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SaUTH LANCASHIRE L^ELEGATE MEETING.
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 180,
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS :¦ ¦ ' ¦ ; " ' OF:NORMANBY. ¦ - ' ' ' : ' •• ' -. ; . *
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¦ ARREST OF MARSDEN : -- '•' - to th * KbiibS or ~ rtbt kobtkkbm stIk . \ Sol , —I write to inform you that Richard Han-• oen . who had been arrested in Bolton , was brought t * this town on Sunday morniiyrlast , by a poBeeman . It would seem that a person calling himself an attorney , who defended seYeral at the Yorkshire Assi »» , eame several miles on the coach with him , and pressed him to plead guilty to the charge / for tee sake of getting a less imprisonment , bat he refused to do so , considering that he iB not guilty of the base Whig charge of creating ronts , riots , and insurrection against our liege lady the Queen , the Crown , and her dignity . Poor Marsden has oeen reduced to such great ¦ ¦'^ " '
. uiftatt thai he feek bo vr&j amdons to be bailed tn . \ u&til the assize , but would rather remain in the prison and depend on the humanity of the Governor . He iB in a most wretched condition , from actual Btarration ; and the well-paid working men of this town and neighbourhood , to their eternal disgrace , have not subscribed one farthing towards defending those at the Assizes who will oe martyrs in their cause . Why , Sir , instead of collecting for the rapport of Messrs . Hume , Thomason , Mason , and Marsden , who have all to go to trial without the least preparation , a drunken fellow , on Saturday last with a rosette on his breast , was geing round in a
state of beastly intoxication , collecting monies for Dr . M'Douall , but I must say that had the worthy Doctor seen the fellow be would have despised the wretch who would insult the working men , when tbey asked him why their own men were not to be snbs&ribed for ! by answering , they might go to h—1 and be d—d , they must only support Dr . M'Douall , that was enough ,. Sir , I would call on the men of Lancashire , as they respect their friend and countryman Mareden , to call a the better paid working men of this district , to come forward and support those men , who , ere they Jiaaj hare read this , may be immured in a dungeon for their sakes ; for the man who will not giro Eis mite so such a cause , will deserve the most wretched o Barnes to be given to him .
\ Janes Ayr , who had to be tried at those Assizes , * tiied from Liverpool for New York on " Tuesday w $ k last , rather than be made another victim of Whiggery . - Mews . Frances , &c , Dean-street ; J . Blakej , owe ; L »« ery , New-street ; and the Liberator Office , will reoeive subscriptions in aid of those neglected patrio t * . Your obedient servant , JOHS GlLCBBISL - JiAWcassle-apon-TTne , Tuesday Evening .
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WEST-RIDING ADJOURNED DELEGATE : ; MEETING . At the adjourned meeting of the West- " Riding Hfefetttes , held on Monday , July 27 th , at Dewsbury , the following delegates were present : —Hudders-4 Ud , Thomas Yevers ; Bradford , John Arran Civewedge , William Warren ; alifax , Benjamin Hoshton ; Ossett-cum-Gawthorpe , John Haigh : Leeds , Andrew Gardner ; Dewsbury , Francis Law ; Dawgreen , a Friend . Mr . Thotnas Vevers being called to th& chair , Mr . Fttnct 3 Law was appointed Secretary for the day j after which , -Mr . Joseph Hatfield gave an account of their deleflpubu to Manchester , V-Mr . Arran then read the plan of the National shatter Association , after which it was
resolyed—1 . That the said be appreved and recommended to the Riding for general adoption . " % * That it is the opinion of this meeting , that it is indispensably necessary that the various Associa tions of the West-Riding should immediatel y call XKtoaetba all the means at their command to orga-Jipe the people , according to the plan of the National Cfcrter Association . " v ^ . ? , ' fiat * e Bext West-Riding Delegate Meeting UeJteU at Dewsbury , on Sunday , August 16 th , at ten o < 9 DeJt in the forenoon . " A . vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman , aoa the meeting dissolved .
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JOHN TH 0 ROGO 0 D .-SEIZURE OF QUAKERS' GOODS , 1687 . In the debate on Thorogood ' s case , in the House « f Coamons , last week , Mr . Duncombe read the feOowing letter from Lord Sunderland , Secretary of State to James II-, and addressed to the Mayor and Aldermen of Leeds . The letter may be found in "Sewell ' s History of &e Quakers . " M Whitehall , December 14 , 1687 . ¦ - " { Jehtlekeh , —Tbe King being informed that some goods belonging to John Wales , and other Quakers , of Leeds , which wete seized and taken from them upon the account of their religious worship , do remain unsoid in the hands of John Todd , who was the constable
at the time of the seieure , or in tb « hands of some oiber petsons : and his Majesty ' s intention being , thai all kit subject * shall receive the full batrfi of hit declaration far liberty of conscience , his Majesty commands me to s % nify his pleasure to you , that you cause the goods ^ ong in j to the said ^ ohn Wales , and all other QnaJcers , of ILeeds , -which , -were heretofore seized upon aeeo&nt of religious worship , * nd are unsold , in whose hands soever they lemaia , to be forthwith restored to the respective owoexs without any charge . ** I am , Gentlemen , " Tour affectionate friend and servant , " StXDEBLASD . " " To the Mayor and Aldermen , Leeds , "
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TO THB EDIT ©* OP THE KOSTRKBH- STAB .. jMS . EDITOR , —On reading the Star , I find , in one ofafer . O'Connor ' s letters , a request that all Chartists dgHren horn this year should be called Feargas , whet ^«? bale or female . For tie njifc tine in my life I felt pAgm that my wife waa ia 1 M family way , that I might have it in my power to Jplfil the wishes of the Tnofft noble o ? fru ^^ TTif ^ % &j £ vri £ & w&s connxkbd on Friday last t > f a daughter , and / have called her Feargua OVassaotV ^ " - , "" : Tours , truly , -. Edwam BorcasB . Wo . 4 , Trevor Place , EMghtsbridge , London .
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KANCHESTER . THE BASE WHIGS ONCE MORE . TO THB KPITOB OP THB WOBTHKBa STAB . 81 B ., —Daring the last few days , a'base aad cowardly He , concocted and circulated by the Salfwd Whigs , alias Whig-Radical * , alias Rational Radicals , -alia Reformers , -alias Liberals , * c fcc , respecting Mr . R . J . Richardson ' s poor rates ; indeed , so anxious are these Tile slanderers to give circulation to falsehoods which win hxv * the effect of propping up their falling popularity , that one of their paid tools , at a weekly
XBeetJxtgheid st » notorious beer-bonae , publicly declared , amidst the ehaeta of his galled aaaembly , that some Mr . " Brown , * Tory spent , had paid Mr . RicbardBoa ' s poor zatat , and thus qualify him on the list of voters . These miserable knaves , not content with victimising ^ Mr . Richardaofi , with the aid ot the reporter of their base organ , the Manchester Guardian , pablidy endeavour to iojare him in the estimation of his foUow-townsmen , knowing fuU well , by Ui « sitBaJioH Mr . Richardson fa now place d in , Tenders him incapable of replying to th eir infamous falsehoods .
I desire to inform "these wholesale dealers in slander , through the medium vf' your widely circulating . Journal , that F received a adtefrom the Caatle , r » questing me to ascertain 3 the rates were paid , and if sot , to obtain ttte neaWBary arftdB ^ from Mrs . R . ; which was accordtogly dose , - and the rates were paid by me , on behalf rfMr . Richardson . oj ? . Jlaaday , Jidy » . -St ^ mmck' ^ n Se ^ S ^ fyrLiberail I am , Sir , - Year » ott ofettaent servant , . J . BllROWCLOCGH . aatford , July S 9 , 1840 . ' *
Sauth Lancashire L^Elegate Meeting.
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M 9 > *» m > a , —At a meeting of the Central ComtcaUm far South Lancashire , on Monday evening bat , ti p tbeir Cotmoht « e-room , 9 , Whittle-street , ICaomeier , it was agreed that s meeting of the delegate * for Seeth Lancashire , be held in their room-oo Sunday , Aogttst the 9 th , 1840 , for the purpose of bearing the report of Messrs . James Taylor and Leach , concerning . the fMCpedJBgs of the late Gtsaer $ l T ^ eWfale MeSing in Manchester , aad also Wconjil 4 > ftM > l > estiD ^ tes « f carrying their plans into fmwjdia * <> peraUoBL asd ?« transact other
important buamdas , when it is hoped that all the districts will send delegates , with fnll inBirnafcjonsof tbesni % er of lecturers each dirtrjo $ oanfoiiush , tbo day ot tbo week ant conveoieni : for eacE ^ e * tareri and the most convenient time for . each district t © reerfv © them ? a » 4 farther , it k hoped that each delegate wiH ^ be prepared to state what number of tike Giatgom Chartist Orcnlar will be required to sapp ^ thewants of Aeir res pective districts . The « uur to W taken at ten o ' clock in the ftrenoon . Wx . SitiTH , Seerelary .
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Libkuhou or Db . M'Dodall . —The Commitiee of Manageneat , for ^ he-proceesion and public dinner to this pc ^ ecuted advocate of the oppressed , orrhis visit to MaiiCbCS ^ ar , after his liberatioB . from the tender keeping pf la » . Whigs , are going oa prosperously . Several of the && districts ha . ve signified their intention to take part in tbs proceedings of the day , especially Ashton Hyde , Staij bridge , Sfcookport , aad several other pi&ces , and as tie men of Maaobester are never backward on these oce&sion ' s , We doWbi not the demonstration will be EUCll ftS ^^ wiB strike terror to the tyrants heai ^ aid show ^ r ^^ worid ftat wb are determined toiw * our
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The CoionTTBB for collecting subscriptions for th « wire ? amT- fteiliefl ^ f tiie-Manehester and Salford imprisoned Chartista , hare received from if FeeeBhop 9 a . 8 d . ; Ilooden-lane , Pre 8 twichl 08 . 6 d . ; Wren and Bonnet ' s shop 15 a . ; Anti Marcus 8 d . ; a coach trimmer 6 d . ; booksand boxes £ 3 6 s .
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , AUGUST 1 , 180 ,
WHIG AND TORY TYRANNY . > An . vexed we give , from the dungeon minor of Mr . Peargus O'Coknob , a part of another letter- to Lord Noemanby , in which our readers will find a pleasant contrast of the two tyrant factions , in their proceedings against the liberty of the subject . We have yet several matters , besides the finishing of this letter , in reserve .
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OUR POSITION AND PROSPECTS . THg alarming condition in which our country is placed , requires us to call home the faculty of observation , and employ it carefully . Clouds are threatening over our heads , and not even a gleam of light iB visible in tbe distance ; but dark storms are gathering on the horison , as far as the eye can reach or the mind can penetrate . Look Watte W 6 n » y , nor th , east , south , or west , the prospect is cheerless and forbidding .
We discover no signs of prosperity either in oju commercial or our political relations , in our agricultural or our manufacturing districts . There is but little demand in the market , wages are low , employment is scarce . The poor are many in the land , and the laws which are made respecting them , are calculated neither to afford assistance , nor to ameliorate their condition . They are reduced to the utmost destitution , and yet see no hope of relief ; they suffer , and yet can find no alleviation ; for that which is proffered , adds insult to their degradation , and is a mockery to their misfortunes- The people are
discontented , they experience nothing but bad Government and . Tad laws ; and when these have ground them down to poverty , they behold the Poor Law in the distance , as the goal of their hopes and their expectancies . They are discontented , for they know that they are not represented in the Legislature , where the most important matters are decided ; that they have no voice in those enactments , which bo materially influence their welfare and happiness , and that statutes are , consequently , passed which tend to their injury , and to the injury of all that is moBt dear to them . They are discontented because their
lives , their properties , and their liberties , are not sufficiently cared for , and because they are excluded from the only guarantee of a nation ' s safety—the power of a nation ' s voice to express the nation ' s will . They are discontented because patriotic men , who stand forth as the champions of their rights , are torn from them , and thrown into miserable dungeons , where they are doomed to suffer every indignity and cruelty that malice can invent or revenge can devise . But of whom tbe peop ' e forget not that if their lives be even sacrificed to the malice , and oupidity , and vengeance of a bad Bjstem , upheld by bad men .
" They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates aad castle walls ; But still their spirits walk abroad . " And all the brute force which the enemies of freedom have concentrated to crush these patriots , and their still more noble cause , ia like a drop of water thrown upon a great conflagration to extinguish it . " Instead of subduing the spirit of Chartism , they
have , by their reckless course of persecution , accelerated their own downfall . " Truth is not to be stifled by persecution . She stands , unshaken as ever , smiling at all the efforts of puny men ; and , notwithstanding she has been , in divers ages , hunted round and through the world , yet , by union , by patience , and by industry , shall her throne be eventually upreared , even on earth , and , under her auspicious sway , men shall hereafter live in union , peace , and contentment .
" It is absurd to suppose that honest men are to be deterred from acting according to their convictions . History tells us that the terrors of the rack and the stake , in the dark ages , did not intimidate the martyrs to opinion ; and that persecution , whether religious or political , has ever failed in its object : whereas the persecuted have ever succeeded in the end . " This is , then , a lesson which our rulers have yet to learn . The people of a country form the base of the pyramid of which the Crown is tbe apexthus constituting the support of the whole fabric : they should receive the greatest attention , and be regarded with the utmost tenderness . If the base should be weak , the whole figure will totter : if the foundation be destroyed , the superstructure will
fall . Discontent causes internal convulsions , something of which -we have lately ¦ wi tnessed ; and the angry feelings roused thereby have not yet subsided . The cause must be taken away before tbe effect will cease—and the cause is class legislation . M There is no country on the face of the earth that possesses the elements of national prosperity to a greater extent than Great Britain . If we take into account the fertility of her soil , the salubrity of her climate , the incalculable wealth of her mines , and her happy adaptation for agricultural and commercial pursuits , she presents an unlimited variety of national resources , surpassed by no country
whatever , either ancient or modern . Superadded to these advantages , and many others that might be adduced , she possesses a commanding superiority in the overpowering energy and genius of her peoplequalities which , combined with their intelligence and unflinebing integrity , ought to place her in tbe proud position of being ia reality " The envy of surrounding nations , and admiration of the world . " Her triumphant advances in scientific research have left the continental nations of Europe far behind her ; but in the science of Government she has signally failed to keep pace with that growing spirit of progressive improvement , arising from an advanced Btate of civilization , and rendered indispensgible by the intelligence « f her people .
" Notwithstanding the commercial enterprise of her merchants , the Buperwe skill of hex manufactures , the ergatjrg genius * ad wnHriwg-iHdaatay of her artisans , with * profosUa of the bounties of nature and Providence , Great Britain iB , by the stubborn folly of her rulers , jrapidly advancing to a state of insolvency ; Amidst an unexampled accumulation of wealth * the masses of her people—the producers of that wealth , —are pining in poverty and unmitigated wretchedness . The problem is easily
solved ; the conclusion inevitable . The rights of the people have been for oe&turies held in abeyance The rapacious and profligate " shopkeepers" of the country traffic with them , as merchandise ! This is the polluted eouree of all the political evils with which we hare to contend ; and until the people possess their indisputable rights , guaranteed to them by the laws of nature , and ordained by theJat of Heaven , it is in vain to anticipate a redroosal of their wrongs . "
Until the people s roice hare power in the eoacttion of Ihe laws , the laws will sever recognise the people ' s interests ; their miseries will accumulate , and they will-be continually sinking lower and lower into the depths of degradation and suffering . TMb will of course work its * own rwnedy in time . The climax will , be reached . The extremest point of endurance will be attained ; when the disordered elements of society will rush into confusion , and political chaos furnish the necessity for a remodelling of
society to as many as remain alive , we desire to avert this horrible denouement , and would , therefore , stay the hand of blinded despotism ere its further operation produce greater mischief . For this purpose we conjure the people to relax nothing ; bat to pat forth all their energies ; to make their moral power be felt ; to rally round the standard of democracy ia the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ; and , by cordially acting each , with all , and all with each , teach the enemies of liberty the truism , that "FOR A NATION TO BE FREE IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE WILLS IT . "
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BEHOLD THE STORM COMETH . J Thk elements foreboding a awful convulsion h # ve been long gathering , while the several classes which compose society , instead of endeavouring , by a union of their skill , to meet its vengeance / have indulged in the delusive hope that exposure of one section would shelter the other from the universal pelting . But no , it is not so ; the hurricane .-begjus to blow steadily , and from Us inn" ueBceAll most bs-tiaved , or
all must perish . While upon the on&fcaM we hear of fortunes amassed as if by magio > upoh the other we hear the loud cry of hunger and despair from those by whose unceasing -toil those fortunes hftTO been m » de . While the expectant eye of the idle and titled accumulator is turned , with the hope of & renewal of his title , to the pregnanoy of the Queen , his ear is closed ' to those warnings which come like thunder storms from all quarters ' of the land .
We hear , and not without emotion , the sorrowful wail of the hand-loom weaver , displaced by uncontrolled Tn « . r . hinp . Ty . We listen totse oostfklaint of the badly employed aud worse paid operative . The moan of the incarcerated patriot strike ! upon our ear . The widowed howl of the mother separated from her partner and their little pledges stakes to our heart from the cold Bastile . The guttering
steel of the crested warrior reviewed for home service against the complainants meets our eye . The marshalled police ( substitutes for civil power , in civil times , ) meet us at all corners . While we hear of generally increasing poverty , we behold Royal pageants , Royal displays , and increasing aristocratical expensive amusements . While at peace , we hear the drum and fife of parties recruiting for home service , ' or there ii no foreign foe in the field .
From all these symptoms , we would ask , does not the dullest comprehension anticipate a change , and a fearful one , which the longer it is protracted witf come with increased and unmitigated fury . In these incongruities , who bat muBt recognise the rumbling which announces the eruption from the volcano ! While the unbridled law is let loose to preserve the enfranchised order , and after it has taken vengeance upon the many , do we not , nevertheless , Bee others ready and willing to take ( he place of the doomed 1 When , in defianoe of lawless authority ,
we find Newcastle , Carlisle , Sunderland , Bath , and Bristol , London , Wiltshire , Nottingham , Merthyr Tydvil , Leicestershire , and Derby , still sending their delegates into theveryheaitofEngland , wbere poverty * created by unrestricted machinery , most prevails . Here we find those delegates , one and all , speaking a nation ' s will and a people ' s resolve . Thus , one of two inferences may be drawn : either that all are equally forlorn and oppressed , or , which , we would prefer , that the comparative comfort of some , has Dot made them deaf to the appeals of their less fortunate brethren .
Again , ia Birmingham , the pivot upon which for years the political machinery of this empire turned , and where the law first unbridled its vengeance;—even there we find that twelve months of raging terror , and local tyranny , backed by Parliamentary aid , has not cooled the ardonr of the slave class . " The return of two working men from the dungeon to free air is commemorated with more pomp and greater rejoicing than if majesty had summoned all her gorgeous power to prepare for her reception .
How , we ask , can the weak power supported by fraud , stand against rightful prerogative based upon the immutable law of eternal justice ! Can Royalty much longer hold its wonted snray and shine with its accustomed splendour , when the procession to welcome two working men from the prison-house much surpasses in number and enthusiasm all the pomp and show that Royalty could master . The review of mercenaries is one thing and may be commanded—it proceeds only from command—but the feelings of a people , to be commanded , mist be won ; affection must be the commander-in-chief , and then upon the muster-roll will appear the hearts of freemen , instead of the names of hirelings .
In the midst of this generally-prevailing despondency , we find a whole session frittered away with , out a trace of good being left behind . What one single act has the Parliament done to show itself worthy , not only of confidence , but of existence 1 There was one vote of confidence , and that vote was passed upon the assumed fact , that the land was filled with traitors , and we suppose upon the presumption , that he who hides can find . " Sir Johh C ampbell and the Whigs , who Btrove to create treason and traitors , were the fittest instruments to allay the malady of their own creation ; upon this presumption , and this alone , -waa confidence voted in the Whigs .
We hear of the poor Irish being in a state of national starvation , while they 'daily witness the exportation of their own prodnoefrom their shores . The English people calmly read of an 4 ncreasAof revenue , produced by their own . dissipation , whlklC furnishes all the munitions of war to keep them in a Btate of slavery , and they , nerertheless -profess liberiy and worship the gin-palace and the beer-house , the infernal regions wherein their every fetter is wrought , Do we blame them ! Yes , and greatly top . The Government of a country must ever be the representation of the prevailing opinions and . actions of a
people . The people are the invading army , after all ; while the Government but hold a narrow fortress at their discretion , liable to be starved out , or beaten into submission in any one quarter of a year that the invading party choose to commence the siege . The Government can be successfully besieged , if the besiegers are but united and determined , and then must an administration be formed , corresponding with popular union , action , and detennjnatioa , It was not so much the cool and determined bravery as the firm resolution of the American * , whieh defied the harsh step-dame longer to hold ; ^ he overgrown child in leading strings . The negative power of the Americana effected what might have baffled their positive strength and best Intentions .
The American Convention adopted three , and only thxee , resolutions—non-importation , noa-exporta tion , and non-consumption ; indeed , in the last may be said to breathe the value and spirit of all ; inas much as both importation and exportation most depend apoa consumption . The discharge of lar ^ e quantities of tea into the sea at Boston , in 1774 , did more for the liberty of America than if countless thousands of their enemies had been sacrificed . Not a Boston kettle boiled to wet the invading herb , which was considered as a deadly enemy , to American liberty , because ihe duty which it paid furnished implements for ( he preservation j ) f English asoendanoy . The ladies vied with their warlike brethren , and while the glories of the field supplied
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th » boaster the American men , her women had not less cause of exultation , ia having at once abandoned a delicious foe for love of liberty . ,-:. - . If , then , America has been so successful in the accomplishment of her object , by those negative , but effectual means , why should Englishmen complain of slavery , while they forge their own fetters . Not only the Charter , but all that their fullest hearts can expect from the Charter , may be accomplished by one half-year ' s peaceful besieging 4 £ . gja « ir ginshop Government within their polluted A ^^ b . , f irst , govern yow passes , and , $ j |||^» jgj a perfect ^ presentation of your nmm $ < mwcvum
state vrJM be found in the cabinet of St . JanwsV Cut off the supplies . Dry up the waters , in whictf corruption lives , and by which , sUeat idleness , is enabled to lord it over poverty , and then from ifee refreshing streams of your own new birth nato liberty will flow the holy waters of freedom . Iff ' - | Q morrow we had Universal Suffrage , We should not the less denounce those immoralities , by a perjeverance in whiob , the value of : £ | t 0 principle would be blighted before it produflatf ^ kp expected fruit . The first acts »* W ^ -tl yJtijraHBpp ^' - ' -fe j ig * away betoken thaoj ^^ jj ^^^ jyiKpiniioj The I "I ' II fir rtlTli Miir III il ' isW
a I I * iivnifinrirrnf IflMtTti liftOBpf Nil IllIQW which revolution ( which if ^^ K rebeUial ^ destroyed . So with Universal Saffrage , if gained ^ jaorrow , the straggle of judgment against cunntnjj would then - oott )^ n « e ^; $ l !! jaii £ ; j ^ all Bob ^ hejib % nd sound niinds be requjM ^ ife ^ jgivfi jMie sptyi |( HK % d not the shadow of the tUi « . B ^ orm pro ^^ mu « h , but ov « r confidence andi neglect of its' wokM
ings has left us the thorns , while the Bubtatafe gfll those Jo power has pluckedthe wia ^ ., o ¦ . \?|| ff |§ j s ^^^^ i and their cause j yet ,. from % , ^ eaA |^ i ^ f ^ oa 8 « 8 which our ranks have sustained , we acknowledge a double duty imposed upon us , that of cheering the patriot on in his assault againet oppression , ' and Of pointing our to the brawler the thorns which he is
daily Btrewing , not only in his own path , but in that of virtuous men aiS ^ Behold the btoem cometh , and we require a dnion op sober , sound , and wise mariners , to 8 ayb the vessel and ihe crew .
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THE IMPRISONED CHARTISTS . A ° surpliced ruffian , " in Wilts , who dishonours God by the profanation of his holy name and ordinances , and who reflects disgrace upon the sacred office of Minister , " which , with a levity equalled only by its blackguardism , he associates with the chaste and classio but expressive term " humbug , " is deeply grieved at the ill-judged , clemency of Lord NoBMANfcY , in releasing Mr . Roberts from the house of horrors , to which he had been consigned , at Fisherton , before the expiration of the full period of his doom .
The Reverend rascal thinks two yean' seclusion from society—two years' death to the world—two years' endurance of cold , hunger , and disease—two years' incipient idiocy , in the absence of every external distinction between man and beast , except the figure—two years' feeding principally on u $ kiUy , " and tearing to pieces with his fingers , like a beast , such small portions of meat as his keepers might throw to him —two years' interdiction of all Bight , knowledge , or intercourse of or with his wife and children , superadded to the ruin of a lucrative profession ,
and the consequent prospect of beggary for the remainder of a life , which the nurtured seeds of disease , mental and bodily , would have rendered doubly wretched : —all these accumulated horrora this " hypocrite , " who loves to be called of men " Rabbi , " and who , therefore , gratuitously thrusts his tail-piece of " A . B . " into the face of the Noble Marquis , affects to consider " a very alight punishment when compared with bis ( Mr . Roberw ' s ) offence . '' We will not reason upon , such a subject with such a man . The bloated priest of the household of unrighteousness has no faculty for reason ;
and we have no disposition to throw pearls before swine . But we assert , without fear of contradiction , from any but the Reverend (/) DaVIB DaNIEL , A . B ., Minister of Bradford , Wilts , " that this is a punishment which can be fairly merited by no crime of which humanity is capable ; which ought not to be inflicted upon any , even the most abandoned , criminal . Corrective punishment ever has a twofold object ; the protection of society and the reformation of the individual offender . Whatever beyond this is contemplated becomes vindictive , and can be fitly predicated only of infernal agency .
The infliction of unnecessary pain and torture can contribute nothing either to the protection of society or the reformation of offenders ; consequently , no punishment which includes gratuitous and unnecssary torture ought to bo inflicted upon any individual , let his crimes have been what they may ; and we will not insult the plain sense and common feelings of our readers by even asking whether gratuitous and unneossary tortures were inflicted on Mr . Roberts , Our recital of his treatment includes not half the Bum of his endurance ; but even that
is quit © sufficient to shew that his treatment-his slight punishment—was a pnnishment which ought not to be endured by any human being . If a man ' s crimes make him unfit to continue in society , letj him be kept up , that society may be protected ;| if bis habits of vice require to be restrained , let them be restrained ; but you have no right to torture him . This is a principle clearly self-evident , and will only be disputed by such votaries of " spiritual wickedness in high places" as this Wiltshire parson and his brother wolf , in Wales .
But , if Mr . Roberts was subjected to gratuitous and uncalled-for punishment in Fisherton , what shall we say of the condition of the poor fellows in Wakefield , under the mild government of the semi-devil , Shepherd , whom the Yorkshire " Shallows" were most anxious to have installed into the management of our county gaol at York !! Are the people disposed to forget poor White , and Crabteee , and Host , and Ashton \ We need not repeat their story . It has been told in the S / tfr , and if the people have forgotten it already it is time that God Bhould forget them .
One of the abominable rules belonging to the hell is , that if a man change from an upri ght position to any other , during the ten or twelve hours he is to be at work ; if he look , laugh , or smile , or make any gesture , or movement , he is brought before the Governor , the following morning , ' and condemn « d to what the prisoners call " Garmany . " What an appropriate name ! It ia as much as to signify that the worst of all the evils England has to conleni with , is its cursed alliance with this thing called "Gannany ! " Well ; the person so transgressing , is sentenced to three days " Garmany "; ind what is <* Garmany" ? A cold , damp cell , without either bed or povering of any description , except the clothes whioh he wears , and He is allowed one half pound of br ^ ad ; k * 4 Vquart ef water , in every twenty-four hours ! S ••'
In the Beverly house © f horror the case ifcSely little better * if * & 7 ^ We have now lying before us a letter from p « or Pbddib , **!; "W wife , in whichi after alluding to th > 1 inaufucienoy of his diet , and his consequent loss * £ ftteength therefrom , and - from the length of confinement , and the labour of the treadmill , a labour fit only for felons , and unjustifiable . as applied to \ ^^ tical offenders , he observes : — " In looks I am not ' e , but ten years older , than when I toft borne—my 1 ;' w * d > jriadedr-my very beard
has become grey—in bod '» I am the very shadow of . toy former self—the ghost of * hat I was . I , on Saturday last , sent a petition to the Visiting Magistrates , praying for an additional allowan "C « of ftodi a very humble one indeed ; viz ., eight onn& . * of oatmeal and * halfpenny worth of milk per diem , »» P «» request ind « W mm a manfrom wnese door tt epoornrere never turned bungry away , and you may judge . of tbe real state of the case from the fact , that I leok to r their , dedakai upon my petition with much solicitude . : »*» ' •••¦ »> I » m fttnVing from a very severe head-ac « e and pain in-the ~ i- ' - '¦' '¦ '' : ' . ' ' . ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ ::. ¦; ' .. ;¦ \ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ . ;¦ ¦¦ . ; , ' ¦ ¦ . I : . rOI . /
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breast—in mind I tnSet more on your account than on my own , but I wffl ; letPaul « feakfotfne—I am troubled on every , side , but not dlstrest—I am perplexed , but not In deBpair ^ persBented , yet riot fornken—cast down , but cot destroyed . " ' . ' ¦ ¦ ' ';¦ * ¦* ' Think only of this poor fellow being doomed to this terrestrial hell for three years ! !! This is another of the reverend ^ wretch's , very slight punishments !" We are satisfied that Pkddik ' s statement is greatly mthui tiie mark of-Mb sufferings . Beit remembered ¦^ P « i > niy dlffewno ^ ¦ ¦ £ aay . between the treatment SKillig and Of 6 *»« % ^ h * t they » e worse S ^^ wh ^ tl ^ re ^ iw , the foUdwing ^ S 17 le ^ wS ^ i eived from a medical for
^ S % gma , to wh ^ appj ^ piwted many previous favours , wiU lMij | ljm 8 y * TB to some faint estimate ^ the Punifihme ^ k ( 2 ^ ' "Aman cameto , ^ ffc » j M » yfar » Byadvice ; he « W ,- Yw aw : « £ Wpp lately in that l"jjPi » ^ WBi | « g the House of e # ^^ JHalHHP ^ lll 8 btI 7 nnderatand hin ^^ Mrta nata HaWBKBP few committed for some n ^ sdeineanar , a *| B » BKwl ' makes many things misdemeaaour , wblti ^ ) s -inP « Y limes , was never dreamt fofiiajjto «« n , iH # i «* 4 amn , said they were taken Jmamm btMlfimm ^ mntm at- Hie estabUahment to ^^ mmg $ fam ^ , *> moc * Qod-to hear adis-^^^ BLMJiWw ' iMii iiiifi minr iinii mil nnii to
a aaa ¦ HPP ««^ be , - witn all due fle-¦¦ P ^^ speet- 'obedience and non-resistance , &c . P $ aV ( I forget whether it was after breakfasting or WJJs ^ tar , aU tbe prisoners , without distinction , were | iyBHi ^» h « el—neither to turn their head aside M ^ HM * Olpeak--otherwise , departing ( rom those WJm ^ Bgm tV *™^ to a dark , solitary cell , with ^ H | HpHlw ^ l bread , and a pint of water per diem ' ; ¦¦ HMpwd night , or more , and a greater stretch of ¦ MP ^ bl'& ** ' ease of a second breach . Well , tut HBHiUastor supper , or both , I think , he said coh-¦ HHi » -a pint of scalding gruel , or " skilly , " which , ¦¦ Pfiapped in five minutes , was taken away . He SpO be thought he could snp anything as hot as
ptanpeople , but there , were those who ' beat him hollow . ' But , mark—I allude to the supper , particularly just before being locked up in their cells—the miserable wretches had to * take off a pint of this Bcalding skilly within the given time , and immediately after a pint of cold water—he it winter , be It summer , all the same . Who devised , or who sanctioned euch . a plan for mining the health , by inducing almost certain organic disease ; to say nothing of the many broken spirits , and otherwise broken constitutions , through labour , and want of necessary food , kc . —I repeat , who could devise , or sanction such a system of slow , but almost certain , murder , but tbe' prince of darkness himself V or such as had been thoroughly initiated in his damning
principles . Well might it be mournfully asked , 'O Lord , how long ? ' On the whole , aB I remember the system pursued , and sanctioned by the Reverends on the Benchis much the same as that detailed lately by a victim to the rules , &c of the Wakefield House of Correction , under that Shepherd (?) Horrible 1 oh ! horrible to think upon 1 O , Almighty God 1 when wilt thoa bring those miscreants , under whose iron rule we suffer , to account ? ' O Lord ! ' I repeat , ' how longV Tbe man said , by one kind of treatment or other , or altogether , as to the kind of food , labour , lodging , die ., it frequently brought on stupor and giddiness in the head ,
even to reeling and falling . This man was taken 80 himself , but had no other medicine than , as he said , a good shaking , and being thrust for a day and a night into a cell with half a pound of bread , and a pint of water . They had a man so affected to that degree , that he could not stand without having- his hands- clenched upon some upright bars—when upon some occasions he was led out of his cell , to have such a treat in the sunshine—but , in spite of that , and all that could bedone for him , he died—and when the narrator came away , there was another prisoner much in the same way ; and not expected to live . "
At Northallerton , as our readers will have learned , from Martin ' s letters in the Star , the case is little if any , better . We have said that the only difference if any , in the treatment of Chartists and felon / , is , that the Chartists are much worse treated . We never e » j anything without being prepared to prove it . We give here an extract from another letter which we have received : — " Through the medium of your luminary , permit me to call the attention of the thinking portion of the community to the glorious uncertainty of the law , as exemplified in the case of Georob Jenkinson , and that of Feargus O'Conmor , Esq . ; the former of whom was transported , at the last York Assizes , charged in two indictments with bobbery and attempt to murder , but bat now got his punishment ixmmvled to tvo years' imprisonment .
" Th « latter of whom , for bis strenuous and unremitting exertions in the cause of liberty , and his endeavours to awaken . the people to a sense Of their degraded condition , has to nnderyo the full sentence of the ( miscalled ) law , and be incarcerated for eighteen months in the felons cell at York Castle . ' < I should not have brought Mr . Feargas O'Connor in contrast with one whose crimes-are of tbe blackest hue , but to show that ifc is not against ihe perpetrators of crime that the law is allowed to take its course , but against principles and individuals whose minds are too noble—too disinterested to take advantage of those circumstances which fortune has placed in their power to assist in enslaving the minds of their fellow-countrymen . "
If this be not enough of proof we will fortify it by the following which we take verbatim from a London paper : — " Marylebone . —Jas . M'Grath , acoachsmith , living at No . ll , North-street , Manchester-square , was placed at the bar , before Mr . Rawllnson , charged with having stabbed his wife , Mary M'Grath , in the neck , with a table-fork , and inflicting upon her other serious injury . . - - ¦ «• " The poor woman , who seemed very weak and faint in consequence of the murderous assault committed upon her , deposed that on the previous night , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , her husband ( the prisoner ) came home somewhat the worse for drink , and ,
notwithstanding the supper was laid ready for him , asked ir there was anything in the house to eat ; she pointed to tiie table , where there was some cold beef , and he then sat down , but seeing only one plate desired her to get another . She waa in the act of walking to the cupboard to fetch one , when he struck her a violent BLOW ON THE THROAT , WHICH KNOCKED HER DOWN , ANI > WHILE SHE LAT UPON THE FLOOR HE HURLED AT , HER THE PIECE OP BEEF . She got Up , WHEN HE threw at « er a plate , which broke upon her Head , and inflicted a wound from which the blood flowed in k . stream ; and while she was in a stoopino position , he seized a fork , which he plunged into the back part of her n-eck . she ran down stairs scream i no m murder . "
WITH THE FORK STILL REMAINING IN HER FLESH , AND IT WAS WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY THAT IT WAS PULLED ; OUT BY A FEMALE WHO OCCUPIED AN APARTMENT ON THE FIRST FLOOR ; ' " The woman alluded to stated , that at the period in question she heard a cry of ' murder , ' and on complainant rushing into her room , she saw the fork slicking upright in her neck . She (" witness J pulled it outi > y main force , when complainant fell down as if she was dead ; a surgeon soon afterwards arrived , as also two policemen , who had been sent for . She ( witness ) had on other occasions beard the parties quarrelling , but had never before interfered .
" Young , 140 D , said that when he entered the room he found the complainant sitthig oa a ebair bleeding from two wounds , one on the bead , and the other on the back part of the neck , and was informed that the prisoner bad stabbed ner with a- fork > he and another constable went up stain to the prisoner ' s room , and , ' after knocking several times without receiving any answer , burst open the door , when tjiey fotfnd him ( the prisoner ) sitting down . They took nim into custody , and after a determined resistance , ^ waa conveyed to the station-house and locked up . " ¦ ¦ - < ••'¦ ' - ' v V This man made no defence , and was committed to the House of Correction for two months .
Let the people contrast the sentence of this murderous wretch with that of poor Holberry—four years . in ^ orthfillertou ; Duffet , Brook , Thomas Booker , and Hold » worth , three years each ; Wk ; Booker , Marshall , Penthorpb , and Benson , two years each , and Wklls and Martin one year each , in the same b * U j while Pkddib has three yean in Beverley ; arid Crabtrke , Host , an 4 JAshtok have two years , ^ ai Wj ^ nejdl 111 ^ What will Abpeople do ! Will they make no effort ! W ^ ill tney not , petition , remonstrate , and memorialise I u This at least they can do . They « an humbly petition the Crown that these good menfeiay be either ftt pnoe released , removed to York , or hung , shot , or drwned , onfc of the way . ThU the people can < Ut « and this they otight to do at once . t .: ¦ : . ri : ' \ ¦ .. ¦ ' :. - . ¦ .. ¦ . ¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ : ¦ ' ¦ ;¦ . ;¦ ¦ . ' : ¦ ¦ - ¦ .. . -
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS : ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ; " ' OF : NORMANBY . ¦ - ' ' ' : ' •• ' -. . *
' ¦ " When Chatty visits afflicted spirits - ; That are in prison , 'tis a common right ' To . letherjSeettiem . '' v M * Loft » -r-t am now , thank ch > d , fast recovering from a severe nervous fever , which has confined me for the greatest part of ten days to my bed , and the whole time to my "inhospitable" Btone cell . 1 was attended
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night and day by the medlcal ie « tlemeii of till * i ^ blisbment ; and , front what 14 n learn in the charaetet of each , I would recommend yoa instantly to disni both . Hear my reason : Thjey are . gentlemen , and , as to support your system the old- mode of prison tortttr must be resorted to , they will not serve you purpose But , my Lord ,-1 ijxn ryCovOTedfr ^ ft ^ Bver produced by your , brutal , illegal , ungenaenumlike , aad cowardlj treatment . . . " '¦ ¦' .-: ¦; - ^ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ' -:- ' ''¦ ¦ - . '
My Lord , I am now . ^ fn thc ^ jbth year of reform , in the stone hospitaL « f : a # »!«• % ; ptlson , fa solitary coo * flnement , for . the pabllttktlii ^ tif matter that I never saw—for libel , after the boast of one of your cabinet , Mr . Macaulay , at Edinburgh , "Thai toe law of libel , which might have been a dangerous weapon in the hands of a Tory Administration , had been a dead letter under Whig rule . " For libel , my Lord , in the face of Mr . O'Connell ' s oft-repeated assertion , that he publiahe 4 matter in the English newspapers , vbicb , though libel * Ions , he dared you to prosecute him fo »> For , Ubel , my Lord , while y « ur Administration , obtained -power by slander , and preserves it by fraBd 4 > i \ '
My Lord , I am here for llbetr I am ia a-felon ' a prison , although I have challenged , and again challenge , your whole phalanx of hired slanderers to prove meguilty of one mean , ungentleman-like , or diabononrabl act during the ' Wbple'V ! a ' l ^> : ^ ikVy . No ;' do . uKt , yoa will say this is the old story / of which the public baa already heart so much ^^ It is the old story ; but every day of my illegal incarceration adds to its importonee . I dare say you have heaird enough of it but you shall hear more and inore r yon shall hear of it till , like the turnkey , y our accomplice , you : retraet the " lie" which you so unceremoniously gave me .
I write to you because I am yotir prisoner ; not the laws prisoner . I am y » ur ^ prisoner , inasmuch as the mere place of confinement does jnot . altogether constitute imprisonment . The Judg * assigns a » place , in which , however , yoaassisted ; butyba nominated the terms—yes , you nominated the terns . Upon even ttife simple question , of shaving , or being shaved , » ou were consulijed . I am , therefore , vow prisoner as to rule * and regulations ; the law ' s only as to place , and even that nominated by you . I am ' l ^ rprtooner , becaosft you took me out of certain limits , and placed me within other bounds , lam your prisoner , because , on the 6 th
June , you retracted directions given by yourself upoa the previous day . I am your prisoner , because Mm terms of imprisonment have been measured bj yow whim , your convenience , and pnjadice . I am yoier prisoner , because you gave orders that I need not worship God , provided I did sot expose you . I am your prisoner , because—independently of all prison rule * and regulations , and independently of the judgment of the Visiting Magifltrates as to the application of thos rules / and regulations—the whole terms of my imprisonment -have been laid down in ' a long , desultojy evasive , incoherent , jumbling , ignorant correspondence
between you and the Chairman of the Viaiting- « tagta tra'tes . I am your prisoner , b&causV ^ he magiut « rt « B were obliged to submit to you the question , whether or not I should see my solicitor , which is positively laid down In one of the rules . I am ypMr , priaoner , becaus you have prescribed for me the terms , independently ot rules , upon whiob I shall be admitted to see friends . I am your prisoner , because you reprimanded the magis trates for subjecting me " to discipline which your Attorney-General designated as illegal , whilst you imposed still harsher terms , and refused compliance with the milder suggestions of the Visiting Magistrates .
My Lord , having shewn that I am beyond a doubi your prisoner , let me now proceed to a comparison between the modes of transacting priao % bu « ine 8 s undtr the Government of Sidmoutii and Castkwsgh , and that of which your Lordship forms so distinguished a . member . ¦ My Lord , I am in possession of most valuable and extraordinary documents . I nave the original ktterroT two Duk « s , Marquis Cornwall !* , Lord Chancellor Man * ners , Lords Castlereagh , Gamden , and Sidmouth , Mi > ^ P'tt , Brigaditr-General Sir Eyre Coote , Sir Edward Baker Littlehalea , Sir Charles Saxton , Mr . Pelbain ,
Mr . Cooke , Mr . Grant , Sir Robert Peel , and auaqc other great characters who figured upon the political stage from 1797 to 1815 . These letter * are alt to oa » magistrate , and . from them I hav « learned thai there is but a trifling difference id tbe "«» - dus operandi" of any two Governments . Always , nevertheless , believing that " Reform , " as it is called , has brought with it a refinement in the way . of practice ; a refinement by which insolent professors are enabled openly to gull their dupes while they are secretly subverting all the best of the old institntiona of tbe country . - ^ . ¦; :. . < ,, i
My Lord , understand , that while I am for great changes , I am not what is politically termed a revolutionist . While I am by no means a believer in tb » " divine right " of monarchs , and tbe nonsense of "the King can do no wrong , " lam not a Republican . . Ian for a Monarchy , with Republican institutions . ' Don let the introduction of the word alarm yW ; ' it is more plain and not more extensive ^ jan the glowing term which you have given to your intentions to . be worked 9 ut by the Reform Bill , of " placing all iastitutionfl under popular contronl . " Had yon' left out ^ e word controul , or had you . for it substituted the word Buppo / t ^ we « onI 4 have understood you .- ¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ '¦ ¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ : _ . : , I '
Your order has , in every country , brought monarchy into disrepute . It has been by tho . overgrown auA unjustly acquired wealth , added to the tnsnfferahi * . ' iguoranoe and presumption of an idle aristocracy , that monarchies have been exchanged for republics , wherever - inch instances have ocenwed . - ~ My Lord , every individual act of oppression , & , ; '¦; manifestly originates in a bad principle 6 f Govemn » eB ^_ j that I am thus involuntarily l « f from the conaidOTatk *^^ of the simple question of gaol di « clplme into , ' «!* : laybrinth of oligarchical oppression . I shall , bowejwf , ' pursue this aubjeet yet a little . ¦ ¦ : ; : . '
The declaration of American Independence , the French Revolution of 1792 and 1793 , the ririah Insurrection of 1797 an * 1798 , and the Oartist Declaration of 1839 , have been the four most Important political epochs which have ever taken placcFln Europe . T I » each and every one «< these- changes , the-people and principal actors or leaders , iavafiably manifested , even in the worst time * , a loyal feeling towards tba person of the reigning prince , at well as to the eonrtitution i » its construction under the motto—•• JTwiif vendewm ^ nuili negabimus ; out deferent ** , justiiiam . vel redttai
To an observanoe of this motto , ; of tto eonstitutipn / i which alone constitutea . 'the title of the monarch , ti » ' rebels , as they were presumptuously called , invariably appealed : Those who have , been tried and executedV or banished , or otherwiaepumished utralton tottwKiafc i did , universally , by petition , deelare their attachm «» ' to him , while tihey boldly d < mp . un ^ Uw rule ^ an <*^ garcBy . ' wnloli , by l 4 intoleraupe , ' stood between «!>*; : prerogative and pojputajr rights , | U «^ Bga portion of tffti power of each , until t ^ monarob became a Hiafi of shreds ; and patches , " and tbe people a powas ^ ; Jea *> " rabble . " \^ ' - ; . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦> - '¦ ¦ ' - >; •¦ ¦• - ¦ ' : ' ¦ ¦"¦ - " . / "I
In 1763 , when the English oUgarchy attempted to ; , impose a tax iupon all papew « ied in ooBtratto i * AuifirLca , the people zesist « dr and tbeit were owntt *** ! seeds of * Republic The oligarchy shd ^ W its teefi ^¦; . ' ; but dared not bite . It satisfied itself - with U » rnagn ** ' j nimous triumnn of refusing to repeal the Act , wUk i it withdrew the iroposiUoa . From ; th » t period to th « declaration of American indepcmletiOB , petttlowpoBrei
in by thousands- to the oligarchy aad to the Hing , a * v ing nothing mott than that' rigftt wnlcn the Constttation . guarantees , '' representation , " , ana also declaring the most absolute authority tobeTeBtad-in the monardv * - and the utmost love ; and-regardfar'his person , wlrfto ; :-all denounced his Mhdsters , wneparadMtte fool •*•• •• eando no wroog , " ^ i ^ , f ^ 9 m n ^^ W' *^ - - '[ ' Goa , only intend ^ , tug : ) A » mo » i ^ a « ttag BW » crtt » , ^ Cfopatltution , a « an tadBmnit » € af tbeirbWB -rtUatfaa ; %
In 1782 and 17 «^ tb » Freoch Wr ^ ttolHhW oeet * " . aioW by the Intoierance ^ yonr ^ li ^^ ' * : * : £ .: ; - " , ¦ - ' -A In 1708 , tiie Wah ^ eo plajviriatfstaitefc'eiBCgk' ^ gentiemen , fromeinltoendof'ttoIana ; p «^ M ^ t ^ memarth , de ^ aring ttfr'W p < jrf ^ re ^ for Ids : ; pws ^; . aii ^^ re ^ cV , f ^^ . ; ' ^ s ^ toaV : !»»* .: •»» ' ¦; remmistratlng agiliiijt ^ ateodtiai rf , ¦ 4 « n » eiUi ^^«\ oai ^ uE «^ r > "¦ - - ¦ " . ; . .. "_ / - > .- ' ' - " ' - > - ? f- ' , * ; i | - /¦ ¦ ' ; Inl 889 , wennd the same : feeline eten increased , » ¦ i
kind . ' of a % admiration for tiie person , mixedwitbw most expressive devotion to the monareb , and yetJaJfl these periods of convulsion , we find that ti »¦ _ . . »« " : charlatans of the day have eontrived to a » ddle tM ^ monarch ^^ with the odium of popular diafi ^ oft w * * ¦ they , who are Vaa true offenders , appear lbnt *^' :, balance of power between prince and peopla ; = ' * JJ *^ . j hatred of * faction supposed to ^ be hsired of " £ ;* monarch ; and thus do we find the stBP ^ " ^ ? j = j monateliy and revilers of the iscttons , jfua&fc ** »^
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JTHE TWO "HOUSES . " % lx our ] present numberjw © have little room for reoording tbe deeds and Bay ings of the " incurables " and theS"incorrigibles" in the two " Houses , " as the dens of the demons iof misrule are usually styled . ; On Monday , the Bishop of Exeter gave notice that he would , on that day week , present a petition
from the clergy and others of Manchester , praying inquiry into the prosecution of Abel Hsywood , for publishing a blasphemous libel , and of the circumstances under which the Government had thought fit to forego passing sentence . We would refer the Bishop to a homely proverb . He had better be quiet . On Tuesday , the Commissioners under the New Poor Law had their prolonged term of office ratified by the Lords .
Lord Brougham presented a petition from Barbados , with 1 , 160 signatures , 1 , 104 of them being those of persons of colour . His Lordship said that he felt peculiarly interested in the petition , inasmuch as it was the first that had appeared from that class of persons since their emancipation . The petitioners complained of the elective franchise , and of the qualification for members of the Legislature as being too high , and they prayed for remedies . On Wednesday , the petition of the Leeds H 0 U 8 e « bold Suffrage people was presented .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 1, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2695/page/4/
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