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London, England, 1807-05-25 00:00:00

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GENERAL ELECTION.

SUSSEX ELECTION.

FrHE early Attendance of the FREEHOLDERS,
1 'in tit.: interest of IOHN r FULLER, Esq. testliill,4
and near,London, .is.earnetly requestecl,atLewes.
The Committee meet every Day at the Crown and Anchor,
Strand; from Eleven to Three; and, after that hour, at'lqr.
Baster's Chinnhers, No. 26, Lincoln's Inn Old-square; to
Whom all -Comrtynikations tending to secure :fir. Fuller's
Elation are reque-sted. to be made, and who will inuvide
CaFriiigeS' to eon vey.i he Voters to Loves.
X.lr..Fuller's committee at Lcwes meet at the White Hart.
• .State of the Poll :
. For Mr.,Wyndham
Mr. Fuller
Mr. Sergison

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TOtheGENTLEMEN,CLERGY,and FREEHOLDERS
• of-the COUNTY of DoNsLT. •
GENTLXMEN,
L 7 is andever will Ue a matter of the most pleasing
. `reflection • to tile; -that I have avain the distinguished
Honour of being returned one of your kepi esentaiivcs in Par-
liament: •Uubourtded-gratitude, as well as a sense of duty,
must always prompt me to adhere to such conduct as may
laest entitle me to ybur-aprobation;
•As a -NI einber ot the. House of ~Coininons, you shal I find
me aaing with Independence and Fidelity to the-trust- you
repose in;nie,and uPotievery•occasion most-ready and anxious
to,pay the utmost attention to the luter:.sts of my Consti_-
tuents'e - _

I cannot but lament that suspi4ns to my prejudice,. to-,
tally .untounded, relative to my conduct at this • EleaOn,
should have been entertained by . a single Freeholder. 1
flattered. _r4self .that my principles .were better known to
them, and that they would not readily have given credit
to -insinuations against - me. i have too much reliance
on their justice to doubt, that they will soon find how
mticli I have been misrepresented, and that 1 have not de-
servetkto lose any_ portion of thatsenekalesfeein whichit has
been toy constant study to retain.
•It.is my .deterannation .to take •an early opportunity of
paying my personal respects, to every Freeholder, which will
enable -me,• I .trust,' to remove from the mind of any indivi-
dual such impressions as. may have been made to my_disad-
vantage;

I have the lloriour to bc,
Gentlemen,
With the greateit regard and respect,
Your most obliged, and ever faithful hutrible Servant,
• W -NI 'ITT.

Diachester, May zo, IE:7.

To the FREEUOLD.E RSofthe COUNTY of FORFAR.
GENTLEMEN,
]:-BEN the People of these Kingdoms are called'
V v :41,91-, to exercise their right. of sending Representa-
tives to Parliament, it is usual for Candidates pubiiclv to
solicit the Votes and Interest of the F 'Moss ; hut: that a
Person who is NOT a Candidate should address you, rosy
'appear presumptuous, and certairtly requires an apology.
1 understand it has been reported in Fortarshire that several
Persons of great reSpettability.in our County had invited me •
to aspire to the high-honour of Representing you in Parlia-:
rnent, and that I had declined to accede to their proposal.,
.• I -alt roost anxious, Gentlemen, that my condutt on this
occasion should not •be misunderstood, that' my- motives
'should be as well known as the tad, and that I may not ap-
pear to have received with apathy, or lightly to 'have appre-
ciattd, so flattering a distindion.
I shell take the liberty, therefore, to introduce here art
Extra& from a Letter 'which I wrote to the Person who did
me_ the.honour to communicate the intentions of the Gentle-
oleo 'above alluded, to, • -
Will you have-the goodness to convey my reply to the.
Gentlemen of .ifOrfarshire who have communicated, through
you, their friendly intentions towards tue. 1 need scarcely
say, that I ani sincerely obliged to them, and highly flattered
at being thought of as a fit. Person to Represent the respecta
ble'euni hitherto independent County of Forfar.
I feel that an acceptance of their proffered support, and,
if successful, a zealous attention to the Moues of the sit ua.
tion, would -he the, only adequate- return in my power to
make. But there are (as I think). paramomit considerations,
which compel inc to decline this honour at present and put
it out of my power to skew my great tide, orherwise than by
words. it wilt •he Most satistactory to me, to state these
'reasons fairly, 'dud' I trust that my doing so•cannot'be con--
'sidereil as in the ',slightest degree disrespectful Gentlemen,
whose "good opinion it is my ambition to acquire and to retain. •
1 must profess myself a warneadroirer ()Utile general in-
teen= of His Majesty's late. Ministers, sod to be One of
those who think, that unless theu;e lineations be speedily,
attain their full extent, carried into etrecti the Safety of the
Empire will be endangered. I ant bound, therefore, to con-
trtbute my mite toward the attainmedt of this object, and to
retrain from any act which inient,i tinmettiately or seinote;y,
retard so deStrable •an 'event. I need not explain how these
considerations bear upon' the pointin question-their connec-
tion is.obvious.
Were I fo offer myself to the F. ledors of FOrfarShire, I
must in conscience telleheee, ',that I approve generally of the
votes given by their late Representative, in. the House of
Commons. Were the question to be put to me, why then
do you oppose the late Member? 1 protest I should be puz-
zled to .give an answer--1 could not titan inch of public
ground to' stand upen. Certainty I, could not have the pre-
surninion tdaeil.the Eledors of Forfarshiree that any tiling I
could say in trie House "tar Commons would induce His Ma-
jesty
to-replace my Lord Grenville at the, head tit his.Coun-
cits...' I entreat your attention, Gentlemen, only for a few
moments longer.
Pot the reasons stated in the letter I have just trans,:ribed,
1 thought .1 should best discharge my duty to you, and to
tny,ell, by offering my vote to your late Representative, Mr.
Mlule, whose past Parliamentary Conduct is a sufficient
pledge for the faithful discharge of his defy in future. .
If tnere are'persons who really believe, that the Constitu-
tion would be endangered, by granting to his Majesty a power
to he exercised at discretion, of uniting every class, anti eve-
ry iodivideal in its defence ; they maybe justified in ading
consistently with•this,thetr strange opirnole-while others,
whose sentiments are clinic the reverse, should unite, for the
purpose of.returning to Parliament men too wise to be scared
by suehipaginary dangers, and too honest to feign horror for
purposes.ef intrigue aukf faCtion'.
- The benefits which would result, at the present crisis,
front an 'enlightened, independent, and incorrupt House or
Coinetome, appear to me to be inceiculable. -
believe, Ueorlemen, it is the opituiou of the wieest.mene
that it' the Ecclesiastical Establishments of these Kingdonis
be ever brought into danger, it will neither be by the Pope,
nor the Protestant Dissenter, but by the errors of the un-
worthy part °Weir own body ; -by anen who, forgeteng that
enter Master's Kingdom is not of this world, degrade, nod
consequently etatalleer, the Church, by making it the instru-
rnent 0.1 t.ictinui, eed who prostitute the sacred name of Re-
hotel fen selfish :net secular purposes, .
It is. gratifyilig, however, to know,, that in various parts of
the,e Kingdoms, signal triuMphs have already been gained over
lietous bigotry. The cry, "No Popery," which seems to
hay.:thigitiateut • in-hypocrisy, and fur a time, to have been
-echoed by Fernaucisrn„ is' dying away.-Toe sensible and
holiest part of the Community now treat it with comeunpt,
and are not to be withdrawn from atreoding to real and ur-
gent dangers, by the apparitions of the long extitid perils of
past Cellrlifie3. .
,We are boatel to consider, with the most respe&ful deter-.
ence, His Ntajesty's conscientious scruples out the subject-of
the Catholic Claims ; being assured that they
,proceed trout
a sacred reeaid • for what His Majesty conceives to he the
spirit of his Coronation Oath, and from a tender solicitude
for the uettety Of Ms People.:-But we are not hound to treat
with respect or deterente, the- actions of many of His Ma.
jeety 's present Ministera„ in whose conduct on this great.
ten:seen, we can find oen her consistency nor apparent siecteity.'
Gentleineo, I cbnsider it an Honour to belong to a Ceutury,
which ter several successive Parliaments, has been represent •
ed by Men of truly Indeventient Prniciples, and 1 promise
you that I eever wilco:minute-to blemish so fair a C harader.
I have the lionotrr to bee with the greatest resped.
Yoar most.ebedietit and most. tithuble,Servant, • .
DOUG LASS :,;(4U.A.)I`..II4ILLYIsUR„I'ON.
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