་ A market, and holds the manor of the town from the duchy of Lancaster, at a fee-farm rent of 20s. per annum. RIGHT OF ELECTION-is in the mayor, bur geffes, and freemen. NUMBER OF VOTERS-is about 50. RETURNING OFFICER-the mayor. PATRON-Mr. J. Buller, who is proprietor of the borough. WEST LOOE. POLITICAL CHARACTER.-This is, like the above, a dependent borough. It is under the influence of Mr. J. Buller, cousin to the former, and fon to the late John Buller, efq. one of the lords of the treasury: but this gentleman being at prefent in the East Indies, the influence is under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Buller, dean of Canterbury. ANCIENT ANCIENT REPRESENTATION.-This town is not of any great antiquity: it firft fent members to parliament 6 Edward VI. CORPORATION.-West Looe, which is separated from East Looe by a ftone bridge, of 15 arches, over the river Looe, was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth. It is governed by a mayor and 12 capital burgeffes. The manor of the town belongs to the crown, and was by Henry VIII. annexed to the duchy; of which it is now held by the corporation, at the yearly rent of 241. It is obferved that Eaft and West Looe are so fingular as to be the only two boroughs in the kingdom that are governed by the fame municipal fyftem. This afcertains, in part, the juftice of the Marquis of Lanfdown's remark,-That the boroughs, according to their prefent establishment, are no part of the conftitution, but the mere children of intrigue, which brought them into existence. Those who brought them into their prefent wretched state of parliamentary existence, have not even condefcended to ascertain their pretended exclufive rights, limit their powers, or establish them on any rational or confiftent fyftem: on the contrary, their pretended rights arc are fo vague, indefinite, and contradictory, that they are, and will be the subjects of continual litigation, until the caufe of conteft is removed, by an entire restoration of contitutional privilege. RIGHT OF ELECTION-is, like East Looe, in the mayor, 12 capital burgeffes, and freemen. NUMBER OF VOTERS.-The number was 60; but they are now reduced to 50. RETURNING OFFICER-the mayor. PATRON-Mr. J. Buller. LAUNCESTON. POLITICAL CHARACTER. This is the countytown; and its inhabitants are more numerous than Cornish boroughs are in general. The inhabitants have the peculiar privilege, if it may be fo called, of having the corporation felected from among themselves; but, as they have no voice in electing them, and as a corporator may become an inhabitant for the purpose of being invested with this franchife, and ceafe to be one the moa. ment he is admitted into the corporation, it can only be confidered a form without an effence. This borough is fubject to the influence of the Duke of Northumberland, under whofe direction every member of the corporation is admitted, and upon whose patronage they are all dependent. ANCIENT REPRESENTATION.-This borough fent to parliament ever fince 23 Edward I. It had a mayor in the time of Edward IV. CORPORATION. It was incorporated by Mary anno 1555, according to its prefent eftablishment; which confifts of a mayor, recorder, and eight aldermen. RIGHT OF ELECTION.---March 1723, Re- March 24, 1734. 2. Refolved, That the aldermen of the borough of Dunkeard, alias Laun cefton, cefton, in the county of Cornwall, ought to be elected out of the legal freemen of the faid borough only. NUMBER OF VOTERS-20. RETURNING OFFICER-the mayor. PATRON-Duke of Northumberland. POLITICAL ANECDOTE.-George Rous, now fecretary to the treasury, being in 1788 obliged to vacate his feat for this town, in confequence of his being appointed clerk to the houfe of peers, was refufed his re-election. GRAMPOUND. POLITICAL CHARACTER. Although it is a fcot and lot borough, it is fo very infignificant as fcarcely to deferve the name of a village. The borough is entirely the property of Lord Eliot; and its reprefentation is, in confequence, at his lordship's difpofal. So poor are the inhabitants, that out of 200 not more are deemed able to pay fcot and lot than 25. |