The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

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been condemned as unfit for discusilion in Parliament at
moment of expected dissolution. lam unable to understand
the practical distinction thus drawn by Lord John Russell
between the poor-law and the corn-law. It is true, as he
has stated, that in the one case details were under the con-
sideration of the house, in the other it might be the abject of
ministers to limit the discussion to principles ; but the at-
tempt at such limitation would have been vain. The princi-
ples on which the government advocate a fixed duty on corn
were perfectly well known through former discussions, and
I know now why the virtue and sincerity of members about
to face their constituents should be more distrusted on the
one subject than the other.
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a revision of our commercial tariff a task worthy
of a strong and united government, and by such a government
I hope to see it undertaken.
An address of this description is necessarily but a slight
summary of topics of leading interest at the moment. I have
confined myself to one object, that of giving you the means
of judging whether, on the score of my opinions on subjects

which have grown into recent importance, you have reason
to withhold the confidence you have twice reposed in me. I
might have contrived to obscure or postpone the enunciation
of those opinions under the smoke of an attack on the conduct
and proceedings of a government to which I am opposed ;
but I have thought it fairer not to mix up the exposition of
my own views with reflections on the views or conduct of
others.

I am ready, if called upon, for controversy on these mat-
ters, in its proper time and place. In one respect, perhaps,
I may enter at a disadvantage into the strife of parties. Bo-
dily infirmity, with pain and exhaustion in its train, cannot
confer the wisdom of age ; but I sensibly feel that it may
produce an indifference to the ordinary prizes and rewards of
political contention, which age itself does not always inculcate.
I have no ambititon left but that of carrying with me to re-
tirement, or elsewhere, the consciousness that I have not
neglected a legitimate occasion of serving the community in
which I live. Twice you have afforded me what seemed to
me that occasion. It is now at your discretion to withdraw
or reimpose the obligation under which your confidence and
support have laid me. Proud of that confidence as hitherto
enjoyed, and with a grateful recollection of that support
which no time or circumstance can obliterate, I respectfully
wait your decision.—l remain, Gentlemen, your obedient,
humble Servant, FRANCIS EGERTON.

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TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY; AND ELECTORS OF
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER. -
GENTLEMEN, •
TIAVING been honoured by a renewal of your desire that
-1-2- I should again stand forward as a Candidate for the
distinction of representing you in Parliament, I should deem
myself unworthy of this reiterated mark of your kindness
did I suffer private feelings and predilections to obstruct for
one moment the course of public duty thus intimated to me
in so flattering a manner. I therefore cheerfully submit to
your wishes.

Her Majesty's ministers being about to appeal to the
country on the subject of the Corn-laws, I feel it 4tie to you,
openly and explicitly, to declare my opinions on that im-
portant topic.