Star.
London, England, 1830-03-12 00:00:00

ESSEX ELECTION.

FIFTH AND LAST DAT.
The polling commenced this morning at an unusually early hour,
and it was evident from the exertions used in bringing up the voters,
that both candidates had resolved on making an extraordinary effort '
to decide the contest. Mr. Conyers stood pledged, through the chair.
man of his committee, Mr. Towers, to close the poll, if the result of
this day did not materially decrease the majority which Mr. Bran-
ston had been hitherto progressively increasing.
At the close of the poll, four o'clock, the numbers were fimilly

announced :
Brsmston
Conyers 661
Total majority for Bramstoo .. 1.179
Mr. Ba 4XSTON came forward and was handso.nely greeted. He
remarked that this day had been a day of great exertion on both
sides But exertion on the side of his honourable opponent only
added a stimulus to increased exertion on the part of his friends—
the event of that day had shown this assertion to be correct. He
begged to renew his sincere thanks, and to assure them he stood
there with perfect confidence as to the result.
31r. CHARLES Toweas then presented himself, but at firsteould
not obtain a hearing as the call was general for 31t. Conyers. He
said it was at the request of Mr. Conyers and the High Sheriff
that he should first address a few remarks to them, which he
trusted they would hear patiently. These remarks had re-
ference to some important statements he had made yesterday
in his capacity as Chairman to Mr. Calm' committee. Mr.
Conyers' had given a pledge, and such a pledge as became
an honourable man and an honest politician, that the poll
should be kept open to the extent of time allotted by law,
or until such a majority as would faily express the sense of the
country had been polled. Ile (Mr. Towers) had yesterday the
honour of stating that Mr. Conyers would never permit the charge of
vexatious opposition to attach, and unless numbers came forward
the next day, sufficient to warrant an expectation that Mr. Bram-
ston's majority would ultimately be destroyed, that the contest
should be abandoned. As a gurantee to the freeholders that Mr.
Conyers would redeem every pledge given to them, he (Mr. Towers)
had last night hurried to London and obtained the sentiments of
a gentleman who they all respected, Mr. Western, as to his inter-
pretation of the pledge of keeping open the poll for fifteen days.
Mr. Western's sentiments were, that he was bound in honour,
as well as common sense, to resign the contest when the majority
had been polled; but it would be indelicate towards the com-
mittee and gentlemen who nominated him not to have their ap.
proval of this measure. Mr. L. Wellesley also was of opinion that
Mr. Conyers had fairly redeemed his pledge, and that the imputa-
tion of vexatious proceedings would be merited if further opposition
was offered. Having satisfied himself of these gentlemen's opinions,
he returned to Chelmsford; but it was with regret he stated that
the result of the poll was most unfortunately against Mr. Conyers,
and that he, Mr. Towers, would not be acting the part of an ho-
nest man, if he did not now tell them, that he thought the game
was up, and that Mr. Conyers would think it his duty to bow to the
sentiments of the county so unequivocally explained by the majority
in favour of Mr. Bramston.
Mr. CONYERS was received with great applause. He said his
sentiments had been so perverted and misrepresented, that he eon-
ceived it necessary to put forward an address to the freeholders,
which was then printing, and would shortly be in circulation. He
thanked them from the bottom of hie heart for their kind exer-
tions, and begged to offer his cordial wishes for their individual
happiness and prosperity. He had nothing more to say, to them,
but only to add, that he wished happiness to his friend Brantston
and his family.
The HIGH &attar having declared Mr. Bramaton to be duly
elected,
Mr. BRANSTON said his situation filled him with the utmost
gratitude. It would now become his task to undertake those duties
they had so nobly imposed upon him, and he trusted he should ever
be found to discharge them conscientiously, honestly, and faithfully.
After the applause had subsided, a superb chair, decorated with
blue satin, was produced opposite the Shire-house, inwhich the new
candidate being placed, he was paraded through the town, hoisted on
men's shoulders, and received the customary honours.

In the following " Address to the Electors of Essex"
by the Hon. W. LONG WELLESLEY, will be found a
complete contradiction to that part of the statement put
forth by Mr. C. TowE RS in which he makes use of Mr.
WELLEBLEY'S name. Mr. WELLESLEY is justly in-
dignant at the course pursued by Colonel CONYERS :
" ELECTORS OF ESSEX!
" It is my duty to address you. You all know the reason for
which, at a great personal sacrifice, I declined a contest for the ho.
pour of your representation on the present, or rather I should say the
late occasion, for lam told that the contest has ended. Colonel
Conyers has broken his private engagement to me, and forfeited (a
matter, gentlemen, of infinitely greater importance) his public
pledge to you. Had I, by any possibility, anticipated—had I, by
any distant alcalation, conceived—so base an instance of flagrant
infidelity, so gross an outrage upon all received conditions of public
faith, my appeal would have been made to you, not through the
columns of a London newspaper, but directly, in person, on the
hustings at Chelmsford.
"Gentlemen, it is now too late to rescue you from a temporary
thraldom ; but the day is not far distant, nay, it is way neu at
head, when I shall afford you an opportunity of redeeming dui tar-
nished character of your native hundreds, and of proving to pea that
at least one mania to be found possessed of political ceesislwasy and
bound by honourable compact. And, if in that stew le k shall
perchance be my pod fortune then to gain that enviable pinkies of
ascendancy to whichl venture to surmise your indepserhat
would have even now exalted me, my prefsedses will he
the practice I have the courage to adopt, and sell in the pseudo
which another had the unheard-of meanness to forfeit and the an-
principled baseness to forget.
"Gentlemen, I am yours ever at command,
"W. L. WELLESLEY.
" London, March 11, Eight o'Cloek."

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester honoured the
performances of the French Plays, at the Haymarket
Theatre, on Monday evening with their presence.
The Neapolitan Minister and the Duke of Buckingham
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester honoured Mrs.
Beadon with their company to dinner on Wednesday
evening, at her residence in Charles-street, Berkeley-
square.
One of the most devoted supporters of the Noble D urn's
Administration commences a laboured defence of our po-
licy towards Portugal with the following pithy remarks :
" That the government of this country does not stand in
an enviable position with respect to the affairs of Portugal,
it would be vain to deny ; it either at first took too high,
or it has now taken too low, a tone ; it has either been
deceived, or it has deceived others; or, perhaps (which
appears the most probable,) it has been, at different stages
of its career, the dupe and the impostor."