men. We know, and we never wish to cou phan is to be spared, and exceedingly employed by the Press when he spoke glad that I have been the cause of it. citements used by wicked and des.. in From the moment that his ACCU-ceal it either from ourselves or others, tha SATION OF ME, certified by the the Press, particularly the liberal and en REVEREND Henry John Rush, CU-lightened part of the Press, which is the RATE of Crowhurst, came forth, I servant of the tone and temper of men' saw that the poor lad was safe; for, to minds, which is on a level with the know ledge of the day, and which moves with the believe the accusation, and still to hang progress of society, is in a state of open and the accuser, would have been horrible avowed hostility to all stationary, unimproved indeed; so that, to hang the fire-setter, that the Press is made continually to feel in and unimprovable institutions; and we know would have been to give the tie to his its turn the anger and the vengeance of accusation against me; and yet, how to the patrons and organs of those institutions save him! How to spare the setter of such as Judges and hereditary legislators five fires, while a man is hanged for We believe, therefore, that these remarks o the Judge were intended to vituperate th knocking down BINGHAM BARING! The liberal Press-to hold it up to obloquy in to REVEREND Crowhurst curate was, minds of the public-and to bring readin I dare say, very little aware of the newspapers into discredit, as a source of tur dilemma that his certificate would cre-bulence and disorder. We mean, therefor ate. But in this story every man of sense saw the ground-work for an attack apon the freedom of the prcss generally; and this is what is ably shown in the following article: to say a few words in vindication of the Pre from the charge of having been instrument in producing the late outrageous proceeding of the ignorant unreading peasantry. We are far from wishing to shield the Pre from the imputation of having carried in every corner of the country the exposures th About a fornight or three weeks ago, a have recently been made of the extravagan dad of the name of Goodman was found guilty of our Government; we acknowledge t at the Sussex Assizes of setting fire to some charge, that it has nourished a growing d stacks near Battle. After he was sentenced like to that dear law with which the pub to death, he made a confession, though how is mocked, under the name of the Administ it was procured is not known, that he had tion of Justice, reminding us of the disa been instigated to the atrocious act by a lec-pointment described by Milton, when wh ture of Mr. Cobbett's. He subsequently made a second confession, varying from the first, but still connecting the lecture with the conception of the crime of arson. Mr. Cobbett triumphantly refuted this confession, and showed that it was false and absurd; that he had never recommended the people to commit any such monstrous crime, nor any crime of the sort, and that the whole was a fiction got up for the purpose of throwing dirt upon him, and through him upon the Press. That confession was, in fact, eagerly laid hold of to abuse the Press, and all the commotions in the country were unhesitatingly attributed to the writings of Mr. Cobbett, aud of all those who honestly endeavour to expose abuses. In a similar manner, and in a similar spirit, the Recorder said to Mr. Carlile, "If men such as you are not checked in time, it is utterly impossible to say where the tumults, disorders, and burnings will have an end." He added: "Lives have been sacrificed to the laws of the country, owing to those excitements used by wicked and designing persons to stir up the people to revolt and rebellion." There can be no doubt, from the language generally held by Judges and by men in power, that all the evils, all the riot and disturbance, which have lately rendered our country less conspicuous for internal tranquillity than for many years past, are ascribed by the upper classes to the influence of the Press; and there can be no doubt that the Recorder meant the language seemed grapes turned to cinders in t Sir Robert Peel. That ignorant author of Can those who vituperate the Press say so untold mischief to the people is as secure in much? Has not the Legislature rung Session the midst of them as the Editor of Bell's Life, after Session with the complaints against the who is only known by contributing to farmers for paying wages out of the poor-rates? their weekly amusement. For months did Did not an Ex Judge, three weeks ago, conthe Duke of Wellington stand in the way demn the farmers for this practice, in the of Reform-for months was his conduct House of Lords? Did not the Duke of Welcondemned by the Press; but never was lington, in the teeth of all the Press conan insult offered to him till he had repeatedly demn the use of machinery last session outraged the people by denying their great of Parliament ? All these things happensuffering, and at length crushing, by a too ed: the sentiments of our Ministers and lawnotorious declaration, their hopes that he makers were wafted to every corner of the would at length relent and listen to their country, and now we have the peasantry breakprayers. Repeatedly of late has the Press ing the machinery of the farmers and setting exposed the profligacy of Court Ladies-the fire to the property of those who pay wages mothers and daughters of Nobility living on out of Poor Rates. One man, who was partipensions wrung from the marrow of the cularly obnoxious on account of his petty oppeople. Even this day our paper contains an pression, was shot at. Is not this connection example of Crown jewels abstracted, and of more intimate than that between the obsera father giving his daughter's brilliants to his vations of the Press concerning Parliamentary mistress; enough, in all conscience, to rouse Reform and the acts of the peasantry? Again, the indignation of a long-suffering people; last session of Parliament, Mr. Littleton, and but we have never heard that an attempt has several other Members of Parliament, drew been made to give any of these profligate a frightful picture of the exactions of certain courtezans a good ducking under the pump. master manufacturers. He conjured up all Of late too, the liberal Press has been un- the horrors practised in all Staffordshire; and sparing in holding up to public opprobrium his speech, faithfully reported, is said to have the pluralities of the Bishops, their enormous been widely circulated in the manufacturing wealth, extorted from the people under false districts. This session he has renewed the pretences, and their gross neglect of duties, same species of warfare, and his tirades have for performing which they claim our been spread far and wide in the manufacturreverence and our tribute. We remembering districts. There, too, we have the men that one of these Bishops, a man in the full enjoyment of all the good things of life, about six months ago, denounced all the amusements, and even the healthful recreations of the people. For this he was most meritedly, but unmercifully censured by the Press. If the Press wished to excite the people to violence, it might probably have induced them to make a Dutch roast of the Bishop, or dress him in his own fat; but he yet lives, as sleek and comfortable as if he had never censured taking the air on Sunday, and never written a pamphlet abusing all other Sunday amusements but listening to the preacher. In fact, the Press is a generous opponent. It seems its enemies of their danger. It makes all its attacks in front. It never stabs its opponent in secret. It is opposed to violence of all kinds, under whatever pretext it may be used. Its arms are exclusively those of reason, and it leaves force to the judge, to the executioner, and to the war office. The only example we know, in which the popular opinions espoused by the Press have been connected with outrage, was the late attack on the Duke of Newcastle, at Newark. But, if there ever was a case in which a long-suffering aud ill-treated race of men, described as the property of this weakminded Duke, could find an apology for indignation, it was this. They, however, revenged private injuries, not public wrongs. We affirm, then, and we appeal to our readers for the correctness of our assertion, that the Press bas never recommended violence or defended outrage, and that the opinions it has of late most warmly advocated have not in any manner been connected with violence. quarrelling with their masters, and there we From the LONDON GAZETTE, INSOLVENT. JAN. 13. VOULES, J., New Windsor, cornmerchant. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. HARROLD, E., Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, cotton-spinner. LEESON, W., jun., Nottingham, hosier. CHANDLER, T., Bow-lane, Cheapside, car- CHAPMAN, J., Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, EARLE, G. and C., Great St. Thomas Apostle, MILLS, W., Nelson-street, Greenwich linen- Peas barely maintain last week's prices. For other articles we beg to refer to the aunexed currency. SMITHFIELD—Jan. 17. There is to-day a pretty full market, with a tolerable briskness in the trade. Prime Scots obtain our top currency and good Beef generally finds purchasers at 3s. 10d. to 4s. 2d.; but for ordinary meat there is not so ready a demand. Mr. Mellish attended on Friday, to the no small gratification of the sellers of Lincolns. The price of Mutton is about the same as this day se'nnight; but handsome big sheep, in consequence of their scarcity, make nearly as much as the light weights. The best Downs are quoted at 4s. 6d. There is a further advance in choice Veal. The supply will be sold out. Beasts 2,607, Calves 100, SIMKIN, G. R., Red Cross-street, and High-Sheep 23,040, Pigs 160. bury, grocer. THURSDAY, Jan. 20.-The spirit of the late SMITH, G., jun., North Shields, master Thursday's cattle market, which was declared mariner. by its clerk to have become defunct on this day se'nnight, made its appearance in Smithfield this morning, in the shape of about 60 Beasts, 200 Sheep, 20 calves, and a few Pigs, most of which had disappeared by about 11 o'clock. That which the City Senate are said BEDWELL, J., London-road, Surrey, bed to have re-decreed as the legitimate market, and bedstead-maker. BEYNON, J., Scarborough, draper. ford, and Deptford-green, linen-drapers. CHERRY, J., Coventry, painter. CLEAVER, H., Market Lavington, Wiltshire, DOUBLEDAY, W., Manchester, tea-dealer. MAY, J. and P. Brodie, Fenchurch-street, NATHAN, N. and W., Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields, quill-merchants. PEARSON, J., Long Eaton, Derbyshire, LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.We had not a very large supply of English Wheat at market this morning, consequently a few early sales were made in fine quality at an advance of full 1s. per quarter in the prices since this day se'unight; the middling and inferior sorts were also taken off upon rather better terms; but the sales were by no means brisk, and Flour remains at last week's price. Fine Malting Barley was taken off very freely to-day at an advance of 3s. per quarter, and scarcely any was left unsold. Beans of both sorts, and Grey Peas, are likewise about 1s. per quarter dearer, and Oats nearly as much, although not much briskness in sale. White will be held to-morrow. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Jan. 21. The supplies are still small, the demand moderate, and the prices the same as on Monday. Irish. English arrivals. Foreign. 2,170 4,240 420 695 3 per Cent. THREE THE FUNDS. Fri. Sat. Mon. Tues. Wed, Thur 82 82 82 82 82 82 On the 1st of Feb. will be published, No. 1, of HE TIMES MAGAZINE, or CHURCH REFORMER-Tithe; Twenty-six Objections against the New Church Property; New Plan to be brought forward by Parliament; Amiable Conduct of the Bishop Wilson, Bishop of Derry 24 years, Non-resident, with 15,000 a year; Bishop of Peterborough; Bishop Newton; Baron Brougham. Sold by Mr, Steil, 20 Paternoster Row, and all respectable Booksellers in the Empire. This day is published, in 12mo. price 5s. bds., MIGRATION or NO EMIGRATION; Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-stree an VOL. 71.-No. 5.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 1831. THB CAUSE OF REFORM. [To be read three times over, especially by the Prime Minister.] [Price 1s. 2d. man of the name of CLEARY, in a gig, as a sort of TRAVELLER in the cause. My "Waust God! How we have got on! improvements, maum," as paunchy Mrs. Omnium says to skinny Mrs. Scrip, when they meet upon a new road across a common, of which the labouring people have just been robbed by the GRASP-ALLS, in virtue of one of those "proofs of national prosperity" called enclosure bills! Talk of march of mind," indeed! Look at insignificant BURDETT now! What would now the fac-simile of his wretched name be worth! Oh, that the honest old major were but alive this day! A MEETING on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, and to present a petition on the part of the inhabitants of this city, was held in ST. ANDREW'S When one looks at the crowds of HALL, in the CITY OF NORWICH, on opulent merchants and manufacturers, the nineteenth instant, not less than of old yeomanry cavalry farmers, of three thousand persons being present, land-owners; and when we hear an Earl, MR. WISEMAN, the Sheriff, being who is by no means unmindful of in the chair. SIR THOMAS BEEVOR, number one, actually calling for annual Bart., whose speech I shall insert Parliaments, universal suffrage, and presently, moved the resolutions, voting by ballot; when we behold these which were eight in number, and in crowds, and contemplate their proceed words as we shall presently read them. ings; and then, for a moment, look This was a most important meeting back at little Cleary and his hack My Register would not be sufficient, if horse and gig, and his bundle of it were devoted to nothing else, to con- fac-similie-circulars; when we think tain an account of the proceedings of of the meeting of deputy operatives, one tenth nor one twentieth part of the in London, of the pop-gun-plot number meetings, which have been held, within two; of the poor blanketeers, hudthis month, of towns, cities and counties, dled into Manchester jail-yard; and of for the purpose of petitioning for Par- the power-of-imprisonment bill, which liamentary Reform. In 1817, MAJOR drove me across the seas and dragged CARTWRIGHT and I were the only reso-scores of victims to dungeons; when lution and petition writers in the whole we thus view the present and glance kingdom, in favour of Parliamentary back at the past, the bare contemplaReform. A great many people were in motion, but they were all set in motion by us two; and that worthy old veteran in the cause thought he had carried a monstrous point, when he had obtained the consent of the shilly-shally BURDETT to suffer him to put a fac-simile of his name to a parcel of circulars, calling on the people to rouse in the cause of reform, with which circulars, and with a sort of general recommendatory letter from Mr. ALDERMAN WOOD, I believe it was) he dispatched off a little Irish tion of such a march of mind" really seems to threaten to unsettle our senses. What crime had we committed, then, when green bags were brought down to prove to a secret committee that it was necessary to place the person of every man in the kingdom at the mercy of the Secretary of State? What crime had we committed when LORD FITZWILLIAM Voted for both gagging, and dungeoning us, and LORD MILTON for the latter; and when MR. LAMB, now LORD MELBOURN, though never, as I F have understood, a harsh or ill-natured protruding from his bursting body; for man, voted for the measure, for the this prayer it was that groans were sake of the safety of the people them- heard in the dungeons of all the jails, selves? What crime had we committed, that parents had to mourn their sons, when from the Mansion-House of wives their husbands, and children their London, from the public-office at Man- fathers, some of whom were driven to chester, and from every hell-hole of insanity, and others to suicide, by their selfishness, cowardice, and cruelty; sufferings, while not one man of the from the parsons all over the kingdom; survivors was ever attempted to be from the Universities; and, in short, brought to trial, and while those who from every resort of wealth and of procure these laws to be passed, and to the influence of property, came up be exceeded in their execution, the addresses to the Prince Regent, call- precious Parliament covered by a bill of ing for measures of severity against indemnity. us, designating us, who were the Well, but what are the prayers now? leaders, as designing and wicked men, What are the prayers that the traders, aiming at the overthrow of all property the farmers, the manufacturers, the and all rank, being, as the calumniating merchants, the land-owners, are now addresses described us, destitute our sending to parliament? They pray for selves of all property and all character? all that we prayed for in the first place, What crime had we committed; what and in language ten times as bold; they had we done to deserve these calumnies pray that the aristocracy may no longer and this savage treatment? Why we be suffered to take away the incomes of had been guilty of no crime at all; the middle class, and to rob the labourer there had been no breach of the peace of the fruit of his toil. But, which is a throughout the whole country; no vio- thing that we never attempted to allude lence, and no attempt at violence of to, not even to allude to, they pray for any description. The contents of the an abolition of the tithes; or, for apgreen bags were never published. The plying them to the relief of the poor and atrocious falsehoods alleged against us repairing of the churches; or, as in the were never attempted to be supported instance immediately before us, for by proof: all that was said against us taking away the whole of the church was a lie from the beginning to the property altogether, and applying it to end: all that we had really done was, the liquidation of the debt. The reto petition for a reform of the people's, solutions agreed to at this fine meeting or Commons', House of Parliament; all at Norwich are a fair specimen of what that we had done was to pray; and to the borough-mongers have to digest; pray, too, for not a tenth part of what is and therefore I will insert them before prayed for now by all the towns and I proceed further. cities and counties in the kingdom. We "First-That in all cases of aggraprayed for a reform of the Parliament; "vated distress there is a point at which for an abolition of sinecures and of" human nature becomes incapable of unmerited pensions; we prayed for an "further endurance, and where this adjustment of salaries, and of interest" distress is of a public nature, and can of debt to the altered value of the "be traced to legislative causes, men money; we prayed for a reduction of " begin to lose their respect for the the standing army; all these we prayed" laws, and are ready to encounter danfor in order that the distresses of the "gers the most appalling in opposition country might be relieved in time, and that" to them. anarchy and confusion might thereby be Secondly-That the events which prevented. For this sensible and humble" have lately taken place in the maprayer it was that I was left to choose "jority of the counties of England, between exile and a dungeon; for this clearly prove that at this point we humble prayer it was that OGDEN was "have already arrived. crammed into a dungeon with his bowels 66 "Thirdly-That this distress has |