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

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEMEN,
110 Y the sudden decease of your late most respected
1.3 representative, the Honourable R. BOOTLE WIL-
BRA H AM, the ti ust committed ti 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 greit
diffidence that I offer myself to fulfil those duties, froni-a
deep sense of their importance, and of the vast interests
involved in the (Its:large or them ; but baying received
the honour of a REQUISITION CALLING UPON
ME TO COME FORWARD, and signed by many of
the most influential Gentlemen of South Lancashire,
have ventured to assent to their request, in the hope tint
the same principles which guided you upon the Tate
Election, and which were then so strongly expressed that
no opposing Candidate was found on the hustings, may
still prevail, and that any claim to your support may •be
allowed to rest on them rather than on any grounds of aa
individual character.

I am sincerely attached to our Constitution, and to the
Established Church under which we live, and earnestly
desirous of maintainim; the Mghts and Liberties, both.
Civil and Religious, of all cl,sses of the people of this
Country. That there general principles are acceptable L-0
the Electors of this Division of the County, I 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 conn-ct d 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 be desirous to promote. their
interests to the utmost of my power. I have seen with
great satisfaction that sir.ri. tha .o,pssion of the present
Ministry to otnce, these views have been fully recognised
and carried into effect by a considerable modification of
our Corn-laws, and by a complete revision of the- Tarif
of Import Duties, and the result has been: a most gratift-
ing improvement in the TrAo of this .Districti and the
prosperity of the Country. To what extent any further
alterations inny be desirable it would be premature to
consider, unit the present system shall have lad a fair
and full trial, but I 14VON myself decidedly opposed:to
those who, under a pretext of the necessities of Com-
merce, would violently and recklessly sweep away sit
protective regulaions in favour of that other section of
the community emlloyed 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 ama t-T of the greatest imptirtanot
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 probability the chi, f topic on which you will be
urged to support another Candidate, 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 moat obedient Servant.
WM.. ENTWISLE.

Manchester, llth May, 1814.