The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

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On the 3d inst. at his father's house, George-street, Etlin..
burgh, Joseph Humi!, Esq. Adv-cate.
On the 26th ult. aged 37, All. Joseph Hanby, printer of
7'he Blackburn Mail.
Lately, aged 95, Mrs. Frances Btuce. She held a sinAl
iatn3, the business of the dairy being managed by herself till
within a short time previous to her death.
Latelv, art Lacoch, the Rev. Henry Ptimlley, Vicar of UM-
Drvon, and Rector of Canoes, Wilts. He
was the benevolent instituter of an minuet lecture on eruelty
to the ktrute creation..

BOROUGH OF FOWEY.

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As the purity of Parliamentary Representation
;11, of the utmost importance, we insert the, follow •
ing Article, extracted from a Cornish Paper, ai•d
if it should be a partial or incorrect statement,
we hope that some of our CoFrespoutlents will
favour us with a wore authentic ammo(

" Perhaps it may be in the recollection of
some of our readers. that the late Corporation 01
Fo<<ey Itaving violated their Challer, it was de
claret to be forfeited by the Court of Icing's
Bench ; and it having been proved to the sa,is-
faction of the Lord Chancellor, that they had
misapplied and mismanaged the funds which they
held in trust for the benefit of the inhabitants.
they were deprived of all authority over these.
fiindi, and other receivers were arpointeil to see
that they weir duly admioistered. The Covpor447
tion being chits dissolved, .the persons who had
composed it, determined, it possible, to Obtain•
a new ClrArter, as the only smeaus of recover-
it.g their tot tuer acectltianev • Iwo.'ller to etteet
tilts, they tepttsented to Gov, rumen', that ?dr.
Austen, I Ile Grill throligh whose ex. r-

!loos tilt practices of- these itortilc,ll47t• Corpo-

orli Were exi,osed, and the rod o' their au.
thori'y broken, was a Reformist ; and that unless
a new Charter was cranfed, Ie ,V id' return his
as members for the boroogit, in the place
or the devoted adherents of. Cr.verrtrirnt which
the patron of Fowty had invariably seleeteU-, as
fi+ persons to he elected by his obsegisnius re-
tainers. This species ot argtonent was telt to be
conclusive, and it was Sono foot's! that those WhO
had contended for the independence ot Fowey
had no choice tie wren 'Alinistes ial Nlenthel s h
a Charier, or Alinistetial Memberss-without oue.
if they agreed to allow,such Members as Ministers
approved to be re: toned, they here led to nelieve
that no Charter would be granted ;—if they did

• not. they were given to nintersttind ihat a Charter•
w(n11(1 be granted, as the me.ins ot securing ilia(
. . . .

object. In this dilemma, kir. Austen and iris frig ntls
subati fed kve do no. retell's to say)

to the tea., of !he two evils nresen,ed to them ;
• conceded ti•e p brit rewecting the fowl) Of
rttein-
bers, in order to preserve the cope ot Fowey
from the curse ot chartered tyranny and oppres•
sion. Under these c;rcitinstances it was that the
late geert4l election tottnd the horongh ot Fowey..
The patron had sold lys rights to one, who had
dittposed of them to another—who, aided by the
ex-corporators, attempted to .piocure the return
of two n,embers, in opposition•to Lord 17,1letort
a-nd Mr. G. Campbell. the eAtur dat es 'tnA toduced
by Mr. Austen • The -Portre,)e, who is the le-
turning otfi,er, sin,e the dissolution of the Cur-
potation of which •he was .a to-tuber, is a tart
friend of the new patron, - •o; rather; a violent
opt one••t of. Mr. Austen, and, —ot course, the
tettiflula•es of the' patron' were; returned.—
This return was set aside by n .Committee of the
Commons, and Lord Valletott awl Mr •
Glynn Caotphell•were declared to be-duly elecfed.
The pretn4ture death 'of his Lordship created
a vacattoti which the late election -Was to supply.
The present Lord Valletort came forward in the
interest on which his late brother had stood ; 111(1
the intended patron. Gent ge Lucy, E.tl itrougi,t
forward Mr. Att wood, do- London Banker. As
the- right 'of election for Fowey is itt the inhabi-
t:ants paying scot and lot, and in.pet_sons posv•ss-
ing freeholds in The borough. it was always a
matter of importance (-0 keep off !lie rates as many
as possible Of the inhabitants that sere favourable
to the emaucipation of the borough; 'and, there-
fore, the parish officers, under the-influence of the
ex--corporators, had only allowed 'show eighty
persons to be put on the rates. When called on,
previously to the general election, they refused to
make a new rate, making oath that they did not
want money, though at the time they were bor-
. rowing hundreds of pounds to.pay the poor.—
By this 11)1'11111 they got over that period with the
old rate. But being at length compelled to make
a new rate, they all at once found that FOwey
contained .2'2) persons liable to the poor's-rate,
&c. This rate was confirmed by the Magistrates
at the Q:iarter Sessions, and we should suppose.
statist he taken as the guide of the returning officer

• in accepting votes. This, however, for re4sons
which ,he wilt be called on to explain, he declin.
ed ; and, during the late election, persisted in ac-
cepting parole evidence of the liability of persons
telotertug their votes, to pay the poor's rate. Co
such a length was this novel principle carried,
that a person tendering his vote for Mr. AttWood
was accepted, though it was offered to be proved;
that in order to entitle this elector to,iote, a bed
bad been put up for him in a stable of which he had
no occupation, on the second thy of the poll;
The Portreeve refused to hear this evidence, and
recorded the vote. llowever, he thought pro-
per to reject a number of voteathat were tendere.,

• • for Lord Valletort though a great part of them
were actually on the confirmed rate. Many were
rejected on the plea that they had not paid the
• Assessed Taxes with which they were chart;:ed.
lila as even the adoption 01 this extraordinary
test of eligibility could not secure a majority of
uot and lot voters, i• became necessary to multi-

ply fictitious freeholders, or in other words, to
create faggots. Two days before tine election, a

Aleinor Court was held without previous 'nonce,
and 49 persons, strangers to Fo,Aey, tor whom
sham treebolds tsere created, were put on the