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J> &J0 T^-e'f 5 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ALEXANDER RAPHAEL, ESQ., M.P. FOR ST. ALBANS; AND LORD LOVELACE, LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY. My Lord, I BEG respectfully to repeat my request that you will recommend the insertion of my name in the Commission of the Peace for the County of Surrey. My apology for this importunity is, that I feel my exclusion from the Commission as a degradation, and I fear that it must be regarded as such by others. It is, I believe, generally understood, that the pos- session of an adequate amount of property in any county entitles any man, who has attained to a respectable rank in society, to the Commission of the Peace in that county : and as it is impossible to suppose that a nobleman or gen- tleman invested with the office of Lord Lieutenant can think himself at liberty to indulge private feeling or mere caprice in the administration of a high public trust, the continued refusal of a Lord Lieutenant to recommend a person pos- sessing the usual claims from property and rank, can be ascribed to no other cause than some supposed blot upon the character of the person so unfavourably distinguished . Now as respects property, my Lord. I am, and for 40 years have been, one of the most extensive landed pro- prietors, if not actually the most extensive landed proprietor in my division of our county ; and with respect to my rank, that I presume was once determined by the suffrages of the citizens of London, who elected me their Hi-h Sheriff in 1830; again, })y the favour of the Lord Lieutenant of Mid- dlesex. the ^Lirquis of Salisbury, through whose kindness I hold the office of Deputy Lieutenant of that county ; and once more by the suffi«ages of the electors of St. Alban's. who have placed me in the honourable, important, and responsible position of a member of the House of Commons.* Under these circumstances I must, in justice to your Lordship, assume that you must have been made acquainted with some supposed objectionable circumstance in my character, if you still refuse the recommendation which I respectfully solicit ; but if you have been informed of any objectionable circumstances in my character, I think that I am entitled to demand of your candour, an explanation of the nature of that circumstance, or at the very least an express declaration that you trill not give such explanation. I have the honor to be. Your Lordship's Very obedient humble Servant, ALEXANDER RAPHAEL. August 31, 1850. Grantham, 4th [Sept.], 1850. f Sir, I HAVE to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo. Although I have felt mvself unable to defer to the wish you have put forward, I have expressed this without personal disrespect for you. But I decline on the present occasion, as I did in the interview which took place on this subject at Horsley on your request in the spring, to specify for your information my reasons for not complying with your desire. I cannot undertake to discuss with every or indeed with any candidate for the magistracy, the question of his fitness according to his own view for that office. The only remaining point in your letter which I feel it desirable to notice is the assumption, " that some supposed blot on your character has influenced me," in which you are mistaken. I am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, LOVELACE. Alex. Raphael, Esq., M.P. / Since the commencement of the Correspondence, Mr. Raphael has been mcluded in the Conunission of the Peace for the county of Hertford by the present Chancellor, upon the recommendation of the Lord Lieutenant— Lord Verulam.