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remedy was not adopted, and, therefore, if they were sincere in their forebodings, as I was in mine, ought they to have expected that the violences would not take place? MR. HODGES, one of the faithful members of the county of Kent, told the House of Commons: "The county which I have the "honour to represent is now tranquil, "after being so terribly convulsed. I "believe that it owes this tranquillity entirely to the hope that this Bill will pass; and I firmly believe that, if QUITE CERTAIN that the people "this Bill be rejected, the disturbances "will break out again."

should confine themselves to petitioning and addressing, to the huzzaing of them and the groaning of their opponents. Now I beg leave, as the LORD CHANCELLOR is ready to reconsider" the matter relative to the ten-pound voters; as he is so ready to reconsider this matter, let me ask him to reconsider his speech of last night, and to give me an answer, yea or nay, to this question: Do you believe, my Lord Brougham, that if the boroughmongers could be made

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Therefore what a waste of words is it; what an abuse of reason is it, to argue now as if no violence was to be expected? Mr. HODGES, for instance, must most anxiously wish that the county of Kent should not again be convulsed; but, is he not too just a man to wish to deal harshly with the people, even if they were again to proceed to acts of violence? And have not the people been told, and by the Ministers themselves, that they were not represented in Parliament; that their rights had been usurped; that the bill was necessary to restore those rights to them, and to give them security for person and property? This is what the Ministers themselves have told them a thousand times over; and were they then to expect that the people would be quiet when they saw this bill rejected, and themselves thereby brought back to their former state, taxed, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself expressed it, by men who had usurped their rights?

And, as to the way in which the people are to express their discontent: but, first of all, do the Ministers wish that the people should be quiet under the rejection of the bill? Do they wish this? Well, in what way do they wish that the people should show their discontent with the rejection of the bill? By petitioning and addressing? By cheering the Ministers and groaning their opponents? One recommends the people by no means to withhold the taxes, and the LORD CHANCELLOR prays them not to proceed to breaches of the peace. They must then mean that the people

would NEVER DO ANY-THING but petition, address, huzza you, and hiss and groan your opponents, that this bill, or that any reform at all, would EVER BE ADOPTED? If you be a true. man, answer me that question, yea or nay; but before you do it, remember that the bloody JEFFERIES, who once sat on the very bench on which you now sit, when he had just condemned one of his scores of victims, and when the victim exclaimed, My blood be upon your head," answered, laughing at the same time, "Let it! Let it! I am CLAMOUR-PROOF." Hardened and bloody as he was, he was not more completely clamour-proof than the boroughmongers are.

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It is therefore perfectly useless to send forth exhortations to peace and patience without sending forth at the same time assurances as positive as can be given, that the Bill will finally pass. The Prime Minister, and the King are, I sincerely believe, resolved upon the carrying of the measure; but people in general have not the same means of judging that I have. They are full of suspicions; with them all is uncertainty and alarm; and, in order to prevent them from proceeding to those acts of violence which the ministers themselves not only anticipated, but expressly foretold, as the inevitable consequence of a rejec tion of the bill, those ministers should now not lose a single moment in giving them an assurance that the bill will be carried; and of giving them an assurance, too, that no change will be made in the bill to narrow the extent of the suffrage in the great towns, and also, that no delay will take place in the revival of

SIR,-As soon as the news of the rejection of the Reform Bill arrived at Woolwich, a meeting took place of the members of the Chiselhurst troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Viscount Sidney, residing at Woolwich and Greenwich, when they came to the resolution of immediately sending in their resignation, together with their arms and accoutrements, their motive for so doing being that they were pledged reformers, and could not, consistently with their avowed principles, continue any longer under the command of an anti-reformer; it being their primary object, at the formation of the troop, to support the King, and Earl Grey's administration. SAMUEL NOBLE,

High Constable of the lower half hundred,
Blackheath.

Woolwich, Oct. 8, 1831.

RESIGNATION OF THE MAIDSTONE
YEOMANRY CAVALRY.

standing our respect and gratitude towards your noble House, for its support of the meaand our country, consent to serve under a Cosure-consistently with our duty to ourselves lonel who opposed a measure in the House of Commons, and a Lord Lieutenant who is in the majority in the House of Lords-for, if tumults arise, which we sorrowfully anticipate, as the consequence of refusing reform to the people, we should be belying our political creed, should we be called out to fight against men whose cause we profess to espouse. Maidstone, 10th Oct., 1831.

These are the things which have made Lord WHARNCLIFF perceive that "the time has NOW arrived, when reform can no longer be withheld." The cry against the Bishops is most omibe hasty;

nous ! It
may
but who can
say that it is unnatural? Lord LYND-
HURST will now find, that I am not the
only man who is ready for an application
of what is called "Church Property."
to public uses. I take the following
from the Chronicle of this (FRIDAY)
morning. I see it in all the newspapers,
and I hear that it is posted all over the

town.

"THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND! Pay no more "Tithes!-no more Church Rates! without "compulsion; but, in God's name, do not "withhold the payment of the Taxes; rather "contribute an extra mite, if necessary, to supOn the reception of the intelligence of the port the King and his Ministers in this fearful rejection of the Reform Bill, a private meetemergency. Mark your detestation of the ing of some of the members of Lord haughty, heartless, and overgrown hierMarsham's Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry archy, by absenting yourselves and families took place, at which the following document, which is now in course of signa- "from your Parish Churches! Let the proud ture, was agreed to be presented to their" and pampered followers of the meek and noble and respected Captain :"To the Lord Viscount MARSHAM, Cap- Remember it was the Bishops who caused "lowly Jesus' preach to empty benches! "tain of the Mote Troop Cavalry, &c., " &c., &c. "the bill to be rejected! If they had voted

"My Lord,-We the undersigned, members of the Mote Troop, which you command, with every respect for your Lordship's person, but with a gloomy apprehension that the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Peers will be attended with most serious results, beg to tender to you our respective resignations.

"We enrolled ourselves under your Lordship's command, to evince our loyalty towards our patriotic King-our confidence in his po pular Ministers-and our attachment to the great and vital measure of reform proposed by them. Had this been passed, we would have stood by your Lordship's side in all times of danger, for the protection of property and person; but the bill being thrown out in the House of Peers, we cannot-notwith

on the right side,' there would have been a majority for the second reading! Be determined that the bishops no longer "have seats in the house of Lords!-that "there shall be no parson magistrates '—in

fine that the priesthood collectively shall

never again interfere with your secular con"cerns! Respect them as zealous and faith"ful ministers of religion,-pay them liberally; but call for an equalization of church

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property!- -so that the drones shall no longer "fatten on unchristian luxuries, while the "working clergy are worse off than the journeymen mechanics!

"Becket, Printer, Paradise-buildings, "Stingo-lane, New-roud,"

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NORTH AMERICANS AND ENGLISH BOROUGHMONGERS.

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Here is a change in six days! Alas! 2. (which will make you laugh) That what pains did I take to warn the Lords Lord Falmouth has chopped out, and of these dangers! And I now again thrown by, twenty-three lines in the beseech them to hasten to close the middle of the quotation; and, if you breach as quickly as possible; and I look at these twenty-three lines, marked beseech LORD GREY to believe, that a in the margin by me, in pages 30 and prorogation for even a month may be 31, you will be at no loss for the reason attended with fatal consequences; and that induced Lord Falmouth to chop that the very mention of raising the 101. them out. suffrage, in great towns, may throw all into confusion.

WM. COBBETT.

I will not trouble you to insert the passage quoted by Lord Falmouth, which, excepting the chopped-out part, is contained in your paper of this day, 7th October; but will first state the

P.S. A friend has just now desired me to remind my readers of the Two DAYS' VISIT OF BROUGHAM TO WINDSOR-CAS-Substance of it, which is this :-That TLE, the week before the discussion of the Reform Bill in the Lords!

NORTH AMERICANS

AND

the Reform Bill is destitute of all principle; that Old Sarum was as much a part of the monarchy as the House of Lords itself; and that the Reform Bill will naturally lead to the destruction of the Established Church, the Peerage, and the Crown. The whole pamphlet

ENGLISH BOROUGHMONGERS. consists of a tissue of efforts on the part

TO THE

Editor of the Morning Chronicle.

Kensington, October 7th, 1831.

of a very feeble man to induce the Lords to reject the Reform Bill, and to induce the King to join with them. Of all the anti-Reform pamphlets which SIR, I perceive, by the report of the have appeared in England, none have debate in the House of Lords, last been any-thing like so feeble and so night, that Lord Falmouth quoted, as foolish as this; and it would not have Lord Haddington had done the night been quoted by the persons abovebefore, a passage from the North Ame-named, only they thought that it would rican Review, published at Boston, in have some weight as coming from an the month of July last; and I need not American; and, Sir, I am now about say that the passage was in opposition to show you and your readers, that its to the Reform Bill. Both these noble-source is one very good reason why it men spoke in high terms of the work should have no weight at all against the from which they quoted; praised the Reform Bill. profundity of the author, sent forth his In the first place, there is no earthly words as the words of wisdom, and reason why this attack upon the Reparticularly as being worthy of the great form Bill, though published at Boston, attention of the Lords. Now, Sir, if should not have been paid for by the you come at the book, and, lest it boroughmongers themselves, or should should give you trouble to get at it, I not have actually been written by that herewith enclose you a copy, which Ivery George Manners who used to request you to have the goodness to seal publish a thing called The Satirist in up under cover and to send to Bolt-London, and whom Castlereagh made court by Sunday night next; if you a consul at Boston. A system which

read this book, which contains only has one branch called secret service fifty-three pages of open print, you will money can cause pamphlets and newssee, in a moment,-1. That a thing papers to be written abroad as well as more shallow, more flimsy, more heads at home. However, this production is, and-tails, more destitute of all real I am convinced, of genuine American knowledge of the state of England, has origin; is full-blooded Yankee; and, hardly ever dropped from the press. if I be asked how I can believe that

"What!"

the Americans can look at this Reform and wishing in these people. Bill with feelings other than those of you will exclaim, " they! they, who delight, I will tell you that presently."have got cheap government themIn the first place, I know, and I know" selves! They who take care that no it well, that every American, who has" one shall have public power who is any feelings of national ambition about" not chosen by themselves, from the him, most anxiously desires that a Bo-" President and the Governors down to roughmonger Government should con- "the very sheriff! They who would tear tinue in England. The reasons for this" out a man's tongue if he were to prowere stated very clearly in my Register" pose a Pension List, to talk of a sineof the 19th of June last, and you will" cure, a grant, or a retired allowance! see them by just looking at three or They, who suffer even their retired four pages at the end of that Register." Presidents, if they become poor, to go You will see two Yankees engaged in" and live upon their relations, or upon a dialogue; and you will hear their" charity! They, who knock a rich reasons for being happy in the hope" man's brains out, if he were to ask that the people of England will never "the poorest of them to vote contrary obtain a Parliamentary Reform. "to his wish! They, in short, who, I have said in print, and I once or "though fostered with the greatest, twice said it in America, when I was care by the kingly Government of there last, that there nowhere existed, " England, rebelled against that Gonot even amongst the boroughmongers"vernment, and finally cast it off for themselves ; not even amongst the " ever, for no other cause, either real or tenants of the lists of pensions, sine-" alleged, than that this identical bocures, grants, and retired allowances; roughmonger-Parliament declared its not even in the club-houses and the hells, "resolution to tax them without their more bitter enemies to reform, than" own consent! They, above all the amongst the politicians of the United" people in the world, opposed to a reStates of America. With the farmers" form of the English Parliament, and and country tradesmen the case is very" represent the disfranchisement of Old different. They hear of the miseries of" Sarum as an attack upon all the inthe people of England and of Ireland: "stitutions of England."

(To be continued.)

From the LONDON GAZETTE,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1831.
INSOLVENT.

LAMB, J. A., late of Battersea, Surrey, victlr.
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they grieve at them: they feel indignant and they speak indignantly against those who have brought the country of their forefathers to this state. But when you come to the persons in and about the general Government, or the State Governments; when you come to the lawyers, the doctors, the parsons of all the forty sorts; when you come to those who trade in ships, who call the seas "the highway of nations;" when you come to those who make a noise at the RIX, F., St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, banker. celebrations of the 4th of July; when you come to the inhabitants generally of great commercial places; when you come to any of these, and particularly to any of those who have views of ambition in any line, whether civil, judicial, military, or naval, you find them all the bitter enemies of parliamentary reform in England. You, and your readers, will be astonished and offended at this seemingly unnatural way of thinking

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