Colchester. Mum’s Hedge. Brightlingsea. White Notley. Earls Colne. Ongar Park. Gosfield. Messing. Sewers End. Rettenden. Littlebury. Danbury. Thaxted. Langdon Hill. Hatfield Broad Oak. Corne Green. Transport seems to have been the weakest spot in the military organizations, and a Committee sat both at the Mansion House, and Thatched House Tavern, to stimulate the patriotic ardour of owners of horses and carriages, in order that they might offer them for the use of the Government. A large number of job-masters, too, offered to lend their horses, provided their customers would send their coachmen and two days’ forage with them. There was in this year a very close election for Middlesex, between Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Mainwaring. The election lasted, as usual, a fortnight, and Sir Francis claimed a majority of one. This so elated his supporters that they formed a triumphal procession from Brentford, the county town, to Piccadilly, composed as under: A Banner, on orange ground, inscribed VICTORY. Horsemen, two and two. Flags borne by Horsemen. Persons on foot in files of six, singing “Rule, Britannia.” Handbell Ringers. Body of foot, as before. Car with Band of Music. Large Body of Horsemen. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT In his Chariot, accompanied by his Brother, and another Gentleman covered with Laurels and drawn by the Populace, with an allegorical painting of Liberty _and_ Independence, and surrounded with lighted flambeaux. A second Car, with a Musical Band. A Body of Horsemen. Gentlemen’s and other Carriages in a long Cavalcade, which closed the Procession. Was it not a pity, after all this excitement, that on a scrutiny, the famous majority of one was found to be fallacious, and that Mr. Mainwaring had _a majority of five_? a fact of which he duly availed himself, sitting for Middlesex at the next meeting of Parliament.