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appointed; the party of Mr. Fox begin the riot, in the affray a conftable is killed in the discharge of his duty, by a ftroke of a bludgeon from Mr. Fox's party. What is now his attempt? To charge the innocent with the murder, to prove that the justice who wished to prevent was the cause of the riot, and author of the affaffination? Hear this, ye impartial, if the brains of the populace in Westminster are too much addled by his liquor or his fophiftry:

Let the people at large liften to thefe facts, and approve if they can of the great confounder of right and wrong, and wish to lend their affiftance to such a man to be the Lord or Protector of England.---Monftrum avitiis nulla virtute redemptum.

Charles Fox is returned as Member of Parliament for a district of burghs in the Orkneys, and Mr. Sinclair is turned out of Caithness, the Ultima Thule of the ancients, and finds fhelter in Leftwithiel, in Cornwall. This is a fine jumble, and fhews how much the interests and connections of the gentlemen of England and Scotland are blended with one another. This is a ftriking proof of a national coalition.

Nicholas Caffon, who was killed laft Monday in Covent Garden, was for many years one of thofe perfons called crimps, whofe bufinefs it is to procure foldiers for the EaftIndies, in which employment he had amaffed enough to retire upon.

Great preparations are making to ufher Mr. Fox to the Huftings on Monday next, with all the pomp of a victorious General, crowned with well earned laurels in his country's fervice. Among the many emblems of pageantry and fhew, an elegant filk flag, highly ornamented with the WEAVERS ARMS, richly worked in variegated colours, an infcription in large letters of gold and filver, ftating in what memorable year, and under whofe aufpices the FREEDOM of ELECTION for Westminster was extended to Spitalfields, will precede the Man of the People, borne by Sir Jeffery Dunstan and Sam Houfe; Mr. Fox's household band (the marrow-bones and cleavers) playing that much-admired air, "See the conquering Hero comes." The colours are to be confecrated at the head of the troops, and in front of the Huftings, by Lieutenant General B- and the Colonels F. and N, in the abfence of the three illustrious Field Marshals, who were unfortunately taken prifoners of war on Monday laft, and who have not yet been exchanged, no officers of equal rank having fallen into the hands of the enemy.

While her Grace was fqueezing and fingering the butchers, Capt. M-s was amufing their female connections with his great parts, at every ale-house and gin-fhop in Westminster; and it is actually faid, that his own coachman ftepping accidentally into a courtezan's ball, at the Cock in Petty France, found the whole company dreffed in Fox's cockades, and his master finging and drinking with forty half-naked whores and rogues. of the lowest description-quantum mutatur ab illo !

As those who have heard that famous Coalition fong, and knew the former fentiments and opinions of the apoftate partizan, to whom the afpiring Cataline is indebted for his Election fuccefs, the following fhort account of the Captain's converfion may not be unamufing to those who are aftonished at his change of conduct :-When that infamous junction of Fox and North took place, Capt. M- s, to whose wit and poetical talents we must with all the world give acknowledged praife, compofed a fong. called The Coalition, which we may venture to fay was the best ever written on any fubject to this fong, replete with the jufteft fatire and fineft point, which the Captain fung at all his clubs, and in various companies he frequented in this metropolis, was owing the univerfal odium and reprobation in which that curfed and abandoned union was held; the party faw the extenfive influence his wit and convivial humour had in fociety, and made many direct overtures to filence him; but the Captain being an independent man, and apparently warmed and animated in the bett of caufes, no progrefs

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could be made to get him over; however they were determined to have him, and finding that feftive pleafure was his foible, they contrived that conviviality fhould effect what direct application could not accomplish; with a conftant round of feafts, dinners, parties, debauches, &c. they at length won him over to the wretched caufe; and one day, after a great debauch at Colonel North's, his refolution gave way, and he was fworn in, upon his own terms, as an eternal friend of the caufe, with an abfolute injunction never to utter one fyllable of the Coalition Song The Captain the next day put on his new fuit of principles, and quietly fat down to write the Baby and Nurse, which, though we confefs it abounds with wit, is fuch a compound of falfehood, injuftice, and injurious reflection on the best of Kings and Minifters, that did we not know the Captain is one of those who can blow hot and cold, and equally ftrong on all fubjects, we fhould be amazed that one and the fame pen could be fo juft and fo profligate. At the final clofe of the poll at three o'clock yesterday at Covent Garden, the num

bers were,

For Lord Hood
Mr. Fox

Sir Cecil Wray

Majority for Mr. Fox

6694

6234

5998

236

After the numbers were declared, a requifition was delivered to the High Bailiff, as follows:

To Thomas Corbett, Efq. High Bailiff of the city and liberty of Westminster. "I Sir Cecil Wray, Bart. one of the Candidates to ferve in Parliament for the city "and liberty of Weitminster, and we the underwritten Electors of the faid city and li"berty, do hereby demand of you a fcrutiny of the votes taken at the prefent Elec"tion of two citizens to ferve in Parliament for the faid city and liberty, as witness "our hands this 17th day of May, 1784.

Mountmorres,

R. Butler,

J. Meyer,

D. Mackenzie,

James Croft,

Morris Marfault,

John Robertfon.

CECIL WRAY."

Bateman,
Francis Atkinson,
William Adams,

Peter Paul,

John Jackfon,
Rev. John Lloyd,

Lord Mahon and feveral other Members of Parliament have not figned it, because a petition will also be prefented to Parliament, we hear, if that mode of proceeding fhould be deemed more eligible, and those Gentlemen who have figned it, are prevented from being upon the Committee.

From the Huftings an adjournment was made to the Veftry, when after much altercation between the parties, the High Bailiff decided that no return fhould be made, and confented to the Scrutiny taking place as defired.

Mr. Fox was chaired, preceded by about 100 Gentlemen on horfeback, dreffed in blue and buff, a band of mufic, and the marrow-bones and cleavers, and followed by the Ducheffes of Devonshire and Portland in their carriages, who were attended by a number of Gentlemen on horfeback, and a great number of fervants *.

It having been obferved that the fignatures for demanding a Scrutiny on behalf of Sir Cecil Wray, were not so many as might have been expected on fuch an occafion,

How partial and mutilated an account is this of the proceffion, the refemblance of which was never seen in the memory of Westminster Electors, upon fuch an occafion; but pertinacity on the fide of the Court, and prejudice against The Man of the People, is the characteristic of the Editors of the two notorious papers, the Public Advertifer and Morning Poft.

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the fact ftands thus: for fome time paft every measure that was thought neceffary was taken by the friends of Sir Cecil Wray; a demand was provided, and figned by the Chairman of the Committee, and a very large body of refpectable Electors; and ́a feparate one was figned by Sir Cecil Wray; very near the final clofe of the Poll, a very able and learned Gentleman of the law gave it as his opinion, that it was highly improper to make feparate demands, but that a requifition or demand ought to be made jointly by Sir Cecil Wray and the Electors. In deference to fo great an authority, the former requifitions were not prefented, and that which has been already publifhed, was immediately prepared, and figned by fuch of the Electors as happened to be prefent.

It may be depended on, that a ball is to be given at Devonshire-houfe in celebration of Mr. Fox's triumph, obtained by means of love and the graces. Some new dances are to be introduced on the occafion, and the whole are to appear in blue and buff; tho' feveral perfons objected to the former. Young Veftris attends conftantly to perfect the ladies.

On better information, we do not find that Sam. Houfe is pofitively fixed on as her Grace's partner; it is rather expected to be the Prince.

As Mrs. Hobart and the Duchefs of Devonshire were walking in the Rotunda at Ranelagh on Friday, the latter arm in arm with the Prince of Wales, a wag obferved that the former, like most of her fex, had a little foft down upon her chin, but that all the Duchefs's hairs were hairs apparent.

The bag-wig which is preparing for Sam House against the enfuing ball, by order of the Duchefs of Devonshire, is to be completed in the highest ftile of elegance and perfection--the toupee is to be enormoufly large, frizzled, and decorated with feftoons of flowers the fide curls open and easy, free from all stiffness, which her Grace abominates, but at the fame time are to be properly elevated a-la mode de pigeon, in order to fhew his ears in the prefent perfection: then as to the hair behind, it is to be very long, very full, very bufhy, and a glorious brufh of the firft magnitude is to be annexed to it, in order to complete the fymmetry of Sam's appearance.

WESTMINSTER INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.

In a metropolis like ours, the head quarters of nonfenfe and profligate poverty, it is obvious that any adventurer of fufficient infamy may, from fympathy of manners alone, be fure of a large number of adherents; and he can fcarcely avoid a inajority, if he has audacity to go all lengths,---bribery, bawdry, and blood!!!!

A banditti of no less than five hundred men are hired to attend this day's, triumph of infamy. There are alfo to be triumphant the hundreds of Drury, and fome hundreds of infolvents and infurgents, fharpers, fwindlers, common gamblers, and common thieves, who have for thefe fix weeks paft been flaunting about the town, in the difguife of Gentlemen.

It is remarkable that many of the fame circumftances now ftrike the fhrewd obferver as were fo horribly fixed in his mind from the riots and fires of June 1780. There has been for fome time paft an unaccountable deal of foreign gold in circulation! The fame defperadoes who burnt Newgate, and attempted to break into the Bank! And above all, the active interference of that arch-mifereant whom nobody doubted the enemies of our King and Conftitution had hired to head the mob!!!! The inference is beware!!!

Confidering the awful figns of the times, and what incendiaries, infolvents, and infurgents, are now prefuming to take the lead in them, a double guard ougat initantly to be posted at the Bank!!!

-The return declar'd

While folly clapp'd her hands, and wisdom star'd!!!

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To morrow the Bailiffs, whofe hands have for fpecial reafon been tied during the Poll, are to go to work of courfe; the walking jockies, not in Parliament, with Fox's trophies in their heads, and nothing in their pockets, are to make their usual amende honourable, by taking a French leave of their English friends!

Let no fuch men be trufted!

"Fit to be Senators! they are not fit to live!" was the fpirited reply of an opulent tradesman in Westminster, on the effrontery of feveral honourable sharpers on a late

canvas.

The enormous mafs of undue influence exerted in favour of Charles Fox, could only be exceeded by the power of government, and that Mr. Pitt, extremely to his honour,. refused to put in action an atoin of.

Except for example fake, for the moral credit of our age, it can be conceived of no confequence whether fuch a man as Charles Fox was the Member for the mob of Westminster, or Mr. Commiffary Dundas's moblefs boroughs in the defarts of Scotland.

To the Westminster tradefmen unhappily employed by the great gamefters of the time, it is recommended not to mix in any crouds in the streets. The blow which murdered poor Caffon the conftable, might, if it had happened to have deviated a little, have killed a principal creditor, an annuitant of - - - - - - ! ! !

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A correfpondent would be glad of fuller light being thrown on the melancholy story of poor Hogg, one of Fox's martyrs, whom Lord B. removed by a habeas from Newgate to the King's Bench. And in his way from one vile durance to another, giving a vote for his cell in Newgate;

Vice mounts the Huftings, rears her scarlet head,

And fees pale Virtue carted in her stead.

--So faid the Electors of Westminster, on feeing their powers and privileges invaded by the cavalcade of yesterday! However let them not defpair, there will foon be judgment and reftitution. There are fuch objects awaiting thefe beggars on horseback, as fponging-houfes and the block.

The bad votes in one parifh alone, St. James or St. Martin, our correspondent knows not which, are as follow---33 for Sir Cecil Wray, 67 for Lord Hood, and for Charles Fox 244!

The triumph of Mr. Fox, will be but very fhort-lived. The Scrutiny certainly finks him again; and the enormous expence attending the Scrutiny will have this good effect, that it will be felt by three of the fillieft families in the kingdom as long as they live.

The providence of God which brings good out of evil, has ordained in this inftance, that aristocratic tyranny, the iniquitous tyranny of the few over the many, fhould thus be difabled, and their expenfive villainies in Westminster, maim them from doing any further mischief to the Constitution. Hence our salvation at York, Berkshire, Bucks, &c. &c.

A correfpondent fays, when the arch patriot was the laft in respect to numbers on the Poll, he promised his Conftituents that he would demand a Scrutiny, in order to protect their franchises; but on the clofe of the Poll this very immaculate character objects to his own propofals, and his friends enter their proteft. The public are left to draw their own conclufions.

Various

Various were the reafons affigned by the populace of different streets on feeing a certain Colonel lately running after Juftice Wilmot's coach. Poor man, faid one, an East India Commiffionership unfortunately flipped through his fingers fome weeks ago, and he has been upon the run in search of it again ever fince. A grave, medical looking by-ftander differed from the laft fpeaker; and though he afcribed the preternatural running to the fame caufe, the lofs of the Commiffionership, he contended that relaxation and the hot weather might produce upon the unfortunate patient that kind of madness peculiar to the canine fpecies, known to the French by the name of La Rage Courante, or the Running Madness, which rarely or never terminates but with death.

The political drama of Covent Garden, which, after harraffing the public patience fo long, exhibited the tragedy acted on the 10th of this month, was concluded on the 17th with a farce called THE PROCESSION. The equeftrian part of this fhow made no contemptible figure, if we only regard their drapery, which was a new uniform of buff and blue, the adopted livery of their triumphant hero. We cannot, however, fay much for their own perfonal appearance, which, in general, was fuch, as difcovered but little care from the hands of the Graces. The fcraggy pizzes of one half, and the pot-bellies of the other, made an unfeemly fort of contrait. As for the foot corps, the Taylor, as well as the Three Sifters, feemed to have entirely neglected them. Of the mufic, which preceded the cavalcade, little need be faid. It is fufficient only to mention, that it was as good as ever was performed on the tuneful inftruments of Butcher-row academy.

Let not the friends of decency and integrity be difcouraged at the numerous and brilliant appearance that attended the fhort-lived triumph of Mr. Fox. The Caufe in which that apoftate has embarked, as he himfelf obferves, is not private. Hundreds look up to him for protection and fupport; the mifapplication of his abilities first gave them confequence, and from his difcomfiture or fuccefs they must take the colour of their fate; from the elbow-fhaking Peer to the midnight-plying Chairman, the general cry is, Fox FOR EVER!.

In fome notorious inftances it appears, that your Whig, like your befom, will wear out! By the fame unhappy examples it appears, that the principles of families, like their property, may be brought to an end, by the folly and villainy of their defcendants. Who, in the ufual declenfion of vice to infamy, become firft poor through luxury, and afterwards profligate through poverty!!!

Let us hear no more of fuch infufferable cant, as the hereditary virtue of families, when we fee their prefent reprefentatives of no mark nor livelihood.

What can enoble fools, and flaves, and cowards?

Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards!

The Duke of Portland's family, and the Houfe of Cavendish, may be confidered as those who have been the greatest fufferers by Elections. The former is faid to have fpent 200,000l. the latter are, on the prefent General Election, above 70,000l. out of pocket.

As a remarkably elegant carriage was driving along King-ftreet, towards Covent Garden, early in the afternoon of Monday, it was undoubtedly expected that it contained fome noble-minded Patriot, whofe faculties were all ardently awake, and who was enthufiaftically interested in the object, and in the glories of the day. But how were the worthy fpectators furprized and mortified to find, that the owner of the chariot was a foreign Nobleman, faft afleep, and buried in the fumes of the god of wine! What an ignominy it is to himself, and to his country, that he was in a fhameful state of infenfibility, on the very fpot where our modern Brutus was preparing his triumph,

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