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London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

THE LMERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR THE RETURN
OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL, JAMES PATTD4)N, ESQ., Slit
GEORGE LARPLNT, AND BARON LION EL DE
ItUTIIS-
CHILD. TO THE ELECTORS OF 'I'HE CITY OF LONDON.
fiENTLEMEN,
AStatement addressed to you by the Committee
for conducting the City Election on behalf ot the Conservative
candidates clumsily conceals distress and weakness unier misrepre-
sentation.
The intemperate language wed by gentlemen who presented them-
selves at the General Conservative Meeting, while it indicated that
sense of insecurity which usually vents itself in abuse contained dis-
creditable imputations against the Liberal candidates, to which this
Committee felt they could not appropriately reply, without some de-
parture from that self-respect which they have determined to make
their rule of conduct.
When these imputations are reduced to the more deliberate form of
an official address, however, they tel it due, not only to the general
body of the Constituency, hut to the intelligent and respect dale
portion of the Conservative electors, to give such an explanation of
their position as will show that this Committee are not insensible to
the responsibility they Dave in 4 rtaken.
The unvarying s pport which the great majority of the citizens of
London have given to the cause et Reform is matter of history.
The change in the franchise created by the Reform i ill produced
additional evidence of the predominance of those opinions in the
return of exclusively Liberal representatives tor the whole metro-
politan constituencies. From that per'. d until the wener4l election
of 1841, London uniformly returned to Parliament to•ir Liberal re-
presentatives ; until, trom occult ir circumstances, unconnected with
the general current of party politics, an equal division of the repre-
sentation took place.
Did the Conservatives rest satisfied with this arrangement? Did
Mr. Russell Ellice, whose name is attal':ed to that manifesto of
moderation with which his recent objurgations have inoicated so
little sympathy, acquiesce in the views he row enunciates? Were
he and his party contented to permit a Wh g vacancy to he filled up
by a Reform candidate? No—when they considered either that the
advantage of their position o the state of the regis er, warranted
them in placing a third candidate in the field, they di I not hesitate
to venture into the lottery of an eloction, upon data as fallacious as
the ground o their present hopes. Against the most powerful and
socially influential candidate, and the most unscrupulous use of the
sinister agencies of every protected interest of the reigning Govern-
ment, and of the aristocracy, whose monopoly was perilled in the
contest. Mr. Pattison, in 1843, aided by nothing but his tolociples
and the party predilections of the constituency, was returned by a
majority sufficiently indicative of the predominance of Liberal opi-
nions in the city of London.
_ Have any circumstances occurred since which would warrant the
Inference that the I:eform interest has retrograded arid is no lower
in the ascendant?
From the hour of tr. Pattison's triumph this Committee have in-
!essantly " fought the battle of the C 4 nstitution in the Registration
Courts," and with such success, that not from the vague calculations
and presumptions of an electioneering agent, founded confessedly
!Pon the state it the register in 1843. but upon an actual calivas of
those electors whose opinions were Liberal or unascertained, com-
rtenced and completed within the last six mouths. they are fully
warranted in the assurance to which they have pledged theinselves,
that on the present register there is a large majority of Liberal
electors.

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111 the knowledge of such facts, and in the faceoflhe as
pro-
vocation wantonly offered to theml they
yethe opposition to the past
t
return
Mr. Pattison this Committee
Wilted the p ,urposes for which the fet
representativehy would have altogether pros-
system was en-
trusted to the peolic by the constitution, if they had deprived the
Constituency of the power of retrieving their character from the
anomaly of placing the
oommunit) of the greatest city of the world
in a state of utter political neeation.
With the proceedings of this Committee, founded on these views,
an attempt is row made invidiously to connect Lord Jahn Russell, On
no other foutulation than that Oat great statesman is the deliberats
and first choice of the eral electors.
The Committee regard, with great complacency, an imputation of
arbitrary intolerance, based solely on the tact th it no ether al,tern,a-
tive was ever offered to them than a coot, st. or the perernetr y
the
representation betwixt a Liberal majority, and a not very tormt.
dable Conservative minority. When some o^. attic machinery is
discovered by which it shall be found either expedient or Practice he
to reduce the representative system to fractional rules of proportion,
it will he time enough to consider the reasonableness of the pro ()-
Bitten to have the minority represented by ene candidate, te.d the
majority by another.
With regard to the allusions contained in the Conservative address
to the relation in which the Prime Minister is alleged to stand to-
wards one of the other candidates, it is sufficient to reply that Baron
Rothschild is the candidate, not of Lord John Russell, but of the con-
stituency ; and that while this Committee regret that departure from
the ordinary amenities of political warfare, which indecently at
tempts to implicate the first Minister of the Crown, in the proceed-
ings Peculiar to the tactics of contested elections, they are prepared
to take the exclusive responsibility of recommending for the suffrages
of their fellow citizens a gentleman whose unsullied private cha-
racter and exalted commercial station, alike qualify him to be the
representative of the gre itest mercantile eity In the world. That he
is also the symbol of a 1. rest principle will not be regarded as a dis-
qualification for the enjoyment of the equal rights of the free citizens
of a free country by the generous and just-minded peopin of
England.
This Committee receive with cordiality the assurance that, among
the high-minded gentlemen whom they are proud to recognise in the
ranks of their opponents, " Lord John Ito-sell has b- en treated with
Perfect respect by the Conservatives of i.ondon." To these they con-
fidently apecal against the vi lent langu .ge in which it has not been
Considered inconsistent with the character of gentlemen to assail the
Motives of the Prime Minister in reference to this contest. His la-
borious public duties, and his official position, by leaving him de-
fenceless, ought to have spared hint the indignity of such attacks.
Rut the whole body of the Liberal electors feel otistrained to ask
their Conservative fellow-citizens whether the following report of a
!Teeth delivered at the London Tavern Is cons,stent with those pre-
ies'll"nl of " Perfect respect" for Lord John Russell which are so
lavishly effused in the address of their Committee :
"Tke Prime Minister had associated himself with a gentleman lie
knew could not take his seat for the purpose of getting funds to carry
On the contest."
When it is added that the name attached to this unworthy and un-
founded insinuation is that which subscribes the address containing
these claims to the credit of " treating Lord John Russell with per-
feet respect," the public will be at no loss to appreciate
good taste of the speech, or the sincerity of the document. either the
In conclusion, the Committee leave it to the sound sense of their
allow-citizens of all opinions to decide upon the relative merits of
the candidates before them, persuaded that the comparison must
attach them to those whose political consistency, moderati n, port-
tion, and qualifications most eminently fit them to represent the vast
and varied interests of the city of Lon 'on.
JOHN ABEL SMITH, Chairman.
TIIOMSON HANKEY, Jun.,
P. A. TAYLOR I Deputy Chairmen.
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