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regret that such learning and such abilities should
be thrown away upon so trumpery an affair, com-
menced; by observing that in so doing he felt a
degree of anxiety commensurate with the import-
ance of the question upon which he was called
o decide. It was a matter of great importance
to those whose franchises were concerned in it.—
After paying a flattering and deserved compli-
' went to the High Sheriff for his impartiality,
the Learned Assessor proceeded to point out
the anomalies and inconveniences to which the re-
cognition of this right would give rise, although at
the same time, he begged it to be understood, that,
if the right did exist these would form no ground
for withholding it. In the first place it appeared to
him extraordinary that any persons could have a
freehold vested in them for life, but which they could
part with one week, and revive at pleasure the next.
Then, again, the number of freeholders was inde-
finite, arid might be increased, at the option of the
Corporation, to an unlimited extent. If the right
were allowed, it would be in the power of the Cm,
poration at airy time, supposing the value of the land
to be sufficient to create, during the period of a con-
tested election, as many freemen, and consequently,
freeholders, as might be required to turn the elec-
tion in the way they wished. If the evidence were
true, they might at the present time double the num-
ber of freemen, and yet each, assuming the existence
of the freehold, would have a legal vote. Then,
again, if they had the power of enfranchising, so also
had they the power of disfranchising. He did not
mean by depriving the individual of his freedom,
though that could be done temporarily, and the period
between its being done, and the reinstating the party
by an appeal to the King's Bench, would be suffi-
cient to answer any election purpose, but they
might do it in another way, and which no law could
restrain them from doing. They might, supposing
the freehold worth 40s: create double the number
of freemen, and thus destroy the required qualifi-
cation. This they might do to an unlimited extent
and he was not supposing an improbable case, for it
was well known that Corporations had at different
times exercised their powers for electioneering pur-
poses. They might do this even between the time
of a freeman coming up to vote and his giving his
decision on the validity of such vote. The question
had been most ably argued. From the evidence it
appeared to him that the rights they exercised over
the old enclosure were by sufferance of the Corpo-
ration. He could readily understand why this was
allowed by the Corporation, for lie found a large
sum, from 201. to 401. was levied on the admission
of a stranger to the freedom, which no doubt formed
an important source of revenue to the Corporation,
and it was therefore probable that they would, for
the purpose of increasing this source of revenue,
and inducing persons to purchase the freedom, attach
as many benefits to its possession as they possibly
could without serious injury to the corporate pro-
perty. The whole conduct of the Corporation
squared with the presumption that the freemen were
entitled only to depasture the land by permission of
he Corporation. The Learned Counsel who had
been retained to assert the right, had not been
enabled to show how such an anomaly could exist,
and the fair conclusion, therefore, was that it did
not exist. With respect to the 87 acres of land, he
was of opinion that the words "to and for the
use" were not used in the technical and legal sense
in which they would be in a conveyance, but in
their popular and common acceptation, and that all
the Act intended to confer was a common right of
pem•etr ter7;' ror'wnoever ',ward o 2 a ireenolaer be-
ing—Stinted as to the quantity of cattle he chose to
Place on his fields? In conclusion, after a full ex-
amination of the facts, and attentive consideration
of the arguments raised, he was of opinion that there
was in neither case a freehold, and, consequently no
right of voting.
Immediately upon the delivering of this judgment,
which was received with loud cheering,
Mr. S
for IVb Ia rd.
erjean
Cartwright and t
Sir ADAMS
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been instructed by his clients to take the first oc-
casion that presented itself of thanking the learned
Assessor for the intelligent, the impartial, and the
admirable manner in which the Assessor had decided
all questions that had been brought before him. He
could not be insensible of the fact that that occasion
had now occurred. The same steadiness, the same
rectitude, the same impartiality, the same intelli-
gence, and the same learning, which had charac-
terised all the other decisions of the Assessor-, had
shown forth most eminentlyin this decision ; and
now that the duty of an advocate was past, he felt
that he was only performing the part of an honour-
able man, in assuring the Assessor that this de-
cision of his bad been received by him and by his
clients without either dissatisfaction or disappoint-

ment.
Mr. D. HILL (who is Counsel for Lord Althorp)
fully concurred in every word which had fallen from
his Learned Friend.:
Sir C. KNIGEITLEY said, that as one of the can-
didates who had considered that it would be a
great object gained if this question were decided in
favour of the freemen, he begged to be allowed to
say a few words. He had been told that it was very
probable that the validity of this claim of the free-
men
would be established. He had known nothing
about the matter himself. The moment, however,
in which he had heard the evidence upon it, his
mind was made up, and he was satisfied, without
knowing ally thing about the law of the case, chat
this property was Corporation property, and that the
freemen had no right at all in it. He thanked the
Assessor most cordially for the impartiality which
he had displayed throughout the election, and he
heartily concurred in the compliment which Mr.
conducttim oonfythtoe
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SirAA LdTacmll.
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pnigihntuisety,tao the Assessor.
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that he did not think the praise which Mr.
silltheY°l6::;gant Adams had bestowed on the Assessor was

at all superior to that Learned Gentleman's deserts.
These proceedings, and particularly the decision,
were received with loud cheering by the audience,
and thus ended this new comedy of Much Adoabout
Nothing, in which the only serious part was the
episodical and complimentary portion which regarded
ti assessor, who is unquestionably a gentleman of
ability, and of the most religious impar-
tiality, andolitr:l,,inar y who deserved all that was said of him.
After this decision, and considering the speech of
Mr. Cartwright yesterday, I fully expected that the
Anti-Reform candidates would have resigned to-day.
I leave your readers to decide whether this expec-
tation was not a reasonable one, and whether they
can find, in the speeches that follow, the slightest
ground for the disappointment of that expectation,
which nevertheless was disappointed as you will per-
ceive. The poll, at its close to-day, stood thus :
Althorp
Milton _ - 2'468
128
Cartwright 02
009
Knightley . 1:418
Majority for Milton . -119
Lord ALTIIORP (who was received with loud
cheering) said that the question of which they had
heard so much having been at length decided, and
the poll having been so slow as they must have ob-
served it to have been, he thought he might now
fairly say that even his opponents must consider the
election as practically concluded.—(Cheers.)—He
had not only now to thank them for the place which
lie occupied upon the poll, but on the present occa-
sion he represented also his Noble Friend, Lord