764 people. Besides these taxes and the but where the unfortunate beings are National Guard service, there are local republicans!-the average of each taxtaxes, such as a duties payable for the payer is not twenty francs per annum, entry of wine and victuals into a town, or one-tenth of that in France! Do you which are collected at the " Octroi," in think we do not know and feel this every order to support those local expenses day and every hour? Yes, Mr. Cobbett, which are not paid by the Government you are right. "The French Debt will public." But how are the tax-payers to support this expenditure? new loans! Yes, we are to have new Why, by making loans! New loans for France! and new loans for Paris! and new loans for the Departments! But how is the interest of these loans to be paid? By the taxes! and who are to pay these taxes? Why the French people, "the working part," as Mr. Cobbett says, "which con out of the general budget. For instance," be swept away, and in all human proa commune is obliged to build a church." bability it will end in creating a reThe Government will give so much out" of the general budget, and the commune is obliged to pay the remainder; so that although it is generally said that the budget in France includes all local as well as general expenses, yet, in truth, it does no such thing: Besides this, we have now a new system, introducing to an extent most dangerous-and that is the system of making local loans to meet local wants. Then the commune is to pay this local tax and support the bur-sists of the millions;" yes, these are to den, and thus bills are every week being pay the present, and all future taxes!! introduced by the Minister of Finance, Can they do so, even if disposed? I will to enable this and that commune, and answer this question in another letter; this and that parish, to borrow money but, for the present, I will give you some for local objects. Loan-making is, of general data, and then you will judge all systems, the most easy for obtaining for yourself. No, no; the millions shall money, and the very facility with which not, will not, must not, cannot, if they they are procured are sure to end in our would, continue to support this grinding, ruin! this ruinous, this overwhelming system of oppression. Well, then, you perceive that each tax-payer, who is not a National Guard, will pay, at all events, 200 francs per annum; in most, or, at least, in a vast many communes, on account of local taxes not supported by the state, an additional 50 francs, making 250 francs per annum. That a tax-payer, who is a National Guard in a town, will have to pay, at least, a total of 450 francs; and one who is a National Guardsman in a commune, from 300 to 350 francs per annum ! This is frightful!!! It is awful!!! It is an account which would make the stoutest heart tremble, and even Baron Rothschild shudder, if he dared to contemplate it! In the canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, | where there is a fine climate, a good soil, a national government, wise laws, liberty, civilization, colleges of learning, newspapers, literature, good society, and all the delights of society; but where, alas! alas! there is no public debt, and no monarchical institutions; A workman at Lyons gains 400 francs a year! A superior workman 500 francs, a foreman 700 francs!! What! and out of the 400 is a workman to pay 200 for taxes ?-out of 500 is a workman to pay 250 for taxes?—and out of 700 is a workman to pay 250, and be a National Guardsman? It is impossible. But then, says the Baron Louis, he pays most of his taxes in an indirect manner, and so he feels it less! What stuff is this! What! does it make any matter to a workman whether he pays six sous instead of four for a bottle of wine or of cider, if he has to pay the difference in direct taxes, if his bottle costs him the lesser sum, and six sous instead of four, if he pays no direct taxes? In either case, he must go without his wine and without his cider. He must go without it, if he pays six sous, because it is too dear; and he must go without it, if it costs four sous, because he has to pay direct taxes. But worse than this! He Your obedient servant, has to pay his six sous and his direct views-he is no statesman-he is a taxes too and thus he is ruined. Do respectable merchant, and a good not, then, I pray you, join that silly herd, banker-but he knows just nothing at who cry that the affairs of Lyons are ar-all of the Revolution of July. ranged! that every-thing is terminated, and because 20,000 troops are in one city to keep the workinen from revolt, therefore, that France is satisfied, and her population kept from starving!!! The workmen will be heard-must be heard -cannot but be heard, and, as Mr. Cobbett says, "they will endure only to a "certain point, and when they will en"dure no longer, the whole fabric of the system, after rocking to and fro for a while, will come tumbling down on "the heads of its upholders.' " I do not mean to stop here! I mean to show you in subsequent letters that the manufacturing, agricultural, and la-. bouring classes cannot support the amount of taxation which at present grinds them to the dust, and that the French debt will be swept away, and in all human probability it will lead to creating a republic, unless the people be now redressed-unless the Revolution of July be now followed up-unless the people be redressed before they redress themselves-and unless France become what she intended to become when she made her FIRST REVOLUTION. O. P.Q. From the LONDON GAZETTE, NELSON, J., Rolls-building, Chancery-lane, court-road, carpenter, KING, F. B., Prince's-sq., St. George's-in-the KNIGHT, S., and J. Knight, Mold, Flintshire, LUCK, T. P., High-st., Southwark, lacemen. I have pointed out to you the CANNOT GO ON AS WE ARE DOING to this subject very often, but for the THWAITES, J., Austin-friars, commissionagent. WINRAM, J., and G. Winram, Ulverston, Lancashire, ship-builders. WRIGHT, A., and J. Woodhead, Woodroyd, WYATT, G., and H. Thompson, Portpool-la., brewer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. THE GOVERNMENT 19 MERELY POSTPONING THE EVIL DAY FOR THE STOCK. JOBBERS! It has been proposed to abolish the SINKING FUND, then to diminish its amount, and then to put it on another footing. The Government has M'EWAN, J., Crieff, cloth-merchant. urged on M. Thiers in the Commission to oppose all this. The Government wishes to postpone the catastrophe to gain time to make more loans-to add to the debt, and diminish the salt tax, just as though France could not see through this system of "robbing Peter to pay Paul." M. Perrier has no large TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1831. MARTIN, C. E., New-st., Dorset-sq., linen- REDMAN, E., Worthing, Sussex, shopkeeper. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. HERITAGE, J., Uxbridge, Middlesex, draper, 1 BANKRUPTS. oil-paint-dealer. SMITHFIELD.-December 12. ANDERSON, J. W., Bradford, Yorkshire, This day's supply of beasts was great, of small stock moderately good. The trade was throughout somewhat brisk. With beef at an advance of from 2d. to 6d. per stone; with mutton, veal and pork at Friday's quotations. Next Monday's market is to exhibit what is termed the great Christmas supply of superior beasts; but should it be no better supplied than was that of to-day, there will be no deficiency either in numbers or quality. Beasts, 3,662; sheep and lambs, 19,240; calves, 120; pigs, 150. chemist. GUNTON, J., Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, confectioner. HENFREY, W., Northampton, wine-merchant. MOLINEUX, M., Hertford, cabinet-maker. CHEAP CLOTHING!! SWAIN AND CO., Tailors, &c., 93, FLEET-STREET, (Near the new opening to St. Bride's Church,) TARLETON, R., Liverpool, hat-manufacturer. the following list of prices (for cash WELLS, J., Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. builder. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 12.-Our supplies, since this day se'nnight, of English, Scotch, Irish, and Foreign wheat, barley, and flour, as also Foreign beans, peas, linseed, and rye, good; of oats, and with above-mentioned exceptions, seeds from all quarters but limited. Gentlemen's Dress Coats of Medley l. s. d. 2120 Ditto, ditto, Best Saxony Cloth.... 3 .... 00 1 80 12 0 18 0 Figured A Plain Suit of Livery...... 180 440 Ladies' Habits and Pelisses, and every description of Clothing for young gentlemen, equally cheap. The whole made from goods of the finest quality, and the CUT and WORKMANSHIP not to be surpassed. I recommend Messrs. Swain and Co. as very good and punctual tradesmen, whom I have long employed with great WM. COBBETT. This day's market was tolerably well, but not to say numerously attended by buyers, most of whom aimed at depressed prices; but as the sellers were stiff either to an advanced or to their last Monday's currency, the trade satisfaction. was, with every kind of corn, malt, seeds, and flour, very dull, at barely last week'squotations. Indeed, an abatement of from 1s. to 2s. per quarter on the intermediate kinds of wheat "GIVE ME A CIGAR." Just Published. Price 3s. 6d. TICOTIANA; or the SMOKER'S AND and barley, was said to have been pretty NCSNUFF-TAKER'S POCKET COM PANION, containing the HISTORY OF TO- By HENRY JAMES MELLER, Esq. London: Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange. Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. VOL. 74.-No. 13.] LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 1831. TO THE READERS OF THE REGISTER. 66 [Price Is. 2d. SON's Rescript and the Archbishop of Canterbury's PRAYER. But feeling in my pocket for them, yesterday, just after quitting Oxford, in order to say them over as I was coming along, I found, alas! that I had left them in Bolt-court! By my bedside there, I suppose; but exactly where I really cannot say. To advance farther to the north without them would be inexcusable; and particularly without the Rescript Mr. HOWLEY (the Archbishop) the of "Charley." The performance of Birmingham, Dec. 20, 1831. reader will, of course, conclude I have THE reader, who will, I am sure, re- by heart; but, still, the sight is useful: collect that I, the week before last, in it awakens and arrests attention, like the pictures and images in places of an article entitled "COBBETT-CORN, worship. But the Rescript of "CharCHOLERA MORBUS, and CHARLEY ley" is so absolutely necessary, that I PEARSON," expressed my intention of cannot think of moving an inch farther going southward instead of northward, to the north without it. It is at once a will be surprised at the sight of the date HOMILY and a SANITARY VADE MECUM; it is, as SWIFT in his " Tale of a Tub' of this letter. The case is this: I had of the Will, says a thing of a Cathoentertained the idea of coming to the lic application;" that is to say, appliNorth; but, as was stated in the article cation to all purposes universally. just referred to, the march of the Cho- HERVEY (I think it was) in his "Medilera Morbus being from the north to- in the number and variety of the beau tations on a Flower-garden," was lost wards the south, my mind took a tack, ties; what must I be, then, in contemand directed my eyes towards the Isle of plating the beauties of our (I might, I Wight. This was before the new Re-hope, without offence say my) "Charform Bill was brought in. Seeing that ley's "Rescript! In the flower-garden bill; being uncommonly desirous of bewildered by the tulip, the jonquil, the our admiration would, indeed be greatly hearing the opinion of the people in the rose, the carnation, the Bromptonnorth relative to the bill, and of ex- stock, the Oleander, the Magnolia pressing to them my opinion on the Glanca, and many others; but scarcely subject, I, after much hesitation, resolv- any two of these present themselves to ed on a visit to MANCHESTER and its therefore, each becomes successively, an our eyes at one and the same time; and vicinity, in defiance of the dreadful ma- object of an undivided attention and a lady that stared me in the face. Lest, source of undivided pleasure. Not thus however, the reader should impute this is it, in the case of the Rescript for movement to daring temerity, it is due here, the lucid, eloquent, and most afto myself that I inform him, that I did fecting appeals to hearts in favour of not quit the delightfully-governed city steady habits, early hours, good hours, of London, without carrying with me sobriety, and, above all things, absti(as I thought at least) ample means of nence from ardent spirits; here, the protection against the sweeping paternal exhortations to scour our waScourge; namely, "Charley" PEAR- ter- courses, whitewash our walls, scent REFORM BILL. AFTER a debate, which begun on Friday the 16th instant, and which was continued on Saturday the 17th, the House of Commons divided, when there were 324 FOR the second reading of the bill, and 162 against it—just half. The House then adjourned till the 17th of January, 1832. I shall insert only three of the speeches made upon this occasion, and then I shall, if I have room, add a few remarks; if I have not room now, I will pay the talkers off 'n my next. our floors, change our linen, and keep our hands and faces clean, and comb our heads; here, all these lovely precepts (which by a natural concatenation of ideas, force into the mind the example of Charley himself.) present themselves to us en masse, and without our being able to describe the cause of our oppression, we feel ourselves overpowered. But if it were permitted to me, to select from amongst this constellation of beauties, one that has taken my fancy more than any other, I should not scruple to say, that is that which relates to culinary economy, and especially that part of it, which, with a sort of maternal care, cautions us against the flatulent effects of herbaceous and racinal vegetables, unqualified by a sufficiency of coction. "Well-cooked," for your life, "Charley." Thank you for that, above all the rest: I have been carrying on a fight for this all my lifetime: and cooked with meat, too, Charley!" I hope you mean cooked with meat! But I must tear myself away; and have only time to add, that I wish to God I knew" Char-moved for leave to bring in a bill, and which ley's" COOK! And will no citizen, not even one amongst the discerning, the sharp-sighted, and practically moral inhabitants of Bishopsgate Ward, tell me how I shall find out the EARTHLY MANSION of our guide, philosopher, moralist, legislator, and friend? Well, then, the devil take the whole of them together, say I ! 65 Lord JOHN RUSSELL then said, that as it was necessary that this debate should finish to-night, and that at an earlier hour than their debates generally concluded, he rose at that time to give an explanation respecting the various principles of the bill now befor the House, and those measures of reform which the Government had submitted for their consideration. But before entering upon the question-before speaking upon the merits of the bill-he thought it absolutely necessary to take notice of the charge made against the Government on the first night, when he had had since been repeatedly urged from the other side of the House. It was, that, from the excitement which prevailed throughout the country, this was a dangerous time for the discussion of any change in the constitution, and that it would have been better that this question should have been considered and sifted at a calm and tranquil period, when it could have been received with more attention, weighed with greater deliberation, and decided upon with greater safety. Now, if it was desirable that reform should be discussed For other matter. Waiting for the in a time of quiet, he was not the person who prayer and the rescript has been at- prevented that discussion. So long back as tended with this benefit; it has enabled the 15th of December, 1819, he had ventured me to ascertain that the new Reform to ask the House, when a case of notorious and indubitable corruption had been estabBill has given complete satisfaction in lished the previous session, to give two reprethis important town and its important sentatives to the town of Leeds, to improve neighbourhood. All men seem most the representation by admitting new interests anxious for an harmonious close to this and increased intelligence into seats in Parlong-continued agitation; and, if the liament. Since that time he had never ceased bringing forward measures of this nature; Lords pass the bill even now, the recent and that in times so calm, so tranquil, so free past will be soon forgotten, and the from all excitement, that there absolutely was good feelings of 60 years ago will all no desire for the change proposed. (Loud cheers.) There was no cry in the country. WM. COBBETT. (Cheers.) The people said, Let well aloneP. S. Friends in the Isle of Wight (cheers); let us make no change till it is may expect to see me before the Parlia-called for by necessity. He felt, therefore, as ment meet again. I shall, I dare say, soon be back to the south; especially if I do not get the Prayer and the Rescript. return. one of the great party with which he had acted there was any calamity, any misfortune at ever since he had entered public life, that if tending the discussion of this question and the necessity of deciding upon it in a time of ex |