The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEM EN,
BY the sudden decease of your late most respected
representative, the Honourable R. BOOTLE WIL-
BRA H AM, the trust committed to him by you, and fulfilled
through a period of several years, with untiring assiduity,
has returned into your own hands, and it has become
requisite for you to elect a successor. It is with great
diffidence that I offer myself to fulfil those duties, from a
deep sense of their importance, and of the vast interests
involved in the cbseharge of nem ; but having received
the honour of a REQUISITION CALLING UPON
ME TO COME FORWARD, and signed Ly many of
the most influential Gentlemen of South Lancashire, I
have ventured to assent to their request, in the hope that
the same principles which guided you upon the late
Election, and which-were then so strongly expressed that
no opposing Candidate was found on the hustings, may
still prevail, and that my claim to your support may be
allowed to rest on them rather than on any grounds of an
individual character.

I am sincerely attached to our Constitution, and to the
Established Church under which we live, and earnestly
desirous of maintaining the bights and Liberties, both
Civil and Religious; of all el,sses of the people of this
Country. That thee general principles are acceptable to
the Electors of this Division of the County, 1 have no
reason to doubt; but I am quite aware that there are
other questions of a more specific character on which
there is much greater difference of opinion. That a free-
dom of Trade as great as is compatible with the other
interests inseparably connected with those of Commerce
is indispensable to the welfare of the large and enterpris-
ing towns of this Division, cannot for a moment be
doubted, and I always shall he desirous to promote their
interests to the utmost of
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and carried into effect by a considerable modification of
our Corn•laws, and by a complete revision of the Tariff
of Import Duties, and the result has been a most gratify-
ing improvement in the Trade of this District, and the
prosperity of the Country. To what extent any further
alterations may be desirable it would be premature to
consider, unit the present system shall have had a fair
and full trial, but I avow myself decidedly opposed to
those who, under a pretext of the necessities of Com-
merce, would violently and recklessly sweep away all
protective regulations in favour of that other section of
the community employed in the cultivation of the land,
whose welfare is not less vital to the country than that of
Commerce itself.

I have thought it necessary to he thus explicit on this
point, as it is at once a ma t,r of the greatest importance
to the Electors of this Division, that the interests of
Commerce and Manufactures should be always a primary
object with the Legislature, and because I am aware that
it is in all probahilly the chi, f topic on which you will be
urged to support another Catvliclate, whose Address has
already been circulated among you.
It will be my desire to explain myself more fully and
personally to all the Electors as early as possible.
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant.
Wlll. ENTWISLE.

Manchester, 11th 3fay, 1814.