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      TO MB . O'MALLEY , OF THE DUBLIN CHAHTIST ASSOCIATION ^ jIT bsab . O'Mallet , —A « I proceed -with asy naijjtfte my wrath increases , my blood boils , and ay > eart swells , with manly indignation , at tbe very $ oagat ef " the base , blood / , aad brutal" manner in ^ ijieh my loved country has been swindled out of her jjgbti , her honour , and bo : liberty , by a set of juggling n ssls good Gh > d I bow I rejoiee to think that my name -jaot be mixed up with any one of Qte mzaj scheme V . wiutii the Irish nav » been held in mental , moral , -ad p hysical de gradation .

      • tfiiii must tbe historian say , when the new light of gggos shall have dispelled the dark cloud which now japends , but which , thank 6 # d , prepares to break , gia the Sreen Isle ) All the cJd nnrsery tales by T jad > naughty children bare been-afirighted into quiet , ftoE dread of hobgoblins and apparitions , will appear M pjgsaopby , when compared with the tricks of Ireju ^' s nurse to ktep the baby from calling out ; Uy friend , the Tery thought is maddening , and -yooldkid me from the eonsideration of facts , to vitupgaaon of the ' monster who has "thus reared fla toder mind . " I shall however try to resume ; ud attend .

      1 j ^ all ihow you that present " compensation to j ^ syits " scheme is intended as a counter irritant to fcfce attention from any popularity which the recent aete of the Irish landlords , upon their agricultural wqject , maj acquire . I fcfc&ll prove to you that every ijjr ij measure which promised benefit , . and from ^ jdi &ny conciliation eoald be expected , has been ( ntacaticalty met , denooneed , and frustrated by Mr . n-CanselL I shall show , to demonstration , that so far

      fans Ireland , that is , tie Irish people , hairing gained t naffe advantage by concessions wrong from the fears rf En gland in her days of weakness and apprehension , gat ennj single chaste » e extracted , has , without an exrtf tioa , been turned to aristocratic advantage , and t $ popnlar loss ; and I shall prove that the two great ggmts of our time , which were to have rendered ay t ^ pres aon * bat as things to be thought of with njtrvjbzre been frustrated by Mr . O'Conneli ' s dread at " losing bis trade" by bis country losing her

      pfenceea . OtiilBj , we are always ready to give a man much g £ s& who undertakes Tast asd mighty projects Tbjtiitre beyond the grasp of ordinary minds . If we fgiiiia mating way , though , not exactly as men of intsj / x esiealatioa would hare gone about the work , veb egiB to doubt oar own discretion -, and each doubt xjfa to bis character for wisdom . We * ay , " he has i pasliar my of his own of doing things , just let him

      ¦ jTiti Sbase feeling * , OTdalley , the Irish people bare iSfved Mr . O'Connell to play pranks and make expejjawits upon forbearance which no other man would ten been allowed . He lives upon nothing but the snao&t of feud which he can keep aliTe between the kre wautries and the two religions ; and jet , observe , Ja on * moment , the manner in which he has been aZtond , at different times , to compromise his own and baeoBuSJT'J feelings , for the mere purpose of being iKBtoay , " 0 , I am rssolred to try every expedient to ( Sshib prejudice . "

      Woaid any oth * son in Ireland be allowed to ipeak ttsBtSy of the dark days of Catholic oppression , and yet drink the health of "The glorious , pious , asd jnnaoral memory of the great aad good King WOliaat , vbo sned Ireland from Popery , slavery , wooden sh ^ es , asd baa money , " and ^ to drink it in a bomper of t&e wtea of ttsat Tery river upon whose banks the fatal tegte , —8 » battle ef the Boyne , —was fought t Would any other maa be allowed to speak of aU the krrsa wiieh Ireland baa endured from the Bevestadi k particular , and then , at a Repeal meeting , " to oft for three cheers for a Beresford ?

      Woud any other nun be allowed to tzeette to Orange caponiers , Orange Mayors , Orange professors of allsata , u tte Liberater has ? Wosld any brawls for cheap Government , except the I&extar , be avowed to tell that Parliament from * ddihe sought far justice to Irtlaad , and for-cheap Amsment , titt Us coastituenU acdaKd trim to vote It a * very highest figure far Pri&ee Albert ' s allowxao ; s&d thst bat for Tory opposition , this German S"H » would hare received fxeni the Hoose which teradtbe people £ 2 * , W 0 a-yea mere * h » n be now « ia » J

      I aik , O'Mallej-, would any msn , except oae who * a aikwed to hare lii » own peculiar way of bringmg fiss | 3 about , be kteated fo ? one moment in such aaiifrdjgiag ? 5 s » , OTdaDey , I think that a mere reference to tatai tin establish the fact of the " compensation" move i" = 2 J a mere antidote to tha agricultural poison . OXksaell has been drives to every species , sort , and tend ot shift , feick , and device which art could suggest adiagessity Ikfc into palatable shape and "

      practi-• rfora . He bsa been trying all schemes for catering *» « 5 « tan ; because upon the length of bis tail fepttfr ihe length of bis purse ; and yet , curious to ^ T » be nevtf once broacasd this all-important scheme , fte&bebas bad so long in his eye , until eaution * % « r « d , "Eh ! Dan , by dad you must look sharp or se ine Isn-aosds will get hold of the votes . " If , then , Viaafisrdj had never proposed what they intended » * benefit to themselves and their tenants , Dan 1 wU wrer hare turned the eock of his eye—no

      m , OUaDey , it was a god-send in two way& * ia 7 . 2 may widea me breach between landlord and * at , » Mchis e « tain profit for the Liberator ; and * 11 surely be a justifiable cause for delaying the ¦ f * ^ nestion until the " frieze coat * " and hones : ** enbave had an opportunity of Babscribiag and *¦*» prepariBg for action . *>« ach for the " cwnpenaation '' humbug ; and now , ¦*> % . to prove that every change wrested from

      * j * ad * ' » eakBe 8 H has bat tended to increase aristo-* fpo » er and to diniiKish the liberty of Jrahimen . . ** 9 . Iw 2 igo even farther , and assert that every **«» » b * ther propo « ed by the Court cf Si . James ' s , « 9 to the pliascy of iruh representatives whether t " ^ W & ^ ted Parliament , or whether wrung ^ Httfsw of teat Court , has , in every case , gone to 'J *** «* tte biafl oligarchy » d to the loss of the " ^ People .

      ^ •** . o ^ aiigT , ^ pgg , 0 Ter ^ g dart ageg i 4 ad i ** 2 * 6 Period when liberty first began to dawn in * ia ^^* ' Th 3 A miy ^ lailly dated { rom jj ^® " *** of th e English tea into the sea , by the j ^ rtaniM , in conformity with one of their resojJV ""KOBscaiption , " fcnd which happened in i ^^ m ^ hich period , tOl 176 S , Ireland was ^^ w > 8 htof byfamer aeorgy , atlier than as a I ^ T * neBee tributary savages were sent to fight ^ In 1 " 68 Ameriean affairs began to wax fefc . ''^ tiOrd Townshend . the mnitt rnnTiinw mftTi

      ^ hfe ™ . *** 8314 U I / wd T - "" t ' ' T ' t to IielaDd , with * Vidwlf C > BrtOfSt * Janie 8 ' ¦ ' ^ tif the ^ « « wr on ^ property and their nominees in par-** te « IS !! " ^ ^^ Uieh bother ab 0 ° t America , i vIw | dWllld b 9 iMreaedd »» r »» ki »« the &I-»»^ r ^^ V > 9 to 1758 all boroughmengers *^ fcri& BeeS iBthe Ili * Pariament held their i \ j T *! *^ ^^ Uw Price of a Best was only "Helif fa ! I !!' Si 2 intmgert ' ' reTBr » cosses-ted to ^ ftTlZ ** »» «*« mi * i holding ; and thereby k ^ l n » T * boroBgh P ^ Perty from £ 5 C 0 for life ^ " » Te ^ ht yem > *^» fia i ?^ ' " ^ " ^ ^^ tttilfied t Iriah ^ N » bJL ' * ' lf ^ ** Ampyi f-itn war began to ^^ tt S ^ ' * ' **' ' oen ibB ^ Honse ^^ sad * l 00 k for ^ "CJPitioa of the S *» *! L * T' *¦ ^^ * tisfie * ^^ Teary rS « w **** " ^ aodi ty eaUed " relirioos

      , .. S < W ^ eoDtendedto and acquired the S ^ T " ^ to do so , to pnrcbase land , or "SUBsr ^ i — « - * 7 " * ^^ »« B » greai-p ) 6 d to the people , and was J ^^ a , t hen Hinfsfer a . a nire means of S ^^^ J * * ^ » « remaining dis-Zj ^ - ^ * 11 ^ P « s » 9 d upon thoss who could-S ^^ Usa ^ 1 * lsnd J tod this Act , O'ilalley , UF ^ Si ?* £ **** trirtocracy ' * lrel * ' 2 * * iSH ;^ - *•^^ * « ¦* « ¦ •»* 5 ?* iS ? , l ? roTe - ^ ^ ^ y * of ttS ^^ I ^^ tTRamy and atooedty , whether Si ^^ m !^ ' « » fe » . owners of lay ^^^ vani ^ naa in oppression , cruelty ,

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      bmfaeHty , kn % tufitaniMh * 6 t eiwry kina ^' and in the exercise of which they fancied themselves protected by a kind of p ' reis crip tire rfght to bully as they wera bullied . They were , one and all , the most consummate rascals thafc « ver disgraced human nature . Ask my Roman Catholic clergyman who is the greatest tyrant in iis parish ? and if he is cursed with a Catholic Protestant church tithe owner , a Catholic middleman , a C * tholic magistrate , or even a Catholic ehief of police , he will say , that is the man .

      Well , O'Malley , so maeh tot 1778 . In the following year came "free trade , " which laid thefoundation for jobbicg in Ireland , and whicii was not wortfc a twopenny ticket to the nation . Aod now , as ttie iaflcence of American Independence began to find its way to France , and us French , intercourse with Ireland began to spring Up , I will take all , ia & lump from 1779 to 180 » . WiUi this ahart review of twenty-one years t&en , I commence with the volunteers of 1782 , who , in addition to the troubles arising from the American war and French discontent , had England hampered by a great naval alliance formed against ket by the combined fleets of France , Spain , and Holland ; they made the most of

      the emergency , an < i got what they asked for—Parliamentary Emancipation from Poining ' s Act , which made borough property almost valueless , as the Privy Council , that is , the English prime minister , had a veto in all Irish affairs . Emancipation from Pointers Act , however , made them , the borougbmongers , a more formidable rival House to the English Minister ; and , as if by magic , the value of a seat rose from £ 800 to £ 3 , 500 , or more ,. ficcording to emergency . Bnt when the Catholic peeple asked for their share of the spoil , they were told by Lord Charlemont , tlie Colonel of the volunteers , that " he would go for Reform , but upon

      condition that Protestant jweendwicy should be the basis of Parliamentary Reform ; the Catholics the while looking for Reform merely to gain complete religious freedom , preparatory to tssertiijg their civil right * . This answer of the hero of 1782 , which is matter of history , staggered the men ef the volunteers , and they cut all connection with the Protestant aristocracy ; and from that fact , and from that period , may be dated the close alliance which grew up between the French people being Catholics , and the Irish people being Catholics , and headed by wealthy and influential Prottstmt an d Dissenting leaders ; but not one of ttem of the Coarlement party ; no , not one single one .

      The truckling adherence of the Catholic aristocracy to the Court , occasioned by their emancipation in 1778 , deprived them of all popular confidence ; and the insolence cf Caarlemont and the officers of the volunteers , deprived that party of all popular confidence . Then came the assertion of American Independence , and the French Revolution ; and with these embarrassments , the Irish Parliament < the most hellish and corrupt that efBr disgraced a nation | was once more obliged to hang a bit of popularity on their mast ; so they demanded a " full , fair , and adequate representation of all the people in th * Commons' Honse of Parliament "

      - Wow , O'MaUey , those were the very identical words of the first demand for Parliamentary Reform ; and , as the Republicans of France were at that period cvrying all before them , the boroogb-mongers of both countries affected to see the jtwtke of the demand with an unjwndiced eye ; and many committees were formed to draw up heads of a Bill to carry the principle into full eff ect , until that eternal villain , Damouriar , sold the cause of liberty , when th * committees were all dissolved , and instead of Parliamentary Reform , the country was presented with the celebrated " Convention Bill " From that period , to ITS * , hell was let loose in Ireland ; sa Irish secretary was appointed ; a national bank , the funding system , and place-men , pensioners , and

      sinecunsta were established . In fact , I > ubHn became part and parcel of SI J&mes ' g , aj far as the Court was concerned . Oat of all these many God-sends , what , in the isterv&I from IT&O to ISO * , did the people gain , either a * regards civil or religious freedom . * In 1780 they had money in the Treasury ; in 1800 , they owed over forty millions ; besides what it east the English people to bribe them ; and what did the Catholic people gain ? Why , is 1782 what was called Independence , which was based upon Protestant Ascendancy , and which made rich men of paupers , and noblemen of knaves ; in 1793 Catholic banisters were allowed to practice at the bar , while , from 1783 to 17 » 6 , all toe worst statutes on the bodfe are to ke found as Ireland ' s sh&ie of emandp&U&a and reform .

      Then , O'Malley , finding that all was lost , about ninety Protestant gentlemen of large fortune , and many Dissenters , and four , just four , bonest CvJiolics joined to break down oppression by force ; and , with that view , Arthur O'Connor and l . ord Edward Fitsgeratd were s-ent by the United Irishmen to sign terms with the French Directory , for the co-operation of the French in establishing a republic in Ireland . The history of this is long . The result , however , was , thst General Hoche

      sailed with a large fleet , a large number of men , and a large quantity of arms for the Irish , asd just as he was about to eater Bantry Bay a storm sprung up and scattered the fleet , —and thank God for it ! because however justified the Irish Directory may have been in their delightful anticipations from French protection and support , subsequent eveats prove that Ireland escaped that tyranny which marked the steps of the hero-of the French revolution wherever he made his

      appearance ; and Providence , I trust , has preserved her to pe an independent nation , instead ef an appendage to any itep-dame . Not more than about eight hundred of the French troops landed at Killala . Such , then , were the advantages which Ireland acquired by watching the necessities of Britain from 1768 t « 1757 , a period of marc tban thirty years : —a corrupt House of Commons , a national debt « f about forty millions—which means ,

      as & . 1 national debts de mean , ao appropriation of the poor and unrepresented man ' s property by the rich represented gentlemen . : a Catholic aristocracy ; a national bank ; a branch of the funding plant to her own che-jk for her own paupers ; a rise of borongh property from £$ 0-8 for life to £ 7 , 000 for eight years ; and a mimic Court O'Maliey , the * e things led to the ao wiling boon of all—a rebellion in 1798 and a Tnioa in I 860 .

      The acts of the oligarchy , after Domourier's treachery , were so cruel , brutal , despotic , and arbitrary , that , not to have resisted them by force , and at the hazard \ i life , would have __ been the worst description of slavery , anrt England , finding herself powerful in the new zeal of her volunteers and militia-men , committed those aits with no other view thin to promote a rebellion , in order that eoirightf ul a catastrophe might lead to the unregretted death of her legislature . In fact , when England asked for Ireiand ' s hand , she was reeking with the blood of her children . Allow me to repeat a sentenoe from a ip&ech ot mine npen the Union : —

      " Tfnen the withering blast , called union , was waited from the sister kingdom to our hallowed shores upon the tainted gals ol faction , Ireland was yet in mourning for her siaujhtered sons ; her green fields were yet crimsoned with the blood of her innocent children , sacrificed at the shrine of English pride , or Irish perfidy . Good GoJ ! was it at such a time that such a change should have been forced upon a coerced and uadefenSed people , while the guardians of their glory were either prematurely consigned to the cold gave , or banished to some foreign land , to sigh in solitude orei the departed liberty of their green loved land !"

      O'Malley , the rebellion was to be ; and for this reason . When the Irish Parliament was made " independent " of the British Minister in 1782 , aad being previously and subsequently wholly independent of any portion whatever of the Irish people , the British Minister found that all the money in the united Exchequer would not feed the hungry hounds ,: who just then began to establish a miniature of every abase that existed in England . In ten years the independent Parliament of Ireland spent more than thirty millions upon itself , and what it could grab into the bargain ; and now , fusootb , we hear of nothing but English—that is , the English people ' s treachery toward Iieland .

      OVMsTJey , I have the only history extant , the only » ne ever written of those days , in my possession . It is in one small volume . Only three' copies , I believe , got out ef the printer ' s lands , he having received the Attorney-General ' s compliments , and . orders to desist I have one of them ; Sir Francis Bordett has another ; and I believe , but I am not certain , that Lord Grey has the third . Now , I mean , when I get loose , to pnbKth every word of it at two or three columns at a time , in tiie Star ; and then say , who can , that Ireland has not always bean bullied by ner own Church and her own ! aristocracy , -whether Catholic or Protestant , and , above all , by ber own Parliament , after its indepeadexee . I will publiaa for yon the list of Union and rebellion Peers , with _ the

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      genealogy of eachi from" the dato . of tha first landing of his pragenlfcors among us , down to bis elevation ; and I wiasbew yon that the Irish Peerage , with a very few exceptions , consists of Union lords , who preferred a peerage and patronage to £ 15 , 006 , which was the "Union" price of an Irish borough , or a patent place for life . O' ^ Ialley , I shallnow pass over the twenty-sine years allowed for the blossoming of the Union tree , and thail say one word about its first fruits— " Catholic

      Emancipation . " What was the price paid for that ? The disrranchisement and scattering to the world of the only parties for whose benefit the measure could reasonably or patriotically be contended for ! the ciril and social destruction of 380 , 000 heads of families , previously provided for ; though humbly and scantily I admit , yet provided for ; and these now , with their families , compose the three milHoM ef contented Irishmen who say " amen , " when Mfc O'Connell says " Glory be to God ; emancipation has a bloodless triumph . "

      O'Malley , I call it ft bloody , s dear bought victory , and defy you , or aiiy man living , to point out to me any one single advantage which the Irish people have derived from the measure , beyond the excitable delight of being told that it is " a great meanB to an unknown end ; " the admission to the Imperial Parliament of the most corrupt set of members that ever entered a Senate House , and the promotion to places , pensions , sinecures , and honours , of those in whom the people had confidence , and who have sold them for the highest price that they would fetch inthe mat ket .

      Then came Reform . What have you , what has Ireland got by that ? Coercion to begin with j which , on my sou ! , O'Connell brought about and insured , lest the fulfilment of one half the promises made to Ireland , duriog the discussion upon the Reform Bill , should have been realised to the destruction « f bis " trade . " Now , O'ilalley , if ever the expediency of giving a fair trial cod Id be justly pleaded , it watr upon tho commencement of so novel an era as the reform of one

      hundred and sixty-four years of abuse . On my soul , I believe many of the "Whigs were sincere in their professions of liberality ; but now observe , the man who has cried out for a fair trial for nn administration , upon a mere exchange of one member for another , so hobbled the first Reform Parliament as to bring the two countries into collision ; and ho kept that up till he showed the Whigs that they thould not do without him , and they , therefore , bought him ; and he has now sold them .

      Now , I ask you , whether or not a time when the whole country beat high with anticipation from the great promise from Reform , was just the period that a practical" statesman would have sought to causa dissention ? and , O'Malley , with those very feelings I was resolved to test his sincerity upon the qnestion of Repeal , at once ; but I found that it waB intended as a thing of which the English might for ought O'Cbnnel cared , think as they pleased , and the worse the tetter , provided a plentiful scattering of oppression produced

      an abundant harvest He slipped through my fingers till 1834 , when the breach was mode which he designed . Is 1 £ 35 , when be got rid of me , he sold Ireland ; and from that period to the present , the man whose pot-valiancy would not allow a moment ' s breathing time to the infant Reform , has since been' most cautious in not giving rise to a single complaint , or allowing a particle of agitation , which could by possibility have tke effect of embarrassing our charming ministers .

      O'MaUey , I hope to conclude in one more letter , and then ay assertions must be refuted , or they most stand as facts , irrefutable facts . In my next , I will tell you why we seek Universal Suffrage , how we have sought it , the base manner in which we have been beiie-i , and the noble and gallant manner in which the very poorest of the poor have virtuously withstood all attempts to divide and conquer them . Till then , I am , your Friend , FEARGUS O'CONKOR . , , , . „ .. ^^^

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      « WE MUST GET RID OF FEARGUS . " TO THE ED 1 T 9 R OF THE JtO&TBSRS STAR . Sir , —Daniel CConneU , the notorious mendicant , — . the arch-traitor , —the consummate hypocrite and foe of the human race , reflecting upon his present fallen position , and seeing every avenue leading to his restoration to popularity closed against him , cries out in the agoc ? of dvapair , 4 > We mast get rid of Feargua . " Aa well might he have said , " We mutt pluck the sun fron its orbit ; " the latter being comparatively as practicable as the former . But men , when plunged ioto inextricable difficulties , will assay to buoy up their troubled spirits by strange ideas , which generally vanish ,

      " Like the baseless fabric of a vision , And leave not a wreck behind . " I dare Bay , however , that Dan already laments having bed tbe dream of " getting rid « f Feurgus , " since he has now discovered , by experiment , that there is a great deal of truth in tbe adage , " Dreams are interpreted by contraries ; " and he also finds himself funk « till deeper in the mire and clay , where he must stick , die , rot , and be forgotten , svre when his name be raked up to show tbe extent of banian degeneracy . Now , Sir , why is Dan so anxious to " get rid of Feargus ? " Why , First , —Because , Feargus has won an increasing and well-merited popularity ; while Dan is fa « tand irrecoverably falling into merited disgrace . Therefore ha cannot book the idea of seeing the man , whom ho has endfeav-tired to bring Into disrepute by scurrility and falsehood , enshrioed in the hearts of th&t people whose cause he has espoused sad zealously maintained .

      Secondly , —Becaoee , the progress of Feargus hss been marked by disinterestedness , while that of Dan has been ever characterised by tbe base and sordid love of filthy lucre . Thk contrast ) is , to Dsn , galling and unbearable . Thirdiy , —Because , principle ha * been the Inseparable concomitant of Fearg « s duriog the whole course of his political compaign ; while vacillation , tergiversation , deceit and treachery have ever attended Dan ia his wandering career . This is to Dan an eye-sore , who is not bo ignorant a » to tuppose that the people will lung be gulled when such a contrast presents itself as that between the two O ' s . Fourthly , —Dan ia the tool , the needy , greedy , willing tool of the Whig faction ; while Feargus is the sworn , uncompromising ; and unpurchassbie foe of faction ; the rights of tie people , the whole people , being the one great object he labours to achieve .

      Fifthly , —In a word , D ^ . n wants the " tint , " this is the Alpha and Omega of bis political creed ; -while Fuargus wants the extirpation of tyranny , and the t stablishraent of such a system of Government as will give and secure the greatest possible happintss to all . We read that the devil envied the felicity of the federal head of onr race , and as all hope of happiness was lout to fallen Lucifer , bis only scheme was to bring happy man to tbe lapsed condition of himself . Now , Sir , bin , the personification of the devil , is cast outhe is fallen—hope smiles not upon him ; fhertfore , in the true spirit of the devil , he seeks tbe overthrow of Feargus , tne man of the people ..

      Well ,, bow is Dan to compass his pTan ? He finds that Feargus is not alone ; and if be was , Dan is notable to cope with him ; he , therefore , calls together his " fallen angels , " and attempts the disorganisation or the Chartist troops . At bis call the truckling , idle , spouting fragments which have been broken off from tbe Chartist cause , marshalled on his side and commenced the attack a la Quixote : they certainly inscribed " the Cb&rter" on their shields , but the people were too " lynx-eyed" to be deceived ; and , itisiapier , the straw > ani > ed pigmies were obliged to fall tack , confounded and horror-Btruck at their sudden and unexpected defeat

      Well , Sir , Feargus is not" got rid of , " but on the contrary , he is more beloved by the people ; even the hitherto sceptical now see that be is immovable in principle and invulnerable to every attack , whether emanating from are wed toes or pretended friends , while tho big beggarman is once mote exhibited to tbe world in all his innate depravity , and the old and new joints « f his tail defeated , crest-fallen , and despised ., " Get rid of Feargus . '" Good God , do the villains suppose that we , the fustian jackets , are such ingratea as to turn our backs upon the man who has unceasingly fought our battles at his own cost , yes , at his OWN cost , mark that Dan ; murk that ye political profitmongers , and bioab , if shame be a component part of your nature . We turn not our'backs upon our friends , and we will abandon the name of Britons when we forsake our best friend , particularly at the time when

      be is entombed for us and our cause . Did the blistered hands fowake Collins , Love ^ t , and Co . when in " durance vile ? " No . Were they not received with open arms ? with all the honours that could be bestowed upon them , as though they had achieved ear political redemption , and how have they returned the . compliment ? Why by forming an alliance with Dan , wh » , as their mouth--piece , bawlg out , " We must get rid of Feargus . Aye , aye , ye leeches and locusts , "getting rid of Feargus " is " the consummation devoutly to be wished" by both you and your masters . Feargus and the Star are insurmountable obstacles in your path . Ye desire not the establishment of the Charter , but to humbug the people , aad make a trade of politics . , Yes ,, Mr , Editor , they want " fat livings" —they want eburehM aid schools erecting with our money , because we are so Very ignorant , immoral , and intemperate , l wonder they did not discover this when getting well

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      paid In HoU-cpurt . > u > ^ new light Jiaa bwkea forth upon tneni , and they now , gagi , / w . fr are very ignorant , Tf ^ tV U 8 ' •? ' - 7 in % perate ,, « nd , perhaps , above ail , they see that they arc so wise , so good , and eo . selfdenymg , as to be the only mea Qualified to give us * instruction In Both rellgfoii ; pintles , au'il morals . Wfr have seen seH-fluBbea •* pastors" already ; and , no doubt , they have tta hankering after a more fruitful pasture . I don't wish they ' may get it I see that the Master , of tbe Ceremonies has been deHvOTmg one of , bis sfcereotyped ' g peeclws in the Corn

      Exchange ; and he sings the old favourite tune" MONEY WAIjTEp ^ " Give me , " says he , "bub four millions $ t naiues , or two hvndb&d thousand pocnds . - Not foar millions of namea and two hundred thousand ^ pounds , bitf four millions of names oa two hundred thousand , pomidV Abont the former he would not be tery pM ^ ipular ; but aj » ut the latter ha would be very exact . ; The forme * lnay go to tne devil ( I beg pardon for using the nam ^ pf hUi satauic majesty —its vulgar ; but let it go , as t am ope of the ignorant and immoral ); : but tbe " one thing needful" must not be forgotten .

      Fne « rfa Collins , Lovett , and Co . have a plan with a thumping lump of money tagged to the end . Dan is talking of doing mighty thinga with "two hundred thousand pounds . " How awoetly things harmonise , in some quarters , now-a ( Jays ! , Well , now , ' toe bantling Is jdst giving up the ghost , what la to be done with its nurses ? Must we not go out to meet them on their return , and present them with medals , scsufe , gloves , fee . && and bedaub them a foot thick with fulsome adulation f No ; they

      repudiate such childish displays , therefore we must not ¦ wound their tender consciences . There is a better way of doing the thing . They must get about a dessn tools , orfeols , here and there to slightly censure the move , yet , ftt the same time to flatter them as much as possible ; and to do tba thing well , the tools , or fools , jnust given few heavy blows at the Star and its conductor , as a set off for the patriotic gentlemen who nave erred , but will , no doubt , return to their old frlenda ( who will bei-ever willing to receive them ) and to the cause for which they have bo nobly suffered .

      It appears that the Sun is the organ of the " ratcatchers . " People get Into , strange company at times , don"Hhey ? But what does it look like , Mr . Editor , eh ? IgutBS ; don't you ? Don't the lads , eh ? Yonrs truly . Will Watch ' em . Leeds , April 26 th , 1841 .

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      THE BACKWARD MOVE . TO TUE EDITOR OF THE NOUTHERN STAR . - ; % *• Ob 1 Peers of England , shameful is this league ! " - "Cancelling your fame j Blotting your names from books of memory ; -Razing the character of your renown ; Undoing all as all had never been . " Shakspeare . Sia , —Through the medium of the Star , I beg to thank Lovett , Hetnerington , Cleave , and Co ., for the honour they did me la not sending me a copy of their anti-Chartist declaration for my signature . They must have thought better ef ins tban of themselves . Their move was a secret to me until tba SUr turned its unwelcome light upon it , and brought it from that darkness in which Lovett would have loved it a little longer to dwell . This premature exposure was very uncourteous in the Star .

      When Lovett was released from prison , the people were much disappointed in not having an opportunity to pay their respects to him , and to show their gratitude . Ha pleaded ill health , and was excused and commiserated . While in prison , where , I believe , be was supported' by tho people—not by his new friendshe wrote a book on Chartism , ' which was published on bis liberation . Tbe Government OTgan highly praised this book—a circumstance which looked suspicious , for praise from that source must be deemed censure by evary right-minded Chartist . Lovett , however , appears to have been pleased with this praise , and to have sought more ot it . While bis colleague , Collins , was gathering laurels in Scotland , and deserving them too , if we may judge him by bis speeches , Lovett wag sitting at home hatching hU cockatrice scheme ; or weaving bis spider ' s web .

      The meeting at Leeds was a middle-class trap set to catch Chartists—an artificial fly thrown out for gudgeons ; but none were hooked , though there were a few wbo looked at it , and some who nibbled . This open attempt having failed , a secret ono must be tried . Lovett duws up &n address so very like Chartism , tbafc it might be taken by the simple and unsuspecting for Chartism Itself : just as a pitfall is covered with earth to look like firm ground . Lovett , Hetherington , Claavo —all names of good men and tone , at least , of men who

      were thought so—head the list which is sent secretly with these decoy-ducks to entrap Chartists . Dan O'Connell , Hume , Roebuck , and Co ., the fowlers and blntoatehers , keep out of sight , lest their appearance should acara away tbe prey , and the sweet singers afore-Ijtfflu ' . iM >> ""* ' * nntna » n - ««» 4 mr- » hp UnWary , 801116 Of whom light upon the cage and are limed ; but aa soon as they see tne monster-men approach to seize them and put-them in , they struggle , hard and escape ; olhors subjoit to . lose their liberty , and join the " unclean birds" within . There are others that .

      " Struggling to be free are more encaged , " because they seek to justify themselves , and cannot . Tbe . leaders of this league knew that there was a National Association in existence ; but they are of that kind of men who will not follow what other men propose . Th « y wish to set up themselves head over all : and they will beset up—but as warnings and examples to tbtto , and not to Imitate . " Infamy will brand their memories . " Duped hy the middle class , they would fain have deceived and betrayed tbe people . They could not resist the honour of being courted by

      members of Parliament , and Lovett the cabinet-maker , has been set to make a > cabinet of Chartists—Collins , the tool-maker , to make tools for them—while we were to have been cloven and divided by Cleave . Old Don , like Faistaff , finding that his " date was out , " wished to know where commodity of " good names " couM be bought , and he found these . Tbe trust reposed by a confiding people in Lovett and Co ., was to be turned against them to please the middle iJlasBeS . Could a man make or allow to bo made a more shameful nse uf his " good name . '" ButOiey have overrated their influence with the people .

      Wiiat is tbe pretence of this backward meve ?—the peoplo are not sufficiently educated , forsooth ! The men who want to bridle the people and check them by an educational bit , are booksellers who , of course , would charitably eell tracts , &c , to the starving millions . Do they think the people cau be fed on paper ? Thuy remind us ot the cockney who rapped the live eels in the pan on their cockscombs , » ud cried "down , wantons , down !" in Mr . Lovett ' s opinion , the men . who misrule the nation are well educated . The people who feel the

      wrong done them , and who would right it , must not ; because they are not educated 1 Mr . Lovett is either a very dishonest or a very timid mw > Does ke wish to sophisticate tbe unsophisticated' people ? But the greatest grievance ia Mr . O'Connor , tee " people ' s idol . " He must be got rid of , because his popularity is envied . Mr . O'Connor earaeu it , and earned it dearly ; and did not Mr . Lovett possess his share—his full share ? was not the Star the herald of his fame ? Mr . Lovett resembles the Turk th&t cannot bear a brother near him .

      Perhaps our " ' trading ., politicians" fancied Mr . O'Connor had monopoly , and they wished to break it It is ¦ well known that , in a pecuniary sonse , the Star has done more benefit to othera than to Mr . O Connor . He is out of pocket by it . Had he chosen to serve himself ana not the people , he might have been a lord , fie is in a prison for his patriotism , and set upon by curs that durst not bark if he were out— Bpaniels that fawn upon their own persecutors . O'Connor ' s value to the people is indicated by this , mean attempt to shelf him—an attempt made by men ' who owe their power of making it to hia favour , and who have eat of his bread . To injure O Connor ia to injure the people ; he is identified with them . Hud tbe people ' s enemies succeeded in turning the people against their friend , the people would have felt it first , aud must have hated themselves . It would have been enough to make all true patriots turn to . Ximoua . Ingratitude is a sin whfeb neither goda nor men can besr . ¦

      But thtt traitors have not succeeded , and cannot . This is their last attempt . It is well when men shew themselves in their true colours and separate themselves . The goats will bo known from the sheep . I do not think it will be worth while waging war with them , bntj If we do , we will wage it warmly . " WHen Greek meets Greek , then conies the tug of war . " I am most sorry to see Vincent's name in the list . I consider Vincent the chief Chartist writer of the day . He baa fought with us and BunVed with us . Does he blench now ? Can he have become enamoured of those whose stripes he bears ? Turn again , Vincent , aad be a true man . No doubt Borne of the London leaguers finding that they cannot mislead the people , will retract and come over to us again . There ia one of them of whom we may say— " The devil a Chartist , or anything else is he , constantly , bnt a time- server . "

      What good could they expect by diverting tbe people from the old path ? Did taey intend two natitnal associations to be set up ? We cannot worship God and Mammon— . we must hold-to the one and neglect the other . The people ' s attention would bnve been divided and distracted / They could not pay attention to both . A house divided against itself cannot stand . We cannot play o > double game . We are not : jugglers to keep two balls up at once . Young Chartism like a " gracele > sson , " Vou ] d hare tripped up , bis sire . . We muat do awsywith one or'the other . As for me , I will stick to the old . path—I will not . meddle ' with the changelings . ' Ohwnrrt , ami we conquer—backward , and we are conqaered . A little longer my friends , and the victory is outb . Hold " out—We must not be BEAT ! ' ¦ ¦' , - . - ' ' : ' ' '¦ '• / '' ' " London , April 26 , 18 * 1 . Johm Watkins .

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      ^ IJ pjpt ^ rs of . Fasnt Ellslef . ' s Dakcinq . —Fanny ' s dancing has s * turned , a , poor 'functionary ' s bead , that he danced fronj morning till night all over hia boarding-house , till his landlady had to take h m t > efore the police . —New York Herald .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN . STAR . Sih , —A . short time , ago , ; I was much pained on perusing a paragraph inserted in the Star , ' calculated to in jure an old , tried , and disinterested Chartists both in character and circumstances , and knowing your love of ustice , I feel confident you will not refuse administering the antidote . , , In the paragraph te which I allude it was stated , in no very respectful term * , that George Eilis . of Biadford , no longer gave oho half of his profits on tho Star to the Victim Fund , and broadly hinting that be was no longer worthy of support . ¦' . "; ¦ ., - * .

      Now , 'Sir , as George EUla voluntarily subscribed onq half his profits to that fund for four months subsequent to tbe expiration of the time he acted as agent under a certain association , csllad "The Co-operative Association , " whose number is very small , I should think him more worthy ef praise than censure , particularly as very few agents have evinced a disposition to make similar sacrifices . The parties who have made the attack ought , in justice , to have stated the amonnt of money thus paid into the fund by George Ellis , and also shewn that the money lias been appropriated to the purpose specified ; This they have not done , bnt must , erethayare free from suspicion . Let them justify themselves by the publication of their balance sheet , and then , but not till then / they may be allowed to hurl their missiles at others .

      Having made a little Inquiry into this matter , I give you my friend ' s version of tbe matter , feeling confident that your readers will exonerate him from the odium attempted to be cast upon him . He says : "In the first place I was appointed agent for tbe sale of the Star by th » Association for one quarter , ( observe , I was selling on my own account before this , ) which agency I fulfilled ; at the expiration of that time I was not re-elected , but continued to give onehalf of the profits for four months longer ; at that time , through bad debts , * c ., of whfch I * bare many , I was reluctantly ( to make good my payments )

      compelled to relinquish giving one halfpenny , without the Association would , stand and mate good those deficiencies . In some instances , I have bad a number of papers left on hand , which , if I had to mplre good on my account , I should have little or nothing left for all my trouble . 1 had postage of letters , as also postoffice orders to pay when remitting money , &c &c , which , when taken into account , made my profits very small . Up to the time of gVvlng up half the profits , I bad paid Into the hands of the Secretary from £ 3 10 a . to £ i , and have not seen any account , with the excepti » n of once , and that noticed in the Star . "

      He further adds— - " A number of the members here ( Bradford ) investigated the affair , and passed a vote of censure on the parties who sent the paragraph in question to the Star , bat it was not inserted ; thus , it appears , that , a man is to be rained with impunity—an attack is allowed to be . made , but publicity refused to the peraou attacked . " With respect to the last sentence , I most Bay , that tbe " vote . of censure " must not have reached your office , or should it have come into your hands , it must have been mislaid , as it is well known that your columns are as cheerfully thrown open to tbe accused as to tbe accuser . Tours truly , April 27 th , 1841 . FAia PtATt .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOKTUEBN STAB . Sin , —By giving the following address a place in the columns of your truly invaluable paper , you would much oblige , Sir , Yours respectfully , P . M . Bropht . Dublin , April 26 th , 1841 . J TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

      AND IRELAND . " Cursed b 9 the wretch that ' s bought and sold , Who barters liberty for gold . " Friends , Brethren , and Fellow-countrymen , —A fierce , determined , aud unwarrantable attack having been made on the Chartists of Dublin byMr . OConue ll , I bag to call your attention to a few plain facts . Mr . O'Connell has thought proper to state to the world that Chartism in Ireland is a transportable offence , but he has not pointed out tho manner , in which a Chartist Association in Ireland would be illtgal . . This he has done in order to deter the gulled and starving people of Ireland from joining ns , lest they should acquire a knowledge of their real state , and the means of redressing it . Before be published

      our Association in the venal press of Ireland , he should have been certain that the rules of our Association were such aa to warrant the assertion . Mr . O'Connell dreads Chartism ( although ose of Its propounders ) , because be knows that if its sacred principles were ones known by the people , he would lose his popularity . He hus called us " a despicable set , " and says that he knows us all ! Now in what are we despicable ? because we ore honest and that we havo truth on our side ? He knows us all ! what does he know of us ? He knows we are poor working menj and that we will not pin our opinions to his sleeve , but that we will think and act for our own and country's good . Lot Ireland be enlightened in the principles ef the Charter , and the bloodsucking mioiona have an end to their traffic in human misery and in human Mood . Ireland has been disunited

      by factious demagogues ; her people have been taught to hate England and the English ; England tu » been taught to hate the Irish . ; and thus a system of rapino , murder , treachery , and wrong has been perpetuated ; in order that the traders in human blood might be able to glut themselves to satiety . The present effort to suppress Chartism in Ireland is another of the tnauy hell-born machinations devised for still making appropriate the motto , "Divide and conquer . " Shall we be divided ? shall we longer regard « jach othe * as aliens in name ami in blood ? shall we bate and persecute each other on account of our political and relig ious opinions ? sball Protestant stand' fa opposition to Catholic , or Catholic to Protestant ? when tbe common interest of the people of this country , nay , of the vast empire , demands a unity of the producing aud unrepresented millions , to resist by legal and moral means the progressive science of tyranny .

      Men of England and Scotland ! ycu have done much for the people of Ireland , by your agitation and dissemination' of sound political and useful knowledge ; you have sent that luminary of truth and reason , the Northern Star ; that Star has been a comet to Ireland ; it haa spread its light through the dark horizon , and dispelled the gloomy fears that honest patriots have had for Ireland ' aregeneratton ; from Its hallowed columns has flown more real truth tban from the whole of the " Liberal" press . Tho schoolmaster is now abroad in Ireland ; the bird has fiown , and all the powers of earth and hell cannot impede its progress .

      Wen of England and Scotland , yon havo the best wisheB of the Chartists of Ireland ; go on in tbe holy cause prospering and to prosper . Irishmen , let your solicitude foryonr country direct your energies to the all-important principle of Universal Suffrage ; recollect that on your exertions depend the fate of Ireland ; her destiny is in the bands of powerful demagogues , which the spread of Chartism alone can ninke null . Renumber your friend and conntryman , Feargus O'Connor , | the disinterested and uncompromising patriot . ) has been reviled by these demagogues , because of the purity of his intentions in furthering the fnoral and physical condition of the working ci . ussw . May he live to see the death of tyranny and despotism . Let union - be your motto , the Charter your banner , truth and justice your guide , and you will soen sea a speedy downfall of the enemies of Ireland and Britain . Hurra for the Charter , and No Surrender . Peter M . Brophv , Secretary to the Charter Association of Dublin .

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      UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES . After pllthat we have read of late concerning the American cities . and people , ( says a revieyrer of Combe ' s Notes-on the United Stales , in TaUs Magazine , ) there is little now left for Mr . Combe to teil of mere externals . His attention was given to objects not lyiD ^ on the surface . Ha reached Philadelphia about the time that the riots at HarrisbHrg—the town in which the State Assembly of Pennsylvania meets— ¦ wtre going forward ; those disturbances which to us at home presaged a dissolution of the Union . Even in America , be states that the excitement was very great , and all over the Union the proceedings attracted much attention .

      " The Senate adjourned in confusion , and the mob organized ' a committee of safuty , ' which directed their proceedings . DisonJer reigned for several days , during which neither branch of the Legislature could hold a regular Session ; the Executive Chamber ami State Department , ' says Governor Rltner , ' were closed , and confusion and alarm pervaded the seat of Government . ' The militia were called out ; aud obeyed the axanmoae . ; . * ¦ o . ' ¦ " ? * "In any European country , a tumultuous assault on the Legislator ^ if successful , would protably have been the fc eranner of a revolution ; but herti it , Is of far inferi . & Importance . In the United States a evolution eau scarcely mean anything but an abandonment op freedom . The suffrage is already all but universal ; and the people elect , either directly or

      indirectly , not only the Legislature but every officer of State . The wildest imagination , therefore , cannot devise a more democratic form of government f and as there is no aristocratfc clafrs ; having separate interests and distinct feeliogs from the people , who could usurp power , a revolution 'could load only to a despotism . The States , however , are very far removed from that condition in which a despotism becomes possible There are no poverty-stricken j suffering , and ignoraut multitudes , whom an aspiring tyrant can beguile to lend him their physical force to overthrow th « liberties of their country . A-targe ' proportion -of the electors are owners of their own farms , whife even tbe humblest class possesses'property and some degree of Intelligence * All ar& reared in . tfea ^ lcrirej not only of freedom , but of power . « * ? *

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      " A democracyIs a rougb . iastrunifani of rale , in the pre 8 int ; st < vt 9 cf education and . manners in the United Stat S , and I'haTO not yet in ^ t wfth a Btltian ^ Radical who has bad the benefit of five years' experleajo of it , wbo has not renounced bis creed , and ceased to admire TJaivorsaV Suffrega '" ¦ But . tfc ^ cofirsenessof the ijwchine , and its efficacy , are different questions . It is , costm , because Jtae ma s * of the people , although intelligent , compared with the European niassea , are still yery imperfectly instructed , when their attainments ip know * ledge and rcflnehieni ere contrasted with , the . powers which tb . ey-, wfe ! d . it ia efficacious , however , because it i » sonni in its structure and its mainsprings are strong ' . " - ' , V , ' !;¦ ¦ ' ¦ ., ' . " x v . - , ¦ ....- \ But how aclmirably are . those drawbacks . counterbalanced by tho manifold advantages I In the following sentences , we have the rationale of democratic

      institutions;' " In the United States , the paople have the power to tyrannise , if they please , over the weal thy r , the educated , and the refitted ; ia Britain , the aristocracy and middle classes have tbe power to tramp , !© , if they choose , on the masses , who have no control qver the legislators . So far as my observations' extend , the people in tho United States bave not perpetrated onetwentwth part of the acta of injustice , by their legislation against the rich , which the aristocracy in Britain has done by their . legislation against theipoor . " I freely confess , that whileil lived under the British Institutions , aad e . -. joyed the advantages which they confer on tne upper and middle classes , I , like many

      otherS fc had a less lively psreeption of their one-sided character . Even now , after contemplating the greatly superior condition of the masses id the United ; States , I am bound to state ray conviction , that this democracy , in ita present condition of imperfect instruction , is a rough instrument of Gdvernuient , and that , ware I to consult my p . rsonal comfort merely , I should prefer to live in England . But vie wing the results of bojb , as sj citizen of the world , and as a man bound to love nit neighbour as himself , and perceiving that the one tends naturally fru the elevation of the few , and the degradation of the many , while the other tends to Cho improvement of all , it is impossible not to wish buocess to the American Republic . "

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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Stroud , April 2 Gth , 1841 . BROtnBRs , —Having seen my name , among others , in a vote of censure passed at Derby npon persons who approve of the plan of organisation proposed by vaj friend , Wilifam Lovett , 1 deem it necessary to nay a few words to you on tbe subject I must say that I feel surprised , after the many proofs 1 have given of th « intensity of my devotion to the people and their cause , that any individual conld for a moment suppose that I had so far fallen from the path of duty an Co take part in any movement other than the movement o £ ths people for the attainment of their political and- social rights . i ¦¦ Tbe whole of my political life is before the country . When an apprentice ,- ten years ago , I opposed the Reform Bill , on the ground taken up by Henry Hunt , namely , chat ao suffrage short of Universal Suffrage would ever satisfy tha people .

      Long before the Chartist agitation commenced I contended for Universal Suffrage . I moved amendment ! alike at Whig and Tory meetings in various parts of London , in . favour of that measure . I overthrew Whig vestry meetings in Marylebone and St Pancras upwards of thrtie years ago , to the no small mortification of the WhigHngs in that neighbouthood . ¦ ' . I was one « f the first to take part in tbe Charter agitation . . I was one of the six working men appointed to draw up thnt document , I went through YnrSshire , a part of Lancashire , a great part of the West and

      Wales , a ! 7 W $ t entirely at m { i ' ownezpenee . I expended , in two years , Two Hundred Pounds of af own Monet , besides loss of time , relations , and friends . I formed numerous associations in places where " liberty . " had never fceen heard of . I denounc *! alike the tyranny of Government asd the fawning sycophancy of the people . I exposed the base conduct of tbe Whigs , and tne still more monstrous conduct of the knave O'ConnblL I established the Findieaicr m the West , aod I appeal to those who know me there to bear witness to my exertions .

      I became a member of the Convention , and was soon arrested . I was sent to Monmouth prison for ttcelvt months . I have never complained ot my imprisonment , though I teas treated like a dog . Attempts were mad * in prison t * att mt to compromise waiters . I was told "if I wonld but do so , I might-be let uut , and further imprisonment be avoided . " I spurned the recommendation . I told Mr . Vaagnan , a magistrate of tbe county of Monmouth , < a Catholic , ) " that I would sink or Swim with the CLartist party ; and that I would see the enemy d— -d before I would do ought but despise and oppose them . " 1 was served with a copy of a second indictment . I then refusetl all compromise . Copies of THREE ilORB INDI . CTHBNTOBQM WILTS AKD GLOUCESTER "WEBB THEN SEUVBD with the view of alarming me . I laughed them to scorn 1 ,

      After a confinement of eight months—a portion of which , was passed in the cotidemnedceVL—l was bomglit to trial a second time—and sentenced te a further imprisonment of twelve si onths . Since I left prison—though under ball—and . with " indictments"bangingover me—I h ( ive again 'taken part with the people for tbe Charter . I nave lectured in * Banbury , Northampton , Kettering Leicester , Loughborougb , Nottingham , Arnold ,, Suttonin-Aghttcld , Darby , Cheltenham , and Gloucester ; , and I am now in Stroud , the pocket borough of Lord tjohn Rusaeil . To each of these places I can point . With , pride . In each I have denounced , all compromise ot our glorious principles—in each have I exposed she knave O'Coimell—in each I have denounced the Whfgg—and in Nottingham f recommended tne Chartists to vote for Walter rather tuan ? &fcnnr Labpekt tbe nominee of O'Conuell and the base Whigs . I SUBMIT THAT IN THE ABOVE I HAVE GIVEK

      SOME PRCOF OF MV SINCERITY TO THE PEOPLE . I now como to iha O ( iE point on which I am censured , and which , in the eyes of my Derby friends , haa rendered me a "fallen" ChartiRt ; aud fordoing which , ia the opinion « f some , ( without * even mailing till they hear vie , ) I am to be denounced as a " traitor , " thief , imp , pimp , Whig , Tory , OXtonneliite , and the Devil knows what Now , how stands the case ? When in Leicester , I received-a circular from Mr . Lftvett , "addressed to the Political and Social Refonnerg of Great Britain . " - I found on reading it that it was based on the admirable pamphlet , written by Lovett and Collins , when in Warwick gaol . I found that it proposed the establishment of an Association to erect Halls , and to'establish libraries for the use of the working classes ; and , feeling it to be a part of my duty to countenance anything which Wuuld have a tendency to place the working classes in an improved position , morally and intellectually , as well as politically —and having perfect confidence ia tbe . ¦ inte grity ofky

      friend Lovett—I signed my name to it , at the-same time good humoutfsdly telling him , : " that I did not think the plan could be carried out in consequence , ef the general poverty and slavery of the people ; but that if my humble name could be useful in the slightest degree towards the erection of but one Hall in which the people might meet , free from tbo influence- ' of perBt'CUtlon , he was welcome to it . " 1 declare most solemnly that I bad no other object' when I sighed that document My whole soul was then ) and ia now , in the Charter—anct if auy man bad dated to request me to advocate anything sJiort of Chartism , I should have publicly denounced him as aknavr . Why , in London , I heard Lovett teU Hume that he never irotdd join in an agitation far anything less tJtajt the Charter—Bifid I told Hume to blB tenth " that he and hia party had mined themselves ; that I was glad of it ; and that they never could dupe the working classes again ; that we would go on with the Charter until it triumphed . "

      I knew of no " conspiracy "—I know of none . J am a member of the " National Charter Association , " and have been since it ¦ was remodelled . I ever have been with the people—I am now— and I ever shall be . I am pained to have to write this letter—but justide to my own character demands it I appeal to aYl-who know me—to those wbo bave heard mo since I left prison in public or in private—I appeal to one arid all , to say whether I have ever swerved from the . i » ae great object of my life , that ot obtaining political power for the working millions . I shall write nq more . We can only be judged of by our actions , and « ur professions . I point to both fearlessly ; regarding neither the frowns nor the praises of my friends , but as incentives to further activity in our glovibus : cause . With , my heart in my pen , I am , Brother Chartists , Your unalterably devoted friend , ¦ Henry Vincent .

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      Alleged Death from Starvation . —An inquest was held on Friday , tbe 23 rd , on the body of an aged female , named Coleman , who lived at Newstreet , St . Nicholas , Bermondsey , and who was sopposed to have died from want . It appeared the deceased was addicted to drinking , and tBatuhe died from natural causes . Her intemperate habits reduced her to extreme poverty , and the parish officer of Deptford , said the Guardians had forbidden him to give her oat door relief . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from natural causes ; at tbo same time they conld not separate without deprecating ia the strongest manner tbe system of the New Poor Law . " One of tb » jury , who contended that a verdict of died , from starvation should be returned , refused to sign th « inquisition *

      The Armstrong Liveb Phis are recommended ' aa an Anti-bilious medicine , to every sufferer from bitiuuB complaints and indkestio * . or from an Inactive liver , and are procurable at all Drn ^ jpste , aad at the Northern Stpr office . It is only necessary to see that the stamp has "Dr . John Aaa » tong ' g Liver Pills" engraved oa it in white ^ ttfiiLiul ^ a , let no one put you off with any other ubibTkV . 'j /' -l » ,. N . 8 . The Pills ia the bexeB encio | B ^| | gm ^ l * paper , &nd marked B ., are a ver « SK ^| JWbQ ^> iHr \ ' and are . particularly and univereaU » nC « 4 »^ 33 w ^/>\ r- ^ are admirably adapted for spcTtemfQ , i $$ fipi £ & $ k ^ t ~ , ' men of business , naval and military Wir'ffc : ' ^^ - ^ - ]•; contain no mercury or calomel , » n 4 rrfm »«« fthi ^; ' " ^ ^ r , confinement to the house , nor restnWawiil * " . ' - ^ \ " -- - / d ' :

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1107/page/7/