mediately on their return from Ohlau, to cut off the enemy's retreat. But the Prince of Pless made haste to disperse his troops, and made them return by detachments into the fortresses, abandoning in his flight a part of his artillery, a great deal of baggage, and several horses. He had a number of men killed in this affair, and left us 800 prisoners. -Letters received from Bucharest give some details concerning the preparations for war making by Barayctar and the Pacha of Widdin. On the 20th December, the advanced guard of the Turkish army, consisting of 15,000 men, were on the frontiers of Wallachia and Moldavia. The Prince Dolgorucky was also there with his troops. They were thus in the presence of each other. In passing Bucharist, the Turkish officers appeared to be very much animated; they said to a French officer who was in that town, "the French shall see what we are capable of; we form the right of the army of Poland; we shall shew ourselves worthy to be praised by the Emperor Napoleon the Great." Every thing is in motion through this vast empire; the Sheiks and Ulemas give the impulsion, and every one flies to arms in order to repel the most unjust of aggressions. Count Italinsky has hitherto only avoided being sent to the Seven Towers by promising that on the return of his messenger the Russians will have received orders to abandon Moldavia and restore Choczim and Bender. DOMESTIC OFFICIAL PAPER. CAPTURE OF ALEXANDRIA, From the London Gazette. Downing Street, May 9, 1807. Concluded from page 920. British forces, and commissaries shall be appointed on both sides to make an inventory.-IV. All Ottoman vessels belonging to individuals, and all property belonging to private subjects of the Sublime Porte, which shall be found within Alexandria, shall be respected. Such persons as wish to remain in the country shall have the liberty to do so, if their conduct and characters shall make it safe; and those who wish to depart, may carry with them their properties, and shall be furnished with passports for landing in any port of Turkey, which shall not be blockaded.-V. There shall be a general amnesty for all the inhabitants, nor shall any notice be taken of the conduct they may have held during the defence of the place.--VI. There shall be no seizure of the property of individuals, if they shall not become enemies of Great Britain.——VII. The gate. of Rosetta shall be placed at night in the hands of the forces of his Britannic Majesty, as well as Fort Cretin and Fort Caffarellie-From the camp without the city of Alexandria, the 20th March, 1807, or the 10th of the month Maharen, of the year 1222. (Signed) SEID MAHAMED NAIM EFFENDI. HAIG MAHAMEL KATEP. SIEG IBRAHIM BASA. (Signed) ALEX. M. FRASER, Maj. Gen. commanding his Britannic Majesty's troops.-BEN. HALLOWELL, Captain of his Majesty's ship Tigre. (True Copy.) GEORGE AIREY, Acting as Secretary. Return of killed and wounded of the army in the attack of the 18th March, 1807, under the command of Major General Fraser. -1st bat. 35th reg. 2 rank and file, killed; 1 subaltern, 1 serjeant, 4 rank and file, wounded.- Reg. de Roll, I assistant surgeon, 2 rank and file, killed; 1 rank and file, wounded.-Sicilian Volunteers, 3 rank and file, killed.-Royal Artillery, 1 bombardier, 1 gunner, wounded.-Total-1 officer, 6 rank and tile, killed; 1 officer, 1 serjeant, 8 rank and file, wounded.-GEORGE AIREY, Acting Dep. Adj. General. I. All private property of individuals, whether on land, or embarked, shall be respected. The religion of the inhabitants, their mosques, and their laws, shall be respected, as well as their houses and families.-II.The Commandant, his Excellency Emen Bey, as well as the Commandant of the Marine, Salek Aga, and Mahamet Naim Effendi, with all the official retinue of the government, the troops and the crews of the vessels, belonging to government, shall be sent to a Port of Turkey, with the arms and baggage of individuals, but they are to consider themselves-Escaped of the above number, while the as prisoners of war, and shall not be engaged to take up arms against the British forces or their allies until exchanged.-III. The vessels belonging to government, and. all public property, shall be given up to the Return of the Garrison of Alexandria, previous to its surrender, the 21st March, 1807. Soldiers of the line, 215.-Gunners, 44.-Sailors and marines, 208.-Total 467. capitulation was pending, 240.--Total prisoners remaining, 227.--GEORGE AIREY, Acting Dep. Adj. General. [The list of ordnance will appear in the next Gazette.] Printed by Cox and Baylis, No. 75, Great Queen Street, anpublished by R.Bagshaw, Brydges Street Corent Garden.where former Numbers may be had; sold alsoby J. Budd, Crown and Muie, Pal-Mall. t VOL. XI. No. 22.] LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1807. [PRICE IOD. "Sir Thomas Webster having represented the town of Colchester in what was called the Pensioned Parlia❝ment of Charles II. became so disgusted with the parliamentary depravity of that body, as to take a "resolution to abandon them and the cause of the people in that hous, where he saw no possibilit. of "either opposing the despotic measures of the court, or supporting the liberties of his country. He wrote, “accordingly, a letter to his constituents on the election of the first parliament of James II. which met "on the 21st March, 1685, declining the representation of a people, whose delegated legislature was converted into an engine of despotism, by the corrupt ministers of an arbitrary king, and requesting them "to choose another representative; he then absented himself from the town and its connections. "day of election, however, his former constituents, with a virtue and manliness of conduct peculiar to real "independence, resolved to re-elect their old member, whose integrity they had tried, and whose attachment to the cause of liberty was not to be shaken. Without solicitation, therefore, or expense, and even without "his own acquiescence, Sir Thomas was again deputed the assertor of their rights in parliament."-HisTORY OF THE BOROUGHS, Vol. II. p. 19. 953] On the 1954 names and forms of freedom and of justice except that of amusing the people,-except that of rendering them silent under the weight of their sufferings? This was felt deeply by the peopie of England, at the time here referred to; and, accordingly, when, in consequence of that feeling, they had driven the guilty king, the ostensible author of their misery and disgrace, from the throne, and, along with him, his still more guilty advisers, they, including all the vir tuous part of the nobility, formed a determination to guard themselves, in future, against similar evils. They declared, and they caused to be enacted, that the principal cause of their proceeding to such extremities, was, the corruption of parliament, and they provided by law, that, thereafter, no man SUMMARY OF POLITICS. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. This contest was, I thought, as far as related to the choosing of Sir Francis Burdett, a thing quite without example in our history; but, as will be perceived from the motto to the present sheet, there is upon record one other instance of the kind; and, it is with great satisfaction that I find myself in a situ ation to revive and widely to circulate the knowledge of a fact so honourable to the country." The Pensioned Parliament" of the Stuarts has ever been an object of just execration. The flagrant parliamentary corruptions of those times were, as was stated in my first letter to Mr. Perceval, the great cause of those discontents which finally produced the revolution or change in 1688, only three years previous to which the above-re-holding a place or pension under the crown corded instance of public virtue was exhibited to the nation. And, indeed, the rapidity of the progress was quite natural; for, either the corruptions of the parliament must have been destroyed, or the people must have become, in person as well as in property, the slaves, the absolute slaves, of their tyrannical and traitorous masters. All the names and all the forms of freedom and justice were in full use, the same as at any former period: but, if the substance was gone; if the House of Commons, instead of being freely chosen by the people, and thereby becoming their real representatives and the faithful guardians of their property, was a packed assembly, in the choice of whom the people had no real voice, and who, instead of guarding their property, became themselves their cruellest plunderers, never seriously disagreeing in any thing except in the division of the plunder; if, in a word, they becaine a gang of robbers instead of a body of faithful stewards, of what use were the should be a member of the House of Commons. And, surely, they were right. They wished not to destroy, but to preserve. They had been taught, by experience, that a kingly form of government, limited by law as to the extent of its power, was that which was most congenial to the temper of Englishmen. To the support of a kingly form of government they regarded an hereditary nobility, having its root in distinguished and acknowledged public services and virtues, as essentially necessary. These, therefore, they wisely resolved to maintain; but; they perceived, that, if the king was rendered absolute by the means of a" pen"sioned parliament," that, if by these silent means, he was enabled to seize on their property and to violate their personal freedom, at his pleasure, it was of no consequence to them whether the names and forms of freedom and justice were retained, or abolished. Indeed, they seem to have perceived, that it was, rather than other wise, injurious to retain them; for, that, to keep up the use of those names and forms, was to delude the people, and that it was better that the despotism should stand openly exposed to their execration. They saw, that they exposed themselves to great risk in an attempt to overthrow the base ty ranny by which they were oppressed; they were not without apprehensions as to the consequences of a struggle against such deep-rooted corruption, and, as clearly appears from all the authentic documents of that critical period, there were not a few amongst the most virtuous public characters, who hesitated between their hatred of the oppressors and their fear of producing confusion. They also had to encounter the caJumnious accusations of the innumerable swarm who fattened upon the plunder of the people; and, it was a fact not to be disgui sed, that, as the powers of the state, the mighty powers of the state, all the engines of accusation and of punishment, were in the hands of the tyrant and his advisers, the dangers to the first movers, even anticipating ultimate success, were of fearful magnitude. Yet, with all this before them, but considering that no great evil of any sort could ever be removed without some danger in the remedy, did our wise, our brave, and virtuous ancestors, undertake, and, through a long series of struggles, as well against legal hypocrisy as against lawless power, at last arrive at the time, when they saw the crown of these realms happily and safely placed upon the heads of the House of Brunswick, where, under the limitations so clearly settled by the constitution, and so essential to the freedom and happiness of the people, every good man must wish it to remain in undisturbed and unmaligned enjoyment. From this digression, into which I have been led by reflections arising from a perusal of my motto, I now return to the recent Westminster Election, to record the principal transactions relating to which, and more especially to record the principles of the electors and the elected, is my present object. I shall, therefore, begin by inserting the already published addresses of SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, the account of the ELECTORS' COMMITTEE, and the addresses of LORD COCHRANE. Sir Francis Burdett's Address to the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex on the Dissolution of Parliament. "Gentlemen ;-After what has late"ly passed in review before us, it is impossible to shut our eyes to the actual si"tuation of our country and as impossi under the pretence of Loyalty; and the "leaders of the Whigs, under the pre"tence of the Constitution; and the leaders of the Catholics, under the pretence "of Religion, are all evidently struggling "for one and the same object-a share of "the common spoil. Whilst the whole some Power of the Crown, the fair Li"berty of the Subject, and the real inter"est of any Religion, are all sacrificed to "the common object-Plunder. Of the "rights of the People at large, and of their "welfare and independence, not a sylla"ble is even whispered by any of these "factions and any attempt by others to "bring the People or their Interests into "consideration, is stigmatised as treason.— "In this desperate situation of our affairs "(for such I esteem it) I cannot consent to "become a candidate for any seat in Parlia"ment. With the omnipotent means of "corruption in the power of our spoilers, "all struggle is vain. We must wait for our redress and regeneration till corrup"tion shall have exhausted the means of corruption; and I do not believe that pe"riod very distant, the present ministers Proceedings of the Committee for conducting Sir Francis Burdett's Election. "The committee appointed by You to "conduct the election of Sir Francis Bur"dett, having found, with great pleasure, "that you have given the countenance and support of your vote to the nomination of "that illustrious friend to his country, beg "leave to congratulate you on the success "of your exertions in the cause of liberty, "and to present you with the following "Report. SAMUEL BROOKS, Chairman. "Britannia Cafee-house, 25th May, "1807." "Britannia Coffee-house, Covent Garden, 23d May, 1807. "At a meeting of the Committee appointed by the Electors of Westminster to con १ duct the election of Sir Francis Bur"dett, Bart. Mr. Samuel Brooks, in the * Chair; It was resolved That as those who are naturally the "enemies of freedom at elections, have endeavoured to misrepresent the circumstances under which was undertaken the enterprise that has led to the glorious result, for the purpose of celebrating which we are, with other friends of purity of election, about to be assembled, it is necessary that we make a record of those circumstances, and also of the progress of our efforts, together with a Declaration of "the Principles by which we have been, "and still are actuated.-We therefore De 66 66 to him to become a candidate for their city, at the then ensuing election.II. "That, to this application, Sir Francis Bur"dett answered, "That he thought it im possible for him to render any service to "the electors or to the country, and that to "become a candidate under such circum"stances was only to aid in the delusion." "That the deputation then asked Sir Fran"cis," Whether, if elected without his in"terference, he would accept the seat, and "attend his duty in Parliament?" To "which he replied, "Certainly, this is the " right way; electors ought to seek repre SINGLE VOTES 66 66 spirit of the electors, leaving them to fol"low the dictates of their own consciences, "and uniformly and decidedly, rejecting "every overture for a coalition, in what ever manner made, and from whatever quarter. proceeding.VI. That there "have been polled, at this election, "would not freely lay down his life to pre"servethe independence of his country, yet we hesitate not to declare, that we see no "danger to us so great, no scourge so much. σε 4 "house of commons, whose votes, not less "merciless, and more insulting, than a "conqueror's edict,, would bereave us of all "that repders country dear, and life worth preserving; and that, too, tinder the "names and forms of law and justice,"under those very names, and those very forms, which yielded security to the "From which it appears that 3951 "electors have given single votes at this "election; that 5271 electors have given "double votes, making together 8622 elec"torspolled at this election, and that in spite, to be dreaded, as a packed and corrupt "of all the weight of power, of undue and "corrupt influence, and of a calumniating "hired daily press, Sir Francis Burdett has "received as many single votes (within 7) as ALL the other candidates put together. "VII. That this result, while it is gratifying in itself, is still more so, when accompanied with reflections on that state of things, when the electors of Westminster, "attached to Names, and inattentive to "Prin iples, became the mere instruments "of the treasury, and of the great Aristo"cratical Families, who, by an amicable " compromise, each put in a member; and "thus, as to all practical purposes connect"ed with the elective franchise, had reduc"ed this great and enlightened city to a "level with the rottenest of the numerous "roften boroughs.-VIII. That, as to our "Principles, they are those of the constitu"tion of England, and none other; that it "is declared by the Bill of Rights, that one "of the crimes for which the tyrant James "was driven from the throne, was interfe"ring, by his ministers, in the election of "members of parliament; that, by the same great standard of our liberties, it "is delared, that the election of mem"bers of parliament ought to be free; "that, by the act which transferred the "crown of this kingdom from the heads of "the house of Stuart to the heads of the "house of Brunswick, it is provided, that "for the better securing of the liberties of "the subject, no person holding a place or pension under the crown shall be a mem"ber of the house of commons; that these 66 are our principles; and that, as we are "convinced, that all the notorious pecula"tion, that all the prodigal waste of the public money, that all the intolerable "burthens and vexations therefrom arising, "that all the oppression from within and all "the danger from without, proceed from a "total abandonment of these great constitu"tional principles, we hold it to be our "bounden duty to use all the legal means in "our power, collectively and individually, "to restore those principles to practice. 6.6 IX. That though we are fully convinced, "that, as the natural consequence of the measures pursued for the last sixteen years, our country is threatened with im"minent danger from the foe which Eng"lishmen onee despadang that, though "we trust the of us who persons and property of our forefathers. "X. That in choosing Sir Francis Bur"dett as our representative and steward, we have, as far as rested with us, taken care to prevent the existence of such a "house of coinmons; that we trust our example will, when occasion serves, "have due weight with electors in ge"neral; and that, by our united "exer"tions, the blessings of the constitution will "be restored, the just prerogatives of the crown, as limited by law, secured; an"cient and well-earned nobility supported, "and the rights and liberties of the people "established upon solid foundations."XI. That this declaration be signed by the "chairman of the committee; and that they be published.-(Signed) SAMUEL BROOKS, "chairman." accordingly read.-Resolved unanimously, "that this meeting agrees with the commit"tee for conducting the election of Sir "Francis Burdett, in the declaration read "to them from the chair; that they concur "in the great constitutional points on which "the committee has founded its conduct; "and that they beg the committee to accept "their sincerest thanks for the communica"tion. Resolved unanimously, that an "anniversary of the glorious triumph of the "electors of Westminster, by the election "of Sir Francis Burdett, be held at this "house on the 23d day of May.—(Signed) "J. CLAYTON JENNINGS, chairman.-Re solved unanimously, that the thanks of "this meeting be given to Mr. Jennings, "for his discreet, spirited, and able con |