Olchanoni, 341 Reynosa, 462 Rhine, river, 310 Riga, 397, 404, 474, 493, 559 Robouilneki, 341 Romanoff, 374 Romanzo, 406 Manchester, 21, 210, 555, 596, | Oldenburgh (Duchy), 123, 148 | Rossien, 370 469, 676, 694, 754. Magaradas, 687 Magdeburgh, 397 Majorca, 338, 369 Malaga, 248 Mala, Jaroslaff, 760 Maliatoni, 317 Malioardslavitz, 733, 765 Malta, 108, 196, 369 609 Old Sarum, 247 Manresa, 337 Olmedo, 247 Mansfield, 208 Olmos, 688 Rossiena, 313, 316, 317 Russia, 116, 119, 141, 148, Rueda, 686, 693 Sabei, 381 Saint Cloud, 310 Saint Germains, 47 Saint Petersburgh, 153, 158, 189, 310, 377, 491, 573, 757, 766, 798, 817 Salamanca, 225, 237, 239, 240, 257, 289, 444, 706, 725, 752, 778 Paris, 14, 116, 119, 310, 538, Salta Naecka, 436 653, 666, 698 Samogitia, 314, 318, 349, 370, 373 San Dimas, 337 Sandwich, 356 San Olalla, 687 Scotland, 179 Monasterio, 687, 727 Monserrat, 324 Podubno, 439 Pointe Claire, 269 Segorbe, 338, 339 Sogovia, 248 Montreal, 269, 271, 475, 718 | Pokhra, river, 758 Morley, 213 Morbihan, 808 Moscow, 324, 503, 504, 573, 636, 641, 657, 728, 802 Moskwa, river, 496, 500 Mouchnicki, 317 Moultram, 214 Mozier, 374 Poland, 174, 203, 265, 272 Polotsk, 373, 376, 400, 410, 526, 761, 766, 794 Pollos, 240, 446 Ponevieji, 317 Poniewicz, 370 Porietche, 380 Port Malion, 261 Portugal, 108, 117, 203, 673, Slawkovo, 473 Prussia, 128, 119, 310 Puente de Douro, 247, 693 Quebec, 533 Queenborough, 2, 47 Rawdon, 211, 216 Slouboku, 372 Slousk, 372 Smolensk, 375, 579, 406, 409, 473, 506, 638, 661, 728, 757, 764, 819 Smoroghoni, 341 Sokolitschscha, 526 Soldars, 311 Soleinicki, 318 Sonderva, 315 Southampton, 174, 449, 481,514 Spain, 107, 117, 121, 140, 170, 203, 261, 673, 686, 706 Sorts of Bullion. July Aug. Portugal Gold PRICE OF BULLION per Ounce, in the London Market, during the Six Sept. Number of BANKRUPTCIES as announced in the London Gazette; from 15th May to 15th November, 1812. 0 5 7 6 5 8 0 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 00 00 0 0 6 640 6 6 0 6 606 6 in Bars... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N. B. The MINT PRICE, per Ounce, of the Standard Gold and Silver 663 Number of CHRISTENINGS and BURIALS within the Bills of Mortality, from 23d June to 22d Dec. 1812. 56' To July 21.. 571 August 15. 1012 686 Oct. 7 950 59 Average Prices of CORN, through all England and Wales, and of HAY, STRAW, and best FARNHAM HOPS, in London, from July to December, 1812, both Months inclusive. VOL. XXII. No. 1.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1812. 1] [Price 1s. "That the Election of Members of Parliament ought to be free."- -BILL OF RIGHTS. TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF BRISTOL. Gentlemen, LETTER I. Your City, the third in England in point of population, and, for the bravery and public-spirit of its inhabitants the first in the world, is now become, with all those who take an interest in the public welfare, an object of anxious attention. You, as the Electors of Westminster were, have long been the sport of the two artful factions, who have divided between them the profits arising from the obtaining of your votes. One of each faction has always been elected; and, as one of them always belonged to the faction out of place, you, whose intentions and views were honest, consoled yourselves with the reflection, that, if one of your members was in place, or belonged to the IN party, your other member, who belonged to the OUT party, was always in the House to watch him. But, now, I think, experience must have convinced you, that the OUT as well as the IN member was always seeking his own gain at your expense and that of the nation; and that the two factions, though openly hostile to each other, have always been perfectly well agreed as to the main point; namely, the perpetuating of those sinecure places and all those other means by which the public money is put into the pockets of individuals. [2 sions of Mr. Hunt compared with those of Sir Samuel Romilly. As to the first, you will bear in mind, Gentlemen, how often we, who wish for a reform of the parliament, have contended, that no member of the House of Commons ought to be a placeman or a pensioner. We have said, and we have shown, that in that Act of Parliament by virtue of which the present family was exalted to the throne of this kingdom; we have shown, that, by that Act, it was provided that no man having a pension or place of emolument under the Crown should be capa ble of being a member of the House of Com mons. It is, indeed, true, that this provi sion has since been repealed; but, it having been enacted, and that, too, on so important an occasion, shows clearly how jealous our ancestors were upon the subject. -When we ask for a revival of this law, we are told that it cannot be wanted; because, if a man be a placeman or a pensioner before he be chosen at all, those who choose him know it, and if they like a placeman or a pensioner, who else has any thing to do with the matter? And, if a man be made a placeman or pensioner after he be chosen, he must vacale his seat, and return to his constituents to be re-elected before he can sit again; if they reject him he cannot sit, and, if they re-choose him, who else has any thing to do with the matter? To be sure it is pretty impudent for these people to talk to us about choice and about re-choosing and about rejecting and the like, when they know that we are well informed of the nature of choosings and rechoosings at Old Sarum, at Gatton, at Queenborough, at Bodmin, at Penrynn, at Honiton, at Oakhampton, and at more than a hundred other places; it is pretty impudent to talk to us about members going back to their constituents at such With this conviction in your minds, it is not to be wondered at that you are now beginning to make a stand for the remnant of your liberties; and, as I am firmly persuaded, that your success would be of infinite benefit to the cause of freedom in general, and, of course, to our country, now groaning under a compilation of calamities, I cannot longer withhold a public expres-places as those here mentioned; but, what sion of the sentiments which I entertain respecting the struggle in which you are engaged; and especially respecting the election now going on, the proceedings of a recent meeting in London, and the preten will even the impudence of these people find to say in the case of those members, who, upon having grasped places or pensions, do go back to their constituents, and upon being rejected by them, go to some bo A |