unalienable rights and privileges; it will be the means of giving him confidence in the purity of your intentions, and animate him to further exertions to obtain your suffrages; but, on the contrary, if you withhold those promises, you may throw a damp on his endeavours, and be the means of his abandoning his present patriotic, independent, and praiseworthy conduct. I shall now conclude, by recommending you never to forget the words of an ancient monitor “Tis the last key stone "That makes the arch: the rest that there were put "Meet some new matter, to look up and wonder "" Exeter, 17th December, 1816. To the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, & Freeholders, of the City of Exeter, A GENTLEMEN, I feel truly sensible of the honor which you have conferred upon me by the repeated assurances of support, which I have received; and I shall make it my continual study to merit that share of your favor which I am so ambitious of obtaining. I feel justified in again declaring to you, that I will decline the contest on no account whatever, but that of meeting the general wish of the electors, to re-elect Mr. Buller in the honorable way that has been pro posed. Should that plan be adopted, I will be no obstacle to its completion; should it not, rely on it, gentlemen, that I consider my cause too good, and your continued and numerous assurances of support too valuable, for a moment to think of declining the -- contest in which I am engaged, and which I am de. termined to maintain, I have the honor to be, GENTLEMEN, Your much obliged and very faithful servant, Kenegie, Dec. 18, 1816. To the uncorrupted Electors of the City of Exeter. FELLOW-CITIZENS! With the most unfeigned satisfaction I congratulate you on the near approach of that eventful period, a dissolution of parliament, when you will have it once more in your power to exercise those franchises with which the constitution has invested you, for the benefit of your suffering country. That you will allow so precious an opportunity to pass without improving it-without stepping forwards in the first ranks, as MEN, as FREEMEN, and as PATRIOTS, I will not permit myself for a moment to doubt. My confidence in your spirit, your integrity, and your independence, rises still higher, when I reflect on the bright, and I trust not unavailing example, which the freeholders of the county of Devon are setting us, in supporting for one of their representatives, a gentleman, whose manly, open, honest mind; whose pure, independent, and constitutional principles, have justly endeared him to every publicspirited Devonian, and every enlightened Englishman-it will be unnecessary to name my LORD EBRINGTON. And shall not we be emulous to enter into a generous rivalry with the Devonshire freeholders, and endeavour to select, for one at least, of our representatives, a man in whom may be found those rare, but necessary talents, which at this perilous period are so requisite for a senator, who is ambitious to represent the populous and ancient city of Exeter? Shall we for ever submit to the obloquy that has been but too justly thrown upon the freemen and freeholders of the metropolis of the west, that for generations past we have almost invariably chosen for our deputies to the great cOUNCIL of the NATION, such men only as have either entered the venal ranks of ministerial corruptionists,* or through a total deficiency of talent, were incapable of defending the particular interests of their constituents, or the general rights of the nation?-No! I know, without pretending to the spirit of prophesy, fellow-freemen! and fellow-citizens ! I know you will not submit to this shameful abuse of trust reposed in you by your country any longer, I feel assured, as the immortal Milton expresses it, that you will rouse yourselves like a strong man after sleep, and shake your invincible locks: methinks I see yoù as an eagle, renewing your mighty youth, and kindling your undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unscaling your long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what you mean." A more glorious, a more auspicious opportunity never presented itself, than the present moment, for a judicious exercise of your reason, your judgment, and the love of your country, in nominating and supporting a man who shall be every way qualified to be the representative of freemen and of Britons;-and such a man you have found :—. A NORTHMORE! A NORTHMORE! is ready to devote all the energies of his mind and body, and even life itself, to the service of his country;-a man whom we all know, for he was born and educated among us ;—a * One of the present candidates voled for 'he Corn Eili, and the income Tax, contrary to the instruction of the city, he holds at this time, two places upwards of twelve hundred a year, as clerk of the Subpona office, and a Commissioner of Bankrupts; of course he must support ministers in. levying taxes, to be paid his salaries. man whose public spirit, whose ardent patriotism, whose matchless eloquence, and whose transcendent abilities, can only be equalled by his unsullied moral character, and his private worth. Such a man, whose undeviating rectitude, and invincible courage, so eminently qualify him to occupy the arduous posts of difficulty and of danger; Providence, at this juncture, has pointed out to us as the object cf our choice. Let us hasten, my friends, to obey the heavenly impulse: in imitation of Westminster, Southwark, Bristol, Liverpool, Gloucester, Reading, &c. &c. let us indignantly cast aside those chains, which we have so long suffered to disgrace our limbs, and cripple our exertions, and asserting at once the dignity of men, and the independence of Britons, by a noble and generous effort, fix in the House of Commons, at least, one representative, who shall be the ornament and delight of his constituents, as he infallibly will be the glory and pride of his country. Exeter, 19th December, 1816. NO PLACEMAN. To the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, & Freeholders, of the City of Exeter. GENTLEMEN, I am informed, that report has been circulated that it is my intention to decline the generous offers of support with which I have been honored, and to desist from further exertion to obtain the distinguished situation of one of your representatives. I therefore beg to declare, that having learnt from Mr. Buller, that he will not be prevailed upon to come forward at the next general election under any circumstances, nothing shall induce me to give up the contest, in which I have every reason to hope for success. I have the honor to be, GENTLEMEN, Your much obliged and very faithful servant, Kenegie, Dec. 2t, 1816.. To the Advocates of Purity of Election, and the Reform of Public Abuses, Mr. Northmore's Friends have the pleasure of making this communication : They have carried their canvass through another portion of the city, and have met with all that flattering success which the constitutional principles they profess entitled them to expect. They have no doubt of a final triumph; and beg those voters whom they have not yet had time to canvass, to withhold the promise of their votes for a few days, that they may not have reason to regret : their not having supported the cause of the people, when that cause shall be declared victorious. COMMITTEE. Committee-Room, Saturday Afternoon, Dec. 21, 1816. Good People Be not too hasty in rejecting Mr. Courtenay.. You must hear him. He is a lawyer, and can convince you that the bill for which he voted for keeping corn out of the country has made bread cheaper, or else that a dear loaf is no bad thing. Also, that a member of parliament has no right to, obey the instructions of those who elect him, And, thirdly, he will make you perfectly satisfied, that his receiving a large salary from government is the best thing in the world to make him, check the extravagance of ministers. |