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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1843. THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN
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MR. O'CONNOR AND THE TOWER HAMLETS.
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HOTJSE OF LORDS . —Tbbsdatv Apbil 2 o . Xoid Campbell saW he had a great number of pstiSons io present against the Factortej Educational BD 1 , bat « s it had not jet come before the House , it -jrai-d be irregnlar to present them . He mentioned the fact merely to assure those who i ^^^ ff **» with the pefiBoni that he had performed Mb duty , ana was prevented by the forms of the House from presenting tiisin . In jiaro % o some remarks from lord Monteagle , th » 2 > nke of WeOinglftn « aM the snlgect of the Poer law in Ireland" was under tbe consideration of the Government , and the whole . question relative to pauper lunatics -sronlfl " also be taken into consideration .
The Dais © of Wbli / isqtob moved am address , of eongatnlaAZan to her Majesty , on the birth of another princess , wnleh was nnartimoosly Adopted . Hia Grace Lhen stated that on Thursday next be would more an address of condolence to her Majesty on the death of tbe Doke of Sussex . Lord Giau-BEii asked the Xord Chancellor when he -would iky Mb lunatic Bill before the House , but the answer was sot satisfactory;—the judges were to be consulted , and the judges did not wish to be con * mlted . He thought his lordship , some four weeks ago , had a 321 ready Tot meeting such horrible crimes as that « ommitted by M'Naughten . The Marquis of Claksicjlb . de gave notice of a motion on the Irish Poor lav , for the 4 th of May , and the House adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Moxdat , AFBn . 24 , Sir James Sbahax gave notioe that on Monday next he would suite the alteration he intended to propose in the educational clauses of the Factories ' 3 OL On that day , therefore , he shonid propose to go into committee pro forma ,, in order to be enabled , to pot the House in possession of the details of the proposed alterations . The Chahcellob of the Exchfqueb intimated his intention of -nnmVi-ng his fTianmai statement on the « thofMay . Kt James Graham , in reply to Sir John Easthope , said that Church-rate returns from 10 , 000 out of tits 12 , 000 parishes of England had been received , and -would be shortly laid on the table at the House . Six EOBKB . T Psel , in reply to Sir B . H . Inglis , said , that the debate on the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill would be resumed on Friday .
XorS Starlet , in reply to lord John Russell , intimated that , in a day or two , he would state when he lrsuld he able to introduce the Canadian Com BilL He promised also to supply the House with information on tie subject of the duties imposed by the Assembly of Jamaica on the produce ef the United Kingdom—s proceeding which he considered most objectionable . On the motion for going into a Committee for Sopply , Mi . Wiluaxs made a lengthfflind statement with relation to tbe fltumyfai Tn ^ tmtgBTnp'nfc of the Chancellor of lbs Exchequer , and in the course of which he argued that oar colonies , especially those of the West Indies , "Were an enormous expense to this country .
Mr . 2 KB 3 IJU , said &at it was a mistake to suppose that our West la&im Colonies irere expensive to this country . They , in Act . contributed mainly to their own expenditure , in proof of 'Which he adduced the fact , that his own property in Jamaica was taxed " to as amount five timesgreater t&sntoe returns he received fcomlt . Lord SX 1 S&XY agreed with the general principle t >™* colonies should be made to contribute as iar as passible to their own expenditure ; many of tie colonies were already doiag soto b great extent . Sir Howard Douglas complained of the insuSriency of fun&i in its colonies for the purpose of sprsiiisg thegospeL The Church Missionary Society wb&i *> - ~ "nly unable t » tend out-additional missionaries , va - mid not eves keep faith with those already aentoBt .
Ihe Ioi . d Mat ob made inquiry respecting the powers of t ^ e GuTtmrnent with respect to emigration ; in . reply to ^ hich , lord Staitlst expressed the uneasiness which he felt at the hardships to which the intended emigrants to Prince Edward ' * Island had been exposed , as evinced by the recent proceedings before the lord-Mayor . But the fact was , that the Government had interfered in this Tery ease to the utmost extent of its powers . 2 a October last , they had zecerred information which led them to suppose that in the ease of tfae emigrant who were going out by the ship Barbadoes , some deception was going on , aad the Government emigration agent had been directed to inquire into the matter , and ioeive every assistance to Use emigrants . It turned
oat that the Teasel was well found ; that she had an abundant supply of provisions ; and that , in fact , ths requirements of ths Passengexa * Act had been carefully complied frith . The British Americas Colonisation f ^ Brnmnnj ^ nn had represented thai they had purchased 73 , 000 acres of land in Prince Edward ' s Island ; and as this land was alleged to haTe . been purchased from priTate isdrridsals , sad sot from the Government , there * aras so ^ "iMintfl > nqp » of ascertaining the fact . The emigration commissioners had even gone beyond ¦ tfwv * powexs in this ease . Ttsy remonstrated with the ompaay ; represented to them the period of the year which rendered the attempt extremely baiirdous ; bat they were met by assurances that every possible precaution had been taken . The Government , however ,
had sent out information to the Governor of Prince Zdward ^ B Island , with inrtrnetion , that if the vessel should arriTB , he was to afford every- protection to the emigrants , and to compel the company to perform towards them the obligations Trhich it had undertaken . The ship sailed on the 1 st of NoTember , and on the 23 th ef December was driren back to ihe Core jof Cork . The emigration agent in that port , on inquiry , had aacertainpri that it w » the hitention of the company to support the emigrants on board until the shi > should again fee rea&y for sea ,, and that it should be once more prorfcioned for . the voyage . It had * been represented
is February that the vessel would sail in March , and yet At that very time the mortgagee "was hi possession of the TesaeL This was a distinct fraud . Application hid been made to the Treasury for its interference , and the Crown solicitor was employed ; "but , on the dissolafckm of ibe company , it was found impracticable to obtain a legal remedy . The company , however , had been sanctioned by gentlemen of high station , whose Barnes must bare condnced to enabling it to inflict the hardship and Aufierisg which the sufferers bad endured ; i and , if not legally UnWp , he trusted that they would at leagtleel the moral obligation they were under , to repair tb ? mischief of irbich they had been instruments . . The House then went into a Committee of Snpply , proceeding with those estimates which remained over from the recess . The votes for the expenses of the Governments of New Zealand , and of the West India 7 « l * T > rli 1 laised some convettsaiion ; and on the grant for onr consular establishments , after some remarks fromMr . Williams , J > z , BOTTRUiG called attention to the great importssceof rendering our consular representatives efficient for their duty by previous education , especially the necessity of a consul being able to speak the language of the country in which he is stationed , lord Stablet admitted the importance of the subject , which was at present tender the consideration of the Government . A number of Totea passed , "with some general conversation ; but on the vote for the expenses ottbe Steam irrigation to India , byway of the R » d Sea , after some remarks from Dr . So wring ,
Sir Bojbet P £ Ei nannly enlogJjea the hheral ccmanct or the Pacha of Egypt , "who , under drcumstances calculated to make him think that "we were opposed to his interesta , had manifested a Tery enlightened spirit , in the facilities he had afforded to our tzaas ^ througb , Egypt , f"f » across the iEshsms . . gjr c * p ' i'R'' -t ^ ! &A ? i £ B ~ s 0 ncurxed in the compliment thus paid to the Pacha of Eygpt . The xemainiBg votes having been agreed to t the CJhairmsn reported progress , and the House resumed . The other orders having been disposed of , the Honse adjourned . Tdisdat , Aibil 25 . Many petitions were presented against the Factories Education Bill A new -writ was ordered for Salisbury , in the room cf 3 fc Brodie , who had accepted the C bilteroHundreds .
Mr . T . Ditscoxbe presented a petition from the Rev . W . Browne , who had been dismissed from the situation of chaplain of Kuutsford Gaol , complaining of the -eondnet of the m * giatrates of Chashire , and pnying inquiry into their conduct . The Hon . Member gave notice , that he should moTe that tbispeUtion be priiiUd with the Totes . Mr . G . W . WooDbronght np the special report from the general committee on petitions , recommending tfca . t lbs pfcUUon of ~ W . Jouss , a prisoner in Leicester Gaol , complaining of the eondact of Ms . B&ren fiurney , and praying for inquiry , and other petitions to the same effect , be printed for the use of Members only . Ordered accordingly . Hi . Htjstht , the member fox Cork , presented a petition from that place against transferring the contract for mail coaches to a Scotchman , -which excited loud laughter .
A fllscnnrion took place on the South Eastern , Croydon , and iendon Sail way Bill , when oa a divinon , tiere "WU a msjority of 16 against , the le-committal of gttlSilL The BUI was , after some discussion , ordered tobeeogro — a . M * . TiLUJKM postponed his motion on the Corn Xsws , till the Jih of May . Sit BoiEJti Pesl made a Btatemeat relative to ibe Begotiatians Tiitb Portugal sad Brafil , for eoomercial treaties , but it con veyed so information oa these imporfcntsubWta . an
_ ... , . TtoUi ^ i Hon . Baronet then p roposed address of aadolenee toibe Queen on the death of theUake of JtosseXj : whitb was agreed ta He also proposed an » adress ol eongratulation to hex Majesty on the birth of Jk princess , irhich ms also carried . Mr . BiCAW > o brought forward his motion on import fctiea ,: which led to some discussion , and was idti-R&tely rejected by a majority of 74 . T ^ e 9 Sh « orQ 8 rs of the day were then disposed of , ana ti » Hmm adjeraced at hslf-psrt twelve e ' thzk .
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Bkadfobd Mabkkt . Thpsdat , April 27 . —Wool . —There js no marked difference in this article during the past week . A tolerable quantity haa ' chinged bands at prices similar to last week . —Yarn—The demand for Yarn continues steady , and prices fairly mpported . —Piece—There is a fair average business done , and the prospect for-the future is no way worse than for some time past . Pri oes are generally Tery firm .
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Mb . O'Cohnob requests oa to announce that , in eonseqaence of the sudden summons to receive sentence on Thursday , the 4 th , it will not be in his power to attend the meeting at the Tower Hamlets on TueBday the 2 nd , when he must meet Mb brother conspirators .
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Next week we shall publish seveial Editions of the Northern Star . The second , which , as usual , will reach our several readers on Saturday morning , will contain a full report of the proceedings in the Queen ' s Bench to the close of the Government persecution case , on Thursday ; the third , which will reach Manchester
and the other towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire on Saturday evening , will contain the proceedings of Friday ; and a Fourth Edition , which we purpose publishing so as to reach all towns ¦ ni thin a day ' s post , will be delivered on Monday morning , containing the proceedings up to Saturday night .
Ag-ents are requested to send earl y Orders , as the Establishment will for that week be deprived of the assistance of the Editor , who , in common with his brother victims , must appear personally to receive judgment . Perhaps the people will now see the absolute necessity of sending the means of finishing the good fight , so that our legal staff may be such as
will do justice to our cause and our principles . The several defendants found guilty upon the fifth and the fourth and fifth counts must appear personally , and are requested to meet at the house of Mr . John Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street , on Tuesday night , at eight o ' clock , when arrangements will be made for conducting the proceedings . The battle must be fought to the last , and shall be fought , if we have but the
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THE LANCASTER TRIALS . Tie Fifth Number of this admirable Work is now published . It contains verbatim reports of most of the working men defendants ; and we particularly direct attention to that of Pilling , which , for rude and natural eloquence , has seldom been equalled , and never surpassed . Polling ' s own words are given , and not a word has been omitted . Next Number ( Six ) will contain the remainder of the speeches of the defendants , Mr . O ' Connor ' s , the defence , and the Attorney-General ' s Reply .
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SWINDLING AND MURDERING SOCIETY . Such ought to have been the title of an attempt to prey upon the defenceless , as unprincipled and heartless as anything we ever remember to have read of . Our readers will find the whole matter detailed elsewhere under the head ** British American Association . " It appears that ft number of adventurers , of whom the chief acting men seem to have been a couple of pettifogging Attomies , pnt forth prospectuses of an association of shareholders , having a million of pounds capital , and offering tempting
terms to emigrants in the shape of cheap passage to Prince Edward ' s Island , and cheap land on which to locate themselves on their arrival . They , were all , on their arrival at Prinoe Edward ' s Island , to be located on the lands of the company , wbich they were to purchase from the Company at a very cheap rate ; the object being , of course , the most benevolent one of improving the condition and circumstance a of the Emigrants . At the head of this infamous conspiracy to rob and plunder the most defenceless por . tion of society were a Duke ! fifteen Peers ! J and forty
Baronets ! ! 1 Several foolish people , lured by the attraction of these great names , and supposing the ¦ purpose of the Swindlers to be honest , gate np their little businesses and home comforts , —raked their little possessions together , paid the wretches 430 , £ 40 , and in some oaseB j 650 , for the passage-money of themselves and families , bargained with the association for the purchase of lands from them in the Colony , and set sail in the month of November tor Prince Edward ' s Island , a place in the 47 th degree of North latitude .
These poor wretches , instead of being landed and made gentlemen of at Prince Edward ' s Island , are now in London Doek , in daily expectation of being cast out into the streets to perish , after being fleeced of every farthing they had in the world . It turns out thai" the Company" had not a single acre of land ither in Prince Edward ' s Island or any where else , —that the " million" of capital was a gre&t He , for they had no capital at alL— that the ship in which
the poor creatures had embarked had been chartered provisioned , and laden with cargo , all unpaid for , — that thb captain who was to have gone with them , never got a farthing of money for himself or his men , —and that the deliberate purpose of " the Company" was , in case these poor things escaped the perils of the ocean ( a thing next to impossible at vhe time of the year when they started ) , and got to their destination , to turn them adrift to starve I ! 1
The deliberate contemplation of such wickedness would be almost incredible , were it not evidenced by their own admissions . The matter ia however put beyond all doubt by one of the directors , " & fellow named Cahpbkll , who seems to have been a main man in the business , and who makes the horrible avowal with the utmost coolness imaginable . In November last , &s we have B&id , after having been ** sloped" of their "passage-money" to various tunes—some 430 , some £ 40 , and some 4 iO , —the unfortanates , fifty in number , men , women , and child-¦
ren , set sail ; and after having gone about half way across the Atlantic , the captain tells us that the ship encountered heavy winds and seas , and was so dreadfully battered as to be obliged to put back to ihe nearest eligible port , wbich was Cork , a distance of 1 , 309 miles . On the 22 nd of December , Bhe reached Cork , where she remained until the tth of ApriL At that time the captain , who seems to have bad no share in the Company , but to nave been himself victimised as -well as the poor emigrants , was preparing again to attempt the voyage , when
he received orders to proceed—not to Prince Edward ' s Island , bat to London . For London , accordingly , he Bailed j thither he brought the unhappy emigrants , and deposited ( hem , minut their all , akdvith jtotich to * urr zasvussL , in Ihe London Docks . This produced , as might be expected , some complaints on the part of the destitute voyagers , who had been thus cruelly tantalized
and robbed . They were advised to proceed by summar ; process , before the Lord Mayor , against the Owner and Captain of the vessel ; when all tbe particulars above recited , and many others of a similar character , came out in the examination of this Sir . Attorney , Commissioner , Director , Contractor , Ship-owner , Campbell . Mr . Campbell insi sts upon it that he is a most virtuous ill-used man ; that he has much more reason to complain than the
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-emigrants ; that he has been grossly deceived by the Company—though he was a chief Manager , Director , and Commissioner of the Company—and with two or three other fellowB , might be said , in foot , to be the Company . He Bays that he has been ruined by the speculation ; that be has lost bis ship , and lost every thing ; though it does not appear even from his own story , that he has paid a single farthing into the funds of the association , " or that he has
paid a single shilling of wages to the captain or crew of the vessel , or to the provision merchants , or to any body else—not even for the cargo on boardfor the obtaining of a part of wbich a warrant was issued against him , on a charge of swindling , and , to finish all , the ship seems to have been mortgaged for £ 750 to begin with . What has become of all the money paid by the poor emigrants nobody seems disposed to tell .
The following colloquies between the virtuous and ill-used Mr . Director Campbell and the Lord Mayor will give some idea of the utter heartless , reckless , petty thievery which has been practised by this company : — " The Lord Mayor—I find in this printed paper a number of great names ; the names of a Duke , fifteen Lords , and nearly forty Baronets . Yon are amongtl the com missioners , and the emigrant * complain that you have not performed your contract " sir . C&mpell—It was impossible for me to perform it . The association is completely broken up . " The Lsrd Mayor—The association may be broken up , but these noblemen and gentlemen are not broken up . Are all these shareholders ?
" Mr . Campbell—No ; they are otuy the vice-president and consulting council . What the deuce did tbe Association want with a Vioe-President and Consulting Council , who were not shareholders , and who consequently were not members , and have no more to do with it than the man in the moon ? And why were not these noblemen and gentlemen as good members and shareholders as Mr . Commissioner Campbell , or any one else , seeing that no money had been paid by any one ! for tbe very next question of the Lord Mayor shews this to have been the oase : — " The Lord M&jot—How much of the million capital has been paid up 1 " Mr . Campbell— Nous at all . Nobodt paid u » at all . "
And again : — " The Lord Mayor—Pray , Mr . Campbell , how many shares did these Noblemen and Baronots take ? 11 Mr . Campbell—Nonb at all . " Here then is the evidence out ot their own mouth , that withoat a single share taken—without a single shilling of paid-up capital—with nothing in the world but lying paper to go upon , this Company of one Duk « , fifteen Lords , forty Baronets , and sundry " small attorneys" put forth their pretensions to " a million" capital , to the possession
of immense lands in Prince Edward ' s Island , wbich they will sell to people , and , under these pretences , take from the struggling poor , by way of bettering their condition , every farthing the poor oieatures can scrape together , and then turn them out to starve ! J Here * is a Company , boasting a display of names and patronage and influence , equal to that of any bubble which has floated on the surface of villany for some time ; engaging actually to sell on very easy terms , lands , of which they did not possess one sore I Hear again the colloquy : —
" Mr . Taylor ( an ' emigrant' } . —I understand they have not an acre of land in Prince Edward ' s Island . "The Lord Mayor . —What ! no land there ? Is that the case , Mr . Campbell ? »• Mr . Campbell . —Not a single acre , my Lord * "Mr . Henley ( another ' emigrant' ) . —They bargained TO SSLL ME ONE HUNDRED AND V 1 VTY ACRES . " ! 1 ! Here were Christian (!) men , noblemen , gentlemen , &c , lending themselves to a scheme for deliberately murdering all these poor emigrants by the slow process of starvation : — " The Lord Mayor—As you are a director , you can let me know -what the plan was with respect to those emigrants if you had got them out to Prince Edward'a Island 7
" Mr . Campbell . —Twenty bouaes had been prepared by the association to receive them , and they were afterwards to be located there by our agent , Mr . Goodman , jun ., a gentleman in whose talents and qualifications we have the utmost reliance . " The Lord Mayor—And what was then to become of them ? Mr . Campbell—They were to build more houses and work In other ways , and to be regularly located . " The Lord Mayor—And bow were they to be subsisted ? " Mr . Campbell—There was a month ' s extra provision going on , so that they would be provided for a month after landing .
" The Lord Mayor— And Hen take their chance of starvation . That is certainly a frightful alternative . These poor men bave been deceived by the long list of high names , and are now thrown into tbe most serious difficulties . " Mr . CampVeU—I nave been deceived myself most egregioualy . As to the month ' s extra provision , the general practice is to give extra provision for only a few days after arrival . The Association in this adopted a most liberal plan . " The Lord Mayor—Why emigrants under such cireumsiaKoei maydit qf sheer starvation . " Mr . Campbell—So they may . " Really this devilism is so horrible that it ^ ia almost dangerous to trust one ' s self to write about it .
Bat thelamisble and ill-used Mr . Campbell is a most philosophic gentleman ! : — " He did not think the emigrants ought to make any complaint until they were dispossessed of their asylum on board the vessel in which they were at present supported . " And to his aid in this cbairtable view of the case , oomes Mr . Melleb , another lawyer , who appeared as attorney for Sir R . Broun , another of these " Commissioners , " who , like Mr . Campbell , has of course been a great sufferer in the business : —
" Mr . Meller spoke warmly in praise of Sir R . Broun , and called the Lord Mayor ' s attention to tbe prejudices raised against the association . It was true it consisted of persons not accustomed to set , but it was a bona Ode association , and actuated by the most honourable motives . It was bad enough , be submitted , for his client to be out of pocket £ 700 or £ 800 , and to find the association fail , without being designated as a person connected with a fraudulent undertaking . Tbe men who complained , after nil , did not leave employment to go out to Prince Edward ' s Island . " The Lord Matob ' s answer to this fellow was such as might become a man : —
•• The Lord Msyor—They left their native country to go to a remote one to gain an honeBt livelihood for their families by industry and labour , and they were induced to go by tbe authority of tbe great names with which tbe prospectus abounds . X > t them nut be reproached with having lost nothing by going . They have suffered vast deal , and 1 trust the association will take care that they shall not be able to complain tbat they have lost everything . " One would suppose that rebuke enough to make the ears of even an attorney tingle ; but they are commonly not made of tender stuff , and the attorney Melleb returns ! unabashed to the charge : —
• ' Mr . Meller—I contend , my Lord , that it is hard that , because these emigrants bave failed in their speculation , the association should be covered with odium and execration . If a man become a bankrupt many others necessarily are involved . " Hear but the heartless wretch ! " Because these emigrants bave failed in their speculation" ! In what had the emigrants failed { Had they not paid their money ! Had they not sailed with the ship 1 Had they noV hazarded their lives 1 Had they not , fool-like , trusted to the assurances of forty Baronets ,
fifteen Lords , and a Duke ! And were they to be taunted with having " failed in their speculation " because they Bad been cboused , deceived , cheated , and robbed ! and so taunted too by the very parties from whom they had suffered all this injustice !! Such it would seem are aristocratic notions . ; and it was only when the Lord Mayor brought Borne intimation of the ptvoer at justice as well as of its beauty to bear upon him , thai this hired defender of fraud gave back a little . The Lord Mayor replied most properly : —
" There cannot be the slightest analogy . Tour association are not bankrupts . Now look at Mr . Taylor ' s case , and just form an estimate of what be bas undergone , and what he may still undergo if his claims are neglected , fie has eight children . He bas paid £ 50 to tbe secretary for their passage . Ue bas expended tbe little money be had put together for the purposes of his occupation ia Prince Edward's Island . Now , this man was to have had twenty acres of country land and one acre of town laud , and be went away with san-
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guine hopes of prosperity . He is brought back with his large family , without the means of subsistence an # with starvation looking him and his family in the fees , and he is told that in a day or two be and bis children are to be turned oat of the ship , which was bound to take them to their final destination , and to look about amongst tbe unions for sympathy and protection . It is ridiculous to tell me that this man can be abandoned by an association of noblemen and gentlemen —( loud applaase ) . " Throughout the investigation the Lord Mayor manifested a laudable determination to stiok to the
" noblemen and gentlemen , " in the hope , doubtless , of inducing them te do something for the relief of the poor creatures whom they had helped to delude . The " noblemen and gentlemen , " of course , seek to lick themselves clear of any blame ia the affair . One of them , Doctor Rolph , said : — " Neither the pake of Argyll nor the consulting council of the association were advised of the arrangement of the Barbadoss . It was planned by Mr . Campbell and Mr . Andrews , and was carried out whilst absent from this country . It always met with my most decided reprobation . "
Now , we know not which to admire most ; the unutterable meanness of this Duke of Argyll and his dignified comrogues of " the consulting council " in lending their names to this naked piece of swindling , or their sneaking cowardice , and still greater meanness , in Bkulking from the responsibility they bave incurred , and seeking to shelter their noble ( Ij heads under the impeachment of their agents . The poor Duke was as innocent as a sucking duck of the whole matter : —
" Mr . Nettleshtp declared that tbe Duke of Argyll and Sir J . Cockburn bad been as grossly defrauded and deceived as had been the unfortunate emigrants ; and that it had become necessary to show who were the parties involved in tbe actual responsibility . " " The Duke ' B and Sir J . Cockburn ' s object was most humane and benevolent , and it can be proved that they arenot obargeable with any apt in the slightest degree exceptionable . " -
" His Grace ' s Intention was to promote the most beneficent scheme of emigration , and In such a manner as to prove of the highest service to tbe poor persons who should emigrate . That was the object which bis Grace had in attending a meeting in June last , when the only resolution come to was a preliminary and indispensable step , that a sum of £ 60 , 000 should be insured as available for tbe purposes of emigration . Tbe Duke ' B knowledge of tbe real proceedings of the association did not extend beyond that information , aad his Grace never entertained the most remote idea of sanctioning any act until that money should be raised . "
Such is the defence set up for the " president" of this wholesale den of thieves ! Now what are the facts ! Hear one of the poor sufferers , Mr . Tavlob , who had been duped of his little all : — " It had been stated that the Bake merely meant to subscribe £ 500 without becoming a shareholder . Now , evidence could be produced to show that his Grace signed his name , according to the Scotch form , as 'Argyll Pusses'for shares in the association —( laughter ) . It bad been said that tbe Duke refused to do anything in the association until the- Bum of £ 50 , 000 should be raised . One would think that a nobleman who saw the necessity of the application of money would put down some himself —( laughter )—but it did not appear tbat bis Grace bad done anything of tbe kind , "
Doubtless ; no better proof of tbe Duke ' s lying pretence can be had , than the fact that while affecting to wish tbe prosperity ot the poor emigrants through the association , and while affecting to refuse hia sanction to any steps being taken till sufficient funds were in hand , he—a Duke—signs his name for £ 500 , but does not pay a farthing f ; while the other Ue , that" when he joined the association aa President , subscribing his name for £ 500 , he did it
for the benefit of the poor emigrants , and not as a shareholder , and neither seeking nor consenting to receive any benefit , " is met by the poor emigrants with the assertion that it could be proved that he signed , not witblany such merely benevolent purport , but , in the usual way , for shares ; and under this assertion bis hired lawyer bullies are as tame as mice ; they don't dare even to deny it . Now for the other portion of tbe Duke ' s defence : —
" It was agreed that no step should be taken until £ 50 . 000 were raised . Upon this resolution the Duke relied , and bad no intention of sanctioning any act until that money should be raised . " Lying again . Acts were done . He knew that they were done . Proceedings commenced ; cot a farthing having been paid up beyond the qualifications of the oomnuBiouera . A prospectus was published , and sent to his Grace , in which , his Grace appears as President of the Association . But the Duke did not
then withdraw . Arrangements were made for sending out emigrants . Some of the emigrants began to Buspeot the inability of the company , and at last delected and exposed it . Then , but not till then , does the Duke withdraw . It waa only when the straw began to shake that tbe Noble rat ran from its bole . Up to that time , ( and it is before that time , it mast be observed , that all the engagements with the emigrants were formed ) he had remained , with his own knowledge , a party to , and bound by , all tbe aits of the Association of which he was the President , and to whioh his name as President gave
its chief claim to confidence . What becomes , then , of his pirate , through bis lawyer bullies about not being responsible to these poor emigrants for tbe cruel wrongs inflicted on them ? He is responsible for jail ; and no other man so much so—not even his tools and scapegoats Campbell , Andrews , and Sir R . Broun . It was through bis aot in lending bis name to the concern , that these emigrants were originally induced to enter into the contract . By his means they were led to oontraot , and he knew it . In his own name he was a party to the contract ; and he is fairly answerable for whatever consequences may arise out of that contract . So much for the Duke—the senior partner in this firm of
fiends . If he have not been a fiend with them , but merely a fool on whom th ey bave practised , let him now prove it , not by lying and shuffling to get out of the mess ; but by admitting his folly frankly and making up to these poor people the loss he has been the means of causing to them ; their physical suffering 8 , he cannot indemnify them for . But let him do what he can ; and then perhaps sooiety may think tbat there is yet some glimmering of manhood even in a Duke . ' His noble friend , Sir John Cockbcrn , is in preoiHely the same predicament , and has only the u we BU&is of getting out of it . No other sort ' of wriggling will serve him in the eyes of honeBt men , whatever the lawyers may say .
But what shall we say for Sir Richard Broun , and the other " managers" of the " association ?" First , what do they say for themselves ! what says their lawyer for them ; the honest and modest Mr . Meller 1 Hear him : — " These p « or men deserve the utmost sympathy ; but tbe association had no notion of deceiving them . Mr . Halden contracted with the emigrants at large . "
So ! then ; it was not the Association , " but Mr . Halden who deceived the poor fellows . And who iB Mr . Halden I The Association ' s" agent . And had be no instructions from his employers as to the terms he should make with emigrants 1 or did he go in the very teeth of all bis instructions t Did tbe " Association" take care to tell Mr . Halden tbat they bad no land ; and did he still proceed to sell land to tbe emigrants ! No , no ; Mr . Meller did not venture upon any of these assertions—with
the printed prospectus and the Estates in Prinoe Edward ' s Island" and the " Million Capital" staring him in the face . It was a little too bare , even for a lawyer ' s face . Besides , Mr . Halden seems cot to have been their only agent . They had another , a Mr . —Oh ! no ; not Mr . —a Sir A . M'Na»—we really must not forget the titles , for these are almost all , titled " nabs . " Well ; they had an agent in the person of Sir A . M'Na»—for whose guidance , it seems , they had issued " official instructions , " containing this statement : — '
" These Instructions apply to upper Canada only ; the association having already acquired estates in Lower Canada to the extent of 366 , 892 acres in addition to large estates in Prince Edward ' s Island and other colonies . " And these "official instructions" were actually issued and published , when the scamps knew that , as a company , they had not a single aore of land
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in any part of the ] world , nor a shilling wherewith to buy it !! And yet these fellows impudently tell the pablio , through their lawyer , Melleb , that they had no intention to deceive ! and have the audacity to I prate of the hardship that they should have any blame for the suffering they have brought upon the poor confiding people ! The more we look at tbe whole matter , and the more thoroughly contemptible and disgusting is the light in whloh we see the conduct of the entire noble firm . The only man who seems to
have established for himself any olaim at all to exception from the general culpability is Dr . Rolph . Nothing could more strongly prove the iniquitous influence and tendency of the whole of the classregulation and distinction which now pervades sooiety , than the fact that , with bis strong , clear , and humane mind—with his evident wish to procure something like justice for the poor people—tbe Loan Mavob yet shrunk from anything like effective characterising- of the conduct of the noble partners in this precious firm ; and sought every possible shield and cloak for them . He said : —
" What dreadful mischief arises from the use of high names in cases of this kind ! I have no doubt tbat the noblemen and gentlemen whose names appear on this paper were wholly ignorant of the nature of the proceedings to whioh it might appear they lent their sanction . " j " I cannot , looking over this prospectus , conceive it possible that any of the individuals would suffer these poor emigrants to be imposed upon . " Mr . Campbell—How oomes it then , my Lord , that they have done so ? " ]
" The Lord Mayor , —I dare say that some of these noblemen bave , under the impression that the association was calculated to do good , allowed their names , from a benevolent feeling alone to be used . I am convinced that not one of them ever dreamt that a number of poor emigrants would be sent oat to an isolated spot with a month ' s provisions , to tun the chance of climate and the various contingencies to wbich persons in a country unknown to them must be subjected . "
Now , it might be sufficient to remark on this that the Lord Mayor ' s excuse for the " Noblemen and Gentlemen" implies tbat they must be the most arrant fools alive , j Besides which , it was clearly stated and uncontradicted by bis counsel , that tbe Duke of Argyll took the lead at all the public meetings , and made no secret of attaching bis high name to the acts of the Association , and that his Grace ' s correspondence with the late Lord Mayor clearly proved that fact .
His Lordship sought further to throw the cloak of charity around the , ' Noblemen and Gentlemen" by the intimation tnafc their names might bave been used without their sanction at all ; andadrised * ' that the poor people desirous to emigrate should take care before they "wallow the contents of a printed prospectus , with exalted names attached , to inquire of the persons whose signatures afforded so strong a recommendation whether they authorised the use of their names . " : He fished hard for evidence of this kind to
exculpate some of the long list of Lords , Baronets , fee , with the Noble Duke at the top , whioh he held in his hand connected with this nefariety ; but it was " no go . " They were too deep in the mud for the good natured Lordj Matoh to get them out . Dr . ftoLPH settles it thus : — " Tbe Lord Mayor—Were the whole of the names mentioned in the prospectus sanctioned by the patties themselves V \ "Dr . Rolph—Daring the protracted Investigation which took place before the committee of inquiry , satisfactory evidence was adduced by Sir R . Broun to prove tbat no names ' were inserted withoat due authority . " i
Now we venture to give on our own account a piece of advice in , reference to this and like sharking companies of Emigration bubbles blown up with big names ; and our advice is , just bave nothing at all to with them . Never mind whether they have authorized their names ox ( not ; for it seems frem the investigation of this oase to make little matter . Just keep at home and see if you can't raise a Home Colonization Company of your own , with more of benefit and less of risk from roguery . We have now before us the prospectus of an Irish scheme of this sort , headed by Mr . Daniel O'Connell , by five Catholic PrisBtB and Dignitaries , one Baron , and thirteen Esquires . This is called The Catholic Emigration Society * ; " and it purports to be
" an institution to j regulate Emigration and to secure to the emigrant the realisation of bis hopes of bettering his condition , '' and it professes to have a capital of £ 200 , 010 , in shares of £ 10 each ; and it tells also of " the society ' s lands , " and of " issuing debentures" ; upon those lands " for sums of £ 25 and upwards . " We calculate that no man with a grain of sense will have anything to do with this Irish speculation , while the Scotch one is yet ringing its disastrous consequences in bis ears , or while these consequences stand on record . Let tbe people cultivate the land at home before they lend themselves to the foreign speculations of Noble emigrationists , and risk a ruin more perfect than even tbat they now endure .
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TO TjHE PEOPLE . Mt Friends , —I must again call upon you to bestir yourselves . Ij never do so withoat urgent necessity ; and there certainly is , now , a necessity most argent . I have this day ( Thursday ) received a call to Judgement" in the following terms : — •* THE QUEEN AGAINST FEARGUS O ' CONNOR AND ] OTHERS . " Take notice tbat you are hereby required to attend in her Majesty ' s Court jof Queen ' s Bench , at Westminster , on Thursday the ) fourth day of May next , then and there to receive the judgment of the Bald Court upon a certain indictment whereupon you were convicted at the last Assizes held at Lancaster , in and for oar county of Lancaster . ' < Dated this twenty-fourth day of April , one thousand eight hundred and forty-three . Gregory . Faulkner , 9 c Co ., " Solicitors fer the Prosecution . "To William Hill , one of tbe above defendants . "
Like notices have , I presume , been served on all the defendants . Intelligence has yet only reached me from Cooper and ' Arthur , each of whom has got his billet . It has not taken me by surprise ; I had notice of its coming , ) and expected it . I bad also learned , before receiving this document , that Government intend to work bard—that they mean to have in all—fifth count men , as well as others . Every man is to be " shopped" if it can be done at all . No power of sophistry and lawyerism which money can purchase will be wanting to prove black white and disagreement union . The tug will , ia all probability , be in the law of the ] fifth count . Nothing can be dearer to common sense than that the fifth count cannot involve any crime ; bat common sense and
law— j " have oft-times no connection . " Hence it will not do to bring against Lawyer-gab the mere common sense of honest men . In the " tug of war" ' Greek" must meet " Greek . " Lawyers must be met by lawyers . There are also some matters in the fourth count , wbich , if I mistake aot greatly , will afford fair exercise for lawyergab . And , at all events , there are in many of the individual cases abundant circumstances which handled skillfully , may in all { probability save to as the services of some of our best men .
But all this needs the funds . Not a bit will the lawyers work without money . Money will beanspaxingly used against us ; Will you suffer your noblest friends and beat champions to lack any advantage whioh your utmost exertions can procure them by a counter application of the same mighty lever I Nay ; I ask not for them but for yourselves—for the cause —for our country ! Can these men be spared from the movement ! must they , at all events , leave it without a struggle—a last struggle and a mighty one—being
made I Have theirj long services , their ardent devotion , their mined families , no claims upon your sympathy ! I know the very naming of these things is an insult to you ; and that you are readier to rush to the rescue than I am to call you . I know your nobleness of nature : but I know also the greatness of your oppression ; and hence I entreat you , like Sampson , "for this onoe , " lay to your wholo strength ^ that the pillars of the foul temple of corruption ! being grasped , may falltoge-
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—^ i ther , and bring down the edifice along with them There are many things for which money will be ' wanted besides the lawyers . This summona must be answered personally . Your fr iends will bave to travel up to London , and thia will cost money . They should be in London « day or two before the timo and the argument may be long , and staying in London ia expensive . They may need also some previous preparation and their families must be looked to . You / not send them op with the heart-breaking bur < i& on their minds , that their best beloved ones are left to
perish , or next door to it , while tfcey are secluded from the world . Mind you , I know not that any of them will be secluded—but it may be so—and yon ought always to provide amply for tbe worst that may come . They may also , if you bestir yon w ei | come back , to cheer your hearts with patriotism * which shall show you tbat they deserve all yOai efforts . I never help the enemy by gloomy anticipa . tions ; but I like always to be preparnf . and so ought you ; and hence I thus write to you . The time is short . This day week remember . Stir , stir ! Thank God , I do not yet seed to ask you on my own account , and I can therefore press you the more confidently for those who do
need it . Not one shilling of yoar money h ^ yet been appropriated to my expancea or defence in any shape , nor shall it now . I caa j without it , and I hold that every man who can do without it ought ; there are enough of those ytha cannot . If tbe time come when my private means fail , I shall not be slack in requiring from you whit my services may have earned . Nor will yotu I know , be slack to give it . That time may come : thank God it has not yet come . Bat remember that nearly all , if not indeed all , of our best men are otherwise situate , and forgive me if I again say for once indeed , stir . Let the money pour ia . Send it to Joha Cleave , or to this office to Mr . Ardill , and do not be sparing .
To my fellow conspirators" I have a word to ay Every man should be thinking of the circumstances of his own particular case which may best tell jg mitigation of punishment ,, and get affidavits of them drawn at once for the consideration of tha Court ; aad every one should be in London on Tuesday night at latest , so that a meeting and consults tion can be had before coming into Court—and bq that each may have the advice of the indefati gable Roberts , of Mr . O'Connor , and of such other lawyers as the state of the funds may bave enabled them to employ . I give these general suggestions for general benefit . My own course is fixed . No arrangement whioh may be come to by others , will alter it or at All affect me individually .
Again I say to the whole people , stir , stir ; aad if you have any love for yourselves , your country ,, sj « I the common cause , now prove it . Send np tba means to fight this battle well . God save you all , and speed the Charter . Northern Star Office , Wh . Hill . Thursday Noon , April 27 , 1843 . P . S . —All my many friends whom I hare promised ere long to visit will now see tbat a " may be" is interposed . I do not expect any alteration in their plans need be made , but we ehaU soon know . It may be that this is mj last opportunity of saying a word to you through the Star of some months . I do not expect tais , but it may be bo : and if so , farewell—see that iamy absence
it be nourished with your favour , and made to shine brighter and further than it has ever done before . It will be under tbe care of one who . has often been of great assistance to me in its arduous duties heretofore ; and who , therefore , will not be strange either to it or to you ; one upon whose judgment I would rely in preference to that of any man ia England , always excepting my own , and ouwhoaa honesty , bad I a thousand lives I would risk them all without the tremor of a single nerve . The Slar will lose nothing by losing me , if I am to be " locked up , " wbich I do aot expect . But if I be , I thea " command you on yoar duty" to support tbe Stat ^ while I have never before asked euch-a thing of 01 from you . W . H .
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Notice . —Many of the London readers of the Star -could not procure their copies of the paper last week This disappointment occurred from the post offlw servants having misdelivered a large parcel ( directed to Mr . Cleave ) to a news-agent in a distant put of the town , whioh parcel Mr . C . did not receive until Tuesday evening . Tbe disappointed subscribers ara now assured that they can obtain their papers from Mr . Cleave , and it is earnestly hoped that tao Chartists generally of the Metropolis will take care that tbe Northern Star does not suffer any loss in its circulation from the negligence of the Post Of&st folk .
Mb . T . B . Smith requests us to state that unavoidable circumstances have detained him in Londou much longer than he expected , but that he will in a very short time be at home , and as ever ready . to aid his old friends in the advocacy of our gfc rious principles . Parties wishing to communicate with him may address No . 66 , Old B ailey , London . Mb . Mead is at the service of any Society uhwh flWJf request his aid . His address is No . 1 » Hatchet Street , Newtown Row , Birmingham . ff-Jht friends at Burton-upon-Treni make no O 0 Wtions , he tcill pay them a visit . If they « w * communicate with him on the subject , or seta their Secretary ' s address , he will feel vety «««
obliged . A Friend to Suffering Humanity ' s RmiBfr Aaj given Is . to Mr . Sinclair , No . 25 , High Bridge , Newcastle , for Mr . Cockburn . This is the fini donation Mr . S . has received for that really off ditute individual ; but it is sincerely hoped that such as can afford to assist him will come forui < and render their aid in procuring a sum that will enable him to purchase materials for co ? mencing his Business of Mattrass-maker . Bern stone blind , he ts unable to procure a ivoeahooA by any other means ; and is now in the utmost state of destitution a human being can be reduce * to—necessitated to live , or rather exi * t , oy the
cold charity of strangers . Can this not be prt ' vented ? < Can Cockburn not be enabled to w «* for his living t Any sum handed to Mr . Sinclair for him , will be most thankfully received , am duly acknowledged through the Star . Notice . —The Demonstration Committee of the Hue Convention make their last application , regW *' ing the Dinner Ticket money due , to be ?<* " *?!* Wednesday evening next , at 8 o ebek , dj oir . Hawkins ' s , Croton and Anchor , corneref oear Alley , Farringdon Street ; or the various fersans will be published defaulters ™ the Star opne ** week ;—a portion of the debt of the said dinner at the White Conduit House remaining «»?""*»
to the disgrace of the Chartist body cm * w cause . —By order , Feargds O'Conkob , RPFFY HlDlBT . Clkbkenwell . —Notice . —It is particularly request * ed that the Members of this locality will nee * the Old Blue Lion , IS , Coppice Row , on MWfS evening next , at 8 o ' clock . j , { n Fbmak & P . Me K . —We know not of any redress w be had in the case to which his letter refer * The law of England is so tender of female t » r » tue that it inflicts no punishment whatever on <* mmsim * mI > m omrtttnAo n j * sv * i-ff *] im n mtMirtft 1 fiO 171 ( lTt >* , ******
then leaves her and her child to shift for them selves : unless both mother and child actual P into the workhouse . The parish mig ht then re-. cover from the putative father the Mim *^ jL the child's maintenance , and no more . The wr ther has no redress whatever . This « « Christian-like way of preserving morals t » '"» country . We hope our Scotch friends admtre « . W . Davubs . —The prospectus he sends us « an aavertisement , . , , , n Q . X . —We never before heard q f a " suite ofcloWy and suppose nobody else ever did . , . , „_ David Pott , Birmingham . —We have tent ms ft
to Mr . Cleave , which is all we can do ««**¦ % ,. Richard Marsdbn . —His letter is received ; o ™ columns are too full to alUw of its insertion . S . B . —TuU ' s Husbandry , by Cobbett . G . SiaTH . r—No room this week , , t A Constant Rbadbb , DunfbbmumKj must tat * " like answer . J . B . C >—No room . . ej , J . H . BfiANTRAH writes us to inquire if •* > e latvJ r , fora Poor Law Guardian to receive wa 9 X sitting at the Board , or for the public money & £ expended in drink to the annual amount oj ™ at the passing of surveyors' accounts , «« f . ' ^ the passing of constables accounts . A" " ^ practices are , we believe , decidedly UlegaU two latter at all events are unquestionably J > and it is the duty of the ratepayers $ w ™ parish in which they are practised to rejuse pass those items , and leave the surv eyor anai cu stable to pay them . This would soon put an v » to the practice . - "~ " *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 29, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1210/page/4/
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