LONDON. To agree on pledges to be put to the give us stable room for a short space of MEETING OF THE LIVERY OF time. But I request Mr. DIDDAMS to write to me on Sunday next at latest, giving his opinion as to all these matters. I have received the following letter in consequence of my article on the subject last week :Landguard, Isle of Wight, 18th June, 1832. following publication put forth, from SIR, In reading your Register to-day I find it is your intention to dine with the labourers of SUTTON SCOTNEY, on the 7th July, health permitting. I shall do myself the pleasure of joining your company. Your ideas with respect to showing our demonstrations of joy at the defeat of the boroughmongers coincides with ours-the farmers and tradesmen of the parish of Brading. We have made a very liberal subscription for a dinner to be given to all the labourers of the parish, to take place on BRADINGDOWN, next Wednesday. Of course we, the farmers, will dine with them, and will take the opportunity of explaining to them the nature of this great measure. 1 remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, NOTHING, for a long time, has given the electors of the City of London. 7 A meeting of Liverymen of London, took place on Tuesday at the Guildhall Chambers, for the purpose of consider ing whether any, and what, PLEDGES should be exacted from candidates intending to offer themselves for the representation of the City, at the next general election; when various resolutions were proposed with a view of submitting those that were agreed to, to a general meeting of the electors of the City. After a long discussion, it was This is what the farmers are doing in resolved to refer the several resolutions a great many places, and it is what they as well as various suggestions to a SUBwill do anywhere, where wisdom and COMMITTEE, to consist of seven liveryjustice prevail in their breasts. At men and seven new electors under the BATTLE and the neighbourhood they Reform Bill, with instructions to draw have raised a hundred pounds for the up such resolutions as would best meet purpose! And am I at last destined the object they had in view. The subto behold that which I have been as committee submitted their resolutions anxious for almost as for the preserva- to the general committee, which retion of my life; namely, to see the em-assembled yesterday at Guildhall, and ployers and the employed cordially re- they were finally agreed upon. A deconciled to one another, all being con-putation was then appointed to wait vinced that their interests are mutual upon the Lord Mayor to solicit his and inseparable? We shall have a goodly company, I dare say, at SUTTON SCOTNEY; and I trust that we shall so act our part as to put our insolent enemies to the blush. I beseech the electors of Hampshire, and particularly of WINCHESTER, not to promise their votes to anybody till after the SUTTON SCOTNEY festival. WM. COBBETT. lordship's permission to have the use of Guildhall to hold a general meeting of the electors of the City, for the purpose of submitting to their consideration the resolutions, and his lordship has appointed to receive the deputation tomorrow morning, RESOLVED, 1st. That for one man to represent another, means that he is to act for that other, and in a manner agreeably to his wishes and instruc- Fridays, beginning with FRIDAY tions. 2nd. That members chosen to be representatives in Parliament ought to do such things as their constituents wish and direct them to do. 3rd. That, therefore, it appears to this meeting, that those to whom the law now commits the sacred trust of the power of choosing members, who are to represent their non-voting neighbours as well as themselves, ought to be scrupulously careful to choose no man on whom firm reliance cannot be placed, that he will obey the wishes and directions of his constituents. 4th. That, in order to obtain the best possible ground of such reliance, every candidate ought, to give the pledges following; to wit, NEXT, the 29th of June. My object is to do my utmost duty to prepare the people to take steps, so as not to be cheated out of the fruits of their exertions to obtain REFORM. And my FIRST LECTURE will be, On the SORT OF MEN to be chosen. On the duty of Representatives to obey the INSTRUCTIONS of their constituents. And on the PLEDGES, which all voters ought to insist on from every man for whom they vote. The house is very commodious and proper for the purpose. The lecture will begin at EIGHT O'CLOCK in the evening, and close about TEN O'CLOCK. The prices are, Boxes 1s. 6d. PIT IS. GALLERY 6d. N.B. I am delighted with the apparent resolution of the people of MARYLEBONE to have TRADESMEN for Representatives. USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. That I will neglect nothing in my power to cause, in the very first session, a total abolition of the tithes, a repeal of the assessed taxes, the taxes on malt hops, and soap; and these having been repealed, I pledge myself to the immediate consideration of a revision of the Corn Bill; and I further pledge myself Ar the request of a great many perto do everything within my power to sons, in some cases more verbally, and cause the abolition of all sinecures and in others by letter, I repeat the followunmerited pensions, and a repeal of that ing article, which was first published in daring act of usurpation called the Sep-October last. tennial Act and I will, at all times and in all things, act conformably to the wishes of a majority of my constituents, deliberately expressed; or I will, at their request, resign to them the trust with which they have honoured me. What I am now going to communicate will do more good in one single day, than Lord Brougham and Vaux's books will ever do till the last moment that a sheet of them shall be kept out of the hands of the trunk-maker, or preserved by accident from still less honourable uses. To a very considerable part of grown-up men, the complaint which is called RUPTURE, is but too well known, and the frequency of the 5. That we, the electors of the City of London, pledge ourselves to each other and to our country, that we will give our votes to no man who will not give the above pledges, and that we earnestly recommend to our fellow-exhibition of trusses in the shop winelectors, in every part of the kingdom, to make, and strictly to adhere to, the same determination. COBBETT LECTURES. dows, proves to us not only the extent of the prevalence of the complaint, but also the importance attached to its cure. The complaint is purely mechanical; it consists of the dislocation, or displacing a part of the human frame; and I HAVE taken the LITTLE PLAY-purely mechanical is the remedy. The HOUSE, called the SANS SOUCI remedy, and the sole remedy consists Theatre, in the north-east corner of Lei-of a truss, as it is called, to keep concester Fields, for the purpose of deliver-stantly in its place the part displaced. ing SIX LECTURES, on six successive There are a great variety of trusses, some better than others; that is, more effec- throat; but it causes a violent shaking tual, and less inconvenient; and, to of the whole body, and at these times great numbers of persons, it is of great importance to know which sort is the best; and I, being in a situation to communicate that knowledge to my readers, know it to be my bounden duty to do it. Twenty-two years ago, I being out a shooting, jumped from a bank, full ten feet high, into the field below, and thereby produced by the violence of the shock, something that gave me very great pain, but of the nature of which 1 knew nothing. I came to London, and applied to the late Mr. Chevalier, the surgeon, who directed me to get a truss, which I did. And here I gladly stop to acknowledge the only good I, and I, believe, any other human creature ever received at the hands of old Daddy Burdett. Having told him what had brought me to town, "Well," said he, "when you have put a truss on, never leave it "off on the belief that you no longer want "it." A precept which he made effectual by relating to me the cause of the sudden and premature death of Francis Duke of Bedford, who thinking his rupture gone for ever, threw his truss aside, but, in playing at fives, a sudden twist of his body brought on the complaint again, and sending for a surgeon to London, instead of calling in him of the village, a mortification took place, and he slept with his fathers in a few hours. Many times, and especially in hot weather, I have by this advice, and especially by the illustration of Daddy Burdett, been prevented from risking the fate of the Duke of Bedford. I have always, until May last, experienced considerable inconvenience, and occasionally a great deal of pain. I have found it painful (and it is a nasty gnawing villanous pain!) to stand for an hour or two at a time; and this sometimes annoyed me exceedingly during my lecturing expeditions. When I expected the Whig trial to come on, in May last, (Oh! the manifold blessings of that trial!) the only thing that gave me uneasiness was the fear that I should not be able to stand for three or four hours, to lay the lash on well upon Denman and his masters, I having at that time one of my periodical coughs. In order to get rid of this fear which harassed me continually, I resolved to go to Bolt Court, and never to quit it again, till I had found out some one to furnish me with a truss which should be efficient for its purpose, even in these seasons of coughing as I was going I amused myself in reading Mr. Carpenter's Political Letter; in this paper I read the advertisement of Mr. Coles, truss-maker, of Charing Cross ; and as I had tried seven or eight before, I at once sent for Mr. Coles; and the result has been that my complaint is as completely removed as if I had never known any thing of the kind; and could I have forgotten the precept of the venerable Daddy Burdett, and more especially the fate of the Duke of Bedford, I should have thrown away the truss months ago. Oh! how rejoiced was I when I felt that I should be able to stand at my ease for the hours that My complaint has been of very little I destined for the belabouring of the consequence to me, except at particular Whigs! I could not (if I had had a times. I have ridden on horseback, and cough), without the aid of Mr. Coles, done every thing that I should have have given them the four hours and a done, if nothing at all had ailed me. half, which were worth more to them But coughing is very untoward in such (if they turn them to good account) a case; and I have at times, especially than all the rest of their lives. I should in November and April, a constitutional have mentioned this matter before, but and hereditary cough, which I have my April cough was nearly gone before had in every year that I can remember Mr. Coles had done the truss, and I was of my life, and which is always more not visited with another till late in Sepviolent and of longer duration in Lon-tember; and I wanted a fair trial before don than anywhere else. It is not a I spoke of this matter. I have now had cough of the lungs but merely of the the trial, and it would be a very shame WM. COBBETT. ful neglect of my duty towards my plague a surgeon to order one; but to neighbour, for me not to tell the public go to the mechanic in person, and let that I find the remedy perfect, and that him fit the force and form to the necesI can now scarcely perceive whether, sity of the case. with or without a cough, the smallest signs of my ever having had such a complaint. But I am not here in doing TO FLOWER-FRIENDS, bare justice to Mr. Coles, doing him an injury, by driving from his shop the tax AT BOLTON AND BLACKBURN. and the tithe-eaters, who will have a IF I had, during the almost-four prejudice" (that is a villany) against months that I spent in the North, last him for the good he has done to me? winter, done nothing but collect the No; hang it; they like their worthless Auriculas, Polyanthuses, Pinks and lives too well for that. However, my Carnations, which I got at these two sensible readers, pay you (if you should towns, I should have thought the time need it) attention to what I have said; well spent. The two former, though and let the tithe and tax-eaters creep they had to undergo so severe a realong through life, with all the twich-moval, and at so late a season, blowed ings and achings of this harassing com- pretty strongly, and were very fine; but plaint, and under all the pains and pe- the Pinks, which are now in bloom nalties inflicted on them by the awkward, heavy, cumbrous, and still inefficient things which bungling mechanics put round their bodies. One thing bear in mind; and that is, that this is a matter with which surgeons and physicians have nothing to do, any more than they have with the providing us with suitable SHOES or COATS. (20th June) are far more beautiful than any that I ever saw before. I have, all my life long, been a flower admirer, and a flower cultivator, from the time that I used to carry dirt, in the lap of my little sinock-frock, to put it on the ledge of a sand-rock for primroses and violets and cowslips to grow in; and I have never seen such beautiful flowers As Mr. Chevalier told me, the com- as these pinks, from BLACKBURN and plaint is truly mechanical; and the ap- BOLTON; which, however, I cannot plication of the remedy must depend on look at and smell without feeling inexthe mechanic solely, just as much as the pressible disgust at the thought, that fitting of a coat must depend on the tai- the public-spirited towns, from which lor. Here, however, more cleverness is they come, should be insulted with the required; the mechanic must be able to attempt at imposing upon them, as rejudge well as to the degree of force re- presentatives, such men as BowRING quired; and he must have great ability and TORRENS, two tax-eaters, and two in causing the pressure to bear in a pro-advocates of that Bill which exposes the per manner. The moment I heard Mr. dead bodies of the poor to be SOLD Coles speak upon the subject, I was and cut up and flung out to be eaten by sure he was the man: his observations dogs. Foh! for God's sake, let not the showed a knowledge of his business; sweet odour of these beautiful Blackand the result has most amply verified burn and Bolton pinks be over-powered my opinion. I never saw Mr. Coles be-in my nostrils by the results of greedifore, and I have never seen him since, ly-devoured taxes and Greek-pies, and except to call and thank him. What I by the stench of poor men's putrid bohave said here of him is but justice, which I do with verygreat pleasure,while, as to the rest, I am only discharging a duty to the public in general, and to my readers in particular. I add this piece of advice to the people in LONDON not to write for a truss any sooner than for a coat or a pair of breeches; not to dies, chopped up in virtue of Wharburton's horrible bill, which bill was assented to by TORRENS and even eulogized by BoWRING; by the former in his place in Parliament, and, by the latter, in the Westminster Review, of which he is the editor! What! and am I doomed to see Mr. DEWHURST, who obligingly PIERCE, C., and J. Woodward, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, rail-road-makers. PIKE, B. W., Duncan-terrace, City-road, ornamental-paper-manufacturer. POLLARD, É. H., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, RICHARDS, N., Brudenell-place, New Northcorn-merchants. got me these very pinks at BLACKBURN; | JOY, R. jun., Covent-garden, hotel-keeper. am I doomed to see him the advocate of this BOWRING, who is actually in the pay of the Government, or was so but only the other day, and who of course is ready to be so again! A good man, as Mr. DEWHURST always has been, E may commit error from deception; but such a man, when undeceived, will never persevere in the error. From the LONDON GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1832. INSOLVENTS. road, Hoxton, and London-wall, carpenter. RITCHIE, W., Greenwich, Hope-wharf, Deptford,& Bull-stairs-wharf, Surrey,coal-merch. SAUNDERS, J. F. and C. A., George-yard, Lombard-street, merchant. SHEASBY,J.,Snitterfield, Warwick,victualler. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. 13 DAVIDSON; W., Water-lane, Lower LASKEY, S., Sidmouth-street, St. Pancras, cabinet-maker. SOWERBY, T., Blandford-street, Manchester-square, upholsterer. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. E DEPREE, G.J., Savoy-wharf, Strand, paviour. FORD, T., Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, inn- MINETT, W., Spring-gardens, furniture- MORRIS, T., Westbromwich, Staffordshire, iron-roller-dealer. RYALLS, J., Fleet-lane, hardwareman. SKIDMORE, J.,Kirton, Lincolnshire, bobbin maker. HAMILTON, J. and Co., Glasgow, agents, LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, June 18.— Our supplies, since this day se'nnight, of each kind of English grain, as also Irish and foreign flour, and seeds, from all quarters, have been limited; of English flour, foreign barley, and Scotch, Irish, and foreign wheat, and oats, moderately good. In this day's market, which was, for Monday, rather thinly attended, both by London and country buyers, fine wheat, as also barley, was in steady demand, at fully last SMITH, H., Salisbury-street, Strand, wine-week's prices; but with the middling and merchant. SPARROW,J.,Tettenhall, Staffords., maltster. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. inferior kinds of wheat, as also oats, beans, peas, and malt, trade was very dull, at, in the whole, a somewhat reduced currency. As, however, that day's highest figures were obtaiued in some instances, and nothing ap MARSHALL, T. B., Glasgow, calico-printer.peared to be doing in any article, of the most TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1832. LEACH, J., Warrington, Lancashire, hosier. # TEMPERLEY, N., Westgate, Northumberland, ship-owner. BANKRUPTS. BARBER, J. Bideford, Devon, grocer. HOLMES, T. V., Gloucester, corn-merchant. inferior quality, we cannot alter that day's quotations. The prices of flour were stationary. In seeds so little was doing that the quotations may be considered as nominal. |