The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-10 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, J USE 10, 1841

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF
HERTFORD.

GENTLEMEN,
HE approaching Dissolution will replace in
your hands the important trust which for two successive
Parliaments has been eoiNed to me, and I hasten to announce
to you that it is my intention to solicit its renewal.
During the last seven years :
h
,sts of our country ; and I
unceasingly devoted my time an.
be most conducive to the best inter.
have steadily supported those
measures in the House of Comm qns which appeared to me to
i exertions to every que
tion connected with your local busines '' without the slightest
reference to the individual or party by whim my services were
required, being desirous at all times to do my duty as an inde-
pendent Member of Parliament, and not as a pa "is"'
That my conduct has met with your approval, is best evinced
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by the generous manner in which you returned me at th
election without opposition ; and I feel the convictio 1 o last
f „an
honest mind, that since that period I have not swerved ler--
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the course upon which I then grounded my claim for
viir
support.
I concur in the general line of policy which her Majesty's
Ministers have pursued ; :they have confessedly guided this
great country through a variety of untoward circumstances,
which, under a Tory rule, must inevitably have ended in war.
You would have suffered in your families, and your homes,
your comforts would have been abridged, and the great work
of internal improvement would have been stopped.
With reference to questions which have lately been discussed,
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bearing more upon the agricultural interests of this country, I
shall feel it my duty to oppose any measure having a tendency to
deprive the owners and cultivators of their native soil of that
protection to which they are justly entitled.
Should I have the honour of being again selected as your
Representative, my best attention shall still be devoted to the
local business of the County ; and I trust that my previous
conduct is a sufficient guarantee for the fulfilment of my pledges
in this respect.
I am at a loss to know upon what fair or just grounds an
opposition can be offered to my return. If it be merely on the
score of party, I leave it to you, Gentlemen, my tried and ho-
noured friends, to deal with the attempt as it deserves.

I have the honour Co be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
ROWLAND ALSTON.
Pishobury, Sawbridgeworth, June 7.

MARYLEBONE ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—As you have published the Correspondence between
Sir Charles Napier and Mr. Young I shall feel obliged 'loy your
adding the further Correspondence between Mr. 8., Vali, Mr.
Young's Secretary, and myself.—l am, Sir, y`-'pr Oedient
servant, JOSEPH IVIMEY, Hon. slv.
June 9, 1841.

No. I.

28, Norton-street, June 9, 1841.
SlR,—The resolutions adopted by the Warren-street Society,
and forwarded to Air. Young, have been submitted to the As-
sociation ; and I am desired to state that they would con ider a
requisition, signed only by the Reformers who voted at the last
two elections, as a most unsatisfactory test of public opinion.
The annual migration of electors amounts to many hundreds,
and the registered Reformers of 1837 must be a mere fraction
of the Reformers registered in 1841. I am, therefore, instruc-
ted again to press upon the attention of Sir C. Napier's friends
,Nrs of the place
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the necessity of a public meeting, as the only means by which
the peril the Reform interest is now placed in can be averted.
/ am authoris.7l to add that persons shall be stationed at the
' 67va nt,
meeting, with strict lists of the electors, to
alecTtain that every 1.7
dividual who presents himself is an
elector'. before he is admitte..
I :km, Sir, your obedient
N WALL, Hon. Sec.
(Signed) BENJAilli_
Joseph Istuley, Esq.

No. 'II.
62, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, June 9, .•
Slll,—l am directed to acknowledge the receipt of
letter declining the offer of Sir Charles Napier's Committee
to test the preference of the constituency for himself or Mr.
Young, by a canvass of the Liberal electors of the borough.
You must allow me to observe upon the impropriety of charging
Sir Charles Napier with declining to abide by the decision of
a public meeting, when he has in fact attended no less than
ten public meetings,' at all of which a vast majority has declared
in his favour. On the other hand Mr. Young has not called
a single public meeting since the certainty of a dissolution of
Parliament has been manifeit. But he did attend the great
meeting of the electors at the Yorkshire Stingo, where, not-
withstanding the profuse distribution of circulars inviting Mr.
Young's friends to be present, a large majority held up their
hands for Sir Charles Napier.
Since therefore the evidence of so many meetings has proved
the decided preference of-the electors for the Commodore, and
since Mr. Young's Committee decline the only other test, viz.
a public canvass, it remains for Sir Charles Napier to pursue
the same straightforward course he has hitherto adopted.
He will therefore continue his district meetings, and conclude
them with one general meeting of all the Liberal electors, of
which full notice will be publicly given, of which also you
shall have the earliest possible information;-end which Will of
course be open to Mr.„YoUng and his friends:'The Committee
hare no doubt that on this, as on every previous occ•tsion,, Sir
Charles Napier will be received- with that. enthusiasm which
has already characterised his'progress"through the borough.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
• JOSEPH IVIMEY, Hon. Secretary.
Mr. Benjamin Wall. • .
.1. The Yorkshire Stingo, New-road.
,2.' 'f he King and Queen,- Paddington Green. , •
3. The Royal Oak; Bayswater.
4. The Duke of York, Portland Town.

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b, The Lord High Admiral, Christchurch.
6. The Assembly Room, Kentish Town.
7. The Royal Standard, West Pancras.

8. The Portman Arms, St. Mary's.
9. The London Institute, East Pancras.
10. The Camden Head, Camden Town.

ST. MARY'S, LAMBETH.

Last evening a meeting of the parishioners of St. Mary's,
Lambeth, was held at the National School-room, George-
street, Lambeth-walk. The meeting was called under the f
eel-
lnwin circumstances :—The —The Churchwardens of the parish of
St. M'ary, Lambeth, having refused to accede to a requisition,
numerously and respectably signed, to convene a meeting of
the rate-payers and inhabitants of the parish, to take into con-
sideration the propositions of her Majesty's Ministers for the
reduction of the protective and prohibitory duties on corn,
sugar, and timber, and thereby render unnecessary the imposi-
tion of new taxes, we, therefore request a meeting of the rate-
payers and inhabitants of the.parish, at the National School-
room, George-street, Prince's-road, opposite the Workhouse,
on Wednesday next, 9th of June, 1841, at five o'clock in the
afternoon, for the purpose of taking the above-mentioned pro-
yesitions into consideration, and agreeing upon the most ex-
pedient anode of carrying the same into effect. Signed by up-
wards of 400 rate-payers.
At a few minutes past six o'clock the chair was taken, at the
unanimous request of the meeting, by Mr. Wdliam Hawes,
brother to the Meinber for the Borough. He said, unless the
measures proposed by the Government were speedily carried
into laws, there would be less employment, less wages, and, of
course, increased discontent; in tact, he thought these mea-
sures were the inevitable result of the Reform Bill ; the ques-
tion was whether they had been brought forward soon enough
(Cheers, and " That's the question.") That was the ques-
tion, hut when they saw that after the public mind had been
prepared by the public press, they were scarcely able yet to say
that they could pa's the measures, what could have been done
before ? Sir R. Peel, from the whole tenor of his public life,
must naturally be the friend of the Monopolists, and backed as
he was by the agricultural interests, the people had a battle
to fight that would require the whole of their energies. The
question before them was ene of monopoly and place, against
free trade and a Government who, he fully believed, deserved
well of their country.--( Cheers.) Their great opponents
were not Sir Robert. Peel, but Lord Stinley a:sd Sir James
Graham, who formerly were the-great friends of " No mono-
poly ;" but it was will known that the estates of the latter were
deeply mortgaged, and it was from that Blass of landlords only
that they met with the most opposition. The Fitzwilliams and
the Radnor., all whose estates were their own, were in favour
01* the measures of the Government, which were those of free
trade.--( Cheers.) He requested that all persons who offered
themselves
might have a fair hearing, whether in favour of the
resolutions
he
two t
Aol
fipe r g
proposed or not.—( Cheers. )
for the Borough here entered the School,
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and were loudly cheered.

Mr. Ric HA kDSON proposed the first resolution. They were
obliged to meet in that room, because—not that 'women were
the cause of all evil—but becanse, in that case, the clergyman
was the party who had prohibited the Churchwardens from call-
ing a proper and legally constituted parish meeting. —( Cheers. )
He moved—" That the propositions of her Majesty's Ministers,
having for their object the reduction of the protective and prohibi-
tory duties on corn, sugar, and timber, are calculated to raise
the drooping commercial interests of the United Kingdom, by
throwing open the respective sources of each nation's pro-
ducts and wants, to be reciprocated by, !to demands and sup.
ply of the others, thus following-out the great law and
action of nature. That British capital, skill, and industry,
unfettered by impost on the man and the material, can suc-
cessfully compete with the capital, skill, and industry of aey
nation of the earth ; and that a means whereby a market for
British manufactures can be obtained is eminently necessary,
in the present distressed state of the national resources, and
the wretchedness and debasement of the great bulk of the
people. That all taxes, direct or indirect, upon human sus-
tenance, are opposed to the Divine law, and socially impolitic,
and that every approach towards the abrogation of such taxes,
by whomsoever proposed, or maintained, deserves, and is
entitled to our best, untiring, and most zealous support ;"
and supported it by relating that at a time wren the poor
then ands in the north of Scotland were starving, hundreds of
thousands of quarters of wheat were thrown into the river,
The pour might starve, but the pockets of the landlords must
be tilled at the expense of the multitude. He stood there is
a member of the Cora law League, as an agitator, because he
could not see why the landlords of the country should live in
.luxury, while the thousand:, nay, the millions were starving.
The measures of the Government were calculated to benefit
the country, and he hoped they would receive the sapporeof
the whole working population, The Hon. Gentleman-read a
petition presented from a Birmingham artisan, in 1838, showing
that he paid taxes to the amount of bs, 3id. upon his neces-
caries every week, and praying for a property tax. He called
upon the meeting to study that petition, and they would find
that the Corn-laws were not only cruel and unjust, but im-
pious.
ious He hoped every one present would resolve to support
the present Government in their
,endeavours to ameliorate the
condition of the poorer classes.
Mr. Minus seconded the- motion, and proved from the
census that the population of the parish of Lambeth had
doubled within twenty years, and was now not less than
120,000, and the parish, in consequence of the provision laws.
were taxed to the amount of 60,0001. a year. The offered
protection of Be. a quarter was, he was convinced, equal to all
the Poor-rates, tithes, &c,, which wore imposed upon land,
and therefore our farmers ought and would be able 40 eompeta
with the foreign grovver. Suppase it were to threw some little
land out of cultivation, it would enable the grazier to give
beef and mutton to the working classes at rather' less than a
famishing price. Including the timber duties he calculated
that the measures of the Government would relieve the parish
of Lambeth of at least 100,0001. a year, all of which would give
increased employment to operatives. The Corn-lawe were in
operation in Ireland, yet the wages of the labourer were stated
to be only 12/d. a day. He accounted for that by the
fact that manufactures were not extended in Ireland, but
contrasting it with the price of labour in America, it was
evident that the Corn-laws did not maintain the price of wages.
Let the manufactures of England be annihilated, and it would
not be long before the artisans even of London would find it
milieus to them, He cordially seconded the resolution, and
p upon them the necessity of keeping up the agitation
u
le of the propositions.--( Hear. )
Mr. SOUTIINVELL strongly supported the resolution, and de.
precated any Chartist or other Interruption to the unanimity
which was so essential in such a strait as the country had now
arrived at. The people of this
;els the ,
country would see better days,
machine must worktthe
according
united
will
their
when they were wise enough-to have no t iXel but for the pur-
poses of revenue. He trusted that every man ansengst them
would be active—that each would -put his shoulders to the
wheel,
political
and
of a people united upon sound principles. The auti-
will. the
Ngere power
e thousands of their fellow-citizens.
free trade principles were the cause .of unspeakable misery to
ina
withstand
-citizens. Let them think on what
Lord Bacon said, " that knowledge is power." Let them be-
lieve that doctrine, and act upon it, and the Poor-law and the
Corn-law would not stand. one lour. The Duke of Rich.
could
mond, beaming with benevolence, threatened, if these laws
were r epealed, that he would go abroad with all his property.
They had then to make their choice—either make up their
minds to have no import of corn, or they must have an ex-
port of Dukes.-L( Cheers and laughter.) But he, for one,
would prefer to have an import of corn, for although they
could do without Dukes, they must lean upon the staff of life.
—(Laughter.) There must be something essentially wrong in
our legislation, where thousands were allowed to starve and
wallow in rags, when nature had been so bountiful to this coun-
try. The usual organs of the Tories showed what their mind
was, and the Standard one of the most honest of the lot, a
few days ago said that the country would be as rich if
the whole manufacturing towns were annihilated and ploughed
over—those were the sentiments of the Tories. Then if the
working classes chose to support them, they deserved to re-
main in that bondage from which the Tories would not re-
lease them. He supported the resolution as an instalment; he
looked forelard to free and unrestricted trade in all things.
—(Cheers.) To do any good they must agitate, agitate,
agitate.—(Louti, cheers.) •
Mr. HALL supported the resolution, and called upon the
working classes not to support the Whigs, but above all things
to shun a Tory, not as one suspected of having the plague, &c.
but as one actually having it--(Loud cheers.) After re-
futing the fallacies respecting our being independent on foreign
countries, by showing that at the hottest tittte of the war in
1809 and 1810 we were liberally supplied notwithstanding the
edicts, of Buionaparte. It was a well-known fact that tradel
would at ill• times force itself--we even- sent rousketiao Plane&
for the purpose of fighting OVelves—we woeld at all times,
command 114Plieta owlish for a full supply,

Mr. WILLIAMS, the Char tist baker, then came forwird, and
argued that a repeal of the Corn-laws could only reduce tl'os
price of the 41b. loaf two-pence ; that might be a saving to a
working man, with a family, of four-pence per day ; but he
would lose from eight-pence to a shilling a-day in his wages.
(The speaker went at considerable length into this line of ar-
gument, amidst the utmost impatience of the great majority of
the meeting.)
Another Chartist, a mere boy, wished to address the meet-
ing ; but being neither a rate-payer, nor an inhabitant of the
parish, the meeting almost unanimously refused to hear him.
The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously.
M. ;APLEon moved the next resolution—
" Thai her Majesty's present Ministers having declared in
Parliament their adherence to, and their determination to pro-
pose, and carry into effect, measures in accordance with th,
principles expressed in' the preceding resolution, this meeting
pledges itself, individually and collectively, to a.:4 them, b)
using all just and reasonable influence within the constituene
of their own borough, in returning fit and proper men to Par-
liament, by stimulating and exciting those of other consti.
tuencies to imitate their example, and by affording the public
such means of information and deliberation upon the subject,
by meetings, petitions, discussions, and lectures, as may best
effectuate the purposes of this meeting."
He was not a Whig ; but he would support them in their pre-
sent measures because he thought they would save. increased
taxation and benefit the trade of the country, and, at a matter
of course, increase the employment for the working classes;
and, under such circumstances, it would be impossible to re-
duce wages.
Mr, Hint seconded the motioti.

I Mr. ED WA 11DS suppoitecitheTesoletion. The Meeting were
o,emt,bbe.:ll,:reot.nrhiaaettsi,ownwe4ohrea,tooetvboeerooomri
goliginha,ttvoebrares tiohnfeintbitneeirsedpseute.bdtsic of
debt,the
M.P., then' came fo.'rward, and was_arne(dcLetibovueeil
tw\;11:11hi leirgrhe.:a-c, F. s , 4„ ,
with immense eh:Pr...". He said be had, during the eight
years he had held a see: ;ii thy House of Commons, by their
suffrages, been in his place :?
stout one, for their
cheers.) They were now called upe;;:
void winso g t 1,,, mt
ao nboapt
battles
were to remember that it would be it st-f.)
enemies, the monopolists, were wealthy, powerful, and crafty ;
but he had no doubt the hone.ty of those entrusted with the
elective franchise would beat them. He was a manufacturer,
but he wanted no protection.—( Loud cheers.) He had always
condemned all monopolies, and he trusted the present agitation
would never cease until all fell before the pubic opinion, and
the legislation of the country was put upon a just and proper
footing.—(Cheers.) The monopolists were trusting to the
divisions among the Liberals, and the ignorance which existed
amongst them—and that was the reason why they would not
vote money for the education of the people. They voted readily
whatever was wanted for the army and the navy, or for the
Church—(Cheers)—but they would not hear for a moment
anything of increasing the vote for education.
A young-gentlemanlyLlooking tall boy interrupted -the Hon.
Member several thnes,and was at last ejected from thehes!ings.
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he would never cowl-te-
the
n-that insist upon the, 'Youth being 'restored to his place., It
.nanit HanAywthzinsg' yeiholaeiZeinfOr saanidexprestioa of opinionhe
was, however,. stated that he had gone home.
Mr. ]{AWES,resnmed, and said• he did not wish for
a change in the Corn-laWs merely to reduce prices—what he,
Wanted•rwas to have a fullsuppltof corn, a steadiness of price,
and increased trade.—(Cheers. ) 'would soots • have an op-
portunity of addressing his constituents, and he would be glad
to explain the whole of his conduct, and come when it would
that he must return the trust reposed in him, he would do so
untainted with one personal object —(Cheers. )
Mr. Terrwrsoii D'EYNCOU
.then came forward, and,
like his colleague, was received with much cheering. They
had now arrived at the very threshhold of actual reform
(Cheers)—and if the people continued their agitation,
they would not only obtain the abolition of the Corn-laws,
but they would also obtain a reform of the Reform
Bill.--( Cheers. ) After eulogising the character of Mr.
Hawes, he said they might find a more effectual colleague for
him, but they could not get one who would serve them more
honestly,--( Cheers, and cries of " No, no, you have always
been consistent.") But if they again reposed their trust in
him, he would again serve them with the same honest fearless-
ness that he had already done.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Boss, a working man, would support the measures of
the Government, but he would not have it understood that
he supported any Minister who would not extend the franchise
to the whole people. He did not think that' there had ever
been any intention of passing the measures—(Laughter)—and
though he wished to see them carried, he did not like to ap-
pear to support what was mere clap-trap.
The resolution was then passed unanimously.
A petition founded upon the resolutions was then agreed
to, and thanks having been vuted to Mr. Hardwick for the use
of the school-room, and to the Chairman, the meeting broke up.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
CHRONICLE.—A very strong desire for what is called a
Conservative Government is said to exist in this country. We
apprehend that it does ; and that the fact might be put more
correctly were it said that there are several very strong desires
for that object. The wish is not one, but many. Its name is
Legion. The peculiarity of the case is, that these various de-
siren are not quite so congruous with each other, or with the
limited powers of any Government that can possibly be formed,
as to afford the prospect of their gratification. They are desires
that only work well for Opposition purposes; they are hopes that
would expire in what seemed their fruition, leaving those who
indulged them only " cursed with every granted prayer." The
character of deceptiveness elings about every portion of the Peel
policy, and marks for its own every probable development of
that policy. The corn monopolists desire a Peel administra-
tion to sustain the present starvation laws in their full enor-
mity. They think the country would be none the worse for
the ruin of all the great manufacturing towns. The prohi-
bition of foreign grain could then be made absolute ; rents
might be doubled or trebled upon their present doubled or
trebled amount of what they were fifty years ago. They for-
get that Sir Robert Peel is not totally blind, though they are,
to the dependence .f agriculture upon flourishing manufac-
tures for its prosperity. They forget that the pledge to a
sliding scale is no pledge to details, which may be varied
indefinitely, as the expediency of the occasion may demand.
They overlook the embarrassment that e Y.arise from
such promises as those of Sir Geor, • ...t4 to large
constituencies, and which, howe ' wily in
tended, may hereafter have som, of retro-
spective and compulsory truth driven i But all this
could not be forgotten, were their desire ory Govern.
ment accomplished. The Anti Corn-law a on,_ much as it
unsettlesw the country, and disturbs both corn rcial arid agri-
cultural operations, is but a ripple on the ace, compared
with the tempestuous form which it would assume. And
what would they do with their Tory Gov• • ment, or their
Tory Government with them ? Their bitterest enemy could
scarcely be dissatisfied with the prospect before them. The
confederated monopolists desire a Peel Ministry. Each class
thinks to keep its own portion of plunder, and so they con-
spire against the public interest. As an Opposition they have
succeeded. Their leader exults in having no Budget ti
produce. He jeers his opponent, borrowing a frag-
ment of Canning's wit, (" Where Patience, beside
the bottomless pool of despondency, sits angling for
impossibilities"), marring it in the appropriation, and the con-
spiracy is in a most gleesome state. But the new Chancellor
of the Exchequer will have to angle for the impossibilities of
such new taxes as the people will rather endure than touch any
monopoly whatever. Does he not wi-h ha may catch them ?
What will they be ? A house-tax ? That would be very pa-
latable indeed to the town constituencies. High postage again ?
Very agreeable to the trading interests. Or will some o'sf the
monopolies be sacrificed after all ? They will scarcely adhere
so closely, when one or two may serve for Jonases to the rest,
as they do in opposition, where the work is simply that of ne-
gation. Few weeks will elapse before, should they attain it,
they would look very blank on their victory. 0 how they will
watchiair the new taxes, and the effect upon the country of
the proposition !
TIMES,—A report will be found in our columns of to-
day, which, while it forbids us to despair of the ultimate
safety of one of the two transatlantic steamers which have oc-
oasioned so much anxiety, rffords a striking instance of that
gross and unfeeling nonchalance on the part of captains of
vessels which, we regret to say. has not been singular on this
occasion. It has ever been the just pride of the _British sailor
to be the first, not only in encountering danger, but in relieving
distress, and that at all hazards ; and surely if there bo any
case where the exercise of these noble qualities could
be pre-eminently called for, it would ba in a case where not
only the feelings of individuals, but the sympathies of the
whole British nation have been most painfully excited. Under
such circumstances, it will be a matter of no little surprise and
indignation to our readers to learn that the commander of the
Osprey steamer, from whose account our report is taken, should
have left to others the task of hailing the steamer which 11-e
perceived to be evidently disabled, and " passed by" himself
"on the other side." It seems to be the peculiar kit of this
unfortunate vessel to fall in with a set of mariners who appear
to entertain as great a horror of ascertaining her real character
as if she were the Flying Dutchman himself. We trust, for
the honour of the British flag, that we shall hear of no more
instances of this unfeeling and unseamanlike conduct.
POST.—Upon the eve of a general election it is of great
importance to the public generally to be furnished with some
test, more worthy of being depended upon than professions at
the hustings generally are, of the real characters• of public
men. Such a test is furnished by the proceedings in the
House of Commons on Tuesday—first in the case of the con-
versation preceding the order made upon the clerk of the
peace for the county of Hertford ; and, secondly, in the de-
bate upon Mr. Wynn's motion for a direction to the Attorney-
General to prosecute a certain Mr. Webster for bribery at
St, Alban's. It has always seemed to us that the persons who
most ostentatiously profess what they call " Liberal princi-
ples " are the greatest tyrants in existence. We have taken
many opportunities of showing this both from the conduct of
public men, and the language of public journals of the " Libe-
ral" party. Now, we hope that throughout Great Britain
there, is among the people a wholesome detestation of
practical tyranny and injustice, whatever may be the profess
sions of those who indulge in such practice ; and in so far as
" Liberal " politicians can be convicted of tyranny and par-
tiality in
.public matters,.we hope that they may be hindered
from receiving the trust of legislative power at the hands of the
constituent body. We, therefore, beg that the constituents of
those "Liberal" Members who concurred in advising the
order to be made upon Mr. Storey will consider the reckless
despotissn of temper which these Members displayed. No one
can doubt that the fashion of Mr. Tom Duncombe's Liberalism
is as unimpeachable as the fashion of his coat. He professes
the most ultra championship of the most unbounded liberties
of the people. And yet what says he to Mr Storey ? Why,
be says this, " You have a document in your possession
which you say you cannot copy except at very
considerable trouble and expense ; but I tell you,
Sir, I don't care for that. Your business is to comply with
the order of the House, and I won't listen for a moment to
your excuses about the trouble and expense to yourself. You
say the document is not yours, and that it belongs to the
county, I don't care for that either. I know, that you have
the document, and I have the sanction of the House for de-
manding that you give it up, or a copy of it. You must obey.
As to the consequences to yourself, you may settle that matter
with those whom it may concern. I don't care for those conse-
quences—l only say that you must obey the order." The
same thing was maintained by the other " Liberal" Members
who supported Mr. buncombe. This is their practical regard
for freedom and justice when they happen to have absolute
power in their hands. To us this seems most disgusting, and
we hope that many of the electors, to whom these gentlemen
must soon appeal, will think as we do.
HERALD.—The speech of Mr. Hutt, on the bribery busi-
saess of St. Alban's, was more than ordinarily offensive. The
whole argereent of the Whigs was suicidal t 0 their theories,
though consistent with, their practice.
.Bribery, corruption,
and so forth, had been always abominable to the utninsede-
'grees and batl'met With their due share of reprobation, as long
at they could be,: justly unjustly, fastened upon the Tories.
A whole racration. of patriots lived, nourished, and fattened