He had totally destroyed every tempting, to make those factious thing worthy of the name of free- and rebellious, whom it was the dom in France. His elections" first duty of sovereigns to unite were a mere mockery, and, as to "to keep in awe." A similar debates, there are now debates in sentiment had been before exthe Legislature; but in his time, pressed in his letter to Ferdinand there were none. He was, as of Spain. His vanity had, at fast, as possible, re-establishing last, absolutely made him infathe Church in all its oppressions tuated. Even on his return from and insolence; and, if he had ELBA, when he had tasted of the continued in power for twenty friendship of "sovereigns," he years, Europe might have groaned retained all his old language; apin slavery for ages. The splen- pealed, not to freedom, but to dour of his warlike deeds, always what he called loyalty; called so enchanting with the mass of mankind; his gratifying the passions of the brave and vain, and pleasing the people of populous and fertile France; these would have made despotism hallowed instead of being (as it now is) hated, or, made up the far greater part of rather, despised. Who will ever his turgid Who will ever his turgid proclamations and manifestoes.

admire such things as the Bour

upon the nation, not to avenge itself, but him and his "imperial "house," talk about which, about his son, his wife, his dynasty, and railing against those whom he had the audacity to call" the factious,"

All this being so notorious as it

bons? And, who can believe, that, if Napoleon had remained is, our pretty gentlemen com

in power, we ever should have seen a revolution in Spain, or in Portugal?

mitted a great oversight in putting him down, and this I said at the time. He was the best friend then That he was a despot in heart, in existence to their system, a sysand an insolent despot too, we tem, which, as was clearly proved need no other proof than his by his acts, he never wished to answer to the proclamation see destroyed. It is well known of the Allies upon his last re- that no Boroughmonger ever treat from Germany. They had invited the people to rise every where against him; and on he did. He hated, and treated this he reproached them with at-with contempt, every thing which

hated the Americans more than

about it.

had the character of freedom large permanent army would have needed no apology then. All would have become military. The Debt would have been just small enough to be endurable for many years, and just big enough

And, is there any body so lost to all sense of justice as to call this a great man! A fortunate, and, if you will, a brave and

skilful general, with a million of to make us a set of poor, debrave men, and the resources of graded, ill-treated half-starved a great country at his absolute slaves. Now there is no apology command. No wonder that he for barracks and military acade

mies. The military mania is now bled, or is bleeding, down into sanity by the tax-gatherer ;

gained victories over discontented nations. But, we are to look at the end as well as at the middle of the career; and, if we thus and the Debt is so monstrous, look, he was a miserable com- that it cannot be endured. A mander and a still worse politician. change, therefore, must come; and that change must be for the better.

PRICES OF FOOD.

The prices of wheat is, at present, prevented from falling by a long coolness of weather, which is rare, at this time of the year,

Men of sober sense will take this view of the matter; and will not be carried away into mourning for the loss of the great man, whatever they may think of the treatment of the prisoner of war. The art of war may be debtor to his memory; but freedom owes it nothing but reproach. If our pretty gentlemen had made peace and which has now continued, with him in 1806, leaving him with little intermission for two Emperor of France, we should months. But, other food comes have been settled down under a down nicely. Excellently good military despotism for ages A bacon, by the side, for fourpence

halfpenny a pound, dried well" bourhood. Best weather Legs

and well smoked. For 18 years

of Mutton, 6d. per lb.; Shoul

succeeding 1800, 'I never knewders, 6d. ; Loins, 64d.; Necks,

bacon of this description sell for -less than a shilling a pound by

! -the side. Come, come!

Say

what they like, this is not “ ruin”

to the labouring man.

43d.; Breasts, 4d. Fine grass Lamb, 72d. Prime Ox Beef

.d."

Thank you, Mr. GRIFFITH. Of But, come; not such very small

Butcher's meat, in London, I will profits neither ! You do not speak by inserting the copy of a give (nor does any one) much printed hand-bill, which was more than 3 d. a pound for mutton put into my hands yesterday:

by the carcass; and, for ready money, you would not do amiss, to sell, all round, at 41d. However, you have your rent, taxes,

“ J. Griffith, butcher, No. 3, "St. Clement's Foregate, back "of St. Clement's Church, three " doors from Pickett-street, servants, and other expences. "Strand, begs respectfully to in"form the gentry and public "in general, that he purposes to "commence on Saturday, July "7, supplying them with the "best meat he can procure, at "the under mentioned low prices

"for ready money; which he

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Well! Is not this comfortable? A mechanic can now have a joint of lamb for his Sunday's dinner. And, how many a poor creature used to be famishing that can now get a belly full of meat?

But, we are, I hope, not come down yet to where we shall be. We must have a leg of wether

"will only be enabled to do by a large consumption, the pro-mutton at about 3ld. a pound, fils being so very small; there- and the quartern loaf at 4d. fore, trusts upon trial, that he That will be about the thing. will meet with liberal support And, if we have pretty good from the surrounding neigh-years, we shall see this before

"

Peel's Bill gets into its full He is too high-blooded is he, to operation. And I must not re-use the dung-fork or the scythe.! joice at this, I suppose, lest it Faith, let him bleed himself then, should reach the ears of Six-and let out the high-blood. Acts gentlemen, the Manchester I yesterday heard of a landMagistrates, Parson Hay, or lord, who has now, actually beBolton Fletcher ! I must not tween forty and fifty farms rejoice, eh! because, forsooth, thrown upon his hands! The my country" is ruined! Do cause was not stated; nor was you call it ruin for a labouring it necessary to state it to me. I man to be able to fill his belly? know the cause, and that it was If this be ruin, I hope we are that he wanted more rent than the getting into ruin everlasting. farmers could afford to give.

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Is it no good that robberies His asking might be very low; have, in a great degree diminish- not a third, perhaps, of what ed? People can go about now he got before; but, still, they without being knocked down. would have given something; We hear of no sheep-stealing as and, if he could get nobody to we did a few years ago. This give more, that something was is the true way of “ softening the better than nothing. It is a criminal code." And, I am shocking thing to have a parcel of not to rejoice at this, I suppose, farms thrown upon hand. They because that which puts a stop to must go to ruin. Now, I will robberies and murders makes now give this landlord my advice; and and then an "Agriculturist" I will suppose the case my own. hang himself, or cut his throat! A great part of the dismay of I do not want to hear of this; the farmers arises from the state but, why should the Agriculturass of complete uncertainty, in which make away with himself? Why they are. If they were all to not go to work? Oh, bless me read the Register, which (on

more accounts than one) I wish | hundred bushels of wheat, or the the logger-headed dogs would, average market price of 200 instead of the bewildering trash bushels. This would give him a that they do read, they would certainty and me too. If wheat know precisely how to take a fell to 3s. a bushel, or rose farm. The landlords, in general, to 25s., we should both be doing read the Times news-paper, the justice to one another. There is Morning Chronicle and the than- no other possible way of givingderers' speeches and reports. any thing like certainty, at thisThat their brains are addled it is time, to any transactions of thissort.

no wonder at all. The oratorical

thunder seems to have the same
effect.
.upon their poor heads that
celestial thunder has upon beer in
a shallow cellar. Thus they are,
on both sides, bewildered, be-
muddled and bedevilled. The

landlord acts upon his hopes, the
farmer upon his fears; and, they
are necessarily, as wide as the

Poles asunder.-Now, if I had a farm to let, and liked my man, and I could get 50 pounds a year from him, and no more from any other, I would close with him in

this way. He should have a lease, and pay me a corn rent.

Thus, 50l. will now buy two hundred bushels of wheat, and he

But, I would, first of all, throw my large farms back into small ones, if there were any thing of houses and buildings on them; for three tenants will be, in the approaching state of things, better than one. The poor-rates would be instantly relieved by this; for, though paupers would not be farmers, all at once, some of the capital labourers would, and this would instantly give a spur to emulation, the effects of which would speedily be felt.. And, what would be so becoming in a great landlord; what could afford him half so much real satisfaction, as such a regeneration of

should give me every year two his tenantry and his parish? For