The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-21 00:00:00

RYE ELECTION COMMITTEE.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the house qf Com-
mons, Saturday, Dec. IS, I 830.)

House informed that the Committee required the Coun•
eel fur the several parties to deliver in to the Clerk of the
Committee statements in writing of the right of election
Jur which they respectively contended.
That, in consequence thereof, the Counsel for the peti-
tioners, the Rev. George Augustus Lumb,und others, de-
livered in a statement as follows :

" That the right of election for Barons to serve in Par-
liament for the part of itye is only in the Mayor and Jo-
rats, and in the Freemen inhabiting in the said port, and
paying scot and lot."
That the Counsel for the petitioners, De Lacy Evans,
Esquire, and Benjamin Smith, delivered in a statement
as follows :--. _ .

" That the right of election for Barons to serve in Par-
liament for the said town and part of Rye is only in the
Mayor, Jurists, and Freemen inhabiting in the same, and
paying scot and lot; such Freemen being duly admitted
as Barons and Freemen according to the ancient customs
and usages of the said town and port of Rye, and in con-
formity with the privileges granted to the said town and
port of Rye by royal charter :
" That it appears from the records of the town of Rye,
that it was an ancient custom of that town that every per-
son born within that town, and being of honest behaviour
and capable, and in good sort deserving, was entitled to
be made free, by taking the oath appointed to be taken by
Barons and Freemen, and administered by the Mayor and
Jurats, if the son of a Freeman, to be made free by his
father's copy, and if not the son of a Freeman, then upon
the payment of a fine, the amount of which was from
time to time regulated by decree of the hundred Court.:
" That it further appears from the said records, to have
been an ancient custom of the said town of Rye, that
every stranger who bad come into the town, nod had in..
habited and dwelt there by a whole year and a day, and
who had occupied some honest craft, and was of good
guiding and conversatioll, and desired the franchise,
should,be admitted thereto by the Mayor and Jurats in
Pleyne Common Court, by•taking the oath appointed to
he taken by Barons and Freemen, and upon paying to the
Commonalty n fine, the •atnoont of which was to be
awarded by the Mayar and Jurors, under the authority of
the decrees of the }kindred Court,:
" That it further appears from the said records, that it
was an ancient custom of the town of Rye, that the Mayor
was allowed once during his Mayoralty to make one Free.
man gratis, with the consent of seven Jurats."
That the Committee have determined, that upon the
statement delivered in by the Counsel for the first men-
dotted petition, the right of election, as set forth in the
said statement, is not the tight of election for the said
town and port of Rye.
That upon the statement delivered in by the Counsel
for the last mentioned petition, the CAlunmittee have de-
termined that the right of election, as set forth in the said
statement, is not the right of election for the said town and
port of Rye.
That the Committee have determined that the right of
election of Barons to serve in Parliament for the town and
port of Rye, is only in the Mayor, Jurane and in the
Freemen inhabiting in the said town and port, and paying
scot and lot, duly admitted and sworn.
That it appears to the Committee, that by the ancient
usages of this town and port, there are three ways of
making Freemen, viz.:--
" let. The eldest sons of freemen born after their fa-
thers are free, have a right at twenty.nne years of age,
and may demand their freedom ; 2d, That every Mayor
may make one gratis during his Mayoralty; 3d. That
any person may he made free with the consent of the ma-
jority at an assembly of the Mayor, Jurats, and Freemen;
that the usage of the port is, that Hinny person so put up
to be made free of the said town he rejected, he cannot be
put up again in the same Mayoralty."
To be entered in the Journals.

The meeting for considering the propriety of
presenting petitions to Parliament fur Reform, held yester-
day, et the New Town Hall, was most numerously cod
respectably attended. The resolutions proposed, and the
petition founded upon them, were not only unanimously
agreed upon, but were severally responded. to by the
warmest acclamations. One of time popular and justly
esteemed Members for the borough, Jons Boturau
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independence, and consistency,
which have endear him,
not only to his constituente, but to all who were present
on this occasion, declared his full concurrence in the sen-
timents of the meeting. Tl:e petition to the House of
Lords is to be presented by Lord Baommomma; that to the
Commons by the Members for the borough ; one of the
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the meeting was so strong Against him,
the proposition
was not for a moment listened to. Tile business of the day
was extremely well conducted.:
The petition, as well as
the resolutions, is drawn up in a moderate spirit, and with
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