with a thousand windows and fifty (them.

They must, therefore, thousand spindles and a thousand shut foreign Corn out, or lay a heavy tax upon it..

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All this is very natural. ruins you; but what is that to me, if I be a Landlord? It rather pleases me to see your Cotton Lordship brought down. Now, then, how are you to get rid of

looms, will not, in a few years' time, sell for as much as would keep any ordinary family from the workhouse for life. But, how are you to get rid of the Corn Laws? You cannot get rid of them, without getting them repealed. And how are you to get them repealed this scourge? is not it clear that by the same men that passed you can get rid of it only by mak➡ them? And who are these men? ing a change in the mode of electWhy, there are two houses of ing those who make the laws? them: one is filled with Lords: You endeavoured to hunt us off and the other is more, a great the face of the earth, only because deal more than halt filled, with we wanted to make such change: Lords' sons, brothers, uncles, cou- and now, just God! It is the want sins, relations and connexions. In of this very change that is now short, there is the Petition now squeezing you to death! Well, lying before the House of Com- then, if you do not mean to be mons, presented to it by Lord treated, by the Ministers and their GREY, when he was Mr. GREY, crew, as the "Honourable" Mr. which Petition tells the whole STANLEY was treated at Preston; story. It states that the Lords namely, to be spitten upon, until put, at their own pleasure, more than a majority into the Lower House: it states, in short, that one was the House of Lords, and the other the Lords' House. They might have been called the House of Landlords, and the other the Landlords' House. It is nonsense; it is to be a brute beast, to suppose that men will not take care of themselves. These Landlords have the far greater part of the regiments and the ships, and the pensions, and the sinecures, and the church livings. They and their families have pretty nearly the whole of these. They cannot reduce the interest of the debt, without lopping off these; and, therefore, they are for paying the interest of the debt, as long as they can, or, rather, for making the nation pay it. Yet, to pay the interest of the debt without a high price for Corn, would, in fact, take their estates away from

you be as slimy as slugs; if you do not mean to deserve treatment like this at their hands, you will now, at last, before you be quite pressed out of existence, come forward and join the "WeaverBoys," in a Petition for Radical Reform. Come out, therefore; get the banner from my friends at Preston; the Radical banner; under that banner hold a meeting; the news of the Meeting will reach Whitehall; and the return post. will tell you that the Ports are open. Only let the Ministers. hear that the Master Manufacturers of any one Town in Lancashire have joined the workmen, in a Petition for Parliamentary Reform; let the Ministers hear that, and you are saved, and your workmen are saved, and the Landlords themselves are saved, and we are all saved from ruin, misery and convulsion.

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form which you have endeavoured to prevent by the commission of all sorts of cruelties upon the labouring people.

Alas! Far too base are you, I fear, to entertain the thought of such a remedy, though duty towards your Country, towards your neighbours, towards your work- Thus, my friends, "Weaverpeople, towards your families; Boys," I have offered these insothough your own safety, your own lent men my advice; or, rather, I preservation from the Poor-house, have told them what they must do points this out to you; your long to save themselves, without caring habits of insolent domination over one straw whether they do it or your work-people, will restrain not. In the meanwhile, the cause you from thus pursuing the only works steadily on; and we shall means that can procure your sal- see the day when we shall have vation. ample vengeance on all our eneIndeed, how is justice to be ex-mies. I believe that no one of pected from you; and what right them will escape punishment of have you to ask for justice, when some sort. We have seen the deyou are so insolently unjust your-plorable end of a great part of selves? What Boroughmonger is those miscreants, the "Merchants there who is more unjust than those and Bankers of London," who ismasters of the town of Preston, sued a declaration against us in who unblushingly turned off their 1817; we have seen the Liverpool work-people to starve because they miscreants go off like rotten sheep; voted for me? Men, who could and we now see the Cotton Nobido this; who could thus tyrannize lity beginning to tumble about over the consciences of their work-like empty barrels: if they choose people; men, who could thus con- to join us in petitioning for Redemn their workmen to the suffer- form, it is well: if not, let them ings of hunger, merely because perish; and so say you all, and, those workmen obeyed the dic- knowing that you say this, I retates of their consciences; men, main who could thus violate the freedom of election, richly deserve ruin, hunger, starvation, the most agonizing of sufferings, and the most disgraceful of deaths, at the hands of Boroughmongers. Such detestable tyrants ought not to be considered as men, and, at any rate, are entitled to no compassion, suffer what they may. However, join the Reformers you must, or you will get no redress; you will go on, sinking by degrees; the weak ones will fall first; the strong ones will follow; the whole will come down, first or last and from this fate nothing can save you, but that very Re

Your faithful friend, and
Most obedient Servant,
WM. COBBETT.

"ENVY

AND ADMIRATION."

ALL our tax-eaters tell us that our Government is the " envy of surrounding nations, and admiration of the world." They do this while they have their hands ramined down into our pockets. At last, however, some of us do seem to be staggered at the use of such descriptions as this, when we see that nine-tenths of the people are

covered with rags; that no small Pray, reader, look well at it. If part of them are nearly naked; you feel for your country, as you that in some parts of this glorious- ought to do, you will be enraged ly fine "empire" even the women in reality. But do not cut your go nearly naked, while our infa- throats. Leave those to cut their mous newspapers and the Minis-throats who have brought us to this ters are representing the distress pass who have brought proud of manufacturers as arising from Englishmen down to be objects of an over stock of goods; that more charity to those that were formerly than two-thirds of the people in colonists of England. This is beEngland, and more than four-fifths ing the " envy of surrounding naof them in Ireland, are without a tions, and the admiration of the second shirt; that pretty nearly a world," is it? Insolent tax-eating third part of the whole are without ruffians, how I like to thrust that shoes; that three-fourths of the boast up under their noses. But, whole are dressed, if at all, in let us hear, now, what the New rags; that nine-tenths of them are Yorkers say to our miserable siwithout curtains of any sort; tuation. without table-cloths, towels, or any The continued and almost unpaof those things which contribute to cleanliness; that, in short, com- the inhabitants in England, Ireland, ralleled sufferings of a large portion of: pared with the working people in and Scotland (from causes altogether America, or even in France, our beyond their control), have induced working people (once the most several of the most respectable citicleanly and best dressed in the zens of, and British subjects in, New world,) are now a set of deplora- York and its vicinity, to call a meetble ragged beggars; that, while ing of those who may feel interested this is the case, THWAITES of the in their behalf, to devise some means, Morning Herald, and equally wise or adopt some measures, for their re lief, and, if practicable, to rescue them Lord LIVERPOOL are telling us, from poverty and starvation.—A pubthat the distress of our manufac-lic meeting will, therefore, be held turing people arises from their on Monday next, at six o'clock, p. m. having made too great a quantity at Washington-Hall, to take this of goods. No, wise Lord LIVER- subject POOL, and no, you foolish those who feel interested in the cause THWAITES, the distress of the of suffering humanity are respectfully invited to attend. One of our manufacturing people does not public journals, after relating sɔme arise from their having made too of the heart-rending scenes of dismuch goods; it arises from the tress among our fellow-men beyond people being unable to buy the the Atlantic, thus remarks:-"Now goods; and this arises from taxa- is the time for the citizens of these tion and the Corn Bill; and these United States to manifest their benearise from the want of a Parlia-volence and charity towards our sufmentary Reform. fering, starving fellow-men in England. Our country is literally overflowing with provisions of various kinds, esed as a sort of preface to an arti-pecially flour and we hav hundreds cle which I take from the Morning of ships ready to transportthese proChronicle, and which it has taken, visions. Why not, then start subit seems, from a New York paper. scriptions, or devise some means to

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relieve the distresses of those people? Such conduct would make the widow's and the orphan's heart to sing for joy, and perhaps save thousands from starvation, and bring down the blessings of heaven on our land."The vivid descriptions given in the English Papers, of the distress which prevails among the manufacturing classes, has excited much sympathy on this side the water; and the last Mercantile Advertiser announces the

intention of several benevolent inhabitants of New York to send a cargo of flour to England, as an American contribution for the relief of the distressed labourers.

Corn lower priced than it now is. That is our state; that is the state to which we have been brought, by the CANNINGS, the JENKIN SONS, and the HUSKISSONS, and by their predecessors, up to PITT, inclusive; and it must be confessed that, even this state is too good for those who have, with their eyes open, supported these men and their system.

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It is curious enough that, just In flour. The Yankees are as the Bank of England is begingoing to make us a present of ning to send forth their Branch some flour. The Yankees are Banks upon the "Scots plon, very kind, but they do not seem mon," the "Scots plon, mon," to be aware that our Laws, our seems to be ganging to the devil. Landlords' laws, would prevent The following is an account of the flour from being landed, even something having happened to if it came. This would be a the Stirling Bank." pretty dilemma. We have laws to keep corn and flour out of the country, and the New Yorkers are subscribing to send flour to save us from starvation. If we be not the "Envy of surrounding Nations, and the Admiration of the World," it is strange indeed! Here we are; a considerable portion of the people absolutely destitute of a sufficiency of food; there is the Continent of Europe ready to send us an abundance of food at a very cheap rate, and to take our goods in return, and there stand our Landlord rulers with a Law to prevent us from having the cheap Corn; there are the Yankees subscribing to send flour to prevent us from starving; and here stand our Landlord rulers with a Law to prevent us from receiving the flour, even as a present, lest the receiving of it should make their

through it, reader, if you can, without laughing. Look at the close of the article, in particular. It is only a suspension of payments, you will perceive. Oh ! Bless me, no! Nothing more! There is only a little time wanted for arrangements, for the paying of the debts. Not BROKE, then. What! Mon! Hoot awa, mon! I hope you dunna thank that a Scots Bonk can brak! oh! Lord no! Pon my soul I never suspected any such thing! How could 1, after what Doctors BLACK and MACCULLOCH had so many dozen of times sworn upon the subject. You must take my news, however, as I find it; and here it is.

dinary feelings of regret we find it Stirling Bank.-It is with no orannounced in this day's paper, that the Stirling Banking Company, after carrying on business most respect

ably and liberally for nearly half a notes are in their pockets. Nocentury, are, for the present, obliged thing that is in paper would be to suspend their payments, except with worth one farthing, if there were regard to their notes in circulation, to be a considerable rising in the which the Bank's Agents of Edinburgh have agreed to retire, so as to heart of the country. And, what give the Company time to enter into to think about such risings we arrangements for the discharge of their must gather from what we hear other engagements. We perceive the from the North. I am always agents of the Bank of Scotland and very much given to suspect, the Commercial Bank, in Stirling, will accounts 'relative to risings of the continue to receive the notes as for- people, if those accounts come merly. A suspension of business, from the Hell Hole, Manchester. for any period, in a concern of such respectability and long standing, The brutal scoundrel who knockcannot fail to be attended with serious ed the people about with a stick, inconvenience to this district, where, when they were perfectly quiet we hesitate not to say, much of the and only waiting to see me, would improvement and prosperity of the be a pretty fellow to believe when country, as well as individual success he talked about a rising of the in life, may be attributed, in no small people. When I hear accusadegree, to the liberality and facility tions of this sort against the peoall along been conducted.-Stirling ple of that country; I always sus

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pect that there are spies and miscreants at work, that want an excuse for murdering the people. If, however, the accounts which reach us from that quarter be true, there are meetings of the people, and men who exhort others to take up arms. Be this as it may, the following notice has been published at Manchester:

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Seriously, though, my good friends at Glasgow and Paisley, and throughout Scotland, if you have any notes of any description, turn them into gold as quickly as possible. Look at the manufacturing districts; look at the Hell Hole, Manchester; look at the bankrupt state of Liverpool and London; read the accounts of the movements of troops and ammuWe, the undersigned Magistrates nition; look at all this, and only for the county of Lancaster, havę think, if you were to hear some tain evil-disposed persons, strangers observed with great regret that cermorning that the present little ar- in Manchester, have, within the last maments in and about Manches-few days, been endeavouring to exter were swelled up to fifty thou-cite the peaceable and well-disposed sand men, think how much a inhabitants, by inflammatory lanbank note would be worth by the guage and addresses, to acts of outevening of that day. The South rage and insubordination; and in American bubble has bursted; have given notice of public meetings furtherance of their wicked object, every thing seems to be coming to be held in the evenings of several down to a state of reality; and days in the present week, at which in a state of reality, the paper such strangers have been the princimoney cannot live. All who have pal speakers, and the meetings have Bank notes ought to be constantly been protracted to late hours of the on the watch, as long as those night;

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