tricts were never in more full employment is well known, nor our trade in a more flourishing state; while our ships are navi- gating every sea in a ten- fold proportion to those of any oilier nation. Gentlemen— The person I mean to propose to you is the son of your late worthy Representative, and the imitator of his virtues. Me has already sat in Parliament, and is of course acquainted with the business of ( he House of Compions. No man can be more loyal to his King, or a firmer friend to the constitution of his country. I shall therefore propose Charles Chaplin, Esq. of Blankney, as a ( it and proper representative for this large and respectable county. CONINGSBY W. SIBTHORP, Esq. said it had been justly observed that the duties o<" this day were the most im- portant which could attach to freemen— those of exercising the great constitutional privilege of choosing fit persons as represen- tatives in Parliament. The time which had elapsed since the dissolution of Parliament had been mentioned, had given op- portunity for canvassing the opinions of the great body of the freeholders; and although their sentiments were probably well known, yet he entreated them to come to a decision with minds unbiassed by party spirit, unprejudiced, and uninfluenced by passion. Whatever difference of opinion might exist as to the political line of conduct proper to be pursued by a representa- tive, all were agreed that it was their duty and their interest to elect an honest, independent Country Gentleman ; one whose heart was truly loyal to his King, and whose attachment to the Constitution of the country in Church and State Mas firm from principle. If a gentleman of vast and extensive property in the county, in the management and distribution of which, libe- rality and kindness had ever been most conspicuous to all within the sphere of it,— if an open and constant hospitality on all oc casions,— if every honourable and amiable quality which can adorn the man, the brother, and the friend,— if all these qualities of private life were an earnest of honourable public conduct, then would he ( Mr. Sibthorp) affirm that his honourable friend Mr. Chaplin was eminently qualified for the suffrages and the support of the freeholders ot Lincolnshire. Much had been said, and more would probably follow, about the country being reduced to ruin and slavery by the weak and profligate Admi- nistration ; but when he looked around, and saw the crowds of opulent landholders, rich yeomanry, and contented peasantry, assembled in the manner, and for the purpose of the present meeting, he would ask, was that a mark of slavery ? was that a sign of poverty and misery ? Till within these three years the country had been in a state of warfare, the long continued prose - cution of which, and the magnitude of the events connected with it, were unexampled in the annals of time. It was impos- c