From the London Papers, Dec. 8.
LONDON
This day, several petitions, complaining of undue elections, were presented to the House of Commons. A debate arose as to the manner of their being presented, whether the double returns should not be the first disposed of. Several opinions were given from all sides the House: at last, Mr Rose Fuller got up, and said the most impartial mode he could prescribe was, to have the names of the places set down on slips of paper and put into glasses, and to be drawn out by the clerk; that as soon as one petition had been read, and the time fixed for the trial thereof, another should be taken out of the glass, and so on, till the whole were disposed of. This motion was seconded by Mr Dunning, and approved of by the House. The following petitions were presented yesterday.
| Hingdon, in Wilts, | Friday, Jan. 27. |
| Downton ditto, | Tuesday, ditto 31. |
| Bristol, | Friday, Feb. 3. |
| Radnor, | Tuesday, ditto 7. |
| Dorchester, | Friday, ditto 10. |
| Taunton, | Tuesday, ditto 14. |
| Pomfret, | Friday, ditto 17. |
| Abingdon, | Tuesday, ditto 21. |
| Shrewsbury, | Friday, ditto 24. |
| Hull, | Tuesday, ditto 28. |
| Helstone, | Friday, March 3. |
| Honnington, | Tuesday, ditto 7. |
| Bedford, | Friday, ditto 10. |
| Sudbury, | Tuesday, ditto 14. |
| Wigton, | Friday, ditto 17. |
| Poole, | Tuesday, ditto 21. |
| Shaftesbury, | Friday, ditto 24. |
| Haselmere, | Tuesday, ditto 28. |
| New Radnor, | February 7. |
| Petersfield, | April 28. |
| Cardigan, | May 2. |
| Linlithgow, | May 4. |
| Seaford | May 9. |
| Peterborough, | May 11. |
| Milbourne Port, | December 20. |