wich. How can you believe it?my prosperity and the prosperity of my family have grown up in the city-who then can believe I am indifferent to it? To the gentlemen who are gone away I bear no personal hostility, but I am opposed to them most heartily on political principles; had they been elected the city, would have become little more than a government borough. Gentlemen, there is one question on which I wish to express my opinionit is respecting the Civil List, and it is this. While on the one hand I am disposed to make a liberal provision for the head of the government of this country, so on the other it is my opinion that provision should ever be made relatively to the earnings of the people. Gentlemen, I have nothing more to say, than fervently and heartily to thank you for the honour you have just conferred upon me. (Immense cheering.) MR. GRANT then came forward, and spoke as follows: When I had the honour of addressing a large portion of the Freemen of this City on my arrival in Norwich, not a week ago, I found it necessary to apologise for some degree of diffidence and embarrassment on account of the new and anxious situation in which I stood. If then my feelings were those of anxiety and diffidence, what must they be now? I was then seeking for your favour as a candidate-1 now stand by your favour as your Representative.— (Cheers.) Highly as I estimate the honour you have conferred, strong as are my feelings of the dignity of the situation in which I am placed, I must also feel the deep responsibility of that situation, and I have to entreat you kindly to interpret every act of the Representative you have chosen; the first I have to perform is that of meeting you my beloved and respected constituents. When 1 first came forward it was at your request-1 will dispute with Mr. Gurney to the last his claim of being brought forward by the operatives-I came by their invitation, and I told you I choose to rest my claim to your support on liberal and independent principles-others told you that to those principles 1 have been a martyr-I laid claim to those feelings of independence in your bosoms which beat responsive to my own, and since I have had the honour of being amongst you, independence has been the banner of battle, and independence is inscribed on the trophy of my victory. (Cheers.) I may not on every topic perfectly coincide with all my friends around me, but there is nothing, I trust disgraceful to either party in such a coalition-it is not uniting elements opposed to each other--it is not like an attempt to unite fire and water, which cannot be effected but by the destruction of one or the other-but it is the uniting of liberal minds, of light to light, of flame to flame, dissolving into one pure, fervent, shining, glowing element. I told you a week since that it was not with my concurrence the transaction to which I have several times alluded, that of having lost my seat in the House for the votes 1 had given, was made public. I was seeking your confidence, but not through the passport of your compassion. Gentlemen, I was afraid the publication of that transaction would appear to shew in me a vindictive or revengeful motive towards government-yet it is true that independence was the cause of my losing a seat in parliament-to my feelings of independence I was sacrificed, but I can no longer claim the credit, you have robbed me of the glory of martyrdom-I am no longer a sufferer-you have placed me in the high situation of your representative-you have over rewarded me a thousand times for the sacrifice I made. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I should be disguising the feelings of this moment if I did not confess how much I rejoice, how much I exult in the result of this election, but I rejoice with trembling when I look forward to the sacred trust which has been reposed in me, and I implore you to moderate your estimate of my abilities-advise me freely and judge me candidly. If in the course of my parliamentary conduct I should be guilty of any mistakes, let me beg of you to put on them a kind interpretation. I may not be able on every occasion to act in precise accordance with your wishes, but from the kindness I have experienced, I feel assured that if 1 fall, like as if I were to fall from the somewhat ticklish perch on which I am standing, a thousand friendly arms would be extended to save me. Gentlemen, I will say but one word more- -1 shall always feel it my duty to give the most earnest and steady attention to the local interests of Norwich. I am beyond measure proud of my constituents, and I trust so to act that you may never have cause to be ashamed of your representative. (Cheers.) So well was this pageant arranged, and so orderly in its proceedings, that, notwithstanding such a multitudinous procession, not a single accident occurred. Grand and imposing as it appeared, there was something paramount in the scene before us-that grand display of popular feeling so evidently manifested on this occasion; by its agency the contest was planned, matured, continued, and at length brought to a triumphant conclusion; and, during this animating scene, whether we directed our attention to the windows or towards the market, to the floating banners, or the waving handkerchiefs, studded with the emblems of the party, or whether we listened to the shouts of joy uttered by the multitude, we could perceive but one prevailing sentiment. The Candidates can but feel a most grateful sense of the favour they enjoy, and such men never will forget that as they owe their elevation to their defence of Popular Rights, of Civil and Religious Freedom, and to their professed desire of abating that taxation which bears down all classes, they can only retain their station in the general good opinion, by a steady and practical adherence to the same principles. Having brought to a conclusion the most prominent features of our narrative-we now have to congratulate the Friends of "Civil and Religious Liberty" who so nobly stood forward in the great and important work; and in the first place, we would express our unfeigned approbation of, and sincere thanks to those opera tives, who so ardently persevered in their efforts to bring abou this great change; nor must we omit to offer our best thanks to the Committee of Management, whose active exertions rendered all the measures adopted by the Principals, the Adherents, and Advocates of a "well-digested economy," and a "taxation consistent with the exigences of the State" abortive! United efforts have obtained a victory, more brilliant and of far more solid worth than that which was gained on the bloody field of Waterloo. A stimulus is thereby given to the diffusion of liberal principles, and a pledge for the removal of those burthens, which have so long been converting a brave people into abject slaves-to wretchedness and pauperism!-The Electors of Norwich have done their duty— they have planted their " trophy of victory" in the citadel of the enemy! "Now the struggle is over, the battle is won, And we look with delight on the deeds we have done; "We have up with the Banner, The Blue and White Banner, Our motto is-BRITONS BE FREE!" THE NORWICH ELECTION BUDGET. WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A MAN-SERVANT OF ALL WORK. It does not signify whether he can have a Good Character or a bad One from his last place; the Livery will be Blue and White, (being preferable to the party he will have to serve) one from Northrepps or Hethersett would be preferred.-He requires to be a tall, strong, powerful man, who understands keeping Game, and can handle a MUSKET, or any other Piece well, as the estate is large. There will be a superior servant from London in a few days, with whom it is neccessary for him to be upon friendly terms. It will be requisite for this servant to have a little ability, as at certain times in the year, he may have to make a speech before his superiors, and it is hoped he will not sit down through fear before he has finished.-P. S. he must not object when he comes to Norwich, to ride behind the other Servant. For Particulars enquire at St. Andrew's Hall Tavern; of the ExBellman, and of Jeremiah Thin, alias, the Walking Skeleton, Shoe-maker, back of the Inns. THE SERVANT OF ALL WORK Advertized for Yesterday, is engaged, therefore no other need apply, either to Mr. Ex-crier, or to Mr. Skeleton, and the Court in St. Andrew's assures their Friends, that all other applicants will find themselves too late to be attended to on this occasion. GREEN, RED, AND WHITE FOR EVER. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? TEN POUNDS REWARD. Whereas, on Wednesday last, five idle, disorderly, and dissipated Characters, were seen hovering about in the neighbourhood of Northrepps, in one of P-g-t's Landeaus with two half-starved horses, emblematic of those within their OBJECT cannot tend to good, and they are supposed to belong to a SUSPICIOUS PARTY, being all disappointed men. Their flash names are Skeleton Wh-t-, Black B-rry, Gloomy Gr--n, Radical Tom, and Lazy L-c-s. Any one apprehending any, or either of the above Persons, may receive the above Reward, by applying to JACK STRAW, (late of the Corporation Straw Warehouse,) or of BOTTLED-NOSE SIMON, at the Office of Supplies, Norwich. TO THE FREEMEN AND FREEHOLDERS OF NORWICH. BROTHER ELEctors, IT is confidently said, the interests of the Freemen of this City are again to be compromised by a tacit aquiescence on the part of the leading Men on either side, so that in fact the Franchises which our noble Forefathers secured to us by our charters, are to be rendered nugatory by these hole and corner Meetings of the Blue and White and Orange and Purple Aris tocrats. Indeed Fellow Citizens, we shall be for ever disgraced if we permit again such a Compromise, and I appeal earnestly to every one of you my fellow Citizens, to counteract by your personal exertions, such ruthless destruction of our municipial Rights and Priveleges. Let such plots as these no more pollute the pages of our Civic History, but let us shew, we merit the name of Freemen, and resolve on this occasion to have a free and undictated Election and NO COMPROMISE. Yours ever, A FREEMAN. TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS Gentlemen, OF THE CITY OF NORWICH. Mr. Jonathan Peel having put forth an address to you ominous of a very speedy dissolution of Parliament, in which he refers you to his public conduct, and declares that "should he again have the honour of representing you, it is his intention steadily to pursue the same line of public policy which he has hitherto |