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LONDON, TUESDAY, J UNE t', 1841

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIR C. NAPIER

AND MR. YOUNG.

Stu,—You are.
reported,Upper r tloa nt dh -opol aleoe,:ni
2Juneg c
r,
of
to-day, to have stated, at a meeting' of erectors held last
night, that " if you believed Mr. Young had the slightest
chance of success, you would at once retire." lam also
informed by two electors, who now Wait upon yon, that
you also asserted your willingness to submit our respec-
tive claims upon the borough to the test of a public
meeting.

I now, therefore, in all courtesy, challenge, you to
meet me at a public meeting of the Reform Electors on
next 1llon(1::// The Theatre at the Colesseunt in the
Regent's Park, and Hub's Riding School, are both in the
centre of the borough, and will each hold between 3,000
and 4,000 persons. That it will be impossible to ex-
clude non-electors entirely, I admit ; bat every practi-
cable means may be adopted to confine the meeting to
Reform electors, and I have no doubt that, in the actual
state of the public mind, four-fifths of the individuals
present will be of that character. Such a meeting will
also afford no unfair test of the real state of public feel-
ing. I would suggest that the Chairman be agreed upon
by both parties ; that two scrutineers be appointed, one
on each side, and if they differ as to the majority, or if
they be requested to do so by four ekctors, that the
numbers be counted. The candidate in the minority to
retire immediately,
After your declarations of last night, I confidently
hope that you will accede to this proposal, and concur
with me in the propriety of placing the decision of this
matter in the hands of the Reformersthemselves.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
G. A. YOUNG.
To Ccmmodore Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B.
&c. &c. &c.

67, Baker-street, June 5, 1841.
Sra,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 4th of June, challenging me to meet you at a
public meeting, either at the Colosseuin, or at Hall's
Riding School.

You admit that it would be impossible to exclude non-
electors. What, then, would be the use of a public
meeting ? I presume it would also be impossible to ex-
clude Tory electors. If they were the weaker, they
would naturally hold up their hands for you ; and if I
was the weaker, they would hold up their hands for me.
Under these circumstances, I have judged it proper to
submit your letter to my Committee, who, I have no
doubt, will propose some fair and honourable manner of
ascertaining the opinion of the Reform electors. I can
assure you, that if I saw the smallest prospect of your suc-
cess, I should not hesitate one moment in retiring; andl give
you credit for the same feeling, for I cannot suppose, if you
are a real Reformer, that you would run the risk of al-
lowing Marylebone to be represented by two Tories.
I have the honour to remain,
Your obedient servant,

CHARLES NAPIER.
To G. A. Young, Esq., &c. &c. &c.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—It is very idly argued that Ministers
ought to resign on the vote of Saturday moraing, and not
advise her Majesty to dissolve Parliament. What justifica-
tion could there be for such a course? Three hundred and
twelve Members have voted their want of confidence in the
present Administration ; but, by the very same process,
three hundred and eleven have voted their want of confidence
in the candidate administration ; and to these must be added
all the voluntary absentees, without pairs, for the Tory party
avowedly voted to its last man. Now, if the voluntary ab-
sence of eight Members indicated a want of confidence in the
present Ministry, yet more strongly did the fact indicate
their want of confidence in those aspiring to be their suc-
cessors. So that if 312 Members lack confidence in the
Whig leaders, 320 (including the Speaker), lack confidence in
the Tory leaders. Adding pairs and tellers, makes the num-
bers 333 ; and is it fitting that the reins of Government should
be assumed by a party from whom 333 Members of the House
of Commons withhold their confidence? Would it have been
right, just, or honourable, for Ministers, by resigning, to hand
over the powers of office to a party in this predicament?
Would it have been fair towards the majority of the House ?
Weald it have been honourable towards a Sovereign who has
already, single-handed, resisted the fraudulent influence of
which that party would have made her the unwilling agent?
Would it have been honest towards the nation, which would
thus have been delivered over, bound hand and foot, into the
power of those whom it so long struggled to dispossess ?
Would it have been true to the principles of that wise
and beneficent policy for which the Government has en-
countered this infuriate hostility, and by which alone
the prosperity of the country can be secured ? A
plainer obligation cannot be conceived than that by which
Ministers are bound to give the people an opportunity of speak-
ing for themselves, and practically making their option between
the opposing systems of monopoly and anti-monopoly. It
could not have been avoisled but bZ a gross dereliction of duty..
They owe it to themselves, to the Sovereign, and to the nation.
Nor will the cause of the Queen, the country, and no mono-
poly, be relinquished as hopeless by any honest man while
there is yet a battle to be fought for them at the hustings.
The ensuing polls will be taken on the largest and most inter-
esting set of practical questions that ever came before a com-
munity. Every vote will tell, ay or no, upon some great
public interest, now sacrificed to class cupidity and power. To
blink this fact, recourse will be had by the Tories to all sorts of
mystifications and falsehoods ; but still the truth must come
out, that the constituencies are deciding, rot merely on men
but on measures, not upon a party but a policy, anti on a policy
which involves consequences of daily and hourly importance.
TIMES.—The vote of Saturday morning has produced its
effect. Every one knew that Ministers were too far committed
with their supporters to resign without dissolving, and there-
fore no one can be surprised that they do not now adopt that
course. The result which we expected from the success of
Sir R. Peel's motion was that which has followed—an aban-
donment of the threatened conversion of the House of Com-
mons into an arena for electioneering agitation about the Corn-
laws, and a resolution en the part of Ministers to appeal
immediately to the country. We were fully persuaded that
they would not insult Parliament by bringing forward any
public business of importance after the House had empha-
tically declared them to be retaining office in violation of
the sprit of the Constitution not because we gave
them credit for any sincere respect for Parliament,
or aany reluctance whatever to govern by coups d'etat,
but simply because we knew that in their case the attempt, if
made, would be certain to fail, and the personal consequences
of failure !night be serious. No men were ever more entirely
of Colonel Butler's opinion in the play, that " after all, the
dearest thing that a man has is himself," thin her Majesty's
present advisers. They have given way, therefore : the Con-
stitution has been saved the blow, Parliament
.the humilia-
tion, and the country the unseemly exhibition of a " discus-
sion without any final result," and " speeches intended for the
hustings rather than for any useful purpose of legislation."
The squibs and crackers of the Government Press will receive
no echo within the walls of St. Stephen's ; the Anti-Corn-law
League must reserve the miserable garniture of its shrunken
coffersfor some better purpose than that of publishing and distri-
buting inflammatory pamphlets, purporting to be speeches deli-
vered by Cabinet i%linisters from their places in Parliament.
Lord John Russell's Anti- Corn-law oration, which was to have
produced such wonderful effects, has seen the light still-born, a
dead unshapely thing, with the dimly-described lineaments of
arguments that were to have been, much like that disagreeable
phenomenon which offends the eye and turns the stomach,
when we break open an egg in which the process of incuba-
tion has been prematurely interrupted. Anything more com-
pletely chapfallen than the Noble Lord's speeches of last night,
in one of which he admitted that " he felt deeply the diffi-
culty of remaining in office after the vote of the ether even-
ing,' it would be impossible to conceive. Almost inaudible in
tone, confused in manner, and prevaricating in substance, he
gave evident proofs of a mind ill at ease, discontented with
itself on account of the past, and despairing of the future.
It was the gamester who had staked everything, and was just
beginning to realize the knowledge that everything was lost.
HERALD.—Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and
Lord .Morpeth ; Mr. Macaulay and the Marquis of Normanby ;
Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. Sheil have steeped themselves
over and over again to the very ears, in the most troubled
waters of party, in their pursuit of popularity ; and those
waters in which they have so much delifhted are now rising
upon and threaten to annihilate them. Ile Liberal Premier
who coquetted,—as Earl Grey (to be sure) had done before
him—with the democratic associations of Birmingham, and
Westminster, and even with the high priest of Socialism it-
self,—the Noble Secretary for the Colonies who made
the unforgotten and unforgiveable speech at Liver-
pool,—and all their colleagues have by turns courted
and been courted by,—invoked and received the instant
assistance and comfortings of Ultra-Radical, Republican, Socialist
demagogues,—anybody, in short, provided only that he would
be their liege man, their active and uncompromising partisan.
What happens ? That these bad instruments of their own
" bad eminence," a.• e those who first paved the way, by reci-
procal dissensions, by their unreasonable demands, and by their
uncompromising pertinacity in enforcing them,—for the down-
fal of their former patrons; and who now turn round,—if not
to exult over, v^r -'t least to taunt and rebuke them for their
overthrow ! A rigiaceus catastrophe for those, who, called on
by their own private station and character, but still more
loudly called on by the responsibilities, the claims, and
the dignity of their offices, to keep the strict and
even line of constitutional duty, have deviated into
crooked and dark and slippery paths, in order to unite secretly
in inauspicious " compacts" with men who, having the "cause
of freedom" inscribed on their flags—and with the name of
" liberty" breathing from their lips, have ever proposed to
themselves only the accomplishment of the ends contemplated by
which
their own reckless selfishness, or their sordid ambition! Let
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THE TRUSTEE, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE
TRAGEDY OF " THE PROVOST OF BRUGES."—The Lite-
rary Gazette observes of this clever novel--,, We have
experienced much pleasure in the perusal of these pages.
The tale is of high interest, and the characters pc'mr-
trayed with a master's hand, more especially the females,
who, although various, are eminently. feminine. The
loving innocent heroines, Katherine and Rose Waring,
the bereaved and half insane Rdith, the humble Chris
tian, Widow Armistead—all partake of this charm, and
consequently excite and carry with them the sympathy
of the reader. Nor is the author wanting in force in the
delineation of his males. This he has accomplished, as
well as the rest of his task, so as to. insure him many
readers. Finely drawn throughout is the character of
Hiehard Waring ; and AK) less so,
of
eittiii,l)- rm.
posed to it, is the original one 'Scampering ,lack.'
' The Trustee' is a very-cleverly imagined and vigorously
written work ; the first two volumes are particularly
powerful and affecting."

PRICE 5d

BATH ELECTION.
MR. ROEBUCK AND LORD DUNCAN.
A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the most in-
fluential and Liberal electors of Bath took place yesterday in
the Guildhall of that city, for the purpose of selecting two
Liberal candidates to represent the city in Parliament. At
one o'clock, SIMON BARROW, Esq., took the Chair; but long
hpfere the hour appointed for the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, the Hall was filed almost to suffocation, the meeting
having been looked to by the Liberal party in Bash with the
greatest anxiety and impatience, because they felt convinced
that its proceedings would show to the country that though
Bath had been for a time under Tory domination, it was deter-
mined to remain so no longer, but to exert itself to the utmost
to cast off the shackles by which it hail latterly been le und,
and redeem its character as a Liberal constituency. Such
were the desperate shifts to which the Tory party were re-
duced, that, fearing no other means were likely to give them
the least chance of returning men to Parliament of their own
political principles, they have been obliged to resort to their
usual expedient of loosening their purse-strings, and to pro-
claim aloud, from one end of Bath to the other, that they were
determined to expend 20,000 e sooner than allow that city to
be represented by those men who were the real friends of the
people. Judging, however, from the feeling that seems to per-
vade all classes in this city, we should say that this bait is not
likely to secure many fish. The Liberal principle seems once again
to be in the ascendant at Bath, and everything is to be hoped fir
from the exertions of its electors in the cause of freedom.
Unity seems to be the order of the day here, and never, per-
haps, was there a meeting in this city in which so much
harmony prevailed as in that of this day. The Tories, know-
ing the fearful odds which they have to contend with have
not been idle; almost every inn in the city which they could
they have secured for the meetings of their committees, and
handbills have been most plentifully distributed, stating that it
was the positive intention of Lord Powerseourt and Mr.
Bruges to solicit again the suffrages of the electors at the next
election.
Lord Duncan, in answer to the requisition expressing a hope
that he wolld allow the Liberal electors of Bath to put him in
nomination at the next election, has issued the following spi-
rited and manly address
GENTLEMEN,—Connected as I am with one of the oldest
residents in your city, I should deem it a dereliction of duty at
this momentous ails, if I did not at once accept the very flat-
tering requisition you have done me the honour to send me.
" My political principles are in favour especially of a re-
vision of the Corn-laws, and generally in favour of a Govern-
ment which has had the boldness to pledge itself to inquire
into, and do its utmost to ameliorate the at
.present depressed
condition of the commercial, manufacturing, and working
classes of this great empire.
" Gentlemen, I beg leave, for your satisfaction, to refer to
the votes I have given since 1 have had the honour of a seat in
Parliament; you will find that, as the friend of the Established
Church, I have invariably supported such measures as I be-
lieved calculated to endear it to the community, by extending
the benefits of civil and religious liberty to all classes of my
fellow subjects; lam a determined enemy to pluralities; lam
the advocate of education in its widest sense ; I have voted for
the Ballot; I have voted for cheap sugar; I have voted for the
revision of the Corn.laws, both before and since it became a
Government measure.
" If further explanition is needed, I trust it will soon he in
my power to give it in a personal canvass; I shall take the
earliest opportunity of waiting upon each elector ; in the mean-
time I hope, while I am detained in London, endeavouring to
support the Government against the banded monopolists of the
kingdom, the Liberals at Bath will not be wanting to them-
selves and to the cause for which they have fought so conspi-
cuously on more than one trying occasion.
" Gentlemen, relying for success, more on your activity,
zeal, and wonted energy, than on any merits of my own, I
remain, your faithful servant, " DUNCAN." Among those present on the platform we noticed, Simon
Barrow, Esq., Chairman ; Colonel Napier, Colonel Bailey,
Admiral Gordon, W. T. Blair, Esq., W. H. Bruen, Esq.,
Hon. H. Duncan, T. Hough, Esq., T. Gill, Esq., Dr. Barlow,
F. Ellis, Esq., Robert Ellis, Esq., H. A. Barry, Esq., John
Allents,t J. Barrow, Esq., S. Barrow, Esq., Honorary Secre-
tary ; D. Harvey, J. C. Spender, Esq , Edward Jay, Esq.,
J. Edridge, Esq., Vice-Chairman; H. E. Goodridge, Esq.,
S. Batchelor, Esq., R. W. Brown, Esq., Dr. Sandon Watson,
Richard Eckley, Esq., T. Evered, Esq.
Mr. Roebuck and Lord Duncan, on presenting themselves
to the meeting, were most enthusiastically cheered.
StmoN BARROW', Esq., upon taking the Chair, stated that
he should have been much more gratified if some gentleman
far more competent than himself had been called upon to fulfil
the duties of Chairman. He felt that the time had now arrived
when it had become imperative upon every Liberal in Bath
not only to do his duty to that city, but to the country at large,
by supporting her Majesty's present Ministers, and enabling
them to carry into full effect those patriotic measures which
were so eminently calculated to benefit the country, and to se-
cure the high position which it held among the rations
of Europe.--( Cheers. ) He felt convinced that the two gen.
tlemen who were to be proposed to the Electors of Bath that
day would meet with the hearty and cordial support of every
right minded man in Bath—(Cheering)—inasmuch as
they were tried men, whose principles were known,
and who had ever been found to be the true supporters
of Liberal measures and the real friends of the people. For
his own part he would venture to say that whenever any Liberal
measures were brought fore and in Parliament—measures that
were calculated to increase the happiness of the people, and to
raise this country in the scale of nations, they would never be
found skulking or wanting in giving their support to the cause
of the people.—( Cheers. ) Nothing could be done without
union, and he called therefore upon the Whigs, the Radicals,
and the Chartists to unite together as one man, in the great
' cause of liberty arid good government iu which they were en-
gaged.—( Cheers.) If union was only preserved, he would
venture to predict that their two Conservative Members would
feel that their day had gone by, and that the only course
they had left was to give up the contest.—(Cheers.) The
whole country was looking with great interest to the proceed-
ing of the Electors of Bath that day, and he felt convinced that
ehatever might be the result the termination of the election
at Bath would have the greatest influence on the other con-
stituencies of the country. He was much mistaken, indeed,
if Bath did not set before those constituencies the most noble
and glorious example.—(Cheers.) He was sure, if the elec-
tors of Rath did their duty to those gentlemen who were to be
proposed to them that day, that they would do theirs, and that
the electors would never have cause to repent of returning
such men as Roebuck and Lord Duncan as their representa-
tives in the British House of Commons. He was happy to see
that ad differences among the Liberal electors were settled,
and he trusted that in the present contest their watchword
would be—Union, union, union.—( Great cheering. )
Mr. Beans then came forward to propose Lord Duncan as
a fit and proper candidate to represent the City of Bath in
the House of Commons. Haring been requested to propose
Lord Duncan to the Electors as one of the Candidates for the
representation of the City of Bath in Parliament at the next
election, he did so with the greatest pleasure, though with
more brevity than he could wish, on account of the state of his
voice. He had consented to do this in the first place as the
best proof and pledge he could give that that Noble Lord
should have his support and interest—(Cheers)—and in the
next place, because he believed he was warmly attached to those
great principles of civil and religious liberty which were
dearer to him than his life.—( Hear, and cheers.) And,
lastly, because he had declared himself friendly to
those measures of sound policy and real humanity, had been
lately proposed by her Majesty's Ministers, and upon the pass-
ing of which he considered that the prosperity and even the
safety of the country depended.—(Great cheering.) But
there was a charm its the very name of Duncan that must
prove a passport to the heart of any Englishman.—( Cheers. )
No doubt all present had heard of the great victory of Camper..
down—a victory, he would unhesitatingly say, that was one of
the most glorious that was ever recorded in the annals of the
British navy.---( Great cheering.) That victory was achieved
by the grandfather of the Noble Lord who now tendered his
services to the Electors of Bath—( Continued cheering)—and
that circumstance, in his mind, ought alone to secure him a
warm and grateful reception by any British audience.
—( Loud cheers.) But beyond the honour of a name
they had the hope that the mantle of his noble relative would
descend upon the Noble Lord, and that he would always dis-
play the same talent and patriotism in the Senate that his great
and glorious ancestor did in the field.—( Cheers. )The'state of his
(Mr. Blair's) voice warned him to hasten to express the few
words that he more particularly wished to address to the
meeting. He would say, then, if there were any electors in
Bath with whom he had the slightest interest, whether they
were his personal or political fries, whether they were
Churchmen or Dissenters—if there Were any who would have
given him a vote had he been able to present himself to their
notice, he would entreat of them to do the same for Lord
Duncan, and to put him in the very same position in which
their kindness might have placed himself.—(Much cheer-
ing.) He would. go further and say—and when he
did so he did it with perfect consistency with his own
course of action—that he hoped his friends, in the present
important crisis of the country would waive all differences,
prejudices, and personal antipathies—that they would bury the
hatchet, and for the purpose of breaking a strong Conservative
confederacy on the other side—that they would give their
second vote to Lord Duncan's highly gifted colleague.—( Great
cheering.) Divided, they were powerless—( Cheers) but
united, by God's blessing, they might do everything—( Great
cheering)—but they might depend upon it that success was
only to be obtained by a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull
altogether.—( Great cheering. ) If the meeting would permit
him, before he retired, he would say one word to them in rela-
tion to himself; he would not have done so on such occasion
but for the peculiar, nay, embarrassing circumstances in
which he had been planed. _-(Great cheering.) If any
of his friends thought that he had lately made
a political blunder, it would become him to bow to
their judgments, but others who had since changed their
opinions (and for which he did not blame them), should
remember in justice to him, that it was very much under the
influence of the sentiments they expressed that he had acted.
(Cheers. ) Ile would therefore entreat his friends who might
have been forward to blame him, to consider that the blun-
der, if it was one, was attributable to the circumstances in
which he was placed, and, if they pleased, to one of those
errors in judgment to which the most wakeful intellect was
liable, and not to any defection or vacillation of principle ;
he would only say now that but for obstacles which he found
it impossible to surmount in the few hours allotted to him (but
which he was happy, truly happy to find, were fast giving way
under the genial influence of the Noble Lord), he should
have been proud and happy to have obeyed the call with
which his fellow-citizens had honoured him.—(Hear, and
Cheers.) If in retiring as he had done he had given
unintentional offence to any one he would take that public
opportunity of expressing his unfeigned regret that he should
have done so, and particularly to the Hon. Gentleman who
might have been his colleague.—(Cheers.) Those who knew
him best would acquit him of deliberately doing anythingo that.—
would give umbrage to a single human being, highor low.—
(Great cheering.) In conclusion he had only to say,
Duncan that it
afforded him the highest gratification t* propose Lord
as a candidate to represent the City of Bath in the ensuing
Parliarnent.—(Cheers. )
Mr. JOLLY felt great pleasure
in seconding
the proposition
of the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. lie felt that
on an occasion like the present it was
that the trading classes should show to desirable
uphold t most
thee worldseise
that they were determined to
with which their best interests were identified—(
h
ed—(Cheers)—and
that they would do all in their power i
to forward the great
cause of which the Noble Lord had shown himself to be the
strenuous advocate.—(Cheers.) When a member of the aris-
tocracy, when one holding a high stationin life identified him-
self with the trading and industrious classes, what was the
course that those classes ought to pursue ? Why to hold out,
with the greatest warmth and cordiality,
.
triendsliiie and to join heart and hand with the right ham! of
is h him in the great
-
cause which had for its object the liberties of the people.
(Cheers.) The Nobleman whose nomination he had the
honour that day to second was like their late worthy Repre-
sentative, not an untried man—(Cheers)—he had ever been