The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-26 00:00:00

THE THIRTEENTH DAY.

At the clan of the poll (Friday evening) five o'clock, the
numbers were,
Hon. E. Stanley - 2208 Captain Barrie - - 1273
Mr.. Wood - 1414 I Mr. Cobliett - 845
Bieore the Court row., Captain Colquit, as a nominal Candidate,
requested. jointly with Mr. Stanley. for the Mayor to incr.-ale the
time of polling the two next darn. in order to give all the elec ors
an opportunity of polling before the final close of the poll on
Monday.
The Mayor acceded to their request, and stated that he would
poll. to continue to take the votes to-morrow evening (Saturday)
until seven o'clock. and would commence milling on Monday
morning at eight o'clock. Mr. Wood's votes appeared to be ex-
hausted towards evening—while Captain Barrie'a pounc:d in from
all siden. - . . - . .

The Candidates, after returning from the hustings, edified their
friends with their eternal boasting* of success, and all that empty
flashy nonsense which the barr,n invention of the speakers, and the
vile taste of their hearers, inflict on election assemblages.
Cobbett did not appear on the hustings through the day; he seems
to he sickened of the applause of the mob, when it does not tend to
further his chance of success. He popped hishead out of the;window
at sight o'clock, and sputtered a speech, not so much with a view to
please the rabble, as to abuse his brother reformer, Wood, whom he
accused of alining the mob, and afterwards sending for the military
to take them to prison. The following is his description of the ultra
whig candidate—a talentless, humdrum, conundrum, dummy ; a
piece of rotten Wood—a base, mean, unprincipled creature, a poor
weak, vile reptile—no more fit to he a member of Parliament than
he (Cobbett) was to be an Archbishop of Canterbury or Pupe of
Rome. He concluded, by threatening to inflict some terrible ven-
geance on Wood to-morrow, Saturday, and stating, that though he
(Cobbett) had made the other Candidates spend 10 or 15,000/. each,
his own expences did not exceed MM. and of that not a penny his
'his own. His tirade was received very coolly, and often interrupted
by murmurs of disapprobation.

_
SATEKDAV, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Radical agents of Cobbett, seeing no chance of electing
their friend, have turned all their exertions to secure the return
of their second favourite. the Reformer, Wood. Aware of
Wood's small number of unpolled votes, and apprehending that
the additional time of polling will enable the 'fury to overtake
him, if the Captain'e voters are allowed to be polled as fast as
they come ur, the Radicals have spent the greater part of the
morning in interrupting the pulling, creating unnecessary delays,
protesting against the military, speechifying, disputing, examining,
and squabbling. Hoffman, a reforming shoemaker, has put the
Bribery Oath to the Electors as they come to be polled. Virood is
still a.head of Capt. Barrie, and is increasing his majority every
moment. Nothing but some unimaginable turn of fortune can
save the latter from defeat t his friends are making the most
toilsome exertions t the public excitement is growing more and
more intense as the contest cornea nearer to its end. Cobbett has
left town this morning, and will not return till Monday evening,
when he is expected to make his last speech and dying decla-
ration."

State of the poll at 12 o'clock. Saturday morning, 24:h June—
(Fourteenth day—last but one of the election)
HOD. E. G. Stanley - 2349 Captain Barrie
Mr. Wood . I 1531 Cobbett

BOROUGH OF LEICESTER ELECTION.

14411
860

CLOSE OF THE CONTEST.
SATURDAY.
This contest, which has been persevered in with great vigour for
tew days, was decided to day at half-past twelve o'clock ; when, at
the c10..e of the poll, the numbers were—
Hastings - - - 27721 Evans - 200
Cave - 2b77 1 Denman - . 1811

The Assessor accordingly declared, that Sir Charles Abney
Hastings, Bart. and Robert Otway Cave, Esq. were duly elected
to serve as Members for this Borough in the ensuing Session of Par-
liament.
Sir CHARLES UASTINGS and Mt. CAVE then shortly addressed
the electors, thanking them for the honourable distinction that had
been conferred upon them, and pledging themselves to redeem the
promise with which they first entered upon the contest, that of pay-
ing AI undeviating attention to their local interests, and of main
taining the rights of the throne, the people, and the altar.
Mr. EVANS also addressed the people. Notwithstanding the re.
sult of the contest had been unsuccessful, he still felt himself mos
gratefully indebted to them for the powerful and prompt support
which they had afforded him. In having kept open the poll to this
late period, he was actuated by no motive of a dishonourable na-
ture towards his opponents; hut from an anxious desire to give the
freemen of this Borough an opportunity of declaring their sen-
timents._

The Hon. Mr. ERSKINE shortly addiessed the electors on be-
half of Mr. Denman, who, he saitf, had been induced to come for-
ward, and continue the contest, more from a desire to serve his
friend Mr. Evans, than from any wish on his own part to agitate
the borough by a contested tleetion.
The successful Candidates were then chaired round the bo-
rough, and then conducted to their hotel, where they again ad-
dressed the multitude in language of congratulation at the
successful issue of their protracted contest.
It is with pleasure we repeat that no disposition to riot has been
at all evinced by either party since the: first ebullition of feeling
which took place on Wednesday week, and which, however much
it may be regretted, ie a circumstance almost inevitably conse-
' quest on a popularly contested election. The inclination which
some of our contemporaries have shewn to exaggerate noise into
riot, and a icuflie for elbow-room into a regularly organized system
of hostile attack, cannot be too much condemned. From personal
observation, we can assert, that both at Coventry and at Leicester,
whatever effervescence of the public mind might have been mo.
mentarily excited, no sooner has the contest terminated than the
people. with one concurring will, have thrown aside their Would..
and with them every feeling of asperity and unkindness. Indeed
the endurance of an election contest even for a week, argues
great forbearance on the part of the people; for though novelty
may in the beginning give a zest to the occurrence, that is but an
evanescent quality, which cannot connterpnise those inconve-
nience. which ever moat result from a state of feverish excitement,
and a suspension of those industrious habits, in the. calm exert-We
of which atone can real saCsfaction and domestic quiet be attained.

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, JunE 24.

(At Thursday the Maitland, Siudil, from Bombay, put into...!
Helen's, wiih foul winds, fur provisions, having bad ■ six mood„•
passage. Several passengers died on board after leavings. Heirs-
viz. Lieut.-Colonel Tucker, Deputy Adjutant-General of the ll.ar
bay Army; Mrs. Campbell, wife of Colonel D. Campbell,
Bombay Regiment; Mrs. Young, wife of Captain Young,
Regiment; and John, son of Captain Taylor, 4th Regiment
dra. Cavalry.—The Maitland priimeded yesterday fur the River.
Yestmlay the North Star, 10, Captain Arabin, sailed fur the
coast of Africa, to relieve the Blossom ; and this nioming the Par.
.hian, 10, Captain H. B. Martin, arrived from the River. itrimin,
Bloody, and Parthian. In the Harbour, the Victory, liaoge, (lot
South America), Melville, Spartiate, Glasgow, Pyraiiius, Ilepxt
(far South America). Asp, Cracker, Dwarf, Calliope. The Pa:lV,,
is for the Mediterranean.
The part of the 56th Regiment, nadir Colonel Barclay, akin,
came from the Mauritius in the Layton (after 20 years' chance,
landed yesterday, and marched into Fort Cumberland, to await 0:;,
arrival of the more divisions. The bth Regiment hare marched tor
NVetdol, in Northathoonsliire.

PLYMOUTH, Ji 22.
Came in the Lively, Capt. W. Elliott, C. 8.; the l'elorus,
Captain Hamlet', from the Cork station, to be paid off; and the
Erebus (new) bomb, from Alitford. Sailed the !loyalist tender,
Lieut. Hobilliard, with Admiral Sir James Saunterer, on bleu.
nual inspection of the Naval statiurs at Falmouth and
Waterloo transport, Lieut. Coatis, with suppliez for the squnlear,
et Lisbon and Gibraltar, and deraehrients of the 44th end 54 A re.
iliinenia. In Ilamoare—Britannia, Windsor Castle, Jaya, rpm.
Trioculo, Peliirus, Vigilant, Nightingale. In the Sownd—Lirely,
Romney, Camelion. The Java, for the East Indies, will be saw,
ready to proceed.