their element; and as long as it shall exist, so long will they be suffered to exist here, but not one moment longer. They are every where naturally the friends of political corruption; and as naturally the enemies of political freedom.

without petitioning against it. For the possibility of so great an evil; that many years after that affair, we never the case was a case of all-subduing neused to see a Jew, in the country, with- cessity; and that the people were as out driving him away, with a cry of clearly justified in putting away by force "Chelsea" at his heels. I have pelted this moral pestilence as they would be them many a time with snow-balls, or in keeping out of the state people inrotten apples, or clods of dirt; and I fected with the plague. Upon which thought I was doing my duty. This the meeting came to a unanimous resoproclamation, or order in council, or lution to act accordingly, and actually whatever it was, which must be on drove them clean out of the state. They record, clearly shows in what light the have never existed but as a pest: they Jews were regarded by the law. never work; never do anything useful Strange alterations! "Waust im- to man; never till the land; never provements, ma'am!" For now the make clothes or houses; their whole Jews are in a sort of partnership with lives are spent in getting at money the government, and with the trustees somehow or other; they are the great of the turnpike roads; and, if the news- props of all gaming houses; as soon as papers be not liars, dukes dine with prize fighting becanie a sort of base them and they dine with dukes! Some gambling, they took possession of that of you have said that they have been blackguard concern. This system is put upon a footing with Christians in the United States of America. The truth is, that no law whatsoever has ever been passed respecting them in America. All the English test laws have been repealed there; but, with the exception of the state of New York, I believe, and with the exception of the affirmation allowed to the Quakers, there is still test enough to shut out from power all but Christians. I have never heard of but one Jew being admitted to any public trust at all, and he was no more than a sheriff of a county; and even this arose out of very peculiar circumstances. So far from encouraging and favouring Jews, the Americans detest them. When I was at Leicester the other day, I saw a gentleman recently from America, who had witnessed the expulsion of the Jews from the State of KENTUCKY. There were six of them at LOUISVILLE, who had been Your scene at the purity dinner seems guilty of so many, and such atrocious to have been a most curious affair. acts of usury, who had robbed and ru- What famous radical reformers you are ined so many unsuspecting persons, that all become! How converted since the a public meeting upon that subject was month of May, 1827; when Burdett called in the town, at which a proposi- declared that he would support Canning, tion was made to expel them from the though that impudent fellow declared state by force. The principal speaker that he would oppose parliamentary reat the meeting observed, that, though form to the last hour of his life! What! it was the first duty of free men to obey the wind has changed, has it? Patriot the law, and that though the law sanc- Burdett will not support any body now tioned the residence of these people, still that is not for parliamentary reform. the legislature had not contemplated If I had time, this dinner affair should

Now, Big O, so much for you and the Jews; but I should like to see you down upon your knees before your big crucifix, thumping your breast with one hand, putting your other hand behind your back to be shaken by a Jew, who is pointing with his finger and mocking at the crucifix, the father of lies patting you on the back, and chuckling with delight, while upon a tack on a side of the room, hangs your hat with a bunch of palm in it as big as the plume of a hearse. I should like to see this well represented by the pencil, and written at the bottom, "DAN'S DEVOTIONS."

afford my readers famous sport. The mecting, it seems, consisted of very few persons; but there were quite enough to hear the lies and impudent nonsense poured forth on that occasion. Your dose seems to have been too strong even for the stomach of Burdett himself, and so, like Cæsar, he swooned.

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"CASCA. The rabblement hooted,
"and clapp'd their chop't hands,
" and
uttered such a deal of
stinking breath, that it had al-
most choked Cæsar, for he
"swooned and fell down at it;
" and, for mine own part, I durst
"not laugh, for fear of opening
my lips and receiving the bad
"air."

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TO THE

COLLECTIVE WISDOM.

Monmouth, 1st June, 1830. "NOBLEST ASSEMBLY OF FREEMEN IN THE WORLD," as GRAHAM calls you, how you are tormented with this BEER BILL! What pains you take about providing wash for the "swinish multitude"! What a dilemma you are in! Your amiable nature has placed you in a difficulty from which it appears next to impossible to extricate you. You are anxious that the people, who have the happiness to live under the force of your wise and just acts, should have “a cheap and wholesome beverage," that A scene of precious folly to be sure! more malt should be made, and more That LORD EBRINGTON seems to be a barley sold; and yet while you are thus promising youth. How a man could paternally solicitous about providing for tell so many impudent lies as is con- the bodies of the people, you, on the tained in the thing called his speech, is other hand, are not solicitous about the truly astonishing. One thing, however, health of their souls. You would make in your proceedings of this day is not to the trade in beer free; but yet you must be censured; and that is the most un- take care of our morals. So that while, measured becalling of the House of on the one hand, you are taking off the Commons that ever I read or even heard beer duty, and allowing any man to take of. So that, at any rate, you have done out, at the expense of two guineas, a something to deserve praise. However, license to sell it; while you, in this cuthe interesting thing is this: that not one rious manner, make the trade in beer word of this censure would have es- FREE; while your "liberal" and caped from your lips, had you not been" noble nature prompts you to this; convinced that a reform would come your care of our precious and immortal in spite of you. There was not one souls induces you to compel any one man of you present, who spoke, that taking out such license, to find, before would not prevent a parliamentary re- he get the license, bondsmen to be form if he could. You see that you surely for any fines that may be inflictcannot prevent it; you see that that is ed on him! Excellent Collective! out of your power; and therefore it is that "Libéral" Collective! "Noblest asyou now again begin to talk of parlia-sembly of freemen in the whole world"! mentary reform. You, and all of you put together, cannot prevent it: you will to the last possible moment prevent it; but it is a thing with which MEN have nothing to do. It is gone beyond that no man, and no set of men, can either hasten it on, or retard it: events will bring it, and events will create the men to carry it through, and, I trust, in a manner that shall baffle all the hopes of the base hypocrites who are now endeavouring to prepare the way for still clinging on to the thing, whatever shape it may assume.

Now, MONCK, who appears to have been the most conspicuous in this work of securing our souls, what will the bill then effect? The real object of it was, to cause more beer to be drunk; that is to say, more malt to be made; that is to say, more barley to be sold; that is to say, more money to be paid to the farmers for barley; that is to say, MORE MONEY TO BE PAID TO THE LANDLORDS FOR RENT. Nothing more natural, rational, amiable, generous, and humane. But, alas! to effect this object, our poor souls must be with

well filled with matter; the main object will be, to show the working people what are the causes of their being poor; what it is that makes them so badly off, while the working people in the United States of America are so well off; what it is, that in spite of their ingenuity, industry, and frugality, makes them unable to provide in a suitable manner, for their wives and children; and the motto will be,

drawn from the ever-vigilant care of the parson justices! And so there is still to be a license; and tighter than before, BONDSMEN beforehand! And so the devil of one single pot of beer will be drunk, the devil of one gallon of malt will be made, the devil of one gallon of barley will be sold, the devil of one penny of rent will be paid more than before the passing of the act; and MONCK, mind, I say, that in spite of all the prayers of all the incorrupt and vir- « Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave tuous publicans of Reading, barley will" Shall walk the world in credit to his grave." sell at half a crown a bushel before next Christmas-day. By making the trade in beer really free, the consumption of barley would have been increased, and the landowners would have profited at the expense of the monopolists of the beer trade; but the former cannot find in their hearts to give out of their hands the double-thonged lash of the licensing and fining system. Poor gentlemen! What a pity that they cannot have both! Alas! MONCK, the moral and public-spirited beer-sellers and makers of Reading, whose virtues enable them to influence so many sober electors, may say what they like; but there is no remedy for this complicated disease, which afflicts the pious and generous landowners, other than one that will make barley five shillings the Winchester bushel, and enable the Borough Bank to in gold at the same time. Find out this remedy, MоxсK, and then to prove the liberality of the age, you may make booksellers and map-sellers, and even tinkers and tailors, GIVE BOND.

pay

WM. COBBETT.

NEW PUBLICATION. AGREEABLY to the hint that I gave in the Register of last week, I shall on the FIRST OF JULY, publish the FIRST NUMBER of a MONTHLY PAMPHLET, to be called

TWO-PENNY TRASH;

OR

POLITICS FOR WORKING PEOPLE. It will be in the DUODECIMO form; each Number will consist of one sheet,

This pretty little work shall take in the past and the present; it shall show how the public money is raised, and who gets it; it shall contain heaps of most interesting facts and biographical anecdotes; it shall speak plain, and prepare the people for that really RADICAL REFORM that is now at no great distance. It shall strip the thick mantle from political hypocrisy; it shall lay hypocrites and oppressors bare, and then leave them to be dealt with as justice shall dictate; it shall inculcate industry, sobriety, conjugal fidelity, paternal care and tenderness, filial affection and duty, honesty towards employers, due obedience to the laws, devotion to the country, and inextinguishable hatred against its worst enemies, those who wallow in public plunder. In short, it shall contain matter which, when once got into the head of a working man, will remain there for the whole of his life, and be to him and to his children after him, a mass of useful knowledge.

It remains for me to speak of the mode of publication. The Six Acтs forbid me to publish a work like this oftener than onee a month; and they compel me to publish it within two days of the first of the month, on pain of being pretty nigh half killed. Beautiful "liberty of the press!" The publication will, of course, be at my shop, in London, No. 183, Fleet-street. The retail price will be Two-PENCE, with the usual allowance to booksellers. I sell no books to booksellers at a distance, nor, indeed, to any body, except at the shop; so that booksellers in the country

Bollitree, Herefordshire, 1st June, 1830.

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will please to apply to their correspon-congratulation in them to the country dents in town, who will, of course, send at large, although it is evidently intendthe required supply in their monthly ed that one important class in the counparcels. try, namely, the fundholders, must preWM. COBBETT. pare for sacrifices. We have given his Lordship's speech at great length, and particularly call the attention of our readers to it. During the course of our lives, we have witnessed nearly all the redundant capital in the country lent to the Government. Formerly this capital formed the life-blood of every species of manufacture and commerce, and in every town there were found persons who, by their good conduct and industry, proved themselves worthy of confidence and encouragement; and, in consequence, were the depositaries of the savings as well as the unemployed money in the neighbourhood. The shocks given to trade at different periods during the last war, made havoc in many instances, which neither the strictest prudence nor the most diligent application could prevent; and failures of respectable traders ensued. The unhappy circumstances sometimes attending these failures, were eagerly laid hold of by the ministerial organs of the day, and investments solely in the funds were recommended in every shape and form, as the easiest, best, and safest security. The feeling which was thus created caused nearly all lenders to withdraw their money from tradesmen, which again caused additional distress. Still the Government persevered in every possible way to get hold of the people's money, until at the last the late Mr. GEORGE ROSE came forward with his "Savings' Bank" plan. This plan had the effect of gathering the very smallest sums from lenders, which before that period had invariably been distributed in the different local neighbourhoods.

AND NOW, MASTER BROUGHAM, you shall see whether I am not more than a match for your "Useful Knowledge" humbug you shall feel your nose nipped off, if you venture to poke it out only a quarter of an inch too far. I want no "society," no subscription," to send my work about. It will want no pushing about it will contain a spring, in its inside, to set it and keep it in motion. I dare say that your works are published at a loss; what else is the "subscription" for? In short, they are forced about; half given away; and, as is natural and right, nobody but "the society ever reads them. You shall see that I will send forth some stuff that people will read, and be eager to read, without any coaxing to do it. What do you want of subscription," if you can sell your tracts? What! you sell your tracts; you brag of the extent of the sale; and yet you want a subscription to assist you in carrying on the publication! You are an odd sort of author! Now, I shall want no subscription; and this marks the great difference between us: this shows, in fact, that your stuff is not sold to a profit; that you force it about; and that it produces no other effect than that of causing you to be laughed at.

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THE DEBT.

(From the Leeds Patriot of the 16th of May.)

THE most important feature by far in the Parliamentary discussions of the last week, was the one in the House of Lords on the state and prospects of the country. The speech of Lord GODERICH will be remembered and referred to after to-day. It is replete with most important matter; and however accidentally the new doctrines appear to have been delivered, we see cause of

The leading principle in men's minds during the several years these operations were going on, was, that in lending their money to the Government, there was no risk. Nay, so lately as the commencement of the present session, when the CHANCELLOR of the ExCHEQUER brought forward his plan regarding the reduction of the interest of the four per cents., one part of the plan

notoriously was, that the dissentients question hinges. If this question had should be paid off, that is, have their been gone into, it would have been capital returned to them. The new discovered, that although there is a doctrine which has been delivered by nominal reduction in the charges of Lord GODERICH, and cheered by the 3,783,140, yet in consequence of the Duke of WELLINGTON, is of a very dif- changes in our monetary laws, the ferent complexion: it is that the fund-charge for the year 1829 was in effect holders never expected nor ever can and reality greater than it was in 1816. expect, to receive more than an annuity; Some there are who imagine, that for their money lent to the Government. this extraordinary speech was intended His Lordship observed, that it was to give foreigners some new notions of absurd to estimate the reduction of the the power of Great Britain. There debt by the diminution of capital, and could be no possible harm in this; but then said that—" An ordinary debt was we strongly suspect that foreign governcomposed of capital lent to the debtor; ments are better acquainted with the it was confided to the borrower to re- internal state of England than his Lordpay what he borrowed at his own con-ship. We cannot divest our memory venience, and it was confided to the of the boasting speech Lord GODERICH lender to demand back his principal. made regarding the state of the country Of these two conditions only one was in 1824, and the never-to-be-forgotten applicable to the National Debt. By panic which gave the finish” to his the contract the State had entered into rhetorical flourishes. We strongly suswith its debtors, it had a right to pay pect men's minds are not so buoyant them off whenever it was convenient or as they were at that period, not to be advisable to do so; but by the terms of so easily led away by mere declamation. the contract, the public creditor could, We, however, wish not to press this never claim from the state a single shil-subject further at the present; it is one ling of what he had advanced. The of infinite importance, and we have said atmost which he was entitled to claim, quite sufficient to induce our readers to and to that alone had the state pledged think for themselves. itself, was the payment of an annuity" (Hear, hear, from the Duke of WELLINGTON.)

The remaining part of his Lordship's speech, which is dwelt upon with so much delight, is the statement that, "In 1816 the total of the charge for

ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

Tas Eleventh Number of this work is now published; and the two Numbers that were out of print, are re-published. I intended to conclude the work in "the funded and unfunded debt was Twelve Numbers; but there must be "32,939,7517. In 1829 the charge for "the funded debt was 28,277,1171, Fourteen; so that it will be completed "and the interest of Exchequer bills on the 1st of September.

ANOTHER SERMON.

Just Published,

“878,4941., so that the total diminu"tion on that of 1829 compared with "1816, was 3,783,140l. When the “operation respecting the Four per "Cents. should be completed, the re- At my shop, No. 183, Fleet-Street, "duction on the charge for the national London, and to be had of all booksel"debt for next year, as compared with lers in town and country, PRICE SIX"1816, would be four millions and a PENCE, a Sermon, entitled, “GOOD "half. This diminution in the charge" FRIDAY; or, THE MURDER OF "was equivalent to a reduction of 150 JESUS CHRIST BY THE JEWS": "millions of capital at three per cent." addressed to Christians of all denomiHis Lordship, however, evidently nations.-My other Sermons, twelve in evades the relative value of money number, may be had in one volume, in 1816 and 1829, on which the whole price 3s. 6d.