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treatment of Mr. PAULL. The laid, for sixteen years, the Gren- . ardent struggle in Westminster villes have fairly quitted them; had brought out the whole truth, have gone off back to the enemy had laid all the motives of the and have taken the Wellesleys factions bare, had, in short, along with them! This is a real made the mass of the people deliverance to the Foxites. The hate the Foxites more than they Grenvilles think the contrary. had ever hated the Pittites. The They think, that, having committurning out was, doubtless, de-ted the Foxites; having mixed sired by the court; but, it could and messed them up along with not have been attempted, if the themselves; having pledged them Foxites had not rendered them-to so many things belonging to the selves so very odious as they did system; having bound them hand by their scandalous efforts to stifle and foot, they can now set them the charges brought forward by at defiance: and so they may, if Mr. PAULL. They did many the others hang off from the reodious things; indeed they could, coalesced as they were with the Grenvilles, do nothing contrary to the Pitt system; they were becoming just as much hated by the people as the Pitt-people had been, but, this perfidious conduct towards Mr. PAULL; this stifling

of his accusing voice, in which the Foxites became the prominent actors, did more than any twenty of their other acts to sink them for ever: and, accordingly from that day to this, they have been nothing: they have had no weight in the country: even when I was in Long Island I had more real influence than all of them put together. They might, indeed, revive now; for, at last, after having

formers. But we are now approaching towards a very different state of things from that which has lately existed; and if the Foxites do not choose still to be underlings, they will soon be what they would have been long ago, if they had not joined with the Grenvilles and the Wellesleys.

But, to return to that "decision of the House," which, CASTLEREAGH says "established the injustice of the charges" against the elder Wellesley, it is pretty clear what sort of a decision that was likely to be, after Mr. PAULL had been ejected, in the manner we have seen, from his seat in parliament: when both sides of the House, when OUTS as well as

kept them gagged, muzzled, over- INS, coalesced to keep the ac

the acquittal, even if there had been an acquittal, which, after all, there never was, as we shall presently see.

-Was this the "establish

euser out of the House, it is easy 494. to see what we ought to think of ing the injustice of the charges?" Certainly it was not. The charges never were examined. There was no trial; the accusation was quashed; the accuser had actually During the two or three months been destroyed, in the manner that that the parliament, out of which we shall presently see; but even Mr. PAULL had been kept, existed, after all this, the united factions, several efforts were made by LORD though there was nobody to call FOLKESTONE to renew the charges them to account, did not so far against the elder Wellesley; and, set all decency at defiance as to though he was not treated with the vote, that the charge, or any part rudeness that Mr. PAULL had been of it, was not well founded! And, treated with, every possible ob- it is with all this in his recollecstacle and opposition were thrown tion, with those terrible and notin his way. But, when the Pittites disproved charges in his mehad put out the Foxites and their mory, that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT associates, and had got a new par- is now ready to commit the liament, his lordship found a few Irish people to martial law in persons to assist him. He har-consequence of the superior tarassed the factions a great deal; lents, the wisdom, the honour, the till, at last, all joining together, discretion, the liberality and symPittites, Grenvilles and Foxites pathy of the Marquis Wellesley! now chained fast to the Grenvilles, And this is the man, who has a came to a vote in March 1808, band of ruffians incessantly en "That it appears to this House,gaged in accusing me of "incon"that the Marquis of Wellesley,sistency!" This is the man, who, "in carrying into execution the at one of his Rump dinners, in “late arrangements in OUDE, was 1818, said, in allusion to me, that, "actuated by an ARDENT whatever else he had been, he "ZEAL for the public service, had " always been a consistent "and by the DESIRE of provid-politician."

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"ing more effectually for the pros- As a further proof of this " "perity, defence, and safety of sistency," as the further means of the British territories in India." estimating the soundness of Sir See Register, Vol. XIII. page Francis Burdett's judgment, and

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the sincerity with which he now ducted in another manner; and declares, that, of all men living, was to cost the candidates nothe elder Wellesley is the fittest to thing. The whole was to be be entrusted to govern by martial conducted by a Committee, and law, we will now, before we come by the means of voluntary conto the eulogy which Dr. LUSṛING-tributions; a plan that was TON pronounced on the characters actually put into effect. But now of Mr. Whitbread and Sir S. Ro- comes the dismal sequel before milly, take a look at the sequel of alluded to. That Mr. PAULL was Sir Francis Burdett's conduct to- to be one of the popular candiwards the brave, honest and unfor- dates all agreed. Indeed it was tunate Mr. PAULL. looked upon as a thing of course. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, who had been defeated in Middlesex at

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looked upon this as a thing settled; and, in the time that had elapsed since the previous election, the

The city of Westminster having been so much disappointed and chagrined at being defeated by the previous election, was to be the factions in the, election of the other candidate. We all November 1806, greatly rejoiced at the dissolution of March 1807; and, at the election which took place in the following month of greatest intimacy had existed beMay. It is well known, that this tween these two gentlemen. Mr. election ended with the return of PAULL had dined almost every Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Sunday at the parties of Mr. Cochrane, Mr. Paull, Mr. Brewer Horne Tooke's; and, in short, Elliott and Sheridan having been greater intimacy could not well candidates, the two former a part

be. Thus was every thing going on smoothly. A general meeting, just at the approach of the election was held at the Crown and Anchor, to settle on the mode of collecting the money and of carrying on the business of the election, and of passing some resolutions, calling upon the country for assistance. To this meeting Sir

of the time, and the latter to the end. It was impossible to believe, that the people of Westminster did not wish to have Mr. PAULL. He had been nearly ruined in his finances by the former election, though there were such large contributions towards his expences. This election cost me nearly five hundred pounds. Francis Burdett did not come; The new election was to be con- but his brother came, and ́an

nounced, that Sir Francis would | RANE (after the duel) wrote to me not stand WITH Mr. Paull! for my support. My answer was,

This threw every thing into that I never would desert Mr. confusion. PAULL, indignant at PAULL. It is curious, but strictly the insult, proceeded to the true, that I never was what is BARONET, challenged him, fought called an acquaintance of this him, and both were brought into gentleman. I knew him merely the town wounded in the morning! as to public matters. Did not like A hue and cry was set up against his company. His manners and PAULL as an assassin. Wealth habits were wholly contrary to prevailed; Burdett got his election, my taste. But, he was an intimate and Paull, after long and excru- of Sir Francis Burdett, whichciating suffering of mind as well made the origin of the breach the as body, put an end to his life in more unaccountable. The draw ing up of the Charges was first assigned to Dr. Laurence, and was then assigned to me, under the correction, of the Doctor and Mr. Windham, who examined every part of them before they were laid on the Table of the House of Commons.

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a fit of despair. This was the only act of Mr. PAULL that I ever blamed. I would have stitched coats and breeches again, if I had been Mr. PAULL; and, if I had not got a seat in parliament at last, I should have had a seat on a shop-board, and have lived to

The date of the Registers will show, that I had not been in London for months when the duel took place, and that I did not come to London till after the election was

laugh at the Baronet in his present state, to see him abandon his reforming principles, to see him apologize for not going a hundred miles to a Whig-dinner, and to see him eulogize the Mar-over. The motive for Sir Francis quis Wellesley! Burdett's casting off Mr. Paull

During the whole of these trans-was not then, nor has if ever been, actions I was at Botley. After explained, except by the subsethe duel I took no part. Great en-quent conduct of that same Sir deavours were made to draw me Francis Burdett towards every forth against Mr. PAULL; but, let man who has been likely, by his any one look at the Register, Vol. activity and talents, to outstrip XI, page 966, and he will see how him in popularity. Mr. PAULL fair a part I acted. LORD CоCH- might have been got over; but,

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after having witnessed his conduct putation and influence. Hence it towards Mr. Wardle, Lord Coch- is, that he has always had some rane, and Major Cartwright, who little insignificant thing to put forcan doubt? If I am asked, how ward for the second seat in WestI came not to discover this sooner;minster; and, there can be no how I came not to discover it, till doubt, that he declined standing the Baronet attempted to cover with Mr. Paull from a feeling of myself with his wet blanket; I envy. Mr. PAULL was really poanswer, that I did discover it; pular, and merited his popularity; aye, and as Major Cartwright and, therefore, he would not stand knows, talk of it too. But, does with him; that is to say, he would not many a man make unpleasant not let him be elected; for, he discoveries as to the propensities could not be, as things then of persons much more able to stood, without pecuniary support, affect his interest and his honour, and of that he deprived him. and yet not blazon the discovery What reason other than this could forth; nay, and put the best he have? Mr. PAULL was still face upon the matter too, and wanted in the House of Comrebut, if possible, any accusations against the parties, with regard to whom the discovery has been had been quashed by the Whigmade? At last we are compelled, dissolution. All the reasons for for our own sakes, in our own putting him in the House still redefence, to make the disagreeable mained; but, the Baronet, who truth known to the world; and had proposed him before, who had that was my case and the case of subscribed towards his election, Major Cartwright as to Sir Francis Burdett. He had pulled down, kept down, or, some how or other, nullified man after man, till, at last, it came to my turn. But, there he found his overmatch. It

mons to carry on the prosecution against Wellesley. The charges

who had so strongly urged the necessity of electing him, now would not stand with him; and, mind, announced this, too, at a moment when it was too late for Mr. PAULL to recover the blow. Mark, too, that, the times were changed as to the affairs of the Baronet. When he pushed on Mr. PAULL before, he had revenge..

has always been his rule of conduct to malign every man, whom he thought likely to outstrip him; may, to approach to an equality with him in point of popular re-to obtain for the slight, not to say

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