76 
have been fuccefsful, their fuccefs may 
be afcribed either to (ome exception to the 
perfonal character of their rival, or to the 
want of vigour and precifion in the con- 
dué of his election. © 
There is, indeed, no doubt, that-if a 
fufficient number of independent candi- 
dates had ftarted, a majority of the new 
Parliament would have been friendly to the 
free principles of the conftitution, and the 
nation might have obtained fome {atisfac- 
tion for the abridgment of its liberties, 
and for the otier milchiefs perpetrated by 
the Pitt Adminiftration. 
The conteited eleStions in which the 
greateft number of fuifrages were given,and 
thole of the moft prominent . political 
importance, were for-Middiefex, Norfolk, 
Kent, and Norwich. In all thefe places 
the Candidates fupported by theServants of 
the Crown were defeated, and men of 
popular principles were cholen. Never 
were conte(ts carried on with more fervour 
on each fide,and never was popularity more 
Urequivocal, ror victory more complete. 
Theeleétion forthe County of Middlefex, 
forms an epocha in the annals of Britifh 
liberty. Mr. Mainwaring the Court Can- 
didate, as Chairman of the Quarier Sel- 
fions, and as the Reprefentative of the 
County in the three preceding “Parlia- 
ments, pofleffed every advantage of con- 
hection and influence. His caule became 
indeed that of the Government. itlelf ; 
backed by all the efforts of the Tory 
Party. Sir Francis Burdett, with few 
or no connegstiors inthe county, offered 
him(elf as the Man of ihe People, and as 
the determined opponent of the defervedly 
obnoxious prifon, commonly called the 
Bajiile, and upon thefe pretenfions folcly, 
he obtained a final and large majority of 
votes. 
The firuggle was, indeed, moft ardu- 
ous. Mr. Mainwaring, till the 12th day, 
had a majority of nearly 500 votes; but 
on the 13:h day, the inclinations cf rhe 
people were gratified, by a majority upen 
that day's poll of 74; the followins day 
was diftinguifhed by a further majority of 
385 upon che day’s poll; and the 15th 
ans Jafi day was crowned by a g’crious 
majority, upon the whole poll, of 271 
yores. The num’ ers ac the clofewere, for 
Mr By NG 0 oo. he See 
Sir Francis BURDETT 3297 
Mr. MaINwaRING . 2936 
The cnthuliaim of the populace, and 
indeed of all ranks of independent pco- 
Stateof Public Affairs in Fuly, 1802, 
their 
ple, during this ele&tion, knew no 
bounds. 
never was equalled on any former oc- 
cafion, and it never can be exceeded. In 
every point of view this eleétion has 
been honourable to Sin Francis Bur-~= 
DETYT, and to the Freeholders and the 
People of Middlefex, whether it be con- 
fidered in ats origin, its principles, its 
progrefs, Or IN iTS GLORIOUS AND 
DECISIVE ISSUE. 
Among the other proud triumphs of the 
popular fentiment, may be reckoned the 
ejections of Mr. WinDHaM from his feat 
for Norwich, and of Mr. Baker from 
the county of Hertford. It deferves alfo 
to be recorded that Mr. HonEywoob 
fiood at the. head of the poll for Kent; 
Mr. Coxe at that for Norfolk ; Mr. Fox 
at that for Weitminfter ; and Mr. AL- 
pERMAN ComBe at that for. the citv of 
London, all of whom arethe well-known 
champions of the free principles of the 
Britith conftitution. < ” ; 
On Monday the 28th of June his Ma- 
jefty went to the Houte of Lords to pats 
fuch bills as were ready, and to make a 
fpeech from the throne. We perceive no- 
thing very prominent in the fpeech : its 
complete juftification of every meaiure 
cf the old Parliament, however felf-in- 
confiftent and contradi¢tory, is what we 
had every reafon to expett. Mr. Pitt, 
Mr. Windham, and Mr. Addington, 
come in equally for their fhare of praife 5° 
and the war and the peace appear both to 
them to have been very good things: in 
turn. ‘* As [ think it expedient 
(jaid the Royal Speaker) that the elec- 
tion of a new Parliament frould take place 
without delay, it is my intection forth- 
with to give direStions for diffoiving the 
prefent, and tor calling anewParhament.”’ 
‘The next day the preient Parliament was 
diffolved by proclama ‘ion. © _ 
Ic has been faid- of the Parliament juft 
difmiffed, by one of its boldeft but bei 
informed Members, that if, inftead of 
‘excluding him from the Houfe, and di- 
vetting him, at the clofe of his life, of 
the common rights of a manand 4 citizez, 
in confequence of a dilcovery, that fome- 
thing miraculous and fupernatural wag 
operated vpon him nearly halfa century 
ago ;—if the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
had propofed. to_hang him immediately in 
the lobby, he, or any other Chancellor of 
the Exchequer, would have been followed 
by the fame majority.” 
[Aug.1, 
The fervor of Public Sentiment . 
