The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-09 00:00:00

GENKRAL, ELECTION. •
14E1113E11S RETURNEE). •
ROSPORGIHIRS--Sir A. Doa.
ATILONL—mr. coreloo. t.
Taatna—r- Dens!. Estl•
(-LPr (CA mime --Sir (3. Hill.
staly)—Y. 'Fitzgerald. Esq. mad Sir E. O'Brks.
Thioaa.-11sa. J. Stewart and W. Stewart. Esq.
)(rummy (County)—lieu. Cal. Butler and Hoe. Col. Paw
mar.
Soso ((nsnly)—C. O'Hara aail )E. S. Cooper. Emus.
EMLILINAGII (eamity)--eir L. Cele and GEO. Aff.Mall•
STATE OF THE POLL FOR BERKS. JIMY 8.
1136
Madam • 1075
Hallett . 529
inftocitEDA.—The Drogheda Election terminated
-edgy night, after one of the severest contests,
seen in this country. Mr. Ogle
rued by a majority of write. A duel
Mr. Wallace end the Recorder
,rich two shots were fired on each
itely without injury to either party.
PLEIJY, JULI 5.

--Air-
the late Election, and what all men
se oar glorious success, and the
.f e complete victory, offer much
the attention of Parliament and the
's may be proper to pass over the
_ Lowther Committee.men, who
Commissioners of the Land Tat, and on
Assessor pronounced publicly so
Ife—of these nothing needs be said, be-
!cod that this whole subject will
;lit before Parliament ; and nothing
gross bribery proved to have been
.cannot help again end again asking,
sending the military out of an elec.
600 blodgenn-men are to be march.
ly marshalled under a Police 0111-
. the Captain Constable, the mess 1
as well as himself brought from other •counties—est• I
camped out of the town, and manceovvred, paraded,
'marched up and down during the whole time
of the Poll, in the sight of the Electors i Every one
here sew this done. The clubs with which the men
were armed, under pretest of batons, were bludgeons
Sufficient to fell an oz. They were disposed to use
them too. `For one of them violently attacked Mr.
Wy beret's son, who was offering no manner of pro.'
vocation, and knocked him down, giving him a wound
in she head, which the surgeon pronounced would'
have fractured the skull, had it fallen half an inch
lower. Mr. W. applied to the only Magistrate he
could find, a Rev. Clergyman, and active friend of the
Lowther party. Examinations were taken, and the
man's person fully identified ; he belonged to White.
haven, slid was PIIPIII polekled out as he walked past 1 hel
window ,where I !Atm M sgistratewas taking t Ise depo.
sitioos. Yet he refused to issue his warrant, because the
an's name could not at the moment be ascertained!
Was any thing ever seen like this ? It is a fact, Mal
one hundred and one of those Parsons voted for the
Lowthets! As to the military, this may be said,.'
they are at least supposed to be impartial, being em•
ployed and paid by the Government; but what im-
partiality can be espected from such bludgeon-men,
led by one party, and paid by that part) ?
the Magistrates have, by a hand-bill, denied
A the County is In pay them ; and whether those
ices or the Lowthers siontioslly pay them, every
most see nut of whose pocket the money will
Besides, the Justices who hire and swear in
the men are the most devoted agents of the Lowther
Family. It is to he devoutly hoped, that this whole
proceeding may be thoroughly esemined, and the
illy punished. If it is not, all freedom of election
at an mid.

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