can papers I have read an account of Buckinghamshire, or distributed to the this law; and in one, published at Pitts-stone-crackers along the roads, does Sir burgh, no longer ago than last fall, I FRANCIS BURDETT and Sir JAMES GR4read, in an article entitled" Degraded HAM think that the system could last ? England," first, a very accurate descrip- Oh, no! the acts are necessary to the tion of this bill; and next, a description, system, and as necessary as the taxes equally accurate, of WILMOT HORTON'S are; as long as paper-money will cirproject for mortgaging the poor-rates, culate, and as long as this mass of taxes in order to get rid of the people by is collected, these acts are absolutely sending them out of the country; and necessary. the writer concludes with this apostrophe: "Is this the boasted land of liberty? Is this the country of SIDNEY and HAMPDEN and LOCKE? We thank God that we are separated from it; and we feel renewed gratitude to the wise and brave men whose timely resistance saved our happy country from being subject to acts like these!"

My friends, readers of the Register, consider well these things; be you prepared for whatever may happen; and be not amused by those who now and then give way to a little loose talk about freedom, but who, when the pinch comes, when the question of repealing taxes or not repealing taxes; when that question comes, always uphold the system, Be you not amused by any one who is not for a repeal of taxes: that is the great point and the only point worth attending to. Care nothing at all about reduction of expences: that is another matter: it is what you have to pay and not what is done with the money, unless, indeed, those who talk of reducing expences will show you what families and what persons pocket the money. That explanation would be useful, indeed; but mere loose talk about expenditure is of no use, and is unworthy of your attention. We could have a pot of beer for a penny, better than that which is bought at a public-house for sixpence. Here is one thing more worthy of your attention than ten years of jabbering about army estimates.

Why, to be sure, the whole world must rejoice that they are safe from such acts. However, the Act in question will remain, with all the rest of it, as long as paper-money of any sort or kind will circulate in England. Such acts are the natural and necessary fruit of the system, which, say SIR JAMES GRAHAM and BURDETT what they will, is not to be carried on without such acts; and the good of it is, that neither of them really wish the system to cease. This is the good of the thing, that they will not see that this act is a part of the system. Why, do they imagine that if the 21 inch by 17 inch Act were to cease, I should not publish a penny pamphlet which would circulate from one end of the kingdom to the other? and what need I do but state the amount of the The progress at present is fearful: it collection of the taxes compared with may be stopped all at once; at a mothe amount given in relief to the poor? ment; with very little or no warning; The millions know nothing about this be, therefore, I pray you, prepared: matter; they know nothing about LORD get gold, and keep it. I have heard, GREY'S petition. There are about two and, I believe, truly, that there has been, hundred facts to state to them; all no- during the last year, a very serious falltoriously true; all of them to be stated ing off in the number of persons having without a possibility of ascribing libel to money in the funds, as it is called. the writer; yet, if these facts were cir-There are, I am told, ten thousand less calated at the doors of the soup shops, fund-holders than there were a year or amongst the men who are drawing ago. This has doubtless arisen from wagons; if only the list of the families two causes. First, prudent people upon the pension list, and the sums they receive, were circulated in this manner, were flung into the pounds where the labourers are shut up in

have been selling out and getting gold; and, second, farmers and tradesmen have been selling out, in order to be able to pay rent and taxes in the present state

said, he had in the last two sessions in- [dozen Catholic gentlemen of getting troduced two grand constitutional mea-into Parliament; and to half-a-dozen sures. But even if this fact were cor- Catholic barristers of getting silk rect, he dissented from the conclusion gowns to their backs; while, to purdrawn from it, for he maintained that chase this valuable chance, the disfranit was the duty of the people to give all chisement of half a million of Irishmen the encouragement in their power to a had been accomplished! Hear that, good minister; and if they had a bad ye Parliamentary reformers! (Cries of one, to make their voice tingle in his " Question, question!" and uproar.) ears. (Cheers.) But what were these And why had this disfranchisement two grand constitutional measures? taken place? Not because, as was alHe supposed that the repeal of the Test leged, they were driven in herds to the and Corporation Act was one. Now he poll; but because the landlords had was a Dissenter, but he must confess found out that they were no longer so that he was never particularly anxious to be driven. And was this, then, the for that repeal; its existence, however, man for whose measures they were to had always been a matter of great ob- wait before they petitioned ? jection to the Dissenters generally, and as such he had always wished for the repeal. But how did the law now stand? For his own part, he felt himself as fully excluded as ever from holding any office, if such had been his ambition in lieu of a qualification they had a declaration which went the length of making the Dissenter state that he would not use his power to alter or attack the church.

Colonel HARVEY spoke to order: He thought that Sir Thomas was travelling quite away from the object of the meeting.

(To be concluded.)

Applications to be made to

CHARLES HANCOCK, Secretary.

TEA.-A SAVING TO FAMILIES OF 25. IN

EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, AGENTS continue to be appointed in country Offices, 149, Leadenhall-street, London. towns for the sale of the TEAS and COFFEE of this Establishment. They are packed in leaden canisters, from an ounce to a pound, and labelled with the price on each package. secure their delivery free from adulteration: The fac-simile of the secretary is attached, to but little trouble is occasioned by the sale. Any respectable tradesman may engage in it with advantage; he promotes indeed his own license is only 11s. per anuum; the very trade business by this valuable appendage. The an amusement; and, from an outlay of from 107. to 207., many, during the last five years, Sir THOMAS BEEVOR: What advan-have realised an income of from 401. to 50%. tage then had the Dissenters gained? per annum, without one shilling let or loss.The High Sheriff thought that he (Sir Thomas Beevor) was out of order. Sir THOMAS BEEVOR could 'not agree with the High Sheriff; for if that Gentleman would have waited a little, he would have seen that he had not introduced the topics in reference to the Test and Corporation Acts themselves, but only for the sake of inquiring what might be expected from the Duke of Wellington in the ensuing session of Parliament. (Hear.) The other grand constitutional measure was that of Catholic emancipation; a question that excited more ill-blood than any question that had ever been brought before Parliament. But now that it was settled and over, let them ealmly consider what it amounted to. The only remarkable features that he could see in it, were, the chance that it afforded to half-a

7s., UPWARDS OF 30 PER CENT. road, three doors from London-street, near FELIX and CO., 106, Tottenham-courtthe New-road, have just OPENED a WAREHOUSE for the SALE of TEAS, FREE from ADULTERATION, and served from the chest 30 per cent. in an article of such universal pure as received from China. As a saving of consumption as Tea, implies the saving of several pounds sterling a year, Families are respectfully invited to prove the truth of what Black Tea at 5s, a pound, and judge for themwe state, by sending for an ounce of our best selves whether it is not equal, if not superior, to that for which they are now paying 7s. a pound. Other Teas and Coffee equally moderate, parFamilies and Dealers from the Country, as ticularly a real fine Hyson, at 8s. a pound. well as Co-operative Societies, will do well to give us a trial.—A trial is all we ask.

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people; for after two or three miserable attempts in this way, out have come the Ministers with their list of savings, amounting in the whole to £1,300,000; and though this is all that is to be saved out of nearly £60,000,000, including the expense of collecting the taxes, the NOBLEST ASSEMBLY seemed to be "The House of Commons is the noblest "assembly of free men in the whole world. surprised that so much could be saved? "(Loud and repeated cheers from all parts of But, saved or not saved, what is that "the House."-Report of Sir James Gra-to the tax-payers? There are about ham's Speech in that House on the 5th of ten millions of people in England and February, 1830.

THE REGISTER.

HITHERTO the Register has been for sale, HITHERTO the Register has been for sale, at the Office in Fleet Street, for several days after the day of publication. This has, however, been found to be so very inconvenient, and, indeed, attended with so much loss, that am obliged to give up this after sale. The day of publication is SATURDAY; and after this week, there will be no Registers for sale at the Office, after the Saturday evening, eight o'clock. The best way is for gentlemen to get the Register as they do other stamped papers, from the newsmen. There is no way so sure as this; and the cost is precisely the same.

TO THE

Wales (for the Irish and Scotch really pay next to nothing towards the sixty millions); this is six pounds each for us to pay, babies and all; and out of this the proposed savings would remit about two shillings and three-pence for each of us! However, we are, it seems, not to have even this remission; for no tax is proposed to be taken off! What is it to the people what savings" are made, so long as the taxes continue to be the same? And, observe, they must continue to be the same, or the system goes to pieces.

The system will end, whenever there shall be ANOTHER CLOSING OF THE BANK AGAINST DEMANDS FOR GOLD; for the moment that shall take place, no matter from what cause, there will very speedily follow

READERS OF THE REGISTER. TWO PRICES for goods and for pro

Barn-Elm Farm, 24th February, 1830.

MY FRIENDS,

perty of all sorts. So that war, or a serious commotion in the country, would now blow up the system; and either of MR. JAMES PERRY, of Morning Chro- these may come upon us very suddenly. nicle Whig memory, gave the Parlia-And even a real reduction of the taxes ment the name of Collective Wisdom of would produce the same effect. To take the nation. This appears not to have off ten millions out of the sixty, would been enough for the descendant of yield very little relief; but it would "John with the bright sword," who, if make fundholders, if sane, sell out, and the reports be correct, has given the run for the gold. How, then, stands the House of Commons, as some people call Bank? It has out in notes £26,000,000. it, the name of the "noblest assembly of It holds exchequer bills to the amount free men in the whole world"; and, it is of about £10,000,000; it holds of deadreported, that at this re-baptising, the weight, about £10,000,000 more; it House almost stunned itself with its has in advances to the Government own cheers. Noblest or noblest not, how- £4,000,000; and therefore it cannot ever, this House appears to have done have a prodigious mass of gold. In nothing to relieve the distress of the short, the mother-bank, the sow-bank,

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us with a falling system; they know what we can do, and what we cannot ; and we deceive ourselves most grossly,

iş, in one respect, like the pig-banks; it must have more notes than it has gold, or it could not carry on business to a profit. It is, indeed, all a thing of pa-if we imagine that they have forgotten per; a thing resting on mere opinion; and a change of opinion may pull the whole fabric down in a moment.

the tribute which we made them pay, and the museums which were ransacked while we were masters of Paris. They all know how to pour in upon us the forged paper-money, which would be perfectly fatal if this paper-money found us without cash payments at the Bank. The Ministers say, that they cannot do with less army and fleet than they have now even in time of peace, what are they to do, then, in time of war? What would then be their expenditure annually? and observe, we should not, as in the last war, have all the commerce in the world under our absolute command. The war,

war for England; and the probabilities are, that if it overtake us with an unreformed Parliament, the crash will be the most dreadful that the world ever yet beheld.

The Duke of Wellington is reported to have said, that the nation was never so well prepared for war as at this moment! But, then, he said two other things: namely, that the retail traders were in a prosperous state! And that that there is now more money (including paper) circulating in the country, than there was during any period of the late war! We must take the three assertions together; and we must believe them all, or believe none of them. However, suppose war to come, is he pre-whenever it come, will be a dreadful pared to close the Bank against demands for gold? Is he prepared to stand a general run for gold? Is he prepared for two prices? Is he prepared for the effects of legal tender? Is he prepared for bales of forged notes, pour- Now, turn your eyes to the proceeded in upon us, as our people poured as-ings of the "noblest assembly of free signats in upon the French? He may be; but, then, he must be prepared for all the consequences; for that the enemy would pour them in upon us, is as certain as any thing earthly can be. In short, though it is surprising to hear this man talk of the prosperity of retail traders, and of the quantity of money in the country, it is still more surprising to hear him thus talk of being prepared for war! If he mean to deceive foreign nations by this boasting, that is worse than all the rest. They know our real situation better than he does, if he be sincere in his opinions; and this boast of his will be, by them, regarded as a sure proof of our real inability to go to war. At any rate, be you, my readers, prepared for war"; narrow your affairs as much as possible; be not in debt; get all the gold you can, and keep it.

men." Look at the divisions on the
army estimates, and then say what are
your hopes! All idea of a return to the
small paper-money seems to be aban-
doned. I inculcated, throughout the
whole of my Northern tour, the opinion
that there would not be a return to the
small paper-money.
I found a very
large part, if not the whole, of the solid
manufacturers very much averse to that
return; but I found them nevertheless
of an opinion contrary to mine with re-
gard to what would be done. I remem-
ber that, in one instance, in a party of
twelve or thirteen gentlemen, we put it
to the vote whether Mr. WESTERN'S
wishes would prevail or not; and if I
recollect correctly, I was in a minority
of four. The opinions of those who
differed from me were founded on this :
That it was impossible for the Govern-
ment to go on with the present cur-
rency without a great reduction of taxes;
and this every man said they would not
make. I thought so, too, and said that

It is possible that, as long as Charles the Tenth lives, we may have peace with France and America; but not much longer. The French nation see our weak-I thought so; but still the Duke was so ness; they know the extent of our dis- firmly bound to the bill of 1826, and tress, if our Ministers do not; they see the danger of departing from it was so

great and so manifest, that I could not the Fourth, whereas the bill was passed believe that even these Ministers would, in the sixtieth year of the good old in open daylight, run their heads into father of the present King, and on the such a fatal noose. This opinion of mine 30th of December, 1819. So that Sir has been confirmed by the proceedings FRANCIS BURDETT was deceived when of the "Collective." Mr. WESTERN, he said, the other night, he might be who was defeated in his own county, sent to Botany Bay if he published a where a petition was passed in despite second seditious libel, having been conof him, praying, not for paper-money, victed of one before. He was convicted but for a seizure of part of the property of one before, to be sure, and had a of the church, and for a reform in the three-months' walk round the MarshalHouse of Commons: Mr. WESTERN Sea for it; but his sedition was com cut but a poor figure. Several others mitted before the passing of the Act; so made a slight push to get back to the that, a second conviction would not paper-money, but were very soon si- transport him, unless the Act be conlenced; and, as for taking off taxes, strued to mean, that a verdict, after the there the Ministers were sure to triumph; passing of the Act, shall be sufficient for for those who had to vote, knew too the purpose, though the crime was comwell, much too well, the necessity of mitted before the passing of it. Besides, continuing all the taxes. the punishment is not Botany Bay, but In the affair of the army estimates, banishment, except the sentenced party Mr. HUME, who made some famous ex-remain in the country forty days after posures, told the Ministers, that the peo-the sentence. Then the offender is to ple would soon take the affair into be transported for any term not exceedtheir hands, which was highly resented ing fourteen years. This Act was the by "that fine young man," Mr. PEEL, last, all but one, of the reign of the late who asserted that the Government good old King, who found the taxes would beat the people if they followed the advice of Mr. HOME. Poor SCARLETT, lawyer SCARLETT, of poor law memory, came in for a share of the censure of Mr. HUME, who said that he could say there in safety what no man out of the House dared to say, lest this lawyer should pounce down upon him. The lawyer appears to have said nothing for himself, and no one seems to have said any thing for him.

It is curious to observe what a cry the worthy Whigs are now setting up against the bill for banishing people who may bring the House into contempt by their writings. I have been writing against this bill ever since it was passed, and I promised the people of Preston that I would not even sit down in the House, if they elected me, until I had moved for the destruction of this bill. LORD MORPETH has given notice of a motion for the repeal of it, which motion is to come on on the fourth of May; but the newspaper account of it gives an erroneous description of the date of the bill, which it calls a bill passed in the sixth year of George

twenty-four millions a year in time of war, and who left them sixty millions a year in time of peace; who found the interest of the Debt eight millions and a half a year, and who left it thirty millions a year. The very act that closed this prosperous and happy reign (and a most appropriate close it was) was the Act to put down the cheap publications. This Act was the 60th George the Third, chapter nine; and the banishment Act, 60th George the Third, chapter eight. These Acts are a sweet pair, take them together; and they were manifestly intended principally for a person who shall be nameless. When the banishment Act was under discussion, the Whigs represented the indignity offered to gentlemen of the press, though they said there might be an individual who might merit such severity and degradation; whereupon CANNING replied, "that there was no getting at the ignoble beast, without running down the whole herd"! This fellow's tongue is still; but his saucy, his impudent, his stupid words ought to be recollected. The great LIAR OF THE

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