faction of believing that I have not rendered myself unworthy of your future favor and kindness.

Knowing what extraordinary Interference, and powerful Opposition I have to contend against, I wholly rely on the strenuous Endeavours of Men, who are resolved to assert their Freedoni and Independence. Recollect, however, that active and zealous exertions may be combined with exemplary order and decorum.

MR. COKE informs you that he venerates the Monarch and the Monarchy; allow me also to tell you, that no one more truly appreciates the transcendant Virtues of his present Majesty than myself; but in making a public declaration of my sentiments, I must avow, it is the Constitution of our Country as handed to us by our forefathers that I venerate, and of which the kingly power is so essential a part: for the maintenance and defence of which we are all of us ready, I trust, to make the sacrifice of every thing else we hold dear.

I offer myself again as a Candidate, whenever the Election shall be permitted to take place, and I wish it to be perfectly understood, that having thus made a candid avowal of my political opinions, I ask no man for his support, who does not perfectly approve them. Should I again have the honor to be chosen as your Represen

tative, you shall find me ever faithful to those principles which are the basis of my sincere and unalterable attachment to the Welfare and Happiness of my Country, a zealous advocate of the blessings of Civil and Religious Liberty, and an assiduous promoter of the Interests of the Town of Nottingham.

I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,

Your much obliged & faithful Servant,

Nottingham, March, 1803.

JOSEPH BIRCH.

Address in Favor of MR. COKE.

To the Electors of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.

GENTLEMEN,

Your late independent and respectable Representative D. P. CoкE, Esq. has again come forward as a Candidate for your Favor. His recent exertions will procure for you, in future, the INESTIMABLE RIGHTS AND PRIVELEGES or ENGLISHMEN. His Ser. vices in this and other respects demand your Gra titude and Support--your Country claims it. Let manly Exertion, Assiduity, & Perseverance grace your Cause, and if your endeavours are crown

ed with victory-secure the admiration of impartial observers by Temperance and Moderation. Respect the Laws of your Country, that your Conduct may form a Contrast to the unwarrantable Measures adopted at the late Election. You will have the Protection of the Legislature, and the Thanks of all loyal Englishmen.

A BURGESS.

MR. BIRCH'S SPEECH,

(From the Exchange-Hall)

GENTLEMEN,

JUNE 23d, 1803.

I meet you here much sooner than I expected to have done, after a long and laborious contest, the result of which, (by a concurrence of circumstances it would ill become me here to enlarge upon) is that I am once more thrown upon your protection. The conflict which I have sustained has been of unexampled severity,, though it was not of that nature which requires the exertions of muscular vigour, yet it has plen-. tifully demanded what is not less the sinews of War, Money, and Gentlemen in such a cause who would not have expended the last shilling of his, property? If such a one there be, I am not that man! I have stood forward in this trial with peculiar alacrity, not only on my own account but

on yours; not only to vindicate my own character, but to rescue yours from the vilest and most daring of calumnies. For my female friends in particular, I have thought myself called upon to clear their fair fame from the aspersions of slander and falsehood, and I have done it! the world has been told of lascivious wantons preceding my Chair after the late Election! it has been told of a woman then present in a state of entire nudity! Where are these infamous fabricators now? they have been unable (impudent and barefaced as they were) to stand before the simple and naked truth.

The protection of the fair sex is one of the most indispensible of our duties, and it has ever been the pride and boast of Englishmen, and you must all participate in the satisfaction I feel at having redeemed the credit of my fair friends from these malicious slanders.

In offering myself a second time to your notice Gentlemen, as a Candidate, I feel a confidence (and it is a confidence in which I am justified by the manner in which you have this day received me) that your free and unbiassed suffrages will again place me in that desirable situation, in which I have no doubt it was your intention I should be now sitting.

When I was first introduced to you, Gentlemen, my character could only be known to you.

through the partial medium of a few friends, but a considerable space of time has since elapsed, and you have now had an opportunity to enquire into the merits of the man whom you have already, though I am sorry to say, ineffectually, honoured with your choice. As to my private character, I defy my most inveterate foe-if foe I have-to cast a blemish on it; and for my Political Opinions, they are such as my opponents themselves must respect, as upright, independent, and constitutional.-Much has been said, Gentlemen, of Disaffection and disloyalty, as characteristics of the People of Nottingham; but these imputations are no doubt of a piece with the calumnies I have before noticed.-Mr. Coke has, in his hand-bill, declared his attachment to the Monarch and the Monarchy of Great-Britain: No man can more deeply venerate the King who now fills the Throne of this Country than I do (loud and repeated huzzas)—and I am sure no one will favour me with his suffrage who does not feel such sentiments. But, Gentlemen, we have a Constitution, and one which possesses the equal dispensation of law and equity, and the protection of the Rights and Liberties of the People: That wise and excellent Constitution I will support through every difficulty. In its defence, I would spill the last drop of my blood. I have not the least doubt, Gentlemen,