The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-17 00:00:00

THE BEDFORD VOTE MANUFACTORY.

( From the Standard.)
The Following is the paragraph from the Northampton
Herald to which we yesterday alluded:-
" We pledge ourselves to the truth of the following statement :
-There Is at Hartford, a parish within a mile of Huntingdon. a
field of arable land containing jinly acres. It is the property of
the Duke of Bedford, and is rented by a tenant named John
Watford.- Now will it be believed that cut qt. this forty-acre
.field no less than forty votes have been created by the Duke of
Bedfi,rd, and in tavour of men as completely dependant upon
his will as ever were the electors of Gatton and Old Sarum upon
their respective lords. That no doubt may remain about
the matter, and to enable the Duke of Bedford to contradict our
statement, if untrue, we extract a list as we find them registered.
" 1. Rev. Philip Hunt, Duke of Bedford's chaplain; 2.
Charles Wing, Duke of Bedford's agent's cousin; 3. Charles
Short, Duke of Bedford's apothecary; 4. Charles Palgrave,
Duke of Bedford's freeman; 5. William Palgrave, ditto; 6.
John Palgrave, ditto; 7. Hobert Palgrave, ditto; 8. R. Pal-
grave, sen., ditto; 9. h. Palgiave. jun., ditto; 10. Samuel
Lowell, ditto; 11. John Lovell, ditto; 12. William Lovell,
ditto; 13. H. T. Atterbury, Duke of Bedford's tenant; 14.
John Heighington, ditto; 13. Thomas Brown, ditto; 16. Ro-
bert Brown, ditto; 17. Charles Dobson, ditto; 18. Thomas
Parnell, ditto; 19. Joseph Wiggington, ditto; '2O. Charles
Higgins, ditto; '2l. James Stnatf, ditto; 22. Joseph Tween,
ditto ;X23. Edward Hall, ditto; 21. Joseph Httlatt, ditto ; 2.5.
John allieeman, ditto; 26. John Molleeey, ditto; 27. John
Twigge, ditto: 28. Thomas Overman, ditto; 29. Henry Edw.
Platt, ditto ; 30. Ben. Twitchell, ditto; 31. Edward Wall, ditto;
32. John Robert Walker, ditto; ari. John Linney, ditto; 31.
William Perkins, ditto; 35. Robert Sisson, ditto; 36. John
Burnham, ditto; 37. William Brimley, ditto, 38. John Purser,
ditto; 39. Thomas Twitchett, ditto; 40. John Watford, oc-
cupier."

Such are the desperate means resorted to by our oppo-
nents—the liberal, purity-loving whigs. The object of
this particular manoeuvre is clear. Lord John Russell
was once member for Huntingdonshire. Kicked out of
that county, he took refuge in Devonshire. Now,
rejected by Devon, he would fain, by such means as these,
force himself back upon the men of Huntingdon. Surely
however, they will defend their own rights. These forty
faggot votes may every one of them be struck off under
the Splitting Act. But this plain warning, that the whigs
are prepared to go all lengths, and to run riot over all
laws, must surely arouse the conservatives. Let every
man, then, register at once. The last day of claim is on
illoaday next and the' form of claim for counties we
again subjoin :
" To the overseers of the Parish of
" I hereby give you notice, that I claim to be inserted in the
liSt of voters fur the county of Middlesex, and that the particu-
lars of my place of abode and qualification are stated below.
Dated this day of ,in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-five.
" (Signed)
" [Christian and surnames at full length.] .
" Place of abode.
" Nature of qualification.
" Where situate in this parish."