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POLITICAL REGISTER.

VOLUME LXXIV.

FROM OCTOBER 1, TO DECEMBER 24, 1831.

INCLUSIVE.

and Dec. 31, 1831 - Mar. 31,

1832

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

11, bolt court, fleet street.

1831.

VOL. 74.-No. 1.] LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER, IST, 1831

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Bancroft Library

No. II.

TO THE

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address! There is no such thing: there is nothing contradicted, much less controverted; and the whole thing ends. with a CAVIL about the mode of voting at elections, about the suffrage, and about the duration of Parliaments; things relative to which the Address contained not a single word, but about which I shall have a word or two to say presently, coupling this critic with my critical friend Mr. PRICE, of Upton-on

ELECTORS OF MANCHESTER. Severn, and taking my leave of both of

GENTLEMEN,

Kensington, 1st October, 1831.

them with a single bow intended to be divided between them. But after the CAVIL, Mr. PRENTICE, who was RESOLVED not to pass over defects and

AGREEABLY to the promise which I made you in my Address No. 1, dated on the 1st of September, I now proceed omissions, thinks it becoming in him to to maintain, by statement and by argu- go very widely out of his way in order ment, the justice, the expediency and to conclude with a falsehood. He says the easy practicability, of the thirteen measures described by me in that Address No. 1, beginning with the first stated measure of the thirteen. But before I set out in the discharge of this duty, I hope that you will excuse me if I stop a minute, to notice some remarks" of the Manchester Times, (under date of the 17th of September) upon that address, which remarks it is impossible to read without calling to mind POPE's beautiful description of literary envy:

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that he feels himself "compelled" to notice my opinions about slavery in the colonies. Stripping the thing of its useless words, he says that I have branded as canters and hypocrites, not only ALL who have expressed themselves as opposed to the continuance of slavery in our colonies, but ALL who think that Englishmen ought not to be taxed in order to enable the owners of estates in the West Indies to hold their black brethren in thral"dom." Here are two assertions, and both of them malignantly false. First, never in my life did I denominate as canters and hypocrites "all" those who have petitioned for the abolition of Negro Slavery; but, on the contrary, have always said that they were a mass of people, ninety-nine out of every hundred of whom had their good and kind feeloutset, who would not have expected a knaves, who were seeking the gratificaings perverted by crafty and selfish complete analysis, and something like a tion of their own pecuniary interest, and refutation of something contained in the their low and dirty ambition, at the

"Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; Just hinta fault and besitate dislike."

Mr. PRENTICE, who is the writer of this paper, sets out with professing his "perfect willingness to admit all the "merit of the Address, but with a RE"SOLUTION not to pass its defects and "omissions unnoticed." After such an

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