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London, England, 1819-08-07 00:00:00

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WILTSHIRE ELECTION.

!SLUMMY, AUGUST 4.

This contest has at length terminated, but not
till it has been maintained up to the very last hour
which the law allows the poll to continue open.
During the whole of the day the partisans of Mr.
Benett kept arriving from all pails of the county in
numerous well-compacted bodies, and one troop of
5 of them actually entered the town about twelve
o'clock in military files of two and two, and march-
ed in as regular a step os we ever saw the same
number of local militia-men march in. They were
most of them stout hale men, just calculated to
exhibit to a foreigner an excellent specimen of that
hardy peasantry which Goldsmith has so properly
desigaeted the pride and support of our country.
They one anti all bore in their lists large bows of
blue and pink ribends, on which were inscrib-
ed " Benett and victory !" some of them had
even entwined into them leaves of laurels crowned
with gold, and distinguished by the, same in-
scription. Most of them had given their votes
in former day,, so that they did not much in-
crease the numbers which Mr. Benett had already
obtained upon the poll; some few, however, had
determined not to tender 'their votes till the,
very last minute of the election, and had called
themselves in consequence Mr. Benett's army of
reserve. These began to poll about 11 o'clock;
and thus ga►e, as it was always their intention to
have given, a decided majority on this the last day,
to the man of their choice. The freeholders in the
interest of Mr. Astley did not, however, cease to
offer their votes because their exertions appeared
to be useless; on the contrary, many of them bustled
up and down the polling-room with as great vehe.
ounce as they did in the proudest hour of their
success, and exhorted those that were yet unpolled
to poll immediately, as their votes, though of
little importance at the present, might become of
great importance at a future period. when the pro-
ceedings of the election were submitted to a scru-
tiny of the Horse of Commons. 'Chit considers-
tion urged them to besiege the tables at which the
poll-desks were titillated for a considerable time dur-
ing the morning; but at last, having either exhaust-
ed their strength, or else not choosing to witness
the triumph of their adversaries. they quitted the
nialthouse in a body, and left it in the undivided
possession of the friends of Mr. Benett. Their
mutual congratulations sounded from one end of it
to the othe►, expressed in all that homeliness and
heartiness of phrase which► belongs to sincerity, and
which, like the electric spark, communicates its
effects to surroutiders with a rapidity which can only
be compared to the rapidity of thought. Su impa-
tient were they to celebrate that victory which they
knew that they had already achieved, that, long
before the poll was announced, •ttiey rushed out for
the purpose of chairing Mr. Benett. They found
him walking hp will down the lithe which passes by
that ermine to the malthouse by which his friends
had usually entered it ; immediately on seeing him,
they hailed hini with three such enthusiastic cheers
as we never recollect to have heard previously ;
" they hung around him, as children around
their benefactor ;" and were not to be prevented
from carrying their design of chairing him into exe..
cation, until lie had demonstrated to them the im-
propriety of doing it, until the High Sheriff had dr-
dared him to be duly elected knight of the shire.
Agreeing, though with some reluctance, to the cor-
rectness of No suggestions, they endeavoured to
wile away the time till that joyful iiiintiociation was
made 111 all sorts of rustic pleasantry. or course
jibes and jeers upon their less successful antagonists,
oho here and there appeared among them, were
nut at all spared; and a sort of Fesceiiiiiiie dialogue
passed between them, winch, though amusing to
a hearer, from the curious tones in which it was de-
livered, and the still more curious ,gest tires by which-
it was accompanied. would lose ill its effect if
committed to paper. A veinier of ballads. a
minor kind of made a large harvest dur•
big this part of the day, by crying. A new sung
made in honour of the farmer's friend. John Be.
nett :" every one of Mr. Betirtt's friends were mi.
tonsil eager to purchase it ; when, lo ! 011 perusing
it, they found this celebrated new soil not to reit' C
to their frieiid and favourite, but to a parcel of iii-
sigiiiticant beings, termed Dandies. Some of those
who first discovered this trick laughed at the in-
genuity of the min who devised it ; other., who
cuusideied it xi an Myelin 111 l of the enemy,
iitterAl loud threats of serving•' him ore/s if tloy
could lay bands upon him.. Fortunately, however,
for hien, he insinuated himself so dexterously
through the crowd, Mat though warty could tell
where tie just had•beeo. none could tell where he
then was; and in consecrence of Slits circumstance
he escaped oith impunity, nut 'to soy any thing of