above all perfonal confiderations. Relying on his Mafter's fupport, and the public applaufe, he brought forward a menfure that will reflect eternal honour on his name. If Henry the Fourth of France had facrificed Sully, in a fimilar fituation, to a Court intrigue, he never would have obtained the name of Great.

Our natural enemies profit by Mr. Fox's abilities; they have eagerly embraced his India Bill as a fyitem of the foundet policy, and drawn from it a code of regulations for the government of the Last India Company. Poor deluded Britain! Is it your fate never to fee your true intereft, until it is too late to profit by the difcovery; and muit the lofs of another empire roufe you from your dream of defufion?

How muft every man of honour fcel for a manly honeft Minifter acting under a Mailer who had entered into a compact with his enemies to betray him into their hands on a private fignal!

To facilitate the change projected long before by the fecret Cabinet, Mr. Pitt, at the opening of the feflion, called upon Mr. Fox to bring forward a ftrong measure for the governinent of the Eaft India Company. No half meafure! was the cry. Mr. Fox's unfufpecting temper and manly fpirit led him on to the ground where his cowardly opponents had prepared a mine to blow him up.

The pr fent ftruggle muft determine the future confequence of the Houfe of Commons. If the Miniftry are fuccefsful in their attempts at feducing the Electors throughout the country, the people may bid a long farewel to all their rights, to all their weight and influence, in preferving the balance of the Conftitution. The die will foon be caft, and the event, in a few weeks, muft show, whether the popular depravity of the last three months will be corrected in time to fave a finking country from iminediate ruin. If men are chofen, who are tenacious of the privileges of the Commons, every thing may yet do well; but, on the contrary, fhould the new fyftem prevail, and the hands of the prefent Cabinet be ftrengthened, to complete their unconftitutional defigns, the glorious fabric, which has flood the wonder of ages, muft fink at once, and crush the liberty, the glory, the dignity, and the power of the country, never to rife again!-As we value the Conftitution, we will be vigilant in this trying hour-we will fave our laws, our privileges we will commit them inviolate to pofterity-our fons fhall not be juftified in complaining, that their fathers were traitors to fo facred a truft; neither fhall it be recorded in the hiftoric page, that the efforts of an arbitrary and ariftocratic faction, that had been baffled by the fpirit of the people twenty years before, fucceeded at the préfent period.

Mr. Sheridan was congratulated on the Huftings on Friday with the acclamations of Mr. Fox's friends, being juft returned from Stafford, where, notwithstanding the boats of the minifterial party, he has been unanimously re-chofen.

If any new inducements were wanting to fix the Electors of Westminster in the intereft of Mr. Fox, the grofs and unconftitutional influence that has publicly and notoriously been exerted against him, would amply fupply it. It is a literal fact, that, on one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber menacing a tradefman with the lofs of the Q's cuftom, if he dared to vote against Sir Cecil Wray, the honeft and independent anfwer was this:-"I affure you, Madam, I have every refpect for their Majefties, but "ftill more for the Conftitution of my country. You'll excufe me, Madam, but I "vote for Mr. Fox."

The aristocratic tyranny of the ducal par nobile fratrum of Westminster is at length difplayed in the full magnitude of its infolence; for thofe proud Lords now tell you, that, aided by the fecret influence of the , they will carry the county of Middlefex, as well as that of this city, in defpite of the voice of the people!

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The Treafury has bled fo freely within these last thirty fix hours, that a conflitutional draft from a great Houfe in Weftminfier was returned last night, to the mutual chagrin

of the drawer and drawée.

All monied efforts to oppofe the re-election of Mr. Fox can avail nothing;-even the Bank of England will not be able to buy off the free fuffrages of the Electors of Weft. minfter, particularly in a conteft that politically involves the most facred rights of the people of England!

The Huftings in Covent Garden were on Saturday laft furrounded with carriages containing feveral of our first-rate BEAUTIES; among others were Lady Beauchamp, and the Counteffes of Carlife and Derby.

Notwithstanding the corps", to the amount of three hundred, which were polled on Saturday, Mr Fox's friends entertain the moft fanguine expectations of his reelection.

The appearance of a whole regiment of guards, properly drawn up and marfhalled in. coloured cloaths, and headed by naval officers, produced a very ludricrous effect in Covent Garden, on Saturday laft. One or two companies more, we are well informed, mean to exhibit themfelves to day; but probably not with the fame event to poor Sir Cecil, as the independent Electors of Weftminfter are refolved to convince the cabal, that they will not fuffer a popular candidate to be borne down by the influence of a Court.

Several of the better fort of the foldiers, who voted on Saturday's poll, declared, that they never had engaged in fo unwelcome a fervice, as fupporting the man who attacked Chelfea Hofpital. But who can be offended with thefe brave, but poor fellows, whofe fituation fubjects them to the haughty interference of every dapper Enfign that haunts St. James's. Nero never marched the Paætorian band to a viler fervice.

Among the different pafquinades of the Weftminster conteft, one of the most popular, is a print exhibiting Sir Cecil in a state of dilimay and terror between an old Chelsea Penfioner and a young Houfe Maid. The former is reprefented as brandifhing his crutch against the foe of the Hofpital, which is fketched in the back ground in ruins; while the latter, ftanding before the door of a register office, Shut up, deals out her vengeance with her fweeping brufh.-Sir Cecil has certainly brought an old houfe over his head, in attacking a national charity; and moft probably won't have a hole, to take to, if he perfifts in his embargo on a national commodity.

There is nothing talked of any where but the Elections of London and Westminster.. If a maid fervant but goes for a halfpenny candle, the converfation is, "What do you "think of the Election ?" If two Ducheffes meet, their words almoft at the fame instant are, "What do you think of the Election?" If two coal porters, two peers, two merchants, two ballad fingers, two beggars meet, it is the fame thing.

The Play-houses are but thinly attended owing to the Election. The Opera-houfe is deferted owing to the Election. Trade is neglected owing to the Election. Sobriety and Peace are banifhed owing to the Election. Friends quarrel owing to the Election. In fhort every thing is neglected that ought to be attended to, and the whole people in their hearts murmur at a certain perfon for all thofe misfortunes which are owing to the Election.

Agreeably to the laws of this place where an election is held.

country no military force is permitted to remain in a Quare, How can it can it be reconciled to the fpirit of

Three battalions of the Guards were affembled in the Bird Cage Walk, in St. James's Park, and from thence marched to the Huftings. The ferjeant, who was the bearer of the news to Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, that the above were " ready at a moment's notice," was received very graciously, and had the honour to shake hands most beartily with Sir Cecil.

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thefe laws, that five hundred foldiers, of the King's guards, fhould be allowed to poll for the city of Westminster.

The defpotic inclination of the prefent Minifters is clearly fhewn by the manner in which they fupport their favourite candidate for Weftminfter. One day a gang of failors is hired to beliege Mr. Fox's voters in the House of rendezvous. The next day THREE HUNDRED of the Guards are poured in to overbear the majority of independent Electors who fupport THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE. But the firft exertion of the Court faction has been already fuppreffed by the care of Mr. Fox's Committee and the interpofition of the peace officers. And we have every reafon to be affured, that the fpirit of the inhabitants of Westminster will again affert itfelf on the poll, and finally prove fuperior to the little ftrata, ns of Court influence.

The tumults and oppofition attendant upon the election, in Covent Garden, fhew the neceffity of a very powerful interpofition of the civil power to preferve the public peace, and to protect the rights and perfons of the legal voters for each party. It alfo evinces the impropriety of holding a poll, where the Electors are fo numerous, in an open market, where it is impoffible to govern the rudenefs and outrages of a mifguided and wanton rabble. The confequences of permitting fuch diforders to prevail, may prove as fatal as the defperate riots relative to the popery bill, which still challenge, and fhock our recollection. When fuch dangers threaten, too great precautions to prevent their baneful effects cannot be taken. Thofe who have authority, if they neglect to exert it legally with moderation, are highly criminal. In any point of view they are unfit for Magiftrates. If they have wifdom they must be cenfured as indolent or pufillanimous. If they are ignorant they want the neceffary qualifications to discharge the duties of the office with which they are invefted. Thus much as to the conduct which fhould be adopted by the Magiftrates, on this critical and alarming occafion. A word or two may not be improper as to the other part of the grievance-the fituation of the Huftings. In an open street or market-place the common people conceive that they have a right to act as they pleafe, and are not fubject to controul. When they are difcovered in diforderly proceedings, they have various avenues and opportunities for efcape. Thofe will be pre fent on fuch a fpot who would not have prefumption enough to enter an enclosed building. Thefe are evils which call aloud for redrefs, and fhould be properly attended to by perfons in power, if they wish to preferve the order of government, the laws of Election, or the rights and fafety of the people.

The Duc de Chartres and the Duc de Bouillon are conftant attendants in Covent Garden fince the Poll began. They never faw any thing like it in France.

Hundreds of the friends of Mr. Fox, and the great caufe of freedom, were yesterday hindered from polling by the extraordinary concourfe of people who attended the Poll. It is aftonishing the conftables, and efpecially the returning officer, do not endeavour to eftablifh at least fome degree of decency and order, as the freedom of Election depends fo much on the convenience and accommodation of Electors at the Huftings.

A correfpondent is not a little furprifed that the filly trick about the bribery, fo impu dently vamped up by a defperate faction against one of the Candidates for Weltminster, is not generally feen through. Nothing fhould be admitted for fact without vouchers. And the scene of this moft extraordinary bufinefs lies at fuch a distance, that before any enquiries can take place about the truth of it, the contefted Election for Westminster may be decided.

A correfpondent would ask the Electors of Westminster, for which of the good deeds done by Mr. Fox is it that fo many have voted against him on this occafion? Is it be. cause he put an end to the American war, abridged the influence of the Crown, or gavè