The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

TAMWORTH ELECTION.

Sir Robert Peel having issued an address to the elec-
tors of this borough, a meeting of his friends and sup-
porters, which was most numerously attended, took place
at the Town-hall, on Monday last, Thomas Bramall,
Esq., being unanimously called to the Chair, ,the follow-
ing address was read and submitted to the consideration
of the meeting.
" TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART.

" Sir—We, the undersigned electors of the borough
of TamAorth, beg to offer our warmest congratulations
upon the auspicious event of your having been selected
by her Majesty to fulfil the important duties of Prime
Minister of England.
" As your acceptance Of this distinguished office ter-
minates your Parliamentary connexion with this borough
for the present, we beg to assure you of the gratification
we shall derive in -again having the honour of rdurning
you as our representative to Parliament, without subject-
ing you to the inconvenience of a personal canvass or
attendance at the hustings, feeling convinced that your
time is fall), occupied at
,this eventful crisis.
" We also take this opportunity of conveying to you
a renewal of our unbounded confidence, and to assure
you of the profound respect and esteem we entertain for
your public and private character."
It was moved by Lieutenant-Colonel Dickenson, of
Dosthill House, and seconded by Henry Stokes, Esq., of
Bole Hall, and carried nein. con., that the above address
be adopted. The signatures of all present were im-
mediately attached to it, and in the space of a very few
hours many others were added, amounting Altogether
to nearly four hundred. We understand the address
was forwarded to -Whitehall on the following morning.
Stafford Gazette.

The following address to the electors has been issued I—
" Castle, Tamworth, 7.,. 3g
it is my intention to oiler myself as a candidate for
your suffrages at the ens..,.'ng election.
" It is highly desirable that at such a crisis as the
present, you should each of you be afforded an oppor •
,'unity of recording your vote for or against that atro-
cious monopoly in the food of the people which is fast
destroying' our trade, killing off our industrious poor,
and unchristia:.‘ising our country.
" There are at t'l:s moment, notwithstanding the ig-
norant and cruel assertion of the Duke of Wellington
to the contrary, very many thousands of honest, indus-
trious, and sober men, unable to provide even a moderate
supply of the bare necessities of life for themselves and
families; and this appalling amount of wretchedness is
the necessary consequence of a system .of legislation
which, whilst it violates the first law of nature, sets at
nought the declared will of the Almighty.
" It is in support of this system that Sir Robert Peel,
as chief of the Monopolist Ministry, now claims your
electoral approval. He requires you to give your sanc-
tion to the legislative counteraction of God's goodness—.
to the withholding of needful food from millions of your
fellow-countrymen, that some few thousands of pauper
aristocrats may be clothed in purple and fine linen, and
fare sumptuously on the hard earnings of the persecuted
children of industry.
" As a community of professing Christians, it is our
bounden duty to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
And, as we pray the Divine Author of all good that he
will supply to his creatures a daily sufficiency of food, it
is incumbent upon us to oppose and thwart every at-
tempt, open or covert, by selfish or designing men, to
intercept the bounties of our Creator, or otherwise to in-
flict upon the people a needless, because not unavoidable
famine.

" The law which taxes the first necessaries of life
sentences the poor to all the horrors of gradual starva-
tion. Yet this unchristian law is supported by Sir Ro-
bert Peel, who is supposed to have represented your
wishes in the Legislature, and who now desires your
sanction of his unnatural and anti-national advocacy of
monopoly in the Councils of our Queen.
Electors of Tamworth!—Before your country—con-
fronted with hungry honesty, paralysed industry, and
perishing masses of mortal beings—and, far beyond
every other consideration, in the presence of the Eter-
nal, how will you answer this claim upon your electoral
allegiance? You can owe no allegiance to inhumanity—
you are at least free to be Christians—you cannot be
compelled to battle against • God ; nor can even a First
Lord of the Treasury absolve you from the consequences
of such folly. Will you abet the iniquity—are you pre-
pared to participate in the infamy of inflicting an ever-
recurring famine (a life of want and woe, and an un-
timely death) on your fellow-creatures? Or will you
not rather redeem the land of your birth and your suf-
fering brethren from the unholy grasp of the oppressor?
" Should you re-elect Sir Robert Peel, you will dis-
play no independence in yourselves, nor reflect any
honour upon him. The Duke of Richmond has declared
that Sir Robert holds office bet upon his approval and
on his sufferance ; if, therefore, you choose as your re-
presentative a man whose course of actions is thus dic-
tated by others, you do but make yourselves the deputy-
registrars of the will of others, Although you return
the Member, he is but the representative of the landed
aristocracy. I ask you, then, by asserting your own in-
dependence, to protest against this dictation of the legis-
lative landowners, who, denying your representative an
opinion of his own, would but use you in the evil work
of furthering their heartless purposes against the inte-
rests and in defiance of the rights of every other portion
of this vast community.
" You are not, upon this occasion, required to decide
between factions. It is no longer a question whether
Whigs or Tories shall enjoy the emolument of office.
Whether there shall be more food for those who are
pining from want, or whether that starvation which is
already a legal infliction shall become a perpetual one.
This is the question. Sir Robert and myself may be
looked upon as the incarnation of opposite systems—he of
artificial scarcity and of sliding-scale demand for labour
—I of a perfectly free interchange of the products of
industry for food. You, electors, have to choose between
us, or rather between the systems which we respectively
embody; and it is to afford you such opportunity that I
offer' myself to your notice
,as a candidate for your
suffrages. I have the -honour to be gentleinen, your
obedient servant, ,6 JAMES ACKLAND."

CORN-LAWs.—On Monday, August 29, the
Rev. William Marshall, assisted by the Rev. Francis
Muir, of Leith, gave a most interesting account to his
congregation, of the meeting of ministers lately held at
Manchester, in reference to the Corn-laws. The cons
gregation again met on Monday last, when petition-
were adopted to be forwarded to both Rouses of Parlin-
ment, praying for " a speedy and entire abolition of the
Corn and Provision-laws." It was also agreed to me-
morialise her Majesty on the same subject, to be signed
by females only.—Scotsman. .
voice,
the inspira-
tion that THE HUMAN VOICE--God has made the
'whole earth vocal with sweet sounds. The untravelled
forest echoes the notes of the wild bird, and the habita-
tions of men are made glad by the song of the feathered
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beohvaerm-alol,f the human
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of thought, is given for no ordinary purpose of
earthly pleasure. In its whisper of affection how grate-
ful ! In its expression of religious devotion how ex-
alted ! For its solace in trouble how dear ! For its
participation in joy how unspeakable !
The General Steam Navigation comp,,,y,,
packet, Columbia, arrived off the Custom-house yester-
day with the Dutch mail.