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agreed to. The main topics of interest" their opponents? Would they not here are, the confidence expressed in the "be emboldened by their impunity? Ministers; and the sentiments relative" Would they not again combine and to the Bishops. The former is guarded intrigue when Parliament again asvery much by coupling it with a refer-" sembled ? Would not the bill be ence to the pledges given by the Minis-" again thrown out, or more probably ters; and, in fact, founding the confi-" be smothered or torn in pieces, and dence upon the supposition, that those "rendered useless in Committee? pledges will be adhered to. It is, in" (Cheers.) He again repeated that he fact, a conditional confidence; but it is" would not delude the people. There quite confidence enough! The meeting were but two modes of carrying this was not, however, content to leave the " measure—by constitutional means, or King to suppose that they were content by means not strictly constitutional with a bill quite as efficient:" they "in other words, he told them it could say, "No measure in which the great only be carried by more peers or fewer. "principles of disfranchisement, en-" (Loud cheers.) He repeated, that he "franchisement, and right of voting," "conscientiously believed that they do not remain the same, will satisfy "would do the like again, unless their them. This is very material; and it is" numbers were increased. If new peers worthy of the imitation of every other were not made, he solemnly warned meeting However, as to confidence" the House of Lords that it was the in the Ministers, Mr. PARKES, in his last time of asking.' He solemnly speech, seems to have cautioned his "warned the Government, if it had not townsmen against being deceived. These" the energy to make the change in the were his words, and they are well worthy" representation required by the people of attention :- "He would not," he “* said," be a party to delusion; he would

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This is sense. It is evident that there is no other way of carrying the bill. There must be a change made in the persons who are to vote; or it is impossible to carry the same bill; and, we clearly see, that this gentleman is sus picious, that no such change will be made; and well he may; for if it be intended now, why was not the change

not longer conceal his real fears that "the country and the Reform Bill la"boured under alınost insurmountable "difficulties. The House of Lords "consisted of 421 peers, and 199 voted against the second reading of the bill; "158 voted in favour; 64 peers did not "vote at all; of the latter number 20 might be absentees, insane, and mi-made on the 10th or 12th of October, Therefore, there were 40, cer- and all this turmoil prevented? I ask, "tainly, disaffected to the bill, who did why the change was not made then? "not vote. Now it was notorious that, And if I be told, that the Ministers" "of the minority, many peers voted for hearts were good, but that they wanted "the second reading who were inimical the power; that they found at Windscr "to the principle of the bill, and who people too strong for them; what reason "would have opposed its details in is there to suppose that they possess the "Committee. Thus, in fact, only about power now? Mr. PARKES was, therc"one-fourth of the peerage was sin- fore, very right in cautioning the people cerely in our favour. Deny this gloomy against being deluded into confidence in "fact who may, deceive the people in the Ministers, until they know that they hiding it who might, he (Mr. Parkes) not only can, but will, make a new crea"would not be a party to the delusion. tion of Peers. And the people know "How was such a critical situation to that Lord GREY told the parochial de"be overcome? Would intrigue, cor- puties that there would be no new crea“ruption, fear, conviction-would any tion of Peers. There is no getting out ❝ other causes or motives operate in the of this: and it is delusion to talk of "short interregnum of the prorogation, confiding in men for the doing of a thing, "to reduce this formidable majority of when they tell you that they will not

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dangers to property and to life, which now alarm the country; that all these The 5th resolution (relating to the are to be ascribed wholly to the bishops, Bishops) is the echo that fills the to those who have vowed upon the altar country. They cannot now stand as that they will be ever watchful to prothey are. One thing, at any rate, the mote godliness and peace! Therefore, bill would have done: it would have put for them now to expect forbearance on an end to a greater mass of drunkenness, the part of a people driven to half madlying, fraud, bribery, corruption, and ness by their sufferings and by their false-swearing, than ever existed before despair, would be presumption equal to in the whole world; and these men voted any other part of their conduct and against, and actually prevented, the characteristics. Expect, or expect not, adoption of this measure! That is however, no forbearance will they reenough: we need go no further with receive; so that to that they may make up gard to their conduct. They had no-their minds. thing to do with the policy of the mensure it was the mass of sin that the bill I now come to the grand news in the would have, and must have, put an end Chronicle, which I mentioned in my to, that they ought to have had in their article of this morning; and here it is, eye. They might think, and think taken from the Chronicle of yesterday, rightly, that the bill would take away a |(Monday, 24th October.) "It is with large part of their worldly wealth; make" the greatest satisfaction that we now them live in modest mansions instead of" state, on the best authority, that there palaces; make them drive a gig instead" is no foundation for the belief in the of a coach and six; but what was that" postponement of the meeting of Par to men who had vowed at the altar, that" liament to January. It will meet, at they believed themselves called by the" the very latest, on the 1st of DecemHoly Ghost to take them the care of upon ber; and the bill will then be brought souls, and who had also vowed to cast If the Ministers were to make aside all love of worldly lucre? In short, any change, it would be to make it their case is no v desperate: the conduct more democratical. But they will of the clergy in the case of MOTHER" bring in THE bill." Indeed! Mind, CLARKE AND THE DUKE OF YORK, and this is the whole of the paragraph, in the case of poor QUEEN CAROLINE; which paragraph is placed in the most these were two heavy blows; but this conspicuous part of the paper, and in last blow is the finisher. They will that sort of type which is used when never recover this blow which they have the editor is desirous that the writing given to themselves. The REFORM BILL should attract particular and great ́at would, to a certainty, have, in a short tention; when he is desirous that it time, reduced them to something like should be read by every-body, and that moderate incomes; but now there will it should produce effect on the mind of be no ceremony with them. Here was every reader: and effect this paragraph a proposition to put an end to a mass of will produce! Here is a change all of a wickedness such as the world never saw sudden! I will not refer to the report of before; and here were 44 Bishops, the the Parochial Deputies of the conversawhole of whom all but two, either tion of Lord GREY with them on the voted against it or abstained from voting night of the 12th of October; I will for it; and if there ever were a case in not refer to Mr. MABERLY'S statement which to apply the maxim, that "heat the Surrey Meeting, that the proro who is not for us is against us," this is gation would be till the middle of that case. In short, we are all satisfied, January; but I will refer to the speech that the loss of this bill, and all the tur- of Lord GREY himself, made in the moil which now exists, all the injury to House of Lords, on Monday, the 17th business, all the breaches of the peace, instant, and the report of which was all the fearful combinations, all the inserted in the last Register, p. 204.

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Nay, I will not refer to it, but I will" will do us the justice to believe we insert it here; for it is proper that have adopted the course most conwe should have the words constantly "ducive to the public welfare, and in before us, for some time to come. It" our judgment most likely to promote is his explanation of what took place "the object we have before us." between him and the PAROCHIAL Well, now! Here we have his own DEPUTIES; and here it is:-" I said confession that he told the DEPUTIES "nothing of any period of adjournment. that the prorogation would be till "I said nothing of a prorogation of" AFTER Christmas"; here we have "Parliament to the end of January his own confession, that he told them, (till after Christmas was the state-that there was no question" that "ment)—I said nothing of time-] re- "SOME ALTERATIONS in the bill "served to myself the power to exer- would be necessary." But now the "cise my discretion on the advice I editor of the Chronicle tells us, that he "should give on that subject, and I has " the best authority" for asserting "think I have a right to claim from that, at the latest, the Parliament will the public, for my colleagues and my-meet again on the first of December! ̈ ̈ self, whether that time form a long or Here is a change. "Oh! infirm of pura short one, whether it prove of the pose!" The first of December is not till "usual length or less-that we have after Christmas; and, observe, it is only "taken that course which we think eight days after the 22d of November, "most conducive to the accomplish- to which day the Parliament stands "ment of that object which we, as well prorogued; and the ministerial paper, as the public, most anxiously desire. the Courier, told us, on the evening of "With respect to the Reform measure the prorogation, that after the 22d of ઉં itself, I said there could be no ques-November, there would be a further tion that some alterations were neces-prorogation of fourteen days at the least!" sary-that it would be our duty to Again, who will believe that Mr. Ma66 consider what those alterations were BERLY did not go to the Surrey meeting, to be; but I repeated what I had said not only authorized, but requested, to "before, that I never would be a party prepare the country for a long prorogato the recommendation of any mea- tion? Who will believe that? I ask sure not founded on the same prin- the reader whether he can believe that ciples as that which had been re- Mr. MABERLY would have named the "jected, and as effectual for the ac-middle of January, if he had not been "complishment of the objects which requested to do it, and requested, too, แ it was declared to have in view. (Hear, by the Ministers themselves. What, then, "hear.) These were the expressions can have been the cause of this sudden "I used, except that when the Depu-change?

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"ties intimated in strong terms their But there is something still more im"fears for the continuance of the public portant in the news thus communicated tranquillity, I told them the Govern- to us by DR. BLACK; namely, that we ment expected that they and every are again to have "THE Bill!" That one should use their utmost efforts to is to say, the same bill, and none of your 66 repress disturbance and enforce obe-" quite as efficients." Very different is "dience to the laws; and that I trusted this from what the Doctor (as we have "their exertions would be effectual, and seen above) said on Saturday; for then, "that the Government would not be he "believed, that the ministers had "driven to the painful necessity of" good intentions, and that they would using the powers with which they present a bill with schedules A and B. were entrusted to preserve the tran- " in it; but that beyond that he would quillity by force. These were the " say nothing." Now, then, as to the sentiments I uttered, and I trust, as I authenticity of the Doctor's grand news. "said before, that whatever may be the The Doctor is an honest fellow and a "length of the prorogation, the people sincere reformer, and his diploma is,

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perhaps, the only one that has been saw, in short, that they must push on, or worthily bestowed, in this country, since that the people would soon begin to beGeorge the Third got upon the throne, lieve that the whole affair had, from Therefore, if he deceive us, he is assured- first to last, been a juggle to deceive deceived himself Nor is he a man them, to dupe them along, and to cheat to trust to a mere rumour, or to any them out of reform altogether. And goose-gabble coming to him at third or what were the people to believe other fourth hand. I believe that he has re-than this, after the volunteer offer of the ceived his information from an authentic Lord Chancellor to "reconsider" the source, and that, on Sunday night last, Bill, and particularly that part of it the intentions of the ministers were which related to the ten-pound suffrage such as he describes them to have been. in great towns? After this, what were What may be their intentions next the people to believe? Now, however, Sunday night, he must be a bold pro- we are told, that, if any changes be in"phet that will venture to say. troduced into the Bill, it will be for But, upon the supposition that the the purpose of making it more democra Doctor's news is correct, what can have tical than it was before! What a change been the cause of this sudden change? is here! For my part I can hardly beThat is a grave question, and more in-lieve my eyes.

teresting than it is grave, I have no I shall here stop for the present, with doubt but my incessant goadings, during regard to the history of the affair. the last week, beginning with the an- Something new may reach me before nouncement at Guildhall, have had night. But, I cannot dismiss this subsome effect. The Surrey-meeting, which ject even now, without warning the the Ministers know I might have divided Ministers how they attempt to touch, on the question of confidence in them, except for the purpose of extending, the must have made them see the gulph that suffrage of the working people, who was opening before them. Nothing have all as clear a right to votes as the is more certain, than that the country 10%. renters have; and who all not only has been ruined in its trade and agricul- ought to have votes, but that their ture, that hundreds of thousands of having votes would be an alteration families have been ruined, only because beneficial in the end to the aristocracy I had pointed out the way to prevent that themselves. There is something so ruin; only, in fact, for the purpose of unjust and so insolent in calling falsifying my predictions; and, most upon a man to pay taxes and to assuredly, the WHIGS are not less dis-serve in the militia, and, at the posed than the TORIES were to indulge same time to tell him that he has no in this amiable and high-minded pro- stake in the country, and, therefore, pensity, for doing which I had now ought to have no vote, that one's blood. afforded them so fine and fair an oppor- boils at the very thought of it What, tunity, they overlooking, most likely, then, having been ready, for the sake of the circumstance, that the predictions peace, to give way here for the present, were, in this case, made with the most must be our indignation at perceiving earnest prayer that they might be falsi- that there is a project for cutting off fied. However, it is rather too much four-fifths of even the ten-pound voters! to suppose, that they would make this For my part, if I had to choose between sudden and all important tack merely schedules A and B and the ten-pound for the purpose of making me out a voters; if I must give up one or the false prophet. other, I should not hesitate a moment, in giving up the former, though LORD BROUGHAM is so very ready to re-consider the bill as to the latter! However, this is a subject that demands a more elaborate discussion; and that discussion it shall have from me next week. In

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ber that they were repeatedly told by how the cause of reform cau be promoted by some of the best-informed and some of abusing those who had been its unvarying such conduct, and by dividing its friends, the most opulent men from Birmingham, advocates under all circumstances, in all danManchester, Sheffield, and Leeds, that gers, through good report and through evil they would rather have no reform at all, report, and, when they have no other adverthan see the suffrage fixed higher than and fall foul of each other. Among these are sary to contend against, to conjure one up, at ten pounds! Indeed, no election, many mistaken individua's; and although the not even with the ballot, could be motives of some are sufficiently known, I carried on with a higher suffrage. The should be sorry to impute to all the like moelectors must be cased in iron, and their tives. For myself, I can say, I did not embark in the cause in a smooth sea, or with a houses made bomb-proof. The suffrage "summer's gale." I have had torrents, nearly is too high as it is. To be a man, overwhelming, to contend against; while living by his labour, is quite title enough: some of those intrepid champions who now but, when the people had consented to assail me, could not face the storm. I cantry the ten-pound suffrage, to attempt contended with giants, I am not to be scared not, however, be dismayed by them: if I have to chouse them out of even that, would by a pigmy. There are matters which ought, be an act of perfidy meriting reprobation and which soon may be publicly developed; not to be adequately expressed. How-but I shall here pass them over, and trouble ever, it will not be the attempt would throw all into confusion; and it would be protested against by the opulent men, in the great towns in particular, who, for the sake of their own safety, would vehemently protest against such an al-first wished that it might be ascertained wheteration in the bill.

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THIS brazen, vain, and double-dealing fellow seems, at last, to have brought himself completely down. The impudence of this fellow, to talk about sacrifices," beats all, except that of ONE OTHER, who also talks about his sacrifices, who, when he commenced the trade" patriot," did not, in the whole world, possess the worth of a bunch of cat's-meat.

you with a simple statement, which will serve to show how unfounded their representations have been. Previous to Michaelmas day last, and when no such thought or expectation had crossed my mind, I was applied to and inin nomination with the Lord Mayor, but it was formed that it was intended to put up my name

ther I would, if elected, take or decline the office. My answer at once was, that I would in no way interfere or lend myself to any party that I would make no declaration or enter into any compromise; but would endeavour, under any circumstances, to maintain precisely the same declaration to other apmy own character and consistency. I made plications. This, it was intimated, was not satisfactory, and that they probably might put up Alderman Thorp, although they would I acted upon this occasion as prefer me. Alderman Combe had done before me, where, in a private letter to me, he concludes in these words :-"Every one must be satisfied that my name is made use of by the parties for their own purpose, and with a total disregard to me." It was through a particular friend of mine that the first application was made, and I made to him a similar observation. A poll To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. has, it seems, been demanded for me; but I SIR,--Although I have taken no part what-did not know until to-day, by the papers of ever in the contest for the Mayoralty, and yesterday, by whom. Their names are new have kept out of town the greater part of the to me, and I do not know that I have ever time, to avoid, if possible, all communication seen them, nor have I had, during the election, upon the subject, my privacy and my non-any communication with Sir Peter Laurie or interference have not, however, protected me from continued misrepresentation, and the most unfounded statements and insinuations have been made, in my absence, upon the hustings. How well those persons who are calling themselves friends of reform are thereby serving the cause, and how well they are aiding it by maligning the man who, however feeble his powers, has devoted forty years of his life in its support, at an immense sacrifice to himself and his family, I will leave

any of his friends. Among those who have
unjustly taken a freedom with my name is
Mr. Stevens, of Bishopsgate. This person is
reported to have said, in allusion to me, that
"for his part he should not be able to walk
through the streets of Londou if he were in
the situation of the worthy Alderman."
this Mr. Stevens has dared to show his face to
the livery of London is a matter of amazement
to all who recollect his conduct towards me
at the election for Chamberlain, and the ex-

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