“Sir,
“Permit me to express to you my acknowledgments for repelling so ably the gross and malignant attacks which the Editors of the ‘Morning Chronicle’ and ‘Globe’ have directed at me. I do not know what can be said more on this subject, where the honest conclusions are so obvious; those who will shut and keep their eyes shut, will not and cannot see: to convert them is hopeless, but truth must ultimately prevail.
“The Editor of the ‘Liverpool Courier’ assures me that
his paper of next Wednesday (which I will take care to forward to you) will
contain a faithful report of what was stated by me at the public meeting
here, on Tuesday last; when you receive it, you will judge what part, on
the whole, it may be advisable to give to the public through the medium of
wide circulation, which your paper affords. When I addressed my letter to
the Editors of both, my great and leading object was to prevent my
Lord Liverpool’s letter being
made the subject of that gross misrepresentation which was so evidently the
object of the party; I thought little of myself. In this it appears I
failed; and thence the cup of malevolence has been emptied, propped up by
every species of falsehood and misconstruction. Our Town Hall may contain,
when crowded, one thousand people; five thousand were assembled on that day
to fill it, but the Opposition, ever active and industrious, had at an
early hour blockaded the doors, and, with few exceptions, filled the room.
I was determined to be there, and, with much difficulty, got in. I wish I
could have united my voice to others on the subject of the Mayor’s
impartiality, but I am sorry to say that it was marked by the most improper
leaning to the party; indeed, the results, as described by themselves,
afford ample evidence of this fact; those who are acquainted with the local
circumstances, and traits of character and conduct here, perfectly
understand this. A counterrepresentation, signed, in a few hours, by above
sixty of the most respectable inhabitants here (and the most wealthy),
recommending that no steps should be taken to embarrass the Legislature, in
a choice of difficulties, was presented to him, but it
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“Your most obedient Servant,
