closing their account (in their paper printed off a placard, advertising of the 15th) of the Lewes-Meeting, their Supplement, in which plathey say, that I addressed the card no mention was made of company at some length, as re-me, they, grown bold all of a ' ported in their Supplement pub-sudden, took a painting brush, lished on Thursday the 10th. and in large letters, put into their And then they think it necessary placard, “MR. COBBETT'S to add ; "For OURSELVES, we can SPEECH AT LEWES;" so say, that we never saw Mr. Cob-that, at a little distance, the plabett until the meeting at Battle." card seemed to relate to nothing Now, had it not been for pure else; and there was "the finest maiden - like bashfulness, they specimen of oratory" left to find would, doubtless, have added, its way into the world under the that, when they did see me, they auspices of my rustic harrangue. were profuse in expressions of Good God! What will this world their gratitude to me for having come to! We shall, by-andmerely named their paper in my by, have to laugh at the workRegister, a thing, which, as I told ings of envy in the very worms them, I myself had forgotten. that we breed in our bodies!— When, too, they were speaking, The fast - sinking OLD TIMES in reference to a speech made in news - paper, its cat - and - dog the Hall, of "one of the finest opponent the NEW TIMES, the specimens of oratory that has ever | COURIER, and the Whig-Lawyer been given in any assembly," it TRAMPER, called the "Travelwas, without doubt, out of pure ler;" the fellows who conduct compassion for the perverted taste these vehicles; these wretched of their Lewes readers, that they fellows, their very livers burning suppressed the fact, that the agent with envy, have hasted to inform of the paper at Lewes sent them their readers, that "they have auword, that it was useless for them" thority to state that Lord Ashto send any account of the" burnham and Mr. Fuller were meeting, unless that account con- " not present at the dinner at tained Mr. Cobbett's speech; that" Battle where Cobbett's health he, the agent, could have sold was drunk." These fellows a hundred papers that morning, have now authority" to state, if they had contained Mr. Cob- that there were no two men who bett's speech; but could not sell dined at Battle, that I should not one without it. I myself, by mere prefer as companions to Lord Ashaccident, heard this message de-burnham and Mr. Fuller, comlivered to a third person by their monly called "Jack Fuller," seeagent at Lewes. And, as I said ing that I am no admirer of lofty before, it must have been pure reserve, and that, of all things on tenderness towards their readers earth, I abhor a head like a drum, that made the editors suppress a all noise and emptiness. These fact so injurious to the reputation scribes have also “authority" of those readers in point of taste! to state, that they amuse me and However, at last, these editors | the public too by declining rapidly seem to have triumphed over all in their sale from their exclusion feelings of this sort; for, having of my country lectures, which have

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it discovers the alarms of the system, and because of that only. Old Sidmouth, is, it is said, to go out at last to make way for the Oxford Scholar, the renowed author of the renowned Bill. How the displacing of this Addington

only begun. In addition to this The Tramper editor has "authority" to state, that one of his papers of 5th Jan. has been sent to the Register-office by post, with these words written on it: "This "scoundrel paper has taken no notice of Mr. Cobbett's has been accomplished, I should speech." All these papers have very much like to know! Talk of authority" to state beforehand, hydraulic instruments, indeed, to that they will insert no account tear up oaks by the root! Talk of of what shall take place, within the means of removing mountains! these three or four weeks, at Talk of those terrible convulsions Huntingdon, at Lynn, at Chi- of nature by which Islands are chester, and other places where shaken from their base! What I intend to be. And, lastly, the are these to the powers possessed éditors have full" authority" to by his present Majesty! CANUTE state, that they may employ, with- rebuked the flattery of his courout let or molestation of any sort, tiers by shewing them that the either private or public, the price tide would not recoil at his comof the last number that they shall mand; but what cannot that King sell in the purchase of hemp or accomplish, who has moved an ratsbane as the sure means of a Addington from place! happy deliverance from their present state of torment.

THE MINISTRY.

This famous old person will now have leisure to reflect and to chat a bit under the royal collonades and groves of Richmond; and, as soon as I can find the time, he and I will have a little It is not often that I trouble chat together, upon the subject of the readers with this hacknied his starting me from my forme and now insignificant subject; and (and not my farm, as erroneously I unequivocally say, that I should printed in the last Register) and lament any change of Ministry upon several other topics, which, that would put the smallest de- in the hurry of official affairs, he` gree of power into the hands of is very likely to have forgotten, such men as Brougham, Mackin-never forgetting his circular and tosh or Scarlett, and that would ex- his letter of thanks to the Manpose us to the scourge of a hungry chester Yeomanry Cavalry and and merciless band of Edinburgh Magistrates, barely to mention Reviewers, who, by the by, are either of which is quite suffifirmly pledged to take the last cient. crust from the hands of the laOf more importance still is the bourer rather than deduct a six-apparent decided junction of the pence from the enormous and un- Grenvilles with the Ministry. just gains from the Jews and the CHARLES WYNN, a nephew, I loan-jobbers. However, there has believe he is, of Lord Grenville, now been a something going on, is, they say, put in the place of which is worthy of notice, because CANNING at the India Board;

and, which is more material, this family of Grenville has, at last, a Duke at the head of it; a thing that has been talked of, to my knowledge, for more than twenty years past; but which until now has never been accomplished.

long as they can raise the revenue, they can push the system on. They forget that the revenue is raised, as I clearly showed in my Letters to Landlords, not upon profits; but upon the rents of the Landlords and the capital of the Farmers; and they will soon find that no descendants from Rollo the first Duke of Normandy; no Plantagenets, or any body else, can persuade the Landlords, that they ought to yield the last hedgestake and last inch of their estates.

Never was there a finer stroke of policy than that of the junction of the Grenvilles with Mr. Fox. It ruined the latter and his party; but it screened PITT, while living,

The view with which the Ministers have sought this junction is supposed to be this, or, at least, such is my supposition. They see, that many of their old supporters will quit them; and, indeed, they have for some time seen this. The Woodhouses, and even the Gooch's, must vote for a reduction of taxes. The Burrels and many others will do the like, who never thought of doing such a thing before. I believe it gave him a monument when the Ministers would gladly walk out of their places, if that were all; if that were the end; but, short sighted as they are, as to matters in general; pretty gentlemen as they are; deeply as they are skilled in digging holes one day and filling them up the next; sudden as is that transition which they can discover from war to peace; yet, where their own immediate personal interest is at stake, they can see an inch before their noses at any rate; and it requires them to see only one inch, in order to convince them, that it is their interest to keep in their places as long as they can; and, if possible, to the last moment of their lives.

dead, and it has been the screen,
the grand protection of his adhe-
rents and successors from that day
to this. It enlisted the Edinburgh
Reviewers; it brought in Saint
Horner; and its effects will live
after the junction has been dis-
solved; for the Whigs got commit-
ted in numerous cases,
and on
many material points in order to
gratify the Grenvilles. However,
this incubus, this dreadful and
never ceasing load has now re-
moved itself; and we shall see
what the Whigs are manly enough
to do when left to themselves.

In this view of the matter, and especially as these enormous concessions to the Grenvilles shows the distrust which the Ministers The junction, therefore, of the have in their former thorough Grenvilles, openly and ostensibly paced adherents, the thing is imhas no mystery in its motive, but, portant. I know well that nobody it will fail of its object; for it is can do any thing to save the sysnot the Grenvilles or any body [tem; but it is of importance to else that can carry Peel's Bill into know that the pretty gentlemen effect without a complete over-themselves begin to doubt of their throw of the system. The Minis-own friends. It is of importance flatter themselves that, as to know, that they see that a push

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will be made at the taxes and high establishments. The result we know; but it is right for us to have our eye upon what the pretty gentlemen think and upon the means they make use of to parry the thrust.

There is one personage, one forlorn individual, towards whom we may, upon this occasion look with an eye of real compassion; I mean the sportful, playful, jesting gentleman, Mr. Canning. This pretty gentleman; this wit of all wits who could set the House in a roar upon the subject of a revered radical's rupture; this incomparable wit, seems, at last, to have fairly outwitted himself!

NORFOLK MEETING.

THIS was something like a Meeting. I have no room to do it justice here, nor any thing like justice. But, I will just observe,

What! Is the system to come convened by the Sheriff; called it was a County Meeting

an end without the aid of this famed Anti-Jacobin; this Poet of by men hitherto supporters of the Pilot that weathered the the Ministers, and who now manstorm;" this lofty eulogist of the fully disavowed their measures; days of the Curfew; this grinder that these Gentlemen proposed, of all grinders of dirty doggrel; amongst other things, a repeal of this constant reviler of the people; Peel's Bill; that it was finally this hero of the seat-system, who agreed on to petition for a reduccried with voice of Stentor, "Let tion of the taxes and a reform of us make a stand against Demo- the Parliament; and that Mr. cratic encroachment!" If the sys-WOODHOUSE, who and whose tem die without this great Doctor family have supported the Pitt by its bed-side, I shall say it has system for upwards of thirty not had a fair chance for its life. years, fairly and candidly and However, I have no room at pre-manfully made what must be tasent for observations of this sort. ken as a recantation. This is the The jester will doubtless pass part thing that frightens the Ministers. of his time in chatting with his The plain question is, with such respected and beloved old friend men as Mr. Woodhouse; shall we in Richmond Park, and when I turn against the system, or lose can find time, I will walk down our estates? They may bogle a and partake of their edifying re-little at first; but in a very short flections; for I mean to give up time, they will decide against bewriting very soon and confine my-ing carried to the poor-house; for self entirely to chat. We will stroll to that poor-house they must go, about amongst the fern and haw-or give us our rights; and this is thorn bushes. We will philoso- what I have for years and years phize upon toad-stools and mush- said that it would come to.

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