the honourable and learned Gentleman, or the imputation of having had intimidation for their object. If it had not been for the tone assumed by the hon. and learned Member for Stafford, and by the bon. Member for Worcester, upon the subject, neither the hon. Member for Middlesex nor he (Colonel Evaus) would have said any thing, and the petition might have quietly gone with others of a similar kind to that receptacle to which they were all and as he had a strong opinion on the macet, subject, he should be wanting in his duty as a man if he did not honestly state his option, that both the spiritual and the public welfare of the people wot in that for consulted, if the Bishops were hear.) "any longer period than va month. Surely in a month a new measure may "be matured, and Ministers may have ther Parliamentary campaign. A "obtained the vigour necessary for ano2 + month the people will readily acquiesce in The motion will at all events have ( the effect of eliciting some more pqsi. tive declaration from Ministers of their intentions with regard to the duration of the prorogation than they have yet afforded. The peoplebare surely entitled to some confidence on 66 97 0 Mr. LEADER was understood to say that this subject. Before this notice was conduct of the Church here had awakejed given by Colonel Evans, the manner this spirit of censure, as the conduct of the in which the people ought to conduct Irish Church had occasioned, and would continue the feeling in Ireland respecting tithes, The Petition which was from a freeholder of the County of Louth, was theu brought up and one themselves with regard to this ques "tion formed the subject ofan incidental discussion on the presentation ofƒ`æ 16 petitionoby Mr. Hunt from an indi2 › yidual, praying that the Bishops might be disfranchised. Mr. John Campbell Lord a objected to the petition, complained petition which, considering all the circum of the injury done to reform by pre stances connected with it, ought not to be tended reformers, and protested against be received by the House. No regretted thore than he the decision of the Mr. Hume observed; as to the obser 66 the attempts at dictation to Ministers. House of Lords; but a petition from a single individual, declaring that one brauch of the Legislature had not the right of voting, was a “Mation of the hon. and learned Meme petition which he thought that House could sions of opinion were like dictating to "ber for Stafford, that these expresti not properly receive. The SPEAKER said, that the question of re"the Ministers, he did not agree at all ceiving this petition involved not only a ques-with that statement of the hon. and tion of the privileges of the other House of Tolearned Member, and he believed that Parliament, but of their own. The petitioner it would be only playing the game of might, on any general grounds, have prayed the antireformers if the people of this the Legislature for the abolition of the right country were to lie on their arms eas of voting of the Bishops; but as the petition stated that the petitioner founded his prayer "if they did not care about the succèss upon what he conceived to be the vote of a" or the rejection of the Bill.916Instend portion of the wow that portion of the Theof doing this, haitecommended them could only know voted by means of a breach of privilege, seemed to be doubtful whether the notice of a it showing the deep anxiety they felt on matter which was itself a breach of the privi❝the subjects (ManRuthvensins like leges of the privileges o ges of their own. In his opinion it "trusted that all other efforts would be House, was not a breach of manner, while he deprecated violence, was, and that on that ground, the petition ought not to be received. be liv “ made to sustain the Ministers, hauling the Church, but overhauled it "may not be the proper time for over Upon this debate, I shall first insert the commentary of the Chronic e re" must be The conduct of the Bishops serving to myself to say a word about 5 on the second reading of the Reform the Bishops. "We are says the Bill, will never be forgotten.19 They Chronicle, glad that, Colonel Evans have identified themselves with the has given notice that he will this day" Boroughmongers, and the people of move a resolution to the effect that it England will not easily allow them to would be inexpedient to defer, the re-part company With respect to the particular petition, dib was afterwards companyleieWith "stated by the Speaker, that there were" It cannot possibly reach me. Mr. ret cannot possibly reach me Mr. objections to its reception on the score" Campbell seems to have studied in of privilege, and accordingly it was this school of philosophy. In The "rejected. Mr Campbell, however," Scotsman of Saturday, received yesI took occasion to explain more parti Seularly what he meant by dictatingerday, there is a paragraph on the effect of the the loss tol Ministers. He said he wished the 1 of the Reform Bill in Scotland, which may serve to illustrate this weighty "people to come forward in a constituThe move 66 ༥ 97 tional manner, but not to send Dele-matter of etiquette ment (says our Contemporary) now "gates at midnight to the noble Earl at to begun abas one most gratifying feathe head of the Government, not to address petitions to him that have ture its instantaneous and its indisfbeen conched in such improper and putable spontaniely. To the very last, mconstitutional language as the peti- men persisted, in men persisted in believing that the peers would not trifle with the unanition now presented to their notice: 1 As much has beeh said with regard to "mous resolutions of the people; and the liteness of the hour, it is but fair so universal was this impression, that to take lined consideration the general" up to the hour when the intelligence uneasiness as the time. There had arrived, we do not believe the reform been a procession of 120,000 men of" ers in any part of Scotland had formed Mihien different Metropolitan parishes," a definite idea of what measures they the shops hall been closed, great ex-ought to adopt in such an emergency, faitement prevailed, and the delegates," Now, look at Berth. The vote of the men of much influence in their several "lords is known there at ten o'clock on localities, knowing the extent of the Monday night even at that late hour, Monday retetement fearful Jest long prongition (of which they had fe eelted intelligence) might initsthe "then excitement produce mischievous Heffects lost no time inimeeting the fevil. le strikes us to be puerite in Mr Campbell to attach so much im peitando ds he does dod breach of Beiqust be ingeventech citizens waiting Fiontale Prime Minister ht the anseaErgouble hour of a quarter to eleven. They might have formed an erroneous festimate löfl the danger, but if they thought that the diffusion of the inteldigunde bfica Bongoprorogation was fig harwith danger they only disSarged their duty in endeavouring to taedtistetavit whhout delayed the 4dtelligence arrived in a tampate mid Elght, that she enemy were within a harfent hours marchenodone would heitate to disturb the repose of the Edithanden MrCampbell may be Tof those coal temperament than the reberalist of people. 19 Rousseau says, that when the philosopher hears the ans Nowowe do hot any that Mr. cry of free bopens his window, and, "Campbell is a bastard Scotsiad but Vescing it up splines distalice, instead of if he had been Provost of Percip, inStandingstpaffordsistance, exclaims," stead of applauding his fellow-citizens shuts the window,obbserving coolly, requisition for a me ting is signed; and at two o'clock next day, ten thou sand persons, including the whole adult population of the town and vicinity, are assembled in the Inch, to address the King! There was no panse required for deliberation; no doubt or fofaulteringgo no need felt of the example of the capital or other great towns The people were carried, as "if by an instinctive and simultaneous impulse, to the proper steps for the vindication of their rights Dundee, Kirkaldy, and Hawick were equally midy, and Hawick prompt in their motions decision, energy, unanimity were never more beautifully exemplified; and the same spirit, the same zeal, reigns through do a "with a requisition for a meeting at "midnight, we suppose he would have 66 will be prorogued till February. This On "read the requisitionists a lecture on "their inattention to decorum, in ap contained the following :-“In the "proaching him at so unseasonable an interval of repose which may now "hour. The people, no doubt, would" be afforded you, I am sure it is un"have answered, An hour's repose," necessary for me to recommend to "more or less, at a crisis like this, when" you the most careful attention to the "the safety of the Empire is at stake," preservation of tranquillity in your re"is of small moment; and therefore we 66 spective counties. The anxiety which "have thought it better to disturb you "has been so generally manifested by "at midnight than to lose an opportu- my people for the accomplishment of "nity of meeting without delay.' For-" a constitutional reform in the Com"tunately decorum yielded to a strongmons House of Parliament, will, I "sense of duty, and out of a popula- “trust, be 'regulated by a due sense of "Ition of 20,000, no fewer than 10,000|" the necessity of order and modera"met in the open air, in the manner so tion in their proceedings. To the "much extolled by our Northern Con- " consideration of this important ques"temporary. Mr. Campbell may sup- "tion the attention of Parliament must "pose he is assisting ministers by read-" necessarily again be called at the "ing lectures to the people on the "opening of the ensuing session; and "propriety of being more measured in you may be assured of my unaltered "their enthusiasm, more moderate in desire to promote its settlement, by "their dislikes, and more indifferent to" such improvements in the representa"the public tranquillity. The stone" tion as may be found necessary for assumed by him did not, however, securing to my people the full enjoy-" "seem very palatable in the House.ment of their rights, which, in com"Colonel Evans said he should be bination with those of the other orders "wanting in his duty, after what he" of the state, are essential to the sup"had heard, if he did not honestly state" port of our free constitution." 1 "his opinion, that both the spiritual "and temporal welfare of the people "would be better. consulted if the "Bishops were not to belong to the "House of Lords." · In all this I agree, and particularly in what is said about the Bishops. There must be a change with regard to them." He, of Winchester, has two palaces and the interest of the money for which a third palace was sold ! His income is not less than forty thousand pounds a year, while there are curates starving upon thirty pounds, and a plenty of them too. Poh! Lord Grey; you may be waspish at the "abrupt intrusion" of the people, but this scandalous abuse cannot remain. HAMPSHIRE. A county meeting is to be held at POSTSCRIPT.. Winchester, on the 26th instant (Wed PARLIAMENT is prorogued to the 22ndnesday next) at which, health permit. Noveinber. But the hack paper says ting, I will be o WM. COBBETT. that it will then be again prorogued for 912 at alot to sh fourteen days. And I believe that if 1 22ND OCTOBER, 1831. BOROUGHMONGER'S Kensington, 17th October, 1831. BOROUGH MONGERspune decor fo Ora&as put their publications in mourning at the rejection of the Reform Bill by the Lords: I, if I knew how, would decorate mine with laurels and garlands. Others rave and stamp and foam with indignation: I laugh, and wish that there were combinations of letters wherewith to express the sounds of hearty risibility: Many reasons tead to the producing of this feeling in me, bat I will, for the present, rest satisfied with stating one of them, which, stupid as you are as well as insolent, will, if you look well at it, make you scratch your heads. You have little sense, know; but you must be quite beasts not to feel the force of the facts that I am about to state, and which I do not state for the purpose of enlightening you, or patting you upon your guard; not at all for the purpose of giving you useful advice, or of inducing you to do any thing, or to leave any-thing undone, but for the sole purpose of mortifying yea, and of letting you see, that 1, whose views and designs were so much censured by BoscAWEN, HERBERT, Old SERJEANT BEST, and my LORD LYNDBURST, hare reason for laughing, while others are filled with alarm and despair. Hundreds of times did I tell MAJOR CARTWRIGHT, that there never would be REFORM to any extent, as long as the poper-money system remained unshaken. Since that time, it has had some pretty furious shakes. Av million and a half of us petitioned for reform in 1817; and though we had all the arguments that LORD JOHN RUSSELL has now urged in apport of his bill, we werer crammed into dungeons, or driven into exile, for car pains, and that too with the loudlyexpressed approbation of those merchants and bankers of London," who now demand reform in a much bolder strain dan we did at that time. In 1815, in answer to a letter, in which the Major pressed me to return from Long Island, Isaid, "When there is a hole made in the "paper, I will return; but until then 230 you will get no reform; and with the mere pen, I can do more here than I can there, and the sea is between me and Sidmouth and Castlereagh.", But the next year, it pleased God, in his mercy to England, to raise up the renowned statesman PEEL, aided and abetted by Ricardo, Tierney, old Grenville, and the like of them; and he, sent forth his RENOWNED BILL. I got it in, August, and instantly made preparations for my return; and got home in November. For, the moment I saw the bill, I exclaimed, "There comes reform at last!""" You are a stupid set; but if you be thirty years of age, you must have seen the thing gradually approaching from that day to this. In 1822, the thing was at hand, but was stopped for three years by the prolonged issue of one-pound notes; that is to say, by a part repeal of Peel's bill. This however, brought on the PANIC of 1825 and 1826, which, as the "great statesman," HUSKISSON, said, brought us, under this well-working Parliament," to within forty-eight hours of barter!" Indeed, it was touch-andgo, when the OLD LADY slept with an ORDER IN COUNCIL under her pillow. To prevent this danger for the future, the one-pounders were to cease in England in April, 1829; and when that law was passed, or rather passing, I told the well-working Parliament, that if they! enforced that law, without taking off more than one-half of the taxes, they would plunge the country into a state of ruin and misery such as the world had never witnessed; and that I KNEW this as wetbus I knew that fire burnod. ve The ruin has come; tho misery has come; the fires have come; and the REFORM has, at last, peeped out, and is struggling for vent! And do you imagine, that the great manufacturers and merchants and bankers are crying for REFORM, because they have been converted to a love of popular rights! Bah! as the French say you are not quite stupid enough for that, I think. Do you imagine, that the YEOMANRY CAVALRY have, all of a sudden, become enamoured of the Goddess of Liberty! They would kick the Goddess to the she had nothing in store for the relief of their pockets: Oh no! the Chopsticks have made them raise their wages; these, they cannot pay and pay tithes and Lares also they see that they cannot again get down the wages, and that Regon is necessary to relieve them from the tithes and taxes Therefore are they reformers estherefore they throw their lusty arms round the waist of the Godless, and will bags job of it if you get her from their dedent embraces 19v og 16 devila por at least, chop her down, ifh We the undersigned Icon Masters and is Coal Masters of the Staffordshire Arg.aud represent to his Majesty's Goverment lagi Coal district think it our duty respectfully to following facte bet norimos bn ZNOSTNE ZAð æt ffs in That for the last five years, eversingg what is called the punis of 1835, we have found o increasing stepression in the prices of the pres with very slight intermissions, a continually ducts of industry, and more particularly, 40, 6 those of Pig Irons and Bar Iron, which have s fallen respectively from upwards of 81. perfon to wadero. penton, and from 15% per im W 2Against this alarming, and long com under 51. per ton. tinued depression, we have used every possible effort in our power to make head.", Mahavad praeted all manner of economy and have in the working of our mines, and manufact hadathcourse bios every possible improvemens toness fun-workmen's wages have, in many instances, been greaily, reduced, and such rens dustion has been attended with and effected the royalties, rents, contracte, and nether ePTS byssivenys greats/suffering, and, distress: mbus gogements, under which avelshold our Bni reduced at all, nor can we get them effectually spective works and mines, have swargely been reduced, because the law enforces their payment 78 88 Threadrices of the products of our inks). in bedeilduq w T dustry having thus fallen within the range of the charged and expenses which they fixed law compels us to discharge, the just aßa feces. missary profits of our respective trades bave eeuses tends the ad diwne to jexisty sandan many cheeka pokitive loss‹nt→→ 4th. have long hesitated you! But am now about to show you, in detail, and from authentic documente, how the great manufacturers have been converted to the cause of reform, and why it is that those of Birmingham are more ardent than those of any other of the great towns of wonder whether you will be so stupid as not to attento what I am now about to lay before You may; but other people will not you do attend to, you will despair of being able to prävent,refords Here is the security for the triumph of Beform Here ufre it is and this is what laugh, while what makes others put their papers in mourning. Pour Twevok ascribed the chy of reformuoƆilly übrîtingszɛ Bxwind) and WELLINGTOwn uncribedoit touche and our duties Pequire French Revolution: I am going to show us au adoptsut we should abandons auroreto you in detail and offspective trades our large and extensively →→ 2 In determining 团 we cially, that the cry has By PEEL'S Wifrinds That Pero crificed, at an his dogoperators have ALL the midrit of its and that not a particle of that menit belongs to me ylrsalɔ oe ei aiur doidw beshalming of the statordshite Iron Meeting brine' Trade, held at Day October, Staffordshire Tron 1831; MICHAEL GRABBqd gino the Chairaids todays of sunitnog of and But it was resolyel, that this meeting camps with considerable anxiety and ap prehension the present appalling and long continued depresion in the prices officon, and which they attribute mainly the jurious operation of the existing laws relying, tothe 59165 een produced lays in mac pormonsfions must be sa loss to ourselves, and, thrown duchousandsi upun parishes alfatly our Kolest and incritorious workmen must be to much impoverished by their present bur dens to support them ond if continue our e our respective trades, we see nothing We should certain ruth to all around ukle chiɛen yo But the pr prospect of increasing distres and 10" 25thaimous humble opinion, the great sause, which has been mainly instrumental i producing this depression and respective trades, auton the ques classes of the country generally, the attempt productive to render the runuz takes) royalties, and the other various engagement and obligations of the country compertible in law ini, gold. That the following Memorial of the noted price of the metallid Standard of lue at 174, 104d. per oz. This low and alitiand Coal Trade be presented to Earl Ghyby immoblonger capable of-effecting a jugtat aɛdeputations, mid that a copy thereof be sent equitable distribution of zous products betwężn to the chairman of the Welch, trade, request the producen and the consumer; it renders for the concurrence and co-operation of the incompatible the gentlemen of that district in i nent existence of res 30 Memorial the Riglie 19ondurable Earl tabation as we cannot hope to seacted i in its prayer 92 yen Altherative pricus, pate reduction of Grey, First Lord of his Majesty's Treasuryyntimetroffend us ampréliéfe ansk it thus tendez. currency. |