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declare open hostility to the people, or Houses; to the "United Service Club,” whether they shall shake hands with and the “ Junior United Service Club;" them, and live together upon friendly if he had gone to the offices of Stamps, terms in future. All the professions Customs, Excise, Navy, Army, Victual(put forth by every opposition Lord) ling; if he had gone to the cloth and meat that they opposed the Bill, not for their and corn contractors; if he had gone to own sakes only, but for the sake of the the contractors for loans, transports, and people also; these professions are, alas! the like; if, in the counties, he had of no avail. The people now know gone to the tithe-owners; if he had how much their families are benefitted gone to the Universities; there he would by the rotten-borough system: the peo- have found petitioners enough for ple know, that what my Lord KING no reform whatsoever; they being quite said was true; namely, that "the pro-willing to leave "well enough alone." “prietors of seats in Parliament were If he had taken those who profit by "also now the proprietors of the taxes; our populous pension list, and sinecure "and that this proprietorship worked list, and list of grants, and of retired "in such a way as to give Members allowances and of widows' pensions, and "of the House of Lords more than children's pensions, what a goodly `pe"three hundred thousand pounds a year tition he would have had to present; "out of those taxes." The people and, if one had time, one might imagine know all this; they have long known the sort of petition that they would it; and, knowing all this, how useless, have drawn up and put into his hands, alas! are the professions, that, in refus- setting forth," that your humble pe ing the Bill, which will take away the" titioners are well aware that bribery, proprietorship, the Lords consult the corruption, perjury, drunkenness, and interests of the people, and not the in-" all sorts of evils, arise from a system terests of themselves alone! "of rotten boroughs and rotten corpora

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If the Lords who oppose this bill "tions choosing Members to serve in were to read the speeches at the Bir-" Parliament; but that your humble pemingham meeting for purposes of in-"titioners know also that there is seldom formation, and not for purposes of cavil" any good, without its concomitant and of quarrel, never would they have" evil; seldom any virtue, possessed in put forth professions such as I have been a high degree, without some concomipointing out: never would they have" tant vice; that Providence has so orhoped to cause such professions to have" dered it that good and evil shall coany weight with the people. The" exist in this world; and that, all' speakers at that meeting have developed" that mortals have to hope for in this the whole history and mystery of the" vale of tears, is, that the good shall' opposition to reform on the part of the "preponderate over the evil that we Peers; and their Lordships should bear" find the good so to preponderate in in mind that the knowledge discovered" this case; that we find that, notwithby the speakers at that meeting is pos- standing the bribery, corruption, persessed by them in common with almost "jury and infamy belonging to electhe whole of the people of this kingdom." tions, the Parliament works well; Let them then read those speeches for" and that, therefore, we beseech your information: all the people do not make "right hon. House not to suffer any speeches; but all of them think; and change whatever to be made in the they all think alike upon this subject." representation in Parliament." It is, in fact, simply a contest between There is not a tax-eater in the whole the payers and the receivers of taxes. kingdom that would not sign such a The payers are satisfied that they never petition as that. And, talk about the can know prosperity and happiness thing as long as we please, it is, after again unless they have cheap govern- all, a question of money: it is, after ment. If, indeed, the Seigneur of all, a question whether those who laWHARNCLIFFE had gone to the Club bour and who have an income out of

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their own property, shall or shall not, | children; all these have shed their blood, continue to be made poor and misera- I suppose, and we, poor ignorant mor❤ble; to be constantly exposed to all tals! never knew any-thing at all about: sorts of anxieties and hardships; many of them frequently to want a meal, and occasionally some of them to be starved to death; whether or not all these should continue to be inflicted upon them in order that those who have no property of their own, or who do not work in any way whatsoever, should be able to live in ease and in luxury, That is the real question, after all; and that question, as far as this present House of Lords can go, must now be decided in a very few days. The system works well for those who receive the taxes and the tithes; but these are the thousands, while the payers of the taxes are the millions:;: and the question, therefore, is, whether the Lords will or will not prefer the good of the thousands to the good of the millions.

the matter. Poh! my Lord Mansfield, say not a word more about the matter F We will take care that we will have no ladies to shed their blood for us in futare, nor little girls nor boys; and E tell you plainly, that every exertion in my power shall be made to cease giving one single farthing more of the public money to those which we already have: upon the list. It is a question of money, again I say, Dividing it into parts, this question will arise: Shall the parsons keep the sixteen hundred thousand pounds which the Parliament voted them out of the taxes after PER← CEVAL came into power? Anotherquestion will be this: Shall this nation continue to be taxed, in order to send one hundred thousand pounds a year: out of the country, as half-pay to HanoLord MANSFIELD is reported to have verian and other foreign officers, and as said that a reformed Parliament would, allowances to widows and children of amongst other things that it would do, such of them as may be dead? If the "wipe away the national Debt, regard-Seigneur of WHARNCLIFFE had gone to "less of the gratitude due to those who Hanover, what an unanimous petition "assisted the Government in the time he could have got against Parliamen-> " of its need." This is just the language tary Reform! In short, we are a nas that old Lord CHATHAM said the muck-tion of most industrious people, pressed worms made use of. But, Lord MANS-down to the earth by want, in conse EFELD is not treated fairly here by me, quence of our incomes and our earnings until I have finished his sentence, thus being taken from us to be given to “and to do away with PENSIONS those who scorn us while they wallow "which had been won by the blood in luxury upon the fruits of our labour.s " and glorious exertions of those who We all understand it. There is not a "had procured for us a safe and ho- labourer in any hamlet in the kingdom "nourable peace." What, then, my who does not, in substance, understand Lord MANSFIELD, I suppose that BURKE the matter as well as I do. We all and THOMAS GRENVILLE and Lord know that the sixteen hundred thousand GRENVILLE and MONTAGU BURGOYNE pounds, given to the parsons came out, and Lord CAMDEN and the late Marquis of the loans of which we have to pay of BUCKINGHAM and the two EGRE-the interest. We all know that the MONTS and Lord ARDEN and CHARLES war against the French had for its prinYORKE and SIDMOUTH'S Son, I suppose cipal object to prevent Parliamentary that all these, and hundreds of others, reform in England. We all know that have shed their blood for us And CAN-the loans made to carry on that war NING's mother and sister, and the Duke were greatly injurious to us. We all of WELLINGTON's mother, and all the know this, that the Government of this: long list of noble ladies and honourable country may be carried on; that the ladies, and their little boys and girls, King and his family may be generously and HERRIES's mother and sisters, and maintained in all the splendour of Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE'S wife, and Royalty; that a navy ready to cope CUMBERLAND, the play-writer, and his with all the world may be always in a

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ADDRESS

TO THE

EARL OF RADNOR

FROM THE

BRIGHTON POLITICAL UNION.
MY LORD,

bett to the people of Manchester as a person capacitated in an extraordinary degree for the representation of them in Parliament, and the support of all their rights and privileges as men, and equal members of society; also, your offering pecuniary assistance, which will be necessary to the accomplishment of an end so ardently anticipated by the people.

state of preparation; and that all this may be done with taxes amounting to less than ten millions a year; without any tax of Excise, without any assessed tax, without any stamp tax, and with only as much tax and customs as would be advantageous, instead of being injurious, to the industry and resources of the kingdom, and with only such a tax WE, the Members of the Brighton upon the land as would form a security Branch Political Union, have learnt for the state in case of emergency. with great pleasure, the generous and We all know this now; we all know patriotic sentiments expressed by your that Providence has done so much for Lordship in a letter to Mr. Whittle at us that it requires nothing but common Manchester, recommending Mr. Cobtalent and integrity in the Ministers and the King, and a vigilant and honest Parliament, to make us always the most powerful country in the world, and to give the whole of us that ease and abundance and peace and security which our industry so richly merits. We all know this well; and I, for one, will never cease my best exertions to obtain that which we ought to possess. Therefore the Lords might save themselves the plague and trouble of any further debating upon the subject. If they mean to refuse to pass the bill, the sooner we have their refusal the better. I hope and trust that their decision will be the contrary of this; and I am sure, that if such be their decision, they will very soon perceive that their alarms, if they really entertain any, have been groundless; and that, this day twelvemonth, the alarmists will be very much obliged to any one who will say nothing to them about the matter. The consequences to them shortly stated As such is Mr. Cobbett justly and are they will lose rotten boroughs, pre-eminently regarded by tens of thou pensions, sinecures, grants, and allow-sands of his fellow creatures. ances to themselves and their families; Unequalled in political talent, he has and they will, in future, have their own for a long period of years directed the estates in reality, and not be elbowed voluminous productions of his pen in out of them by butcher and other con- the protection and defence of the entractors, and by loanmongers. These are slaved millions of his native country; the consequences to the Peers of Eng-the powerful influence of his astonishland; and their taste nust be very dif-ing mind has been a moral lever exferent from mine if these be not conse- erted with singular perseverance upon quences which will delight them instead of plunging them into that despair of which some of them now so ludicrously talk.

WM. COBBETT.

Though Englishmen have yielded in almost a tacit submissiveness to unabating tyranny, arising from the barbarous caprice or the unhallowed interest of their imperious enemies; nay, though Englishmen have flattered the very authors of all their ills and miseries; yet they have ever felt gratitude and the highest esteem for the individual that would boldly enter the political arena to arrest the iron hand of oppression, and as the champion of the people, to defend their ostensible rights.

the solid fulcrum of truth against the ignorance that has more or less pervaded all ranks of society upon subjects of a political nature; yes, he above every other person, has contributed to remove from the nation at large, the

gross film that has obscured and does they bestow on me. A letter that I even now but too much obscure their received from Mr. Elias Taylor, on the

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By his instrumentality, the people of same subject, it is not necessary now to this kingdom have been roused from a moral lethargy, and the rising generation feel surprised that their forefathers knew so little.

WM. COBBETT.

TRIAL.

Deeply impressed with these feelings, conscious of the invaluable mental advantages we have reaped from his writ- THE ATTORNEY-General will receive, ings, and of the consequent debt of with my compliments, the third edition gratitude due by us to him, we feel the of his and my Trial, which took place utmost pleasure in seeing him sup- in Guildhall, on the seventh of July last; ported, and of course must respect your and if the BARINGS had not so much Lordship, who has, with so much dis-money and I so little, I would send interestedness and manliness, declared them one too. The Examiner, the your sentiments at this most momentous Ballot, and some other weekly newscrisis, regardless of those who do not papers in London, not excepting the appreciate our worth. Handkerchief news, have done their To your Lordship then, who enter-duty with regard to this Trial, and with tains so high an opinion of Mr. Cobbett; regard to me; and, what is more, with whose breast is warmed by a patriotic regard to the case of Mr. and Mrs. sympathy for the condition of an out- DEACLE and the conduct of the magisraged people; and who has publicly trates in Hampshire. As for me and recommended and offered to support so my affairs, they are dust in the balance talented and persevering a man as a compared with the proceedings and Member for Manchester, after the pass- consequences of the Special Commission ing of the Reform Bill; we feel it our in Hampshire, which, as Mr. HARVEY duty to testify the esteem we entertain so well said, have awakened thoughts for your Lordship, and to show that we in the people which must lead to inare capable of appreciating the exertions teresting consequences. Mr. MILDMAY, of every zealous advocate for freedom. who presented the petition in favour of Unused to this method of expressing the BARINGS from Winchester, will soon our sentiments, we trust your Lordship see another petition which will bring will overlook the irregularity of the him nearer home; and I myself prostyle and the barrenness of the expres- mise him, that he shall have ample opsion; regarding this as a token of honest portunity of conning that petition over respect, and the humble effusion of sin- | before-hand. cerity, untainted by the deceit of empty adulation.

In conclusion, we hope that your Lordship will persevere in the cause of freedom, and beg to remain,

Your Lordship's, most respectfully,

For and on behalf of the Union, (Signed) JOHN FURSE, Chairman.

ELIAS TAYLOR, Secretary.

I think it just and proper to publish the above; but though I know these worthy men to be sincere in what they say, I beg to be understood as fearing that I do not merit all the praises that

From the LONDON GAZETTE,

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1831.
INSOLVENTS.

D'OLIVEIRA, J. A. G., and F. G. d'Oliveira,
Old Jewry, merchants.

LOMAS, J. T., and F. Cooke, Dover-street,
Piccadilly, tailors..

WRIGHT, A. J. C., and W. H. Buckmaster,
New London-street, Crutched-friars, wine-
merchants.

BANKRUPTS.··
BROWN, H., Liverpool, silk-mercer.
DEAN, W., Abbey Mills, Durham, worsted-
ELDER, J., Oxford-street, horse-dealer.

spinner.

HALL, W., T. S. Hall, & W. J. Hall, Crosbysquare, and Lower Thames-street, packers. LUDDINGTON, W., Stoke Newington-road, Hornsey, and Adam's-court, Broad-street, coal-merchant.

MENDELSON, H., Manchester, jeweller. MERCER, R., C. Ely, and B. Treacher, Swansea, coal-owners.

SMITH, W., and M. Lewis, Tunstall, Staffordshire, earthenware-manufacturers. WATKINSON, T., Marsh-gate, Lambeth, and Earl-street, Seven-dials, publican. WHITE, G., North Wharf-road, Paddington, victualler.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. CALDER, T. and J., Edinburgh, hat-manuf. TELFER, W., Leith, merchant.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1831. ` GREEN, A., Brewer street, Pimlico, tailor. JONES, T., late of Llangollen, Denbighshire, inn-keeper.

BANKRUPTS.

DAWS, J., W. Daws, and M. Daws, Lenton, Nottinghamshire, bleachers.

HALL, S., Duke-st., West Smithfield, brazier. HORNER, B., Bilton with Harrowgate, Yorkshire, joiner.

MORRISS, P., and S. Smith, Friday-street, warehousemen.

TEBBUTT, S., Islington, wine-merchant.
WILLIAMS, J., Liverpool, joiner.

LONDON MARKETS.

MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 3. Our supplies since this day se'nnight, of English wheat, barley, malt, beans, and flour, as also of foreign rye and linseed, have been great; of English peas, and Scotch and Irish flour, moderately good: of foreign flour, English, Irish, and Scotch oats, as well as seeds,

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Pork, India, new.. 130s. Od. to -s. Od.
Pork, Mess, new... 60s. Od. to 65s. per barl.
Butter, Belfast 86s. to 88s. per cwt.
Carlow.....86s. to 90s.
Cork ......86s. to -s.
Limerick..87s. to -s,

Waterford..84s. to 86s.
Dublin ....s. to-s.

Cheese, Cheshire....64s. to 80s.

Gloucester, Double.. 64s. to 70s.
Gloucester, Single...56s. to 63s.
Edam.......46s. to 48s.

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SMITHFIELD-October 3.

This day's supply of beasts was tolerably good, but not so great as was that of this day's se'nnight: of sheep, fat calves, and porkers, rather limited.

The trade was, in the whole, rather brisk.— With mutton at an advance, veal at a depression of 2d. per stone: with beef and pork at Friday's quotations.-There were but few lambs in the market, and as these have be come young sheep, lamb might be considered to have gone out of season. The stock was of fair average time of year quality. Beasts, 2,682; sheep and lambs, 20,010; calves, 138; pigs, 160.

MARK-LANE.-Friday, Oct. 7.

The arrivals this week are moderate; but from all quarters, with the above exception, the market is very dull at Monday's prices. limited. No foreign barley has arrived since Saturday se'nnight.

This day's market was rather numerously attended by buyers; but as these, for the most part, offered lower prices than the sellers seemed willing to accept, the trade was throughout very dull. With wheat and beans at a depression of from Is. to 46.; oats, white peas, and barley, Is. to 3s., and rye 2s. per quarter. Flour was expected to fall 5s. per sack before the close of the market. There

were a few parcels of new brank and ludian Corn offering the former at from 26s. to 31s.the latter 32s. to 36s. per quarter; but neither seemed to have found purchasers.

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Containing, besides all the usual matter of such a book, a clear and concise

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
This I have written by way of

325. to 428. A Stepping Stone to my own

34s. to 36s.

33s. to 40s. 34s, to 40s.

Grammar;

Such a thing having been frequently suggested to me by Teachers as necessary.

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