_Address presented to Lord Cochrane by the inhabitants of Culross._
We, the inhabitants of the royal burgh of Culross and neighbourhood,
beg leave to offer your Lordship our heartfelt congratulations on
being re-elected a member to serve in the House of Commons for one of
the first cities in the kingdom; which event may be considered as the
verdict of the last tribunal to whom you had appealed from the charges
lately preferred against you. While the firmness with which you met
those charges has called forth our highest admiration, we rejoice that
they have now been so clearly proved to be unfounded, and that the
cloud which threatened your destruction has been dispelled. In the joy
everywhere diffused on this occasion, none can more cordially
participate than the inhabitants of Culross; and we beg to assure your
Lordship of their unabated attachment to, and respect for, the family
of Dundonald.
Calling to mind the many heroic actions your Lordship has performed in
your country’s cause, we look forward with confidence to a renewal of
your ardent and gallant exertions for her advantage, notwithstanding
the persecutions you are now suffering. And we sincerely hope that in
defiance of party and faction, you shall again shine forth an ornament
to your profession, an honour to your country, and the boast of this
place, the ancient residence of your noble family.
We beg also to express our wish that your Lordship may speedily forget
those sufferings an honourable mind must sustain whilst struggling
against gross and unfounded accusations.
Signed in the presence and by the appointment of the meeting,
W. MELVILLE, B.
JOHN CAW, _Secretary_.
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