support his nomination, and will cheerfully devote their time and exertions during the whole fifteen days, (if neceffary) in support of his Election upon the principles contained in his advertisement.That a Subscription be opened in this Club, to which the Freeholders at large be invited to accede, for the purpose of providing carriages for the conveyance of such Freeholders to the Huftings who, through indigence and infirmity may be otherwise disabled from giving their independant suffrages at the approaching Election, and that the Treasurer and Secretary be authorised to receive such Subscriptions. That these Resolutions, signed by the Chairman, be presented to Sir F. Burdett by the Secretary, and that they be inserted in all the Morning and Evening Papers, signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and otherwise diftributed as the Annual Committee may think proper, at the expence of the Club.-The Chairman having quitted the Chair from indispofition, Edward Langley, Esq. was called to the Chair. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meeting be presented to Christopher Hull, Esq. for his attentive and impartial conduct in the Chair.-That this Club does highly approve of the independent conduct of George Byng, Esq. as Representative of this County, and trusts that, upon this occasion, his friends will unite with those of Sir F. Burdett to procure their joint election, That Sir F. Burdett and G. Byng, Esq. be

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invited to dine with this Club on Thursday next, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern.

CHRISTOPHER HULL, Chairman.

Resolved

Resolved unanimously, That the foregoing Resolutions be signed by the Chairman, and published with the former Resolutions of this day.

EDWARD LANGLEY.

Mr. Byng's Letter to the Chairman of the Middlesex Freeholders' Club.

SIR;

St. James's-fquare, Nov. 4, 1806. I should have felt highly flattered by the Vote of Thanks from the Freeholders assembled at the Crown and Anchor, on the 30th of October, for my parliamentary conduct, if it had not been accompanied with a proposal to join, what they are pleased to term, my interest with Sir Francis Burdett's.From the commencement of my Canvass (October 20), I have uniformly declared to every Freeholder I had the pleasure of meeting, that I ftood alone, unconnected with any other Candidate.-The Address which afterwards appeared from Sir F. Burdett, to the Freeholders of Middlesex, certainly gave me no reason to regret the line of conduct I had pursued

BUT THE CONTRARY,

Your obedient humble servant, To Edward Langley, Efq. Chairman at a Meeting of Freeholders, assembled at the Crown and Anchor, October 30.

G, BYNG.

Sir Francis Burdett's Letter to the Freeholders' Club of Middlesex.

GENTLEMEN ;-At length Mr. Byng, who never was really with us, has ceased to temporize, and,

taking advantage of your undeserved compliment to him, has declared openly against us. It was always to be expected, that such would be his conduct, whenever it should suit the views of his party.

-This, Gentlemen, is the short statement of our situation. The politics of George Grenville, the father, loft us America-the politics of George Grenville, the son, have lost us all Europe. To these politics, and to affift in carrying them on, the profeffing Whigs have lately joined themselves-to their own great emolument, and to the juft dismay of the public. In this conjuncture it is not surprising that Mr. Byng, who belongs to those Whigs, should play into the hands of Mr. Mellish, who belongs to that Grenville, whom they have joined.-I am perfectly aware, that, if I had been silent, I might have been returned for Middlesex without a conteft. But I will have no compromise, nor suspected compromise, with such fhabby politics. I will not by filence be guilty of the ruin which appears to be fast approaching.-Gentlemen, I will never consent to be returned by the connivance of any Ministers; for I will never connive at their plunder. I desire no seat, but by the unbiassed votes of intelligent and uncorrupt Freeholders. If my principles differ from theirs, I am not fit to be their Representative, and fhall not defire it. But I shall wait for their decision, regardless of the intrigues, misrepresentation, and influence of the Coalesced Factions.-I fhall ever remain, Gentlemen, faithful to the principles I avow, and to your honest service.

F. BURDETT.

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Resolution of the Middlesex Freeholders' Club, relative to the Conduct of Mr. Byng.

At a numerous and respectable Meeting of the Freeholders of Middlesex Club, held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on Thursday, the 6th November, 1806. William Bosville, Esq. in the Chair.-Refolved unanimously, That the Letter of Mr. Byng addressed to Mr. Langley, in anfwer to the Resolutions of this Club on Thursday laft, is an insult to the Freeholders of this County, and in direct violation of his solemn pledge made to a numerous Meeting on the 29th of July laft, affembled to celebrate the Anniversary of the Return of Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Byng, in 1802.-Resolved unanimously, That a Copy of this Resolution be sent to every Member of the Club, who is absent this evening, and that the same be published in all the Newspapers.

W. BOSVILLE, Chairman.

ON SIR F. BURDETT'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

[From the Morning Chronicle October 31.] "In my opinion it is less dishonourable to be the creature of a Court, than the tool of a faction."

John Horne Tooke, Junius's Letters, Vol. II. SIR;-The period of a General Election has usually been allowed to confer a latitude of profeffion upon those who present themselves to the favour of the People. The vehement patriotism, and the in

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flexible principle to which all lay claim, may charitably be interpreted to mean, that moderate regard for the public interest, which ordinary virtue must feel, and that integrity which common honefty may practice. Every man may be permitted to employ that ftile of courtfhip suited to the object of his affections. But in this, as every thing, there is a good and bad ftile, which distinguishes the taste and the dignity of the parties. There is a language which at once teftifies a man's own rank and that of those he addresses, while there is a tone which fhews that a man finks even below his juft level for the sake of pleasing.-The Address to the Freeholders of Middlesex, which has appeared under the fignature of Sir Francis Burdett, has naturally attracted the attention of this metropolis and its neighbourhood. People were anxious to see in what character Sir Francis would now solicit the suffrages of the County of Middlesex. Those who had been hoftile to him on former occafions, and ftill suspected the soundness of his principles, were afraid that he would disarm oppofition by a fhew of moderation; while those who had supported him, hoped, that now, emancipated from that pernicious influence by which his unsuspecting youth had been overpowered, and with a love of liberty, regulated, not impaired, by experience and reflection, he would stand forward upon conftitutional principles, to which every honeft patriot would assent, and to which no unbiassed man could refuse his approbation. It is with the utmost mortification that as one who hoped well of him, I have been extremely disappointed.

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