The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-12 00:00:00

YORK FREEMEN.

(From the Yorkshire Gazette of June 6.)
The Sun newspaper of Thursday evening has the following
from a correspondent :

"PREPARATIONS FOR DISFRANCHISING TILE FREEMEN OF
YORK.

"Old Ebor, it appears, to pass through the crucible of
purification, in consequence of the enormous expenses incurred
at the late election. The expenses alluded to are the elec-
tioneering expenses of John Henry Lowther, Esq., whose,
committee has just discovered that the giving away of coals
and sovereigns cannot be repeated, or in other...words, that such
funds are exhausted. A new scheme, therefore, is proposed.
The tories have bought the freemen of York at all prices, till
they can buy them no longer, and now they feel the want of
their purse-strings, and wish to disfranchise them for the pur-
pose of preventing a repetition of their own nefarious acts, and
it is equally true that they dare nat attempt a repetition of their
bribery. Then let the freemen of York ask themselves whether
they are Mr. Lowther's vassals or not, and whether he bought
them to sell their birthright?"
The Sun's "correspondent," it would seem, must be the same
wilful fabricator as appeared in the columns of the York Herald
of last Saturday. We inserted a_paragraph the same day, con-
tradicting the statement of the Herald's correspondent, and it
now devolves upon us to repeat the contradiction to the lie as
it appears in the San. We have, however, a little further to
say on the subject than we troubled our readers with.last week.
The petition which has been 'got up for the purpose of procur-
ing the disfranchisement of the freemen of York, (for we are
ashamed to say such an attempt has been made,) is the work
of individuals nowise connected with the tory party, or the in-
terests of J. H. Lowther, Esq. The precious document has
met with so little encouragement here that it has scarcely been
known to exist, and an almost impenetrable veil of obscurity
ens-elopes it; so that it is difficult to ascertain much respecting
it. But we understand that this petition had at the time of its
getting up been fortunate enough, to obtain about a score of
signatures. Of these the three or four names which we have
been able to learn are of that class termed "liberal," and from
these we may safely conjecture the whole.. We.have once more
to assure the public that no such attempt as that of disfran-
chising the freemen of this city bas been made, no is their
disfranchisement desired by the tories of York. It is the mise-
rable, disappointed, sour-tempered whig-radicals, the defeated
supporters of Mr. Barkley and Mr. Dundas, who have been
attempting to take from the Yolk freemen their birthright.
The men who arrogate to themselves the extreme of "libe-
rality," and gull the people with ideal pictures of the exten-
sion of the elective franchise to all classes, are they who now
aim at shutting out the poor freemen from a voice in the elec-
tions of the country. Such conduct indicates a most surpassing
degree of impudence. And yet the anti-freemen petitioners
lack impudence for one *thing; and that is, to fare out boldly
the act they have committed. In very shame therefore of their
scandalous attempt they have repudiated the transaction, and
attach to their political opponents, the conservatives, the dis-
credit of their own foul act. The disgraceful motives assigned,
by the lying "correspondent," to the tories, whom he falsely
represents as the_ia_arents of the petition, are unworthy of a
serious answer. We presume that the petitioners are so sen-
sible of the vileness of their own conduct that they, feel as if
they could devise nothing too base for the purpose of blacken-
ing the character of the party who have committed .the the. crime of obtaining an honourable and generous victory
over them.

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present FRIDAY, the 12th instant, will be per-
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