The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-14 00:00:00

WARWICKSHIRE, JAN. 13.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The nomination for the Northern Division of this county
took place to-day at Coleshill. The friends of the candidates
mustered strongly, the Tories, however, making the strongest
show, 'owing, perhaps, to Coleshill being in the immediate
vicinity of 31r. Dugdale's residence. There were three can-
clidates,—Sir Eardley Wilmot, a Reformer; William Strafford
Dugdale, Esq., a Tory, both the old Members ; and Arthur
Francis Gregory, Esq., who has started on the Reform iute-
rest. Sir E. Wilmot was proposed by C. H. Bracebridge,
Esq., and seconded by Captain Luke, and Mr. Dugdale was
put in nomination by Sir Edmund Hartopp, in a speech of the
Toriest cast, in which he stated that he thought Reform had
gone far enough—he wished to see it limited ; and that it was
necessary such men as Mr. Dugdale should be returned, in
order to stop its destructive progress. The old topic of agri-
cultural distress was of course rung into the ears of the
farmers, who were told that they might expect permanent re-
lief only from such men as Mr. D. Mr. Dugdale was seconded
by Abraham Grimes, Esq., of Colton, who dished up a tirade
against the vote by ballot, with all the old arguments that
have been served up by the Tories a thousand times before.
Bolton King, Esq., M. P. for the borough of Warwiek, after-
wards came forward to propose A. F. Gregory, Esq., as a
"it and proper person," &c. He said that Mr. Gregory was
not a Reformer for temporary purposes—he had been one
when Reformers were not so numerous as they were now. As
a firm friend to the Constitution, Mr. Gregory would strengthen
it by removing its defects, and that would not be by cherishing
its abuses, but by reforming them. He was an enemy to those
civil disabilities which pressed' upon Dissenters, and would
support every measure that would tend to their removal. He
had a deep interest in the success of the landlord and the
farmer, and would support a repeal of the malt tax. The in-
terests of both were closely connected—one could not go on
prosperously without the other. He was an opponent to lavish
expenditure in Governments, and would seek an abolition of
all unmerited pensions. He (Mr. King) would not place con-
fidence in Sir Robert Peel's Manifesto, nor in the Ministry,
which was made up of men who had opposed every liberal
measure. There was one test by which to judge of their can-
didates. What would they do in the case of the Irish Church?
Could they believe that a Ministry in which there was a Goul-
bourn, a Loid Roden, and others of that class, would consent
to reform the abuses which existed in the Irish Church ? If
they wculd d I that, then would he call them Reformers. Their's
was not a party contest—they stood on public grounds, for no one
had a greater respect for Mr. Dugdale than he ( Mr. K.) had,
but having come to the opinion that his principles were not
for the good of the country, he was compelled to oppose him.
Let every voter of Warwickshire give his vote conscientiously
and honestly, and there could be no doubt of the result.
There could not be the slightest doubt but that the cause in
which they (the Reformers) were engaged would be success-
ful. Mr. King concluded an able speech, of which we have
given only a skleton, by proposing Mr. Gregory as their re-
presentative.
Sir George Chetwynd, in seconding the nomination, said,
that the very first set of the Tory Ministers was to dissolve
the Parliament. In that he thought his Majesty had been
very ill. advised. He had exercised his prerogative, and now
they were called upon to exercise their's. He did not regret
the event, because it gave him an opportunity to address his
brother electors, and to advocate the cause of a Reformer.
The individual to whom he alluded was by birth and educa-
tion a gentleman—of ancient family and of independent for-
tune—and last, though not least in his estimation, he was a
staunch Reformer. That was a period when they were called
upon to act decidedly. Sir G. C. then referred to the state
of the landholders, the farmers, and the riband-weavers, the
distress of whom he painfully depicted in several instances
which he had witnessed in 1832, while on a canvass through
a part of the country ; and then proceeded to point out the
various measures advocated by Mr. Gregory, who was deter-
mined to carry out the principles of the Reform Bill, and
concluded by seconding the nomination.
The several candidates then addressed the meeting. after
which Mr. Gregory was severely questioned by an hired at-
torney of Coventry, named Woodcock, who did all he possibly
could to badger him into the confession of ultra-Radical prin-
ciples. In this, however, he failed, as all his questions were
answered in the most manly and straightforward manner pos-
sible. Mr. Gregory, in return, asked Mr. Dugdale whether,
as he had taken so much credit to himself for his vote in fa-
vour of the repeal of the malt tax, he would vote for its repeal
in the ensuing Parliament if he were returned as a Member?
Mr. Dugdale's replied that he had come to the determination
b give no pledge of any Rind. This equivocative answer
called forth the groans of many of those who were of his own

party. A show of hands being then called for, the Sh•-•'"' '
Glared the election to have fallen on Si,. ' - —....1 ae-
Dugdale, upon which Si,. r' - ......- rd. Wilmot and Mr.
behalf of M- ._ .x. Uhetwynd demanded a poll on
1" ' _..... tiregory. The poll commences to-morrow
rriclay). The friends of Mr. Gregory are confident of his
success. I remain, &c. J. L.