Memoir of the Chisholm

RESIGNS HIS SEAT. 209
" To the Electors of the County of Inverness.
" Gentlemen, — Tt is with no ordinary re-
gret that I feel myself under the necessity, on
the ground of my health and other urgent
reasons, of resigning into your hands the seat,
as your representative in Parliament, with
which you have now twice honoured me. I
know you will give me credit for sincerity,
when I assure you that I could not have
formed a resolution of this nature without
much and anxious reflection.
"To my friends I shall take the earliest
opportunity of entering into a further expla-
nation than would be either suitable or pos-
sible in a public address. Meantime, I re-
quest them to accept this expression of my
most cordial and grateful thanks for the pri-
vate kindness to myself, with which their pub-
lic zeal for the cause with which I was identi-
fied has ever been mingled ; while to my hon-
ourable and consistent opponents I tender my
acknowledgments for the courtesy which I
have always experienced from them.
"To give up the proud distinction of repre-
senting in Parliament the county of Inverness
without a pang of sorrow, would be impossible.
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