The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-17 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION

THE COMMITTEE for conducting the RE
ELECTION of Messrs. WOOD, GROTE, CRAW.
FORD, anti PATTISON, as Representatives of the City of
London, in the ensuing Parliament, think it right to state
dis.
tinctly the grounds upon which they solicit the co-operation of
their brother-electors, and to notice freely the professions and pre-
tensions, both political and commercial, of the only candidate op-
posed to them.

That only candidate, Mr. Horsley Palmer, and his Commit'ee,
have stated broadly to you that he is not fettered by party influ-
ences. But can this be true if, as must be apparent to you, he is
' upheld by party? And what is the party which has thrust him u, .nyour notice? Is it not the old clique of City Tories, who have
ever
been opposed to all our political and social improvements ; who have
upon all occasions striven to perpetuate the foul abuses still existing
in Church and State, and who are, by every means in their power,
steadily and silently undermining the liberties of the people, spar-
ing neither the temptation of gold nor the force of intimidation to
effect their unrighteous purposes? What, then, is your judgment of
consequences, but that, if Mr. Horsley Palmer be permitted nomi-
nally to represent you, he will really represent them ; and, indeed,
that he must aid and assist them in that which is their common
object; thus adding another obstacle to the amelioration of our
laws and institutions, and increasing the discontent of those who,
being the most numerous and most industrious, are of necessity the
best disposed to good order, ani the most virtuous portion of the
community.
Electors of London, be not deceived. Mr. Palmer is a Tory,
and. nothing else. He has ever been a Tory. He opposed the
Reform Act, which gave to the householders of your city all their
rights and privileges. He has always acted with undisguised-
Tories. For present purposes, putting on the mask of candour,
he assumes the air and tone of an independent candidate, and it is
in this way that Tories steal upon your apathies, or gain upon your
good nature; but if yen elect him your representative, he cannot
go otherwise than as a Tory to Parliament--a Tory by conviction
and habit, and by association ; fettered by Tory obligations, and
marked in his career, not only by Tory stubbornness, but als3 by
the absence of any true and proper understanding of your rights
as men, of your interests as Reformers, or of your equal privileges
as fellow-sUbiects.
Electors of London! look at the conduct of your four present
Members dispassionately. It is said of them that " they are under
the exclusive domination of an extreme political party, which openly
proclaims a wish to accomplish the most extensive organic changes
in the national institutions." This assertion is, however, as a-
surd as it is untrue. Your interests and objects, as your opponents
well know, are to preserve, and not to destroy. he destruction,
if it come, is of their own seeking, by stemming the tide of that
improvement which time and circumstances have rendered ine-
vitable. That your present Members are "under the domination
of an extreme political party" is manifestly absurd, for they are
known to represent many different shades of opinion in your great
liberal constituency.
Wit it is also said of those gentlemen, that they not represent
your mercantile interests ; or that these interests can be represented
better. And is this indeed to be achieved by Mr. Horsley Palmer ?
He is, it is true, a Bank Director, and a merchant, and so is Mr.
Pattison, who is certainly not of less credit, character, or station, in
the eyes of his fellow citizens, on the score either of personal ex-
perience or extent of connection. Is not Mr. Alderman Wood one
of your oldest merchants, intimately connected with the Corpora-
tion and all your city interests? And Who compares Mr. Craw-
ford with Mr. Horsley. Palmer, but that the former being engaged
in the same branch of commerce, has rendered services to the East
India trade which that trade never can repay, and which Mr.
Horsley Palmer cannot hope to surpass, even if he be as watchful
in seeking out, and as successful in availing himself of the opportu-
nities afforded by that growing trade for increasing the power,
wealth, and resources of the country? Or is it to Mr. Grote that
Mr. Horsley Palmer and his friends point as the one inferior to
himself in mercantile knowledge. 'This would indeed be infinitely
ridiculous ; to one whose ancestors have been largely engaged in
oar city commerce—himself a native of the city, brought up from his
earliest youth to the details of a counting house ; and who, being
one of our first bankers, must of necessity possess a thorough insight
into all our monetary and mercantile . transactions and interests.
Redly, Electors, as Lord Liverpool said to Mr. Horsley Palmer's
political friend, Lord Londonderry, " This is too bad." Mr.
Horsley Palmer is undoubtedly a respectable man, and a good mer-
chant ; but his claims to your favour are surely not better than
those of our present Members, and his services thus far, most as-
suredly, if they be important, stand unrecordtd.
Electors, judge for yourselves. The mercantile pretensions of
Mr. Hershey Palmer as a candidate, such as they are, have evi-
dently been thrust upon you, to- conceal the total want of merit in
the political. You need not be told how intimately the one depends
upon the other, or how capable is our commerce of extension under
free institutions. In our present'Membets the knowledge and the
practice of both exist in happy combination. It is not likely that
you will be cajoled into a change for the worse.

JOHN TRAVERS, Chairman.

TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS
OF- THE BOROUGH OF SHOREHAM, AND RAPE
OF BRAMBER.
GENTLEMEN,
THE enthusiastic reception with which you have
honoured me on my entrance into your Borough this day
affords me the liveliest satisfaction—it is a testimony of your ap-
probation of the principles by which my public conduct has hitherto
been actuated--and an earnest of the success with which the inde-
pendent electors will crown my pretensions to become their repre-
sentative in the Commons' House of Parliament.
Though my opinions upon" the great political questions which
now occupy public attention are not unknown, it is nevertheless
due to an extensive and enlightened constituency that I should give
an explicit outline of the course of conduct which I shall pursue,
if elected your representative. The more minute details of my
opinions I shall be happy to explain at public meetings within the
borough, and upon my personal canvass of the electors, whenever
occasion shall furnish the opportunity of doing so.
I will cheerfully support every measure calculated to improve
and perpetuate those institutions under which our country has
prospered.

The general policy of her Majesty's Ministers having, I believe,
this object in v►ew, while they firmly and steadily—but prudently
and cautiously—pursue the same course of conduct, they shall re-
ceive my zealous but independent co-operation.
I believe the Chuich of England to be so intimately connected
with the welfare and happiness of so large a portion of the commu-
nity, and to have acquired the veneration and respect of so many
of my fellow subjects, that I will not concur in any measure tend-
ing to endanger its stability or despoil it of its just revenues ; I
will, however, cordially join in abolishing Church-rates, which im-
pose upon the Dissenter the obligation of contributing to the main-
tenanee of an establishment, from the doctrine or discipline of
which he may conscientiously differ.
• T. •

It is my anxious wish that measures of municipal improvement
similar to those which have been given to England and Scotland,
shall be extended to Ireland, and that means may speedily be de-
vised equitably to adjust the important questions which now agi-
tate the sister kingdom, and to allay those civil and religious dis-
sensions which have so long and unhappily distracted that interest-
ing portion of the British empire.

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shipping, while my connection w th the landed interest will
my pride and pleasure to
enable me to serve the farmer and agriculturist.
As a resident land-owner, it has been
improve the condition of the labouring classes
shall be the peculiar of that valuable portion of the community
been connected. If elected your representative, the best interests
with whom I have
ob-
ject of my legislative care.
I regret to find that the practical operation of the Poor Law
Amendment Bill presses severely upon the unemployed but indus-
triousi
labourer : and I will cheerfully co• operaten promoting any
measure which spay be introduced for the mitigation of its severity,
without however re-introducing the admitted evils of the old law.
My name has been in a peculiar manner identified with the
cause of civil and religious liberty by my election to an office
of
high trust and honour by one of the largest constituencies in the
metropolis of the empire ; that election received the express sanc-
tion of our late Most Gracious Monarch; and by my present ap-
peal to so numerous a body of electors in an avricuitural district, I
am anxious practically to prove that the growth of liberal opinions
is not confined to any class of the British community; but that
from the palace of the King to the cottage of the peasant at uni-
versal opinion prevails that by an union of feeling founded on an
equality of civil rights we shall best promote the honour and
strength, the prosperity and happiness, of the united kingdom, and
present an example worthy the imitation of every nation of the
civilized world. _ _ -

I have the honour tabu,lnnen,
Your very obedient humble servant,
Worthing, July 13, 1837, DAVID SALOMONS.