The Non-Electors of the Borough and Neighbourhood of Dudley
have felt much gratified at your Lordship's spirited conduct
in the House of Lords on the 6th instant, and at your generous
and unsolicited vindication of the Borough of Dudley from the
suspicion of entertaining sentiments like those imputed to
them in the hole and corner Address emanating from the Tory
faction of Dudley, so calculated to mislead the Sovereign
and induce him to retain a Ministry whose design was to lead
the Country into Slavery and Ruin. This, my Lord, is the way
in which Kings have been so often deceived, always to the
Country's prejudice, and sometimes, as History proves, to the
destruction of the Throne.
Thank you, my Lord, for standing up for the plain Truth, so
necessary at this time both to King and Country and that
you have not suffered a faction whose personal objects are
of a most base and selfish character, and whose political
objects are the destruction of all popular influence and the
establishment of an aristocratic tyranny.
We, my Lord, are anxious to maintain the constitutional rights
of King, Lords, and Commons, these can be supported only by
doing Justice to the long outraged Millions, who by delusions
like those attempted in the Address so justly condemned by your
Lordship, have long been the victims of unprincipled Courtiers
and corrupt Statesmen, supported heretofore by an abandoned
Majority of the House of Commons.
Considering your Lordship at once as a Peer and a Clergyman,
and what is still more honourable, a friend of Truth and an
enemy of Deception and Cajolery--we feel ourselves bound thus
to express our sentiments of respect and admiration, and our
hope that your Lordship's sagacity and patriotism will detect
any attempts which may hereafter be made to deceive the King
and misrepresent the People.