The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER,

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posed of the p: ofligitte, the base, and the misled, is uowerthy
your confidence—To your immortal honour, you have re-
jectc,l Folitical fanaticism in favour of honest zeal. Free.
uliminiuti, and energetic, ypti have made a cable resistance
To, and gained a g!orious %ictory ol er the approvers of Jaco-
binism, riding on the great b.cknied stalking.horse of Liber-
ty and Bern m, in -he high wail to ana.teby and destrucrion
—The stimulators of dilitisfaction—the creators of faho
alarm—the calumniators of Ministers—the extollers of the
great enemy of Europe ; the puhric admirers of French policy,
who invaded your dignity, you have driven from the heal.
The choice you hive made (and of course the rejection, j.
sufficiently evinces yoni patriotism; it proclaims. " in lan..
page not to be i)i.ainderstood," that you disdain to be
thought the advocates for peace, at a time when to obt -in it
the honour of the nation must be sacrificed ; that you regard
with just-indignation, the degraders of onr illustrious Chief- •
tains by sea and land, who would withhold the meed of pub-
lic aoprobation for the glorious atchievetnents of our naval
and military forces. Your opposition to -the alienators of
the confidence of the people from the ability and integrity of
the Government; the determined reistance you have made
to the utterers of inflammatory abuse, in degradatiop of the
national honour; the disgust you have deciaied for the
traducers of public men and public measure, and the abhor••
rence you have manifested for the vain, ignorant, dictating
insultors of the Sovereign, have given you a character which
will beerer read by Englishmen with admiialon.
Your unshaken loyalty has proved superior to the violence
of party ; it has humbled the presumption of viralentpoli-
tical dema;ogues, and ,your steady support of your own dig-
nity, has shewn an insignificant pretending individual, that
arrogant pretensions.cannot assail the honour of the City lib
your keeping.
Aware that the privilege you had to exercise, the duty yoe
bad to perform, were made more important by the present
situation of affairs, you have rendered thenyeffectiye by send. ".
ing Representatives to Parliament whO will rally round the
Throne with independent loyalty, and assist the
_eatiOnat.;:
councils with honest .patriotism and anxious' . zeal:vavhosspl:,
minds are superior to`be prejudices of an undiseritnintOOK::.!
mob; whom experience, has rendered wise, coma ung
respectable ; true to the real interests of your country, yoy
4ave chosen a Ilcinctentation " iiidependent witlibut'aunsci
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porting . .ion
Conscious of the tiecttsity for selecting uprigit.sues to••
send to Parliament, you have felt it a duty due to Nugland.:
to the City of London, und yourselves individually, to reSeeli
with scori,' a man whom. the late Lord KefiTscni declared ma
the Lena, ought not tube believed on oath, gncha.decia.
ration from a Judge, in the discharge of his:4*mm duties of •
his office, you have not regarded .s questionable authority.,
ou have not doubted whetLer the person to whom it refers
hag a elaini-on society to put, c; in his professions—*
whether his public declarations arc egtitled to be reeeive4
without suspicion—,whether his `sacred natl. made- in the
presence of his God, is to be taken oni a solemn pledge
-truth.. You have not hesitated- tr. declare, whether he is a
fit object to select at the guardian of civil and rOgioue,
right,... Purity andhonour, joined to political and, met can..
tile experience, with eharacw, rank, and fortune, suitable,
to the hrgh distinction they seek, you have considered kids.,
pensible-L,the •cboicc you have made begs testimony oP
, your public :pirit—the eireJenstanees of the times magnify
the value of theia;t, and it is peca.liarly gratifying to see
display of British loyalty-aped ptstriotisin, when daring an -
profligate attempts are mado to cramp ii Laituence AR
drive-it ittio.tliti b.artls of .t4e

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