themselves and will sit quietly

looking on, while the "respectable

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part of the Press," and "His Mr. CANNING is now regularly Majesty's peaceable and loyal installed as a Secretary of State, subjects" settle the thing in their and, as such, or as a Member of own good time and manner. To the Collective, we must not call say, that the prospect gives us him Mountebank Doctor and pleasure is faintly to describe Jack Pudding and the like it is what we feel. Nineteen years of only when he occasionally ap obloquy deserves something more, pears on his stage at Liverpool, in the way of compensation, than and St. Patrick's Dinner, and what is usually understood by such like places, that we can pleasure. If any man be gifted make really free with him. Whatwith enough of imagination to ever jests he may think proper to tell what poor BYRNE and his utter, either by pen or tongue, in wife and children felt, when they these his sacred capacities, and first heard of the affair of The especially in the latter, we must Bishop and the Soldier, that man, treat with a light hand; and, we and that man only, is able to say, are of opinion, that he never will what our feelings are at behold-again give us an opportunity to ing the prospect that is now be- meet him on the stage at Liverfore us. We know precisely how pool. We must now preserve our the thing will work. It is not, in gravity, when we have his proour heads, as it was in that of poor ductions under our eye; or, at crazy CASTLEREAGH, "a general least, as much gravity as we can working of events:" we have a muster up. He will not leave clear sight into the whole matter; room, we think, for us to laugh at and have a great mind to write a his grammar; for, as far as that Companion to the Almanack, and goes, he is a learned man. We to give an account of the progress before the Parliament meet. enough for the present.

word to the Operator;

shall, we dare say, never, while But he is a Minister, have to crack One our jokes on the language of just King's Speeches; unless, indeed,

one word, at his coming into jests should break out ; and, that

office; THE GRIDIRON IS is not very likely in these serious

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times. In the West of England,

the girls, when the fellows are

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rather forward, do not cry out, [folk paper would shew him, that "paws off;" but, "be sober; "the farming stock of one hundred which is nearly the same as the and fifteen farms, in that county,

remonstrance of the French girls, is advertised for public sale; and,

what that situation is; and to pre

who, in such emergencies, say, the Hampshire paper would show 66 soyez sage," that is to say, him, that a Bench of Justices, "be wise," or serious, or sober. consisting of Sir THOMAS BARING, We would beg permission to offer two "Squires," and five parMr. CANNING (for we must call sons, had recommended 3s. a-week him Mr. when he is off his stage) in winter, and 4s. a-week in this same piece of advice, soyez summer, as the wages of a laboursage, Monsieur. Do not run rioting man! We really believe, that with the landlords, who are, just he was wholly ignorant of the state at this moment, in no temper of the country; and we wrote to him, to receive sarcastic jests. They with the above-mentioned 'enclowill be perfectly sober; and, their sures, with the view of letting him ill-humour must not be made a see, with his own eyes, a little of subject of laughter by any one who lives on those taxes, which take away their rents. In order that Mr. CANNING may know a little something of the extent to which must be carried that " patience, " which he has recently recommended so strongly to the landlords and farmers; and, in order to give him a correct notion of that "comfort and affluence," in which he said the labouring classes were now living; we sent him, yesterday, to his house at Brompton, called Gloucester with wheat at 4s. a bushel? That Lodge, a Norfolk and also a speech must be printed again Hampshire newspaper, accom- before Parliament meet. He panied with a note from ourselves, must be asked to reconcile it with a copy of which note will be found his present notions about the cain the next Register. The Nor-pability of things to come about.

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pare him for a grand sweep, on the part of the landlords, at those "vested interests," of which he was pleased to talk during the last Session of Parliament. There are rumours of Mr. HUSKISSON taking the place of the present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. We do not believe this. There are many reasons for our not believing it.But, what will Mr. Huskisson do! Can he, after his speech of 1815, pretend, that rents can be paid

that this is not that poor land, of of which Mr. RICARDO speaks, as being necessary to be thrown out of cultivation. If a hundred and seventy farms be actually broken

He must acknowledge that he was this one county. In all proba in error in 1815, or that his pre-bility, these farms contain not sent doctrines are false. He has much less than fifty thousand a choice, to be sure; but one of acres of land; and we would the two he must take. Mr. Hus-beg Mr. HUSKISSON to observe, KISSON'S conduct puzzles us more than that of any other man.— For, he has sense; he has experience; he has evidently thought a great deal on the subject. We know, that attachment to place up, what must be the situation of and emolument is very strong, and we have seen nothing to make us suppose, that it is not as strong with him as with others. But he must see (unless his mind be wholly changed as to its faculty of reasoning,) that this system must, and that too, before long, be wholly changed; or, that there must be something very little short of a general convulsion. In the Norwich Gazette and the Norwich Mercury, there are a hundred and seventy-five advertisements for the public sale of farming stock! In about forty of these the owners announce that they are quitting business; in a considerable number the sales are expressed to take place under executions, or assignments: and in the other cases, we are left to conclude, that the parties are leaving off farming. Only think of a hundred and seventy odd farms thus actually broken up in

the other farms of the county? We are at our wits end to account for the conduct of Mr. HUSKISSON. He has more sense than any of the rest; and can be imagine that this thing can go on in the present way without producing a convulsion? We repeat, that his speech of 1815 must be republished before the Parliament meet. His present opinions are in direct opposition to ours. Ours were what they had been from the year 1803 to the year 1815; and what they have been from 1815 to the present hour. The people of Havant burnt him in effigy in 1815. We defended him. We said that he was right. But we cannot say that he is right now; for, in 1815, he said that the present taxes would not be paid, unless wheat were at double the price that it was during the war; and now he says that the present taxes can be paid with wheat at the

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same price that it was at before surrendering his sword, he exthe war! He will have to re- pressed his wish to surrender it to tract. One of the two of these ROCHAMBEAU, and not to WASHopinions he must give up; and INGTON! The weakness, the miwould it not be better for him, serableness, of this request was manfully to give up, than to en- to be surpassed by nothing but deavour by a train of subterfuges the gentle, the polite, and the digto support à pretended consis-nified manner in which it was retency, cand to drag along another fused by the American General, year or two of his life, basted in- who, without a word that could cessantly as he will be by us?-discover any angry feeling, withWe really do believe; shameful out a word from which you could as it is to him: we really do be- gather that he perceived the false lieve, that he is restrained from pride of CORNWALLIS put the acting this manly part, partly, if whole upon the customs of war not principally, because his sur- and his duty towards his country. rendering would be a surrender--This might serve as a warning ing to us! This false pride is of to Mr. HUSKISSON and his colall things in the world the most leagues: surrender they must, or foolish; and it scarcely ever fails tear the country to pieces and in to add to the quantity of mortifi- spite of all their endeavours to cation that the party has to expe- disguise it, the nation will say, rience. During the American that they surrender to the Author war, the world had to witness of the Register. If it be said, numerous instances of this silly that we ought to imitate the genpride on the part of the English tleness, the politeness and dignity Government and its commanders; of Washington, we observe, that but the most remarkable instance the enemy has not yet signified of it was, perhaps, exhibited by his intention to surrender. When CORNWALLIS when he was taken, Mr. Huskisson shall be brought with his army, at Little York in to that point, he shall see how Virginia. The capturing army gentle and polite we can be! consisted of Americans under the One would almost think that he command of WASHINGTON, and of French under the command of

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would hasten to surrender, were

it only from curiosity to see how

ROCHAMBEAU. When it came to we should look, when in a gentle the ceremony of CORNWALLIS's mood.