FtvEsHInZ.—The late General Wemyss represented the county of Fife for
many years. He was a steady supporter of the Government, at a period when the Tory system of government was almost universally supported by country gentlemen, both Scotch and English. When the General died, his son, Captain James Wemyss, of the Navy, the present member, succeeded, not without a struggle, for he was opposed by General Sir John Oswald on the Tory, and by Mr. Ferguson, of Raith, on the Liberal interest. He has sat with out challenge from 1819 until the present time—and why is he now to be opposed ? Because he votes with the King's Ministers for the Reform Bills ; because he has been one of the very few Scotch members who have lent a hand to amend the most abominable system of representation that ever cheated a community —the Scotch countymongery and boroughmongery system ! For this act, which reflects the highest credit on the gallant Captain, and which gives him a strong claim to support, Colonel Lindsay, an Anti- Reformer, has started up to oppose him. We hope the electors of Fife, who mustered so strongly to support the Liberal candidate in 1819, will rally round the Liberal candidate of 1831, and carry Captain Wemyss gallantly through. It would be a disgrace to the county if the one act of the Captain's political life which has gained him his best fame, should operate to his exclusion from an honour of which he has been allowed to live in undisturbed possession, at a time when Liberal men were less in request and less necessary.
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