The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-30 00:00:00

all wad the case was telly proved, whets, an the
obi of Vebraary, 140111, the first sedan brnutht by
the High Bailiff what Sir FRANCIS BURDETT wee
tr;etl. •
The hews he the High WOWS hill siwoorote4 is A 1,201 0 II
MC Or tirsourle his stein* swains. sir Emma
W.W.11. l`nr what woo "%IWO his proportinfi
of -hot ,era. The items wen- 11 in snowher. 11
04 wlorb Renewed, oat by the Joao, they
nwoovied to 5919 19 2
Tier" only were alio sed, awooniing to. .. , .... YU 010
I Avid this etptiains et once what the 111th Banff al.
'admit., when he acid he looked for his remnueratien
tett., Elections.
When the High Bailiff made his bargain with lit.
Dail and Chapter, be calculated., and so did they ton,
on the coati n l.l the corrept parties which
theta prevailed ; to this practice they had no objec-
tions. it pet mosey into the pockets of all of them ;
, all this was all they cored for.' The Belliff per.
chased, as he thneght, a lucrative nice; and had it
conflated to be lecrative, be *mold very pliedy
have pet the lucre into his picket, sod we rhouldinve
heard no complaints; he would not have roma with the
Purley in his head and said, Gentlemen. here tea large
profit matte, which my easaience will not allow me
to pocket : no, no! he would have been very con-
anted to keep the money, and very sliest es to the
1 rimenent. h has not beware turned nut to beguile In
. lucrative. jib es he expected; bet being resolved that
It eked be en, he obtains the contest of the Pastime
Matra' and tibia makes a claim en the 'shimmed
. rate of the People for 8001. ',ponces, Warred by
• % Wm in the Meyer's of 1813; and Ibis sem was
' pasted to him in the Committee of Supply,
(
en the 17th of ill•reb, 181 S; but epos its being re.
A reported, the (nether consideration was deferred from
sane to time, and the Ballsfi dill not get the money.
The napalm of ROM es the foreranner of another
• demand, was a little too much, eves for a House of
" Commons, constituted as the present Hostels; and so
throatier wee shialled off. and 'spired with Ike Par.
• liament. The Bailiff purchased the siltation with all
• the contingents to which it was liable ;if be media
bed aperelakto it was his own fault ; and as he
would hear pocketed the profit, se he should put up
with the lost.
Thera is, however, another point for remade's.
lion, the Committee's", that as Sheriff, the Bailiff is
.„ •nampelled totality the Pell; but it does not seem to
have occurred to them, that there was a wide dif-
freace between hive and all other Sheriffs. What
a mauls appointed Stand*, be mast either serve the
•Woe or 'may a heavy fine; tare the Sheriff buys the
i. office for a sem 'of money. When a man once cc.
gapes Liao afire ofSheriff, he retests'''. for a ye 3 I :here
.I...hrtlaya the office for life—When the Sheriff freely..
* the King's writ to rause • Member to be elected, he
1 must see that the writ Is executed—be hes no errata;
Ihere the Sheriff Is not bound to execute the writ, its
e can et once fate his nice, end leave his masters to
"saute the writ themselves. In all these reverts the
Bailiff for Westminster differs from the Sheriff, bs
there are also some tither material cirrountances be
this esse,—the Bailiff is the servant of the Dean sad
• Chapter, and, es such, is not compelled by any law
to inter lees en their account, and if he voluntarily
• oudailakes the risk, it is a matter wholly between
aheaseelvel, with which 'either the Politic, nor the
L Candidates at me Election, have any thing to dn.
itThe Committal seem tt. base travelled oat of their
f fe Ibis basainnia, and she ilea* seems to knee
~, Wad them blindfolded. Had ao Act beets made,
„' awdltedthe Mg% Bailiff eirsigeal his Alsatian in man.
r, *meanie, the Dees sod Chapter, or the Lard High
i Stewavd, as his Depety, must have taken the Poll
1 themeelves, and If they thought it worth she triable
7ithey "meld have been the Petitioners Instead of the
$1- High bailiff : a Committee diem then have hems up.
..° pedaled, sod enquiry laminated, as to their testa.
I,lt might then hale been sacertained how the neaten
woe takes, and by wham it was take., hyaenas,
t- Destiny were built. It might, perhaps, have Mme
Imet that the Guildhall of the City, which was a veep
. few years ago destroyed, wee like the Guildhall of
l• she City of London, the proper place to tam the
Election in, end tint the Dna end Chapter, who,
oellaith the Lord High Steward. hit Deputy, the Bailiff
ad his Deputy, nod the It Burgesses er Aldermen,
.. nmiiating a bled of Cewporaties, were booed to
• be Bartle, althea *spoor* to any body—ep
ad
' done le the City of ',nodal end many other platen.,
• ?..- it might have come out that arta part of the lea
liteve revenues of the Dean geld Chapter (end Ike
1 eine of their property is said It. exceed 60,0001. per
imam), was opeibmble, and bad formerly been •p:
to this purple,. It is incumbent oo the House
o nate the.. a/aria before it again enacts either
that indivialeali oho may became Candidates, or the
writhes shelf% melded in a large sum of money
If open these "equities it shnald be foetid that the
'''„teas have we right to a Goildbell—that the Dean
(Ampler, in when the civil as well as the 'rea-
le/1 government resides, have ao income ap-
,
likable to this object, end **sight not to take the
Dation at their own eapence, then ne owe wadi
@rely complain of • rate being levied to provide a
trope* place to take the EleAtioe, and to pay per.
sus for the time emaciated io doing the necessary
moisten which the Elate.' might occasion.
The points for the coosideration of the Hesse of

Cwens • r•—..
Tbe icapropriely of compelling a Caul;date esorcesearily
lay a Ifte sea K ausiory, sue .bus mats his purchase the
I. F.are_lay as Oa Ibe eisopulsio• tba Mau Mg araptes to
le the rieelioa ohne sass rapine,.
5. 1. the (Wilt of die Dais awl Meru isotitebbir to,
ce the Dee** we dm* P*paraeo;--abea iho pi af
,r4g she parishes provide the moos.
Until liege saner% beta been folly trogoired into
al disposed of, it Is gross Injustice to compel tiny
oe to pay the alleged losses sustained by the earliest
the Dean soil Chapter, because be has toads a bud
asegala with bit matters.
• Newt of three item mbleb Otiosity relosed CAM/Olt, were
by she Act cslikh the High Mull( nbianted, allotted to be
ebugcL

FlRE.—Yesterday 11101111111, •boat moon o'clock,
a Ere Drake oat in the premises of Mr. Keb. John-
son, chair sad bedsteadAnsker, corner •f Skioner.
street, !Jung-alley, AlnerGelds, sappn.od In hare
been occasioned by same shot/lags, ehirh had been
timelessly left by the boy sear the Ire. Ity sons of
the timely arrival of the differest ire.engin►s, sod a
plentiful supply e► rioter, the /seer •ere got under
by 11, eller dowooos the •bnia of the premise*
where it bops, together •ith the adjoiulag been is
Long-alley, littleegtog to Alf. Marshall, • grocer.

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