The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-14 00:00:00

gtATESMAN.

Mr. IlowywooD, jun. came forward, he declared
himself the friend of Mr. Burgoyne from principle,
and that he would always support him as long as he
considered it for the benefit of the. County ; to ascer-
tain what chance of support that Gentleman had on
the present occasion, he and his father called on. Mr.
'Western's Committee, to know if they would split
in favour of Mr. Burgoyne, and they had declared
they would net, upon which himself and his father
had advised that Gentleman to retire, as his perse-
vering in keeping open the poll would only have the
effect of agitating the county to no purpose.--{Ap-
plauses.]
Mr. Osnonm, the Gentleman who seconded Mr.
Burgoyne, also came forward and advised him to
retire.
Mr. BunooTee, however, said he had given his
word to several of the Freeholders, and whether they
were men of forty shillings or forty thousand pounds
per annum, be held his word equally sacred, and
would stand the poll.
A poll commenced immediately, and at the close
of it, at five o'clock, the numbers were--
iloublon . 576 I Western . 453 I Burgoyne . 86

ALDEBURGH, Surror.n.—A very warm and spirit- 1
ed contest has taken place for the representation of
this town ; in which no opposition to the prevailing
interest possessed by the Crespigny family has occur-
red for nearly 40 years. This town was incorpo-
rated by a charter of Edward VI. in the second year
of his reign, when the King's tenants and the in- i
habitants took the corporate designation of the Bai-,
lifts and Burgesses of Aldeburgh, and the inhabit.l
ants were empowered annually to chose two bailiffs.
The first return of Members to Parliament. took I
place in the 13th of Elizabeth, and nine successive
returns of Members to Parliament were made under
that charter. This corporation afterwards received ;
from James the First, in the fourth year of his reign,
a charter, confirming the former one, and granting!
them further privileges. And these charters were
further confirmed by Charles I. in the thirteenth
year of his reign. The last decision of the House
of Commons, in the year 1709, declared the right of
voting in this place to be iu the Bailiffs, Burgesses,
and Freemen not receiving alms. The late Mr. P. I
Crespigny created and maintained a superior Parlia.
mentary interest in this burgh by introducing, as ;
honourary freemen, a large number of his friends;
from various parts of the United Kingdom. This
system has been continued by his sons, with the ad-
ditional grievance of excluding almost every inhabi-
tant of the town from this important privilege. The
simple question in the present contest is, whether
the inhabitants, under their first charter, be or be not
Burgesses, and, as Burgesses, whether they have not
a right to exercise the elective franchise, which seems
to have 'existed in and to have been exercised by
them, and by them only, in the first nine returns of
Members to Parliament under their first charter of
incorporation.
The election commenced last Friday morning, when
James Cranberne Strode, Esq. and Justinian Casa.
major, Esq. were nominated by the town party, and
Lord Dufferin and Andrew Strahan, Esq. by Mr.
Crespigny. Upon a show of hands the returning
officers declared the majority to be In favour of Mr.',
Strode and Mr. Casamajor ; upon which a poll was
demanded by Mr. Crespigny for the absent candi-
dates, Lord Dufferin and Mr. Strahan. Mr. Casa.'
major addressed the meeting in two very spirited
speeches, in which he drew a very faithful picture of
the state of representation to which the town had sn
long submitted, end expressed the determination of
himself and his brother Candidate to support the in-
dependence of the inhabitants, and to recover, if ;
possible, their long-suspended rights. The poll
closed on Friday at five o'clock, after a very few
votes bad been polled. The greater part of Saturday '
was employed by the Bailiffs and capital Burgesses in
hearing the arguments of Counsel in support of and
opposition to the clause of the inhabitants to be en.
rolled as Burgesses, which was rejected by that 1
Court, Mr. Common Serjeant Knowlys was re-
tained
on the part of the Town. Candidates, Mr.
Alderson oa the part of Mr. Crespigny; and Mr..
Capel Loft acted as Assessor to the returning officers);
the Bailiffs. On Saturday evening, about five o'clock,
the poll was again opened, and continued till ten at
night, when, after a most able and animated address i
from Mr. Common Serjeant, and a reply by Mr. Al.
derson, on the question of admitting the inhabitants
to vote as Burgesses, under their first charter, the
returning officers, upon the recommendation of the
Learned Assessor, admitted the tender of the party
on the poll-book, but rejected the vote, thus fear-
ing the question of right in the Burgesses open to fu-'
ture discussion before a Committee of the House of
Commons, should the parties be inclined to make
suck appeal. The poll was then adjourned to Man-1
day morning, at 11 o'clock.

At Leominster, Herefordshire, the two old Mem-
bers have withdrawn—Mr. Bonham declining a
contest, and Sir John Lubbock, resigning in favour
of his nephew, J. W. Lubbock, Esq. The other
candidates were the Right Hon. J. Brabazon„ Earl of
Meath, an Irish Peer, of extensive property In the
neighbourhood, who was supported by the Corpora-
tion, and J. Harcourt, Esq. of Well Hall, Kent (an
entire stranger), in the popular interest. The poll
commenced on Friday morning, and continued till
afternoon, when Lord Meath declined the contest,
and Messrs. Lubbock and Harcourt were declared duly
elected.

ICITY or WoacErrrn.—After the severest contest
experienced in this city for the last fifty years, the
election closed at 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
when Abraham Roberts, Esq. and William Gordon
Esq. were returned. The struggle lay between Lorj
Deerhurst and Mr. Gorden, the former being sup-
ported by the powerful connections of the Coventry,
Beauchamp, Foley, and Somers' families, in con-
juction with the leading Members of the Corporation ;
and the latter by what is generally called the old in-
dependent interest of the city, uninfluenced by any
particular system of politics. The absence of Mr.
ordon, who is in Spain, was of course no iuconsi-
: derable advantage to. Lord .Deerhurst, but it was
ably supplied by the personal exertions of his father-
rin-law, 'Sr George Cornwall, Colonel Murphy,
l Mr. Quin, and iho iudefsttgableieal of his numerous

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friends In Worcester. The numbers at the close of
the Poll were— ,
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Roberts .... 1948 i'Ci0rd05....:.... 939 I Lnrd Deerhorst 835
Nearly lOC* individuals polled on the occasion.

CATHARINE OF RUSSIA.

A Russian poet, named Sumarakoff, the author of
several Tragedies, happened to quarrel with the chief
Actress of the Moscow Theatre. The Governor of
that city, shortly afterwards ordered one of this pr.
son's 'pieces to be presented, he opposed its represen-
tation, because the Actress in question was to pia)
.the principal part. This reason not appearing suffi-
cient to the Governor, the poet took leave of his
senses to such a degree, as to leap upon the stage
when the curtain rose, and drag the Actress off it.—
' After having committed this breach of the peace, he
still thought he had not done enough, and in his
poetical phrenzy, he addressed two letters Mt of in.
discretion and audacity to the Empress, complaining
bitterly of the Actress.
• Her Imperial Majesty received these epitles, and
one morniug, after having regulated the affairs of the
Archipelago, Moldavia, the Crimea, Georgia, and the
banks of the Euxine, she had still time enough to
dictate the following answer, so worthy of the great
mind from which it proceeded :
144 M. SUMARAEOFF,--.I was much astonished, by
the receipt of your's, of the2Bth of January, and still
! more by that of the Ist of February. They both
contain certain complaints against La Belmontes
I who, nevertheless, did nothing but in obedience to
the orders of Count Soltikoti. The Field-Marshal.
'wished to see one of your tragedies ; he did you ho-
nour : you should, without hesitation, have con-
formed to the wish of a person invested with the
chief authority of Moscow—a person whose will,
bad he ordered the representation of the piece, should
have been complied with as a matter of necessity.
You should know, as well as others, what a degree
of respect is due to men who have grown grey in the
service of their country, and I therefore counsel you
to avoid in future the disputes like that in which
you have been now eugaged. Thus you will pre-
serve that tranquillity which is so necessary for the
proper composing of your works, and, for my own
part, I shall always derive more pleasure from read-
! ing a representation of the human passions in your
Dramas than in your letters.
" Itt other respects, I remain your affectionate,
CATHARINE.

Mr. SCOTT receives 3,1501. for his new Poem of
Rokeby.
Mr. STEwxaT, the Traveller, who has been for-
merly an Aid-de-Camp to the Nabos of ARCOT, has
received a sum due to hirri from the latter, amount-
ing to 14,0001.
, ln every part of the kingdom the most eager and
anxious enqiry was made for Canditletes to stand on
the popular interest; but the general .answer was,
" If you mean what you say, follow the pure ex-
ample of Westminster, and elect men of whose prin-
ciples you approve, without even desiring their at-
tendance at the poll." It is whimsical to hear their
• whining lamentations for the want of the usual effu-
ilsion of spirltous liquors. They have only themselves
to blame for the neglect which they have experi-
enced, and though, for the present, the country may
! suffer by the return of men who will support every
measure of a feeble and misguided Government, yet
ultimately this General Election will work out a Re-
form in the Representation of the People ; . since the
corrupt part of the community have been properly '
taught not to consider the elective franchise as a
property which they had a right to sell.
Moscow.--The city of Moscow, the capital of
Russia, being now in possession of the Emperor of
France, the following short description of it will
' probably not be unacceptable to our Readers :H
1" The city of Moscow stands upon a river of the;
same name, in a large and pleasant plain, and makes
at a distance the finest chew of any city in Europe;
for, having in it many hundreds of gilt steeples, the
reflection of the sun-beams gives it an astonishing air
of magnificence; to which, however, its inside s, by
no means answerable. It is in length about six
Italian miles, and one in breadth. It is divided into
four parts, each of which is surrounded by a wall
and a ditch, which answer all civil purposes very
well, though with regard to military strength they
are very insignificant. Within the first wall lies ,
Slabodas or suburbs, of which there are several.—
Within the second lies the Czar-Gorad, or the Em-
peror's City.—The third is stiled Katai-Gorad, that;
is the Chinese-town, chiefly inhabited by strangers,
and where a prodigious commerce is carried on. The
inmost quarter is the Kremelin, or Imperial resi-
dence, large enough of itself to make a considerable
town ; for besides the Czar's Palace, that of the Pa-
triarch, and many other fine houses, all built of
stone, the number of churches and chapels are im-
mense. It is computed, that in the rest of the city
there are upwards of three thousand stone buildings,
but all the rest are of wood ; so that no city in the
world is more exposed to fires; it has been said, in-
deed, that one third of the houses were destroyed by
two dreadful fires which occurred in this city some
yelis since."
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