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very low state, unless something | nation is brought (in a pecuniary way) to death's door, while their bits of paper have been afloat, answers, almost in the words of

be done, which shall take off taxes, or give them a high price for corn. Now mind, this is the "working "of events." This is the tickler. Doctor Sangrado: "Paper, taken There the system is in its agony.in small quantities is an evil; The Committee of the Honour-"you ought to have bales, nay, able Honourable House, appoint-" waggon-loads of it.” The ed to inquire relative to the agony TANNER, you know, after hearof what is called "agriculture," ing the Carpenter eulogize the but which means Landlords and strength of heart of Oak, and the Big-farmers, have not made any Mason that of good solid stone, report yet; and a most curious said, Gentlemen, do as you affair it will be, whenever it comes. 'please; but, if you have a mind They have had, the news-papers" to have your town well fortified, say, Mr. ATTWOOD before them." take my word for it there is This person is a banker along with" nothing like leather ;" and, you the Spooners of Birmingham; and will not, therefore, be surprized, his doctrine is, that Paper-money that Mr. Attwood recommends is, amongst other things, meat, Paper.

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drink, clothing, firing, washing, The Landlords and Big-farmand lodging; that with it, a people ers (mortal foes of Reform, mind!) cannot be unhappy; and that, do not seem to relish Mr. ATTwithout it, they must be miserable. wood's doctrine. They want His grand source of individual high prices indeed; but they and of national prosperity, power want them to be paid in gold. and glory, consists of innumerable They want ten shillings a bushel bits of paper of an oblong square for their wheat at the lowest, and form, having printed, or written on to leave the rest to Providence ; them, promises to be exchange-but, they want to have the ten able, at the will and pleasure of shillings in real money; so that, the bearer, into other pieces of in fact, they want about twenty paper, of precisely the same di-shillings of the present money! mensions and form, and having This is modest enough; but, I printed on them the very same have the pleasure to assure you, promises! This political doctor, that they are much more likely upon being reminded, that the to get three shillings than

money each; but, then, nobody will see their humiliation: nobody will know what they once were : they will have nobody (except This by mere chance) to remind them

behind them; and think of John, or Robin, who used to black their shining boots, and bring out their gay horses for them to mount. But, still, this will be better than

twenty shillings a bushel. I said, | have left to avoid becoming daymonths ago, that wheat would, labourers and paupers. They by JUNE, be six shillings a bushel, must labour in America, unless if Peel's Bill were not repealed. they have a nice little parcel of The average of wheat is lower than that already; and (barring a bad harvest or a short crop) it will be down to five, for the best wheat, before Christmas. will smite the Big-farmers some-of Gomanry Gavaltry times. what in the way that EHUD Smote They will, at times, cast a look EGLON. It will send the very hilt into their paunches. Next it will reach the Landlords; who, indeed, have been partially hit already. The farmers who have leases will not stand those leases an English poor-house, where long. They may, indeed, seize they would have to endure the for rent; but, for the seizure to open scoffs of those who formerly be of any use, there must be crawled before them and cursed somebody, or something to seize them in their hearts. Those on. There will be many a moon-amongst the farmers, who have light flitting. Those who have never willingly supported the sysleases will, in many cases, thresh out and sell their corn as soon as it is in barn; will sell their stock; will sell their goods to a relation and get it away piece meal; will gather up their havings: and will go and dive into the Atlantic Ocean, and come up again on the other side of the water, as ducks do, when they flee from dogs or hunters. From Sussex, and from the richest part of it too, they are packing off at a great rate. This is, indeed, the only way they

tem, will, in general, be safe; for, they have never confided in it; and, as for the rest, they are objects of any thing but pity.

Nothing ever was so impudent as the attempt to make us believe, that the nation would be benefited by high price of human food. The natural consequence of a reduction of prices, is, to throw a larger portion of food into the possession of the Labouring Classes, generally, though, for a time, particular and local circum

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stances may make a change from | Castlereagh's "general working high to low price worse for manu- of events." Truly this is a facturers, squeezed up in some great statesman and an amiable comparatively small corner. person after all! Mind! while İ Two little paragraphs, in a last- think of it, he must have our supweek's newspaper, struck me: port in his resolution to thrust "Farthing loaves of bread were Peel's Bill down the throats of "sold, last market day, in the the Land-People! Mind that: "market place at MANSFIELD. never think of the past, if he will "Many purchased them, some but let us have farthing loaves. for food, and others out of cu--Next to the plenty of food «riosity." amongst the labouring classes, Curiosity! Why curiosity? A comes, in point of satisfaction-givpound of good flour does not, in ing power, the fall of all the vagathe country, cost six farthings. bond train of players and other A pound of flour will make a loaf excrescences of the paper-system. almost as big as third of a quar-It is not more than about thirty tern loaf. Take the third of a years since no play-house existed quartern loaf, and cut it into six in any town but London. The parts, and you will find, that you vagrants that used to exhibit have got six good hunches of plays in the country towns, were bread, any one of which is better compelled to resort to barns and than a whole hog-trough full of stables, through the boards of watery matter, called potatoes. [which the boys used to make holes Curiosity, indeed! I can remem-to see the kings and queens pullber when farthing rolls were more ing off their rags and putting on common than penny rolls; and, I their gilded paper. Now, there trust, we shall see the same again. is a play-house: no, “a theatre,” The other paragraph was this : in any town! Even in such a "The Theatres at York, Hull, place as Winchester, that does Wakefield and Doncaster, are not contain above five thousand "shut up." people, there must be a theatre; and all the young lads are to be gabbling about" the theatre," instead of sweeping out the shops

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But, the great blessing of this] It needs no external foe: it is its reduction of prices, is, that it own self-destroyer, as it has been brings reform in its train, as its self-creator. It were a pity surely as summer follows winter. to disturb it, even by complaints The farmers will be all Radicals of its effects. No man that has in a year, and the Landlords not had a hand in carrying it on, will not be many months behind should touch it; and, if it were them. It may be too late for our God's good pleasure, every one old and steady friends, the who has it now in hand should 'Squires; but, we shall have live to see it out. A great deal them amongst us upon some lay is lost to the world, as to this or another. This is, too, the lesson of political philosophy and best way for us to get the thing morality, by a change of madone. A row would not be half nagers, whether arising from death so good. We cannot be worse or other causes. We lose much off than we were; and we may of the identity of the thing, when (and must, if Peel's Bill be en- we lose the person with whose forced) be better off. The land name it has been connected. I will still be tilled, in spite of all would, if I could, have all the the lies of the "grand Agricul- present Ministers and present "tural Committee," and it will Members of Parliament, live for produce. It will, by degrees, fifty years to come, that they fall into new hands, and that will might not only witness the result be a very good thing. The Fund- of the "general working of lords, in sticking tight, are work-" events;" but, that some of us, ing for us, mind! What we or of our children, might have to want is to see them and their na-remind them of the several parts tural foes at it, tooth and nail; that they are acting now. and when they are fast, we may say the country is saved.

It is at once curious and interesting to see this great system, which has filled the world with wonder, working out its own destruction; toiling and turning and twisting and tumbling about, like a slug, dusted with hot lime!

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It is, be assured, a dream more wild than ever visited the mind of a madman, to suppose, that the full interest of the Debt can be paid in gold, or silver, even for a year, much less for ever. Yet, gold, some gold, may get out; and let me exhort you, let me beseech you, to put safely by,

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