for themselves, or they do now If they plicants, and we abali-bevė) Charing J doy then any soviety, any, sembination, Gross crowded。avithʊnoon, dininformed like this must be wholly unnecessary, people scopinge upi fram the country, to say the least of it If the people be who are amadoss for aantrieri Iwill not fit to choose their own Members of not trust Paper and Gover] for the Parliament if they do not know how keeping, of the list impartiallyjs being to do it, then there ought to be noire very much disposed to believe that the form at all, for they ought not to have higher the fee, then higher the station the power of doing that which they know upon the listeitsmotai” yos to 10 enoit not how to do. If a society like this be salt is impossible to go on long treating necessary to give the people information such a matter seriously & In any country respecting the persons who may offer upon earth, the announcement af shoh themselves as candidates; if the people a society for such an object, would be so totally destitute of information as have been a daring insult to the people to want a society like this to assist them, of that nation. What isoil, then, to the why take away the nomineeship of the people of this kingdomɓað this time! Peers why take away their influence in when they have just shown; when they the counties? There were, at any rate, have just exhibited to the whole world, about three hundred of Peers and great proofs of disinterestedness so greatnof Commoners, who pointed out a majority courage so undaunted, of judgment so to the people whom they should choose; sound, of perseverance so inflexiblegia and surely those three hundred Peers short, of every public virtue known to and great Commoners were as fit ad- our language or to the hearts of mang visers for the people of the kingdom as when their conduct has proclaimed to a self-erected committee of twenty-two, the world, when they have made, not in with BURDETT and BENTHAM for two of words, but vin, deeds, the proclamation them, and FRANCIS PLACE, Esquire and to the oppresseds of othe whole earth, Tailor, at the head of the whole. It is, that England, Scotland and Irelant in fact, an office, to be kept at the Crown know their rights and are resolved to and Anchor, in the Strand, London, and assert and maintain them. Under any generally at PLACE's shop, for making circumstances, the thing would baye Members of Parliament for the whole been arrogant and audacious, but, under kingdom!" Information," indeed! the present circumstances, Bee, an They are to give the people of Man- arrogant band erect itself, or, rather, to chester, I suppose, information respecting see a limping tailor making tools of a Mr. POTTER or Mr. BIRLEY, The people set of men, he lamself the tool of of Birmingham are to write to PLACE to another to see him put himself forknow whether they have any "informa- ward, as the instructor, the guide, the tion" to give them about Mr. ATTWOOD, director, of the people of England in the or Mr. SCOLEFIELD, or Mr. PARKES, or performance of their public, duties, is Mr. JONES, and PLACE is to order something that deprives one of patience. GOUGER (his journeyman) to write to and sends forth the hand, involuntarily them upon the subject, in due form, to catch up his yard wherewith, to give after having consulted BENTHAM and him the only suitable answerownoqu BURDETT. It is the most impudent I would ask Mr. I would ask Mr. HUNE and COLONEL thing that ever was brought forth to JONES and Mr. O'CONNELL and Mrinsult any people upon earth. It is to SCALES; for, as to the others, Ineither be a sort of office for servants, only know them not or despise them for the vo these are to serve in Parliament, in reasons, which I have stated. I would ask stead of serving in the kitchen, parlour these, gentlemen, whether they think and stable, the characters are to be kept that any interference of, this sartoon and recorded by GOUGER, and the fees their art, or on the part of anybody. for entering, kept, of course, by PLACE, can be necessary to those wishin the reasurer. An alphabetical list dled9Ww „K¥47&9NING will be Lhakent for the inspection of ap. Hatucofe, Banksaw BRYAN 15 3 9 03 SOND CUTTEREDE, Bydow, Parrisha who is Badkrema Piwqəpi3anů Gooong Woownqust, SoboN, CHIP oikogautre vise hab ZING ACLAND, Und, in shortythe whole berdasher, or We oilman? and whit tribel I ask these gentlemen, for all of 30 the devillig DantesesWKFIELD, whom I have great respect, whether and Doctor MACKINNON, and Major they think that the people who did "BEAUOLER,"ana Colohel PERWONET this without the interference of any Thompson They like me,will bodylacan stand in need of any instrucl know nothing of these and several tions or of any "information of which others phor will they want to know Prior can be the collector and GoUGER any-thing of Bentham; but they will the vehicle hl Butchave a still more know DADDY BENDETT, they will serious question to ask them, which is know that pretty gentlenian that had this, whether they think it proper, the impudence to go down to the whether they think it decent, whether county for the purpose of sthrusting they think it not insulting to such a peo-out Mr. PAGST, their neighbour and pleysthus a body of men, not tools in the friend, and for thrusting in one of his handles of Burdett's tools but that any own crew, though at the hianifest fisk body of mewin the kingdom should pre-of bringing in one, if hot two enemies bums to suggest to them, even in the of Reform. Yes, they will see DADDT most modest mannery that which they BURDETT's name upon the list guthey ought to do,oor should affect to give will see it put five or sixdown by ther information of any sort relative to PLACE, Esquire, in order to stive ape public matters and thereby give them to pearances; but they will clearly see understand that such body looks upon through the whole trick, and they will them as uninformed, I wish these gen- exclaim, with every man of sense in slemens coolly to consider what answer the county that shall see this list, they are to give to these questions and What are we getting rid of three if they do so consider, I am sure that "hundred Boroughmongers, who, at their names will not long make part of “any rate, were sometimes induced to the twenty-two composing the Commit-do right, because they could not baltee of FRANCIS PLACE, Esquire and Taiways agree to do wrong, are we to tor, though he was foreman of the Coro rejoice like mad at the prospect of her's Jury who sat on the body of Sub-getting rid of these three hundred 118196361 (10,11923 19919 baad Jargon Boroughmongers, in order to make 5 But, if it were not so outrageously the whole kingdom one single bo Indecent towards the rest of the king-rough in the absolute nomination of dom still there ought to have been an" BURDETT, who clapped his knees in exception with regard to Leicestershire, CANNING's back; are we to exchange Into which county Burdett went as a "the three hundred for this one, aided member of this very Committee, as a" and assisted in his nominations by deputed Member-of-Parliament maker. a Squire Tailor of Charing-cross, And what did he do there There he and his journeyman!" This is what made a proposition which, if acted the people of Leicestershire will say, al upon, would, as the Leicester Chronicle and this is what will be repeated by says, have let in one anti-reformer, if every sensible man in the kingdom. not two; and where he got hissed, hooted, scoffed, almost spitten upon, and actually chased from the hustings without being heard in his defence. This is a specimen of what the people Would have to expect from the work ings of this Confmittee. The people of Beicestershire, when they see this list of Parliament men makers, will exclum with me,^*And who is Jous Horrock? the Besides all these considerations, besides the arrogance, the insolence of this thing, there is the violation of all principle here openly proclaimet, under the respectable names of HOME, JONES, O'CONNELL, and SCALES unwarrantably made use of, I hope, by Oboder, at the command of Prace, Beting is the accomplice of BURDETT 13140 what is the principle that we are cofftedding for, has BOOGEE, that we know to the contrary. Here is a Major and a Colonel, gallant reform ers, I dare say! Common decency bade them tell us what were their principles: the word reform is not quite enough, as times go. Would they take off the tithes, the assessed taxes, and the excise duties? I'll bet BURDETT what he likes that the Major and the Colonel would not; yet these things must be done, and a great many other things, too, to not one of which would BURDETT give his consent, if he could help it. 1 and have so long been contending for, Charing Cross for the rest of their and that the Reform Bill proceeds upon? natural lives without hatching so much What is the principle in the inculcation as a little finger of one single member of which lived and died that Major of Parliament. Over and above all CARTWRIGHT whom BURDETT rejected the rest, these men have made no as his colleague for Westminster? What statement of their pretensions. They is that principle? It is that elections have not told us, those that we do not should be free and in what does that know, who or what they are. › (Burdett freedom consist? Why, in the non-may have got their names from some interference, of any body whatsoever infirmary or mad-house, for any-thing with the electors in the performance of their duty. This is what the Reform Bill contemplates; and this principle is here to be violated in the most gross and palpable manner. PLACE is to keep a list of the persons to be recommended as members he is to have a book of entry; and money is to be raised, observe, for the purpose of giving effect to the interference. A great deal has been said, whether true or false, I know not, about the Boroughmongers clubbing large sums of money to effect returns at the late election. The bloody Times. Away, then, with all such knavery recommended something very little short and foolery. The people will judge for of actually knocking out the brains of themselves, to be sure; they will have the Members sent down by these Bo- their own pledges to puto to the roughmongers to be elected. Every-candidates; and I fancy very few from body cried out against this combination, PLACE's list will be found to make and very justly if such combination did those pledges, even if they were qualified really exist; but had not two or three by sense and experience. There are hundred Lords and gentlemen as good a four of this twenty-two who are already right to do this as these twenty-two members of Parliament. The other men with 'Squire Place at their head, eighteen are highly qualified, of course, and BURDETT at his back? Had they and will, as a matter of delicacy, stand not as good a right thus to employ their first upon PLACE's list. These BEAU own money as BURDETT, by his tools, CLERKS and BULLERS, and this THOMAS PLACE and GOUGER, has to employ, for HOBHOUSE and W. B. EVANS, and the same purposes, money raised by a CRAWFURD, and ERSKINE PERRY and general contribution extending over the BRINSLEY SHERIDAN and THOMAS DE whole country? The thing is so mon- VEAR! oh, Thomas shall be a member strous altogether; it is such a violation of Parliament, I'll warrant him! rand of all principle, and an insult so great to ERSKINE PERRY, now, the son of the the understandings of the people, that it newspaper inan, Lord ERSKINE being is impossible to speak of it with any his godfather: they will all be memdegree of coolness. bers, to be sure, being members of Let the names of respectable men be BURDETT member-making council. taken out of it; let BURDETT be left But PLACE! I had forgot 'Squire Place! with all but JONES, O'CONNELL, HUME, He will put himself at the head of the and SCALES; let him keep all the rest, list, or the deuce is in it. And JERRY with his Treasurer, PLACE, and his shall be the speaker of their bouse, or Secretary, GotGER, and I will engage chairman of their committee of ways that he may have THOMAS HOBHOUSE, and means, where he will be able to cut and ERSKINE PERRY, and all the re-off the tails of the sizes and nines and mainder, and that they may sit at rub off a right-handed nought or two 16 * Si 18 Hotel af from the sum that a reformed Parlia- this clause may bring up to the polls in Eng ment will have to bring against himself) For not one straw would give for reform if it did not rip up that precious job the Millbank Penitentiary, in which more than a million has been squandered away. I would give JERRY, or, rather, allow him, in his account, a thousand pounds, aye, a thousand pounds sterling, for every one that has come a penitent out of that place, male or female, and then I should bring him in debt about nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand pounds; for he was the projector of that mischievous job; that scandalous waste of the public wealth. PLACE Would make a very useful member, being, doubtless, lextremely zealous in favour of the blacks; and I should not wonder if the King, perceiving his fitness, were to make him what is technically called "Black Rod," especially as he has been all his life-time accustomed to handles with great precision, a wand of about the same dimensions as that which is the ensign of this officer. If BURDETT should be peered (as I hope in God he will be) it would be better than a May morning to see PLACE strutting along with his rod, and Burdett stalking after him in his robes. Hah, Lord! this reform of Parliament will produce strange things before it be over; but certainly it can never produce any-thing more monstrous, more at once monstrously impudent and silly, than the society upon which I have been bestowing these remarks, and for having done which I have no apology to offer except that I found in the list of the Committee men whose names I wished not to see confounded with those who have long been entitled to the deepest degree of public contempt.co 1 L 1 SCOTCH MORALITY." land; but in than that a Cotlaud nothing is more certain proportion of it will be the most profligate and venal set of men in existence. Take, for example, Glasgow, where the labours of the accurate and intelligent Mr. CLELAND have furnished a mass of sta tistical information unparalleled in any other part of the island. It appears from the tables collected by this indefatigable compiler, that every fourteenth house in Glasgow is a public-house; while in London the proportion is only one in fifty-six. This deplorable fact was publicly noticed by the Lord Justice Clerk at his address to the Glasgow Assize in autumn 1826, as the principal source of the prodigious increase of crime in its depraved population. But it bears now upon a more important matter even than the increase of human delinquency. Supposing that the proportion formerly stated holds good, that one-fifth of the inhabited houses are of the value of 101. a year and upwards, and if one-fourteenth of the whole are public-houses, it follows that the propor tion of houses creating a freehold qualification, which are public-houses, must be five-fourteenths, or nearly one-third of the whole. It may fairly be assumed that, in a great town like Glasgow, every public-house is rented at least at 107. a year; so that they will all confer a freehold qualification. But this is not all. The brothels in Glasgous are at least half as numerous as the public houses; there is no person practically acquainted with the condition of the lower orders, either from the punishment of crime, or the relief of sickness, who is not aware of that fact. In truth, where the lower classes of the houses are filled with whiskey shops, the upper stories are generally tenanted by lodgers of this infamous description. And that they are generally above a rental of 107. a year is certain. Supposing, therefore, the brothels to be as numerous as public-houses, the electors of Glasgow will stand thus: .. 40,000 8,000 2,850 Inhabited houses..... In other words, 4275 electors out of 8,000, will be ale and brothel housekeepers; in other words, the most dissolute and profligate of the community. G Now, that this is a monstrous lie there is no doubt. This Blackwood is a base liar, who, like "THE LIAR" himself, knows very well how to profit by his From Blackwood's Magazine for June. I calling. But the reason for which THE important points to be here observed have inserted this description, is this: owner is given to of a my readers will recollect, that I have Dr. BLACK'S 2. That the value is to be taken by the rating frequently reprobated Dr. in the King's books, or the rent actually paid sertion, that the misery and crimes of for the subject. We do not know what class the working people of England arose, not To Jiguon bobasd-dgh & ho confer dig mu yad anda babinsa are, the 1. as as J from their hard lives and ill-treatment, lication appeared, as an advertisement, but from their want of education ; and in the paper above-mentioned. How that, it was the better education of the sure they were of their mark! How Scotch, that made them more prudent certain they were that they had me! and more moral. I always e denied this And how bold it made the Parsons! fact I denied that the Scotch were How they longed! How they licked more prudent or more moral and their lips; and how their mouths wadenied, that the nonsense, called "edu-tered! Never did the slaver of antici› cation," had, or could have, any tenden-pation more copiously flow at the sight cy to make working/people better off of a bullock's tripe, from mouths of than they would be without it. Now, curs that had fasted a month, bigz I do not cite the liar, Blackwood, "MR. EDITOR, I feel convinced na apology" as a proof of the correctness of my. "is necessary in requesting you to favour me opinion; but, his statement, if it be only" with the insertion of the following copy of a + 1 1 note, which has been put into my hands by "the respectable overseers of a populous parish, "in the neighbourhood of Ely. It was picked up with several others which had been divd "tributed about the parish. It affords the "best practical proof of the estimation in "which wicked and turbulent men are held, but, at the same time, honest labourer, from "who would seduce the simple and ignorant, "his allegiance to his Sovereign, (for the atrocious purpose of accomplishing the ruin and destruction of the country. a quarter part true, shows that Dr. "I am, Mr. Editor, we of wellł Your most obedient servant, ***** HENRY FARDELLISQ "Ely, Jan. 19th, 1830." 97ad I tolw Copy" We repent of our past actions+hang Swing, and downe, 40 friend. that rascal "Down with Cobbett, no poor man's "Down with him, if we go all England *** over.": muck funky és to bùs,uvat baycand This was re-published, at the time, in that excellent and honest weekly paper, THE BALLOT, with these remarks by the Editor Every one must see "the drift of this stupid libel; every LYING & MALIGNANT PARSON."one must see that it arises from bitter "hatred of Mr. COBBETT those who 1 THE following was inserted, as an" read his writings against tithes, ands advertisement, in the Cambridge Chro-" particularly against clerical greediness nicle of the 21st of January last, just at "and/ monopoly, will wantʊopsfurther the time when TREVOR and the CURATE" evidence of the true caused of this OF CROWHURST and BLANDFORD and " atrocious libel, than these facts pr SLAPP and WALTER BURRELL and "FIRST, that this HENRY FARDELL İSİ TREADCROFT and SCHAWEN BLUNT and a son-in-law of the Bishop of Ende the humane pardoners of GooDMAN were 66 and, NEXT,ɛthat shed is Rector of all as lively and as nimble as the accursed" WATERBEACH, worth 1,200/year horse-flies are in a murky day in Au-Rector of FELTWELL ST. NOT gust and when THE LIAR'S MAN was proclaiming, that his master had just been wathing arm-in-arm with our famous Secretary of State, from the street to the Home Office! It was just 4001. a year Rector of FELTWEA "Sr. Mary's, 400% year; Becton ols BEXWELL 3006 a years Probend inks EL800lq years inoishe wholei 900layer sus quite suflicien lo at this time, that the following pub-decount for the RENTREND pegaonias |