nued until they were in place. tility of those who had before Pitt, famously worked by me dur- been urging him on to prosecute ing the summer of that year, was the intended impeachment! Whitnot actually made sick by it per- bread, who had made such a fuss haps; but, the exposures we were about Melville, and who had been continually making with regard to as loud about Wellesley, became him; the manifestly altered opi- dumb. Sheridan and Francis, nion of the public as to his purity not only dropped their own proin money affairs; the approaching secutions, but even opposed Mr. public trial of his associate Mel- PAULL in his. Attempts were ville; all these had, perhaps, made, first to seduce him into something to do in hastening his an abandonment of his duty (see death, which, as it has turned out, the narrative, Register, Vol. 10. was a real misfortune to the p. 648), and next to bully him country, for he would have been from the discharge of it. All demolished and his system along opposed, or abandoned him, exwith him, long ago, if he had cept the following :— lived. However, die he did in a few days after the opening of the session of 1806, which took place on the 21st of January. Pitt died on the 26th of that month. And now that coalition took place, between the Foxites and the Grenvilles, which, in a few months destroyed the latter for ever as a party. The Grenvilles, who, in fact, were still as much as ever attached to all the principles and all the system of Pitt, were made the head; then came the Foxites; and the Addingtons (Pittites too) composed the tail! From such a ministry, what was Mr. PAULL to expect! He soon found, that he was to expect nothing but the bitter hos Lord Folkestone, Nevertheless, Mr. PAULL, as soon as the new Ministry was formed, in February 1806, began his motions for papers; and, before the close of that session, he had his Articles of Charge for high crimes and misdemeanors, lying on the table of the House, and printed. These articles are more than the well known truth. Still, however, Mr. PAULL was neither to be seduced nor fright, ened from his object. He baited the time-serving crew from one end of the session to the other; too long for me to insert here. | had abandoned the cause for the Indeed they would occupy more sake of place; and, in this respect than a whole Register closely Dr. LUSHINGTON has now said no printed. They are contained in Register, Vol. 9, page 885, and subsequent ones. As to these charges, I ought to know something about them; for, at the pressing request of Mr. Windham, I drew them up! It is impossible and, seeing, that he was daily and to describe them. They must be hourly bringing on the coaliread to know what they are. tion more and more of public But, this I can say, that I founded odium, they resolved to get rid of every allegation on documents him and his tormenting, if pos coming from the House of Com-sible, by dissolving the parliament, mons; and that Mr. Windham and taking care to keep him out examined every charge by those of the next; for, observe, every documents, and approved of them faction was against him, and, all, before they were laid on the table of the House. therefore, a purchased seat was out of the question: and how was he to get in for an open borough against all the weight, by all the parties, that would be brought against him! The parliament which had existed only four years, was dissolved in October 1806, and this put an end to the Charges, and to all the steps taken in the case of the Elder Wellesley! Therefore, unless Mr. PAULL could get a seat To have an idea of the treatment that Mr. Paull met with during this session of parliament, you must read Register, Vol. 9 all through. There were the Grenvilles and the Addingtons in the Ministry, and the Pittites in the Opposition, all uniting in open assault upon him; and there were the Foxites abandoning and betraying him! It was the foulest thing; the most scandalous scene in the new parliament, these ever exhibited in this world! Talk Charges would, in all probability of public men, indeed! who could drop for ever! To defeat the ever think of party after this? views of the combined factions, we That foul-dealer, SHERIDAN did (for I certainly had a great not scruple to confess, that he hand in it) resolved to try West minster for Mr. PAULL; and, now, great deal more: he gave a thou 66 sand pounds towards the expences of the election; he was Chair we shall presently come to the part Sir FRANCIS BURDETT acted then, and be able to compare it man of the Meeting to concert with the part he acts now. Be-measures for the support of Mr. cause 'inconsistency" is a great PAULL; and, all these efforts of crime, you know, reader; and, his were, as the reader will intherefore, this is a capital point! stantly see, grounded on the de Mr. Fox was now (October 1806) sire to see Mr. PAULL elected, in dead. Lord Percy (now Duke of order that the prosecution of WelNorthumberland) had succeeded lesley might not be dropped! On him in Westminster. But, now the 30th of October, 1806, a Meetthat there was a tug coming, that ing was held at the Crown and Lord declined. Lord Gardener Anchor, for the purpose of furwho had been Mr. Fox's col-thering the election of Mr. Paull, league also declined. So that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was the there were two fresh Members to Chairman, and, upon that occabe chosen. All the factions united sion he spoke thus: "Mr. Paull and put up Sir Samuel Hood" claims and deserves the support and Sheridan to keep out Mr." of every man in the community. Paull, who had the hearts of the" I will state, as briefly as I can, people with him decidedly; and," the merits of Mr. Paull's conafter all, was really elected; but," duct; and I am sorry to say by acts of villany such as never "that he stands as a singular inwere heard of before, was finally "dividual in the present time, on deprived of his seat, and the account of his adherence to Admiral and Sheridan were re- 'public principles; of his purturned. But, let us see the part suing oppressors; of his bringthat Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then" ing accusations against alleged acted, and the opinion he then "delinquents; and all this under entertained of the character of "such singular disadvantages; that very Wellesley that he now "that I will be bold to say, withwould entrust with the governing" out compliment to him, few inof Ireland by martial law. "deed would, under the same SIR FRANCIS BURDETT pro- "circumstances, have adhered to posed Mr. PAULL at the hustings "the cause of public virtue in the at Covent Garden; but, he did a 66 same manner as Mr. Paull has, done.-(Great Applause.)" that for these reasons only, "Every art and trick that could "being engaged as he is against "be employed to create obstruc-“ a great álleged delinquent, and "tion, or to present all sorts of " being proscribed from all places 66 opposition to the object of Mr." except those that are populous "Paull, open or underhanded," and independent, he has a claim "to prevent him from pursuing " upon your integrity—with your "that object, were exercised," assistance he will stand upon a "either to cajole or terrify him" rock, from which he cannot be "from the pursuit of it; but they" removed; and this consideration "all proved unavailing. But what" is of the utmost importance, for "is the strongest recommendation" he alone can do it with effect; "of Mr. Paull to your suffrages" nobody but himself can effec"is, that it has been a strong mo-"tually carry on the enquiry "tive with ministers, perhaps the" which he has commenced, and strongest, to dissolve the present "with your assistance he will be "Parliament, in order to stifle" a fulcrum, sufficiently powerful, "his voice in it—(vast applause)" perhaps to remove even the "for they are well aware, that" present broad bottomed ad"Mr. Paull cannot come into "ministration."-See Register, 66 "Parliament for money-he is a "proscribed person amongst those "who have seats at their disposal. Vol. X. pages 678 and 679. This was the speech; but, at the "He cannot come in again to per- very same time, Sir FRANCIS "form what he has so nobly begun, 66 he BURDETT proposed to the Meeting a resolution in these words: by any means but those of the "independent exertion, by the un-" That in the parliamentary con"corrupt and energetic support," duct of Mr. Paull, we have ob"of à popular election, such as "served a constant attention to 66 yours, and to which, I say, "his duty, a strict adherence to "has a right to look for support; " every promise made to the pub66 nor do I know where he can lic, a virtuous abhorrence of op"look with such well-founded" pressors and peculators, an in"confidence of success, as to the" flexible perseverance in the pro"public spirited and independent" secution of delinquency, a rare "Electors of this great and en- "instance of resistance to those lightened city. I say, therefore," temptations, by which so many "other men have been seduced any one to bring forward the "to betray their trust; and, that charges, was their committeeupon these grounds, it is incum-chairman; and Mr. SAMUEL "bent upon us, collectively and WHITBREAD, of whom Dr. LUSH“ individually, to use all the legal INGTON thinks proper to speak in " means within our power to se- such lofty terms, was their great cure his election, and therein spokesman at the election. PETER "to do all that rests with us to MOORE proposed SHERIDAN at the preserve our country from a fate Hustings, LORD W. RUSSELL se"similar to that of so many Eu- couded him; and this same Lord proposed SIR SAMUEL HOOD! So that here was a complete coalition 66 66 66 ropean states which have fallen "an easy conquest to the enemy, "only because the people had of all the factions against Mr. “neither property nor liberty PAULL; and, by all sorts of vile -See Register, means, an apparent small majority was obtained for Sheridan and Hood! "to defend.". Now, what can have changed so Thus was Mr. PAULL kept out; greatly the opinion of Sir Francis but, the triumph of the Foxites was Burdett as to Wellesley's cha- of short duration; perfidy had not racter? Was it that "decision" long to enjoy its success; for beof the "House," the ever-famous fore the end of four months, they House, of which Castlereagh wère driven from place amidst the spoke? Let us see, then, what joyous shouts of the whole nation, sort of a decision that was; first, and, before the end of five months, however, taking a glance at the the new parliament, which they conduct of the Foxites, in the had so nicely got together, was election to keep out Mr. PAULL. dissolved, and melted into air! SHERIDAN, the man they set up This was a day of great triumph against him, was the very man who to us, who had worked so hard for had (before he came into place) Mr. PAULL. It was a punishment pledged himself to be the prose- so just and so appropriate ! Never cutor of Wellesley. They came would that change of ministry and forth with all their might to pre- that dissolution of parliament have vent Mr. PAULL from again enter-taken place, had it not been for ing the House. PETER MOORE, the universal hatred that the INS who had before been as eager as had brought upon them by their |