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LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1837.

The copy of a petition to the House of Commons
from EDWARD ADAMS and EDWARD CRONIPTON
LLOYD HALL, Esqs., electors for the County of
Carmarthen, against the return of the Hon. Colonel
TREVOR, one of the sitting Tory Members for that
county, has just been handed to us ; and we request
that such of our readers as are not yet converts to
the necessity for the Ballot will carefully attend to
the annexed extracts from it. Whether the petition-
ers succeed or do not succeed in unseating Colonel
TREVOR is a question that cannot vitally affect the
truth of the statement upon which their petition rests;
as the question of success is oftener determined by the
political complexion of a Committee than by any regard to
the justice of the case. The petitioners attribute the re-
turn of Colonel TREVOR to the undue influence ex-
ercised by a Mr. WILLIAMS, formerly an attorney's
clerk, but now agent of the Earl of CAWDOR, over
his Lordship's tenantry in South Wales ; and the
array of facts which they bring forward in attestation
of this statement are of a nature to preclude the idea
of fabrication on the part of the gentlemen advancing
them. It is evident from the alleged conduct of the
Earl of CAWDOR'S Agent, that his Lordship was cog-
n'zant of these proce_dings, or, at least, that they were
in harmony with immemorial usage upon his estates.
The present instance of the undue influence exercised
by the agent of a Peer of Parliament, over the electoral
body, is not one that calls for any very strong expres-
sion of reprobation. The Earl of CAWDOR has acted
as the bulk of the Tory, and many of the Whig Lords
have been in the invariable practice of acting for the
last century. His Lordship, we presume, deemed it
as much the duty of his tenants to vote as he required,
as his groom to obey a summons to saddle his horse ;
and, no doubt, was prepared to class disobedience on
either side in the same category of punishable offences.
The impunity with which Noble Lords and their
agents have been suffered openly to violate the Stand-
ing Orders of the House of Commons naturally begot
a contempt for the people, and an utter disregard of
their opinions, political and moral. When it suited
the purposes of their landlords, they were driven
to the hustings like cattle, there, in the face of
GOD and man, to commit an act of deliberate per-
jury, at the risk of entailing ruin upon their fami-
lies in case of refusal. Is this an exaggeration ?
Look to the case of the eleven tenants of the Earl
of CAWDOR, who signed the memorial included in the
annexed extracts from Messrs. ADAMS and LLOYD
HALL'S petition. Of these men some had been Re-
formers for nearly half a century; they were so at the
last election ; they prayed to be permitted to exercise a
constitutional right as their conscience dictated ; and
yet, such were the threats held out, that only three of
them dared to split their votes in favour of the Reform
interest—the remaining eight plumped for the Tory
candidate I Can the people of England be called free—
save in bitter mockery—while such a state of the popu-
lar representation as this is suffered to disgrace the in-
stitutions of the country ? Compare the unmanliness—
the un-Englishness—of the Ballot with the following re-
presentation of the most English conduct of the Earl
. of C awDo a's agent, and then tell us which of the two
Is the basest and most degrading :
To the Honourable the Commons of the 'United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, is Parliament a,sembled ;

The humble petition of Edward Adams, the Younger, of
Midd eton Hall, in the County of Carmarthen, Esq., and
Edward Cromnton Lloyd Hall, of Picton Terrace North,
in the County Borough of Carmarthen, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law,
Slieweth,—That your petitioners were at and during the
la,t election of Members to serve in this Parliament for tl:e
runty of Carmarthen electors of the said county, and had and
claim t, have had a right to vote for Members to serve in Par-
liament at the last election for the said county.
That at the said election Sir James Williams, of Ede in's-
ford, in tha catm:y of Carmarthen, Bart., the Hun. George
Rice Trevor, Colonel of the Carmarthen hire Militia, and John
Jones, of Ystr,d, in the sai county borough of Carmarthen,
Esq.; Barr'ster-at- Law, were candidates to represent the said
county of Carmarthen in this Parliament.
That your petitioners supported Sir James Williams. the only
candidate on the !Vue, or Reform interest, the said E. Adams,
t.ie younger, caava,sing in his behalf part of the &strict of
Llandilo, and the sa'd E. C. L. Hall past of the district of
Is4.wcastle E.t.l)n.
That in the districts of Llandilo and Newcastle Eral‘n, and
elsewhere in the county of Carmarthen. a large tract of coun-
try called the Golden Grove Estat,, is the property of the
Rig,l.t Hon. John Frederick, Earl of Cascdor, a Peer of Par-
liament, whose principal steward or agent in South Wars is
Richard Bowen Williams, of Llandilo, Esq., formerly a clerk
to T. Lewis, of Llandilo, Attorney-at-Law, deceased, but now
lately made a Justice of tho Peace for the county of Carmarthen.
That upon the canvass for the clectio:i it was very soon as-
certained that the tenants of the said Earl would not be allowed
to 'follow their own wishes in giving their votes; whereupon
your petitioners resolved to break through the absurd principle
which very generally obtains arnonget the landed gentry of the
county of Carmarthen, of not canvassing tenant voters, who
are almost universally considered by their landlords as bound
to give t votes a-!cording to their dictates.
That in the Newcastle Emlyn district your petitioner, E.
C. L. Hall, soon discovered that one Richard Evans, the sub-
agent of the said Earl in that district, had been round to all
the- ter.anta of the said Earl who were voters for the county of
Catanterthen, with a letter from R. B. Williams on the subject
of how such tenants were to give their votes at the election.
That the feeling of the ferreeeer part of Lord Candor's te-
nat...Ty in the Newcastle-Emlyn district was so strongly in favour
of Sir James William?, that the following memorial or remon-
strance was prepared, and signed by many of them :
" Newcastle-Emlyn, 21st July, 1837.
My Lord,_Wo. your Lordship's tenants, beg to addsess
y3it on a subject which 11.5; given us great uneasiness. Your
Lordship has ever been to US the kindest of landlords ; we
therefore approach you with every feeling of confidence in your
Lordship's kindness on the present occasion.
" We have been told that your Lordship has cased to sup-
part pi inciples of Reform. This we can hardly believe, but
from the ilireata held out to us of being di-posse.ssed of our tene-
ments if we adi:ere to our well-known principles, and vote for
Sir James Williams at the ensuing election, we know not what
to think.
".My Lord, some of us have been for nearly half a century
supporters of the Blue party. NVe have seen noWe reason, and
y. ,
y ou
is, 1...,,,,(19,5ect,n0 reason, for altering cur opinions. pra
• tberifiark,4lot to take advautege, of our dependent situation to
.1---illaciene..inNie distressing dilemma of voting contrary to the
—.dictates of 'd conscience, or forfeiting our holdin7s. The
Lie,r3FileceveFca46 ise is a sacred trust. Force us not to act the
atictatifirti of, raying that trust ; avert from us the finger of
<io ,
0 Iver leorneepro ti; and suffer us to band down the fair fame we
I)3Cef ur rattlers uncontaminated to our children.
L 01: , our feelings arc strong ; pardon us if we ex-