JET. 35.] WILBERFORCE AND YORK. 47 



speak my attention to the Tythes proposition (and 

 certainly any plan of yours must claim my best atten- 

 tion), do let me beg you not to make up your mind 

 hastily concerning the best mode of taking the poll 

 in counties. There is, I grant, one difficulty in the 

 way of having the poll taken at the same time in dif- 

 ferent places that which arises out of the duties and 

 powers of the returning officer; still that difficulty 

 might be got over, and then that plan, for a thou- 

 sand reasons, is preferable to that of an ambulatory 

 sheriff. 



" I feel strongly the evil of giving up the general 

 assemblage of the freeholders, and I should like to try 

 to preserve some public meetings. But I must break 

 off quite abruptly, only once more thanking you most 

 cordially for the truly friendly treatment of me. I 

 don't know where the Duke of Norfolk is, but if you 

 write to him, I beg you to express to him my best 

 acknowledgments. Believe me, my dear B., yours 

 most sincerely, W. WILBERFORCE. 



" Do remember, once for all, that my direction is 

 always London." 



"SANDGATE STKEET, K FOLKESTONE, 



Sept. 24, 1812. 



" MY DEAR B., I scarcely know what I wrote, 

 or did not write, yesterday ; in much haste and 

 bustle did I scribble, but I am pretty sure that I 



ject of Parliamentary Reform. By William Roscoe, Esq.' 'A Letter to 

 W. Roscoe, Esq., occasioned by his Letter to Mr Brougham on Parlia- 

 mentary Reform. By J. Merritt.' 



The article Wilberforce refers to was certainly, as he guessed, written 

 by me. The only other article which I wrote in the same number was 

 art. v." On the Reports of the African Institution." 



