Six weeks have not elapsed since you did me the honour to elect
me as one of your Representatives. Grateful for the favour
conferred, I am again a Candidate for your suffrages.
The Government has announced a dissolution on the question
of Reform, and in my opinion they were quite right, first,
in accepting the vote of Thursday, March 31st, as a vote of
want of confidence, and secondly, in referring the question of
Reform to the Constituencies and to public opinion at large.
I feel confident the result will be a good and durable measure
of Reform, calculated to satisfy those classes who are as
yet unrepresented, and to allay those feelings of discontent
excited by the feeble, unjust, and insufficient Reform Bill
recently introduced by the Government.
During the brief period I have been your Representative, I have
neglected no opportunity of recording my vote in favour of the
principles you sent me to Parliament to maintain, and which I
shall ever feel it my duty to support.
I have, I believe invariably agreed with my colleague, and I
trust that all those who intend to record their votes in my
favour, will extend to him the same support and influence.
I hope that I have proved attentive to your interests, and have
shewn every courtesy to those of my constituents who have done
me the honour to correspond with me.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient Servant,
FREDERICK H. W. G. CALTHORPE.
_33, Grosvenor Square, London, April 7th, 1859._
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF
WORCESTER.