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kelt, like a parcel of large chickens, pok-conduct; they heaped applause upon ing their heads up under the wings of you; their design was to wheedle you the hen? There might be several still back again within their rapacious grasp. excluded, and piping about for want of room. The bodies might be those of fowls, and the heads those of men, or rather of monsters.

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This is all now evident enough. They bribed the press by giving places, that is giving taxes, that is giving the fruit of your labour, to the editors of newspapers; and they thought that they should be able to compel you and your children to work like slaves to pay the debt, which had been contracted to pay

BRAVE WORKING PEOPLE OF the Allies for forcing the Bourbons back

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upon you; to pay the emigrants for betraying you; to pay the cohorts of Cossacks to trample on you for five years; to pay, in short, for stripping your museums and taking from you all the fruits of your wondrous valour.

EVERY good man in England feels indignant at the base attempt that is now making to withdraw from justice We expected that the brave Belgians the savage and ferocious men who would receive from you assistance and caused your streets to flow with inno- support; we expected to see the burncent blood. We were surprised at many ing of your villages avenged; we exthings; we saw with surprise another pected, in short, that the cause of the Bourbon set up over you, and that, too, people would now, at last, prevail over without consulting the " sovereign peo- the cause of tyrants. For a while surprise ple upon the subject; we were as- filled our minds, when we saw the brave tonished to see, that loan-jobbers took Belgians abandoned to their fate; when the lead in your affairs; that BARON we saw that the debt, the infernal debt, LOUIS, who was one of the ministers of was still to press you to the earth; Louis XVIII., was one of your new when we saw, that there was still a ministers; but, the sending of Talley-" procureur du Roi" (horrible title!) rand to England opened our eyes, and to make war upon truth; but now surconvinced us, that your blood, if things prise is made to give place to indignamust go no further, had been shed in vain. tion, when we so clearly see, that it is In short, we saw that you had, in effect, intended to rescue from justice the gained nothing at all; and that, unless bloody men who slaughtered your you were as vigilant as you had been brave, you would again be brought, tout doucement, gently and softly, into the same state in which the Bourbons had held you before.

fathers, brothers, wives and children; and, apparently, to shed, if possible, even your blood, rather than not accomplish this nefarious purpose. We saw, that almost as soon as the new BourAll this we saw before it became so bon had been set up over you, the evident that it was intended to save Chambers began to talk of a law to the lives of the bloody ministers. Now abolish the punishment of death for we clearly see, that all our suspicions political offences. We thought, it were well founded; we see, that from strange that this law should have been the first, the intention was to betray thought of just at such a time. We you. It was you, and you only, that thought, that a matter, requiring padefeated the tyrants and their butchering tient investigation and cool deliberation, Swiss troops; when you had won the ought not to have been taken up at a victory, then came the bankers and the time of so much bustle, and when there peers to join you; they never appeared were so many important matters imtill the battle was over; they were, as it mediately pressing upon the attention of is now clear to us, sorry for your vic- the Chambers. The doctrine itself we tory; they pretended admiration of your thought very bad, very dangerous; for,

was guilty of hypocrisy and perfidy. equal to these?

Brave and generous men of France!

how are you or we ever to be safe, if death be not the doom of him who shall sell a fortress or a fleet to an enemy? It was curious, too, that this fit of ex-let me beg you patiently to attend to me cessive humanity should have seized on while I describe the motives of those your rulers just at this time. They not who wish to save these base and cruel only saw NEY, LABEDOYERE, and scores tyrants. Their endeavours are so maniof others put to death by the legitimate festly unjust, the object of them is so Bourbons; but many of these same ex-wicked, they are so directly against nacessively humane men had a hand in ture, the heart of man so involuntarily causing them to be put to death! But, swells with indignation at the bare now, when those who have caused your thought of the audacious design, that fathers and brothers and children and we are hurried away from the motives; wives to be butchered by ruffians, paid, yet, we ought to look well at these moclothed and fed out of taxes raised from tives; for we shall find them of the your labour, these humane, these tender greatest importance to you. souls, shudder at the thought of taking the life of a fellow-creature!

From the moment that you had beaten the tyrants, the great object of the Frenchmen, on your valour we have Chambers was to preserve the public a firm reliance; the only danger is, that funds; that is to say, to be able still to your generosity may mislead you. The get from you, out of the fruit of your men who now wish to soften and de- labour, taxes to pay the interest of the ceive you are profound hypocrites. debt which had been contracted to enslave When did they spare you, or propose to you, and which must make you slaves spare you? The law of God, by the as long as you continue to pay it. We, mouth of Moses, says, "He who sheds in this country, laughed when we saw a man's blood, by man shall his blood be banker at the head of the Deputies, and shed." Jesus Christ says, "He who when we saw that banker offering the lives by the sword, shall die by the crown to the new King! To preserve sword." Talk of Jesuits, indeed! What the public funds there must be no talk Jesuit is there equal in hypocrisy and of war. We, here, are in the same fraud to those who are endeavouring to situation. This Government and the save these sanguinary tyrants, who were Bourbons had been closely united; and playing at cards, or shooting birds, the owners of the funds in France were while their hired butchers were slaugh- extremely desirous, as were ours here, tering the people of Paris? What! eight thousand innocent men, women and children, stabbed or shot by order of these merciless tyrants; fathers and mothers left to wail the death of their children; orphans to weep for their parents; widows for their husbands, and husbands for their wives; a slaughter surpassing in number of slain the bloody massacre of the Saint Bartholomew, totally unprovoked and wantonly committed; and, after suffering the chief tyrant to escape, and even giving him an immense sum of your money as a rely, you were to be robbed of all the fruit ward for his deeds, these humane philanthropists are now engaged in the work of saving the lives even of the under-tyrants, whose orders produced the carnage! Talk of Jesuits, indeed! What Jesuit that the world ever saw

that your revolution should not dissolve the union. Hence your new government soon became connected closely with ours; Charles came here instead of going to America; your kind-hearted government gave him plenty of your money; your new King sent over Talleyrand to represent "the sovereign people' of France; you had got the three-coloured flag again; that was to amuse you; and you were to pay interest of debt, and to be taxed as heavily as you had been before; and thus, quietly and soft

of your valour and your blood. The interest which you pay on the debt amounts to 275,000,000 of francs every year; and the far greater part of this comes out of your labour. The rich people, bankers, and the like, are owners

of the public funds; they, therefore, | voice is expected to induce you to receive this money; and they want this abandon your claim of justice. We system to continue, and they know that it could not continue under a republican government; and they know also that it cannot continue if they have any thing like such a government.

should ascribe to great age; we should ascribe to deception practised on him; we should ascribe to any thing but perfidy, the conduct of that ONE MAN, if he were, unhappily, to become an advoThese people who, mark well, live on cate for saving the lives of these foul and your labour, are extremely desirous to bloody traitors. But, however painful be closely connected with our Govern- it might be to condemn, even tacitly, the ment, because that is necessary to keep conduct of that ONE MAN, condemn up your public funds. Now, our Go- it we must, and that of a thousand vernment has very good reasons to wish such men, if found on the side of not to see ministers put to death for lenity towards these savage tyrants. slaughtering the people! And I have Let that ONE MAN, or any other no doubt that all the foreign courts have man or men, pardon for themselves: united to make a bargain with yours if he have had a child a wife or a for saving the lives of the ministers. father, slaughtered, let him pardon for Besides this, there is the danger of the himself; but let him not pardon for example! And, then, who knows what you; let him not, from any motive secrets the ministers may have to tell! However, the principal motive is, to keep all quiet; and it is expected, that if you can be made to let these men escape, you will be again subdued, and easily made to submit to any thing. And these calculations are very correct; for, if these men escape, there is no crime that may not be committed against you with impunity: if they can thus shed your blood, and go unpunished, will any tyrant be, in future, afraid to rob you of your property or your liberty?

relative to peace and quietness; let him not, from any imaginary expediency, thwart the straight march of eternal justice; let him not tarnish his last days by doing that which would amount to a declaration, that the working people may be slaughtered with impunity, and that vengeance is not to cry from the earth for the shedding of their blood. Oh! for the honour of liberty and patriotism, for the united honour of America and France, let him leave an attempt to save those villains to intriguers, tax-devourers, loan-mongers, That they will not go unpunished is, and Jews; but let Lafayette say with we hope, certain, though we perceive Washington, in a case where the offence that all sorts of means are put in motion was not a thousandth part so great, for the purpose of preventing it. We" The crime was against the people, see the preparations going on at the "justice to them demands the punishLUXEMBOURG; we see the efforts of the "inent, and let justice be obeyed." And Paris press, and of the English villains was he destitute of "humanity;" who write from Paris, and who are hired coolness and patient consideration and and paid to deceive you and us. We wisdom wanting in his mind and habits; see, that there are some men who had not he a bosom as gentle as that of would set you to kill one another in order Louis Philippe; did he sign that death to save the lives of these atrocious mur- warrant without shedding tears; did derers. We behold, however, with his acts of rigid justice teach the people great pleasure, that you are resolved of America to be ferocious? Oh! for that the miscreants shall die; that they the honour of the cause of freedom, let shall not live to laugh at the tears of not the name of Lafayette traverse the the widows and the orphans of Paris. Atlantic associated with those of Jews, We see, and we see it with deep sor- jobbers, and aristocrats, combined to row, that there is ONE MAN, in whose rescue from justice the murderers of virtue we all confided, on whose long- men contending for their rights! tried patriotism we all relied, whose WM. CÖBBETT.

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THIS quaint and dogmatical scribe, who writes from Paris, who is of a race that outdoes the cameleon, and who was very correct until it became worth while for corruption to work on him, tells us to-day, (22nd,) in the Morning Chronicle, that Polignac and his fellow

This is so barefaced that I wonder Dr. Black becomes the circulator of it. It must throw disrepute on his paper, good as that paper is in most other respects. The Doctor himself too, I am sorry to say, falls into the cant in this case. He laments that the people of Paris should make it such a point to have these "worthless men put to Come, come, Doctor, no

THE English sovereign is at a pre-death!" mium of 22 sols in France. The French shuffling: you never said that CashFunds will become worth nothing in man, Brandreth, Turner, Ludlam, and less than a year. This is my decided the brave Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, opinion. The people cannot be such beasts as to go on toiling and sweating and half-starving for the sake of

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are open. The base and hypocritical scheme for abolishing the punishment of death has blasted even those in whom the people had most confidence.

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