this is rather touching a sore part; but Gentlemen, every one knows, that however painful may be the operation, however disagreeable to the person who performs it, if an ulcer is to be cured it must be probed to the bottom.---Gentlemen; I was stating my persuasion, that those grievances which I before enumerated were not the genuine produce of the old Conftitution of England-that being the case, and I having done every thing in my power to arrest the progress of the new-system, of which these are the formidable component parts-having done all I could to arrest that progress which has ended in the present dangerous and calamitous condition of the Country, I have only to say to the Freeholders of Middlesex, that if they are satisfied with the present situation of affairs they will do well to continue to support the Gentleman near me, who has been uniformly supporting that syftem while I have been uniformly opposing it.-Gentlemen; In taking my leave of you this day I fhall only put my pretentions to your support upon these grounds---It is for you to judge--it is your interefts which are concerned ---and however you may determine, the result will be perfectly satisfactory to me."

Mr. MELLISH.---" Gentlemen, I return you my thanks for the honour and support you have this day conferred upon me. By looking at the poll you will see what a very great majority I have (A loud uproar.) This, Gentlemen, is the Hon. Baronet's own expreffion; and I hope you will continue your

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A Polled Freeholder's Letter to the Independent Freeholders of Middlesex.

Gentlemen; If to return Mr. Mellish be your only wish, no farther exertions are requisite; but if you have a higher and more important object in view, namely, to restore peace and order to this distracted County, too long a prey to Jacobin Faction, then I ask, is the present state of the poll calculated to obtain that object? Certainly not. Nothing less than carrying the poll of the popular Candidate out of sight of his opponents, will convince the Democrats that the Electors of Middlesex, loyal and free themselves, are resolved to be represented in future by none but those who are so. Every Freeholder, therefore, who has not yet polled, fhould put this question to himself; Is it not my bounden duty to add my vote to the present majority, and how shall I answer it to my country, if, through my indolence, the County of Middlesex should again be subjected to the same mischiefs and outrages which have so long disturbed the peace of the County, and endangered its independence?-If every voter, who is a sincere friend to his Country, would now come forward and exercise his franchise, Sir F. Burdett, and all who hold his principles (if principles they may be called) would learn, that the Freeholders of this County will no longer be duped by a faction, or scared by a mob. Mr. Byng and his adherents would learn, that those who hope in future to represent honest and independent men, must themselves be independent and honest: and Mr.

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Mellish himself would learn, that unless his conduct shall correspond with his professions, he must never more hope to be member for Middlesex.-Gentlemen, delays are dangerous; the poll closes on Thursday; the losing Candidates strain every nerve to swell their polls. If you delay to the last moment what has already been postponed too long, you may find to your confusion that you have come an hour too late.

A POLLED FREEHOLDER.

FIFTEENTH DAY.

Wednesday, November 26.

At the close of the poll the numbers were,

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT.-" Gentlemen; After the disapprobation which was expressed yesterday by some persons near me, in consequence of some topics introduced into my Address to you, it will be very difficult for me indeed to speak upon the present situation of this country, so as not to incur the displeasure of those persons. You all know how difficult it is to touch any sore or tender part, so as not to give sensations of uneasiness to the persons who labour under those

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complaints.-Gentlemen; notwithstanding that displeasure, I must confess I do not at all regret, nor shall I be withheld from expreffing my sentiments freely upon such abuses, as I conceive it to be essential to the Country to have reformed. On the contrary, Gentlemen, I am rather pleased at the displeasure of certain persons, not merely at the displeasing them, but because that is a proof to me that I am touching upon those points on which it is essential for you to hear me.-Gentlemen; the anger of yesterday appears not to have confined itself merely to the disapprobation of the Gentlemen who heard me at the time, because it has produced an advertisement in the papers of this day, which proves to me that they have carried home with them the displeasure which they before expressed at this place. I hold in my hand a very curious advertisement signed "A Freeholder;" but at the same time the marks and the features of this advertisement are so flrong, that I cannot be at a loss to state who has produced it.-Gentlemen; the topics introduced in it compel me to believe that it must be the production, either of the hired libeller Mr. Bowles, or the hired informer Mr. Redhead York.] -[Here an interruption took place, some exclaiming, "Shame! Shame!" and others " Don't libel people bere."] Some Gentlemen cry out "Shame!" but they think it no shame to put in print the most scandalous accusations against me-the moft scandalous misrepresentations-to represent me as what they please to term a Jacobin, and the worst enemy to the Country and the Conftitution of Englandthey

they think that no fhame, and they feel no repugnance so to hold me up to the public.---The Gentleman who wrote this advertisement says, that the object of this Election is to preserve this County, too long diftracted by Jacobinical principles, from becoming a prey to a Jacobin Faction. As to faction, I should like the person who wrote this, or any other person, to point out in what that faction consists, or where that faction exifts. I should like them at the same time that they use these words to be so good as to annex to them an explanation, that we may understand at least what they are at.---Gentlemen, as to Faction, do we not know that there can be no faction but of men from interefted motives, combining against the public good for their own private and individual emolument. Can faction, or did faction ever put forward or depend upon public principle, and you will judge between us which are the interefted parties, and who has moft candidly explained his public principles upon this and upon every other occasion.-Gentlemen; they choose to use the word Faction as they do the word Jacobin, merely as a term of general abuse, and which affixes upon them no particular meaning; but I will affix a meaning to that term, and under that term I think they themselves come; because I do look upon them as a connected set of men---not connected by public principle of any kind, but by private and individual interest.---Gentlemen; you all know that where there is a reward, where ever a profit is to be had, there will be the interested persons. You all know, that where the carcase is there will be the vultures also;