The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-16 00:00:00

LEOMI NS T E LEC

I.l:o3ttgaTEß, Jc'E 13.
The state of the poll at the close of the tiro day was—.
lewd Boitigna - 12 1 Thomas Dish - . 1
Row lar it Ste v.:1)1ton 91 Fretierivk Cuthbert 9
After ihe tioniiiiw inn and addresses of the Candidates. when the
Assessor (Air. Powell) was Mt. ut to put the name of Mr. Dish to
the show of hands, Air. Coleridge. thn attends as counsel for 11 r.
Steremion, obj,cied that he was ineligible. being a public ton.
tractor. The Assessor, loweve,, pas,poned the hearing the ar-
gument opt' that point till a pull should be demanded. and a voter
tender himself in Mr. Bish's inures'. Tile show of hands *An
declared to b 2 in favour a Lord ilut4am and 31r. btermatm, un
which a pull was demanded tor Alf. itiSh•

It was some time before a voter came into the box to pall fur Mr.
MAI, but upon his appearance Cots: rtinnE renewed his ()Woe-
lioo. Ile contended that a contract fee tie Levitt y brought the cur_
tractor within the provision of the 2:2d Geo. 111. cap. 4% being o
contract with the Lords of the Treasury for the publ c service, imsl
he pointed oat in how many ways such 2 contact brot;lo tke
tractor tilt! in die control of the liovernnient. lie:then sit. ed that ' •
would prove Mr. flesh to stand in that medic-talent at tints im
that he or. s:tch emunictor widon the meaning of the Stanitv,
and that several of his cover:ems :Tr:aimed still unperformed, a:itt
would lie so tiil tile List chmtviag of the present lietery. lie them
called Mr. licsse. the secretary and inspector of the lottery, who.
after producing the contacts. proved that Mr. Bish might have. as
he had had, coosidcralde lienetit unikr the contract now going on
by postponement of the drawing. anti that Mr. Nish, with the other
contractors, was still liable to be called upon to perform certain co-
venants, rtspecting licensed defilers in shares, if any persons ap-
plied fur licenses before the close of the lottery.
Mr. ILtvaes, who was counsel for Mr. liish, contended, in a
very long speech, that a lottery centric? wan not within the mean-
ing of the statute, and that his contract wan executed and closed
by the payment of the money for the tickets, and by performance
of the covenant for the preservation of the office-keepers' licenses;
and that, so poesnig the Assessor might not be of that opinion,
should produce an assignment of Mr. Iti.h's interest in the °M-
I net, at the stns time that he, produced the other documents.
—31,. Davies then produced the assignment of Mr. lush's inte-
rest, dared the LIM of June (the morning of the election), to his
son-in-law, the Rev. G. B. Fowler, in oonsideration of natural love
and aliCeiton, and ten shillings, and produced a reltrane from the
lottery-oißce keepers in London to the contractors for all the
tickets ncecsaary to preserve their licenses. and also a release from
the limerv.eftice keepers of Dubin., shish did not seem to be duty
witnessed.

Mr. 11201.F.RIDGE. nn the part of Mr. Stevenann, replied that it
was out of 31r. Mail's primer to assign the contract—that the us-
aignment produced was fratidulent, ai.tl that, Da to the other doca -
mettle. they did not go far eneugli, as come penions might
for a license to-morrow, and 31 r. MAI might be under prosecatiun
if be refused to comply with his contract, although he bid exe-
cuted the assignment in question. The learned gentleman then
concluded, with very energetically criling upon the Assessor to de..
Blare Mr. Eli-11 incapable of tieing elected.
The ASSESSOR lied.re,i his judgment to be grounded upon the
want of a case to guide him, where a Returning. Officer had pro-
nounced a Candidate ireap.ible of being elected • and 'aid th.star
the commencement of the business be NO asked Mr. Coleridge if
he knew of such a case, with n view to men his attention that peirit.
lie declared it to be his opinion, that, in the violent state of the
parties in the town, it web not a convenient tilllC to coma to a
decision, end that hr. should go on with the poll.
The poll commenced again this morning, when Mr. COLE-
numb: gave notice that thiees enters who polled for Mr. Bi-h
would lose their votes, at that gentleman could not sit in the House
of Commons if he are returee.t.