the detection of Sir F. Burdett's quondam friends, the O'Coigleys, the O'Connors, and the Despards! Let Sir Francis recollect the schemes of these miscreants, and their abettors, and he will be no longer at a loss to understand the meaning of the term "Jacobin Faction." I am, &c. A FREEHOLDER, SIXTEENTH AND LAST DAY. At the Final Close of the Poll, the numbers were, for The SHERIFF then came forward, and formally declared, that William Mellish, Esq. and George Byng, Esq. were duly elected. This declaration was followed by a mixture of applause and disapprobation. Sir W. GIBBONS moved the Thanks of the Freeholders to Messrs. Miles and Branscombe, which being seconded by Mr. Clifford, was carried without a dissentient voice. Mr. MELLISH took his place upon the Hustings, amidst the vociferations of his friends, and spoke as follows:-"Gentlemen, I fhall only say one word; I will not be long, I assure you---(The noise continued.) If you will not hear me, I shall make my bow, and retire. Gentlemen, I say, that proud I am, and proud I ought to be, of the truft you have reposed reposed in me. The voice of the County has spo ken so decidedly in my favour, that I fhall only say, that I am gratefully senfible of the honour the Freeholders have conferred upon me, and I will never desert their interests." (A mixture of applause and disapprobation followed.) Mr. BYNG came forward amidst the prevailing hisses of the multitude, and finding it impossible to obtain a hearing, exclaimed---" I beg leave to return the Freeholders my best thanks for the honour they have done me this day," and retired. (A Freeholder observed, that Mr. Byng had taken his last farewell of the County of Middlesex.) Mr. Mellish was then conducted to an ornamented car, hung with blue drapéry, and placed in his barouche, in which he was chaired round the Market Place, and across the Butts, accompanied by his friends. Mr. Byng followed next, in a chair decorated with laurel, and preceeded with orange and blue flags. He was carried over the same ground as Mr. Mellish, supported by his friends.---During this time, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT remained upon the hustings, and when the proceffion had passed away, he addressed the Freeholders to the following effect: Gentlemen; So humble a man am I, though represented by many persons as of so lofty and aspiring a mind, that, even in my present circumstances, I do not at all envy the triumphant exit of the two Candidates who have just left you, now become your Members, but am quite satisfied and content with my own situation-Gentlemen; I think it first my duty to return thanks to the Freeholders who have come forward in my support in manner I trust as honorable to themselves as to me.-Having said that much, I shall go on to make one or two observations which I think it necessary to make before I take my leave of you for the last time-[Some cried out, "I hope not."]-Gentlemen; when I said that, I meant that at all times I fhall be proud and happy to be considered as the servant of the independent Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, and they may be assured that at no time will they find any tergiversation in my conductany abandonment of my principles, or any disinclination on my part to promote their interests.-— Gentlemen; I am afraid that in taking my leave of you this day, I shall be no more fortunate in pleasing many persons whom I had not the good fortune to please yesterday or the day before, than I had at that time; but, standing here before the County of Middlesex, called upon by honor and gratitude to them to place myself in a public situation, I hold myself bound to do my duty to them-which is fairly and explicitly giving them my opinion on all subjects which I think connected with their interests. ~Gentlemen; as I complained yesterday of an anonymous Libel under the signature of "A Freeholder" and which I guessed must have come from the pen, the patriotic and disinterested pen, either of Mr. Bowles or of Mr. Redhead Yorke the Spy, so I have to complain to day of another Letter signed in the same way, "A Freeholder," containing similar calumnies against me, and it will be my duty before I leave you, to make one or two short observations on that letter, connected as it is with another letter where the Libeller is unmasked-for it is signed with the name of Mr. Bowles.--Considering both these wonderful pieces of workmanship as coming from the same fhop---being certain that they were manufactured in the same forge--I fhall indiscriminately mention one or the other as containing the sentiments of those persons.---Gentlemen; in the first of these Letters are again reiterated all those stale and worn out accusations of Jacobins and Jacobin Factions.---Gentlemen ; I yesterday stated what I conceive to be the nature of a Faction, and those Gentlemen would do well to fhew that they do not come under that description: but as for me, Gentlemen, the use of the word Faction is, upon the face of it, ridiculous and contemptible. I, ftanding here in such a manner as scarcely any man has ever come before the public, in the teeth of all parties and factions, with no intereft-with no motive-with no means of rewarding those who support me-unless the generofity of their own minds can reward them by the consciousness of contributing effentially to the safety and honor of their Country-standing upon no other ground but that, I should have thought that the moft senseless and absurd word that could have been picked out of the dictionary would have been that very word "Faction" which those Gentlemen have adopted. But, Gentlemen, it seems that I have been attempting to excite the poor against the rich to excite disgust of social order and fair - govern government-that I have been attempting to overturn all the orders of the state, and, if I could, the very existence of civil society. [Here many cried out No, No, it is not so you never have.]-Now Gentlemen, what is it of which I complain? I complain of a departure from law-I complain of justice not being impartially diftributed-I complain of interested men being intrufted with great and unconstitutional powers by the exercise of which no man feels himself to be safe-innocence has no protection-no man can look for justice or for safety. This, then, is the system of which I complain.-Gentlemen ; it is further stated by Mr. Bowles, or rather he wishes to ask me the question, whether I mean by calling him a Libeller merely in the legal sense of the term, which, by the bye, he does not understand, as I shall presently shew you— whether I mean according to Law, by which he say's truth is a Libel."-[Mr. Clifford. Mr. Bowles corrects you-he says, " may be a Libel."]-Gentlemen, I will put it either way, that truth is a Libel or may be a Libel; it is 'indifferent to me which he means. Upon this point I am at issue with this renowned and famous Barrister, this profound Politician, this supporter of a Constitution which he does not understand-I am at issue with him in point of fact-I deny that according to the Laws and Conftitution of England, and according to common sense, which is always analogous to it, Truth can be a Libel-I know well that by the late scandalous practices that by the late dictum of a learned judge, but the most unconftitutional that ever sat upon the Bench, I mean the late lord Mansfield--that has been |