declare open hostility to the people, or Houses to the "United Service Club,"
whether they shall shake hands with and the Junior United Service Club;"
them, and live together upon friendly if he had gone to the offices of Stamps,
terms in future. All the professions Customs, Excise, Navy, Army, Victual
(put forth by every opposition Lord) ling; if he had gone to the cloth and meat
that they opposed the Bill, not for their and corn contractors; if he had gone to
own sakes only, but for the sake of the the contractors for loans, transports, and
people also; these professions are, alas! the like if, in the counties, he had
of no avail. The people nowoknow gone to the tithe-owners; if he had
how much their families are benefitted gone to the Universities; there he would
by the rotten-borough system: the peo- have found petitioners enough for
ple know,o that what my Lord Kisa noreform whatsoever; they being quite
said was true namely, that "the prot willing to leave well enough alone."
prietors of seats in Parliament aidere If he had taken those who profit by
also now the proprietors of the taxes our populous pension list, and sinecure
"and that this proprietorships worked list, and list of grants, and of retired
in such a way as to give Members allowances and of widows' pensions, and
of the House of Lords more than children's pensions, what a goodly pe
"three hundred thousand pounds year tition he would have had to present
outofs those taxes" The people and, if one had time, one might imagine
kebw all this they have long known the sort/sofbpetition that they would
itand, knowing all this; how useless, have drawn up and put into his hands,
alas doare the professions, that, in refus setting forth, that your humble pe
ing the Bill, which will take away the "titioners are well aware that bribery,
proprietorship, the Lords consult the corruption, perjury, drunkenness, and
interests of the people, and not the ine all sorts of evils, arise from a system
terests of themselves alone oto-itas ofrotten boroughs and rotten corpora-
-If the Lords who oppose thisobill" tions flehoosing Members to serve in
were so read the speeches sat the Bins "Parliament but that your humble pe-
Thingham meeting for purposes of in" titioners know also that there is seldom
formation, and not for purposes of cavilany good, without its concomitant
and of quarrel, never would they have" evil; seldom any virtue, possessed in
put forth professions such as I have been athigh degree, without some concomi
polating out a never would they shave" tanti vice that Providence has so or
hoped to cause such professions to have
apy weight with the peoples The
speakers at that meeting have developed
the whole history and mystery of the
opposition to reform on the part of the
Peers and their Lordships should bear"
in mind that the knowledge discovered
by the speakers at that meeting is pos-standing the bribery, corruption, per
sessed by them in common with almost jury and infamy belonging to elec-1
the whole of the people of this kingdom.estions, the Parliament works well;
Let them then read, those speeches for and that, therefore, we beseech your
information: all the people do not make right hon. House not to suffer cany
speeches but all of them think and change whatever to be made in the
they all think alike upon this subjecta" representation in Parliamenta
It is, in fact, simply a contest between There is not a tax-eater in the wholet
the payers and the receivers of taxes kingdom that would not resignu such a
The payers are satisfied that they never petition assthat. And, talk about the
know prosperity and happiness thing as long as we please, it is, after!!
again, unless they have cheap govern all a question of money citrinafter
ents If, indeed the Seigneurs of all, a question whether those who li
WHARNCLIFFE had gone to the Club bour and who have, and income soutirof

their own property, shall or shall not, continue to be made poor and miserable; to be constantly exposed to all sorts of anxieties and hardships; many of them frequently to want a meal, and occasionally some of them to be starved to death; whether or not all these should continue to be inflicted upon them in order that those who have no property of their own, or who do not work in any way whatsoever, should be able to live in ease and in luxury. That is the real question, after all; and that question, as far as this present House of Lords can go, must now be decided in a very few days. The system works well for those who receive the taxes and the tithes; but these are the thousands, while the payers of the taxes are the millions; and the question, therefore, is, whether the Lords will or will not prefer the good of the thousands to the good of the millions.

children; all these have shed their blood, I suppose, and we, poor ignorant mortals! never knew any-thing at all about the matter. Poh! my Lord MANSFIELD, say not a word more about the matter! We will take care that we will have no ladies to shed their blood for us in future, nor little girls nor boys; and I tell you plainly, that every exertion in my power shall be made to cease giving one single farthing more of the public money to those which we already have upon the list. It is a question of money, again I say. Dividing it into parts, this question will arise: Shall the parsons keep the sixteen hundred thousand pounds which the Parliament voted them out of the taxes after PERCEVAL came into power? Another question will be this: Shall this nation continue to be taxed, in order to send one hundred thousand pounds a year out of the country, as half-pay to HanoLord MANSFIELD is reported to have verian and other foreign officers, and as said that a reformed Parliament would, allowances to widows and children of amongst other things that it would do, such of them as may be dead? If the "wipe away the national Debt, regard- Seigneur of WHARNCLIFFE had gone to "less of the gratitude due to those who Hanover, what an unanimous petition "assisted the Government in the time he could have got against Parliamen"of its need." This is just the language tary Reform! In short, we are a nathat old Lord CHATHAM said the muck-tion of most industrious people, pressed worms made use of. But, Lord MANS- down to the earth by want, in conse-. FIELD is not treated fairly here by me,quence of our incomes and our earnings until I have finished his sentence, thus: being taken from us to be given to "and to do away with PENSIONS those who scorn us while they wallow "which had been won by the blood in luxury upon the fruits of our labour. "and glorious exertions of those who We all understand it. There is not a "had procured for us a safe and ho-labourer in any hamlet in the kingdom "nourable peace." What, then, my who does not, in substance, understand Lord MANSFIELD, I suppose that BURKE the matter as well as I do. We all and THOMAS GRENVILLE and Lord know that the sixteen hundred thousand GRENVILLE and MONTAGU BURGOYNE pounds given to the parsons came out and Lord CAMDEN and the late Marquis of the loans of which we have to pay of BUCKINGHAM and the two EGRE-the interest. We all know that the MONTS and Lord ARDEN and CHARLES war against the French had for its prinYORKE and SIDMOUTH'S son; I suppose cipal object to prevent Parliamentary that all these, and hundreds of others, reform in England. We all know that have shed their blood for us. And CAN-the loans made to carry on that war NING's mother and sister, and the Duke of WELLINGTON's mother, and all the long list of noble ladies and honourable ladies, and their little boys and girls, and HERRIES's mother and sisters, and Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE's wife, and CUMBERLAND, the play-writer, and his

were greatly injurious to us. We all know this, that the Government of this country may be carried on; that the King and his family may be generously maintained in all the splendour of Royalty; that a navy ready to cope with all the world may be always in a

ADDRESS

d. TO THE

EARL OF RADNOR

FROM THE

4136

For
BRIGHTON POLITICAL UNION.
MY LORD,

bett to the people of Manchester as a person capacitated in an extraordinary degree for the representation of them in Parliament, and the support of all their rights and privileges as men, and equal members of society; also, your offering pecuniary assistance, which will be necessary to the accomplishment of an end so ardently anticipated by the people.

state of preparation; and that all this may be done with taxes amounting to less than ten millions a year; without any tax of Excise, without any my assessed tax, without any stamp tax, and with only as much tax and customs as would be advantageous, instead of being injurious, to the industry and resources of the kingdom, and with only such a tax WE, the Members of the Brighton upon the land as would form a security Branch Political Union, have learnt for the state in case of emergency. with great pleasure, the generous and We all know this now; we all know patriotic sentiments expressed by your that Providence has done so much for Lordship in a letter to Mr. Whittle at us that it requires nothing but common Manchester, recommending Mr. Cobtalent and integrity in the Ministers and the King, and a vigilant and honest Parliament, to make us always the most powerful country in the world, and to give the whole of us that ease and abundance and peace and security which our industry so richly merits. We all know this well; and I, for one, will never cease my best exertions to obtain that which we ought to possess. Therefore the Lords might save themselves the plague and trouble of any further debating upon the subject. If they mean to refuse to pass the bill, the sooner we have their refusal the better. I hope and trust that their decision will be the contrary of this; and I am sure, that if such be their decision, they will very soon perceive that their alarms, if they really entertain any, have been groundless; and that, this day twelvemonth, the alarmists will be very much obliged to any one who will say nothing to them about the matter. The consequences to them shortly stated As such is Mr. Cobbett justly and are they will lose rotten boroughs, pre-eminently regarded by tens of thoupensions, sinecures, grants, and allow-sands of his fellow creatures. ances to themselves and their families; Unequalled in political talent, he has and they will, in future, have their own for a long period of years directed the estates in reality, and not be elbowed voluminous productions of his pen in out of them by butcher and other con- the protection and defence of the entractors, and by loanmongers. These are slaved millions of his native country; the consequences to the Peers of Eng-the powerful influence of his astonishland; and their taste must be very dif-ing mind has been a moral lever exferent from mine if these be not conse-erted with singular perseverance upon quences which will delight them instead the solid fulcrum of truth against the of plunging them into that despair of which some of them now so ludicrously

talk

WM. COBBETT.

Though Englishmen have yielded in almost a tacit submissiveness to unabating tyranny, arising from the barbarous caprice or the unhallowed interest of their imperious enemies; nay, though Englishmen have flattered the very authors of all their ills and miseries; yet they have ever felt gratitude and the highest esteem for the individual that would boldly enter the political arena to arrest the iron hand of oppression, and as the champion of the people, to defend their ostensible rights.

ignorance that has more or less pervaded all ranks of society upon subjects of a political nature; yes, he above every other person, has contributed to remove from the nation at large, the

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gross film that has obscured and does they bestow on me. A letter that I even now but too much obscure their received from Mr. Elias Taylor, on the visual faculties.

much bas ve By his instrumentality, the people of same subject, it is not necessary now to this kingdom have been roused from insert.79ilɔwaj (19tésdons 2024 moral lethargy, and the rising generaTHE COBBETT. tion feel surprised

knew.so little.

forefathers

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Deeply impressed with these feelings, del ..T MOZZIATA unildaT RALỵ,2,1992-hand bas conscious of the invaluable mental ad-4 vantages we have reaped from his writ-a THE E ATTORNEY.GATH -GENERAL will receive, ings, and of the consequent debt of with my compliments, the third edition gratitude due by us to him, we feel the of his and my Trial, which took place utmost pleasure in seeing him sup-in Guildhall, on the seventh of July last; ported, and of course must respect your and if the BARINGS had not so much Lordship, who has, with so much dis. money and so little, I would send interestedness and manliness, declared them 100 to The Examiner, the your sentiments at this most momentous Ballos ad quae other weekly news crisis, regardless of those who do not papers in London, not excepting the appreciate our worth. Handkerchief news have done their To your Lordship then, who enter- duty with regard to this Trial, and with tains so high an opinion of Mr. Cobbett; regard to me; and, what is more, with tains so high an opinion of o whose of Mr. Mrs tis warmed by a patriotic regard to sympathy for the condition of an outraged people; and who has publicly recommended and offered to support so talented and persevering a man as a Member for Manchester, after the passing of the Reform Bill; we feel it our duty to testify the esteem we entertain for your Lordship, and to show that we are capable of appreciating the exertions of every zealous advocate for freedom.

breast is

enter-duty

to the ca

and

DEACLE and the conduct of the magis
trates in Hampshire. As for me audio
my affairs, they are dust in the balance
compared with the proceedings and
consequences of the Special Commission
in Hampshire, which, as Mr. HARVEY
so well said, have awakened thoughts
in the people which must lead to in-
teresting consequences. Mr. MILOMAY,
who presented the petition in favour of
the BARINGS from Winchester, will soon
see another petition which will bring
him nearer home; and I myself pro
mise him, that he shall have ample off-
portunity of conning that petition over
before-hand.

HALL, W., T. S. Hall, & W. J,
square, and Lower Thames-streel,
LUDDINGTON, WI, Stikt Newington-boardy
Hornsey, and Adam's court, Broad Street
coul-mercbai22959 on a

MENDELSON, H., Manchester, jeweller. 192
MERCER, R.
sea, coal ly, and, B. Treacher, Swan

SMITH, W., and M. Lewis, Tunstall, Staf-
fordshire, earthenware-manufacturers.
WATKINSON, T., Marsh-gate, Lambeth,
and Earl-street, Seven dials, publican.
WHITE, G., North Wharf-road,

1627

Poland

.....

to

to

Food 19% to 233.

Flour, per sack. Daad ka 76 608. to 656%

-679013 en ons hie -77412
PROVISIONS.

The que los acit Bacon, Middles, new, 40s. to 48s..ped awt.vond 425 1130s. dd. tos.

Pork,

des, new

new..

Pork, Mess, new... 60s. Ou. to 65s. per

victuallerí [W JAREERO VERZOTT. Buttery Belfast .b866,9% 88 per cwar ONS Var det

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

CALDER, T. and J., Edinburgh, hat-manuf.
TELFER, W. Leith, merchant., istbipa ni -que
Am o ton fed pozazd 501 đi Banque
BESTUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 183pus yoon Cheese,
GREEN, A., Brewer street, Pimfed, taflor, caps DST
JONES, Ti, late of Llangollong Denbighshire

Carlowupoellis, to 90s. To bu

Limerick 875. tos.

Waterford. 84s. to 865 eusiq 1-om.
Dublin? Jest to te bu
Cheshire....64s., to 80s.lvulebro.t
Gloucester, Double, 645 to 70995
Single... 565. to 63s.

48s.

ing-keeper.4992s tou пobno I of 219gro-tun Gouda"..... 449. to 46s. 191 is BANKRUPT istorboHams, Irish.. DAWS, J.M. Daws, and M. Dans, Lentony Nottinghamshire, bleachers.

THFIELD-October 30 de anima HALL, S, Duke-st, West Smithfield good, but not so great acts was tolerably

HORNER, B., Bilton with Harrowgate,
shire, julber to maro 3 18 19
MORRISS, P., and S. Smithy Friday street,
arehousemen, oi teab sin 7sitesinfe
TEBBUTT, S., Islington, wine-merchant.
WILLIAMS, J., Liverpool, joiner.

day's supply of

as was that of this day's se'nmight: of sheep, fat calves, and porkers, rather limited.

1sion of

at an

The trade was, in the whole, ratlier brisk With of 2d. per ston veal at a depres stone: with beef and pork at molen (815902 2011 20 20mos, p Friday's quotations. There were but few YEVRAL 20 05017 „la lambs in the market, and as these have be2 LONDON MARKETS. How come young sheep, lamb might be considered to have MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, OCTOBER fair average out of season. The stock was of 3.-Quz supplies since this day se'nnight, of 2,682; sheep and lambs, 20,010; calves, 138; of year quality. Beasts, English wheat, barley, malt, beans, and flour, pigs, 160. as also of foreign rye and have been great; of English peas, flour, moderately good! of foreign flour, 93English,drish, and Scotch oats, as well as seeds, from all quarters, with the above exception, limited. No foreign barley y has arrived since Saturday se nnight.

linseeds Irish

MARK-LANE.-Friday, Oct. 7.

The arrivals this week are moderate; but the market is very dull at Monday's prices. og beauf

This day's market was rather numerously attended by buyers; but as these, for the most part, offered lower prices than the sellers 3 per Cent. seemed willing to accept, the trade was Cons. Ann. throughout very dull. With wheat and beans at a depression of from 1s, to 4s.; oats, white peas, and barley, Is. to 3s., and rye 2s. per quarter. Flour was expected to fall 5s. per sack before the close of the market. There were a few parcels of new brank and Indian Corn offering the former at from 26s. to 31s. the latter 32s. to 36s. per quarter; but neither seemed to have found purchasers. Wheat......................................... 47s. to 58s.