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Piscouiq! carcEREAG ff.

Tire Committee who conduced the late Eleajoa
of the Comity of Down, on behAlf of the
Colonel MeAde, have plablis'ied an Ad !•eti. iA
answer to the, observations contained in Visconnt Castlerealth's public tidies., upon his declining azy
tatther contest for that county. The follovii
an est:A from it : .I rt

is The N 011 e Lord says, Upon a careful in.
spetii-n of the flegistry of the county, in ias r mrst defetive state, it appearing probable
ih sot
maiarity, small certainly in itself, hut nevertheless
sufficient to determine the fate of the eleftion, was
likely to remain, on the termination of the poll,
favour if my opp roar ; I have thought it die. (4
the freeholders at the comity (under the advice of
my friends) to abstain from giving them farther, and,
AS ! conceive, unnecessary trouble, on the
occasion.' In reply to which, the Committee
of opinion, that his Lordship must have been egro
ginusly misinformed, or has merely seized on
as a plausible pretext for retiring from the Mai.
ings ; fur they are prepared to prove, that the R.
gistry of Freeholders was defence, to a no,
greater extent, among the friends of Colonel
than those of Lord Cattier: agh, and that, not.a,,
standing such defeelive or bad registries, had the
county beets polled to the list man, the majority,
instead of being small, would have considerably et-
ceeded the number which now appears in favour of
Colonel Meade at the final close of the poll.
" Lord Castlereagh further states it to be a con-
test for which the county at large Was wholly un-
prepared '•' and that he cannot but consider the
result a, the egret of rottumatanees, and by no meaty
as the deliberate decision of the county.' It is elf.
ficult for the Committee to ascertain what the Noble
Lord means, by calling it a contest for which the
county was wholly unprepared; but, if he 111'
as
that the CleniOn WAS Sud Jen and unexpeatui, surely
that was a point as highly favourable to his re-erec-
tion, as it was other wise to his opponent, and whoa
he did not fail to take advantage of, before it was
generally known that he had vacated his sear, try
soliciting support, and ob:aining promises foot;
many respetable freeholders, who, as they ono
had they been apprised that any opposition was in-
tencied, would not have eng tged themselves to him;
and by instantly expediting the writ, and bringing on
the eletion, thereby evincing an intention of taking
the county by iut prioi, and to preclude, as far tits
him lay, all possibility of a contest.
" in considering the result as t4e 47;4 of cirram.
garters, and by no means as the deliberate decisioa
of the county, Colonel Meade% Committee are ready
to join issue with the Noble Lord ; tor, though he is
silent as to the particular circurnstanc.o, yet. if any
meaning Call hi put on this peculiar expressian, it can
be no other tt•an what the Cammlotee apply to it,
namely, the unpopularity of the Noble Lord among
all ranks and persuasions of his late constituents,
blinded nn their just abhorrence of his unfaithful
conduct as their representative, as also, the great
superiority of property among his opponents ; these
c rcumstauces must ever prevail, and on all similar
ocovions in future, as a natural conseqtteace, pro-
duce similar results ; and the Committee admit, t:tat
it cannot be considered as the deliberate decision of
the county, for the Noble Lord was folly convinced,
at an early period of the eleetion, of is being more
prudent for him to retreat and abandon his preten-
sions (under the adviceolhis friends), than to per.
sist in a contest, and come to del•heraie decision, by
polling out the county, which would have mini-
fested to the United Kingdom her L noishio's
nen, an J the very large balance in favour of Colonel
bleaste, both in numbers and property."

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SI IMIS.

the Right

Toesd.y nutrning, in Lower;
Hun. Lade Anthem, of a all.
Un M 1., the •!d mit. •t Wnlaham, near Rochester, the
Lady of Wlll.a.ulll4lmAit, of a daughter.

MAKRIAGt.
Tee.lay, at I fegninto.ao, Gear Glotice.ter, Ralph Ptic-,
tecond ,togt n( Srg Charlet Price, Hatt. M P. to Mist C.,arl ata
S',/gr, Hardyr yottagest daughter of tile late Cu'onel Hagtly.