The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-13 00:00:00

RYE.

The following is the draught of a petition in eourae of
signature :
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE
UNITED KING DuM, ege. kr. &r.
44 THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED HOUSE.
HOLDERS AND RA FE-PAYERS OF THE TOWN
AND PORT OF RYE, IN FM COUNTY OF SUS-
SEX .

" Humbly Showeth—That the obscurity natural to cor-
ruption, and the guilty collusion of artful, and often pow-
erful accomplices, have so shrouded the prevailing venality
in the representation to Rirliament, that the laws for the
ostensible preservation of this greatest of evils have hitherto
been of no useful avail.

" That, as your petitioners have been peculiar sufferers
under this shameful and ruinous abuse, they proportion-
ately rejoice on the accession to the Government of a Mi-
nistry pledged to the repression of it.
That under these circumstances, considering that in.
formation tending to elucidate the subject may be of use
towards guiding the Legislature in the great remedial mea-
sures about to he entertained, your petitioners respectfully
reprepent, that should your Honourable House deem tit is
your wisdom to pass a Bill of Indemnity for the examina-
tion of Accomplice witnesses—they (your petitioners) engage
to prove at your bar,
" That the two seats in Parliament for this town and
port of Rye have been regularly, for rrany years past, sold
or bartered for money, or other valuable considerations,
sod that there are at present eleven individuals, either be•
longing to the Established Churc,,, or Members of either
branch of the Legislature, who have been convened as
principals in these foul and unlawful bargains ; from
whence now, as a consequence, such grievous local as well
as general oppression, misery, and distress throughout the
Empire.
" That though these high infringements of the liberties
and privileges of Parliament and the people are as noto-
rious as the sun at noonday, and though some of the per-
sons actually implicated have not hesitated occasionally to
disclose in private the amount even of the sums they have
paid fur nominally representing this town in your Ho-
nourable. House, there is, according to the framing of the
existing laws, no probable method whatever of effecting a
full exposition of those offences but that which we respect.
fully suggest ; and
" That should your Honourable House deem it meet to
adopt the same, it will be the means of bringing to light a
series of curious, deplorable, and flagrant details, exem-
plifying conspicuously the character of the evil and the
urgent necessity of its removsl—detaile, the exposure of
which would, your petitioners therefore humbly conceive,
be of material benefit at the present juncture, to the public
interests.

" And your petitioners shell ever pray, &c."

Some erroneous statements having found their
way into the newspapers, relative to appointments made
by the present Loan CtrancxEr.on, we think it right to
make it known that Mr. Dvxer,v, the lion. Mr. Scorn,
Mr. LOWDHAM, and Mr. flAtnrs, have not been ,arses
appointed to their several situations, but have been re.
tamed by his Lordship in the places which they before
enjoyed. As to Mr. LE MERCHANT, who has been no-
minated Chief Secretary, we can confidently assert tl►at
he was never even seen by the Loan CHANCELLOR until
he cattle to thank hint for h►s appointment, having been
recommended at a most respectable barrister, and one
well qualified for the place. It is equally certain that no
person related to the LORD CHANCELLOR., either by blood
or marriage, has received any appointment from hint—
both his brothers having declined to accept any oflice, as
they did under Mr. CANNING.—Morning Hler•ald.

Such was the scarcity of votes on .the last day
of the Liverpool election, that many were brought up
which had been recorded in the beginning of the contest,
and names were tendered whose owners had been in the
grave for the space of ►even years. Recruits of .01 sorts,
far-fetched, and mast likely dearly bought, were placed at
the bar, transported from 114 Bath, London, anti %Orlin ;
and the number of uneound votes rejected on account of
pauperism or fraud showed the shifts which had been re-
sorted to. One of the )wart part), in the course of the
morning, complained to the Mayor that the Deniaoniano,
having been unable to obtain troops of their own, had com-
mitted violence on the men under the Ulm, colours, and
actually stolen two of their most independent voters ! One
man, who was ill, and unable to ►tand, was brought to
the hustings in a sedan chair ; his vote was received,
although the opposite party (ant without reeiorn) strongly
contended that it was invalid I.—Alarnin9 Paper