The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIPERPOOL STAXDJIRD.

Sia,—l trust I may not intrude too much on the columns
of your paper:if I request the favour of your insertion of the
following correspondence, to which I have as yet made no final
reply. I can only say, it will afford me great gratification to
be favoured with your sentiments, to guide me in that course
which a sense of right and an honest conscience can truly ap-
prove.-1 am, &c. A TORY,

AND A FRIEND TO THE SHOPKEEPERS.

I withhold the names of the parties; but they are imma-
terial; if required I will apply for permission to publish them.

DEAR SIR,—For though never before accustomed-to address
you in such terms, I presume to do so on the present occasion.
When you look at the signature to this letter, you will, I am
aware, at once suppose that I am about to address you on some
electioneering subject, the trouble and annoyance of which, at
first sight, might tempt you to consign this letter to the flames.
But, as from my knowledge of you, 1 have every reason to
expect that it will meet with another and a more honourable
reception; and as I am urged on, not alone for the sake of my
own personal interest, but for that as well of many others
similarly situated to myself, my apology for intruding on your
notice will, I hope, be found not in any selfish or interested
motives, but rather in the sincere desire entertained by maul
shopkeepers and tradesmen, like myself, who are anxious to
ascertain how far they stand justified when they make au ap-
plication similar to that which I am now going to bring before
you.
I am one of the survivors of the third generation of a family,
all of whom, from their earliest childhood, have been born and
brought up in Liverpool. Our occur -ttions in trade have been
of various descriptions; for many of us belong, and I say it
with pride, to the class of shopkeepers and tradesmen of this
great town—our family history can not be matter of interest to
you—but I may be allowed, I hope, to say that every member
of it, in the situation in which he has been placed, has endea-
voured so to conduct himself, and so to discharge the duties
devolved upon him, whether in our private character or our
public capacity as tradesmen, with that honest zeal and in-
tegrity which it has been our pride and our delight to aspire
to. In confirmation of this statement, I beg, if you will take
the trouble, to refer you to • • os • •
names, in theniselves, quite sufficient, I trust, to represent to
you the long standing and respectability of our family.
You will, I dare say, recollect, sir, that in electioneering
tactics, I have had the pleasure of actively do-operating, heart
and baud, with you in supporting the cause of those candidates
whose principles are known to be in the unerring support of
our King, our constitution, and our country.
• • • • • • •

The family to which I belong, for three generations have
uniformly supported that cause; not, sir, from any idle or fac-
tious motive ; net from any promise of reward held out to us ;
not from the hope of meeting with any unseen approval but
that of our sense of rectitude ; but from motives which are
written deep on our recollections, which have actuated us all
through life, and in which I, as oue of the survivors, remain to
this day convinced are the only principles on which the govern-
ment of this country can be carried on.
In addressing you now, I presume, if I may be allowed so to
term it, on the intimacy existing between us, increasedly con-
firmed in the last election lately terminated, I believe you are;
'awfare. lam in the
me. with an order many years ago. I afterwards called at your
office to learn what satisfaction the articles I furnished had
given; this was in February, 1823. I recollect meeting you in
the office on the occasion, when you mentioned you had re-
ceived letters, stating the opinion of my goods to be very rea-
sonable in price and to surpass those you had previously been
in the habit of sending ; but from that time to this, though we
have been, in every instance, engaged in the same political
cause, I have never had an order from your house; and if you
will pardon the liberty I take, I believe you have since employed
a house here, who, if you wish to see your own political princi-
ples disseminated, are directly opposed to you, but of muchmore
importance to our country at large.

Now, eir, pray pardon the liberty I take: I am told of inti-
midation, particularly of the torics ; but I confess I know not
where to look for the confirmation of such an unauthorized
statement,—l hear of none,—l know of none, but lat once
make my request to you.
I have been occasionally employed by whig families, but the
moment they have found out the tone of my politics, they have
closed their accounts and left me. I have not now a single whig
account, the last election has taken the last •
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• • • • • • •
but can I forget the cause of my God,—my Church,—my
King, and my Country ? No, no ! lam thankful in saying,
that my own property, and that of my connections and friends,
and my busin3ss, has been occupied in their interest to a con-
siderable extent; but from you, who agree in opinion with me,
what have I received?

Permit me most respectfully to solicit, (begging you will ex-
cuse my boldness), a small portion of your business in the
department; I engage to supply on equally moderate
terms, articles at least of equal quality to what you have been
accustomed to receive; if I do not, I shall never again expect
to be employed by you.—l am, &c,

To Mr. ,

Ssa —I have read your letter with considerable interest,
and not without some conscientious reflections on my own con-
duct and proceedings. I give you credit for all you say, and
have no justification to offer; but 1 will submit your letter to
the public, withholding the name, and then, perhaps, I may be
enabled to reply to you.--I am, &c.