understood. Judge Best said, THIRD (in case of news-papers) that, though the Jury were to you must have stamps, and secuconvict the defendant (on the rity that you will pay duty on the libel case relating to the army), advertisements before you print. "the utmost liberty of the press Then, the printer, the publisher, "would still subsist. God forbid and the proprietor must all go to. "that should be infringed upon! the Stamp-Office and severally "The constitution itself could swear, that they are the printer, "not long survive the freedom of publisher, and proprietor, and "discussion." Well, then, bless that the paper is to be printed at us! this must be an "inestimable such a place, published at such "privilege" indeed. However, a place and that the carcases of the vague and general descriptions are swearers are usually deposited at bad: they lead to error'; and, such and such places, being their therefore, I will now give in de- places of residence. If either tail, a description of this inesti- change place of residence; if the mable privilege. FIRST, you place of printing or publishing be cannot have a press from a press- changed, or if printer, publisher maker's, unless his name be re- or proprietor be changed, the corded, as a press-maker, in the whole must go again to the Stamparchives of the government, who Office, and swear again: aud this can make him render an account document, accompanied with the of all the presses he sells, and of offending news-paper, a copy, the persons to whom sold. It is signed by the publisher, you are, the same with regard to the of every number, compelled to Types.-SECOND, before you use lodge at the Stamp-Office, are. a press, you must take out a always to be evidence, if prolicence, pay a fee for it, and have duced, against all the parties in your name recorded with the Clerk case of charge of libel. This is of the Peace, who is to furnish not all the preliminary work. the government with the record You must, before you dare print, when it pleases to call for it. have two bondsmen, bound for And, if a Justice suspect you of three hundred pounds each, to using an unlicenced press, he may pay, in case any fine should be enter your house, and, if he find inflicted on you, at any time, the his suspectings true, may take amount of that fine, if not exaway your press and types.-ceeding three hundred pounds.

"God...

says,

This is before you dare print at relating to libel; but, much deall. You have thus sureties for tail is not necessary here. Suffice your good behaviour, before you it to say, that, if á Minister were can have committed any offence! to rob the Exchequer, and you Oh, "inestimable privilege!" had proof of it, you might be puas Judge Best nished by fine, imprisonment, or but, let us proceed banishment, for stating the fact, with our detail.-FOURTH, you and would not be permitted to prodo not like all these previ-duce to the Jury proof of the ous ceremonies: you will not truth of your statement. And, publish a news-paper. You will further, you may be punished in publish in the pamphlet-way, and like manner for publishing any then there will be no stamp, and thing, which has a tendency to no previous securities and swear-expose either king, or governings. Ah! Will you? Faith ment, or either House of Parliathe "Grand Council" have ment into contempt. As to the taken care of you here too. They Jury to try you, it may, at the will let you publish no periodical pleasure of the prosecutor, be a thing at a less price than sixpence, special one; and special juries are that is to say, nearly the price of nominated by the Master of the a quarten-loaf, and they will not Crown-Office! Oh! "inestisuffer you to have it of a less bulk" mable privilege?" What would than two sheets and a quarter! become of our glorious ConstituYou must put the printer's name tion, if this privilege were inand place of abode on the first fringed on!--SIXTH, as to the leaf of your pamplet; and you mode of proceeding against you, must have it printed at a licenced you may be seized on the very press. As to plays, they are not day of publication by any Justice to be acted without a previous of the peace, on the oath of any censorship; and, if any one con-one who swears that you have tain any thing not relished by the government, the acting may be put a stop to.-FIFTH, Having gone over a part, and a part only, of the regulations before you go to press, we should now go into a detail of the laws, as administered,

published a thing which the Justice shall deem a seditious libel. The Justice may bind you over with sureties till the next Quarter Sessions, not only to answer the charge, but to keep the peace and to be of good behaviour in the

mean time; and, if you cannot | administered, too, like jallop, a get bail, he may send you to jail little of it mixed up with a great till the day of trial comes on. If deal of other matter, to make it you be convicted, your punish-go down.

ment, or punishments, follow of course; if you be acquitted, and

if you have broken the peace, or

BULL-FROG FARMERS.

Faith, they are beginning to

have been of bad behaviour, in the meanwhile, you may be sued show themselves! No less than for breach of those very recogni- three gentlemen, each under zances, which your acquittal the signature of " A Farmer," proves were demanded of you without your having committed any offence at all! Poh, poh! as Judge Best

"God.

says

...

but let us put an end

have sent me the "Farmer's "Journal" of the 23d of this

month. One of these gentlemen says, and very truly, that it ought to be called, the "Landlord's

to this history! Come, my boys? Journal;" for, by them it is Let us have wheat at four shillings chiefly supported; and the writers a bushel; and then we will tell in it are their agents, surveyors, and other SCREWERS UP OF them a little something or two about" the Constitution," and RENTS.

about the inestimable privilege!"

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I must now quit Mr. SCARLETT for the present. I have not room left wherein to do justice to the remaining most curious points of his speech; and, as to filling a whole Register with him; that was out of the question. have the stomachs of my readers to consider; and, if people " may "have too much of a good thing," they may assuredly have too large a dish, or, rather, dose, of SCARLETT; which is a thing to be ad

ministered, not served up; and

The paper just mentioned contains a Letter to Lord Liverpool from one of these disaffected BigFarmers, who, like the BullFrogs of the American swamps, have swallowed up the smallfarmers, as the Bull-Frogs do the little chirping frogs. These BullFrogs are as big as a quart pot: they make a sort of bellow, or boo-woo, that you can hear for miles, of a still night. They clear all before them: they gobble up or drive away all the occupiers of the swamps, except the Barrel-snake, which is a greater

Devil than themselves, and which the evidence before us, as it was

swallows them.

taken, other witnesses, not selected, might have offered themselves. And, surely, it was right, that they should have the opportunity of doing this, the matter being one in which the eaters, of meat and bread were interested as well as the producers of them; a matter in which the chirping

This Letter to Lord Liverpool is signed, John Ellman, jun. and is dated at Southover, which is in Sussex, though the coxcomb of a writer does not mention the county, taking it for granted, that all the world knows, what county his seat is in. I have not time now to notice at any length, farmers were interested as well as the contents of this letter, the the Bull-frog farmers. Nor pretext for the writing and the should the Labourers, Smiths, publishing of which is, that Wheelwrights, and others have there have been inserted in the been excluded; and no decision daily prints some false statements should be come to without receivof the evidence which the writer ing evidence from some of them. and others have given before What information, as to the real GAFFER GOOCH's Committee. I state of the question, is to be had have seen no statement at all of from Bull-frog farmers, Landany evidence in the daily papers, | Agents, Surveyors, and Screwersnor in any other papers; and I want to know what is the reason for keeping the evidence so snug upon this particular occasion! What! Are we become so very pudent as to make this, too, a matter of State-Secrecy? If we had had the evidence before us, as it came out before the Committee, we should then have been able to play off the Artillery of the Press upon it; for, as yet, it is not a banishment-reach crime to comment freely on the tles, subject of growing wheat and trenchers, and such other things fatting bacon. If we had had as the Labourers used to have in

up; or, from Iron-mongers and other shop-keepers in country towns, whose receipts depend upon the capacity of the Bullfrogs and the Landlords to expend money? These shop-keepers are funguses as well as the Bull-frogs. They are excrescences of the Pittsystem. They deal in fineries, which the Chirpers never wanted and never can want; and in things wholly beyond the Labourer's

Let them get brass ketiron-pots, pewter platters,

Faith, they will come down; and the sooner the better.

In this Letter of Mr. ELLMAN there is something very much like a threat, that, if a new and efficient Corn-bill be not passed,

their houses and chests and on jengendered and swelled up the their beds, in good store; and, if Bull-frogs, till husbandman and they have not a demand for these farmer became too low for them. sufficient to keep their shops open, it will be a proof, that they ought to go to work. The earth always invites the hand of labour, and always most gratefully repays the Labourer. It is nonsense, beastly nonsense, to suppose that too the Yeomanry Cavalry (mind much food can be raised, or that that!) will take the other side! the land will be untilled, except How this Bull-frog will come on upon speculations of profit. I know not; but I know, that, The tillers of the land must till it if a Radical had said as much as for a living; with that for enough Mr. ELLMAN said last Wednesto content them, with those de- day, he would now have been grees of a better and worse living held to bail, or laid by the heels. which arise out of the necessary However, I shall notice the inequalities in strength, health, emptiness and impudence of this skill and moral disposition. To" Agriculturist," which ought to suppose, that the raising of the be spelt " Agriculture-ass," that food, and of the raw materials being a legitimate compound for the raiment, of all mankind word, and the other being no can be a sort of dashing, specu- word at all, in our language, or lating concern is monstrous; and in any other: I shall, in my next, notice a small part, at any rate, of the emptiness and impudence of this man.. I may, perhaps, do it in a Letter to himself; and, why not? I have addressed letters to VAN!

yet this is the notion which the Landlords and Bull-frogs would have us adopt; and, they would have us believe, that we shall all be starved, if this gambling trade be put an end to, and the tilling of the land be taken from the am very much obliged to "agriculturist" and given back the gentleman who sent me the

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to the husbandman. Who ever" Agriculture-ass's Journal;"and,

heard of this word " agriculturist" I am also obliged to the gentlebefore in this world?" A word man, who has written to me about coined by the Pitt-System, which that sapient leader of the Bull