the nation, occasioned by the rejection of the Reform Bill, convince this Council that it is more than ever imperative to support his Ma. jesty's Ministers in effecting the great measure by which they have pledged themselves to stand or fall.

Chronicle of to-day), the reason assigned was considered a simple declaration, not a legal opinion.

The Rev. Mr. Fox cordially concurred in the spirit of the resolutions now proposed for the sanction of the Committee, and that the "3. That if the arts of a faction should tri-objection which Mr. Rogers had made to the umph over a patriot King and his present Ministry, this Council will not listen to any illusory promises of reform that a Tory or any other Ministry may proffer to a disappointed people.

4. That if the enemies of the people should succeed in producing anarchy and confusion, this Council will devise means by which the members of the Union may effectually protect their own lives and properties, and establish the liberties of the country."

Having read the resolutions, Mr. Wakefield moved that they be adopted by the Council. This being seconded,

3d resolution was valid, and might be obviated by a few grammatical transpositions of the words. "Illusory promises of Reform " (as it originally stood) might be altered to "promises of illusory reform; "for the promise of reform might not delude, yet the reform itself might certainly be illusory. Again, the phrase "Tory Ministry" (as in the original resolution) he would alter to "Tory or any other Ministry."

After some sensible observations concerning the opinion Mr. Rogers referred to as being considered in the light of legal opinion, or a simple declaration of a public political body, without regard to the professions of the persons composing that body, from Mr. Murphy, Mr. Wakefield, Mr. Wainford, and Mr. Powel, it was unani:nously agreed, that with the emendations proposed by Mr. Fox, the resolutions should de adopted.

Mr. ROGERS took the opportunity of remarking on two or three expressions used in the laws relating to the National Political Unions. It was there said, that "during the administration of Lord Castlereagh, the liberties of the people-which had been very much abridged during the administration of Mr. WAKEFIELD hoped that these resolu Mr. Pitt-were thought to be still too great;tions would disabuse the public mind concernaud it was concluded, that the more the intelligence and consequent good conduct of the people increased, the greater was the necessity to destroy their rights aud liberties; and that an act was therefore passed with this intention, subjecting all political societies to the penalties of the Act 39th Geo. III." Now the increase of intelligence, and consequent good conduct of the people, he thought a very extraordinary reason for affording the necessity of destroying their rights and liberties, and that therefore a special act should be passed to entrench and confine them, and sub, ject them to additional penalties. Again (said Mr. Rogers) I must object to the third resolution now read, which says, that this Council will not listen to any promises of illusory reform which a Tory Ministry may proffer to the people. Now I am willing to receive good political or moral reform in any shape from any source. I would not bind myself to any men or Ministry. Measures, not men, is, or should be our motto.

ing the stigmas endeavoured to be cast upon the Political Unions-that they endeavoured to coerce public opinion by animal or numerical power, rather than by moral force. They would put this society in particular, right in public opinion, and rectify the mistaken views in which it had been endeavoured to be placed before the public eye. It wished to act from reason rather than compulsion-it wished to induce and invite all classes, of every denomi nation and rauk, having moral influence and integrity, to join their standard, and enlist themselves as compatriots under their banners, so as to form a congregated body, so compact and condensed by intelligent union, that they would be unassailable alike either by friends or foes-that they would afford no grounds of cavilling to the sophist, and no basis of hesitation to any class of persons seeking political power as the basis of moral influence and proper elevation of rank in society to join their Union. The Committee felt it their duty to declare that the basis of their Union was political concord, as well as determination to obtain the ends for which their Unions had ostensibly been established. He then moved that the resolutions formerly sanctioned should be printed.

Mr. PLACE Contended that the opinion given of the increase of mental and moral character, as objected to by Mr. Rogers, was not the opinion legally given of the professional men who formed part of the Sub committee, but that it was the opinion expressed in Parliament Mr. MURPHY very ably contended for the during the discussion of the Act alluded to; same, and was happy to second the motion on because, as it was then asserted, that the peo- the present opportunity, from the peculiar ple had got increased intelligence-that is, necessity now afforded by the wavering aspects political knowledge, discretion, or (if preferred) | of the political world. The prejudice against cunning, whereby they could evade any Act which had previously passed; the intelligence had been presumed, and the Act accordingly passed. But in the laws relating to the Po litical Unions (which he acknowledged he had been instrumental in getting inserted in the

these Unions existed unwarrantably, because unreasonably. The Unions should persevere determinately, through evil report as well as good. The mass of the people should not trust to any extraneous or adventitious power: they should act co-ordinately and united-trust to

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municate that knowledge to my readers, deal of pain. I have found it painful know it to be my bounden duty to (and it is a nasty, gnawing, villanous do it. pain!) to stand for an hour or two at a time; and this sometimes annoyed me exceedingly during my lecturing expeditions.

t Twenty-two years ago, I, being out a shooting, jumped from a bank, full ten feet high, into the field below, and thereby produced, by the violence of the When I expected the WHIG-TRIAL shock, something that gave me very to come on, in May last, (Oh! the great pain, but of the nature of which manifold blessings of that trial!), the I knew nothing. I came to London only thing that gave me uneasiness was, and applied to the late Mr. CHEVALIER, the fear that I should not be able to the surgeon, who directed me to get a stand for three or four hours, to lay the truss, which I did And here I gladlylash on well upon Denman and his masstop to acknowledge the only good I, ters, I having at that time one of my and, I believe, any other human crea-periodical coughs. In order to get rid ture, ever received at the hands of Old of this fear, which harassed me conDaddy Burdett. Having told him tinually, I resolved, about a week before what had brought me to town, "Well," the expected trial, to go to Bolt-court, said he, “when you have put a truss and never to quit it again, till I had on, never leave it off on the belief found out some one to furnish me with “that you no longer want it ; a pre-a truss which should be efficient for its cept which he made effectual by relating purpose, even in these seasons: of to me the cause of the sudden and pre- coughing. As I was going I amused mature death of Francis, Duke of Bed-myself in reading Mr. CARPENTER'S ford, who, thinking his rupture gone POLITICAL LETTER, for the publication for ever, threw aside; but, in playing of which the WHIGS have him now in at Fives, a sudden twist of his body the King's Bench, and from which brought on the complaint again, and, they did not think (forgetful, kind sending for a surgeon to London, in-souls!) of releasing him at the coronastead of calling in him of the village, tion, as all crown debtors were at the a mortification took place, and he former coronation. In this paper I read slept with his fathers in a few hours. the advertisement of Mr. COLES, Many times, especially in hot weather, Truss-maker, of Charing-Cross; and I have, by this advice, and especially by the illustration, of Daddy Burdett, been prevented from risking the fate of the Duke of Bedford!

as I had tried seven or eight before, I at once sent for Mr. COLES; and the result has been that my complaint is, as completely removed as if I had never My complaint has been of very little known of any-thing of the kind; and consequence to me, except at particular could I have forgotten the precept of times. I have ridden on horseback, the venerable DADDY BURDETT, and and done every-thing that I should have more especially the fate of the Duke of done, if nothing at all had ailed me. Bedford, I should have thrown away But coughing is very untoward in such the truss months ago. Oh! how re-. a case; and I have at times, especially joiced was I when I felt that I should in November and April, a constitutional | be able to stand at my case for the hours and hereditary cough, which I have had that I destined for the belabouring of in every year that I can remember of my the Whigs! I could not (if I had had life, and which is always more violent and of longer duration in London than any where else. It is not a cough of the lungs, but merely of the throat; but it causesa violent shaking of the whole of the body, and at these times I have always, until May last, experienced considerable inconvenience, and occasionally a great

a cough), without the aid of Mr. Coles, have given them the four hours and a half, which were worth more to them (if they turn them to good account) than all the rest of their lives.

I should have mentioned this matter before, but my April cough was nearly gone before Mr. Coles had done the

truss; and I was not visited with an-
other till late in September; and I
wanted this fair trial before I spoke of
the matter. I have now had the trial;
and it would be a very shameful neglect
of my
"duty towards my neighbour,"
for me not to tell the public that I
find the remedy perfect; and that I can
now scarcely perceive, whether with a
cough or without a cough, the smallest
signs of my ever having had such a
complaint. But am I not here, in doing
bare justice to Mr. Coles, doing him an

injury, by driving from his shop the SIR THOMAS DENMAN, KNIGHT,

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

Kensington, 17th November, 1831.

Batel;" but before I go further, suffer me to congratulate you, not only on the magnitude, but on the extension of your fame, which, by means of your and my trial, has by this time reached every part of the United States of America, the report of the trial having been republished at New York, in the month of September, and copies of it having been received in London in the month of October. I would send you a copy, only the preface may be libellous; for though written and published in New York, it would be a crime to publish it here; and, you know, to send a book, or show a book, to a man is to publish

tax and tithe-eaters, who will have a "prejudice" (that is, a villany) against him for the good he has done to me? No; hang it; they like their worthless SIR, lives too well for that. However, my MORE fires, notwithstanding the spesensible readers, pay you (if you should cial commissions, and notwithstanding need it) attention to what I have said; I remain an unlecturing individual in and let the tithe and tax-eaters creep this hellish wen instead of being engag along through life with all the twitched in talking to " a good many peppel at ings and achings of this harassing complaint, and under all the pains and penalties inflicted on them by the awkward, heavy, cumbrous and still inefficient things which bungling mechanics put round their bodies. One thing bear in mind; and that is, that this is a matter with which surgeons and physicians have nothing to do, any more than they have with the providing us with suitable shoes or coats. As Mr. CHEVALIER told me, the complaint is truly mechanical; and the application of the remedy must depend on the mechanic solely, just as much as the fitting of a coat must depend on the tailor. Here, however, more cleverness is required; the me-it. chanic must be able to judge well as to the degree of force required; and he must have great ability in causing the pressure to bear in a proper manner. The moment I heard Mr. Coles speak upon the subject, I was sure he was the man: his observations showed a knowledge of his business; and the result has most amply verified my opinion. I never saw Mr. Coles before, and I have never seen him since, except to call and thank him. What I have said of him here is but justice, which I do with very great pleasure, while, as to the rest, I am only discharging a duty to the pub

The editor of the edition does not,

indeed, speak of you in very flattering terms; and nothing short of positive praise is free from the charge of libel, if it name any man who has the power to prosecute, and who chooses to exercise that power. If I belaboured the Whigs, the American writers belabour them still more, there being no one epithet descriptive of insincerity and injustice which they do not apply to that faction; and there, where men speak their minds freely, there seems to be no doubt with any man, that of the two factions, the Tories are the least bad.

Having despatched this matter, let me

now come to the fires that are blazing all over the country. There have been within this month, not less than seventeen in Wiltshire, though the London papers are as silent upon the subject as if they were listening to a sermon. At last the Morning Chronicle seems to have been ashamed to hold its peace any longer; and in an article contained in that paper of this day, there is a list of the blazes. When I have inserted this list, I have an observation or two to add, with regard to the cause and the remedy.

been estimated at from 300l. to 400%. No doubt it was the work of an incendiary.

had extended itself to the adjoining wheat stack, but the water from the engine being there. The old hay-stack had a very remarkdirected to that part, the fire was extinguished able appearance; the fire, no doubt, communicated to it at an early period, and the whole of the interior was gradually consumed, while prevented the fire from being seen, except in a mere shell of hay, being wet on the outside, some few spots where the glowing embers shone through. As there appeared at one time symptoms of the wind rising, it was deemed expedient to send for another engine from Boston, which arrived between eleven and twelve. Many of the labourers looked on with the utmost apathy, and never offered to lend their aid, while others exerted themselves to the utmost. An immoderate quantity of ale, distributed on the spot, did infinite mischief, Between eight and nine o'clock, on Wed- and we have heard that some quarrels and nesday evening last, many persons were fighting ensued about four o'clock in the alarmed in Boston by the cry of "Fire! morning. The engines kept the fire under, which was shouted by a man who was on the flames gradually died away, and at two horseback, and who galloped towards the o'clock the fire presented a scene of red ashes, church for the fire-engines. Upon inquiry, which cooled during the morning, and on we learned that the fire was upon Mr. Samuel Thursday the fire was totally extinguished.. Everard's farm, at Hubbert's Bridge, in the We understand that Mr. Everard had reduced parish of Brothertoft, and nearly five miles the wages of his labourers, which had excited from Boston. The flames were distinctly considerable dissatisfaction. He now resides visible at Boston, and illuminated the horizon. at Gosberton, but was at Stamford on WedGreat numbers of persons left this town for nesday; he arrived at the fire between eleven the spot; upon arriving there at half-past ten and twelve o'clock, in a state of natural agio'clock, we found an immense mass of fire-tation. He was insured. The damage has the substance then consuming having originally formed a wheat-stack, most of which had fallen upon the bank of the drain adjoining the farm-yard, and was there smoking and smouldering to ashes. Fortunately the evening was quite serene; for, had there been any wind, a number of other stacks in the yard must have fallen a prey to the devouring flames. Besides the Bostonians, a number of persons had assembled from the surrounding cottages, and most of the respectable farmers of Swineshead and the vicinity were present. C. K. Tunnard, Esq., a magistrate of the division, attended, and exerted himself in the due On Wednesday evening, the 2d instant, direction of the proper means for subduing about six o'clock, a fire broke out in the stackthe flames. At one time more than one thou-yard belonging to Mrs. Mitchinson, a poor sand persons were on the spot, including, we regret to say, many whose motives appeared to be any-thing but honest. Some were drawn thither by idle curiosity, and who contented themselves with being silent spectators of the scene ; while others, actuated by a more worthy motive, exerted themselves in suppressing the fire. We learned that the fire was first discovered between seven and eight o'clock; it commenced in a wheat-stack, which formed the first of a line of corn-stacks, and adjoining which, on one side, was a stack of fine old hay. Besides this property, On Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, a a large barn and a farm-house were put in fire, no doubt the act of an incendiary, was jeopardy. The early discovery of the fire, and observed on the land of Mr. Abraham Culy, the prompt attendance of an engine from Guyhim, in the parish of Wisbech St. Mary, Boston, prevented the flames spreading far which consumed a straw-stack, and the princibeyond the place where the stacks were ori-pal part of a threshing-machine belonging, to ginally iguited; at one time, indeed, the fire an industrious man named Burrows. The

On Wednesday evening a fire broke out, about seven o'clock, in a large barn, close to the Mansfield turnpike-road, and beyond Daybrook; the flames raged furiously, and by half past eight o'clock the roof fell in, above one hundred quarters of corn, the property of Mrs. Frignall, being burnt. The building was formerly a part of the premises of Messrs. Davison and Hawksley of Arnold Mill. There is every reason to suspect that the fire was not accidental.

widow-woman, at Haceby, near Falkingham, which consumed a straw-stack, and a large stack of oats, containing about sixty quarters. Much praise is due to the tradesmen and labourers of Oshouruby, who were indefatigable in their exertions, and who did not quit the scene until about two o'clock on Thursday morning, by which time they had succeeded in totally extinguishing the fire. It is not doubted that the conflagration was occasioned by an incendiary. Unhappily, the property was not insured.