All these things, offensive to moderate men, are too much to the taste of many of Mr. Brougham’s partizans in Westmoreland.  But I call upon those who relish these deviations from fair and honourable dealing—­upon those also of his adherents who are inwardly ashamed of their Champion, on this account—­and upon all the Freeholders concerned in the general question, to review what has been laid before them.  Having done this, they cannot but admit that Mr. Brougham’s independence is a dark dependence, which no one understands—­and, that if a jewel has been lost in Westmoreland, his are not the eyes by which it is to be found again.  If the dignity of Knight of the Shire is to be conferred, he cannot be pronounced a fit person to receive it.  For whether, my Brother Freeholders, you look at the humbleness of his situation amongst Country Gentlemen; or at his amphibious habits, in the two elements of Law and Authorship, and the odd vagaries he has played in both; or whether he be tried by the daring opinions which, by his own acknowledgment, he has maintained in Parliament, and at public meetings, on the subject of the elective Franchise; we meet with concurring proofs that HE IS ALTOGETHER UNFIT TO REPRESENT THIS, OR ANY OTHER COUNTY!

If, notwithstanding the truth of this inference, Mr. Brougham’s talents, information, and activity make it desirable that he should have a place in the House of Commons, why cannot they who are of this opinion be content, since he is already there?  What service he is capable of rendering may be as effectually performed, should he never aspire beyond re-election to one of those seats which he now fills.  The good, if any is to be looked for, may then be obtained with much less risk of evil.  While he continues a Member for a close Borough, his dangerous opinions are left mainly to the support of his own character, and the arguments which his ingenuity can adduce to recommend them; but should they derive that degree of sanction from the Freeholders of a County, which success in his present undertaking would imply, they might become truly formidable!—­Let every one, then, who cannot accompany Mr. B. in his bold theories, and does not go the length of admiring the composition of his political life, be cautious how he betakes himself to such help, in order to reduce, within what he may deem due bounds, the influence of a Family prominent in the civil service of the County from the earliest times.  It is apparent, if the Writer has not employed his pen in vain, that against this influence there is no just ground of complaint.  They who think with him will continue to uphold it, as long as the Family proves that it understands its own interest and honour by a judicious attention to our’s.  And should it forfeit our respect by misconduct, in the unavoidable decline of its political importance which would ensue, we should not envy that House its splendid possessions or its manifold privileges;