The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-30 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS.-MR. WALLACE TO THE PARLIA-
MENTARY CONSTITUENCY OF GREENOCK.
" Gentlemen,—Parliament being prorogued, it becomes
once more my duty to invite you to meet me in public, for
the purpose of giving you an account of my stewardship
during the last session, and again to resign into your hands,
and place at your disposal, as I have hitherto annually done,
the high trust confided in me as your representative in
Parliament.
" That you may have ample time to consider of this, to
you, most important matter, I take leave to fix Monday,
the 3d day of October next, for meeting you in the Hall of
the Sheriff Court-house, at seven o'clock in the evening.—
With the greatest respect, I have the honour to remain,
" Your faithful and obedient servant,
Kelly, Aug. 22, 1836. "ROBERT WALLACE." I

" TO THE LIBERAL AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE
ST. ANDREW'S DISTRICT OF BURGHS.
" Gentlemen,—The result of the ballot has just been
communicated to me, and I find myself disappointed of the
honourable prospect of representing you in Parliament. In
justice, therefore, to yourselves, and to my successful op-
ponent, I hasten to fulfil my promise which I made at the
commencement of the late friendly contest, and I hereby
totally resign all pretensions to your suffrages at the next
election.
" In taking my leave of you for the present, allow me to
express the genuine satisfaction I have derived from my
personal intercourre with the electors. It was not in my
power to wait upon every individual, but wherever I went,
I found such an amount of intelligence, talent, and infor-
mation, as have given me the highest opinion of a Scottish
constituency, and convinced me of the real honour of repre-
senting so enlightened a body in Parliament.
" To those gentlemen who gave their votes in my favour,
I embrace this opportunity of,, my sincerest gra-
titude.
" At St. Andrew's, where I was already known to many
of the electors, I experienced attention and services which
demand my warmest acknowledgments.
" To the Electors of Cupar, among whom I appeared as
an entire stranger, I likewise tender my best thanks for the
courtesy and kindness with which they received me, both in
private and at their public meeting.
" I beg also to offer similar acknowledgments to the elec-
tors residing in the Coast Burghs.
" Permit me, gentlemen, in conclusion, to exhort you all,
and especially those who honoured me with their preference
at the ballot, to forget the recent division of feeling, and to
unite manfully and cordially with each other in supporting
my fortunate rival.
" I shall ever retain a lively sense of your favourable
notice of my pretensions ; and I have now the honour to

remain,

" Gentlemen, your very obedient servant,
" HARRIS PRENDERGAST.
" Edinburgh, 18th August, 1836."
We have much pleasure in referring to the excellent and
manly address of Mr. Prendergast to the Liberal electors
of our Burghs, which breathes exactly the spirit the occa-
sion called for. The little differences arising out of the
late contest must now be entirely obliterated. We trust,
therefore, that the Liberals will generally acquiesce in the
excellent advice tendered them by Mr. Prendergast, and
sink at once all private or sectional feeling on the subject,
if any should unfortunately exist. As to private animosi-
ties, indeed, we have at last discovered the proper remedy
for these—the preventive one—which is the Ballot. Mean-
time we may be permitted to refer again to the address of
Mr. Prendergast, and to reiterate its concluding sentiment,
which, doubtless, will meet with a general echo, that the
Liberal electors forget entirely the recent division of feel-
ing, and now unite manfully and cordially together in sup-
port of Mr. Ellice.—Fife Herald.