ADDRESS.

To the loyal Electors of Nottingham,

MR COKE'S COMMITTEE

Would consider it an Act of Injustice to you, and their own feelings, where they to delay returning you their Thanks for the very flattering manner in which they have been received during their canvass, and to those very numerous and respectable Friends, who with a Zeal becoming the Cause in which we are embarked, have given them so distinguished and regular an Attendance.

It must be highly gratifying to you to know, that upon this Canvass, taken with every degree of care and accuracy, and compared with other information which has been obtained as to the number of real Electors in the Town of Nottingham, there is so decided a Majority in favor of Mr. COKE, that no doubt can remain, if you are protected in the exercise of your Suffrages, but he will again represent you in Parliament.

The proceedings of Parliament upon the Report of the Committee appointed to try the Merits of the late Election, to which we all look with an anxious hope, will probably occupy five or six weeks, during which period no new Writ for an No. 2.

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Election will issue. It is therefore respectfully but most earnestly recommended to all Gentlemea in the interest of Mr. COKE, during that interval, to give their attention to prevent the impression intended to be made by those calumnies and misrepresentations, which the Opponents to their Cause are daily publishing with so much industry, and which are so artfully contrived to mislead the Minds of the Public.

It is much to be lamented, that in the course of the Canvass, the same disposition to violence, which disgraced the proceedings of the late Election, was again manifest, and has added to the stigma already branded upon the Magistracy by the Resolutions of the Committee of the House of Commons. These having yet had no effect, you have only to look forward to those salutarý measures which it is hoped the Legislature is about to adopt If you meet with protection, you will prove to the World, that a MAJORITY of the ELECTORS are LOYAL, and that a Gentleman who has represented you in Parliament for upwards of Twenty Years, will not be removed from his Seat for having supported his KING, and and the LAWS and CONSTITUTION of his COUNTRY.

Nottingham, 7th April, 1803.

ADDRESS.

To the Independent Electors of the Town of
Nottingham.

MR. BIRCH'S COMMITTEE

Feel themselves called upon, by the Respect which they entertain for you, to make some reply to a very extraordinary paper which has this day been published, in the name of Mr. COKE'S Committee. Had this Committee contented themselves with extolling the Brilliancy and Success of their Canvass, it would have been passed over as that kind of electioneering artifice which every party, however unsuccessful, endeavours to practise on the public mind.

The Friends of Mr. BIRCH are more and more convinced, that in estimating your support, they have not deceived themselves; nor can they for a moment suppose, that the boasting language of their Opponents can have any effect in deceiving you: but they cannot remain silent to the unjust insinuations which the remainder of this Address exhibits, or to its artful endeavours to brand every Man with Disloyalty to the Constitution of his Country, who should avow himself, in the contest, the friend of Mr. BIRCH.

Thank GOD! however, the Address of this Gentleman has rendered this insidious attempt: to mislead you, abortive, by the most manly and open professions of his firm and zealous Attachment to our admirable Constitution of KING, LORDS, and COMMONS: and by his express declaration that he wishes for the Support of no man who does not coincide with him in these sentiments. But whilst Mr. Birch and his Friends avow their Veneration for the Constitution, they also declare their fervent Attachment to those Whig Principles of Freedom which are engrafted on this Constitution, and which the best and wisest Men that ever adorned this Country have revered as the Bulwark of the Nation's Glory, and the Fountain of the People's Happiness.

Most sincerely does Mr. Birch's Committee unite in the belief and hope that “The majority of the Electors are loyal;" but it also believes that they will cherish those Rights and Privileges which belong to them as Britons; nor suffer themselves to be duped by men, who, under the prostituted name of Loyalty, conceal their Hostility to the Liberties and best Interests of their Country, and seek to confound the cause of Constitutional Freedom with that of Disloyalty and Disaffection.

The same persecuting spirit, which Mr. Coke's Committee have all along so glaringly displayed,

is again manifest in the attempt which they mak❤ to implicate the Magistracy of the Town, in an Election Quarrel which took place on their Canvass;—an attempt so mean, and pitiful, that it cannot fail to excite the indignation of every honest and liberal mind.

These Gentlemen can lament the recurrence, on the part of their Adversaries, to Calumny and Violence, yet the Power of the Noble, the Influence of the Landlord, and the Iron Hand of the Master, have been all brought into this Contest, against the Poor Man's sole Refuge in Distress, the Blessings of an independent Mind, and an approving Conscience. You will know how to appreciate these disgraceful endeavours to controul your choice, well aware that they originate from the pressure of an imperious necessity, which has no other weapons to oppose to the enlightened Judgment,-the incorruptible Virtue,and the manly Independence of the ELECTORS OF NOTTINGHAM.

Nottingham, April 7th, 1803.

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