The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-16 00:00:00

GE.NERAL ELECTION.

-To the GENTLEMEN, CLERGY and FREEHOLDERS
- -of the COUNTY of BED FO RD.
GENTLEgEN,
TT is with the warmest Sentiments of Gratitude
11 tha• I return you my most sincere Thanks, for the addi-
tional proof which you have bestowed on -.me, of your
Esteem.and good Opinion ; and I hope my future Condua
in Parliament; and my Attachment to the Principles of our
happy Constitution, will shew that your confidency in me
etas not been misplaced.
I have the Honour to be, Gentlemen, -
Your grateful and-stnuch obliged obedient
bumble Servant, -
ST. ANDREW ST. JOHN.

,July 12, .1802,

TO the FREEMEN and Legal FREEHOLDERS of the
'BOROUGH of OKEHANIP'ION.
GENTLEMLN,
AT Four o'Clock this Day, when the Poll
closed for the Freemen and acknowledged legal Free-
holders of this Borough, we h:,,d , the satisfadion of seeing
-the number of Votes in Our 'favour.considerably higher than
those for our opponents. At that hour thirty7five Voters
were introduced, who have acknowledged themselves to be
most perfed strangers to you, and who Came frorn London
and its vleinity, upon the avowed and 'premeditated scheme
to deprive you of your FranchiSeS. • •
• During the course of the Ele&ion, Mr.llotland and his
Agents had prepared us to expel these Strangers,- and had
intormed us of a new contrivance to make their Votes valid.
Fully apprised of thisintention,- and well aware of the de—
pendent situation et the Returning Officer, we are 'not stir-
prized that tjiese Votes, which a Committee of the House of
Commons, in 1791, pronounced illegal, were now suffered
to foil ; that Tribunal. would not Permit personS of the most:
exalted rank and character ; to makeconveyances to serve the
purposes Of an, Eledion; and .we, look forward with the
utmost confidence, that a Committee of the New Parlia-
malt will not now stindion a measute- wtich, in 5791, was
deemed fraudulent and illegal. , •
Alt. Holland, in his Address to you this day, congratulated
you on 'his Suaess. We conceive. on the contrail-, that :to
the legal Voters it muss prove a subjed of grief and Mor-
tification?' that there is. not a single independent Freetnan
Among y.cni, who, after witneSsing the scene dif• this Evening,
can lay his hand _upon his heart .and not regret the Vote
which he has given-in support of this•Gentlemv ; and that
every Freeman must feel, that, at all future Elediens it must
be a meremockery tosolicit iiis,Vote, it, after he NIS given
' it, an indefinite number of dependent Tradesmen are to lie
brought from ,L01K1017,, to out-number' and dilate to the
legal Yeters of this'Borough.
We beg leave to retuhi your our most sincere Thanks for
the-sopport which you have given us, and to assure you,
• that no effort of burs shall be wanting to vindicate your
Rights betbre a Committee Of the' House of CommonS ; and
that, whether we are succes-qfu I or nbt, we shall ever retain
a grateful remembrance of the flattering and kind- reception
we have met with at the Boroughof Okehampton. • '
We have the Honour to be, Geritlernen,
Your obedient and obliged humble Servants,
P. T. THELLU,SSON. :•• • • •
GEORGE WOODFORD THELLUSSON.
Okehampton, Friday Evenjng, •
gth of - •

BT4TE OF THE POLL.
Forty objected to, by the CoUn-
r4.4. sel for Messrs: ThellusSohs,
139 but of course admitted to Poll
by the Rttturniog Qfficer.-
One Vote was obi eded to, by the
Mr. Thellusson .. tiz . Counsel for Messrs. Holland
Mr. G.W.Thellusson 117 and Strano, and of course re..
jeded by the Returiting Officer.

Mr. Holland
Mr. Strange