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any influence, and unambitious of any patronage, other than the suffrages of those who 

 consider the impartial enjoyment of their rights, and the free exercise of their privileges as 

 objects not only worthy of the vigilance of the legislator, but also essential to their political 

 security aud to their local prosperity. The opportunity of addressing myself to men who may 

 be inclined to think with freedom, and to act with iudependeney, is to me truly desirable ; and 

 the receiving of the countenance and support of those characters, must ever bear in my mind 

 impressions more than gratifying. It wUl not accord with my sentiments, " the address pro- 

 ceeds to say, ' ' to express myself in the usual terms of zeal and fidelity of an election candidate ; 

 inasmuch as that the principle of previous assurances has frequently, in the exercise of the 

 functions of a representative, been either forgotten, or occasionally abandoned ; but I hope it 

 will not be considered vaunting in me to assert that that zeal and the fidelity which have 

 manifested themselves in the discharge of my duty to my clients, will not be abated in 

 supporting a more important trust — the cause of the public !" 



In the Oi-acle of April 7th is an address put forth by friends on the part of Mr. D. W.- Smith, 

 who is at the moment absent. It is "to the free and independent electors of the County of 

 Durham, the East Riding of the County of York, and the County of Simcoe." It runs as 

 follows : " The friends of the Hon. D. W. Smith beg leave to oflTer that gentleman to represent 

 you in the ensuing Parliament. His honor, integrity and ability, and the essential services 

 which, in different capacities, he hath rendered to the Province, are so well Known and felt that 

 his friends consider the mentioning of his name only to be the most powerful solicitation which 

 they can use on the present occasion, to obtain for him your favour and suffrage." To this 

 address the following paragraph is added on May the 5th : " The friends of Mr. Smith consider 

 it as their duty further to intimate, that from late accounts received from him in England, it 

 Avas his determination to set out from that country so as to arrive here early in the summer of 

 this present year." 



On the 2nd of May Mr. Macdonnell's address came out. He speaks like a practical orator, 

 accustomed to the outside as well as the interior of the House. He delivers himself in the 

 following vigorous style : — 



"To the Worthy Inhabitants of the East Riding of the County of York, and Counties of 

 Durham and Simcoe : Friends and Fellow Subjects. In addressing you by appellations unusual, 

 I believe, on similar occasions, no affectation of singularity has dictated the innovation : my 

 terms flow from a more dignified principle, a purer source of ideas, from a sentiment of liberal 

 and extensive affection, which embraces and contemplates not only such of you as by law are 

 qualified to vote, but also such as a contracted and short-sighted policy has restrained from 

 the immediate enjoyment of that privilege. Your interests inseparably the same, and alike 

 dear and interesting to me, have always been equally my care ; and your good will shall indis- 

 criminately be gratifying, whether accompanied with the ability of advancing my present pursuit, 

 or confined to the wishes of my succeeding in it. The anxious anticipation of events, which has 

 engaged so many persons unto such early struggles to supplant me, forces me also to anticipate 

 the dissolution of parliament, in declaring my disposition to continue (if supported by my 

 friends at the next general election) in that situation which I have now the honour of filling in 

 parliament ; a situation, which the majority of suffrages which placed me in it, justifies the 

 honest pride of supposing, was not obtained without merit, and inspires the natural confidence 

 of presuming, will not be lost without a fault. I stoop with reluctance, gentlemen, to animad- 

 vert upon some puny fabrications circulated to mislead your judgment, and alienate your 

 favor. It has been said that I am canvassing for a seat elsewhere. No ! gentlemen : the satis- 

 faction, the pride, of representmg that division of this province, which, comprehending the 

 capital, is consequently the political head, is to me, too captivating an object of political 

 ambition to suffer the view of it to be intercepted in my imagination for a moment, by the 

 prospect of any inferior representation. Be assured therefore, gentlemen, that I shall not 

 forsake my present post, until you or life shall have forsaken me. Another calumny of a darker 

 hue has been fabricated. I have been represented as inimical to the provincial statute which 

 restrains many worthy persons migrating into this province from voting at elections, under a 

 residence of seven years. A more insidious, a more barefaced falsehood,'never issued from the 

 lips of malice ; for during every session of my sitting in parliament, I have been the warmest, 

 and loudest advocate for repealing that statute and for rendering taxation and representation 



