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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The Westminster election poll concluded on Monday after 14 days, with Mr. Fox receiving 4625 votes and Admiral Gardner 4486, defeating Rev. H. Tooke with 2560. Supporters tore down hustings, chaired Fox to the Duke of Devonshire's in Piccadilly for a speech, while a mob broke windows in Covent Garden after bricks were thrown at them.
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FOURTEEN DAY'S POLL.
Mr. Fox, 4625 Rev. H. Tooke, 2560
Ad. Gardner, 4486
The poll closed this day (Monday) at three o'clock, when the multitude immediately tore the hustings in pieces, agreeably to immemorial usage. They then chaired Mr. Fox, carried him through several streets, and then set him down at the Duke of Devonshire's in Piccadilly, where he addressed them in a long speech: Admiral Gardner retired to an adjoining hotel.
Some pieces of brick were thrown at the multitude from a house repairing in Covent-Garden, which so irritated the mob that they immediately broke all the windows of it, amounting to some hundreds.
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Westminster
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This Day (Monday) After Fourteen Days' Poll
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mr. fox: 4625 votes; rev. h. tooke: 2560 votes; ad. gardner: 4486 votes. poll closed; hustings torn down; fox chaired and gave speech; mob broke hundreds of windows in covent-garden house.
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The fourteen-day poll for the Westminster election closed on Monday at three o'clock. The multitude tore the hustings to pieces per tradition, chaired Mr. Fox through streets to the Duke of Devonshire's in Piccadilly where he spoke at length. Admiral Gardner went to a nearby hotel. Bricks thrown from a repairing house in Covent-Garden provoked the mob to break all its windows, numbering some hundreds.