Glasgow papers, and the London papers tent with the e enjoyment of their own too, vilify the Scotch as long as they property, and to let the industrious Please, shall not join in one word of classes enjoy theirs; then they might abuse uttered against them. I not still live in Scotland as quietly as in the feel pleasure that they were provoked to Eutopia, and live in it quietly they aet in this violent manner; but I feel ought not, as long as they take from great pleasure in perceiving that the the people that which they earn by the people in that part of the kingdom par- sweat of their brow, and spend it int ticipate in all the feelings which animate luxury.ied To 9564 bbig sisense the people of the South I HOB Bhave not The LORD JUSTICE CLERK, who is forgot the punishing, and even the Sir SAMUEL SHEPHERD, I believe, and hanging of the Scotch reformers who is, I fancy, the Lord Chief Justice: 1820. Inever felt much more indigna- of Scotland, seems to have been in an tion in my life, much more rage, than I awkward predicament here. It is very did at the treatment of the Scotch in strange, but not more strange than year. It is only eleven years ago. true, that it is impossible that he could Men do not so soon forget; and, there have known any-thing of the public fore, again I say, before we mind. Of what evils has not this Scotch people rabble, ruffians, vaga- species of ignorance been the cause? bonds, and bloody men, we must take Men in power in this country never the provocation and the circumstances seem to know till it be too late what voimen the enemies of There must be the people think or what they say If those who are something to darken Reform were accessible to any-thing the mind in the very air which they like reason, one might ask them what breathe, that which is known to every soft of Government that must be which body else appears not to be known to made a representative of the people of them. This, however has arisen, as a man Whom the people so cordially well as all the other evils, from thes detested be said that it is this accursed rotten boroughs from, the reform scheme that caused this want men really to represent the LORD GRAHAM to be so hated by the people a reformed Parliament wills People the answer is that he was put this to rights will bring

into view.

sm.vbred bds with heath or furze at the bottom, may be totally destroyed in the course of a very few hours, in spite of all the efforts to be made by the people of fifty parishes, if they could be assembled together for the purpose. Look, then, at the large portion of the fand covered with woods in the wealds of Kent and Surrey and Sussex; look at those parts which are called the forests of Sussex; look at the immense woods in the south of Hampshire, and the still more inflammable ones of the north; look at Horrol or Werwell wood to the south-east of Andover; look at the woods between whod od lewone Andover and Newbury, here and there a patch of land of a thousand acres covered with wood, and with underwood as thick as it can stand upon the ground; look at the immense patches of coppice-wood in Wiltshire; and, indeed, look all over the country, particu larly the south and the west. There needs no preparation: there are the leaves, there is the dead grass, there is the dead wood: in short, there wants nothing but the horrible will; and, to hearts of the people, ought to be the prevent that will from existing in the endeavour, the care, and the very first

To talk of punishment is doing a great deal worse than nothing. The property is at the sole pleasure of the country people. Detection, without confession, is, in this case, next to an absolute impossibility. It is the fact, and it always was the fact, that such property cannot be secure for a moment except from the moral sense of the mass of the working people, who are every-where where such Of all the firings we have yet heard property is, who live amongst it and of, there are none so terrific as this firing upon it, as the hares and pheasants and of woods, where the destruction is so partridges do, and who refrain from rapid, so great, effected with so much destroying it only because they think it security, and where there can be no in- wrong to destroy it, and because they demnification to the sufferer from have no motive to urge them to deeds insurances against fire. In dry weather, which are in themselves so wicked and in a high wind, whether summer or Prevention by force or terror is, there winter, and particularly in the months fore, here wholly out of the question of August, September, and October, The thing to do is, to take the motive any wood well set with underwood of out of the mind. The man or boy or any description, and that underwoood woman who set fire to this wood of Mr. being from six to twenty feet high any GIPPS, have been actuated byd hedge-row or shaw any plantation, private and unjustifiable revenge; but

the party may have been actuated by operating, as they do in conjunction feeling arising from sufferings from with ELLENBOROUGH'S Act, and which want, in which case the feeling must have filled the country, from one end of be general. Now, it is of the u utmost it to the other, with poor people hating importance to ascertain, as f far as pos- the proprietors of the land, there being sible, whether the people in the neigh- scarcely a hamlet in the whole of Eng bourhood or parish of this wood are gland and Wales where there is not some greatly suffering from want; whether parent to deplore a lost son, some widow there be any general complaint made to deplore a lost husband, some child to by them against the parochial authori- deplore a lost father. How many scores ties, and whether such complaint be have been transported by the magistrates groundless or not, and particularly from their Quarter-Sessions for poachwhether there be assistant or hired ing! These laws have implanted more overseers in that or the neighbouring revenge in the breasts of the working parishes. In evidence lately given by people than any-thing that ever was that considerate and excellent man, known to them, if we except the two Lord STANHOPE, before the House of bills of STURGES BOURNE, which gave Lords, his Lordship relates that, in a rise to the practice of having hired overs parish where he has some property, and seers, and to all the cruelty, all the where he was endeavouring to better starvation, all the degradation attendant the lot of the working people, he found thereon. One would think, that after (complaint was made to him, I dare say) what we have seen during the last eight that the hired overseer (authorized by months, no Minister could be so blind STURGES BOURNE'S Bills) was making as not to see that England, like Ireland, the poor people draw a cart like cattle must be actually torn to pieces in the that he sent for him and remonstrated end unless these bills be repealed. with him on the subject; that the hire-In short, I am now, as I was several ling said that he had done the same for months ago, of the same opinion that Lo several years; and Lord STANHOPE expressed to the Ministers, in my letter relates that he advised the practice to to them, which is contained in Twobe put an end to; that the man said penny-Trash, No. 8, published on the that he was authorised to do it by the first of February last, and I still cons

not to do is Lordship advised him tinue to think that there are no means

but those there pointed out, for putting
an end to these dreadful and disgraceful
fires. Ministers of State do not, Idarea
say, read Asor's Fables, which, having
been engaged in preparing a Spelling
Book, as an introduction to my Gram-
mar, I recently have a thingy I willer
observe, that I have long been requested's
to do by several respectable schoul-
masters. Amongst others, my atten-lo
tion was attracted in particular by the o
Fable of the Fox and the EAGLE, and
more especially by the Mona applied
to it by Mrs. TRIMMER. I will insertsh
both here, and beg leave to assure the
Ministers that they will find them wors
thy of their particular attention.
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There are two great causes of heartburning with those who till the land and who make to come all that we eat, drink and Wear, all that conveys us about by day, and that lodges us by night. One is the terrible new laws relating to the How boow vis game, which have banished A cruel eagle once stole the cubsta so many men from their country, which of a Fox, and carried them to her d have brought not a few to the gallows," nest for her young ones. The poor!

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country. Tell me not of a Parli
mentary Reform or of any-thing else
that would not produce these measures
the farmer wants peace and safety i
house and his homestead: he was
security to his flocks and his herds:
wants to
in fear of the

"mother, running after her, begged and "prayed of her to have pity upon her, but the eagle thinking herself secure ff from danger was above listening to her cries The Fox, however, snatch ver, sn "ang d burning torch from an hearth, 16 surrounded the tree with Hames in an instant. At last, therefore, the haugh with whom he is compelled to tre ty bird, not only restored her cubs to it is time, therefore, to cease to imitil the Fox but was glad to add prayers the haughty eagle, and to prevent the and entreaties to prevent the destruc- acts of destruction by giving a r tion of her own offspring.4-91 (turn to the people's minds, and a new *feeling to their hearts.

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I have heard from Norfolk that,

"The rich, though ever so highly one place, at any rate, some wheat ha “exalted, should beware how they pro been actually dug up, after the Iris “voke the poor by injuries; because fashion; and a gentlemen from Norfol "the way to revenge lies always open, has told me that there is a general and they are but too ready to take dread amongst the farmers of a firing Ait." of the standing corn. When I wrote Well is it for Mrs. TRIMMER that TRE the letter to the Ministers, of which von did not set his eye upon "The Lad- have just spoken, a gentleman from der to Learning;" or Mrs. TRIMMER, Surrey told me that the labourers i or the publishers, Messrs. HARRIS and his neighbourhood were openly threat SON, of St. Paul's Church-Yard, might ening that they would burn the cart have heard of a motion from the honour- fields if their wages were brough able TREVOR: for here is the haughty down again. I saw the danger and rapacious and cruel Eagle made to once, and that urged me to address the personate the rich; the poor fox to personate the poor, and here is a justification of setting fire in order to obtain justice.

Ministers upon the subject. I told the gentleman from Norfolk (it was only last week) that it was his duty to go to Lord GREY in person, and relate to him what he had related to me. He, like most other Englishmen, was too sheep ish to think of such a thing, or, GREY would have learned more from

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But now again I beg the Ministers to look at the means of prevention which I before, suggested to them. There were five in number, all within their power; namely, first, to recall him as to the real state of the country from transportation all the men sent than he will ever learn during his whole away on account of the agricultural life-time through the means of persons riots, and to pardon all the rest; second, who are paid by the Government. It is to repeal STURGES BOURNE's bills; the Ministers that are in want of “ third, to make it a misdemeanour, ful knowledge ;" and if Lord GREY and punishable with fine and imprisonment, Lord BROUGHAM could get up to Lon for any overseer, or other person, to don a hedger and ditcher, or a coppicesubject the indigent poor to work like cutter, or a shepherd or ploughman, beasts; fourth, to repeal all the acts from twenty or thirty of the counties, relative to the game, past since GEORGE they might, working together, so the THIRD mounted the throne; fifth, make a book of knowledge worth a to repeal and utterly abolish ELLEN- much in one single line as all the rub bish that has been got together under that title.

BOROUGH'S act.

These measures I deem absolutely necessary to the restoration of peace and harmony in England: they could do wrong to nobody; and they would be an unmixed blessing to the whole

There never can be peace and harmony without a repeal of Sturges Bourne's bills, and the consequent_putting stop to hired overseers. The gaine

sil18 Istodon smile Dynos bus begged to goianiom laws are of great importance and as a with MAJOR CARTWRIGHT, for many, great measure of reconciliation, the many years. He is a man of excellent bringing back of the rioters from Botany talent; and, every one that knows him Bay but as to Sturges Bourne's must wish to see him in Parliament, and bills, they are an ever-living source of where I hope he will be when the Par heart-burning Only think of taking liament is reformed, As to the cause of young girls, holding them by force, and this failure in Somersetshire, he doubtcutting the long hair from their heads, less would have failed if there were, as because they are compelled to apply for I believe there was, a sort of coalition that parochial relief which is their between the Whigs and Tories of the right by nature and by law! Only county to effect that purpose; but there think of thus disfiguring them, or com- was, in the present instance, another pelling, them to starve, or turn out for cause which I am s sure Mr. NORTHprostitutes. Fire, indeed! One is MORE must have perceived long before tempted to call out for hell-fire upon this time; and, indeed, he learned it at beings in the shape of men capable of the day of election. From his speech, such acts! Could any-body but an which was excellent, I gather that he is hireling, whose pay is proportioned to afraid that the Bill will get for us nothing the magnitude of his pinchings, have but a mere Whig Ministry in exchange been the instrument in an act like this! for a Tory one. He has not had time The heavier part of the crime lies, in- to reflect, or he would perceive that deed, upon the hirers; but, lie where it Whig, Tory, Radical; that all these will, who is to wonder that revenge fills terms will soon and for ever be swept the bosoms of the people is away; that the people will have their

I beseech the Ministers once more due share of the Government in their to think of those things in time. The hands; and that the question will not process by which Parliamentary Reform be what set of Politicians a man belongs will correct these evils is much too slow to, but whether he be for the abolition where the sufferings are so great, and of tithes and pensions and sinecures, where the passion of revenge is so ar- and reduction of interest of debt. In dent. There is no reason why Sturges short, whether he be for Norfolk PetiBourne's bills should not be repealed tion and cheap Government.