| Description | The fall of the Melbourne government in 1834, brought with it the prospect of yet another contested election in the boroughs, and to no one was this more unwelsome that Sit Charles Paget. In fact, he was relieved to find himself free once more; "A dissolution emenciptes me" he wrote to Sanderson on November 24th, "and as Lord Anglesey will not spend another guinea at Caernarvon, the field wil l be open for other aspirants to Parliamentary honours" (653). And these aspirants were not long in coming forward. By November 28th, there were two certain candidated in the field - Col. Love Jones Par5y of Madryn, the Plas Newyd nominee, and Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch, who was to come out against Captain Frederick Paget at Beaumaris in 1835; and there was even talk of a third - one Sergeant Wilde - being put forward by O. O. Roberts and the radical element (656). By December 8th, Bulkeley Hughes had retired in favour of Nanney, who as before was strongly backed by the Tory squires and possibly, as Sanderson hints,had promise of support from the National Exchequer. Parry's only hope appeared to be to cultivate the strong dissenting element amongst the electorate by coming all out for Reform (662). However, at the poll on January 12th, it was Parry who carried the day by a majority of 28 over Nanney. Sanderson, reporting on the election to Sir Charles Paget on January 21st, hints at shady practices - a "manoevre", "flagrant violation of the principle of the Reform Bill", "flagrant exercised of landlord influence", etc. and concludes with the convistion that "Plas Newydd will never be without an opponent henceforth in the borough" (681) |