Memoir of the Chisholm

HIS POLITICAL OPINIONS, &C. 71
Chisholm's speech, upon this occasion, is no
exception to the general rule ; and, therefore,
by this act, he publicly avowed himself a
supporter of the measures then urged forward
by the administration of Earl Grey. It was,
in truth, only a more deliberate confirmation
of the avowal which he had already made to
the same effect, when he seconded the nomi-
nation of Mr. Grant at the general election in
that year. Nor are these the only evidences
of the fact. The writer finds a notice in the
Inverness Journal, on the fourth of January,
1833, of a dinner given to the Hon. Stewart
Mackenzie, on which occasion, after the toast
of ' Civil and religious liberty' had been given
by Mr. Macleod of Cadboll, the Chisholm
was called upon to propose ' The new Parlia-
ment ;' and, in a short speech, commended it
to the approval of those present as being com-
posed, for the greater part, of the friends of
His Majesty's ministers. So likewise, on the
eleventh of the same month, in the same year,
another notice is found in the same journal of
a dinner given to the Right Hon. Charles
Grant, then M.P. for Inverness-shire, at
which the Chisholm was present, and pro-