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canvafs if I should omit waiting on any freeholders, hope they will not attribute it to neglect, but to the want of a correct lift:

Mr. Serjeant Glynn's fecond
Addrefs.

To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of MIDDLESEX.

GENTLEMEN,

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IT is time I should return you my warmeft thanks for the generous encouragement you have given me, and the difinterested fupport I have met with in the course of a most fuccessful convafs. I am bound to you by the ftrongest ties of gratitude; and I promife to exert myfelf to the utmost, in order to ftrengthen and to vindicate fuch of your rights as have been already invaded, and to oppofe vigorously all fuch attempts for the future.

I am doubly bound to this, because your exertion in my behalf does not proceed from any family connections, from any perfonal acquaintance, or private favours, but from the great principles of legal liberty and conftitutional freedom. With fuch fupport I entertain the greatest hope of success; nor fhall any confideration make me lay afide thefe hopes, till the fheriffs fhall have finally clofed the poll at Brentford. Whatever may be the event of that day, whether I fhall be fo happy to be chofen your reprefentative, or not, I will endeavour through life not to disappoint your expectations; nor will I ever defect the cause of the people. I will perfevere ftedfaftly in my duty to my King and country, unawed by power, uninfluenced by any offer of interests or honours.

I must intreat thofe gentlemen to whom I have not yet made a perfonal application, to excufe the delay. It is my intention, the earlieft opportunity, to wait on every freeholder in the county.

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If I fhould omit any in the course of my convafs, I hope it will be imputed to the peculiar difficulty I find of getting compleat lifts.

Permit me to entreat the continuance of your favour, and your appear ance for me at Brentford on the day of clection.

I am, GENTLEMEN,

Your most obedient, and faithful

Humble fervant,

JOHN GLYNN.

Sir William Beauchamp Proctor's fecond Addrefs

To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Middlesex.

Gentlemen,

ITAKE the firft opportunity of acquainting you, that the election of a member for this county is now fixed

for

for Thursday the 8th of December; when I hope for the continuance of your friendship, and your appearance in; my favour at Brentford. The pleafing profpect of fuccefs, which I have realon to form to myself from the very generous reception you have given me in the courfe of a long depending canvas, will, I flatter myfelf, be crowned on that day with the diftinguished honour of being chofen a Fourth Time to serve the Freeholders of Middlesex in Parliament. To be entrusted by you, was the height of my ambition twenty years ago; and it is now my pride, that in a long period of fervices, there has not intervened a moment when I did not feel the warmest gratitude and attachment to

my conftituents. I have been true to my Sovereign, and to the caufe of the people. The spirit of Liberty, and not of Party, has guided all my actions: for conduct like this, I have now the approbation of my own heart, and if that approbation is ecchoed back by your voices at the enfuing poll, I fhall

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The full expofition endeavours to explain away the truth and power of this argument, by roundly affirming, on a pretended authority in the dark,

That when thefe papers were produced by parliament, as all that were in reality requifite to the point in quef-·· tion, a certain Right Hon. Gentleman further declared, that if any other were thought neceffary, the houfe would, upon a motion, be indulged with them. And then, with an air oftrium, cries out,-"What fay you now?” s

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Hark! you hall hear what can be faid, and what can be fid in truth. It was faid, "If any particular paper neceffary to the vindication of certain perfons be fpecifically moved for, it might be given."-What fay you now?

attend!The information in the full expofition is falfe. And the Right Hon. Gentleman's real declaration was received, as a captitious offer, with the contempt it deferved; feeing through its fallacy; becaufe it had been pofitively refufed to produce ALL

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