the use of those means, even before a When the evil comes, let them not cry new Parliament can meet, there is no out, "miscreant instigator;" let them such thing as peace and safety for the not cry out about sowers of sedition next winter. As I said before, I take it going in post-chaises: they have the for granted that the transporting Game- cause of the danger pointed out; they law will be repealed directly. That re- have the easy remedy completely in their peal, with the repeal of Sturges Bourne's hands; no proposition is made to them Bills, would insure tranquillity; would to do wrong to any human being: they give the new Parliament a peaceable are merely called upon to go back to the country to begin its labours in. The long-established law of the land, and, repeal of those bills would be something if they do not do that, let the responsithat every creature would feel an inte- bility light upon their own heads. rest in it would be such a change; it WM. COBBETT. would so please the labouring people; it would be such a proof to them that they are going to be better treated in future! It is impossible to describe ARISTOCRATICAL TRICKERY. the good that that repeal would do, especially at this time. All reflecting I SHALL first insert the following letand reading men feel grateful to the ter from a friend in Warwickshire, on King and his Ministers for the measure the subject of the innumerable attempts of Reform; but there wants somemade by the aristocracy to let in Memthing to speak home to the labourbers to oppose the Reform Bill, in cases ing people; there wants something dent to be for it. When I have inserted where they themselves thought it prato make them say that there is a change for the better for them; and the letter, I have some observations to this something they would find in a add, 'particularly as relates to the conrepeal of these bills, which bills, if the duct of Daddy Burdett in Leicestershire, preamble to them had stated that it was where they have treated "Westminster's expedient to degrade men because they Pride," as they ironically call him, in a were poor; that it was expedient to make style very cavalier, but with a great the poor hate the rich throughout the deal more respect, or, rather, less conwhole of England and Wales; that it was expedient to cause discontent, revenge, commotion, and, finally, rebellion; which bills, if such had been their preamble, could not have been other than that which they are. Once more, then, I beseech thre Ministers and the Parliament to repeal these bills; or I beseech them to recollect that I foretell that the consequences will be far more calamitous than any of those that they This midland county does, you know, under have already witnessed. I know that the present system, send six members to Parit is pleasant to them to have prophets Borough of Warwick, and two from the liament; two from Coventry, two from the prophesy smooth things, that County; and it has generally been found, that prophesy lies." They have prophets each of these elective bodies have sent two enough of that description always in men of opposite sentiments, who have agreed their service. In me they have always like what the Duke of Wellington called to differ; and the elections have been much had a prophet of a different description, county meetings, little better than farces; and I dare say their feelings towards me and so they might have continued if the peoare accordingly. I warn them once ple had not been encouraged to take the busimore, however; and if they do not at-ness out of the hands of their political leaders, tend to the warning now, they shall not wanted no the sham reformers. At Coventry, Mr. ELLICE opposition; his electioneering fail to be reminded of it hereafter. friends would have accommodated matters; that "B tempt, than he most richly deserved. He is, it seems, one of the famous Society for making Members of Parliament; but of that I will speak, by-andby, when I have inserted my correspon dent's letter. Leamington, June 6, 1831. in the last Register, has occasioned me to SIR,-Your letter to the People of Salisbury, make some comparisons. but a small band of Radicals were determined, of the Reform Committee subscription if possible, to return two who would pledge in London; thrusted into that post by themselves to support the Reform Bill, and they succeeded. his own arrogance, and by that baseness Another Whig member (for the county), in a great part of the middle class of Mr. LAWLEY, who boasted of this consistent the London public which leads them advocacy of reform, appears to have been very to bow down before great wealth, willing that his votes should be neutralized by his colleague, Mr. Dugdale, whom he took though accompanied with no one every opportunity of shielding from censure, quality deserving respect. But he, to alleging that he had for a long period of time his great mortification, found the peo"served the county," and been very attentive ple of Leicestershire not so base. He to its local interests; but, thanks to the interference of the Birmingham Political Union, appeared on the hustings to put forward and two or three active and honest reformers, his man; and, though he did not acMr. Lawley has been affianced to one who tually get pelted, as he and his t'other will vote for economy and real Reform. man did at Covent Garden, in August F.In like manner, the Earl of WARWICK has been permitted to nominate his brother as one' last; though he was not actually of the representatives of the Borough; the pelted, he was little short of it; for he electors have thought only of serving a party, was not suffered to speak, and was fairly and had no idea of supporting a cause till hooted away. Since the election, the now. And now, although one or two aldermen following remarks on his conduct have ludicrously voted for reformers at Coventry, and an anti-reformer at Warwick, the domi- been published in the Leicester Chroneering sway of Warwick Castle has been put nicle of the 28th of May, which redown by the spirited exertions of the people. marks show that the people in the A similar course, you will find, has been country are no longer to be duped by pursued all over the kingdom. I do not say that these elective bodies have been the sub- this roaring patriot.westadt jects of actual bargain between two great families, as appears to have been the case at Another set of critics have lately taken to WINCHESTER, they have rather, I opine, overhauling Mr. Pager's wardrobe, and the been managed by such parties as the "Venison-hole which they profess to bave found, is 2 trust, fisbury," whose occupation is, I one in his manners; He is said to have eaters of ever gone. ཆེ། :|:ཀ ས མ བྷི 1 :|: ཀ I am, shamefully flouted the Pride of Westminster'; and Whigs, Tories) and Toad-cating Radicals, headed by the two diplomatic Colonels, who figure with such distinction in a certain delicate correspondence with our worthy corpora tion which, faith, they've prented,are all joining in one common chorus of shameful? shamefullan Jayong ada tu ve The was V Yes, these are the tricks that have been played, or attempted, all over the country, but, no-where more bare Now, however shameful Mr. Paget's confacedly than in LEICESTERSHIRE, where duct may have been represented to be by the confederate fraternity aforesaid, we will take "WESTMINSTER'S PRIDE and ENG upon us to say, that anything more perfectly "LAND'S GLORY," who stuck his knees shame-less than the pretext assigned for Sir in Canning's back, while the latter was Francis Burdett's, was never attempted to be asserting that he would oppose Reform, por Baronet asserts they of teenly object w hon. asserts that his and even a repeal of the Test Acts, to to prevent any unseemly contest amongst the the last hour of his life, and who, it is said, is now to be made a peer; in LEICESTERSHIRE, where this fellow made an attempt, the most impudent that ever was made in the world, to set Caside Mr. PAGET, even after he had "canvassed the county, and had fount the people all for him. His object was bro stuff in Onway UAVE, a Reformer, perhaps; but, we came recommended bono sbe veby tricky, that the people reformers, and to preserve the peace of the county from a contest merely of a personal nature." Now what are the facts: facts these. 1. Mr Paget was the first man in the field. notorious, undenied, undeniable They are His Committee pledged themselves to the public that he should be put in nomination immediately on the dissolution of Parliament, and before eitherdof the old members had notified their latentibus to retire14 20 So little disposition was here to disture the peace of the bounty unnecessarily, then after Mr. Keck had withdrawn, Weekndiddle &ppeared willing CDWould have beenimad not to prefer to engage in a contesti voer wün’an3⁄4anti PampirinGloryy observe, was Chairman 618 (7 29 seemed as if the county must have been con- Mr. Paget in disgrace and dismay from the difficult to thrust in Mr. Cave. in we all, as he says, "to preserve the tranquillity of new coat of arms, Ah! little did the the county, and to prevent an unseemly con- aristocratic "reformers" imagine what test between reformers !!! Really, this is the people were capable of! DADDY BURtoo gross to be endured. The mendacious DETT, in one of his at once pompous trash which Sir Francis's partisans have and mean addresses to the people of been labouring to circulate through the country, may pass current where these things are Westminster, said, that what he wanted was "to find a public?! What the not known, but to expect that it should succeed in Leicestershire, is a piece of pre- pompous bawler meaned no one could sumption surpassing belief. Our firm conviction is, that nothing but the well-merited well tell; but, at any rate, he has "found castigation which the Baronet received, and a public" now! And one, too, that is which opened his eyes to his true position in not to be duped by himaye, and the the county, prevented him from persisting nominating his protegé: to assist whom in Broughams, in spite of all their puffing, What! thrusting out Mr. Paget was his sole object, will find a public too; and so will the in thus unexpectedly making his first appear- Lambs; and so will all, ance' among the freeholders of a county, on do the Broughams think, now, that whose politics or whose interests he has never before bestowed the slightest attention. they are going to cram up the ParWhat the result would have been, had the liament as the LowTHERS used to do? experiment been persevered in, no one can Do they think to accomplish this by doubt: for, difficult as it would have been for mere puffing? Puffing may do for once; the hon. Baronet to thrust out Mr. Paget, he and the people like to see the old Aris would assuredly have found it even still more tocrats put down by the "jaw" of the upstarts; but, that is not ALL that we want: no, nor hardly a part of it: want deeds: we want a change in things, and not in names: we want tithes, assessed taxes, and excise duties taken off: we want fair play: we want not to pay legacy duty and probate duty on our goods and money, while the land pays neither. If the Broughams will do these things for us, they need not puff; and if they will not, we shall drive them ont, though they puff till people mistake them for pots of quack-medicine, to which, indeed, they already bear no faint resemblance. We are not to be cajoled by a talk about "law-reforms": we want the expenses of them taken off; and we know that these consist of the stamps, of which the "law-reformers" say not a word! We know, that of every ten pounds of law charges, nine pounds are for stamps. Will the Broughams abolish these? If they will they need not puff; and if they will not, they may puff to the end of their days; but they will get bundled out in the meanwhile. Here lies the secret of all that rigmarole so assiduously put forth, as to the claims of the latter gentleman on Mr. Paget, and the decounty. Mr. Paget was certainly sirous that the attempt to liberate the county should have been originally made in any name rather than his own-even in that of Mr. Cave. But the project was obliged to be abandoned from its hopelessness and though a perhaps misplaced consideration for that gentleman's feelings prevented the real state of the case from being made known to him, the truth bevertheless was, that neither a committee nor a subscription could be raised for him. It is barely possible that Sir Francis may be ignorant of those parts of his friend's political history which have raised insurmountable obstacles to his further progress in this part of the world. If so, we would advise him to study them before he ventures on a second mission in his favour:-if indeed he has any relish for such a project, after the lamentable exhibition of spleen and folly which he witnessed at the hustings. To find fault with the public is at all times but a silly business: but in the present case the execrations which the little ex-member vented against the people for their want of sympathy with his abuse of Mr. Paget, will, we doubt not, meet with some excuse, when it is recollected how bitter must have been his disappointment at the failure of what had been pompously announced This species of mongrel aristocracy, Charles Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. Daniel Wakefield, Juu, Esq. the power of choosing members, toniri wazz) dgoutt choose none but such as belong to this These are the band of directors of the choice regiment of mongrel aristocrats whole concern of making Parliament and tax-hunters. They have, taking men. The first question: would be, their spring from the old root, the who are they that they should take WESTMINSTER RUMP, formed what they upon them to point out to the people call a Parliamentary Candidate So- of this kingdom the six hundred ciety," instituted to support Reform by and fifty-eight men who are fit promoting the return of fit and proper to represent them in Parliament? I members to Parliament. So impudent know none of them, even by name, exa thing as this was, I am sure, never cept JEREMY BENTHAM, FRANCIS Buabefore heard of in the world; but I DETT, Joseph Hume, Colonel L. GROVE must first insert the names of the manag- JONES, JOHN MARSHALL, DANIEL ing Committee of this Society. It is so O'CONNELL, and ALDERMAN SCALES. audacious a thing, that I, for my part, Most likely the THOMAS HOBHOUSE is though frequently solicited to do it, a brother of Cams but the above seven have never thought it worth notice are all whose names I ever heard of beuntil now, when I perceive that the fore, as far as I know. Now, then, impudent members of it mean actually what do I know of them? Of JEREMY to draw together sums of money for the BENTHAM, I know that he (pocketed a purpose of being employed in circulat large sum of the public money for being ing what they call information with the projector only of that monstrous curse respect to proper persons to be chosen to the nation, the Millbank Penitentiary. to serve in Parliament; and that they When Jerry has paid back that money, mean now to continue combined to for which he never rendered any more gether for this professed purpose, their service to the country than the Duchess last address, signed by the man who of Fitzjames (who had a pension given calls himself Robert Gouger, Secretary, her by the Whigs in 1806), or than the being dated on the 1st of June. The Countess of Mornington, the Duchess Committee of managers are as follows: Dowager of Newcastle, Lady Louisa Paget, or Lady Juliana Hobhouse, ever rendered when Jery has paid back this money, I should be willing to listen to the grounds upon whieh Jerry founds his claim to instruct the people of Enggland on the subject of their duty in selecting Members to represent them in Parliament. Next comes DADDY BURDETT, who founds his claim, I suppose, in the first place, upon his treatment of Mr. JENNYNS, who stood upon the hust tings of Covent-Garden, and caused him to be elected, when he had not the pluck to go there himself; in the next place, for having been for twenty years a bawler for Parliamentary Reform; on his having, by a circular letter, called upon the reformers all over the kingdom to rouse themselves and petition for reformy and then basely abandoning them, COMMITTEE. Jeremy Bentham, Esq.- ! 3 E. Lytton Bulwer, Esq. JoJohn Marshall, Esq., of Leeds. 91 Colonel L. G. Jones. to Dr Mackinnon. Y yo Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P. Erskine Perry, Esq. de woJohn A. Roebuck, Esqa OurMr.Alderman Scales, 1ools แ leaving the dungeoning and gagging he comes seriously to consider of the bills to pass, while he sat as silent matter, see the impropriety, not to say as a mouse in a cheese; on having, the folly, the arrogance, and the prein 1827, stuck his knees in CANNING'S Sumption of erecting a dictatorship like back, and declared that he would sup-this. port him, though CANNING had just One name escaped me: it is at the before declared his determination to bottom of the list. FRANCIS PLACE, oppose Parliamentary Reform to the SEN., Esq., TREASURER! Ah, here is last hour of his life; and, as a proof of the old President of the Westminster the great confidence that those who Rump! Here is Burdett's old tool! know him best have in him, I suppose Never did monkey use paw of cat with he has, at hand, the certificate to prove more absolute authority than Burdett that the people of Westminster pelted has used this tailor of Charing Cross, him off the hustings of Covent-Garden, who would make a suit of clothes for no longer ago than last August, with the devil, not leaving unfitted either his cabbages and turnips; and, lest the horns or his tail; but, however great as public should suppose that he has un- a tailor, not half so great is he in that dergone a regeneration of late, I dare capacity as he is in conducting the afsay he is ready to produce proof that fairs of the nation, particularly as far as he had the audacity to go with an in relates to rating the numbers of its inhas tention of tricking the people of Leices- bitants. PLACE'S name should have tershire out of their Reform candidates, been across the head of the list, and not by thrusting forward CAVE, who could across the tail of it; for he is, not the not possibly have effected any object inventor; Burdett is the inventor; but but that of disgusting the people of PLACE is the acting manager of the the county, and letting in KECK and whole concern. "The office has been MANNERS to vote against the bill for opened at the Crown and Anchor, in Reform. "the Strand, London; where all comWith regard to Messrs. HUME, JONES, "munications are to be addressed, and MARSHALL, O'CONNELL, and SCALES, 1" where contributions will be received :"> would bet ten to one that their names the old thing! "Purity of election," have been put into this list without again! But FRANCIS PLACE, instead of their clearly understanding what the being the ostensible head of a Rump for object of the busy parties was. Mr. making Westminster a rotten borough, HOME is a person of great experience, is now the head of a Society for making great knowledge as to such matters; a rotten borough of the whole kingdom. and his conduct, especially since the I should like very much to know how turning out of WELLINGTON, and the Messrs. HUME, JONES, O'CONNELL, and forming of a new Ministry, in which, SCALES will feel; just how they will in spite of all the circumstances sur- feel, when they see their names thus rounding the matter, he has been al- posted about the country as tools in the lowed to have no part; his conduct, in hands of BURDETT'S tool, FRANCIS magnanimously supporting men by PLACE, Sen., Esquire and Tailor, of many of whom he has, at times, been Charing Cross! I shall not, I dare say, most foully treated, really does point have an opportunity of having any overt him out as a man who might, without evidence of their feeling in this respect; any presumption, offer his advice to any but I want no such evidence to convince body of electors, as to the choosing of me that not a man of them was ever a Member The other gentlemen that before placed in a situation of which he I have namedy Mr.JONES, Mr. MAR was so much ashamed as he will be of SHALL, Me: O'CONNELL and Mr. SCALES, this. Let these gentleiném only reflect may be as goodo in principle as Mr on the handle which they are hereby HUME; they are all, I am satisfied, furnishing to the enemies of reform. most sincere reformers; but even Mr. Either the people are fit they know HUME himself will, I>am certain, when how, to select Members of Parliament |