11 xiniiu. TiUuT ' ihtij' 1 i\ ; Iter'* - fii c Minni > l<> fr; ot n IIJ JOH: ; ibmTr dt W RWTOrfV IM< - rrf odHtr UJllSW! iiorp anioll I i t£ Tl » . - dtiS' ';• " P i. umr '; ' H pjfjloi^ V ipiwK ; r 1 viuo 1' . Qj . fnny, Iff ii gin i r J liitt UififVf AWl \ t: J* ir. ijuat'- r. . ail > • ! .. ovf • mtij liamentary conduct the steps of his father,— which, much as Sir Robert respected ( lie late Mr. Chaplin, lie must say were cer- tainly not those of a spirited and independent member of Par- liament. The word " reform" was distorted from its original and rational meaning, and used as a bugbear to frighten people. No system could long exist without abuses ; and were those abuses not to be reformed ? The Triennial and even the Septen- nial Acts were deemed reforms ; and even within these seven years, boroughs which had been proved to be greatly corrupt were disfranchised by Parliament, and their privileges given to the population of the surrounding districts. They were the real Jacobins and Revolutionists who opposed the reform of abuses as they grew up; it was by refusing moderate and timely reform that revolutions became necessary. Sir R. Heron con- cluded by thanking the freeholders for their attention ; he could not despair, for his cause was the cause of truth and justice, which never failed. CHARLES CHAPLIN, Esq. lamented that it was not in his power adequately to express his feelings : he was sorry to make objections to what had been uttered by others, but when he heard his excellent father vilified, he could not submit to it without an answer, though very little answer would suffice. His father had been elected in five successive Parliaments, and, upon the occasion of a contest, by n great majority of the free- holders. To say, then, that he was not independent, was to say that those by whom he had been elected were not independent. The Hon. Baronet had stated as an excuse for prematurely dis turbing the peace of the county, that he was solicited at the last election; it would not be forgotten that he ( Mr. Chaplin) was also solicited; and not only solicited, but actually put in nomi- nation, and a poll was commenced, which was not persisted in only because of his express request, as lie had pledged iiis word to support another gentleman, and considered the pledge of his word as sacred. He at the same time intimated that he should be most happy to be put in nomination at another time, if the freeholders would choose him ; but he did not commence a can- vass until after Sir Robert's address had been published in the papers, and he was extremely sorry for the half year's agitation which had been occasioned to the county. The Hon. Gent, had alluded to his ( Mr. Chaplin's) property, and stated that the freeholders were to be sold to two strange gentlemen whose names he had not heard before; as to his property, any five of the freeholders in the crowd could make a purse as long as his, and it was not upon his purse that he depended. He was in politics as independent as any man : certainly he approved of the general measures of the present Administration; but he would never give a vote contrary to his own conscience, nor that !