The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-19 00:00:00

HEREFORD ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Well knowing the independence of your paper, I can-
not refrain from communicating to you the pleasing intelli-
gence that after a great struggle, we have returned two real
Reformers for the county. The poll runs thus :
Hoskins 3,008
Foley
Price
Poole

Should you think this piece of information worthy of notice,
please insert it in your very valuable journal. I should observe
that it was the intention of the freeholders to return Mr. Foley
—being what is termed a Liberal.—l am, &c.
Ross, Jan. 17, 1835. G. W.

HEREFORD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Trimpha; at has been the defeat by the noble and
independent electors of this county, of the mean and insidious
devices of a faction inimical to the cause of civil and religious
liberty, to oust from its representation its long, able, and con-
sistent advocate, Sir Robert Price--yet, at the same time, it
is painful to reflect by whom the design was originated, and
by what contemptible artifices it has been abetted. To the
Clergy (as to a very preponderating majority of them,) col-
lectively and individually, are we to look as the more promi-
nent and active agents in this unhallowed device—tho very
existence of which was hardly known till the very day of
nomination, when the three late representatives (once more
happily restored to us as our Members) were expected to be
returned unopposed and unchanged.
Active as the workings of this wretched cabal are now
know to have been carried on, yet so secretly were they
planned and pursued, that the explosion of the plot, like the
unexpected irruption of a cataract, or an avalanche, was the
first intimation to numbers of the electors of its very being !
The emissaries of the Church—its principals and its subor-
dinates, of all grades—had been for weeks secretly in action,
using all the arts of intimidation amongst its tenantry, appeal-
ing to every insulting menace to forbid the tender of a single
vote of its dependents and retainers, down even to the poor
parochial sexton and gravedigger, not in favour of their anti-
reform and anti-liberal proteg6. In spite of every effort, this
county has done its duty nobly, honourably, and independently
—showing that it will never submit to the subjugation of into-
lerant bigotry, or become the rotten borough of ignorant
priesteraft, or of Tory domination.
The feelings of mortification and resentment that this humi-
liating defeat has excited, may be better conceived than de-
scribed ; and long will it be before the remembrance of it will
be forgotten, or, we trust, cease itself to be a lesson of warn-
ing and of fear, to those who have projected, as they have
prosecuted, this base and underhand desire against the freedom
and independence of our county.
Your obedient servant,
Jan. 17, 1835. VINDEX.
P. S. The Cheltenham Free Press has, with its usual tact,
thus correctly appreciated this Tory-Church device in its re-
cently published Number, under the head of " Herefordshire
Election :—Despite the blue-black efforts of a corrupt band
of politico-clerical Tories, to raise an opposition to Sir Robt.
Price, this patriotic and long tried reformer has been trium-
phantly returned by the independent and enlightened electors
of the county. We cannot too warmly congratulate the intel-
ligence of Herefordshire on this signal defeat of a factious
and brawling sanhedrim, whose feudal bigotry and indecent
political virulence so grossly outrage the first precept and pure
spirit of that Christian Ministry of which they profess to be
m- t,
ertwers.