14 sideration to interfere with my public principles. Gentlemen, I have received from my friends of all ranks and descriptions the most noble, generous, and disinterested support; of such friends I have reason to be proud, and shall continue so to the last hour of my life. Gentlemen, I entreat you all to conti- nue the same peaceable and gentlemanlike conduct which has hitherto marked this election; imitate your candidates in the good humour they show towards each other, and you will bring honor and credit upon them and yourselves. Gentlemen, Mr. Chaplin will now be returned a member for this county, but it is I who shall have still the honor to be the representative of your wishes." COLONEL JOHNSON said, that having been one of the active friends of Sir R. Heron, he could not refrain from re- marking to the freeholders, that although the numerical amount of votes was a defeat to the pretensions of the Hon. Baronet, yet that the cause of independence had virtually triumphed. Ten years ago, a contest that should be maintained upon the prin- ciples of the present, would not have been thought of in Lin- colnshire ; when ten years more should have elapsed, he hoped in that place to advert with still more satisfaction to the progress of similar principles. The Sheriff ' s Court having been adjourned to Monday morns ing, before Sir Robert Heron's intention of declining further contest was made known, the official declaration of the due election of the successful candidates was necessarily deferred till that day. At the close of the poll each day the numbers were as follow, lst Day. 2nd Day. 3rd Day. Hon. C. A. Pelham, 1187 2463 3693 Sir Robert Heron, 880 1836 2623 Charles Chaplin, Esq 852 1983 3069 inn EXPLANATION. The Name of every Freeholder who polled will be found in the account for the Parish in which he resides. When his Freehold is not in the same Parish, it is shown in the next column. Names of Freeholders residing- in other Counties, will be found in the Parishes in which their Freeholds are situated, and at the foot of the account, marked thus * ( The next following page is the 21st.)