whereby you tacitly, but plainly, the face. You have no reproaches admit, that a contrary state of the to fear from the "gentlemen opcountry would lead to and warrant a different conclusion. posite," they being in the same boat with yourselves; and being, indeed, as to this great matter, rather more blameable than you. But, you must say something: you must have speeches: a Parr-r-rrli-a-ment without speeches would You censured me and other reformers for insisting, in 1822, that by the House, as now constituted, "the nation never could "he relieved from its difficulties "and dangers"; and, said you, be like a pudding without fat. "this is refuted by the present There must be reporting and prosperity of the country," which, printing and we "out of doors" said you, HAS BEEN rescued folks shall be reading! Oh! from its difficulties and dangers. here is the devil and all! How But, what do you say NOW! you are to avoid naming me and Has it NOW been rescued from the gridiron I do not know; and its difficulties and dangers? We yet you must avoid it; and then will not mind how, and through there will be such everlasting fun, whom," the difficulties and dan- in remarking upon your surgers came upon the country. prizing ingenuity in this parti Let that pass here, it having cular. But, after all, there must been fully explained above. It be speeches, aye, and a king's is NOW certain, that "the diffi- speech, too! "Oh, Lord!" I culties and dangers" are greater really almost think I hear real than ever; and what ground is corporeal sighs and groans. Here there NOW to hope that they are about a hundred banks broke will be removed by that same already; here is THE ONE Wisdom," from whose acts they POUND BANK OF ENGhave all proceeded, and that, too, LAND NOTE AGAIN! Oh! when there has not been one of" down, down, thou seerest mine those acts, of the fatal conse- eye balls!" Yes, here they quences of which "the Wisdom" come, pretty little oblong snips, has not been most solemnly warn-"dispensed" from the "portals ed, before, and long before, those" of an ancient constitutional moacts respectively were passed? "narchy"! 66 It is not easy to imagine how you are now to look each other in I tell you what, Sir: I, in your place, would send (if I could find out where he was) for PETER of the swags, or shocks, in 1793, MACCULLOCH, and, in order to do 1797, 1802, 1810, 1816, 1819, the thing well, I would make him 1822, and 1825; having related give some more "evidence" before how "the Wisdom" produced these a committee of "the Wisdom," eight shocks, in the space of thirty proving as clear as second sight, two years, that being, on an that paper-money is better than average, one shock in every four gold, and that bank-notes are ac- years, I would proceed to show companied with "less risk, and how this eventful history is likely to "much less risk of loss, than coin end; but, before I do that, I think "is ;" and, of course, that if peo- it right to employ two or three ple have been ruined and starved Registers before "the Wisdom" by the breaking of banks, it is a shall" collect," in explaining the just punishment for their perverse principles of circulating money; love of gold. I would send for in showing the necessary evils of a half a dozen QUAKERS, each of paper-money of any sort; in showwhom would, in cunning and cooling that there is no use in banks or impudence, surpass the devil him-in paper-money in any case whatself. If they, after they had sitten, ever; in showing the great injury wrapped up in their drab great-that they must do to the commucoats and covered with their broad nity; in refuting that stupid nobrims, their eye-curtains half tion, that great commerce cannot pulled down, and their thumbs be carried on without paper-mo- turned over each other, for an ney; and, in showing whateverhour or two; if they could invent else I think likely to make an usenothing for your relief, you might ful impression upon the minds of despair indeed! If this button- YOUNG MEN, at this moment, less and unbaptized brotherhood, when almost every soul is more or whose bare word Mr. BROUGHAM wanted to put upon a level with the Christian oath, even in cases of life and death; if they could invent no expedient, then might you exclaim, all is lost! less alive to the subject, and when I am convinced, that SOME GREAT MEASURE MUST BE ADOPTED, or, that this system will end in scenes more terrible than any that eye has ever And, now, Sir, having perform-witnessed, or ear heard described, ed the task that I proposed at the outset; having given the history WM. COBBETT. D ΤΟ MR. CANNING. SIR,-You said, in the debate on Mr. JONES's petition, that, perhaps the sooner the small 66 per-money, is "strength in the beginning, and weakness in the end." Well, then, you may be sorry that My time for doing this is come; but, the devil's in't if you can blame me for doing it. I have had something more than “ridicule" at work on me. The “dull” fellows, whom I have had to cope paper money came to AN END with, have had sharp and destruc"the better." Pray, Sir, will you tive weapons in their hands, and give me leave to ask you, whether I have had to suffer them. Howyou be NOW of that mind? The ever, I have had falsehood to COURIER, a ministerial paper, combat; and falsehood, like pa told us, a few days ago, that a nobleman who had warned his tenants not to bring country notes in payment of their rents, had, upon receiving a reprimand from the Treasury, withdrawn his warning. The MORNING CHRONICLE like to know whether he be still went so far as to say, that the no-resolved" not to return to legal bleman was the DUKE OF BUCKtender, under any circumstances INGHAM! Now, let all this be whatever." Be so good as to false; yet it has appeared in print, condole with him, on my part, on that this nobleman has been, in the unlucky" disturbance in our some sort, forced by the King's currency," which has come withMinisters, to desist from demandout a bad harvest." You may ing his rents in the king's coin! just add, if you think it right, What a state of things, when such that I am delighted with his a thing can not be, perhaps "FREE-TRADE" system, but can be boldly asserted in which now, for the FIRST print! I remember reading, in a poem of yours, about twenty-five years ago, the following lines, addressed to William Gifford, calling on him to come forth, "The long arrears of ridicule to pay, Please to present my best compliments to Mr. HUSKISSON, and to tell him that I should very much TIME, I believe, totally prohibits the importation, after this day, of those pretty little convenient animals, ALDERNEY COWS. WM. COBBETT. that in my power lies towards the SIR THOMAS BEEVOR'S accomplishment of that object, MEETING. which I know to be earnestly desired by great numbers of good and sensible men, and which desire I believe to be entertained by He proposes to publish, on the 15th January, a notice of the day when the Meeting will be held; every man in the country, who at and he, at present, thinks that the all understands the nature of the day of meeting will be most con- present sufferings and dangers, venient between the 25th of Janu- and who does not thrive upon the ary and the 7th of February. He causes of the ruin and misery of has to consult with other gentle- the people at large. men, before he can, with propriety, positively fix on the day. ADDRESS OF I have never belonged to any political party; I have never meddled with what are called politics; I have had, and have, no connexion with Mr. COBBETT, other than that of seeing him, for SIR THOMAS BEEVOR, BART. the first time, at the Norfolk Meet TO THE PUBLIC. ing, three years ago, and seeing him three times during these three years, chiefly on the subject of trees for planting. But, I have In all cases of National calamity, there is within the reach of every man, except the guilty au- been a constant reader of his thors, one source of consolation; writings; I have been deeply in namely, that of reflecting that terested in the momentous ques he has done every thing in his tion which he has been, for so power to prevent it, to mitigate it, long a time, labouring to make or to shorten its duration. And as clear to the people, and on the I have long been convinced that final decision of which question, there is, with regard to the present I am convinced, must depend calamity, nothing so likely to effect this other question; namely, whethese purposes as the placing of ther my estate shall be quietly Mr. COBBETT in the Commons' enjoyed by me and my heirs; House of Parliament, I am deter-whether it shall be tossed up and mined to have the consolation of scrambled for, in a wild revolureflecting, that I have done all tion; or whether it shall be coolly ་* ཝཱ and thus, by the which is hardly confiscated, and transferred to minds; seeing the great and awthose who receive the taxes, to ful danger; seeing the tempest whom I even now, feel that I am gathering around us; hearing the little better than a steward, while wind's and thunder's not distant I have the name and the outward roar; seeing the hideous rocks on which the present men are about appearance of a land-owner? To prevent this revolution and to conduct us: seeing the skilful this confiscation and all the ruin and faithful and ever-watchful that must fall upon trade, manu- pilot ready to devote himself to factures, and commerce, and all our safety, shall we, from mere the miseries, the strife, the con- pecuniary meanness, reject his vulsion, the probable bloodshed powerful aid; and the certain national disgrace saving of that and decrepitude that must be worth naming, incur, the just inamongst the consequences: to prevent these, there must be legislative measures; to have these measures, there must be somebody to propose them; to propose them, with any chance of success, the proposer must be in Parliament; and need I ask, what other man there is so likely as Mr. COBBETT to perform, in the best manner, this most important service to the country? There needs not any thing to be said of his diligence, his perseverance, his foresight, his profound political knowledge, and his talent in com- a general invitation to the gentlemunicating that knowledge to men who think with me on the others. Events, terrible events, subject, to meet me at some conproclaim his wisdom, and his abi-venient place in London, on some lity and zeal to serve us. Not to day after the 25th of January, for be convinced of these now, we the purpose of settling on the manmust literally seal up our eyes ner o conducting the whole busi and our ears. And thus situated, ness. having this conviction in our fliction of all the complicated evils In the meanwhile I shall be |