set five fires with his own hand, and in the thought of never hearing of it who, by confessing against me, saved again. I am not in a situation at present his life; though HENRY COOKE, of to bring this matter forward, with proMICHELDEVER, was hanged for striking per effect; but, unless some very large BINGHAM BARING without doing him improvement upon BARING's Bill should any harm at all. The conspiracy was shut me out of a situation in which I at that time going on against me; from should be able to do it, these parties, the effects of which conspiracy I was, in who now hug themselves in the thought a great measure, preserved by the ex- of their security, shall find that the sendcellent conduct of the people of BATTLE ing of the Brighton petitioner across and the neighbourhood, whose good-the seas, does not preclude an inquiry ness I never shall forget, and amongst into the cause of that sending. whom I should have spent the day de- For the present, however, this is voted to the reform festival, had not the what I shall do with regard to the Relabourers of Hampshire suffered so much | form-festival. I shall give a dinner at more, and had not the remains of HENRY SUTTON SCOTNEY, to all the hundred and COOKE lain buried near to the spot seventy-seven men, who have not been whereon we shall keep the festival. transported, and who signed the above The profligate and bloody people, petition. When I was at Nottingham, who conduct The Times newspaper, I purchased a ham that weighed seventywere, at the time I am speaking of, two pounds, which I have had properly everlastingly engaged in efforts to pre-cured. This ham with two or three fat pare the public mind for my destruc- sheep, which I will have killed, shall be tion. I had no means of counteracting the meat for our dinner. I will have their efforts; and innumerable persons bread baked for the occasion; and I really believed that I was at the bottom will have half a gallon of good strong of all those affairs which were called beer for each man; Mr. ENOS DID“ riots ; "but which I have never called DAMS, whose name stands at the head of riots, and never will. The truth is, the petitioners, shall be our chairman; however, that I was an utter stranger and we will drink to the health and to the neighbourhood of SUTTON SCOT speedy return of Joseph and Robert NEY, which I had never even passed MASON; and we will say and do all through but twice in my life. And as those other things which, on such an to the MASONS, or any other person liv- occasion, will be most meet. ing in any of those parishes, I had never known and never heard of any one of them in my life. Judge of the imbecility as well as the malignity of the beasts, who could expect to find letters from me in the cottage of the Masons! Here then, I leave this matter for the present; but it is only for the present; for if it shall please God to spare my life, and vouchsafe to me the use of my senses; and if the people at MANCHESTER, or any other place, shall think fit to put me into Parliament, I pledge my-distance of the spot, to meet me, and self that this is not the last that shall be heard of JOSEPH and ROBERT MASON, and of HENRY COOKE.

The guttlers and guzzlers, who have made a "reform," in PORTSOKEN Ward, may appoint what day they please for the swallowing of our earnings. My Reform-festival I will hold on Saturday, the 7th of July, that being the anniversary of the day in which I defeated the liberal prosecution of the Whigs, and on account of which defeat the people of these villages expressed so much joy. I invite all my personal friends, who live within a reasonable

dine with me at SUTTON SCOTNEY on that day, and particularly friends from WINCHESTER. I invite, also, all the Such is the history of the bearer of farmers in the neighbourhood, whether the petition to Brighton. I have heard a I personally know them or not; and I great deal about the conduct of several will take that opportunity of giving parties, who had a hand in this transac-them my opinion about the ensuing tion, and who have hugged themselves elections. I shall provide for my guests,

the petitioners for parliamentary reform, and to the repeal of the shameful Sepwhose petition JOSEPH MASON took to tennial Act. I advise them not to listen the "King's most excellent Majesty" at a moment to any man who will not Brighton. But, as the labourers assem- pledge himself to these; nor to any bled will be more numerous than my man who is, in any way whatever, a recompany, perhaps the farmers in the ceiver of taxes, or the father or the son neighbourhood may send a sheep or of a receiver of taxes. I told the people two, and a bushel or two of flour to be in Hampshire, at the county meeting, baked into bread. We must have in October last, that Sir JAMES MACtents, or something of that sort. I DONALD was "pleading for a thumping shall send, or go down, beforehand, place:" and he has got the thumping to cause due preparations to be made. place! But he was a greedy eater of If any one in the county wish to con- the taxes before; and therefore, noņe tribute anything towards the entertain- but fools have been deceived by him. I ment of the labourers on that day, he trust, that the people of PORTSEA, the can communicate with Mr. Enos DID-people of WINCHESTER, the people of dams, of SUTTON SCOTNEY, who is a the whole county, will take care what very intelligent and trustworthy man. they are at with LOAN-MONGERS. I intend to send this notification into Let them take care of these, above all every part of the county; and all my things; for these are the most dangerfriends in the county, who can afford to ous of all possible creatures: they have travel to a distance, will confer a per-jaws more grinding than those of death, sonal favour upon me, by meeting me and a maw more devouring than hell at the place, and on the day appointed. itself.

WM. COBBETT.

NOTICE.

Mr. O'CONNELL will meet the re

This is just what I wanted to see. We want Mr. O'Connell to come and plead the cause of his country to us; and not to those who will not attend to him.

I shall be very happy to see all the farmers of the neighbourhood present: I am very desirous to lay before them my view with regard to the tithes; and I am still more desirous of seeing fariners and labourers meet together in har-formers of London, at twelve o'clock mony, and to testify towards each other on Saturday, the 16th instant, at the feelings of hearty good-will. I should Institution of the Working Classes now proceed to point out to the electors Theobald's-road, Red Lion Square, to certain things which they ought to do lay before them the wrongs of Ireland, at the ensuing elections; but this is the as contemplated in Mr. Stanley's Refirst of a series of addresses to them; form Bill; to appeal to their justice, and I must not make these addresses and to implore their aid on the subject. too long. I hear, that some gentlemen in London (not the boroughmonger corporation) are about to meet, and to issue their advice to all the electors of the kingdom relative to the pledges which they ought to demand, and relative to the sort of men that ought to be chosen. I, therefore, as well as for want of room, put off till next week what I have to say about particular men ; but, in the mean while let me advise the electors everywhere, not to listen for a single moment to any man who will not at once pledge himself to the abolition of tithes; to the repeal of the malttax, the hop-tax, and the soap-tax; to the repeal of the corn-laws, to the repeal of the stamp-laws and the assessed taxes;

This is a matter of a vast deal more importance than any other that is now before the nation, and I do hope that we shall take it up with as much earnestness as if it were a private concern of every individual man of us. We see both the factions united cordially to do that to Ireland which they have not dared to attempt to do to England. Had the Irish members acted only coolly with regard to our bill, we never should have had that bill. It becomes us, therefore, now to assist Ireland to the utmost of

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our power. The labours of Mr. O'CON- DURATION OF PARLIAMENTS. NELL, in this case, have been Herculean indeed. The saucy and empty STANLEY seems to wonder why the Irish people tional Union of the Working Classes in THE following petition from the Nashould so cling to him. They would, London, is, as I hear, to be presented indeed, be monsters of ingratitude if to BARING'S HOUSE to-night. That is they did not. The mass of wrongs right. If it will sit, it ought to have something given it to do.

which this hated STANLEY has now prepared for infliction upon Ireland, is sufficient to drive the most patient people in the world to acts of rebellion.

Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.

The petition of the National Union of the Working Classes and others,

HUMBLY SHOWETH,

The clear and flagrant distinction which To the honourable the Commons of the two bills exhibit, marks out the Irish as an inferior and degraded people; and it is clearly intended to give the boroughmongers a monopoly of power and emolument in that country; it is clearly intended to perpetuate that abominable, cruel, and insolent church- That, when the Reform Bill was first ascendancy, which has been the ruin of brought into your honourable House, Ireland for two centuries, and which it was expressly stated by the member has contributed most largely to the who brought it in, and the statement beggaring of England and Scotland. was assented to by the House, that the Let us go and hear, from the lips of Mr. question, as to the future duration of O'Connell himself, a description of the parliaments, was reserved in order to be new wrongs which, Stanley and Croker discussed after the said bill should be united, have now prepared for Ire-passed; that, this being a matter of very land. Pray, reader, inark, that, in this great importance in the eyes of your. act, the Government are supported petitioners, they inform your honourby those who threw out the Reform able House, that they have discovered Bill once, and would have thrown it out no intention in any of your honourable twice, if it had not been for the peo-members to bring forward this vital ple. We triumphed for ourselves. Let question for discussion.

us now assist the Irish to triumph, That your petitioners think it right to without the generous assistance of remind your honourable House, that, in whose members, observe, our bill never the BILL OF RIGHTS, enacted at the could have been carried. Will the epoch which is termed the "glorious q united crews of aldermen and common-revolution," it is declared, that "frequent councilmen, who are making rotten- parliaments ought to be held," that, in boroughs of the wards of the city; will the sixth year of William the Third, they stir upon this occasion? Not they chapter 2, it is declared, that," by the indeed. But the Livery, of whom they "ancient laws and statutes of this kingmake slaves to a very great_extent, dom, frequent parliaments ought to ought to bestir themselves. The gut- "be held, and that frequent and new tlers and guzzlers hate Common-Halls; "parliaments tend very much to the and for a very good reason; but a "happy union and good agreement of Common Hall ought to be assembled "king and people;" that, upon this immediately; and Mr. O'Connell, who is a Liveryman of London observe, ought to go to the Common Hall: and, in that centre of the metropolis of England, lay the case of his injured country before us. At any rate, let us go and hear him to-morrow, at the place and time mentioned above.

ground, the said act proceeded to provide, that, for ever thereafter, no parliament should have duration for any longer time than that of three years.

That, however, notwithstanding this declaration and enactment, this solemn compact with the people of this kingdom, notwithstanding these, in the very

first year of the reign of the first king | repeal the said act of the first year of of the House of Hanover, the parlia-George the First, commonly called the ment which had been assembled under Septennial Act, and to reduce the durathis solemn compact, the parliament tion of parliaments to one year. which had been chosen to sit for three And your petitioners, as in duty years, were guilty of a daring violation bound, will ever pray.

of the compact, enacted that they would continue to sit for four years longer, and enacted that all future parliaments should sit for seven years.

Well, if BARING will have further

reforms let us have all at once! As to this matter, however, it was to be discussed and settled right away.

It was

That your petitioners regard this - last-mentioned act as the most copious source of all the wrongs which this nation has endured from that day to this; that from it sprang those rare a thing merely deferred till after the specimens of infamy commonly called Reform Bill should be passed; merely rotten boroughs, together with all those enormous burdens, and all those curtailments of English liberty, which have finally transformed a land of freedom and of happiness into a land of toiling slaves.

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off for more convenient discussion. put Therefore it was matter of surprise that nobody ever thought of taking the question up. The people seemed content to leave it for a reformed Parliament to discuss; but, since BARING will go on with his further reforms, let him, in God's name, go on with this.

That the pretences, under which this solemn compact was thus audaciously broken, were, first, that frequent elections caused vast and unnecessary expense; and, second, that they gave I trust, in short, that we shall have Scope to the workings of a Popish no chafferng about this matter; but that faction to do injury to the Protestant a bill will be brought in at once, and be religion; that these pretences were as passed pretty nearly as quickly as SIDfalse as the hearts of the perfidious MOUTH, CASTLEREAGH, CROKER, RYDER, tyrants by whom they were put forward; and Co., passed the bill in 1817, for but that, at any rate, no such pre- gagging the REFORMERS or shutting tences can now be urged by your honour-them up in dungeons! They can work able House, seeing that the Reform pretty fast when they have a mind to it. Bill, which has just been passed, has, in party been passed for the express purpose of diminishing the expense of elections, and seeing, that, by the recent Catholic Bill, your honourable House has truly declared, and has enacted, that in all cases, and for all purposes whatsoever, Catholics are as worthy of trust as Pro

testants.

To repeal the Septennial Act is not the work of an hour. I would draw up the bill for a pot of beer, and think myself richly paid. A couple of WHEREASES reciting the substance of the Triennial and Septennial Bills, and just about three lines of enactment, would do the thing completely, and in a style so regular as to make a special That therefore your petitioners, fully pleader burst his very soul with envy. agreeing in the declaration contained in I should like to have the bringing in of the act aforesaid, of the sixth year of this bill; but for decency's sake, I hope William the Third, that "by the I shall be spared the trouble; and I "ancient laws and statutes of this king-can tell BARING'S house one thing; and "dom, frequent parliaments ought to "be held, and that frequent and new "parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the king and the people," beseech your honourable House to be pleased to

that is, that if they are a mind to sit there much longer without bringing in and passing such a bill as this, they would do well to get something to stuff their ears with, and to cram it in pretty tightly.

RICARDO.

underhanded dog said, was "not deserv ing half an hour's consideration of the FOLKS will exclaim, "What the devil House!" And yet BROUGHAM, and are you going to rake that fellow up others like him, still hold this fellow up for?" Not for his sake, but for the [as an authority! They do it as they benefit of the vagabonds who have still have done many other things, for the the impudence to cite him as "AN sole purpose of contradicting me! ORACLE," as that empty fellow, Verily I say unto them: Stupid and BROUGHAM, called him in 1819. This malignant and greedy wretches, you RICARDO, when PEEL'S-BILL PEEL had will now, speedily, have your reward! his destroying bill before the House, said, "This question" (of returning to cash payments) "is one of immense "importance in principle, but in the

POOR-LAW COMMISSION.

manner of bringing it about is trivial, " and not deserving half an hour's con- THIS same dogmatical dunderheaded "sideration of the House. The diffi- devil, who " got half a million," Dr. "culty is only that of raising the cur- BLACK told us, "by merely watching 66 rency three per cent. in value. A most the turn of the market," said, upon an"fearful and destructive depreciation other occasion, "No scheme for the "had at one time taken place, but from" amendment of the poor-laws merits "that we have recovered, and he was "the least attention, which has not "happy to reflect that we had so far" THEIR ABOLITION for its ulti"retraced our steps. We had nearly "mate object." This, then, is, I got home, and he hoped his right suppose, the "ultimate object" of "honourable Friend (Peel) would lend BROUGHAM's and GREY's present " Poor"him his assistance to enable them to LAW COMMISSION," with STURGES "reach it in safety. He would venture BOURNE at its head, and a parcel of "to state that, in a very few weeks, all Scotch feelosofers at its tail and in its "alarm would be forgotten, and at the middle! And do these fellows think "end of the year we should all be sur-that we shall let them keep those parcels "prised that any alarm had ever pre-of our money, which will be given to "vailed at a prospect of a variation of them under this pretence! That is the "three per cent. in the value of the question for them to put to themselves. circulating medium." So; this ques- A reformed Parliament will dismiss tion, the bill relating to which has them pretty quickly: but do they think caused more ruin and misery than ever that it will let them keep any of our were before produced by any hundred money received by them on this account? measures in any country in the world; That is the question that they ought to this question, which has been agitating discuss. I know that they can do nothis whole kingdom and its colonies thing to the poor-laws: the chopsticks from 1819 until the present day; this will take care of that: but do they question, which still agitates the think that they are to pocket our money country, and shakes it to its very centre, on this account? We shall see how and is at this very moment the subject this will be! There are, I think, seven of discussion with a committee of the of them; and it has been the invariable House of Commons, the result of which practice for the Government to give discussion men are looking to with the twelve hundred pounds a year to each anxiety with which affectionate children of the fellows employed upon such jobs. flock round the physician to know his So that here there would be eight thoudecision respecting the state of a beloved sand four hundred pounds a year parent; this question, in short, which these fellows; and this we should have every one now sees, involves that of the to pay merely for the purpose of screenexistence of the Government itself;ing, of hiding, the presumption of THIS QUESTION, the dogmatical and BROUGHAM, who had the egregious

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