! ❝ing deep contrition for their crimes; Bushby paper, in which he said he was an of the 24th of December. "The pri- had, previously to teaving Lewes, made a he set fire to atches. "full confession of his guilt, and Bushby had and common knowledged to being the incendiary who set fire to somes corn&stacks a few days before, and for which a re "the interview was very distressing. Good-ward had been offered for the dis"man still adheres to his first voluntary state-covery of the offender. He said he "ment, that the and lectures of Cob "bett were the chief inducement to him to CONFESSION OF THOMAS G GOODMAN. could not account for the feeling which prompted these acts, except that he was goaded to their commission by an irresistible impulse.” Now, these facts are undoubted. So that, if he really did make the first con fession, mentioned in my former letter to you, his recollection hud come to him when he got before the REVEREND Henry Jolin Rush, Curate of Crowhurst and even then he forgot all about the GUN! It was not till he got to Hons HAM, it seems, in the neighbourhood of the gallows, that he recollected the GUN. If he should be brought in sight of the gallows, I should not at all wonder if he were to recollect, that this is the truth and nothing But the truth one Mr. Cobbit" gave him "the pipe" “ of A deying man. and matches; and if, after all, the rope should be put round his neck, "THOMAS GOODMAN. **Written before us, 30th December, 1830, would it be very wonderful if he were "WALTER BURRELL, H. TRECKOFT, "FRANCES SCAwEN BLUNT." ( This story about the GUN is a famous improvement: it is a fine instance of the “march of mind," and of the effect of the schoolmaster being abroad! If this poor orphan's life should be spared (as I wish it may), and, if the schoolmaster should continue his kind attentions, he will certainly make a bright ornament of Society, equal, perhaps, to JESSE BURGESS himself. Now, Sir, hear some truth about this poor lad. My son was present, in the way of his profession; he was one of the counsel in the court, when this orphan was tried. When called upon to say what he had to say in his defence, he put in a written to become King's evidence, and swear, that it was I set the fires and not he! There is, Sir, seldom a really wicked lie without having a peg to hang on; and this is the case with regard to this famous GUN. That I should say openly before four or five hundred persons, all of them strangers to me, that every man of them ought to have a gun in his house, in readiness against the time that I should come to lead them on; that I should be fool enough to say this is what nobody will believe. But, it is very true that I did talk about it being proper for every man to have a gun in' his house. And now you shall hear how I came to say it, and how proper it was that I should say it. I was speaking on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, and in support of the propo- But, Sir, the questions, that every one sition for universal suffrage, I said that will ask, are these: Was it not at a it ought to be, because every man ca public lecture that the pretended words pable of bearing arms, was liable to be were uttered? Were there not there called on to venture his life in defence present, to hear the words, a great many of the country, and that, of necessity, persons, none of whom are now conthis, which was the bounden duty of all demned to be hanged? Why not get men, was a duty the great burden of the evidence of some of these,? Why which must fall, and ought to fall, upon prefer the evidence of a poor frightened, the young and single men; and that, weak minded lad, with the halter about therefore, in order to induce them to be his neck? Leaving BURREL and Co. to always ready to discharge this sacred answer these questions, pray, Sir, give duty cheerfully, the young men ought me room to add this remark, that, in to have a vote at elections, which would Hampshire and Wiltshire, where the make them feel that they had a great thing actually resembles a campaign, I interest in the safety of their country, have not been for eight years, except as and would thereby enable the Govern- a mere passenger; and in neither of ment to dispense with a standing army, which I have set my foot for four years. even in time of war, as the same cause The truth is, that my Lectures have had operated in that way in America. Here no effect whatsoever in producing the I took occasion to observe that a coun-risings and the consequent acts, which try was never so safe as when its de- have all arisen from hunger and illfence depended upon the arms of its treatinent, and from no other cause. citizens. Then came the peg on which the lie has been hung. The words were, as nearly as possible, as follows: "I, some years ago, saw a printed pa"per, sent about by LORD ASHBURN“HAM, ordering, or suggesting, that no "labourer should have employ who kept a gun in his house. His lord 66 ship, in his anxiety for the pheasants, "seems to have forgotten the country, “ and, of course, the land on which the "pheasants are bred. For suppose we 66 were to be again at war with France ; 66 suppose the French were to land at "PEVENSEY LEVEL (only a few miles "from Battle), as they once landed, "who would there be to drive them into "the sea? Why, the men of Sussex "and Kent to be sure! And, when "called upon by Lord ASHBURNHAM for "that purpose, might they not remind "him, that he had caused their arms to "be taken away, though the law of "England positively says, that it is a "right belonging to every man to keep "arms in his house for the defence of "that house, which the law calls his "castle?" 66 When we see it proved, even upon Your most humble, P. S. I made, at LEWES, just the same remarks about the GUN, gave just the same advice as at Battle; but, none of my Lewes auditors are condemned to be hanged. One of my auditors at Lewes was Mr. JOHN ELL MAN the elder. I did not know him, but found, afterwards, that it was he, upon my inquiring "who that old gentle man was, who sat in the stage-box," and who applauded so much." In short, Sir, all my efforts were calculated to put a stop to violence, and to restore This was the peg; and it must be peace. I say none of this to silence the confessed, that the lie, "written in the infamous slanderers, but to expose them" presence" of Walter Burrel and Co.to public execration. They know that has been clumsily enough, hung on. what they say is false: but they know 66 66 Majesty, not of the form of that Government which has endured for so many ages, and under which our "fathers were so free, lived in such ease "and abundance, and saw their country 16 that I wrote the History of the Protes-" appeal to a tender [father, lay those tant Reformation. grievances before your Majesty.However, besides the words uttered" That we complain, may it please your at the Lecture, I distributed a hand-bill“ amongst those who came to hear me at Battle. Ah! It might be this that made the poor, simple young man so mischievous! The hand-bill was a printed petition to the king, a copy of so great and so much honoured which was given to every person that throughout the world; we complain entered the booth. Let us see, then, "not of the nature of the institutions what effects it was calculated to pro- "of our country, which have stood the duce. It began thus: "Most humbly test of centuries; we complain not of "showeth, That we approach your Ma-" any-thing, an attack on which would "jesty, not as blind adorers of royalty, argue a hankering after innovation, "but as faithful and dutiful subjects, "but, on the contrary, it is of innova"whose fidelity and duty are founded "tions, innovations endless in number, "in our conviction, that, in highly" cruelly oppressive, and studiously in"honouring and cheerfully obeying "sulting, that we have now to make your Majesty, in upholding, with all" complaint to your Majesty." "our might, your just prerogatives, and No direct incentives to rebellion, at “evincing our most profound respect any rate! The petition then went on to "for your person, we best consult our state a series of plain facts, the truth of "own welfare, knowing that you are every one of which is not only unde"endowed with those prerogatives for niable, but capable of juridical proof, "the common good of us all, and not and the facts stated, too, without any "for your own exclusive advantage. attempt at exaggeration. After this the "That feeling ourselves thus bound to paper concluded thus: "Thus, may it your Majesty, not by harsh constraint," please your Majesty, we have, in all "but by a willing obedience arising" humility and dutifulness, submitted "from a due estimate of our own inter-" to your wisdom and justice a state"est and honour, regarding your person "ment of a part of our manifold griev "as sacred, not from servility of mind," ances and sufferings: we have, in the "but because you are the fountain of “ sincerity of our hearts, expressed to "justice and of mercy, taught by the you our firm conviction, that all these "laws of our country that kings were "have arisen from our not being repre"made for the people and not the peo- "sented in parliament; and as the "ple for kings, regarding your kingly" means of restoring us to liberty and powers as given to you for the pur- happiness, as the means of uniting all pose of preserving the peace, the "hearts in preserving the peace of our rights, and the happiness of the peo-" country and upholding the dignity and "ple, and more especially for the de-"true splendour of your Majesty's "fence and protection of the weak" crown, we humbly but earnestly pray, "against the strong, of the poor against "that of those great powers with which "the unjust encroachments of the rich, your Majesty is invested for the good "of the fruits of industry against the" of your faithful people, you will be "wiles and the violence of aristocratical" graciously pleased to make such use "ambition, arrogance and rapacity; as shall produce a reform in the "animated by all these considerations, Commons' House, ensuring to all “and beholding in your Majesty's most adult males, not insane and not tar"gracious conduct and demeanour an"nished by indelible crime, a voice, "indubitable proof of your anxious de-" given by ballot, in the choosing of "sire to promote our good by a redress" representatives, and as shall shorten "of our grievances, we, with the con" the duration of Parliaments." "fidence with which suffering children Vastly inflammatory," to be sure§2 66 66 JobCall 8'1730128я WAKA T enough for them to do to answer TWO-PENNY TRASH, No7 Let them send me an answer to that, and that will be occupation for them for soffre time. And by way of amusement, let them read the petition now signing in the COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, which con cludes with praying, that the tithes and the prudent course is, to yield to their wish at once, and to come to a settlement justly and peaceably, 'As1I have said, over and over again, something must give way; something, some part or other of this present system, must yield to the mighty pressure. It is the circumstances, and not my writings alone, that are at work. But men situated as the parsons now are, will not see the true cause; and thus it is that danger becomes destruction.*** yet mobzrw Mind, one of these papers was put into the hand of every person who went to hear me; so that this orphan had this paper to read after I came away. This paper was the thing most likely to produce impression on his mind; and a strange mind indeed must that have been, if this urged him to commit a violent act of any description. Never may again be applied, as originally was any thing so foul as this charge. "intended to be; namely, to the relief All my efforts tended to put a stop to "of the poor and the repain of the violence; for, what was so likely to put churches, instead of the people being a stop to it, as for the farmers, in every heavily taxed for these purposes." Let parish, to call all the people together, to them read such things as this; and let explain to them the causes of their in- them answer these petitioners. How ability to pay sufficient wages, to sign a ever, det them do what they like, and petition along with them, and exhort say what they like, they never can them to wait patiently till there had been change men's minds upon this most im time to consider their petitions? And portant subject. On this point the whole this was the advice that I every-where nation, the parties interested in upholds gave. If this advice had been followed, ing tithes excepted, are of one mind there would have been an instant stop to all the violences, and the dreadful scenes which we now behold in the West would never have been beheld at all. Aye, aye; the calumniators know this as well as I do! But, I have written the HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION! I have taught the people WHAT TITHES WERE GRANTED FOR: and I have written the Poor MAN'S FRIEND, maintaining the RIGHTS OF THE POOR; and I have written the YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA, showing how well people are off in a country where there are no pensions, sinecures, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S standing armies, nor tithes; and I have written 12 SERMONS, two of which treat of cruelty to the poor, and of parsons and tithes; and I have written the EMIGRANT'S GUIDE, showing how soon a miserable English pauper becomes a man of property, when he has landed in a country where there are hardly any taxes and no tithes. These are my real sins; and thumping sins. they are. They are, however, past praying for. They are committed. They have produced, and are producing, their effect; and it is perfectly useless to abuse their author. If the parsons would set about answering the HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, they would act a more becoming part, than they are now acting towards met However, there is quite 403103 10 (80909,99ĺ13) 78qua 10. MESSAGE. ST 2009 [FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY ADVERTISER, DEC. 9.]* received the President's Message by express. A LITTLE after twelve o'clock last night, we The person engaged to bring it to this city would have reached here at a much earlier hour but for a disappointment in his arrangements in Philadelphia. He, however, by his perseverance, has enabled us to lay it before our readers at an early hour this morning. The National Intelligencer of Tuesday states, that a large proportion of the Members of ConGeneral Smith, of Maryland, took the chair gress were present on Monday. In the Senate, In the House of Representatives, Mr. Speaker Stevenson was absent; but we learn from The Baltimore Patriot of Tuesday evening, that the Speaker arrived at Washington on Tuesday morning. Both Houses met on Tuesday, when the following Message was deliveredel ་ L 75 W-15 OF MESSAGE! not do standing the stronglah ora de la 200 br 14 standing the strong assure and justly admire ances which the man FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND whom we so sincerely love Horse OF REPRESENTATIVES—The pleasure 1 have in congratulating you on your return to your constitutional duties is much heightened by the satisfaction which the condition of our Beloved country at this period justly inspires. The beneficent, Author of all good has granted sons, durjug the present year, health, peace, and plenty, and numerous causes for joy in the Wonderful success which attends the progress of our free institutions." has given to the world of the high character of the present King of the French, and which, if sustained to the end, will secure to him the proud appellation of the Patriot King, it is not in his success, but in that of the great ciple which has borne him to the throne t paramount authority of the public will-that the American people rejoice.10 s anglory I am happy to inform you, that the anticipa tions which were indulged at the date of my With a population unparalleled in its in- last communication on the subject of our crease, and possessing a character which com-reign affairs, have been fully realised in seve fines the hardihood of enterprize, with the ral important particulars.11n, 10 of quis & considerateness of wisdom, we see in every All arrangement has been effected with section of our happy country a steady improve- Great Britain, in relation to the trade between ment in the means of social intercourse, and the United States and her West India and correspondent effects upon the genius and laws North American Colonies, which has set of our extended Republic, ji jedw tled a question that has for years afforded mat The apparent exceptions to the harmony of ter for contention and almost uninterupted the prospect are to be referred rather to inevit-discussion, and has been the subject of no less able diversities in the various interests which than six negociations, in a manner which enter into the composition of so extensive a promises results highly favourable to the whole, than to any want of attachment to the parties. * 11 9450 Union-interests, whose collision serves only, in the end, to foster the spirit of conciliation and patriotism, so essential to the preservation of that union, which, I most devoutly hope, is destined to prove, imperishable. In the midst of these blessings, we have recently witnessed changes in the condition of other uations, which may in their conseshences call for the utmost vigilance, wisdom, and unanimity in our Councils, and the exercise of all the moderation and patriotism of our people. The important modifications of their Goverument, effected with so much courage and wisdom by the people of France, afford a happy presage of their future course, and have naturally elicited from the kindred feelings of this nation The abstract right of Great Britain to mos nopolise the trade with her Colouies, or to ex clude us from a participation, therein, has never been denied by the United States. But we have contended, and with reason, that if at any time Great Britain may desire the produćs tions of this country, as necessary to her Colo nies, they must be received upon principles of just reciprocity; and further, that it is making an invidious and unfriendly distinction to open her colonial ports to the vessels of other nations and close them against those of the United States. Antecedently to 1794, a portion of our productions was admitted into the Colonial islands of Great Britain by particular concessions, limited to the term of one year, but renewed of applause in wous and universal burst from year to year. In the transportation of you e participated. In congratulating you, my fellow-citizens, upon an event so auspicious to the dearest interests of mankind, I do no more thau respond to the voice of my country, without transgressing, in the slightest degree, that salutary maxim of the illustrious Washington, which enjoins an abstinence from all interference with the internal affairs of other nations. From a people exercising, in the most unlimited degree, the right of self, government, and enjoying, as derived from this proud characteristic, under the favour of Heaven, much of the happiness with which they are blessed; a people who can point in triumph to their free institutions, and challenge comparison with the fruits they bear, as well as with the moderation, intelligence, and energy, with which they are administered; from such a people, the deepest sympathy was to be expected in a struggle for the sacred principles of liberty, conducted in a spirit every way worthy of the cause, and crowned by an heroic moderation which has disarmed revolution of its terrors. Notwith these productions, however, our vessels were not allowed to engage; This being a privilege reserved to British shipping, by which alone our produce could be taken to the islands, and theirs brought to us in return. From Newfoundland and her continental possessions, all her productions, as well as our vessels, were excluded, with occasional relaxations, by which, in seasons of distress, the former were admitted in British bottoms. By the Treaty of 1794, she offered to concede to us, for a limited time, the right of carrying to her West India possessious, în our vessels not exceeding seventy tons bur den, and upon the same terms with British, vessels, any productions of the United States which British vessels might import therefrom. But this privilege was coupled with conditions which are supposed to have led to its rejection by the Senate; that is, that Ameri can vessels should land their turn cargoes in the United States only; moreover, that they should, during the continuance of the privilege, be precluded from carrying molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa, or cotton, |