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Mr. Paull acted with incorruptible magnani- 
mity ; he refuséd to abandon his petition; 
and rejected their offers. The conse- 
quence was, that upon renewing the bu- 
siness in the house or commons, his former 
friends, with the sole exception of Mr. Wind- 
ham (a man uniformly steady and friencly to 
him) mest basely left him to his own unaided 
efforts; and his impeachment would soon 
have fallen to the ground in the orderly 
course, but tor. the dissolution of parliament. 
The confederate parties at that period did all 
they could to shut Mr. Paull out of parlia- 
ment. hey bade against him for his former 
borough 3 and it was told him that they had 
come to a resolution to oppose him whereso- 
ever he offered himself. ‘This he soon tound 
to be the case. Irritated and stung by this 
persecution, Mr. Paull resolved to desert his 
former party, which had in truth somewhat 
ill-used him, and embrace the- popular side. 
- Encouraged by the support of Sir Francis Bur- 
f 
dett, he became a candidate for Westminster. 
"Fhe history of the first election is well known 
He petitioned parliament against the return 
of Mr. Sheridan, corftrary to the advice and 
opinion of his friends; but a dissolution pre 
vented the merits of the petition from being 
tried. A second dissolution again brought 
him forward as a candidate for Westminster. 
His unfortunate quarrel ‘with Sir Francis Bur- 
deté is still fresh in the public memory 3 his 
controversy with Horne Tooke, who seems 
to have been the most implacable and unpro- 
voked of all his enemies ; and his sudden unpo 
pularity, and desertion by chis iormer West- 
miinster friends, upon the presumption of his 
ingratitude to his benefactor, and their idol, 
Sir Francis Surdett—all these are circum- 
stances still green in public recollection. The 
election contest being finished, Mr. Paull 
Northumberland and Durham. 
_ however, almost constant recourse to it. 
“sy [July !, 
wag hastening fast to obscurity. He had in- 
jured his fortune, which was never great, by 
the expences of the election and the peti- 
tion to parliament; his stock was § 11] more 
impoverished by the uncertainty of his re- 
mittances from Indiay and the unsuccessful 
result of some speculations in that quarter. 
Dilapidated as his resources were, the gaming 
table was’ not likely to-repair them ; he had, 
} His 
mind was extremely irritable, and his temper 
black and infuriate; his senses at length 
becume a prey to his misfortunes, and his in- 
teliects survived to be the last melancholy 
wreck ofall. Iris not necessary to flatter 
either the dead or the living ; Mr. Paull 
was not an amiable man; he seems to have 
had much malignity, and to have been inflexi- 
ble in hisrevenge sa public character, 
in the short course which he ran, he appear- 
edin ‘the most favourable light. It was no 
ordinary merit to be proved incorrupt, and 
above a bribe; and if some conclude, as he 
refused to surrender bis impeachment of Lord 
Wellesley to the coalition ministers for a 
place, that his revenge was therefore more 
powerful than his avarice, they should recol- 
lect at the same time, that it was chiefly 
at the incitement and instigation of many of 
those gentlemen, that the impeachment was” 
brought into parliament. It is understood 
that Mr. Paull had Jately become connected 
with a celebrated club in Pall Mall, at which 
deep play was pursued to excess. [le had 
little to stake, but that little he ventured. A 
heavy loss onthe night of Thursday the 14th 
of April,and an equaliy unfortunate attempt to 
regain it on the ollowing day, 1s understood 
to have been the proximate cause of his syt- 
cide. : ant 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
N Act has been obtained in the present 
Session of Parliament, for making a navi- 
gable cut from the east side of the river Tees, 
wear Scockton, through the Neck of Land 
into the said river, near Portreck, in’ the 
county of Durham; by means of which the 
course of the river will be considerably 
shortened, and a certain bend or winding in 
the present channel, extending two miles aud 
a 
a halfin length, (very dangerous 
tion) will be cut off. 
A school, on the plan invented by Dr. An- 
drew Bell at Madras, and afterwards insti- 
tuted by himself and Joseph Lancaster with 
so much success in tne metropolis and other 
places, is establishing on an extensive scale at 
Sunderland, and is likely to prove of incalcu- 
lable benefit to the poor of the rising gene- 
ration.—Nearly three hundred boys are al- 
ready admitted, and it is supposed the ny 
to naviga- 
