men of Queenborough. But, it selves called by the Holy Ghost is useless to deal in particulars; to take upon them the administerthe whole thing is of a piece from ing of Christ's word, and also to the top to the bottom; and until take upon them the care of souls. it be altered by Reform of the The law says, that when once men Parliament, the estates of the do this, they can be nothing else landlords, the stock of the farm-than spiritual persons; that the ers, and the goods of the trades- character is indelible; that once men, aye, and the wages of the a priest always a priest. Very labourer, must continue to be well. Another maxim of the Gotransferred to the tax-eaters of vernment is, that the pay given to various descriptions, who now half-pay officers, is not to be cons cover this land as the locusts did sidered as a remuneration form the land of Egypt. There is a past services; but, and now mark Dead Charge, as it is called. me, jester, as a retaining fee for This was the name given to it by future services. This was the mad and impudent Castlereagh; ground upon which Sir Robert and, the world will hardly be- Wilson was dismissed, and upon lieve it; but, in the papers laid which a majority of the best of all before the House, it is, as God possible Houses of Parliament, is my judge, called the "DEAD refused to inquire into his case. WEIGHT!" Why, the bare use This was right. The King had ass of a couple of such words, in such right to dismiss him at his pleaa case, is a disgrace to any thing sure. The half-pay is a retaining calling itself a Government. fee for future services; but, then, However, this "Dead Weight" Liverpool Mountebank, how is it amounts to better than five mil-that these persons called by the lions a-year. Now do you think Holy Ghost continue to receive. that there is any body in this the half-pay, though, according nation; any farmer, any landlord, to law, it is impossible for them to any tradesman, so great a fool as serve again? How is this, Jack not to know, that the far greater pudding of Liverpool; and how part of this Dead Weight; and, is it that the best of all possible perhaps, more than forty-nine Parliaments almost laughed at fiftieths of it, arises from pay and Mr. Hume, when he wanted an allowances given to persons be- inquiry into the matter? These longing, in some way or other, to persons called by the Holy Ghost the boroughs? One flagrant in- make a part of this very Dead stance let me mention; and if that Weight, at the very time that they be not sufficient to make men de-are as active as wasps in a gra mand Reform, they deserve to be pery, receiving surplice-fees and scourged, not after the manner of tithes. Solomon, but after that of Rehoboam

Amongst the half-pay officers are some, who have taken what they call Orders; that is to say, who have gone to the altar and declared, that they believe them

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There are the facts. I defy the world to match them, unless there be, in some other part of the world than this, that species of "triparato tite" Government and that sort of boroughs to which you are so much attached. The few facts

that I have found room to intro- complete destruction, what confiduce here, are sufficiently illustra-dence is the country or even the tive of those" institutions" about House to have? The very com•`· which you make such a prattle, and pany, in which we find you at Lialong with which you pretend that verpool; the very spectators that the interests of all classes of the surrounded your stage, would for community are what you call bid us to hope for any thing ra"bound up." I have here gone tional from you. JOHN GLAD-" into particulars enough to show STONE, the Scotch chairman of how a Reform of the Parliament the Canning Club, who bore his would operate on the interests of precious testimony to the expethe people, and how it would and diency of Peel's Bill: this man must alter the situation of the has recently published a letter, country for the better. What hope in which he ascribes the distress do you hold out to persons in dis-of the landlords and farmers to tress? Patience is your remedy, over-production; and in which he and this would be a remedy if beseeches them to adopt the retime would work for them; but, as is evident to all but fools, time does and must work against them; and that the evils of every day must be greater than those of the day before, until the present race of landlords, farmers and traders, shall be completely destroyed; and that even then the curse will not stop, but will keep rolling on until the Government becomes the actual landholder in trust for the fundholder and for the other swarm's who live upon the taxes.

medy of sowing less seed, in order to get a smaller amount of crop! This, he says, would make the price higher; and so it would; but this wretched creature for gets that whatever sum were gained by the high price of the bushel of wheat, for instance, would, on the other hand, be lost by the diminution of the number of bushels; while, at the same time, the diminution must necessarily aug ment the poor-rates, increase the price of manufactured goods, and plunge the nation into all the evils" 5. YOUR APPROACHING EXILE. of scarcity. Tonotice seriously any -Such being the situation of the thing so monstrous as this would country, and such your crazy no- certainly be intolerable to my readtions respecting it, what a pretty ers; but this is a specimen of the gentleman you would be, to be creatures by whom you were sur-' placed in the House of Commons, rounded; this is a specimen of at such a time, as the organ of the the men that can bestow praise Government! There requires in upon you; and, there is, too, a a person to fill that post, some-fair enough presumption that you thing like a due sense of the mag-yourself hold the opinions of Gladnitude of the difficulty in the first stone, for every thing you do say place; and, in the next place, a upon the subject tends to the same sincere disposition to take or adopt monstrous absurdity. measures calculated to eure a part, at least, of the evils; but in you, who have no remedy but pa tience; that is to say, a waiting for

Yet, you seem to think it hard that you are not chosen to be the leader of that House of Commons, which, in all human proba

bility, will do a great deal towards deciding the fate of all men of property, during the very next Session I will now take your canting, equivocating, whining and crying upon this subject.

(the present affairs of the country, and to the rumours which have grown out of it. I cannot pretend to be ignorant of that part of those ruI have felt great difficulty in decidmours which c concern myself; but ing, whether by passing them over “When called to office, in 1816, I in silence to incur the risk of being was called to a department perfect- hereafter accused of having conly alien from my official habits, and cealed from you something that I with the business of which I had ought to have disclosed; or by alno previous acquaintance; but, in luding to them, to expose myself to the course of nearly five years' the thousand misconstructions diligent administration of that de- which beset every word spoken of partment, it has so happened that I himself by a person connected with am supposed, by those in whom the active politics. I have decided law has vested the power of appointing upon braving the latter danger; be to the Government of India, to have cause I am sure that no miscon qualified myself for the more imme-struction nor inconvenience which diate direction of that Government, I may bring upon myself by speakover the concerns of which it has ing the truth, can be so irksome to been my duty to exercise a distant me as would be the suspicion, if superintendence. Mary obvious cir- ever hereafter it should be excited cumstances, undoubtedly, would have in your minds, that I had wilfully made it more agreeable to me to have repaid your confidence with misremained in this country [loud cheers]. trust. Gentlemen, after this preI see around me more than one hun- face, I have nothing to say to you, dred and sixty motives for having so except that I have really, and upon wished to remain [renewed cheers]. my honour, nothing to tell. I know But, Gentlemen, I hold that a public nothing, I have heard nothing, more man is, unless he can show cause of than all of you, Gentlemen, of any honour or duty to the contrary, political arrangements likely to arise bound to accept a trust, which he is from the present state of things. selected as competent to adminis- It is not for me to presume that I ter for the public interest.-To an should be in any degree concerned in audience less enlightened, I should such arrangements, nor to do any feel ashamed to enter thus far into thing which should appear to imply the generalities, but our connec- such a presumption. I have, theretion is one of principle, and to that fore, neither proposed to defer this only do I owe any claim to your meeting with my constituents, fixattention. Whatever may be my ed, as you know, many months future destination, it will be a con- ago; nor have I suspended my presolation to me to reflect, that I have parations for departure; nor have laid in your hearts the foundation | I any ground, beyond those which of a most lasting regard [cheers]; lie open in common to me and to all and believe me, Gentlemen, that the world, for apprehending that nothing shall efface from my mind the recollection of the many kindnesses I have received at your hands [cheers]. It may perhaps be thought necessary, after the speech of my Honourable Friend, and the allusions he has made to me, that I should offer a few words to you on topics connected with

that departure is likely to be inter cepted. It will not be expected of me that I should say any thing of what might, in a contrary supposition, be the decision which it would become me to form. I can only declare, with the most perfect sincerity, that such a decision would be formed by me upon an honest and impar

tial review of public considera-altar But we are got into a tions alone, and would be determin- pretty state, indeed, if there is a ed, not by a calculation of my inte- race of beings who have inward rests, but upon a balance of my calls to office, and with whom we duties.Gentlemen, enough of this topic, upon which I might still, are to be saddled for everlasting perhaps, have hesitated to utter a upon that ground; for, as to your word, if I had not been informed having had any outward call; as that my silence respecting it upon to any body's having ever asked a former occasion has been misin-you to take a good fat post, let terpreted. I trust I shall not now those believe that that like; or, be misinterpreted the other way; rather that can, after your present and that having been understood as ostentatiously adjuring office at home, begging and praying speech at from not adverting to the possibi Liverpool. lity of its being proposed to me, I may not now be considered as, on the other hand, expressing an anxiety for office, by the; I hope, sufficiently measured allusion which I have found myself at last compelled to

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It happens," does it, that you are supposed qualified to be Governor General of India. I believe that no such thing happens. I believe that the reasons for appointing you to India are quite as "obvious" (though they cannot be more so) as those cir I have before noticed your made it more agreeable to you cumstances" which would have mean overture of a compromise "to remain in this country."Yes," with regard to the Catholic Emanmuch more agreeable to you, but cipation. The above passages are taken, the first from much more agreeable to those your speech at Gladstone's little theatre; and that appointed you, that you the other from that made upon Your sliding off into the " should not stay in this country. Holinshead's greater stage. You appear to have thought, that youumber of the creatures you had hundred and sixty motives" (the had not sufficiently explained yourself the first day; that is to around you) for wishing to remain say, eaten humble pie sufficiently, is so much in the punning and stooped low enough. You had play-actor style; smells so strongly that one can been, I thought, upon your knees; of the green-room; but in this second speech, you devil, was this man ever seated in not help exclaiming what, the come, Lucifer-like, belly on the a Cabinet by the side of a King! ground. You find it somewhat difficult ac-30

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through this matchless effusion of cepted an office, which is meanness. When called to of more than that of Clerk or Agent fice," you say, in 1816. What to the East India Company, after do you mean by being called? having been a Secretary of State; t We know, indeed, that the spi- and after having, in 1804, boasted ritual persons above-mentioned, that you had insisted upon the and others of their cloth, are present Prime Minister being called we know it, because they turned out of office, in which most solemnly declare it at the office you succeeded him. Do

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you not remember this? I do; and I will warrant you that he has not forgotten it, whatever the newspapers may pretend upon It generally happens, that the 'sethe subject. You found it some-cond day's dish is inferior to that of what difficult to account for your the first day. This is the case here; having accepted this subaltern for, though the first day was bad employment. We have, there-enough, the latter brought us fore, this doctrine conjured up: something to exceed, in point of that you "hold that a public man meanness, every thing ever heard is, unless he can show cause of of before as coming from a man "honour or duty to the contrary, having any pretensions to spirit or "bound to accept a trust which to talent. We see a pretended "he is selected as competent to explanation; a pretended hear"administer for the public inte- ing of rumours; and this for the "rest." Here is a good deal of express purpose of telling, not qualification about honour and the despicable creatures by whom duty and public interest; but, you were surrounded on your what do you mean by a' public verpool stage, but the Ministers at man?" Are we unhappy enough| Whitehall, that you were ready to have; are we, really, then, to stay if they would but have you. cursed with a breed of this sort of You pretend that, the exhibition creatures? · Public man,' ,"in- at the little theatre had left you to deed! Why are you a public be "understood as ostentatiously man any more than any man that abjuring office at home; " and is hammering a tin-kettle or hold-therefore you wished to explain ing a plough? Why every man that you knew nothing of any new is a public man; but, shall it be political arrangements, and that, said that every man is bound to it would not become you to take the public money, if any body say what might be your dethat has the power to select him" cision in case of your being selects him for it? If any body "included in such arrangewere to go to Mr. Fawkes, for in"ments. Never fear, man; stance, and tell him that he was never fear, Mr. Merryman! The bound to have four or five thou-man of the red lion will not be insand a-year for being Head Clerk cluded in any such arrangements, to the East India Company, whether he abjure office at home would not he laugh at the fellow or not; that is to say, unless all Honour, duty, public interest; how the Ministers should be seized could any of these bind him to be- with a "mental delusion." The come a clerk? and, yet, is not he Ministers, by the good grace of as much a public man as you? His Majesty, and by the greatest Plain English of this doctrine is, piece of luck that ever befel morthat you "hold" (and I will en-tal men, have no longer Sidmouth gage you will always hold) that it and Castlereagh for us to harp is right for you to get as much as upon. Freed from these; this you can; and that if you cannot load taken from their shoulders, get it in a high post you must get can anything short of downright it in a low one. This is the plain staring madness induce them vo