The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-10 00:00:00

totheCENTLEMEN;CLERGY,anciFREEI4OLDERS
of the COUNTY of NORFOLK.

GENTY.zmzg,
. .
T haS been.happtly proVed by the events of this
I 'day, 'that the triumphs of malice are-tar front complete,
atta,rh4t however successful its efforts may have been to a
certain point, it has not recluded you from the choice of two
ltrpresentatives in every retped worthy of your all-edit-in and
e..6nfidence, and possessing possibly a Still further .recommen-
dation to your favow, by the circumitances. in which they
now, come torward.. The consent sn liatu4ornel' given by
dour tate worthy' fiepresentetive, Sir lacob Astiey, to return
at -yiiiko call' to the iluties and cares of alive life. and to ac—
cept the honours which you had offered him, must remove
eveiy..regret which yoit kindness might .have led you to feel
in one instance and the nmae, asveil as the vrrtttes and
excellent qualities w
of Mt. E. Coe, will'afferd time best con-.
selatitin tor -that loss, which he and-all of, us—shall agree
-
c.autot be completely repaired:
Ncithing•in 'the 'mean White-ran chew more' clearly, cad
better expose and lay' bare, the motives of loose who have
been convened in the late proceedings, than ;he fa& pow
established,. that after creating their vacancy they had ro
means Of filling it up atter removing from their seats the
late Members, they had no friend to propose of their own;
whom the County would I:2x a moment endUre, and could
find no person, who, not being illeir.friend, would disgrace
himself by accepting their 'assistance. =

7ribe success o 2 titeir'endea;iour;ris just such as might be
wished for all endeavours originating in such feelings. They
have added a new propf, could a new proof hive been want.
ed, that the result of the fate- eteetion expressed in both in-
stances (ofOna there contd be no question) your genuine sen
timentsi anti have thus, tent their aid to c.ontirin to Inc an
lion it 11-ich to. tune can take away, which vvill.stay by
Me to -my fast moments, and which allows in the mean;
the pleasing hope that the memory of. it may even
then remaintltat, namely, of having been raised to the 40...
nourable situation which I laicly he Id, by unbia6sed,
and uninfluenced atoice'of the t'rectmitteri of the Cc:inky-Of
Norfolk.'

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js true in my own case, it is true kn a still more
I marked and ample manner that of my'lve I-lon. Col.:
Ictitwe: Those who supPosedtreniselveS to hale triumlrhixi
! by having rcmoved•Mr. 'Coke from the representatiwn of the
,County-pt Norfolk, in the way in which they Jive succeeded,
will tit, well to consider Whit has been said in some instancy
of hid wit, that it was better' tb be.tlie stthject'of it" than the,
au /nor. It must be for minds sinaila:illothfte-whieli devised
the late proceedings to
.1-tesitate in. it choice between their
v,iEtgry an: his'iteteat.: '
• •I,Or myself, I 'will only flitther obsrerve, that as I can never
cease .try be actuated by -a-deep and unaltered. sense of gra-
titude for,your kindlyss, and devotion to your interests, so
will ; retain the confidence With you have hOnouted
ire; I can neVer consider rnyjelr as Wholly discharged from
your seri'ice,' or as not acing to s'on'te degree under the obil.
gationOi that trust, which having been. withdrawn only by
the as of others, I,rejpie,e to see transferredto those by whom
it will be so uprightly slid independently atiministered.
' I have ut2 honour' to be,
•
With every sentiment of b-i-atirittle and respea,
Your most 'obliged and devoted humble Servant,
• WM.:WINDHAM.,
N'trwich, March 4,