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.0 THE INDkreNOC.N I Of, LIVERPOOL.
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AFFEM the many proofs of at'achabent and
condense with which von have honetreil me, and
which will ever lie remember,' liv me wi h the warmest gra-
tidatie, it is with sincere regret that I am•ounce to you my de-
termination to tritheirae myself at a Caudhliie at tee approach
ing election
Called up in as I was be yeti on • former occasi n, I laid
'side all console/shoes Of private interest, and srsonal coo.
limits, an i cheerfully 'he, ed your ominous Frain that
I ' aye devoted wadi to tour navies he a diligent tor-
e of my duty in Parlament, arie hare ionferody
.d those principles and opinion. fi •t rearm-
-e to your choice. To the best of my poor, I have
• capes of justlee o: his of toieratien• a•AI
itutional British freedom; and amidst the climes..
• syniessee around me, I. have certainly remained,
tro, unchanged.
re durati..a of that Parliament has been, its pince:ll•
ay Ilse re model in the nailed. of this country w-lh
oar. During that peeled, I have h d the sairsrac
my humble bet Atiositerested support to ni. ri,
.en rank, thee emptily, and thew independence,
riuS.-ct wt view bet to prorrinte the permanent iii-
emperity of the country; and of addling my poblrc
taseres of the greatest ii..h..nat imp ciarice sod ne-
m Newieees some were carried inncoo,plee
re only frustrated by the pie nature elisoalutine of
which His klaieeti's Minter. thooght it taped..
. A system of finance was reposed and rearmed,
suipased and gratified the room's, he dernwee
no new tale, were Plee•-•eary, and which reg...
'be revenue and pubic expenditure for a long
• ; aid the great trinciples justice and of hot
asserted, by the Abolition of the Aliem. Slave
'mitts* was apron ed In examine into the abuses
allies and peeolaions in *Mee, which bat di.-
fonefronaires to a considerable eminent;
.odue• d, which is as interded to add to our ria.
y, at this dangerrics cit•is.br uniting His Majes-
...., of all religious persuasioni, in the common dm
their country. To the•• great measures of piddle
must be allowed to .41 the Bilis. introduced by an
AA AM indepeeder.t Member of the 'louse of Com-
e improving the corielithin, tannic the character, and
for t,i;e education of those lower cue a of the corm
on which the strength and prosperity of the naoon so
y depend; and which, if carted Imo ff,ct, *mid,
have allsviattd those enorwinus parish rates, width
it late illertayd with such alarming replay. To love
a share in Ouse detain-atoms, grid ever be reins inhered by
e as the chief pride of ray life.
No manor was the dissolution of this Parliament known,
than I an, ounce.l to you nt• untentmir, of offering my.. If
again so your chew* Bat on my arrival at L•verpool, I
Cued that the same arts of Miattenal nirtrepiesentattee,
which had Men so iiiduatflous'y eropheted in tabor places,
to austere the relic cimd, arid hid induced ,0 many pecan).
of Independent character to relinquish their per tensions to a seat
In Parliament, um not 'teen wrhout their effect there also. To
eLa more geural piejuelic(, was wiled a partmuxr drtipproba-
eMn tit sum, for tnsheiduat, of the pa t which I had taken on
tl:e Abolition of the Slava Tads Oil these anti other picots it
was in, inlet coma desire to hate ahLeseid myself tis you Af
ter having beat met, nn my approach, end accompanied into the
Own lo) such a concoune of the most respectable
is was perhate never before whne..•ed. 'accept on the meteor-
able occasion is November last, I m-de seao-r .1 attempts to
oblen in homing, and to perform what I conceive to be a
sacred and indispensable .ty rendering an account or
spy eunduct to my co.istituenta. hut, to the d..enice
therneeno, and then miiployers, periods, evidently tt.t tined
for the mimeo., prevr•sit -4 me by their c mamas nom aii
peirsibility of addressing tor fiat, da. elepar.4l lor owner,
they auddealy attacked the large and res,•.cctable bee, of
Preerr.en, by whom I was surrounded. Weorrut the wan
restraint from the I ,dies of the togas, mime of soy impede
wire geoss4 insulted. and horn( of Units situ k and wounded
Pe Haut, whom peculiar tune d was to havo repressed
tech outrages, were uMerved actively empli.eed in pro .:rat
lag them. An offiter of the h•giem repotett..n an 4 inde•
peotlence of et.aneter, to whom the town of Livee.oril is
under pan:cuter ohlig•tioris, arid ono had himourcel me b..
. his presence, wee imolesul• attacked, and his horse stabbed
with a knits. Happily for the peace and character of the
town, the feelings of resentment, thus wantonly and arro-
gantly excited, were septet...el by the c.siisideration of the
dreadful cnnsequencei winch must Lase ensued, had my
Mende indulee I themselves in that retaliathin which was
decidedly ha theh power. TM example of fun:nets and
moderation -.!i,ch they at that ateMent evinced, confers on
l'erce the highest honour.
Under these circureststaces, and wholly hopeless, in the
present situation of public Mier, of rendering those services
to :ay annatitmets, to to my country, which could alone
je.tify or. in catering spot a Lamest, I have hoahy resented,
vat to afford, by my further perseverance, • pretext for
lit 11Xee,S,a wish, hoot what has already occurred, there
bat Soo muet reason to apprehend week' be experienced in
CIO worse of the tiecsion. What erdl be the character of a
lat:iednent chasn under such amines I shall not pretend to
tete/mice; bet if the Illepreseetation of Liverpool ean only be
e alatrlog by imatc:Me cad bluorldad. I lea.. the honour of it to
tho e el.e clisame to contend (is it; ash I accept even that
3.onoehon, re..utapartied by telethons weasels most embitter
teary furore moment el my life.
I ne., the honour lobe,
WWI Elmo gaoaeot gratitude and respeB, Gentlemen,
Your most Merged and
Mow faithful Servant,
WILLIAM RUSCOE.

. OWN" HO,
May b, ISO.

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