The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-30 00:00:00

SOMERSET SIII E LECTION.

WEDNESDAY, Jurre 28.
The poll-booths were opened at ten o'clock, but, from some cause
or other, the freeholders do not come to the poll. Throughout this
day only 22 have polled.
In the cosine of the morning the Rion &mitre addrased
Hunt, saying, that if be had pledged himself, as Mr. Hunt had
done, to the freeholders of this county, he should feel as he did—
anxious to fulfil his engagements to the very letter. What he said
he would do, that he would do, and therefore he could not slitiesm-
mend Air. Hunt; but still, in a candid manner, he would submit
to him whether, when the freeholders did not come to hi support,
and they were all waiting about doing nothing—whether, as a ma t

and a gentleman, Mr. Hunt would not feel himself release!
the obligation by the freeholders not coming to the poll ? Wlitt
slid was not in the way of dictation, but merely as • stiggesti,t
which he hoped Mr. Hunt would not take ill. He was not
enced by any consid. rations of personal convenience in making;;,
but he did it with a view solely to that of others.
Mr. Hour answered, that he really felt much obliged ton,
Sheriff for making the suggestion, and if it were made as advice
he should receive it well, and really feel obliged to the Sheriffs,
offering it; but having pledged himself, notwithstanding the free.
holders were hack %rani, and thought to them' he might fairly stud
excused, and even justified, in withdrawing from the hutting*,
since his pledge was only to remain at his post so long as they eho
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to come to the poll, yet to himself he could not feel justified.
was a inat,er of feeling, and he should sink in his own
mimetic!:
if he were to rc-,ign. Vet lie thought the Shetiff in the exereiu
of an honest discretion, might safely close the poll ; and he would
throloglout die fair, ins'. and h,,
pourable
in any way whatever to any other p etiL.tneitherliyhimselfor
hierss, would
his
fornierd* nor by his aseisterre
he tike adrift,.
cage of his having done so. Ile said this as • man rt..d a gentle.
man,
manner,
fully i prt i
i l
which l
the Sheriff' a tense of the very n
had acted
election. It was quite clear that a vast majority of the freelinidea
bail not polled ; vaiious reasons had been assigned for it; but tile lac
could not be doubted, that there was a general ieoi.po.iition
come to the poll on all sides. Ile knew of 2,1109 voters sh,
would come up for him at once, if he would send conveyances fir
them; but lie had made up hit mind not to spend a single shilling,
and he believed they would not come without it. Tom were, hoe.
ever, some persons who had declared their intention of coming to
the poll to-morrow, and that in considerable numbers ; if they rant
to-day their votes could not be refused, nor to-morrow, unless the
Sheriff should, in the exercise of a sound and honest discretinr.,
close the poll. Ile really thought he might do this safely, but
was entirely in his own breast to decide. Ile had engaged to
there as long as the poll was open; he would do so, and no one
should induce him to break his engagement. lie could not think
it would be right.
Mr. Tot.nErt asked Mr. Hunt if he wonid consent to withdraw?
and the High Sheriff and oilier gentlemen joined in the augers:ins;
but Mr. Hunt said, no; they knew him; he would not forfeit L.l
own self.csteem ; be should take no further pains, and incur not a
shilling of expense in bringbringing up voters, but he would nut red:;..
.quish his engagements, nor be the cause of closing the pelf. Atta
some consultation with the agents of the other Candidate,. ti.e
Sheriff agreed to close the poll at three o'clock, provided the men
did not in the mean time come up in considerable numbers. No.
lice to this effect was given pretty generally, aid the usual pro.
clamstion made several times : hut, a. it is Fuld, in consequence a
Sir Thorns Lethbridge not bring present, and his concurrerce as;
having been obtained, the Sheriff 'eloquently determin. d to ep,e,
the poll at 8 o'clock to-onormw, arid to keep it open or eissa
it as circumstances might direct.
At five o'clock the poll-clerks came in, and the day's polling sat
thus declared—
Dickinson . .hell Hunt
Lethbridge . - 16
The SHEntrr then proclaim his intention to el-se the pill
three to-morrow, if the freeholders who had not polled did nut cook:
in the mean time.

Mr. II ustv shortly addressed the Sheriff and freeholdirs. Sad
a contest as the present had never been known in this or any othdx
county. Seven or eight thousand freeholders remained unphlled.
Ile understood the Sheriff intended to close the pail to-day ; but Is
lie gave him credit for every thing that was fair and just aril site.
he could not doubt the awrectness of that CORM which he Sal
adopted. So long as the roll was open, he would stay ; but, as he
had before said, he would not expend cne stilling in bringing up
voters, or he might soon be at the head of the pull. He Ida that
day poll, d himself; and though for the last 15 years he had been a
liveryman of London, and a freeholder of five or six couiniec he
had never given a vote to any one, because there was rot o de whom
he could fully trust. Himself, however, he thought lie might cot.
fide in; and having a right so to do, he hail taken the Bribery Oa:h,
and polled for himself. Whether Sir T. Lethbridge had been ar.
rested or not, as was reported, or what kept him from the poll, be
could not say; but as he was not here tastily, and Mr. Dirkinsda
was gone home, he would merely add, that heshould always think
and speak in tennis of high admiration of the fair, inipartial, mat
honourable conduct of the Sheriff and his legal advisers.
Mr. STALLARD, of Bath, endeavoured to pasuaile Mr. Runt to
resign, and complimented him as being a man of the best judg.
went and sense in the county of Somerset.
31r. Jitney smiled, hut said that if he bowed to any one.or
yielded to any advice, it would be to that of the very ratchet:
High Sheriff; but no one could change his feeling. Ile wou'el ant
resign so long as the poll was kept open ; nor, as it was rut cbsed
to-day, would he be answerable for what might turn up to-
morrow.

21ie Court wilt then adjourned.
This is, indeed, a most singular Election.

The following was handed about and csused a peat deal of
laughter. ft is an extract from a speech made by Hunt, at Fiume,
just berm the Election :
The Lethbridgrancter, a Scale adapted for the use of servo&
Alembers or Parliament. the whole carefully taken from the pro-
ceedings of Sir Thomas Budder Lethbridge, Bart. from the
commencement of his political career, to the present period.
Polities.
fss. f Starvation, annuities and interest, sweeping Ito
1 whole rental.
„..• ss. Gd. - Radical Demagogue.
g . . Radical.
7s.
- Radical Whig.
-
7s.r.d. - Vibrating, a critical and difficult point.
T lls. - Tory.
-s•j Bs. &I. - Torrnt Tory.
Church and King, and No Popery
Man.
The Rental will nnw enablc you to keeps
more splendid establishment ; Tote wait
lea. . . Alinisters upan every measure, right or
wrong, particularly tt there be a Coronet
view.

NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTION.

BY EzraEss.—Close of Wednesday's Election.
',Well . . - 1305 Beaumont . -
Bell - - . 12031 Lard Howick -

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

MEMBERS A
Counts, of Clare O'Brien,
Qaeen's County.—Sir 11. Pami
STATE 01
WEYMOUTH.

.• . _
Buxton _ - -
. - 2 !It
Oonlon . . 1181
Wallace - - 177
Lire - 1.70
-
Finer . . 133
Four former elected.
NorrruuSISEILAND.
Liddell - 1213
Bell . - 1183
Beaumont . . 97.1
llowick - 863
CAVAN (couxTT).
Maxwell 2582
Saunderron - 2479
Coote 1714
. •
South well . 1882

RETURNED.
Esq Right Ann. W. Fitzgergd,
tell, Sit C. Coate.
POLLS.

Burrell
finneis
IVehiNm

STSSEX.

CAMBRIDGICSIIIar.

Manners
Osborne
Adrane

TIPPERARY (COPNTY;•
Priitie

Hutchinson

Dawson

PRICES OF FOREIGN
Austrian Rand;
!Intelllan Bonds 34 3*
Ditto Acrt. 33* 4 3*
Milian Bonds
Colombian Bonds
Hato Hondo (Iw_!E 334 * *
Ditto Acct. 34* * 64
ILtnish bond. (Ma, •.4 *
Ditto Acct. Xi 4*
French Ratite.: 3 per Cent. v;r. 23c.
Exchange 23f. SOc.
Ouatiattea Sunda

ARMAGH (COUNTY%
Caulfield • . WI
Brownlow - . 1476
Verner - . irir
Burgess . 448

STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Mexican filnl4
Ditto Howl, ;182L' 30; I 34;it
61450:
Ditto Acct. 52 11 i Zot)i I ;I:
Peruvian
Bon& 'X'
Porittcoe, Ronda 117 r.;
Bunion Bowl= IrcZ*2 791 I f
Ditto Acct. 791
Spank,' Bona* a
DID., Acct. $
Ditto Don& 184:3;

ROYAL GARDENS. VAUXHALL.
tinder the especial Patronage of hi. M,.t Graci,u. Majesty.
This Evening, FRI OAV, June 30, the Anltlieffl2l4l will commence
with a GRAND CONCERT. in Two Acts, in the superb new Cincert
Room, at Half-past Eight o'Clock.
Principal V.,cal Perfumers—Miss Stephens, end Miss Peery; Dlise
Love, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden (her 3d appearance ;
Cooke, and Madame Corneae ; Mr. Brabant. Mr. Sinclair, and Signor Pr
Begnis ; Mr. C. Taylor, Mr. Horncastle, Mr. Robinson, Mr. 'Murry, and
Master Barker. _ .

I. Composer and Conductor.

Lender of the Band. Signor Spagnolettl
Mr. H. R. Bishop.
Mr. Blackmore, the celebrated young American, whose engagement., is
Italy hare hitherto prevented his appearance at the Gardens, having Just
arrived In England, will go through Ms astonishing Evolutions on tbr
Slack Rope.
The new Military/la/let, called THE SOLDIER'S FESTIVAL, v.ll
immediately follow the Exhibition on the Slack Rope.
Leader of the Band for the Ballet, Mr. Rooke.

The iniertarnments will linish with a GRAND DISPLAY et Pi nv.•
WORKS., At the concision of which, Mr. Illackmore will make
second terridc anent on the Tight Rope, to the summit of the tower.
and descend enveloped In showers of Are.
Miss Travis, of the King's Ancient Concerts, i 9 engaged, and will
shortly make her appearance.
Doors open at Sesta o•Clock.-.Concert commences at Ralf-pad Eight.
Admlselon 44.

Particulars respecting Admission Cards for the Evening. and Prima
Boxes for the Season or Nightly. mai be had upon applkatloa to hr.
Markey*. llooksAter. Bead-street.
Caudon.—The Public will plasm is tab oaks. doll all Peng her*,
Argued for sale on the Halide of tbe 911161111111 are sporlone I sod. It gie
eelectlen erles alleuNss, re Beebe ►at lime aid Inside she Cl'
dens see to be epee.