་

soul!); I did not want to be re-many (for to thunder ye must minded of this. I saw the be gods)! if ye thunder, pray words but too plainly in print, let your bolts be made of gold! and they made an impression upon He said, that " England's Glory', me which I would, fain have dis-would "never be able to revive guised even from myself. A" the confusion if the manliness nasty article in the COURIER has" and wisdom of parliament contended to add to my alarm. But, "tinued to manifest itself as it at any rate, there is the Bill ever had done." Now, if, in

>

which is to immortalize Mr. Peel,

66

member for the University of Ox-said, " as it is now doing by caus

C

ford! That is not "
"liament" I hope. That, for
God's sake, is not, I trust, "an
"experiment." If it be, all that
I can say, is, that confusion, uproar,
horrible convulsion will be the end
of the drama! My wish has

open to par- ing gold to come out," he would
have been perfectly correct. For,
what materials for "confusion"
can there be, if the millions be-
come well off? Make them well
off; let them have two bushels of
wheat for a week's work in hus-
bandry (other branches will
Il give
more in proportion); and the

always been to let the thing end

quietly; and this is the way in which it will end, if, as we ap-very elements of confusion are an

proach the close, the millions shall nihilated. Taxes will press still;

be well off. CASTLEREAGH said but bread and meat are the main (the report says) during the de

bate on "6

things, and, if a labourer in husEngland's Glory's," bandry have the price of two

unaccountably-delayed motion, bushels of best wheat for six days

that, (in the year 1819)" the of labour he will be content. danger of treason had disap- Handicraft and Manufactures will

66

af

soon afford more; and they ought; will keep the belly full and the because the husbandman has many | back warm, and I, who, by some, advantages, in which the labour- have been supposed to be classed

in oblong snips or in folio volumes; whether in notes or in paper-money. In the reform peacts, it is of little use; and, can, tition which I signed on Portsat best, only obtain a chance of down Hill, the sufferings from tranquillity, and that only for a the paper-money are clearly set limited time. But, give us gold, forth, and redress as clearly that will give labour its due; that prayed for. And that petition

will be found in the Journals of" is lost;" and I now see the the House of Commons. To be effects of all mine. I am satis

sure it was the sufferings of the people, that I, for my part, took advantage of; and that it was my duty to do, with a view of inducing them to labour for their deliverance; and not for mine; for

I was not in a situation to suffer indeed!"

Taking advantage,

fied, that, had it not been for me Peel's Bill would never have been passed, or thought of; and, I only repeat the general sentiment "out of doors," when I say, that, had it not been for me, that Bill would have been repealed months ago. I only am

You see the the echo of thousands when I

This is pretty talk.
degradation of the people long
going on; you see them silently

say, that it was my writings about the May-Morning that pro

sinking into the deepest mi-duced the present gold-payments, sery; you, at last, see them be- and, that, if they continue, I ginning to be roused by the acute-shall have been the cause. This ness of their suffering; and, because you explain to them what you, at any rate, deem to be the cause of their suffering, and call upon them to apply for re

is "egotism," is it? Well, then, let it be such: and I will laugh at those who thus call it. I have as much right to claim the merit of those measures as ever father, or (more safely) mother, had to call a child her own.

And is there any thing wrong

pretty advantage, to be thun- in my having this influence?

dered up!

What is the press for, if not for such purposes? I do not pretend to say, that I recommended, or dissuaded from, any one of

However, in spite of the thunder, I am quite sure, that I did not "take advantage" in vain! "No well-directed effort these very important measures.

That was not the way to go to the Debt shall be reduced, and to work. Suffice it that I caused what extent, if at all. The big > them to be adopted, and of this I farmers, the cotton-lords, the anam thoroughly convinced. So vil-lords, the bank-lords, and the far am I from blaming the ship-lords, seem to be pretty "thunderers" for adopting them, well provided for. They have all that I applaud them for it; and, fallen, dead as herrings, before whatever I am able to do in sup- the Fund-lords, and the tug is be- : port of them shall be done, being tween the Fund-lords and Land-convinced, that, if these measures lords. About this struggle, as be persevered in, we may safely far as the parties themselves exleave every thing to Lord CAS-clusively are interested, I care TLEREAGH'S " general working very little. The Labouring "of events" And, if they be Classes, if gold keep coming out, not persevered in, the end of the may stand and look on, and cry drama will come almost as soon, only the catastrophe will be of a different sort, a sort that I should shows. But, seeing that gold greatly dislike. I hate the dark cannot continue to come without and deep, the gloomy and sub-making the battle dreadful, and lime. My taste is farce, and I decisive one way or the other, wish to see this famous piece there is some reason to fear, that close with the "gods" in good humour.

66

pull Devil pull Baker!” as we used to do at the puppet

the Ministers, in order to avoid the danger that this deadly fray might create, may be induced to give up their public-spirited and

We are got, Sir, very far into the fifth Act. Incidents, all tending to help out the plot, crowd in just resolution to make the Bank upon us apace. The thing that pay in gold. If this should be the engages us at present is, the case,

1

all our calamities will return,

question, whether the interest of for a season, at least. The la

bourer, whose head is just getting others very far outstrip me in the above the mire, would be re- race. Converts are proverbially

plunged; and something very far from a farcical catastrophe would be the consequence.

zealous; and, I should not be at all surprised, if some of them were soon to represent me as a poor chicken-hearted halfway-going fellow.

In a late Register I mentioned Parson, who had begun to thunder away for a reduction of

a

Without, therefore, caring one straw about the interest of the two parties without caring one straw which of them sinks and which swims, I certainly think it would be best for the Nation at the Debt; and that, too, in a large if the interest of the Debt" cheap publication," coming were to be at once quietly re-out from Mr. HATCHARD's in duced. I know that the thing is Piccadilly, who is also the Bookjust. I have always contended seller of the Prime Minister. that it was just. I have, begin- This was pretty well! I have ning with the year 1803, had to now before me a publication by a endure nineteen years of abuse "Barrister," coming out from for having endeavoured to con- the shop of Mr. RIDGEWAY in vince the Nation of the justice, Piccadilly. This Barrister is not and to prepare it for the adoption, so personally bold as the Parson; of this measure. I have now re- for he does not put his name, published, under the title of which the Parson bravely does. "Preliminary Part of Paper But that which he wants in per "against Gold," my arguments, published between 1803 and 1806 inclusive, to shew the justice and necessity of this very measure. at once. He insists that the But, faith! I must be quick in fund-holders have no legal right my motions now, or I shall see to any interest at all, and out of

sonal bravery, he amply makes up for in boldness of mind; for he comes, souse, to the point