"wary a general, and we don't doubt that Lord Grey will recommend Mr. "Manners Sutton to the Peerage. Sui"cide is a horrid crime in the political "world."

and, to have this willing obedience is perfectly impossible, if the magistrates, who are the guardians of the peace and the executors of the laws, be notoriously inimical to that which the people deem absolutely necessary to their prosperity and happiness.

I have inserted the whole of the above article from the Chronicle, in order that my sensible readers, particuAll this is so clear; it is so indularly those who live at a distance from bitably true; it is so glaring, even to London, may be able justly to appre- the most superficial of thinkers, that it ciate the feelings of that very consider is impossible to believe, that it has not able body of persons, whom I call the occurred to my Lord GREY; and, that disappointed and discontented Whys. It being the case, he must have had some appears to me; and, though I cannot very powerful motive for retaining in see through a deal board any more than their offices the present lord lieutenants my Lord GREY seems capable of doing and justices of the peace, every man of it, I can see a little further than Dr. whom, who was even suspected of BLACK seems to see; and, I repeat, being hostile to parliamentary reform that it appears to me, that these disap- ought to have been instantly dismissed. pointed Whigs have only begun to taste And, what WRONG would have been of their disappointment. There is done to any of these lords and gentlescarcely a lord lieutenant who has not men? None at all; for, in the first furnished better grounds for being dis- place, they everlastingly remind us that placed than those which were furnished they serve for nothing; that they take by the Duke of NORFOLK and Lord trouble upon them for the public good. FITZWILLIAM. But what was wanted And, there could have been no disgrace, more than the opposition of these no- unless it were disgraceful to them to be blemen to the reform of the Parliament? opposed to reform! And, if it were The people were for the reform; to disgraceful to be opposed to reform, keep these lord lieutenants and these then they would have had themselves magistrates in their posts, was to insure to thank for the disgrace of dismissal. a constant hostility between the go- All this belongs so entirely to the A, B, C, verning and the governed in every of morals and of politics, that it need county in the kingdom, and to lay the not travel to Scotland, nor even go befoundation of civil strife from one end yond the skull of a Cockney, to make it of the kingdom to the other. Of all the evident that Lord GREY must have had things in this world, that which a wise SOME VERY POWERFUL MOTIVE, ruler will endeavour to secure, is that not to use a power so legitimate, and so which was formerly the great charac-necessary to be used upon this occasion, teristic in England; namely, an implícit, in order to secure a willing obedience to a prompt, and, above all things, a WIL- the laws. LING obedience to the law. When- Now, not to waste time by mincing ever the obedience to the law is re- the matter, my opinion is, that THIS luctant, whenever he who disobeys POWERFUL MOTIVE was neither the law becomes an object of praise, more nor less, than that of a desire to or even of silent approbation with have the assistance of these enemies of his neighbours in general, the state reform, in preventing the people from of things is bad; a species of sla- obtaining those great changes which he very exists; for, what is slavery, but saw the people had in contemplation! that state of things in which the mass Every thing that we have recently witof the people are compelled to sub-nessed, tends to strengthen and confirm mit to the few by force. Thus, then, this opinion: the MANIFESTO of STÁNthe very first duty of the ruler, or rulers, LEY, SPRING RICE (ah, SPRING! of a country is, TO SECURE A WIL-SPRING!), Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Lord LING OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS; ALTHORP, and even the tallow-man

privy-councillor, when he was got snug therefore they naturally look for the in at a dinner this manifesto, especially aid of the Tories. If this be not as put forth by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the powerful motive, it is utterly imalmost openly tells us, that the two possible for me to imagine any; and parties are resolved to unite against this motive becomes, I think, perfectly what is the well-known wish and apparent, when we take into view the anxious desire of the people; and, now, strange and most audacious announcewhen we are told, in this demi-official ment with regard to the re-choosing of manner, that Lord GREY has himself the Speaker. proposed to cause the well-known Tory Speaker to be re-chosen, there can hardly remain a doubt in the mind of any rational man of the correctness of my opinion, which opinion, we shall, I imagine, soon see verified by events.

The people of this country have very long been accustomed to receive insults from the servants of the King, such as hardly any other people ever had to endure; and these insults seem to be the natural fruit of a want of the people The city of London are, the news- being represented in Parliament; but papers tell us, about to meet, to consider when the reform had taken place; when of a petition to the coming House of the people were to have real representaCommons, praying for a law to establish tives in Parliament, it was naturally the ballot-mode of election, and also expected that these insults would cease. praying for a repeal of the Septennial Yet, I do not know that there ever was Act, and for a repeal of the Assessed a greater insult offered to the people of Taxes. Agree to two of these the this country, than that which has been King's servants have already plainly as-offered to them in the announcement, sured us that they will not; and, they that "it is SETTLED, that the Speaker might as well have assured us, at the "is to be re-chosen by the House of same time, that they would not agree "Commons as its Speaker; that Lord to the other. Well, then, they must" GREY has written to Mr. M. SUTTON these measures; oppose but they cannot" in a very flattering manner; and that oppose them without votes; and how the right hon. person has accepted of the are they to have votes enough, without" offer." Now, with regard to the fitness the aid of the Tories? If the Tories of this gentleman for ihe office; with only keep away, the cheap-government-regard to the propriety of choosing men (for that is the name they must go him; with regard to these points, I, by) will, to a certainty, out-vote them; for obvious reasons, shall here offer no and, then, away go, helter-skelter, all opinion at all; but, the choosing of the the goodly company upon the sinecure, Speaker, is, I humbly presume, to be pension, retired allowance, grantee, and matter for motion, discussion, and vote; dead-weight_lists; down come Miss and, this being the case, if it be proper, Hunn, Lady Louisa, Mrs. BRIDGET Fox and not almost, punishable, if not quite, and her two daughters, of another to make the above announcement, and name, which I have now (so treacherous in print too; then the first thing that is my memory) wholly forgotten; away the members of the House of Commons they come all tumbling, neck and heels will have to do, will be to "SETTLE" over BURKE'S COFFIN, which still costs the question, whether they may not as us two thousand four hundred pounds a well at once go home again, and year; they all go away or come down, leave the King and his servants to make followed by three admirals to every laws and to raise taxes without the as-› ship of the line, and four generals to sistance of the men who are now called, every regiment of horse and every regi-" members of Parliament;" but who, ment of foot; and God only knows if this announcement be suffered to be who and what besides! Now the acted upon, are no more " members of King's servants do not apparently view, Parliament" than they are mandarins with any felicity of feeling, the pro- of China. I enter not into the merits bability of this rumble-tumble; and or demerits, the worthiness, fitness, or

unfitness, of the person mentioned; but In one respect, however, we are forI insist that, if the servants of the King tunate; and that is, that we are now can announce this thing beforehand, within a month of the day when it is to and can do it according to the an- be made known to this long-insulted nouncement, the men who will meet and long-suffering people, whether together under the name of " represen- these audacious announcements are to tatives of the people" will be the most be acted upon, or whether they have degraded set of men that were ever real representatives in the House of assembled under one roof, in any Commons. country in the world. They will not be "members of Parliament," but a parcel of men of straw, made use of by the servants of the King, for the sole purpose of authorising the latter to take money out of the people's pockets.

Let us hope, however, that this is not to be the case; that this kingdom is not destined to exhibit this scandalous picture to the world; that the members of the House of Commons will come together duly impressed with a sense of the power and the real dignity belonging to their station, and particularly most profoundly impressed with the great DUTIES imposed upon them by their most solemn and sacred engage

ments with their constituents

ΤΟ

WM. COBBETT,

THE PEOPLE OF OLDHAM.
Bolt-court, 10. Jan. 1833.

MY CONSTITUENTS,

I HAVE received, in order that they may be forwarded to you, addresses of thanks to you, from several places, for your having chosen me to be one of your representatives. They have been transmitted to me, in order that they might reach you free of postage; and Ĩ shall send them to you as fast as I conlet us ; hope, that every man of them will find veniently can. That they give me it written in his heart, that he is forbid- great pleasure you may easily guess; den to yield to any blandishments, to and, when I tell you, that one of them any deference which he may feel to- comes from the town of WINGHAM in wards others, to any friendships, to any East Kent, and another of them from family ties, to any interests or any feel- the city of ABERDEEN, having between ings of a selfish nature; and that, were them, nearly the whole of the length of it to be even at the hazard of his the island, you may fairly presume that life, he is bound to consult, and to your choice of me has the approbation consult only, the well-being of the of public-spirited men in every part of people of this kingdom, including all the kingdom; and, on my part, it is, ranks from the king to the cottager. I am satisfied, unnecessary to assure The trust, reposed in each man, is at you, that, as far as my capacity shall go, once of the greatest importance in the nothing shall be wanting to prove to discharge of it, and the most sacred in the whole nation that your conduct has its obligations. In the execution of that been as wise as it was disinterested and trust, one of the very first acts will be public spirited. the choosing of a Speaker of the House; and, yet, in the face of these principles, so undeniably sound, we see it announced, in the manner before-mentioned, that this act is to be performed without the smallest exercise of the

judgment of those who are thus sacredly bound to perform it according to the dictates of justice, and in accordance with the good of the people!

I am your faithful representative, and most obedient servant, WM. COBBETT.

P. S. The addresses that I have re

ceived were received from the following places, and in the following order:

1. From WINGHAM in the county of Kent, eastern division.

2. From the town of NEW MILNS in faction. It was worth having the re

the county of Ayr.

3. From the city of EDINBURGH.
4. From the city of ABERDEEN.
5. From the town of BATTLE in Sus-

sex.

6. From the town of FALKIRK, Carron, and vicinity, in Stirlingshire.

form, if it had been only to get this. This is a new birth for Scotland, at any rate. There will be many good men come from Scotland; but the return of Mr. KINLOCH is a triumph to the whole kingdom. In another part of the Register I have inserted two or three speeches, made at a dinner given to him at DUNDEE after the election. I beg my readers to attend to these speeches; they will want nothing further to convince them, that there is a complete political revolution on the other side of the TWEED. I beg them

Before I send these addresses to you, I want a little time to think of what I shall do with regard to one or two of them, and especially with those from NEW MILNS and the city of ABERDEEN, which are written in a manner so beau- to read these speeches with attention; tiful, that, in the first place I want them to show people; and, in the next place, I am thinking whether I ought not to have them framed and glazed. The address from ABERDEEN surpasses, in penmanship, any thing that I ever saw in my life, and I beg the writer, Mr. A. STUART, to accept of this statement as a mark of my great respect for his talents.

The gentlemen who have sent these addresses have very judiciously made use of paper not heavy; and, where the case required it, have had the names put upon different pieces of paper, and those papers put under different covers, so that, in no case, did the contents of the cover exceed an ounce in weight.

they are worth reading fifty times over. And only think of Sir GEORGE MURRAY being ousted on nearly the same spot where Mr. KINLOCH was elected! The coincidence, mentioned by Mr. KINLOCH in his speech, is one of those things which Providence has been pleased to cause to take place, in order to induce men to persevere, when their cause is righteous.

The PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE will be found in another part of this Register. It will be read with great interest, especially those parts of it which allude to the causes of the present troubles of this kingdom. The reader will perceive, that the President warns his own country against suffering such causes to continue This mark of the approbation of your to exist there. Every nation has to look country, my friends of OLDHAM, is a to its own safety, and seek to establish very high honour; but it is no more the predominance of its own power. than what is merited by your conduct, The Americans know well, that cheap which, from the beginning to the end, government gives prosperity and power set to the whole kingdom an example of to a country; and they do not like our cool determination, prudent proceeding, reform: the boroughmonger-parlia steadiness of purpose, disinterested-ments were the parliaments for them.ness, faithful adherence to your words; N.B. I have just (Friday morning) seen and, in short, of all those virtues which, the PROCLAMATION against the CAROwhile they merit perfect liberty and the LINIANS. I shall send an article on the greatest degree of happiness, must at subject to the TRUE SUN to-day. last, if imitated by the rest of the country, never fail to secure the enjoyment of those blessings.

SEVERAL THINGS.

Mr. KINLOCH's election for DUNDEE has given me the greatest possible satis

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The borough of LAMBETH is about to meet to petition on the subject of church-rates, which have, of late years, become a new branch of enormous taxation, rivalling the assessed taxes, and even the poor-rates. At LAMBETH they have got four new churches, while the one that they had was never half filled. This is a new species of raising money

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upon the people. It is something like sorry to say, they do not, at present, the old tonnage and poundage affair seem to be disposed to do. However, It is laid on on all religions alike. time, which softens every thing except There are three hundred and odd locust-wood, may soften their hearts churches in England and Wales that between this and the twenty-ninth of have been suffered to tumble down; January. Of greedy fellows, the counbut the parsons continue to take the try folks say, "that God may turn tithes with all the rigour that is" their hearts, but the devil can't turn customary. But, it is the people that" their stomachs." So I have said of are to pay for building new churches the Whigs; and so I hope I may say elsewhere, and the parsons are to have of these cruel writers. If it were a the benefit of these new churches, while question of their stomachs, indeed, they pocket the tithes of the churchless should despair, even of the powers of parishes. All the great towns are op- time. If they should permit me to cross pressed with these new churches; and, the sill of that famous door, without subwhat they ought to do is this: to send jecting me to the lapidary punishment a deputy from each, furnished with a of its patron saint; and if I should complete detail of facts relating to the have the courage to open my mouth grievance. These deputies ought to there, the True Sun evening newsmeet in London, appoint a chairman, paper will be, I trust, a faithengage a person to write and state ac- ful record of my little doings; and counts, and make out and prepare to I shall take particular pains, or lay before the House of Commons, a cause them to be taken, to enable comprehensive statement of this enor- that paper to keep its readers duly inmous grievance; and then, on petition, formed of every material occurrence in or by bill moved for, to put it to the the House of Commons; and also of the reformed House of Commons, whether state of the matters intended to be the oppressed people of these towns be brought forward. I prefer this to the longer to endure these oppressions. This establishing of a daily paper of my is the course that ought to be pursued. own; and, such of my readers as now In detached questions, in which per- take a daily evening paper, I strongly sonal resentment is apt to be mixed up, recommend to take this paper, in prethe matter will come forward disadvan- ference to the notorious Courier, and to tageously. The other mode, besides all that rumble-tumble thing, which has its other advantages, will not be attended dignified itself with the name of the with a twentieth part of the expense. Globe. I can estimate the grievance very well, My TOUR IN SCOTLAND, including indeed. I endeavoured to prevent the the four northern counties of England, existence of it at KENSINGTON; and I price 2s. 6d., in a very neat volume, exknow well how STURGES BOURNE's cellent paper and print, is just published bills defeated the wishes of a majority at my shop in Bolt-court; also my of the parishioners; and I am very ANSWER ΤΟ STANLEY'S MANIFESTO, glad to perceive, that the populous and price Threepence; also my POOR MAN'S opulent borough of LAMBETH, has dis- FRIEND, price Eight-pence, in a little covered that those bills can reach others | as well as the chopsticks.

book, or Three-pence in a single sheet. N. B. All my books may be had of TRUE SUN newspaper. I have made any bookseller in town or country; and such an arrangement with regard to may at all times be had in any number this evening paper, as I think will se- of copies of Mr. ENEAS MACKENZIE, cure CORRECT REPORTS of my bookseller, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE ; speeches in the House of Commons, if Mr. COCKBURN, CARLISLE; Mr.RICHARD the Times newspaper, the Leeds Mer-IRELAND, EDINBURGH; and Messrs. ATcury, and the other vehicles of the same KINSON and Co., GLASGOW.

description, should be graciously pleased

to let me make any there, which, I am