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London, England, 1826-06-21 00:00:00

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In all their private functions, once ;optima
Become a loathsome body, only fit
For dissolution, but tful in the main.

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The poll closed at six o'clock, and there is just time
to give the numbers declared by the Recorder, as the
result of the day's poll, •ie.

. . -
Day's Poll. • Total.
Ilastings . . 366 ‘ . 1052
Cave . . 365 . . 1643
Evans . . 353 . . 1614
Denman . . 544 . . 1444
• Mr. Thomas Paget was addressing an immense crowd of persons
before Mr. Evan's Committee Room.

CHESTER ELECTION.
Cuanza, MONDAY AFTIMMOOK.
The riots here this afternoon have been of a very alarming nature.
AU the glass in the windows of the F.schange have been completely
demolished. The mob tore up the atones of the pavement, in order
to accomplish this work bf destruction: Colonel Egeiton has lost
six on the peU this day.
NOTTINGHAM, Jules 19.
Sunday, about noon, some sinister tumours prevailed,
In consequence of which an application was made to
-Mr. Smith Wright, in answer to which he sent to Mr.
Hurst, the legal agent for Lord ltanciiffe and Mr. Bitch,
a copy of the following note, in his own hand-writing:
" Mr. Smith Wright will be obliged to Mr. Watson to inform
any person that may require information as to his withdrawing
from the coolest, that he has scot to Lord Rancliffe and Mr. Birch
that he had withdrawn, and that he cannot, as a man of honour,
directly or indirectly, in any way come forward again in the elec-
tion,which he conceives is now ended.
"Nottingham, June le, 1020."
An application was now made to Mr. Hopkinson,
who had heretofore been the legal agent of Mr. Wright,
And he declared that he shoUld be at his post on Monday,
and continue the poll on behalf of certain burgesses, wilt)
still entertained an idea of prolonging the contest; and
in the afternoon a number of bills were posted up and
distributed about the town, declai ing this to be the pur-
pose of the blue faction.
Such conduct naturally led to great excitation. The
committee of Lord Rancliffe and Mr. Birch were imine-
' diately summoned, and the most active steps are adopted
for continuing the contest. •
A number of voters were got up this morning and, polled, after a
considerable discussion. The numbers at one o'clock Were :
Birch . 5119
Rancliffe . 4 2G37
Wright . 1831 •

?RESTON, Juws 19.
The good town of Preston appears to have been vi-
sited, even before the time of Cobbett,• by some of the
most dubious personages of our history—the brotal
Henry Vlll.—the despotic -James I.—the usurper
Cromwell—the unprincipled James 11. the year before
the Revolution—his adventurous son, the elder Pre.
tender, who, in 1715, was ci owned James the 'Third id
the very market square in wh;cb Cobbett harangues-his
evening' mob; and the young Pretender of Use year
1745, Charles Edward ; and last comes William Cob-
bett, who would certainly have been returner:l'li ai- Ts's-
ton, had it not been tar Captain Barrie, whowAsseftion
is most true when he said—" If I cannot: accomplish
my first object, the return of myself, I shah, at-least,.
have done a service to Parliament and the countrY, by
keeping Cobbett out of the Rollie of Comm• tic. 1
had not come down, he would have beaten. Mr. Wood,'
and been elected the second Member." And so he woulS'
—for this reason, the CaudiJates that ficst appeared
were, Mr. Stanley, a 'Whig, Mr. Wood, si-. reformer,
and Cobbett. The Corporation and influential alarm
facturers being Tories, saw little differente, .betwcen
politics of Mr. Wood and Cobbett, and neither
felt any interest, nor took any part in the contest.-=:
Cobbett'a supporters are the lowest of the rabble; an
extract from the examinations of the voters will give a
fair idea of their quality. An elector comes to be polled:;'
he wears a riband knot of a certain colour; the colour
spews for which candidate he intends to vote; a resi-
d nce of six nionths being the sole qualification necessary
to give him the privilege of voting, it is incumbent on
the opponent of the voter's favourite, to attempt to in-
validate his vote by shewing that the voter. has, not
resided six months in Preston ; this the AJvocates try to.
elicit by cross examination. '
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Advocate—Where did you live before Tali came to Preston? At
Manchester.
-
How long ago is that ? Seven months.
Did you not go back to Manchester since? No. '
Your wife lives in Manchester—did you not go to set your Wife
since? Nu.

What ! not go to see your wife? rel be d—d sorry.
Not see her for six months? No, nor never will.
Mayor—For whom do you vote? Cobbett—a plumper ye
tyrant, !--iluzza !
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Another Elector enters:—
Advocate—How do you know it is six months since you came to
live in Preston ? I have it down in writing.
Oh, the date—a cash account I suppose? Yes, a sort of a cash
account.
What sort ? This—when I came to Preston first, I had not a
shilling, so I pledged my waistcoat and other shirt (by the same
token I did't release them since). This is the pawnbroker's dupli-
cate • the day of the month is in it; just six months ago.
Correct !—for whom do you vote? The poor man's friend—.
Cobbett—a plumper. (Hosea!)
A third Elector, suspected to be a Catholic
Advocate--Are you a Roman Catholic? No.
What religion are you ? No religion at all.
What! none at all? None.

Cobbett's Advoeate—Oh, the man meats, he beings to no sect.
Mayor—Do you attend any place of worship? No.
Have you ever attended any ? Yes, I mod to In to hear the

An Advocate—He means Mr. Cobbett's meting in the market-
place.
Mayor—Are you a Christian ? I hope I am.
Advocate—l submit, Mr. Mayor, that this man not being of any
religion, dots not believe in the Divine character of the New
Testament, on which he has taken the Nth against Supremacy.—
Now, if he does not believe in it, he cannot believe the oatk he took
to be binding on his conscience; in fait, to him it is no oath at all;
he is not therefore entitled to vide.
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Mayor (to voter)—Do you believe that you may be punished
hereafter for taking a false oath? I do.
That's enough—l'll admit hia vote. For whom do you vote?
Cobbett—a plumper.

A fourth c

Advocate—What are you? A gentleman.
How long have you been a gentleman ? These nice years.
What were you before that ? A bricklayer's labourer.
What are you now? A gentlemen.
What is your wife? A green grocer.
Mayor—How then can you call yourself a gentleman ? Why net ?
I follow no trade.

But your wife is a green grocer? What has that to do with it;
sere my wife is not &ging to vote !
I can't let you vote under that designation; go back to the Com.
rnibsioners, and make them insert some trade in your certificate.—
Wu cm then come back and vote. I wont.
Then I can't let you vote tinder the denomination
You wont?
I wont. Then I'm I! I vote at all. Veit iR s Ituj:
NOIRDAY) Twatvz o'CLooK.—At the sitting of the
Court this morning; Mr. Wood re-appeared on the
hustings, dressed in deep mourning. Mr. Cobbett also
mounted, and instantly protested, as usual, against the

of a gentleman.

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Holy
,alklUsack. Three -Mottos, or teal
;John a"riii. 96-0 Jr.Oduitiswered, my kip
thii-*ortal ; iFmy kingdom were of
wouhlanytaervolits fight." Tlursecond
Acts zv.s But theie were certain €
Pharisees." From .Cowper's Task, the folio
• --Chartered Boroughs are but rablit
And burgher,* men immaculate perhaps.