Memoir of the Chisholm

70 RESIDES AT ERCHLESS CASTLE.
the Reform Bill, its passage through the
House of Commons, and its rejection by the
House of Lords. It is needless to detail the
wretched and distracting strife attending all
this train of events ; still less can it be re-
quired to make any further mention of the
violent outrages referred to in the Address,
and which, at Nottingham and Bristol espe-
cially, had caused such great destruction of life
and property ; for the traces of that violence
are not even yet effaced from the scenes in
which it was perpetrated, nor can the memory
of it have passed away from the hearts either
of those who witnessed, or those who from a
distance were assured of, its sad reality.
The only reason which has induced the
writer to allude to these circumstances at all,
has been to point out the testimony which
they bear to the nature of the Ohisholm , s
political opinions, at the time when he thus
appeared before the Freeholders of the county
of Inverness. The speech of a mover of an
Address, such as that which he was then called
upon to propose, may always be regarded as
proclaiming the sentiments, and oftentimes as
being the echo, of the Address itself. The