IVES, St, a borough and market-town of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of Penwith, 276 miles from London. It is a sea-port, on the west side of the bay of that name, on the Bristol Channel. The government is in a mayor, twelve capital and twenty-four inferior burgesses. It returns two members to the House of Commons, chosen by the householders. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2714, in 1811 to 3281, in 1821 to 3526, and in 1831 to 4776.