The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

TO THE FREEMEN AND BURGESSES OF
LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,
ACOMMITTEE of the House of Commons have
declared the last Election for Liverpool to be VOID, and
have thereby deprived me of the honour of being one of your
Representatives.
In proportion as I valued the proud position in which, by an
overwhelming majority, you placed me, am I now grieved
at the decision •to which the Committee have come; but you
at least have no reason to regret the inquiry that has taken
place, for, prolonged and searching as it has been, it has shown
nothing that could, in the slightest degree, impugn. the purity
of your conduct, and your character remains as unsullied as
that of any Constituency in the Empire.
I shall always look back to the time I was connected with
you as the proudest period of my life, and I shall never forget
the kindness I have uniformly received at your hands.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM FORBES NIACKENZIE.
Portmore,June, 27,1553.

TO THE BURGESSES AND FREEMEN OF THE
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
GENTLEMEN,

IMPAIRED health and numerous engagements cam-
pelled my Brother, on a previous occasion, to decline the
honour, which you have now again tendered to him, of being
nominated as a Candidate to represent you in Parliament.
At present he is absent from England. As, however, the
circumstances which before led him to refuse to allow himself
to be put in nomination no longer exist, I have no hesitation
in acceding, on his behalf, to your request; and, in compliance
with a requisition so influentially signed. I cheerfully place him
in your hands, as a CANDIDATE for your Suffrages at the
ensuing Election.

On all Religious, Political, and Commercial Questions, his
opinions, freely and openly expressed, are well known to you.
The Local interests of your great Borough will not, I am con-
fident, be neglected by one who was born amongst you, and who
is proud of his native town—of the enterprise of her merchants
and tradesmen—the intelligence of her mechanics—and the
sterling good feeling of her labouring population.
So soon as your Requisition was placed in my hands, every
means were adopted to communicate to my Brother that flat-
tering mark of your appreciation ; and I trust that ere many
days elapse he will be amongst you to thank you in person for
the high honour you have done him.

In conclusion, I have only to express a hope that, in thus
addressing you, I have not laid myself open to the charge of
presumption ; and that those glorious Constitutional Prin-
ciples, for the maintenance of which you ha,, e so strenuously
exerted yourselves on former occasions, may be again trium-
phantly successful, believing, as I do, that such a victory will
be the most acceptable proof you can offer to Mr. Turner and
Mr. Mackenzie of your sincere sympathy with them, and of
your deep resentment of the contemptible and factious pro-
ceedings which have ousted those Gentlemen trout the Repre-
sentation of the Borough, and entailed upon the town the ex-
pense and trouble of another Election.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful srrvant,
Lirerpool, 23rd June, 1853. GEORGE H. HORSFALL.