The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-29 00:00:00

CITY Or LONDON LIBERAL ELECTORS' COMMITTEE

OHNTLICION,
WE take the liberty of laying before you the
ADDRESS of Baron LIONEL ROTHSCHILD, and of
announcing the determination of the Committee of Liberal Electors
again to support his claims to the suffrages of the constituency of
London.
Time decision of the House of Lords, which has converted the
controversy into a struggle for the ascendancy of vital principles,
has left us no alternative but to vindicate acts from which we can-
not shrink without betraying our public duty, and to assert rights
which cannot be compromised without danger to the prerogatives of
the general body of the people.
It is not your choice that you are now called upon to justify, hut
your right to choose which you are required to defend. It is less
the re-election of Baron Rothschild we seek, than, by his return, to
declare to the country our firm determination to maintain the in-
tegrity of our religious liberties. His personal claims to your
respect and confidence have been already amply acknowledged by
your deliberate decision; but as it was the cause with which he is
entitled which recommended him to your suffrages, you cannot,
with honour, retire from its assertion until you have witnessed its
final triumph, however protracted may be the struggle, ar reiterated
the appea:s to legislative justice, and to the zeal and firm intrepidity
of the electors. The chief city 01 the empire is called upon to set an
example to the general body of the constituency of persevering ad-
vocacy of their common rights. and of stedfast adherence to the vin-
dication of a nrivileze with which the great principles of the Consti-
ution are indissolubly identified.
AY tide we are sincarely attached to those views of Legislation and
Government which have! hitherto formed the bond of union among
tile Liberal electors, We refuse to renew the•struggle upon party
grounds. We only know that our representative has not been
suffered to represent us—and that, in his rejection has been involved
the persecution of a loyal and industrious denomination of our fellow-
citizens, for that intrepid and conscientious adherence to their sin-
cere religious convictions, which forms the test guarantee for their
fidelity in the discharge of any duty with which we may entrust
them. In remembering that Raron Rethsehild is a Jew by extrac-
tion, and in his faith, we are not permitted to ferret that he is an
Englishman by birth, in feeling, in character, and in Interest—and
that we cannot compromise his claims without - also betraying our
own rights. ,
Of this issue alone we enter upon a 'renewal of the contest. Free-
dom of electoral ellbice, liberty of religious opinion, are our only
watchwords. Increming. majorities in the Commons—decreasing,
opposition in the Lords, render the ultimate fate of the question of
Jewish Disabilities no longer doubtful, if we remain true to the acts
to which, as honourable men, we are committed, and to print iples,
the eventual triumph of which but awaits the persevering exertion
of your intelligent energy and unflinching resolution.
The Committee will meet here dai,y until the close of the election.
It is your own acts we seek to justify, and your own declared
opinions to which we desire to give effect; and we therefore rely
with confidence, not ontS, on-your support, but on the personal co-
operation of every elector to 'vindicate the independence of the city
of London.
We remain, Gentlemen, your obedient ant faithful servants, '
(By order of the Committee)
JOHN ABEL SMITH, Chairman,
SIDNEY SMITH,. Secretary.
Committee Roo, Guildhall Coffeehose, Ring-street,
Cheapmside; London, June 23u, 1849.