the disposal of my Sovereign soy seri ices which I
tided be thought capable of meut of objects of such paramount importance.
the Reform Bill has been to preclude all hope of a successfill appeal to the good sense " I am, Gentlemen, with affectionate regard, most faithfully yours owl calm juid„ement of tile People. and so to fetter the prerogative of the Crown that the " Romer PEEL." Ring Is no free choice among his subjects, but must select his Ministers from oue sec-
tion, and one section only of public men? I have taken another course; but I have not
rare so far in unison with those of the constituent body of the United Kingdutu, as to ELECTION TALK. taken it without deep and anxious cousideration as to the probability that my opinions enable me and those with whom I am about to act, and whose sentiments are in entire ANDOVER. The Liberal candidates are Mr. Etwall and Mr. concurrence with my 00 u, to establish such a claim upon public confidence as shall en. Nightingale of Embley ; Mr. Fellowes having retired. The Tory able us to conduct with vigour and success the Government of this country. favourite is Sir John Pollen. " I have the firinest conviction, that that coutidence cannot be secured by any other course than that of a frank and explicit declarations of principle; that vague and uu- ARUNDEL. Mr. D. Lyon of Goring opposes Lord Dudley Stuart. meaning professions of popular opinions may quiet distrust for a time, may influence ASHBURTON. Mr. Horsley Painter has put forth a Liberal address made, they are not adhered to, or if they are inconsistent with the !lemur awl character to the electors ; but Air. Palmer is a Tory notwithstanding, and may this or that election, but that such profi.ssions must ultimately and signally fail, if, being of those Willmake them. therefore suit Lord Clinton, the patron of the borough, very well. " Now, I say at once. that I will not accept power on the condition of declaring my. BassET1,Aw. Mr. G. H. Vernon has been canvassing the electors : Self au :ipostate front the principles ou whiell I have heretofore acted. At the same the Tories mean to get the Honourable Captain Duncombe to oppose time. I never will admit that I have been, either before or after the Reform Bill, the him. elefereter of abuses, or the enemy of judicious reforms. I appeal with coutitlence, in de. Eliai of the charge. to the active part I took in the great question of the Currency, in the Beneoan. Captain Polhill is again in the field. " The Captain is coniolidsti,,n and Amendment of the Criminal Law—in the revisal oft he a laile system a bold man "—up to every thing. or Trial by Jury—to the opinions I have professed. null uniformly acted on a ith regent BERKSHIRE. Captain Deans Pandas offers to succeed Mr. Throck- to other branches of the jurisprudence of the country. I appeal to this as a proof that I have not been disposed to acquie,ce in acknowledged evils, either from the mere super- 'Dorton. Mr. Palmer will probably be reelected ; and Mr. Pusey, atitious reverence fur ancient usages, or from the dread of labour or responsibility in the another Tory, is talked of. Mr. John Walter has published a long- application of a renwdy. winded address to the electors. He and the .Times are trimming their I. Bin the Reform Hill. it is said, constitutes a new tura ; and it is the duty of a Minister to declare explicitly, first. whether he will maintain the bill itself; and, sails to the same wind. The theory is, that the Times is to defy the secondly. whether he will act upon the spirit in which it %%as conceived. loss of subscribers, and to support the Tories until Mr. Walter, " with respect to the Reform Bill itself, I will repeat now the declaration whiell I whose last election cost him some ,I0,000/. is safe in his seat again. It made when I entered the Douse of Commons as a Member of the Reformed Portia- is thought that this is the most economical method of electioneering. merit. that I consider the Reform Rill a Ilual and irrevocable settlement of a great con- stitutional question—a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this Mr. Walter declares that he shall continue a Reformer, "until tlw Con- want ry would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insidious means. sitution will have been brought back to its original purity." What stuff ! IR," Then, as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce When was the Constitution pure ? Name the year and the reign, Mr. It as a rule of Government. If by adopting the spirit or the Reknit Bill it be meant Walter. Charles the Second's was the most noted reign for political that we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation—that public men can only sup- port theiuselves in public estimation by adopt iug every popular impresshm of the day shuffling : perhaps that is the period of purity, according to Mr. Wal- --by promising the instant redress of any thing which anybudv may call all ahuse—byter's notion. He thus replies to the charge of having deserted his abandoning altogether that great aid of Government, more 'emeriti' than either law party—. It reason, the respect for ancient rights. and the deference to prescriptive authority—if this be the spirit of the Reform Hill. I will ma undertake to adopt it. I:ut if the spirit of " It is said that I am gone over to the Tories. If there be any reason or truth in what I hive urged above. I think it will be obvious that the Tories are come to those the Reform Bill implies merely a careful wt. IS of institutions. civil and ecclesiastical, ?Wiens which I have always professed—not that I am gone over to theirs; and, if undertaken in a friendly' temper. combining with the firm maintenance of established they have nut cotne to our party. I at least shall be fouutl as much opposed to them as tights the correction of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances. in that case I ever have been. I have been charged with seeking objects of personal ambition or I eau for myself and colleagues uudertake to act in such a spirit and with such iu-
teutiona.
• Suit dts:larations of general principles are. I am aware, necessarily vague; but I neither have applied for, nor ever even couteniplated an applieatiou, kr any one in onl ,r to lw more explicit, I will endeavour to apply them practically to some of mark of distinction. or source of gain, from OS last or any other Ministry ; and I still those questions which have of late attracted the greatest share of public interest and so far pled 'e myself for the future as to say, that neither for myself. nor any member attention. of toy family, will I accept any of those favours from the servants of the Crowu which I
" I take first the inquiry into Municipal Corporations. It is not my intention to ad.
vise the Crown to interrupt the progress of that inq iiry. or to transfer the conduct of it The Tories have not gone over to the Liberals, and yet the Times from those to whom it was committed by the late Government. For myself, I gave the supports the Tories. How is this ? Mr. Walter has got no place or hest pried that I was not unfriendly to the principle of inquiry, by couseuting to be a pension from the Duke : no, but has not Mr. Walter something like an raeuaber of that Committee of the House of Cumulous on which it was originally de- volved. No report has yet been made by the Commissioners to whom the inquiry was assurance that his Tory opponents in Berkshire shall be muzzled, if afters arils referred; and uutil that report be made, I cannot be expected to give. on the the Times is managed discreetly ; and is not this equivalent to a good part of lime Government, any other pledge than that they will bestow on the sugges- round sum in the pockets of any man who has to contest a county on tis it may contain, ad the evidence on which they may be founded, a full nut un- 'w ',windier,' consideration. such terribly expensive terms as Mr. Walter at the last election onn " I wilt, in the next place, address myself to the questions in which those of our contested Berkshire ? tenon. countrymen alio dissent from the doctrines of the Established Church take an BEVERLEY. The electors of Beverley are an expensive set. of espeeial interest. Instead of making new professions. I will refer to the course which I worthies. Mr: C. Langdale spent about WOOL last year in bringing took upon those subjects when out of power. In the first place, I supported the mea- sure broiight forward by Lord Althorp, the object of which was to exempt all classes the drunken rascals to the poll, but will not be again pigeoned, and has from the payment of church-rates, applying in lieu thereof, out of a branch of the retired from the representation. revenue. a certain sum for the building and repair of churches. I never expressed, nor BIRMINGHAM. Mr. Richard Spooner, a professor of every species of Russell was the author, intended to relieve the conscientious scruples of Dissenters, in political opinion at different times—a" Currency man," and now the did I rodertaiu. this slightest objection to the priuciple of a bill of which Lord John respet to tile cerentony of marriage. I give no opinion now on the particular times- convenient card of the local Tories—is produced as a candidate. He is, sun's themselves. They were proposed by Ministers in whom the Dissenters had we understand, the partner of Mr. Thomas Attwood. Who is Le to pose to state that I supported the principle of them. I opposed, and I am bound to oppose? his own partner, or Mr. Scholefield ? Mr. Spooner has been confidence : they were intended to give relief ; and it is sufficient for my present pur. state that my opinions in that respect have undergone no change, the admission of YIissent,'rs. us a claim of right, into the Universities: but I expressly declared, that if re- '1'he Tories have commenced a subscription to pay his expenses: sheer:- gulations. clawed by public authorities superintending the professions of law and medi- waste of money. the nature of civil privileges on one class of the King's subjects from which auother BLacKaults,. Mr. Fielden, Mr. Turner, and Dr. Bowring are tlte- the soil the studies connected with them. had the effect of conferring advantages of Cb.is was excluded, those regulations ought to undergo modifleatiun, with the view of candidates. There are serious and well.fouuded objectiou.s, tu lig. tion in a quarter from whit!, the friends of Jibe: ty did not expect to placing all the King's etthjeets, — %letterer their religimia creed, upon a footiag of per. &five owl:4 assistance. fect equality with respect to auy tit il privilege. I appeal to the CLAMS, N hich I pursued ou those several questions a lieu °like mit‘t have been out ,,f contemplation ; dud I ask 1 he Irish papers contain the usual quantity of assaults, tithe-fights, • nitliconfidenc.. Does that mil se imp!) that I Nall actuated by any illiberal m. Miele. and murders ; but the particulars this week are mit remarkable for rant spirit tow anis the Dissenting body, or by au ours illiuguest to consider fairly the " In the examination of other questiuus which excited public feeling. I will not ma TIII' TORY MANIFESTO. the Pension-li-t. I resisted, and anti the opinions I entertain I should again resist. a
retrospective i .quiry into peusiont granted by the Crown, at a time a heu the discretion
hi it ROBERT PEEL'S ADDRESS TO TIIE ELECTORS OF TABIWORTH. of the Crowu was neither filtered by law nor by the expression of any opinion on the part of the House of Cumulous : but I voted for the resolution moved by Lord [ This document was first given to the world in three of the News. , Althorp that p .11SiUOIS on the Civil I.ist onglit for the future to lw confined to such per. papers published on Thursday morning. In the //erald, it appeared ' sons only IIS hive just claims to the Royal beneficence, or are entitled to cousideration among the advertisements, like the election addresses : but in the ; rti,1,1 the uuntbricit hoe: oo it ttihweiirrix.:471.11lifil,Sloq: ki jet : rtaort li,entilrumise, or Oofntlitehlentrzsit rt.. t.dirilett WI Times (which now openly displays the badges and livery of the Duke), ' thus suppporte'd as a private Member of PaAiament. I lillail scrupulously act at a it appeared in large type as the principal leader of the day, though , miuister or the Crown, and shall advise the grant of no pensiel, soiich is our iu e,,, without a word of comment—exactly as in the other montitig organ of forwitv with the spirit and iuteution of the vote to atria I was a party. the new Government, the Tory and consistent Post.] "Tlien, as te the great question of Church Reform, on that head I have no new 'wore*. sions to make. I cannot give my consent to the ulienatiou of Church property. in auy .(iVNTLESIEN—Ou the 26th of November last, being then at Rome. I received from part of the United Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiastical purposes. But I repeat now his M tjesty a summons, %holl) unforeseen and unexpected by me, to return to Eng- the opinions that I have already expressed in Parliament. to regard to the Clench laud a fallout delay, for the purpose (A aesisting his Majesty iu the formation of a 111•W ESlablifillRlellt in Ireland—that if by all improved diStIribliti011 of the revenues of the Government. I instantly oliejed the command for my returu ; and, on Illy arrivid, I Church. its just itithence can be extended and the true interests of the Established did not hesitate, after an anxious review or the positiou of public affairs, to place at religion promoted, all other considerations should be made subordinate to the advance.
renderiog. " As to Church property in this cotautry.no person has expressed a more earnest wish " My acceptance of the first ofliee in the Government terminates for the present mv than I have done that the question of Tithe, complicated mid difficult as I aeknoir ledee politiral connexion with you. In seeking the reuewal of it, whenever you shall lie I it to he, should. if possible, be satisfactorily settled by the means oda eurnmutation it a et upon to perform the duty of electing a Representative in Parhament. I feel it in- fouuded upon jitst principles, and proposed alter nurture considenition.
cutabetit upon nie to outer into a declaration of my views of public policy—as full and " With regard to alterations in the laws which govern our Ecclesiastical Establish.
unreserved as I eau make it, consittem It milli my duty as a Minister of the Crown. Inent, I have hail no recent opportunity of gir lug that grave consideration to a subject 1 on are eutitled to this from the nature of the trust which I again solicit—from the of the deepest interest which could alone jura ify me in making any public deetai at kn Jong habits of friendly intercourse in which we have lived—awl from your tiied ad- or opinioll. It is a subject which must undeigo the fullest deliberation; awl into that hereto— to me in times of difficulty. %lieu the dentonstratiou of unabated confidence stag deliberation the Government will enter with the sincerest desire to lenitive cs.lrv abuse id peculiar value. I gladly avail myself also or this, it legitimate opportunity, of that can impair the efliciency of the Establislinient. to mowed the sphere of its useful- re thine, a more public, appeal—of addr,...ssing, through v4tu. to that great and intelli'gcut ell, .d soeiely, of which you are a portion, awl a fair oil unexceptionable representa- itm_itzis,,ha.nd to strengthen and confirm itsjust claims upon the respect and affections of the lice--to that class which up much less interested in the coub MMus of patty than in the ." It is unnecessary for my purpose to enter into further details. I have said enough.
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