I do now support. I thank you very much for hearing me thus far, and as the numbers polled are now to be announced, I shall leave Mr. Sheridan to address you himself."

The state of the poll stood thus:

Mr. SHERIDAN stood forward, and addressed the Electors as follows: "Gentlemen, what I told you before, I am still perfectly convinced of, namely, that not one of you, however noisy you may have been at times, is in your heart my enemy. I repeat what also I mentioned on a former occasion, that none of your description can be inimical to

For, to the working part of the community, I have been always friendly. I have the pleasure to inform you, that I am, on this day's poll, no less than 94 a-head of my opponent. I am sure you will be happy to hear this. [Hisses]. Notwithstanding this partial interruption, I cannot believe that you do not unanimously wish me success. Some of you appear to look grim at me, and inclined to abuse me. But neither you, or any others of a similar inclination, have produced any facts against me, although I have frequently called for them. When any accusations are are brought forward against me, that are founded in truth, I shall answer them. For such accusations I have waited, but none such have appeared; and, I believe, that those who know me will admit, that if I wait for such charges, I shall wait in vain. What can

have credence only with irreclaimable fools, or irreconcileable enemies, and can make no impression upon the candid or the intelligent, it would be useless, and beneath me to answer. Many of you, gentlemen, have thought proper to abuse me, but I have borne your abuse with good temper, for I knew it was not the effect of ill-will. I have heard nothing to-day that would at all justify any feeling of anger towards you. Some of you were conceived to be rather harsh yesterday; and the poor green man, who was such a distinguished orator, was taken into custody. The poor man wrote to me to-day, stating, that he had no prejudice whatever against me, but that he was paid for abusing me; adding, that he was paid so badly that he was determined to abandon his party, if set at large. I pitied, the poor man, ordered his release, and gave him money. But although this man was influenced by payment, there are others who act from prejudice, artfully excited by the grossest misinformation. I am told that the journeymen of particular professions have been entrapped into the confederacy against me. What! that a description of persons who have always found in me the stoutest friend, should become my opponents, does astonish me indeed. Of these opponents I learn that the majority are journeymen shoemakers-the very class of persons from whom I should expect a decided partiality-the very class by whom I have been cho sen six times to parliament-the very persons, really, with whom I fondly thought myself as great a favourite as Crispin himself. Indeed I feel

that there is no class in the community with whom I ought to be so popular as with the journeymen. Between them and their masters I have always wished to promote reconciliation and harmony; but when I have found the journeymen oppressed, I have never remitted any effort in my power to relieve them. In proof of this disposition I could state many instances, but there is one in particular which a gentleman now on the Hustings can testify. It is that of the journeymen calico printers These men were oppressed-I took up their cause, and at length succeeded in procuring them relief. And in testimony of their gratitude, they, poor men! made me a present of a rich set of calico furniture, which I was glad to accept. But, gentlemen, there are other tradespeople which I could quote among those who ought to be my friends. There is one announced through town, which if I could believe hostile, I should be astonished in the extreme. I mean the journeymen printers. What! that any persons connected with the press, for the liberty of which I have ever strenuously contended, should range themselves under any standard adverse to me! The moment the thing was told me, I believed it to be an imposture, and now know it to be so; for I find that the name ostentatiously held forth as the. Chairman of a meeting of Printers, is unknown in the trade in Westminster. This publication, therefore, is but an Election trick. Mr. S. congratulated the meeting on the good temper which appeared to prevail among them, and assured them that his own example should

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should always serve to encourage that disposition. When low on the poll, he expressed no discontent; now, when he was high, he should express no exultation, although, under all the disadvantages with which he had to contend, he had reason to exult in the state of the poll. But he would not dwell upon it. He looked to the result of the contest with confidence, and should conclude with crying, "Admiral Hood and Sheridan for ever!"

Sir S. HOOD, adverting to some allusions made to him by Mr. Paull yesterday, observed that the contempt he felt for any ridicule that might be pointed at the honours he wore, could only be equalled by his pride in thinking that he had been considered by his Sovereign as deserving of such distinction. The hon. Admiral thanked the Electors for the evidence they had afforded of their partiality, and requested them to afford still more by using all their endeavours to raise Mr. Sheridan on the poll.

Mr. PAULL" Gentlemen, I appear before you for the ninth time, more proud, and more happy, than I was during the former days of this contest. Mr. Whitbread has accused me of being a jacobin. I fought at the back of that hon. gent. for two sessions of parliament, when he brought his accusations against lord Melville; and great as the reputation has been which he has acquired upon that subject, it will not exempt Mr. Whitbread from that abhorrence in which I hold his after-conduct, If Mr. Whitbread had read the resolutions at the Crown and Anchor, (see p. 11.) I hardly think

he could have come here as an Elector, to calumniate me. I hope the day will soon come, when Mr. Whitbread will exert himself for the people of England; will abandon the coalition; will abandon the ear of an arrogant minister, and once more become the friend of the people, which, I say, he is not at present. Attend to the scene which has been exhibited at this place, and the compromise which has been made betwixt the other two Candidates for the City of Westminster! can you believe it, that the whigs of England were obliged to come chained to the car, in order to give their votes? Gentlemen; had nothing else occurred during this Election, than the seeing Mr. Whitbread come here to stand by my side, battling such a cause with me and the independent Electors of Westminster, an apostate from the whig club, I say, it must be owned that I have gained a great victory. You find now, that whigs, instead of being our concealed friends, have become our open enemies. [Shouts and bursts of applause from all quarters.] Was not one of the Court Candidates, I mean sir S. Hood, the nephew of my lord Hood, a man who was ever the avowed friend of Mr. Pitt, proposed by lord W. Russell? Good God! gentlemen, can I mention the name? It was he that came here as an advocate for the principles of lord Grenville!! Mr. Whitbread, too, is not ashamed to show his face in a similar predicament; he, to whom the people of this City were accustomed to look up as their last refuge; he, I say, is not ashamed to declare himself an advocate for this Court