Star.
London, England, 1830-03-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSAL DIS T ESS.—METR4 rPOLI TA N UNION.
A PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the
ROWLINO.OREEN of the EAGLE TAVERN, CITY
ROAD, OD MONDAY NEXT, Bth March, at Twelve o'Clock.
HENRY HUNT, Esq. will move the first Resolution.
DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. in the Chair.
Seats are provided to accommodate Ladies.
C. .1. HAND, See. pro rem.

To ine GENTRY, CLERGY, and FREEHOLDERS of the

COUNTY of ESSEX.

GENTLEMZW,
THE numerous and respectable solicitations I have
received, urging me, in the most flattering terms, to become
a CANDIDATE upon the present Vacancy to represent this
County in Parliament, forbid any further silence, and I at once
appeal to your zealous and cordial support.
In ordinary times I should have been content to announce myself
an independent man; but in these days of political apostacy, you
hate a right to demand an explicit avowal of my opinions and in.
teatime, and I can have no desire to conical them. And let this
Address be appealed to In after times, as the test by which my
actions shall be tried, and your choice approved.
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Before all things, I avow myself the sturdy enemy of political
jobbing and place-hunting servility the uncompromising advocate
of the most searching economy, to be manifested in the extinction
of every useless office, in the reduction of our establishments, civil
and military, and in the diminution of all official salaries, regardless
of rank or rancour ; a substantial reduction in the amount of our
taxes, and the charges of their collection, to the extent of at least six
millions per annum; the repeal of all those impositions, such as the
duties on malt, beer, soap, candles, and tea, which bear so oppres-
sively, and almost exclusively, upon the industrious classes of so-
ciety ; and in their stead, and with a view to the preservation of our
national ftith and honour, I will strenuously advocate the adoption
of an impartial property tax, which shall bear slightly on slender
means, and with suitable weight upon those who abound in land
or money.

In conclusion, I proclaim myself to be a proselyte to the neces-
sity of a REFORM in PARLIAMENT; not, indeed, by resorting
to Annual Elections and Universal Suffrage, but by abbreviating
the duration of Parliaments—by concentrating the residences and
yet enlarging the Cons►ituent Bodies—by extinguishing those Bo-
roughs whose Electors are not susceptible of adequate increase--and
by conferring the right of election upon all great Towns, at present
unrepresented, whose wealth and population entitle them to it.
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Such are my views and principles ; if they shall be in accord-
ance with your own, u I doubt not they are, an opportunity now
ofers, in which they may be rendered pre-eminently triumphant.
We live in times when every man has grave duties to discharge
to his country, and it shall be no fault of mine if this important
county any longer labours under the reproach of a neutralised Re.
presentation.
Meet me strongly and sincerely on Saturday next, and by your
voices and votes tell the Ministry and the country that you are re.
solved no longer to be insulted by the hollow commiseration of
" mending times," or the sneering assurance that a " genial sum.
met will recruit your already wasted and fast-expiring fortunes."
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful Servant,
Colchester, March 3, 1850. W. L. WELLESLEY.

TH E EVENING STAR.

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