will not do that. He will sit till he is pushed off; and, whenever a reform take place, that will assuredly happen to him and to Sinno-more along with him.

ILCHESTER GAOL!

Curious spectacle! But it is I HAVE just read Mr. Hunt's one to the contemplation of which Petition, presented by Mr. ALI have often besought the attention DERMAN WOOD, last night (this is of my readers. A debt of between Tuesday ;) and, if any man can eight and nine hundred millions read, or can hear read, that pesterling, contracted for the purpose tition, without feeling his blood of preventing a reform in the boil, that man is a tyrant and a House of Commons; and that very base and cowardly villain! Such debt, by its intolerable pressure a series of atrocities, of base on the land and the labour, now atrocities, and of so many distinct producing that very reform to pre-kinds, never were stated on one vent which it was contracted! Let piece of paper.-I have no room us, in the name of all this good to insert the petition here; but I have this reform in peace! It is shall insert it in my next, with not in the nature of Englishmen to such remarks on the matter as I be implacable, or vindictive. Let deem proper and as I dare pubus have it without the ruin or de-lish.-One thing I must mention gradation of anybody. But, let here: namely, that it was anus have it. Compensation to those, nounced by DICKENSON, one of who, since 1716, have so cruelly the Somersetshire Members, that suffered in prison in the cause, is all that I should demand. And what is this? Not so much as one year's secret service money! I do not want, and again and again I say, I have never personally known no power, the power being lodged any man that did want, any change in the hands of the visiting Main the form of the government.gistrates, one of whom is A PARFor myself I am for a government SON!!! This last, however, of King, Lords and Commons; one might have easily guessed! but not for a government of King, How came the Sheriff to find that Lords and Boroughmongers. he had power on Saturday last?

the High Sheriff had sent down word to relax in the treatment of Mr. HUNT. Now mind, Mr. HUNT had applied to this Sheriff before; and the answer was, that he had

every now and then, in a loud and cheerful voice, "Steady she goes, my boys!" This took from us, who were ignorant young soldiers, all idea of danger to our lives, and made us able to obey his orders; but, when the storm was over the next morning, and we had happily escaped, he smiled and told us, that he had expected every moment to go to the bottom.

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-Faith, the THING is growing top, and half his tackle torn to more tame than it was! Some ribbons, the Yankee Captain, time back the THING would whose name was WHITMORE, have laughed Mr. HUNT's petition stood upon the deck, calling out, to scorn. The thing with rents and the thing without rents is a very different thing. The thing would not now be so merry at hearing of Ogden's rupture. The thing feels the effect of low prices. It is not half so sharp-toothed a thing as it was. Its eyes do not look half so fierce. Its jaws do not now water to be at one; and its gills do not look half so red as they did." Steady!" I say to-We are now not in such peril. the reformers, and particularly to The storm, as towards us, has the imprisoned, or have-been im- abated in its fury. But, “ Steady" prisoned, 'reformers, "Steady!" is still the word! The THING Parson Dr. Colston and Parson is now getting into the storm of Hay will see other days than these. its own raising, and amongst When I was about eighteen, I was rocks and breakers of its own on board a little Yankee sloop in creating. Let our firm friend, the the Bay of Funday. A terrible Debt, work its way. Let our foes storm arose at night-fall; my com- now grapple with each other, rades, all but four or five of us, Let us look on, and see fair play; who were to assist the sailors, were and, above all things, let us be shut down below; the wind dash-"steady."-I wonder whether ed the vessel about and tossed like Oliver and Edwards can find out a cork; the thunder was tremendous; the night was dark as pitch, except when the lightening came to show us the horrid rocks and breakers with which we were surrounded. In the midst of this scene, with his boom carried and important labours will, after away, his mast snapped off at the all, have been but of little avail.

a way of relieving "Agricultural distress;" of causing the taxes of 1822 to be paid out of the prices of 1790; and of causing rents and tithes to be paid? If they cannot do this, their other great

They ought to be called upon im-indeed, on any, or on every, day, mediately to look sharply about, if necessary. I, therefore, proposed to publish an Evening Paper daily, throughout the session

and to give information against those who are, all the world over, conspiring to cause over-produc-of parliament at any rate; but,

tion both of meat and of mouths. -However, nous verrons!

DAILY PAPER.

though there were plenty of persons to take such paper, I found, upon actually making the preparations for the undertaking, that the difficulties, and especially the labours in detail, were such as to deter me from proceeding to publication, without, at least, longer time for preparation. Yet, time THE readers of the Register will passes; the session wears away; remember, that, when 1, about a and I am anxious to do something. month back, published my pro- I have, therefore, entered into an posal for sending forth a DAILY arrangement with the Proprietor EVENING PAPER, I stated of the STATESMAN, an Eventhe principal object to be, to ob-ing Paper long established and tain the means of publishing my well known, and which, as it is remarks on the proceedings in now in part my property, I shall, parliament on the same day, as of course, apply to precisely the often as possible, with the account same purposes that I should have of the proceedings itself; a thing applied a daily paper of which I impossible to be done in the Re-should have been the sole progister. I said then, as I now say,prietor. Those gentlemen, not that, in my opinion, the proceed- particularly known to me, who ings of this session of parliament, had ordered my daily paper, will, will decide the fate, not of the country, for that nothing can destroy, but the fate of certain classes in it, and especially of the landlords and of many of the farmers. For this reason I wished to get something from the press fulfilling their intention by addressoftener than once a week; and, ing their advertisements to the pa

perhaps, now order the STATESMAN; and those friends, in the several parts of the country, who were so good as to propose to make use of my paper as a vehicle of advertisements, will oblige me in

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and all the projects respecting the currency, will be watched with great vigilance.-Gentlemen who may wish, in consequence of this notification, to be supplied with The STATESMAN, will please to apply to their respective newsmen; those who applied before

per, in which I am now concerned. | foreign countries; and, I trust, This undertaking will in nowise that the movements of the Bank, interfere with the publication, or the matter, of the REGISTER, which I always regard as my main force; as my steady column to maintain the battle with, until Corruption be laid prostrate. But, I want something to skirmish with; something to route follies and to repel falshoods instantly. A thou-at the Office of The REGISTER sand things that cry aloud for the (which is now No. 183, Fleetlash cannot be noticed in the street) will, if they please, renew REGISTER, and thus escape al- their applicátions through the together. The STATESMAN will, same channel. Those Corresof course, contain the earliest pondents, who have been so kind publication of any Rustic Haran-as to send me country newspapers, gues that I may hereafter make; with particular passages marked and it will attend particularly to in them, will, I hope, perceive, all proceedings at County or other that such favours will now be more Meetings, where the affairs of valuable than ever. It is impos-Agriculture or the question of sible for me to rate too highly the Reform shall be agitated. Such Reports, or Returns, as may be laid before Parliament, and as appertain to the subject of Agriculture will be always attended to, and if unintelligible to readers in general, in their original state (which is, unhappily, but too often the case) an endeavour will be made to render them capable of being understood. No effort will be neglected to obtain accurate accounts of prices of produce and of stock in the several parts of the

country; and also of prices in

value of such communications, or to express my gratitude for them in terms too strong.

SWEDISH

TURNIP SEED.

To be sold, at the Office of The REGISTER (No. 183, Fleet-street), Swedish Turnip Seed, for the. genuineness of which I will be

answerable. It was saved from an account of the quantity of