without saying a word about the " little children crying for bread, matter, any piece of gold or silver" while four loaves from you and that you can get. No matter how "four from the mother go into small. A sixpence will buy 24" the ever-cramming maw of the farthing loaves, a shilling 48, and Priest." If you should get a " a sovereign 968; and, as these considerable sum together keep it loaves will be twice as big as they in hard money. Trust no securiare now, one single sovereign, or ties, no insurance; these words 20 shillings, will buy bread for a mean their contraries: they mean man for a whole year! Now, I im- insecurity and chance. Remember, plore you to think of this! If that every thing of this sort will you treat it with disdain, which I follow the fate of the funds; hope you will not, the day will and, that, if the Fundlords pull surely come, when you will say: the Landlords down, that will not "If I had but followed Cobbett's secure the former in the end. One "advice, I should now have had of two things must happen: the paper, on Mr. ATTWOOD's plan, must come out again; or, the a little fortune." Put no money into Savings Banks; having nothing to do with calculation of whole paper-fabric will go to interest. When the money is once out of your hands, it is no longer safe. Give not away pennies to the Methodist Parson. "Freely" if he have" received," let him "freely give ;" and, remember, that to sell is not to give. In the high-Scotch dictionary, to give is to sell; that is to say, to give a thing for so much. Do not you receive any spiritual gift in this way. Remember that a penny a week to a parson, will buy you four farthing loaves, which is enough for one day out of seven, if you have meat or pieces, and happy he who has a piece of real money in his pocket. According to present appearances Mr. ATTWOOD's thanks to the Ministers, will not be adopted. But, they must brace up their nerves. They must stand true; and we must all stand firmly by them. They think they can work through. I can see that clearly : and God be their support! If they once give way, though but for an inch, back we come helterskelter, smothered over head and ears in snips of paper! In the end, indeed, it will be the same; but, butter or cheese to eat with the I wish the trial of strength to be bread. Talk not, therefore, of made now. They are in the full L tide of experiment, and though" stitution, which is the envy of rocks be under them and all about" surrounding nations and the them, go on they must and go on " admiration of the world.” they will; for, if they veer about, Therefore, without borrowing they become the everlasting scorn further and enriching my page by of the world. the words of the illustrious Commoner, from whose at once sub VAN said, during the last debate upon the subject:" Now or lime and profound, lofty and "Never" an old word with en-deep, composition I have been terprizing captains in the field of tempted to take the liberty to Venus as well as in that of Mars. quote, I again say, that this is I perfectly agree as to this, with the time. VAN; It must be "nów, or How, after having led you up "never" I only wish that I into the highest regions, am I to were as certain that it would be bring you down? Yet, before 1 now; for now is the time of all conclude, I must bring you down; times, and such a time will, and and, down indeed it is; for it is can, never return. We are at to the Morning Chronicle, and peace: there is no danger of war: what is worse, to the thefts of that all is quiet within: not a mouse paper. It has been the habit of peeps from his hole. Here is a this paper, for many years, to clear stage for the several classes pillage me, and to calumniate mě of the heroes of the system to at the same time: robbery is, but display their skill and prowess. too often, accompanied with murNo extraneous causes can be der. But, I must say, that, of alleged; no obstacles or. inter-late, the calumny has ceased: ruptions from within. "This not thus the robbery; for that is "mighty Empire, proudly re- continued, and, at last, in so "posing in the lap of peace, is "putting to rights her own in"ternal affairs, in order to derive "from her past exertions the "lasting prosperity merited by "her generous sacrifices and "glorious deeds, and in order to "give an exemplification of the "super-excellence of that Con open and shameless à manner, that correspondents send me the paper, pointing out the particular instances; as in the following article of the Chronicle of the 21st instant, which some unknown friend sent me marked with ita lics, and accompanied with notes, just as inserted here.T boo.d "But the subject, which more "immediately demands atten 66 66 lands at will, if they are now 66 distressed, will take care not to tion, is the distress of the" remain so. (4) The agricul"Agriculturists. The hopes with" tural labourers must upon the "which the Landholders long" whole be better off than they "amused themselves, that the ar- 68 were. (5) From the tyranny of "tificial state of things produced the Poor Laws, they were "by the war could be continued" unable to share in the pros"in peace, are now pretty gene- perity of the landlord and far"rally dispelled. (1) Prices can-" mer during the war, their wages "not be kept up, and conse- "having uniformly in England "quently rents cannot be kept" been unequal to the support "up, while family arrangements" of themselves and families, and "have been made, and debts con- part of their support having “tracted on the supposition of" been derived from the parish. "the continuance of high rents, "and the taxation continues un"diminished. (2) Shamefully as "the Gentlemen of England have "neglected the duty which they "owed to their country, and "blind as they have shewn them-" could save none. (6) But as "selves, even to the permanent" wages rose in England to their "interest of their own families, proper level during the war, "it is impossible not to feel for" they will not now experience "the situation in which they are "much fall, and the variation “placed. The distress has been" will chiefly be in the share de While an unmarried labourer "in Scotland was receiving from 66 20l. to 241. and board, less than the half of that sum was paid in England. While the one could save money, the other called agricultural; but it ought "rived from the parish. (7) The "to receive another name; it is" single men will of course be the distress of the landholders." greatly benefitted by the low pri"(3) Farmers, indeed, who pos- ces. Accordingly we now hear "sess their lands on leases, are," of few complaints from labour"no doubt, suffering severely at ers in any part of the "this moment; but the num-" country.--(8) "ber of those in this situa ❝tion must diminish every day, 66 66 "The prospect of the pro prietors of land is there "while those who hold their" fore the most gloomy of all L 2 (10.) Cobbett, First Letter to Earl Grey. Thus for my correspondent. And I have only to add, that, "at the present moment. The "interest of the National Debt "will allow of little reduction of "the taxation; and even a re"duction of taxation without a re- though the plagiarism is glaring "duction of the amount of mort-enough, I am by no means disgages, and other debts, (9) pleased to see it take place. How"would not effectually relieve ever, Mr. PERRY's is a gloomy "the class in question. But the conclusion indeed! For, if the "idea of any such reduction can- Landlords be not to be relieved "not be entertained by any one even by a reduction of the Debt, "who has reflected on the num-without a reduction of mortgages; "berless difficulties which it pre"sents." (10) and, if a reduction of those cannot take place, they may as well hang themselves out-right, and leave us radicals to cut them down, which they might, probably, (1.) By whom? Cobbett foretold us it in 1814, and many times in 1815 and 1816. (2.) Cobbett a hundred times expect, upon the principle, that told. one good turn deserves another. Thus to see the great champion of the "Patriots of the Soil" give up in despair would be (3.) Cobbett, only the other day, Letter to Gaffer Gooch, almost word for word. (4.) Cobbett, Letter to Goffer alarming, were it not that we Gooch. gather comfort from the prospect (5.) Cobbett, Letter to Mr. that makes him sad. He says Gooch. we must feel for the Landlords ; (6.) Cobbett, Letter to Mr. and that, I trust, we do, as we Huskisson. ought to feel; just so much, and (7. Cobbett, Letter to Mr. no more. I feel for them as they Gooch. have felt for us. We have had (8.) Cobbett, Letter to Gaffer our day of suffering, and it is but Gooch. reasonable, that they should have theirs. If they cannot get prices up, their day is at hand; and, let them remember, that their suffer (9.) Cobbett, Petition to Parliament, where he petitioned for a reduction of mortgages and other Debts and also of the inte-ings arise out of a system, for endeavouring to put an end to rest of the National Debt. which in time, we have been cautiously in their speeches at the made to suffer. I am, My Friends, Your faithful friend, And obedient servant, MR. SCARLETT, Figuring away in the North. No. II. I bar; there are bounds to this; for, suppose that it will not be pretended, that a lawyer would make, with impunity, his speeches the vehicle of an exhortation to the people to kill the king. There are bounds here, then, even with regard to legal impunity; and, at any rate, these speeches, especially when they appear in print, are fairly liable to the animadI just touched upon this gentle-versions of that press, the freedom man in my last; but, the notice, of which this Mr. SCARLETT SO which I thought right to take of highly extolled at the very mothe parties in the cases, in which ment when he was bawling and the deputy Attorney General had ranting, and scolding and sweatbeen engaged, and which were ing to get the unfortunate Rumpthen under consideration, pre-ite convicted for having remarked vented me from doing any more on public matters through the as to the lawyer himself than channel of that same press! merely to touch upon him, and to Yet, if Mr. SCARLETT were a quit him abruptly, with observ-lawyer and a lawyer only, the ing, that he had, during the trials pages containing his opinions and of that unfortunate missionary of assertions, (which, after all, are the RUMP, Mr. EVANS the young-but magpie-like common-place) er, put forth certain opinions and made certain assertions, on which I should, in this present number, take the liberty to remark. I am now proceeding to act according to that intimation; for, though lawyers are to do the best that they can for their clients; though they are not to be made amenable to the criminal code for any thing that they may say in would, for me, go quietly to the snuff-shop, or to be torn up for purposes more correspondent with the matter imprinted on them. But, he is a Deputy Attorney General; and what is more, he is a Member of the Honourable House; and, therefore, the doctrines he lays down, the opinions he parades, and the assertions he makes, let the occasion be what |