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city and to see these transaction and about 128 furnaces. Of these, perils
popilation of the country, and more competent ups, a dozen are in ruins or unserun
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There, boroughmongers! That's the over-production" let it not, in cause of Reform Teach the 199, in the Ministerial slang, be ascribed to cluding the 21 Bishops, how to get causes "over which the Government had over that! Some people talk of RYDER no control Look at the prices of as the new Minister. Tackle it, RYDER:!] 1818; “look at the progressive ruin ;' Will you put out paper-money, and raise see how exactly it keeps pace with the prices? Do, Ryder! I wish you would; Acts of Parliament, affecting the cur for then. I could pay your tax-gatherer rency; and you will trace the quinto in paper, and carry on my business in those Acts as clearly as you trace the gold. Will you not do that? Then hanging of poor Cook of Micheldever the ruin must become greater every to the Act of Ellenborough, improved day, unless you take off the taxes; and by LansdowniamCook was certainly if you do that, you cannot pay the in-hanged according to law ; but not more terest of the debt, unless you take the certainly than thousands of industrious church and other public property: Lord and virtuous families have been reducedLYNDHURST (for I don't mind Boscawen, from competency to beggary by that Herbert, and old Serjeant Best) found series of laws, of which PEEL'S BILD fault with my thirteen Manchester pro- was the firsttabb way to a dev by positions; but will his Loalship show But it may be said, that, at any rate, us any other way out of this difficulty the Parliament did not intend to cause And if he cannot, it did not, Itink, besuch ruin. And is that a defence? It' come him to cite these propositions as might do, indeed, as a plea for pardón an argument against the Reform Bill for the past: but what can it avail as a Let it not be said that the Parliament ground for future trust? At the very could not help this ruin let it not, in best, it has been, for many years, doing the language of Sir HENRY PARNELL and what it did not intend to do; or, in TOOKE, be ascribed to={{over-trading?" other words, it has not knowns what» yio »

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was doing it has been doing mischief into the House of Commons most veheenormous, it has been inflicting ruin and meatly bent upon an extended reform, misery on a whole people, when it declaring, at the same time, that you thought it was doing right. This is its would wait but a very little time before very best plea; and yet one of the argu- you brought the motion forward, whe ments against the proposed change is, ther the new ministry were organized or that it will let into Parliament men of not, and that those were very much de-` industry, vigilance, and talent! How-ceived who thought that the reform ever, there it is, Ryder; make the best you meditated was of a limited descripof i get out of the difficulty as you tion. Two days afterwards, you were can; or, let us have our reform, and I Lord Chancellor and a peer! which“ warrant you that we get ourselves out of puts one in mind of Lafontaine's story it and you along with us. of the eloquent Goth who came to Rome to complain of the tyranny exer- ; cised in the Provinces, when, as a re-i medy, a senator wiser than the rest, *y exclaimed, “ Fail-le Prætór !”: How- i ever, you became a member of a re-i formning ministry, and, since that time, you have been bound up with the bill, and was, of course, one of its de fenders in the House of Lords. This brings me to the topic, which I had in / view when I commenced this letter.

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MY LORD, Ir is now about, I think, five-andtwenty years since. you and I had the first skirmish, you being then a very In my Register of last week, I cut desperate Edinburgh Reviewer, just out from the report of your speech in arrived at London in a Berwick smack, the Morning Chronicle, two passages,' freighted, to the very choking of the in one of which I thought I could alhold, with adventurers come to get ready discover that you had no very pickings out of the "toons o' the sooth." great dislike to be thought to be ready You have carried on your botheration to separate from Lord GREY; and that, pretty well. have seen you, first, in the other passage, I thought I could declare yourself, in writing, for an-discover a readiness, on your part, to aval partiaments and universal suf- surrender the part of the bill relating to frage when those were put into ten-pound voters. You have made two i dungeons or driven into exile, you speeches upon these subjects; one last called them tittle nostrums and big Saturday, and the other on Monday, banders. Since that, you have avoid both of which I will insert here, as I ed definitions; but, as occasion served, find them reported in the Morning [ vetatked about parliamentary reform. Chronicle, which believes to have bý When, however, the flashy adventurer, far the most accurate reports. The CANNING, became Prime Minister, and Saturday's speech was as follows declared explicitly that he would oppose Another gross misrepresentationched parliamentary reform, in any and in" said he had been subjected every shape, to the end of his life, in regard to the Reform Bill... He heard you, as explicitly declare that the saw it again stated, that there was a people had ceased to desire a parlia- "decided differénde between him and› mentary reform; and, the same night, I his noble Friend at the head of thes aw Lord JonN RUSSELL withdraw his*“ Administration, in regard to a mater { mtice of motion for reform upon the "rial part of the Reform Bill, and this very ground stated by you. I heard was founded on a garbled statement of o you the winter before the last, condemn" what he had really said when speaking ‹ the motion of Mr O'CONNELL for re“ on that bill He had on that occasionet forin... Last fall, I saw you, while the TERMCAThenugęs & Wastes going on..come

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"lent revolution, the result of which no Wednesday evening, laid before the pub66 man can predict."

The words "necessary means," &c., imply the creation of Peers; they were intended respectfully and delicately to suggest this to his Lordship, and they seem to me, and will, I conclude, to every man who reads them, to have no other meaning. His Lordship must, I think, have so understood them; yet his Lordship did not, either to the deputation or to the Lords, take the slightest notice of them.

The deputation was composed of men who knew the world, as well as the respect due to his Lordship, too well to urge any point too far, or not to take any reply his Lordship might make as at once conclusive.

Looking, then, at the words of the memorial, and at those used by his Lord ship, no unbiassed man, can, I think, come to any other conclusions than those which his Lordship, says contain "an incorrect statement of his expreesions." They may be stated thus:

3. That the bill which had passed the Commons, and, had been rejected by the Lords, was not to be again presented to the Commons.

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lic in detail, they would be as highly creditable to them as the result will, I conclude, be acknowledged to be useful. Should that result be no more than shortening the prorogation, of which, however, I have great doubt, much good may be done much mischief prevented. Whether the apprehensions of the meeting, expressed in the memorial, are well or ill-founded, time will show, if the prorogation be continued over ChristYours sincerely,

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Good! Good, Mr. PLACE, but this on THURSDAY ought to have come out on MORNING, the 13th, instead of W DAY MORNING, the 19th. T you credit for having made the communication to the Chronicle on the 14th, and to that paper for having published it on the 15th, and thereby having enabled tale at the me to let out the Ominous Guild-hall on the evening of the 15th. 1. That it was contemplated to pro- But, in justice to the country, it should rogue Parliament till after Christmas. have come out from you, and with your 2. That Ministers did not intend to re-name, on the morning of Thursday, the.. commend the creation of Peers. 13 for there have the people been set on by Lord EBRINGTON to implore, the King" to continue his confidence in his present Ministers," the people thin ing, of course, that, that, confidence It was apprehensions of these three meant a new creation of peers, and a circumstances, now proved to have been speedy passing of "the bill;" but if entertained on good grounds, that in-you had, on the 13th, published under, duced the meeting, which was a public your name, the account which the meeting, called by advertisement, to Chronicle published on the 15th, the sign, the memorial, and send, the de- people would have known, that, to call putation to Earl Grey; and, not-upon the King to continue his confidence withstanding the false quotations and in his present Ministers, was, in fact, to scandalous imputations of the Courier, call on him to prorogue Parliament till, the proceedings of the meeting after Christmas; to refuse to cause a will, I trust, be acknowledged as ge-new creation of peers, and not to cause, nerally as they have already been "THE BILL to be proposed again.. pretty extensively, to be warranted by Thus have the people been acting in. circumstances, and this is all, which I the dark: they have, in fact, been doing think need be said in reply to Lord precisely the contrary of that which Brougham's assertion, in which he endeavoured to attribute the proceedings

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This matter is, I think, now pretty well settled: the "abrupt intrusion" of the parochial deputies, on the 12th, disconcerted the schemes that were on foot: it took the head contriver, the “stand or fall” man, by surprise: it let out, at once, that which we were to have learned by bit-and-bit; that which was to have confused us; to have first pledged us to support the Ministers, and then imputed inconsistency to us, if we disapproved of their abandonment of the bill. It was a real, a genuine Whig scheme; but the "abrupt intrusionTM disconcerted it.

of this country, namely, that the political power of the Bishops ought to cease. He himself was of that opinion. (Hear, hear.) He was surprised that the honourable and learned Member should think that that wish, as expressed in the petition, was a solitary wish, and that no part of the people of the country sympathised with it. He was equally surprised that the honourable Member for Worcestershire should say it was false to state that the bill was lost by the vote of the Bishops, when it was clear, that as the majority against, twenty-one Bishops had voted against the bill, the bill only amounted to forty one, and as the majority would have turned the other way, had the Bishops voted in support of that mea-, sure. He believed that the time would come. for all these changes, but he admitted that this was not exactly the moment for discussing Now let us go to the House of Com-it, Then as to the observation of the hon. mous on Tuesday night, where we find and learned Member for Stafford, that these "Colonel EVANS giving notice that he expressions of opinion were like dictating to "would, to-morrow, Wednesday, move statement of the honourable and learned; the Ministers, he did not agree at all with that "a resolution to the effect, that it is Member, and he believed that it would be only "inexpedient to defer the re-introduc-playing the game of the anti-reformers, if the "tion of the Reform Bill for any longer “ period than a month." The result of this motion will, I dare say, be a negatice upon it by "the whole-bill" House of Commons, and will leave no room for doubt, even in the minds of idiots. which the people had manifested on this subMr. RUTHVEN said, that the strong feeling But, in the meanwhile, there was a de-ject was both natural and proper, and he bate last night, worthy of great attention, relative to the Bishops. I insert it at length. It is worthy of our best

attention.

Mr. HUNT presented a petition from an individual, stating that the Reform Bill was defeated by the Bishops, and praying that they might be disfranchised.

people of this country were to lie on their arms, as if they did not care about the success of the rejection of the bill. Instead of doing this, he recommended them to use every con- 1 stitutional means of showing the deep anxiety they felt upon the subject..

hoped that they would continue to show their anxiety, upon it in every constitutional way for riots were only injurious to the cause of He sincerely deprecated violence of all kinds, Reform; but he trusted that all other efforts, would be made to sustain the Ministers.

Mr. J. CAMPBELL, in explanation, said, that he too wished the people to come forward in a constitutional manner in support of the Re form Bill, but not to send delegates at midnight to the noble Earl at the head of the government, nor to address petitions to that House couched in such improper and unconstitutional language as the petition now presented to their

Mr. J. CAMPBELL deplored the presentation of such a petition. It could not fail to be productive of bad effects. Nothing could injure the cause of reform except the indiscreet forts of pretended friends. He likewise begged to observe, that attempts, such as notice. those lately made to dictate to Ministers, must Mr. FRESHFIELD could not let this opportu decidedly be mischievous. He doubted whenity pass without protesting against these ther the petition ought to be received.

Mr. ROBINSON. Said this was very like the things the honourable Member was bringing down every night. He also doubted whether the petition ought to be received. It bore no date, and he hoped the honourable Member would be able to show how it came into bis bands.

Mr. HOME said that the House ought not to reject the petition, merely because it was contrary to the opinion of the House. With res spect to the observations made by the hon. and learned Member for Stafford, he begged to say, now he was thus called upon, that he believed the opinion expressed in that petition to be the opinion of a large portion of the people

constant allusions to the Bishop-these attacks upon a portion of the Legislature, the existence of which was so neccessary to the support of the constitution of the country. He could not avoid, too, expressing his strong objection to the sort of language held by the hon. Member for Middlesex, who, not content with saying that the Bishops should not have voted against the bill, actually seemed to declare that they should violate their consciences by voting in its favour.

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Colonel EVANS said, that as the honourable and learned Member for Stafford had alluded to the conduct of the delegates who had waited upon Earl Grey, he begged to say, that they had done nothing which deserved the censure of

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