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their enemies get into Parliament, when that which friendship will not grant enmity probably may!

Here the case stops at present; but here it cannot stop long. The people will continue to petition. New petitions will come, and those who have already petitioned, will petition again. Every petition gives the thing a stir up; and, at last, we shall get justice. If justice acquit the magistrates, if justice declare Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE culpable and the BARINGS and LONG innocent, then we shall be satisfied; then we shall not think ourselves in jeopardy;

then we shall know that an innocent woman

Leeds, that MACAULAY, who is now the Lansdown man for the rotten borough of CALNE. This is the real truth of the matter. Mr. MANN and Mr. FOSTER seem to have got our LIAR to Leeds as the means of humbling Baines and the Brougham faction; and Baines was, it appears, fool enough to go and try his strength against him on the spot. How Foster and Mann and all the real reformers must have laughed, to see has not been handcuffed and jolted in a cart the GREAT LIAR of the North and and crammed into a jail; and then we shall THE LIAR of the South, meet in direct have the satisfaction to know that BECKETT and deadly conflict! I saw our Liar's did not call BARNES out of the dock to LONG, approach towards Leeds, and talking who was a grand-juryman at the same time; but unless there be a committee, unless with a Yorkshire man about the means the honourable friends of the BARINGS will that Baines was preparing to meet grant them a committee to prove their inno- him, I said: "I'll bet you 100 to one cence, while the other parties are praying for "the LIAR of the South beats the it too, it would be to proclaim ourselves to the world as brute beasts, to entertain any doubt "LIAR of the North, though the latter at all upon the matter, or to act upon any other" takes, and not unjustly, the surname ground than that of the allegations as they lie" of GREAT." The Yorkshire man, before us.

I am, my Friends and Countrymen,
Your faithful and most obedient servant,
WM. COBBETT.

COBBETT - CORN.

knowing the capacity of our LIAR, dared not take my bet, If Baines had been man enough to use the point of his shoe, or a horse-whip, he would have triumphed in an instant; but when it was a matter of mere HARD LYING, he was sure to be defeated; for at that our Southern fellow would beat the Devil himself. BAINES did, it seems, take him by the collar, upon which the hero retreated into another room, with a window to speak from, and fastened himself in! It was the shoe, or a horse

I HAVE received corn, ground by fourteen persons near GREAT GRIMSBY, in Lincolnshire, and some very very fine corn, ground at MORPETH, in Northumberland. I wish that a gentleman, who has a crop at PEVENSY, in Sussex, would send me four or five of his ears of corn: I shall then have some grown at PAIS-whip, that was wanted. How FOSTER LEY, and some 450 miles to the north of PEVENSY.

TO DOCTOR BLACK.
Bolt-court, November 11, 1831.

DEAR DOCTOR,

and MANN, each of whom has as much sense in his little-finger as the LIAR has in his whole carcase, must have trembled for the success of the frolic, when they saw the brazen thing “ turn pale" and retreat! But, Doctor, are you so little informed as to imagine that the working people of Leeds do not read the I PERCEIVE the great alarm you are in debates in Parliament; and that they at what you call the success of THE do not know all about our LIAR? LIAR, in the great towns, especially at They know well all about him; they LEEDS, and I hasten to comfort you. know about his self-denying oath, taken What was his triumph? It was none before the Lord Mayor, and about his at all it was the triumph of Mr. Fos- getting a contract from the Wellington TER of the Patriot, over the BAINES of Ministry after that; they know about the Mercury, which Baines is the "great his pulling down the tricoloured flag at Liar of the North," and which Baines the Rotunda, and about his frequent is Brougham's man, and is now work-visits to Peel at the Home Office at the “ ing to impose upon the fine town of same time; they know what a horribly

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ignorant thing it is; but they also know that it was the devil of BAINES and MACAULAY; and, therefore, Mr. MANN (who remembers the dungeons of Sidmouth) went off to fetch the great bulky brazen thing to Leeds. A gentleman who saw this fellow at the Westminster election of 1818, haranguing a crowd from a window, heard the harangue crowned with a hurra! hurra! hurra! and heard a fat butcher, who was turning round and putting on his hat, exclaim, "What a damned fool it is!"

Be assured, Doctor, that such is the case in all the towns whither OUR LIAR has gone: he is the raw-head and bloody-bones wherewith to frighten the crafty knaves who think to cheat the people quietly out of all share in the representation: he is not the deluder of the people, but their tool. At last, some man will kick him, or horsewhip him; and then he will be of no further use. His LIE about the CORN shows "what a fool it is," as the huzzaing butcher said. The very earth now gives him the lie. But, Doctor, while you call this fool-liar 66 a friend," I do not hear a word from you about the fiend-like conduct of the London press, and of Burdett's crew, towards Mr. WAKLEY, whose conduct has been so perfectly. unexceptionable and meritorious! You think that the people in the North are ignorant, because they do not read the London newspapers. If they were to believe these newspapers, what base injustice would they do to Mr. WARLEY! And what a villain should I be in their eyes, if they did not despise those newspapers!

WM. COBBETT. P.S. The BLOODY OLD TIMES has had the infamy to-day to lump Mr. WAKLEY with the LIAR, to say, that the former as well as the latter are instigated by the boroughmongers. This very thing of lumping up with the LIAR this bloody paper did, for a long time, with regard to me and yet Doctor Black is so unhappy lest the people of Leeds should not get London newpapers to read!

From the LONDON GAZETTE,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1831.

INSOLVENTS.

BEAUCHAMP, R., Holborn, silversmith.
LEE, A., Regent's- Quadrant, music-seller.
PATERSON, J.,Tonbridge, Kent, coal- merch.
WATSON, H., Regent-street, printseller.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

HALL, W., T. S. Hall, and W. J. Hall,
Crosby-square, packers.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

SHAW, W., Aston, Staffordsh., china-manuf.

BANKRUPTS.

CLARKSON, B., Selby, Yorkshire, banker.
CANNINGS, W., Bath, cabinet-maker.
EVANS, M., Penmaen Colliery, Monmouth-
shire, coal-merchant.

money-scrivener.

FIELD, D., Garford, Berkshire, mealman.
GATES, T., White Hart-court, Lombard-st.,
HERITAGE, J., Uxbridge, draper.
MANSFIELD, T., and J. Hackney, Cobridge,
Staffordshire, earthenware-manufacturers.
PHILLIPS, J., jun., Great Newport-street,
MELDRUM, D. Bath, haberdasher.
Newport-market, china-dealer.
SCHOLFIELD, J., and J. Cleugh, Selby,
Yorkshire, bankers.

SHIRLEY, T., New Bridge-st., Blackfriars,
wine-merchant.

STEPHEN, J., Great St. Helen's, wine-merch.
TAYLOR, W. W., Marybonne-lane, wine.

merchant.

WHAYMAN, R., West Smithfield, victualler.
VICKERY, W.,Brereton, Cheshire, innkeeper.
WHITWORTH, W., Manchester, and N.
Whitworth, Drogheda, corn factors.
WILLS, E. P., Chichester, tailor.
WOOD, H., Jermyn-street, upholsterer.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1831.
INSOLVENTS.

BANNER, H. and F. G., Cripplegate-build-
ings, plumbers.
FAYRER, R. J., London, mariner.
WRIGHT, A., London, merchant.
BANKRUPTS.

ANDREW, T., Harpenden, Hertfords., baker.
BILLOWS, G. B., Poole, ironmonger.
CLUGSTON, A., and C. P. Chapman, Paul's-
wharf, Thames-street, merchants.
EASTWOOD,W.Waterloo-road, linen-draper.
GOLDING, J., Manchester, draper.
GREEN, C., Cheltenham, Glostersh., cooper.
HARVEY, W., and T. Grice, Holloway,

builders.

HAWKINS, T. B., Stafford, plumber.
HUNT, J., Bath, grocer.
HIRST, J., Leeds, corn-factor.

HUXSTEP,S.,Thannington, Kent, pig-dealer.
JONES, J., Bushey, Hertfords.,silk-throwster.

TREASURE, J., Monythusloyne, Monmouth-good. The trade was, throughout rather dull.
shire, shop-keeper.
With beef, veal, and pork, at Friday's quota-
WRIGHT, G., Woodhouse, Yorkshire, stone- tious; with mutton at a depression of 2d.

mason.

LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 7.-Our Supplies, since this day se'nuight, of English wheat, barley, malt, and beans, as also English and foreign peas, and Irish oats and flour, have been moderately good; of English flour, great; of foreign wheat, Irish, Scotch and foreign barley, and seeds from all quarters, but limited; of foreign oats, or rye, from any quarter, none.

per stone. Beasts, 3,249; sheep and lambs, 18,450; calves, 153; pigs, 180.

MARK-LANE.-Friday, Nov. 11. The arrivals this week are fair. The prices remain the same as on Monday,

3 per Cent.
Cons. Aun.

THE FUNDS.

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In the early part of this day's market, trade threatened to be dull; but the holders of foreign corn, particularly of wheat, the duty on which is now 26s. 8d. per quarter,-seeming determined to hold for an anticipated ad- THE WHOLE LAW OF DEBTOR AND vance, and consequent decline in duty; and CREDITOR FOR FIVE SHILLINGS! the assemblage of buyers becoming numerous, good wheat and barley ultimately began to go off somewhat briskly; oats, beans, malt, flour, and grey peas, steadily at but little variation, if any, from last Monday's quotations. Boiling peas looked a little upwards. Hemp seed has fallen from 57. to 41. per last; and linseed sold tardily, at last week's prices. The tations of most other seeds are nominal. It was, indeed, supposed that, to effect sales of them, a considerable abatement must have

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FAMILIAR COMPENDIUM of the
LAW of DEBTOR and CREDITOR:

comprising the whole of the Bankrupt.Laws,
with the alterations and amendments recently
enacted by the legislature: the whole of the
Consolidated laws, as now in operation, relat-
ing to insolvent dehters, with forms, &c.
Arrangements between Debtor and Creditor,
including compositions and deeds of trust;
the Law of Arrest on Mesne Process; the
Law relating to Property intrusted to Factors
or Agents; the recent Act confirming the
Statute of Limitations and regulating the
Law concerning representations of character,
and LORD BŘOÚGHAM'S NEW BANK-
RUPTCY CONTRACT.

By JOHN H. BRADY, Author of "Plain Instructions to Executors," &c.

London: Effingham Wilson, No, 88, Royal Exchange.

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Waterford..94s. to 98s.
Dublin ....95s. to -s.

Cheese, Cheshire....60s. to 80s.
Gloucester, Double.. 56s. to 63s.
Gloucester, Single...48s. to 54s.
Edam .......46s. to 50s.
Gouda ...... 44s. to 48s.

Hams, Irish................ 42s. to 54s.

SMITHFIELD-November 7. This day's supply of beasts was rather great: of sheep, fat calves, and porkers, moderately

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TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT. TOBIN (from MEULEY and Co.'s, friends and the public that he has opened the premises, 174, Fleet-street, in the above business.

E. T. begs to assure those gentlemen whose object is economy and fashion, that he intends to make every article of dress from the best materials, and cut by the most approved scientific principles, on the following terms: £ s. d. Black or Blue Coat 350 Black Hunting Frock, lined with silk 3 3 0 Silk Waistcoat, best quality. Best Trowsers.. Suit of Livery..

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VOL. 74. No. 8.] LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1831.

LETTER II.

TO LORD GREY,

[Price is. 2d

which has been a very honest and zealous supporter of your Lordship and of the Reform Bill, has, until of late, spoken very confidently, not only of your intention to cause the bill to be carried, but of your power to give effect to that intention. Of all the fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen millions of his Majesty's European subjects, there is not one who is more completely a stranger to all the persons belonging to the Government, to all persons having any connexion or acquaintanceship with persons belonging to the Government; to all members of Parliament of both Houses; in short, who is more completely shut out; vo

On his present difficulties, on the causes of them, and on the means of extricat-luntarily, certainly; but who is more ing himself from them.

MY LORD,

Kensington, 16th November, 1831.

IN my last letter (Register, 12th instant), I addressed your Lordship on Lord BROUGHAM'S "readiness to reconsider" the matter of the ten-pound suffrage; and warned you against any and every proposition for altering the suffrage in the large towns, in any way whatever, so as to lessen the number of voters in those towns. Fully confirmed in the correctness of my opinions on that important subject, I now, supposing you not to be without some anxiety for the duration of your power, address you on the subject, stated at the head of this letter.

completely cut off from all means of information, direct or indirect, relative to matters of state and of public policy, than I am. I absolutely know nothing but that which I see in print, relative to such matters; and, as to that, I am compelled to make up my opinion, not upon the statements I read, but upon the indications which I think them to convey. These indications have, within a few days, been of a character to leave no doubt at all in my mind, that the obstacle to the carrying of the Reform Bill, which obstacle I have seen from the very beginning, is now about to be made apparent to every-body.

The editor of the Morning Chronicle has direct communication with one or more of your Lordship's colleagues; he Every-body sees that you are in a state is not always right, and with regard to of great difficulty; but I have yet seen his abstract notions about the causes of no publication, in which the real causes the nation's distress, he is, like all other of your difficulties are frankly stated. I Scotchmen, always wrong; but long will presently state them with perfect observation on his conduct; long attenfrankness, and thereby prepare my tion, or, at any rate, perusal of his readers, at any rate, for what may pro- paper, which is worth more than all the bably be the ultimate consequences of other daily papers put together, has those difficulties... But I am convinced me that he is perfectly sincere interrupted by the arrival of the MORN-in his wishes for parliamentary reform, ING CHRONICLE, which will spare me and that he would not, if he knew it, the trouble of describing the difficulties mistake any fact of public importance. themselves, which description is, how- With this preface, I will insert his article ever, necessary, as a prelude to that of Monday last, and then his article of which is to follow. This newspaper, this day.

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"A variety of reports of a change of "Ministry were yesterday circulated. They must be bold men indeed, whọ, on the resignation of Earl GREY, because he is not allowed the means of carrying an efficient reform, would " think of taking office. The resigna"tion of Earl GREY would be a signal "to the country of the triumph of the oligarchy; and if the people acqui"esced in the indignity offered to them, "they would thereby prove themselves "vile sordid slaves, and the very name "of Englishman would stink in the nos"trils of the nations.

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"Were the people to see any display " of power by the present Ministers, "they might indulge in some hopes of "their ability to carry the measure of reform. But they cannot shut their eyes to the circumstances that Minis"ters are without power. The Tories are everywhere in the strong-holds of "the country-they are everywhere the "delegates of the Royal authority, and "the Government may be said to be in "their hands. The removal of Earl "Howe and Sir BYAM MARTIN are too. 66 trifling to be taken into account. The "conclusion at which the people have "arrived is, that Ministers have not the 66 power to do that which would enable "them to be of any use to the country that they have been retained till "it suits the oligarchy to throw off" "the mask. We do not believe the "Ministers possess the power of 66 carrying reform, and it is of im- spair. We cannot believe that HIS portance that the people should no "MAJESTY would expose the people longer remain under the delusion that "of this country to the calamity of "they can carry it. He that is fore- witnessing itself deceived in its fond"warned is fore-armed. Believing, "est hopes. HIS MAJESTY ́ must "from a variety of circumstances, that" surely have believed reform indispen"the Reform Bill will be rejected a "sable, or he would not have be"second time, what will then be the "stowed his confidence on a Ministry "state of the country? We agree with "formed on the principle of reform. "the Scotsman, that the object of the "But whose wishes the end must wish "selfish faction of anti-reformers, is "the means. To propose reform, and 866 to make the Empire one universal "yet refuse to consent to the means for "scene of turbulence and desolation." effecting it, would be a mere mockery "The fearful scenes just acted in" of the nation.

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"Bristol are an image of what we However, it is time that the nation "shall by-and-by witness in every "should know who interposes the obsta "corner of the three kingdoms, if more "cles to the passing of reform. If his "'effectual means are not provided in "MAJESTY is an anti-reformer, and "time to preserve the public peace.'" prefers the welfare of the borough"In fact, the rejection of the Reform" mongers to the welfare of the nation, "Bill, as was to have been expected, "LET IT BE KNOWN. The time "has led to a want of confidence in the" has arrived when there should be no "manufacturing districts, and conse-" longer any mystery or mystification on "quently to the dismissal of a number" the subject. "of workmen. This process has been

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This was a pretty good breaking of the ice. The word "Oligarchy" only

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