The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

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The folkiiving are the replies which have been received:—
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF

THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
GENTLEM EN,—I am deeply sensible of the honour conferred
upon me by your proposal that I should become a candidate
for the representation of the Southern Division of the County
of Lancaster. It is therefore with the greatest regret that I
am compelled to decline that invitation. In adopting this
decision I am influenced by various considerations.

The undertaking, arduous to any one, does not appear to me
and those with whom I have consulted to afford to such a
candidate as myself the assurance of that success which could
alone relieve me from the charge of presumption in embracing
it, and justify in prudence the sacrifices its conduct would
involve.

I should enter upon such a struggle under great personal
disadvantages, apart from all question as to my intellectual
qualfficatirms. I have not that preliminary claim to the con-
fidence of a county constituency which attends established
residence and property. I cannot claim that respect which
attaches to the creditable administration of hereditary estate,
which Corms, in my opinion, the best preliminary locus standi
for the candidate for a county representation. Of other per
sonal deficiencies I say nothing. Your indulgence and the
pressure of circumstances may lead you to overlook them, but
they certainly exist to an extent sufficient to aggravate the
difficulties of the proposed undertaking.
On my imperfect knowledge of the actual, I trust, temporary,
state of the constituency, I consider these difficulties, so aggra-
vated, as too serious to be prudently encountered by myself.
An answer in assent, whether complete or qualified, to your
invitation, would have required from me a full and frank
exposition of my views and opinions on subjects of
.present
political interest, which now it would be presumption in me to
obtrude on yourselves or the public. I wilt only say, that I'
should have rejoiced, bad circumstances permitted me, to aid
you in resisting a dictation of which I think you justly complain.
I will not despair that the time and circumstances may arrive
which may justify myself or some other member of. my family
in seeking, by such support as yours, the prize which, for the
reasons above stated, I consider now beyond my own reach.
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF

THE COUNTY OF LANCAgfEi

GENTLEMEN,— Concurring, as I do, IniliTieneral senti-
ments and principles expressed in the Requisition I have had
the honour of receiving, signed by a very large and influential
portion of the constituency of South Lancashire, inviting me
to become a Candidate for your suffrages at the ensuing Gene-
ral Election, it is with sincere regret that I feel myself com-
pelled to decline the very flattering offer it contains ; but, al-
though as desirous as yourselves to see the representation of
this great and important county rescued from the dictation of
that body to which you allude, yet I cannot but feel that the
very short time that must necessarily elapse before the election
will take place, leaves me no opportunity of sufficiently ascer-
taining the views of the electors, or making the requisite ar-
rangements fora contest in so large a constituency.
Should my services at any future period be acceptable to you,
it would be my earnest endeavour to advance and promote the
vast commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural interests
committed to my charge, and while giving a general support to
the Free-trade policy of 1846 and the preceding years, I should
at the same time give my most hearty assistance to any mea-
sures that might be brought forward to allieviate the condition
and promote the welfare of thoseclasses which have confessedly
been exceptions to the general prosperity which has recently
reigned throughout the country. I entirely concur in the sen-
timents of confidence with which you look upon Lord Derby as
the head of the great Conservative party, believing that, in the
high character and talents of that nobleman, we have the best
guarantee for the stability of the institutions of the country.
With my warmest acknowledgments for the high honour you
have intended me, and the favourable opinion towards me
evinced by the immense number of names appended to a Re-
quisition which, I am informed, was only two or three days in
course of signature,
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
THOMAS GEORGE HESKETH.
32, Brook-street, London, June 22, 1832.