Memoir of the Chisholm

HIS POLITICAL OPINIONS, &C. 69
close of the same year, at a public meeting of
the Freeholders of the county of Inverness, we
find him moving an Address to King Wil-
liam the Fourth, the object of which was to
assure His Majesty of their attachment to
his person, and of their gratitude for the
sanction then given by the Crown to the cor-
rection of certain abuses in the representative
system ; of their confidence in the firmness
and integrity of His Majesty's ministers at
that time (the cabinet of Earl Grey), and of
their abhorrence of the atrocious outrages
which in some places had been perpetrated
under the assumed mask of reform. The
mere recital of these topics set forth in the
Address will remind the reader of the great
political excitement which, at that time, pre-
vailed throughout every part of the United
Kingdom. The Bill for Parliamentary Reform
had been brought into the House of Com-
mons ; and, although carried by a majority of
one, its progress afterwards was obstructed
by adverse divisions, and a hasty dissolution
of Parliament had taken place. Then followed
the popular struggle and the popular triumph
of the general election, the re-introduction of