My friends, your petition, to have a Bear and Ragged Staff "an ungentlechance of success, must go through a manly threat," I have here put in execuvery different channel. I have had long tion. If the working people of Norand important petitions to submit to TINGHAM choose still to tax themselves this very Mr. O'CONNELL; and, if he to keep you without work, and if they be questioned upon the subject, he will derive inconvenience instead of benefit say, that no petitions that he ever re-therefrom, the fault will be theirs and ceived, occupied so small a portion of not that of his time. When I sent him a petition, it was in a plain hand and very plainly indorsed; and accompanied with a very short and plain statement of the substance of the petition. Then with a little slip of paper, saying that I would wait on him on such a day at such an Your most obedient servant, WM. COBBETT. REMARKABLE RE-ACTION SURREY. hour, and desiring him to tell his ser- AT GODALMING, IN THE COUNTY OF vant to bid me call again if it were not convenient for him to see me at that time, requesting him not to waste his time by writing to me; and when I did wait on him, taking care not to sit down, and merely for the purpose of saving him the trouble of writing. This has been my mode of proceeding with every Member of Parliament I have ever had to apply to for such a purpose; and if, nnhappily, you should persevere in your tastes for having a diplomatic person in your service, let me conjure you, my good friends, to choose one less prone to gossip; and above all things, not to be too liberal in remunerating his services. This ambassador can do you no more good in LONDON than he could by going to the moon. He was, according to his own braggings, figuring, the other day, at the Council of the Birmingham Union; called in, doubtless, to assist, with his advice, the members of that council, whom he represented to me as being in danger of being arrested by the Government! Which, indeed, put the finishing stroke to my patience. On Wednesday, the 16th instant, the people of this little quiet town got a cart, drawn by a horse, and seated in it the representative of a MILITARY CHIEF; and, by his side, the represen-. tative of a FROW. The cart appeared to be accompanied, during the procession, by every creature in the town, and also by numerous persons from the villages round about. The personages in the cart were a living man and woman! There was an erection, resembling a gallows, fixed to the cart, with a swing rail going over the heads of the culprits. The procession started from the bridge at the bottom of the town, going on slowly towards the market-place, at the upper end of the town. At about every fifty yards of the progress, the executioner, armed with a pistol and powder, shot the military chief, who fell down backward in the cart, the frow hanging about his neck and screaming. the ceremony was concluded, by regularly putting ropes round their necks, white caps on their heads, and these Now, Mr. HENSON, I have fulfilled being drawn down over their faces, the my promise. I saw that your design offending parties expiated their sins in a was to get at some ground, some pre- very becoming manner, first, listening tence, for misrepresenting Mr. O'CON- attentively, with great apparent peniNELL to the good people of NoTTING-tence, to a prayer of considerable length HAM; and I told you, in the presence that was read to them, and then comof the gentleman before-mentioned, mitting their souls, in due form, to the that if I discovered you making any devil, hanging the legal length of time, such attempt, I would certainly coun- and, being cut down, fell, apparently teract your efforts by a publication in dead, into the bottom of the cart. The the Register. This I have now done: performers in this affair collected a good what you call in the vulgar slang of the parcel of money, which they expended At last in drinking success to the Reform trous occasion, and that your Lordship voted Bill." The church-bells rang from in the minority, most respectfully beg your morning to night, except while the ofments and heart felt approval of this your supLordship to accept our warmest acknowledg fenders were hanging, when, as a mat-port of the nation's rights; and we further ter of course, the knell tolled. beg to assure your Lordship, that this proof of your Lordship's feeling upon this most mamentous question, has raised your Lordship high in the estimation of your Lordship's humble servants. And it is the-good will of such a people, that a majority of the Lords have been so wise as to fling away! How much happier, how much safer, is my Lord ONSLOW, than many a man that I This is what I have al Such, and such like, has taken place in almost every sensible town in ENGLAND. This ought to be translated, and published in FRANCE. Our neighbours ought to know the way that we go on in our little quiet country towns. I should have remarked, that the FROW appeared singularly fond of the COMMANDER, and kissed him, very affection-could name! ately, previous to their finally taking leave of this miserable reforming world. GODALMING is not much famed for antalluct; if it had been, there would have been plenty of talk and no do. CHOPSTICK SENSE. ways been harping upon in my addresses to the Lords on the Reform Bill. I have always been telling them, that it was the good-will of their neigh ТО СОСКEY DENMAN, COCKEY, bours, and not of the insolent deadweight fellows, and the blasphemous and murdering Jews, that they ought to set a high value upon, for that, after all, THE beastly and insolent brutes, their well-being, and probably their who meet together, and, like the pha-property and their lives, must mainly risee in the parable, thank God "that depend upon the good-will of their they are not as other men are;" neighbours. these, at once stupid and conceited wretches, are everlastingly representing the country people as poor, ignorant creatures, who are miserable for the want of " antalluct;” just as if they had intellect themselves! In the above article I have given an instance of the expression of the just resentment felt by You have, since WOOD was fool the people of a country town in my na- enough to puff you up, been lucky in tive county. I am now going to give the money-making way, but monstrously a specimen of the opposite feeling, ex-unlucky in your speech-reporthers; for, pressed by the people of a village of that if their reporths were to be believed, same county. The Earl of ONSLOW has his family-seat in the little village of you must be set down for a LIAR as MERROW, or at least very near it, which great as the great LIAR of the North, village lies about four miles east of GUILFORD. His lordship, it seems, voted against LYNDHURST's motion of the 7th of May, in consequence of which, an address was agreed to by the whole parish of MERROW, on the 18th instant, and, the next day, was presented to him by the churchwardens of the parish. TO THE HONOURABLE THE EARL OF or even the great LIAR of the South. I told you to your face of the lie which had been published in your name, relative to poor COOKE of MICHELDEVER, which was, verily, the most infamous lie that ever was ascribed to mortal with your name at the head of it, and of ; which lie is still in print, observe, man which lie and the circumstances connected with it, you have by no means yet heard the last: I told you of this lie to your face; and now this scoundrel rish of MERROw, having, with great pleasure, heard that your Lordship was personally pre- reporther is fixing another lie upon sent in the House of Lords on the late disas-you; for, in the Morning Chronicle of We, your Lordship's neighbours, of the pa 46 this day, he makes you say this: "In the the reporthers into whose hands he falls, case of Cobbett, Government was de- I mean a fellow of the name of Hunt, "feated and the jury discharged, owing under whose name this same reporther to the perseverance of ONE jury-publishes in the same paper a lie, not "man." Why, Cockey, what an impu- greater indeed than the lie ascribed to dent lie this is; what a barefaced, what you; but more malignant and more a shameless lie! PEEL'S-BILL PEEL is atrocious in its tendency; for he makes represented as having observed, that he this fellow say first, that the prosecution did not know HOW YOU GOT AT against me had been suspended, in con THE FACT of there being but one sequence of a letter which Mr. HuuE juryman for my acquital. Aye! How had written to Lord GREY; and secondcould you get at the fact, Cockey? thank ly, that "the effect of suspending Cobyou for that, PEEL'S-BILL PEEL. But," bett's prosecution was that Carlile was the reporther is a brazen liar. Even" tempted to write a still stronger article broadfaced TORRENS had not the impu- "the following week, for which he was dence to lie in his Globe newspaper to "prosecuted and convicted." this extent. He and ANNA BRODIE did Now, with regard to the letter said lie so far as to say that there were only to have been written by Mr. HUME to two of the jury that stood out for me; Lord GREY. I heard of it at the time; but your reporther has reduced the TWO told my informant, who was a very to ONE, which you must know to be a zealous and warm-hearted young man, most infamous lie. You must know it; that I was very much obliged to Mr. for the jury came into the box and deli- HUME for his kind intentions, but that I vered a paper to the judge, in which paper I was very sorry that he had done any they stated that there were SIX FOR such thing. I dare say that several AND SIX AGAINST; therefore you gentlemen applied to the Ministers upon could not have said this, without wish-the subject; for I know of two that did ing to pass for a liar even more brazen from the country; and I know that than the great LIAR of the South himself. Besides, as PEEL's-BILL PEEL observed, how are you to get into the secrets of a sworn jury. It would be something new indeed for an Attorneygeneral to say that he knew what was passing in a jury room! Oh, no! Cockey DENMAN; you were beaten by me, and not by a juryman: it was feebleness and falsehood beaten by talent and truth. I wanted no partial juryman. The moment you began your prosecution, I told you in print that I would beat you. I did not wait until I saw the names of the jurors. Pray mark that. The moment I saw your infamous bill of indictment, I set you at defiance: I told my readers, and I told the French, and in the French language too, that I would beat you, and expose you. So that this crying story hatched up by this reporther, can only tend to give you a shove farther downwards; and if you be wise, you will restrain your reporther's silly and dirty pen in future. these gentlemen having communicated the fact to some members of my family, they expressed to those gentlemen their sorrow for what they had done. So much for the lie by insinuation: and now for the lie point blank. This reporther, who puts forth his lies under the unhappy naine of HUNT, is not only like a negro, destitute of the capacity to distinguish between falsehood and truth, but he is destitute of that prime quality so essential to the constituting of a good, sound, hearty LIAR, namely, memory, of which he seems to possess no more than the bald-cootes on the rocks of Newfoundland, which, having been shot at one minute, will fly off and come back again to be shot at the next, though they see the fowler stand in the same spot, and with the gun ready to fetch them down; for the fact is, that Mr. CARLILE, instead of having been tempted to write by the suspension of my prosecution, was actually in jail, and undergoing his horrible sentence, There is another personage, equally EVEN BEFORE THE BILL OF Unlucky with yourself with regard to INDICTMENT WAS PRESENTED AGAINST ME! One is at a loss to | Bill, the delay or refusal of which had been say whether this reporther be most the cause of all their difficulties. How that was to be brought about he did not know, but LIAR, FOOL, or BEAST. He is cer- he had full reliance on the moderation and tainly far below a new negro " in the the wisdom of the people. (Cheers.) This, scale of the animal creation. But, however, he also knew, that the spirit of the really, if we do get a reformed Parlia-people of England was so thoroughly roused ment, we must put a stop to these reporthers; for, as old HARRY said to CRANMER," By G-d, Tom, the world will think us brutes," if we suffer them to go on exhibiting us in the manner that they do you and this unhappy fellow HUNT. I have nothing more to say at present, Cockey, except that the less that is said about this fight between you and me, the better it is likely to be for you both now and hereafter. It is a subject that you ought to shun as a sailor shuns the rocks, or a burnt child shuns the fire. WM. COBBETT. P.S. I had nearly overlooked what is reporthed to have been said upon this subject by the honest, sincere, and sensible ALTHORF, who thought, good man, "that one of the dangers in prosecuting "these libels would be to give the de"fendant an opportunity of making an impudent defence in a court of justice." Ah! honest man! What, you remember, do you, the sweating that I gave to your bunch of pretty colleagues, when I had them hanging their heads before me in the Court of King's Bench! Farewell, honest man. That is all I have to say to you at present, only to advise all of you to let me alone. HOUSE OF COMMONS. 14th May, 1832. Debate on the projects of the Duke of Wellington, and on his being again Prime Minister -which debate arose on the presenting of a petition from the Livery of London, by the hands of Mr. ALDERMAN WOOD. that there was no hope of appeasing them Mr. HUME never addressed the House under circumstances of so much alarm aud apprehension, speaking both politically and commercially. He confessed, therefore, he had heard with the greatest pleasure the dawn even of a chance of reconciliation in the present agitated state of the country. (Hear, hear, hear.) He thought there could not be a greater blessing to the country than such a termination, and that the man who would succeed in bringing it about and calming the (Continued from No. 7, col. 446, vol. 76.) existing excitement would deserve the thanks The question now, however, was, not and gratitude of the people. He was anxious what had been done, but what was to be to avoid saying one word which could prevent done. He wished to see how the affairs of such a consummation or produce any angry the country could be retrieved. That was, feeling; and of this he was assured, that Lord in his opinion, by placing the Government of Grey and his late colleagues had the interests the country again in the hands in which it of the country too much at heart to stand much could be placed so as to obtain the confidence on ceremony, if they saw a probability of their of the country, and by passing that Reform being again restored to full confidence as the advisers of his Majesty. He would not advert | people; next, that the character of all public to the speculation of the Duke of Wellington men might escape the stain which would fall with respect to the bill. He would not look on it if those who had always opposed the bill back at the past, he would look only at the now carried it into a law; and, lastly, that the present, and availing himself of what had character of the Sovereign might not any fallen from the member for Thetford, he longer suffer in the opinions of his people. would say, that if his Majesty wished again The course now recommended would restore to stand well with his people, he would not that Sovereign to their affections, which he behesitate to receive his late Ministers to his lieved none ever better deserved, and every councils. (Hear, hear.) He trusted, there-true friend to the monarchy must desire to fore, there would be no want of means for the see that restoration take place as speedily as accomplishment of this most desirable end, possible. (Hear, hear.) and he would suggest that the House should Lord ALTHORP, in consequence of what at once adjourn, and leave matters as they had fallen from the hon. Gentleman who spoke stood now to their own operation. (Hear.) last, as well as from the Members for YorkEvery post from the country was freighted with shire and Middlesex (Morpeth and Hume), complaints and remonstrances and unplea-wished to recal the attention of those hon. sant statements. He wished much that the Members and of the House, who seemed to next post would convey to the country the indulge in so many anticipations of good, to the tidings of an alteration of all that had been real state of the question. Those who indulged lately done, and the sentiments of the 280 in anticipations of the possibility of a commembers which he hoped he spoke with promise between parties should recollect what respect to this matter. (Hear, hear.) Then is the real state of public affairs. At the if he spoke their sentiments (hear), and if, as present moment, as they had heard that night he hoped, the Member for Thetford spoke from a right hon. Gentleman, doubtless well the sentiments of his party, he thought it informed on the subject, the new Administrawould be the best way to adjourn the tion was completely formed in all its most House, after the petition was disposed essential points. The proposition, as far as of, and leave those more intimately con- he understood it, was, that in consequence of nected with the question to adopt such mea- the discussions which had taken place in that sures, under their conciliatory feelings, as House, it is to be expected that some arrangewould put an end to all the evils and mishaps ment may take place, and that the House of of their situation, and enable them to avoid Lords will withdraw their opposition to the those most frightful evils with which they were bill. Now in his humble opinion there was threatened. (Hear.) nothing more unlikely. He thought it was as unlikely a thing as any he had ever heard, that the Lords would withdraw their opposition to the bill as it now stood, and that hon. gentlemen were indulging in unfounded expectations. He believed the Reform Bill would be carried, and he was satisfied it would pass the House of Lords; but he did not believe that in the present state of the House of Lords it was possible for the late Administration to carry such a bill. (Hear, hear.) He rose to say this because when he found Members so sanguine in their calculations of an accommodation, he wished to recal their attention to the real circumstances in which they were placed, and to ask them, if they looked back to the events which had already taken place, what probability there was that the House of Lords would allow the late Administration to earry the Reform Bill. Lord MORPETH rose to second and support this recommendation. He was confident it would have the effect of arresting the course of evils, and to restore that just confidence in the Crown and the Government which but a week ago they so fully possessed. All who lent themselves to this great work would deserve the blessings of their countrymen. Mr. LABOUCHERE would add his voice to the same recommendation. There was no reflecting man who would not hear with joy of the glimmering of a hope of some termination to that state of things which all viewed with apprehension. Public men should under such circumstances bury all animosities, for the purpose of enabling Earl Grey to carry that bill which all were now agreed should be carried, and which, if carried by any other hands, would not, in all probability, be received as a measure of peace or conciliation, which, by God's blessing, it was hoped it would have been; but, on the contrary, would lead to fresh animosities, and a restless desire of new changes, which every friend of his country must contemplate with the greatest dread. He trusted, therefore, that the independent meinbers of that House would use their just influence; and that those who had been Ministers, and those who expected to be Ministers, would, under the circumstances, abandon their intentions, and save the country from the three perils that threatened it: first, that the Reform Bill would not prove satisfactory to the Lord SANDON regretted as much as any man the events which had taken place, but he believed it would be found they arose wholly in the House of Lords from a misapprehension of the nature of the arguments, and a misunderstanding of the intentions of the opposition. He believed this on his honour. (Hear, hear.) He believed on his honour and conscience that the motives of the opponents of the Government had been misunderstood that having the bill before them it was their desire to make it as perfect as possible; and that they would have sent it back to that House in such a shape as they would have gladly accepted. |