settled proprietorship of land; I know that there can be no willing obedience; that there can be no just distribution of property and of power, unless a very great part of the submission to the laws arise from the habitual and the traditionary respect of upon one spot by these loan-mongers; and just on the skirts of their domain, there sticks the descendant of Lord RODNEY, who really revived the character of England at a time when it was at a very low ebb, cooped up in a the immediate magist the people towards little bit of ground, not much more than I know that, when this natural magistracy is destroyed, there must come coercion, and that force must command an unwilling obedience; I know that this system of upstarts has a direct tendency totally to destroy the good laws and customs of England, and that it has, in a great measure, destroyed them. enough to be a cabbage-garden for the BARINGS; and there is that poor CRANLEY ONSLOW too, descended from one of the greatest and most upright lawyers, and most learned and best men that ever lived, and owing to whom has been ennobled CRANLEY, a little village in Surrey, the name of which the Speaker ONSLow chose for his title of Baron. Here would be quite enough to justify the I have been called a jacobin and leveller: this antipathy which I entertain towards this whole is your true levelling, stripping Lords of their race of men, of which the BARINGS have, by estates, by the means of taxation, and giving their own act aud deed, and, in the indulgence them to those who have thriven upon that of their own vanity, arrogantly placed them-taxation. And if it be asked what harm this selves at the head; for Sir THOMas Baring, does, again. I say, it destroys the natural main setting forth his pedigree, tells us that his gistracy of the country; it takes away the saarms are “ azure, a fesse, or, in chief, a bear's lutary influence of habitual and traditionary head proper, muzzled and ringed, or." I like respect, and it demands coercion in its stead; the "bear's head" monstrously, and particu- and coercion casts aside the sheriff's wand larly I like to see it "muzzled and ringed." and the constable's staff, and brings the standIt does not seem that the bear's paws are ing bayonet and the gendarmerie. hand-cuffed. What pity that the whole band, These are the grounds, fully and frankly the banker and all, did not go to Marwell stated, of my hatred of the BARINGS; but equipped like the Baring-Arms! We should what hatred, what preconceived hatred, did it not then have had all this fuss! In this pedi-require to bring me forth in the cause of Mr. gree, Sir THOMAS tells us that his father was and Mrs. DEACLE? Now, reader, look at the 66 enabled, by his affluence, to assist the minis-motto which I have placed at the head of this ter" (just as Lord CHATHAM said!) "in the paper. The words of that motto were ad"various loans required, and that he soon be- dressed to one son, and were, of course, ad66 came the leading member of the monied dressed also to all the rest of my children, and "interest, and even the prosperity of England, to the hundreds and thousands (and I may say "at certain periods, may be said to have re- hundreds of thousands) of young people; for "volved around him, as its primum mobile.” | the Grammar, as its title expresses, was inI take this from the BARONETAGE OF ENG-tended for the use of schools, and of young LAND," published by Debrett in 1819; and " persons in general; but more especially for any-thing, at once, so stupid, so insolent, and “the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and so grovellingly vulgar, I never not only took from any book, but never read in any dirty newspaper, even that of Jacob and Johnson, in the whole course of my life. Why, if there were nothing but this to make me hate them, this would be quite sufficient. The prosperity of England revolved round him! The prosperity of England revolve round a fellow that had been a mere city go-between of old Lord SHELBOURNE, and had not been known to the community for more than five-and-twenty years! A pretty thing England must have become! England is my country, at any rate, and I have certainly a right to resent this upstart, beggar-like insult. If, indeed, any of the family had ever performed any service to the country, real or pretended, it would be another matter. If one had seen a great parcel of estates in the hands of Lord NELSON and his heir. Instances of that kind happen so rarely, that the precedent is not dangerous; and besides, the country has something to show for the cost; the deeds are so ennobling that they silence all political reasoning about the matter. But, what do we behold here? In one single spot a great slice of a county; three Lords supplanted plough-boys." What other motive do I want than the precept inculcated in that motto? The motto was written in Long Island thirteen years ago. I could know nothing then about the small handcuffs: I could have no such thing in my eye. The precept had been the rule of my conduct all my lifetime; and what have I done other than act upon it now? Here are Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE, in my opinion innocent; proved to be inno cent in a court of justice; a jury have pro nounced them innocent; and I find them attacked by "powerful men." I find in them people wholly unable to defend themselves against such power. I find them attacked in the newspapers, under the names of men of great wealth and power; I find them, after their acquittal in a court of justice, branded by the newspapers, under the names of FRANCIS BARING and SERGEANT WILDE, as having been guilty of felony; I examine all the newspapers, and find them all to agree in the infamous libel; I see the villanous libellers, Jacob and Johnson, spread the calumnies all over the county, and even to the very door of Mr. DEACLE; I see these printers refuse to publish a letter from Mr. Deacle, defending himself against these calumnies: in short, I see them innocent and defenceless, and attacked by men who have power in their hands; and then it .is, and not till then, that I take up their cause. Is not, therefore, my conduct straight and consistent? What am I doing but acting upon the precept which I have constantly and sedulously taught, and as constantly made the rule of my conduct? And what is to become of defenceless 'innocence, if talent will not step forward in its defence when attacked by powerful men? Here, then, I cast aside all these imputa. tions about private malice and denunciations of ruin let the BARINGS howl, or rather, growl, like the animal whose head they take for their crest; let them talk about motives as long as they please; and let me, my friends, now go into the merits of this case in as plain a manner as I can consistently with the necessary brevity. On the 23rd of November last, the rioting and machine-breaking took place in the parishes round about Marwell, where Mr. DEACLE lived on a farm which he rented. of Mrs. LONG. The rioters, or rather, the working people who were demanding a rise of wages, went to Mr. DEACLE'S, broke his thrashing-machine, pressed his men to join them, and made him give them two pounds in money. From his house they went to that of his neighbour SMITH, another farmer, whither Mr. DEACLE followed them, in order to prevent them from doing acts of violence to his neighbours. Being in Mr. SMITH'S house along with other farmers who had joined them, they, in Mr. SMITH's parlour, drew up a paper, to be signed by landowners and land-occupiers, the former promising to reduce rents and tithes, and the latter to give the men twelve shillings a week. This paper was shown to the men in order to quiet them; and, at the desire of the whole, it was carried round by Farmer BOYES to the several farmers and gentlemen's houses that the people went to. Mr. DEACLE went as far as Mrs. Long's, and, when the paper had been signed there he went away. By fifty credible witnesses, it can be proved that this was the conduct of Mr. DEACLE, on the 23d of November, and that this was all that he had had to do with the matter. As to Mrs. DEACLE, she was out taking a ride, and she rode, out of curiosity, to see what the mob were doing. One charge against her was, that she sat upon a horse looking at them and smiling. I know of no law, either from the pen of ELLENBOROUGH, LANSDOWN, or PEEL, to forbid smiling. Such was the conduct of these two parties, doing no one thing that was either unlawful or unneighbourly during the whole of the day, being greatly injured in their property, but humanely submitting to the injury, from reflecting on the starving state of the labourers. Notwithstanding this inoffensive conduct, the next day warrants were issued against them and for apprehending them, upon depositions that have never yet been produced; and three constables, with a coal-cart and handcuffs, small handcuffs as well as great, were sent from the jail of Winchester to bring them to that jail. Two magistrates, FRANCIS T. BARING, son of THOMAS, and BINGHAM BARING, son of ALEXANDER, accompanied by ROBERT WRIGHT, a parson, Captain NEVILE of Easton, one. SEAGRIM, an attorney, and Mr. DEANE, a bauker of Winchester, went off on horseback to assist in the capture and in the bringing to jail of these two innocent persons. I assert them to be innocent, because the lady has never been brought to any trial at all, and because Mr. DEACLE was indicted for the pretended offence, and acquitted, without producing any evidence of his own; acquitted at once, in consequence of the evidence given by his accusers' witnesses; all which you will please to hear in mind; and of course you will bear in mind always, that these are two persons who have been falsely accused, and who have been proved to be innocent of the alleged crimes with which they were charged. Quite bad enough, quite oppression enough, if we were to stop here; but we have now to see the manner of the arrest; the manner in which innocent persons were seized and treated; and here I proceed to state facts which the parties accused affect to deny the truth of. The facts which I have before stated relative to the perfect innocence of Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE of all crime whatsoever in this case, are facts which neither the Barings nor any-body else pretend to deny. But the facts I am now about to state are facts for which I do not vouch, but which rest on the evidence given by LEWINGTON, SWITZER, and Mr. Deacle's servant-girl, at the last summer assizes, upon a trial on an action brought by Mr. DEACLE against five of the afore-mentioned parties for the violences committed by those parties at the time of the seizure as aforesaid. LEWINGTON, who was the chief of the constables, says that he went to Mr. DEACLE's house with the persons before-mentioned. That he went into the house with the two BARINGS, and with WRIGHT, the parson; that BINGHAM BARING told him to handcuff Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE; that he, LEWINGTON, hesitated, but that he finally handcuffed them, one to the other; that Mrs. DEACLE wished to put on her bonnet and shawl, but that BINGHAM BARING said he could not wait; that BINGHAM BARING pulled out a pistol, and put it to the head of a man who had Mr. DEACLE'S gun and told him to give it up; that Mrs. DEACLE was put up into a cart; that the road was very rough; that BINGHAM BARING ordered him (LEWINGTON) to trot, which made the cart shake very much; that BINGHAM BARING struck Mr. DEACLE a back-handed blow with a stick, while Mr. DEACLE was handcuffed in the cart. The evidence of SWITZER corroborated this, and the servant girl swore that BINGHAM BARING took Mrs. DEACLE under his arm, round the waist, and carried her, her legs dangling one way and her head another. Now, observe, I was not in Court when this From the LONDON GAZETTE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1831. INSOLVENTS. GILHAM, C., Romford, wine-merchant. WELDON, T., Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, liuen-draper. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. NEIGHBOUR, T. & T., King-street, West manufacturer. surgeon. DUNELL, R., St. John-street, Smithfield, dealer in hay. evidence was given; but such is the evidence, according to the report published in all the newspapers. The jury gave a verdict of fifty pounds against BINGHAM BARING, and nothing against any of the rest. Such was the evidence in the Court given upon the oaths of these witnesses; there was much more, but this was the substance of it. Now, we go to the petition of Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE, which they presented in consequeuce of the atrocious slanders put forth against them by the newspapers, under the title of the report of speeches in Parliament. They say that BINGHAM BARING seized Mr. DEACLE by the collar, that he then held one of his arms, that APPLEING, S., jun, Spital-square, silkFRANCIS BARING held another, and that the parson held him by the skirts, while LEWINGTON, by the positive order of BINGHAM BA-BURR, R. & C., Bentinck-street, ManchesRING, put the hand-cuff upon one of the DAWSON, R. V., Chiswell-street, veterinary ter-square, upholsters. hands of Mr. DEACLE; that Mrs. DEACLE was sitting in another part of the room; that FRANCIS BARING went and hauled her up to have her hand put in the other part of the same handcuff, so as to have them fastened together; that after this, in pulling her along to get them out of the house, Mrs. DEACLE'S hand came out of the hand-cuff, and that it was FRANCIS BARING, and not BINGHAM, that dragged her and carried her across the yard to the cart, into which NEVILL, captain in the navy, got, in order to pull her up. There is this difference between the evidence in Court and this statement in the petition; that the servantgirl ascribed the carrying and the dragging to BINGHAM, and not to FRANCIS BARING; but the girl had never seen either of them before, and did not know one from the other. It is not denied that the cart was made to trot in a very rough road; it is not denied that the constable, SWITZER, pledged himself to be answerable for Mrs. DEACLE, if they would let her ride her horse; and that they refused this. When the cart arrived at Winchester Hill, there was the jailer, BECKETT, in a postchaise, and into that chaise they were put along with this common jailer, who took them DAVIS, J., Worcester, glover. FIRTH, J., Manchester, cotton-spinner. turers. JACKSON, R. P., Liverpool, sail-maker. JOHNSON, T. & J. J., Lant-street, Southwark, carpenters. D'OLIVEIRA, J. A. G. & F. G., Old Jewry, merchants. PRENTICE, W., High-street, Southwark, ironmonger. LEWIS, P. R., Kent-terrace, Regent's-park, victualler. RICKARDS, G. H., Cowley-road, Brixton, wine-merchant. SHEPPARD, J., Lechlade, Gloucestershire, baker. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1831. INSOLVENTS. to the jail, where they were treated as feloni-NEWMAN, G., Pancras-la., Cheapside, agent. › ous malefactors. Now, observe, as far as relates to this statement of Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE, the statement at present rests upon their word only. We cannot say the same, by any means, with regard to the evidence in Court, for that evidence was given upon oath before a judge and jury, and the jury found a verdict against BINGHAM BARING at any rate; and we are to observe also, that the constables were persons in the employ of these magistrates; that they depended upon them, in some measure, for their bread, and that their evidence had always been thought very good, when given against persons that were prosecuted. (To be continued.) BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. CLARK, J., Jewry-street, Aldgate, and Tottenham, wine-merchant. BANKRUPTS. ATKINSON, G. E., Leman-st., Goodman's- MORGAN, T. jun., Walk, Carmarthenshire, MUSGROVE, R., Bristol, woollen-draper. PORTER, R., W., and R., Carlisle, ironfounders. STABLES, J., Horsforth and Leeds, moneyscrivener. WALLEY, G., Tunstall, Staffordshire, victualler. WRAGGE, F., Preston, Lancashire, stationer. WHITEHOUSE, W. W., Worcester, skinner. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ANDERSON, J. and Co., Glasgow, merchants. BALLANTINE, J. and Co., Glasgow distillers. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 24. Our supplies have been, since this day se'nnight, of English wheat, barley, malt, beans and peas, as well as Scotch and Irish flour, good: of English flour, and foreign linseed great: of foreign wheat and barley, as also seeds with above exception, and oats, from all quarters limited. Foreign flour or rye, from any quarter, none. This day's market was rather numerously attended by buyers, chiefly of Loudon and its vicinity, amongst whom were a considerable number of agents, who were said to be commissioned to make extensive purchases, particularly of wheat, at given reduced prices: but as the sellers were firm as possible to their last week's position, and these consequently not submitted to, the trade was, throughout, very dull. With very fine red and white wheat, rye, malt and peas at last Monday's quotations with the intermediate kinds of wheat, as also oats, barley, and beans at a depression of from Is. to 2s. per quarter. Rape and linseeds were held for au advance. other seeds but little doing at their former currency. Flour was expected to fall before the close of the market, from 3s. to 5s. per sack-we have not however altered its last week's quotations. In barl. 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VOL 74.-No. 6.] LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 1831. TO THE WORKING PEOPLE. MY FRIENDS, Winchester, 27th October, 1831. [Price 1s. 2d. ministers themselves say, that there are to be "alterations" in that bill (by which bill they said they would stand or fall), and when they will not tell us what those alterations are to be! The slang of the day is, that it is to be a bill "quite as efficient" as the last. But here is a phrase, here are three words, about the meaning of which, as applied here, whole volumes may be written, and with a fair show of sound argument on both sides. They say, however, that there are to be "alterations;" and as they will not tell us what those are to be, we have in the first place, a right to presume that they will make the Bill less consonant with the You, who do all the bodily labour, rights and wishes of the people. This who make to come all the food, all the we have, at the very least, a clear right drink, all the clothing, all the houses, to presume; and, then, we are at perall the horses and carriages; you, with- fect liberty to guess at the intended out whose help those who do not work alterations, and to offer, before-hand, would be starved to death, or would die our objections to them. This is what I with cold; you, who are at once the am now about to do with regard to one only source of the country's wealth, and of what I believe to be the intended the only means of its security; to you 1 alterations; namely, the raising of the now address myself on the subject of sum of rent, required as a qualification the REFORM BILL, and especially on that for voting, in large towns. I believe part of it which relates to the TEN-that there will be many alterations in POUND VOTERS. Since the Bill was re- the bill, every one tending to abridge jected by the Peers, or rather by the the benefits which the people would Bishops, the disputes on the subject, have derived from the late bill; but I have chiefly turned on the intention of the ministers with regard to the next bill: first, with regard to the time of proposing it; next, with regard to the means of carrying it; but with me, the main consideration has been, the provisions of the next bill. The ministers confess, that it is not to be the same bill; The bill, which the bishops have but they say that it shall be one "quite caused to be rejected, provides, that in as efficient" though they, all the while, all cities and towns, which are in future take special care not to tell us what it is to send Members to Parliament, every to be! I, therefore, do not confide in man who pays a rent of ten pounds a them, and I am persuaded that all those year shall have a vote; and as the rents persons who have been expressing con- in great towns are high, this would give fidence in them, will find that they have votes to great numbers of persons; and been the sport of those who have, in a would, of course, give to the working very crafty manner, been urging them people some share in the choosing of on to adopt addresses containing such Members of Parliament; and this be expressions, at the moment when the lieve to be the main thing, or one of th shall at present confine myself to this one alteration; the nature and tendency of which I ought, however, clearly to explain before I proceed to show how unjust, how insolent, how foolish, and how dreadfully mischievous, such an alteration would be. G PEN |