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jlx Deab Fbiesds , —I ehall not take np more rt ^ a moment of your time to iell yon tha t for fire weeks I nave been wholly unable to write to you , -ad that our impartial laws hare made my illness -jiher an expensive one , as I was obliged to Bend my doctor , my solicitor , and my two bondsmen down io Liverpool , as I could not go myself , although my appearance for one moment would have been all tjut at p resent the law requires , as not being twenty < 1 * ts in custody before the Special Commission , I , in AommoB with my brother conspirators , was entitled to put oS my trial till the next Assiisa ; and , ae
doctors and lawyers do not traTel for nothing , you —31 see that Mr . Griffin and the Manchester * free-traders" have already subjected me to a reasonable fine . Bat , now , to what is of ranch niore importance than my health or jife > One faction , under the name of liberjjiso , attempted for four years to put us down fcy the most uDJost and tyrannical means ; and the other faction most cheer ully joined in the attempt . Since then , the Whigs bare gone out and the Tories haTe come in ; and the Whigs have not only joined
the Tories in their crusade against us , bnt haTe acinally laid the train themselves . How often have I cautioned you against the " Corn Law League V How many letters have I written to you—how many speeches have I made to you—ail bearing upon the one snbj ect—the interest that all have in keeping labour's nose to the grinding-stone ! Did I not prophecy the very result that has taken place in a letter published in the Star last July , in which I told you that the * ' free traders" would try to carry their object , even at the hazard of a bloody revolution ¦ and ihai when outrage commenced , " what
BELONGED TO CIBCCHSIASCE 8 WOULD BE SADDLED £ POS CHAinsH . " I have given yon many warnings , and I have gnSered by your neglect of them ; and yet I am not going to chide you , to scold you , or to find faHlt with yon & 3 a body ; no , on the contrary , so exemplary has been the conduct of the Chartist body generally , that I glory in suffering on their behalf . Many kind but timid friends have recently beset me with solicitations to give up politics , and become eespectaele ; while political jugglers have besoug ht me to seek favour in the eyes of the jary-* 3 ass by joining that party from which the majority of those gentry are chosen . Not having heard from
me for some time , and although yon have no reason to doubt my sincerity , I embrace this first opportunity to renew my every pledge to the working classes In a few months I shall have been ten years prominently before the public . For that period do public man ever yet performed the same amount of arduous labour in the people ' s cause . "While I was making my party the press passed me by in contemptuous Eilence ; but now that I have accomplished my object , the columns of every newspaper te& with the most brutal appeals to authority to take my life . I look back to my whole political career , and I glory in it , and resolve to pnrsne theEame underrating course to the last day of my existence .
lly friends , I have , of course , looked deeply into the motives of public men who have gone before me , ¦ and . with the exceptions of Henry Hunt and Major Cariwright , I cannot discover a prominent demagogue , whose -object has not been to create grievances , and to magnify those already existing , for the purpose of living upon promises to correct them . I have known of no other instances than the two I have
mentioned , of gentlemen siding with the poor , with the liope and intention of bettering their condition . And now I will explain to you wherein lies my weak-Bess and want of protection , and your greatest strength . We cannot be both strong , or at least secure . Your strength , while growing , is my ruin , because the enemy always aims at the body through the head . And now let me point ont what constitutes the difference between me andpoliticalagitators in general .
The first great object of a political agitator , who seeks power through popularity , is to establish a " fitaif" of daring , impudent , impoverished , freebooting politicians , men who are up to anything , ready for any service , and prepared to do any work for which they are paid . This staff constitutes " the recruiting party of the leader j looking for pelf through popularity , the terms being , you give me popularity and I will back you in your assaults upon the pockets of -onr dopes . Now these men are ' the greatest pests in society ; they are traders in politics , political pedlars , traSckers in abuse , and interested ' upholders of oppression . They are the first to revile acts ,
to the commission of which they have urged their pliant followers , " and whenever they see the time approaching for bringing their strength to bear npon the grievances of which they complain , they invariably tnrn pnblic attention from the object in view to some " Will-o ' -th' -wisp , " and thus undo all that they themselves have done . Meantime , they have the command of the pres 3 , and the funds stolen from the poor , and by those means they silence complaint , which otherwise would overpower them . I saw the effect which such a course had prodnced in unhappy Ireland , and my first vow , upon entering the field of general politics , was to make a
Bolemn declaration that I would go to bed suppsrless rather than partake of the pauper ' s meal . I made up my mind to cut cff the peddling staff from our forces , and to brave the odium of having stopped the supplies , and to this declaration , andmysteadj adherence to it , you are to attribute that wee : of respectable icorkir , g class co-operation which other demagogues have had , aid in which they hare found their own proiection . This is-the rock upon which I have willingly split , and the u staff" which . I have cut off are now , one and all , ready to enlist under the barners of those who promise ihem a perpetuity of office , 1 y continuance oi
abuEt cade palatable by those changes from Whig to Tory , and Tory to Whig , which amuse the agi ; a : ed mind of the working classes . It is against those men and their allies that I wish particularly to caution you , because in attempt is now being made , in London , to amslgatcate all the rotten branches of liberalism to aic in the winter ' s campaign of the ' * Free Traders . " The way is being paved for introducing Mr . O'Con-De-1 to & London audience once more , while Cobden and the League agita-. e Lancashire , and Sturge and his staff infest Scotland and Ireland , and the other districts of England . Those men are one and all
hostile to every principle of the Charter , except tie Ballot , and that we don ' t want , as we have no ; got the vote to cover with it . The object of those men is to insure the restoration of the Whigs to i fice under a pledge of carrying a total repeal of the Corn Laws ; and now hear me—so sure as God is above us , if you sanction a repeal of the Corn Laws , until you have a voice in making the laws , so sure fill you see the bloodiest revolution that ever shocked the human eye . I have preached ths same doctrine for ten years , and I now repeat ii ; and bm in mind , that 5 n a revolution the working classes are always made to bear the blc-ws , while tie privileged order inrariably reap the . harvest .
And again , a revolution in England would be worse and more fierce than a revolution in any other connrry in the world , and for this ' reason ; Bec atise there are so many jealous and contending inierestB . Privilege has now had its feast . Fat jurors have sentenced starving men to banishment for taking bread ; yes , the advocates ef cheap bread * Dd the promoters of the late revolution have convicted starring men of taking bread . I am aware , my friends , that no stone will be left unturned to Promote the objects of the League ; I hope , however , to be well enough shortly to take the field against them , and then I shall expose the recent conspiracy , * ad continue to enforce the " principles of the Charter .
I have sow written as much as my health will admit , but must add » word on behalf of the famines of those convicted of being Chartists . We canfct * be astonished at the persecution of our foes , ii we allow the families of our friends to want while &eir providers are in prison ; and shonld you re" ^ fcire my fur ther inducement than duty points out 1 beg of you to read the admirable , the soal-Stoning letter of the . Rev . Mr . Mantz , xnd above * &i lei the friends of each imprisoned victim look OQt in their respective localities fox bail for those who are held in prison for want of it . Do those
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things for yonrselves , and faction will respect you and cease to persecute you . I get one man ' s share of all your troubles , and yet will I bear the oppressor ' s frown and the tyrant ' s scarn and die as I have lived—a pure lover of liberty , rather than abandon my own child in the day of danger and the hour of trouble . I am , your faithful friend and servant , Feaegxis O'CoNNoa .
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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRO TEM . TO THE CHARTISTS OF ENGLAND , BUT MORE ESPECIALLY TO THOSE RESIDING IN YORK .
Brother Democrats , —SeeiDg by & resolution in the Northern Star , emanating from the Chartists of ; York , that they consider the appointment of an Execative Committee pro tan . to have been unnecessary , because the original body had not then been convicted ; that it was ncjustifiable , because the sense of the country had not been taken npon the subject , and that the books of the Executive should have been placed in the hands of Mr . Morgan Williams until Mr . Campbell ¦ was at liberty , or the country should have had time to appoint another General Secretary , we deem it necessary to make a few remarks upon the good policy of the line of conduct which has been adopted .
The arrest of Messrs . Campbell and Leach , and the consequent inability of Mr . Bairstow to fulfil the duties ef his station , was Be sadden and unexpected , that it 'was impossible an ; arrangement could be entered into . Correspondence was d « ily arriving from all parts of the country without any official person to give the desired answers or information , and if active steps bad not been immediately taken , the afours ot the association would have been speedily plunged into disorder and confusion imif * A of being conducted with that order and precision which is so essentially necessary in an extensive combined movement , and the great moral effect upon the Government of a new bead being appointed to the association , braving them in the very seat of their power and strength , immediately upon the arrest ca dispersion ot the otber , would have been entirely lost ; with , regard to iis being unjustifiable because the opinion of the country had not been taken npon it , the previous remarks -will , we trust , BufficienUy pnrre onr justification when coupled with the fact that if our
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arrangement is carried oat , in one month from the date of our taking office a regularly appointed . Executive will have been elected . Tbe first official act which we transacted was an earnest application to Morgan Williams to immediately hasten to London , and give us tbe benefit of his advice and co-operation . Anxiously we waited day after day , until , after tbe lapse of upwards of a week , we received toe following reply : — " Dear Sib , —In answer to yours , I have only to say I shall be roost happy to co-operate with yoa and the other members of the Committee , in any way which may be of service to tbe cauBe ; bat I should not wish my name appended to aiiy address before first seeing it My circumstance * , from my being somewhat engaged in business just now more than during tbe summer , prevent me from meeting you in London . My respects to Campbell : I presume be is oat on bail . I am afraid of Leach and Campbell getting off badly .
" Yours , respectfully , " Morgan Williams . " This letter , and the circumstance of Morgan Williams residing at Penyrheol , Mertbyr , will be considered a Eafficieat reason why the books of tbe Executive were not placed in the bands of that gentleman , as they undoubtedly would have been , had we received the benefit of bis active co-eperation . In conclusion , -we nave only to add that we trust yon will immediately bestir yourselves in nominating persons for tbe ensuing Executive . Onr enemies , equally
with our false friends , are on the alert We have a dismal prospect of distress and starvation before us in tbe coming winter , and it is absolutely necessary that we should have the number of our Executive complete : this can be effected without one shilling expence , and ¦ with a small amount of trouble . If theii services are not wanted at the present juncture , they will be an army in reserve , ready at a moment ' s notice to occupy the honourable position to which you bave elected them , without tbe possibility of an emergency occurring like the present .
Yours , willtah cuffay , John George dron , James Knight , Thomas M . Wheeler , Secretary . F . S . As several important districts in the country have not yet nominated candidates , the date fer nominating will be extended to Tuesday , Oct . 25 th ; the return of persons nominated to be published on Saturday , 29 th ; an immediate election by ballot must take place . The returns to be made , at latest , by Tuesday , November 8 th , and the result published on Saturday , November 12 th .
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE , PRO TEH ., TO THE SUB-SECRETARIES OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION .
Fellow Labourers , —The mockery of justicestyled trials , being concluded , we earnestly press upon your attention the following method of ensuring suppert to the wives and families of those patriotic men who have fallen victims to their desire to procure such a legislative change in tbe administration of the laws as should ensure equal rights Do all classes of the community . Let every city , town , village , and hamlet in tbe kingdom , immediately form a committee to raise subscriptions for tbe above humane or ject . ; let every trades '
union , benefit society , lodge , or any other body of men united to benefit each other , and promote tbe welfare of society , have a deputation appointed by the above committees to wait upon them , soliciting their aid ; let a general levy of one penny per member be made upon the whole Chartist body , to be collected on Sunday and Monday , the 30 th and 31 st of October , and as soon as convenient remitted to tbe General Treasurer , Feargus O'Connor , at the Evening Star office , or to Mr . Cleave , at 1 , Shoe-lane ; and let every other method be adopted which tbe peculiar circumstances of each locality may dictate .
We also request the sub-secretaries of every locality where Charti&t prisoners may have resided , to send immediately to the Secretary pro tern . 243 $ , Temple Bar , a correct account of the names of the victims , stating whether single or married , the number of their families , ic , thai steps may immediately be taken to lessen tbe immense amount of misery and destitution with which they are now oppressed . Feeling confident that as becomes men , and brother Chartists , you will immediately carry those arrangements into effect , We remain , Your devoted Servants , William Cuffay . John Gecuge Dron . James Knight . THOMAS M . WHEELER . Secretary .
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THE CHAIITIST PRISONERS IN STAFFORD GAOL . ( From our own Correspondent *) Stafford , Webnesdat night . The fate of Frost , Williams , and Jones , who were roused from their slumbers at midnight , and who were , at half an hour ' s notice , hurried away from their friends , their families , and all that was dear to them , to suffer in a foreign and distant land all the horrors of a penal settlement , is causing in the minds of the unhappy men at present in the convicts' yard , and also in the minds of their families the greatest alarm , lest they may be also taken away in a similar mauner . The reports that are afloat are by no means calculated to allay those alarms . It is therefore the imperative duty of all who intend to assist
in saving Mr . Ellis and the others from transportation to redouble their exertions , aud not lose a moment in preparing petitions , and getting up the neces&ary affidavits for that purpose . The immediate relatives of Mr . Ellis are doing all in their povter in his behalf . But those efforts will prove abortive unless aided by others , who are anxious to rescue an innocent man from tweaty-one years transportation . Innocent ho is beyond doubt of that crime ( arson ) of which an impartial jury pronounced him guilty . A stronger proof of his innocence cannot be adduced than tbe language of Chief Justice Tindal . when alluding to hi 3 guilt . His Lordship
made this distinction between his address to Ellis and the other ? . Speaking of the latter , he said tllat they were found guilty to the satisfaction of an intelligent Jury and to my saiisfactien . But when he spoke of the verdict against W . Ellis , hi 3 Lordship said that he was lound guilty to the satisfaction of an intelligent Jury , omitting to add and to my satisfaction ; eo that it is quite clear that Chiet Justice Tindal was as equally unprepared for such a verdiot as was the very crowded Court . Ellis is most sanguine in his hopes of a pardon , or at least of a mitigation of his sentence , tie speaks of it as an act of justice that cannot be svithheld , and most solemnly declares his total innocence of the irime laid to his
cbargp . . His wife , three infant ctmdren , and his father-in-law , have been here and had interviews with him . The last time Mrs . Ellis saw her husband he was in the transport yard , and separated from her by two large gratings several yards apart , so that she could not even shake hands with him . A turnkey was present all the lime . When the heartbroken creature was leaving her husband , the feelings of the wife painfully betrayed themselves by her almost sinking to the ground beneath them . When she rallied a little , she turned a long last look on him she adored , involuntarily exclaiming , "Oh , William , I thought they would have allowed me to kiss you before we parted . " The wretched man whose soul was agonised to its deepest re
ceEses , immediately shrunk back ; and , covering his face with his hands , indulged in one of those silent bursts which , while they indicate the workings of a broken heart , are calculated to impart to it a momentary relief . Mrs . Ellis , her three orp hans—and she will be soon the mother of a fourth , accompanies by her father-in-law , left here on Sunday evening . Samuel Simpkin sentenced to transportation for life , for the riot at Burslem , is now proved beyond a doubt to be totally innocent of the charge . So convinced are the Judges of it , that they have already commuted his sentence to eighteen months imprisonment . And it is currently reported that he will receive a free pardon . The poor fellow was the whole of the day on which the riot took place , engaged at work for his master , nearly two miles distant from where the riot took place .
Joseph WhistoKs , another Chartist under sentence of transportation for life , most no doubt be pardoned as he is proved to be a maniac His father died some years ago in a lunatic asylum , Mid the son who is now in this gaol has always been considered as ** heir of ais father's infinnitj , " and one decidedly deranged . There are several others under rule of transportation , whose sentences frill , if there is justice in the land , be reversed , as now that all the excitement of the Special Commission has subsided . It is ascetained that instead of being guilty perpetrators in the outrages , they were mere spectators whom natural curiosity led to witness the sad ravages of an . infuriated and maddened people . It must be gratifying to learn that the rascals , who under pretence of defending the prisoners , had fleeced their friends of several sums of money will be punished . Mr . Baron Parks faithfully promised
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n ' i ? ruie ' tb - e barrister , that Masaer , who took the £ ¦ 2 5 s . from the poor man , Taylor , to defend his daughter , and then abandoned jher to her fate , will be prosecuted by the Crown , as soon as the case against the heartless rascal is made ont . Chief Justice Tindal has likewise directed , in the most Pf'emptory manner , that the charge against Wnalley should be investigated with a view to ulterior proceedings . One poor woman sold her bed and all her farniture , to fee one ef those harpies . The miscreant took the money , £ 9 , and then told the poor fellow to plead guilty , which he did , and was sentenced to transportation . Had Mr . Raberts been sent down earlier these impositions would not have been practised . As it was , Mr . Roberts ' exertions in behalf of the prisoners are beyond all praise , and are duly appreciated by the poor creatures themselves , who are loud in their acknowledgments of his kindness and his indefatigable labour in endeavouring to rescue them from the tigers who speculated in their blood .
The people should remember that the present exertions that are making to prevent , if possible , the transportation of Mr . Ellis and his fellow convicts , are attended with great expense , and that unless funds , aye , and ample funds , are contributed , that it is more than probable that these exertions will be greatly impeded , if not rendered totally abortive . It is therefore the duty of every person anxious to rescue the innocent from the horrors of a felon's life , to contribute speedily , their mite to so noble , so Christian , so . humane , and so patriotic an object .
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MANCHESTER . —Carpenters' Hall On Sunday last , in the afternoon , Wr . William Dixon lectured to a large and attentive audience , who were highly gratified by the observations he made npon the nefarious and diabolical plans now in operation te entrap tbe unwary , by means of hired spies , who attend onr meetings for no other purpose but that of carrying garbled and unconnected teports of the lecturer ' s remarks to their more base employers . He then analysed Lord Abinger ' s address to the Grand Jury at Liverpool , completely overthrowing all the fallacies brought forward by the Noble Lord , and fully exposing tbe gross misrepresentations adduced by this once flaming Reformer , as to tbe motives and objects of the Chartist body . He then made a most feeling appeal to his audience on behalf of the victims , and concluded
a most powerful address amidst the approbation of the meeting . : Several new members were enrolled , and the meeting separated in a peaceable and orderly manner . —In the evening of the same day tbe above Hall was crowded with a highly respectable audience , to hear a lecture from that tried friend of the people , Mr . James Leach , of Manchester . Shortly after six o'clock Mr . Leach entered the Hall , and such was the crowded state of the room , that it was with considerable difficulty that he got to the platform ; and when he made his appearance he was received with a tremendous burst of applause . Mr . William Dixon was unanimously called to the choir , when Mr . Leach came forward . He was received by repeated rounds of applause ; and when oidet was restored , he Baid , 1 natter myself that there are many here who are glad to
Bee me upon this platform —( Loud cries of "We are glad to see you , Leach , " from every part of tbe room . He ( Mr . Leach ) was as glad to see them as they were to see him . He then stated that since they had last met in that Hall , he had had an opportunity of visiting one of onr courts of law , or more properly speaRing , one of our judicial Blanghter-houses ; and be could assure them that it required nothing more to insure the conviction of a prisoner than to call him a Chartist In fact , if any person would read the address of Lord Abinger to the jury , that personage said that the object of the Chartists was to appropriate other men ' s property to their own use , and the destruction of everything valuable in society . Now , what did this amount to ? Why , just this . The Jury were men of property , and the prisoner at the
bar a Chartist , and of course a destructive , aud therefore if they wished their property to be secure they most bring the culprit in guilty . Mr . Leach then related to the meeting the language of the Judge to a poor handloom-weaver . The Judge stated that the working men of this country erijoyed more liberty than the working men of any other country , and vras it not for their idleness they could be in possession of all the comforts of life . But what is the fact ? The weaver could earn about five shillings ptr week , or £ 13 per year , if he bad full work . Now , if we contrast ( said Mr . Leach ) the sum received by this fellow with the weaver , we find that he receives from the people £ 5 , 000 per year ; and it would take four hundred weavers to work the whole year round to pay this boated porpoise his wages ! and then he turns round
and tells the man who only receives the four . hundredth part cf what he is in the receipt of , that were it not for his idleness , that he might have plenty . Mr . Leach then gave a lucid description of the jury and the witnesses present en the occasion , and related one instance were the witness swore that the prisoner was addressing a meeting on the 27 th o ! August , at Manchester , when the fact was that the prisoner was apprehended on the 22 nd , and put into the New Bailey . This was rather too glaring , and the Judge told him that he had heard enough , and the prisoner was acquitted . He then showed in a clear and convincing manner the -workings of the present system , and proved that unless the Bjatem was destroyed that as a people we would sink lower than we are . In fact , said Mr . Leach , Ireland with all her accumulated evils upon her head ,
weeping as she does over her numerous wrongs , stands in a prouder position tnan we do ; Ireland's greatest blessing consists io her being an agricultural country . In England the case is very different , we find 500 or 1080 persons depending upon one individual for their daily bread ; and such is the nature of the system under which we live , that in the morning when we rise some unfoiseen circumstance may have occurred that puts a stop to the firm in which we are employed- This ( cannot be the case in a rural district ; and all the powers of man cannot make England again force her commerce upon the world . We find now that the press is clamouring about the free export of machiuery , to enable the foreigners to manufacture for theniBelves . I have been informed ( said Mr . Leach ) that the League is going to commence a crusade this
winter , and that they have got a part of their amunition ready . They have got two tons of tracts printed ready for circulation , and that they will raise a fund of £ 50 , 000 to agitate the country with , and that they will force a repeal of the Corn Laws next session . Well , let them begin , and be sure that you keep them in the front ranks , don't let them do the mischief , and then slip out of the way , and have you to supper , as them Finuigana , Falneys , and Aclands have done , and you will see what the Tories will do for them . But let them call a public meeting and 1 ( said Mr . Leach ) will be there , Mr . Leach then entered upon the expencesof the Government of this country as compared with other naiions ; and byway of illustration showed that the police force of Birmingham cost more tbaii the Government of America , thus shewing that in this country it
cost more for police to keep 150 , 000 persons m bondage , than it took in America to govern 18 , 000 , 000 of a population . Mr . leach very ably exposed the robberies that are committed upon the people , and that the case of the working classes was getting worse every day ; at the present time five-sixths of their labour was not north a f aitbing to them . la 1819 , the weaver only produced one peace where he now produces eight pieces , and those pieces of a superior quality , but in 1819 he received more for the one piece than he now gets for the whole of tbe eight . The question then is who takes the seven pieces that the weaver has produced 1 It is the system of class legislation . By the
late improvement in the spinning department the spinner has to travel thirty-two miles per day and put up a pair of wheels containing 2 , 870 spindles , and for this laborious work he receives sixteen or seventeen shillings per week ; bat if he bad the produce of his labour , in two years he Would make a sufficiency to keep him in ease and comfort for the remainder of his life . Mr . Leach entered into a variety of subjects , which he handled in a masterly and convincing manner . His powerful address occupied upwards of two hours in the delivery , and he retired amidst the repeated plaudits of the assembled thousands . After the thanks of the meeting had been given to the Lecturer and Chairman , the meeting separated .
aUDDEK&FXELD . —A meeting of the General Council was held on Saturday last , at the Temperance Hotel , Paddock , -when the usual routine of business was gone through , the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to—" That we highly approve of and affirm the step taken by the London Chartists in choosing another Executive , until such times , a » the noble patriots whom a bad and tyrannical Government hare taken from us , and immured in tbe dungeon ' * gloom , be again at liberty , to fill their honourable doty in the people ' s cause . " Second—" That we highly approve of , and do recommend to the various agents of the Star , the plan laid down by Mr . Watson , of Flnsbory , for the purpose of raising a fond for the defence ot the Chartist leader *"
LEIC 8 STEB . —Tbe following receipts on behalf of Mr . Cooper's defence fund have been received by M * WP . Crow , treasurer : —Per Mr . Philips , haberdasher and general dealer , Welford-road , 3 s . Ojd . ; per ditto , 3 s . Tbe above , with £ 1 for the general defence fund , have been contributed by some of the . Leicester shop keeper * .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY THE GENERAL DEFENCE FUND COMMITTEE , AT MANCHESTER . £ s . d . A few friends , per T . Cousins ... 0 4 3 A friend to Hargreaves ... ... 0 4 0 A few friends , per Z . Rodgers ... 0 11 0 Chartist painters , second collection / ... 0 116 A few friends at Redfern's Temperance Hotel ... ... 0 2 2 A few friends , per John Wbitley ,
Rigastreet , Hulme ... ... ... 0 2 3 Mr . Lee ' s book ... ... 0 6 5 Miles Platting , per H . Waters ... 0 6 0 Geo . Haughton ... ... 0 1 0 A friend , per Mr . Swiers ... ... 0 10 Wm . Hey wood , per Wm . Grocotfc ... 0 4 0 Wm . Montgomery , per ditto 0 2 6 C . M'Allum , per ditto ... 0 1 0 Mr . M'Cralin , per ditto ... ... 0 0 10 From a few friends , per Wm . Grocact 0 12 4 A few spinners , Great Ancoats-street 17 6 A few friends &t Brown ' s Temperance
Hotel ... ... 13 0 A few friends , per J . Leach 0 5 0 Mr . Williams j ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 A manager of a factory ... ... 0 10 0 Son to the above ... ... ... ... 0 10 A few friends , per J . Leach ... ... 040 A few friends—Failsworth ... ... 0 8 3 Chartist Mechanics ... ... ... 0 13 0 Delph and Saddleworth , per D . Robs ... 0 10 0 Mr . Lonsdale ... ... ... ... S 0 0 G . C . .. - . ... 0 10 Mr . Atkinson ... 010 Thomag lleama ... ... ... ... 0 0 3
Richard Haslem ... ... 0 10 A few friends at Mr . Lees ... ... 0 1 8 i A few friends to freedom of opinion ... 0 2 6 " From Newton , per A . Travis ... ... 0 7 10 A friend ... ... ... 0 2 0 A few friends , per Mr . Proud ... ... 0 9 2 A few friends , per J . Leach .. ; ... 0 8 6 $ Mr . Williams ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 Mrs . Lees book ... ... 0 5 0 Mrs . White ... ... 0 7 6 A few friends , per Mr . Grocott ... 0 4 11 Alexander M-Whe , a friend to O'C ... 0 10 An engineer ... ... ... ... 0 0 6
THE PROCEEDS OF TWO 8 EIIM 0 NS PREACHED BY MB J . BARROW , AT UNSWOBTH , ON SUNDAY , OCT . 16 TH . £ 8 . d . Collections ... 112 6 Deduct expences 0 6 0 Defence Fund ... ¦ .... ... ... 1 6 6 From the Friends of Rooden Lane ... 0 8 6 A few Friends , per John Webster ' s Book .. ; ... 0 3 . 0 Received from Mr . O'Connor to Defend the men at Liverpool ... 50 0 0 Received from Mr . M'Gee , as balance left from Chester ... 5 0 0
£ 73 4 11 The Committee return their sincere thanks to their Chartist brethren , and more especially to the friends connected with the Temperance Associations for the support they have already received . And they would respectfully urge upon them the necessity of renewed exertions on behalf of the victims to despotic sway . There are upwards of sixty who have to take their trials at the next Liverpool assizes , exclusive of numbers in other parts of the country ; and they hope that the fund for their defence by next March will be such as to give the victims that defence which they deserve from the country ; and prove to the Government that the patriots so unjustly persecuted have the sympathy of the people , for whose sskes they are suffering imprisonment and bonds . We hope this call will not be made in vain . On behalf of the Committee , Wm . Dixon , Secretary . Manchester , Oct . 18 th , 1842 . Mv ^^^ SJS ^ K ^' . ^^^^^ S ^^^ H ^^^ ys ^^ V ^^ i ^ l ^ lMBa ^^^^^ A ^ S ^^^^^^ K ^^^^^^^
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GLASGOW . —A general meeting of the electors of the first Municipal District was held in the Rev . Mr . Duncan ' s ( late Mr . Peden ' s ) Church , Regentstreet , on Monday evening , for the purpose of nominating candidates for the ensuing election of City Councillors , Dr . Smeal in the chair . The six members lor the ward being specially requested to attend , all except one were in attendance , Mr . J . Dunlop . Mr , David Bell , one of the retiring members , and Mr . George Anderson , of Hill-street , who is brought forward as a Chartist , being proposed , were called on to state their views regarding the Suffrage . Mr . Anderson declared he had taken his stand on the fullest possible extent of the Suffrage with those measures of detail necessary to enable the people to exercise that Suffrage with effect . Mr . Bell said he could say amen to all that fell from Mr . Anderson . Both gentlemen were ultimately carried by acclamation ; we have no doubt they will be triumphant at the poll .
A Public Meeting was held in the Chartist Church , Regent-street , on Monday evening , to hear a report from Mr . George Ross , delegate to the Edinburgh Convention , and to make arrangements for raising funds for the defence of our incarcerated frienMs . After Mr . Robs had made his report , measures were adopted for the raising of funds for the support of our incarcerated and persecuted friends . The United Shoemakers held a meeting on Monday se ' nnight . in Fraset ' s Hall , the meeting was addressed for an hour and a half by one of their own number , Mr . Samuel Kidd , with great ' effect .
At the close of the lecture forty-three joined the Glasgow Charter Association , and more than twenty since . Now upwards of sixty of that body have received their cards . This angers well . Con Murray addressed the people of Maryhill on Monday evening , on the necessity of forming a Charter Association ; an amendment was moved in favour of Complete Suffrage . After two honro discussion the motion was carried triumphantly . BRISTOL . —Mr . R . G . Gammage , of Northampton , delivered two lectures in Sean-lane Chapel , Temple-street , on Sunday last .
CARUSL&—The Trades of Carlisle who bare come ont for the Charter , have forwarded to tbe Evmtivg Star offloe , two donations to the Defence Fond ; on the first occasion £ i wa » tent , and on Monday they forwarded £ 1 6 a , The £ 2 ni acknowledged in the Evening Star and no doabt the latter sum wilL STJMDEBXtAMO . —On Sunday afternoon last , Mr Williams delivered a brief address on the Town Moor , and read » : considerable portion of the Evening Star , to a good sudlenoe . BTOCKTON-Orf-TBB 8 . —Mr . F . M . Brophy delivered an excellent address in the Working Men ' s Beading Boom here , on Sunday evening , and again on . Tuesday evening . .
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STOCKPORT . —Nothing tends to a . lvancoa cause so much as persecution . Since- the receat r . sa-g t * against the liberty of the people , through tne i ,- ; est of their trletf friends and Isadora Numbers have a icfred to the standard of Chartism . On Sunday night last , we had a splendid meeting , at the large Koom , B > ntet ' s Brow . Our respected townsman , Mr . Carter , was unanimously called upon to preside ; and , after a speech replete with good sense and sound argument , introduced a young friend from Manchester , named Terrens , who officiated for Mr . Lane , who was unavoidably abspnt It waa bis maiden speech , and truly an efficient one it was . He exposed in an humourous manner the
fallacy of tba arguments of the Plagueites , and cm > eluded a brief but excellent address by calling upon all present to join the National Charter Association . Mr . Thomas Clart was then called npon , who , offer readin ? the letter , which appeared in that day's Evening Star , of pur beloved champion , O'Cormor—made a most powerful and affecting appeal on betolf of the incarcerated' friends of freedom ; and , in the most sarcastic manner , ridiculed the idea of a man ' s beh » g a Chartist who pleaded poverty as an excuse Ur not payin * , and yet afford to go to a beer-rhop , and support a set of idle drones , who had ever been the people ' s worafc enemies , and concluded by advising all to absiain from the use of intoxicating drinks , and also to contribute towards the support of the victims of the heartless PJaguers , which they did to the amount of 9 i 4 d .
ROSHPALE . —On Tuesday n-ght , the Rev . W . Y . Jackson , from Manchester , lectured in the Theatre . SHEFFIELD . —A publio meeting was held in the Fig-tree-lane room , on Wednesday , Oct . 12 h , to take into . consideration the recent arres-s , and the duty of all Chartists at the present crisis . Mr . Dyson was called to the chair . Mr . Edwin Gill moved the first resolution , " That this meeting views with indignation the recent arrests of the friends of freedom by an irresponible government , the attempt to destroy the constitutional right of Englishmen to meet publioly to discuss their grievances , and the employment of spies , and packed juries , for the annihilation of the liberties of the people . " Mr . Wragg seconded tho resolution , which waa carried unanimously . Mr .
Evinson moved the next resolution , " That this meeting , despite of Whig and Tory despotism , pledges itself to renewed exertion for the advocacy of the rights of all , as embodied in he People ' s . Charter ; and , as - well , 'to support the wives and families of the incarcerated victims , as the best means of convincing the Government of our abhorenceanddetestation of tyranny and oppression , " which was carried unanimously . " Mr . Cartledge moved , seconded by Mr . Fearne , " That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chartists of Manchester , for the sympathy and kindness shewn by them towards the victims , during their incarceration in that town , " which was unanimously carried ; and ' a collection being made for Mrs . JParkea aud family , the meeting separated .
On Sunday evening , Mr . Evinson delivered a lecture on the factory system . The meeting waa also addressed By Messrs . Gill and Clayton , on Lord Abinger ' s charge to the Jury . The Shoemakers of this town have formed themselves iri , to a Chartist Association , and we hope that other trades will follow their example . Manchester . —Bhown-street . — On Wednesday evening a public meeting of the Female Ch-mists was held to hear a lecture from Mr . John J . Murray . _ Chestehfield . —Atthe weekly meeting of the Char tists in this locality , on Monday evening last . the Secretary handed in 18 s . from E . A . and rriends , for the defence of the victims ; 2 s . 6 d . was ordered to be sent along with it to the Star , and 2 s . 91 . was given to one of our own victims who has lost his employment for being a Ch 3 nist . The next meeting will be hel ou Monday night next , at eight o ' clock .
Honley . —On Sunday evening the Chartists at Honley met as usual in their roam , and after the transaction of local business , an unanimous vote of thanks was passed to the mon of London for their noble conduct in electing an Executive pro tern . The Victims . —Messrs . Otley , Harney , Pilling , and Storey were liberated from Kirkdale on Wednesday , having entered into the requisite sureties .
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TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS .
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JOHN CAMPBELL TO THE CHARTIST PUBLIC . Kirkdale Graol , Oct 18 th , 1842 . Beothee Dehoceats , —I am entirely ignorant of how things are going on outside the walls of this prison . I have written once to tbe Northern Star , and twice to the Evening Star ; whether those letters have appeared or not I cannot tell , inasmuch as I am completely ¦ debarred from the use of newspapers . Well , I again address you , to encourage you to go on in the good work of a people ' s liberties . The London Dogberries have refused ball on my behalf , saying that bail must be tendered for me at Kirkdale ; bnt as it -would cost , at the very least , £ 12 to convey my two bondsffltn from London to Kirkdale and back , I am resolved not to permit so much money bo be trasted .
Now mind , I have never said a smgle word against tbe Whigs that I have not said against the Tories ; they are a brace of political robbers , and as all parties say we have killed and buried Whiggery , our next aim most be to crush the monster—Toryism . Let your every effort be made to do so . Tbe path before you , as Chartists , is clear , and no time must be lost in adopting a certain line of policy , and a decided line too . What I recommend is this—that in the municipal elections our whole force should be marshalled , that we "will bave one candidate ready for each one the Whigs or Tories may have ; and that if the Whigs
say " Here is our candidate—tnere is yours ; we will put these two into effice , " then I say , unite with the WhigB to secure the return of an even number of Caartlst municipal officers ; and if the Whigs refuse , then bave nothing whatever to do with them : if the Tories agree , then unite with the Tories for the same purpose . But if you cannot make terms with either faction , go to the poll yourselves , and , if possible , get oca or more elected as municipal officers ; and where you cannot return one of your own party , stand neutral ; have netting whatever to do in supporting either of the f actions .
Such is my advice , and on such I intend' to act , if I am let out on bail before March . And here let me tender my -individual thanks to Messrs . Wheeler and Cnffay , of London , who have exerted themselves to procure bail forme ; to Messrs . Sbaw , Sewell , Bateman , and Cleave , of London ; to Mr . Fright , of Ramsgate ; to Messrs . Spencer and M'Fdrlane , of Nirthampton ; to Mr . MorliEg , of Brighton ; to Mr . M'Pherson , of Ipswich ; to Mr . Bell , of Norwich ; and the other gentlemen who have offered to go bail for me . I have written to Sir James Graham , and I have told h'm I am determined to wage war with him and his odious party when I may be at large . Yes , my friends , my every act shall go to damn the cruel and destructive Tories as soon as I am at liberty . Brethren , look at the conduct of the Tories ; where or when have they ever been anything else except the most ctuel . ruthless , and most tyrannical faction that ever lived ?
Tip , then , Chartists of Great Britain , and unite more firmly than ever to oppose your oppressors . I know ¦ nothing of my "worthy coadjutor , the patriot Doctor , or ; Bairstow , bnt I do know that immediate steps shonld j be now taken to fill np tbe places of those members of ' ¦ the Executive who cannot attend to that office , It is I necessary that this should be immdiately done—when-, ever one man is imprisoned another should be ready to i fill his plsce ; and for tbe sake of onr sacred cause let i me implore of you to adopt the recommendations of | that Executives , to follow out their suggestion , aud to j obey them , aa the only means by which the National I Charter Asspeiation can really &nd truly be made pow-: erf ul , and a terror to the enemies of the people . I Tbe agitation muit not drop—it must continue—it ! must go on—it must increase—it must triumph , and
j the principle * of the People ' s Charter become law m i spite of every opposition . And although tbe apostles of freedom may be imprisoned—may be exiled , or suffer | death on the scaffold , — hi spite of all , the eternal acd holy principles of truta and justice must ' . ultimately succeed . But if the prison ' s gloom is to be made lightsome to the democrat ' s heart , his name must not be forgott ^ D . This does not at all apply to me , as I have been kindly remembered by my frieDds ; but the case I have to mention is one that ought not to take place—it is that of John Massey , of Newton Heath , near Manchester , who is imprisoned on the same charge as myself ; but te illustrate the case mere clearly , I insert here a copy of a letter from his wife to him . whilst in prison : — " Newton Heath , "Frieay , 14 th Oct ., 1842 .
" Dear Husband , —I am wearied with fatigue , for I bave all to do for you . I have sent you 4 a . 6 d . ; it is all I have . Your bond is given in to-day . I hope you triil soon be at home again . God bless you . " Yours , aff-ctiocately , " M . A . Massey . " Here , then , is a man with a family of five children , four t-f thtm under nine years of age ; the wife weaves occasionally when she can , to earn a trifle for her fimily , scd ont of this she has to scrape 4 ? . 6 d . and send it to him to assist him . She has not received any assistance from tbe Newton Heath Chartists . I ask , is this Chartism ? Is this justice ? Ib this patriotism ? If it be , God preserve me from such !
Brethren , I have every reason to bate the Tones . Me and mine have been persecuted by them . Leach has been nearly destroyed by them . M'Douall is hunted like a wolf or tiger , and a price set upon his head . What may have beceme of Bairstow , I cannot tell . Brooks of Todmorden , M-Cartney of Liverpool , Jones of < itto , Ellisof the Potteries , Cooperof Leicester , O'Connor , Hi !! , Otley , Harney , Doyie , Parkea , Smith , and a host of others , are now under the tender mercies of the Tories . Will you , the people , foTgive them ? will yon forget them ? No , no , I am sure you will not ; I am sure you will kindly remember them at the hustiugs , and very honestly inform tkem that you are sick of their despotism , and you will do your best to send them heidlong from power .
- To f nch parties as may have had the first number of the Penny Democrat , I now promise that , if I can gee out on bail , I will at once brine out the second nnmber , aud continue , it weekly , and mike it what I have before said it shall be , namely , a complete mirror of trades ' unions ; and I shall endeavour to establish it before Jlarch , in order that if I am to be consigned to a dungeon for any length of time , there may be the means of supporting my family ¦ without being a burden on the Cnartist pnblic : and to those gentlemen who forwarded me cash for Evening and Northern Stars , I can assure them that I will forward them the moment I arrive in London . Cards of membership shall again be got ready , and steps taken to give b greater impetus to the ruovtment than ever .
Why , if the Government will throw impediments in the way of my getting out on bail I cannot he : p it ; bnt whether in prison , or out , the Tories shall find mi a thorn in their aides , and you will find me your brother democrat Jons Campbell . P . S . I also return my sincere thanks to Mr . Moir .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . POLITICAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE FUND . £ . B . d . Previously acknowledged ... ... 60 15 6 j Friends , Ship Tavern , Long-lane , Bermondsey ... ... ... 14 0 Lambeth Youths ... ... ... 0 10 J . Wells ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 Shoemakers , Hackney ... ... 0 2 0 Mr . Mogford ... ... ... 0 1 0 Mr . Frost ... ... .. ... 0 1 0 A few young Republicans , Marylebone 0 9 4 Mr . Bates and shopmates ... ... 02 3 Mr . Clare ... ... ... ... 0 10 A few Friends of " Exclusive Dealing , "
silk weavers'locality ... ... 0 10 0 A Friend ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 Ladies' Shoemakers , City Trades' Union 0 5 7 i Cloofe House locality ... ... ... 0 9 3 D . G . ... ... 0 0 6 G . ... ... ... ... ... 0 0 2 An old " unstamped" ... ... 0 , 10 Wandsworth ... ... ... 0 7 6 A few Type-founders , Fan-street ... 0 8 8 Chartists , Worcester ... ... ... 0 12 0 Do . Blackburn ... ... ... 2 0 0 Lamberhead Green , near Wigan ... 0 4 0 A real Chartist , Bruton ... ... 0 2 6 Curriers and Tanners , ( Wilkins's )
Bermondsey ... ... ... 0 3 0 A . C . A , ... ... .... ... 0 2 6 Chartists , Irvine ... ... ... 0 10 0 Chartists , Coventry ... ... ... 1 11 0 Females , do . ... ... ... 0 9 0 Tavistock ... ... ... ... 10 0 HooJey HiJl , near Manchester ... 0 10 0 Lambley , Nottinghamshire ... ... 0 4 0 A . B ., Nottingham ... ... ... 0 5 0 Females , Tower Hamlets ... ... 0 10 Mrs . Dealtry . ... ... ... 0 10 Mrs . Ogden ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 Warwick and Leamingtoa ... ... 0 10 6
• , £ 74 16 10 In Mr . Cleave ' s third list the name " Thoa . Bond" wa 9 inadvertently substituted by that of " Baldry . "
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SIR ROBERT PEEL'S BUDGET . Reprinted from the Northern Star of March 19 th . TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS . Mr Beloved Friends , —Is it not a most astonishing thing that the task of explaining the all-important part of Sir Robert Peel ' s Budget should be left to me . Yea , the whole press has been nibbling at what they consider the important portion of the question—the Income Tax .. Now , that has little or nothing to do with it . Of that portion , I would merely say that Peel , finding that he could not reduce expenditure with a prospect of support from the expectants , baa in so far put the bear's own paw into the bear ' s own mouth . He has told-them that henceforth they must in part live
upou their own fat . Peel has not made any attempt to reduce expenditure to tho nation ' s capability of paying ; bufc . on the contrary , he has undertaken to create a surplus over all requirements ! of more than half a million ; and , believe me , that for this surplus also there ¦ will be thousands of gaping months . The press is very angry about the Income Tax , and email blame to them j but I « m delighted with it , and still more so with other portions of his budget , which I shall presently explain . I am pleased with the Income Tax , because the mode of assessment , —not of levy , as the press complains , —carrits the war into the enemy ' s camp .
But here is the important part of Sir Robert Peel ' s Budget ! HE ADMITS LIVESTOCK INTO THI 8 COUNTRT AT A MERE NOMINAL DUTY . £ \ tot an OX ; 15 a . tor » cow ; and XOs . for a calf , which , in Parliamentary language , means a young beast There was a prohibition to this description of stock before , except for breed at an immense high duty . He also admits salt and cared meat 8 t a duty of Id . per 1 b . Now , this i » the wedge . The fact of this will be that cattle , both fat and store , will be aent from Holland , Belgium , and parts of France , at one-half of the prteent price . A Dutchman or a Frenchman can pay the duty and fraight , and send cattle into the English market at a cheaper rate than Scotchmen and Englishmen living at a great distance from the market , and Irishmen can ; and America carl send us store provisions for much leas than half the present price .
Now , the result will be thst much more land in the adjacent continental countries will betaken out of cultivation , and turned to pasture for feeding cattle for the English end Irish market ; while as corn is the produce most highly favoured in England , immense tracks of grass land in England , Ireland , and Scotland will be broken up for cultivation . This will reduce the price of home-grown corn much , very much below what an eight shillings , or even a four shillings' duty would have kept it at ; and it will reduce the prico of all kinds of meat , butter , and cheese , beyond what any man can at present possibly imagine . This will draw thousands of operatives frem the mill lords , and create a certain competition in the two labour markets—that of land and steam .
But now mark the effect . The landed property will be tremendously reduced in value , as it ought to be , and tbe reduced value will be taxed at three per cent , as it ought to be ; but this reduction in the price of produce will increase nearly double the value of funded property , and IT ia only to be taxed by the same scale according to its present net amount . Tithes will full to one half , and then be taxed to 3 per cent , on the reduced amount , and even the reduced araonnt the landlords will kick against paying , while both landlords and the little lords , will very , very shortly , array themselves , first in moral , and then , IF required , in physical force array against tbe fund lords , and every man having a fixed income . All tenants with leases for lives or terras of years , must be ruined , as the landlords cannot afford , poor fellows (!!) to make reductions which will be required in consequence of Peel ' s measure . -
In fact , if I wasQDked to frame a bill for the complete and entire dissolution of Bociety , as at present constituted , agricultural , manufacturing , commercial , trading , governmental , fiscal , moral , and physical , I should say I kake not one single alteration in the Budget of the Right Hon . Baronet , it will sponge the debt—break the landlords—pay off the creditors—open mannfactnries abroad for the displaced agriculturists , whose places will be better supplied at nome . It will make the umokeocracy of England more observant of demand and supply , because it will take an immense Burplua population , by which they now reduce the wages of their hands .
Itwillcauee a shindy among the parsons 1 and it will throw every injured or disappointed man into the Chartists ranks . It will do all these things ; while , without the Charter , it will not be worth a pin ' s point to tbe working people , and for this simple reason : If general prosperity should be the result , that prosperity would be taxed by class legislation fos the support of a rising generation of paupers . Bnt what has he done more ? O ! glorious—tbric& glorious , —he has had the courage to tax IRISH ABSENTEES ! 01 bow the devils will scamper home i ! and so -will I when I get the Charter . Now , believe me , this was the prophesied earthquake that was to frighten the Irish .
How , my friends , bear in mind that while I was in York I told you tbe Whiga would go mad . Well , they are literally rabid—foaming at tbe mouth . Again , I told you that Peel would propose a far more sweeping measure -than tbe Whigs proposed , Has be not r Again , I told yon that Russell would beeonw a Tory . And won ' t bar I should like to know what tbe Irish furmsrs will now say to" Daniel O'Connell about Fre « Trade . By Jove , we shall have " the Devil among the Tailors . Beasts already fallen above 10 per cent . Meat filling everyday . A large quantity thrown into the rivers , while the people are starring , and only want the Charter to turn it to better account Com falling chops fallings , and the CbArtists rising .
Bat now , mark my -words ; soch an agitation never was seen aa England , and Inland trill present in less than one month from the day of the date hereof , letb March , 1842 ; | 7 ou faltkfol Mrvant , FEA . BCHJS O'COHKOR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 22, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct453/page/1/
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