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of the community, and that not the least valuable,-I mean the middle class; namely, farmers, manufacturers, and those in trade, being ruined before any of the other classes in society will hardly believe but that the machine works well? In conclusion I beg to say, that I think if one of two remèdies are not speedily applied, viz. if the National Debt and Taxes be not reduced (and in the same proportion all private debts) so as to approximate to what they were in 1791, as all the necessaries of life are; or the repeal of Mr. Peel's Bill and con-swer to two gentlemen, who have sequently an increase in the cir-written for it from the country.

culating medium, and with it eco

nomy, rigid economy,

rigid economy, (but even

then I contend we shall want a reduction of the debt, though on a less scale and by more gradual means) we must all be involved in one common ruin.

June 15th.

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Your's, &c. &c.

A YEOMAN OF KENT.

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DINNER

TO MR. WOOLER,

THIS Dinner, which was noticed last Week for the 26th instant, at Birmingham, is to be given on the 29th. The Committee, in answer to their very kind invitation, are hereby requested to receive my thanks, and to be assured, that, if a motive had been wanting in me to attend at this Dinner, their Letter would have

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done. The law may be very le

nient or very severe, and equally

THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. just in both cases. ·

The laws of

England which hang men for murder, and those of Pennsyl

THE BISHOP AND THE SOLDIER. vania which imprison murderers

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for life, have no difference in point "Ye shall not respect persons in of justice. But, if the laws of judgment; but shall hear the any country, hanged men, ye situation of life, for murder, and punished men, in another situation of life, with transportation, or DEUTERONOMY, Chap. I. V. 17. something short of death, those

❝ small as well as the great; ye shall ❝ not be afraid of the face of man; for "the judgment is God's."

COUNTRYMEN,

Kensington, 24 July 1829.

laws would be unjust, and would, in fact, be acts of tyranny so outrageous as to justify, and fully justify, the use of effectual means to overthrow the Government that had made such laws.

On the above subject you will find, at the end of this Address, some articles, first published in The Statesman Newspaper. The No country that I know of, exobject of the present Address is, cept the slave-countries, have ever to call your attention to the sub-been disgraced and cursed by laws ject of the Administration of of this description. In those horJustice, which, at this moment, is rid countries (Virginia, for inof all others, the subject most in-stance), it was, until of late years, teresting to us.

Justice, as applied to the decisions of courts, as applied to laws and the execution of the laws, means impartiality in what is

not murder to kill a black, which was punished with a fine of about fifty pounds sterling. Now, the law makes it murder; but, to the shame of America, to the shame

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of Republican Government, this equality of which men speak, as murder is frequently committed, being so desirable a thing to in all the Slave States; but, I secure by political institutions; believe, no man can produce an an impartial, an equal, an eveninstance of a white murderer handed administration of the laws; having been punished as a mur- for, where this is wanting, to talk dérer! of liberty or property is an abuse of words and a mockery upon

ment is not common to all, there is, in fact no community: it is a herd of slaves governed by a tyranny.

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This is that abuse in the administration of justice that base the community. Indeed there is partiality; that perverting of judg- no community; for, community ment, against which the Bible, in means a right in common to be more than two hundred places, treated in a certain manner by cautions man, and against the the laws; and where the treatdoing of which it utters such borrible denunciations. An impartial administration of the laws is the very foundation of civil society, into which men could not In the way of preface to what have entered without a compact, have to say upon the subject necessarily implied, that such stated at the head of this paper, I impartiality should always take have been led into these general place. Courts and Judges are observations, not by any suspicion venerated, and held in the highest respect, because their decisions, which have so much effect upon the affairs of men, are looked upon as being just; as being, horrid transaction; not by any in all respects perfect, as far suspicion of this sort have I been as any thing human can pre-led to make these observations, tend to perfection. The Courts but by the conduct of that infaof Justice are the last resort mous part of the Press, of which of the oppressed. Riches, and the I have so long been the accuser, power inseparable from riches, which has so long been the instruwould make the poor ment of man every thing that is base even more degraded than the and corrupt, and which, under the beast, could he not rely on jus- epithet "respectable," has been > tice from the laws. distinguished, by the enemies of

This is that

that any thing has been or will be, attempted by persons in power, to screen the parties, or, rather, the principal party, implicated in this

we

our freedom and happiness, from this occasion, I first saw an ace that part of the press which has count of the transaction on Sunday been the constant advocate of morning. "Now," said I, " freedom and of morals. shall see how this Sunday has been employed." I then sent for the John Bull, and found that John

This part of the Press; this "respectable" part of the press, which was so loud, so vehement, was not to be had so early as the

in the case of the poor miscreants of Vere-street, has now been either silent (as the Old Times,) or, has been hatching apologies, as in the case of the New Times. In this way, this "respectable" part of the press has been at work to pave

the way,

other papers; because the printing of him had been delayed by an accident, which had happened to his machinery! I wanted nothing more to convince me that the work was carrying on with a heavy hand; and that it was necessary for me to be in London early the next morning to see the extent of the effect of that work, which extent, however, I pretty well guessed at the moment I herd of the accident in John

if possible, for that, which to suppose possible, would be an offence that would bring down on the supposer the severest punishment. The design of this part of the press manifestly has been to smother the whole trans- Bull's machinery. By about six action if possible; and, if that o'clock had the fruits of the were not possible, to provide, if whole of the "respectable" part of possible, impunity for the offender; the press of that morning before than which design, there never me; and in about six hours after was, perhaps, in the world, any that, I had exhibited it for the inthing equal in point of turpitude. spection of the public.

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I have long denounced this press as the deluder of the people; as the foe of freedom and of justice; as the promoter of vice, of rigour, and of cruelty; and now it stands, before this abused nation, proved guilty of all the charges that I ever brought against it. In the weekly paper, the Observer, which has acted an honest part upon ed and enforced upon certain

In order to form an a dequate idea of the baseness of this spectable" part of the press, must consider, First, The situation in life of the principal party; Second, What had been stated as the result of his detection; and Third, How this result squares with the bail and other things demand

other occasions. When we have on the Clergy of the County in taken a view of all these, and seen general, there being no particular at a case it forms all taken plaintiff or complainant. You will when we have observe, that the Judges granted "re-the criminal information. They refer the matter to a Grand

together; au
again reflected, that t

--spectable” and base press, either | dia no!

passed the thing over in total si-Jury. So that this is a body of lence, or, so disguised, and so men entitled to peculiar protecmutilated the matter, so cautiously tion; for, it is hardly to be be spoke of it; so studiously crammed lieved, that a criminal informathe few words into an obscure tion would have been obtained corner; when we have done all against a man for publishing a this, we shall, and not till then, be censure on the Miners of Durham, able to form something of an idea the Weavers of Lancashire, or the of the baseness of this "respect- Farmers of Norfolk. Yet, it is able" London Press, the equal of very difficult to say why either of which, I am happy to believe, does these classes should not be entitled not exist in the whole world.

the same protection as the Par

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Never mind, however; let that

go. The person principally concerned is a Bishop of the Church of England; a Right Reverend Father in God. He is, too, what is called noble birth. The pedigree of his family, as pub

of

The principal person concerr ed in the horrid transaction is a Bishop of the Church of Fngland, and as such announced from the beginning. We know well, that, to publish any thing tending to excite hatred or contempt of the body of Bishops would expose any man to the severest punish-lished in the peerage, says that `ment. There is at this time, I he is descended from a noble believe, a prosecution pending in family of Normandy; that his anThe Court of King's Bench, in cestor came over to England in consequence of a criminal in- the reign of Edward the Conformation moved for by Lawyer fessor; that this ancestor returned Scarlett, against a printer in the to France, and came over again North, who had published some-in company with William that thing reflecting on the Clergy of they call the Conqueror; and had the county of Durham. Not on divers English lands and estates any particular clergyman; but bestowed upon him. Thus, then,