hands he should put the right of he had broken off with MOORE, to preference as tenant, and who negociate with another person; would, of course, enjoy the benefit of these improvements.

and a Mr. RODWELL, a person whom it appears Mr. Coke did In July, therefore, Mr. GIBBS not object to as a tenant, agreed to looked out for a person to succeed give Mr. GIBBS the 500. The him. His first business was to agreement having been made, the agree with this person as to the parties went to Mr. COKE, in order amount of the remuneration; his to obtain his acceptance of Mr. next was to get this person ac- RODWELL as a tenant; when, to cepted as a tenant by Mr. Coke. their astonishment they found, The person who offered himself that MOORE had been with him, to Mr. GIBBS was a Mr. MOORE told him of the negociation under first; and afterwards a Mr. Ron-hand, and had actually got a proWELL offered. Mr. GIBBS asked mise to have the farm in 1823.8i 5.00/ as a remuneration from The breach of promise on the his intended successor. Nothing part of MOORE appeared to have about the bargain between the been fully explained and clearly tenants was to be said to the proved to Mr. Coks; yet, he adlandlord, until the tenants had hered to his promise to MOORË, come to an agreement. This was though that promise was obtained an essential preliminary in the in so scandalous a manner; and, negociation. And, accordingly, though, hy adhering to it, 5007. when Mr. MOORE entered on the were clearly taken unjustly from negociation he promised not to Mr. GIBBS. It appears from Mr. mention the matter to any but GIBBS's pamphlet that Mr. CoKE certain persons of his own family, says, that MOORE's breach of The negociation between Mr. promise was nothing to him ; but, GIBBS and Mr. MOORE broke it unfortunately happens, that it off, on the latter declining to is but too manifestly for the inte give the sum demanded by the rest of Mr. COKE, that the informer; but, upon the break-coming tenant should keep the ing off of the negociation, 5007. instead of giving it to the MOORE declared, in a very so- outgoing tenant. Whatever the lemn manner, that he had kept latter gave to the former would, his word as to keeping the subject of course, reduce the means of the of the negociation a secret. But, coming-in tenant; make him have while he was making these pro- less capital to lose; and make mises; at the very time that he him have less money to hand over was making this declaration, in to Mr. COKE. so solemn a manner, he (this TUTTELL MOORE) had, as Mr. GIBBS states in his pamphlet, actually been with Mr. Coke and obtained a promise of the farm in 1823, without, of course, giving Mr. GIBBS a farthing!.

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It is impossible to disguise the real motive here. It is too plain to admit of but this one explanation. The promise made to MOORE was no more binding than would be at bargain to pay so much for goods to one who had stolen them, after you had discovered them to have been stolen, and after you had

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not, upon seeing Mr. GIBBS's pamphlet, think that we were acting justly towards that public, unless we noticed that which we must deem, at the very least, to have been a most ungenerous proceeding. As to MOORE, he would have been beneath our notice. He is unknown to the public. It is not thus with regard to Mr. COKE; though we must say, that, if proof had been wanted, that meanness can be as much at home in the lofty mansion as in the huckster's shed, we have that proof now before us.

discovered the real owner. Will forth to the public as "the best any man say, that such a bargain landlord in England," we could would be binding in honour The presumption really is, if we take all the circumstances into view, that MOORE and Mr. COKE made their bargain for the express purpose of keeping from Mr. GIBBS the 5001. One of the two things must have been. MOORE must have communicated all the circumstances to Mr. COKE; or The did not. If he did not, then the promise he obtained was obtained by a fraud on both the parties. If he did, then Mr. COKE took his full part with, in short, joined with MOORE to keep the 500 from his old tenant, that 5002 being, let it be borne in mind, intended as a remuneration in part for the great improvements in the buildings that were for ever Mr. COKE'S!

SPEECH

OF MR. FAWKES, AT THE MEETING AT YORK, ON THE 22ND AUGUST, CONVENED

"To consider of the most efficient future means of forwarding the great cause of Parliamentary Reform."

GENTLEMEN,

Now, can any man doubt t of the motive here? Mr. RODWELL was as eligible a tenant as MOORE. Why should Mr. COKE prefer the latter before the former, except that he thereby kept 5001. in the pocket of one who was going to BEFORE I enter upon the imporbe his constant debtor? What tant business of this day-before other motive could he have? For, I have the honour of submitting to it is too much to suppose that he your consideration the great object had a taste for a tenant like of your attachment and hopes, MOORE! MOORE had, at any you must allow me to apologize to rate, been guilty of a most scan-you for the peculiar part I bear in dalous breach of his word with Mr. GIBBS. This must have been known to Mr. COKE. Nay, the proof of it was produced to him in an affidavit. In short, he did know it; and does it happen, that honourable men prefer such parties to others of a totally opposite

character?

It has given us great pain to make these remarks; but, having, some months ago, held Mr. COKE

the transaction; you must permit me to enter into some e explanation of that conduct which has brought you together-conduct, which many who do not know me may have attributed to arrogance and presumption, while others have unhesitatingly referred it to a deliberate, to a wanton, unnecessary, ill-timed intention on my part to disturb the peace of the county.

When I consider, Gentlemen, the magnitude of the county of York, and call to my recollection

tion; which evils and misery are that curious and important docuhow staring us fully in the face? ment, which has lately made its Or is it demonstrated in the hos- appearance-the Report made to tility of the pensioner and the si- the House of Commons by one of necurist, the minister, the place- its own Committees, respecting man, and the boroughmonger? so many of its Members as hold However, if such be the situation places and offices under the Crown; of our cause, the sooner its friends which goes, in a great way, to conrelease it from its confinement the firm the Reformers' opinions, and better. And as I am asked why I that on the Parliament's own choose this peculiar moment to showing, which proves, that one agitate the question; my answer hundred and nine Members of the must be found, must be read, and, House receive 209,843 l., exclusive methinks, in characters sufficiently of the enormous fees of office, from intelligible, in the alarming, in the that purse, of which they are the unprecedented state of the coun- constitutional guardians; while an try; in the acts and language of analysis of this list shows, that this the last Session of Parliament; in sum is divided among those who the actual misery in the midst of are either directly nominated by plenty, of one part of the empire, Borough proprietors, or closely and the gloomy anticipations of connected with them: (Hear, hear.) the other; in the starvation of Ire