"The _Society for Constitutional Information_, held a meeting at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, on Friday last, where toasts of the most seditious tendency were drunk, and sentiments expressed which ought to send the speakers to Botany Bay. The number of seditionists who met on the above occasion, amounted to 300 persons; among whom were not to be found above three who possessed an acre of land in this country. They were men mostly in desperate circumstances, who had everything to gain, and nothing to lose, by a Revolution. They toasted success to the French, sung the _Marseillois treasonable Hymn_, and _Ça ira_, arraigned the justice of the law that had punished traitors in Scotland, Ireland, and England, and gave the health of those traitors. They abused and vilified the House of Commons, called the Royal Family, and the Nobility of Great Britain, beggars: said it was the interest of the people to join with those struggling in the cause against which our Country was fighting. In short they did everything short of _active rebellion_."--(_Times, May 5, 1794._) * * * * * "On a lamp post, in the Westminster-Road, is a paper with the Title of Public Notice, respecting some parish business, and immediately underneath it, is Sir Joseph Mawbey's late speech at Epsom. Two sailors stopping on Sunday to read it, when one had began, the other cried out--'Stop, Jack: you're wrong, don't you see it is _beneath_ Public Notice?' alluding to the paper above it: and they both walked away."--(_Times, Nov. 3, 1794._) A Reform Bill was sorely needed in the matters of Elections. "Election for _Launceston, Cornwall_. Candidates, Hon. Mr. Rawdon, Mr. Brogden. The numbers were as follows:-- Hon. Mr. Rawden and Mr. Brogden, 12. Dalkeith and Garthshore, 11. "This contest here was a hard fought battle between the Duke of Northumberland and the Duke of Buccleugh. Both parties have spent a great deal of money: but the former has carried the day."--(_Times, June 6, 1796._) * * * * * "_Shrewsbury Election._--The state of the Poll on Monday was as follows:--Sir W. Pulteney, 1607; John Hill, Esq., 834; Hon. W. Hill, 832. The Election, it is thought, will cost Sir Richard Hill £100,000. The expence to each party is about £1000 per day."--(_Times, June 9, 1796._) * * * * * "A certain new Member for a Borough in the West of England, is indebted to the family Jewels of his wife for bearing the expence of his Election. Not only her diamonds, but the greater part of her cloaths have been withheld. Those that were returned to her, would have disgraced her waiting woman."--(_Times, July 4, 1796._)