"friend Charles but character and property, and Sir Cecil would ftand no chance "with him." An ironical ftroke, that cannot easily be parried. Nothing could do more violence to us who are partial to beauty and modifh levity, than the infulting language, and indeed outrageous indecencies, on Tuesday offered to fome ladies on their canvass, Without calling their exertions either meritorious, or neretricious, their fex fhould at leaft entitle them to an escape from all perfonal infult k A gentleman just arrived from the country, meeting a friend in Covent-garden, athed him how the poll ftood, and whether a certain Candidate had any hopes of fuccais? To which the other anfwered, in the words of Dryden, "As much as when Phyficians shake their heads; "And bid their dying patients think of Heaven." A greater number of perfons have already polled for Westminster than was ever known at any former conteft. Is that city increafed, or are the bidders multiplied? Is perjury lefs dreaded, or are the temptations irrefiftable by flesh and blood? The falfity of Mr. Fox's Committee in their affertion, that there were 200 bad votes on Lord Hood's Poll, is too obvious to impofe on any but an idiot. If there were 20 bad votes known to be fuch, can it be doubted but for the purposes of an Election they would have been named---time when, and place where? &c. &c. As an additional infult on the freedom of Election, there have been, with the undue influence of canvaffing Counteffes and Ducheffes, all the upper fervants of their families hurried into empty houfes, and in this indefenfible manner made housekeepers of the hour, have been brought forward in an illegal manner, to obftruct and overbear the free judgment and fair opinions of the qualified Electors. We have authority to fay, that the late unjustifiable exertions of the electioneering ladies are extremely offenfive to their respective Lords. They feel how much their fortunes fuffer, and how much more these equivocal attachments are injurious to their fame! The Dukes of and have behaved with very becoming fpirit on the prefent conteft. Yesterday they fent for a tradefman, whom they found had, at their Ducheffes fuggeftion, taken an active part on the canvass; and after reprimanding him very feverely, difcharged him from ferving their respective Houses. Yesterday a confultation was held on the fubfcription to the "Man of the People," when it was agreed that he should put in his pocket as much as he could, and that therefore credit should be got to the extremeft inch of poffibility! This, we hope, will be a hint to the credulous. It is an abfolute fact, that if a perfon on going up to the Shakespeare, can fhew a piece of a fhirt only, the Committee declares him duly qualified. This day the elegant inhabitants of Borough-clink, Rag fair, Chick-lane, &c. go up with an address to Mr. Fox, at his ready-furnished lodgings, thanking him for his interest in the late extraordinary circulation of handkerchiefs. A gentleman feeing the Duchefs of De, and a few other free and easy females of fashion, canvaffing for CARLO, who is well known not to be the MAN of the Women, however he may be the Man of the People, obferved, that their conduct was "Love's Laft Shift, or, The Knave in fafhion. Should a fcrutiny take place on the prefent Election for Weftminfter, it is fhrewdly fufpected from the amazing number of Cordwainers who have polled for the Coalition Candidates, that by far the greater part of them will be found to inhabit houses of one story, commonly called Cobler's-ftalls. His Grace of D----e has hurried his Cara Spofa into the country, where it is thought fhe will undergo a pretty fevere fcrutiny. The Duc de Chartres declared lately to his Grace of Queensberry, that he preferred the fport he enjoyed in the Covent Garden Fox bunt, to all the other hunts either in France or Britain. A new political farce is in rehearsal at Devonshire-honfe, called the Borough Beggars, the principal characters by Lord John Cavendish, Lord Lucan, Mr. Erfkine, &c. Mr. Fox intends to speak the Epilogue, riding from Burlington-house on an afs. A gentleman yesterday obferving Mr. Prater, the linen-draper very busy in bringing up Fox's refpectable Electors to the Huitings, remarked, that he wondered any linendraper could promote the intereft of a man, whofe partizans could not produce three whole fhirts among the twenty voters then prefent. To which another replied, that his motives were the more interested, as he no doubt expected to furnish all Fox's Egyptians in linen, who were no better than Falstaff's ragged regiment. Yesterday the notorious Lady G--v-r carried in her coach, a marble polisher of the parish of St. Pancras, a tout butcher's 'prentice of Carnaby-market, and a journeyman lamp-lighter of Tyler's-court, to poll for Mr. Fox. The amusement of pumping is continued every day in Covent Garden on the friends of the Coalition Candidate, many of whom are modeft enough to poll five or fix times each. It will be sometime before the canvaffing Duchefs can poffibly appear at Court, as it will be neceffary for her to undergo a course of bathing, in order to cleanse her from the effluvia of mutton-fat, foot, and charcoal. The idea of Mr. Pitt's raifing the price of porter to four-pence a-pot is ridiculous to the last degree, that article having been already raised in many places to five guineas apot, by a celebrated female canvaffer. Yesterday fe'nnight a poet who had gone to have his lyre unftringed at one of the delightful haunts in Hedge-lane, feeing the Duchefs of D-----re fpringing out of the fame before eight in the morning, could not help invoking his mufe. At fo early an hour, however, the mufe was inexorable. He therefore pulled Pope out of his pocket; and thus began-- "Round her fair brow, a spanking tail she wore, "Oft the rejects, but never once offends." Yesterday Lord John Cavendish being just returned from York, where he has loft his feat, appeared on the Huftings in Covent Garden, admonifhing his friend to take warning by his fad example, to turn from his evil ways, and not wickedly keep open a poll, contrary to the fenfe of the real Electors; but Carlo, with all that violence which the late Lord Holland (good man!) used to fay would one time or other be fatal to his darling boy, rejected with difdain the fage advice, and fwore the books fhould not be closed while a fingle man could be picked up from Marybone to Whitechapel, in fupport of his popular caufe. The The following is part of Sir Cecil Wray's fpeech to the Electors cf Weftminster: "I have no private intereft or ambition to gratify; the King has not a place in his gift, which I would accept; I never have accepted nor ever will accept of any office "or emolument whatever. I will either be the independent reprefentative of independent "Electors, or I will not fit in Parliament." Such is the language of Sir Cecil. Can Mr. Fox, with truth, make a fimilar declaration? It is neceflary to acquaint the public, that the agents of a certain party, which has long been aiming, either by violence or corruption, to fubvert or undermine, all that remains of independence and integrity in this kingdom, have neither by threats or promises fucceeded in their attempts to proflitute the property of The Morning Poft to their purpofe. Alarmed at the increafing demand which has lately been made for the Morning Post, inconfequenc of its fpirited and truly confiitutional principles, they have infidiously endeavoured to counteract its usual circulation; and have even had recourfe to the pitiful practice of employing hireling wretches to fitcal the paper from several Coffee-houses in London and Weftminster, relying on fuch means to prevent the dark and defperate manœuvres of the Coalition being expofed to the world. It is hoped that the fpirit of the people will revolt at these unfair attacks on the freedom of the prefs, and that those who chufe to honour The Morning Pofi with their preference will henceforward take care not to be impofed upon by the fubftitution of any other paper, as well as to guard against similar practices in future. "In the time of Antichrift, a Fox fhall make his den in the fame place where King Alexander did make his gates, and he fhall dig in the earth fo long till he pierce it through, and come among the Jews; and when they fee the Fox, they fhall have great marvel of him, for they never faw fuch a beaft; but other beafts they have among them many. And they fhall chace this Fox, and purfue him until he be fled again "into the hole he came from, and then fhall they dig after him, until they come to "the gates that Alexander did make of great ftones, well laid with mortar; then shall แ they break these gates, and find the way forth." Mandeville's Travels, Chap. 84. It is no great wonder that the friends of a certain Candidate in Westminster are fo witty, as most of them have been used to the attic ftory. A Candidate should canvass in à high phaeton, as it is more probable he will meet his friends in the garret than in the cellar. The beautiful and accomplished Ladies We are among the Ladies who interest themselves for the Black Protector. They lately gave a treat to above 150 of the mob, and prefided themfelves at the entertainment. Mrs. E----'s child lies between Lord C---- and the P--- of W----. The Lady infifts upon it, that it is the Prince's; but the latter denies it on account of its complexion, which greatly resembles that of Carlo Khan. *We give this long paragraph (copied verbatim from the Morning Poft) to our readers, as the most remarkable piece of Editorship impudence, as well as folly, that perhaps has ever occurred in the annals of newspaper management. Were all the PUFFS of that noted puffing impofter, Katterfelto, felected, and climax after climax picked out of the aggregate for the purpose of forming ONE great and tremendous Puff, that should almoft blow truth to the Devil, we are decidedly of opinion, fuch an exaggerated Puff would hardly equal, much lefs exceed the LIE here told, which, for curiofity's fake, we preferve in our collection, as the most laughable piece of affurance we ever met with in a newspaper. + Here ends the Puff. Now, good Mr. Editor, are you not a little out of breath? Has not this exceffive exertion of your lying faculty rather verftrained you?-Pray ponder well, and examine yourfelf. We are rather doubtful that this very grofs lie must have overftretched the finer ramifications of your brain in its workings, and probably injured the texture of those beautiful ferpentine windings that are fo often fet a calculating, schemes for the country's good, and the overthrow of this damned Coalition. Do, dear Mr. Editor, be careful you will certainly burst!-Then, alas what must poor Mr. Pitt do? ourself, or Carlo's Carlo's black troops relieve guard regularly every morning. A certain number of houses are taken in Weftminster, and the leafe made over once in twenty-four hours, just after the tenant has done his duty at the Huftings. Thursday, at the poll for Weftminster, it was remarked that the light troops were polling. It is very true (obferved a gentleman) and the fky-light troops too." Yesterday three friends to the Man of the People, were taken into the cuftody, for toe great earneftness to ferve their patron, by offering to vote without a legal qualification. The metropolis is no longer to be looked up to as the great exemplar of political con duct to the rest of their fellow-countrymen. The free and honeft yeomanry of York did not hesitate to brand the vice and idiotifm of the times---where then, ye Westminster Electors, where are your appofite emotions of fcorn and execration? The prefent conteft is not between Wray and Fox, but between the Conftitution and its natural ene¬ mies-between private character and infamy-between public credit and national bankruptcy-between England and France-between God and Belial! Halt not then between two opinions-chufe ye this day-Wray, Pitt, and truth for ever! It appears to many people rather extraordinary that the Duc de Chartres and other affluent foreigners fhould at this time, above all others, have taken up their abode in London. It was pretty currently given out, for thefe two days paft, that Lord Hood was dead. What end fuch a report could ferve, even for electioneering purposes, we are not quick fighted enough to difcern; but we are happy to have it in our power to fay, that it is to tally without foundation. Moft people think Mr. Fox's late fudden rife on the Poll a very extraordinary circumstance; and a correspondent, who is not very apt to put the worst conftruction on things, cannot help expreffing his own doubts, along with thofe of others, that every thing is not altogether as it ought. If, however, any have been fo weak or fo profi gate hitherto, as to be induced, either through threats or promises, to act an improper part, it is to be hoped, now, fuch criminal practices will go no further, and that all others who may happen to be tampered with, will take proper warning. Independent of the enormity and guilt of taking a falfe oath, every one must fee the legal hazards he runs from the refolution publifhed by the oppofite party, of demanding and fupporting the most rigorous scrutiny. Yesterday morning Mr. Fox canvaffed St. Martin's Le Grand, for near two hours, at tended by a great crowd of people. He has been for fome days afflicted with a bilious complaint. "I'll lay you five guineas," fays a celebrated canvaffer, and stake the money in your own hands, that you will not vote for Mr. Fox." "Done," fays the Independent Elector of Westminster. Thus one more vote is procured for the Man of the People, and the Independent Elector boafts of winning his wager. Lord Holland's death will kick Mr. Fox up ftairs, as the late Lord Chesterfield'exprefs'd it, and by giving him a feat in the Houfe of Peers, fave the city of Weftminster from the toil and turbulence of the Scrutiny threatened by the clubs. The prefent ftruggle for Westminster is rather for example fake, than for any other purpose, to fhew their fenfe of public credit and public virtue, Lady Grofvenor, Lady Dornhoff, Lady Cr-, just come from Paris, and Lady Worfley, are among the canvaffers who have the modesty to attempt to dictate to the honeft tradesman and independent artizan. The Duke of Devonshire, who is certainly, though a filent yet a very fenfible man, foretold the events of the prefent Election as they have happened, and urged Mr. Fox to accept of Knaresborough or Derby. The fudden inflation of Charles Fox's Poll, is the worst of all bad fymptoms to his cause the morbid blush of an expiring hectic-the taper blazing before its final closethe phrenzy of desperation. The game now played against Sir Cecil Wray, is afcertained to be on the following principle of jockeyfhip. The clubs are all jockeys, to make a fictitious mufter on the Poll; outnumbering the real voters of Weftminfter; and to frighten Sir Cecil from his determined purpose of a Scrutiny. There can be no doubt but there must be no fmall number of bad vofes on both fides; but Mr. Fox has moft, as near as can be in the proportion of feven to four. Yesterday two more executions were served in the house of Lord having been security for his friend, the fon of " Unaccounted Millions!!" ; his Lordship The support of Mr. Fox, from drabs and ducheffes, fwindlers, uncertificated bankrupts, and foreigners, is exactly that which alone could be expected, and which would have been exhibited to any other hero, whose property and principles could have been equally depended on. The following words of the late Dr. Gregory are humbly recommended to a certain female canvaffing character." When a woman ceases to blufh, fhe has lost the most "powerful charm of beauty. I like to fee an eafy dignity in a woman, in public "places; but not that confident ease, that unabashed countenance, which feems to fet "people at defiance! Wit is the most dangerous talent fhe can poffefs; it must "be guarded with great difcretion and goodnature, otherwise it will create many "enemies." No less than one hundred unwashed, unshaven, and fhirtless rogues, (alias journeymen Spitalfields weavers) tendered their votes for Mr. Fox on Friday and Saturday laft, but, owing to the excellent precaution of having the parish books at the Huftings, they were rejected. This accounts for the majority which Mr. Fox acquired on two days poll. The plan being now defeated, we may expect the Westminster Election will be declined in a few days. The only reason that can be affigned why the women of the town are fo much on the fide of popular members, is, that they are in the habit of obeying the wills of their conftituents. The late Man of the People has coft fome of the younglings of the party 100,000l. at least in counter fecurities, befides the Coalition. A great deal of nonfenfe has been induftriously circulated, concerning Sir Cecil W Vray's proposal relative to Chelsea Hofpital, as if he had made a propofal at once unjuft and inhuman. Sir Cecil only propofed, for the public good, a commutation of cofily lodgings, and stated invariable fare, for an annual penfion to be enjoyed by the old foldier, how and with whom he pleafed; an option which would undoubtedly be agreeable to almoft all the inhabitants of Chelfea Hofpital. Sir Cecil's humanity in this inftance is perhaps not lefs confpicuous than in his generous motion in the House of Commons, respecting the defects of prisons, and the fufferings of prisoners. There |