66 19 E remedy was not adopted, and, there should confine themselves to patifionic fore, if they were sincere in their fore and addressing toshelhazzaing of their bodings, as I was in mine, ought they and the groaning of the opponents1 to have expected that the violences Now I beg leave, as the LORD CHAN would not take place? Ma. HODGES, GELLORɔus fhadady to reconsider the one of the faithful members of the matter relative to the ten-pound xoters = county of Kent, told the House of Conas tie is so ready to reconsider this mat mons The County which I have the ter, let me ask him to reconsider his "honour to represent is now tranquil, speech of last night, and to give me an "after being so terribly convulsed. I answer, yea or nay, to this questions Do "believe that it owes this tranquillity you believe, my Lord Brougham, that if entirely to the hope that this Bill will the boroughmongers could be made pass; and I firmly believe that, if QUITE CERTAIN that the people "this Bill be rejected, the disturbances would NEVER DO ANYTHING but "will break out again." maunoi on meg (Petition, address, huzza, you, and hiss Therefore what a waste of words is and groan your opponents, that this bill, it; what an abuse of reason is it, to ar-ar that any reform at all, would EVER gue now as if no violence was to be ex- BE ADOPTED... If you be be a true pected? Mr. HODGES, for instance, man, answer me, that question, yea or must most anxiously wish that the nay; but before you to it, remember county of Kent should not again be con- that the bloody JEFFERIES, who once sat vulsed; but, is he not too just a man to on the very bench on which you now wish to deal harshly with the people,sit, when he had just condemned one of even if they were again to proceed to his scores of victims, and when the vie acts of violence? And have not the tim, exclaimed, “ My blood be upon people been told, and by the Ministers your head," answered, laughing at the themselves, that they were not repre- same time, " Let it !, Let it!.. I am sented in Parliament; that their rights CLAMOUR-PROOF." Hardened and had been usurped; that the bill was ne-bloody as he was, he was not more cour cessary to restore those rights to them, pletely clamour-proof than the boroughand to give them security for person and mongers are. property? This is what the Ministers It is therefore perfectly useless to themselves have told them a thousand send forth exhortations to peace and patimes over; and were they then to ex- tience without sending forth at the saine pect that the people would be quiet time assurances as positive as can be when they saw this bill rejected, and given, that the Bill will finally pass. themselves thereby brought back to their The Prime Minister and the King are, I former state, taxed, as Lord JouN RUS-sincerely believe, resolved, upon the SELL himself expressed it, by men who had usurped their rights? t carrying of the measure; but, people in general have not the same means of And, as to the way in which the people judging that I have. They are full of are to express their discontent: but, suspicions; with them all is uncertainty first of all, do the Ministers wish that and alarm; and, in order to prevent them the people should be quiet under the from proceeding to those acts of violence rejection of the bill? Do they wish which the ministers themselves not this? Well, in what way do they only anticipated, but expressly foretold, wish that the people should show their as the inevitable consequence of a rejecdiscontent with the rejection of the bill? tion of the bill, those ministers should By petitioning and addressing? By now not lose a single moment in giving cheering the Ministers and groaning them an assurance that the bill will be their opponents? One recommends the carried; and of giving them an assurance, people by no means to withhold the taxes, too, that no change will be made in the and the LORD CHANCELLOR prays them bill to narrow the extent of the sufnot to proceed to breaches of the peace. frage in the great towns, and also, that They must then mean that the people [no delay will take place in the revival of 1 the bikinUpon these two subjects I standing our respect, and gratitude towarddomes shall have a great dealǝdoosagnir my your noble House, for its support of the meas 9163 next Register; but, in the meanwhile, four country, consent to serve under a Coco sure consistently with th our duty to ourselves tonet who opposed a measure in the House of 2 Commons, and a Lord Lieutenant who is in theblow majority in the House of Lords for, if tue 9010 mults arise, which we sorrowfully autigipate, tanon as the consequence of refusing people, we should be belying political com pcreed, should we be called out to fight og dines!0 men whose cause we professitasesponsegnisd 198 Maidstone, 10th Oct., 1831 13 a positives assurancesought to be given with regard to them for, without such an assurance, after what was said by the Lord Chancellor about his readiness to reconsider," who is to expect tranquillity in the great towns? Dan kiyin tesi to The following intelligence has just reached me in the Maidstone Gazette. RESIGNATION OF YEOMANRY CA VALRY. These are the things which have made Lord Si-As soon as the news of the rejection the time ARNCLIFF perceive that NOW arriced, when reof the Refores Bill arrived at Woolwich, a form can no longer be withheld." The meeting took place of the members of the cry against the Bishops is most omiChiselburst troup of Yeomanry Cavalry, com hous! It may be hasly; but who can manded by Viscount Sidney, residing at Woolwich and Greenwich, when they came to say that it is unnatural? Lord LYNDthe resolution of lthmediately sending in their HURST will now find, that I am not the resignation together with their arms and ae-only man who is ready for an application confrements their motive for so doing being of what is called Church Property." that they were pledged reformers, and could not, consistently with their avowed principles, continue any longer under the command of an anti-reformer; it being their primary object, at the formation of the troop, to support the King, and Earl Grey's administration. SAMUEL NOBLE, High Constable of the lower half hundred, RESIGNATION OF THE MAIDSTONE to public uses. I take the following from the Chronicle of this (FRIDAY) morning. I see it in all the newspapers, and I hear that it is posted all over the town. THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND! Pay no more Tithes! no more Church Rates! without *90*200** compulsion; but, in God's name, do not withhold the payment of the Taxes; rather contribute an extra mite, if necessary, to support the King and his Ministers in this fearful «ethergency. Mark your detestation of the haughty, heartless, and overgrown hierarchy, by absenting yourselves and families On the reception of the intelligence of the rejection of the Reform Bill, a private meet. ing of some of the members of Lord Marsham's Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry took place, at which the following document, which is now in course of signa-" from your Parish Churches! Let the proud ture, was agreed to be presented to their" and pampered followers of the meek and nolle and respected Captain :"lowly Jesus' preach to empty benches! Remember it was the Bishops who caused "the bill to be rejected! If they had voted " on the right side,' there would have been a majority for the second reading! Be determined that the bishops no longer "have seats in the house of Lords!-that "there shall be no parson magistrates'—in fine that the priesthood collectively shall To the Lord Viscount MARSHAM, Cap- "My Lord,-We the undersigned, members of the Mote Troop, which you command, with every respect for your Lordship's person, but with a gloomy apprehension that the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Peers will be attended with most serious results, beg to tender to you our respective resignations. "We enrolled ourselves under your Lordship's command, to evince our loyalty towards our patriotic King-our confidence in his po pular Ministers and our attachment to the great and vital measure of reform proposed by them. Had this been passed, we would have stood by your Lordship's side in all times of danger, for the protection of property and person; but the hill being thrown out in the Honée of Peers, we cannot notwith never again interfere with your secular con"cerns! Respect them as zealous and faith"ful ministers of religion,-pay them liberally; but call for an equalization of church "property!-so that the drones shall no longer "fatten on unchristian luxuries, while the working clergy are worse off than the jour neymen mechanics' "Becket, Printer, Paradise-buildings, "Stingo-lane, New roul." 1 Here is a change in six days! Alas! 2. (which will make you laugh) Th what pains did I take to warn the Lords Lord Falmouth has chopped out, an of these dangers! And I now again thrown by, twenty-three lines in th beseech them to hasten to close the middle of the quotation; and, if yo breach as quickly as possible; and I look at these twenty-three lines, marke beseech LORD GREY to believe, that a in the margin by me, in pages 30 an prorogation for even a month may be 31, you will be at no loss for the reaso attended with fatal consequences; and that induced Lord Falmouth to cho that the very mention of raising the 10l. them out. suffrage, in great towns, may throw all into confusion. WM. COBBETT. P.S. A friend has just now desired me to remind my readers of the Two DAYS' VISIT OF BROUGHAM TO WINDSOR CASTLE, the week before the discussion of the Reform Bill in the Lords! NORTH AMERICANS AND I will not trouble you to insert th passage quoted by Lord Falmouth which, excepting the chopped-out par is contained in your paper of this day 7th October; but will first state the Substance of it, which is this:-Tha the Reform Bill is destitute of all prin ciple; that Old Sarum was as much part of the monarchy as the House of Lords itself; and that the Reform Bill will naturally lead to the destruction of the Established Church, the Peerage and the Crown. The whole pamphlet ENGLISH BOROUGHMONGERS. consists of a tissue of efforts on the part TO THE Editor of the Morning Chronicle, Kensington, October 7th, 1831. of a very feeble man to induce the Lords to reject the Reform Bill, and to induce the King to join with them. Of all the anti-Reform pamphlets which SIR, I perceive, by the report of the have appeared in England, none have debate in the House of Lords, last been any-thing like so feeble and so night, that Lord Falmouth quoted, as foolish as this; and it would not have Lord Haddington had done the night been quoted by the persons abovebefore, a passage from the North Ame-named, only they thought that it would rican Review, published at Boston, in have some weight as coming from an the month of July last; and I need not American; and, Sir, I am now about say that the passage was in opposition to show you and your readers, that its to the Reform Bill. Both these noble-source is one very good reason why it men spoke in high terms of the work should have no weight at all against the from which they quoted; praised the Reform Bill. profundity of the author, sent forth his words as the words of wisdom, and reason why this attack upon the ReIn the first place, there is no earthly particularly as being worthy of the great form Bill, though published at Boston, attention of the Lords. Now, Sir, if should not have been paid for by the you come at the book, and, lest it boroughmongers themselves, or should should give you trouble to get at it, I not have actually been written by that herewith enclose you a copy, which very George Manners who used to request you to have the goodness to seal publish a thing called The Satirist in up under cover and to send to Bolt-London, and whom Castlereagh made court by Sunday night next; if you a consul at Boston. read this book, which contains only has one branch called secret service A system which fifty-three pages of open print, you will money can cause pamphlets and newssee, in a moment,-1. That a thing papers to be written abroad as well as more shallow, more flimsy, more heads- at home. However, this production is, and-tails, more destitute of all real I am convinced, of genuine American knowledge of the state of England, has origin; is full-blooded Yankee; and, hardly ever dropped from the press. if I be asked how I can believe that . the Americans can look at this Reform and wishing in these people. "What!" Bill with feelings other than those of you will exclaim, "they! they, who delight, I will tell you that presently."have got cheap government themIn the first place, I know, and I know" selves! They who take care that no it well, that every American, who has "one shall have public power who is any feelings of national ambition about "hot chosen by themselves, from the him, most anxiously desires that a Bo-" President and the Governors down to roughmonger Government should con- "the very sheriff! They who would tear tinue in England. The reasons for this" out a man's tongue if he were to prowere stated very clearly in my Register" pose a Pension List, to talk of a sineof the 19th of June last, and you will" cure, a grant, or a retired allowance! see them by just looking at three or" They, who suffer even their retired foar pages at the end of that Register," Presidents, if they become poor, to go Fou will see two Yankees engaged in" and live upon their relations, or upon a dialogue; and you will hear their" charity! They, who knock a rich reasons for being happy in the hope" man's brains out, if he were to ask that the people of England will never" the poorest of them to vote contrary obtain a Parliamentary Reform. "to his wish! They, in short, who, (To be continued.) I have said in print, and I once or "though fostered with the greatest twice said it in America, when I was "care by the kingly Government of there last, that there nowhere existed," England, rebelled against that Gonot even amongst the boroughmongers"vernment, and finally cast it off for themselves; not even amongst the "ever, for no other cause, either real or tenants of the lists of pensions, sine-"alleged, than that this identical bocures, grants, and retired allowances; "roughmonger-Parliament declared its not even in the club-houses and the hells," resolution to tax them without their more bitter enemies to reform, than "own consent! They, above all the amongst the politicians of the United" people in the world, opposed to a reStates of America. With the farmers" form of the English Parliament, and and country tradesmen the case is very represent the disfranchisement of Old different. They hear of the miseries of Sarum as an attack upon all the inthe people of England and of Ireland: "stitutions of England." they grieve at them: they feel indignant and they speak indignantly against those who have brought the country of their forefathers to this state. But when you come to the persons in and about the general Government, or the State Governments; when you come to the lawyers, the doctors, the parsons of all ..the forty sorts; when you come to those who trade in ships, who call the seas "the highway of nations;" when you come to those who make a noise at the RIX, F., St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, banker. celebrations of the 4th of July; when you come to the inhabitants generally of great commercial places; when you come to any of these, and particularly to any of those who have views of ambition in any line, whether civil, judicial, military, or naval, you find them all the bitter enemies of parliamentary reform in England. You, and your readers, .will be astonished and offended at this seemingly unnatural way of thinking From the LONDON GAZETTE, LAMB, J. A., late of Battersea, Surrey, victlr. BANKRUPTS. BARKER, J., Layton, Essex, brewer. square, engraver. LOMAS, J.T., and F. Cooke, Dover-street, GAZETTE AND MARKETS. Beans, Old.. Oats, Potatoe Flour, per sack Dublin ....-s. to -3. Cheese, Cheshire....60s. to 80s. Gloucester, Double..56s. to 63s. Gouda .46s. to 50s. 44s. to 48s. Hams, Irish.............. 42s. to 54s. SMITHFIELD-October 10. This day's supply of beasts was rather numerous, but in great part of middling and tal-porkers, but limited.-Veal and pork sold with inferior quality; of sheep, fat calves, and SNOW, T., New-st., Covent-garden, grocer. low-chaudler. WILKINSON, B., Crown-ct, Broad-st. wine merchant. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 10.-Supplies, since this day se'unight-on account, it is supposed, of adverse winds hav ing prevented ship arrivals, both from abroad and coastwise,-have been of English, Irish, and Scotch wheat, and English beans, but moderate: of foreign linseed rather great; of foreign wheat, as also, barley, oats, malt, flour, and seeds, generally, from all quarters, very limited. This day's market was rather numerously attended by buyers-principally of London and its neighbourhood,-and in it, at intervals, a considerable bustle manifested itself; but as the sellers seemed unwilling to abate, the trade was, with each kind of corn, pulse, and seeds, as well as malt and flour, very dull, at barely last week's prices.-Indeed, in each kind of grain, of intermediate quality, where any-thing like extensive sales could be effected, no doubt an abatement of several shillings per quarter was submitted to, we could not alter our extreme quotations. Wheat 52s. to 61s. 32s. to 36s. 24s. to 30s. 32s. to 42s. 34s. to 36s. 33s. to 40s. 34s, to 40s. about 2d. per stone.-With beef aud mutton: some degree of briskness, at an advance of the trade was dull at Friday's quotations. Beasts, 2,023; sheep and lamhs, 18250; calves, 168; pigs, 190. |