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London, England, 1825-12-10 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION If the COUNTY of yotur.

[From the Leeds Intelligeneer.l
On Saturday the adjourned meeting of the Friend. or
the Protestant Cause, in Leeds, was held at the Court
House, and a report of the preceding occurrences received.
A resolution was then paced, that copies of the requilisi,
to Mr. Wilson, and of that Gentleman's answer, as ',di
of the resolutions entered into at York, and of the rtgo
sition to Mr. Duncombe, should be printed and distributed'
throughout the county, prefaced by a letter from 0,,
Mayor.
On Monday the Friends of the I'rntestant Cause in
43radford held a meeting at the Talbot Inn, to receive tile
Rerort of their Deputation.
We may truly add, that in every quarter Ur. Willows
compliance with the call of the county, and the proeeedin„3
at York, have giren unmixed satisfaction, and inspired%
confidence bordering on Certainty of the complete success
of the Protestant cause in tbis county.
During Lord Macdpnald's stay in Leeds, his Lordstip
had the pleasure to receive a letter from C. Duneornbe
Esq. of Duncornbe Park, father of Mr. Wm. Duncombe.
acknowledging on his own part, and that of his son, there.
ceipt of the Resolutions and Requisition already menticani.
The strongest expressions were employed in the letter io
express Mr. Duncombe's thanks, and those of
Duncombe to Lord Macdonald, to the Gentlemen who ea
at the George Inn, and to the Freeholders generally, for
the late proceedings relative to the Election. It also con.
tallied an invitation to his Lordship, the Mayor of teed,
and the other Gentlemen named in the sixth Resolution'
passed at York, to come and dine at Duncombe Park oa
Thursday, take beds there that night, and accompany Mr
Duneombe to York, to the adjourned meeting on Friday
for receiving the answer to the Requisition. From 16
tenor of the letter, acre is not the least doubt but
William Duncombe will come forward as another tan:Lai,
at the next election. The invitation bats of course been &
cepted, and Lord Macdonald. the Mayor of Leeds, awl
some other Gentlemen, left here this morning for Me!tcr
to visit Mr. Wilson, and proceed from thence to-mono,
to Duncombe Park.

Last week the Whigs had a private meeting at %VAL
fed, of the most covert description. The only pan of :1
proceedings which has been flitulgttlis, that it was dew
m'ned, on behalf of Lord Milton, to send retainers for ti
next election forthwith to all the solicitors in the count
who are supposed to be fri(n-l!y to his Lordship's intere
A great number of these communications have accordin[ii
been circulated, but in several instances not =vino.
Such a measure, on the part of one candidate, hating reo
dered it imperative on the others to 'follow the example,
great number of retainers have also been sent by Mr. R.
son to such solicitors as are disposed to give their profit.
sional aid to him at the ensuing election. Mr. Worth
has likewise thought it worth while to communicate wii
some of his constituents, and has, with that view, at
dressed the following letter to the Rev. Het.ry Heap, Vial
of Bradford :

Wortley Hall, Dec. 3. 1823.
Dear Sir,—Your letter of the 30th November, for some teas,.
which L cannot account for, only reached in. last night. 1
you very sincerely for the risurauces it contains, and am very at:
sable of the kindness which induced you to write it.
I cannot, however, ask support upon the ground of any thIV
in my opinion, as stated in the paragraph to which you 'lie,:
Whence such a report arose, I am quite at a loss even to conic
tore, and treated it, at first, u one of those things which so of:
appear in newspapers, respecting persons in public life, as if for th
sole purpose of filling the columns. Finding, however, that tome
Or my constituents, and the public at large, were likely to be de.
eeived by it. I wrote a letter on Tuesday last, to the Miter of the
Yorkshire Gazette, to deny the truth of it, which letter I audio.
razed him to insert in his paper of this very day.
But I should have hoped that a moment's reflection upon the
character I have hitherto sustained through life, would have ben
sufficient to have prevented any one of my constituents from prior
credit to such a report.

For now nearly E 5 years, I have heard the question of Catholic
Emancipation argued and discussed, by men, perhaps. of therm.
sat masoning powers that ever adorned this country. It is impel.
sible that I should not have made up my mind upon it, in one inn
or other; and if I had not, I take leave to say, that.l should be
unfit fur the station in which 1 have been place during the two len
Parliaments. And I should he still more unfit For that honourable
station, if I could be induced to give up an opinion so formed. ft
the purpose, or with the hope. of obtaining a few rotes, teem the
utmost popularity at an election.
Upon the defence of this deliberately formed opinion, I will not
new enter, as it would lead me too far for the limits of this letter ;
but you know, and the country knows, that I at ro time shtinl
from the defence of any opinions I may have, and I look formed
with anxious impatience to an opportunity when I can meet, fire
to face, those persons, who are now falsely insinuating that I hare
ever deceived my constituents upon this subject.
The Gentlemen who are now, for the first time. asking the
confidence of the Freeholders. may be justified in taking steps et
this pestod to bring their pretensions berme them, while I cannot
but feel that some of the duty which his been intrusted to me a
still to be performed, and that until the whale is concluded, I
can have no right to ask for their renewed support. In the man
time I must trust to the kind feelings cf my friends to prevent my
suffering any disadvantage from tidy circumstance. Si henna
the proper time comes, I shell again 'orient myself to the county.
and it will be for the Freeholders to say, whether I hays executed
the trust they have reposed in me tin two Parliaments, diligently
and conscientiously.
Such has hitherto been my endeavour, and if I have succeeded in
it, I cannot believe that they will say that I am unfit to be spin
trusted, because I now adhere to an opinion upon this gteat sub.
jest, which I held, and had even acted upon. before my but
election to be one of the Representatives of this county.
You are quits at liberty not may w show this lout to any person
you may choose, but even to make it public is any way you may
think proper.
Again returning to you my thanks for the kind feelings you him
expressed towards me,
I am, dear Sir, your faithful humble servant,
J. A. bTUART WORTLEY.

The Reverend the Vicar of Bradford.
The followiug is the letter above alluded to, received
the Editor of the Yorkshire Gezef le.

Wortley Hall, Nov. 29,1&S
812,—1n your paper of Saturday last I observe the following ps.
ragraph, stated to be taken from the York Chronicle of the price.
hag Thursday, and which I have since seen repeated in the I.c■ita
Newspapers.
" Mr. S. Wortley—lt Is rumour:d, that in consequently; Its
change lately petceptible in the aspect of the Catholic comior,
Mr. Worthy does not consider himself warranted in suppetwi
in future."
Being at all times most anxious that my political opinions shot4i
be thoroughly known by my constituents, I am mote proru:rit
so at this pertod, and with reference to the great question alluded u
in the above paragraph.
I beg, therefore, to ray, that there is no foundation for the nroco
which tt mentions. . . _

You are at liberty, if you think proper, to publish aisle:es
your next number.—.l am, Sir,
Your very humble Servant.
J. A. STUART WORTLEY.

SPORTI NG INTEL LIGENCE.
SPORTING MEN.
We are sorry to learn that Colonel Jullffe Intends relinguitbint
his crack pack of fox-bounds, unless the County Comes forward to
-support them ; In which case his nephew, tin Baronet, win sig4
the management.
Lord Derby turned out on Tuesday at Walton Heath for the
first time this season. His Lordship has not arrived at the Oslo.
but is expected about Christmas.
We understand that the fourth day's rating at Epsom, rites.
blished this year with so much effect and ratification to the spot-
ing world, is to be continued for the future. Caasegaentli 11'6'
racy will now commence on the Tuesday, and the sane
viz. the Surrey Stakes being a Handicap, the 25zs. SverPu""'
the Shirley, and a 30gs. Stakes for horses tot in the Derby, are :-Jv
opened, and will close as on the last nccaslon.

PEDE STRIA NISIL—On Thurstlav last, at LAM'S Cr:elCet-
gr9und, a gentleman of the name of Bennett, the manager of
printing establishment in the vicinity cl Chancery-hire, uniiertm.
for a wager of one guinea and die elpi,",t, 'supra for writ,
patty, to wind off, in two hours and a half, a line 100
length, from • stake one inch In diameter, drove in the grourc,
by holding one end of the line in Lis hand, and running natal
until the whole was brought into a straight line. Having pre.
ended rapidly in a continuous circle fur the specified time, "'I
but a few yards being then wound off, he discovered that he bit
formed no idea of the length of his journey. Had he perse,"l
in his circuitous travels mitil the whole had been univoucti, he
would have performed • journey of nearly 1...!00

•
REPRESINTATIVi 111iAND.—State Of d'.e
voting this day (Tuesday, Dec. 6) :—Lord Farnham, 44.);
Lord Mountcashel, 34; Majority fur Lord Farnham, 6.--
Dublin Evening Post.
A strong contest is expected in Bisliopsgate Ward attic
ensuing election of Common-Councilmen. In the Ward .f
Farringdon Without also, a severe writqle is anticipatol•
and as many 13 ten new candidates have been spoken of.
A paragraph having appeared in some of the Ittrden
papers, stating that a subscription had been intended. to .
support the Anti-Catlwlic Candidates in the counts. al
Wal
York, we have authority to say that that paragtaPhs
totally unfounded.