tress for ever! say I. LORD STANHOPE pense, of course, now forms part of the need be in no apprehension about their load that is pressing us to the earth, and dividing the land by force of their num- that threatens, in my Lord Stanhope's bers it will be given up to them, if opinion, to produce a state of things, in taxes to the amount of thirty millions a which the labourers will divide the land year be not taken off. And the question, amongst them. my Lord Duke, really is this: Shall we give up the conquests and leave the vic-misery that we behold, all the dangers tories unpaid for; or, shall we give up the land to the labourers? All the distress, my lord Duke, all the that surround us at home, all the distrainings for rent or for rates, all the desperate conduct of the labourers (once so gentle and docile); all, yea all, and all that reason tells us must follow, if no effectual remedy be applied; all have their cause in this unjust and unnecessary war. Daylight is not more visible than that the distress arises from the taxes; and you now (if the report be correct) tell us, that these taxes cannot be taken off; because they are demanded by the debt and the dead weight occasioned by the war, and by the conquests which that war acquired. Of what nature the sufferings of the people are, the following account, from the GLOUCESTER JOURNAL of the 20th February 1830, may tell the world. Thus it is, my lord Duke, that TIME, sturdy old TIME, avenges the wrongs done to TRUTH. The works of PITT and DUNDAS, and their urgers on and associates and instruments, are now felt in their natural consequences; and TIME is avenging the men who suffered death, or imprisonment, or ruin, or bitter persecution for their public spirit in endeavouring to prevent the war of 1793. And is he not avenging the wrongs done to TRUTH? What was the real case between us and the French people? Our rulers, our nobles, our clergy, all our "pastors and masters," had been, for three hundred years, telling us, that the French government was a cruel despotism; that the noblesse were tyrants; "EXTREME DESTITUTION.-Amongst that the people were slaves; that their" the numerous complaints of distress priests taught a religion that was idola-" in all parts of the country, we have trous and damnable. This, in books of" heard of few instances which appear all sizes, in lessons for the young, in" to have so large a claim on the comhomilies for the old, in parliamentary "miseration and assistance of a benespeeches, in sermons from the pulpit; "volent public, as the state of the poor in all manner of ways, from the cradle" in the parish of Coaley, in this county. to the grave, this was what had, for three" A gentleman who occupied a consihundred years, been dinned in the ears "derable tract of land in an adjoining of the people of England, who, accord-" parish, in going over his farm in the ingly, looked on the French people as" late deep snow, found that a hedge beings scarcely above the level of dogs. "that surrounded one of his ricks had Well at last this enslaved people "been very lately carried away; and rose upon their king, their nobles, and the track of the depredators being left their priests, drove them from their coun- "in the snow, he followed them, with try, and put down the "idolatrous and the intention of making their conduct damnable religion." And, then, oh then!" a public example to others. He soon did our rulers and teachers rejoice? No: came to a cottage, if it deserves the they received the expelled parties with name, where part of the wood had open arms; they fed them and cherished" evidently gone. Here he found a wothem at our expense; they made war man and three children, the eldest a upon the people of France; they sub-" boy about eight years old, who was sidised (with our money) others to make" not even decently clothed; the poor war upon them; and, when they, with "woman very little better, and none of the aid of a million of foreigners, had" the family having either shoes or forced back the ancient kings and nobles" stockings! The cottage, or rather the upon France, they held a grand jubilee" hut, consisted of only one room on the in England, of which the people of "ground-floor, the roof in such a state England paid the expense; and that ex-" that, in wet weather, it was as dirty in 66 66 66 66 66 66 "the habitation as out of it; the chim-" man replied, that though they did ma"ney so low, yet so open, that it offered " nage to support life, yet they had often but little obstruction to the entrance" been obliged to go for a whole day "of the piercing winds and weather;" together without food! The old man's "and there being only a door-way, with-" checks were marked by the channels "out any door whatever, to this misera-" his tears had made; and we think "ble abode, we leave our readers to" many of our readers will be almost "judge what these poor creatures must" ready to shed the tear of sympathy have suffered during the severe cold we over his melancholy destitute situation. "have this winter experienced. To add to "The gentleman, on returning home, "their sufferings, too, they had no bed," very kindly sent the poor sick daugh "blankets, or even bedstead to lie on; "ter such sustenance as was adapted to "so that all they could do at night, was "her state of health; but, alas! it was "to wrap themselves in their miserable" too late, for she is now released from scanty clothing, and lie down in the all her accumulated sufferings. Her most sheltered part of this wretched illness was no doubt induced by the "habitation. This statement may pro-" real want of the common necessaries “bably appear overdrawn; but our "of life; and, there is every reason to "readers may depend on its veracity;" fear, the fever will spread further nor will they be at much loss to ac- amongst the poor inhabitants of the "count for such misery, when they learn" parish.-Let not our readers suppose "that the poor are almost all unem- "that these are solitary instances of dis"ployed; that the greatest allowance to "tress. We cannot pretend to state the "any one in the parish is 1s. 3d. per "extent of misery that exists in the "week; and that there are no respect- neighbourhood; but the touching ca"able persons iiving within its limits, to ses we have related, which were dis"render them assistance, except the "covered as by accident, and are given "curate (who does far more than pru- "without exaggeration, may forma good "dence would dictate), and the farmers," criterion by which to judge of the state "who are so oppressed themselves by" that many of our fellow-creatures are "the state of the times and the enor- "to be found, in and about the parish "mous burden of the poor-rates, that 66 we have mentioned.-We are happy they can of course do nothing for the" to learn, that the gentleman who in66 poor and destitute around them. But" tended to expose the wickedness of "to proceed to the cottage, little better" these suffering depredators, has gene"than the last, to which the rest of the" rously undertaken to collect a sub"wood had evidently found its way: "scription for the relief of the parish, "here a poor old man, one of its inha- which we conceive is far more needed "bitants, came out to meet the visitor," than those which have been made in "well knowing, as he said, why he was "towns and cities, where personal suf"come; and invited him in to witness" fering is comparatively unknown. If "the distress which had driven him to 66 any benevolent individuals should feel steal the wood. The wife of the old" disposed to add, even their mite, to "man, it appeared, was so far mentally" the subscription that is now set on deranged, as to be obliged to be tied" foot, they may rest assured their con"in the house. His son, 30 years of "tributions will be very gratefully reage, was an idiot; and his daughter," ceived, and punctually and judiciously "who completed the family, and who by " applied, and may be paid to the Printers "her work at some neighbouring fac-" of this Paper." 66 "tory had supported the rest, lay so ill And is this in England; and is this "of a violent fever, that he did not ex-state of things never to be changed? It "pect she could survive an hour! The never can, as long as taxes shall be col"old man himself had no work; and lected to their present amount. What! "the only allowance he had had from And shall this continue, while there are "the parish was 1s. per week. The gen-men, who receive, out of those taxes, "tleman observed that that could not annually, as much each of them as would possibly maintain them. The poor support a thousand labourers with their thousand families? My heart swells with | pel them by war? Because war demands rage as I ask the question. It cannot money; and because we are up to our be it cannot continue: there must be ears in debt and distress by merely a change, great and all-searching; and making good, or attempting to make of this every man is now convinced. good, our money engagements of the last war. Because, in short, we are ruined by an endeavour to pay for our "victories" and our conquests." The aged, the crippled, the helpless babes, the insane, may suffer in the manner above described; but, while the strong will not suffer thus, the sight of Thus, my lord Duke, we cannot look such suffering in these feeble creatures backward or forward; we cannot turn impels them to deeds of resentment and to the right or to the left, we cannot desperation. There is a limit, beyond catch a glance at any speck of our which men will not suffer, if they have national picture, without exclaiming, bone and sinew at command; and at O TIME, thou hast avenged the this limit we appear to be fast arriving. wrongs done to TRUTH, and hast freshAnd there is this danger, that a yielding ened the turf on the graves of the victo obvious danger is sure to lead to de- tims who perished in her cause! mands of more than would have satisfied before. Therefore, the time for conciliation now is; but, for the thousandth time I repeat, that this cannot be effected without a great and radical change. Compared with internal happiness and peace and security, what are conquests, what are colonies? As to the part that you are now acting, you are situated as I foretold you would be. Men judge by the result, and they are not nice about circumstances. You were covered with glory by the result of the battle of Waterloo. In vain do people say, though I believe with perfect truth, that you owed your success to the merely accidental arrival of forty thousand Prussians, under the command of Blucher. Napoleon, and that was enough. The pride and vanity of the nation caused this lucky circumstance to be wholly overlooked. The result was all that men thought of; and praise and title and wealth showered down upon you. You defeated I cannot conclude this letter without a word or two on negro slavery. I remember what a great point this was in our negociations, at Paris, with the then recently restored king, while YOU had the military command of that city! What we gained in this way was, in fact, extorted, as the negociations proved; and I, at the time (I did not wait till now), said, that it would answer us no For the same reasons men will now purpose. I further said, that the other judge of you by the result. If you get nations would suspect, that we, being the nation out of these difficulties; if well mounted, well stocked, with negroes, you remove the distress; or, if it pass wished to prevent them from repairing away, you will be lauded to the skies; their losses, and rivaling us in the sugar but if you fail; if the thing go to pieces and coffee trade. And now, look at the in your hands; if a bank-stoppage, or statement of the "West India Body"! a convulsion, or any thing of a breakThey complain, that, since the peace, ing up take place, you will be regarded more than 600,000 fresh slaves have been as the cause of the calamity; you will brought into the colonies of other na-be looked upon as defeated; and men tions, in spite of ail our efforts to prevent it; and that our trade in sugar and coffee is thereby greatly injured! Good! This shows the sincerity of our declarations; this shows our views; this accounts for all the anxiety, expressed in Parliament, that Castlereagh the humane would secure this point. It was secured in words. And, why do we not compel these nations to adhere to this treaty of" humanity"? Because we cannot without war. And why not com will judge of you, and speak of you, accordingly: there are no terms or epithets of reproach and contempt, which will not be associated with your name. Nor is this at all unjust; for, if success be to give you all the praise, failure ought to give you all the blame. You have all the powers of the country in your hands; you have the wielding of all its resources; you have majorities in both Houses of Parliament; you can cause to be adopted any measures that you please; you voluntarily took your lation-mongers; and WILMOT HORTON, office upon you; you can quit it at your the prince of this brazen and foolish set, pleasure; and therefore, if the nation has far distanced all the rest. He has be ruined while you hold that office, all just printed three pamphlets, which he the blame must and will fall upon you. calls an "Inquiry into the causes and Besides, you have been amply warned of remedies of pauperism;" in the third, of the danger; in every way in which which he has the following most glorious warning can come, you have received it; lie: "Hume states the population of a thousand petitions will be on record" 'England, in the reign of Elizabeth, to prove, that others saw the danger" to have been estimated by Sir Edapproaching; there will exist evidence "ward Coke, at 900,000; and a stateto prove that you are without valid "ment of the number of fighting men excuse; and who, then, is to moderate" at that time would appear to support the reproaches of millions of families" so very low an estimate." Now, made miserable by your measures? perhaps, the lying HUME may have put You have had the press to aid you in this lie into his book of lies; COKE your decision upon every subject; no may, too, have told the lie; but HORflatterers can have deceived you against TON WILMOT is as brazen a liar, or a your inclination; all the branches of most monstrous fool, for pretending to every subject connected with your duty have been amply discussed in the most able manner; you have had all the talent in this whole nation to assist your judgment; you have been kept fully informed of all the symptoms good or bad; every channel of information, every source of light has constantly been open to you; and if, after all this, a people like this be, while under your sway, steeped in misery from any cause other than that of the immediate and visible visitation of God, all just men will say that TO YOU belongs the blame. believe it, and for wanting others to believe it. Such are the "facts," such the "data" of this verbal coxcomb, who calls himself a philosopher. The bloody old English Jezebel did, indeed, destroy a great many of the English people; but still there were 16,000 parish churches, and 28 cathedrals, including Westminster. There were then only 450,000 males in England, and only about 300,000 grown-up men, including the aged and dying; rather less than 19 grown-up men to each parish church, including cripples and insane persons, and leaving nobody WM. COBBETT. for the cathedrals! What a lie! SPEL MAN, who wrote early in the reign of James I., gives an account of the num MOST GLORIOUS LIE! ber and places of abode of the noblemen, baronets, knights, and gentlemen, having THE lies of the anti-breeders, or sur-mansions in the country, in England. plus population-mongers, have very far These amounted to 24,240. The parish surpassed those of BARON MUNCHAUSEN, parsons, clerks, and sextons, must (leav❤ one of whose very best was, that being ing out the cathedrals) have amounted on horseback, in a very deep snow, and to 48,000. The overseers and churchbeing dead-tired, he tied his horse to a wardens, to 64,000. The parish consort of iron post, that he found sticking stables or beadles to 16,000. The above the snow, and lay down, some mayors, aldermen, bailiffs, boroughyards from him, and went to sleep. reeves, and other officers and members While he was asleep a thaw came, and of corporations, to about 4,000. The juswhat was his surprise to find himself on tices of the peace to about 2,000. Jailors, the bare turf of a church-yard, and to rackers, spies, and informers, hangsee his poor horse hanging by his hal-men and rippers-up, and prisoners, to ter to the top of the steeple! This is more than 6,000. Soldiers and sailors a banging lie, to be sure; but it has to more than 20,000. Each nobleman, been far surpassed by the surplus popu- baronet and gentleman, five servants on an average, including gardeners, and stating the population at two millions, all others, 121,200. Here we have, in the reign of King John; but HORTON then, 321,480 grown-up men (leaving surpasses even all the Scotch liars and out the cathedrals still); and lying, feelosofers. The coxcombery of the man foolish, coxcomb author Wilmot has surpasses, however, his impudent lies. but 300,000 all together! This is a He shall hear from me again at a time philosopher"; this is a "data" man! of more leisure. This is the projector for sending Eng 66 several pounds sterling a year, Families are respectfully invited to prove the truth of what we state, by sending for an ounce of our best Black Tea at 5s. a pound, and judge for themselves whether it is not equal, if not superior, to that for which they are now paying 7s. a pound. ticularly a real fine Hyson, at 8s. a pound.Other Teas and Coffee equally moderate, parFamilies and Dealers from the Country, as well as Co-operative Societies, will do well to give us a trial.-A trial is all we ask. CHEAP CLOTHING! lish people to that miserable heap of TEA.-A SAVING TO FAMILIES OF 2s. IN 7s., UPWARDS OF 30 PER CENT. rocks, called Nova Scotia! This is a FELIX and CO., 106, Tottenham-courtman for finding out the means of re-road, three doors from London-street, near lieving our distresses. 'Gad! I have the New-road, have just OPENED a WAREhim "out of doors" now, and I will HOUSE for the SALE of TEAS, FREE from lash him till I have lost him. The ADULTERATION, and served from the chest pure as received from China. As a saving of pamphlets have been sent to me, with 30 per cent. in an article of such universal 'from Mr. Wilmot Horton" on the co-consumption as Tea, implies the saving of ver, Whether by him I cannot say; but the author is stated, in the title pages, to be "The Right Honourable Wilmot Horton, M. P." As author, he surely may be dealt with without exposing one to banishment. This is a privy councillor! That fact, that one single fact, is quite enough to account for the present national distress. If we add to the above one hundred and fifty men for each cathedral, including all the attendants, stewards, and workmen to do repairs, we have another 4,700; and if we add to these all clerks in all the offices of Government; all the persons employed in the customs and in managing the other revenues of the Crown, and all Old Bess's monopolies; if we allow, on an average, one workman to be employed on the repairs of each parish church and parsonage-house and buildings; if we allow one man servant for each parson; if we allow there to have been 20,000 lawyers, officers of the courts, sheriffs' officers, attorneys, their clerks, physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, and their apprentices, and allow to each of these (except the apprentices), including the chancellor and judges, only one man servant; and if we put the whole together, we have more than 450,000 grown-up men ; and HORTON tells us, that there was only that number of MALES in the kingdom, including babies in the cradle, worn-out old men, and men insane, and paupers into the bargain! So great a lie never was published before. CHALMERS was liar enough, in CLOTHIERS, DRapers, and TAILORS, No. 93, Fleet Street, (a few doors below the Beg to inform the Public, that they have new entrance to St. Bride's Church,) opened the above Shop, with a large Assortment of Goods, of the Best and most Fashionable Description, and which they are deterlity, Style of the Cut, or Workmanship. mined shall not be surpassed, either in QuaThe following is a list of their Prices for Cash : £. s. 25 to 3 1305 Superfine Coats, of Fashion (Ready money) Black 2 10 3 Superfine Frock, with Silk A Suit of Livery 3 10 & upw. 0 14 0 18 4 0 Ladies' Habits aad Pelisses, Children's Dresses, Shooting Jackets and Hunting Coats, Camblet and Plaid Cloaks, Witney Wrappers, and every other Garment, equally cheap. * A large Assortment kept Ready Made. Export Orders executed with punctuality. 93, Fleet-street, near St. Bride's Church. 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