ries; and you will soon be in about the mansions that once possession of all the Abbeys and were theirs, and which would Priories, and Advowsons and have been theirs now, if they Parks, and Dog-kennels and had, in time, followed my advice.

I really expect to see thousands of them coming to the parish book. They will then be able to judge of the sufficiency of a gallon loaf and three pence a

Game-Preserves in the kingdom; -of all, at any rate, except those which belong to persons who draw out of the taxes as well as yourselves. The Agriculturalasses will week. At any rate, if Peel's

Bill go into effect, either you or they must come to the parish

make a shocking noise. They will begin as soon as they find, that GAFFER GOOCH can do nothing book at last. Nor is the process for them. Hitherto they have long. No man can live without been waiting, first to see whe-an income. Rents are their inther " things would not come come; and no rents will they get "about ;" and next to see, whe- long before May 1823.

"the House " would not

ther "do something for them." will now be quite desperate; and, it being quite useless for them to bluster, they will fling up the farms at a great rate. Those the prospect that the extinction

There are two opinions in the They unconcerned part of the public as to which of the two it would be desirable to see fall, seeing that one must fall. Some lament

of so much Norman blood presents; while others think, that the turn of the Jews is come, and go

that have leases will not fulfil the conditions of them; if run upon, they will sell off privately, and more out of the country; so far as to say, that this is their and the landlords may as well go promised kingdom, and that here

with them, at once; but, they they are to be gathered together will hang on; they will haunt in their restored state; and that,

as to ancient family, what pre-the Jews would put an end to all tensions have the Normans com- those vulgarisms. There would pared with the descendants of be no disputes about descent: Abraham? One thing will hap-all would be the seed of Abrapen, if the Jews should prevail, ham; and their high blood we and that is, an end to all disputes should all be ready to acknowabout pedigree, and to all the ledge, seeing that the very book plague which people have in of our faith informs us, that they tracing their blood back to the justly count innumerable kings "Conquest" and the "Conquer- and queens amongst their illustri"or." The Earl of Portarling-ous progenitors. A plague of your ton, for instance, whose name high-blooded French, say I! is vulgarly called Dawson, is, his Give me the Noble decendants of peerage tells us, descended from Moses and Aaron ! the Normans, and that his real mame is D'Ossoune. I can take

care, indeed (as I will) that the

tune of " Nancy Dawson," shall, when played to me, be called Nancy D'Ossoune" but, will others do this? They will constinue to call the noble Earl's

name Dawson; that is to say the

As to which would be best for the people, that, I think, is soon settled; for, the question is, not what the Jews would do if they could, but whether the Jews could give the people less a week than a gallon loaf and three pence. That is the only question, and as that must be anwered in the negative, I really do not see that

son of Daw; and Daw is pure English, the name of a well known the people have any thing to apbird that usually has the Chris-prehend from the expected trapstian name of Jack put before it, fer. The Jews would, too, bear while the name of the same bird, in mind, I hope, what God himin the Norman language, is self so often reminded their foreChoucas. The introduction of fathers of, and which, if they

forgot it, we could bring, by aciples laid down by Moses. Our jog, to their memories; namely, keeping the Sunday and our that their ancestors were once new Lords the Saturday would be bondsmen in the land of Egypt, another advantage; for it would and that they complained most preclude those distinctions in bitterly, though, according to places of worship, which draw off their own voluntary confession, the mind from things above, and Pharoah was no churl, but kept not unfrequently cause envy and their flesh-pots well furnished. hatred to thrust piety out of the We hear of no gallon-loaf and heart. Pork and bacon, our great three pence a week under Pha- delight, our lords would loath; roah; and yet the Jews could not and hares, which our present lords be contented. He had, indeed, a regard as sacred from vulgar sort of check-population project; touch, our Jewish seigneurs hold but, as that appears to have in utter abomination. Thus we brought things to a crisis, and to should get at a participation in have produced, in the end, an the game, the laws relating to appeal, on the part of the Jews, -to the law of nature, the descendants of those Jews would hardly attempt the same amongst us.

which, would, of course, undergo a material alteration.

However, my lords, let me deal frankly with you. All that

Upon the whole, therefore the Clerk of the Mint has said is

the prospect is not only con- fallacious; it is radically and soling but cheering. The dif-grossly erroneous; and this I must ference in religion would be an how, because I must speak the advantage rather than other-truth. You stand upon no founwise; for, in the first place, we|dation whatever. Common sense could certainly demand a partici- scouts your claim. But, you will pation in the produce of the earth make long and stout fight, which according with the rules and prin- is sure to do good, and you may

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GAFFER GOOCH.

DEAR GAFFER,

With the greatest anxiety I bave, from week to week, been

triumph, and that can do no harm. It is the length and fury of the fight that I want to see. Keep the long-eared tooting press with you, and I shall do you no injury; and, besides, I am with you as to salaries. The TIMES waiting for the Report of your newspaper is your mark. It is Committee. And, here is Midthe literary paradise of fools, a summer almost come, and no remost numerous tribe! If you can port has made its appearance! once get this noisy bawler to set Surely, it cannot have been kept up a cry, your business is more back merely because I was watchthan half done. And, mind, this ing for it? It was, and it is, my is your way. Your Clerk of the resolution to republish it with Mint, Mr. MUSCHETT, is easily notes, in case of its coming forth. overset, as I shall show the public | And, therefore, this non-appearin my next. No, no: there is ance of it is a sore disappointnothing in the way of fact, or ment to me. But, is it not alșo a of argument that can serve you. disappointment to the "agriculIt must be sheer outcry, and that" turists," those meritorious perpretty loud too. It must place sons, who, you said, paid so the noisy fools on your side; and largely to the property tax? when that is done, you may set What are they now to do, if no sense and reason at defiance.decision is made upon their case? Go on, my lords, and make stout Are they to wait till the next sesfight; and as far as that goes I sion? Not they indeed. The am your friend,

non-appearance of the Report

WM. COBBETT.

will convince them, that nothing can be done for them, or will be done for them; and they will be

more ready to listen to me than arrogance, should also see bis huthey have been; to me, who have miliation. Humiliation does not always told them, that the debt kill people. They will get on very well in smock frocks; and, if they cannot bring themselves to that, they must retire, or quit the country; and a good riddance it will be.

was their night-mare; and that, unless they could remove that, there was no remedy.

These men, and their landlords too, have long entertained the vain hope, that the corn would get up again. Now, is it not obstinacy deserving of punishment to enter

It is called ill-natured to rejoice in the confusion of this set of men; but I can see no justice in this charge. Were not whole classes of men persecuted and proscribed under the names of Jacobins and Radicals? And was not this now pretended suffering class amongst tain this hope in the face of all the bitterest of the persecutors? that I have written upon the subBesides, it is the distress of the ject? "You written!" Oh! stupid oafs that is the subject of Very well, then, shall I not rejoice any one's rejoicing. We rejoice at the good to others, of which their distress is a symptom and concomitant. The case is this: they must come down before a better state of things can come; and, therefore, we rejoice at seeing them coming down. But, it is right, too, in a moral point of view, that they should suffer; that

each of them, in his neighbour

hood, and under the eyes of those

at your distress? If I told you,. that you were supporting a system, which enslaved the people, and would finally ruin yourselves; and, if you despised my warning, am I not to be glad to see you punished? Every man who has suffered from a system supported by you is fully justified in rejoicing at your distress, and I in particular.

However, to the owners of land

who have seen his insolence and (except they occupy themselves