The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-31 00:00:00

COUNTY OF LIMERICK ELECTION.

Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt, Bart., of Curragh,
who is spoken of as one of the candidates for the
vacancy in the rerrosentation of the county, occa-
sioned by the decease of Mr. Lloyd, of Breech-
mount, the late Member, appeared in the same
character at the general election in 1820, when the
present Earl of Dunraven, at that period the Hon.
Wyndham Henry Wyndham Quin, who had been
returned to Parliament for the county in 1818, in
conjunction with the Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon,
brother of Lord Clare, declined offering himself
again to the notice of the freeholders, and, indeed,
had his Lordship succeeded in being re-elected, he
would only have enjoyed the distinguished honour
until 1824, when by the death of his father (the
late Lord Dunraven) he succeeded to the Irish
Peerage, which disqualified him from sitting in the
House of Commons, as an Irish county Member.
On the Earl's retirement, Colonel Fitzgibbon (the
former Member), Captain (now Lieut.-Colonel
Standish O'Grady,) Sir Arthur de Vere Hunt, and
Mr. 'Walter O'Grady, announced their intention of
proceeding to the poll. A protracted and expensive
contest accordingly ensued, but from the commence-
ment Colonel Fitzgibbon's return was considered
secure, and the struggle lay therefore between the
other candidates. Sir Aubrey's friends made ex-
traordinary exertions to ensure his election, but he
was, nevertheless, one'of the unsuccessful candidates,
Captain O'Grady, at the final close of the poll, her-
ing a majority of 409 over the Baronet; the num-
bers being as follow :
Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon 4061
Captain O'Grady 3251
Sir A. D. Hunt 2842
Mr. W. O'Grady 1878

At the general election in 1826 Captain O'Grady
retired, and Mr. Lloyd, of Beechmount, the late re-
presentative, was .returned in his room, Colonel
Fitzgibbon, the present sitting Member, being re-
elected without opposition, Sir Aubrey not solic►ting
the suffrages of the freeholders upon that occas►on.
The worthy Baronet, however, who seems resolved
on obtainistg a seat in the Honourable House, has
started as a candidate for the representation of the
county, in opposition to Mr. Serjeant Goold, of the
Irish Bar, and Mr. O'Grady (son of the Lord
Chief Baron), who, it appears, have also entered
the electioneering lists. Sir Aubrey has the repu-
tation of possessing considerable intellectual acquire-
ments, and the name of the Hon. Baronet figures in
the list of contributors to one of the Annuals for
the ensuing year. Sir Aubrey is otherwise known
in the literary circles, as the author of a dramatic
poem, entitled " Julian" published within the last
twelve months,

iiirpwßEcic.—By a letter received yesterday
we learn that a foreign galliott is wrecked, and on shore
on the Lougaand, near Boston. She is laden with timber
and pipe staves, and her stern is completely out, so that
her name cannot be learned. The crew are supposed to
hake gone of, and abandoned her, but their fate is as yet
a matter of mystet y. It seems they took their clothes with
them, for all the chests were open and empty. Where the
vessel is from, or bound to, has not been asoertsined.—
Boston Gazette.