Bacon, Middles, new, 45s. to 47s. per cwt. Pork, India, new.......... 127s. Ud. to -s. Cheese, Cheshire....54s. to 74s. Gloucester, Double., 52s, to 64s. A Ta SPECIAL MEETING of the COURT OF JURORS, held at the Crown Tavern, May 4, 1832, JOHN DENNY, Esq., Foreman, in the Chair, It was resolved unanimously,--That the following Address be presented to Michael Scales, Esq., the rightful and legally-elected Alderman of Portsoken Ward: The Members of the Court of Jurors, freemen of London, cannot refrain from assuring you of their high esteem for the determination you have displayed in maintaining the rights of the freemen of the City of London,-rights which, independent of their manifest justice, have been solemnly recognised by an Act of Parliament passed in the 11th year of the reign of George the First. The iniquity of the Court of Aldermen in refusing to swear you into an office, to which you have been twice elected by a large majority of votes, is a clear denial of justice; and while it violates that sacred principle in your person, robs the free men of the City of London of their legal right | prejudiced judges in the Court of King's to elect their own Aldermen, and thereby Bench this day, and cannot have the pleasure renders insecure every right they possess, either prescriptively or by enactment. The Court of Jurors rejoice in your avowed determination to resist injustice, by seeking a reversal of the decree of the despotic Court of Aldermen, whose vile assumption of arbitrary power is unprecedented since the passing of the above-mentioned Act of Parliament. The Court of Jurors cannot conclude without expressing their regret at the great expense to which you have been exposed by the fegal proceedings consequent on the nefarious conduct of the Court of Aldermen, as well as stating their sincere wishes, that the freemen of this great city will make a common cause with you, in endeavouring to bring to a successful issue a case which so vitally concerns themselves, and which, if neglected, will demonstrate to the world, that in the land which reputed to be the birth-place of freedom, an English constituency may be the slaves of their own representatives. By order of the Court, J. DENNY, Foreman. REPLY OF ALDERMAN SCALES. 44, Aldgate, May, 1832. Gentlemen, I have read with delight your bold, clear, and comprehensive address to me. It has almost effaced the recollection of my sufferings in the cause of my fellow-citizens. When we take notice that amongst twentytwo aldermen there is not one who has not actively persecuted me at the risk of sacrificing your elective rights, it lessens our opinions of sworn representatives, and shows human nature in its lowest and most despicable light. " Where have been those brawlers about "freedom, "rights, " and "liberties, Waithman, Wood, and Co., who have cozened and deceived their confiding fellow-citizens so many years? Dumb as beetles, when the rights of all the freemen of London are at stake; and, like poor Yorick's skull, without one word wherewith to mock their own grinning. Where are the champions of "civil rights," and the heroes in the "cause of liberty," amongst your representatives in the Court of Common Council? Like Brutus's boy Lucius, sleep appears to have laid his leaden mace upon them. Fie on them! they are things rank and gross in nature. We shall have plenty of twaddle and bow-wows as the city saint, St. Thomas, approaches, when their fellow-citizens will once more confide in them, and they, if elected, will once more laugh at the credulity of the electors. Yet, as the freemen of London are governed by annual parliaments, let every freeman look to his own vote, and men will spring up who will honestly and fearlessly defend their rights and privileges against an imbecile, yet despotic, Court of Aldermen. I regret very much that I am compelled to attend before of meeting you as I intended; for although entire strangers to me, your sensible and public-spirited address proves you rauk foremost amongst the freemen of London in the knowledge of your civil rights, and imitating the noble example of the Ward of Portsoken, have had the courage to come forward publicly to defend them.-I am, Gentlemen, Jurors, and Freemen of the Ward of Cripplegate Without, with the utmost respect, your most obedient humble servant, MICHAEL SCALES. To the Court of Jurors of the Ward of Cripplegate Without. To Landowners, Farmers, Corn-Factors, Millers, Maltsters, Butchers, Flour-Dealers, Wool-Merchants, &c. &c. Cultural and Trading Newspaper, of HE MARK LANE EXPRESS, Agrithe largest size, price only Sevenpence.Published every Monday evening, in time for the Post. 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[Price Is. 2d. of thousands of industrious people committed to their charge: the day is not named, when this united band of fellows, called "Aldermen and Common-councilmen," who have expended and are yet expending, thousands and thousands of pounds of our money, in order, by chicanery and the delays of the law, to rob the people of PORTSOKEN in the Court of Aldermen, which their WARD of that right of being represented forefathers enjoyed for seven hundred years, up to these brilliant days of GALLOWAY and FIGGINS and KEY and CHARLEY and WAITHMAN; those united bands who, at the close of an election, being compelled by law to declare Mr. SCALES duly elected, meet afterwards and declare that he shall not sit; who, when he appeals to the law to make them do their duty, is met by sheer weight of purse, and that purse filled, not out of their own means, but out of taxes wrung from us the citizens of London, and from the people of Portsoken Ward amongst the rest: the day is not yet named, when this united crew, who thus make us pay for obtaining the means of robbing us of our rights; the day is not yet named, when this crew are to meet to squander away three thousand pounds of our money, under pretence of rejoicing at the overthrow of the miscreant boroughmongers, who, miscreants as they are, never were guilty of an act of such audacious and insolent oppression as this gluttonous crew are, at this moment, in the act of committing against us the oppressed citizens of London; for, though we know well that the infamous boroughmongers robbed the people of their rights by a mockery of elections, we never heard of the people being directly taxed for the express purpose of paying for the robbery, as is the case of the people of PORTSOKEN WARD at this very moment, who, having elected one man to serve them in the Court of Aldermen; having elected one man by a hundred and sixty-nine votes against M which is manifestly intended in every part of its provisions to narrow, instead of extending, the suffrage of Ireland, and to make that country (containing about a third part of the population of the whole kingdom) infinitely worse represented than it was before: the day is not yet fixed when this crew are to spend our money in what they call " celebrating the triumph of the cause of reform.” seventy-five votes, behold the man of proposing what they call a Reform Bill, seventy-five votes seated, and the man of a hundred and sixty-nine votes not suffered to sit : the day is not yet named when this united gang mean to squander away three thousand pounds of our money in guttling and guzzling with GREY and BROUGHAM and MELBOURNE, and the rest of them (who, as all the world knows, have passed, even this bill, with the greatest reluctance), and in feasting all the bands of pensioners and But throughout the country pretty geplacemen that can be mustered up for nerally there are to be rejoicings; and I the occasion: the day is not yet named will,by-and-by, state the manner in which when these united crews are to meet I shall testify my joy upon the occasion, and congratulate each other on the I rejoice, not because we have our rights, hitherto success of their efforts to for the Reform Bill gives us, in fact, convert the city of London into a only a part of those rights. I rejoice group of wards, far more rotten than in the triumph of the principle of reeven GATTON OF OLD SARUM: the form, and in the demolition of the rotday is not yet named for the feast-ten boroughs, though it is clearly inings of this crew, who are expending tended to make others in their stead; an our money to rob the people of PORT-intention, however, which will be blown SOKEN WARD of their rights, for these to air before there will be a chance of two reasons especially; FIRST, because carrying it into effect. I see in this Mr. SCALES defeated their intended Reform Bill, regarding the Boundary magnificent job for the SLAUGHTER- Bill as a part of it, every thing that is ING OF CATTLE BY STEAM, which given up to the people, given up as a was to have cost us sixty thousand man would give up drops of blood from pounds, and for the "plans" and the his heart; I see in it, at every turn, the printings relative to which we actually foulest partiality towards the aristocracy paid eight hundred pounds; and SE- and the church; I see, running through COND, because, when Mr. SCALES was the whole of it, a series of endeavours Common-councilman, and when a mo- to prevent the working-people from tion was made in the Common-council, having the smallest chance of possessto petition for parliamentary reform, ing influence in elections; endeavours, Mr. SCALES moved as an amendment, as anxious, as persevering, as spiteful, "That it would be highly inconsistent and as malignant, as if the workingin this Court to agree to any such pe- people, who create every thing, were "tition until it had reformed itself, see- so many devouring wolves or poisonous ing that it was now less enlightened reptiles. Why then did I wish this bill "and far more corrupt than the House to be carried? Because one of two things "of Commons;" a truth more clear or would be the consequence: it would more notorious than which, never came produce that change in the manner of from the pen or lips of mortal man governing the country which is absothe day is not yet fixed, I say, when this lutely necessary to be produced; or, crew, who expended twenty-six thousand failing in that, it would give the nation pounds of our money in feasting WEL-Some vantage ground to stand on in orLINGTON and the DESPOTS, are to expend der to work out its freedom and salvathree thousand pounds more of our motion. 46 ney in feasting the men who have given But, let it always be borne in mind, us a Bourbon-police with swords at that by the word REFORM, we altheir girdles, who, in time of peace, have ways meant reform for SCOTLAND and raised the standing army to the war-IRELAND as well as ENGLAND, both of standard, who are, at this very moment, which have, heretofore, been far worse standing army take place, and every man of sense felt indignant accordingly. What! were we not burdened sufficiently already? "Oh, but look at Ireland! Look at the situation of Ireland !" Well; here was another million, or, perhaps, two millions, added to the expenses of the year, only because Ireland was not treated in the same manner as England was. The standing treated, in this respect, than we have and it is a country that must and been My readers will do me the jus-will be treated in the same manner as tice to remember the numerous cases in England is treated; or it is a country which I have said, " by the word Eng- that will keep England, and most justly land, I mean Scotland and Ireland keep England, in a state of constant also;" " and, in this case particularly, I turmoil, ruin, and misery. Almost as have, over and over again, said, that I soon as the present Ministers came into must consider all the bills as one enact-power, we saw an augmentation of the ment, and act with regard to them accordingly. Now, the Scotch Reform Bill by no means does full justice to Scotland. This is not the place to enter into details upon the subject; but the Scotch bill still leaves the working people of that country wholly stripped of the means of self-defence. By applying the rent standard of England to Scotland monstrous injustice is done to Scotland. But, it is with regard to Ire-ariny altogether costs about ten millions a year, exclusive of the dead weight. One-half of the whole of this expense is incurred to make the Irish people submit to a government more oppressive than that which exists in England. And are we now to rejoice at the "triumph of reform," when this reform, taken altogether, will make more manifest than ever the design to make a clear distinction between Englishmen and Irishmen? the design, the deliberate contrivance, for keeping the latter in a state of abject subjection by means of the purses and arms of the former! Are we to rejoice at this? It is natural enough for the guttlers and guzzlers of that combined crew who make use of the purses of the citizens of London to oppress and degrade their brethren of PORTSOKEN WARD; it is perfectly natural in this crew to celebrate a reform, resembling that of which they are giving us such a very pretty specimen; it is perfectly natural in them to exult in this new mark of degradation inflicted on our brethren in Ireland; but it would b unnatural and monstrous in any other body of persons calling themselves Englishmen or Scotchmen. land that the atrocious and insolent injustice appears to be intended to be done; and, if that injustice be done, I will not even stop to try this reform, before I exert every power of my body and my mind to effect a further reform; for, if this injustice be done to Ireland; if Ireland be, openly and without any disguise, still to remain the absolute slave of the boroughmongers, it would be base in me to pretend to believe that it would be right to wait to give this reform a trial. The Irish Reform Bill, as brought in by STANLEY, is like STANLEY himself, presumptuous, insulting, and offensive to the very senses; and, it will, if persevered in, produce every evil, naturally to be expected from the resentment of a most unjustly treated and most grossly insulted people. I beg my readers to pay particular attention to this matter. They have always observed me anxiously labouring to convince them of the importance of Ireland. If Ireland were like a Swiss canton; if it were like NOVA SCOTIA or CANADA, on which so many millions of our money are thrown away; if it were like either of these, then this contemptuous treatment of it might be a matter of less moment. It is like no such a thing: it is a country with a poulation half as great as that of England and Wales: it is a country of immense production; of lands fertile in corn and in cattle; it is a country of great trade; It was only last night, 13th June, that the Tories joined the Whigs most cordially in preventing the success of Mr. O'Connell's exertions to amend the bill for Ireland, brought in by the hated STANLEY, of whom and of whose conduct Mr. O'Connell is re |