ever been fedulously attentive to his duty; that he was the friend of parliamentary reform from principle, and that as he acted from principles of the pureft kind, he trusted he would ever ferve them with fidelity and zeal. With full perfuafion, therefore, of his virtues, he with confidence nominated Sir Cecil Wray as a proper perfon to reprefent the City and Liberties of Westminster in Parliament. He was warmly feconded by Mr. Vardy. Sir Cecil, in his fpeech, acquiefced in the preceding declaration.

The names of the Candidates being then feverally put up, the majority of hands was declared to be in favour of Sir Cecil Wray and Lord Hood. A poll, however, being demanded by the friends of Mr. Fox, the books were opened, and it began at one o'clock, and closed at three, when the numbers ftood,

For Mr. Fox,
Lord Hood,

Sir Cecil Wray,

302 264 238

Several Ladies of a certain rank in Weftminster, are exerting very extraordinary intereft for their friends.---Let who will rail against fecret influence, and back ftairs, there will always be fome influence, and certain ftairs, which honeft men do not fcruple to mount on certain occafions.

QUERIES and REPLIES.

What is the meaning of the phrafe, Modern Patriot ?---A man who, under pretence of rendering fervices to his country, is aiming at the acquifition of power to gratify his private ambition or avarice.

What is the meaning of the phrafe, Political Confiflency?-Acting directly in contradiction to ftrong profeffions and promises; fpeaking one thing to-day, and contradicting it

to-morrow.

What is the meaning of the phrafe, Secret Influence ?-A political bugbear, used by fome to alarm others; as nurfes frighten children, by crying, raw head and bloody

bones!

What is the Man of the People ?-A barking dog of the Fox breed.

What is a Lord Chancellor ?-Except one, the greatest man in Britain, if his name happens to be Thurlow.

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What is a Lord?—A Lord is a Temple, which the people decorate with laurels.

What is the Crime of Youth ?-To be eminently virtuous, and to poffefs the wisdom of age, with the ftrength and spirit of manhood; to refuse affociating with public plumderers, blacklegs, and fharpers.

The proper anfwer the public ought to give to thofe long winded orators on the Source of the Evil, Back-ftairs, &c. is the reply of Cleomenes, the Spartan General, to the Ambassador of Samos, viz. "As to what you have faid, the first part I do not re"member; the middle I do not understand; and the laft I do not approve."

The public are refpectfully informed, that in cafe of a vacancy in Chelsea Hofpital, General Blackbeard intends offering himself as a Candidate; the dangerous. wounds he received in the battle of Leadenhall-ftreet, his lofs of popularity, honour, and confcience, he trufts, will be the best recommendations in his favour.

The learned divine at the Evangelical Cockpit obferves, that election muft imply that there is a re-probation. It is imagined, that the enfuing General Election will verify his affertion, and that the number of the reprobates will be confiderable.

The majority by which Carlo was admitted a Knight of the Brush, was of the fame respectability with that by which he carried his laft motion against the Minister. He was within one of being black-balled.

An eminent grocer being folicited by Mr. Fox to give him his vote, laconically replied, "We have tried your profeffions long enough already, and I'll be d--d if I' "give my confent to make any further experiments, either of your honour or "honesty."

How fanguine foever Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray may be of the fupport of the Chairmen of Committees, their friends the Chairmen at Brooks's are determined to fupport the cause of Cataline, and to poll for him in Covent Garden in the fame fpirited manner they did in St. James-freet; and it is faid they have received their orders accordingly.

One cannot hesitate on which fide to declare from the very emblems of the two par-ties that now contend for Westminster. On one fide you fee a union flag displayed over the colours taken from France and Spain, and their true motto is, the Conftitution. On the other fide the pitiful device of No Tax on Maid Servants, and a wretched allufion to what was never faid refpecting Chelsea Hofpital, and their true motto, Coalition.

It is remarkable that two celebrated Ducheffes are no lefs opponents in politics than rivals in beauty. Their relative condition feems to be much the fame in both; the one is gradually declining, while the other is rifing to her meridian.

We are much pleased to find, that no-body fends to our paper paragraphs to counteract matters of fact. It is alfo a happy circumftance that no-body takes an active part in fupporting a faction against the united efforts of the King, the Lords, and the people.

Humphrey Cotes, Efq. fet up, a good many years ago, as a Candidate for the Reprefentation of Westminster on a very flight intereft. At the clofe of the Poll, while the other Candidates were fupported by thoufands, for Humphrey Cotes there appeared only eighty; on which Mr. Cotes faid, "I am furprised that I had fo many, I did not think there had been that number of honeft men in Westminster."

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St. James's parish have promifed at least fifteen hundred plumpers to Mr. Fox. St. Clement's, St. Martin's, St. Anne's, and St. Paul's, are faid to be at least five to one againít him; the others are divided with tolerable equality.

A Gentleman pathing through Covent Garden yesterday, obferved, that he had long prognofticated what Mr. F's violent and factious difpofition would bring him to in the end, yet he had not expected, three months ago, to fee him fo ioon upon a Scaffold.

It is expected that the prefent Election for Westminster will afford the warmest conteft, fince the time of Sir George Vandeput and Lord Trentham. Weftminster is faid to contain not less than forty thousand Electors, one half of whom are expected to poll on the prefent occafion.

We are informed that a huge foreigner goes about to the P. of Wales's tradefmen, with pretended orders for them to vote for a certain candidate, on pain of loting his R. H.'s cuftom. If he has no fuch orders, it fhould be difavowed; if he has them, his employers fhould be told feriously, that a menace is as unconftitutional as a bribe, and a violent infraction of the rights of the Electors, and of all the people; and is a mean, cowardly action.

Nothing but a Poll can ever afcertain the inclinations of the people of Westminster, as the place of meeting is open to all diftinctions of fociety; and accordingly Covent Garden was on Thuriday filled with chimney-fweepers, draymen, chairmen, pickpockets, whores, bullies, blackguards, barrow-women, &c. &c. without number. Such, we aver, compofed the majority of the Thursday's meeting.

The motives which actuate voters in difpofing of their votes, are rather curious. One gives his vote to a member, because he has known him many years: Another, because he knows nothing at all about him, and therefore fuppofes he may be honeft: Another, because he expects a favour from him: And another, becaufe a friend of his was once obliged to him. Thus, not once in one hundred times do we find a voter qualified by knowledge, or by integrity, to give his vote to the man who deferves it.

The Bub and Grub Committees have already been very fuccefsful. Hardly a rotten Sheep, or a bottle of bad wine, to be got in London, or its environs.

On Saturday a friend of Mr. Fox's, who had conftantly obeyed the fignal to buzza, given with a Fox's tail from the Huftings, was detected with his left hand in a gentleman's pocket, while he was waving his hat with the right. He was immediately configned to the proper officers to undergo the ufual difcipline, from which neither his numerous friends, nor the blue cockcade with his hero's name upon it, could protect him. Several feals were found about this rogue, and it is imagined, from the money in his pocket, that he had been bribed.

Among the many artifices ufed by Mr. Fox's friends to obtain votes, has been that of promifing different tradesmen to procure then his R. H.'s cuftom. Some have been feduced by these means; but they will find themselves the dupes of their own credulity.

We hear that Joseph Surface, Efq. who has long officiated as Jack Pudding to Carlo Khan, has lately fworn horribly, that if he loft his Election, he would refign that poft, and leave his friend Charles to eat fire, fpin ribbands, and play on his own falt box. Mr. F's great attention to the property of the Eaft India Company proves that he has no indifferent qualification for the place of an overfeer.

The punishment for bribery is fine and imprisonment, though frequently the pillory is fubftituted in lieu of one or both of them. Should a certain orator be convicted in confequence of the bill of indictment found against him, he may poffibly have an op

portunity

portunity of haranguing the mob at Bridgewater, and having his brows crowned with a wooden laurel.

After having been once mad, when the people again return to their fenfes, it is feldom they relapfe into their former folly. The leaders of the Coalition may flatter themselves with the hopes of a return of their popularity; but it is not to be expected that the public will be a fecond time duped by these pretenders to patriotifm and

virtue.

Mr. Fox is certain of at least five votes in the parish of St. James's. However his Majefty may be affected towards him, his interest is strong in King's Place. The Ladies from that feminary appeared at the Opera-houfe on Saturday, decorated with Fox's tails, and feemed determined to fupport, with all their influence, whether open or fecret, their favourite Candidate. Hence an argument for the truth of an old adage, which the reader's recollection will render it needless to repeat.

Not long fince a Gentleman, who was thought to be a well-wifher to the present Miniftry, happened, in a mixed company, to affert, that of all men in this country, Mr. Fox was the most proper for a Prime Minifter. How, faid one present, is that your opinion? Yes, faid the other, it is allowed on all fides, that these are desperate times, and by H--- ns, he is the most determined v------ I ever knew.

Lord North loft his election at Banbury, by a fingle vote, which was given by the Mayor against his Lordship. When this defeat was first reported yesterday to Mr. Fox, on the Huftings, he offered a bet of five to one, it was not true; but a friend, more in the fecret than Mr. Fox, advised him to make no bet on the subject, as it was an undoubted fact*.

Nothing has more maimed a certain mifcreant on his canvafs, than the filly zeal of fome of his adherents---ignorant as unprincipled, they miftook time and place, and treated the independent and substantial tradesmen of Covent Garden parish, like the groveling vaffals of Tavistock!

Chelfea Hofpital.- -Sir Cecil Wray wishes to provide for the old foldier---Charles Fox wifhes to provide for a number of foreign footmen and other drones in Chelsea Hospital. Thus Mr. Fox's friend, Rigby's man, one Petonet, à Frenchman, has a fuite of rooms, that ought to hold a dozen old foldiers, at 100l. a year falary and other perquifites, which according to Sir Cecil's plan would feed and clothe fix or eight of our decrepit warriors---Mr. Fox's friend, Rigby, has alfo a brother-in-law, who poffeffes the deputy government, a useless finecure, with emoluments and apartments, that, if Sir Cecil's plan (as every good man must wish) was carried into execution, it would provide for half a regiment!!!!!!!!! &c. &c. &c. Bakers who never bake, wafherwomen who never wash. Look at the red book.

Nothing can equal the joy of the wife and good at Cambridge on the fuccefs of Mr. Pitt and Lord Eufton. It is fomething more than a personal affair---it is the triumph of parts and virtue, over their deplorable oppofites.

The conteft for the city and liberty of Westminster is likely to prove fo warm, that, in all probability, the Election will be fpun out to the laft poffible hour for returning the members; and after that, fhould Mr. Fox be one of the two, it is ftrongly reported, that a fcrutiny is refolved on. It is certain, that the majority of those who have hitherto polled for that Gentleman, had a moft fufpicious appearance. Their drapery, and other circumftances about, renders the validity of their votes extremely questionable. The mode that prevails fo much at prefent, of afperfing the characters, or otherwise mifrepresenting the conduct of competitors in Elections, is no less unmanly, than wicked * Poór Mr. Editor of the Morning Poft was obliged foon after to retract the above affertion, which appeared in his paper. He owned it a LIE, and begged pardon of the public for telling it.

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and difhonourable. The late attacks on Sir Cecil Wray and Mr. Atkinfon can only excite the indignation of men of liberal fentiments, inftead of anfwering the malignant views of their authors, or ferving the odious and difhoneft purposes for which they were made. Calumny muft ever give a bad title to recommendation. It is therefore, in good policy, as well as in common juftice, the laft expedient that a man of fenfe or honour ought to have recourfe to for procuring favour and none ought to trust thofe who think a crimination of others neceffary to give an advantage to themfelves. It is a fure fign that they cannot ftand on the bottom of their own merits. The spirit that fhewed ittelf in Covent Garden on Saturday proves the impotence of detraction in the one cafe; and it is to be hoped that Guildhall will exhibit a like laudable example in the other.

It must be a matter of indifference to Mr. Fox whether he is fuccefsful or not in his Election for Weitminster: for fhould the indictment against him at Taunton Affizes be established upon trial, the immediate confequence muit be an expulfion from Parlia

ment.

It is not true that the late watchmen of the people were difmiffed and fent home to their parishes for fleeping on their ftands: the fact is, that more than half of them were detected in the attempt of plundering that very property, which it was their duty to guard and defend.

The tradefinen at the weft end of the town fhew altered countenances on the events of the Elections, as they have hitherto turned out. Writs, very different from those of Election, are already preparing. In a word, Capias!!!

"Let 'em look to their bond" is now the exulting language of the fhopkeeper and money lender, on the near profpect of being able to arrest fome of the honourable fharpers, who, under prophaned protections, have fo long preyed upon the metropolis.. If the nation for their fins fhould ever be again vifited with an Administration formed out of the club at Brookes's, and that incapable villainy which blundered through the American war, Mr. Weltje, and two or three of the head waiters, are certainly to be brought into Parliament; and, perhaps, made Bank or India Directors.

Mr. Fox's property is really spoken of as next-to the Duke of Bedford's !!! Beautiful ladies, in all future Elections, it is thought, will be provided by all Candidates to affift them in feducing the Electors. Girls will be brought from Armenia, and the Grecian Iflands; Covent Garden, with its environs too, will fupply females for electioneering. In fhort, fince it has become fashionable to feize the voters by this handle, there is no faying what may not be done.

Can there be a greater proof of the freedom of Election being attempted to be destroyed by oppofition, than the threats which are daily making by young hopeful, the lately prolific Duchefs, &c. denouncing bankruptcy on all thofe honeft tradefmen who dare vote according to their judgment.

Mr. Fox, one day last week, on attempting to speak to his little audience at Covent Garden, found them rather vociferous and turbulent; on which he obferved, that he did not think "he fhould ever be able to make them hear him again." Why, I fear not, faid a gentleman that ftood by; if you want your fpeeches to be heard, you must make them of a very different kind from what you have hitherto done; and you must now and then endeavour to substitute actions for words. My Lord Hood, added the Gentleman, is, you fee, very well attended to; but then, you muft obferve, he has been on actual duty, and his works Speak for him*.

*Neither Lord Hood or Sir Cecil Wray ever addreffed the Electors on the out or infide of the Huflings during the whole Election. The ceremony they performed each day after the Poll finished was to come in front of the ftage, and join hands in dumb thew-bowing to the populace, and exhibiting the pantomime painted on many fign pofts, known by the name of "The Salutation." Mr. FOX spoke every day for fome time together. The

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