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distresses of the times to consider the true origin of those distresses, and to adopt the resolution of performing their part towards the removal of them, by availing themselves of the means appointed by the constitution.

Contemplating a general election, they have looked round for a man to represent them in parliament, whose political principles should have for their foundation a thorough knowledge of the constitution, and for the pledge of their durability habitual attachment to it. They wished to find a steady friend to reform. Not one who would seek for right by means of wrong,-not a declaimer to the mob,— much less one of those mistaken men who think to restore the constitution by violating social order, but such an one, as deeply impressed with the importance of the work he undertakes, would with a careful and reverential, but firm hand, endeavour to repair, and restore those institutions, which altogether form the boasted structure of our glorious constitution:

They think themselves fortunate in finding among their fellow citizens such an one in Mr. Northmore. They have reviewed his character, and find it in point of integrity, knowledge, honor and sound principle, what a representative's ought to be,

Twenty years ago he stood forth in this county to repel the contagion of a madness, which was driving the country into that "war of kings against the people," which was the beginning of our present miseries, and of the subsequent calamities of Europe. With the ardour of youth, but the discernment of age, he represented its folly and its injustice, and forwarned the county of the ruinous consequences in which it has actually involved us. When it was too late to withdraw from the struggle into which folly had hurried us, he retired from our public meetings, not to waste his time in idleness, but to employ it in Cultivating his natural talents, and in the constant

study of the original principles of that government, whose abuses he would assist in abolishing, and in the strict discharge of his private duties. He has now been called upon in a manner which gives him the fullest hopes of success, to become a candidate for representing this city in parliament, but consistent throughout, he disdains to secure his election by any of the means invented by corruption.

Under these circumstances the electors, who have invited him, feel that they can call upon you by every motive of honor, of attachment to the constitution, and duty to the country, to support their

cause.

GENTLEMEN!-You who lay claim to the liberal sentiments that belong to the name-We call upon you to look at the state of the nation, and say if these are times for apathy, or for sacrificing public duty to private connexion and convenience.

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We call upon you to consider the tradesman sinking into poverty under the load of taxation, and the poor man into misery and wretchedness. Then to behold how much of the national wealth is consumed by sinecurists and an unnecessary soldiery, while no plan of effectual retrenchment in the public expenditure is adopted, and you cannot but exert yourselves to secure the election of a man to the House of Commons, who will do his duty in supporting the neglected cause of the people, and enforce that economy and reform which can alone restore prosperity to the country.

Acknowledged opposers of the peace and improvement of mankind! You who once named yourselves" life and fortune men."-We expect your neutrality. The Bourbons, Louis, Ferdinand and despotism, the Pope and bigotry, are re-established, and military glory has in England fixed her circean*

The Goddess Circe is represented as intoxicating men with her pleasing incantations, and then turning them to monsters. Similar pranks (according to history, not heathen mythology) does the deluding Spirit Military Glory Pay off upon mankind.

abode. You ought now to be satisfied. "Tis indeed time to allow your superannuated party spirit to repose, and reason and moderation to go quietly to work in repairing the breaches which your insane conduct has made in the constitution and prosperity to the country.

CLERGY! We look for your protection. We do not say as politicians, for politics is not your calling; but as teachers of morality, you cannot be unfriendly to those, who, on an occasion like the present, which intemperance, and avarice, and corruption, have been accustomed to claim as their holiday, have renounced these debasing follies-reformed themselves, and are "grave, not double-tongued, not given to too much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre,' "neither at any time have used flattering words as ye know."

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FREEMEN!You who have not joined us. Be not false to yourselves. If you are aggrieved that the scanty earnings of your labour will buy but half the bread it would and ought to buy, if the blessings of Providence were not intercepted by selfish and partial corn-laws. If you feel yourselves wronged in that, for every necessary of life you purchase, something is taken from you to maintain useless soldiers, and to lavish on the idle aud luxurious sinecurists, you have no other remedy for these evils than that of sending to parliament such men as Mr. Northmore, who will faithfully speak your sentiments and advocate a reform. Let no man deceive you with false reasoning. Give him your votes.

FREEHOLDERS!--Recollect that in the last session of parliament those, miscalled the representatives of the people, voted for military establishments, undeserved pensions, useless offices, and an extravagant civil list, just such sums as the minister pleased to ask, not what the people choose to pay, and you were yourselves obliged to interfere and

check their profligacy, by refusing them the property tax. Ministers themselves, then signed the certifi cates of their extravagance and the subserviency of the House of Commons, by making retrenchments, (trifling and insufficient as they were,) which they might have made but refused to make before. The House of Commons then is no longer what the constitution would have it to be. Its members are not the controulers but the tools of ministers, and it is high time to set about a reform.

It is, doubtless, your wish to secure the advantages of your freeholds to your children.-Remember that while there is a faction about the crown, over which you have no controul, but who tax you as they please, and a standing army that increases with your poverty and weakness; this is impossible.

ALL ought to consider that the love of power, like every other vice, increases with the means of in, dulging it, and that when a man, or set of men, have once pulled the reins of government out of the hands of the people, there is no longer any security for their property-their rights-their liberties, or any thing that makes life valuable.

With these considerations, nothing but infatuation will prevent you from sending to parliament a man like Mr. Northmore, firmly attached to the constitution, and consequently an advocate for reforming its present abuses.

THE FRIENDS OF MR. NORTHMORE. Exeter, December 17, 1816.

To the loyal and independent Electors of the City of Exeter,

As there are already four candidates to represent your city in the next parliament, I beg to offer a few remarks for your consideration, on the propriety of your promising your support to such of

them as appears to you best calculated to fill so ele vated a situation.

That you should be represented by independent men, no one can deny; and it is now time for you to consider if such ones have offered themselves to your notice.

Of the four candidates, two are now in parliament; you have therefore an opportunity of judging whether the votes of those two have been given in such a manner as to convince you of their being attached to no party but the independent party, and to be actuated by no motives but those which are intended for the good of their country.

T beg to speak now of Mr. Newman, and refer you to the parliamentary records, to prove that he has not, in any respect whatever, attached himself to either the ministry or opposition, but has, in every instance, sided with the party that every unfettered member ought to attach himself to-I mean the independent party-he has been put in the scale, and is not found wanting-he has been tried-and which is also a strong recommendation of him to you, his having been a man of business, well ac quainted in mercantile pursuits; and from his having been generally employed in the committees of the House of Commons, on all the important matters which occupied the attention of that House in the last and former sessions—and well does he deserve the motto which an old citizen of Exeter for merly assumed "labor ipse voluptas." -Such is Mr, N.'s principles and qualifications; if, therefore, you wish to be represented by such a man, let me exhort you, in an open and candid manner, to express with one voice your good opinion of him, by immediately repairing to his standard, and enlisting yourselves under his banner. It is not for his sake, but yours, that I thus entreat you, for he does not aspire to a higher honor than that of supporting your just

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