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London, England, 1842-07-02 00:00:00

Mr. M‘Brear identified witness as the man who voted
in the name of Cull.

The witness Wood was subjected to a long exlmination,
but nothing of additional importance was elicited from him,
as he persisted in saying that he was so drunk, before and
during the election, that he was oblivious as to what
took place.
Andrew ,M Cullom proved, that having lost his quali-
fication before the election, he did not vote; that there
was no other of the same name, but that some person he
did not know voted in his name.
George Carroll, a builder, stated that a false vote
was given in his name at the election.
Mr. COPPOCK put in a paper purporting to be the
tally on which the person who personated Carroll voted.
Mr. BATES said it as not such a tally as those used
at the election ; it lies in the handwriting of a man
named Rowland • that person did not act for the Con-
servative party during the contest.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on
Monday.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF
LEICESTER.
(From the Derby and Chesterfield Reporter.)
It is with deep regret we announce that this venerable and
excellent Nobleman now lies in a very precarious state, and
great apprehep,alous are entertained that his Lordship will not
be able to iof y. ShOnTit-these apprehensions prove well founded,
a heavy blow will have been given to the feelings of Lord
Leicester's.numerous friends and admirers.
Since writing the foregoing, we have received tha subjoined
communication :
am sorry to say that Lord Leicester is sinking as
fast as he,can. His Lordship is' free from pain.
Longford Hall, Wednesday eveniti,..-, 7 o'clock.'!
THURSDAY EVENING, Ju NE 30.—We stop the press to Sri•
nounce the mournful intelligence that Lord Leicester departed
this life at half-past five o'clock this morning.
The late Lord Leicester was born•in 1752, and created an
Earl in 1837. His family-name wit Thomas William Coke.
He was the son of Wenman RobWs Coke, Esq., by the
daughter of George Chamberlayne, Esq., afterwards Denton.
He was twice married ; his first wife was the youngest daughter
of the late James Lennox Dutton, Esq., sister of the first Lord
Sherburne, whom he espoused in 1775 ; his second wife was
the third clausr,hter of the fourth Earl of Albemarle, whom he
married in 1822. The late ford Leicester represented Norfolk
in the house of Commons for many years. His father assumed
the name of Coke, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal
uncle, Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester. His heir, Thomas
Wiliiam, Viscount Coke, by his second wife, born in 1822,
succeeds to his estates.

THE LATE LORD LEICESTER,
OF HOLKHAM, NORFOLK.

PR:DENS—QUI PATIENS.—Motto of the Coke family.

The antiquity of the late Lord Leicester's family, a
nobleman whom we have just had the melancholy duty of
announcing as gathered to his fathers, was settled and in-
quired into, with great pains, by the great antiquary and
historian Camden. He derives this family, of which
Coke is the genealogical name, from William Coke of
Dodington, in South Greenhow, Norfolk, mentioned in
a deed in 1206. Thomas Coke, in the 24th year of Henry
111., was found to hold one fee and a half of the Earl of
Warren in that town, and Roger Coke held the same,
as Lord, in the 35th year of that King. Sir Thomas
Coke, who served in the wars in France, was
created a Knight Banneret in the reign of Ed-
ward IL, and was styled Seneschal of Gascoign.
But the chief ancestor of the deceased Earl, was Sir Ed-
ward Coke, the celebrated Lord Chief Justice of Eng-
land, whose great renown and dignity is familiar to
every Englishmen, and a great portion of whose charac-
ter has not been inaptly summed tip in the Latin phrase
of " Jurisprudentium eloquentissimus, et eloquentium
jurisprudentissiruus."
Lord Leicester had several among his predecessors,
who like himself had occupied seats in Parliament for
the county of Norfolk in which their estates and family
are situated. Among others, the Lord Viscount Coke,
whose father was one of the Postmasters General of
Great Britain, and himself a young nobleman of eminent
parts,- represented Norfolk in Parliament about 1750 ;
and the Hon. Weninan Coke was also Member fur Derby.
Holkham, indeed, in which, as we have observed, the
estate of the Earl has been situated from a remote pe-
riod, has been chiefly indebted to him and his predecessors
for whatever it shows worthy, of notice. The Lordship of
llolkham, shortly after the conquest, was granted to
Tovi, one of the Conqueror's attendants, on the depriva-
tion of Ketel, a freeman, who was Lord in the reign of
Edward the Confessor, and subsequently, after various
tcnantsliips, it came to the Leicisters. On their first
occupaney, Holkham was a sea-port of some eminence,
and in the reign of Edward 11. furnished, conjointly with
Burnham-deepdale, one ship, to assist in the transporta-
tion of English troops from Ireland to Scotland. It now
contains 810 inhabitants.
After having sat for 30 years in Parliament his Lord-
Ship was again returned for Norfolk in 1807, at the ge-
neral election in that year. Himself and two other
members of his family were in that year returned for the
same county, viz. : Thomas W. Coke, Esq., Edward
Coke, Esq., and Thomas W. Coke, Esq. Against the
former gentleman, however, several of the freeholders
petitioned, and the Committee found him, in common
with William Wyndham, Esq., not to have been duly
elected. A new writ was consequently ordered on the
following February, 1807.
Mr. Coke was for many years a strenuous labourer in
the Parliamentary field, and his conduct during the
whole period, as a public man, was characterized by the
strictest consistency of principle. Among the multitude
of Government measures which he thought fit either to
uphold or oppose was that of the malt duty, the expiration
of which he considered to be the most auspicious mea-
sure that could have been made for the relief and
encouragement of the agricultural interests of this
country. It was in the debate upon this subject, as well
as others during the Castlereagh Administration, that he
perpetually harped upon the expression of that Minister,
made in regard to the burdened people, of their " igno-
rant impatience of taxation," and his sarcasms, chiefly
gave these words the prominence which they then, and
ever since have retained.
In 1822 he was the foremost among those who were
warm and zealous in the great cause of Reform in Par-
liament. lie then stood forward boldly for Norfolk, set-
ting forth eloquently in the prayers of its petitions, that
the enormous sums of taxes raised, " were lavished by
the Government to increase, the influence of the Crown,
.by maintaining a corrupt majority in the House, and to
keep up a large standing army for no other purpose than
of subduing the constitutional feelings of a justly indig-
nant people."
In 1829, he led the van of the enlightened body of
Norfolk clergymen, who were striving in favour of -Ca-
tholic emancipation ; and he then stated to the House,
to show how strong was the desire of abolishing these
civil distinctions from among the classes of British sub-
jects, that, in spite of a few counter-petitions, which had
been asserted to have been got up to the contrary in
those parts, " he declared, before God, that he believed
the county of Norfolk to be unanimous on this question."
Very few, except those who have actually visited the
Earl of Leicester's magnificent seat and residence, can
form any idea of its palace-like air and appearance.
His late Lordship took an especial delight in further
adding to the adornments which his ancestors had begun.
It need only be mentioned that it is built from the de-
signs of Palladio and Inigo Jones to give an idea of its
architectural structure and beauty. • The exterior of
this spacious mansion is of white brick ; the bold portico
is supported by Corinthian columns; and the wings of
the building form fine handsome features.
The fittings up of his Lordship's drawing-rooms are
in the most splendid and elegant style. The ceilings of
curious kilt, fret, and mosaic work ; the Venetian win-
dows, ornamented with handsome pillars; the exquisitely
sciptured chimney-pieces, marble side-boards, agate-
tables, and tapestries, are all in the most sumptuous style
of elegance.
The late Earl, a great lover and admirer of the fine arts,
made several additions to, and greatly increased the trea-
sures of his statue gallery : among the statues the figure
of Diana is • extremely fine, and a Venus; clothed with
wet drapery, is considered exquisite. He also embel-
lished the handsome saloon appropriated to paintings,
many of which are by the most eminent masters. A
vast collection indeed of these are distributed over the
apartments of the house, and the Claude Lorraines ex-
ceed hi number those of any other in the kingdom.
His lute Lordship was a highly humane, charitable,
and Christian man. During the time that he was plain
Mr. Coke, every institution in the vicinity of the town
was grateful for his support, and of many he himself was
the founder. The almshouses which are situated there
were supported by his liberality, and the living, or dis-
charged vicarage, endowed with 2001. Royal bounty, and
2001. Parliamentary grant, were in his Lordship's pa-
tronage.
This venerable Peer, at the time of his death, had at-
tained to the advanced age of 90, having been born in
the year 1752. The agriculture of the country will,
from the interest he always took in it, feel a severe loss
in its chief benefactor and promoter.

DEATII OF LORD JAMES TOWNSEND.—Died, on
Tuesday last, at Hutton Lodge, Yorkshire, the scat of
his nephew, Henry Darling, Esq., Lord James Townsend,
in the 57th year of his age, Captain in the Royal Navy,
and Naval Aid-dc-Camp to her Majesty. His LOrd-
ship's last command ill 1831 was as Commodore on the
South American station- in the Dublin frigate. The
death of this gallant and kind-hearted officer will be
deeply regretted by a numerous. circle of friends.
A marriage has just taken jlace, at Vienia, be-
tween the,Count de Dietriehstein, the Austrian Minister at the
Court of Belgium, and the Countess Potocka.
• The Courrier Francais states that it has received
news that the Porte is preparing an expedition against Tripoli.
There is nothing, however, in the accounts by the last Levant
mail, or through the German -Journals, to sanction this
statement.