The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-06 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, MAY 3.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta.,—To the everlasting shame, disgrace, and reproach
of the Town Council of Ldinhurgh, R. A. Dundas has
been this day elected Member for the city. The election,
however, was not secured by the voice of the citizens, be•
cause they to a man were in favour of the Right Hon.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord-Advocate, and they even ap-
proached the Chief Magistrate upon their banded knees,
supplicating in his Lordship's behalf, but all to no pur-
pn,e. Determiir:d to remain in the corrupt and rotten
state in which this unfortunate city has hitherto been re-
presented, the Town Council —at least a majority—voted
for a friend of their old favourite. It is not only a no-
torious, but a lamentable fact, that I and my fellow-citi-
zens have been groaning under a load of taxation during a
series of years, to support what ? Not the improvement
of con city—not the advancement of the rights of the in-
habitants!—!rut the corruptions and abuses which the
Town Council and their late coadjutor have from time to
time been pleased to create. Are we, then, fairly repre-
sented, either in burgh or in Parliament ? Our situation
at this awful moment is indescribable, There is nothing
here, s'nce this woeful catastrophe has happened, but riot
and disord• r. The police are overpowered, and the midi-
tary have ben celled out. Whilst the Lord-Advocate has
been carried home amidst the cheers of his faithful towns•
min, Dundee, a: d a number of his worthy (I should say
worthless) supporters are shut up in the room where this
abominable election took place. The Chief Magistrate,
too, has bee❑ compelled to take refuge in one of the houses
of the citizens whose rights he ht.s this day tramped under
feet. Will no Member be found in the House of Com-
mons, when that Honourable House is again assembled, to
represent our grievances ? Above all, will none be found
to free us front the grasp of a tyrannical, self-elected,
ciirrupt, and rotten Town Council ? Are we to he longer
slaves to the obnoxious house of Dundas ? Depend upon
it, that our most gracious Sovereign, and his most intelli-
gent Ministry, will receive no support from Scotland : in-
deed, how can they expect any from a misrepresented
kingdom? Let their whole confidence he placed in chose
honourable Members who will be returned for Ireland and
glorious Old England, and then we may expect that the
rights of which we have bem so shamefully robbed will
be restored to us.

I am, S r, your obtd;ent servant, CIVIS.

EDINBURGH, MAY 3.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
General Newspaper and Advcrtising, Office,
40, St. Andrew square.
i 3 impossible to convey any idea of the excite-
ment that prevails at present throughput Scotland and the
great imaiety that is evinced to return such Members only
as will support his Majesty's Ministers in the approaching

It is truly gratifying to observe the great increase of
strength that is likely to be gained in this respect in Eng-
land, notwithstanding all the bribery aed corruption that
must have been used at Preston and elsewhere.
And it is pleasing to know, that in Scotland there will
be a greater number of popular Members returned than
could have been expected in the present state of matters.
By a letter from Mr. Ross, of Rossie, he hag secured
tt4e Angus-shire burghs, so that Sir James Carnegie re-
tires. Mr. Fergusson, of Raith, has also secured the
Kirkcaldy burghs, and therefore Lord Loughborough re•
tires. Admiral Fleming comes in for Stirling, notwith-
standing the opposition of the annexed ; Kirkman Finlay
fit Glasgow; and the Lord Advocate, for Forfar. In
shart, it is expected, that there will he an increase of
about fourteen Members, and that two-thirds of the Scot-
tish Members will support the measure.
No event has, perhaps, occurred in Edinburgh, since
the Porteus mob, that has created such an excitement as
that of the present election for this city. It being under-
stood that our present self-elected Magistrates were re-
solved to return R. A. Dundas, meetings of the inhabi-
tants were immediately called, in order to ascertain the
at s point,ll our
in
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petitionsrati
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and public:
no t
pffrireoonoTnthe inhabitants in general, conveying
tbosueonn(litteeesol:Crf beostuulenne actielildeoot he universal wish of the citizens that the
Lerd Advocate should be returned on the present occasion.
One of these petitions received yesterday upwards of
18,000 signatures, anl measu ing 375 feet, was presented
this forenoon, previous to the election, which took place
at twelve o'clock. Since which period the city has been
in a most dreadfully agitated state ; and the moment that
it was announced that the Lord Advocate had lost his
election, and that Mr. Dundas had been returned by a
majority of three, the confusion and uproar was inde-
scribable. The Lord Advocate very prudently retired from
the electing room, viz. the Council Chamber, by a private
entry, and got into his carriage with a view to get home
unobserved, but the moment the multitude discovered him
his horses were taken out, and he carried amidst the ac-
clamations of thousands along Prince's-street, and onwards
to Moray-place. Provost Allan, however, acted other-
wise, and left the Chamber undauntedly, as if he had
offered no offence to the people; he attempted to proceed
along the street amidst the groans and hisses of thousands,
but could proceed no farther than Leith-street, where he
had to take shelter in a shop, until the Riot Act was
read, and until James Gibson Craig and some others of the
Lord Advocate's friends, who were hailed with cheers,
came up to his protection, when a troop of dragoons ar-
rived from hershill Barracks, and escorted him in safety
to his own house. Great anxiety is evinced for the safety
of the city during the night, but whatever injury is done
will only be to those of the majority.

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