Mr. Buckingham’s Address. 
entire stranger, but its invitation was founded on a knowledge of my public life and 
Jabors alone. I was successfully returned to the first reformed Parliament as its mem- 
ber, and had the happiness to advocate, in my place, in the British House of Commons, 
“6 views I had m aintained in in India —for m maintaining which, indeed, I was banished 
was established, andtrial by jury guaranteed. The = as well as the commercial 
powers of the East India Company were curtailed. The horrid and Ap sat 
of burning the widows of India alive on the funeral piles of their husbands was putdown 
by law. The blood-stained revenue derived from the idolatrous worship of J seprrnai 
was suppressed. The foundation of schools — the promotion of missions— mi 
nistration of pene Nee all more amply provided for than before— and to me, the 
—- and anxieties of many years of peril and labor combined, were amply rewarded 
by the legal and constitutional accomplishment of almost every object for which I had 
contended, and the eee of almost every wish that I had so long indulged, 
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In addition to my ordinary share in the duties of the Senate, I had the aes to 
be the favored instrument of first bringing before it the great question of Temperance; 
and through the investigations of a Committee, I had the satisfaction of presenting to 
the world such a body of evidence and so demonstrative a Report, as to convince a 
large portion of the British nation, that it was their solemn duty to God and man, to 
follow ican brethren in the noble example agg they were the first to set in 
this most important branch of Moral and Social Refor 
Of the remainder of my labors as a member of the British Legislature, it is not ne- 
cessary that I should jek but I may perhaps, without presumption, be apa to 
add — and there are happily now in the city of New-York some of the m 
and influential of my constituents among the merchants and ssid of Shet- 
field, who can confirm the statement — that I had ose happiness to sit as the represen- 
tative of that large and opulent town for a period e 
em an account of my sages in ARE: 
ndering up my trust to the hands of those whe first b 
gulacraly crowned with the testimony of 2 unsniaoa appebation, and sent beck 
to the House of Commons as their Representa 
confidence than before. 
The period came, however, in which it was necessary, for _ mterents of thone: ied 
are dear to me by blood and family ties, and for 
to provide, that I should quit my senatori sad gia and after nearly diaty sheet odeteed 
to the service of the public, at a sacrifice of ease, fortune, leisure, domestic en: jjoyment, 
and indeed every a wi languid and characte, that I should Tesign my trust to some * 
activity, that 
might be spared a bbe, er age should eonletss pein impracticable, to providing @ 
retreat for the win and acquiring the means of making that retreat indepen- 
dent as well as Saale I accordingly announced this intention, and the reasons on 
which it was grounded, and at the close of the last session of Parliament in July, 1837; 
I paid a farewell visit to my constituents at Sheffield, where, though all our previous 
meetings 1 been cordial, hearty, and affectionate in the extreme, this was more cor- 
tinged with a new element of sorrow 
more regret — 
than any that had gone before. - oe 
Cialis LS. 
