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THE [Price Is. 2d. good manners of this audience were BIRMINGHAM REGISTER. hands, if need be; to put things to rights BIRMINGHAM DEBATE, OR RAGS AGAINST GOLD, Barton, Staffordshire, 31st Aug., 1832. themselves if the dire necessity should Tris has become a matter of very great public importance; it has elicited views and facts very interesting in themselves, and very useful to be communicated to the public at this time. It was not the triumph over a political adver- The meeting took place in a room sary that I sought; it was not to show about a hundred feet long and thirty off in a speech before the people of feet wide; very well provided with BIRMINGHAM ; but it was to make this benches upon the level of the floor, subject attract the attention of the there being, for the convenience of the whole country, that induced me to avail speakers, a place, at one end, raised to myself of the fair pretence for inviting about five feet high. This place was the BIRMINGHAM "COUNCIL" to a public absolutely filled; and we know, by the discussion. The same motive now in-money that was taken, that there were duces me to give a full account of the at the least rather more than fourteen speeches upon this occasion. I do not hundred persons. That good order mean a full report. Messrs. ATTWOOD should be preserved in so large an asand JONES spoke seven hours and a half, sembly is quite astonishing; and cerif not eight hours; I myself two hours: tain it is, that such a spectacle was so that to give a report of these speeches never yet seen, except in England, or in anything like verbatim, would require a the United States of America. Α space equal to that contained in an oc- French gentleman who went with me tavo volume of about six hundred pages! once to the Rotunda in London, exOne cannot help stopping here to ex-pressed his wonder at seeing a thoupress admiration of the unparalleled sand people perfectly silent for an hour patience of this people. Indeed, they or two. It is a thing highly honourhave been pretty well disciplined to it able to our character; and it is that for a long time. As far as the princi- character which has preserved us from pal of my opponents was concerned; as being brought to utter ruin and slavery, far as related to Mr. ATTWOOD's six by the stupid and tyrannical men who hours and a half, it was nothing new to have, at times, been invested with the them, but at any rate the patience and power of ruling us. L 66 I think it proper to observe here, on HAM, what was to have been expected the circumstance of my having insisted in the town of Birmingham, and that, upon money being taken. Messrs, too, when there was going to be a trial ATTWOOD and JONES, in their accept of strength between their CICERO and ance of my invitation, have a sort of me! In short, without the taking of fling at my having made this a part of the shilling, there could have been no my condition. But, laying aside all the discussion; and, therefore, my oppoother very sufficient reasons for my nents might have spared their fling. doing this, there was one which be- Before I conclude this Register, I shall came visible to every person present at give a curious account of what was this meeting; for, long before the first done with the money; but I will just speech was begun, every one saw, that mention here, that I having, in calling if the doors had been flung open to the Mr. JONES to order, observed, that I public, and every one permitted to enter had not come to Birmingham to listen without any payment, the whole must in- to an essay on the theory of money, a stantly have ended in confusion. There person who, I was told, was one of Mr. were more than a thousand persons at ATTWOOD's clerks, called out, "But you every moment of the time ready to" are come to Birmingham to take rush in. I should have been willing, money." I instantly answered, "If I and glad to have had the price of ad-" could make money I would not take mission, sixpence or threepence, in" money." The allusion was caught order to have admitted a great body of by the meeting at once, and the confuworking men; but I knew that it was sion of the understrapping rag-man impossible to do it, and to have any- was lost sight of in the general laugh that thing like a peaceable discussion. I ensued. tried this the other day at HORSHAM in I now proceed to the speech of Mr. Sussex. Some gentlemen there got a Attwood, which, as I said before, occuvery large school-room on the ground-pied, as nearly as possible, four hours floor, well furnished with benches. The and twenty minutes, the last hour, or whole of the population of the place, more, by candle-light, when an adjournmen, women, and children, is only ment to two o'clock next day took 4,575. I thought I might safely ven-place. Mr. ATTWOOD has the reputature to refrain from using the check of tion of being, in all his private relationtaking money: the place was on the ship, a most excellent man. In the ground floor, singularly commodious, neighbourhood in which he lives, he is and standing out upon a little piece of ground distant from all other buildings. It would conveniently contain five or six hundred persons; yet, it was so crammed, the strife was so great, the angry passions so sturdily at work, that it required all my address, joined to the exertion of all my authority of manner, and all the respect which the whole of these southern chopsticks bear towards me; it required all these to prevent acts of violence, and, indeed, to prevent the numerous windows of the school-house from being dashed in by those who could not enter, the general cry on the purside being, "We have as much right to go in as they have." This was very true. By my manner of managing the thing, prevented mischief; but if this was the case in the little town of HORS said to be universally beloved by the working people. I believe him to be perfectly sincere in his wishes to see his country great and prosperous; and particularly to see the industrious and laborious part of the community duly remunerated for their care and their toil. If I were tempted to speak of him disparagingly, I should always feel myself checked by the remembrance of that PETITION which came up from BIRMINGHAM in such good time in favour, of the condemned labourers of HAMPSHIRE and WILTSHIRE, which was signed by him, and by this very Mr. JONES; which certainly had the effect of saving some scores of lives, which actually put a stop to the shedding of the blood of those labourers, and which was a subject of censure in the reported Difcount speech of DENMAN of the 8th of May, in the following words, bearing date in the month of October last, though not 1881. To the Right Hon. Earl Grey, First Lord of Respectfully showeth, 1. That your memorialists think it their duty to represent to your Lordship, that, for the last six years, a generally increasing state of depression and distress has existed throughout all the manufacturing and commercial districts of the United Kingdom. Having said this of Mr. ATTWOOD, published (for curious reasons which and wishing it to be applied also to will appear by-and-by) until the 30th Mr. JONES, and wishing the reader to day of July in this year. be pleased always to bear it in mind; and I being ready to acknowledge, also, that the POLITICAL COUNCIL, up to the month of April last, rendered very great services to the country upon the subject of parliamentary reform; ungrudgingly stating all this, and wishing it to be borne in mind by my readers, I must be permitted to speak very freely of what I deem to be the errors and frailties of Mr. ATTWOOD, and especially of his efforts upon this occasion, which sink so very far below that which I myself had anticipated, that it is impossible for me, in describing them, to do justice to the lowness of my opinion of his knowledge with regard to the matters which were the subject of discussion. A general description of his first speech is all that I can possibly give, and all that the reader would endure; and before I give that I must Ideal a little in narrative. 2. That this state of depression and distress still continues to increase; and your memori alists seriously apprehend that, unless remedial measures are adopted, a period is rapidly approaching, in which the operations of in dustry, from the loss and ruin attending them, must be generally suspended throughout the country. 3. That your memorialists have good reason to believe, that no branch of industry exists in the United Kingdom, in which the prudent employment of labour is attended with any fair and reasonable profit; and they have equal reason to believe, that in almost every branch of industry, a positive loss has attended the employment of labour for several years past, and does now attend such employment; and your memorialists think it their duty to represent to your Lordship, that unless this state of things can be altered, general convulsion and disorganization of society will become inevitable. On the 30th of July last, (I beg the reader to attend to dates,) there appeared in the Morning Chronicle, an address from the BIRMINGHAM COUNCIL to Lord GREY, as first Lord of the Treasury, advising him to return to paper-money, making it a legal tender to a certain 4. That your memorialists attribute this extent, and to do this secretly and suddistressing and alarming state of things to denly, so that nobody might be apprised the general contraction of the credit currency of what was going to take place. Out of the country; which has been effected by of this address sprang this " BIRMING- the unjust and impolitic attempt in which the HAM DEBATE." I wished for an oppor-year 1819, to render all the paper taxes, tithes, legislature has been vainly engaged since the tunity to proclaim, in a very signal rents, debts, and obligations of the country manner, my abhorrence of this recom- convertible by law into gold, at the ancient mendation to my Lord GREY; and and unsuitable standard of 37. 17s. 104d. per reading in the Birmingham Journal ounce. that a speech had been made in the COUNCIL, in refutation of my doctrines on the subject, I availed myself of that as the ground of the INVITATION which produced this debate. Before, therefore, I proceed to speak of the speech of Mr. ATTWOOD, I must lay this memorable address before the reader; because, as he will find, the whole of the discussion ought to have turned upon this ADDRESS. This address, then, was 5. That by this destructive and most unjust attempt, the prices of commodities are beaten down within the grasp and of the fixed charges and moneyed expenses attending their production; and thus the reward of industry is destroyed, and the population of the country are, in a great degree, either deprived of employment or of the fair wages of their labour, or are otherwise supported for awhile by the sacrifice of the capital of their employers. 6. That notwithstanding the general and ruinous depression in the prices of property and labour which has been thus effected, such depression of prices has not yet been sufficient L2 |