Star.
London, England, 1830-03-09 00:00:00

COUNTY OF ESSEX.

GINTLICSIIIII,
SHALL take an early opportunity of addressing to
you a narrative of all the circumstances connected with my
Canvass for the County, and Secession on the Day of Nomination.
When these circumstances are before you, I am persuaded you
will think that the coarse I took was the only one open to me as
a man of honour. The flattering manner In which you came up
to support me on Saturday last, your generous enthusiasm in my
behalf, and in behalf of the Cause which I had hoped that day to
see triumphant, will for ever remain, mingled with feelings of
gratitude and mortification, impressed on my memory.
It is not my intention to waste your time or my own by noticing
the daily, or rather hourly, rumours of a Contested Election. I
may, however, present to you the contradiction I have received
to the first report to my prejudice, which has come to my ears;
and I beg you will believe that every reflection on the rectitude
of my conduct in this affair, which may arise in the progress of the
Election, will be susceptible of an equally unequivocal contra.
diction. I have the tumour to be, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient humble servant,
W. L. WELLESLEY.

Chelmsford, Bth March, 1850.

THE EVENING STAR.

them from one end to the other, and in frequent collision
with the Miguelite troupe. While these symptoms
of an approaching crisis prevail in the North, the
most intense anxiety continues to be manifested in
the capital with regard to the measures determined on by
the Emperor. According to private letters which we
have seen, the installation of the Regency cannot fail to
produce highly important consequences for the cause of
legitimacy. Leaving events to work their way in Por-
tugal and Terceira, we look forward to the promised mo-
tion of Lord PALMERSTON to-morrow night, with
great satisfaction, convinced as we are, that the
Noble Lord has collected a mass of facts which
must carry conviction to the minds of the most un-
prejudiced. We hope and trust this conviction will
include the Ministers of the Crown. They will thus
afford a proof of impartiality and justice, which can alone
atone for the lamentable errors of the last two years—
errors which most seriously affect the commercial in-
terests and national character of England. We indulge
the hope that a better state of things is at hand.

The valedictory Address of Mr. Lox() WELLESLEY
to the County of Essex will be found above. After
the detailed manner in which wo treated yesterday
the announcement of this most unexpected—as most

undesired—resignation, a very few sentences more
will satisfy our subsiding feelings. We say subsiding,
_ _

because—when we read Mr. WELLESLEY'S first ad-
vertisement to the County—an excitement little short
of enthusiasm was enkindled in us, at the unhooked
for manifestations of sympathy with the People's cause,
with which that document so pervadingly abounded. A
little reflection, however, has reconciled us to that which
is no longer revocable; especially when we consider, that
—even as a piece of election tactics —the retirement is
far from injudicious. Mr. WELLESLEY appeared too late
upon the arena: this good, however, will result from even
that late appearance, that it has prepared the county for his

and their natural protectors --a breach which daily becomes
wider. We regret exceedingly the absence of many es-
timable men, whose hearts beat as high, and whose senti-
ments are as pure in the cause of reform as any of those
who met yesterday. We have only room for a single
sentence. It conveys a lesson which ought to sink
deep into the minds of all reflecting men. In comment-
ing upon the last clause of the Petition, Mr. HUNT said,
" that suppose the KING, or the Duke of WELLINGTON
—imitating the example of CROMWELL—were to march
a party of guards into the House of Commons, de-
stroying the mace, and trundle all its Members out of the
window into the Thames, is there a man amongst you
that would weep ?" This appeal was answered by a
spontaneous and universal exclamation of No ! No ! No !
We shall never forget the effect of this reply, thun-
dered forth, as it was, by thirty thousand voices !

CITY, Tw• e
'RD AND DUE TH'

A. D.
1 Prance . 0

O Flanders 0
O Holland
1 Hamburgh ..

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IS MORNING.

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O Lisbon 0
O Jamaica 0
O Sweden 0
O Mexico . 0

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, dated Cuxhaven,
March s: _ _

" We have received the following communication, dated Bre.
men, the 3d instant We have Revived a notification from the
Oldenburg Government, stating that a report had been made by
the Chief Pilot, that the land-mark at the entrance of the Weser.
called Bremer Braake, and two smaller one+, had been carried
away by the ice. It will, probably, he some time before these
marks can be restored, though the Bremen Boating light will re-
sume its station without any delay; yet the want of the former
will render it necessary that vessels bound to the Weser should be
very cautious in entering the river.
" Several bridges have been carried away in the neighbourhood
of Bremen, and the roads are all under water. In one village.
about four miles from Bremen, 23 houses have been carried away
by the floods, and 13 lives lost."
Drat., MARCH s.—Wind S.S.B.—Arrived from London, the
Breadalbane, Chilcott, for Faro ; and Sophia, —, for Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, Masco S.E.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Badger, from Chatham, and sailed for the Cape of Good Hope.
Sailed the Wanderer transport, for the Cape of Good Hope and
Mauritius; and Hope transport, for Mauritius.
PLYMOUTH, Mums 7.—Wind S.—Arrived the Rdwd. Lombe,
Freeman, from London, for the Cape of Good Hope and Swan
River. Off the port, the Union, Lorton, from Savannah.
ESSEX ELEC7'ION.-SECOND DAY (MONDAY.)

The polling recommenced this rooming with extraordinary vigour
on both sides. By 12 o'clock Bramston had polled 134, and
Conyers 36.
At the close of the poll, at 5 o'clock, the numbers were--
For Mr. llramston...... . 1.207
Conyers 195

31ajority in favour of Mr. Bramston. .. 1,012
Colonel Conyen has, by placard, requested his friends not to be
dismayed at the apparently desponding majority. There being
many thousand electors yet unpolled, he does not intend to put for.
ward his strength till the poll has stood open a week, when he in.
tends bringing up the distant electors, whom he confidently expects
will insure a majority to him.
Bramston's friends have mustered strong to-day, and have made
extraordinary exertions to keep his numerical superiority on the
pull, many bearing their own expenses, in order to come forward
and vote in his favour.
The entry of the Judges has divided the attention of the residents
of Chelmsford with the election, and the town Is now literally
crowded with well-dressed visiters. The Lord Chief Justice Tindal,
being a fellow-townsman, was received with extraordinary honour,
and the most gratifying marks of respect. A body of gentlemen, on
horseback headed a procession of the carriages of the superior gentry,
and went out to meet him. The Judge's carriage was preceded by
a number of spearsmen, who looked immensely warlike, in light
drab frieze coats, relieved with staring green capes, and huge felt
cocked hats. _ _ _ _ _

It having been generally rumoured that the sudden refusal of Mr.
Wellesley to stand for the county, arose from other causes than those
stated on the hustings on Saturday, the following letter leas been
written by Mr. Conyers to :I'r. Wellesley, with reference to the un-
pleasant rumours :
" DEAR IVELLESI.EV—A shameful report being in circulation,
that you received money from me to give up the election, or to hand
over any of your votes to me, I herewith authorise you to declare,
in my name, that such report is false, unfounded, and malignant,
come from whom it am your's, truly,
" 11. J CONYERS."

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