Dudley, May 11th, 1831.
REFORM!
NO MONOPOLY! NO LYGON!!
A voluntary resolution of upwards of 360 Workmen in Stourbridge and its Neighbourhood has been entered into for the purpose of having no further communications with those persons who were in opposition at a Meeting, held in this Town on the 2nd of April, 1831, against LORD JOHN RUSSELL’S REFORM BILL.
SUCCESS TO THE
STOURBRIDGE IRON TRADE,
AND
LORD JOHN RUSSELL’S BILL FOR REFORM!
GOD SAVE THE KING.
The BILL, the Whole BILL, and Nothing but the BILL!!
TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER.
Gentlemen,
I come among you as a stranger, and having certainly no personal pretensions to the honour of your representation; but I am informed that no approved second Candidate, belonging to your County, has offered himself to you on the principle of an unqualified support of the great measure of REFORM, proposed to the late Parliament by His Majesty’s Ministers. This Bill I am assured, you deem to be of vital importance to the state, and are anxious to secure, as far as depends upon you, its success, by returning two Members equally and fully pledged to it. My political principles being those of my brother LORD ALTHORP, I am emboldened to aspire to the high distinction of representing you, for this Parliament only, under the unequivocal pledge of voting for that most indispensable measure of Reform, to its full extent, whenever it shall again be brought forward. I hope that in taking this step for the attainment of such an object, I am not justly chargeable with presumption; and allow me to add, that it is only in consequence of the deep conviction I entertain of the necessity of the constitutional Reform, which His Majesty’s Ministers have brought forward, that I venture at all, under these circumstances, to offer my services to your notice.