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taptured at the latter end of July, off Alex- 
andria, a French corvette witha valuable car- 
go, and10,000l. in fpecie, deftined for the 
payment of General Menou’s troops, This 
event is communicated in letters from La De- 
termince, dated the 26th of faly. 
On Tuefday, (being Michael mas-day,) the 
election of the Lord Mayor for the enfuing 
year tosk place at Guildhall. The'feveral al« 
dermen, inrotation, being put up, alderman 
Newman had an univerfal fhow of hands of 
the livery in his favour, and Sir John Eamer, 
had fuch a number that he and alderman 
Newman was returned tothe Court of Alder- 
men for their feleétion, and that Court’ 
thought prover to declare the clection to be 
in favour of Sir John Eamer, who thereupon 
_made a fpeech, in which he faid, he would 
make no promifes, but called the gentlemen 
of the livery to witnefs his affection to the 
beft of fovereigns and attachment to the con- 
ftitution, and reminded them of his merits as 
aman of bufinefs,-a magiftrate, and a /oldier.. 
At the Shakefpeare Tavern, on the roth 
of O&tober, a numerous meeting was held, of 
‘the friends of Mr. Fox, to celebrate the 
anniverfary, of his eleétion, for Weftminfter. 
“The wonderful coincidence in the anniverfary 
of the firft eletion of this patriotic friend of 
Peace and Liberty, and the Ratification of 
that peace he had fo ardently, but unfuccefs- 
fully, endeavoured fir to preferve, and 
afterwards. to reftore to his country, attract. 
ed an unufual aflemblage to this joyous meet- 
ing. After dinner, Mr. Fox drank—*‘Succefs 
to the Preliminaries of Peace,” The health 
of Mr. Fox, being drank with unbounded and 
enthufiaftic applaufe, he arofe and expreffed 
_himfelf to the following purport :—** Gentle- 
then, ic is now twenty-one years fince you 
firft did me the honour to eleét me as your 
Reprefentativein Parliament. We were then 
engaged in a war againft the freedom of the 
human race, and having, as I flattered myfelf 
you had done, given me credit for oppofing- 
with all the powers I was able, that diabolical 
war, and the deteftable views that produced 
it, you eleéted me as.an abettor of your 
general principles, rather than on account 
of any .intrinfic merit of my own. At tlrat 
time, however, I was comparatively but little 
known to you ; we have fince been better 
acquainted; a war of a fimilar defcription 
has fince beeh excited ; and the political fen- 
timents which induced me to oppofe the for- 
mer, have compelled me, with all the powers 
of which Iam poffefled, year after year, 
to refift this fecond aggreffion againf&&. the ge- - 
neral liberties of mankind. A frequent ap-_ 
peal to your principles has rendered me well 
acquainted with them ; I know that in gene- 
ral you, as well as myfelf, objected fo this 
war, and I exerted all the’efiorts of which I 
was poffefled to put an end toit. Ifaw that 
it involved the very bafis of our own free 
éonftitution, as well as tWat which the Re- 
MontTarx Mac. No, 79. 
called in queftion. 
public of France had voluntarily determined 
to accept: its very commencement declared, 
that mankind fhould have a monarchy, 
whether they wifhed for a monarchy or net; 
and that a monarchy, with refpect to the na- 
tion then refifting fo deteftable a doétrine, 
the worft and moft tyrannical under heaven ; 
for, let us not deceive ourfelves, the increafed 
- gentlenefs in the manners of mankind at large, 
and particularly in thofe of the people te 
whom I now advert—the augmented diffufion 
of knowledge, and the fuperior cunning of 
diplomatic fcience, had certainly, even lone 
before this period, rendered the tyranny of 
this conftitution lefs prominent, and confe- 
quently more tolerable, than that of perhaps 
feveral other conftitutions within the precinéts 
of Europe—but J fcruple not to affert, that in 
itfelf it was the moft defpotic and: deteftable 
conftitution under the fun. The war, how- 
ever, was commenced for the exprefs purpofe 
of compelling this immenfe body of people 
to fubmit, againft their confents, to this ini- 
quitous Government. ‘he Miniftry of this 
country were determined that they fhoald, . 
have a king, whether they wouldornot; and, 
fanétioned by. what I knew to be the opinion 
of the inhabitants of this city, I fele myfelf 
‘bound, as I ever. fhall do, torefift fo tyranni- 
cal an effort, and to hope and pray that the 
general rights of mankind would be triumphant 
over every part of the globe, whenever. 
With this view I oppofed 
the conduct of the Minifters, as long as I 
thought my own individual oppofition could 
be of any avail; and I then withdrew, from . 
a confcioufnefs of my own inability, but not 
without its having: been fince fupported by 
far greater talents and abilities than thofe to 
which I have any pretenfion.”” 
After congratulating the country upon obs 
taining Peace, as tothe terms he fhould, not 
he faid, critically enquire into them; and he 
hoped they would not very fcrupuloufly be 
enquired intoby any man. The mere poffef— 
fion of an ifland or two in the Weft Indies, 
or aprovince in the Mediterranean ought not 
to be put in competitionwith the duration of the 
evils of war for afingle month. He acknow- 
Tedged that he oppojed the late Miniftry till he 
thought oppofition was ufelefs. He con- 
cluded with faying, that the conditions were 
glorious for the French Republic ; it muft be 
confeffed that they are, and there is not a 
Briton who*ought not honeftly to rejoice 
that fuch is the faé&t. The people of France 
refitted as they ought to do, and as our own 
anceftors heretofore had done, the whole 
combination of powers who would have im-. 
pofed upon them a conftitution contrary to 
their own will—their’s was the caufe of li- 
berty=—the caufe of mankindat large. ~ _ 
Married.| At.Tottenham, N. Harden, efq. 
to Mifs H. Meeke. 
Mr. Sparrow, to Mifs Higginbotham, both 
of King-ftreet, Weftminfter. 
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