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London, England, 1831-04-25 00:00:00

In graciously adopting this advice, his Majesty his given
to his people an opportunity of manifesting their opinion
on the great question of a Reform in the House of Com-
mons, in which their interests are deeply involved. If
they are satisfied with the present state of the Representa-
tion, be it so. If they are not, they have now the power,
by great exertions undoubtedly, and by the sacrifice in
some instances perhaps of personal feelings and personal
interests, to make their wishes attended to in the House of
Commons, constituted even as it row is. If they should
neglect to take advantage of this opportunity, it may be
very long before they again have the power of effecting
their object. The question is placed in their hands, and
it is for them to decide it.
You have long known, Gentlemen, my opinions upon
this subject; you have frequently elected me when per-
fectly aware of what those opinions were, and I cannot,
therefore, doubt that you will have approved of my having
endeavoured to carry them into effect on the first opportu-
nity which has been planed within my reach. Your ap-
probation, next to that of my own conscience, is the
highest gratification which I can experience. I appeal to
you with perfect confidence ; and trust that, when the day
of Election arrives, you will return me as your Repre-
sentative to Parliament.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obliged and obedient humble servant,
Downing-street, April 23, 1831. ALTHORP.

TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY

OF LONDON.

GENTLEMEN,
THE dissolution of Parliament having taking
place, I take leave most respectfully to solicit the
honour of being a third time returned one of your Repre—
sentatives.

My public conduct is known to yon, I have proved my-
self an uncompromising advocate of retrenchment in the
public expenditure. and the votes I have recently given in
support of the " Bill to amend the Representation of the
People," afford conclusive evidence of my opinion in favour
of "the expediency of making such changes in the Re-
presentation as circumstances may appear to require, and
which, founded upon the acknowledged principles of the
Constitution, may tend at once to uphold the just Rights
and Prerogatives of the Crown, and to give security to the
liberties of the People."
If by your favour the object of my ambition he attained,
I pledge myself to use every effort to correct the abuses in
the Constitution of the House of Commons, to apply my-
self with undiminished zeal to promote the Commercial,
Shipping, and Trading Interests of the Port of London,
convinced that these objects are essentially calculated to
insure the most solid advantages to all classes of my fellow
citizens.

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obliged Servant,
WILLIAM THOSIPSON.
Upper Thames-street, 23d April, 1831.

TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELEC-
TORS OF THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YAR-
MOUTH, RESIDING IN AND NEAR LONDON.

BROTHER FREEMEN,
HIS Majesty has dissolved Parliament, and
appealed to his people for the constitutional expres-
sion of their opinion upon the important question of
Reform.
Never did we prevent ourselves to you with so much
confidence, or feel so deeply how intimately our common
cause is connected with and merged in the dearest interests
of our country, and the purest loyalty to our beloved
Monarch. _ _

The vital questions of Retrenchment and Economy, the
tranquillity of the country, the independence of Parlia-
ment, the safety of the Constitution, may all depend upon
your fearless zeal.
We have been again received at Yarmouth in a way
most gratifying to our feelings, and should any one be
found rash enough to oppose us, we will stand by you to
the last, and join you in those exertions which have ever
been successful, and add to our many triumphs one which
will secure and consolidate them all.

We have the honour to remain,
Your faithful servants,
GEORGE ANSON,
C. E. RUMBOLD.
Committee Rooms, Great Yarmouth, April 23, 1831.

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The Committee in the interest of Anson and Rumbold
sit daily at the 'White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate-street,
where all communications will be thankfully received.

To the GENTRY, CLERGY, YEOMANRY, and other

FREEHOLDERS of the COUNTY of DEVON.

GENTLEMEN,
PPARLIAMENT being again dissolved, I
take the earliest opportunity of acquainting you that
I no longer aspire to the honour of being one of your
Representatives.
Ample testimony has been afforded, in various modes,
and from very opposite quarters, of a determination to re-
verse your decision at the late E'ection, and it is clear that
certain Resolutions lately published at Exeter, on the subject
of the Reform Bill, can only be directed against myself.
Whether there be any justice in these proceedings I shall
not now stop to inquire; but I cannot disguise from myself
the fact, that the County of Devon has been for some time
and still remains very much divided into two parties,
holding very opposite opinions on great political ques-
tions—the one toe ready to adopt any innovation, and the
other as slow to consent to any improvement.
To maintain an independent footing on fair terms with
either of these bodies, witheut participating in the extreme
views which they entertain, is daily becoming a more diffi-
cult, and to me, I confess, almost hopeless task.
For such a result I have indeed long been prepared.
But my views of the best interests of the country, and of
my own duty to yourselves, are not be changed by what I
think an unfortunate state of the public mind ; and I do
not understand why I should with any degree of justice
have forfeited the good opinion of my late constituents,
by a perseverance in the same unbiassed and at least dis-
interested course which I have ever professed to follow,
and which has been so often sanctioned by their appro-
bation.

Exposed, however, as I have been during a period of
yearly twenty years to a perpetual succession of these con-
flicts, cheerfully sustained at my own cost and risk, though
chiefly in obedience to your call, I must now frankly de-
clare to you that I see no good end to be answered in sub-
jecting myself again on any terms to that harrassing war-
fare. Neither could I consent to retain, on mere suffer-
ance, a post of honour and responsibility, however dis-
tinguished, when no longer accompanied by that public
confidence which constitutes its real value to honourable
minds, and mainly compensates the labour and anxiety
it involves.
It would be affectation to conceal that I retire with
great regret from those public occupations in your service
which hive formed, during a long and eventful period,
my highest interest and gratification; but I beg you to
believe that I am still equally sensible of all your former
kindness, and in bidding farewell especially to those un-
changed friends who have steadily supported me in every
difficulty, and whose approbation has cheered and encou-
raged me to the las*, I am sure that I may safely express
my fullest conviction—that they will not blame me
for having advisedly preferred a painful sacrifice, involv-
ing this separation from them, to a disgraceful compro-
mise of any opinions, which, however fairly warned of
the consequences to myself, I conceived it a sacred point
of duty to maintain.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your very faithful friend and servant,
THOMAS DYKE ACLAND.
Pall-mall, April 23, 1831.
oomi na
P.S. I shall make a point of attending on the day of
tion, being perfectly willing to render an ac-
count of those parts of my late conduct which have given
any dissatisfaction, and anxious at all events to take tha
opportunity of paying my last respects to my consti-
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