and their crop will be applied to from it. It is a death-blow

its natural and legitimate uses. The labourer will have more food for his labour: he will not labour so hard and so constantly: more labourers in number will be wanted: there will be more rest and better living for all. And we shall, in a year's time, see the poor-rates gradually disappearing.

to the greatest and vilest gang of robbers that ever infested the earth, who will all be swept off the face of that earth if that Bill go into complete effect. You will yet have to hear howlings most melodious; but, console yourselves with reflecting, that, if the thousands howl, the mil lions dance and sing. You will, as Mr. ATTWOOD said, destroy the present generation of farmers, landlords and big traders, and you will, in time, sweep the paper-crew wholly away; but you will make room for another and a better generation.

However, all this depends on what is done at the Bank; and all will go back again to misery and slavery if another stoppage take place. Let the gold alone, and it will work its way in spite of all the tricks and contrivances of Jews and Jobbers and bankers Who, then, will now raise his and the like. You hear it said, voice against you? Who but the that some people prefer paper-jobber and paper-villain will withmoney. Such people must have hold from you his praise and his some particular object in view. support? I am for pestering your They must be connected with with no complaints of any kind. forgers, and thus make a profit The army, to be sure, is wholly unof the vile thing. If a shop- necessary and the navy is too nu keeper were to tell me, that he merous for a time of peace. But, preferred a thing that may be I do not mind this now, seeing forged, I should set him down that the payment of them no for a trader in forged notes; and longer falls upon the labourer; would certainly have nothing to seeing, that a depreciated paper do with him. Cash payments no longer enables the farmer to are not yet law; but, they, can- deduct all the taxes from the not, I hope, be again stopped; wages of labour. The rich now and if they be not, we have wheat, pay their share of the taxes; the if the year be good, at 4s. a big-farmers, the landlords, the bushel by Christmas; and away lords of the loom and of the anvil goes every fragment of the Pitt-now pay their share towards the system, which you laud to the army and navy, and the soldiers skies at the very moment that you and sailors are only labourers in are oversetting it! red cloths or blue cloths. They, Now, my Lord Chancellor, too, are made better off by the let me, in conclusion, express my return of gold. They get a belly unqualified applause of the reso- full, and have even some little lation which the Ministry have matter to spare to frolick with. taken to stand firmly to Peel's A soldier will now be able to get Bill. I am well aware of all a pint of beer a day to drink the the means that have been made king's health, and success to the use of to make them depart" stern path of duty." There

now know, that their pay does not come out of deductions from the wages of labour.

will be no quarrelling between the soldiers and their brothers in smock frocks, unless where they get drunk together, and then they There are two or three taxes will fight as a matter of course. that I wish to see repealed; and, But, all will be forgotten the next that done, I have nothing to morning. You may repeal your, complain of, and I do not know or, rather, Pitt's, hanging law to that I shall have any business to prevent us from seducing soldiers write any more afterwards; for, from their duty. Nobody will as to praises on the government, attempt it. No reasonable man it must be pennyless indeed when will object to see a hundred it cannot get Scotchmen suffithousand of the labourers neatly cient to glut even the most cordressed and walking about at their morant-like apetite. The salt tax leisure, or dancing along to the I wish to see repealed; because sound of drums and fifes. Lord salt is indispensable to the laPALMERSTONE, that official mar-bourer, and he will want more and tinet, need no longer digest more as he gets on to the keeping schemes for keeping the soldiers of pigs. I wish also to see the separate from the people; for the malt-tax taken off, or, at least, people will be on the most friendly greatly diminished. I will be terms with them, and all the strife content with this; for, as to between the two will be, which spirits, tea, coffee, sugar, and shall oftenest drink the king's and tobacco, those who choose to use his Ministers' health. Even them may starve for any thing England's Glory," that staunch that I care. Starvation, or somefoe of that standing army in time thing little short of it, is a puof peace in which his own son is nishment due to their profligacy a commander, will cease to com- and obstinacy. I can prove, plain of a thing which can only and, in a short time, I will demontend to give leisure to a part of strate, that people can brew beer, the labourers; full-bellied leisure, better than London porter, for five and not that hunger and ease, pence a gallon; and, if they will which makes up the life of a dog. not do this; if they be too lazy The soldier will now be comfort- to brew, too improvident to proable, and that, too, at the expense vide such trifling means, too obof those who have desired to have stinate to quit the cat-lap that the him kept on foot. The magis- East and West Indians wring trates, we were told, during the out of the carcasses of slaves, let last session of parliament, had them, in the penury and misery applied for new barracks. Just that follow, pay the penalty of as many as they please, if the their laziness and obstinacy. I Old Lady continues to pay in am here speaking of brewing gold; for the expence will chiefly with malt as now taxed. But, if fall upon the owners of the land! the tax be taken off, I then enI shall no longer detest the sight gage to shew, that beer, better of flashy blades in whiskers and than London porter, can be made in Wellington-boots; for I shall for 3d. a gallon !

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And, my Lord Chancellor, is who has tucked down a piece of it not a duty, and one of the first bacon and bread and a pint of duties, of a government, to watch beer! And, when luncheon time over the health and morals of the comes, how does the cat-lap and people? What is the use of cold potatoe hero look by the

schools; what nonsense to talk of side of him, who has his bottle of "Education Digests," while the beer and satchel of bread and government really encourages the cheese? drinking of those infernal spirits, By the poverty, by the spirits, which ruin the body and the by the tea, this nation has been mind at the same time? What debased and corrupted. The are half a dozen bales of "reli- poverty that stripped the people 66 gious tracts" about "sinful of the brewing utensils and that "Sally" and the "sailor's ghost," took from them the means of getwhen pitted against a tub of gin? ting malt, has been the root of The enormous tax upon malt, all; and that poverty has arisen and the high-prices of food, oc- from the accursed Pitt system of casioned by paper-money, which, paper-money. That horrible, that at the same time, keep wages infernal system, which has now, down these have been the cause I trust, received its death blow. of the general use of spirits. Let The misery of the Labouring people be able to get good Classes, if you keep firmly to beer at 4d. or even 6d. a Peel's Bill, will certainly cease; gallon, and let them have their and, a repeal of the malt tax fair wages; and they will cease would drive the tea and the pubto drink spirits. The tea owes lic-brewers pretty nearly out of its general use to the same cause. existence. Why are there so The nasty, nerve-shaking, para- many tippling houses? Why so lytic-stroke giving, villainous many of those invitations to thing is easily cooked! It is a drunkenness and all sorts of vice? from-hand-to-mouth sort of thing. Why are there five of them in a It can be got at a moment's warn- little village like Botley, and one ing and in three penny quantities. at a mile distance at every outIt is the companion of misery let of the village? Why are and improvidence; and it has there so many of these resorts of greatly helped to change the cha- the dissolute? Why so many racter as well as to diminish the of these places, which first sesize of the bodies of the English duce and then perpetuate the sepeople. It keeps a man at home duction, these monsters that coddling about in the morning;" make the meat they feed on ;" leads him to hang over his hand-these makers of bad servants, ful of fire, from which he, at last, bad husbands, bad fathers, creeps out shivering and shaking broken-hearted wives and ragged at every puff of wind. It is but and abandoned children? The warm-water that he gets after all; reason is, that to obtain beer at and that warmth soon ceases, home has, for years, been imleaving him cold as a stone. How possible. Foolish and even wicked different is such a man from one is it, therefore, to rail against

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It has been, by some, deemed" John, by the just and fair disimpossible for a nation got to a "tribution of the good things of state like that in which we are to "the country, the country and get right without a total revolu- " my crown are made safe. The tion. I have never thought thus." mass of the people feeling We must go back through a sẻ- "themselves comfortable, will ries of sufferings; but, the classes" naturally have no temptation which suffer now are those who" to be disaffected towards their flourished before. The millious" sovereign. The same cause have been suffering for forty" will leave them no room to years; the thousands will have to envy and hate their superiors. suffer for about four; for, by that Hence will come loyalty, and time, they will have been brought due subordination without the to their proper leve, or extin-" employment of force. If the guished. The millions cannot be nation be in danger from extinguished. They live through" foreign foes, every man is a every thing; but the thousands" willing soldier, and ready too are quickly disposed of. Listen not," to employ those means which my Lord Chancellor, to those vile" an absence of taxation has left and pernicious vermin, who have" in his possession." fattened on the Pitt-paper system, There may be persons weak and who would revive it. Never enough to lament at the prospect believe, that high-prices are good of seeing so many fine things dis-for the nation: never believe that appear fine houses empty and the country is glorious while thou- falling into decay and crumbling sands shine and the millions starve. down; whole rows of villas withNever was a wiser saying than out their eyes, and places of that of ELIZABETH; that "her resort. for spiders and bats. "best exchequer was the pockets Weeds and brambles growing up of her subjects. She under- where new lawns and parterres stood political economy a little delight the eye. All these miles better than John Maberly and of glass, which now cover the the Edinburgh Reviewers. John weeds of foreign countries to Maberly, who seems deeply read regale the smell and the sight in per cents. and "consolidated of the vermin of the 'Change, "funds" and surpluses and the smashed into bits not biglike, cites the fortification and ger than a sixpence A sickly barracks (for he speaks of pub-head may be set a swimming by lic works) and the fine squares such a prospect; but, to a man and streets and bridges as proofs who reflects, it is cheering and of the nation's riches. Queen delightful; for, it necessarily imElizabeth would have told himplies the re-appearance of plenty that it would be better to have and happiness amongst the milthe worth of all these in two hun-lions, whose miseries have arisen

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from the same cause as all these land what it was when you were a showy possessions. boy. Persevere, and you will I do not romance. I speak see numerous and laughing famiin seriousness; and I expect to lies in farm-houses again. You see all that I describe. Your will see that accursed thing Lordship prays to God, that" board-wages" abolished. What England may be what you have a thing! To keep under one's known it. So do I; for you roof servants whose stomachs are knew it seventy years ago. To not to be trusted! Call you thismake it what it then was, you English hospitality!" Can the have only to persevere to the full poor love the rich, can the serexecution of Peel's Bill. Only vant love the master, when the take an instance of the effects of very terms of the agreement imply this bill. A servant girl can now mutual suspicion and distrust? get a pair of shoes for three shil-To what a state must we have lings, a pair of white cotton stock-come, when" English Gentlemen” ings for a shilling, a flannel pet- are afraid to trust their loaf and ticoat for three shillings, a white leg of mutton in the hands in dimity one for thrce more, a shift which they are compelled to trust for four, a white muslin gown for their lives? This, as well as all six, a shawl for two, a cap for two the other odious, filthy, mean, more, a bonnet trimmed with rib- rascally, degrading things, now bons for seven; and, off she goes, seen in England, have arisen out delightful, delighted and delight-of the paper-money system. ing, for a sovereign in gold and However, enough of the past. nine silver shillings! She can Proceed with Peel's Bill, and we dress like a fairy, and lay by five shall get back. I look over every or six sovereigns a year. Seven thing, if this bill be persevered years ago she could not keep a in. I will wink at all faults and rag to her back! Is this a change fooleries, if this measure be carof no importance? Is not this bet-ried through. The Marquiss of ter worth a statesman's thoughts LANSDOWN thinks a paper-curthan sinking funds and such rub-rency best! I want no change of bish are? Can this girl prosper Ministry. I want nothing to kick thus from any other cause than up a dust to blind us while this bill that of low prices? And is not is repealing. This Bill, if perher prosperity, her gay appear- severed in, will give us all that I ance, the tossing of her head and want, and all that I have ever the pleasure that brings dimples wanted. And, all the favour that in her face, better calculated to I have to ask of your lordship is, delight a just and sensible man that you never will again name than the magnificent public works the name of that man, Pitt, exand the bridges and the squares, cept it be in the way of censure. and streets, and villas that Mr. You have departed from all his Maberly regards as proofs of na- plans and from all his principles. tional wealth? Youhave stopped, in fact,his Sinking Fund, which was to pay off the debt, and form, the monu

Persevere, my lord, and you are yet young enough to see Eng