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GREAT MEETING ON TtiE ELECTORS

OP STAMFORD.

The following important Resolutions were agreed to at
a great meeting, convened by public advertisement, of the
elect°, s of Stamford, and held last Saturday evening, They
were proposed end seconded tiventy•two gentlemen, and
were not °pleased: We hate no room for the, speeches
" 1. The the inliabitkture 'of the Borough of Stamford
paying sera and lot, exercise the eight of electing Repre-
wentatitte bi Parliament, not only for their local advan-
tage, but as trustees fur the whole nation. .
" 2. That coercive' interteteocT by a landlord, to pre-
vent that flee exercise of such right whielt h enjoined by
law and the Kieg's writ, is a fiend upon the Constitution
and tins people of F.tredand,.end an offence against the Stag,
"S. That an attempt fly a landlord, or his agents or
friends iii his behalf, to ioduenee a tenant's vote in favour
.of a particular individual, followed by an rjectntent In east
of non-compliariee, is repugnant to the spirit of the iamb•
tutions of this land, stid it becomes the interest of the
nation at large to protect, the oppredorl parties.
4. That it is a high infringement of the liberties of
the Ctumnons of the United Kingdom for any Lord of
Parllararet to enocern himo if in the election of Mt mbere
to serve for the Corttranne in Parliament ;) and considering
the constitutional necessity Air meiritaining the Legislative
power of the people distinct from Bint Of the Peerage and
the Crown, this declaration, so frequently repeated by the
Mole of Commons, is based upon a vital principle.
" 5. That averilingly, the interference of a Peer in
elections—by
,soliciting ni otbsiewise inghtenclog votes—
by using threats, or by making of conditions
with tenants, or others, as to votes for Members to serve
for the Commons in Perliiiment—or by ejecting Whets
because they have not voted according to the express or
.t,..4attplied will cf such Peer—sds not only open to all the ob-
jections 'the.' foregoing resolutions, hut is a still
more flagrant and Criminal' Strifetiorf of, the • principles
which ceenent the various orders in the States
"G. That In eases of this nature, the electovi bete not
only a manifest grievance to complain of, but are bound
to make known to Parliament, and, to the King, es the
constituted fountain of the elettive right. still the national
and constitutional protestor of the people ttpaituit the en-
croachments of the Ariatocrecy—auch a violation-of the
principles on which the . balance and perrnanened of tint
Orastitotion'and the morel obligation of the laws depend.

" 7. That at the last election of Burgesses to iteric
Parliament for the Borough of Stamford, the Most time.
Browniow, Marquis and Earl of Exeter, Beron'Of Burgh-
ley, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, being
a Lord of Parliament, Lord Lieutenent and Cows Rau-
forum of the county of Rutland, and Recorder of the Bo-
rough of Stamford, did by his agents illegally and uncon-
stitutionally interfere with .and concern himself in the
said electiou, by soliciting and influencing several elec-
tors to vote tOr Lord Thomas Cecil and Lieutenant-
Colonel Chaplin, the relations and notoriou.ly the no-
minees of the said Marquis; that since the said elec-
tion, although the raid Lord Thomas Cecil and Co-
lone! Chaplin wore returned, the said Marquis of
Exeter having given notices to electors, being his
tenants, who voted contrary to his desire, to quit the
tenements held under him ; that is to say, to those who
gave a single vote for Charles Tennyson, Erq,, who bad
been brutteht forward as a candidate by a numerous body
of the electors; to there whcloted for Lord Thomas Cecil
and Charles Tennyson ; to 'throe_ who voted fur Lord
Thomas Cecil alone; and to then, Who abstained from
voting at all; that these notices ItatitiaLhe.n given to
such tenants us had net violated any curtain dello
their parts to be performed, and who in trianitileilieee,
acting upon the confidence which ought ',mutually to sub-
sist between landlord and tenant,: and in some relying
even upon the specific assurances of the steward of the
said Mai quit, had laid out large aunts of money in improv-
ing the tenements so held by them. It appears to this
meeting that the said Memnis being a Peer and a Lord of
Parliament, bat throughout such proceedings 'been un-
mindful of his duty as an hereditary Councillor of
the
.King, who. by his writ commands that Bur.
geines sent to Parliament abaft lio trastor aleeseati, *at es
Lord Lieutenant and ensfos .kotulorunt of the county
of Rutland, and thus the immediate representative and
servant of the Crown, he has evinced a disregard of what
be owes to the King's service, and of the jinn jealousy which
the House of Commons haS constantly expressed with re-
spect to the interference and concernment of Peers, Lords
Lieutenant, and servants of the Crown, in the election of
Members to serve the Commons in Parliament ;—that as
hereditary legislator, as Judge in the High Court of Parlia-
ment, Chief Magistrate of a County, and Recorder of this
Borough, he is in an especial manner bound to be himself
observa ut of the laws and good customs of this land, to eschew
all evil courses and by his good example to excite others to
obey the laws, and maintain the rights and liberties of the
people, for the protection of which alone the law and the
Constitution, and the different orders and estates of this
realm exist;-.-that the Kahl Alumni*, being invested as a Peer
and Lord of Parliament, with various high powers, autho-
rit;es, privileges, and pre-eminences, especially the tran-
scendent power to he exercised in the Lords' House of Par-
liament, of originating, assenting to, and dissenting from
municipal laws affecting the whole hotly of the people, and
of there assenting to and dissecting front taxes fro taxes originated
in the House of Commons, ought to be content therewith,
and is bound above all things to abstain from attempting
to acquire also, through the medium of persons returned
to the House of Comma by his undue influence, a legis-
lative authority in that Howe, wh,reby he may likewise
be a part) originating taxes to be imposed upon the
people—a power peculiar to the Commons anti which
they have ever anxiously endeavoured to retain inviolate ;
but that, on the contrary, the conduct of the said Mar-
quis is, in the *lieu of the electors here assembled,
utterly subversive of their elective rights, an abuse of

power, an infringement of the liberties-1n the Commoes
of the United Kingdom, and an invasion of the principles
by which the legislative authority of the State is upheld.
" 8. That proceedings of this nature alienate from the
Aristocracy the respect anti confidence of the people, and
substitute a jealousy and distrust &trip:roue to social Order
and the public peace—that the laws must speedily lose
their moral and practical authority, if those Wlio AlfliNt to
frame them openly violate the spirit of such as are calcu•
htteti to protect the elective rights of the Commons; and
that such attempts by Peers to appropriate those elective
rights to themselves, and thus superatiti to their own legis-
lative power that which is still reteined by the People,
tend to a dissolution of the Government of this kingdom
by insane of its present inetitutionr.
" ft. That the Electors here assembled are firmly et.
'ached to the Constitution of this country, anti persuaded
that an Aristocracy is indispensible to maintain the balence
of that Constitution; that they are anxious to observe to-
ward. the members of that Aristocracy the respect with
which high station and elevated functions naturally end
for wise purposes impress the human mind, 'espe-
cially where the ennobled individual or his ancestors
may have rendered services to the State, or, by his
conduct in public or private life, may have esteblished
a superior claim to the regard of his countrymen
but at the SAM time—considering the adeliiteges
which these Noble persons derive from the station in
which they are placed, they are, in the opinion of
this meeting, bound to refrain from invading the consti-
tutioad rights of those for whom their own poweri and
nrivileeeN exist, cud thereby disturbing that balance Which
their order is designed to maintain ;—aud that this Meet.
ing is desirous of renewing with the Marquis of Exeter
and the Hausa of Cecil, those ancient relations of effec.
tam anti regard which are now suspended; but they can
not sod never will submit to. cultivate them at the sacri-
fice of public rights, which are vested in them for their
own benefit, and as a trust for the people at large.
"10. That Petitions founded upon these Resolutions
be addressed to the King and the two Murree of Yarn*.
meat, praying for relief, and that if no sufficient remedy
can be applied for enabling the electors of this borough to
exercise their elective suffrages, According to law, then
that their right of returning Members to serve in Perlis.
went may be transferred to some otherAowo where it may
be freely exercised, and that for this purpose the same
be altogether withdrawn from the borough of Stamford,
where it unmet otherwise, from tints to time, either involve':
many meritorious individuals in the miseries resulting from
the oppressive proceedings set forth in the tingeing Reso-
lutions,
or leave to the Marquis of Exeter the inolistipbeil
nomination of two Minaret* of the Iloese of Cosomo4% us
contempt of the King's iu violation ot the BOtielt
Constitution, and to the consequent injury and diehesison
of the people of the United Kingthuu.,
" 11. That the Duke of Sussex present the petition to