If they cannot be easy without branding themselves as slaves, we would endeavour to dissuade them from such abuse of their free-agency; but if they persist, we cannot interfere with their humour: only do not let them apply the iron to our foreheads! They cry out that they have been in a lethargy; why do they not add that they would have been asleep to this hour, if they had not been roused, in their vales and on their moors, by an officious and impertinent call from the dirty alleys and obscure courts of the Metropolis?
If there be any honour in England, the composition of the Lowther Party must be loyal and honourable.

Its adversaries have admitted that a large majority, they might have added nearly the whole, of the leading Gentry; that the Magistracy--all but a single Individual; that the Clergy and the Members of the other liberal Professions--with very few exceptions; and a vast body of Tradesmen and Manufacturers, and of substantial Yeomen, the honest Grey-coats of Westmoreland, have already declared themselves of one mind upon this appeal to their judgments.

Looking to a distance, they see the worth and opulence, the weight of character, and the dignity and respectability of station, that distinguish the numerous list of Freeholders resident in London, who have jointly and publicly testified their satisfaction in the conduct of our present Representatives.

The discontented see and know these things; and are well aware also that the Lowthers cannot justly be accused of inordinate and disrespectful family ambition, inasmuch as it was not their wish that the County should be represented by two Members of their House.

It has long been no secret that if any other Gentleman of the County properly qualified, whose _political principles did not substantially differ from their own_, would have come forward, he would have been _sure of their support_.