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si be !Ii• !' . irocio 0 0 .24000. o 0 Zeit4.o 0 0 Collected iIUOIA7O 0 0 tapalacil ....,. 444131 13 51 I, l:l.—Cntleeted se 3 ti:: , 1.11/110t, 1r413 ti,ogion; It) tr . Dlteny seallunq .. 1814 . 3018 . . SZ4A - 311.1 Inls.—C4,lle<ted at —12072 11lidstammat 9, - ...51055, 1611 .... 4024 11-.4larltnas Senaloos 4024 I:c.l.l"any tirsolons.. 191 S .. 3019 i‘seelone sOlti —Collected at —14084 Nfr 4...nnwr Session+. 1815 .... 424 'J'~'~ar:mn~ afearbu~ .. 402 i _ ne 1%,,,i , Lar1y zit.i.laiiii.. IRlit ..... .. 4924 it k.ito 11 er SC.O3* .. .. ••• .... 40:!..1 iii;.—Coneeteel at eti Iliawrianer itrimioni. 1816 .... — 4024 16e96 ' tit m.a.tintas Merlon. ... .102.1 Kt Vi..iitiany Setsioui.. 1817 .... 40'14 Laker Se4sions 4t14 . I 4 .B.—Collected at - -Z:1111OC 7114.atamat $e .lone, IRI7 Ilacha•!ma. 8IPIA;0 , 111 •—• a.piplsmay 8e.•11.m... 1414 .... Laster Seasismi —1163 S —SISO 3 1.. interest and critical situation lei:seed them to endeavour to drown his voice by clamour, could for one moment hold up the heads and attempt to deny the truth of it. Sit T. LET It Salvor. asserted that the charges against the Tres. surer and the Slagiatrates were roost grossly false. 111 r. 312sscrta, the Tre..surer, in reply to 3lr. Hunt, headed in the following statement : I had hoped that the unqualified contradiction given in ow letter a the 22d of May, to Alt. henry milt-statement re. attesting the county rates, and which he suffered to retrain un answered far three weeks, would have sawed me the tmubic of ti oubling you further on that subject, as I defy him to disprove a single item of it. You will ohaerve that the expenditure in the yesrs 1814. 1.1., 16, IL and 111, was NOW. I'is. rid., the only point on a inch 31r. Hunt and myself agree. the states. Ify Statement. Collected. a. d. No. of Rates Con. a' a. d. lola 1401 • Iflntsfi 1816 1A47 1018 260 Collected ........ 4' MODS 0 0 Expended 4 .81031 13 51 Collected ended more than tlaaccoantSd for ...t15'..)33 G 31 cAlected.. e33 13 5i " Upon the variance between these two statements is the only irkettionat issue, so far as I urn individually concerned. On the hustings. at the nomination of she County Members, rat Bridgwater, Mr. Hunt thought fit to recur to his original state. 'cent, connecting it with his vulgar abuse of the other Candidates (our notch-esteemed late Members) end myself. as County Trea surer; and, to give colour to his audacious assertions, stated that he held in his hand three county-stork warrants, proving that a larger sum was collected in the year 11117 than I had acknowledged. I endeavoured to obtain a sight of these warrants to ascertain their dates and give the lie direct at the time to his assertions, which I knew the► would do ; but II:e s.ily orator knew better than to give me that fair opportunity, holding them together at the distance of reveal yards, and I was unable to read anything beyond the mere signature on one of them, of my late respected colle.fgue, Mr. Stone, the late Treasures of the Western Division. On the hua. zings I could do little more than by pledging myself to my former statement, observing that Mr. Hunt had never attempted to con. Indict it, and •that this tibriestul Staten:ant of his would pro duce (like most of his other proceedings) a triumph but of short duration. " After the meeting Mr. Hunt thought fit to vend into circuits don another letter or arldruf., dated the 12th i stain, In which, for the first time, he ventures even to make the attempt to confute my statement. As I slinuil be unwilling to do an injustice to Mr. Hunt's language, I extract from his gentlemanlike address two Pranges in his own words. The first is, Sow, gentlemen, I are no hesitation in des haring that .31r. Mcssiter's statement is most scandalously and glaringly false, and which statement he and the Magistrates of the county knew to be false, when they pub kilted it to the world.' •"I'he other passage in his Address But now, my friends. 1 hare ascertained, from the watrants issued under the hand of the Treasurer himself, that Messiter's statement is monody and wil furl. false. Only attend to the fallowing facts :—Mesaiter states, that to the year 1817 the sums collected only amounted to 16,096/. Now, by the warrants issued by the Treasurer himself, the sums collected in that year are as follows:—Fur the first quarter 4.0001.; for the second quarter 3,51d1/.; for the third quarter 7,042/. ; fir the fourth quarter COON/. Thus you will see, by his own warrants, that in the first three quarters alone he collected 16,542/. ; use 4461. more than he states he collected in the whole year. What think you of this, Men of Somerset ? By the Treasurer's own warrants, it appears he collected, in the year 1817, 6,4461. snore out of your pock as than he stated he did In this bare faced unblushing publication. What say you to this, Men of Somerset? I ask, again, when these abuses are to be rectified ? I boldly answer again—nevtr, till the Freeholders of Sons. rset elect one Representative of their own, unconnected with the Ma gistrates of die County. I offer myself, gentlemen to your notice as such a Representative, totally unconnected either with the Ma. gistrates or any other Candidate.' " I admit that the slims mentioned by Mr. !font, and even more. as you will perceive by my statement hereafter, were col leted; but front carrying these sums into years to which they 1:0 not belting, be is guilty of a groat and - wilful perversion of facts. Before entering into a detection of the fallacies practised, I must premise, that the county accounts had been for time imme morial stated from the Midsummer of one year to the 3lidsum mer of the following year; and at such 3lidsummer Se s sions, titen held at Bridgwater, the year's account was always made up, rated, examined, and audited by the Justices. This was the invariable practice until the year 1818, at which time a table of Car ar :Alai expenditure fur the preceding 60 years was made out for the infonnstinn of the county, under the superintendence of a most respectable end able Committee of Justices. consisting of tiir John Palmer Arland, Bart., Richard Thomas Combe, Esq., sod the late Francis Drake, Esq. In their R.-port, annexed to etch table, It the following passage:—' We take leave to represent to the Court, that it appears to its very desirable that the Trea surer's year of account should commence on the Ist of January, and end on the 31st of December of every year.' " This recommendation was tarried into effect in the year 1820, by making a half year's ataternent, from Midsummer. 5820, to 3lst December, 1820; and from that time only the year's account is made up to the 31st of December in each year. Another cir. cumstance may be mentiened, that a rate ordered at a Quarter Sessions is in a course of collrction by the constables until the following Sessions, and then paid over to the Treasurer, and cre dited it. his account. In his last address, Mr. Runt abandons a part of his original charge aqainst the 3lagistiates and myself, by reducing it from li,Bllll/. 6s. 6,;1. to the more modtrate, but not insignificant sum of ti. 1141., unaccounted for in 1817. This, perhaps, is :is much as could be expected front such a man, and were he alone concerned, 1 should not give myself one moment's trouble to answer any accusa tion from such a source. 31y object is to undeceive the freeholders, iuid I will therefore subjoin the quarterly collections throughout the years questioned, rewinding my readers that the first sum called a 3,0001. rate, collected at Midsummer 1813, WWI ordered at the pre ceding Easter Sessions. Ir I had been disposed to have acted, and tiik: Justices to have connived at, the base part alleged by Mr. hunt, fir =halloo or the fractional sums would have furnished an oppur tun'tF. ae .. d. Amount pd. dur ing Ude year.. 13,161 0 0 Amount pd. dur ing Ills year.. 13,569 IV 2 Amount pd. dur ing this year.. Id,*9 I II Amount pd. dar ing this per.. 19,031 10 G Amount pd. dur -114 this 'ear.. '21.140C 10 161 T.tol /" The fallacy of Mr. Hint's etatement most hence appear—com mon charity might dispose as to hope that he had fallen into error, trait the circumstance of the accounts having been heretofore stated from Midsummer vi Midsummer. but he cannot plead such excuse. bemuse the annual publicadon of the county accounts, and other sources of info:math - in, would have set hint right. I dare and defy hint to produce any one constable who has ever paid me one single faulting more than his doe proportion of county rates, and more 1141 is credited in my account. It is almost unnecessary to say, yet after such calumnies against the Justices. I may be excused for °keening to the freeholders and other payers of county rates, that not one farthing ever goes into the hands of the Justice.. The inn_ nits are paid by the comseibles to the Treasurer, and by the latter disbursed under order. trade by the Justices. " I will only remark in conclusion, that there is not one word of truth in the ,hole of Mr. Hunt's seeusatiun against the inagi3trates and myself ; but admitting, for argument only, it were others jar, `hat reference could it hare to the re-election of our old tried and 'orb] , Representatives for tbe county ? '• It is a disgrace. I confess, to have such a man as Mr. hunt even put in nomination for our county, but the spontaneous burst of te,tling which the insult leas excited, and the gratuitous exertions of ad ranks and profession., will put down this contemptible blacking maker, and send him back to his associates in trade, impressed with their appropriate motto—" Arc eater ultra rrepitiata." TUE STATEMENT ALLI:DED TO ■T MR. MESSIT ER 1N III! DEF E NC I. " MEN OF Sostenstv,-.inlb;Trery general canvass which I have made throughout our beautiful county, my most sanguine haws have been more than realized : I have met with the most grcifyirg promises of support from the whole people, and from a ‘^ry large mrlority of the fievholden of the county. In many in manors I hats received the voluntary mollies of the whole of the votes of the parishes which I have canvassed, with the exception of tLe dlagistrate. the parson, the attorney and their clerks : in fret, have, throughout the county, been received and treated more like hiuther than as a Candidate for your favours. I have endea voured. and willstill endeavour to sue, in person, every freeholder, rather collectively or Individually up to the day of polling at li r, ,ester, which takes place on Monday, the 19th inst., when I ii.iter myself that the freeholdera of this county will prove to the 'Fetid that they.e , e dmernitned to be free, and that they will exer vse their rug!lt of voting for the Dian of their choice, Gnawed by •Jirrlees power, uninfluenced eithev by intolerance or corruption. fientlemen you have only strike the iron while it is hot,' to promote the tinivraslfeel,ag which now prevails throughout your s.urty in t of Truth and Justic,, and your cause and mine II toren Drove triempliantf . . _ _ , tirat. ;Wert: , which I pul.linit , il, 1 stated some circum. maces relat're to the collection a- I expenditure of the money raon from icar pewhets in the Ouu, of (:aunty Rates, wherein it pnesred that forge soma were colicc:cd, 1:1"re than the Treasurer d the Magistrates azenanted for. Sire. that time a contradictory I.:JOUJOU has been published, ar..t umirrnally circulated, by Mr. [Malt Meagher, the Trimmer of the County, and he has put forth it statement of the sums colleved in the years 11114, 15, if,, 17. and 118. making it appear that, instead of his having collected large sums more titan were expended, that he attuslly advanced to the county, in that period, NV/. 13s. hid. Now, Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in declaring that Mr. Messiter's statement is most ..candalotisly and glaringly false, and which statement he ard the Magistrates of the county knew to be false when they published it to the world. When I first read this contradiction to my statement, I own I thought it possible that I might have been misinformrd, although the statement I made was taken from the papers laid be fore the Commissioners of llchcster Penile Inquiry, and subse quently were laid by me before a Committee of the House of Cons mope, W'm. Dickinson, Esq, in the Chair, without its correctness ever having been disputed or contradicted. But now, my friends. I have ascertained, from the warrants issued under the hand of the Treasurer himself, that Measiter's statement is gtossly and wilfully false. Only attend to the following facts i-31essiter states, that in the year 1817 the sums collected only amounted to 16,096 f. : now, by the warrants issued by the Treasurer himself, the I sums collected in that year are as follows: for the first quar. ter 4,0001.-10 r the second quarter 5.54/01.—for the third quar. ter 7,1142 f.--for the fourth quarter 8,0001.' Thus you will see, by his own warrants, that in the first three quarters alone he collected 16,5421. ; just 44ra. more titan he states he collected in the whole Tear. What think you of this, Men of Somerset ? By the treasurer's own warrants, it appears he collected, in the year 1817, 6,446 f. more out of your poclicts titan he stated he did in this bare faced unblushing publication. That say you to this, Men of Somerset ? I ask again when these abuses are to be rectified ? I boldly answer main—never! till the freeholders of Somerset elect one Representative of their own, unconnected with the Magistrates of the county. I offer myself, Gentlemen, to your notice as such a Representative, totally unconnected with the Magistrates or any other Candidate. If you do me the honour to place me in the high and connnanding situation of being one of your Represents fives, I can only say, that my life and best services shall be devoted to the honest and bald endeavours to do you justice within the walls of the House of Commons. In soliciting the distinguished honour of your crowding to the poll at Ilchester, on the 19th instant, to support me by your votes, "I remain, Men of Somerset, " Your faithful and obedient Servant, " H. If t NT." The polling commenced at nearly four o'clock, and concluded at eight, when the slumbers appeared as follow 31 . Dickinson - . 419 I Mr. Hunt .04 Sir T. Lethbridge . - 399 31 . HI: ter addressed the crowd at the conclusion of the poll, and stated that his friends would crowd to the poll next day. PRESTON ELECTION. MONDAY Dlonxixo, JUNE 19. The good town of Preston appears to have been visited, even be fore the time of (lobbed, by some of the most dubious personages of our history—the brutal henry Vlll.—the despotic James I.— the usurper Cromwell—the unprincipled James 11. the year before the Revolution—leis adventurous son, the elder Pretender, who, in 1715, was crowned James the Tided in the very market square in a hieh Cobbett harangues his evening mob—the young Pretender of 1745 (the weak Charles Edward)—llenry Ilunt, the impudent blacking politician of IC2o—and, to culminate the climax. comes William Cobbett in 1112 G, centring in himself all the bad passions and principles of all his predecessors. As it would be idle to speculate any further on the probability of his success, I shall give you some facts which will illustrate his character mote clearly than all the rhetoric in the Register. He started by agreeing to every arrangement suggested by the Mayor, and assented to by the other candidates, and afterwards !stoke every one of hit engagements. He said at first th a t the only friend he had on the htt tinge was the Mayor: he then ac cused him of partiality ; he praised the liberality of Mr. Wood's principles in the beginning, and then called him a deceiver, and no reformer; he abused Captain Barrie as • Government tax-eater. sent by the Courier to keep him (Cobbett) out of Parliament, and afterwards compli,nented him, and offered to coalesce with him—the Revolutionist would aid a Tory! I At setting out he lauded 31r. Stanley and concluded by heaping on him the vilest ridicule —he extolled the Reporter of one of your London contemporaries as a person of most favoured faculties, in vited him is his committee room, and called the assertion of a Re porter " the best authority that could be got ;" lie then turned him out, and designated his Paper " the datnn'd lying Ileraldi"—be has solicited electors to break their promises to other candidates, and cursed them for refusing—be makes his rabble join Capt. Bar , rie's colours, takes the Captain's drink, sends them up to vote in the Captain's tallies, and then whistles them back to himself; by this paltry scheme he obtained four votes nut of his turn on Satur. day--he Induces the lower order of the Catholics to present them selves to vote for hint under the false autlinrit• of a certificate frau dulently obtsiaeii; an act which their priests have denounced as one of perjury itt morals and religion. To follow him through all the mazes of his fraud and falsehood would he a pursuit as endless as disgusting. The whole court se of his conduct, from the first day of the dation, has been one continued system of ttickery, faithless ness, and deception—the assertion of falsehoods—the suppression of truth—the exaggeration and perversion of facts--prevarication the mast palpable—paltry stratagems—unfair advantage.—insincere profeseione—ingretitude—inconsistency—subornation of treachery —the grossest viecions of common decency—the most furious fits of passion—vintlent abuse of all persons and parties, friends as well as foes—and the most direct attempts to pervert the understandings. and inflame the feelings, and rouse to action the physical force of his thousands of ruffian supporters. 'fide conduct has not escaped the observation and censure of his opponent. ; they have met every stratagem of his by a counter-manastivre ; they have defeated every trick of his; they have exposed every scheme. Of the squibs against hint the following is the most pointed, and not the least just : " Electors of Preston,—Forget all the former deeds of William Cobbett, and consider only what he has said and done since he en tered your town, and I ant sure pia will agree with me that you never met or heard of, in public or private. a man who perpetrated. in the course of a long life, so litany base and mean acts of falsehood and deception, as the Serjrant. Major hat been guilty of in the short space of the last ten days. If he had never defrauded his creditors, if he had nev r swindled Burdett, never cheated Clement, never attempted to leave his bail (Dolby) to pay his (('obbett's) dot; if he had never betrayed any man that trusted him, never con tradicted every opinion he hail advocated ; never attacked every party he had supported ; never abused every acquaintance he had praised; if the rotten skeleton of his dead character were exhumeteil (like Paine's bones) from die crave of public infamy. and bleached on a gibbet, and animated afresh, with a new and pure spirit of life, moral and political; if, in fact he had ceased to be William Cobbett of the Register; if he were unmated, and returned to existence in a totally different shape, and name, and reputation. and thus appeared before ye, unstai d, unsuspected, unknown, 1 assert again, that his conduct, since the opening of the election, has been such as would re-damn him for ever to the public detestation and contempt of every honest man of every party." Pretty strong this, but not more strong than true. Ile is • regular brute in his conduct and matinees. The town of Preston has had a narrow escape from him. Captain Barrie's assertion was most true—" If I cannot accomplish my first object, the return of ,myself, I shall, at least, have done a service to Par liament and the country, by keeping Cobbett out of the [louse of Commons. It I hail not come down, he would have beaten Mr. Wood, and been elected the second Member." And so he would—for this reason, the Candidates that first appeared were Mr. Stanley, a Bldg, Mr. Wood, a reformer, and Cobbett. The corporation and influential manufacturers bring Tories, saw little difference between the politics of Mr. Were! and Cobbett, and neither telt any interest, nor took any part in the contest. Cob ben had got a name among the workmen ; they considered him " the poor man's friend ;" they were delighted by his speeches, abounding with sarcastic and humorous attacks on the rich, and humbugging promises of assistance to the poor. Wood neither harangued so ably nor promised so much. The men ware left by their masters free to vote as they pleased. Cobbett was their idol. They constituted the majority of the electors, and would, 1 beyond all doubt. have elected Cobbett. But the arrival of Captain 1 Barrie changed the face of things—he was a Tory. The corpora tion and wealthy merchants seeing the chance of electing a mem ber of their own politics, instantly awoke from their supine indif ference, and actively exerted their powerful influence in eon port of him; the result is, that he is as high on the poll as Wood, and stands above Cobbett by nearly a hundred votes, which hun dred votes, if Captain Barrie hail not come, would have been given by the workmen to their favourite Cobbett ; and this mei°. rity would have enabled him to beat Wood, and secure his own return. These are the circitmetances which have towed the House of Commons, and the daily press of London, from the disgrace of being made the vehicle of Cobbett's inflammatory ha. rangues and revolutionary opinions. But this was not all—his suc cess would hare been as dangerous !o the peace and order of this town and neighbourhood as it would have been disgraceful to its reputation. This will appear most clearly from an extract of 'lr. Canning speech, at 31ancliester, in the year 11112. "In this county 'Lane %shire) it was thought that the spirit of discontent psi. tipsily re veiled. It was known that you were suffering under gee's, ..... e ..evous privations ; it was thought, sincerely thought, 1 have no doubt, by some people of great ability, that you owed your sufferings to the misconduct of Government, and not to those causes which have overwhelmed other nations, and affected our own ; it was hoped that by no very great exertion of talent, you might he led to look for the remedy of your sufferings( and privations, in changes of due internal and external policy of the country. Could those principles have been successfully disseminated among you, a standard might have been planted, around which commerce and manufactures might have rallied against the Government." This is precisely the condition of the county at the present moment. The 'fferings of the working classes are "great and grievous." " The spirit of discontent prevails" among them ; it is thought they " owe their sufferings to the misconduct of liovern ment." The multitude" have been led to look for a remedy of their euffeliogs and privations in changes of the policy of the enuntry." " These principles have been successfully disseminated among; ' them." " A standard has been raised, around which manitfac• t turere have rallied against the Government." That standard has r been esised by Cobbett—raised—b u t not planted ; the defeat of , his elettieneering scheme has struck it down again: but if he had . I been rettan:d to Parliament, he would have photo] it in Preston, 11/4E BRITISH PRESS. in Manchester, in Liverpool; In every manufacturing district of England. As the professed advocate in Parliament of the cause of operatives, he would hare made connexions with, and obtained an influence over them, which, though his want of all pi ineiple would prevent hint from producing a moral erred on the system of public measures. might, in time* of popular distress and discontent, enable him to inspirit and direct the schemes of the malcoments, and to em. ' harm% the administration of the day. From this danger the Govern anent her been saved by the spirit of Capt. Barrie, and the respect. able inhabitants of Preston. I told you Cobbett's supporters were the lowest oldie rabble; an extract from the examinations of the voters will give a fair ides of their quality. An elector comes to be polled ; he wears a ribband knot of a certain colour ; the colour thews for which Candidate he Intends to vote ; • residence of six months being the sole qualification necessary to give hint the pri. vilge of voting, it is incumbent mettle opponent of the voter's fa vourite, to attempt to invalidate his viOte by showing that the voter ha. not resided six months in Preston ; this the Advocates try to elicit by crn.s.examination. Where did you live before you came to Preston?—At Man chester. _ flow long ego is that ?—Seven months. Did you not go back to Manchester since?—No. Your wife lives in Alanchester—did you not go to see your wife since?—No. _ _ . What ! not go to see your wife? be d—d sorry. Not see her for sin months ? No, nor never will. lilairoa—For whom do you rote? Colkett—a plumper, ye tyrants! ( H urrah !) Another enters : A nvocaTE—How do you know it Is six months since you came to Preston ? P hare it down In writing. Oh, the date—a cas!i account I suppose ? I a sort of a cash account. What sort? This—when I came to Preston first, I hail not a shilling so I pledged my waistcoat rnd other shirt (by the same token shilling release them since.) This is the pawnbroker's du plicate the day of the month is to it ; just six months ago. Correct !—for whom do you vote ? The poor man's fri d Cobbett—a plumper. (Hurrah !) A third, susnected to he a Catholic : Are you a Roman Catholic? Nn. What religion are you ? No religion at all. What ! None at all ? None. Cobbett's A uvocATE—Oh, the man means he belongs to no sect. MAYOR—HO you attend any place of worship ? No. Have you ever attended any ? Yee, 1 used to go to hear the ranters. An ADVOCATE—Iie means Mr. Cobbett's ranting in the market. place. MAvon—Are you a Christian ?- I hope I am. Advocate—l submit, Mr. Mayor, that this man, not being of any religion, does not believe in the Divine character of the New Tes tament, on which lie has taken the MOO against Supremacy. Now if he does not believe in it, he cannot believe the oath he took to be binding on his conscience ; in fact, to him it is no oath at all ; he is hercfore not entitled to vote. M A YOR—(TO voter)—Do you believe that you may be punished hereatier for taking a false oath ? I do. That's enougb—l'll admit his vote. For whom do you vote ? Cobbett—a plumptr. A fourth : ADVOCATE—What arc you? A gentleman. flow long have you been a gentleman ? These nine years. What were you before that . A bricklayer's labourer. What are you now ? A gentleman. What is your wife ? A green grocer. Mayon—HOW thew can you call yourself a gentleman ? Why not? I follow no trade. But your wife Is a green grocer ? What has that to do with It ? —sure, my wife is not going to vote. I can't let you vote under that designation : go back to the Com missioners. and make them insert some trade in your certificate.— rem can then come back and vote. Voter—l won't. Then I can't let you vote under the denomination of a gentle man. Voter—You won't. I wont. Voter—Then I'm d—d if I vote at alL—( Exit in a huf) MONnAY, TWELVEO.CLOCE. At the sitting of' the Court this morning, M. Wood re.appearcd on the hustings, dressed in deep mourning. Mr. Cobbett also mounted, and instantly protested, as usual. against the barrie which had been erected, or wood hustings, io prevent the promi . cuous rush of the mob to the spot where die electors stand white giving their votes. The MAYOR—I will not remove the barriers ; they are produc tive of great regularity.—Aye, but those separate barriers distin guish the voters for each Candidate. You know those who come up to vote for me. _ _ The .MAYOR—I do not. I know nothing of those who come u . I know no parties. lam satisfied with the oprightreac of my own conduct. I have decided to the best of my judgment and that of my brother Assessors. I have derided cases in your favour, and that with the disapprobation of the other Candidates ; and this I have gentlemen to prove. Mr. Conran—But why not remove these barriers, these forti fications that shut nut my voters? The MAYOR—III not hear any more of it. The Candidates were the persons who arranged them, not I. Att a t sso hs (to Cubbett)—The barriers were erected at your own request. The Maroa—They were approved by all the Candidates, and shall not he altered now at the caprice ttf any man. I have been accused of prejudice against Mr. Cobliett. Now, I appeal to that gentleman (Mr. Foster, one of Mr. Cobbett's friends), whether he did not thank me for decisions given by me in Mr. Cobbett's favour. I appeal to you. Sir. FOSTER (a Radical weaver)—You appeal tome—it's very odd— I can say I dislike some of your decisions. The MAYou.—Winch of the Candidates is there that dislikes some of my decisions; those decisions which were given against themselves. . ConeETT.—First you made the voters come up in tens, thent,in fours and now by ones. Oh, I see how it is. The MAYOR.—Go on with the polling; herr no more. An ELECTOR speak on behalf of the independent electors of Preston. The polling has been procrastinated. Alr. Cebbett aays he is a friend to unixersal suffrage, yet he wanted the time of poll inn, by his long speeches, in such a manner, that the 15 days will go by, sad many of the electors will not be able to vote at all ; the Pniling is procrastinated by him. The Mmroa—Yes, by Mr. Uobbett. CON•ETT—WiII rim . take down the barriers? The 3IA ! I'll hear no more from you. Begin the polling, and it' any man interrupts it let him take the conse quence. Cobbett, unwilling to take the consequenses of interrupting the Court, sat down, and then left the hustings. The polling, in consequence, proceeded with regularity. State of the pull at half-past three, Monday, June 19. NINTIL DAY. lion. G. Stanley . - 1,110 1 Captain Barrie - 620 Mr. Wood . - 633 1 Mr. Cobbett - 512 Moxiaaw, HAI.F.PAST FOUR. Barrie and Wood, at this time, stand exactly the same number on the poll. The following are the numbers : Stanley • - 1153 I Woad . . 65/ Barrie • . 851 Cobbett - 523 Co l'E N TRY ELECTION. EIGHTH DAY, MONDAY, JUNE 19. This Election terminated to-Jay in a most unexpected manner The Tory, or, perhaps we should more properly say, the Indepen dent party, Messrs. Eyler and Ileatlicote, had for several days polled almost exclusively, till they had obtained so considerable a majority, that it was thought impossible fur Messrs. Moore and Ellice to be able to equal them, even if they were to poll all the re maining freemen. This, however, did not prevent those Gentle. men from persevering In their exertions; and such were their arrangements, that to-day they stated it to be in their power, and to be their intention, of polling sufficient numbers to give them a majo. rity on the aggregate amount of rotes. The poll commenced at the usual hour, and the hustings were soon after surrounded by weavers, and others of that class, who enjoy the right of franchise. As the wearing of colours is in a great degree dispensed with, it is impossible for a stranger to know to what party they belong, says by their conduct. This, however, was very intelligible; for at the right end of the bcoth, and close to the place where the freemen come up to vote, there were assembled as many persons of the above description as the confined space would admit of, amounting to some hundreds, and there they amused themselves by singing songs,jeering good-humouredly at Messrs. Moore and Ellice's voters, as they came up in great numbers, crying omit, "It is all up," and joining together in a loud and repeated chorus of " To-nislit we'll merry, merry he, For Ellice is done over. In addition to this, there were three drums and three fifes within two yards of the hustings ; and amidst this din of noise was the business of the election conducted. The p.. 11 went on till about half-past eleven o'clock (at which time Moore and Ellice had a majority o' 87 on the day's poll) with no particular interrup tion except the noise ; but just at this time • young weaver, named William Treen, came up to give his vote. A general movement then took place, in order to watch his conduct ; but there was no attempt to molest MM. One person placed himself by his side and looked hint intently In the face, to whom a gentleman belonging to Eyler and Heatheixe'l party, observed " Don't hurt the man, let him give his vote quietly." Treen seemed to have s strung feeling 1 acting within hint, and a determination to give his vote his own 1 way. The other kept his eye on hint, and said " bet us see who he TRIM for first." Something was expec t ed to tollow after such an I observation, which was often repeated. The man was sworn, and on being asked for whom he voted, he said with a loud voice— " Ellice. a plumper." The rush upon hi m w a s Instantaneous hut coat was torn from his back, and it was with the utmost effort that he succeeded, by the help of the constables , in climbing the front of the hustings, and thereby getti n g out of the reach of the populace. Mr. Moods and Mr. ELLICE, with their friends, protested against suck conduct, and declared they would no long.! keep open the pro. • They then left the hustings, telling the Sheriffs to take any more votes at their peril. s The ni4)otite party arigned as a reason for their conduct to Tretn, that he was a turn.coat; that he hsd jor:td their party, and partaken of their ehrer, Curing the whole of last week, and that now he basely turned from them. Treen did not deny this, but stated that he writ induced to act an he had done by the ill conduct of his former partizins to wards him. The Sheriff; continued to poll until two o'clock. and every thing passed se quietly as could be desired; when Messrs. Moore and Ellice sent in a formal document, signed by several freemen, declining to collie to give their votes, assigning as a reason that they were intimidated by the conduct of die opposite party. As soon as this Was received, the Sheriffs declared the poll to be closed, anti announced the numbers to be as follows, amidst the most enthusiastic cheering : Heathcote - 1,5351 Ellice . 1,242 Eyler - - 1,5221 Moore - 1,182 The Candidates were then attended by !several hundreds of per sons to their Inn, from the windows of which they addressed the people. Ale. HEATIICOTE first Came forward, amid the about , of the multitude. They had now placed him, he observed, by their favour and kindness in the distinguishing and gratifying situation of one of their Representative; in Parliament. A situation the most honourable that an English get.tiettian could aspire to, but involving, lie was well aware, much and an awful responsibility. lie had seen enough since lie came to Coventry to convince him of the strict account which lie should one day have to give up to them ; hut he should not fear i!, f.r, relying en his cwn honourable intetitioits. lie should also rely upon their candour and liberality. (Loud cheerr.) Now the contest was over, he trusted that all feeling of asperity and minim, if any such had existed among them, would die away. (Cries of ss Very good.") In this free country dray were all members of one great family, and links in one great chain; nor could any one of thole links be injured but the wh, le would be paralyzed. (Cheers.) Lra the masters and men both bear this equally in mind. Neither could do without the other, and both would best consult their own interests by adopting a feeling towards each other of kindness and con cilistitm. (Cheers.) If any thing mild embitter his feelings at this moment of so great and glorious and proud a triumph. it would be the idea that any individual among them should suffer on ac count of the vote he had given to him snd his colleague. But he persuaded himself that this would net be the case. fie was satis fied that no master, whatever lie might have threatened in the warmth of the contest, would dare to act, now it was over, uppers() dishonourable, so disgraceful. and so unmanly a principle. He Itad adverted to this topic with relactance, and lie hoped with mo deration. Ile would not say more upon it. because lie trusted that R Word to the wise was enough. Ile could not have been contented to have said less, because if he had done so, lie should have felt he had not discharged his duty to those of his poorer friends who had supported him on principle, and from the noblest and most gene rous feelings. Ile was quite overpowered with feelings of grati tude. He could have borne an up-hill fight f r the freedom and independence of his countrymen. bcratiae he hail borne it already ; but their kindness and unexampled favour shewn to him, and the unexampled success he had met with, quite ot eremite him ; he had no words to express his congratulations and gratitude, lie would conclude with one short sentence—lle had relied upon them, and had rot been disappointed, now let them rely upon hon. (Cries of " That we will," and much cheering.) Mr. FYLEO then came forward, and was received with much applause. He declared himself inadequate to express his gratitude to them for the honour they lied confdrred upon him. Ile deemed this to be the proudest day that Coventry ever witnessed. This day was the day of triumph of freedom and independence. Threats, bribery, and intimidation, had been resorted to by their opponents, to induce men to conic forward and perjure themselves to their God, and all foe what? To support the unmanly cause of slavery. They had been told that lie bad not abilities to represent them in Parliament. Would to heaven his abilities were only equal to his desire, and they should never complain of finding in him it zeulous, just, and obis Representative. (Cheers.) They had also been told that lie was treated with the contempt of all his voters. He would repel the word contempt in the face of his enemies. But he felt moat indignant that his opponents should have been so base as to attempt to poison the minds of the writers of the public press, and to dare to insinuate that the freemen of Coventry were blackguards, and the contempt of society. The eyes of all England were upon them this day ; and when they talked of a reform in Parliament, he would say, let them look to Coventry. (Cheers.) It was the people who should effect a reform in Parliament. (Cheers.) Let every freeman in the country think and speak as freely as they had done at,Coventry, and they would hear no more coninlaints of rotten boroughs. They had been told by one of their opponents, that neither lie nor his Hen. Colleague would become the Representatives of the freemen of Coventry. Perhaps that Hon. Gentleman kept the keys of the House of Coinmons in his breeches pocket ; and not only so. but perhaps he was the keeper of the consciences of those be row ad dressed. ("'That is what he wants," cried a noisy fellow in tire crowd.) When their enemies found they could not beat them by fair means, they resorted to every description of unfair means. As to Peter Moore, they offered to throw him 'overboard. But could they suffer themselves to be so insulted as to allow n man to come and say to them, " I will make 3 bargain with you No, you shall not have the old block, but you shall haven chip of the old block." (Laughter.) It was a troy weak invention of the enemy, to pretend to say that one man hail been so ill-treated that they were obliged to close the poll. (('ries of " It is falser) " Now, hear the truth (said Mr. Fyler). That man—though he is scarcely deserving the RAMC of a man—had basely forfeited his word, forsaken his colours, and was a turn-coat. Gentlemen, Hea ven forbid I should wish to rouse yourfeelinge ! but I must and will say, that I applaud that virtuous effervoticence of manly feeling which sou exhibited when fraud and falsehood were detected by you. To my certain knowledge, our opponents polled thirteen voters after that ; so much for their honour and Ito. nesty." (Loud cheers.) He was assured that those cheers which now greeted hint, would assail him hereafter if lie did not conscientiously discharge his duty to them, lie had been catechized upon various points; had already declared that he was opposed to granting any further concession of political power to the Catholics. (Cries of " Bravo !") Ile was sure they could not I desire to put shackles on his free hands, and return him to Parlia ment bound and fettered. (" No, no!") The House of Commons was the great deliberative council of this nation, and if they gave him credit for having a good head and a good heart, they might depend upon always finding him at his post, and promoting every measure that tended to their welfare. One word in conclusion— for heaven's sake throw aside the weapon of discord, and seek to live at amity with each other ; and when he and his should again come to Coventry, might they receive them with three i orb shouts sit they would now give, that should rend the air for triumph ! (The enthusiastic cheering continued for several minutea.) A very intelligent Journeyman \V.:aver now addressed the people, as he had before done its the course of the day. i The two Honourable Members then paraded the streets n pro cession. The cereniony of chairing will take place to-morrow. At half-put four o'clock, the partisans of Moore and Ellice be gan to assemble in great numbers, in front of the Craven Arms llo tel; and they were soon after joined by a numerous body of the opposite party ; but no disturbance took place ; all of them having apparently determined to give the two unsuccessful Candidates a fair and patient hearing, those gentlemen having announced that it was their intention to address them. Messrs. Ellice and Moore addressed them, the fame: at great length, after which the Mset ing quietly dispersed. TUESDAY' MORNING. The city is as quiet and peaceable as if nothing extraordinary had occurred in it fcr years. Captain Fyler drove through the town, aid was respectfully greeted by the people, whom he recog nized with much affsbility. Ile la quite a favourite among the free men who espouse his cause. CHESTER ELECTION. CHESTER, MONDAY ATTEEHRON. The riots here this afternoon have been of a very alarming na ture. All the glass in the windows of the Exchange hare been completely demolished. The moh tore up the stones oldie pare. meat, in order to occompli•h this work of destruction. Colonel Egerton has lost six on the roll this day. READING. (FROM OUR CORILESPONDENT.) MONDAY, JUNE 19. This evening. at the close of the poll at 6 o'clock, notice was given by order of the Mayor, calling upon all the unpolled Electors who were dcsirious of tendering their votes, to come forward to-morrow morning for the purpose of so doing, an proclamation would then be made for finally cloning the poll. The Mayor then rose and said, he was happy to have it again in his power to congratulate the meeting unon the orderly and peaceable conduct of those who had attended in the hall in order to witness the proceedings, and lie hoped, and indeed felt insured, that the same laudable line of con duct would be continued to the end of this unusually sharp context; he hoped that the notice they had heard read would induce all who wished to vote and had not yet done so, to come forward early to morrow, as it was his earnest wish to finally close the poll an noon as it could be done with propriety. Be then declared the numbers to be, for Mr. Monck - - 574 I Mr. Spence . - 484 Mr. Palmer 404 TUESDAY, J u mt 20. This morning the proceedings recommenced at the appointed hour, the opponent parties being equal in numbers polled, but it is evident Mr. Palmer wan considered in imminent danger; his friends might be seen running in VaITiOUS direction', inquiring how matters stood respecting his remaining votes, and inking %%here was one and where was another who bad proinised to come forward in case of peril—why do they not now come and vote, why are they not now called up? They may be called indeed, but will diey come—will the timid become valiant when the valiant are alarmed? In tact. it seems probable, as the Blues say, that the Reds, as they call them, have hardly a shut left in the locker, and certainly the Blues themselves have but very few. Notice was given about eleven o'clock. that it was agreed upon by the contending parties that the poll should finally close at live this afternoon, and it still appears most likely that this hitherto, in this town, unparrelleled struggle will terminate In favour of what Mr. Spence 's friends call the Blue cause. TERMINATION os"Tor CONTEST. At five o'clock this evening the election terminated, when the numbers were— Monck . . 5801 Palmer . . 488 Spence - - 492 I Wakefield • 366 leii hle tl y e w el e a re red im lir m l e . d a ia l t o e n ly ck d a m n i d rea M ae r be A d at7r Ti tt yl ti le n e y let l i t :l e i an d o b r ee t u demanded 11 Mr. Palen.t's friends. TAUNTON ELECTION. On the Prat day of the elect ion, it was declared that dints coalition between Mr. Seymour and General Nether r each stood on his own bottom ; aril it was teasonible to expect thnl there would be no eoalitiol, because one of the parties, Mr. Sey):l motor, it known to be g modern. Whig, and to be friellitly td liberal ,principles; is such, he and his present opeoesist, Mr : Creswell, exerted their i dluence together in favour of Alr.efilett. who is a Whig, against the Tory candidate, at the las.. Wiltshire election. Genertl Peethey, on the contrary, is what is ended Church and kingcanclid3te, and grounds his claims tonnage on these principles, and especially on hi. determinaion not to eels any, thing to the Cotholies. %Viten, therefore, they publicly declered that there was no coalition between them, die electors and Mr. Cres well gave them credit. (in the that day's polling, however, it was found, whilst all Mr. Creawelt's voters were plu misers. their votea were all split, anti ad but one split; in Wow of Penctsey and Seymour. They come eta to the pall here by tallies of ten each, anti the effect el the coalition whit}} has now been Et plainly proved to exist 1., that the coalition Cariaidatea must be at the head of the poll until towards the law; because each Candidate calling for a tally, the two who divide their totem retold bring 20 voters to the poll to the other's ten ; so that if Mr. Creswell has u' final majority ever so great, his opponents most be placed at the head of the poll for se ve r a l days. This plan, hoMerer, has been frustrated by the unexpected a pp e a rance o f a f our th C andidate, in Mr. Creswell'a brother, on Thursday evening; and on Friday , morning two other Candidates were pat i n nom i na ti on . via.. F r an co ttT l ai i ii a l i nie i es li pt lr itgi . arn E ned s9 Toocepidr s ei o le n iridna o l f l A wyc: le inl it cedtl a htofh n aesede d ri e ib r u.nar l fiido l tno i r r .oo i ecf n aotegh: E enc s ie g ai n . reciv4s a idtw n sili d e;dri M : of r w . Thsho M irodos ild walicale cna byu y, i p t ro n ba ot b b ly een hi a p v r e em b a e t e u n rel a y t u p° e l n i ce bef or sornee night,el hall which arose nom nom: man's prompting a witness . •Tho Counsel on est Is side left the poll-booths, and Ur. Bloke, a weethy magistrate of Taunton, appeared at,d quelled the tumult. The Bev. henry Creswell thea mamma, in the name of his brother, upon the recommencement of the polling. This, however, was not seceded to, and after putting in his protest against the closing of the poll, he returned (at. the suggestion of Mr. haloes Counsel for his brother; to the White Bart. Subsequently Mr. (ferry Creswell and Mr. Edmund Crustiell addressed a numinous as semblage of the electors and people from the window, and declared, their conviction that the present plan, which had been adopted by the Ass snr, won!! nn Monday bring Mt Creswell at the heal a the poll. and that ultims:ely the 4:4 lidC of independence in the ha.. rough of Taunton would triumph, notwithstanding all the trickery Ira! underhanded lionise of their or ronents, who, although more I kin a match for the Buffs, in mattes of craft and chicanery, would be roomd wantinz in perseverance and manly courage before the poll finally closed. Ile expressed, at the sante time, his determi nation to stand by the electors under ail circumstances, and to keep the poll open till all the voters hail polled. This morning, Monday, Mr. :fanning and Mr. Williams ad dressed the Assessor, antl.clattned to have the plan altered, as tie , favourable to the interests of their client. LAWE s replied, and declared that there was rot the slightest legal ground for declaring that all the Candidates were not real.,sad that having been put in nomination by the electors, no one had a right to presume that they would not, if elected, go to Parliantert as the representatives of the people. He also stated, that if VI, mode of receiving votes were to be altered from day to day, to suit the purposes of a party, it was useless for him to continue these; for no skill s nu integrity, no influence on the part of one candidate or his counsel, could stand against such continued shillings in favour of one party against the other; anti that the only course his client enulilladopt would be, that to which he would certainly retort, viz. to petition the House of Commcins against the return. If the p late was therefore altered in such a manner, he s ho u ld certa i n l y with. draw from the scene, as would 31r.Cresweirs friends, and leave the Blue Candidates to enjoy their short-lived triumph. They knew well that if the mode of toting which the Assessor Ita4 adopted was persevered in, one Yellow client would not suffice, fur the independent electors would return two men. The Assessor detettnined, that although he had advised the course which had been adopted on Saturday, he could not insist upon it, since any voter who presented himself to poll must be re ceived. 31r.Isawes must, therefore, if he pleased, withdraw, for lie could not refuse voters. 11t. Law Es protested against any alteration in the mode of vot ing. if the course pursued befote was illegal, then that would c! itself make the election void ; if legal, the altering it against the wishes of the Candidates, to ;he prejudice or either, would product: the same effect. Mr. Ilti:frix CRESIVE r. t. then rose and ssid, that he appeared there for his brother, - who.e stcte of health 'would not allow him to sit in so tontine(' a place as the hustings, And who, on aticetatt this circumstance, as well as the extraordinary mode of proceedirg . adopted during the election, hsd resolved rot to :ippear again or the hustings iii person. /felted given him his proxy, however, anti he, on his vart, would accede to the advice of Mr. bastes, provid e ,: t the electors would come forward and vote for dr. Raring and M. Minimal, The poll would then be closed, and the business sett!t•ti by a pennon to the House of Commons. Dlr. 3lttituisx, an elector, then rose and said, he protesuNt against the volt being closed; and several totem were polled ois each Bide. A number of certificates were then put in, and it was finally agreed to take a rote on each side. Mr. LAWES said he would not suffer any alteration to be mJda in the mode of pulling adopted on Saturday. Mr. HENRY' CRESWELL asked, if the Assessor would allay, a vote for Mr. Baring and Mr. Mildmav ? (Much confusion. Two voters were presented and taken for Mr. Creswell an 4 Mr. and for Mr. Creswell and Mr. Mildmay, and the votes were pro ceeding as they offered themsel►es. Mr. Lavers asked if the Assessor had caused his protest to b entered on the book against nny alteration in the mode of polltng. Mr. CRESWELL said, that in all probability Mr. Baring and • Mr. Nadiney would, if the poll was immediately eloped, become the efficient Members. He should bow to the advice of Mr. haves. unless a large shew of hands should be made egoinst it by the doc tors. If they did rot object to it, lie would withdraw, and the - matter should be setded by petition. (Several vricea cried out " No. no.") Mr. Creswell said his brother had placed him in a most responsible situation : he had pledged himself to stand thu poll to the last hour ; and lie would do su for hint, if (he electuro should demand it. _ _ A large number of hands were held up. and Mr. 011w:tar. said, that if the opposing party had not known that they coud no: beat their adversaries by fair means, they would not have resorted to any others. It showed their weakness. If the poor voters wished the battle to be fought out, it should be done to the list moment. The committee had acted honourably under all the circumstances, . and the voters should be furnished with an opportunity of polling to the very last man. The election had taken is new compler.to since Thursday; for atthough the Blue chairs had been actual:y brought out on the evening of the day when his brother did not come into the hustings, and the Blue ladies had dressed themselves out to go and see General Peaches chaired (cries of 'd No, no." from the Blues, and laughter front the Buff.), they now found then:- selves in a dill'erent situation. He would go on with the poll. Mr. LAWES said that he had seen Mr. R. Creswell only yester day, and that they had agreed upon the co::rse to be adopted in the event which had taken place. Ile had acted on his beat judgmerd ; but that, notwithstanding a hat had been said, so long as the poll lasted, he would stand by the electors of Taunton and Mr. Cres. . well. No man should ever say that Mr. Iswes had deserted his client, or abandoned in any respect those Interests which had- been entrusted to him. (Cheers.) The voters then came up ; ore of the Buff side and one of ti.e Blue; and there can be nu doubt. if there had been no ad vantages as to polling given to the Blues, by the coalition in the onset, Mr. Creswell would have been at the head, or at alt events, the middle of the poll, from the first. Whether in consequence of the coalition, and the advantages of tuiTioz two tallies, his opponent will be able to keep a head of hin - . throughcto, will of course depend on the strength of each party both say they arc confident of winning. Sir T. Isethblidoe's agent, son, and friends, are taking a lively inter e st in ti.. ; election, and nave been seen on the Misting* ; and this ele: - don will probably show whether Sir Thomas has or has nit the power of returning Members to Parhament for this borouah. It it should turf out that he has. he *ill probably vim trod a cuaterner for his property; and it is report e d that General ' Peachey and Mr. Seymour will, in such case, become buyer>. The borough will then become a pr,vaie property, and ti,. . . spirit of the inhabitants gradually fritter its e lf away . T ne struggle, in fact, is between tonne who wish to preserve thr borough open, and those who would convert tt, like most of the corporation boroughs have been converted, into the means of returning particular men to Parliament, who will divide money at each returning Sessions between a handful of thew • dependents, or pay them by pines for their families. Many of the people do not scent to have that determined love of freedcm, and that sense of personal importance, which they have iti the town of Bridgwater and in some other towns.' If they had, thy ' would spurn all dictation, and, at all hazard', get rid of borovah. mongering influence. Mr. Creswell is not id Tatimmi, but Tiaa. left his cause to rite management of his eldest son, • foe spirited ' young man, his brother, and Mr. Lewes, his Counsel. Al proem there luss been no want of votes in his interest, and, as they nay. hr has more plumpers than ever Baring polled, and is much admire. hy the poor voters; he has certainly a fair chance of success. If hal . should fail, it will be the result of Sir T. Irethbrielge's having number of votes under his control. who may make up a majority ; but the independent party entertain great hopes of success. The fullowing protest has been just read by the poll-cleat, Sir. Beadon. " We, the undersigned inhabitants, electors of the borough of Taunton, do protest against the condnet of the Aswan' and iteturt:' ing Officer, In altering the manner of polling laid down by the said Assessor on Friday last, being calculated only to Ore an undue; advantage to the two Blue Candidates, General Peachey and Mr. Seymour. • (Signed) " JAM ES Al I UISA. (Signed) " WILLIAM FOX." The bribery oath is administered to evcry voter: A voter has just now been rejected, who sweats that he received ss. on General Peachey's canvas:, to pass an examination at Church. in osier to lie quslifiel to vote f..r Heneral Peachey. The Asse asked if he had nut taken the Bribery Oath. and it being Bound lie had. his Volt was rejected. Another voter, on being offered the book, said. " what : was told, in take the Bribery Oath, and aniwereil, " I can-or t!,3t oath, for I have beer. bribed Ly General feachey." 1 1 imams ;d ACcri.ied 1 :hutch. • s•euror Id that ?" • • dt tnk. • ,