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amount of capital which is withdrawn I see, mustering your forces. A

Clerk in the Mint has published some tables of figures, the object of which is to show, that you have not been gainers by the rise in the value of the current money. This gentleman is quite deceived. He fixes his eye upon the wrong places. His book will, however, with the aid of the tooting press,

from the employment of labour by the public funds, and for the support of Government, and by the low value of the present wages of labour compared with the wages of former times, occasioned principally by the heavy taxation upon the necessaries of life, by which also they believe the amount of the poor rates to be nearly doubled. Your Petitioners, therefore, pray that your Honourable House will reject with indignation every attempt to lessen the few privileges which are now left to the poor; that it will dili-and the Chronicle with you! Alas, for the lords of the soil!

gently enquire into the real causes which have reduced the working classes to their present degraded and miserable condition; and that it will finally adopt such measures as will at no distant period afford employment or sufAcient wages to all who are able to labour, by which alone, they can regain their independence of character, and cease to be burthensome to the community.

TO THE FUND-LORDS.
MY LORDS,

tend to make the strife obstinate.

I see you have got the Times

This is precisely what I wish to see. I wish the conflict to be long and desperate: not a mere skirmish and an end. And, be

fore it is over, the government
will
grow so tame and will look
so foolish, and the labourers will
be so fat and merry and saucy
and good-humoured, that it will
be quite delightful to live in Eng-
land. Oh blessed Bill of Peel!

My lords, I am by no means your enemy. I am not at all

The contest, or, rather, the anxious that the Landlords should fight, between you and the Land-beat you. From you the millords is approaching. You are, lions have received, directly

at least, neither injury nor insult.joined cordially in "

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support of

government," and in extolling.

and so are many of your foes. the Constitution, and in pledging Therefore, as far as feeling is the last shilling and the last drop

concerned, I am perfectly impartial; and care not a straw which goes to the wall.

of blood. But now, when po verty comes in at the door, love seems to be flying out of the win

There was an idea prevailing, dow. for a long while, that you would

This is what I, for my part,

both go on hand in hand to the always anticipated. I always

looked forward to it as the sure cause of our deliverance; having seen Europe " delivered," I was anxious to see England delivered a little; and I was sure, that this

end of time that, like Saul and Jonathan, your lives would be sweet and pleasant, and that, in your deaths, you would not be divided. "My dear," says some lover, 66 we will walk together to fight would deliver it. In my "the end of this world, and leave-taking address, upon going "locked in each others arms, leap to America, I said, that there "into the next.' The history

goes on to say that they ended in having a cat and dog fight.

was no hope for the people till the landlords and you should separate. The time of separation is come; and the people begin to cheer up.

Thus will it be with you and the landlords. While the work of deducting from the wages of la-There are those who hope for bour was going on; while the a compromise between you. The Labouring Classes were really thing is impossible. No man vopaying all the taxes, you agreed luntarily yields up his estate, or exceedingly well. Public Credit his money, for the sole benefit of and Agricultural Improvement another man. The thing cannot were indivisible friends. Both be. The law must settle the

matter, and it is in the passing, folly and wickedness of the Pittor endeavouring to pass, this law system! And, as to myself, will that the parties will come to open give me happiness not to beldewar. I must confess, that I am scribed. puzzled to know on which side I ought to be, in this fight. I think Í shall stand by, and back both parties on, as boys do dogs. I long to see you fast in each other's hair! I care not how you carry on the fight; fair-play, or foul play, just as you please. I am

sure, for my part, to have both pleasure and profit from the fight;

There can, I am happy to be assured, be no compromise; and I think you stand a good chance of complete victory, and of seeing all safely lodged in the poorhouse, or serving you in the capacity of shoe-blacks or footmen. You will certainly have the tooting press with you; and that will make a hideous noise against your foes, who are cowards, mind, except when they have to ride in upon the defenceless. Against women and children they are as brave as bull dogs, and as furious as tygers; but, when tackled, they hang down their tails like

and the longer the fight lasts, the better it will be for the nation at large, and for the cause of freedom all over the world. If I were the Minister, the fight should not last above three weeks; just while I could get a bill through the houses; but, then, I should sheep-biters. Go on, my lords! do a great many things, at the Press upon them, and avenge same time, which I cannot sup- those whom they have oppressed pose it possible that these Minis-and persecuted. The noisy press ters will ever even think of, much is with you; and that alone will No one less do. A good long fight will keep your foes in awe. lay the thing so bare! Will strip will like to be foremost in attack→ off all the disguise so completely! ing you. The tooting press is, Will make even children see the itself, a fundlord and stock-jobber,

and the country part of it is little with you all the people that re better than a branch of the grand ceive public money in any shape.

All the placemen, pensioners, sinecurists, grantees, civil list people, army, navy, taxes of all sorts and sizes; for, they will perceive, that, before a farthing

tooter in London. If this tooter, who is naturally, of you, who has sprung from the same root, and whose fate, as a trader, is closely linked to yours; if this tooter, this clamorous, this stunning of interest can be deducted from tooter, take a decided part with you, all their sinecures must be you, you will bring Sir Pompous reduced! This is, in my opiJolterhead and his whole race nion, your great security. This upon their knees before you.

You have many things on your

appears to me to be the rock of your safety. Let me advise you to put this constantly before the eyes of the public. Let them never lose sight of it. Talk of the "widows and orphans too."

side. The name of Debt is a great thing. The very words: public debt; public creditor; creditor of the nation; loan; lend ·lent; borrow and borrowed. All That will do something; but, it these words, though not at all ap-is the salaries and pensions and plicable to things, have great grants and sinecures and pay and power on your side. To pro-retired allowances; it is this pose to reduce the interest will battery that you will play off by the tooting press, be called a design to commit fraud; and then all the fools, led by the greatest rogues in Christendom and Judea united, will set up a cry enough to frighten poor Jolterhead out of his senses;

upon the foe with most effect.

I dare say, that some little thoughts hostile to you have been afloat in the minds of GAFFER GOOCH's Committee. But, nothing will come of them. Nay, I now think, as I always thought,

Then you will necessarily have that that famous Committee will

never make any report at all. look at their domains, every clod We shall, I dare say, see it go and stick and leaf of which are off, by-and-by, till the next ses- mortgaged to you for more than sion, like Lawyer Scarlett's Bill twice their worth, if now brought and Lawyer Onslow's Bill, and to the hammer. But, as you Lawyer Brougham's Bill. The truly say, a man, that borrows discovery has, at last, been made, on his land, knows that he is to that the Debt is the cause of all pay with his land. You lent to the distress. Consequently there them in their " hour of eméris no remedy other than that of " gency." Stand to that, and getting rid of the Debt; and this make the tooting press swear it

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is a matter that the arms of Yeo-six times a week every week in manry Cavalry cannot effect. This the year. Don't say any thing monster of consumption is about the mode of lending, or not to be brought down even by about the unaccountable means Manchester Magistrates. Sid- by which you became possessed mouth's Circular and the Six of twice as much money as the Acts will do nothing here. It is whole of the land and houses and an affair of Debtor and Creditor; mines, and woods and canals, and, if you be wise, the law and rivers would sell for. Don't

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hampered and bothered as they may lead to explanations: keep are at this time. It is with no the tooting press on your side, eye of satisfaction that they can and talk eternally about the sala

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