when the greatest danger has from the children of Israel; and made its appearance. This dan-being well taught by experience ger comes just when the Knights to expect, in case the funds be have subdued all your foes, do- first reduced, nothing in the way mestic as well as foreign! The of concession from the other quarpeople cannot even meet, and ter. The Committee of the Lords, Napoleon is dead. And yet the in their report of 1817, accuseddanger is greater than ever! The the Reformers of the crime of real struggle is yet to come! calling the fundholder " a rapa

The question is simply this: cious creature." We repent, my `shall the funds be reduced to Lord. We kiss the rod. We almost nothing; or shall the nobi- will call him a " rapacious crea

lity lose their estates. This is ture" no more.

We will call what, nineteen years ago, I said hin the "public creditor." We it would come to; I have been will say that he lent his money to saying the same from that day to the nation" in the hour of need” this; and now the question is to enable it to defend itself against actually put for the nation's deci- revolution, against plunder, robsion. If any one imagines, that bery, murder and rape; and, to the mass of the people will have use the emphatical expressions of nothing to do in the deciding of the late pure and pious GEORGE this question, he is very much de- Rose, to defend itself against ceived. They will have a great atheism and to preserve the deal to do with it; and, as one of" blessed comforts of religion." them, I will state to your Lordship We will insist, that he has "a what my view is. It is this; that, mortgage" upon every acre of if we have our rights, I am for land, every tree, every brick and reducing the funds; if not, I am every tile. We will maintain, for the Jews; being quite satisfied, that “national faith" is the only that we should soon obtain them source of prosperity ; and we will,

with Mr. BARING, boldly say, that no means unamusing to see what the debtor shall have no excuse capers the Jews will cut when

for not continuing to pay, "as "long as he have any thing to pay "with." O, Lord! Away go the estates!

they get into the parks and mansions and abbeys and priories! Scores of Stock-jobbers who did not know a fox from a deer or a hare from a pole-cat, are now become country-'squires. A couple of army-taylors engross the east and west ends of Berkshire ; and Stewart of the Courier, whom the printers' devils call Dan Stew

I am, my lord, perfectly serious as to this matter. I am convinced, that we should do infinitely better with the Israelites, if we are to have no reform of the Commons' House. And, besides, the estates would be continually shifting from art, is, I see, to be high sheriff of hand to hand after the first trans-Oxfordshire and is got into a Park, fer had been completed. I like though, only a very few years ago, the Debt; I like all the expen- he was, not a taylor, but a taysive establishments; I like all the lor's trotter! It is delightful to see items of expenditure. I always these things. The punishment of said, that the Debt was the peo- the Sir Pompous Jolterheads is ples' best ally. I always said, so just, so appropriate, so prethat that was a friend that would never desert us 'till we were safely landed on the shores of reform.

Nor will it. It will give us reform almost immediately; or, it will give it us before the third transfer of estates shall have taken place; and even that will not require

many years.

cisely what they deserve. They will now be taught the effect of wars for "social order and our holy religion." Dan Stewart will explain this matter when the Sir Pompouses of Oxfordshire meet him at the assizes. He will show them as clear as day-light, that they ought not to grudge the loss

In the meanwhile it will be by of their estates for the sake of

upholding Castlereagh's "Social | lutely necessary to feed, to keep System." Dan is a great Doctor in working condition, those who in these matters, and he will make till the land; and this result is, it out to the satisfaction of any I again and again say, to be preJolterhead that ever lived, that vented only by a reform of the estates are nothing at all when Commons' House of Parliament, compared to the suppression of which would put the mass of the “sedition and blasphemy." Nay, people on the side of the present he will prove, that it is "sedition possessors of large estates. and blasphemy" to wish to keep an estate, if it be demanded in the cause of "social order and our holy religion."

This, my Lord, is a plain, common-sense view of the matter. It savours not at all of the metaphysical stuff of Mackintosh or of the obsolete rubbish of Davis Giddy and the Knight of the Cur

The scenes which are now before us, I have been patiently waiting for, for many years past. few. Landlords may seize, they But, what we behold now are a may eject; but, they will get no mere nothing to what we shall be- rents by 1824. This, however, is hold this day two years. If the a subject not to be treated of in stern-path-of-duty men persevere the tail of a Letter, intended (and, God give them courage to solely to express to your Lordship do it!) rents will, by January 1824 without meaning any disrespect have nearly ceased. The farmer's

towards you, my reasons for believing, that this is not the time for persons of the order to which your Lordship belongs to show a disregard for the opinions and feelings of the people.

I am, my Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient
And most humble Servant,

WM. COBBETT.

LORD FITZWILLIAM.

did communications of some of his tenants, who had kept regular accounts of the receipts and expences THE next Register will contain of their farms. He was perfectly a Letter from me to this Nobleman, satisfied in his own mind, that the and to that Letter, being, as it will reduced price of the produce of the be, a Letter of prophecy, I beg land was now permanently estaleave to bespeak the attention of blished, since sovereigns and shilthe public, a thing which I very lings had become the circulating seldom do, and which I should not medium. His Lordship properly do now, were I not convinced that considered the interests of the landlords and tenants as mutual; and said he was aware that the

this is a subject of the utmost importance to landlords, to tenants, latter had embarked capitals upon and to every class in the commutheir farms, for which and their nity. The propriety of writing labour it was just and fair they this intended Letter has been sug- should be remunerated. But he gested by the following Article, which has appeared in all the newspapers.

"NOBLE CONDUCT OF EARL

FITZWILLIAM.

would guard them against the delusion that the price of corn would rise; he was fully of opinion that it would not; it might fluctuate according to seasons, but in no material degree; and no alterations "On Wednesday last, Earl in the corn-laws could possibly FITZWILLIAM gave a dinner at have the effect of raising its prices. Milton House, near Peterborough, This being the decided conviction to the farmers who hold lands of the Noble Lord, (for he stated under him in this neighhourhood, to his belief that the average price of which they had previously been in- corn in the years 1792, 1794, and vited by circulars from his Lord-1795, would be about the standard ship's steward, WILLIAM SIMPSON, at which it would now keep) he had Esq. Before the tenants were in- been induced to lower his rents, to troduced to the dining-room, the meet, in some degree, the exigency Noble Earl stated to them that he of the times. His Lordship then had taken their present situation | informed his guests, that they would and prospects into his most serious find sealed letters on their respecconsideration. He knew that, in tive seats in the dining-room, stating times like these, it was impossible the rents that had been fixed upon they could be enabled to pay their for their farms, which he trusted present rents; and he had been would prove satisfactory to them. further assured of this by the can- In conclusion, the Noble Earl for

cibly recommended that the labourer | Scarlett, will, doubtless, turn should have fair and sufficient deaf ear to my positions, I by no wages, to enable him to live, and live means despair of proving it to the well, and to support his family perfect satisfaction of the "dewithout applying to the parish to luded" disciples of my "wild and make up for deficient wages; for

SUSSEX JOURNAL.

(Continued from Register of 12 Jan. 1822, page 121.)

nothing, argued his Lordship, tend- visionary" school, who have so ed to degrade the labourer more in long and so patiently listened to his own estimation, than obliging the doctrines of a "designing him to apply for parochial relief. agitator." We understand from creditable authority, that the reduction the Noble Lord has made to his tenants is from 45 to 35 per cent. including 15 per cent. which was remitted in 1815. An excellent dinner was LEWES, Tuesday, 8 Jan. 1822. provided, which was partaken of -Came here to-day, from home, by about eighty tenants. Lord to see what passes to-morrow at MILTON presided, and addressed a Meeting to be held here of the them in a most able and eloquent Owners and Occupiers of Land speech, enlarging upon the obser- in the Rapes of Lewes and Pevations made by his noble father.vensy.-In quitting the great Wen Many excellent toasts were drank, and several songs added to the conviviality of the party.”

Now, while I by no means deny that this conduct is worthy of the epithet above affixed to it, I am quite sure that his Lordship is in the very night of error as to what

is about to take place. I am sure, that he will (if the stern-path men go on) be compelled to lower his rent again and again; and, at last, to take no rent, or to take his farms into his own hands. Of this I am certain; and, though his

we go through Surrey more than half the way to Lewes. From Saint George's Fields, which now are covered with houses, we go, towards CROYDON, between rows of houses, nearly half the way, and the whole way is nine miles. There are, erected within these four years, two entire miles of stock-jobbers houses on this one. road, and the work goes on with accelerated force! To be sure; for, the taxes being, in fact, tripled by Peel's Bill, the fundlords increase in riches; and their accommodations increase of course.

Lordship, who chooses guides and supporters like Mackintosh and What an at once horrible and ri