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amain. (Cheers.) The third object they had avenmplished
met they, by their efforts. had expelled those individuals who hail
bad die interests oft oveniry placed in their bands, but who had
:been theme-lee, not worthy of so honourable a trait and
*see he lookeJ to his right, and to his left, he felt an un-
tnunded confidence that they hail placed 'hose interests la
the hands of those who %mild on no occasion neglect or abli.e
mem.—(Cheer.)—He begged, in ceiclusion, to pranoie—" The
Fre"oel of etracatt, at larg .--may they ever aii.-rt their own in-
-t•Pen:l.ence, and may they never be wdliont liends to support
tiwm.
Mr. FILER wave—" Mr. John Carter, and thsaks to Hint for
his inderntiLialile inlii.try in nor
Mr. C . :pressed his acknowledgment f,r the Imintr:
done him. The cause of liberty ir.d iddependcate had, lie oh-
served. been long in abeyance in Coventry : but he a oi proud la
say, that by their exertin•i% they had at Wig b r:sruerl tht i:•ty
from that disc races and hail (wee more timed the standard us
isenalituiional freedom wlthin ifs walk
Mr. EAITICOTZ prtipmed " Ili: 31ijeCy's 3Unist:ri," which
wet drank with great enthusiasm.
•

Air —" tr.cll."
Many other healthy anti toasts were drank, and several gentle-
Met addressed the eompsny in terms of congratotation,• fur the tri-
umph obtained by the friend. of :he King anti enntritutinn, over
those 'hone system they tied teed endangered both. and who had
for to many years held the city of Caventry in thraldom.
At a la.e hour ve ten 11e.litars retired talbe King's Head,
accompanied by a great number of friends.
nternenair, Jolene 22.

Bogie this morning, Mr. Heathenre left Coventry in his carriage
mid four. :Sir. Frier soon afterwards followed him in an open ha.
reecho. Many persons assembled round the inn, and cheered the
Members a. they mimed.
• DINNER TO MR. MOORE AMT) MR. EI4ACE.
• Thi. afternoon, about 1 fin of the friends of 3lessm. Moore and
Ellice entertained those two gentlemeeSn at dirner at the Craven
Anna lintel. The dinner was certainly on a very splendid scale,
and every thing was managed with remarkable regularity. Among
Ott gentlemen erment was the Spanish patriot QIIITOrfa.
After the cloth had been removed. and the esual toasts
dank by the company. the Chairman ( loans, Faq. of
..aatey). roomed the health of Edward Ellice, Esq., which was
*hank With Moe times nine.
Mr. Et.LICE rose to return thanks, but the cheering would not
permit him to pierced for some minutes; when silence war restored
procee.led to observe that such an assembly as this ns.ured him
that the detest they had experienced would only be toMporary, and
Cost the cause they es .otsed would and mutt ultimately be see-
areesfnl. Theirs was the triumph of good feeling. and upright
princiole., over bad, malevolent, and bigoted prejudice. He was
sire there AN, no one person among them who ono believed (if for
▪ 'Plitarit a ettepicion had come over his minds,. that in any thing
t:e had undertsken sieve the duty of their representative had been
:mowed on him, he had in the slightest degree neglected the In-
lainets of aloe one individual of this society, be he the highest or
the lowest in it. If he had not at all times %erne:led In meeting
the approbation of every man in so large a comnoinity. he could
onfy ay that he never attempted the attainment of such a task.
What he did endeavour to do was to perform conscientiously, his
potty in protecting the welfare and protesting the proem riry of
tots city to the best of Ilia power and ability. (Loud cheers.)_
Ifflinch was his endeavour, and he was sere it was an honest one,
whether be had succeeded or not it remained foe those who had
notched his cooduot to liege. But it war impossible that he could
oapect the opposition widish. from clilfereto quarters. had been
brought against him. If he could suppnse he had been the guilty
thing those persons amused him of being. he was not the man to
ask them for their suffraoes or for any mcetl of approbation. He
hoped at all events that therm who were attached to the cause of the
zolepentlettee of this city, and who had the power of mason to
guide them, and the power to do another man ',twice, weld,' not
say Cut: that cause had sufnted in his hands. If the new Catoli.
dams who had been proposed to succeed him as their Reprmenta-
neee, ohonld finally he such, it could not he alleoed option him
toast his conduct had merited the consequences the supporters of
tome Dertlemen had visited on him If no imputation could he
cast open his troll:tory—if no objection could he brought against
say or those public principles which he had constantly asserted in
their roe...nee—if it were denied him to come hack and remit.: their
opprohatitm—he at least asked common justice as their hands, and
logged them to ascribe the opposition he had met with
to tot real cause. and he trusted he should be allowed to
attempt to di justice to his own cOorecter. fie said this with a
view to set right with the public elm emote by the support of which
los character had been established in the estimation of the public.
„tied which eatiee was as dear to bins as the restoration of that
character itsetf. Then if nothing could be alleged against him—
& be had not from neglect on the one hand, or improper motives for
k'seonduet on the other, merited thi. opposition. to what could it
tsrassigned ? To him, before he came to Coventry, he saw the
Mffimity he should have to mr,roust; he wro aware that a profli-
pate mod base magistracy wished to raise dissension in the com-
a:rooky. by which it wax possible to promote their private interests
sat the prejudice of their public duty, and of those rights of which
they were appointed by the conatitutton of this city to be the relie-
ve! guaniions. Did any man suppose that if that had not been
Cott those persona sought to accomplish, they would hare acted as
they had done? It must have beets their first object to find not
teat especial ground upon which to build an opposition. and then
they vetoed the hottest calumny against him. But the poor mio-
golded men of this city, by whose agency our enemies had for a
moment succeeded, would most bitterly lament the delusion that
had been practised upon them, and the assistance they bad given to
those whose only object was to trample under foot every thiug that
was most respectable. If, then, this was the object of those woe-
shies, he would ask by what means had they determined to attain
tuft worthy end ? They had seen the Mayor psrading the city, and
cajecting mobt. long before they knew they should find persons
foolish enough to come forward to support them. But having
teased the mph, they took especial pains to prevent those
Idiom duty to the public required it, from having the opportunity
to state their opinions. IThe lion. Gentleman then proceeded
to detail and to comment upon, with much warmth, the various acts
done by the OW eer% of the Corportation during the progrem
of the election, which, having been already before the public, we
do net think it expedient to repeat]—lt was, he continued, impos-
sible to doubt that redress was atta noble against such grievances
and such misconduct. He then rem otketi upon the conduct of one
or the Sheriffs, and said that, in his conscience, he believed that
that Oentl'man could not be helped out of his dilemma but by
azeompanying, his worthy friend. the Mayor, to comfortable winter
quarters in the prison of Newgate. ( Immense applause.) It was
tuipostsible for him to suppose otherwise. We lived in a civilized
country, under laws justly looked to as the boast of human nature.
Could any man who regarded the value of those laws. end the In-
s.ttutio et which we venersted, suppose tit ,t a Moyne could actually
heed mobs, or a Sheriff set so contrary to hi. oath, and In defiance
of the well.known princip'e of the freedom of election in this
country. without subjecting themselves to the consequences he had
alleged? He pledged himself nano solemnly, that, with their
amistaree, this did not end here. • (Cheering here continued for
seven' minutest.) They hal all a duty to perform to one another;
It was no cause of his in particular. Ile would see through it if
they would gire him their assistance. But they must all act
like rea.unable men, having in view not only the result ,
ut an elective content, but a reform of the manner in which
an denial was carried on here, which shout./ restore something
like malt to the city of Coventry. (Cheers.) lie hogged them
for that end to have their eyes open for the next three or four
months. He heard that the motives of one party were those of
Immo, malignity against hitn. Let that go by ; he knew how
to deal with that. He home the motives of the Corporation. He
her- to they were actuated by best means—that they endeavoured to
obtain the trifling support of the pone mieguidett teen of the city
by telling them they protected them against their masters. Nothing
could be more false. and the Candidates woubl themselves lind that
the Corporation had as much deceived them as they had the people.
'The Honourable Gentleman then recapitulated the various facts
which it would be necessary to establish by evidence before the
1 ummittee of the House of Commons, in order to have the present
election declared void • and he entreated every gentleman present
mu exert himself in collecting together all the proclettey were able.
After repressing his thanks for the great zeal that had been mani-
fested by the gentlemen present in support of therms. he espoused
he again exhorted them to persevere to the end. So long as he was
itched to as an instrument, and not as a principal only. to long as
lie was considered not to have any private interest to promote, butt
ajaubla ditty to perterve, so long would tie continue faithful NIA
vie to the cause he had undertaken. (Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of the consistent 31r.
Moore.
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,Nlr. Moony returned thanks in a speech of c0t...41,476:e length,
but owing to the low tone in which he spoke we could by no means
accurately catch the purport of Lk observations. lie repeated the
various cases on Elevion Law analagons to the present case, and
defied all the lawyers in Westminster flail to sly that this was a
good election ; and he pledged himself, both in person and In
Immo, to petsevere in obtaining that redress which the laws af-
forded._ _

Mr. Et.t.tcr proposed the heilth of the gentlemen who ferried
th; Cornmi.ree to em.4hrt 1117 election.

Mr. COPE: ?domed thanks.

Mr. Et-Linz then gave the health of " The veteran champion
of our cause—Mr. Lilley ;" nod. snit the Hon. Gentleman, we
may as well put the child to the father ; lie would propos:, "
Lilky and the Blues of Coventry."
Mr. LILLEY returned thanks. He remernheved :he election for
this city in 17D), when he danced attendance for sixseen or seven.
teen days to be polled ; and upon that occasion there was a double
return on account of bribery. He was in Landon three weeks or a
month on purpose to send the Sherifr to Newgate. He took up the
%quer% on one side, and Mr. Reader, the present Counsel, took up
the voters on the opposite side. The object of keeping open the
pull 40 long was to afford time to the opposite party to bring op
rums, be which means they obtained a majority on two alternate
.slart. The Cult majority was considered by the Committee of the
House of Commons to be attained with such circumstances of
fraud as made it necessary to intptire into their validity. But the
second lot by which the last majority was made was deemse
fraudulent a transaction, that they were struck off' the poll, and our
_Members. said Mr. Lilley, were sleeted, and the corporation had
riot ►Wen able since then to show any strength. The reason was
h•y obvitnis, for they had no candidate to come forward in their
s:•nee. taw would they ever have another. 'Load cheering.)
a.. to the• present Candidates, who .o Mr. Peannan had brought
forward, they were considered such a prize that :here was a con.
tention as to who should have the credit of bringing them to Cu.
venttv. He knew that Mr. Charles Woodcock had nothing to do
Ifni: although he boated that he had. This was their cause,