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However thofe who exift on corrup- 
tic ny, may boaft of their prefent fuccefs, it 
mult afford fome fatisfaétion to every 
friend to his country to have feen in the 
“people to many inftances of evident ap- 
proximation towards reétitude of prin- 
ciple and public virtue in the Jate con- 
teits. © Ino the ueteop oN, nearly three 
thouland liverymen came forward almoft 
uniolicited, and without the umal and 
{Srdid accompaniments of bribes, treats, 
o* promifes, to give their liberal fupport 
to Mr. Picxetr, who fet before them 
a princ! iple which ought tu have bee: 
adopted by every candidate on the po- 
pular fide. This candidate, though not 
fuccefsful cn the return, has more. to 
boaft ef than any of hisadverfaries! The 
other candidate on the popular fide, Mr. 
ComBE. whote friends were more ee 
than thofe of Mr. Picket, ftood high on 
the poll during the whole’ election, and 
was returned. Such a rifing {pirit of in- 
oe muft, we have little doubt, 
{pe-dily triumph over thofe bafe arts by 
wh: i the people of this country have 
lately been deluded. The numerous 
ele“tors of the city of Weftminiter not 
only placed their old faVOUGine, jscethe 
man ct the people,” at the head of the 
poll. but neariy three thoufand of them 
gave their independent votes to Mr. 
‘Tooker, againft the whole phalanx of 
min terial, court, and parochi ial influence, 
aided by the threats ot thofe whofe pro- 
Vince it is to iffue the licences to public 
bones people fo pointedly re- 
garded the court candidate, admiral 
GARDNER, as the mere inftrument of 
the minifer, as to be reftrained with 
difficulty from violence to him and his 
friends.. Whiie we regret and deteft the 
pertonal atvack which a mifguided mob 

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made upon the admiral; we réview alfo 
With horror the outrages committed 
upon fome incifenfive perfons, on an- 
other cay, by certain conftables from a 
police office, who were fent profeffedly 
to keep the peace, aad to piotect the 
er ns of his majefty’s fubjects. 
There were many other inftances in 
various parts of the-kingdom, of the in- 
de} nendence and virtuous exertions of the 
electors, in favour of perfons who offered 
themfelv es as dandidene s upon the hafis 
ef public incipie.: Wedceicéfter, two 

indep ende ‘nt canditat es, Mr. RUDING and 
Nir. ¢ FREATHEAS, were propoled; and 
thong they darted a dav after the no- 
mination of the. old members, sie ob 
tained, at a very trivial EaDCEE SS 600 
Votes againit 9503; and had th Ney SOR 
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fidered it as conftitutional to have paid 
the expences for bringing in the out- 
voters, they would, in all probability, 
have been eleéted. Mr. Greathead was 
folicited to become a candidate for War- 
wick while on the huftings at Leicefter. 
‘The addrefs which he has juft publithed 
to the freemen of Warwick, proves him 
to be a max of found conftitutional prin- 
ciples, of brilliant talents, and an ele- 
gant writer. At Derby, Dr.Compron 
offered himfelf as a candidate on confti- 
tutional principles, without ccrruption, 
bribery, or expence in any form: he 
obtained 6 votes againft 200—he after- 
wards became a candidate for Notting- 
ham, upon the fame grounds, and he 
there. procured 600 vutes again{t goo. 
The populace, it fhould be remarked, 
at all thefe places, were unanimouily in 
favour of thefe patriotic candidates. At 
Canterbury, Mefirs. BAKER and Saw. 
BRIDGE, two jndependent gentlemen, 
triumphed over the minifterial influence. 
At Coventry, the voters repelled, with 
contempt, the offers of two minifterial 
candidates ; and at Norwich the war mi- 
nifter, by the aid of the whole influence 
of government, at an immenfe expence, 
and by bringing in the out-veters, only 
gained his eleétion by a fez votes, againft 
a gentleman who was actually abient, 
who made no exertions, and was at no 
expence. In reviewing, therefore, the 
whole proceedings of the general election, 
and confidering the rooted influence 
which is neceflarily eftablifned in many 
places, the unbounded prodigality of the 
minifterial candidates, and the pernicious 
effeéts of corporations, it may fairly be 
concluded, that the generality of the 
people were more inclined to fupport the 
oppofition candidates than the latter feem 
to have either fulpected, or to have been 
prepared for; and that if they had met, 
with proper energy and exertion, the 
popular fpirit, more of them would have 
been returned, particularly in London, 
Middlefex, Wein oe and other: 
places, where the eletions are popular. 
The exertions which haye been lately: 
made by the independ freeholders 
of Kent, againft the influence of place- 
men aad alarmifts, though unfuccefsful, 
is another ftriking proot that the po- 
ee of the minifter is on the decline, 
and that the people at large are more dif- 
pofed than they have lately fhown them-. 
felves, to re-affert their conftitutional 
rights. 
From the prefent fituation of military 
affairs in Es we have thought pro-. 
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