naturally would not. However, there" subsisted between your borough and will be time enough to talk of this" the family to which I belong, which, hereafter; and, in the meanwhile, be- " I had hoped, had not been unprofore we come to the prayers which are "ductive of advantage to the town of now to put up, let us laugh at the dis-"Preston. The rupture of that conmal address in which STANLEY takes" nexion has been your act,-I achis everlasting leave of the town of" quiesce in your decision, and shall Preston, which address is in the follow-"make no attempt, in future, to renew ing blubbering and blundering words:" it. In taking, however, my final "leave of you as a candidate for the "" TO THE ELECTORS OE PRESTON. "honour of representing the borough, "Irish Office, London, Dec. 22d, 1230." I should be ungrateful to my many "GENTLEMEN,—1. I have thought it" friends, were I to omit returning to my duty to signify to the returning "them my warmest thanks for their "officers my intention of abandoning" uniform kindness and support; and "the scrutiny, and offering no further" though no longer to be charged with "opposition to the return of Mr. Hunt." the direct responsibility of represent"2. The delays which have been "ing them in Parliament, I trust that I 66 already interposed would alone render" may still be in situations which may "it extremely doubtful whether we "enable me to prove to them that I am "could succeed, within the time limited" neither unmindful of their past kindby law, in striking off so large a num- ness nor inattentive to their interests. "ber of voters as compose the apparent "I have the honour to be, "majority of my opponent; and that "doubt is much increased by the facili"ties which the opposite party would "have of carrying on the same system "of delay to an indefinite extent. แ 66 "Gentlemen, "Your obedient humble servant, "E. G. STANLEY." This is the proudest fellow, the most insolently proud, in the kingdom. No Scotch bailiff or negro-driver was ever more proud than this very STANLEY. How it must have grated his haughty heart to put these words upon paper. Yes, I dare say he " contentedly" resigns the honour of representing them. "3. While I saw before me a prospect of successfully vindicating the cause of what I then believed, and still believe, to be the majority of good and legal votes, I felt it my duty to persevere in my endeavours, at whatever personal inconvenience Poor fool! As if that piece of poor, or expense; but the prospect of ulti-pointless sarcasm would do any thing "mate success being now extremely but discover his aristocratical spite! "doubtful, the same sense of duty im- But this fellow, in answering the "6 pels me to discontinue a mode of "" proceeding which must have a ten"dency to keep up a strong feeling of "excitement and agitation in the town " of Preston. at speeches of our friends IRVIN and MITCHELL, talked of GRAMMAR, I think. Reader, look in paragraph 3, at the word "what" as a relative, first to the cause and then to the majority of "4. I shall therefore offer no further votes. Look at the word "that "opposition to your new representative the close of paragraph 4. “More satistaking his seat in Parliament: I re-actorily to you than that I have done;" peat to you my declaration, that I for, as you see, the phrase, “it would " contentedly resign to him the honour appear," has no effect in the construcof representing you; and I sincerely tion of the sentence. Look at "I had hope that he may serve you as ho- hoped," in paragraph 5, and then send nestly, as faithfully, and more satis- the fellow off packing to be baited and "factorily to you than, it would appear, jeered by the Irish, at whose blundering "that I have done. propensities he had the folly and inso“5. Gentlemen, a parliamentary con- lence to laugh in his first speech at "nexion has for very many years Preston. And this is the writing of a 66 duty of us all to aid them in the way of SECRETARY OF STATE, is it, and of a THE BALLOT. And I Ix my plan for Parliamentary ReHowever, my friends of Preston, he form, I observed that honest men has taken his " final leave of you," might differ as to other parts of the very "contentedly!" Just as content-plan; but that no one, except a real edly as the fox did of the grapes. Into openly avowed rogue, would be opposed what hole will he now creep; pray to the ballot; because his motive must watch him. Pray trace him to and of necessity be his desire to preserve from his next batch of "constituents." bribery, corruption and perjury; and And, in the meanwhile, we all thank that, therefore, he must be a real, downyou, the people of Preston, from the right, unblushing, hardened rogue. The bottom of our souls, for the punish- ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ment, the deep humiliation, that you is evidently of my opinion; for, in the have inflicted on this proudest of the Bill, brought in by him, last Session, proud, this most insolent of the most for facilitating the composition for insolent, of all the aristocrats that ever tithes, he, in the clauses for appointing trod the earth. This is a "statesman," is commissioners in the several districts, it? "I had hoped had not been unpro- has this provision," that the voting ductive!" "Vindicating the cause of shall be by ballot." That is enough. what I believe to be the majority" of We have the head of the Church with votes. "Vindicating the cause of the us; and now we may set the real votes!" Think of that. "More satis- rogues at defiance. But Dr. BLACK factorily than that I have done." Why, begins to shuffle. He is for the ballot; it is worse than the scrawl of a cast-off but he is for raising the qualification; chambermaid, who is just going to tuck so as to disfranchise the 403. freeherself up on the rafter of a garret, hav- holders, I suppose! Eh, Scotchman? ing too much sense of honour to survive Is that what you mean? So as to disher disgrace. "Final leave as a candi- franchise the people of Preston? Eh, date," indeed! Final leave of life Doctor! Burdett's plan: Eh! Better would have had sense and spirit in it; not try it, Doctor. The ballot without but who ever saw either in the race, or, raising the qualification would soon set indeed, in the order, to which he be- Scotch feelosofers to clean_the_kenlongs. nels: that is true enough; but, better However, let him go to old Sarum, not try it, Doctor! Much the safer way Gatton, Hazlemere, or to the devil, if not to try to raise the qualification at he choose, and let him come draggling Preston (as you propose), or not, at and sneaking out like a rat that the ter-least, until you have got armour ready riers have driven from a barn into a for the bodies of the new voters and sink-hole, or some place still more filthy. Thank you, brave and patriotic meu of Preston! And whatever I can do, beyond thanks, you shall have at my hands. I am well aware that the poor and virtuous people have made sacrifices indescribable; and that it is the have made their dwellings proof against thunder and lightning. Do that, Doetor, before you try to raise the qualification, notwithstanding that "it must be property to protect property." Ah! you straight-backed, Scotch, tax-eating knaves, who calumniate the people of England, call them "stupid," call them A Form of Prayer, on account of the "brutal;" only let this people have troubled state of certain parts of the their rights, and you may dance back United Kingdom, A Litany; and when the Litany shall not be read, before the prayer for all conditions of men; in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels in England and Ireland, as soon as the ministers thereof shall receive the same. again to your own delightful land of To be used immediately before the burgoo and of bannocks of barley meal. The band of botheration reporthers may dance off too; for, down comes the monopolizing fraud on which they fatten, and which drenches them with gin and beer. All these hordes of vile vermin have been fed by the toil of the working people of England; and these people will feed them no longer, for "O God, our Heavenly Father, who which they would hang them all if they "art rich in mercy and grace towards could. So sure as this is paper that I" all who obey thy will, and hast proam writing on, so sure are the facts," mised forgiveness and remission of that it is the taxing system that has" sins to them that truly repent, and brought these lazy locusts into England" unfeignedly believe thy holy Gospel, to devour the produce of the people's" we humbly beseech thee to look with labour; and that, if that system be" compassion on thy servants, and rechanged, these vermin must go to work"lieve their affliction. We have sinor decamp. This is the cause why they" ned, we have grievously sinned, and are, to a man, the enemies of a real" transgressed thy holy laws we conreform of the parliament; all of them," fess our iniquity, we lament our unwithout a single exception. And how" worthiness, and meekly acknowledge, they hate the best part of the labourers; " that by our manifold offences, we and how they hate the Prestonians!" have justly provoked thy wrath: yet No accounts did they give of the glo- deal not with us, O Lord, according rious election. Not a word of the" to the multitude of our transgresspeeches! But the term of the vaga- "sions, but in judgment remember bonds draws to a close. The English mercy. For thy dear Son's sake, O labourers will no longer live upon pota"Lord, give ear to our prayer, and toes, and in that resolution the all-de-" withdraw thy chastening hand from vouring vermin hear their doom! "us. To thee alone we look for de"liverance; without thy help and di"rection the power and wisdom of man 66 are of no avail. Restore, O Lord, to thy people the quiet enjoyment of the At the Council-chamber, Whitehall, the "many and great blessings which we 24th December, 1830, present the Lords of" have received from thy bounty: deHis Majesty's Most Honourable Privy feat and frustrate the malice of wickCouncil, It is this day ordered by their Lordships, "ed and turbulent men, and turn their that his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Can"hearts: have pity, O Lord, on the terbury do prepare forms of prayers to Al" simple and ignorant, who have been mighty God, on account of the troubled state" led astray, and recall them to a sense of certain parts of the United Kingdom: And it is hereby further ordered, that His ranks and conditions in this country, "of their duty and to persons of all Majesty's Printer do forthwith print a competent number of the said Forms of Prayers, that the same may be forthwith sent round" and read in all the Cathedral, Collegiate and Parochial Churches and Chapels throughout those parts of the United Kingdom, called England and Ireland, as soon as the Ministers" thereof may receive the same. THE PRAYER. WM. L. BATHURST. 66 66 "vouchsafe such a measure of thy with true faith and devotion, and grace, that our hearts being filled "cleansed from all evil affections, we may serve thee with one accord, in "duty and loyalty to the king, in "obedience to the laws of the land, "and in brotherly love towards each "other; and that, pressing constantly" therein? "therein? I will turn your feasting "forward towards the high prize of our" into mourning, saith the Lord God, "heavenly calling, under the guidance" and your songs into lamentations." "of thy Holy Spirit, we may finally Here is nothing about potatoes, to be "attain to life everlasting, through the sure, cold or hot. The poor Israelites had "merits and mediation of our only not come down to this heel-swelling, "Redeemer and Advocate, Jesus Christ paunch-stuffing, soul-degrading root; “our Lord.—Amen.” they thought it bad enough to have been brought to the "refuse of the wheat;" but, if a curse was due (and if not due God would not have inflicted it); if a curse was due for this; if the land was to tremble for this, what must we expect, when not only the poor, but the labourers in a body, are reduced to live on beastly roots, in a land abounding with wheat and with meat? "O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus "Christ, our only Saviour, the Prince "of Peace, give us grace seriously "to lay to heart the great dangers we "are in by our unhappy divisions. "Take away all hatred and prejudice, "and whatsoever else may hinder us "from godly union and concord: that, as there is but one body, and one 'spirit, and one hope of our calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one "God and Father of us all, so we may "henceforth be all of one heart and of "one soul, united in one holy bond of "truth and peace, of faith and charity, "and may with one mind, and one "mouth, glorify thee, through Jesus “our Lord.—Amen.” 66 TREVOR AND POTATOES. TREVOR is reported to have brought forward his motion on Thursday, the 23rd of December, the day on which the great "omnipotent" House adjourned. Owing to the scandalous unfairness of the reporthers, or their masA very proper prayer for those whom ters, almost the whole of Mr. BULWER'S it concerns. Now, men may say what SPEECH is omitted in the report. I they like about evils, but, will any-body shall, however, take the whole of the call that an evil which has produced debate as I find it in the newspapers. piety such as is evinced in this prayer? I look on it as a publication, and as Amongst the rest of us, the BOROUGH-Such I shall comment on it: and thus I MONGERS Will, I hope, have found their find it in the Bloody Old Times of the hearts softened; they who, ever since 24th of December: I can recollect, seem not to have been "COBBETT'S REGISTER. afraid of hell-fire, do, one would hope, "Mr. TREVOR, pursuant to his nobegin to tremble now. The Anca- tice of motion, rose for the purpose of BISHOP (to whom, however, I beg leave submitting certain passages from a hambly to present my thanks for what" weekly paper, entitled Cobbett's Rehe has done) might aptly enough have "gister, to the consideration of the introduced the following passage from "House, conceiving that in so doing he the Prophet Amos, chap. viii. ver. 4" was only doing his duty to his counto 10: Hear this, O ye that swallow" try, which such a course, in his opin" up the needy, even to make the poor"ion, was calculated to serve. At the "of the land to fail: saying, 'When" same time he could not help regretting "will the new moon be gone that we "that some older, or more efficient may sell corn? And the Sabbath," Member had not undertaken what he, that we may set forth wheat, making" however sincere in his good inten"the Ephah small and the Shekel great, "tions, was so inadequate to discharge. "and falsifying the balances by deceit; "The writer to whom he alluded had "that we may buy the poor for silver, put forth a series of inflammatory "and the needy for a pair of shoes; "addresses, the purport of which was "yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? unquestionable, whether they were "Shall not the land tremble for this; "defensible in law or liable to punish"and every one mourn that dwelleth A few extracts from 66 66 66 ment. the 66 In re 66 66 66 "number which he had particularly se- stance, and concluded by asking whe"lected would, he trusted, sufficiently "ther he might not, exclaim in the lansatisfy the House of the pernicious guage of Cicero,, Quousque tandem tendency of this publication, circulat-"abalere patientiá nostra ? In the opin'ing, as it principally did, amongst the "ion of the illustrious Edmund Burke, artisans and labouring class of the "and he might also add Lord Grenville, "community. A clergyman in Suf-"whose lamented infirmities had so long "folk had most judiciously issued a 'prevented him from participating in "circular amongst his parishioners, "public affairs, it was to such publicasetting before the lower orders the "tions that the first French revolutim2 "inevitable ruin which they were bring- might be mainly attributed. He was no "ing upon themselves by their viola-" enemy to the liberty of the press, for the "tion of the law, and was therefore" press was the most eligible vehicle of vituperated in the most scandalous public opinion, and exercised a whole"language by this licentious pasqui- some control over the actions of men in "nader, who, in the same paragraph, power; but when unworthily directed, "traced the reduction of tithes to the" he might too truly say of it,-corruptio "resistance of the labourers and the in-"omnium pessima est. To the unfortunate "fluence of the fires. He (Mr. Trevor)" and infatuated violators of the law "ventured to appeal to the good sense "it was befitting a just minister to ex-' "of the House whether such arguments "tend every possible clemency and in"could be penned for any purpose but "dulgence, but surely their insidious and "that of exciting the population to "designing instigators were far from "disturbance and discontent. deserving objects of a similar forbear"ference to Cambridge, this writer "ance. As he had shown, there could "had further asserted that the magis-" be no mistake as to the libellous and tracy and landed interest had never "seditious tendency of the paragraphs thought of relieving the poor until the" to which he had called the attention "fires were kindled, and the labourers "of the house, and in thus bringing rose. He admitted that the acts in" them substantively under its consider"which the labourers were engaged" ation, he felt that he had done his "must be considered in themselves un- duty. It lay with the House to de"lawful; but added, that that body. "termine the future course of proceed66 were starving, and that it was no "ing, whether it should be referred to "crime to take by force wherewithal to" the Government, or that the Attorneysupport nature, when the labourer" General should be ordered to pro"and his family were compelled to live" ceed with a prosecution, or any other on less than was held necessary for "remedy which in its wisdom it might "the sustenance of a common soldier." sanction. The hon. Member concluded "In proof of the gentle spirit exhibited" with moving a resolution to the effect, "by the people in all their distresses, he "that the publication entitled COB"instanced the case of two overseers in "BETT'S REGISTER, of the 11th of De"Sussex, whom they contented them-"cember, contained a malicious and "selves with trundling out of the pa-" scandalous libel on the authorities of "rish, when, had they been sanguinary," the state, incompatible with the pro"they might have murdered them in "ceedings of the Government, and a "their beds. "6 He insisted, moreover, gross and unicarrantable attack on the "that every one, except the infamous "Members of the church by law esta"stock-jobbers, acknowledged that the "blished, the tendency of which was 46 perpetrators of the late outrages "subversive of the laws, and conducive were doing nothing but what they "to anarchy and delusion. 66 66 "ought to have done. The honourable "Mr. G. PRICE was understood to "Gentleman read from the Register" second the resolution. a series of paragraphs, of which the "Mr. BULWER was opposed to the foregoing sentences are the sub-" hon. Member's motion. He thought |