give it, nor take it; and the very point; and though I rely on their circumstance of paying in gold "words," I think the words came on demand, will keep down prices off the point of their pins without and prevent the Labouring | having first consulted their hearts. Classes from being robbed. With respect to the second point,

But, still, it is my duty to however, I am happy to be able warn people of their danger. If to give them complete satisfacthe Ministers hold firm, and act tion. The law is, that the Bank like men, we shall still have gold, shall be compelled to give small and, in a short time, paper will notes in exchange for large ones. all disappear down to the twenty | Now, if the Bank would not give, pound notes, which will be sel- dear ladies, 100 ones for a hundom seen. But (and here is the dred pound note, you can go on danger) the interest of the Debt changing till you get it into must be reduced; and, though ones; and then, it must give that would really make things you a hundred Sovereigns in more solid, yet it will occasion a gold! Just so with countrytemporary alarm; and this may bank-notes. The Country Bankoccasion a violent scrambling to ers are compelled to give you get at the gold. Therefore, Igold, or Bank of England notes; advise people to get the gold and, having the latter, you can now when they can do it quietly. go and get the gold.—Thus, unWhen they have got it, it is less another stoppage take place, safe. "A bird in hand is the way is clear as day-light. worth two in bush." And And, if another stoppage take a gold coin in pocket is worth a place, a single sovereign may be hundred promises. "A family worth forty or fifty shillings in "of Maidens turned of thirty," paper money. Pray bear this in which is the signature of a let- mind, and, "make hay while the ter, which assures me "upon their" sun shines."-Remember, that, "words," that they do not in all human probability, 200 so"care about lovers" and asks me vereigns, if laid by now, will how they are to get gold for large buy, in two years time, a nice bank notes, must excuse me if my little farm, with house and buildfaith, though very stout, is not ings, and containing twenty or thirty acres of land." I counsel thee, therefore, to get gold, that thou mayest be rich.”

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Will contain a Letter to MR.pally of the justice and necessity COKE, on the question of Large of reducing the Interest of the and Small, Farms. I thought of Debt. This question must now addressing it to the Edinburgh come forward, and that, too, beReviewers; but, it will please me fore it be long, unless the Minis

better to address MR. COKE, and I can lash the Scotch Economists

all the same.

ters give way, and yield themselves up to everlasting shame. Cash-payments and the interest of the Debt in full, cannot go on together. Now, therefore, is a time for putting before the eyes of The PRELIMINARY PART of this the public the justification of the Work will be published Next Sa-measure of reduction.

PAPER AGAINST GOLD.

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MR. COKE.

man, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH,

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blames me also for not wishing

On the question of Large Farms foran abolition of the Poor-Laws;

and Small Farms, and on the and bids me look at Scotland as

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fall of the System out of which an example for us to follow! they have arisen.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, that there be no place, that they may be "placed alone in the midst of the "earth."-ISAIAH, Ch. 5. V. 8.

SIR,

It is my intention, Sir, to address you upon these subjects; and I choose your name on this occasion, because you are, I believe, the best landlord and the best husbandman in England,

Kensington, 22. May, 1821. which, after all, contains the best.

of both that are to be found in

the world, not excepting dear,

I have lately been accused in that herald of stupidity, conceit generous, ingenious, industrious and impudence, the MORNING and moral Scotland! In 1815, I CHRONICLE, of exciting a pre-addressed you in a very angry judice against Large Farms as tone; and I had a right so to do being a cause of oppression and for, you, in standing forward for misery to the Labouring Classes. a Corn-Bill, though actuated by If, by prejudice, the "unac- no selfish motive, lent your name countable" Mr. PERRY mean and all its weight to support the dislike, he is so far right; for, accursed system of paper-money. it is my object to excite a dislike You and Mr. Western did this, to large farms as a system. This too, in the face of all my proofs; "unassailable " gentleman, as not my assertions, but my proofs, he is called by his brother Scotch

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that a Corn-Bill could do the matter of what description it be, husbandman no good, while it to draw property into large massesmust of necessity expose him to Not to create property, as the 'hatred, And, what did I see as Scotch Baronet, Sir JOHN SINthe consequence of your reject-CLAIR, and as the deep and dark ing my advice? I saw you hooted SCOTCH REVIEWERS, with their by the people; and Old George aids, the dunderheaded Scotch Rose, yea the old purser himself, Economists, CHALMERS and COLgreeted as "the friend of the QUHOUN, have pretended: no, people!" I told you, then, that not to create any thing valuablę; the Old Lady of Threadneedle but, to draw valuable things into Street was at her tricks. I bid great masses. One of its effects, you look to her works as the only therefore, is to lessen the number cause of the ruin of the farmers. of occupiers of land; and this This truth is now become clear to effect it has produced in England all men; and it would have been to an extent of about three clear to all men long ago, if men fourths; that is to say, where like you had spoken out, and there were about fifty years ago made your attacks upon the real, four farms, there is now only one. and not the imaginary cause of More than three fourths of this the nation's calamities. Now it change has been produced since is, thank God, impossible to dis- the Pitt-Paper became afloat. guise the cause any longer. Now And, if we could make the enuevery one sees, that it is the in- meration, we should, I am confernal Pitt-system of Paper-mo- vinced, find, that Paper-money, ney that has turned all the na- Large farms, Fine houses, Pautural manifold blessings of Eng-perism, Hangings, Transportings, land into just so many curses. Leprosy, Scrofula and Insanity,

It is the natural and inevitable have all gone on increasing regutendency of paper-money, no larly together.