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Disaffection,"-Not having a proper affection

for me, and not thinking me

the best Representative the Town of Nottingham can possibly have.

"Freedom of Election,"-Turning people out of their houses, and depriving

them of their frames, and

other practices coming under

the denomination of Thumb

ing.

"System of Terror,"-A most horrid thing, when applied to the bodies&clothes

of men; but nothing at all when levelled at their minds-

their consciences, or their

very subsistence.

"Miserable Police,"Not the police of 1790,

when a man lost his life from

Election Riots; not the police of 1794, when the glorious system of Ducking, and setting Fire to Houses, was in fashion; not the police of 1796, but the police of 1802, when I lost my Election,

"Afaithful Servant,"-One who tells you as I do,

.

that I will not obey your in

structions.

"Done the Town someservice.

Restoring to its society a man, who, like me, was so fond of the Corporation, that he borrowed the mace, and some how or other forgot to return it.

"Opening the Doors-Telling the people I would

of Justice.

wish to represent, that they

are either such fools or such knaves, that they cannot form an impartial Jury.

Assistance to the sup-A fund of calumny and mis

port of a Cause.

representation, or any sub

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Feeble Magistracy,"-Men who were so feeble

they could not atchieve impossibilities, and the news of whose imbecility so operated on the mind of a real Elector, in the island of Malta at the time, that he declared he was thereby deterred from voting for me.

Squib against MR. BIRCH'S Party.

BROTHER BURGESSES,

The "Friends of Peace and Social Order" first endeavoured to HUMBUG you with their Loyalty-the "Tree of Liberty," "French Flag," and "Millions be free" were put in the BACK GROUND; even LITTLE SOLOMON himself is ashamed of such Hypocrisy, and is on the road to Wimbledon to seek for an associate worthy of himself.

THIS WAS HUMBUG THE FIRST.

THUMBING was the next Humbug attempted, but they had the "Evidence of Facts" that they began it, and have all along acted upon it, so the Party draw in their horns and sing slow about Thumbing, not because they want the will, but the power.

THIS WAS THE SECOND HUMBUG.

Now the Remnant of this Jacobinical Crew give out stoutly, nay Turbulent and his Myrmidoms (who play punch at night) positively swear the Dealer in Slaves and Earthen-ware has got Two Thousand staunch loyal Jacobins, as true as any of FALSTAFF'S Men, in buckram, ready Plumpers for the Poll--they have their Cue, and as to being No. 2.

G

Burgesses, that is an old fashioned thing that Nobody minds now-a-days.

THIS IS HUMBUG THE THIRD.

The next Humbug is

That LORD SOMEBODY and Mr. SOMEBODY, very great Men, are coming to help them with very long Purses and fine Speeches; this is music, fine music, but YOU PAY THE PIPER.

Burgess Hall and the Domains have Monkies clapped upon them; those Rogues the Lawyers would not talk in London without money; Mr. BLACKROD too wanted his fees, and Newgate was expensive ----MONEY, MONEY, MORE MONEY!

There is an unlucky Act in embryo to open the doors of Justice, and secure a little Peace and Order in the Town, this may lop off both Power and Fees; it must be resisted, our Salvation depends upon it, if it passes, we shall not have so much left as to buy an Halter, we must be hanged at the State's charge, then alas! we shall have nothing left but the FRATERNAL HUG, and

DOUBLE-FACE.

ADDRESS.

To the Electors of the Town of Nottingham.

The Gentlemen composing Mr. Coke's Committee, in taking leave of their friends, on the close of their Canvass for that Gentleman, have thought proper to conclude their address in a style and manner deserving the severest reprehension, and utterly inconsistent with a due regard to truth; a departure from which no excuse can justify.

They still persist in declaring, that your opposition to Mr. Coke proceeds from his having supported his King and the Laws and Constitution of. his Country-now, in order to shew the falsehood of such an assertion, it is necessary to state that the opposition to Mr. Coke proceeds from his general conduct in Parliament, since he first had the honour of a Seat in the House of Commons. During the American dispute he was one of those who was ready to vote away the last shilling of his Constituents, in support of the wretched and unfortunate system which then prevailed; when the question relative to the abolition. of the Slave Trade was agitated, he refused to support the wishes of his Constituents, and the general voice of the Public, in favor of that

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