to him it was totally unnecessary, be- own conscience, and in accordance cause he had some time ago announced with the interests and wishes of his the impossibility of his being able to Constituents (cheers!). He hoped also, discharge the duties of that office, that his loyalty to the Throne and to and that duty alone prevented him the person of his Majesty, to whose from at once relinquishing a place sacred person he had ever been atwhich he had accepted under peculiar tached, would remain unabated—that circumstances (hear, hear !). He it should remain true as the dial to the must say, that the period of his re- sun, although that dial might not be moval was not by any means a suitable always shone upon (hear, hear!) The one. He had received orders to attend Noble Earl, after several other obhis Majesty (as we understood) to servations, concluded by giving his Ireland, and, in a very short time support to the motion. after, he was removed, for no other Lord FOLKESTONE rose amidst loud reason than that of having voted in cries of question, and appealed to the that House according to the dictates House whether he had not a right to of his conscience (cheers), and with claim their attention for a few minutes a view to the interests and wishes of in consequence of the allusions which his constituents. He had voted in a had been made to him? Those allusimilar manner last year, from a feel- sions referred to an assertion which he ing that the situation of the country had made on a former occasion, and obliged him to do so. This hasty and which, as he had not advanced hastily, abrupt communication had been made he did not mean to withdraw.-All the to him (and he had it from authority) Gentlemen who had alluded to it, in consequence of the vote he had argued as if it was a matter of given in favour of this Bill, yet he option with the country whether it must own that he did not repent that would pay the interest of the debt vote (cheers). He trusted that the or not. What he had stated was, statement which he had now made that in the Government of counwould operate as a caution to other tries there was a moral as well Gentlemen in that House. He had as physical impossibility which must heard it laid down, that resistance, if excuse a breach of faith with the public successful, was not held as a crime; creditor. He had put two cases in illusbut, in this instance the case was dif-tration of this, and he would defy those ferent. He had last year voted in the who had animadverted on him to expose minority against the Tax, without any the weakness of those cases, or deny in observation being made upon it, but fair argument the inference which he this year he had voted in the same had drawn from them. In one case he way, but with a Majority, but that supposed the country threatened by that was held to be a great crime (hear, foreign invasion, and unable to provide hear, hear!). He must repeat, that against it and pay the interest of the he did not regret his vote in either debt at the same time. Would it not, case, and he hoped that he should be in such a situation of things, be a breach always found to act according to his of faith to pay the interest, and neglect 71 STOCKING WEAVERS.-COBBETT'S RELIGIOUS TRACTS. 72 the necessary defence? If his Honourable Friend maintained the contrary, he must be prepared to prove that apart was greater than the whole. He had STOCKING-WEAVERS. I am compelled to put off what I intended on the subject of the Stocking Weavers' complaints till next week. stated another case, which was that of I have carefully read the pamphlet, entitled, "the Question at Issue." That pamphlet contains erroneous views; and, as those errors, like all others, tend to produce harm, I shall endeavour to correct them. the taxation becoming so oppressive, as to produce disturbances, which called for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. If the liberties of the country were destroyed, he would ask, could the fundholders themselves be safe? This nation owed all its power and greatness to its liberties, and could only continue great and powerful while its liberties were preserved. This was all he had said on a former night, and he would still maintain that circumstances might exist which would render the withholding of the interest of the Public Debt not a fault but an act of duty. After some further observations upon the question itself, which were rendered inaudible by the cries of question, the Noble Lord concluded with expressing the satisfaction which he felt in voting for the second reading of the Bill. COBBETT'S RELIGIOUS TRACTS. This is a monthly publication, price 3d.-The first Number was published on the first of March, entitled, "Naboth's Vineyard; or God's 66 66 vengeance against hypocrisy and "cruelty." The second, on the. first of April, entitled, "The Sin of Drunkenness, in Kings, Priests "and People." If I am to judge from the sale of these little productions, the Tract Society may begin to look about them; for, certainly, cant and rant never can long flourish Mr. WODEHOUSE said a few words in where common sense is so well refavour of the motion. ceived.-A canter has written me a most abusive letter; and I hear of two ranters, who have cursed me in their pulpit ravings. In the language of "the man after God's own heart," I say, "let them curse on." Printed by C. CLEMENT, and Published by JOHN M. COBBETT, 1, Clement's Inn VOL. 39.—No. 2.] LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1821. [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Six o'clock. HAMSHIRE and DERBYSHIRE. On the subject of their present turn-out; and on the real causes of their distress. 66 66 66 on the Masters, or on Government, that is to say, the Parlia ment; for, let it always be borne in mind, that without the assent of the Parliament the Ministers Kensington, 13 April, 1821. That, in this state of "national I have before me a statement glory," while, as the Speaker of your case and of your comtold the king to his face," this plaints, entitled "the Question at mighty Empire is proudly re-issue between the frame-work posing in the arms of peace;" ""knitters and their employers," that, under these circumstances, which statement is signed and while, as we have it from the "MANUS." If it had been signed same high authority, this mighty" FOLLY," the name would, in Empire "has leisure to attend to my opinion, have been more cor"her own internal affairs, and to respondent with the matter of the "adopt efficient measures to in- work; for I have seldom met sure her own prosperity;" with, in so short a compass, so while this is the case, and that, much real ignorance; so many too, under a Constitution, which, false notions; so much absurdity as we are told by "the venerable under the guise of reasoning. It sages on the Bench," is "the is my wish to expose the errors envy of surrounding nations of this publication, and to lay "and the admiration of the before you a description of the "world," it is, say they what real causes of your present misery, they will, a little odd, that sixteen the existence of which is but too thousand workmen, in one single notorious, and sorrow for which trade, should be going about the no man more sincerely feels than country begging their bread. I do. I am always prone to take 46 D Printed by C. CLEMENT, and published by JOHN M. Cobbett, 1, Clement's[ [Price Sixpence Halfpenny in the Country. part with the weak against the not exempt from it. I am aware, strong; and, if ever there was a therefore, that I am about to perman, who, more than all other form a very ungracious task; but, men, had a partiality for the in-that is not to keep me silent, dustrious, in all the callings of when I see in circulation, errors life, that man am I. I have con- the most mischievous in their tended, and I always contend, tendency. You have turned out for a rise that we have no reason to confine the word learning to the know-of wages. You have, in my ledge of languages, or to book-opinion, not only a right to do knowledge of any sort. The able this, but, also to adopt any man at the loom is learned in his means, that are not contrary to calling; and so is the able hedger the laws, to obtain a greater porin his. I never have "judged tion of money in exchange for labour. But, when the your grounds of your complaints are stated; when the causes of your distress are set forth; and, when these appear to be fallacious, friendship towards you, to say nothing of justice towards your masters, requires that the fallacy be shown to you. a man by his clothes ;" and can truly say, that, as far as I am influenced by mere dress, I respect the man in a smock frock more than I do the man in broadcloth, or in silk. But, it does not follow, that I am to foster tl.e errors of the former any more than those of the latter. Nay, to Your situation is described as endeavour to correct those errors is the natural effect of the friend- being most deplorable. These ship I feel for him; and I must are the words of HUMANUS. not be dete.red from the discharge" During the whole of the winof my duty by an apprehension" ter, and a much longer period that he may take offence at that" than the winter, the workmen for which he ought to be thankful." have been confined to their No man likes to be shown that he" frames for fifteen or sixteen hours a day, with no other ob jects before their eyes than famishing, half-naked wives and children, and with no other sounds than those of lamentation and woe; children de 66 manding food, and wives en-ments; for, they throw suspicion "deavouring to appease their on all that they say. However, children, not by bread, but there is no doubt, that your suf"by promises of bread. Vain ferings, even from sheer hunger, "expectation! the evening are, and have been, very great; "comes, a cheerless evening to much greater than human beings "them. Their neighbours have ought to endure, and, when en"been long in bed, enjoying dured by sober and industrious "sweet repose: at eleven o'clock, people, they'reflect disgrace some"the poor stocking-maker quits where; somebody must be to the frame, to which he had blame; there must be some cause; " been rivetted, often from four and our duty is to ascertain that 66 or five in the morning, eats cause if we possibly can. "his solitary potatoe, if he has 46 Therefore, when I had read one, silently wipes away the the above description of your "tears from the cheeks of his sufferings, I looked for the cause, "partner in affliction, or mingles and I found it stated by your "his own with hers,-darts an pretended Advocate. But, alas! "agonizing glance on the child- what a cause; or, rather, to what ren sent supperless to bed, and root was the cause traced! A then creeps in amongst them, deficiency of wages is, no doubt, "hoping to find a short relief in the immediate canse; but, how sleep from heart-rending dis- has your pretended friend suc"tress, in the midst of these vic-ceeded in showing the cause of "tims of sorrow, far dearer to that insufficiency! The want of "him than his own life. The food causes starvation; but, there "end of the week comes, and, "after rising early, and late taking rest, he finds he has 66 must be a cause of that want of food; and, if that cause, be not well known, it ought to be sought The cause, which is stated by your pretended friend, is wholly inadequate to the producing of the alleged effect. His statement "only five or six shillings where-for, and, if possible, discovered. "with to provide food and rai"ment and rent for seven days." This is what logicians call proving too much; for, if this were really true, you must all have is this: That you would be conbeen dead long ago. People get tent with a price for your labour, nothing by over-charged state- called the statement price; that |