folly to pledge himself to bring in a city: not by that couple of bunches of poor-law bill! I told him, when he the oppressors of PORTSOKEN Ward; made the pledge, that he would never not by "CHARLEY" and his lord mayor, dare to bring it in. Now he pre-but by the people of this city; for it is tends, that previous inquiry is necessary; the people of the city, and not the livery and thus the industrious people of this alone, who are to elect the members the country, and even the poor them- next time; and we have got four memselves, are to give thousands upon thou-bers to choose, whom I am very sure sands of their earnings to this bunch we shall not choose without pledges. of hangers on, in order to disguise the The Lord Mayor, " Charley's" own real state of the matter with regard to lord mayor, as much like one another this man's capacity for bringing in a in all things as if, like STANley and bill. NASSAU SEIGNOR, COULSTON the CROKER, they seemed to be the produce reporther, and the rest of the bunch, are of the same ventre; so much alike, that, pretty fellows for pointing out what is for fear of not taking one for the other, to be done with regard to the claims of it might be necessary to tie a string round millions upon all the real property in the wrist of one of them. Charley's" England and Wales. My God! How own lord mayor has put out a bundle of soon will a reformed Parliament sweep balderdash, which he calls an address away all this rubbish: or, how soon to the citizens of London; and we are, will such a Parliament be swept away it seems, soon to have one, even from itself? How soon, oh God! will NAS-" Charley" himself. Let us, therefore, SAU SEIGNOR, and COULSTON the repor- get our pledges ready, and tender them ther, be crying water-cresses through the to the parties when they apply for our streets, or engaged in some other laud-votes. able and useful concern? BARCLAY'S BREWERY. My readers have heard, perhaps, that this affair was burnt down the other day. I see that the impudent parties have advertised," that the public need not be uneasy; for that their STOCK was If nobody else will call a public meeting for this purpose, I will in a very short time. There are men in the city who ought to do it, and who are able to do it with effect; and I trust that they will do it without loss of time; for there is no time to lose. COUNTY OF SURREY. I CARE a great deal about the conduct not consumed!" No: the devil is in it of all the counties at the ensuing elecif it was; for we should be in an alarm-tion; but I cannot help feeling particuing state, indeed, if water would burn.lar anxiety about that of the county of That is the principal part of their stock, I believe. The public need not be at all uneasy; for, as long as there are horseponds with a good black run from a yard, there will be no want of a "beverage" a pretty deal more wholesome than the stuff called London porter. PLEDGES. THERE wants to be something done to produce uniformity in this respect. There wants a set of pledges to be ten dered to those who offer themselves as candidates; and this, in order to make it general throughout the country, should be begun by the people of this great Surrey, and more especially the western division of that county, in which my little feet first met the earth. In my next Register I shall offer my advice to the counties as well as to the boroughs. If necessary I shall think it my duty to go and hold meetings in the several towns in the county of Surrey; and, in the mean while, let me express my hopes that the county in which I was born will not disgrace itself by choosing a fool, or an arrogant tyrant, merely because he has land or money; let me hope that it will choose no man who will not pledge himself to the abolition of tithes, to the repeal of the malt, hop, and soap-tax, and then to a repeal of all the stamp taxes and the assessed taxes; poor LORD GREY really seems to be and then the Corn Bill may be repealed, nothing), will very soon prevail upon even to the great advantage of the some of the leaders of the Unions to befarmer. I have heard that Colonel gin to talk about dissolving themselves; WOODROFFE intends to offer himself for seeing, that all the purposes for which the western part of the county. He is a they were formed ure now accomman that must have great experience, plished! I am not afraid of the and may be very fit, provided he receives Unions in Scotland, however; at the nothing out of the taxes; for that man reform meeting at BANFF," Cobbett's who would give his vote to any one, be Gridiron" (dreadful sight to loanhe who he may, who receives anything mongers!) was carried, the other out of the taxes, that man ought at once day, as one of the ensigns at the to be hung up upon the most extended reform meeting! At GLASGOW,. a› limb of the highest tree in the county, meeting is advertised."To appoint a there to be food for kites and carrion committee to correspond with Mr. Cobcrows. Such a man is a base betrayer bett on the subject of his return to Parof his trust, is a vile traitor to every man who has not a vote, and he deserves every species of punishment that his poorer and oppressed neighbours can inflict upon him. POLITICAL UNIONS. liament;" a circumstance, by the bye, THESE bodies will soon be distinguished into Government Unions and PEOPLE'S UNIONS. The Government will soon have its creatures to lead some of them; and care should be taken to denounce these creatures as soon as they are perceived. The Globe, as it is called by its owners, and the ball of horse-dung as I call it, which is conducted by brazen, broad-faced, lying TORRENS, who accused me of being the cause of the fires in the country, and who expressed his sorrow that COCKEY DENMAN had not been able to get a verdict against me: this round lump of filth, which revolves about the Government as a sort of conservator of its rotten reputation, observed, the other night, that the "Unions in Scotland "will dissolve themselves, now that the "Reform bill is passed." Oh, to be sure! They will not meddle with the Irish Reform Bill! They will not attempt to meddle with the subject of Triennial Parliaments! This is a pretty hint: a hint as broad as TOR-GRUNDY is just the man for a member RENS's face a little too broad. But of parliament, and I have too good an my readers may be well assured, that opinion of the people of BURY to bethis is a trick which we shall very soon see played off. STANLEY and CROKER,lieve that they will not choose him. the Gemini of the political Zodiac (for, The following address I very much approve of, it will speak for itself. Mr WM. COBBETT. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BURY. A requisition from a number of the electors of Bury having been presented to Mr. EDMUND GRUNDY, of Park-hills, requesting him to allow himself to be put in nomination as a candidate for this borough, the following answer has been received: discharge the duties imposed on me by your choice. Although my principles are well known, it is right I should give specific pledges as to the great measures which, as your representative, I would support. I would vote and protest against any further payment of public money to sinecurists, useless placemen, and pensioners. the purpose of keeping up the present amount of revenue; being convinced that the grinding load of taxation is the great source of our distress. I am also an advocate for shortening the hours of labour in all our manufactories. GENTLEMEN,-I should be unworthy I would vote for the repeal of all of your notice, and display a great taxes bearing especially on the poor, and want of respectful feeling, did I not I would protest against the imposition state to you how sensibly I am im- of any property-tax, or other tax, for pressed with your kindness and good opinion, in requesting me to allow my name to be put in nomination at the ensuing election, as a candidate for the representation of the borough of Bury. I value less the intended honour, than the assurance of your approval of my political principles,-principles I have held and fearlessly avowed for a quarter of a century, in times of political peril, as well as in the sunshine and the fashionable days of reform. I have no wish, nor any pretensions or ambition, I would vote and protest against every to be a member of Parliament. My monopoly in Government, church, and habits are very domestic; my own fire- commerce; maintaining the principle side and the society of my family are that all good citizens have a right to to me the greatest sources of happiness. the enjoyment of every privilege in the My engagements in life forbid my en-state. A sufficient weight of taxation having been removed to enable the farmer and farm-labourer to live comfortably without the protection of the Corn Laws, I would vote, not for a revision but a total repeal of those obnoxious laws. tertaining any such idea. The ex- I would vote for a repeal of the law penses attendant on being sent to Par- of primogeniture. liament, in addition to the necessary I would vote against the maintaining expense of a large family, would be of a large standing army in the time of such as my very limited pecuniary peace-supporting at the same time means would scarcely warrant. such measures as would endear the These are my views and feelings on Government to the people; ruling the subject of your request, but under-through their affections, and not by the standing that the inhabitants of the sword. borough of Bury are very much disap- I would vote for the repeal of all pointed, and in my judgment very pro-laws infringing on the civil and reliperly so, with what are called the pledges gious liberty of the people; and I would of Mr. Richard Walker, and being use my utmost endeavours to secure the wishful that they should have an oppor-beneficial measures I have mentioned, tunity of recording their votes and not only to England and Scotland, opinions on the great questions before but to Ireland. Oppressed, insulted, the public, if you, and a majority of the wretched Ireland should have my best electors, are wishful to send to Parlia- endeavours to procure for her all the ment a man of my well-known principles, advantages that I would aim at for and if you can find none in your opinion England. more fit, I will not object to being put I am a decided advocate of universal in nomination, and will, if elected, suffrage, but would vote for household faithfully, and to the best of my ability, suffrage, if more easily attainable. I would also vote for short parliaments, | connected with the great measure of and the vote by ballot, deeming the reform which had lately become the latter essential to the prevention of law of the land. This measure bribery and corruption at elections. I shall take an early opportunity of meeting the inhabitants of Bury, and stating my views at greater length. I am, gentlemen, Your very obliged and obedient servant, Park-hills, June 11th, 1832. was certainly one of very considerable importance, and he felt the weight of the consideration, that it, to a certain extent, interfered with the Act of Settlement. But he thought that such a measure as this became highly expedient since the settlement of the great question of reform, and he was happy that that question had been settled by TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL. the Government which had brought in the measure. It was certainly much Oh, oh! I told my readers that better that the question should have they would be at work to pass a been settled by the authors of the Reseries of bills, for the purpose of form Bill, who deemed the measure defeating the effects of the Reform expedient and necessary, than by others Bill. They are at it: busy as bees who were adverse to it. At the same in a tar-barrel. Now, then, we time, he intended to propose some shall see whether the National Politi- amendments in the Reform Bill, and cal Union be the property of Charing this was one of them; and he had been Cross PLACE and HOBHOUSE, or whe-induced to postpone it only on the unther they speak the voice of any part of derstanding that it would be carried into the people. We shall now see what effect by a specific bill. The arguthat stanch advocate of morality, Major ments which had been urged in support REVEL will do ; and " Nuncky," WAKE- of the expediency of members vacating FIELD, and ERSKINE PERRY, and that their seats on their appointment to famously Reverend reformer, who office, appeared to him to have very thought it improper to oppose the bill little weight, and then the inconveof the amiable loanmonger BARING.nience was often very great. When a But, peace to all such." WHAT member of the other House of ParliaWILL THE BIRMINGHAM UNION ment was appointed to a high minisDO! But, stop. I must first insert the proceedings in the House of Lords, which developes a project for, in great part, annulling the Reform Bill! Pray, reader, first read this debate. It is very short. Do mark the thing well. Mark the absence of Ministers. But, read for God's sake, every word of it. terial office, he must often be in some degree ignorant of the details of the office, and it might be of very great importance that he should not be prevented, by attending a distant election, from directing his immediate attention to these details. This inconvenience was often great, even in the event of the appointment of an individual to BILL FOR RENDERING UNNECESSARY THE VACATING OF SEATS IN THE office, but the inconvenience must HOUSE OF COMMONS BY MEMBERS be greatly increased on the change ON THEIR APPOINTMENT TO CER- of an entire administration. Then TAIN MINISTERIAL OFFICES. it might often happen that matters The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON moved of the very highest importance might the second reading of the Bill for re-require immediate attention at the pealing so much of the Act of Settle- very moment when, by vacating his ment passed in the reign of Queen seat and attending to his re-election, Anne, as rendered it necessary for mem- the newly-elected Minister could not bers of the House of Commons to va- attend to these matters. Suppose, for cate their seats on being appointed to instance, that business of the utmost certain ministerial offices under the importance, in respect of the foreign Crown. This measure was intimately relations of the country, were depending at the time of the appointment of a new came leaders. Besides, when the memSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs-bers were originally elected, the electors suppose that matters of the greatest im- must be pretty well aware whether their portance in relation to our colonial af- chosen representative was likely to take fairs were depending at the time of the a prominent part in the public councils. appointment of a new Colonial Se. Then it was said that vacating and recretary; and suppose that the Home election was a good test and criterion of Secretary were changed at a moment popularity. But the criterion was abof great excitement, such as took surd and fallacious, for popularity and place about three weeks ago-in all unpopularity with a particular set of these cases it was obvious that the electors was no criterion of general necessity for vacating their seats, and popularity. This was already manifested having themselves re-elected, must be in the case of the President of the Board attended not merely with inconvenience, of Trade, and several other cases which but with serious danger. This necessity happened in the course of the last elecmight also interfere with the free choice tion. That could never be a good criof the Crown, since some Members of terion which so often led to erroneous the House of Commons, the most fit for conclusions. The bill was meant to office, might be induced to decline ac-apply to certain great offices of state, and cepting office on account of the neces to the principal law offices, all which sity for vacating their seats. The in- were set out in the bill. There was convenience to the public might also another office-that of the secretary at be very great-more particularly at a war (or the secretary for Ireland), which period of dangerous excitement. Sup- had not been included in the bill, but which might be inserted in it in case it should be deemed expedient. The Duke of WELLINGTON admitted that it became necessary to adopt some measure of this kind in consequence of the passing of the Reform Bill. But pose a new administration were appointed, and that they should not be able to keep their seats for a week after the re-election of those of the House of Commons which formed part, then another administration must be appointed, and another vacating of seats and re-this was not the only measure that must election must take place. In this man- be adopted, and it went only half way ner delay after delay would take place, towards effecting its own object. There and the business of the Government were a variety of points in reference to might be suspended for weeks, even which new measures must be adopted when an important measure like the Re- in consequence of the passing of the form Bill was depending. Such were Reform Bill, but then they ought to be the mischief and inconvenience of the proposed as measures of Government present system, and that mischief and instead of being brought forward by ininconvenience would be greatly individuals. The necessity for such meacreased under the operation of the Re-sures arose from the passing of the Reform Bill. As to the arguments against form Bill, and therefore they ought to this alteration, it had been said that this be introduced by the proposers of that was a great constitutional provision, and measure, who ought to be responsible that it ought not to be infringed. But for them. He admitted that the noble a great change in the constitution had Marquis was right in his statement of been already made. Then it was said the inconvenience that attended the that it was important that members of present system; but then they ought to the House of Commons should be re- proceed with caution and considerable turned to their constituents on taking deliberation before they altered it; more office, because they became less inde- especially when the alteration was propendent. In his opinion they not only posed to them by an individual uncondid not become less independent, but nected with the Government; and it they became more independent, for ought also to be considered, that this instead of followers of parties, they be- bill went to repeal part of the Act of |