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LON DON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, M4l.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF PION•

MOUTH.

GENTLEMEN,
IT is with sentiments of deep regret that I feel
myself compelled, in accordance with the unanimous voice
ot my Committee, to withdraw from the contest for the Re-
presentation of this County.
When I consented to come forward as a Candidate at the
request of a numerous and influential portion of the Elec-
tors, I did so, not from any motive of personal or private
inclination, but because I considered it my duty not to
disregard such a Requisition. Looking to the respecta-
bility, the property, and the influence of the Gentlemen
who signed it, I anticipated, and I still think I was
justified in the anticipation, that a large majority of the Elec-
tors (comprehending more especially the Gentlemen at whose
request I became a Candidate) would be found ready to
support, on this occasion, the political principles was
known to profess—principles which were long represented on
behalf of this county, as well by the ancestors of my honour-
able opponent as my own ;—namely, those principles of ra-
tional and constitutional liberty, and of attachment to our free
and ancient institutions, to which this country owes its un-
paralleled power and pre-eminence--the firm and unremit-
ting maintenance of which I believe to be indispensable to the
continuance of our national greatness. The county of Mon-
mouth, throughout a large portion of its history, was distin-
guished for its adherence to the same principles ; and in your
late excellent, honourable, and able representative, they found
an uncompromising and consistent adherent during the four
Parliaments to which he was returned without opposition.
The great political parties in this county are so equally ba-
lanced that the majority of to-day may become the minority
of to-morrow, and no arrangement can be permanent which
will give to one a monopoly of the representation.
Under these circumstances, I was certainly not prepared to
expect that the peace of the County would have been dis-
turbed en this occasion. A contest, nevertheless has arisen ;
and some of the great interests which throughout all the
struggles between Tyranny and Freedom, terminating in
the Isevolution of 1688, and down to a very recent period,
were in direct opposition, have formed a powerful combi-
nation. This combination, whatever may be its motive,
is such in effect as, for the present, to check and restrain
the honest and independent exercise of the elective franchise.
The strife and agitation of a contested election were unfore-
seen by me when
.coy services were first claimed—they are fo-
reign alike to my habits and disposition. I would, nevertheless,
have persevered in the present struggle to the end, had there
been any reasonable prospect of final success. lam well as-
sured that I carry with me the cordial wishes of a large pre-
ponderance of the electors; but after a carefUl examination of
the returns Lin my favour, the Gentlemen of my Committee
have ascertained that the majority of votes would be in favour
of my opponent—a majority inconsiderable, but yet sufficient
to decide the present contest.
I feel therefore that I ought to retire : and, notwithstanding
the issue of the undertaking in which I hail embarked, I trust
that this course will meet your approbation. I entertained a
deep sense of the responsibility which must attach to your re-
presentative, and of the arduous duties which that position
would have imposed upon me. I had no object of personal am-
bition to gratify, but I was suported by the consciousness of up-
right motives, the strong impulse of public duty, and the belief
that I should aid in securing that independence which you had
so recently achieved.
It remains for me only to express my sincere acknowledg-
ments to my numerous friends and supporters, anti to assure
them that I shall ever retain a grateful recullectisn of the kind-
ness and courtesy with vc hich 1 have been received by all the
electors.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obliged and very obedient humble servant,
CHARLES HANBURY TRAdY.
Pontypool Park, Feb. 8, 1841.

FROM LAST NIGIiT"S GAZETTE.

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DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 5, 1841.
The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Sir Thomas
Bernard Birch, of the Hexles, Bart., to be Sheriff of the
County Palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire.
The Hon. J. F. Vaughan, eorrtmonly called Viscount
Emlyn, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Ft. G. Thomas, Esq., to
be ditto ; D. Lewis, Esq., to be di.tto; D. Jones, Esq., to be
ditto, Jan. 28.

Commissions by the Lerd Lie tenant of Essex.
West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry—A. Jessopp, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice F. Palmer; S. B. E !denborough, Gent., to
be Cornet, vice R. W. H. Dare, Feb. 1•
Commissions by the Lord Lieutena. nt of Bedfordshire.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia —W. Anstell, Esq.,
Colonel of the late Royal East India Vc.luntecrs, to be Lieut.-
Colonel, vice R. Gilpin, deceased ; R. IL Wilkinson, Gent., to
be Lieutenant, Jan. 26.

Erratum in the " Gazette" of Friday last.
In the List of Sheriffs appointed for 11,1341, for Henry Smith,
Esq., of " Welford," in the County o f Nottingham, read,
Henry Smith, of " Wilford," in the Couit,ty of Nottingham.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLYENCY.
THOMAS ROBERTS, corn-miller' Leeds.
HENRY CLARKE, ironmonger, Po.rtsea.
WILLIAM HANNAFORD and NICHOLAS PRETTE-
JOHN, cattle-dealers, Kingsbridge, Devonshire.
HENRY THOMPSON, timber-merchant, King-street,
Clerkenwcll.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
CHARLES JOHN WILKINSON, merchant, Eye, Sui
folk.

BANK ---
THOMAS PROCTOR, merchant, kenchurcli-street, to
surrender, Feb. 19, at two, and March 23, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, official assignee; Dunn and
Raymond-buildings.
CHARLES BERTRAM, wine-merchant. Bury-street,
St. James's, Feb. 16 and March 23, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Rodgers, King-street,
Ch eapside.

JAI.IES STARTINr-ship-owner,- Winchester-street, Feb.
16 and March 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
Aldermanbury, official assignee; Compton, Church-court, Old
Jewry, London.
TIMOTHY ABRAHANI CURTIS, merchant, Token-
house-yard, Feb. 19 and March 23, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ;
Wilde, Rees, and Co., College-hill.
JOHN OLIVER YORK, iron-founclor, Duke-street,
Wetminster, Feb. 15, at half-past ten, and March 23, at eleven,
at the Court of Vankroptcy. Graham, Bacinghall-street,
official assignee; Clarke, Fynmore, and Fladvte, Craven-
street, Shand.

HENRY WHEELER, innkeeper, Witton, Chester, Feb.
lind March `23; at twelve, at the Talbot Hotel, Witton.
Barker, Wern, Shropshire ; Cuff and Barker, Half Moon-street,
Piccadilly, London.

GEOftGE JOHNSON, fruiterer, Leeds, Feb. 23, and
March 2.3, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds.
Jones, Trinder, and Tudwa.y, John-street, Bedford-row,
London ; Hick, Leeds. _

JOHN NAYLOR, wire-drawer, Manchester, Feb. 25, and
March 23, at twelve, at the Commissioner's-rooms, Man-
chester. Johnson, Pall-mall, Manchester; Wathen, Torring-
ton-square, London.

JOHN EGLINGTON, builder, Walsall, Staffordshire,
Feb. 24, and March 23, at twelve, at the Swan Inn, Wol-
verhampton. Hunt, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's-inn,
London ; Marldew, Walsall.

WILLIAM BRIDGE, shoemaker, Deritend, Warwickshire,
Feb. 16, and March 23, at two, at the New York Hotel, Bir-
mingham. Tattersall,GreatJames-street, Bedford-row, London.
BENJAMIN COLES, grocer, Olney, Buckinghamshire,
Feb. 18, at two, and March 23, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Clark, official assignee, New Broad-street-court;
Baylis, Devonshire-square, London ; Garrard, Olney.
JOHN APPLETON, ironmonger, Hounslow, Feb. 18, and
March 23, at twelVe, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-
street. Clark, official assignee, New Broad-street-court;
Thorndike, Staple's-inn.
JOHN CARTER, corn miller, Elland, Yorkshire. Feb. 25,
and March 23, at twelve; at the Royal Hotel, Brighouse.
Batt} e, Fisher, and Sudlow•, Chancery-lane, London ; George
Higham, Brighouse.
CHARLES JOSEPH CARTTAR, banker, Greenwich,
Feb. 20, at two, and March 23, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry; Bell,
Broderick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard.
JOHN ACKERSON ERREDGE, bookseller, Brighton,
Feb. 13 and March 23, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton.
Bennett, Brighton; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
London.

SAMUEL PEACE WARD, common brewer, Liverpool,
Feb. 22, and March 23, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms,
Liverpool. Neal, Castle-street, Liverpool ; Hall, Bishop, and
Alourilyan, Gray's Inn, London.
GEORGE BLAMY, baker, Kingsbridge, Devonshire, Feb.
17, and March 23, at two, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth.
Suer, Lombard-street, London; Lockyer and Bolted, Ply-
mouth ; Haley, Kingsbridge.
JAMES SHARP and ROBERT PEARSON, machine.
makers, Bradford, Yorkshire, March 6, at eleven, and 23, :at
ten, at the Commissioners' rooms, Leeds. Walter and Pem-
berton, Symond's Inn, Chancery-lane, London ; Tolson,
Bradford.

DIVIDENDS..
At the Court of Bankruptey,Basinghall-street.
J. Barfield, silversmith, Cheapside, March 4, at one—H.
Hays, engraver, Regent•street, St. James's, March 4, at half-
past eleven—J. Green, draper, Cheltenham, Feb. 26, at half-
past one—W. Burch, carpenter, Woolwich, March 2, at half-
past eleven—A. Ross and J. Ogilvie, army agents, Argyle-
street, March 2, attwelve.
In the Country.
_

L. J. C. Clayette, commission a agerit, Manchester, March 5,
at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—T. Fowler,
distiller, Manchester, March 12, at two, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester—W. Beer, grocer, Washington, Sussex,
March 5, at two, at the Town-hall, Brighton—J. Simpson,
grocer, Spalding, Lincolnshire, March 3, at twelve, at the
George Hotel, St. Martin's, Northamptonshire—R. Ferris,
J. H. Butler, J. Butler, merchants, Liverpool, March 8, at
one, at the Clarendon rooms, Liverpool— W. Hood, clock ma-
nufacturer, Atherstone, Warwickshire, March 17, at one, at
the Three Tuns Inn, Atherstone—lL B. Burwood, fish mer-
chant, Lowestoft, 'Suffolk, March 2, at one, at the White Lion
Inn, Beccles—J. P.. Hubbard, cabinet maker, Teignmouth,
Devonshire, March 8, at one, at the New London Inn, Exeter
—J. Lees, cotton spinner, Mottram-in-Longdendale, Cheshire,
March 12, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.

CERTIFICATES—MARCH 2.
J. 11. Carter and C. Lawrence, machine makers, Hudders-
field, Yorkshire Fowles. J. Fowles, an.dJ. Fowles, joiners,
Rochdale, Lancashire—J. Williams, veterinary surgeon, Bath—
F. Egerton, wine merchant, Bath—T. J. Thomas, jeweller,
Ilaiifax, Yorkshire—J. Adams, corn chandler, Vauxhall—W.
Armour, fancy drill manufacturer, Manchester—E. Lax, inn-
keeper, Manchester—G. Brown, maltster, Bilston, Stafford-
shire—G. Robinson, surgeon, Huddersfield, Yorkshire—R. L.
Courtney, grocer, Walsall, Staffordshire—T. B. Manes and
It. Cowen, brass•founders, Nottingham.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Oliver, sen. and J. Oliver, jun., mercers, Newark-upon-
Trent, Nottinghamshire—.J. niggle and W. Barlow, joiners,
Heywood, Lancashire—T. Wilson and T. Sanderson, wine
merchants, Workington, Cumberland—H. Winter and J.
Bryars, farriers, Sunderland—J. Skinner and J. Campleman,
tailors, Brewer-street, Golden-square—H. and G. Booth, hat
manufacturers, Manchester—J. Orme, W. Orme, and J. Orme,
silk tbrowsters, Sutton, Cheshire (so far as regards W. Orme)
—W. and C. Lloyd, coal dealers, Birmingham—W. and G.
Walker, dyers, near Ilorbury, Yorkshire—R. Benson, G.
Benson,land M. Raine, curriers, Kendal, Westmorland (so far
as regards G. Benson)—W, C. Nock and W. S. Charles,
working jewellers, Gerard-street, Soho—E. Nanson, sen., E.
Nanson, jun., and J. S. Nanson, common brewers, Sheffield
(so far as regards E. Nanson)—W. Slater and J. Parry, jun.,
timber merchants, Liverpool—E. Horsey and J. Wright,
packers, Manchester—S. Legge and I. Legge, jun., brick
makers, Longton, Staffordshire—B Mege, Mege, and W.
Davis, Birmingham—W. Campbell, J. H. Gledstancs, and R.
King, wine merchants, Regent-street (so far as regards W.
Campbell)—R. Josland, J. Baker, and R. Burrow, drapers,
Exeter—C. Addis and J. D. Spilsbury, painters, Gloucester—
.l. S. Bowden, S. Walters, and W. N. Reeve, attorneys, Al-
dermanbury—T. Hollins, S. Hollins, and W. Hollins, com-
mission merchants, Manchester (so far as regards S. Hollins)
—C. Joslin and T. Lambert, carvers, Great Yarmouth—A.
M'Carter and R. Sharples, tailors, Preston, Lancashire—R.
Concher and A. Mitchell, drapers, Pembroke Dock, Pembroke
shire—J. S. and J. W. Elliott, dyers, Jermyn-street, St.
James's-street—S. Atkinson and G. Clough, ale merchants,
Bermondsey, Bradford—M. Ballard and J. Tapp, silk ware-
housemen, Manchester—H. D. and G. Brooke, poultry sales-
men, Leadenhall-market—J. Flight, T. Flight, J. Haydon,
and R. Turner, flax spinners, Creukerne, Somersetshire (so far
as regards J. Haydon and R. Turner. )

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The important changes in the French law of recruit-
ment, proposed in the Chamber of Deputies by Mar-
shal Soult, and already approved of unanimously by the
commission, called from us last week some sharp com-
ments on the policy of straining to the utmost the mili-
tary development of France at this particular period.
We were far from saying then, nor do we now think,
that M. Guizot or Louis Philippe meditated actual
war. What we deprecated was, to see, in the unset-
tled and uncertain state of France, the most pacific of its
monarchs applying himself to laying up such :ormidable
stores and means and materials of war, so gigantic in
their nature that the mere consciousness of possessing
them would be calculated to inspire a nation, with
some new and improvised leader at its head, to rush
to war and rapine as an obvious and advantageous
policy. 'We admit the great temptation offered to the
French Government at present to take advantage of
the warlike rein, which, in and out of the Chamber,
controls all ideas of economy, and places the purse-
strings of the nation in the hands of the Minister of
War. Two years back the French War-Minister en-
treated the Chamber to grant him a few extra thousand
pounds for the purchase of horses to remount the
cavalry, to re-supply the worn out materiel of the ar-
tillery, as well as saddlery, and a host of minor, but
expensive wants. The Chamber, in mistaken economy,
refused to vote a single sou. This niggardliness in
peaceful times en the part of the Legislature renders it
imperative on the part of the Government to seize
whatever opportunity offers for getting money, and re-
fitting the materiel of war. This was the secret of the
approbation which Louis Philippe gave to M. Thiers's
first warlike expenses and preparations. Marshal
Soult may be actuated by similar motives in his project
of levying, and drilling, and making more soldiers. /But
as we said before, this scheme is menacing for the In •
tore, more than for the present.
(From the Times.)
The division upon the question of the Poor-laws, on
Tuesday night, however far from satisfactory, proves at
any rate, that the cause of the poor has gained consi-
derably in strength since last Session. The debate is
one which we trust will obtain a careful perusal through-
out the country. Among the many points challenging
observation which it presents, we shall confine ourselves
for the present to one alone. Nothing could more
strongly mark the consciousness of those who advo-
cate the existing system that upon its own merits
it cannot be defended ; then the pertinacity with
which they think proper to misrepresent the question
at issue between themselves and their opponents.
The single argument echoed from mouth to mouth
was this :—" Under the previous law in 1854, the
country, and the poor especially, were labouring
under a mass of accumulated evils, and if we are
not to go back to all those evils, the present system
must be supported." Thus, Lord Howick confessed
that he had heard the debate of the night with great.
satisfaction ; because it must have struck every Member
of the• House, after hearing for so many months, nay,
years, denunciations of the cruelty and atrocity of the
New Poor-law, repeated by the Press, 4.c., that when
the measure came to be discussed by the House of Com-
mons, before those who were ready to defend it, it was
singular that not a single individual could be found on
either side of the House who ventured to recommend a re-
turn to that system of Poor-law relief which existed previ-
ous to 1834." Why singular, my Lord Howick? What is
there so striking in this, that no one should have recom-
mended in the House what no one ever thought of re-
commending out of it ? It is pretty well acknowledged
on all hands, and has been asserted by none more stre-
nuously than by ourselves, that the state of Poor-law
administration in 1833 was in the south of England suf-
ficiently unsatisfactory ; and, though we are free to
confess that we think the evils of the new law are
greater than those of the former administration, we
have never entertained the .idea that our alternative lay
between continuing as we are or replacing things in the
exact position which they occupied in 1833. Yet this,
as we have already said, was more or less assumed by
every Member who spoke in favour of the existing sys-
tem on Tuesday night.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
As every individual in society is one way or other
afccted by the mode in which provision is made for the
poor, it is incumbent on all parties to consider the question
of the New Poor-law on its intrinsic merits and demerits,
entirely aloof from the temporary advantages or disad-
vantages which may arise from the adoption of particu-
lar or partial views. On this, however, as on all other
questions, appear certain political mongers in popu-
larity, ready to array themselves at either side to the oc-
casion that may best befit the hour. For our own part,
having no interests to serve but national interests—no
party but the people—we shall, as we have hitherto
done, give free expression to our convictions, no matter
bow unpalatable they may prore to those in power, on
one side, or how they may expose us to the unreflecting
imputations of those believing themselves oppressed,'
on the other. From the first, we pronounced the New
Poor-law Act to be a measure fraught with the ele-
ments of the country's salvation ; and from the first,
also, we pronounced an unqualified condemnation on
several of its clauses as operating with undue severity
on the unfortunate pauper, as severing the tics of na-
tural effection, and vesting in a central commission a
despotic power over local administration, of the cir-
cumstances of which they could possibly have no cer-
tain or pcsitive information. These latter are the evils
to which we were desirous of seeing the attention of
the Legislature addresseed, in the motion made on
Monday night in the House of Commons by Lord
John Russell ; and though no provisions against these
evils were made in the Bill then introduced, we look
with corfident expectation to see the omissions in route
instances, at least, supplied in its further progress.
(From the Morning Post.)
The O'Connell Government party maintain that
the government of Ireland must be conducted upon
extreme principles. They say you must adopt either
the extreme of military despotism, and hold Ireland by
means of a dragooning system of absolute tyranny,
or you must adopt the system which is in the opposite
extreme, and allow the Government of Ireland to be
managed in conformity with the sentiments of the mil-
lions. This we regard as merely wild and whirling as-
sertion, very meet, perhaps, for those who think in ex-
tremes, but utterly absurd in the contemplation of all
persons of sound judgment. The better plan, we sub-
mit, is to take the principles of the British Constitution,
to which the rule of absolute force, and the rule of the
will of the populace, are equally abhorrent. The sober
middle way, with which the practice of our Consti-
tution makes all patriotic statesmen familiar, will un-
doubtedly be much better than either of those extremes,
one of which, the O'Connelites assure us, must pre-
vail. The gross injustice of that party which is con-
tinually making a noise about " justice for Ireland,"
lies in this, that they want to establish Me despotism of
their party. There has been an Orange ascendancy,
which became drunk with too much power, and aban-
doned itself to coarse and violent habits of exasperation.
The Popish party is not content with having got rid of
this ascendancy. It wants to have a Popish ascendancy
instead, and to establish a truculent and brutal tyranny
over the Protestantism and British sentiment in Ire-
land, just as the Orange ascendancy overpowered and
bore down the superstitious fidelity and national emo-
tion of the Romanists in bygone days. The O'Connell
government, to which the present British Minister: suc-
cumb, is that of the Popish ascendancy.
(From the Morning Herald.)
We do not and cannot understand that sort of " Con-
servatism" which is not as careful of the rights and
comforts of the poor as of the property of the rich.
The moral law and revealed religion recognise the right
of the poor to real and substantial relief and support
from the affluence of the rich ; and from the reign of
Elizabeth until the passing of the Whig-concocted statute
called " the Poor-law Amendment Act," that right was
acknowledged by the municipal law of England, and con-
secrated, as it were, in the temple of the Constitution.
Of that right the poor have been deprived by that arbi-
trary and tyrannical statute,which treats poverty as crime,
and installs " public charity" in a union-prison, not in-
appropriately called " a bastile," to administer to the
unfortunate the semi-starvation relief of the " dietary
tables," and the torture and degradation of the " penal
test of destitution." By the arbitrary and most uncon-
stitutional powers which that iniquitous statute con-
fers on the " board of central Commissioners," they are
enabled to make laws for all the parishes or unions in
England, with only this restriction—that if any parti-
cular regulation or order of theirs is a general one, or re-
lates to all the unions, it requires to be submitted to a
Secretary of State (not to the Queen in Council), when,
unless he places his veto upon it, the order, however
tyrannical, becomes as valid and effectual a law as if it
had been made by the power and authority of the three
estates of the realm. It is under this monstrous power,
given by a gcnorsl provision of the statute to the Cen-
tral Commissioners, that those odious and unchristian
regulations have been made, which tear from the poor
man (good 'leaven ! as a condition of charitable relief)
the wile of his bosom, and the child of his affections.
As if poverty—the most deserving (not deserved) po-
verty—was too criminal to entitle it to a subsistence
from the public funds of society, without being made to
feel the privation and torture of bereaved affections—
the agony of separation from themost loved ebeects—
the bitterness of that suffering and solitude which no
touch of kindred cheers or lightens.