to express disrespect; but before I speak | slightest disrespect to Lord Durhamof him, let me first read you a short bit but quite the contrary. It is such lanof an excellent letter I received this guage as befits us to speak, and him to morning, from Mr. Wallace, the patrio- hear, “if he have ears to hear, let him tic member for Greenock. I know it will hear." please you, for it is a perfect godsend in its way! (Read, and laughter. Mr. D. then read as follows:) "You will allow MR. ATTWOOD'S LETTER. I have set a good example, and have (To the Editor of the Newcastle Press.) taken the bull of long parliaments by Whickham, 24. Oct., 1833. the horns; every voter, at any rate every DEAR SIR,-Before this reaches you, constituency may now have annual par- you will have become acquainted with liaments, or satisfactory servants, which the more public part of those transaclatter is my sole aim, being as much op- tions of yesterday, in Gateshead, in posed to annual parliaments, as I am in which I had the honour and the happifavour of triennial. I am the FIRST ness to bear a part. You are aware MAN who has fairly and premeditatedly already, that, upon that day, it had laid down his trust, and been re-elected been fixed by an intriguing, but most instantly by the unanimous voice of a despicable faction, now called the RUMP large, well-educated, and clear-sighted of Gateshead, to give, in the name of constituency." (Great applause, and the people of that public-spirited, but cries of Bravo!). I knew it would please insulted borough, a public dinner to the you, and now I turn to Mr. Rippon; Earl of Durham. You are aware, and before I say one word more of this besides, for you have yourself most ably gentleman, permit me (for it is due from and efficiently contributed to its exposure me to him), to declare most distinctly and defeat-that the object and contemand unequivocally, that I approve of his plated result of this arrangement, was general conduct as our representative. nothing else than to create, at a disHe has conducted himself as he ought tance, and throughout the kingdom, through the entire session of Parliament; where the secret trickery, and machinabut in my opinion, he ought before this, tions by which such things are brought to have met his constituents, and given about could scarcely be expected to be an account of his stewardship. (Loud understood, an impression of the incheers). Why, brother electors, why fluence and popularity of Whiggery, was Gateshead not in the place of and of the Earl of Durham as prime Greenock? Why was not Cuthbert Rip-Whig leader in the north of England, pon the first man to give an account of and of the comparative weakness in his trust, and throw himself on his con- public favour, of those principles of stituents, instead of Robert Wallace. honest, efficient, and genuine, or in other Why, fellow electors, why did he not words, of radical reform, to which you meet us, not under the roof of a Metho- and I, sir, are devoted to the advocacy, dist chapel, at the hypocritical price of a and the ascendency of which is, indeed, guinea; but here: as we meet; as the very boast and glory of the north. freemen ought to meet; with the soil You know, too, sir, that it could be of our own England beneath our feet, only under favour of the very equivocal and the heavens above our heads. (Im-aspect of Lord Durham's present polimense cheering). And now, gentlemen, tics, in so far as the people understand turn we again to my Lord Durham; I them, as being thought by them to am nearly exhausted, and the few words verge, at least, towards Radicalism I have to say must be given to him. you are aware that it could be only Whatever may be the creed of my Lord under favour of this impression, of Durham, be he Whig, or be he Tory, it which the confiding generosity of the is for us to do our duty. The resolution people renders them but too tenacious, I have now to propose is temperately so long as politicians have the prudence but firmly worded-it conveys not the to be silent, or, till unwished-for cir cumstances put them to the test; you circumstances of my exclusion, as known are aware, I say, that it could only be to you before, and dwelt on in your last under favour of such circumstances that week's paper, from all participation in such a ruse could have been thought of, this packed and hole-and-corner juggle; and you will join me in exulting, that I that have the honour, I may proudly through the sense and virtue of the say, to be one of the principal organs people, it has utterly and shamefully of Radicalism in the north of England, miscarried. In short, the very soul and and when I add to this what neither you essence of the scheme was this-my nor the public had previously obtained Lord of Durham being still hoped and the knowledge of,-that my exclusion believed by the people of this district was the result of rump-discussion, and to be somewhat of a Radical, chiefly, a vote, and that Mr. Doubleday was also as I think, because he has not said similarly excluded (surely to his honour) much to the contrary, it was hoped to from this mean affair. No doubt can smuggle him into, and through this possibly remain that it became the true dinner, under that thin and flimsy cloak Reformers to look well about them, and of imputed righteousness, with the eclat to crush these eggs of the cockatrice of of an apparent popular reception. The Whiggery, thus impudently sought subsequent Whig version, or construc- to be deposited within the very nest of tion of the text, would have been an radicalism. easy matter. However, sir, the men of Gateshead are not so easily imposed on. They are not ignorant how possible it is to cover two faces under one hood, particularly under the hood of a politician; nor do they need be told, on the authority of Hudibras, how readily they can adapt themselves to the nature of whatever element it may be, alternately, their cue to live in, "As some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water." A public meeting, sir, was therefore called, for the purpose of addressing his lordship on the occasion of his visit, with cordiality and compliment, but at the same time, with a plain expression of the true opinions of the people of Gateshead and its neighbourhood, upon the working of the late so-called reform. Now, sir, I come to the yet unpublished part of this transaction, of which it is my duty, from the official part I took in them, to render an account unto the men of Gateshead, who will, I know, considering the interest you take in it, be satisfied that I should do so, through the medium of this public letter to yourself. They did, therefore, resolve, without intending, and as I affirm without having offered any insult, unkindness, or incivility to his lordship, in the least degree, to take, as was their right and Upon the evening of Monday, the 21. duty, the occasion of this visit, before instant, a preliminary meeting of about bestowing their acclamations on his sixty persons had been held, in Gatespublic character, to ascertain unques- head, at which meeting an address was tionably what that character might be, agreed upon, as the one which should or in what character he was brought be offered to the general meeting; and there to claim them. In short, sir, as Mr. Doubleday was solicited to prepare he was to be served up to them at a a set of resolutions in conformity to public dinner, they were resolved to that address; which documents were know whether he were flesh, fish, or those adopted at such general meeting, fowl. I say, sir, that they would have and which your press, sir, and not yours been justified, and that it would have alone, will put, I trust, on lasting record, been their duty to have acted thus, to the service of a noble cause, and lastunder even far less dubious and sus-ing shame of a most base one. picious circumstances than those at- The same preliminary meeting, sir, tendant on the progress of this dinner instructed me to communicate to the clap-trap. But when you refer to the Earl of Durham the intentions of the people; and I did so, in the following | several persons came confusedly about letter, which I transmit to you, together me, one of whom, I think, was Mr. with his lordship's answer, to be inserted Hedworth Lambton, who, with a degree after it. Whickham, near Gateshead, of something like agitation, but at the same time in a manner and with tones both him and them to accept my willof genuine courtesy, for which I beg MY LORD,-I am requested, by a preliminary meeting of inhabitants of Gateshead, to inform your lordship that it is their intentioning thanks, represented to me the unto hold a public meeting to-morrow, the 23. suitableness of the occasion. "Consider inst., at two o'clock, at the entrance into the time, Mr. Attwood, consider the Gateshead from the south, for the purpose of passing an address to your lordship, in which time," were expressions which I heard it is intended to combine with the cordial con-around me from several voices, in tones gratulation of the meeting, on the occasion of which I assure the utterers I found it a your visit to the borough, a statement of the painful, though a needful duty, not to true opinions of the people on the "working" be persuaded by. of the late reform in Parliament. I am further to inform your lordship, that it is intended, by the meeting, to await your coming, and to depute myself, as chairman, to present to your lordship the address which shall be adopted and read at their head. I have the honour to be, with great respect, your lordship's most obedient servant, To the Right Hon. the Earl of Lambton Castle, SIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of your intended pro ceedings in Gateshead to-morrow, and am, sir, Your obedient servant, C. Attwood, Esq. DURHAM. I In the midst of this confusion, however, up came his lordship, with the inquiry, "Oh; are you Mr. Attwood?" was replying yes, and beginning to state the object of my mission, when his lordship interrupted me with an "address of his own, which I must call a lecture, uttered in very rapid, and at first severe and angry tones; these, however, softened as he went along, under the influence, perhaps, of what I certainly intended as a deprecating, not to say imploring look; before the meek submission of whose mute appeal, as the eyes of the simple Radical once caught those of this angry lord, I fancied that I saw the sternness of his lordship's looks materially relent. Must After the holding of the general meet- it not have been most fortunate, sir, it ing, I waited, with the people, for his was so, before their gorgon terrors had lordship's coming, and presented my-literally congealed me to a stone! self, with as good and courtly a grace as The substance of his lordship's I am master of, hat in one hand, and speech, as near as I am able to repeat address in the other, at his lordship's it, was as follows:-"Then, sir, I must carriage. He did not, or he would not, see me; and he passed into the inn, up stairs. I followed him, as was my duty, supported by Mr. Doubleday and a few others who had borne part in our proceedings, and found him with a considerable number of other persons, in the least of two opposite rooms, the larger being apparently quite full of dinner guests awaiting his arrival; but, observe, it was not in either of those rooms they were to dine. On proceeding into the room, of which the door was open, and inquiring if the Earl of Durham was there, as I had a public address which I was ordered to present to him, tell you that you ought to know that you have taken a most unjustifiable course in fixing a place and time for presenting an address to me, instead of first ascertaining from me when and where it might be my pleasure to receive it; and under these circumstances I shall not receive it." The moment that his lordship ceased, I, who had an office to perform for the meeting, which made it my duty to endure rudeness, which, if acting on my own behalf, I would not have done, began, or endeavoured to begin an explanation to this effect that circumstances of supposed necessity or urgency Anon, he passed me, once again towards the door, repeating, more than once, I think, in the same heart-melting and reproachful tones, "Mr. Attwood, I have not deserved this!" In the same breath, he called for "Mr. Brockett" alone, had induced the people of Gates- to receive the address, but I won't rehead to fix the time, they had done with-ceive it now," and then, he added, in out an opportunity of previous consult- agitated but emphatic tones, “Mr. Atting with his lordship; that under such wood, I have not deserved this from supposed emergencies, I believed that it you." No sooner said than done, he had not been unusual for the people to shot away again, into the crowd, and have offered addresses on much less no- thus deprived me of the opportunity of tice than his lordship had received, to answering. persons of high, and of the highest rank, without offence, conceived or meant, on either side; but that, if I were in mistake upon the point or form or custom, I was desirous of taking the blame of such mistake upon myself, assuring his lordship, at the same time, that how-the Pathos and the Bathos in a single ever it might be my misfortune to be ignorant upon such points, neither nor the meeting acted under the influence of the slightest disposition to be rude, much less insulting towards himself; and that I would therefore submit it to his lordship's liberal construction, whether or not he would still persist in refusing to receive an address, in passing which, a strong desire to compliment, and to reciprocate good feeling with his lordship, was blended on the people's part with an unpretended wish, to put his lordship in possession of their feeling, on a point on which all statesmen, must, of necessity, desire to know the felings of this country. To you, sir, I may here observe, though I might not have done so, then, to him, that his lordship might as well have made trivial objection, or rather, mere ostensible pretence in his letter on the subject of the day before. line, and whirling through the door way with him, made exit as described, with a little variation, by a noted poet, Both dived and vanished on the Landing dun." (To be continued.) From the LONDON GAZETTE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1833. BEASLEY, J., Maidenhead, Berkshire, up- BLEW, J. W., Worcester, wine-merchant. BOWLES, J., New Sarum, Wiltshire, linendraper. CHADWICK, T., Crab-Eye, Lancashire, cot- COLLECO1T, W., Plymouth, grocer. chaut. THOMPSON, J., and J. Wood's, New Bond street, hosiers. TUCKER, J, Lymington, Hampshire, vic tualler. Such, sir, would have been the nature of the observations I should have offered to his lordship, had I been allowed. Before, however, I had got through the first five or six words I believe-about as far as through the words " circumstances of supposed necessity or urgency alone"-his lordship had whisked himself away, and the crowd of civil im-WIGGLESWORTH, S., Leeds, ironmonger. WILSON, J., Hackney, distiller. portunators to begone, was once more at me, with the self-same words; "Mr Attwood!" "Mr. Attwood!" "Consider the time," and so on. Presently, however, his lordship shot by me once again, with, if I forget not, words to this effect, "I have been treated with great want of propriety; I dont refuse TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1833. INSOLVENT. a RADCLIFFE, W., Whitfield, Derbyshire, cotton-spinner. BANKRUPTS. DAVIS, H., Bristol, scrivener. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. M'LEOD, J., Glasgow, merchant. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, Oct. 28.The fresh supplies from Essex and Kent as well as Suffolk have been, this morning, very moderate, though several parcels were left over from last week. The moist and damp state of the weather has acted unfavourably on the condition of the new Wheats, and caused the few dry good samples offering to realize last Monday's quotations, but the secondary and rough descriptions were difficult to dispose of, even at a reduction of 1s. per qr Little demand for old Wheat, and in bonded Corn nothing doing. Malting Barley of fine description is scarce, and rather dearer; other malting sorts hung on hand. Distilling and grinding descriptious were in better request. Good Malt supports its former quotations, but inferior is extremely dull. Oats, owing to the large Irish supply, experienced a dull slow sale, and were the turn cheaper-say 6d. per qr. Beans moved off on quite as good terms. White Peas were dull, but Maple and Grey rather dearer. The Flour trade was heavy, and the article, ex-ship, dull at last week's prices. SMITHFIELD, October 28. This day's supply of Sheep and Beasts was rather great, but, generally speaking, deficient in quality; the supply of fat Calves was moderately good, of Porkers but limited. Trade was, throughout, exceedingly dull: with Veal and Pork at a depression of 2d. per stone, with Beef and Mutton at barely Friday's quotations. About five-sixths of the Beasts appeared to consist of about equal numbers of short-horns, Devous, Welsh runts, and Irish Beasts: the remaining sixth of about equal numbers of Scots and Herefords, with about 50 Sussex beasts, as many Town's-end Cows, a few Staffords, &c. The short-horns, Devons, runts, Irish Beasts and Scots, chiefly-say 2,200 of them-from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire; about 250, including most of the Herefords, from our mid land and western districts, with a few from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and, with the Town'send Cows and Staffords, from the London marshes. 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