The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-06-09 00:00:00

WEXFORD ALA CIION.

At the final close of the Poll, on Monday last, the
numbers were:—
Colonel Rana 891
Mr. Alcock . . • • B7 )
Mr. Col. loigh . • • • 773
Mr. RP. Shen:lan . . • 729
On the casting up of the numbers, Colonel RA M
addressed the Sheriff, and requested that his friend
Mr. Alcock might be put at the head of the Poll.
The Counsel on the part of Mr. Alcock declined
this offer.

Colonel RAM then returned thanks on behalf of
himself and his Colleague, wl,o had lied immedi-
ately After the duel.

Tbe duel in which Mr. Colclough unfottunately
fell, originated with Mr. Alcock. and the cause, sif,-
understand, is this. The later had been promise~
by a lady of considerable property in the county
every vote she could influence rr, command. Some
of Mr. Colclough's friends undertook to CaTlyls,
her tenantry in favour of that Gentleman, which
having come to the knowledge of Mr. Alcock, he
immediately demanded an explanation from Mr.
Colelough. The latter, it is stated, denied any
knowledge of his friends' proceedings. but Mr
Alcock insisted that it was to him alone 01r.
Colclough), he should look for satisfaCtion. A
challenge ensued. on which Mr. Colelough submit-
ted himself to the direetion of his Committee. The
gentlemen who composed it, were of opinion, that
Mr. Colelough should meet his antagonist Mr
Beanchani? Colelough was the friend to the latter
gentleman. and Mr. Perceval was Mr. Alcock's.—
The first fire was fatal to Mr. Colelough, the ball
haring lodged in his heart. Mr. Perceval and his
principal instantly absconded. the meeting rook
place at Alcandridge, near Wexford. They were
attended to the field by a vast crowd of vellums.
The body was carried to the town of Wexford,
where the Coroner's Jury sat. find found, specially,
that .4 John C &lough died by a ball, bred from a
pistol by tv C Alcock, Erg." On Sum:ay, tte
body rs m. v co Tinteru Abbey, the ancient seat
of toe Cokioug.,...

There are ttiirteen gleift ors at Malrneelstrry ; there
%vete six candidates for its Representation, at this
General Elrflinn, and there will probably be tweet
three petitions to Parlia•ient.

The Pembrokeshire Elation closed on Wednes-
day last, when Sir Wow Owen resigned, and Lord
li Lewin was .etarned, by a majority of 93. Lora
KIINSISOTOM was chaired m the place of his absent
friend, during which ceremony a nose was throw..
at his Lordship, which struck him in the forehead
The wound bled profusely, aut was nor sc ions„
We hear, that a dual rook place at Wer;oid. be-
tween EDWARD Hay, Elq. and Major Dor. itEUI
of the Wesfs►d Militia, abich tonna:ltaly had not..
fatal termination. This also arose irons the un
happy differei cos of the Elea'lion.
Sir FRASICiS fIURDSTT, we are assured, has sot
been yet able to leave his room.
A Treasury Jour.ial of last night says, " the late
Ministers, in answer to the charges respecting their
jobs, pass over the job of entnfing Lori Gees
vitt e to hold a large sinecurr wits another
the two being incompatible in the urn.- pera.n."
We have more than once explained this fransaftiim.
which has been repeatedly made the subjeil of un
founded calumny and misery esentation—The 14.9
is this. Lord GRamvrLit has held for many years
the patent place of Auditor of the Exchequer Thus
circumstanced, His MAJISTY called upon him to
become First Lord of the Treasury ; a place held-
during pleasure, with directions to firm a new
Ministry. These two places were incompatible
At the same time, it was not to be ezpeded that
Lord Gminvictz was to strip himself of his pro-
perty, and put himself in a worse situation, in order
to enable hilts to ••btfy His MAJEaTT'd Commands.
How tin did he get out of this difEculty ? Why
Parliament passed a Bill to enable him to hold the
two situationns.--'llere we think his Lordship allied
unwisely, as the measure afforded a pretext to
his enemies to cry out ff a job," and mislead the
ignorant and the credulous. Had his Lordship ailed
with leas candour, had he resigned the place of
Auditor of the Exchever, in favour of some /fiend,
who mi,:ht hold it in trust for him, the necessity of
the AA of Parliament, which has been mask the
subjea of so much vulgar ribaldry and abuse, against
the late Ministers, in the leading hireling Print,
would have been dispensed with, and his Lord-
ship and the public would stand precisely in the
same situation in which the Aft of Parliament
placed their .
Our re Jeri, no doubt, will moth/ the eistress-
ing acco.o.: we gave, a short time since, of the at-
venlig to ere, ute poor HALas, a soldier, in the Mend
of Jersey. in which the evecutioner ettempiall to
strangle him, by polling his legs from under him,
and n•st being able to ace his purpose, got upon
his shoulders to break his neck; notwithstanding
the poor fellow survived, and the spetiators in-
terfered in consequence, arc Ihe whole of this dis-
tressing Gabe hits been laid berets His RAJ tstril-; •
and we are happy to say His M•*/Tv has been
graeinuf) pleased to random him, on Condition of
has serving fi r lite in any corps MM 'him• shall
to dile& BARNIS, a comrade of
wa.o was real .84 with ham, but respi..ed, leas lamp
ewe been pardoned, by His NliallTT, Oil a similar