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      _f Continue Ifro _^ i < n . rfirst _] v . ce . ) _-Uie the Ynitcu States ; and under the organisation ofa state in c in convention , the ' reserved rightsof ihe l _^^ _X _ __»» edt . _dUplaytheir _enersy , and - _^^^ J _ ai _ adi _* . vut ,, di « thel _« s _ _ ftm 01 theca . tra _« - _*«^ 2 _^ Th The ¦ _ -.. _ tr- * _ngitattd with prolonged _i-uituntiit . the _S _^ _-f _iW-e _^ _ti- _^ _UgW- the world looked on will , fliv divided « _- _ j _ _jLia . _l-raying that the union w the State , _ d _ dgl .: l . _* . i _*^ l ' - _^* . _* 1 aUo thut u , _* i co : umcrce of Uic wc -ivor i _.: mi-: ! .: I * " «""«•*• , _Yvriimai . Iv _fi-r the country , and fortunately for _niarii _ldiid , Ami * - ** Jacksoa w . _is . it lhc l _.-chu of state , the _rc I _* r i _« sui _ iiv * -o :: _litfpr _iiii'iplvS that were to allay t . \ citevii vwnx , ' . "J i" restore ihe hopes of peace and freedom . — 15 . I 5 v iiatuiv , hv imp _Jlse , hy educat on , l . y co : iviclU _. _* i , a ii * friend to _ln-vsonai frettloni—by education , political _s-v-n-1 * i _^ thi . -s . aiid ihe fixed habit of his mind , a friend to thc ii ; _xi-ih . s of ihe . States—unwilling that the liberty of the S 3 Stale- , _5 . 10 _U- _* . lietra-. iiplcd under foot—unwilling tliat Ihe « < oi _ :: iu ! ii _. n should lose its vigour or be impaired , he

      _ral-_ lied for Hit- _e . _nstnuiK-n : and in its name he _punished to tl the woiid - TheUsios : it _ ist _i-. k _I'lirscnviiD . '" The ¦ v -words _vwrc a _ipell t *> liir & evil passion , aud to remove - * -tj . itrc-sf . oa . Undvr his guidiug intluence , the favoured i ; interest- * which had struggled to perpetuate unjust _k-gis-1 laiioii _y-. ihicd to the voice of moderation and reform ; a and every mind that had for a _iiic-iucut contemplated s a rupture i-f the States , discarded it for ever . Thc 1 _irhole influence of the past was invoked in favour of t the cui— - _itu . ion . l _' ro . u the council chambers of the ' _-Jaihcri , who _uioul ltd our institutions—from the Hall - where American independence was declared , tlic clear , 3 loud cry was uttered— " The Union : it must be prei _fisrved . " From every battle-field of the revolution— - ' from _Lexiu-ston and Hunker Hill—from Saratoga and Yorktov . ii- — "row the _li-. lds of _ utaw— -from die canc--brakes thai' _i-helUTcd ihe men of Marion—the repeated , long prolong -d echoes came ap— "the Union : it must be

      ITcServe v' From every valley in our land—from every cabin on llie pleasant niouutaia *? i . lc = —from the ships at our wha . Ti-. s ~ -from the twits of the hunter in our _weftemniost prairies—from the living minds Of the living millions . . _-f American freemen—from the thickly coining dories of futurity—the shout went up , like thc sound of many - . » _at _* .-r * , " the Union : it must be preserved . " The -fritntU-jfih- protective system , aud llicy who had _dcitu-aiu-i- * . ti . * . iToteciive _j-ystem—thc _Atat-. smcn of the ¦ Nort h , ihat uad wouuded thc constitution iu their love of ceatra'ism—the statesmen of the South , whose minds had _Cfillii . l i .. it- esin-mc the theory of Slate rights—all COU-• si-ired logeUior ; all breathed jm . y .-is for the perpetuity of the Uuio . _* i . l ' _:.-dtr the _prudent firiiiiics- - of Jacksonunder the _liiiMtire of justice and general regard for all iaivrests , the - rcatfst danger to our _iiistitutioi-s was turned .-shir , and mankind was encouraged to believe tfcai our _Cui-m , like our freedom , is inipcrishable .

      2 _* li _* r » ici ° - > l of she _j _* reat events of those days is thisth . tt tire i _*« . pi _; cau discern right , and will make Uieiv -nay to a _kii-mledgc of right ; that tlic whole human ¦ cr . ud , and therefore with it the wind ; of the nation , has _ coiuiiiuo . ; _--, ever improving existence ; that the appeal from lhc _uiij-ist legislation of to-day must ba made qvii f ly , eam „ . ly , _pi-rsevrringly ; to thc mure enlightened _CollC—ire rv _ _-., n of lo _ ton-ow ; that submission is due to tlic _pop-ii-ir will , iii the confidence that the people , when iu « tv ; % wiil amend their doings ; that in a popular _goiermiu-n ; , injustice is neither to be established by force , aor :. > he resisted by force ; in a word , that the L ' uioii , uhicli was constituted by _conseut , must be _preeerved bv love .

      It _ravely fails to the liappy lot of a statesman to receive such iiuaui-iioss a _*> pla _> e from the heart of a nation . Duty to the dead demands that on tliis occasion , the course of _mrjs ' . _nes should not _jiass uimotictd , in the progress of which his vigour of character most clearly aft-eared , and his conflict witli opposing parties was most _Ttokiit and _j . roii acted . Fro--i his i : omc in _Tc-uaessee , Jackson came to the I _' . osii _.-licy ri-.-oh ' ed to lift American legislation out of Hie -f ' enus vf r * _* i . _ii- * li legislation , and to place our laws on tlic currency ir . harmony with the principles uf our Government _, _lleraiiie Io the _l'residcnc . v ofthe United States resolved to _deliver the Government from tbe Ua . uk of the Tailed States , _:-. u J io restore the regul iliou of exchanges to _il _*< - _i-igiiifu ] depository of tliat power—thecommciee rfthe country . He had designed to declare his views ou ¦ fids _sulked ; _ii his inaugural address , hxA was persuaded

      to _relim-ai * _. _' _.-. ihat purpos _.-, on the ground that it belonged - rather io a _hgiilative message . When the period for - — _& - _ - _*» --- Congress drew near , it was still urged , that to attack Ihe hank would forfeit his popularity and secure liisfuiuri'dcfeaT . " ltisnot , " he auswered , "itisnotfor eiystlfihat 1 care . " It was urged that haste was unnecessary , as the hank had still six unexpended years of cLarterc A existence . "I may die , " he replied , "be fore ¦ _auoiher Congress comes together , and I could uot rest tj _ :-. ly in my : ; v . ive , if 1 failed to do what 1 hold so essential to _liiv iilierly of my country . " And his Iirst annual - _—ossagf : ! i _.- ; :=. _i :: _i-. - ed to the country that lhc bank was _j- _uthvr _tvnstiiu . ional nor expedient . Iu this he was ia advance of ih-. - friends about hini , in advance of _Congress , anu in advance of his party . This is no time for thc analysis of larasurcs or tlic discussion of questions of polnical economy : on the present occasion , we havo to _cvfiteuiiii :: !' - ' !?•«; character of the man .

      Ntiwr , f : o . n tiie first nionieiitof bis administratkn to fix las :, w : i ! , lucre a calm in the strife of parties on the subject of tiis currency ; and never , during lhc whole j _. _aiod , did he recede or falter . Always in advance of his j _. arty—always having near him friends wiio cowered be-• tort tlic _hardiliood ofhis courage—lie himself , throughout all tie eoan :-:, was unmoved , from the lirst _suggestion of * lie uneo _:. s ( i ; uiioualily of llie oauli io the iiion . ' nt when _LeLii— _*—C lh-s : ofall _. _reasoningfiomllieccria :.- _tendency « . _* f _itspclii-y , wilh _singular sagacity predicted to unhelicvi- _^ g iHen _. Is the coining _ins-Jveiicy ofthe Institution . The storm throughout the country rose with unexamj _* 2 ? d _rrlit-inmct ! : his oiipoiicii' _* . _¦« . ¦« j _. ot _safisiit-d with _ i _ — . i n- ,: » : cpublic , or Congress , ov his cabinet ; they threw their _uhole force personally ou hini . From all "• nits men pressed around him , _urgiii-r liim , entreating inn : o tend . Congress was flexible ; manv of his per .

      _Ki-cal _iHfi . _- _' . s faltered ; _thciriipetuotis swilling wave rolled _tnx , without -. tut suflirieut obstacle , till it reached his presaice ; but , as it dashed by in its highest fury at its feet , it Lroke before his lirniuess . The commanding majesty of 3 ; is v . ili _apjialk-d his _opiwucuts and revived liis friends , lie himself had a proud consciousness that his will was _5-i-lonjir . -. * _* lc . *" ian _ u _* rorer the rocks cf the Kip Raps , - > i : d _1-iokiag out upon the ocean , "Providence , " said he to _S friend , " Providence may change mv _detii-miuatiou ; I'at man no more can do it , than he can remove these 3 i : p Haps which have resisted the rolling occrr from the _1-cgianlu _* : of _tiiue . " Andlliougli a panic was '' reading ilirough thc land , and the whole credit system , as it theu (_ UtJd , v « is _cruin-bliug to pieces , and ci _* ushing _arOUlld _Ji _ B , he s ' . ooJ erect , like a massive column , which the leaps of failing ruins could not break , nor bend , nor sway from its fixed foundation .

      IVoj _. le of ihe District of Columbia : I should fail ofa fiutyoutliU . jccas - . ttn , if 1 didnot give utterance to your Svitaaiii ' _-t _<> f--latitude which followed General Jackson 5 _* it _*> retirement . 3 ) - . vellixi _**; _amongst you , he desired your j _* rosp _; rii , v . This beautiful city , surrounded by heights tin _i-josiauractiv _, , watered by a river so magnificent , the 3 . « ue of the _gealle aud tlle cultivated , not less than tl := seat of political power—this city whose site _Washjiigtou had selected—was dear to his affections ; and if he _-iv--n y ., _ur grateful attachment by adorning it with _jnonu-¦ _mctiti of usvful architecture , by establishing its credit , ac- - reiki _Ji-jr its hardens lie regretted only thathe had UCt tli *; opportunity to Lave connected himself still more _in—aiatt'ly wilh your prosperity .

      A « lis _j . _reji-ired to take his liual leave of the IHstrict , tke ma « of the papulation tf this city , and the masses that had gathered from around , followed his carnage in wowus . All in silence stood near him , to wish him a _ eu ; aud as the cars started , and he displayed his _jn-ey iairs , as he lifted his hat in token of farewell , you Stood , -around wilh heads uncovered , too full of emotion to speak , in solemn silence gazing on him as he departed , -never n _* _.- - > _v- » to be seen in your midst . l _* tho'd ihe warrior and statesman , his work well done , retire in thz Hermitage , to hold converse with his forrcsts : X" r . ihtva * . o his farm , to gather around hiin

      hospital . y his _rii'iidi . ' Who was like Mm ? 2 He was still the 2 c £ cs _ rof Hi- * American people . His fervid thoughts , frtiildy _-Jitiii-J , still spread the tlame of patriotism _thrcujli the American breast ; his counsels were still _listo-ed lo wilh reverence ; and , almost alone among ¦ s _tatc-sir . _-in . he iu his retirement was in harmony with every onward movement of his time . His prevailing influence _assisted to sway a neighbouring nation to desire to siisreour in _^ iitutions ; his ear _heardthefoolstepsof the cen :: ! -riai . 'ii < . s _< s that arc to gladden our western shores _; ac . ; his eye discerned in the dim distance the whitening sails that arc lo enliven the waters of thc Pacific witli the social sounds of our successful commerce .

      Age had whitened his locks and dimmed his eye , and _" ¦ prer . d amt-uil him the infirmities and venerable emblems cf many yca « of toilsome service ; but his heart beat as -ivirnilr -is in his youth , and his _courage was as firm a * it i-. _ l ever Wen in the day of battle . But nliile Ids affections v . _* _-re . " . ill for his friends and bis country , hip _tiiouihts wire already in a better world . That exalted "_ : !• < _*! , r . JJcii ia active life had always had unity _ofperdi-uoii , and will , which in action had never faltered from doiihl . and which in council had always reverted to -first _priat-ip ' fs aad general laws , now gave itself up to

      _Cc-m—uaiii ; with the Infinite . He was a oeiievcr : from _^ _clin-:. iron-, experience , from conviction . Xot a shadow _ciscvpticisni ever dimmed the lustre of his mind , l _' roud _j-htlo-iupker * will you smile io know that Andrew Jackson perused reverently his Psalter , aud Prayer-book , 2 fi _* l _ : Us * Know that Andrew Jackson had faith in tiie cUrvdty of truth , in thc imperishable power of popular _fririHic _* - _*! , it : the dc-sduies of humanity , in tiie virtues and ca ] -e , c :-y of the people , in his country ' s institutions , in the iKiug and overruling Providence of a merciful and ever-_ -. !_ - 0 _* od .

      Th = lasl _in-.- « cnt of his life on earth is at hand . It is fhaSaVxt : hi , f the Lord : tbe brightness and beauty of summer iIj _. _lsc the fields around him : nature is inhev _•• _iory : Vr . z _iJiesuhlimest _speclacle on that day , on earth , 1 V . -. S the victory of Lis unblenching _sjiirit over death itself . When he first felt the hand of death upon him , "May __ ly « r . _ _ak-s , _"" lie cried , "find peace ; may the liberties ol -a . j _ci- _ i ;! y endure for ever . " WLra his exhausted system , under the excess of pain , sui _— , for a _uiLiyitJit , from debility , "Do not weep , " said lie to Lis adopted daughter , "my sufferings ave less than those of Cl-risr upon the cross ; " for he , too , as a disciple of tlle crojs , could Lave devoted Limsc-li " , in sorrow , for -n- « . _- _ i- . id . reeling Lis end near , lie would see all his _f-K—Vo-ice more ; and Le spoke to them , one by one in

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      words of tenderness anil affection . His two little grand _, children were absent at Sunday School . He asked for them ; and ns tlicy came , he prayed for them , nnd kissed them , and blessed them . His servants were then admitted : they gathered , sonic in his room , and some on the outside of ' the house , clinging to the windows , that thev might gaze aud hear . And that dying man , thussurrouaded , in a gush of fervid eloquence , spoke with inspiration of God , of ihe Itcdierocr , of salvation through the atonement , of immortality , of heaven . Por he ever _thought thut pure and undcfilcd religion was the foundation of private happiness , and the bulwark of republicaninstitutions . Having spoken of immortality in perfect consciousness of his own approaching end , he hade them all farewell . " Dear children , " such wcre his final words , " dear children , servants , aud friends , I trust to meet you nil in heaven , both white and black—all , both white and black . " And having home his testimony to immortality lie bowed Lis mighty head , and , without a groan , the spirit ofthe greatest man of Lis age escaped to the bosom of his God .

      In life , his career had been like the blaze ofthe sun in the fierceness of iu uoou-day glory -, his death was lovel y as the mildest sunset of a summer ' s evening , when the sun goes down in tranquil beauty without a cloud . To the majestic energy of an indomitable will , he joined a heart capable of thc purest and most devoted love , rich in the tendercst afl'ections . On Ihe bloody battle-field of _Tohopc-ca , he saved an infant that clung to thc breast of its dying mother ; in the stormiest moment of his presidency , at the imminent moment of his decision , ho paused in his way , to give good counsel to a poor suppliant that had come up to him for succour . Of the strifes in which he was engaged in his earlier lift * , not one sprung from himself , but in every case lie became involved by standing forth as the champion of thc weak , the poor , and the defenceless , to shelter the gentle against oppression , to protect the emigrant against the avarice of the speculator . His generous soul revolted at thc barbarous practice of duels , and by no man in the land have so many Wen prevented .

      The sorrows of those tliat were ncarto him went deeply into his soul ; and at the anguish of the wife whom he loved , the orphans whom he adopted , Le would melt into tears , and weep and sob like a child . So mau in private life so possessed the hearts of all around liim— -no public man of this century ever returned to private life with such an abiding mastery over the _ad ' ectious of the people . >' o man witli truer instinct received American ideas—no man expressed them so completely , or so boldly , or so sincerely . He was as sincere a man as ever lived . Hc was wholly , always , and altogether sincere and true .

      Up to thc last , he dared do anything that it was right to do . He united personal courage aud moral courage heyond any man of whom history lcecx's the record . Before the nation , before thc world , before coming ages , he stands forth the representative , for his generation , of the American mind . And the secret of hisgrcatness is this by intuitive conception , he shared and possessed all the creative ideas of his country and his time . Hc expressed them with dauntless intrepidity ; Le enforced them with an immovable will ; he executed them with an electric power that attracted and swayed the American people . The nation , iu Lis time , had not one great thought of wliich he was not the boldest and clearest expositor .

      History docs uot describe the man that _equalled ban in firmness of nerve . Kot danger , not an army in battle array , uot wounds , not wide-spread clamour , notagc , not the anguish of disease , could impair in the least degree the rigour of his steadfast mind . The heroes of antiquity would have contemplated with awe the unmatched hardihood of his character ; and Xapoleon , had he possessed his disinterested will , could never have been vanquished , Jackson never was vanquished . He was always fortunate _, lie conquered the wilderness ; he conquered the savage ; hc conquered tiie bravest veterans trained in the _battlciielJs of "Europe ; hc conquered everywhere in statesmanship ; and , when death came to get the mastery over liim , lie turned that last enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblest of his adversaries , and escaped from earth in tbe triumphant consciousness of immortality .

      His body Las its fit resting-place in the great central valley of the Mississippi ; his spirit rests upon our whole territory ; it hovers over the vales of the Oregon , and guards , in advance , the frontier of thc Del Xorte . The fires of party spirit are quenched at his grave . His faults and fiaillieshave perished . Whatever of good Le Las done , lives , and will live for ever .

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      THE CONTRAST ; IX THE DEEDS OF THE ENGLISH "W 11 IGS _i _: \ dsr I . 0 _IU ) ( -REV ' S _adjiixistiiatiox . Nov . l' 2 nd , IS 30 . lord Grey , alluding to the riots amongst the labourers in the South and W ' estof England , said , "It is only within Hie last tlirec hours that we have been installed iu our _respective ortices as members of his Majesty's Government . I here declare for myself , and also for my colleagues , that it is _xxxy determined " ; resolution , tchcrcccr outrages arc _xxerpelrated , or excesses committed , to suppress them with SEVEIUTY AHD VIGOUlt . " On the very same day tliat Lord G rey made this declaration , there was a proclamation issued , iutlie name of the King , ofteriiijj a reward of one ucsdxxed _rovsns to any person

      Musing another to be convicted of any act of violence , and of FIVE I 1 UXD 11 ED POUNDS for _causing _mij one to 1 > _C convicted of sellixxg fire loproperly . The Dorsetshire magistrates Lad just agreed to the allowance of * T _*\ VO SHILLINGS AND SEVEN-PENCE A WEEK for a man to _ir-ji-i on and to lice on , when Lord Grey made the declaration above-named , and when the King ' s proclamation abore alluded to was issued , containing such an enormous inducement to perjury for any one ofthe poor labourers , as would give him for tlte commuting one act of false _siceax--ing , so large a sum of money that the interest alone of it would be nearly four times as mucli as he could get for _liU-utriuj tcurk , according to the scale of allowance agreed to hy thc Dorsetshire magistrates .

      Dec 4 , 1 S 30 . A special commission was appointed to try tlio agricultural labourers who had been taken up for rioting , of whom , iu Hampshire alone , there were : Transported , mostly for life 135 Hanged , one _ofihexxx forrivtiug , and the other for striking Bingham Baring , without doing him any harm . ' 2 Wives "bereft of their hushauds 73 Children bereft of their fathers 243 Parents to bewail tlic loss of tLoir sous 210

      Total cr . Being » n- « tt . ni tico to each parish in the whole county : and these men were thus prosecuted and thus punished , although it w-as given in evidence on tho trials that the labouring men went to work _vdih »!> OAi > gVuipolf . loesh > tfceir bags , and that the people who wcre compelled to go to the parish for relief were set to draiccarts like cattle , and that OLD "MEN and WOMEN wcre thus compelled to work ; and in euo case a WOMAN WHO WAS AN IDIOT ! Dec . C , 1 S 30 . The Whigs voted _"rwEKir-FivB thot _* - ss-sd _roc-sus for the repairs of Windsor Castle . Tho original estimate was £ 130 , 000 , and sums of money had been voted from time to time , to the amount of NINE llUSDUED THOUSAND POUNDS , to wluch tlic _Wliigs added thc above JC 25 , 000 .

      Dec . 1 G , 1 S : J 0 . Lord Althorp announced to the House of Commons , in answer to a question put to him , that SIX THOUSAND men wcre added to the army ; hut his Lordship said that it was done iu tho _cJic-apcslpossible manner . ' At this time thero wcre more than sixteen tuoc-SAXn MILITASV OFFICERS IS PAT . Teh . 4 , 1831 . Lord Grey said , on taking office , " Jr < trill cut off , _xcith an unsparing hand , all that is not demaxided for tllC INTERESTS , TBE _UOSOCK , and "TUE WEUABE OF the coustjit . " But Lord Althorp said , this day . in the House of Commons , "Idoult _ifve hate any equilaVU right to abolish any of thc _tensions onthe civil list "; although hc

      well knew that Urs . Arhuthnot ' s name was put on that list hy thcHi-E or Wellington , on tlic day tliat hexxtnt out of ofiice , to the tune of nearly £ 1 , 000 a year , and ameoateo ten YEAss ; so that the moment her name was written on the list , the nation was her debtor nearly ten * thousand rouses ; and that for services known to no person iu the kingdom , except perhaps the JJuVe himself , wlio might Lave "been able , Limsolf , to pay for Ler _ mV « out of his own purse , instead of out of that ofthe nation , serins- thathe is in the enjoyment of more than £ -10 , 000 per annum , granted to Lim by tbe Governmontfor an " accidental victory , " for _vrhich we are told that we cannot be sufRcicxillggrateful" ! !

      May 23 , 1831 . The _nigi made Wellington Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire , and a judge , to sit on the bench , in ihat " special commission" that was appointed to try persons charged with rioting in the agricultural districts . lv > " _" . l . Tlicy -voted an additional £ 12 , 000 a year to the Duchess of Kent ; £ 100 , 000 a year , as _adswer forthe Queen ; £ H , 0 u 0 for thc expense of the British Museum ; £ 100 , 000 to half-pay officers at Hanover , and other parts abroad ; and £ 50 , 000 for tlic expenses of the coronation of William 1 V . ; amounting in ihe whole to more than the whole of the poor-rates for the niiie _cotoKie * of Bedford , Berkshire , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Hereford , Monmouth , Northumberland , Rutland , and Westmoreland !

      Nov . 21 , IS 31 . The Whigs caused to be issued a royal proclamation against political unions , although they had accepted addresses from such unions , and had written gracious answers to those very pclitical unions ; and had , as was proved by Mr . Maurice O'Connell , even given - ornCE _FlJANSs" to Mr . _"J'isaVer" Partes , hy which papers of a pound weight may be sent by the post , in order that Le might , hy that means , circulate papers to roiue the _/«! itical unions in favour of Lord Grev and the Whigs !

      Thc _Vilugs caused prosecutions of the press under one of the " Six Acts , " which acts they so furiously railed against when out of office . Theso prosecutions wcre carried on witli sueh " vicocb" that , in seven months , in London alone , there were 3 iS individuals prosecuted and imprisoned for selling cheap pxibl _' mlions , whilst tlic Lord Chancellor Brougham was sending the cheap publications of a society to which lie belonged , all over the country , by means of " office franks "; and whilst we werc , by this same Government , stunned with the cry of " edution" and " cheap knowledge "'!

      1 S 31 . The Whig "Beform" Government allowed a statueof Canning tobe erected on a piece of land belonging to the public ; of that Canning who had always been tiie _tiio . 't strenuous opponent of reform , botli wLen in and when out of place ; of that Canning who , in tLe House of Commons , made a cruel jest of tho suffering of the "REVERED AND RUPTURED OGDEN , " whose sufferings wcre caused by the hrutal treatment that lie received at the Lands of the Government of which Can . _ning was a member : of that Canning who , iu May , ISii _" ,

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      ii _feYi toys aft * - Uc Lad . become Prime _Jfinwi-ir and C / iaiiccKor ofthe Exchequer , on being asked what he wonld io with the question of parliamentary reform , said , " / will _oypose parlianxcnlary reform is whateveb siurE IT may ArrEAR , to the last hour of my life . " And at that very moment he had Uckdett , _Bbocoium (" _avocat ethoxnme di lettres" ) , Loud Job * " Rossell , aud other " reformers ' , " sittiii" at his hack ; all of whom had the . incomparable meanness to remain on the ministerial benches without saying a word in favour of reform ; aud , indeed , those three above-named worthies , called Gamut !* - their wciiT nj . _vofiuiiLE FRIEND , aiid had tho indescribable

      baseness to state broadly that " the public now eared little or nothing about reform : that the Government was now carried on in such a satisfactory manner , tkat the people werc grown quite _littownn in the cause of reform . " finally , of that Canning who had spokeu and voted in favour of the "GAGGING AND DUNGEONING _lJILLS'"for _stlenciK ;! the vefoYmevs in 1 _S 1 " - , wlio _lia-l impudently declared _lhatAtf _wouldln-csercs Gatton and Old Sarum ; and who , though tlte lastard son ofa _\ ilay actress himself , Lad saucily declared that HE would "MAKE A STAND AGAINST DEMOCRATICAL ENCROACHMENT , " and who had contemptuously called the advocates of parliamentary reform "A LOW , DEC It AD-D CREW . "

      January 20 , 1832 . Lord Althorp informed the House that it was the intention ofthe Government to appoint a _FAST-niV . Into this stupid intention they had heen badgered hy the incessant and awful denunciations of two or threo furious fanatics , members of that Houso ; but more particularly hy one Perceval , a pious pensioner , and a most higotcd aud crazy disciple ofthe bigoted and crazy parson Irving . The fast-day was held on the 21 st of March , 13 / 2 , and on that day there was a procession of the dillerent bodies of the productive classes through the streets of the metropolis , who went peaceably along ; but , when almost at the end of their march , the new roues soldiers fell upon them with their bludgeons , and dispersed them , without any attempt at opposition on their parts , they not liaving cren a _xmlldngstick amongst them , heing determined not to give rise to any suspicion of their being likely to cause a breach of thc peace . Throughout the remainder of the day "large bodies of tliese police _solweks were to be seen prowling about , as if watching for their victims , armed with _MOAn-swoiiDs _ur the WHIG GOVERNMENT !!

      April 13 , 1832 . The Whig _Premier , Lord Grey , who had declared that a less measure of reform than that contained in the bill which was brought forward by hini , for parliamentary reform , never should Lave his support , aiid that he _jrouW not svffcr thc principles of the hill to he altered , yet on this day he said , "Although 1 think 5 C boroughs ought to be disfrancltucd , and altlaugh I think the ten pjiind franchise is not too great an extension of the qualification , still these _raovisioxs ake no part ofthe _prin-CiriiS OF THE BILL , AND THESE T-llOVISlOKS JI . W BE AI / _TLBED IK PEfiJ-ECT _COSCSISTENCT WITH ITS _rBIh _" - CinES" !!

      August 1 , 1 * 32 . The Whigs proposed to the Parliament to give a retiring pension to thc Speaker of the House of Commons , the Tory Sir C . Manners Sutton , of £ 4000 a year for his life ; to wliich proposition the Parliament agreed ; and also to g ' vee his son a reversion of £ 301 ) 0 a-year for his life , although that son has a sinecure place already , as _Hegistrarof the _Prcwjalixtc Court of Canterbury , for whicli he has £ 3000 a-year , which he is to hold in addition to the reversion of his father ' s pension . Jlr . Hunt , the representative , par _cscellcncc , of the people of Preston , and of " all the unrepresented people of England , " supported this measure by saying that " if the vote had been for £ 5000 a-year he would haw agreed to it . "

      March 29 , 1 S 3 S . The Whigs carried the " Ikish COERCION Bill , " a bill whicli was known by the title of "tfieoriital and bloody bill , " which subjected thepeople of Ireland to BE TRIED BY COURTS MARTIAL . In opposition to this hill Mr . Cobbett moved the following resolution : — "Resolved , That this House , seeing in this bill the substitution of military courts for courts _consisting of judges and jurors ; seeing in it the abrogation of all the most precious institutions of tlio country ; seeing clearly that its main purpose is to keep iu the hands of the present aristocracy the plunder of thc ancient church and the poor , which the ancestors of that aristocracy obtained by apostasy , and which has been retained hy the cruel penal laws and by the shedding of innocent blood ; and suspecting , moreover , that this bill is intended as a prelude to flie adoption of similar measures in Great Britain , this House will read this bill this day six months . " This resolution was negatived , and the hill was passed ; Mr . Stanley , the then Secretary for Ireland , declaring that " THE coveukjiest must be feared _iufobe it can * be loved !!!"

      April 26 , 1833 . The House of Commons agreed to a resolution for taking off half the malt-duty , and on thc following Tuesday , April 30 , they , on the motion of Lord Althorp , the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer , rescinded tuat vote by a large majority !!! April , 1 S 33 . The Whig Ministry opposed Mr . Gvotc's motion for voting hy ooKot at elections , Lord Althorp , who had spoken in favour of thc ballot , at Northampton , when before his constituents , opposed it in the House of Coxmnoxxs , as became a genuine Whig Minister . As did also the Right Honourable Edward Ellice , Secretary at _Wax- , althoughhe hadsolemuly pledged _hisiselv _tofc ' s conslituents at Coventry , that he would vote for that motion . ' !

      May 2 , 1833 . Lord Aithorp , on the subject of the renewal of the Bank Charter , proposed to the House of Commons to make Bank-tf-England notes a legal tender , mid _iinif _, in _peri'etuitv ; although he had , only one short month before , objected to Mr . Matthias A _' . twood's motion for inquiring into the state of the nation ( and proof was offered his lordship that the distress amongst tradesmen was so great , that within five tsars the proportion of _lanh-uptcics , for Itcgcnt-strcct alone , teas more lhaxi one in _TUREr ; and that , mind , independent of compositions , of which three , allcast , take place for cach bankruptcy ) , principally , towns * one part of that honourable Member ' s plan teas , an issue of papir-xnoncy and tlio making _sucn _rAPEU _* MOSEV A LEGAL- 'lESDElt !!

      May 3 , 1833 . Mr . Cobbett brought forward his motiou in the House of Commons , for tho equalization of thc stamp-duties , and complaincil that uudertiielawas it now stands "thevarious duties onlegacies , and on property coining by intestate succession , arc imposed applicable to differexxt degrees o / . _clalumsftip between the legatees and thc successors and the deceased , beginning at one per cent ., and going on to ten par cent . ; but that freehold property is wholly exempt from this tax , aiid that , of course , the large estates of the nobility and Uuided gentry ( including advowsons and lay-tithes ) are exempted ; while if a deceased leave a thousand pounds to a distant relation , that relation will _havi * to pay one _hundred pounds . " The Honourable Member said that "If a man leave property above the value of twenty pounds , his successors have to pay a stamp-duty of two per cent .: but if a person leave from thirty thousand to half a million pounds tbe duty is hut one-and-a-half per cent . "

      He complained that "In conveyances the duty on any tliixig of fixe pounds value is ten sliillings ( or ten per cent . ) , whilst if the property conveyed he office hundred thou _, sand pounds value , the duty will bo only one (/ loiisand pounds ( only three-sixteenths per cent . ) , and in such a case the poob . Mi s would have to pay _MoitEinis for tt times as MUCH A 3 TUK men man on the same sort of properly . " After showing that the roon mas is made , under the present stamp-duties , to pay , in some cases , seven times more tlian the men man , and in some cases a THOUSAND TIMES MOKE , thc honourable gentleman _concladcd hy moving the following resolution : — " That this House will , with ns little delay as possible , make such an alteration in the several acts , imposing duties on

      stamps , and on sales at auctions , as shall cause tho Peers , Nobles , Baroxxels , axxd other great Uxidowners to pay , in proportion to the amount of their property , as great an amount in those duties as is paid by thc / iind / ioMer " , ohxiuitmts , tradesmen , manufacturers , _fax-mcrs , mechaxiics , and the rest of ihe industrious classes of the kingdom : and shall cause , in all cases , the rich to pay the said duties in the same proportion as thepoor . " The Wmc _Ministbv , true to the breed of the first Whig that the devil spawned , opposed this resolution , and it was consequently , lost . But Mr . Spring Rice , a member of thc administration , declared that in had a bill _x-eady to lay before the House to remedy these evils ; whicli bill , although he was _rcpcatUGlji called upon to lay ie before the llouse , never was produced , and the evils have not been remedied .

      May is , 1833 . Near Ciuthorpe-strcet a meeting was held , for the purpose of discussing the question of the " _propricf'' of forming a national convention- in the present crisis of the affairs of the nation . " A few days prior to the meeting bills wcre posted about the metropolis , cautioning tho public not to go to thc meeting ; but these bills were not signed by anybody , nor had they any appearance ofbeing issued by any of the jmM ' _etm' / _ior'tiVs . The meeting therefore took place ; nnd _scarcely had the business for which they met commenced , when about thirteen himdrcd ofthe police soldiers , armed with bludgeons , who had been secreted in some extensive livery-stables in the neighbourhood , and who , it was proved , had been supplied largely with beer and spirits , were Ut looso upen the assembled multitude , When a dreadful scene took place , the policemen hnoching ; down men , women , and children

      _intJlKnmiliatdjf , and , in their fury , absolutely knocking down casual passers by . The whole oftho particulars wcre deposed to before a coroner ' s jury , which was called together to ascertain the cause ofthe death of one of the i _' oh ' cemcn , who was killed in the fight , which jury returned the following verdict . * " We find a verdict of justifiaiile homicide , onthcsegrounds : that no riot act was read , ¦ nor any prodamatlan adcisiii _? _tte people to disperse ; that the _GOBCnimeilt did not t . _tl _* C the proper precautions to prevent themeeting from assembling : and that the conduct of THE POLICE WAS FEROCIOUS , IlIIUrAL , ASD _UNl'EOVOKED sr the _rrorLE ; and ice moreover express our an-cioits _liope that the Government will , in future , lake better precautions to

      prevent the recurrence of such _disgraceil-l transactions in fliis metropolis . " Notwithstanding this verdict , which was published in all the papers on a Tuesday morning , the Government had the decency to offer , in thc G azette ot the Tuesday evening , a reward of one _hcni-ueo _poonds to " any person giving information , so that the perpetrator ofthe MURDER may be apprehended and convicted thereof , " whicli was signed " _Melroi'rne , " who was then Home Secretary . And , in addition to this , tho Whig Government caused thc Attorney- general to move , in the Court of King ' s Bench , for the quashing of the above verdict , which the independent judges of that COUrt actually did , Oil the 30 th of that same month ! 1 !

      June 10 , 1833 . Mr . Cobbott presented a petition to the House of Commons , from the freemen and electors of Sandwich , complaining that Sir E . T . Troubrid ge M P for that borough , Iiad / _ratidufciirty obtained his _coimniision " as lieutenant in the navy ; and that there were more than two hundred other oflieers in that service who \ n a also fraudulently obtained their rank , _bvyrorfiiciiw fuse certificates of their ages . Sir James Graham ' tlio first Lord of the Admiralty , did not attemp t to deny the

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      truth of tlio allegations contained In the p * tition . - _" _e liimself produced a list of thirty-nixie officers , who had obtained their commissions in a similar way , at the head of whom was Lord Nelson ( the hero of the bay of Naples ) . Elliott , the Secretary of the Admiralty , declared that he himself Jiad oMained M » promotion in like maimer , and said that he was " proud to belong to a list of _r-Eiisoss _wiiomtiiese UNMANNERLY PETITIONERS 7 mdt / ioupM proper to accuse ' " Sir Edward Codrington stated as thc apology " thi great IJF . AU Til of lieutenants at the lime lhc practices complained o / were carried on ; " although there were , according to returns then on the table ofthe house , at that very time , no less than eleven iiusdiied "„ ii , i . ii « h . " who xeere not ofioat ; yet this gallant admiral had the confidence to say that there was a " uVartt of lieutenants , " and seconded the motion for the rejection of tf « petition _, whicli rejection had been moved by Sir J . Graham , a Whig Minister ; and the petition was rejected accordingly !

      July 1 , 1 SSS . A select committee was appointed , on the motion of Mr . Cobbett , to inquire into the allegations ofa petition presented by him to the House of Commons , from Frederick Young , James Trice , and others , inhabitants of Camberwell and Walworth ; which committee ascertained the following facts : namely , that the Whig Government used the new police ns spies at public meetings , whither they were sent , dressed in plain clothes , and distributed amongst the crowd ; they were even sent to _jiaiw / _iial _niectings as spies , and one of them , whose name ivas l _' opay , used to be sent to the meetings of the "Political Union of the Working Classes , " _xvhose society he joined under a feigned name , it not having been'dreamed of that he belonged to the " police force , " and he liaving represented himself to

      them as being a person in great distress , and who picked up his living by miniature and landscape panning . This fellow , during nearly a whole year , belonged to the "I'oliticid Union of the _iroriiiijr Classes , " hut was never seen in thc uniform of the police during the whole of that time . He was , of course , a constant attendant at . their meetings , and constantly urged the members of the Union to use stronger la . _i"tia ~ e than they did in their resolutions and papers ; he sonicfi _' incs altered them with Ms own hand , in order to _tiitioctucc j ( _i-oii

      that . " it would be a damned good thing if someone WOOLD TAKE AND ASSASSINATE TIIAT _IILOOBS VILLAIN StaNLEX" ( one ofthe Ministers ) . He attended thc Calthorpe-strcet meeting in plain clothes . He urged the Union to purchase _fix-e-arms , and did every thing he possibly could to incite the members to sonio violent and unlawful net ; and used , after overy meeting of the Union , to forward an aceount of every thing thai took place at sueh mccii »<* , totlie Commissioners of Police , and these accounts ivere regularly forwarded to tlio SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT , from whose depart _, ment money teas paid to Topay for the spy-services performed by him ; end as soon as the Unions discovered that they had a spy amongst them , nnd had exposed him , the Police Commissioners _x-aiscd him in raxik , and augmented his pay ! On the select committee making their report to thc House of Commons , confirming tho statements in the petition , l ' opay was removed from the situation that lie held in the "force , " but went unpunished , and his employers

      tmrcproved , July 23 , 1833 . Tho Whig Government successfully opposed Mr . Tennyson ' s motion for shortening the duration of Parliaments . In the course oftho debate , Lord Althorp stated that ho " had formerly supported a proposition for shortening the duration of Parliaments , and sliould now do so wcre Parliament in tho same state in which it was when he had so supported the proposition . " Lord Jolm Bussell ( a Whig of the first water ) objected to the motion , because it "SEEMED TO INTIMATE A DISTRUST OF PUBLIC MEN . " Mr . Stanley said that it was an "impracticable question , " and said thathe had

      " on f / ic hustinys , at Lancaster , made a statement f ' rorn _u-ltich he was not disposed to depart . " The statement , to which this right honourable _HViig alluded , was the following : — - " If , therefore , it should be attempted in another Parliament , to bring forward any of those sweeping motions for shortening the duration of Parliaments , and extending yet further the elective franchise ; ov of introducing that which 1 believe is falsely styled tho protection of the ballot ; to those measures we , ns individuals and as members ofthe Government , arc _iiouhd ( and I announce it at once and openly ) to give our determined and decided opposition . "

      Jul y SI , 1833 . The Wliigs passed a vote for twenty _fliiili ' _oiis of pounds sterling to be _^ given to indemnify the owners of slaves for any loss that they may sustain in consequence of a partial aMition of slavery ; in consequence of a partial abolition of that sort of traffic which , tliey said , was " a violation ofthe laws of God and . nan . " The Minister , at first , proposed lending the proprietors of slaves ten millions of pounds : after a while he said that he should propose the lending of Ji / teen millions ( and , mind , this was a proposition to lend money to the slave-owners to compensate them for the loss of _slawe-lfl & oiii _* , whilst the Government had endeavoured to prove , to the owners of slaves , that free-labour was more productive than slavelabour ); but , after the presentation ofa petition signed by 278 , 000 females , he boldly proposed the GIVING OF T _1 YMTT . _MILLIONS _; and thut proposition was carried by a great majority , and must be paid , In part , by poor labourers of Dorsetshire out of their TWO SHILLINGS AND SEVENPENCE a week 1

      July , 1833 . The Whigs proposed and carried a vote for £ 1 , 000 , 000 out of the taxes to be ' paid to the Protestant clergy in Ireland , in lieu of arrears of tithes whicli they were unable to collect , although tlicy had tlio assistance of a large army and courts martial for tho trial of criminals , both of which wcre provided for tlieir aid hy the Whigs . August , 1833 . Tlicy passed the _"Anatomv Bill , " giving to ovevseers and parochial officers thc power , in some cases , of selling to the surgeons , for tho purpose of dissection , thebodies of persons who die in _pcox-. houscs ! hut were cunning enough not to insert in that bill any clause consigning the carcases of _slale-paupers to the dissecting . knife .

      1833 . The Whigs refused to abolish flogging in the army ; and Sir J . C . Hobhouse , who had always professed the principles of radical _x-eform , and had most loudly declaimed against flogging , but who had become a member ofthe Whig Ministry as Secretary at Wae , ? _ioiu strongly opposed the abolishing of that disgusting and horrible practice , and supported , in their opposition to the putting an an" to it , that very Whig party whom he had formerly described , both in speaking and in writing , as a party always " pernicious to England , " and always "actuated by selfish motives ; " as always having been " _ax-rogant , " " _ocerbearino- , " " selfish , " "false , " "boasting , " "interested , " "tricky , " " mean , " " sMlow , " "deceitful , " "jealous , " and "impotent . " How true is all tliis ! Yet he joined this party , becanie renegade to his principles , and voted against thc motion for abolishing flogging in thc army !

      March , 1 S 31 . The Mldg Government prosecuted sis _aj / _neuittiral labourers at Dorchester , for having administered oaths of secrecy to persons on becoming members of a society called the " Trades' Union ; " which society was formed for the protection of the class to which they belonged , against the arbitrary reduction of theprieo of their labour by their employers . These poor fellows wero found guilty of the charge alleged against them , and , to the astonishment of the whole _kixxgdem , were sentenced hy Williams ( a new made judge ) to SEVEN YEARS' TRANSPORTATION !!! The nation wondered where the judge found _tdio for bis purpose ; but faith . lie did _jlnd it , and that too in an act passed in the 37 th year of George the Third , being chapter 123 of the year 1707 , the whole of which act relates to oaths administered , or taken , for the purpose cf seducing persons serving his Majesty by sea or by land ; and which was passed in consequence of the ¦• iii . i » j' in the fleet . And yet under

      this Act it was that tliis judge sentenced theso men , whose only crime was combining to raise their wages ; and it was proved on their trial that one of them had but five shiUings a _xveek to live npon ; and that another of them had but seven sail ! nips a xveck to live upon axid to support a WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN ; neither of whom had tiie smallest notion of doing anything illegal , nor of liaving anything to do with politics . Petitions for the pardon of these poor men were signed by upwards of Jive hundred _thousaxTd _oJtneivfellow countrymen ; the Whigs would not listen to the prayers of tliese just and humane petitions , but _immediatoly ordered these six hapless victims to be transported beyond thc seas . Mr . Hutt , M , P „ on presenting a petition for the pardon of these men , from _Kingston-upon-IIull , deplored the conduct of Government towards them , and said that it was clear that they were not punished for taking or administering a secret oath , but for having been niombors ofthe "Trad » s' Union . "

      May 5 , 1814 . Mr . D . AV . Harvey made a motion in the House of Commons with a view to the abolition of all unmerited pensions , many of which are , of course , given to females , and , in some cases , for gtu ' _te unknown services rendered by them . Lor Althorp , the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer , opposed tho motion , as being one " calling for that to be done wliich no man Of OISTLEMAKLV ITELiso would consent to do . He said that persons on the pension list had a right , established by custom , to be continued on it ; and the present Government had , when they came into office , recommended that they should be " He said that ho "didnot intend to defend each individual grant ; " that an inquiry into it " could not fail to be a

      DISGUSTING INQUllir to any gentleman who took a part in it ; " "that it was calculated to wouud the fceliivs as well of those who conducted it , as of those who were the objects of the inquiry , and that he felt himself bound to vote against the motion . " That was the sort of opposition given by a Whig Minister ; by a man who , and whose party , camo into power on the breaking up of the Torv Ministry ; which breaking up was occasioned by tho Whi 4 having moved , by the mouth of Sir II . l _' av „ ell «¦ T ! iat ° _-i select committee be appointed to inquire into the various items connected with thc CIVIL LIST , and to report tl ,, reo ... We must also hear in mind thnt Lord Grev , who becamePremier of the Whig Ministry , declared on tiki , ! oflice , that « a reduction of all unnecessary expense is e firm resolution of myself and my _wlteiwuM an tl . V Will CUt Off , with AM _C-NSPAMNG . UNO , * f . l hat _iT manned for the _inteuests , the _hon ' ouk , _^ d T , r ve " fake of the country . " It is scarcely necessin to _wiii t at the Wings voted against the _wJx _^ Z „ S

      I , i f' i" T ' ' G , - « minent carried the " Poor Law An . en-hnent Bill . " They had had i h „ ,, i Tr _„ ? object was , and _S _^ _ltlS _, ° _' ? _" _? < mMmt ! The " v'im W' « 9 f England to be "MADE

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      TO LIVE ON COARSER FOOD ! " . _!' Coarser / ooiltlian the poor Dorsetshire labourers could procure for tknueUes , a wife , and six helpless children , out of seven shillings a week : " Coarser fooi " . than the magistrates of Wiltshire ordered as parish allowance for an able-bodied labourer to live on md to work on—namely , a ouUou loci / and _Cu-ccpe-tce-Mlfpenny a week ! The Whig Chancellor (¦• Brougham , _ftomine-i de lettres el avocat" ) , who is reputed to bs thc real author of the measure , declared , from the woolsack , that " no relief ough t to be afforded , even to the aged and ismi- rooR ; that they ought , during their health and strength , to save enough out of their earnings to keep themselves during sickness and old age ; " although that same Lord Chancellor , so far from setting an example ol such a mode of guarding against want during sickness and old age . as soon as he got himself seated on the _wool-« ., _«« _,,, i , _t _* n unnni' _. « - _•« _,-,... _* ,. fnn . i _tiinn

      sack , brought forward , and caused to be passed , a bill , raising thereliring allowance for himself , froxxx four thousand pounds lo five thousand founds a yeah . And this is the great supporter of . a bill , which is , according to the report of the Poor Law Commissioners , to pave the way for completely and entirely abrogating all right to relief for the poor und necessitous . The operation of this measure is dreadfully felt , even by _unmarriod men , in the agricultural districts ; where ( owing to the horrible amount of fiscal exactions preventing the fanner from employing a su'licicnt number of labourers to cultivate the land ) the want of employment is so great ( and the farmers and parish oflieers naturally provide work for those who have families ) , that _niiaiairwu' mt'H cannot find employment , nor will parish officers either provide it for them , or give them any relief : they tell tliein that now

      they have no more claim upon ( lie j > aris ? i tfcan any common _iieggaiis . If these unfortunate men apply to the piagistrates , they arc told , that they have no poiroi * sow to order any relief for them . If they wander about in a body , and , being in want of food , demand aid of those who are able to give it , they are sure of transpoiialion , or pcr / mps of death . If they take wild animals for tlieir support , they arc liable to be transported ; and if , whilst pursuing these wild animals , tliey be caught by the _gaintlfeejier , and resist his taking tliem into ctt . todi / _, they ARE LIARLE TO BE HANGED !!! What have tliese persons done ? What monstrous crimes have they committed that they should be placed in such a horrible dilemma ? No crimes at all , only , that they , whilst the law remained unaltered , were entitled to relief from the land , if they wcre in _teant ; and the Whig Mi . visteiis declared , that "the poor-rates would

      swallow up the land , " although one of those very Ministers , Sir James Graham , proved when hewas Old of office , that a hundred and thirteen privy councillors swallowed up annually six hundred and rim thousand pounds , being more by eighty thousand pounds a year ( and that , mind , for only one hundred and thirteen persons ) than thc tiMc amount of the poor-rates for the twelve counties or Wales , and thc six counties of Bedford , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Monmouth , Rutland , and Westmoreland ! It ought never to be forgotten that Lord Brougham , the author of this bill , carried his hostility to the poor and unfortunate so far , as even to say , in the House of Lords , that" oxcept for broken limbs , " hospitals , _dispensakies , AND ALMS-HOUSES , AIIE LITTLE _UETTEll than _suisances , and ocgiit to he _aiiatfd ! " The Wliigs performed various other such like acts , as if desirous to retain the epithets which have for so many years been prefixed to tlieir name by Mr . Cobbett ; and amongst other acts of theirs wc ought not to omit to mention their

      malicious though unsuccessful prosecution of him . He was indicted for publishing in the Weekly Political Register of the llth December , _1 S 30 , a libel , with intent to raise discontent in the minds of labourers in husbandry , and to incite them to acts of violence , and to destroy covii stacks , machinery , and other property , " lie , Mr . Cob . bctt defended himself in person , mid tho lashing thathe took the opportunity of inflicting on tho " Greys , the Broughams , the Lambs , and the Russells , " whom , with the rest of the Whig Ministry , hehad subpoenaed , and had before him in court ; his bantering allusion to thc " agree _, able twaddle" of Mr . Gurney , ami comparing : him to a " truffle hunter ''; the defiance and scorn with which ho loaded thc Whig Attorney-General Denman , and his "dirly bill of indictment , " indeed , the whole of his defence was so manly and so powerful _jhis sarcasms so withering to his prosecutors ; his invective so overwhelming ' , so terrible , and so blasting to that degraded faction , that it will never be cither forgiven or forgotten by them .

      The concluding sentence of his noblo defence must conclude this very brief notice of this remarkable trial ; and it would be criminal to omitit ; it is this— "If your verdict should be one that will consign me to death , by sending mc to a loathsome dungeon , I will , with my last breath , pray to God to bless my country , and curse thu Whigs , and I bequeath my revenge to _niycmLDBEi * and the Labourers of England !" Then there is to he remembered , against the Wliigs , their objecting to take off the newspaper duty . Their objecting to the motion by which no Minister of State was to be allowed a retiring pension until he had served _/ ce years . Tlieir tricks with regard to Savings Banks , in order to make it as di _^ iciilt as possible for the deposits to be withdrawn .

      Their paying the _Russo-Datch loan of six millions : Their Olho loan of two _ h . lio . vs : In short , their extreme mildness , integrity , and » a'ri 6 . „ m * bave been such , during the four years of their pestilent _neay , that nwve ofthe blood ofhis Majesty ' s subjects has been shed , more victims to the odious laws affecting tho press havo been punished with fine and imprisonment , than have taken place in England within the same period since 1780 . Nor must wc forget their having added about fortv millions to the national debt , in the four years of tlieir baneful domination , heing one-eighteenth part of the whole debt , which has taken more than a hundred and fifty years to accumulate . The reader will have been disgusted if he hare waded through this catalogue of crimes , therefore this offensive but necessary task shall be concluded by placing a few of the acts ofthe Tories in _juxta-position with some of tho Whigs : —

      ' ¦ The Tories The Wliigs Opposed the Reform Bill . Put in tho _tnx-paying clauses , and stultified the ciYectofthcbiU . Supported long Parlia- Refused to repeal the Sep . nicnts . tennial Act . Had their Sidmouths , and Had their Melbourne * and their Castles , and their their 1 _' opays , and defended Olivers . the use of Spies . Had their Manchester Had their fast-flay affair , affair . and their _Calthorpe-strcet nfthii _* . ! Had their standing army Augmented the standing in time of peaee . army that the Tories had left them . Declared against clieap Prosecuted and punished political publications . those who sold them . Suspended the _ifubcos Passed the Irish Coercion Corpus Act . Bill , aud trials by courts martial .

      Supported thc Pension Refused to revise it . List . Had tlieir Swan River Had their Australian emi . emigration job . _jrrutiou job , by Wilmot Horton . Passed Sturges Bourne ' s _Passnd the Poor Law Bills , giving a plurality of Amendment Bill , giving the votes iu vestries to the rich , rich the ri ght to vote by proxy ; and refused to re . _..,...,.. _. peal Sturges "Bourne ' s Bills . Abolished the income-tax , Refused to repeal the malt and kept on the assessed taxand thc assessed taxes

      , , taxes and the malt-tax . for fear that they should be obliged to lay on a property tax . In and out of place object- In favour of vote by ballot cd to thc vote by ballot . when out of place , but t . l i . , . _* , , against it when in place , Put about _onc-half of tha Put the other half of tlio names on the Pension List , names on that list _. andwould allow of no inquiry into it , saying , that it would be "disgusting and ungentle . manly" to do so !

      Lavern Tnu Secoxd Anniversary Of Ihe United Patriots' Benefit And Provident Society Was Held At Chalk

      lavern Tnu Secoxd Anniversary of ihe United Patriots ' Benefit and Provident Society was held at Chalk

      Rarra , On Monday Last, Tlic Chair Being...

      rarra _, on Monday last , tlic chair being occu-P L - _£ - ' ' s " O'Connor , Esq ., and tlio vice-chair by Mr . J . Cr . Dron . The assembly was numerous liichidiiig Itogor O'Connor , Esq ., and other private incntis ot the chairman , and was also enlivened bv the presence of a largo party of ladies . At two o clock the company sat down to a first-rate dinner including every delicacy of thc season , -whicli was served up in excellent style . Thc cloth liaving been removed , _IMr O'Connor rose to propose _thS first toast , ¦ "Ibe People , the only source of legitimate power , it gave lum creat T > lei _ iir ~ tn s < v . _« n . » o „„

      Happy smiling faces around him , met for sucli a worthy social purpose ; and he felt grateful for the honour they had conferred by calling on him to pre side over them . The toast of the " 1 ' cople" u _* as o ie given by niost political parties , and handled by each according to their particular interests . The Whi-r _* consideml themselves and their middle class _« -. ¦ _£ porters to be the people ; the Tories considered tlio parsons and the _high-cliurchmeii to be tho peoplebut he , Mr O'C ., considered those to be the people who earned their bread by the sweat of tlieir brow those who were unwilling to labour werc the Drones of the community , living upon thc encr ~ ies of others , lie regretted that festivals like the uresent were not the rule instead oi' the exception Tie present company had earned the excellent dinner they had been cnioyinc-thcv eat thoir „ , „» , i : M ' ..

      whilst the other class of society eat that whieh thev wero obliged to furnish them with . It would be ball taste in him to occupy much time in opening the nrocccdings , he should follow the example of the Speaker in tlte House of Commons , who was thc man who had the least to say of any in the house . Thc present ivas not the period for talking politics , the time was now arrived when they saw the necessity of nrokin * exertions to give themselves social power in order to enable them to wring political power from the grasn of then * oppressors * , he trusted that the next Reform ¦ vou ld solve the riddle as to who werc the true friends ot the people , and in his opinion the neonle would l _>„

      happier and more prosperous if kingcraft and priosteraltwcrcno _niovej . hc saw in their society one of the rungs of the ladder by which they must pull down aristocratic power , and assist each other in a political as well as a social sense . _Entertaining those views lie should always bo _hanny to fill the situation lie then held , or any other which thev might appoint lum to , ov to attend as a private ami at any 0 t their future meetings , and give them liis r _^ _ir m n" ? tho socLcfcy mvenffllly prospcious . Mr . 0 Connor , amid great applause , then . 1 _'oi . _osed he toast , with three times three , which as well a * _i tho succeeding toasts , waa drank witli

      Rarra , On Monday Last, Tlic Chair Being...

      enthusiasm , and followed by an air f , „ band , and vocal music appropriate to the l 0 Mr . Wheeler responded to the toast 0 t » ?•• " People" in an able mannor , and showed i " the United Patriot . Society , by their very _nat , , _**• •; bv thc truly Democratic constitution of their , ' was bringing tlio principle of _sclf-govciiiincnt , 5 the every-day aflairs ot society , and if gcncvallv ? lowed would elevate men in their own estimation ¦> i " in that oftheir fellow citizens . Mr . O'Connor tl , gave the toast of" Prosperity to the United l _' atrirn _* Bcnelit Society , " and in so doing expressed l ! f pleasure that he was not the Founder of the Societv or it would certainly have been assailed from m ! quarters , but being started by workin _** men , it iu _* ,, r ' _ii perhaps escape the virulence of their onein ? c-YVlicn lie again met them , instead of having lVom _$ t to 1200 members as at present , he trusted fl ' , ' ;„ 11 i ! t \» i eir ontlnisiasm . and followed hv < in n ' .. _i >

      . _ . _*_ .. * .. * ,-.. . "H name would be legion . Mr . \ Y orkman , in _rcspondin-. to the toast said , il * there was one action more noble than another it was that of assisting their _fellow-men who iVom sickness or otherwise were depriv ed of the means of existence . Of what avail to society * vas thc warrior , the aristocrat , or the miser ? Tliey dij nothing" to benc / it . ' tlic condition of working men , or t 0 relieve them when in sickness or distress , but , on the contrary , after accumulating wealth by tlieir aid thev left them no prospect in after-life but that horrid den the Poor Law Bastiie . Mr . Workman then entered into details , showing thc prosperity of the society and its great accession of numbers dur ' m « the past quarter . The next toast was " Tho present committees in town and country , and the good

      members of the past committees . " Mr , Dron " re . sponded to this in an excellcntspccch . The " Health of the General Secretary of the Society" was next proposed by * thc chairman , who paid some _ivoll merited compliments to the secretary , whom he Jia ( i worked with for several years in thc Democratic struggle , and thought him far more worthy of a pension Mid a _iHOiHMii'Jifc for his past services than any ofthe titled aristocratic inanslayers upon whom such rewards wcre lavished . Mr . _ltufly , in responding ( o this toast , expressed his gratitude to the member * , ' generally , and to Mr . O'Connor in particular , stating , that had it not been for thc assistance rendered 5 y that gentleman in giving the gratuitous use of tlic Northern Star for the advertisements of the society

      during its infancy , it never could have attained its present prosperous condition ; he also gave his thanks to Mr . Harvey for similar favours in printing for the society—they , A id not himself , wore in reality the founders of the society ; so that Mr . O'Connor had more to do witli the originating of the society than he appeared to be aware of . Thc speaker then gave an interesting account of the progress and condition of thc society in town and country ; shcwiii" the number of branches it possessed in England . It had also a footing in "Wales , and expected to form branches in both Ireland and Scotland . lie then painted , in glowing colours , the good effected by tho society , and tlic advantages ol union amongst men in elevating their social and

      political condition . He thanked them for their conlidcncc , and trusted hc sliould never do anything mean or base to deprive him of it . —Thc following toasts were than drank and responded to— . " Health of the sub-secretaries , country members , Mr . Mark , the father ofthe society , the ladies , visitors , and friends , and chairman aud vice-chairman . " Messrs O'Connor and Dron responded to the latter toasts in excellent speeches , which space will not permit us to give . Dancing , interspersed with songs and recitations , then commenced , and was kept up until an early hour , the greatest harmony and good feeling prevailing . An excellent band was engaged , and in addition to this tiie members from Wimbledon also wero accompaned with a band , and a Hag painted cxprcssij' for the occasion . Several subsecretaries , including Mr . G . "Wheeler , of Heading , were present , and took part in thc proceedings of tho

      day . USITED _rATGIOTS' BrSCTIT SOCIETV . —TllC first anniversary ofthe Sheffield branch of this young and flourishing institution , was commemorated by a din . ner at Mrs . Franks ' , Three Cranes , ( Jucen-strcet , J uly 23 th . On the ' cloth being removed thc following toasts werc given from the chair , " Prosperity to the United Patriots' Benefit Society , " " The Founder of the Society , D . F . _Ruil ' y , may ho always merit the esteem of the members , " •"_ . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., and the Patrons of thc Society , " "The People , thc source of all wealth , " " Thc sub-secretary and members that established the Sheffield branch . " " The Queen , her rights and no more ; tho-People , their { Jrights and no less . " These toasts werc ably responded to by Messrs Hall , Goddard , Clayton , Gallimorc , and Jonos . There wove sonic excellent songs sung , and , the company separated highly de * lightod with the evening ' s entertainment .

      -Southampton. Public Meeiixg.—On Monday ...

      -SOUTHAMPTON . Public _Meeiixg . —On Monday evening a meeting , convened by placard , was held on the _Marfcet-hill , to hear a lecture from Mr . M'Grath , on the " Land and its Capabilities . " Mr . Munday was appointed chairman . The lecturer , in the course of a long address , clearly demonstrated , by arithmetical calculation and from thc admissions of the ablest political economists , that the cultivable land of Great Britain and Ireland is capable of yicldin «* sustenance to support i ' otn * times the present population . He concluded by showing that the land was thc only asylum upon wliich the people could find protection from tho ravages which the capitalist , aided by machinery , was making on their industry ; and invited all desirous of location upon the land to investigate the

      rules ot the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . A Ponuc Meeting was held on the same place on Tuesday evening , "for the purpose of forming a branch of the Chartist Co-operativo Land Societv . At eight o ' clock Mr . Cairns was voted to thc ' chair . The meeting was an excellent one . The chairman liaving lucidly stated the object of themeeting , and promised a fair hearing to all desirous of expressing tlieir opinions , cailed upon Mr . Ilollywcll to move the first resolution , the purport of which was that it was the people ' s duty to exert every energy to elevate themselves to that position in society which God and nature intended them to occupy . It was seconded by Mr . Stammers , and unanimously adonted . The

      next resolution was proposed by Mr . Munday , to the effect that the Chartist Land plan was sound and practicable , and full y ; entitled to the confidence and support of the working classes . Seconded by Mr . "Williams . The chairman then called upon Mr . M'Grath , who spoke for nearly two hours in support ofthe resolution , expounding the Land plan , and defining the benefits that would accrue to Trades ' Unions from its adoption . Thc meeting received every sentence with approbation . Many copies of rules were disposed of , and several shares taken out . These meetings have done much good . Wo shall soon havo a strong branch of tho society in Northampton .

      "WELLINGBOROUGH . _LucroMt . —On Wednesday evening Mr . M'Grath delivered a public lecture on the Land in the Marketplace . Mr . Parish was in the chair . Several mmdred persons were present , who paid thc most marked attention to the speaker . The thanks of thc meeting having been voted to the chairman and lecturer , thc meeting separated . m -.-. I-. p _? T _WR 0 U < -n . Mn . M „ n . vrn delivered two lectures on " Universal "buffragc" on the evenings of Thursday and Friday in the Assembly Room . Thev werc tolerably well attended , and a f avourablo impression seemed to be made as to the justice of tho Charter and the necessity for its _cnact-mont . Several cards of membership wcre disposed of .

      SALFORD . The L . ixn Societv . —At a meeting of the shareholders of the Clmvtist Co-operative Land Society , held on Tuesday last , thc following resolution was 3 passed : — "That a meeting of the members and I friends take place on thc last Sunday in cach month , , for the purpose of auditing the accounts ; also that b the committee meet every Sunday evening , at t half-past six o ' clock , for the purpose of receiving ~ subscriptions . "

      OLDHAM . _LKCTMiE .-On Sunday last Mr . C . Dovle delivered il a very energetic address in the Working Man ' s HaU , I , m whicli he gave a brief account of the moncv ex * : pendedby the Missionary Societies , and the money y deposited in savings banks , & c . The lecturer showed d ill tho most argumentative manner the great advan- _itages that might be derived from the application of ) f such an amount of money in thc purchase of Jar . d , 1 , and the allocation of the surplus population thereon . .

      Leeds Cloth Mark-It*. -- During Thc Past...

      Leeds Cloth Mark-it * . -- During thc past week * k there has been a slight tendency to improvement , it , and , in some descriptions of goods , prices Live shown vn an upward tendency . in the halls , business has beca ca rather dull . Leeds Corn Market , Tuesday , Jew 20 . —Wit- -tit a good arrival , and the weather more settled , our mr millers buy cautiously , the finest wheats at rather „ r ovcr the rates ot last week ; sccondarv sorts and thoso oso in chamber ¦ are slow sale at former " prices . Hurley ley ? ° _? m I V ? scai ' cc > a , ld ' ieW at _« ' _' ••¦ on- }' » ci _'» but the trade slow . Beans arc not so much in re- request but wc make no alteration in their value , or , or ill that ol other grain . York Corn Market , July 20 . —In consequence of oof the weather this day being rcmarkablv fine for tho tho operations in the hay harvest , wc have but a sfentfcrider ' attendance of farmers at market , consequently ay ai small supply of grain . On account of the short sup-supply , we have a steady sale for Wheat , at fully last l _.-isfc _* wcek ' s rates . Other articles without any _matcri-jri-l alteration . Malton Corn Market , July 29 . —Wc have a gooijoodl supply of wheat offering at this dav ' s market , but butt moderate of other articles . Wheat Is . per qr . dcarer _' ircr ;; barley nominal-, oats same as last-week . Wheat . > eat ,. red , 50 s . to 53 s . ; white ditto , 5 Cs . to 02 _* s . per qr . « r . «"* 40 stones ; oats , lid . to 12 d . per stone . Richmond Corn Market , July 20 .-Wo had -ad as fair supply of grain in our market to-day , and _tWtlw pvices were a little higher . "* Wheat sold bom 6 ? , -f , f _* to Ss . ; oats , 2 s . _lOt . to 3 s . Cd . ; barlev , < i ., 10 & m _W" < beans , 4 s , Cd . to Os , per bushel ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 2, 1845, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02081845/page/2/