3 NOVEMBER 1832, Page 9

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. •

Uxbridge, 2d November 1232.

GENTLEMEN OR BROTHER REFORMERS—Lord HENLEY having formally announced himself a candidate for the county, and, moreover, issued a circular requesting your votes at the ensuing election, am induced, by an imperative sense of duty, to lay before you a few reasonable arguments for resisting this call of his Lordship • and I sincerely hope your support will be given to the cause we are struggling far. Electors of the Metropolitan county, a sacred trust is re- posed in your hands.- The Reform Bill, although extensive nevertheless shuts out no inconsiderable body of your countrymen from exercising their inherent birthright,—for it certainly is their birthright; they contribute to the exigencies of the State; their mite is cast into the great treasury ; and small as is them pit- tance, it is extracted from the man who is actively, alive to all the political rela- tions of his country : you have, therefore, a duty of vast importance attached to you, and, well knowing you fully appreciate it, I make this appeal confidently. Let us scrutinize the new man, Lord HENLEY. No necesiity exists to ask the question, "Is he Whig or Tory ?" Our forefathers considered it essential ; but Time the great revealer of secrets; has drawn aside the veil, and exposed the practices of the two great factions ; and we, the People, have no predilection for either party. Well, then let us come to the point at once. - Does his Lordship take a statesmanlike view of all the great and important questions Which agi- tate the British Diu ire at this eventful moment? I say No, he does not ; and I appeal to his circular; and when you have examined it, I have no doubt your conclusion will be, that kis Lordship has presented you with an evasive; intle- flake, and contradictory piece of composition for your perusal. His Lordship, 1, after announcing the prevalence of lice, *irreligion, and anarchy, and after descanting, on the restless -spirit abroad, is pleased, in the succeeding page, to congratulate .countrymen on their thirst for knowledge, &e On the great questions of Corn-laws, East India Monopoly, &c., &c., he broadly states- • (what we all know) he cannot foresee what will take place, &c. And he winds up by ringing all the old changes about the Slave-trade; modestly ahnitting he prepared to pay away your Money, as a•coinpensation to the slaveowner, if he wdi relinquish the traffic. .Scotch superiorities and English rotten boroughs • ' would itzve had one more advocate in Lord HENLEY for compensation, had he - sat in the present Parliament ; for doubtless his Lordship considers their claims- equal. So mirth for preliminary. Now let us break the ice; let us at once - unmask the candidate, and I will affirm he is no Reformer • he belongs to a new. - class, called Extenuatori.: their object is not to radically reform an evil, but ter mollify and extenuate it. Lend HENLEY is linked in a system—I mean the- Chancery Court—which has the reprobation of all thinking' men of business from this he derives a handsome sum ; and mark this one fact—and you may rely with implicit confidence on it—that man who dwells in a corrupt system, will not lend a hand to sweep away patronage; he will not be one of the first purge the garner. As a proof how for he will go in matters of economy, I refer you to his book on Church Reform. There the man comes plainly.before you as the extenuator of a wretched system. Had he been agenuine and sincere Reformer, lie would have laid the axe at the root of the tree. Long has it cumbered the ground ; • . long has its ruinous policybeen felt by Englishmen; long has it been (whafthe Great Founder never intended it to be) the curse anil bane of our country. - If I read page 80 of his book aright, the Supreme, Church Militants will still roll in - their thousands—we still shall have a long list of Episcopals, front the Arch- bishop to the Lecturer. In fact, it is 'a book exactly suited for the purpose in- tended by the noble author—to lull to sleep the 'energies of men who are alive ' to the rottenness and serious evils of the system. Let' us, then„: by our voice; reject his Lordship, and tell-him at once thathis puny effortsto stem- the torrent Of Church Reform are of no avail : let us, by rejecting the call of his Lordship, lay the foundation fur a.dissolution of the.partnership. existing .between ghurch and State. Nothing short of this will do : the teniporal and time spiritual ditties must be for ever separated • and instead of the pulpit being occupied by a' dele- gate of my Lord Rakeltali'3- let its have the free election of a clerical pastor„• who would not disgrace the /unctions ; and then, my.LOrd HENLEY, WC will cheerfully pay him without taxing our felloW-countryinen who differ on ques tions, my Lord, you have no legal or moral rightto ask why or whoref6re. I have dwelt long on this point it is important, because it is the only one Lord HENLEY is explicit on : • and I conclude by calling on every Elector, be he Churchman or Dissenter, who boasts one spark of. ndependence, to reject the man whose modest Reform of the Church will only grant 215,000/. per annum for Bishops and Deans. Electors ! before you vote, read the book, and act with

consistency. In petfc.ct confidence that you will; lain yours, -&c.,• • • • .

AN UXBRIDGE REFORMER.•' •