› VOL. 43.—No. 10.] LONDON, SATURDAY, Sept. 7, 1822. ́ ́ [Price 6d, Published every Saturday Morning, at Six o’Clock. of the people are liable to be sold, mortgaged, or let to hire, precisely like the live-stock of a farm. But, in the whole of that country, extensive as are its limits and numerous as are its people, you will never see a crew of creatures half so base as those by whom you were, the other day, surrounded at Liverpool. The Meeting was, it would appear, for the ostensible purpose of giving you a farewell-treat; you being, as it is said, and as you seem to confess, sentenced to go to Hindostan. The pretence was, that you were the Representative of the town; but the whole of the proceedings exhibit you in the You are about to be shipped off to a country of tax-collectors and slaves; to a country of Aumils, of Zemindars, and of Ryots; that is to say, of Farmers - General of taxes; of Under-renters of taxes; and of poor devils of Husband-light of a Mountebank, surrounded men, whose very fields are guarded by the bayonet, until all the crop has been taken away, except what is absolutely necessary to keep the labourers alive and in a condition to toil. A country, where the land is tilled by miserable beings, who are the property of others, who are themselves but slaves. Where the greater part by a crowd of stupid admirers; though, in reality, they were a set of mean creatures, taking this opportunity of paving the way to their getting at a share in what they think you will have to bestow of the good things of India. It was quite in character for you to represent the "address" of these sycophants together with their T Printed and published by C. CLEMENT, No. 183, Fleet-street. pine times nine cheers (similar to Canning Club;" and this Meetthose given to Puram Hay) asing must not be passed over in · natural effusions of their gratitude silence. Here that prince of stuand affection. It was quite in pidity and servility, John GladScharacter for you to affect to be stone, appears to have been Chairmelted, and to be thrown into a man; and, to give the public the sort of blubbering hiccup by these, means of judging correctly of the it is only necessary to state, that one of the toasts from the Chair was, "The Manchester Magis as you called them, "marks of character of this more select crew, kindness;" but, the public well know, that those cheers, being interpreted, were a howl after that prey, that spoil, by which the trates." At this "Canning Club" cheerers intend, through your Meeting there appears to have means, to fatten themselves or been a man of the name of Gifford, their broods; while, on your part, who sang a song, called “Forget the whole thing was manifestly me not." Was this that William intended as a break to your fall; Gifford, who, the son of a cobbler as a means of getting you off the at Ashburton in Devonshire, and stage with a clap; aye, just such put to school out of charity by a an one as is obtained at Covent parson of the name of Cookson, Garden or Old Drury by tickets became in time, travelling tutor given away to the Cyprian Dam- to Lord Belgrave (now Earl sels and to the Knights of the Pad. Grosvenor); who about 1798, be I At this Meeting, as on the came Editor, under you and stage, a speech from the head others, of that most libellous of operator always makes a part of all publications, the Anti-Jacobin the performance. With your Newspaper; who, for this service, speech, upon this occasion, it shall had in 1799, a sinecure given now be my business to deal; first, him of 3297. a-year, and was soon however, giving a list, as far as after made a Commissioner of the find it published, of the mean and Lottery besides; who has thus false creatures that addressed and been receiving, out of the taxes, cheered you. It is necessary to about 6001. a-year, from that day observe, that there was a previous to this, and who, of course, has Meeting on the 23d of August, at received, in this way, of principal money, about 14,0007.? Was this which you dined with those hacks who constitute what is called "the that Gifford? And did he, by the song, "Forget me not," want selves:-George Irlam, Chair you to give him, or get him, some Charles Lawrence, Deputy Chair, more sinecures? Or, was the of the Association of West India song in behalf of the whole crew? Planters and Merchants,-AlexThis Gifford got a good horse-ander M'Gregor, Chair-Wm. whipping from Peter Pindar, in Rathbone, Deputy Chair, Ameri1800. Peter had, in a poem can Chamber of Commerce.called "A Cut at a Cobler," Thos. Case, Chair-Jos. Sanders, lashed the mercenary reptile. The Deputy Chair, Underwriters' Aslatter, unable to answer, accused sociation.-Rob. Gladstone, Chair Pindar of unnatural propensities!-Thos. Leathom, Deputy Chair, This brought him, not a literary, Ship Owners' Association.-John but a literal lashing, to the great Carter, Chair-Nicholas Robinenjoyment of the whole town. son, Deputy Chair, Corn ExThis man is said to be the whipper-change Association.Thomas F.. in of that last shift of tyranny, the Dyson, Chair-Rich. Harrison, Quarterly Review. He may be Deputy Chair, Portugal, Brazil, assured, that, if you should forget South American, and Mexican him, the public will not: they Association.-Rob. Benson, Chair will not, when the day of settle--Jos. Hibberson, Deputy Chair, ment comes, forget his sinecures East India Association. Francis any more than they will yours. Jordan, Chair-David Hodgson, At the Second Meeting, the Deputy Chair, Irish Association. grand mountebank exhibition, one-Rob. Gladstone, Chair-Thos. J. B. Hollinshead is given as the Moore, Deputy Chair, Baltic AsChairman. The following is given sociation. as the names of those who adThere let the vermin stand for dressed you. It is, and especially the present, while I proceed to may be, of great use to have these comment on your mountebank names ready to turn to. Every harangues. There are two of these man of these must be taken to be also, the first being of as much an abettor of you and your asso-importance, for my present purciates, and as having done every pose, as that delivered on the thing in his power in the cause of the Manchester Magistrates. Here we have these men, then, from their own account of them-der, the topics they present:-- grand stage on the 30th. I shall consider the two as one, and shall take up, in the following or 66 1. Catholic Emancipation; 2.1" in Liverpool, I candidly declared "that I had the misfortune of difReform of Parliament; 3. Po- fering from those with whom I licy with regard to Foreign Na-" was in the habit of generally tions; 4. Distress of the Coun- and I told my Constituents, that agreeing on political subjects";" try; 5. Your Approaching Exile." in accepting me as their Representative, they elected one who supported, and would not abate a single jot of his anxiety or exertions for the success of that 66 " question. (Chcers.) Accordtunity of most strenuously supingly I have taken every oppor I could, in a very short compass, state, and fairly state, the meaning of all that you said on" these several topics. And I am sure, too, that I should not be porting the question of Catholic accused of foul play; of misre"Emancipation in whatever modi"fication it has been discussed. I presenting or of garbling. But I dealt honourably with you on "that occasion; and though I have "rarely given an opinion which was not that of my Constituents 66 66 έσ also, I feel pleasure in knowing "that upon that occasion I spoke "the general sense of the country. I "have not in any instance compromised your rights; I have gone forward in what I conceive to be the straight path of duty, "and neither here nor elsewhere "have I reason to repent of my do not choose to put your mounte- perseverance. (Loud cheers.)——— "Were I to remain in this coun"try, and again represent you in "the House of Commons, I should pursue the same course, no matyou are wholly unfit to be entrust-ter what uneasiness it might give 66 66 66 those friends whom I so highly ine to differ in opinion from ed with the management of any part of the nation's affairs. With respect. I, however, think, and as I shall not, perhaps, have an this object in view I shall here "opportunity of stating it elseinsert your harangues, divided" where, I am anxious to take this into parts corresponding with the time to mention it, that after the and afore-mentioned division; struggle which has been made upon the question for the last "ten years, I should, as an indi"vidual, be inclined to advise that « it should be treated as a question "of compromise, rather than one of "an unqualified nature, as it has 1. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. "hitherto been argued. I feel as "On the subject of Catholic Eman-" deeply and as anxiously now for "cipation I am well aware'; and the success of this question as I "in the first speech which I had “ did at any former period of my "the honour of addressing to you" life. But upon grounds of poli 66 well that you can bring to the Ministry nothing but weakness, of which it has quite enough already, "tical expediency, and looking to "the peace of the country, I con❝fess I should be ready to accept what "I think by a compromise might be "obtained, adjourning, but never "abandoning those points which I As to the question of Catholic "conceive to be at present matters Emancipation, it never has been of hopeless litigation. In the House of Commons I should perhaps have a question with any of you: it has "hesitated to express those opi- been a stalking-horse; a thing to "nions, because there is a salutary “ jealousy entertained by the public "at any change of opinion by a public man; a jealousy which "makes it safer to pursue what is "hopeless, rather than seek to ob"tain what by a compromise might "he had, and thereby subject one's "conduct to public misconstruc-dency towards making the Irish "tion. But I say it here, for here "no suspicion of improper motives can "attach to the declaration. I hinted "ut this in the course of recent 66 "debates. I was anxious to preserve the peace of the country; I "wished that we should have "breathing time; I wished to re"move one great cause of discus"sion and complaint, reserving for a future period the introduction "and accomplishment of that more "complete arrangement; of which, "I, for one, shall never forego the "expectation.' 66 intrigue with and about; but he must be a dreadful fool indeed, who thinks that the humouring of a score or two of Catholic fami lies would have the smallest ten-2 nation happy and contented. To make the Irish nation happy and contented, the millions must be well off; and will the humouring of a score or two of families with seats and offices make the Irisho. nation well off? But what would your scheme have effected? Would the enabling of about twenty Lords to sit in Parliament have done any thing for the people of Ireland? And how shall we de- › scribe the impudence or ignorance of a man, who could give to such a measure the name of Catholic Emancipation! Who would it have emancipated; who would it have set free? This is as slippery and as mean and beggarly a piece of stuff as ever escaped the lips of place-hunter. What you thought was, that the people would not understand this; that neither those who were listening to you, nor those in general who would read what you were saying; you thought that these would not understand you; but that the Lord Chancellor would! He will understand you clearly enough; but he knows bishoprics and the livings are Here is a country with a Ca-tholic people and a Protestant beirarchy. The people are compelled to pay tithes to the priests of a religion that they detest. The |