The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-06-08 00:00:00

TORK,N'R • !.t.O

FINAL CLOSE OF 1 t I L.I.:CTION FOR THE
COUNTY OF YORK

STATE MS EACH DAY'S POLL.
Mr 141:berf.. re. Lord ,' I. tin , 1i 'a. If La•dr.! rs.
I.t Day . . IA
24 . . . 923
34 . . . 1173
Ith . . . 1422 . . . 1:22 119,
Sth . . . 1641
6,h . . . 1.353
it.' . . . 91;
Kilt . . . 766 • • • . 691 . 6B)
9,a . . . 6't) .5(.1
:.., . . . 41) . . . . . 444
11•.1 . . . 44 . . . . . 619
1..,i . . . Z,71 . . . . 5:.1.6
rith . . . 291
I)'h . . . :AI
1. ~ . . . 7)0 ..... sr , e

ioU!. 1 1

11.177

1U,990

The fifteenth being the last day allowed for the
Pull, at the close, toe High She iff, after stating
the total numbers for etch Candi 'ate, declared W.
Wilberforce, Esq. and the Right Hon. Lord Milton
duly eledeti to represent this county in the ensuing
Parliament.
In cons: quence of the indisposition of M- Wilber-
force, Si, It. D.Hisnvaso retorried thatiks to the
Fteeholdets for placing Mr. Wilberforce at the
head of the Pull, confident they would ever find him
indetAtigAble. and attentive to their interests.
Loyd Mooron returned sincere and heartfelt
flooks for the honour conferred, by choosing him
their Representative in Parliament. Ha alluded
st:,;n,fly to the expressions gone abroad relative to
the irritation of the pui.hc mind, which he attri-
buted to the present A.iin;nistration ; peculiarly by
dissolving Parliament, when tht minds of the peo-
ple were heated, and unequal to exercise their cool
and dispassionate judgment, and felt gratified that
the Freeholders of the county of York had vindi-
cated the condult of the late Administration in his
person. He avowed his parliaMentary conduf
would be in unison with those champions for Li-
berty, Hampden and Sidney. He recommended
his friends to enjoy the vidory they had gained
with moderation; for by ading contrary to the
friends of his opoonents, (when they appeared to
have a temporary Advaratage,) they would evince
th- i- magnanimity.
The Hon. H. Lascsttes returned thanks to
those who had honoured him with their support.
He maintained, that the state of the Poll evinced
he ./ffered himself upon no weak grounds: he al-
luded to the expressions of the Noble Lord, relative
to the irritation of the public mind ; and after some
observations on the poll, declared he lett more
gratified in the ration he then wai, than he should
have been in that the Noble Lord had arrived at.
Lord Milton was then ;haired in the usual mul-
lein round the Castle-yard and through some of the
principal streets of this city, accompanied by a most
numerous body of his friends, in which he received
the hearty and free acclamations of many thou-
sands of Freeholders and Citizens.
Mr. Willserforat's illness prevented his appearing
sre the Hustings, consequently the ceremony of
chairing, on his part, was dispensed with.
Thus on Friday, the of June, terminated the
above arduous struggle; a struggle, byes!' the Can.
didatet an•l their friends, of such strength and per-
severance, as has never, at arty period, been equalled
at any County Eli lion in the kingdom. Indeed,
the pert axes lions put in force are not to be won-
dered at, when it is to be considered, that the repro-
s•rntation of this extensive, populous, rich, and inde.
'pendent County of York, great in her manutadures,
eon to be the high reward of two of the Candidates.
Nothing, since the days of the revolution, has
ever presented to the world such a scene as has
been. tut fil,r.in days and n glas, passing within
this great county. Repose or rest have been WM
knoss n in it, except it was seen in a messenger, to-
tally worn out, asleep upon his post-horse or on his
carriage. Every day the roads, in every dire lion,
and to and from every remote corner of the county,
have been covert! with vehicles loaded with voters;
and huolictes, curricles, gigs, flying waggons,
minis y Cats, wall eight horses to them, crowded
oinseciroes with +0 voters, have been scouring the
country, leaving not the smallest chance for the
quiet traveller to s.rge his humble journey, or find
it chair at an O.n to sit down. upon.
l'he Stratford Jubilee was only a miniature pic-
ture of it. It is reckoned that, one day with ano-
ther, ahoot eight hot e, a day were found dead upon
the Jitiereot roads. And every house, every room,
every hed is' ork, by an incessant change of Voters,
At tire rate of &boot two thouiAnd a cley,—rreated a
consumption of provisions,—that mio blt have other.
s.O.e yeti Otis City fur twelve months.
The fair sex, as the best canvacers, were distin.
rishAbk hi a high degree. Amongst tke ',antes
G• s' to be mentioned, is ttoit of Nisi Osboldeston,
rat !outs= Bud:rel, whose exertions for Lord Milton
w:-rd
The splendour and the popularity were all on the
side of Lore Milton. The c,ndu,f of Mr. LAS.
Mkt., in aU his behaviour, in all fu, speecnes, will
ever en•itle him to regent in l'orkiihire. Mr. Wit.
bottorce was taken skit in the lost days of the pod,
and could not appeer on the hos:jogs. Sir It Iliid-
yardatteermtedfr -quently to osy a t. w words fir h.im.
From ::re hustings and the windows of each Car..
dilate', house, spreche. wire DI tde each day, after
the eon of the poll, aniiist the huzeas of their
ri socetive atfordatits. A litautiMl inurnination was
y,.• _n by Lord Milton, on the King's bath-day, a.
• id le's.
Cl at toe House of Rockingham h.; triumphed
i•s 'lnc el irons stn uoole, wilt tb^ j ir!,,llr received,
not only shr,•ugi.t.er
the ktogdom : :.ailed by every
poli o,—by airy Vvrt of 1o) .1 y andcnasti:i.tional
o -ndeaceF-!.! every Mint .1 of noble an I vie.
tut oncestry,•-aii.l by es.ity ov.riy to corr
'pet .14ii.m, anJ aroolerAnce.—(l',,4 )

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY. iota 8.

The present Ministers have ma.'e great exertions
to assist our Allies upon the Continent. With the
command of the ocean in their hands, they sent the
hired vessel, to relieve the City of Dantzic, but
without rife°. Any deficiency, however, in execu-
tion, they have made up for in preparation. On Sa-
turday there were about t) transports at Der ford ;
SO of them are copper-bottomei vessels, which are
supposed to be intended for a remote destination.
01 the other SO sail, some arc fitted up for horse,
and others for troop ships. On Tnui sday, 101 more
transports sailed from Gallions, near IVoolwich.
The horse ships are to rendezvous at Ramsgate, and
the troop ships in the Downs. Other vessels are
taken up every hour, in great numbers, in the Pool.
Great quantities of naval and military stores are
shipping on board the transports, at Deptford.—
Capt. YOUNG, of the navy, who belongs to the
Transport Office, is indefatigable in his exertions to
get the transports fitted for Sea ; and to have the
stores put on board. The Treasury Journals are
become impatient for the sailing of the Expedition.
Dantzic, to be sure, has fallen, but then there are so
many vulnerable points between the Streights of
Gibraltar and the Baltic, it is mortifying that so
much money, and so many men, should be lying un-
employed at borne. Some people think, that Mi-
nisters are not agreed upon a particular destination;
but the followers of Lord CASTLEREAGH think
that they should have four or five saings to their
bow, and that it would be premature to settle that
question, until the Expedition is at Sea, when it
should shape the course direSed by existing cir-
cumstances, and for which wind and w.-ather at
the moment should prove most favourable. The
loud noise attending the Secret Expedition appears
to have reached Holland. Letters from Rotterdam,
received on Saturday, mention, that a gen.,ral ap.
prehension prevails in that country of an invasion
from England. The Isle of Walcheren was sup.
posed to be the first ebjea of our attack, and ex
traordinary efforts were makiag to improve the de-
fences of Flushing ; the inhabitants were dire2ed to
be constantly supplied with provisions for six we: Its,
and the bakers were ordered to be prepared with
their current consumption of flour and wood for the
same period.

The Dutch General DsstoNc6Ati has been ap-
pointel Vice-Governor of the Haase Towns.

We have received Paris papers to the 30th last,
and Dutch to the 3d inst. They contain the 74th,
75th, and 76th Bulletins of the Grand Army,
dated Finkenstein. the 16th, ISth, and 20th, suc-
cessively. They disclose no event of which we
were not priviously informed by the Papers brought
by the Tonningen Mail ; the intelligence ►y which,
announcing the aftual surrender of Dantaic, comes
d ,wn many days later than the intelligence in the
Bulletins, which are given in the last page.

A Gey tleman who arrived in town yesterday,
from York, has favoured us with a number of that
excellent paper. The rerk Herald. containing an
account of the final close of the Yorkshire Eleition,
which is given in a preceding column. It is not
true that Mr. LAICILLES declined on Thursday
night. On the contrary, be mi.i.tained the contest
to the last mensent, when Mr. WILIIISORCE and
Lord MiLTOII were duly returned. His Lordship's
majority over the Hon HENRI' LASCILLSS war
187.

The Qtatal schooner, from Madeira, is arrived at
Plymouth, with dispatches from Sir Samos:. noon.
She sailed on the 19th of May. Sir Samuel Hoop,
with the Centaur, Captain, Gutges, Achille. and De-
finer, of the line, and Comas sloop, arrived at Ma-
deira, on the 18th of May, from a cruise off the
Canaries.

The 7-4),kr, with Generals WHIT Imo IC and
Gowen on board, was off Port Praya, bland of
St. Jago, Cape de Verd, on the 3d of April, in 23
,lays from Portsmouth, proceeding to the River
Plate.

We have copied from 74e G,seite, of Saturday
night, the Address of the Univitaity of Dublin to
Flis MAirsr,t, upon the change of Ministry.—
When the public consitlitr the undue influence at-
tempt-d to be exercised upon that learned and re.
speEla'sle S-minary, the Address will be found to
refket great credit upon its spirit and liberalil.

It w.s repn►ted last night, we hope untruly, that
Mr. Wit rsKIITOUCE was dead.

W have recrived. The Levies Gazette, of the
conminiog a letter frim Paris, of the RI st
of NIAy. which V;lt'L that the re•pettive grand
Armies were kept im a state of inatlivity by the
s,nie cause—the chliiculiy of supplying troops in
with provisions, in the ptccettt cabal/ mod
i:Ate of the country.