ness can exist in no breast in which In such confusion were minds of the Holy Alliance; in such a complete state of botheration had our proceedings and their own anxious vanity put them into, that they really knew not what ་༔ ་ was to such scenes, from knowing what w going on. At any rate, I hope Sir James will have the honesty to tell my Lord Grey, that ONE-HALF of the county' of Hants tacitly expressed their want of confidence in him; a decision greatly to the honour of the county, and for which the county is indebted, next after the virtue of its people, to the manly deter Fation of Mr. Budd to be heard first; if the Holy Alliance had begun, the agents of noise would not have suffered one word to be heard from Mr. Budd or from me: the tame, the unmeaning, the talentless, the servile, the toadeating address would have passed as the of the they were about. The Under Sheriff unan foto Which If came forward, not with any-thing would with the called an amendment; not with any- basest rotten borough in the kingdom. thing in the shape of an amendment; ZORILOWMO COBBETTY but with an address, which that Gentleman told me he got from Mr. Marsh; le cucul Few Whichester, 27th October, 1831. an address that h had never been seconded JEPHTHAн, in his speech at the meetor even moved. However, the thing ing, said that I, in disapproving of an was done; the scheme for making this expression of confidence in the Ministers, great county the mouth-piece of confi- was opposing my opinion to that of dence in Ministers; of passive obedience every other man in the country. and non-resistance; this scheme was JEPHTHAH and his allies would have let defeated. I knew that there would be me be heard in the reply to their pera great division at any rate, and a great sonalities, I should have read to them division there was: for, it was so near the following extract from the CHROa thing that the High Sheriff made the NICLE of Tuesday:-"At the Reform meeting divide twice before he would "Meeting at Hull, on Monday week, determine which had the majority. The an amended address was carried by a second time, addressing himself to me large majority, in which it is stated, he said, "I think there are rather most "That we have heard, with the deephats on that side:" to which I answer-est indignation which it is possible ed, and really for the purpose of not" for a betrayed people to feel, that giving him any plague with the Alli-"your Majesty's Prime Minister has ance," Yes, Sir, I think there are," and "declared his determination not to so he decided. "reform the Upper House of Parliament, nor to attempt the restoration of the representative system in the House of Commons, until January next,'" Here, then, is what was said on the subject by the very finest town in the King's dominions, and inhabited by as orderly, as sensible, as intelligent, as frank, as public-spirited people as ever breathed. I applaud their quick-sightedness, and their honest decision. The Chronicle talks of " a mob." Never was there a town with so few persons in to whom that name can, with justice, be applied. Hull is a σε And now let Sir JAMES MACDONALD, as picked orator of the alliance, go to" the sincere Whigs and put forward his plea for a good thumping place, upon the ground that he was mainly instrumental in preventing this great and fine county from passing a sulky and silent censure on the Ministers: it was, as the gamesters say, "all but: it was the turn of a feather; and even that turn was obtained in consequence of the noise and confusion that prevailed, and that prevented a thousand or more of the country people, unused as they are " 3 town of people above want, and below when no longer wasted by a band of luxury. It is little infested with those boroughmongers. If you think of these vermin who riot on the vitals of the things, your anger against the American country; and hence this just decision. politicians will be mitigated. I showed JEPHTHAH MARSH this para- As often as I have talked with those graph in the morning, before he went American politicians, I have always to the meeting; and, therefore, in addi-frankly told them, that one cause of tion to the foul play, we must place the my rage against the boroughmongers merit of this wilful falsehood, on the was, that they crippled my country, and part of this vow-maker, who uttered the enabled theirs to make a saucy navy, falsehood with the foreknowledge that that dared already to talk of taking it would not be exposed to those who from England the dominion of the seas. had heard it. Nothing will he, how-These politicians used to ask me what I ever, gain by that in the end; and, it is the end to which men always ought to look. NORTH AMERICANS. AND 1 would do to prevent the increase of their navy and the humbling of England; and when I told them, they used to exclaim, "And would you do that, now!" I answered," Yes: it is my duty to "wish that my country should still be "the mistress of the seas; and if I had ENGLISH BOROUGHMONGERS." the power, it would be my duty to "give effect to that wish." "But, To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle would you do us so much mischief?" (Continued from col. 190, No. 3.) I used to answer, "I would do you no It is monstrous, to be sure; but, Sir," mischief; you are happier without modify your resentment; look at the" this navy than you are with one: I pages that I have pointed out in the like you exceedingly: I wish you alRegister of the 19th of June last; and ways to be happy; but, my duty to pray recollect, that self-preservation is " my own country would forbid me to the first law of nature. Look at Eng-" suffer you to indulge in ambitious land, Sir; consider what she is, if re- "views injurious to her greatness. lieved from the night-mare that presses "Whatever you can do against the boher to the earth. Then look at the roughmongers I applaud: I wish you United States; survey them well; look" always to beat them and disgrace at their geographical position; see" them; but whenever the people of more than one-half the country curs-" England shall obtain their rights, ed for ever with the dangers arising 66 your race of ambition is at an end." from Negro slavery; look at the It was not with a few scores nor with a Country cut asunder cross-ways, from few hundreds that I had conversations the sea to the Alleghany mountains, of this sort in America. These gentleeach inhabited by a people whose very men used to exclaim, "What, you talk interests make them more than half the " thus, who have been stripped to begenemy of the other; look at the divi-" gary, and driven to seek refuge here, sion length-ways of the Western from" by this country of yours!" No," the Atlantic states, and see the former, used I to say, "not by my country, but much more the enemy of the latter," by its oppressors, whose treatment of than Spain can ever be of France; and " me demands greater exertions on my that, too, from insuperable natural" part for the restoration of my councauses; 1ok at the rich Western states, " try." On this ground it was that, reduced again to a savage state, or to unconditional submission, by any power that can block up the mouths of the Mississippi. Look, then, at this little fight and truss country, teeming with mean's of all sorts; and think of those means, during the ten years and a half, first and last, that I was in that country, I never became what is called a citizen," and never would inscribe my name with a view to that end, though many inconveniences attended my not doing it. I 303 NORTH AMERICANS AND ENGLISH BOROUGHMONGERS. 991 34 across 304 could have secured the copy-rights of" draw in our horns pretty quickly." ten or twelve books in the United States, Now, this is only one conversation of which have been re-printed there with the sort out of many; and the thing is out any leave of mine, and which go so obvious, that there needs no fact of thence to the West and East Indies, this sort to cause it to be believed. I which copy-rights I could not secure have received whole files of American because I did not take up my citizenship, newspapers of the date of this present which would have cost me half-a-year, and they all teem with ridicule or crown. But, if I had once contracted abuse of the Reform Bill of Lord Grey; this engagement with the United States, and all clearly indicate a wish that it I should not have thought myself free to nay Be defeated. This reviewer's obdo that with regard to them which Iservation that all the institutions of would now do if I had the power, and England stand on the same footing as which will assuredly be done, if ho, the voting at Old Sarum, puts me in roughmongering be destroyed. mind of a very clever politician at New It is not necessary, Sir, for me to York, who, when I had been railing trouble you with a particular descrip- against the rotten boroughs, and Old tion of the line of policy which England Sarum in particular, got up from his ought to pursue with regard to the chair, came acros the room to me, a United States; nor is it necessary for giving me a tap upon the shoulder, me to show you how easily she would whispered in my ear," Don't abuse Old be able to do it, if relieved from her Sarum, Cobbett, it is our best friend." intolerable burdens, much less is it ne- Thus they all think, and thus they have cessary for me to show that the destruc-always thought since I have known tion of boroughmongering will relieve any-thing. Pray mark, Sir, with what her from those burdens, it is ouly ne- joy the Americans receive the news of cessary that I convince you that the American politicians believe that the Reform Bill, if passed, will put an end to their hope of being the rivals of England upon the seas, and also put an end to that saucy security which they now enjoy in consequence of the feebleness of England, and which feebleness they know well to arise from the burs dens which press her people to the ground. A little while before my last return from America, an English friend revolutions in France, in Belgium, ip Poland! What dinners, what boastings, what processions, what carrying of flags there are then in their great cities! Compare these with the glum silence, succeeded by dark doubts, and these succeeded by abuse and ridicule, with which they received the news of Lord John Russell's Bill! Ah! but the re novation of France, of Belgium, or of Poland, tended to give no strength which might be dangerous to the of mis asked by one of the Minis- United States It is 66 1 It is England only, of ters at Washington what I was going the freedom and the strength of which back to England for? He answered, they are afraid. They rejoiced with to try to get Parliamentary Reform. exceeding great joy at the emancipation "Poh!" said the Minister, "he'll never of the Catholics of Ireland. They had succeed." "I hope he will," said the their dinners and their toastings without Englishman. "Do you," said the Mi- end, with Wellington's statue stuck nister, why you are a citizen of the upon their tables, and decorated with "United States; you have your fortune laurels and with garlands. Ay, but "and family here; this is your country that they looked upon, though errone"now, and you ought to wish for the ously, as a triumph over England. "good and safety of it." “So I do," | Is not this enough for my Lord Fal said he, "but I may wish well to Eng- mouth? Does he want more to show land too." "Yet," said the other, him the great weight which his quota"but not wish for the Government to tion ought to have in preventing the "be taken out of the hands of the bo- bill from being passed? If he do, let "roughmongers; for, if it be, we must him reflect on the great immediate loss, 305 04 29TH OCTOBER, 1831. besides the distant danger, that this Catholics in both houses, relative to the Reform Bill will cause to the United Reform Bill: of States. The drain of specie and of most Alton Tower, Oct. 11.0 "Sir,-I beg leave, through the medium of aluable persons from England to the your spirited and patriotic paper (if you will of United States has been for several years allow me to do so), to bring it to the recol past at the rate of a million of pounds a lection of the public, that out of 19 Catholics year, or more, and at about the rate of who sit in the House of Commons, only one five thousand persons. People have voted against reform, and he sits, as the repregone who have carried letters of intro- sentative of a close borough, and therefore out of the nine Catholic Peers in the House of action from myself, carrying out with cannot be considered as a free agent, And them more than two hundred thousand Lords, we baver again but one solitary vote pounds in gold. Let the bill pass, and against the bill, and that from a nobleman the ever signalised himself as not another man of property will people, and as the advocate of go. Amongst all the people that are the poor! While the country has, therefore, enemies of reform the land-jobbers of cause to rejoibe in the admission of Catholics ca are the very greatest, the to their legislative rights, surely that false and boroughmongers not excepted. The absurd notion, that as Catholics we are the enemies of freedom, and the sticklers for oppressions arising from a arising from a want of re arbitrary power, will now be exploded form are a perennial spring of profit to Look, sir, at the reformation now carrying these crafly knaves. They would like, on in the Papal states, where the Sovereign, Pontiff, has the though rather better, anarchy, confusion and rewisdom both Prince, and I and magnanimity to vield to the just, volation, stirred up by degrees, and demands of his people, exhibiting an honourgiving people time to get away to Ame-able contrast to the fully and bigotry of our rica; and, finally, to tear England to Protestant hierarchy, who, by their betrayal present occasion, have pieces, and make her feeble for half a of the century, while they were swaggeri of political privileges. But I will not waste about over the world, purchasing your tinte in descanting upon these facts; it is half Mexico and all Cuba, as, they sufficient that I have drawn your attention to This is what them, confident that they will be duly appre-1 "purchased Louisiana. whom will, ftrust, eventful they would like best; but Old Sarum ciated by every all of But them very well; and being a Pruin the rallying cry of "The bill, the whole bill, dent people, they are for letting well and nothing but the bill for it is the bill alone do justice to the people that can de 04 Did are of th at ies! es enough alone; and hence the profound to the oligarchical character of our governwith pubication which Lord Falmouth has ment; and, while it scares away the revolu ord had the profound sagacity to city to quote Intionist, and blights the hopes of the anarchist, Unavoidably prevented! There is, however, lution : Kensington, 1st. Oct, 1831. FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, Ir the affair of the BARINGS and Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE, involving the alleged that of the magistrate, Long, of Preconduct of other persons, and particularly more here than meets the ear. The right rev. Father in God had heard from some tax-shaw; if this affair affected only the gatherer or other personage of the sort, that it parties; if it were merely a wrong was the intention of the congregation to leave the church in a body, to mark the detestation alleged to have been done by some in which the Bishops are held the moment he persons to some other persons, all private entered the pulpit. The following communica- parties, then it would not be of that tion (the author of which is known to us) states great importance which it now is. If a that 1100 parishioners had come to this rese-powerful man, in his private capacity, had done some wrong to a poor neigh"SIR,-The public have had notice of the intention of the Bishop of London to have re-bour, it would be a subject worthy of opened our parish church (which has been the attention, and fit to call forth the undergoing repairs) on Sunday next, Oct. 23, resentment, of all the people of the 1831, but his Lordship has thought proper to decline bis intended services, as he states him- neighbourhood. self, in a letter to Mr. Macleod, the rector, to be" unavoidably prevented;" at least such is the excuse in some bills at this moment distributing in the parish. The fact is, the spirit for reform is so rooted in the heart of every honest man, who is therefore anxious to show the contempt in which he holds the enemies to our just rights-the Reform Bill-that it was the determination of the major part, or, indeed, I may say, the whole of the iubabitants of this and other parishes, to have attended the church on Sunday next not to hear his Lordship, but on his reaching the pulpit to have instantly quitted the church. I myself know of 1100 persons who had made up their minds to have received his Lordship with that contempt with which he and his colleagues have treated the honest demands of the inhabitants of every parish in the kingdom. "A PARISHIONER." TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, BUT PARTICULARLY TO But, here the evil could not be extensive: here would be a bad man doing a bad act; but not an act likely to operate to the injury of the whole community. Not so in a case where magistrates and men acting under public authority commit acts of oppression; for in this case, the example may endanger the whole of the community; the cause of the oppressed party is the cause of every man and woman making part of that community; for the oppres sion which has been thus exercised on one party to-day, may be exercised on another to-morrow, and the magisterial office, instead of being a terror to evildoers, and a reward to those who do well, may become the general scourge of the innocent, and a terror to those only who are unable to resist the strong arm of power. this It is in this light that I take up matter, and with all this solemnity lay it before you. I do not take upon me to pronounce whether the allegations THE PEOPLE OF HAMPSHIRE, against the BARINGS and LONG be true ON THE AFFAIR OF THE BARINGS AND THE DEACLES. or false; but I know that they have been made; that they have been made in the most solemn manner; that the parties making them have pledged them"Never esteem men merely on account of selves to prove them to be true; that they "their riches or their station. Respect good-have prayed the House of Commons to "wherever you find it unassociated with vice; suffer them to produce proof of that truth; "but honour it most when accompanied with and that the House of Commous, up "exertion, and especially when exerted in the on the motion of the Ministers them66 cause of truth and justice; and, above all ness, find it where you may. Honour talent "things, hold it in honour when it steps for-selves, have resolved not to let them "ward to protect defenceless innocence against produce that proof, while they call the "the attacks of powerful men."-COBBETT's accused parties their honourable friends, ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Letter XXIII. and declare, upon the honour of gentle |