LIST of the MEMBERS returned to serve in the second | Carnarvon Town-Hon. E. Paget, t

PARLIAMENT, of the UNITED KINGDOM. (** Those marked thus () were not in the last Parliament. Those marked thus (†) are new for the respective places. All the rest are re-elected. The figure after the name shews in how many Parliaments the Member has served. Those marked thus (¶) are returned for more than one place.)

Castle Rising P. I. Thellusson, 2, C. Chester,
Cheshire-T. Cholmondeley, 1, +W. Egerton, 2
Chester-Lord Belgrave, 4, T. Grosvenor, 2
Chichester Rt. Hon. T. Steele, 5, G. W. Tho
Chippenham-*C. Brooke, J. Dawkins, 4
Christchurch-Rt. Hon. G. Rose, 3, +W. Sturges, I
Cirencester-Sir R. Preston, 2, M. H. Beach, 2
Clithero Hon. J. Cust, Hon. R. Curzon, 1
Cockermouth-*Robert Ward, James Graham
Colchester+J. Dennison, 1, R. Thornton, 4
Corffe Castle-H. Banks, 5, N. Bond, 5
Cornwall County-Sir W. Lemon, 7, Francis Gre
gor, 2

Bridgnorth-J. Whitmore, 2, I. Hawkins Browne, & Gloucestershire-Hon. G. Berkeley, 5, Marquis of

Bridgwater-G. Pocock, I, J. Allen, I
Bridport Sir E. Nepean, I, G. Barclay, 2
Bristol-Rt. Hon. C. Bragge, 2, Evan Baillie
Buckinghamshire-Marquis Titchfield, 2, Earl
Temple, t

Buckingham Town-Rt. Hon. T. Grenville, 2, *Ld.
W. A. Proby

Callington-J. Inglet Fortescue, 1, Paul Orchard, 4
Calue Lord Henry Petty, J. Jekyll, 4
Cambridgeshue-Lord C. Manners, Rt. Hon. C.
York, 2

Cambridge University-Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, 5, Earl
Euston, 3

Cambridge Town-Hon. E. Finch, 4, Robert Man

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Maw's, St.-Rt. Hon. W. Windham, 4, Sir W. Shaftesbury-*E. L. Loveden, *Rob. Hurst

Newport, Cornwall-J. Richardson, 1, W. Nor-Tamworth-Sir Robert Peele, 2, †Gen. W. Lof they, I

Nottinghamshire-Lord W. Bentinck, 1, Hon. E. Tsuro-Leveson Gower, 1, J. Lemon, I
Pierrepoint, &

Wallingford-Sir Francis Sykes, 5, *W. Lewis | Edinburgh City-Right Hon. H. Dundas, 6 Hughes

Warwickshire-Sir G. A. W. S. Evelyn, 5, *D. S. Forfarshire-Sir David Carnegie, 1

touche

Rob. La

Kilkenny County Right Hon. W. B. Ponsonby,
Hon. J. Butler

Kilkenny City-*Hon, Charles Butler

King's County-Sir L. Parsons, T, Bernard
Kinsale James C. Rowley

Leitrim County Lord Clements, *P. Latouche,
Junior.
Limerick County-*C, S. Oliver, W. Odell
Limerick City-Charles Vereker
Lisburne-Earl of Yarmouth

Londonderry County-*Lord G. Beresford, Hon,
C. T. Stewart

Londonderry City-Sir G, Fitzgerald Hill
Longford County-*Hon. T. Newcomen, Sir T.
Featherstone

Louth County Right Hon. J. Foster, W. G. For

tescue

Mallow Denham Jephson

Mayo County Hon. H. A. Dillon, Hon. D. Browne
Meath County Sir M, Somerville, *F, Bligh
Monaghan County-R. Dawson, C. P, Leslie
Newry-Right Hon. Isaac Corry
Portarlington *Henry Parnell

Queen's County-on. W. W, Pole,

Coote

Roscommon County*Hon. E. King,
French

Sir E.

Arthur

Ross (New)-*Charles Tottenham, jun.
Sligo County Charles O'Hara, J. E. Cowper
Sligo Town-Owen Wynne

Tipperary County Lord F, Mathew, John Bag

well

Tralee Right Hon. George Canning
Tyrone County James Stewart, Right Hon, J.

Stewart

Waterford County Right Hon. J. Beresford, tEd-
ward Lee

Waterford City-Wm. Congreve Alcock
Westmeath County G. H. Rochfort, Wm. Smith
Wexford County Lord Loftus, Abel Ram
Wexford Town *R. N. Furness

Wicklow County-W. H. Hume, Geo. Ponsonby
Youghall-John Keane

various and weighty duties. I will fairly own to
you also, Gent., that there is another consideration
which powerfully affects my mind; I mean the
prodigious size of our vast county: its population,
its wealth, and all those other circumstances by
which it is distinguished. I know indeed that it is
constitutional language to affirm, that a member of
parliament for any place, be it what it may, is,
when chosen, the representative, not of his own
particular constituents, but of the people of Eng-
land in general: that the member for Utd Sarum is
a member of parl. equally with the member for
the very county in which we stand. This is an
opinion which, in the main, I myself hold: it is
sound constitutional doctrine, which I main-
tain, and which on this day I publicly avow:
but yet, gentlemen, he must have a mind of
greater power of practical abstraction than min,
or have firmer nerves than I possess, who, when -
the rights, the interests, the credit, the character,
the honour of this great county, (itself a little
KINGDOM) are committed to his care, does not
feel himself loaded with a burthen far more
weighty than that which he would have to beas,
if he were the representative of some decayed
town or some inconsiderable borough.

Gent. I trust I may appear before you with boldness, because though conscious of many errors and imperfections, I can truly declare, that I have acted with honest and pure intentions, with a mind unbiassed by personal considerations or party mo tives; with a sincere desire of promoting the welfare of our common country-I have not made the sacred trust which you confided to me, subservient to the purposes of my own interest or aggrandi zement,

Gent. I trust 1 may also affirm, that I have not been inattentive to the local concerns and partie cular interests of my constituents.-Chiefly indeed owing to a weak constitution, which after the labours of a session of parliament requires to be testored by medical attention, and recruited by rest and quiet, partly from various other causes, I have been less personally present among you than it was my wish to be, but I have trusted that you would prefer the solid substance of diligent atteq tion to your public and private concerns, before those petty personal assiduities in which they must needs abound, who by them would compensate for the scanty performance of more important duties. -Gent. it is natural for me, in meeting you in this place, and giving, as it were, an account of my stewardship, to cast my eye backward upon the leading events which have happened since. we were last assembled here upon the same occasion. We have lived in times fruitful, in events the mast important and extraordinary, in times abounding also in difficulties which have often rendered the path of duty the object of serious, difficult, and painful inquiry. Allow me here to mention on consideration which often tends to mislead others Gent. In appearing before you upon the pre-on this head, and to make them think the difficulty sent occasion, I cannot but feel that I am placed in a serious, and I might almost say, an awful situation; for I am come before you to render up an account of the trust which six years ago your kindness committed to me; and when I consider gence; we weigh with close attention; and after the weight and importance of that trust, under all, when we have long poised the balance, and any circumstances, and still more when I reflect watched it with a wary and impartial eye, we are on the very critical and portentous times during scarcely able to make out to our own satisfaction which I have possessed it, which have tended to which of the two scales preponderates: yes when multiply its difficulties and increase its responsi- at length we declare our opinion, thus slowly and bility, it is natural for me to feel that I am in a painfully formed, we are apt to speak with congrave and solemn situation, now that I stand be-fidence and positiveness, as if there were no doubt fore you to answer to you for the discharge of its to be entertained on the point in question. This

Substance of Mr. Wilberforce's Address to the Freeholders of the County of York, on being proposed as one of the Members.

of forming a right judgment in political questions to be less than it really is. Not seldom it hap pens, that honestly desirous of doing our duty, we meditate with seriousness, we inquire with di

the true interests of their country. These gent. are at least my principles, and it is fit that you should know them. Conscious of upright intentions, yet when I consider the serious, important, and complicated duties of the situation for which I presume to propose myself, I should feel afraid to venture on the task, where I not also supported by the assured persuasion, founded in long and uniform experience, of the candour, or rather kindness, with which you judge the conduct and con◄ strue the motives of your representative.

difficulty of judging aright in the complicated cases which come before us, should teach those who think differently on political subjects, mutual moderation and candour. We cannot expect that even our constituents should approve of every particular of our conduct. They may indeed, and ought to require, that their representative should agree with them in the great principles of political conduct, and likewise in the general line to be pursued in any given conjuncture of affairs. But provided there be this general agreement, they ought not too serupulously to look for an exact coincidence in every individual vote, and on every particular question,-Gent. I heartily rejoice to find that you After having been unanimously elected, Mr. approve of these principles, they are principles Wilberforce spoke in substance as follows: worthy of the rank you hold, and of the place you Gent. I will trespass on your patience for a fill in our national representation. They send very few moments, but I should be unfaithful to your member to parliament the free and liberal my own feelings, if I were not to express to you representative of a free people, and not your the grateful sense which I entertain of your great slave, fettered and shackled, a character which I and continued kindness. I cannot but feel it deepshould feel degrading, though it were to be the ly. I have not made the sacred trust, which you slave even of the county of York itself.-Gent. confided to me, subservient to the purposes of my when last I met you in this place, we were in cir-own interest or aggrandizement. I see also in its cumstances of great public danger. The prospect true point of elevation the exalted station to which shortly after became more gloomy, and the danger your favourable opinion has again raised me. Sufmore imminent; yet, even these dangers, great as fer me in truth to say, (a sentiment, the avowal of they were, appear but small, compared with the which, remarks that have been elsewhere made number and magnitude of those to which we were may render not improper) that I consider the hoexposed about the beginning of the very last year: nour of being your representative as one of the then, added to a new and powerful confederacy, highest dignities I could enjoy. Great is my resformed among the northern states, against the very pect for hereditary honours. It is still greater for sources of our maritime strength; added to the those which have been granted by the well-judging entire defection of our allies, and the union of al- band of our Sovereign, for brilliant exploits renmost all the powers of Europe against us, under dered to the Public by our great naval and military the guidance of our inveterate enemy, France, commanders, or for long and faithful services in which having forced the power of Austria to sue public offices of high trt and laborious duty. for peace in the posture of a suppliant, was enaBut he must have a mind constituted very differentbled to direct against us the whole undivided ly from mine; his estimate of things must be Strength of her vast empire, was superadded rebel- formed on very different principles; who could lion, but ill extinguished, in our sister kingdom, account as more honourable that nobility which and an apparent spirit of disunion in our public should be granted from motives of political inteCouncils. But through the wisdom, integrity, rest or personal favour, than the dignified and exfirmness, and dignified moderation of His Majes-alted station to which he is elevated, who, by the ty's late and present administration, supported by free and united voice of the freeholders of Yorkthe steady and liberal aid of parliament, under the shire, is elected to be the depository of their inteblessing of a gracious Providence, the black cloud rests, and the guardian of their rights.-The plea. which lowered over us has been dissipated, and sure which I feel cannot but be heightened, as inwe are restored to a state far more prosperous and deed the honour is increased, by beholding around promising. True, indeed, there has been a dread-me, so many of the same faces which I have been ful expenditure of blood and treasure. The vessel used to see on similar occasions, and by the testiof the state has suffered severely in the conflict, mony I thereby receive of their continued friendand has entered the harbour with her canvas ship and esteem.-Gent. the scene in which we zorn; but in the war of elements which we have are now present, is indeed a magnificent spectaswitnessed, how can it be but that she must have cle; to see the freeholders of this great county assuffered? I trust, however, that we are still in a si-sembled together, and freely choosing their own uation in which we may continue a great and a happy people.

Gent-t trust it will be our future policy to abstain, as far as possible, from those continental connexions, for which I had almost said the very integrity and good faith of the ministers and people of this country, render us unfit, inasmuch as we cannot keep or break our engagements accordingly as it suits the convenience of the present moment in the fluctuating state of human affairs,

We shall, I trust, cultivate our own internal resources, and endeavour to render our people secure, prosperous, and contented. I am happy to declare to you, gent. that the character of His Majesty's present administration, and the tenor of their past conduct, firm and temperate, but yet conciliating and unassuming, is a pledge for their continuing to act with the same honest and faithful attention to i

representatives in parliament, is a sight in the highest degree gratifying and animating to those who know the real nature and the high value of true liberty: of that liberty, which, as was so well stated by my friend beside me, whom it is a plea sure to me to be again able to call my colleague, is founded in law, inseparably connected with public order.-Let those deluded men, whether of this or of any other country, who have so far ma❤ taken the real spirit of liberty, as to confound it with anarchy, come hither and have their error corrected, and learn to know and admire that true image of constitutional freedom which is here exhibited. This is a lesson which it becomes this great county to give. Yes, gentlemen, it well becomes you, that as you con titute the county first in extent, in wealth, in population, in agricultural labours and commercial manufacturing industry, so that you should be first and foremost also in that which is still more excellent and elevated, in