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REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY OF YORK

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
GEORGE-INN, Yong, DEc. 9.

A Meeting was held this day at the George
Inn, in York, to recette the report of the deputation appointed
to wait upon Mr. William Duncombe with the requisition
agreed upon last Friday. A number of gentleman had arrived
at twelve o'clock, and about half-past twelve Lord Macdonald
was called to the chair. His Lordship. briefly informed the
entleruen assembled, that the deputation. 'appointed at the
former meeting had waited upon Mr. Wilson with the vote of
thanks, and upon Mr. William Duncombe with the requisition
then agreed to, to which each of those gentleman had returned
answers expressed in the following terms:-
31R. IVILSON.3 ANSWER.
My Lord—The Gentlemen of the York Meeting will, I
!hope, suffer the gratitude to he Mix understood, that I cannot
sufficiently express, for their resolution in my favour",
-1 beg' to assure them, through your Lordship and the Gen-
tlemen who do me the honour to accompay you, of the addi-
tional confidence I derive from their approbation of my conduct
in declaring myself a candidate for the representation of this
county at the ensuing General Election ; and that I shall ever
bear it in recollection, however unequal to requite their sup-
port and favour.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your most
obedient faithful servant,
Melton, Dec. 7. RICHARD FOUNTAYNE

MR. W. DUNCOMBE'S ANSWER.
My Lords and Gentlemen—l acknowledge with the deepest
sentiments of gratitude'and respect the recept of the resolutions
which you have done me the honour to convey to me, signed
by a numerous and most respectable body of freeholders, of.
fering me their suffrages, provided I would allow myself to be
put in nomination for the representation of this county in Par-

Bement.
However diffident I might feel in aspiring to so distinguished
a situation, and however difficult and arduous the duties which
belong to it, 1 consider it but due to those who have honoured
me with this testimony of their confidence, to declare my wit-
lingness to comply with their wishes.
To find that those principles which I have thought it my duty
to support in Parliament have met with the approbation of a
large portion of the freeholders of this county, is highly.gratify-
ing to my feelings ; it is my anxious wish to preserve inviolate
those establishments in Church and State to which you express
so firm an attachment ; and to extend to all his Majesty's sub-
jects the most perfect toleration in their religious opinions, con-
sistent with the security of the existing Protestant constitu-
tion ; and should I be so fortunate as to be elected one of your
Representatives in Parliament, keeping always in view these
important objects, I will use my best exertions to promote the
general welfare of the nation, and to advance the prosperity of
all the great interests with which this great county is so essen-
tially connected.—l have the honour to be, my Lords and
Gentlemen, your most obedient and very faithful servant,
Duncombe-park, Dec. 8. WILLIAM DUNCOMPE.
A vote of thanks to Mr. William Duncombe was then moved
by the Rev. D. It. Curses, and seconded by the Rev. T. C. R.
Read; and the following Gentlemen were appointed a deputa-
tion to wait upon that Gentleman—the Chairman, Mr. Low-
ther, Mr. Hill, Mr. F. Scott, Mr. Roundel], and Mr. Read.
A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated.
All the machinery for a contested election in the county of
York is now coining into motion. In the course of the present
week, the agents of Mr. Fontayne Wilson and Lord Milton
have been organizing their law agencies, and an active canvass
has already taken place for Mr. Wilson, in the West Riding,
in the form of requisitions. Thus, this great county, certainly
at a period of six months before the dissolution of Parliament,
and possibly at a distance of 16 months from that time, is to be
visited with the evils of a contested election, for no other reason
that we know, than because the spirit of intolerance burns so
fiercely in the breasts of a number of agitators, that it cannot
be restrained. We are not aware that either Mr. Wortley,
Lord Morpeth, or Mr. Bethel, have yet sent out retainers to
their law agents ; and we collect from an expression in Mr.
Wortley's letter to the Vicar of Bradford, that he thinks it
will be early enough to prepare for a new Parliament when
that which at presents exists is dissolved. When the first
horsts of the No Popery cry was opened in Yorkshire, a few
persons were led away with it, and they gave in to the schemes
of the agitators without consideration ; but even they now
begin to inquire, What is the tendency of all this, and into
what situation are we hurrying ourselves ? Is the only requi-
site for a Member of the County a disposition to exclude the
Dissenters, whethet, Catholic or Protestant, from the full bene-
fits of the British Constitution ? if so, might not an automaton,
that could be brought on the floor of the House of Commons,
and so constructed as to articulate " no," when any effort was
made in that House far the extension of religious liberty, prove
a very able and dignified representative of the county of link ?
" Shall we," say the electors in the manufacturing and com-
mercial parts of the county, in particular, " disregard the great
question of the Corn Laws," likely so soon to he agitated, and
on which our prosperity and happiness as a nation so imme-
diately depend' Ought we not to inquire whether Mr. Foun-
tayne Wilson is a friend to the revision and to the final .ex-
tinction of those laws which oblige our manufacturers to eat
bread at a dearer rate than the bread which is eaten by the
classes on the Continent of Europe, with whom
manufacturingwe have o compete ? Instead of Popery,' would not the
more rational cry be, No Corn Laws ?' and least of all should
countenanceeve the active promoters of those laws."