1 Lawyer or Chancellor, or Judge any circumstance, are narrowly ought to be suffered to move about watched by men as skilful and as without a keeper. Only think of able as himself, who have a right a trial of considerable length, to call him to account, who do call proceeding out of a complicated him to account upon the spot, if declaration and pleadings of he fall into error; and who can length emormous; only think of call for a revision of his decisions sitting and hearing the statements and bring against him any word of the lawyers on both sides, of that he may utter, and that, too, hearing the evidence of twenty or before a tribunal where his rivals thirty witnesses, swearing to dif- sit in judgment with himself. Only spat bag ferent points of the question, ir- think of this; and recollect, that regularly as possible in point of the Judges never go mad; and order; only think of making notes so thoroughly are they imbued of all this, and then, when all this with a sense of obedience to the mass of confusion is over, taking laws, that, however the cutting it and laying the merits of the of throats may be in fashion, they case, the pro and the con, and take special good care never to nicely balancing one part against cut theirs. an eða Ladimus another; drawing, at last, the It is beastly nonsense, thereconclusion on which the mind of fore; it is nonsense such as the jury ought to rest: only think scarcely Castlereagh himself ever of all this; consider, that it is uttered, to talk of his having been what every one of the Judges has driven out of his senses by his to perform almost every day of load of business. Deep thinking, his life; and consider, too, that some people say, will drive a the Judge is bound by law; that man mad. This is a very foolish every opinion he gives, every notion; but, at any rate, how statement that he makes, every deeply Castlereagh thought, may colouring that he communicates to be judged of by his speeches and the result of his measures. It is not carry him through. He had got through the last Session of Parliament with some difficulty; but he saw another approaching which or for the thousandth time, for I have always said, that it was one of the most empty-headed erea- he could not hope to get through, tures that ever existed; and that without the system receiving a it was sheer impudence, and the terrible shock of some sort or imbecility of its opponents, that another. carried it. through with a sort of eclat, such as a mountebank obtains amongst clowns. Yet, that he was not in that state of disgust and despair which might have impaired his faculties, such as they were, I do not pretend to say. He must have been an idiot not to perceive that his career was drawing to a close. I do not know that he did perceive it; but he must have been little short of an idiot not to have perceived it; and it is likely enough, that he did feel a great deal of alarm at events that he saw approaching. He well knew that he was most cordially detested by the Reformers at any rate; and impudent as he was, he had lived to see the day, when Under such circumstances he might be in a state approaching insanity. What makes the bankers, money-jobbers, and merchants, cut their throats so gallantly? The dread of humiliation. False pride. Blackstone calls it cowardice, which induces men to destroy themselves, to avoid those ills which they have not the fortitude to endure. Instead of going to America to avoid the blessings of Sidmouth's Bill, which Castlereagh brought into the House of Commons, I might have cut my throat; but I did not like the idea of being buried in the highway with a stake driven through me. 1 preferred enduring the ills of a voyage to America, and living to have the chance of seeing my foes sheer impudence was not likely to cut their own throats. This cut ting of throats, therefore, has its Government for the last twentyfoundation in false pride; in the seven years and that is true dread of being humbled; in the enough; it is found in all the vadread of being brought to sweep rious acts that have been passed those streets, through which the to shut the Irish up in their houses throat cutters have rolled with from sunset to sunrise, and to such insolence in their carriages, transport them without trial by They retain all their insolence jury. It is found in the Power-ofstill; else they would see that imprisonment Bill of 1817. It is they are about to come into their found in those terrible Six Acts, proper place; and to be in that one of which prescribes that the state of life where they ought al-printer of a newspaper shall enter ways to have been. As to compassion; as to sorrow, upon this occasion, how base a hypocrite I must be to affect it! nay, how base a hypocrite to dis into bail even before he begins to print; which prescribes that this very pamphlet in which I am now addressing you, shall be so loaded with paper and with price, as to make it difficult to effect its circulation. It is found in another guise, or attempt to disguise, my satisfaction! Can I forget Ireland; can I forget Mr. FINNERTY; can of those Acts, which was intended I forget NAPOLEON, Marshal NEY; can 1 forget the QUEEN, who, though she suffered so much, to transport men, and which does banish men for life, for a second time attering that which has though she suffered to the break- tendency to bring into contempt ing of her heart, never thought of those who pass such a law. His the dastardly act of putting an end to her existence. The ruf fians who continue to praise this man, tell us that the history of his life is found in the measures of the history is in the figure of eight and eight cyphers, which represent the amount of the National Debt. It is written in those measures which have reduced the most in 743 death-bed by the means just mentioned, earnestly prayed that she might see her husband before she closed her eyes for ever; and I remember, that that prayer was rejected by Castlereagh and his dustrious and enterprising farmers [Lady Castlereagh's anguish menin the world to a state of beggary, tioned I forget, for the time, and have plunged no small number the enormous sinecure of her of them into despair, real insanity, father, but I remember that exemand self-destruction. It is written plary and affectionate wife, Mrs. in a mass of pauperism, hitherto Johnson, who, brought to her wholly unknown to England, and it is written in starvation to Ireland amidst over-production. As to his family and connexions, look at the immense sums which they are now receiving out of the fruit of the people's labour. And as to colleagues, though the husband any compassion that we are to tendered bail to any amount and feel for them, we will feel it when offered to submit to any length of an end to the sufferings of the imprisonment as the price of perReformers and their families will mission to receive the last sigh of leave us a particle of compassion his dying wife! to bestow on any body else. The I have now performed my duty; mention of the anguish of Lady a duty towards the Public; toCASTLEREAGH only reminds me of wards the Reformers more espethe anguish of poor Mrs. JOHNSON, who, brought to a death-bed by 1 I cially; and, Joseph Swann, particularly towards you. I anxiously hope that you may come alive, long and racking anxiety on account of her husband, harassed, and in health, out of your dunpersecuted, thrown into a dungeon. I admired Dis svilpug your conduct geon at a hundred miles from at the time when the sentence her, merely for having been pre- was passed upon you. You did Syn Brique sent at á Meeting never before not talk of cutting your throat; deemed unlawful; when I hear but, darting a look at those who "pockets for me!" Your chil- Your faithful Friend and passed the sentence, you exclaim-houses; for they exclude all other ed: "Is that all? I thought you houses. These privileged build"had a bit of rope in your ings belong, in general, to great Brewers, who have been growing rich in much about the same proportion that the people have been growing poor. Mr. ELMAN the elder, when he was examined by the Agricultural Committee of 1821, stated, that, forty-five years ago, there was not a labourer's family in his parish that did not brew their own beer, and enjoy it by their own fire-sides; and that now, there was not one in the parish that did it. This was a shocking fact for the Parliament to learn, and from such good authority too! In the meanwhile the Brewers, owing to their privileged houses, have been growing rich as Jews and insolent as lords in waiting. MR. BROUGHAM'S Horsham, 13 Aug. 1822. ́ I AM very anxious to direct the public attention to this measure, which, if the people be just towards themselves, will certainly be adopted in the next Session of Parliament. The object of the 素 To do the Government justice, Bill is to enable any body to deal in beer, as any body deals in it has not wished to establish this bread; and not to confine the shameful monopoly, which has trade to certain houses. These grown up without its positive aid, houses are now privileged houses. and even against its wish, as it They ought not to he called has been manifestly against its licenced houses; but privileged interest. For, the Brewers have |