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could induce you to say this, path of righteousness. In short,

when you had the gridiron prophecy before your eyes and under your hand? I will ask you no more questions about it; but will conclude by observing, that if you have not named me, I have not been backward in naming you.

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the whole of the corn and cattle and food laws must be swept away, or there must be universal uproar: millions, aye, millions, will be starved to death, if effectual measures be not taken to prevent it. The Ministers have begun the good work; and I trust in God that they will finish it. We have afflictions enough; but, let us, at any rate, not let the Oli garchs starve us out of our exist ence!

Now go, Sir James Graham, of Netherby invoke the shades of the great "Earls of Monteith and of "John with the bright sword," and prepare for that fight, the plan of which you have so judiciously laid down. If you have only a small portion of sense From left, however, you will, in future, hold your tongue, learn to entertain modest desires, and think yourself well off if you preserve even a fragment of your estate, which, however small it might be, would exceed the deserts of him who has had the audacity to propose to lay, for the sole interest of his own order, a heavy and perpetual tax upon the bread of all the rest of the community, and to suggest, at the same time, the propriety of withholding from the lenders of the money to carry on the war, that interest which he, amongst others, has contracted to pay, and which withholding would plunge 300,000 families from the middle ranks of life down into the depths of poverty and despair.

the London Gazette of Friday, Sept. 1.

BY THE KING

A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R.-Whereas our Par liament stands prorogued to Thursday, the second day of November next; we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publishi ment shall be farther prorogued, on and declare, that the said Parlia the said second day of November next, to Tuesday, the fourteenth day of November next; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom, called Great Britain, to prepare a writ patent for proroguing the same accordingly; and we do further hereby, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said fourteenth day of November WM. COBBETT.next, be held, and sit for the despatch

GOOD MINISTERS!!!

Good pretty gentlemen of Whitehall! I am always amongst the foremost to praise them, when they do well. The following is one of their good deeds; for it will sting the OLIGARCHS in the tender place; that is, their purse! But, let us hope, that this is only a beginning, only a first step in the

of divers urgent and important affairs and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Boroughs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said fourteenth day of November next.-Given at our Court, at Windsor, the first day hundred and twenty-six, and in the of September, one thousand eight seventh year of our reign.

God save the King.

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At the Court at Windsor, the 1st of September, 1826, present, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

the present year, have failed to a considerable extent, and that a deficiency in the crop of potatoes is also apprehended in some parts of the United Kingdom; and whereas, if the importation, for home consumption, of oats and oatmeal, and of rye, pease, and beans, be not immediately permitted, there is great cause to fear that much distress may ensue to all classes of His Majesty's subjects:

teenth day of November in the present year, when the next quarterly average, by which the admission of such grain is regulated, will be made

Whereas by the laws now in force for regulating the importation of corn oats and oatmeal may be imported into the United Kingdom, and into the Isle of Man, for home consumption, under and subject to the regulations of the several statutes in that case made and provided, when- And whereas, under the Acts ever the average price of oats (to be aforesaid, no foreign grain of the ascertained in the manner therein above description, whatever may be prescribed) shall be at or above the the respective average prices of the price of twenty-seven shillings per same, can be admitted to entry, for quarter, and pease may in like man-home consumption, till after the fif ner be imported, whenever the price shall be at or above fifty-three shillings per quarter; and whereas by a certain Act of Parliament, made and passed in the third year of his pre-up, according to the provisions of sent Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn," it is enacted, that whenever foreign corn, meal, or flour, shall be admissible under the provisions of an Act, passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty, King George the Third, intituled, "An Act to amend the Law now in force for regulating the importation of Corn," or under the provisions of the said Act, passed in the third year of the reign of his present Majesty, there shall be levied and paid certain duties therein specified upon all such foreign corn, meal or flour, when admitted for home consumption: and whereas by the weekly returns of purchases and sales of corn, made by the several inspectors of Corn Returns in the cities and towns of England and Wales, to the Receiver of Corn Returns, it appears that the average price of oats, and also the average price of pease at the present time exceed the before-mentioned prices of twenty-seven shillings and fifty-three shillings per quarter: and whereas, from information which hath this day been laid before Ilis Majesty, it appears that the price of cats, as well as that of pease, is still rising, and that the crop of oats, and also the crops of pease and beans, of

the said Acts: His Majesty, with the advice of his Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby accordingly ordered, that foreign oats and oatmeal, rye, peas, and beans, whether warehoused or otherwise, shall and may, from the date hereof, be permitted to be entered in the ports of the United Kingdom, and of the Isle of Man, for home consumption, provided the parties making entry of any such foreign oats, oatmeal, rye, pease, or beans, do give bond, with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, for the payment of any duties, not exceeding in amount the duties hereinafter mentioned, in case Parliament shall authorize the levy and receipt thereof, that is to say,-Oats, per quarter, 2s. ; oatmeal, per boll, 2s. 2d.; rye, pease, and beans, per quarter, Ss. 6d.

And His Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, doth hereby further order, and it is accordingly ordered, that such permission to enter oats and oatmeal, rye, pease, and beaus, for home consumption, on the conditions aforesaid, shall continue in force from the date hereof, until the expiration of forty days, to be reckoned from the day of the next meeting of Parliament, unless the Parliament shall previously to the

expiration of the said forty days make provision to the contrary: and the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. GREVILLE.

"ENVY AND ADMIRATION

OF THE

WHOLE WORLD.”

The following articles, describing the state of various persons in England and Scotland, will be quite sufficient to define the true character of the above boast. Dr. BLACK has frequently, and very recently, told the people of Spain, that if they had upheld the Cortes, they would have been as free and as happy as WE

ARE. Let us see, then, how free and how happy we are. How gloriously we live!

DORSETSHIRE FARE. Sturminster (Dorset) Petty Sessions, August 21.

This Magisterial division comprises twenty-six parishes, the population of which is, for the most part, agricultural; and three-fourths, at least are labourers. The following is the copy of the printed scale by which the Magistrates, regulate the allowance to paupers claiming relief; and this forms, in fact, a scale by which the farmer, in all ordinary cases, regulates the price of labour; taking care, in general, that his payment does not exceed that which the Magistrates would order, in case application was made to them for relief.

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Scale in the Sturminster Division for regulating the Allowance of Parochial Relief to the Poor, according to the Price of Bread, where there are two or more messing together in one family :—

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ceive from their earnings and the parish 8s. 4d. per week; and giving them no beer, a very smali portion of meat, and sufficient vegetables and bread, the cost of food alone has been more than double this allow If parishes where fuel is not sup- ance. If fed on a sufficiency of plied to the poor, on moderate terms, bread and water only, the cost would! the Magistrates will make an addi- exceed 12s. per week; to say nothing tional allowance to the paupers. for washing, clothing or fuel. The A gentleman in this neighbour-condition of such a population may hood has lately made an experiment, to ascertain the cost of maintaining five boys, under 14 years of age, who would, of course, according to the scale, be entitled, at this time, to re

easily be conceived, where the allowance for the support of five women or boys, or girls, above fourteen years of age, is 8s. 4d. per week. As consumers of meat, cheese, butter, and

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all other clothing than that which is absolutely necessary to cover them, they are thrown out of the market; and all tradesmen who heretofore depended on their consumption for a livelihood, must feel the loss of their demand, and find themselves under the necessity of becoming labourers -themselves, or of charging a higher -profit to those who form the next class of their customers. Upon them again, the pressure of poor-rates is inevitable, and they dare not complain to those upon whose influence and expenditure they altogether depend for their own means of support. If the condition of the labourer, at those periods, be compared with his condition at present, it will be seen that the change has deteriorated his condition amazingly, and that he can have no beneficial interest in the advanced rent of land, and consequent price of produce, but the very reverse.

CASTLEREAGH'S HORRID

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MR. SWANN,

Kensington, 15th August, 1822.

CASTLEREAGH HAS CUT HIS OWN THROAT, AND IS DEAD! Let that sound reach you in the depth of dunyour geon; and let it carry consolation to your suffering soul! Of all the victims, you have suffered most. We are told of the poignant grief of Lady Castlereagh; and, while he must be a brute indeed, who does not feel for her, what must he be, who does not feel for your wife and your four helpless children, actually torn from you when you were first thrown into the dismal cells!

AGREEABLY to recent notification, I here insert my remarks on the However, we shall have time Inquest on the body of Castle to say more of your case hereafter. reagh. The remarks were con- Let me, at present, address you veyed to the public in the form of on the subject of Castlereagh. I a Letter to JOSEPH SWANN of am about to insert the Report of STOCKPORT. There wants a neat the Inquest on his body; but, I and concise history of the LIFE will first state to you certain matAND DEATH OF CASTLE-ters, which ought to be rememREAGH, than which nothing bered, and which will pass away, could be more usefully instruc- unless we, at once, put them on tive. It ought to be read by every record. The mover of Six-Aets man, who aims at getting public cut his throat last Monday mornpower and money into his hands; ing about seven o'clock. The and, it ought to be read by every COURIER of that night gave an king upon the face of the earth. account of his death; but stated At present I shall content myself it to have arisen from gout in the with republishing my Letter to JOSEPH SWANN.

stomach. Now, mind, the writer must have told this lie wilfully, or he must purposely have been mis» TO JOSEPH SWANN, informed. A design, therefore, Who was sentenced by the Magis- must, at one time, have existed trates of Cheshire to FOUR Somewhere to smother the truth. YEARS AND A HALF imprison- A cut throat is, however, no ment in Chester Gaol, for such easy thing to smother, and selling Pamphlets and being especially, where there is a house present at a Meeting for Par-full of servants, all with tongues

in their mouths. Therefore, the | Londonderry was empannelled, to COURIER'S lie was, the next day, inquire into the cause of the death abandoned; and the truth, as to of the above Noble Lord. The Cothe deed itself, came out. Before, however, we quit this lie of the COURIER, let us again remark, that it must have been intentional. NORTH CRAY, a little village in Kent, where the throat was cut, is only about two hours' ride from London. A King's Messenger was in the house at the time, as is, I believe, the case constantly,

with the Ministers who are Secretaries of State. At any rate there were stables full of horses; and you must know, that, at the Office of Castlereagh at Whitehall, the COURIER Would have some account, true or false. If, therefore, he got the true account, the lie was his own; and yet, seeing what risk he ran of almost instant detection, it appears rather strange, that he should have hatched the lie. I shall now, before I offer you further remarks upon the subject, insert the Report of the proceedings at the Inquest, requesting you and all the Reformers to read them with scrupulous attention. You will find (a thing quite new) the Coroner (if the report be true) laying down the doctrine, that self-murder must of necessity imply insanity in him who commits it; you will find many other things worthy of strict attention; and, therefore, if, only for this once, you can but get light sufficient to read by, and obtain the favour of being permitted to read, pray read this Report attentively, and then have the goodness to listen to the -remarks that I shall make.

INQUEST Held at North Cray, Tuesday, 13th August, 1822.

This day, at a few minutes before three o'clock, a jury of the most respectable inhabitants in the vicinity of the estate of the late Marquis of

roner was Mr. JOSEPH CARTtar, of the house of the deceased Lord, and Deptford. The inquest was held at to the credit of the individuals who were appointed to superintend the arrangements attendant upon this melancholy occasion, not the slightest attempt was made to keep the proceedings secret.

Directions were given to the domestics to admit every the inquest. The jury having been person who desired to be present at

sworn,

The Coroner addressed them in nearly the following terms:-Upon no former occasion in the performance of his duty had his feelings been so excited as by the present unfortunate event. He was indeed so much affected that they must perceive he could hardly express himself as he wished. Upon this account he trusted they would excuse any trifling errors which he might commit in the exercise of his duty. The gentlemen of the jury were summoned and sworn to inquire into the who stood perhaps as high in the causes of the death of a nobleman, public estimation as any man in the country. That his Lordship had met his death under particular circumstances, they doubtless must have learned. But it was his duty to inform them that they must remove from their minds all impressions which should not be borne out by the evidence. The gentlemen whom he addressed being neighbours of the deceased, were better able to form a just estimate of his character than he was. As a public man, it was impossible for him to weigh his character in any scales that he could hold. In private life he believed the world would admit that a

more

amiable man could not be found. Whether the important duties of the great office which he held pressed upon his mind, and conduced to the melancholy event which they had assembled to investigate, was a circumstance which in all probability never could be discovered. He understood that his Lordship had for

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