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But what is curious enough | sufferings. The Government mistakes is, that TALENTS, the Duke of NEW- the matter: they think, with BACON, CASTLE'S FAMOUS AGENT AT that the "sufferings have been greatly NEWARK, is the ATTORNEY, em- exaggerated, for the base purpose of ployed by this famous government, to urging the labourers on to misconduct, or manage the business chief." This is a mistake, and a very of the prosecutions!!!-Let this be fatal one too. The suffering cannot kept in our memories. YOUNG be exaggerated. It is such as no people GEORGE ROSE (who has a sinecure ever endured before. Nothing, thereof 3,2781. a year for life, and whose fore, is to be effected by terror. Death father had it before him) is FOREMAN has no terrors for such men. The wise OF THE GRAND JURY. SIR THO- way, therefore, is to speak comfort to MAS BARING is one of the Grand them; to promise them better days. Jury. WELLINGTON and STUR-And this, I do hope, will be done at GES BOURNE were sitting on the last. Nothing can be gained by causing Bench with the Judges. I have no time a death which draws a tear from every to give any more details at present; humane man in the kingdom. but, what is to be the end of all this?

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Englishmen, unless they were satisfied January, will contain an essay to prove of the necessity as well as the justice of that the whole of the tithes and other it? The fires never would have been church-property ought to be taken by at all, if my advice had been followed. law and applied to other purposes. If followed at a later period, they would have been extinguished long ago. And now they blaze more furiously than ever. They have recommenced in Sussex under the very noses of the Judges; and in Middlesex and Lincolnshire, they blaze away night after night. They have begun in WALES, and, if something effectual be not done, they will reach the I request friends to collect and send fertile parts of Scotland, where the beggarly "Scotsman" says that the "En-me information about the TRIALS. glish incendiaries" have already ap- Judges, Juries, Witnesses, all ought to peared! Thus the ruffian tyrants of every country shove it off their own shoulders; in England SWING comes from NORMANDY; in Scotland he comes from England! Good God! Is this madness that calls for a strait-waistcoat; or is it hypocrisy that deserves a halter? One word from the King would put all to rights and make all quiet and safe. He has only to say, either in MESSAGE or PROCLAMATION, that which 1, the moment he was on the throne, advised him to say; and not another fire would be heard of. The law has no terrors for men who see starvation before them. Thei sufferings from want are so great, that they think nothing of the mere chance of death from efforts to get rid of those

PRESTON ELECTION.

In another part of the Register will be found an account of the close of this memorable election. The reader will see that a scrutiny has been demanded. It must have been for the purpose of annoyance, and perhaps solely to keep Mr. Hunt out of his seat till after the recess, and till the country shall have been made quiet by the special commissions! It never can have been undertaken with a hope of success.-The following address from the Electors of Preston I recommend to the attention of my readers. I shall be glad to receive subscriptions, at my shop, What other mode however small.

of aiding them I shall adopt, it requires tion, prevailed over the honest wishes time to consider; and the demands in of the people of Preston; and might have other quarters are great, and in behalf ridden triumphant over right; all these of men, women, and children, that cry to abominations have been exercised with heaven and earth for aid! My heart double force during this election. But bleeds for them, and I can think of little this infamous state of things has now else. However, I shall do what I can, passed away, and if we have your supwhen I can withdraw my mind from port, we pledge the last drop of blood objects that fill it with greater anxiety that flows in our veins, that they shall than I ever before experienced in the never prevail again at Preston. Tyranny whole course of my life. is loath to let go its hold-it relinquishes its ill-gotten pelf with reluct tance; it will struggle even in its dying moments to gloat on the heart's-blood of its victims.

THE APPEAL

Of the Electors of Preston, to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Fellow Countrymen and Brothers,

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Therefore it is that a most impudent and barefaced attempt is "The time is come when we want about to be made, under the pretence of your aid; we crave your powerful co-law and justice, to rob us (at least for a operation; we call upon you to assist time) of the fruit of our glorious struggle. us to secure the fruit of that victory Our right hon. opponent Mr. Stanley, a which we have attained by an unexam- Whig Minister, has demanded a Serupled struggle, during the last eight days.tiny!!! The blow is struck! 3730 brave, honest, MEN OF ENGLAND, there is not the and patriotic men, who live by the toil of slightest pretence for this-There never their hands and the sweat of their was a fairer Election on the part of brows, electors of this Borough, have, the people than this. Mr. STANLEY by their unbought votes, chosen HENRY knows that we are poor; he has felt that HUNT, Esq., as their Representative; we are honest; he knows that we have we know him as the long-tried friend made unexampled sacrifices-and that and fearless Advocate of the just rights we have endured even the most heartof the people, and we believe him to be rending privations during this glorious the very best man in the kingdom to struggle for freedom; and therefore it convey, within the walls of Parliament, was, when he fled from Preston last the sentiments, the wishes, and the night, that he with a satanic smile, urwants of all those who, like ourselves, ged his myrmidons of the law to ha live upon, and who are anxious to live rass, to oppress, and to weary us out by upon, the honest fruits of their labour.procrastination, and by every species of The enemies of our rights and liber-low cunning and fraud, to bear us down ties also sincerely believe Mr.HUNT to be with such heavy expenses, as he believes, the man we have described him to be; we are not able to sustain. Countrymen therefore they are naturally as anxious and Brothers, will you stand silently by to keep him out of Parliament, as we with your arms folded, and not lend a are to get him in: they have spent hun-hand to save the country from this everdreds of thousands of pounds of the lasting disgrace? We do not ask you to public money to carry their point, and take your cudgels in your hands, and up to this period they have succeeded. march into Preston to drive this hoard But we have at last overpowered them, of locusts out of the town, because we when they least expected it. Twice be- are able and willing to do this oursleves, fore we made the attempt, and on each if we were not cautioned by Mr. Hunt occasion we should have succeeded, had not to commit any act of violence, we received fair play, but we were which he says is the last, the fordefeated by the exercise of the most lorn hope of STANLEY. But as we are foul and barefaced injustice. Wealth- men who have nothing but what we ·Power-Unjust Influence-Bribery-work hard for, we do earnestly and conPerjury and Aristocratical Domina-fidently appeal to you as brothers, to

give us and give us promptly too-rough to its native purity. We have your pecuniary assistance. Nelson said, thus begun that real Reform of Parliabefore going into battle, "England ex- ment ourselves, which has been so long pects every man to his duty." This ex-prayed for by the people, and which clamation will apply with treble force has at length been promised them by on the present occasion. A SCRUTINY, the ministers. We have thought it INDEED! "List, oh list," countrymen better to rely upon our own exertions, and brothers; a scrutiny is called for than trust to the promises of Kings or by STANLEY, and why you shall hear. of Princes, or of Ministers, or of ParThere were ten poll clerks employed, liaments. nine out of the ten voted for STANLEY, May you, countrymen and brothers, contrary to every principle of justice, or by your liberal aid, promptly adminiseven of common decency; STANLEY had tered, encourage others to follow our ten check clerks, and twenty Inspectors, example, is the earnest prayer of the all paid and all voted; and he had nine- gallant men of Preston. Finally, we tenths of the Attorneys in Preston, and are bound to say, that we place little every-body knows that an Attorney reliance upon the promises of those never works without being paid-they ministers who, with professions of all voted for STANLEY; he had the Pa-economy and retrenchment, are actually rish Officers with their books ready to increasing the national burdens, by send back any pauper who came to poll adding 10,000 men to the standing for us, and there never was a body of army in time of peace, under the preElectors under any circumstances, that tence of quelling the riots of our halfhad to encounter so strict and so vigi- starved countrymen in the South, inlent a scrutiny as those electors had, stead of ministering to their wants, who tendered their votes for Mr. Hunt. and relieving their sufferings by taking In addition to these, all the public-off the taxes upon soap, candles, and houses were open, and treating, drink-particularly the tax upon the necessary ing, and bribery, were as unblushingly article of the poor man's existence, and as openly practised as at the late " BREAD," which tax, by means of contest for the borough of Eveshamn, the corn bill, enables the aristocracy, or any rotten borough in existence. annually, to take more money out of the Add to these the long purse of Earl earnings of the labouring poor, than Derby, which enabled Stanley, a Minis- the whole of that aristocracy pay in ter of the Crown, to hire and pay up: taxes in seven years. wards of fifty attorneys, who canvassed the town for a month. All these we had i We cannot place much confidence in to contend with; while on the other that ministry, which has, by one of their hand, we were all volunteers, not one body, The Right Honourable Mr. Stanley, declared against the repeal of the man paid amongst us, not one man canvassed; but, with the honest hearts and Corn Laws, and against the Vote by votes of the Electors, backed up by the Ballot, for which declaration he has enthusiastic support of the Women of been kicked out of Preston, notwithPreston, we accomplished, even before standing the most open and wanton Mr. Hunt's arrival amongst us, one of bribery has been daily and hourly practhe most arduous undertakings, and tised by his agents, for which acts of one of the most signal victories ever bribery, we pledge ourselves to petition obtained over one of the haughtiest of Parliament, should he attain his seat the haughty aristocratical families in for this Borough, by means of brute the kingdom; a family which has force, which has been hinted at, by a made the populous town of Preston a threat to call in the military for that rotten borough for the last 150 years. purpose. We have, by one mighty effort, rescued ourselves from the grasp of this haughty family, and restored the bo

To aid and assist us in defending our just rights, we call on you, fellow countrymen and brothers, with the full con

viction that this appeal will be an- UPTON, G., Queen-street, Cheapside, oilswered in a way that it deserves.