CHANGE OF MINISTRY. I deem it my duty to your Majesty and to my Bolt-Court, 17th Nov., 1830. By turning to my account of the proceedings in Parliament the reader will see how tamely the "Prince of Waterloo" gave up the ghost. Where How, upon reading this, the lords are his 40 titles now! How exactly and parsons and place-hunting lawyers has his fall verified my prediction, ad- and all the tax-eaters will curl up their dressed to himself, in February 1828! lips and toss up their heads! What He has literally been hooted down by sweet grins it will excite on the 'Change, the people. He says (and PEEL says at Lloyd's, and in the hells of St. James'sthe same) that he has resigned in con- street! In spite of all this, however, sequence of the majority against them, to this (if I live and have my health in the House of Commons, on Monday a few years longer) it will come at last; night. Aye, that is the pretence, but, if or something a great deal worse to all true, what gave the opposition that ma- these parties will come. There is not jority? Why, the cry of the people one single village, however recluse, in against the "Prince," to be sure; but, England, where my name is not known it would not do to say that he was driven as the friend, the kind, the disinterestout by the people. This would not have ed, the zealous friend of the working suited that precious House neither; and, people, and particularly of the farming there can be no doubt that it was settled labourers; and if ever man deserved amongst all the parties, that he should any-thing, I deserve this character. I go out under this pretence; and that have written and caused to be publish thus the precious House should have ed, in various forms and under various the credit of putting him out. This titles, writings in defence of the rights puts me in mind of haughty Lord Corn- of the labourers, writings calling for wallis, who, when he surrendered his justice and mercy towards them, of army to the combined American and which writings more than three mil French army, wanted to give up his lions of copies have been distributed in sword to the Royal French commander, England, within the last twenty years, and not to the republican Washington. I have, on different occasions, addressHe did, however, give it up to Wash-ed, in the way of speech, two hundred ington; and our "Prince" might as well have given up his treasurer's staff to the people; for, it is the people, and not the precious, precious House, that TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT Bolt-Court 17th Nov., 1830. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, thousand men of property on the same subject, making it, in point of import ance, superior to all others. I have stated their hard case, I have argued, I have supplicated, in their behalf, with as much earnestness as if my own life had depended on the result. They all know this, they know, too, how I have suffered for these my endeavours; and they respect and confide in me accord ingly. Now, if all this be true, and very few men will say that it is not, what would be the natural effect of the knowledge of the bare fact of my being the King's Minister? Is it not possible, at any rate, that it would stay this terrific plague of the fires? Every say, that it is possible; and there ought to need nothing more than that to induce the King to accept of dutiful one will my tender of services. For, does any one under kelts! The other account comes this our "Slinfold. He usually comes once a year, "and takes from the tithe payers about "three hundred pounds, leaving seventy for his journeyman's wages. As soon as the cloth was removed, after dinner, to commence the collection, the affrighted landlord. the room, in the greatest agitation, de"of the inn at this obscure village, entered manding his company to come to his assistance, as a party of about two hundred of "the labouring classes had besieged his house, "The farmers present invited them to a con"ference in the room respecting the object of their visit, which turned out to be a deter "mination on their part, that the Rev. gentle"man should receive but two hundred pounds. per annum, and that the farmers should << agree to a higher price for labour. Such was the determination on the part of the "labourers, that the farmers found it prudent "to comply with their demands. The Rev. "gentleman went away without any money, not choosing to submit to the new laws "made so unexpectedly. After the farmers paying the men for their time, they returned to their homes in peace. Similar meetings are going on in several parishes round here.” Tot up that, Mr. HUME! Negroslavery that, Mr. BROUGHAM! Show us how that is to be gotten rid off by the trundling out of "Prince Waterloo.'" The plain, common-sense state of the case, if one could hope to get common sense into the heads of Scotchmen, is this: the labourers want, on an average, double the amount of wages that they now receive; the farmers cannot give them this without instant ruin to themselves, while they have to pay "STAPLEHURST, Kent.-The farmers in place have adopted a petition to Parliament, "which, after describing the attempts that "have been made to obtain a reduction of "tithes and taxes, states- It was then that "we found ourselves compelled to reduce the" "price of labour, and we have seen "peasantry deprived of the comforts and, in "part, the necessaries of life, without the "means of alleviating their condition. Never"theless, until now, the oppressed labourer "has borne his load, complaining but not "resisting. But the time has arrived when "he will bear it no longer. Desperation has "urged the labourers of this and the neigh"bouring parishes to rise and congregate. They "have surrounded the houses of your petitioners "in fearful numbers, claiming at our hands "that which we believe to be their right, and "which we have felt it our duty and interest to "give. We have increased their wages, and "now, with our augmented burden (insup-rents and tithes, and this they tell the "portable before), we approach your Ho"nourable House; we tell you in language "respectful yet plain, that our burdens are "such that we can bear them no longer "They then pray for practical Parliamentary "Reform, and the appropriation of such part "of the Church property as is not absolutely "necessary for the liberal support of the "clergy, according to their several stations " and merits, TO THE EXIGENCIES OF "THE STATE." Take that, totters-up! Tuck that labourers; the parsons are found in every parish, this is the time of the year when the farmers pay them for the tithes, and the labourers go to the parsons and tell them to take less than their due from the farmers. Never was a plainer case; and who is to believe that the farmers do not approve of these proceedings? Who does not see, that all the tithes must soon go in this 1 7. Will they repeal the new felony law, Will they repeal the new trespass law? Will they repeal Sturges Bourne's brace way; and who is to believe that the rents [ 12. Will they repeal the law making it death will remain untouched. The newspato attempt to seduce a soldier from his duty? pers tell us, that "A public meeting 13. of the yeomanry was held on Tuesday at Rochester, when it was unanimously resolved- That at the pre-14. sent alarming crisis it is the duty of the landowners and clergy, by a 16. ← liberal abatement of rent and tithes, to assist the farmers in bearing those *** additional burdens which the peculiar circumstances of the times necessarily imposed upon them.'" Kelts are, I dare say, very useful 19. things, in certain cases; they might cover a Dungeness light-house for the venerable Whig, DADDY COKE, or a batch of Crown-lands for a great Yorkshire Whig; but, of what use are kelts in a case like this! Well, then, what is to be done? Why, the landlords, to keep rents, must get the taxes taken off 18. 20. 21. mill?. Will they put an end to the harnessing Will they make the Aristocracy and the the malt, soap, sugar, candles, tobacco, 22. Whem out of the taxes? 23. 24. make the parsons pay back what they got in half-pay after they had livings in the church? Will they put an end to the military and naval academies ? Will they cause the bishopricks, benefices, and abbey-lands to be assessed, beyond other property, for the relief of the poor, agreeably to the proposition of Mr. Ruggles, as stated in introduction to Vol. II. of History of Protestant Reformation. 25., Will they now, now that they have the power, institute an inquiry into the bloody transactions which took place at Manchester, in 1819? on ka tih kuporo Will they cause OLIVER and EDWARDS now to be brought to light, and, at any rate, take from them any emoluments that they may now be deriving from the taxes imposed on us ?i w moitas 26, tea, and other things of the labourer, and 5. Will they repeal those horrible Six-Acts 1 that remain in force?\ 6. Will they repeal 1 Geo. IV., about appre hended riots? 7. Will they abolish the gendarmerie? 3. Will they lop off all unmerited pensions? 11. Will they repeal the new-treason law ? Here are twenty-six things, every one of which ought immediately to be done, and my opinion is, that they will do not one out of the twenty-six; that their economy will be all talk, and no effect to be felt by the people; and that their reform of the Parliament will be, in effect, no reform at all; that, insulting as the Duke's speech was, Brougham's project will be still more insulting. But, after all, the taxes are the main thing; and these they cannot sensibly reduce without a radical reform of the Parliament; which alone is adequate to an EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT of the affairs of the country. (17) No. 6 of TWO-PENNY TRASH, for the extracts I have seen have almost to be published on the last day of this always been taken from the Moniteurs month, will contain, in an Address to but the extracts are to the point. the Farmers of Kent, my opinions fully saw in one which I bought, an account stated on what they now ought to do. of some young men who had been going No.3 of HISTORY of GEORGE IV., to Spain being detained in Bayonne, by to be published on the same day, con- the gates being shut earlier than usual; tains the true account of the matchless some young men from the country intrigues of the WIGS, on one side, were thus shut in and prevented front and of the No-POPERY PEOPLE on the going to their homes in the evening, other side, and of the crucifying of the and at last the National Guard, who poor Princess of Wales between the two, kept guard at the gates, were disposed in 1806 and 1807, and lets out all the to let the friends of liberty in Spain secret of the means by which Perceval, have liberty in France. "No such Scott, Eldon and Co., became the Mi-thing," said the Sous-prefect, who sent nisters of the Prince Regent in 1811N. B. The future Numbers of the History will be price 6d. Paris, 7th Nov., 1830. troops of the line to "relieve" the National Guard: “We are not tired yet,” said the National Guard; and an engagement was just going to commence, when the Prefect rescinded the orders of the Sous-prefect. While upon this subject let me propose this query; whether the Sous-prefect will be removed: and also this; whether the Consulat Barcelona, who is a cousin of BouaMONT, now commanding Ferdinand's forces, and going to have the command of his army of 80,000 men, who are to have muskets, powder, and ball, greatcoats and caps from England; whether this Consul will be removed either! One more question; but this is on principal, not upon fact: What does the law of nations say upon one nation supplying two other nations at the same time with munitions of war? And how is the liberal supply of muskets from the Tower itself to the King of the French consistent with the supply to Ferdinand, unless these two kings are upon a good understanding? 1. In the Chamber of Deputies the disposition of the Government was yesterday announced with regard to the press. A general discussion stood in the order of the day, upon a motion of M. Bavoux, for a reduction of the cautionnement and also of the stamp, which is of six centimes, or one sous and onefifth. The subject was viewed in two lights by M. de la BORDE, namely, as to the reduction which lowering the stamp would make in the revenue, and as to the danger, politically, from lowering the cautionnement; and he argued that the revenue would not be diminished, 2. M. LAMETH complained that these and that the preventive effect of the "miserables" who cried about the handdeposit was not necessary to prevent bills, and also that all placarding, were licentiousness, as there was law to not put down according to law. punish it. M. LAMETH made a most said that there were journals also exviolent speech, inveighing against the isting contrary to law, and containing placards which he was in the daily the most horrible doctrines, leading to habit of seeing (I hope he reads them republicanism. He said that it was He and your Letter to Talleyrand amongst time to have done talking of the sovethe number), against little hand-bills reignty of the people, and that that which poor people cry about the streets, sovereignty, at any rate, existed in their containing extracts from the news-representatives, to whom, in electing papers, at one sous each; these hand-them, they gave up their sovereignty! bills are generally perfectly "in order," To have made this out, he should show that the deputies are the representatives animated by the same pacific spirit; of the people, freely chosen. After she will respect all existing treaties being cheered exceedingly for all this, and, stipulations. Negociations are by the right and centres, that is to say," open at this moment; they have not by the parts of the House where a ma- “given, and will not lead to, any warjority sit, he 'ceased, and the Minister" like movement, and never, we hope, of Marine spoke for the Government." will the termination of these negoHe concluded differently from M. de "ciations be followed by the appearLA BORDE; he said that the Govern-"ance of an armed intervention against ment could not afford to relinquish any" this neighbouring country of France. part of its revenue at this moment, and" We, Gentlemen, we will never go to that with regard to the cautionnement,“ war but for the defence of territory, this must, at any rate, remain in a pro-" or when the national honour is atportion with the fines which were in-" tacked." This speech was applauded flicted by law; whether the law would in the centres; the general discussion finally be altered, the Government had upon the motion of M. Bavoux relative not yet made up its mind. They are to the press was closed, a report upon afraid to give trust for fines and da- it being to be heard on Monday, and mages or for the bonds to pay them. the Chamber rose. There is a French maxim, "Qui cautionne paye" ("He that is security pays"), and in the case of the press it is so indeed. I must observe, however, that it is not confined to the press, as it is rather a general custom for securities to be paid down. But then the arbitrariness of subjecting a newspaper to this security, as if the proprietor were a collector of taxes, and had on the other hand the money of the nation in his pocket entrusted to him! Tuesday, Nov. 9. 4. With regard to the press, the report which I mentioned on Sunday, as being to be brought up yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, it has regu lated the cautionnement at 3000 francs of yearly interest, being a reduction of one-half, and the other half to be returned to the various proprietors of journals. It also regulates the postage of newspapers, and also the stamp, at a lower rate. Up to this time, the ex3. The Minister of Marine finished pense of postage and of stamp amounthis speech by answering a speech made ed to thirteen centimes (hundredths of a by M. MAUGIN, the day before, relative franc) out of twenty upon the price. to foreign affairs. M. Maugin wished The report was adopted by a great mafor the interpretation of the Government jority. M. BAVOUX had proposed that upon the speech of the King of Eng- the cautionnement should be reduced to land, so far as it applied to an inter-one-quarter; and M. de TRACEY, that it ference in Belgium. Upon this subject should be abolished and also the stamp, he said: "Gentlemen, the Chamber has "been entertained about a document emanating from an august source, "and which has been represented to it as being a ground, if not of dis"quietude, at least of attention, and as being such that it required serious "explanations. Gentlemen, this document gives sufficient proof in its terms "of the firm maintenance of peace, and "its terms have been commented on in "the most satisfactory manner in the "Houses of the English Parliament. The chief of the administration has "protested against all armed intervention "in the affairs of Belgium. France is 66 and that each journal should pay a patent of from 1000 to 2000 francs a year, in order that the revenue should not lose. This latter was the proposition most equitable for the journalists, and placed them on the footing of other professions which pay for patents. Both these propositions were rejected by a great majority; and M. LAFITTE, as Minister of Finance, said that the Minister of Marine had, on Saturday, delivered the sentiment of the Government, which was, unanimously, that in the present times, when commerce was suffering so much, the Government could not relinquish any part of its revenue, |