that these are sentiments which find an echo in your bosoms.

I mean to undertake a regular canvas, and if possible to shake hands with every individual Elector, and I shall be happy to receive the voluntary and unbiassed promise of their votes; but, if there be any whose consciences dictate an opposition to me, far be it from me to quarrel with them. They have a right to enjoy their opinions as well as I have mine, and it is my express desire that no measures, in the slightest degree compulsory, may be resorted to on the part of my friends, but that every voter may follow the dictates of his own mind uninfluenced-and if in the result, Mr. Coke be possessed of a majority of your Independent Voices, I shall certainly forbear giving either you or him any further trouble. Judging, however, from the appearance of this day only, there can be little doubt of my ultimate success on the Poll.

Let us quietly wait the event, and, above all, let me conjure, let me entreat you, to preserve peace and good order during the Election-Let the voters of Mr. Coke exercise their elective franchise undisturbed. We profess to be the advocates of Civil and Religious Liberty-let us allow to others that to which we aspire qurselves. As an earnest of your peaceable intentions, let me see you now return to your respective homes, and

let the whole tenor of your conduct be such as shall not afford the least ground to our opponents to repeat those aggravated accusations which have already been but too successful,

Address in Favor of MR. BIRCH.

To the Independent Electors of the Town of

GENTLEMEN,

Nottingham.

You have now before you the Addresses of two men who appear as Candidates to represent you in Parliament. You have, doubtless read them both with attentive consideration, and I will do you the justice to suppose, that the result is highly favorable to MR. BIRCH.

It cannot have escaped your notice, that the Address of MR. COKE betrays a very rancorous spirit, not only towards your Magistrates, to whom he so malignantly applies the most degrading epithets, but towards all those who conscientiously oppose his pretentions to your support. He would have the Public to believe, that the Electors of Nottingham are composed but of two classes of Men,those who support him, and those who "would disturb the the Government of the Country." Į rejoice to think there are so many amongst you

who answer to neither of these descriptions. All opposition to him, Mr. Coke would fain brand as Disaffection, and he seems to regard every Vote given to his worthy Competitor, as a certificate of a man's Disloyalty. He identifies himself with the "legal Government of the Country;" and tells you, in pretty plain terms,-that every insult offered to the one, is an attempt to subvert the other. I will not mock your understandings by pointing out to you the falsehood and fallacy of these insinuations.-Did such a composition require any refutation, I need only refer you to the Address of Mr. Birch, which breathes a spirit of honest principle, of manly patriotism, and of genuine loyalty. His loyalty, indeed, does not consist in supporting a ruinous War, or in approving those arbitrary Measures of the late Tory Administration, which went to undermine the barriers of British Freedom; but it is to be found where the derivation and true meaning of the word tell us we ought to find it. It is to be found in his Veneration for our Laws and Constitution, as established at the glorious Revolution of 1688, in his Attachment to the Whig Principles, which seated the present Family on the Throne, and in his firm Defence of those CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, which, in less degenerate times, were the Pride and Boast of every Englishman; and which alike constitute the Happiness of the People, and the Safeguard of the Monarch.

If such be the Principles on which alone Mr. BIRCH claims your support, away for ever with those base aspersions of Disloyalty, which with such malicious assiduity are levelled at his Friends.

Mr. BIRCH'S Principles are those of the British Constitution in its genuine purity: and I call upon every one amongst you, who knows how to value its free blessings, to support that man who will never desert it; but who will do his utmost to hand it down to posterity unsullied and unimpaired. AN OLD BURGESS.

Nottingham, March, 1803.

Address in favor of MR. BIRCH.

To the worthy and independent Electors of the Town of Nottingham.

GENTLEMEN,

At the late Election you invited Mr. BIRCH to become a candidate to represent you in Parliament; he obeyed your summons, and, by your exertions and suffrages, he obtained the object of your mutual wishes. Petitions were presented against his election, and the Committee, before whom the merits of his return were tried, judging by such evidence as was adduced, have declared his election void. He now returns to

you, with fresh claims upon your protection; and from the principle of independence, and the energy which are fo evidently apparent among you, no doubt remains of his eventually succeeding. But, Gentlemen, success is the offspring of "high endeavour," and without activity and zeal, you may afford a triumph to your opponents; the baseness of whose conduct, in the late contest, ought to excite in you feelings of the greatest indignation. The present is not the proper time to recapitulate the particulars of that conduct, but the objections exifting to the exposure of them will very soon ceafe; and you may depend upon their being faithfully reprefented to you. In the mean time, let every Elector, who is a friend to Civil and Religious liberty, who can feel the injuries and infults offered to the independence of the town, exert himself strenuously in favor of Mr. Birch. His political sentiments are well known to you, they are in unison with the constitution of the Country, to every part of whose government he is alike friendly, whether it be the prerogatives of the Crown, the privileges of the Peers, or the RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. The worth and integrity of his private character, are the best pledge to you of his future public conduct as a fenator.--What claims Mr. Coke can have upon your protection, in oppofition to fuch a man, I leave to him or his adherents to point out; they are not to be found in his past conduct. He supported the late difafterous administration in those measures which