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swivel, but, as Britons, they cannot be offended, that their salute has been returned by a shower of

grape.

I am, fellow-citizens,

The friend of free election, of civil and religious liberty,

And of you,

THOMAS NORTHMORE.

Cleve, 16th Nov. 1816.

EXETER, NOVEMBER 22, 1816.

The Friends of Thomas Northmore, Esq.

Are earnestly requested to meet at the Globe Tavern, in the Church-yard, on Monday next, November 25, at six o'clock in the evening, to consider of the best measures to be adopted for the purpose of bringing forward that gentleman as a candidate for the representation of this city in parliament, at the next election; and also to adopt such other means as may be deemed necessary for giving effec tual support to the cause, and securing his election ; when such free and independent electors who have not already signed the requisition, will have an opportunity of doing it.

To the worthy and independent Electors of the City of Exeter.

GENTLEMEN,

Mr. Buller, your present worthy represen tative, having declared his intention not again to offer himself to represent your loyal city after the dissolution of the present session of parliament, and several candidates having offered themselves, whom I understand the majority of the voters are not inclined to support, I beg leave to offer myself to your notice, with a sincere wish to represent your city in parliament.

Should I be so fortunate as to obtain a majority of your suffrages, I shall make it my chief study to preserve the interest of your loyal city; and shall endeavour to the utmost of my ability, to discharge the parliamentary duties imposed upon the elevated situation to which I aspire, and to merit the highest honor which you can bestow.

North-Petherton, 23d November, 1816.

JOHN COATE.

Freemen of Exeter!

By your proceedings this week you have redeemed your character; you have shewn that there are honest men enough in the city to save it from the curse of bigotry and servility that was hanging over it, and that its name may yet deserve to stand in the list of what the country has left worthy its ancient character, its independence, and its honor. Your first movement was what it ought to have been -sponstaneously your own. It has confounded your enemies. Unable to discover, in the disinterested efforts of a body of freemen, any of the servile motives by which their actions are excited, their malice is disappointed; and their organ, like Satan, on discovering that the power by which he was opposed was that of truth and uprightness, against which he had so deeply rebelled, he murmurs his deprecations to himself. One sneer only has undisguised malignity been able to raise against youyou are poor! Poverty he imputes to you as a crime ! Ah! how his cloven foot shews out at every step! We know what spirit it is, that has the attribute of making men wicked, and then punishing them for it-his disciple advocates the system of national extravagance and profusion, and then laughs at you for being poor! But let him go on, we know who in the end will be on the laughing side of the question. Let your conduct afford no other ground for aspersion than it has hitherto. Be moderate and

collected; and if you do not succeed at last, in having your representative in the House of Commons, it will not be from poverty.—Effective assistance is at hand. Men capable of organizing and direct`ing you, and of asserting with pen and voice the constitutional principles you profess, have their eyes upon you, and will soon come forward. But the tide of corruption runs strong and high-you must be active among yourselves-keep alive a sense of what is your duty as honest men and citizens-and tell those among you, who may be disposed to yield their reason and their welfare to temporary allurements, or any other means of corruption, that that will be but a poor exchange for the consciousness of having held fast their integrity, and maintained their dignity as men. Be firm. You shall soon hear again from

Exeter, S0th November, 1816.

A FREEHOLDER.

To the free, unbought, unsold, uncorrupted Electors of the City of Exeter.

Proud are we to address you as the committee of a numerous body of your brother freemen, determined to support the election of Mr. Northmore, as a representative of this ancient city. But more proud are we to become the organs of so many of your brethren, not selected from the higher classes of society,' but principally from among the industrious mechanics and the 'lower classes' of tradesmen. Those, who by their situation ought to be the first to set the example of the love of independence, are generally the last to embrace it. In times when the genius of calamity darkens the land, and one million five hundred thousand of our fellow subjects depend for subsistence on parochial relief-when the lamentaions of the wretched, and the cries of the despairing harrow up the soul; it is noble indeed to see the true

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spirit of Englishmen called into action by Englishmen, neither the children of luxury, nor the favourites of fortune. While honesty and patriotism are despised as the offsprings of fanaticism, and liberty is become a standing jest among the profligate and corrupt; when every measure proposed to support the power of despotism finds abundant advocates, and bands of hirelings, for the wages of iniquity, are ready to descry public integrity and private worth, we call on you to follow the glorious example thus set before you, by those whom we represent. They have unanimously resolved to give their votes for Mr. Northmore without expence. They have watched his conduct, and weighed his actions; they believe him to be too wise to be the dupe of ministerial duplicity-too honourable to enlist in the phalanx of corruption, or among the parasites of the court-and too just to barter away your birthright for the gold of the treasury, for pompous titles, or "to be stuck o'er with strings." We appeal not to the heart hardened in impenitence by the gifts of Mammonwe appeal not to the mind which, regarding only self, is callous to the wants or sufferings of others--we appeal not to those who are enrolled under the banners of corruption, as abject dependants—we appeal not to those who are the slavish upholders of ministerial folly--we appeal not to those who would gladly sacrifice our rights on the altar of power. But we appeal to those who love the constitution in its purity-detest its deadly foes who have mangled and mutilated it hate large standing armies and domestic spoilers foster our liberty as the best gift of our forefathers-and who would rather die as freemen, than live as slaves.

Consider well, we entreat you, before you befriend the cause of any man, who will not pledge himself to support the rights of the people, who will not under all circumstances, and at all times undauntedly defend them. Remember, that he who assists in

enslaving his country, commits a crime more heinous than murder; and that the question is now nearly at issue, whether our glorious constitution shall not tumble into ruins, and on its scite, as Hume long ago predicted, be reared military despotism and absolute monarchy! In defiance of all principle, there will be among you, men who will sell their franchises! Yet it is told us in holy writ, that such "shall not prosper in his way, neither shall his substance continue; his gold and his silver shall not deliver him." Hasten, therefore, to promote the good cause; rest not in supineness; away with insensibility; like your noble ancestors exercise your franchise as becomes freemen; they are your strength and ornament; deprived of them, you will exhibit to the world a splendid example of the folly of sacrificing public duty, at the shrine of private interest!

"The Venal will be bought, the Base have Lords,
Their boasted Freedom is a sounding Name;

And their Election but a Market vile

Of Slaves self barter'd."

Soon will they become

The Slaves of Slaves by Superstition fooled
By Vice unmanned, and a licentious will
Void of all Sense of public lore, in guile
Alone ingenious, and in Murder brave."

The Committee of the Friends of
Mr. NORTHMORE.

4th December, 1816.

To the enlightened and uncorrupted Electors of the City of Exeter.

FELLOW-CITIZENS,

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Extremes are apt to meet; both friends and foes have been perpetually assuring me, that I should find myself mistaken in the opinion which I entertained of the virtue of the citizens of Exeter;

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