It is said that Earl Gros...
The Times, 1824-05-15T00:00:00

It is saidl that Earl Grosvenor has purchased the borough of Stockbridge fromw M r. Barliam. CUaRIOUS SAILOIt'S PETITioN.-The following is a lite- ral and genuine copy of an irresistibly humorous pettion which came last Fri lay under the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury, by whom it was 'emitted to the Comnmissioners of Stamps, with a favourable recomnmendation :_ To the lUost Noble Lords and Gentlemen of his IlIajesty's (God bless Iiin) 1Treasury. A bit or a petition fronm C_ P_ (sea- man), a prisoner in the county gaol, Devon, commanded by Air. * Most Noble Gentlemen,-You will please to excuse your poor petitioner in taking tihe liberty of sending you tlhis petitioni; but he is informedl by the gentleman magistrate, Mr. Lockyere, Esq., who committed him, that itis to yourLordships he must apply to beletout of prison, and let your lordships know for what he was put in there. .ly most noble gentlemen, your petitioner is by trade a sailor, and has served his Majesty in a mtan-of-war sixteen years, and lost his larboard arn in fighting for hint, on board his Majesty's ship V ictory. Your petitioner has been very ill of a fever, and is as thin as a rope-yarn, and cannot work as a sailor for want of his Iarboard-fin, andi not being willing to heave to, commenced to sell little books in Plymouth, where your petitioner lives, but not about my master, the King, or any of your Lordships. Y our petitioner lIad not lung been at this work, when he was boarded by a land shark (a Jew), vho is aconstabr,kat Plymouth, and lugged before Mlr. Lockyere, Esq., *vho inquired in to the business, and told your petitioner he must either pay a fine, or gotoguol for three months: pay I could not, and to gaol I was broiught; where [ am laid up in lavender, like Paddy Wrard's pig, for three months ; un- less your Lordships will please to give orders to the contrary, which, please God, I hope you will, and I wiiU praise your Lordships aU tne days of my life. Signed Exeter, lligh Gaol, April 3, 1824." HUXTINGDON ELrEcToNN.-Theelection ofa Representa- tiye in Parliamenttor the borough offHuntingdon, in the roomof Lard Ancram, whohassucceeded to the peerage, commenced on Thursday morning: the candidates were James Stuart, Esq., andl Air. Samuel Vells. Bands of music, engaged by the respective parties, were at an early hour playing various airs before the Fountain-inn, where Mr. Stuart's party put up, and betbre Air. Wells's residence. They afterwards paraded the streets with appropriate banners, the party f. 1r. Stuart displating green colours, with mottos of " Stuart for ever, no Radicals!' " Church and King ! Peace and Pros- perity " &c.; and those of Alr. NVells, witis blue ensigns, and flags with inscriptions of " Freedom of Election !" ' Less Taxes Pi " Independence of the Poor ! &c. The Alavor and Aldermen en- tered the Shire-hall at 10 o'clock, and after some noisy conflict be- tween the opposing parties, the usual preliminary business was got through, when Sir R. Bickerton rose, and proposed lr. Stuart as a gentleman well known in India, which nomination was seco:tded be Sir John Arundel. 31r. Stuart addressed the electors, and pleadeY in addition to his aforesaid acquaintance with India, the still more effective fact of his intimacy with tle house of Hinchinbrook. Air. IV. I{atfield, s^conded by Mr. C. Dawe, then proposed AI r. Samnuel Well,, who mnade a speech vindicating lis character from the ca- lumnies with which, he observed, he was most illiberaLly assailed, and advocating the broad doctrine of Parliamentary reform. Upon a show of hands being called for, great tumult took pltce, bat the rlayor decided that the show of hands was in favour of i\r. Stuart Wlr. XVels then dematided a poll, and the polling commenced, and continued till five o'clock, when the numbers were declared to be-. For Air. Stuart, 5.-.Mr. WVells, 12. Tfhe oath against bribery was administered to every, burgess previ- ous to his voting. The poll was expected to finish in the course of yesterday evening. PEN1KY ELECTIO,.S..The return for this borough has been strongly contasted. At the close of the poll on Wednesday, Robert Stanton, Esq., banker of London waa returned by a majo- rity of six. For llr. Stanton, 163; for AIr. Barclay, 147.