The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF
NOTTINGHAM.

SicwTL EM EV
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Nottingham,. April 15, 184

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THE lamented Death Of, Sir RONALD
FERGUSON having occasioned a vacancy in the
Representation of your town, I am induced, by the flattering
promises of support which I have received, to offer myself as a
Candidate to succeed him.
To replace a person so distinguished by professional ho-
nours, liberal principles, and consistent political conduct, and
who has so long occupied a large space in public estimation,
Joust ar. all times and to all persons be a disadvantage; and
it is peculiarly so to me, whose walk in life has been exclu-
sively-confined to commercial pursuits. But lam told that
it is the wish of a large portion of your constituency, looking
to the various and complicated interests of your great manufac-
turing town, to seek a representative in that class of persons
who ought, from long experience, to be familiar with those
important subjects of commercial and domestic policy upon
which its prosperity so essentially depends.
I come forward as a warm advocate of Liberal principles
in commerce as well as in politics—l will support no class in-
terest, adverse to the general welfare of the community—l feel
in their full force the evils of the existing Corn-laws, and I
shall give my cordial support to those who seek their repeal.
Anxious to secure to the voter the free exercise of his privi-
lege, I shall support the Ballot, or any measure calculated to
secure that desirable object.
Although not insensible to the inconvenience of frequent
changes, yet I shall he ready to concur in any practicable plan
for the extension of the suffrage ; it being my conviction,
that as the varied classes of the community rise in education
and independence, they should successively be made partakers
is the choice of the national representation, and, without
pledging myself to any particular course, I shall be prepared
to support such a shortening of the duration of Parliament
as may be required for the public benefit. lam myself a sin-
core member of the Church of England, but I do not approve
of taxing, by means of Church-rates, persons who do not
lbolong to it, and I shall therefore vote for their abolition,
trusting that means may be devised for maintaining the exist-
ing fabric of the places of worship without affecting the re-
ligious scruples of others.
Feeling strongly the inadequacy of the present means of
instructing the people, I shall, as I have always hitherto done,
give my support to the most extended system of national edu-
cation, The Poor-law Amendment Act being now the law
of the land, it will be my study, as well as my duty, narrowly
to watch its operations, and to prevent end correct its abuses;
and I shall look to the manner it may affect the working
elssses, as the princil al point to be considered in any future
legislation upon the subject.
It, is upon these grounds that I submit my pretensions to
you, confident that I shill bring to your service an anxious
desire, and a determined will, to promote your welfare to the
Bost of my abilities, and trusting that I may in some degree
compensate for their inferiority by diligence and zeal in the
dis •harge of your Parliamentary business, and of the general
duties of your Representative, should you be pleased to place
those great trusts in my keeping.
The limits of this; address will not enable me to entertain
other matters, upon which you may wish to know my opinions,
but I shall at all times be ready to give the fullest explanation
of my principles.
I hare the honour to be, Gentlemen, with great respect,
Your very obedient servant,
G. G. DE H. LARPENT.

On Monday neat, April 26, will be published, the Third Vo-
lum 3 of
• THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
THE RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN.
By HIS SON, HENRY GRATTAN, E?q., M.P.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.