littles something of commercial affect to hold in such reverence over-straining; over-pulling, or and enough of which will, I trust, drawing; and they know, too, be left, at last, for purposes not that it indicates any thing but necessary to be particularly men"steadiness and confidence," but tioned here, Your crew say, that that it, like your's, never fails to you are going to be Governor-Geproduce lassitude and exhaus-neral of India; but, neither Swann, tion;" only it always (except nor Knight, nor Dewhurst, nor amongst mountebanks) produces any other of the victims of your the exhaustion first and the lassi-"triumph" has, in my view of tude afterwards. things, the smallest reason to wish to change chances with you; and, this I put down in black and white, that my words, like those with regard to Peel's Bill, may be remembered. I could now tell your fortune pretty nearly as accurately as I did the fortune of that Bill. When you once see the cliffs of England behind you, But, let it be for the present. You will know all about it quite soon enough.

"From this sickly stuff, you come to the internal wars of 1817 and 1819; and here you discover all that flippant insolence and that dunghill-cock boldness that have fong secured to you so large a portion of public detestation. You and your crew (who now toasted the Manchester Magistrates) "triumphed" then, too, did you! You gained a painful triumph" it was painful in its execution and merciful in its purpose." There only wanted Oliver and Edwards, one to sit on your right hand and one on your left. But, I do not know, indeed, that this was necessary. You must have been sure of your men, before you talked in this style.

We now come to your" Statesman-like view" of the situation of the Farmers and Landlords; and here we shall see how fit you would be for a Minister. You comfort yourself by the reflection, that the distress is now amongst persons of "education," and not You "triumphed" in 1817 and amongst those who are liable to 1819. Your means were, the be deluded by "designing demaManchester Magistrates and Yeo- gogues." But, what is education manry; the Oldham Inquest; to do for the sufferers? Will Oliver; Edwards; the Six-Acts. they bear beggary the better for These indicated that merciful having been gentlemen? Oh, no! purpose of which you have the This is not what you mean. You insolence to talk. And, as to your mean, that, being persons of edu own particular mercifulness, we cation, they will see, that their have on record "the revered and own safety is bound up with the ruptured Ogden," and the loud peace of the country." In short, laugh with which it was received. that they will not be for Reform;. That is down to your account. because they will see, that their We have that as a proof of the sufferings, which are only tempomercifulness of your purpose. [rary and partial, cannot be put Your "triumph," that triumph of an end to, or lessened, by any which you boast, was a triumph thing that the Government can do. over those laws, which you now In the first place, you do not

appear to see, that the whole all your exhortations to this great body of farmers must lose their class of sufferers? What are you capital, and the landlords their driving at, when you call upon estates, unless the Government do them to be cautious how they something, and that quickly too. sanction any thing that may Not seeing this, it is no wonder" lead to the disturbance of their that your head runs upon the dan-country?" What boots your sogers that the great would run the lemn observation, that "we have risk of from Reform. The mass all a common interest in the conof proprietors and occupiers of "servation of that order of things Tand must be ruined without Re-" which is the security of the form; and you are talking to" whole?" To what end is this them of the dangers that might sprouting of the potatoé; this pal come with Reform. You are tell-pable Irish Bull? It is the dise ing them that their "safety is turbance in their pockets that they bound up" with the present mode are thinking about, and, though of going on, and they know, as they know, that the present order well as you know what a salary of things is exceedingly good for of fourteen thousand a-year is, tax-eaters, it is by no means that their certain ruin is bound up good for them, and that “ we," if with that same mode of going on. such as you are put along with Tell them how they can get rents, the landlords and farmers and or keep their farm-stock from the traders and non-tax-eaters, have hands of the Sheriff, with wheat not a "common interest; at 4s. a bushel: tell them that, on the contrary, that the interests and cease your unmeaning babble are directly opposed to each other; about “safety bound up with the and, what is more, that, in their peace of the country." They now present state, the two descriptions know pretty well, that their safety of persons can no longer co-exist. is, not bound up with 'Change It is perfect nonsense, there Alley, the Dead Charge, the Live fore, to talk, in such a case, of the Charge, and Whitehall. They classes in question being “ruined" know, that they must be unbound by any “shaking of the institu→ from these, or some of these, or tions" of the country. They must that they are all a herd of beg-be ruined, unless those things gars; and that, in that case," the which you call institutions he peace of the country" will be of shaken. They must be ruined; no great value to them. they are condemned to ruin, un

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It is useless (though they de- less the Debt and the Seat-selling serve it at your hands particu-be shaken, and speedily and well larly) for you to twit them with shaken too; and as to what "posthe patience that "they preached" terity" would have taken from it to the suffering millions. You by this shaking, it would cer can hardly refrain from jesting tainly have taken from it about even here; and here you might seven hundred millions of Debt, employ it with some degree of together with Six- Acts and a justice, though your disposition to great number of other valuables do it shows what a shallow thing provided for it and intended to you are. What is the amount of be enjoyed by it as long as there

shall be a people called the the starving people of Ireland, English.

and a Report recommending a vote of money to enable the GovernIt is not stuff like this that can ment to take English and Irish induce the owners of the land and corn into pawn on account of its of goods to refrain from wishing over-abundance; you seem to have for Reform, if by no other means forgotten all this completely, when they can keep their land and their you were jabbering away about goods; and, if you cannot see, the ease and comfort and happi they can, how it is that the rotten ness of the humbler classes. Boroughs take away their goods

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and estates, an instance of which The cause, and the only cause, operation I will now give you, as of all the distress, in all the ranks thing for you to jest upon at of life, is, the 60 millions of taxes; your next exhibition, if you should and, a large part of these, we say, ever have another on the boards would be taken off by Reform, and in this country. You say, that never will, in that large part, be Reform will not raise prices. taken off without Reform. This is Empty Mountebank! Flippant what we say; and, if we be told, Mr. Merryman! who ever said, that the taxes are wanted; that the or seemed to think, that it would? expenditure which is now going on Who but knaves and fools ever is just and necessary, we deny the wished for such rise? And, assertion; we disprove it point by above all things, who ever said, point, from the 'Change-Ally debt or thought, or dreamed, that down to the Door-keepers at WhiteReform would tend to produce hall. It would require volumes such an effect? But, there was a to exhibit in detail every instance thing, which we said Reform would of monstrous extravagance; but, do namely, to cause the taxes to we, now-and-then, take an inbe reduced; to take off a large stance; and, such an one I am part of that 60 millions a-year, going to take now. which is the cause of all the distress, in your country as well as Much of the squanderings that in ours; for, you, in speaking in have taken place, took place ups your flippant manner about the der pretence of a rise in the price present ease and happiness of the of provisions. Now, Jack-Pudhumbler classes, seem to have ding, I am going to show, in a wholly forgotten, that the people few words and a few figures, what of whole parishes in your own will have more effect in produccountry have been receiving the ing a Reform, than would be pro extreme unction in consequence of duced against it by all that you a total want of food, while corn could say, if you were to begin and meat were daily shipped from gabbling to-morrow, and go on to that very country in prodigious the end of your life. Mark, quantities; you seem to have Mountebank: wheat, meat, all wholly forgotten that the best of farm-produce, every article of it, all possible Parliaments had be- is lower priced now than in 1792. fore it, at one and the same mo-Farmers and landlords look at the ment, a vote of money to relieve o llowing:

require something more than jests to keep "institutions" like the above standing even only for one more year!

What I have shown would be enough; but, since my hand is in, and to come to close quarters with the rotten boroughs, and show the farmers how they take away their sheep and cows, I will give another instance. One of those sweet rotten things, to which you bear such an affectionate attachment, is called Queenborough; that is to say, the queen of all rotten boroughs. However, we shall see, that the "freemen" of this borough are persons of singular merit; for, of the Members of the Corporation (which is an institution") all but one are in some office or other under,or have some money transaction with, the Government. There are, in this sweet borough, about three hundred "freemen, of these and their sons and other relations, one hundred and ninety. are in public employ. Amongst them they receive, in various ways, about 25,000l. a-year; but, one hundred and forty-seven freemen and eleven of their sons, receive, in salaries and allowances, nearly 20,0007. a-year!!!

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To ask, whether man ever heard of any thing so monstrous as this before would be foolish; for, hundreds of things equally monstrous, equally an outrage to the feelings of the nation, have been pointed out by Mr. HUME. But I may reasonably ask (and I put it to almost any man on earth but you, Mountebank of Liverpool) whether this, or any thing like this, could be, if the House of Commons, who vote all the money, were chosen by the people at large; that is to say, by those who pay the taxes that are thus expended? And, impudent Mr. Merryman, do you think, that facts like these are to be driven out of the minds of the half-ruined farmers and landlords by your exhortations not to "disturb the peace," or "shake the institutions?" How are they to see any danger, to themselves, in the reform that you are so much afraid of They can easily enough see why it is that you are anxious about" institutions" like the above; but, they cannot so easily see how their "safety" is bound up with such "institutions or how they are to be “ruined" by the shaking of such institutions. They are seeking for something to prevent them from losing their last acre, their last head of stock and last pack-work to the destruction of othe age of goods. They see here country. How singular it is (if I how it is that these go away; had time to go into another paand whatever you may think of per) to perceive that the ordnance your talent at jesting, there will hires almost all its vessels of free

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