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

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TO THE GENTRY. CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
HAVING
been honoured by a renewal of your desire that
II I should again stand forward as a Candidate for the
distinction of representing you in Parliament, I should deem

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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 due to you,
openly and explicitly, to declare my opinions on that hn-
portant topic.
I consider the paramount objects sought for in the main-
tenance of a Corn-law to be these—to encourage the home
growth of corn by affording adequate protection to the Bri-
tish farmer ; and, at the same time, to provide that the home
consumer shall not be liable to extravagant prices in seasons
of scarcity.

Convinced that these ends have been fully attained by the
principle of the sliding scale now in operation, I cannot but
view with alarm the attempt about to be made by the govern-
ment of this country to substitute a fixed duty for the pre-
sent plan ; the results of which must be; that in average
seasons the home grower will not be able to compete with
the foreigner—large districts of corn land will be throwneut
of cultivation—and consequently, in times of continental
scarcity, or of, war, (our home produce being inadequate,)
the price to the consumer will be far more extravagant than
it ever can be under the regulations of the present fluetu-

sting scale.
On other subjects of political importance, I can confi-
dently appeal to the past as a guarantee that your interests
for the future will not be neglected should you again entrust
them to my care. _ _

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Yttur obedient, humble Servant,
P. DE M. GREY EGERTON

Oulton Park, June, 1841

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
ADissolution of Parliament being evidently at hand, I beg
most respectfully to announce that the pledge given by
me to afford you, at this EVENTFUL CRISIS, an opportunity
of recording your votes, I am now ready to redeem.
The present Government—no longer an independent Go-
vernment—too weak to administer the affairs of this country,
and too tenacious of the advantages of office to relinquish
them, has succumbed to popular clamour and proposed a
total change in our just and admirable system of CORN-
LAWS—a measure which, if carried, would hot only de-
prive the English landowner and farmer of their property and
the English labourer of his means of subsistence, but the
manufacturer of his best and most certain market, thereby
proving ultimately as injurious to• the one interest as imme-
diately destructive to the other.
Members of the anti ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY now
form a portion of the administration of the country, which,
in my opinion is incompatible with nix SAFETY OF OUR
PROTESTANT CHURCH AND PROTESTANT LIBERTIES.
A Government thus composed, and so regardless of the
peace and well-being of the nation, as the existing one has
proved itself, by the introduction of measures alike detri-
mental to both, is altogether unworthy, and undeserving of
our confidence.
Having on a former occasion issued an address, I will only
now repeat the declaration then made, that " I submit to the
thraldom of no party and, in the event of a dissolution of
l'arliarnent, I shall throw myself on the support of those
Electors who, like me, are determined to take that INDL •
PENDENT COURSE which I conscientiously believe the exist-
ing state of affairs requires of every friend (whether Church-
man or Dissenter) to the PROTESTANT RELIGION, and of
every well-wisher to his Country.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
With sincere respect,
Your very faithful servant,
JOHN TOLLEMACHE.
Tilston Lodge, May 31, 1841.

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TO THE ELECTORS_ OF THE COUNTY OF

DENBIGH

GENTLEMEN,
MUCH as I lament the arrival of the moment which
terminates the connexion between us, I cannot allow
any feelings of personal regret to interfere with the gratifi-
cation I feel in seeing a Scion of the Old House of Wynn-
stay once more offered to your service. Long may he live
to fill his Father's place, and to add an additional lustre to
that name which has for so many centuries deserved the love
and gratitude of his native county !
Permit me to express a hope that, during the short time I
have had the honour of representing the County of Denbigh,
my conduct in Parliament has been such as to meet with
your approbation, and that you have not deemed me un-
worthy of the confidence you so kindly reposed in me.
It only remains for me to say, that I shall always look
back with unmingled satisfaction to the period during which
I had the honour of being your Representative, and that I
shall always feel the deepest interest in everything connected
with the welfare of the County of Denbigh.

I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your most obliged and grateful servant,
HUGH CHOLMONDELEY

London, June 14, 1811

TO THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER ELECTORS
OF THE COUNTY OF DENBIGH.

GENTLEMEN,
.SHE confidence which for more than a century you have
invariably evinced towards those whose name I bear,
and the peculiar kindness recently displayed towards myself
individually, to which I can hays no claim but that which
arises from the memory of their virtues, encourage me to
solicit the honour of representing you in Parliament.
I trust that the principles upon which my Family have so
long acted will render professions from me unnecessary,
beyond the assurance that, should you think fit to repose in
me this high trust, it will be my object to merit it by a
zealous and constant support of the Constitution in Church
and State, the true foundation of our civil and religious
liberties.

I remain, Gentlemen,

With the warmest sentiments of gratitude,
Your attached and faithful servant,
WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN,
Windsor, 14th June, 1841.