The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-11 00:00:00

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TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF
TFLE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
H=
‘NING been honoured by a renewal of your desire that
I should again stand forward as a Candidate for the
distinction of representing you in Parliament, I should deem
myself unworthy of this reiterated marlOcif 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 due to you,
openly and explicitly, to declare my opinions on that im-
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 bet 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 thrown out
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 fluctu-
ating 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,
Your 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,
A Dissolution of Parliament being evidently at hand, I beg
1~ 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 relinqnish
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 not 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 IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY now
form a portion of the administration of the country, which,
in my opinion is incompatible with THE SAFETY or ova.
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 audeserving of
our confidence.
Having on a former occasion issued an address, I will only
ROW repeat the declaration then made, that " I submit to the
thraldom of no party ;" and, in the event of a dissolution of
Parliament, I shall throw myself on the support of those
Electors who, like me, are determined to take that INDit •
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.
Tilsion Lodge, May 31, 1841.

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