" conquerors of France" and the "re"storers of the Bourbons" had to endure upon those occasions, he would have hesitated a little before he recommended measures so very vigorous.

"deny that there was any moral obliga-burgh along with PREVOST; at New "tion imposed upon this country to Orleans with PAKENHAM; if Sir Bobby "interfere on the present occasion.” had survived the hard blows which the Upon the first reading of this, the heart of an Englishman swells in his breast, and forces a blush up into his face; but, when reflection comes and tells us, that it is not England; that it is Boroughland, we recover ourselves, and clap honest JONATHAN upon the back, while he says,

But if the report speak truth, Baring, old BINGHAM'S son-in-law, spoke in a still more warlike strain; which is "Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see last session, that we could not begin a rather surprising, seeing that he said, "Men not afraid of God, afraid of me."

second campaign without a Bank ReAye, and afraid of them they are; and striction; that is to say, without assigGod bless him, for the ten thousandth nats! After this, to hear Baring talk in time I say, for his valour in having such a warlike strain is rather surprisreserved a spot for Englishmen to flee ing. However, the report gives us the to. Oh, yes! Jonathan is to be following words as having come froin wheedled out of Cuba, I dare say, by this his mouth: "The subject then before pretty stuff about his power, and his "the House exceeded in importance all freedom, and his generosity! and I" these questions in reference to the dare say Jonathan's minister is to be" commerce of the country. It was coaxed by being called "as honourable" impossible to overstate the consea man as ever BREATHED!" How" quences of this subject to the best the Yankees will laugh, when they read" interests of this country. It had this! and does this poor secretary of" been stated by his right hon. friend, state imagine; does this leader of" and in that he concurred, that the inDavenport's 658 believe this poor "terest of this country was involved in humble, vulgar grovelling stuff will" maintaining the independence of the have any other effect, or can have any "New States of America. The proother effect, than that of confirming the "bability, as had been stated, that Americans in the opinion which they "Great Britain might not have free entertained before; namely, that this access to the Gulf of Mexico, was country is utterly unable to go to war ; "sufficient to rouse the attention of the can the poor man entertain any such Government, and he was glad to hear hope? The newspapers say that he has" from the right hon. gentleman, that three millions of money: it is very "the subject had occupied the serious likely that he has. And to possess the attention of his Majesty's Ministers. whole of the three millions, I, being in" It was impossible, even in the widest his place, would not, so help me God," speculations, to foresee all the vast have uttered those words. However," importance of America to Europe. there he is; and he will find millions" In particular, it was necessary to adof Englishmen base enough to say, that "vert to the two great families, the he has done right. Anglo-American and the Spaniards, SIR BOBBY of Southwark, who made the two governments, the United a fine speech in favour of the Jews, and" States, and those of the New Ameriwho praised them for paying taxes so can States, which seemed destined to cheerfully, and who might have praised" divide the Continent between them. them for collecting them so largely; Sir" It was not possible that the Mexicans Bobby called for vigorous proceedings" could increase in prosperity as they against these United States. If Sir" ought, or obtain that security which Bobby had been at Lake Erie, or Lake" was so desirable, as long as they were Champlaine; if he had been at Fort "threatened by an invasion from the Erie along with DRUMMOND, at Platts-" mother country. The right hon. gen

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"tleman was bound by his situation to "clared even in that country, that they speak with courtesy of the Great" would allow the people of Texas to " Powers of Europe; but he called on "advance gradually to their borders, "him not to disappoint the people of" and when they have so advanced, that "this country; not to stay too long," they would throw over them the pan"until the people of the United States" oply of their constitution. Now he, crept on and settled in all the wilder-" (Mr. Huskisson) was one of those who "ness, when, suddenly baffled, he would" wished those borders to be extended "find that it was impossible to place" no further. He wished to see the any control on the growing power of " people of North America confining "North America. If not checked now," themselves to promote the happiness "there would be no means of check-" of those who are spread over the im"ing hereafter the Government of the "mense territory they already possess, "United States. If the Government of" without seeking to aggrandize them"this country should lose sight of the "selves by new acquisitions; and he "interests of Great Britain on this sub-"deprecated the weakness or the inject, if it were not to try and uphold" difference which would, by avoiding "the independence of the New States" to do justice to other countries, allow "of America, this country might come "them to extend their panoply further. "to rue the day in which the Govern-" (Hear, hear.)" "ment had lost the only opportunity of acting with effect.".

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Well said, bold Baring !Ah! Thou art a statesman, I'll warrant thee. If I recollect right, thou hadst something to do with the deal for the Mississippi territory. I think Jonathan made a loan for that, in which thy amicable feelings were brought into play. It is very hard, therefore, to wish to hem poor Jonathan up in a hole, and to expose him to be attacked again by other Pakenhams, and such like heroes coming from the conquest of France.

Aye, "hear, hear!" Do, for God's sake, hear him, and cheer him too; for that will be all you will get in exchange for the Mexican mines. The Liverpool fools may petition and pray, till their lungs be exhausted and their knee bones sore, before they will prevail upon Jonathan to shorten one single stride which he is taking towards the sovereignty of Mexico. He is not fool enough to unite that country in form with the United States; and statesman Huskisson, notwithstanding his pensions, is quite mistaken if he suppose that the plan is to

throw the panoply of the American constitution over Mexico;" the plan is to prevent us frora laying hold of it with our claws; to prevent us from drawing away the produce of its mines; and that is what Jonathan will prevent to a certainty.

Towards the close of Huskisson's

If you do hem him up, you will have better luck than your predecessors in .the 658. Huskisson made a reply which is very well worthy of notice. He evidently thinks, and I think, too, that nothing will satisfy Jonathan short of expelling us from the Gulf of Mexico, and of getting possession of the Mexican Mines! The conclusion of opening speech, there is something so his reply was in these words: "He superlatively absurd about the "precious "thought it was time, too, that a ter-metals," that one really stands aghast at "mination of these acts of aggression reading it. However, I must defer any "should take place, for the better un- lengthened commentary upon this until "derstanding of the relative position of "those countries with North America ; "for in spite of all the disavowals in "Congress and elsewhere, he was satisfi "ed that the accession of the province of "Texas was meditated by the United "States. He knew this from more quarters than one.. It had been de

next week.

To MR. BROUGHAM.

SIR,-You have lately been figuring away, I see, at two TAVERN-MEETINGS; one about negro slavery and the other about the diffusing of useful knowledge.

Upon the first occasion, you took occa- | FoWELL BUXTON, you tell us, is famed sion to utter, being surrounded by a stu- for prison-discipline, but not famed, I pid crew of thoughtless creatures, in take it, for endeavouring to take off those part, but chiefly by a crew of tax-eating taxes which produce the misery, which vermin, who make use of this negro produce the crimes, which send such story to divert the attention of the peo- thousands to prison. There are always ple from the worse than negro slavery more than a thousand men in prison, existing here; you took occasion to in England, for poaching alone. Did utter some most impudent and hypocri- Fowell Buxton, or your educating bishop, cal stuff relative to those, of whom I or Wilberforce, or you, or any other have long been one, who insist on the friend of the blacks, ever attempt to do hypocrisy of men who are going to the away with the barbarous code of game West Indies and East Indies, to seek for laws? No, but you have assisted to objects of compassion, while they see harden them; aye, and there is more millions around them in a state of half bodily suffering experienced at this very starvation, and more, neither pen nor moment, by English poachers, their tongue to better their lot. You had, it wives, and children, than by all the seems, WILBERFORCE in the chair; and negro-slaves in the whole world put toyou had ALLEN, and BUXTON, and a gether. Is it not notorious, that, of late pretty tribe. Now, in the first place, years, thousands upon thousands of the negroes are better fed than the work- Englishmen have been compelled, under ing people in England; they are better pain of the dungeon and the lash, to clad in proportion to the climate; they draw wagons and carts like cattle? are less hardly worked. You pretend Have you, or Wilberforce, or your that these friends of the blacks are also bishop, or any other friend of the blacks, friends of the whites that are suffering ever made a single effort to rescue these here; and tell us, that this WILLIAM men from this suffering and degradaALLEN has "devoted his days and nights tion? No. But of all things in the to the education of the British peasant." world, how came you to brag that WilWhere got you that base word peasant? berforce and you had laboured together What continental tyrant's tool did you in the cause of Parliamentary Reform? learn it from? The name never was ap- How came you to be so foolish as this? plied to Englishmen till Scotchmen got Both of you notorious turn-coats upon sway amongst us. But this Allen, who this subject. No longer ago than the is so ready to feed the labourers with time of that poor creature Canning being books, did he ever, in his whole life-made Prime Minister, which was in the time, make one single effort to enable the labourers to see how their earnings were taken away from them by the tax-eaters? and the pious prelate that you say you had with you, he, it seems, shows his love for the people of England, by diffusing wholesome education amongst them. A little wholesome food, arising from their own earnings, and not from fractional farthings tossed back to them by the tax-eaters, is what they want. Pretty hypocrisy, indeed! pretty charity, to take from a labouring man fourpence halfpenny, for every sixpenny pot of beer that he drinks, fourpence halfpenny for a pound of sevenpenny sugar, and, then, give him a religious tract to fill his belly, and those of his hungry wife and children.

NOW again,

month of May, 1827, YOU and LORD
JOHN RUSSELL expressly said, that THE
PEOPLE NO LONGER WISHED
FOR IT; and upon the strength of
that, the "noble Lord" expressed his
intention to discontinue his annual mo-
tions upon the subject! What! have
you forgotten this already! And there
is the "noble Lord,
hammering away at it like a tom-tit
upon the bark of an old pollard tree.
And as to WILBERFORCE, when, in 1817,
a million and a half of men petitioned
for Parliamentary Reform, he spoke and
voted for the bills which were to gag
and to dungeon them! Now, have you
the brass to deny this? And this being
undeniable, where did you find the brass
to cry up" MASSA WILBY" as a friend

of reform and of the people of England? nies themselves are of no use to EngThe excuse amongst you, then, was, land; that even if the sugar, &c., be of that the radical reformers were blas- use, the Americans, who have no colophemers; a most hypocritical and base pretence; but, Brougham, were they, at any rate, more blasphemous than those who openly proclaim JESUS CHRIST to have been an IMPOSTOR? Yet there are you now labouring like a horse, or an ass, to get a law passed to declare that these wretches are as good and as worthy of trust, power, and honour, as Christians are! There you are, hugging old " Vital Christianity" with one arm, and with the other those who mock at Christianity, and call its founder an IMPOSTOR!

nies, have these things cheaper than we have, exclusive of the tax; that if it could be without loss of lives, I should be glad to hear that the islands were sunk under water; but that to have the colonies and their produce, there must be blacks to labour in them, and that they will not labour without being compelled by bodily force. Dry up your tears, therefore, tender hearted ma'am, or put no more sugar into your tea, and take no more coffee to aid in the digesting of your rich and multifarious mess. Pretend not to compasYou say, that I (for it is me that you sionate the negroes; or, at any rate, mean) talk about the sufferings of the refrain from swallowing the fruit of poor in England, but do nothing to re- their sweat and their blood. The lieve them. Why, if I give them all my "friends of Blacks," as they call themearnings, I must starve myself. But to selves, consist of two distinct classes, say nothing of those whom I cause to the thoughtless and the foolish, and the live well out of wages, was it doing no-hypocrites and knaves. The latter use thing to cause the poor in my parish the former as their tools in this work, (to go no further) to be unchained from the objects of which are, first, to get for the carts that they were drawing? Was it nothing to compel the Jews, not only to cease to rob the poor fellows with one horse carts, and ass carts, but to make them pay fines for the robbery, and give the money to the men that had been robbed? And who was it that prevented the dead bodies of the poor from being sold? Was it you and Buxton, and the other tender-hearted “ amis des Noirs"? No! On the contrary, you were for the bill, and Black-loving BUXTON said not a word against it. I did my part, at any rate, in stopping that horrible mea. sure. Go, go, Brougham; and, before you again "prattle" about your "humanity," and your tender feelings for the Blacks, find some West-Indian, who has ever dared to sell the dead body of a slave!

themselves a character for justice, mercy, and humanity; and next, under that character, to get for themselves power, or public money, or both.

So much for your negro slavery affair; though I should not forget that Wilberforce voted for Pitt's gagging and dungeoning bills, and for pretty six acts into the bargain. So much for the present. I lay the negro affair by till another time; and now come to your society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, at a meeting of which you and Lord ALTHORP were, the other day, beplastering each other with praises. This, like all the rest of the "education" schemes, is a combination for the purpose of amusing the working classes, and diverting their attention from the cause of their poverty and misery. The methodist To my readers I will now say what I parsons are the most efficient tools in have always said, namely, that I hold all this way. They flatly assert, that when slavery in abhorrence; that sugar, cof-a man's dinner is taken away by the taxfee, rum and other things, are the pro-gatherer, it is for his good, and that he duce of negro slavery; that I never use ought to bless God for it. The vagaany of them, and that I think the use of bonds are fat and sleek enough themthem injurious to England; that I am, selves, in the mean while. You are at after long reflection on the subject, con- work in another way; but you have the vinced, that the possession of the Colo same end constantly in view; namely,

the keeping the cause of the poverty and and this is the main object of all the misery of the people disguised from them," education schemes.” and thereby perpetuating the plundering of theni.

Now, Brougham, this system of deception shall come to an end. I say it; and I will make it come to an end. I

We will see whether Huskisson's pensions are to be paid for "the present generation.'

WM. COBBETT.

This educating work, this feeding have not room at present to state my with tracts, began, about forty years ago, under the guidance of that prime old plan; but I have resolved on it, and I will fully describe it next week. My prelate in petticoats, that choice tool of title will be: "POLITICS FOR POOR the boroughmongers, HANNAH MORE ; MEN; or LESSONS FOR THE LABOURand it has been going on ever since. Now, as crime is TWENTY-FOLD in ING PEOPLE." I'll bet you a pottle, amount what it was when Hannah be- Brougham, that I sell more tracts in a month than you do in a year, with all gan; as the jails, including hulks and your subscribings and all your trickery. all sorts of prisons, are ten times as capacious as they were before Hannah My first Number, price 2d., will be pubstarted with her tracts; this being un-lad for giving them" useful knowledge." lished on the first of July. I am the deniable, would not the educationschemers, if they had only common sense, cease to cry up the utility of their schemes? Ah! you do want for sense to perceive the inutility for good purposes; but you want the thing for the purpose before mentioned; that is to say, for the purpose of amusing the working classes, and of disguising from them the cause of their poverty and misery. It is the will of God; it is untoward seasons; it is their own want of care; it is any thing but the taxes! Then some Lord is in the chair of the Society! How good! How condescend-manufacturers; ing! This lord must be a good man! The people are not told how much this lord and his family cuts off their dinner every day. In this case, to which I am now alluding, your generous associate, LORD ALTHORP, said, that he had read the society's tracts with great advantage. Indeed! They must be fine tracts! I wonder who wrote them?

If

"Useful knowledge," indeed! LORD ALTHORP will tell the tract-readers how it happens, that his brother FREDERICK is, or was a little while ago, Captain of a man of war, with Lieutenants under him, who were fighting at sea before the said FREDERICK was born; if LORD ALTHORP will tell the tract readers this, he will give them a piece of knowledge more useful than all that your thousands of tracts contain. And this is not only what he will not tell tell them, but what he will, if he can, take care that they shall never hear of;

I INTENDED to make some remarks on loan-maker Baring's doctrine about church property; on Lord Morpeth and his Printers' Pensions; on my poorlaw lawyer Slaney's project for relieving on the Birmingham plan of reform, from which I dissent; and on BIG O's work in favour of the Jews. But, I must put all those off for want of room. Perhaps I shall not be able to write about Mexico next week. I must do the thing well; for it will be read in America, France, Spain, and Russia. It is a capital job, and I will

do it well.

ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

THE 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 Twelve Numbers; but there must be Fourteen ; so that it will be completed on the 1st of September.