which he made to the Bills for the Suppression of Sedition. The great point to be tried between the Honorable Baronet and myself, is whether the bills lately passed by Parliament, for the maintenance and preservation of religion and morals, are, or are not necessary. Parliament have said they are necessary. A great, populous, and independent county, is now by me called upon for its sentiments. Issue is joined thereon. The Freeholders are to sit in judgment, and to give the verdict. By this judgment of our County it will be ascer tained how the pulse of the Kingdom of Great Britain is now beating. So far from pledging myself as the Honorable Baronet has done, to continue the contest "so long as one Freeholder shall be found willing to give his suffrage," I declare that I will advance or retreat, as soon as the sentiments of the County are ascertained, in order that the peace of Sussex may be as little disturbed as is possible. I have the honor to be, with due respect, Gentlemen, Your much obliged, and most obedient Humble Servant, Lewes, March 4, 1820. E. J. CURTEIS. To the Agriculturists of the County of Sussex. The time is now come for which we, in common with the agricultural interest of the Kingdom have so long prayed, namely, "That of having it in our power to return those men to Parliament who will exert their utmost to relieve our distress. In the western part of the county we have a candidate who has proved himself to be diligently watchful over our interests in Parliament, and often to the great injury of his health, and has ever shewn himself ready to attend to any communications that we have made to him. In the eastern part of the county, we have, I am proud to say, a candidate stepping forward manfully; avowing that his first object, if returned, shall be to endeavour to relieve our distress, from which it is now almost universally felt and acknowledged that the distress of all other classes of society has mainly arisen. To expect that tradesmen can flourish, that artificers can be profitably employed, that the peasantry of the country can be paid those wages which they ought to receive sufficient to support their families, whilst the farmers are situated as at present, is to expect that the stream will flow when the source is dried up. Let us then come forward manfully and openly as the example which has been set us in support of our own cause. In the hand bill, Sir Godfrey Webster states that the source of our distress originates from the heavy pressure of taxation-this is undoubtedly true; but if that taxation cannot be reduced in any considerable degree, which is impossible, un less faith is to be broken with the public creditor, it is useless to expect relief in that way. There is, however, one tax which so immediately concern us, and which, in a great degree, defeats its object by the severity of the duty imposed, that I would, by all means, advise you to press it on the consideration of the candidates, and which I have no doubt, Mr. Burrell and Mr. Curteis, will heartily join in their endeavours to repeal, and that is the oppressive duty on malt," a tax which not only causes the greatest injury to the lower. orders of society, by depriving them of a wholesome and necessary beverage, but is the means of undermining their morals, and as an unavoidable consequence of destroying their domestic happiness. Let it then be seen that the Agriculturists of the County of Sussex, have spirit enough to support their own cause, and let us go heart and hand to the poll huzzaing, Burrell and Curteis for ever. I remain, Brother Farmers, your sincere Friend, AGRICOLA. To the Freeholders at Brighton. That Mr. Curteis was the cause of your town having been rated at 900l. per annum to the county rate, has not been denied by that gentleman; and we, therefore, may fairly conclude that it is a fact, This specimen of his ability at taxation, and his predilection for the town of Brighton, is an earnest of what we may expect from him, should he be returned a Member of Parliament. He who would thus burthen your town, can have no just pretensions to your favor. Indeed, I wonder he can venture to ask a single individual of Brighton for his Vote! It is the heavy taxation of the country which bears us down, pressing alike upon the agriculturist and the manufacturer. Let me, therefore, askwhether it is not the imperious duty of every voter in the Kingdom to support such Candidates as will constitutionally do all in their power to remove this evil? The Freeholders of Sussex are bound in honor, and even for the sake of consistency, to Re-elect Sir Godfrey Webster; and, to promote that object, I recommend every Elector at Brighton to give him A PLUMPER.-X. Y. To the Independent Freeholders of the County of Sussex. Two Candidates having declared themselves for the honor of representing the eastern division of this county, we whose names are undermentioned, being the committee just formed in the City of Chichester, for promoting the Election of Mr. Burrell, beg leave publicly to state our motives for supporting him. During the two last Parliaments in which Mr. Burrell has been one of our Representatives, we have witnessed with satisfaction his unremitting and vigilant attention to the agricultural and local con, cerns of the county, joined to that facility of access and urbanity of manners, which the Freeholders have a right to expect from their Representative in all matters which relate to the public business of the county, or the protection of their interests in Parliament, But we should not properly express our feelings at this important crisis, if we did not, at the same time, declare, that it is upon a review of the public principles and conduct of Mr. Burrell, that we are induced to come forward, and earnestly to recommend to the Freeholders to restore him to the distinguished situation which he lately held as the western representative, On all occasions of public importance it appears to us, that Mr. Burrell has conducted himself as it became a truly independent Member of Parliament, 1 anxious to support the just rights of the people, without breaking down that power, which by our happy constitution is vested in the crown-not for its own advantage, but for the security of those rights, and the preservation of that happy order of things, which, since the period of the Revolution, has secured the internal peace, and advanced the interests of the British Empire. When the daring efforts of those who have laboured to subvert by violence and civil war that Constitution in Church and State by which these blessings are secured, called for the intervention of the legislature, Mr. Burrell, justly alive to the danger, gave his earnest support in the late short but eventful session of Parliament to those laws, which are in unison, we should hope, with the feelings and wishes of all that are sound and untainted in the community-as tending at once to counteract the designs of a desperate faction, and to secure to the loyal and peaceable the quiet and undisturbed enjoyment of their rights.-The committee will sit at the Swan Inn, every day till the close of the poll, from eleven till one. George Farhill John Diggens William Johnson W. W. Richardson Chichester, March 4, 1820 W. Postlethwaite To the Loyal Freeholders of the County of Sussex. We whose names are undermentioned, having formed ourselves into a committee in the city of Chichester, for promoting the Election of Mr. Curteis, think it right, in order to avoid any misrepresentation of our motives, thus publicly to declare them. We have placed ourselves in so conspicuous a situation, not from any solicitation of the candidate |