Series 4 > Papers on Scottish electoral politics, 1832-1854

266 SCOTTISH ELECTORAL POLITICS
Members and Interest Remarks
so well got up owing to the non intrusion
question which has split parties much in this
city. The municipal elections have however
been conservative,1 and until an election is at
hand little can be known. It is said the con¬
stituency (the Radical part) will not have the
present members.2
[Note] Hutchison?3
1/11/1838.1 shall report in detail in a few days.
[Note] gained 185 on Registration in 1839.
1/11/1839. A great change has taken place since
last year; All screws are loose with Wallace;4
A conservative association has been formed,
and they gained nearly 200 votes on last Regis¬
tration. It is the opinion of the best informed
that a merchant of note with some connection
with the trade of the port would carry the Seat.
9/12/1840. A great change took place both this
year and last year in the state of the register,
and the constituency are conservative; but Mr
Pfatrick] M[axwell] Stewart has been living
much in the neighbourhood and with the
family influence will have a good chance if not
strenuously opposed by a proper Candidate.5
Haddington District
Mr [Robert] Steuart 1/11/1838. The constituency very nearly
[of Alderston] balanced. Last years Reg[istratio]n made little
Ministerial change. If Mr Stewart were out of the Treasury
he or any other Whig Candidate would be
beaten. These Burghs should be soon looked
1 In 1840 the Conservatives contested three out of the five wards; in each two Con¬
servatives came top of the poll. Edinburgh Evening Com ant, 5 Nov. 1840.
2 Oswald and Dennistoun were re-elected.
3 Not identified.
4 No explanation of this allusion has been found.
6 Wallace was opposed by Sir Thomas John Cochrane, see p. 264, n. 3, but retained the
seat by 406 votes to 309.
Greenock
Mr [Robert]
Wallace
Mr Wallace
Mr Wallace
Ministerial