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VOL. 74.-No. 5.] LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 1831.

REFORM BILL.

Kensington, Sunday, 23rd October, 1831.

[Price is. 2d

mon with all your Majesty's good subjects, we have felt the severest disappointment at the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Lords; but we rely on your Majesty's wisdom and firmness to save us from the calamities of civil discord, by continuing your confidence in your present Ministers, and by affording them all the means which may be necessary to carry that great measure, unimpaired in any of its essential principles through your two Houses of Parliament.

beneficially as in extinguishing political corruption, and destroying oligarchical tyranny. Το your Majesty personally will then belong the immortal glory of having finally established and consolidated the liberties of your country."

"Your Majesty is ever ready to acknowledge that your Royal Family was called to the throne of these realms to protect us, against the arbitrary and tyrannical principle "THE Bill, the whole Bill, and no-invested by the constitution with certain great of the house of Stuart, and your Majesty is thing but the Bill!" Serious as the prerogatives to be exercised for the benefit of matter is, I cannot write the words the state; and they can never be exercised so without laughing; and laugh at them we shall, ten years hence, long after all these intrigues have been blown to air. But it is of vast importance that we be not, even now, made dupes of by the Ministers, or by any of the good men whom they and their agents may succeed in deceiving. That they do not intend to give us the same bill is now certain; that they intend to alter Schedules A and B is not less certain; their pledges, and who did not now inand that they intend not to give the 10!. suffrage in great towns is as certain as tend to bring in the same bill that had either of the others. If this be so, are collect what one has said; but the folbeen rejected. One can never fully rethey worthy of our confidence? And, if it be not so, why do they not say that lowing, as reported in the newspapers, it is not so? However, let me here is nearly the substance of what I did proceed with the history of the in-say; and I insert it, not because it has trigues, which I, last week, continued any-thing fine in it, but because I wish down to the close of Wednesday, the my predictions to be remembered, and because I may have it to read to the another time. county

19th.

I objected to this address upon two grounds; 1st, that it was silent upon the conduct of the Bishops, and, 2nd, that it called upon the King to confide in those Ministers who had broken

On THURSDAY there was a meeting of the county of SURREY, at EPSOM, Mr. COBBETT expressed his belief that the sincerity of Mr. Leach was as where the proceedings were as follows, leaving out speeches. Mr. LEECH, a pure as could be, for he had always enmost respected country gentleman, tertained the highest respect for the inmoved the following address:tegrity and good feeling of that gentle"The Loyal and Dutiful Address of the Free-man; but, at the same time, he believed holders of the County of Surrey, to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

that the address he had moved contained some things which would have precisely "We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal the contrary effect to what that gentlesubjects, approach your Majesty with the man intended they should have The most sincere expressions of affectionate at-requisition alluded to the bill that had tachment to your Royal person, and with the been lately rejected, but the address most heartfelt gratitude for the beneficient intentions of your Majesty to restore the an- spoke of that bill or some other one cient constitution of England. That, in com- equally efficient. Now, equally effi

cient" might mean something or no- done; for if he had resigned his office thing. (A laugh, and "No, no.") Sup- on the Lords throwing it out, he would posing you had a pretty girl, and some have been forced back again on the one was to take her from you, and say, shoulders of the people-new peers "Oh, I'll give you one equally pretty," must have been created-Parliament what would be your answer? (A laugh.) would have been prorogued for a week Why, to be sure, you would say, "Leave and perhaps at this moment they this one, for what the devil should you would have been meeting in that very take her away for?" (A laugh.) Mr. spot to return thanks for the carrying of Leech had commented on the conduct the measure. (Cheers.) But instead of of the Bishops; and, indeed, that was a this, the Ministers were now talking of part of the substantive discussion for alterations and modifications. But, that day. The Bishops formed one mind this, they would not tell the peoportion of a body that took from the ple what those alterations and modificapeople a very large portion of their tions were to be; and could they beearnings (hear hear); and it was, there- lieve-he did not--that Schedules A fore, fit that his Majesty should be re- and B would be left unimpaired? (Hear, minded of the misconduct of these hear, and a cry of "We do.") He Bishops, and the great mischief which would be content with this test: if Mr. they had done to the people. The plain Denison and Mr. Briscoe, the county fact was just this: that if the Bishops Members, would pledge themselves to had voted as they ought, the bill would abandon the Ministers if the new bill have been carried instead of lost; the did not contain the Schedules A and B, majority against the bill was 41; the he would withdraw his opposition. Bishops that had voted against it were (Cheers.) But he knew very well that 21; and, therefore, if they had voted they would pledge themselves to no the other way, there would just have such thing. They knew as well as he been a majority of one for the bill. did that Schedules A and B would not (Cheers.) The whole failure, therefore, again be presented, unless the people was to be ascribed to the bench of bestirred themselves. (Hear, hear, and Bishops (hear, hear); and he, there- cries of "No.") Lord Grey, according fore, thought that their address to the to his own statement, would not recomKing ought to remark upon this con-mend the creation of new peers. Then duct of the Bishops; but Mr. Leech's how, he should like to know, were the address was entirely silent on that head. Ministers to carry the same bill with The great object of that address ap- the same peers? (Hear, hear, hear.) peared to be to say to the Ministers, Instead of the whole bill, it would be "We have the same confidence in you any-thing but the bill; and would re"that we had before the bill was re-mind him of the manner in which he 'jected." (Hear, hear, and a cry of, "So we have.") If that was their opinion, at least it was not his. (Oh, oh.) How did the matter stand? Lord Grey, when he brought in that bill, had said that he would stand or fall by it. He did not then say any-thing about an equally efficient bill; and at the last meeting that they had held at that place, the freeholders of Surrey and their county members had pledged themselves to the Bill, the whoie Bili, and nothing but the Bill. (A voice, "And they have acted up to the pledge.") But Lord Grey had not fallen by the bill, which he ought to have

on which

was served when he was a youngster.
He remembered that he one day saw
his mother with some bread and cheese;
aad when he asked for some, a carpen-
ter, who was by, said, Oh, yes, Billy,
my boy, I'll give you some!"
he took a piece of chalk out of his
pocket, and chalked out for him on the
table an imitation of some bread and
cheese. (Laughter.) This was what it
would be with the new bill; which
would be no more like the old one than
the chalk bread and cheese was like the
real bread and cheese. (Laughter and
applause.) He felt, that if he was to
vote for Mr. Leech's address, he should

be voting for a falsehood. (No, no.) Yes, he said yes. (No, no.) Why did he say yes? Because he had no confidence in them; and because he knew that the Tories were more eager, if possible, than Lord Grey himself, that he should continue in office. (Loud cries of "Oh, oh!) The Tories knew that if they were to come in, there would be an end to the payment of taxes; while, on the contrary, as long as they had Lord Grey remaining in office, nothing of the sort would be heard of. (Hear, hear, and no, no.) There, then, he would remain. There would, probably, be a prorogation till February, or perhaps longer; then the bill would be sneaked in (loud cries of "No"); and after that, perhaps, there would be a second prorogation. The game that the Tories were playing with Lord Grey put him in mind of the manner in which the mother held up her baby when she saw her husband coming to attack her; she snatched it out of the cradle, and holding it before him, kept crying, "Ah, you brute, murder your own infant, do." (Laughter.) So it was that the Tories, holding up Earl Grey, cried out to the public, "What! not pay your own favourite the taxes; oh, "to be sure you will!" slily knowing all the while, that as soon as Lord Grey got the money, it would make its way to them. (A laugh, and hear, hear, hear.) This, in his opinion, was the way in which the people were to be choused. (No, no.) Two months, however, would show who was right and who was wrong.

another branch of the legislature has dashed from our lips the cup of peace, prosperity, and happiness, tendered to us by the paternal and gracious hand of your Majesty.

"Having, for many long years, seen an undoubted right of choosing our representatives daringly usurped; having been bereft of all been provided for by the laws of our fathers; that protection for our property which had having seen the usurpers of our rights take to themselves, or squander on their kindred or creatures, the incomes from our estates and the fruit of our toil; having seen them mortgage every inch of our country, every house, every tree, the sweat of our brow and even that of the child in the cradle; having endured from their merciless hands, burden heaped on burmanacle, the last always still heavier than the den, stripe following stripe, inanacle added to former; having felt them strip us, by degrees, of every attribute that distinguishes the free from the bond; having seen them, at last, restate of poverty, misery, and crime, in which duce our once free and happy country to a the world could recognise of England nothing but the name, and that name, instead of being cur glory, having become our shame; thus brought, by this band of usurpers, to choose between the basest bondage and deadly civil strife; and, seeing your Majesty nobly step forward to rescue us from this sad alternative, to restore us to our rights, to redress our what has been our indignation at seeing a wrongs, to raise us from our degradation; hundred and ninety-nine persons, enriched and made great only by taxes extorted from ourselves, scornfully reject all our claims and supplications, and treat as nothing worth even your Majesty! But, if language would fail the gracious and earnest recommendation of us in endeavouring to give vent to our thoughts relative to the whole band, where shall we find word sto express our feelings with regard to the conduct of those mitred enemies of our rights and our happiness, who, rolling in wealth and lodged in princely palaces by means drawn from our property and labour, and so exalted as the immaculate guardians of piety and virtue, have, by this, their vote, stamped the seal of their approval on scenes of drunkenness, fraud, corruption, suborna❤ tion, and perjury more flagrant, more shameFree-less, more teeming with abominations than were those, on the actors in which God, by the mouth of Job, pronounced, that the congregation of hypocrites should be desolate, and that fire should consume the tabernacles of bribery;' more flagrant, more full of abomination than the acts of the apostate sons of Samuel, and yielding in point of wickedness to the deeds of none but that of Judas Iscariot himself!

THE AMENDMENT. "The Address and Petition of the holders of the county of Surrey, in county meeting assembled, this 20th day of October, 1831.

"Most humbly showeth-That we your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the freeholders of the county of Surrey, yielding to none in attachment to your Majesty's person and family, and in veneration for those laws whence your Majesty derives your kingly authority, deeply lament that, while we fain would have made gratitude to your Majesty the sole subject of this address, a due regard to the safety and honour of our country, as well as of your Majesty's throne, compels us, as children to a tender father, to complain, that

"Thus, finding the most bitter enemies in those whose calling and whose professed hatred of vice taught us to look for the warmest of friends, we have now no reliance but in the wisdom and the justice of your Majesty ; and, most firmly relying on these, and on that