The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-03 00:00:00

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muster mow OF TOE 1'11.4..
The Mayor and Magistrates. on Therredby 'night,
hiving deemed it expedient to require military primer.
d troop of the 7th Dragoon Ginnie arrived from
Norwich. and the Yeomanry of Sliffolk,were see:
fur. The Dory. Eve. Woodbiidge, and Ipswich troop<
mustered at Seamier. on Friday effusions. many of
thews baring travelled 70 or till /piles; sod proceede4
towarie leen. At Stobe and Stith they stopped, their
a,sistsnee having been found quite unnecessary. TI -
election went on tolerable quiet on that dayht.i
Saturd.y, when it terminated in Groot of C.a. W.I.
pole ; the slate of the poll beinr for Moo. John Wal-
pole. ; and for Sig W. D. Follies, 92 ; Majority
for Col. W. 64.

Many circumstances time tended to reader the elec.
tion ieterestingi and particularly so to the freemen r.f.
Lyon. The first of these appears to he the great
length of time which ha? elapsed eine, the last con-
tested election in 1784; secondly, the opposition nt•
the (recites to the power of the Corporation, who
have for many years held with an i:resistible hand
the choice of the representatives.; and thirdly, heeause
one of the candidates, Sir Wm. Browns Folkes, is t
MI of the late Member, in whosiiaterest almost all.
nut all, the Corporation were so warm, and who h .4,
on all occasions very strenuously supported him, and
may therefore be supposed still to retain some •interest
with that body. It appears from public report, how-
ever, that the lion. John Walpole, me of •sbe 'lane
Earl of Otford, aad brother to the Member, by the de-
mise of his father raised to the Peerage, eujoys eseitt-
sively the interest of the Corporation, added to which
the number of places in the appointment of Govern-
ment is very large, and of course are all in favour of
this gentleman, who coincides with the measures of the
pieteot Administration. It is a curious fact. that,
previous to the late election, oo•the demise of Sir N.
F...ilkes, the Corporatkn, who, as we have previously
stated,?re supposed to he the arbiters of. the election,
were at i considerable loss in fixing upoo a taadidote
for the representation. The seat was offered to the
first place to Lord WOl. Bentinck. Member for North-
amptonshire, who declined the invitaties. It was then'
,offered to the Marquess of Titchfield, who accepted it,
and was elected. Why it was not offered to Sir W.
IL Pratt can only be matter of conjecture; bat re-
port says, becsnse be had in some slight affair offended
the Magistrates. The Marquess of Titchfield, soh-
, cited and elected by the Corporation, our readers most
observe, is decidedly in opposition to the present mea-
sure of Administration. The lion. Jobs Walpole, the
eseeessful candidate, bron;ht fur mord by the saute
body, is in favour of the measures of the present Go-
vernment. Sir W. 11. Folkes, the Member opposed
by the Corporation, professes the same indeprodente
as the Marquess of Titchfield, who wee. within the
space of five short months, elected through the interest
of the lame Corporation. On the question of Reform,
being lately started, maay of the Members of the CotS?
Potation went about requesting signatures for a meet'
tog onfParliamentary Reform, and these gentlemen aro.
now the most strenuous supporters of Mr. Walpole,
the opposer of Parliamentary Reform. Is it surprising
that such inconsisteney should provoke epee popular
indignation
Election. at Lynn had long and often been kette4
contested, bet torruption did not sloop; frevolla,,
A remarkable instance," sacys the Merssiofi Arerestrp
-.§f April IC 1781, "of iutegrity and atmebnient to
low life happened at the coutested election at Ilea,
in 1768, between Sir Joha 'f orot.r and Mr. Mafiosos:
when a j wan baker bad 130 guineas laid ots a
trade by one of the friends of the former for matr„
which he refused disdain at the late contest he
was applied to by a frieud for hie rote ; "You see,"
said the honest fellow, " I am not the wand for re-
fusing the bribe ; I Lave- lived here is Lonaow ten
fears with one toaster ; he is lately dead aad loft me
toe business. I reflect with pleasure that 1 eras as
to be bought. I will now go aid support the sante
natl.! did formerly." Ile kept lila word, and a few
lays since went from L indult to Lyn% at Lis own ex-
oence, aid voted for Mr. Moliseux." • .