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cure? Oh no.

Reform is the tency" because he has since at-
When the fa-tacked him. It is curious enough,

vourable occasion offers, he is always silent as mouse in cheese.

that none of the hypocrites ever think of this!

At this moment "Glory" merely seems to overlay, to keep in a

He is like Vainlove in the Old Bachelor: when the lady is kind, he is cold. Has not this been inva- torpid state, the really public riably his conduct? Now hot, now spirited people of Westminster, cold, now boisterous as Boreas, which city, by the means of his now silent as the Zephyr, and tools, the Rump, he has reduced always without rhyme or reason. to be a practical rotten borough. What can any man of sense ex- Trade is suffering as much as pect in the way of public utility, agriculture. Tradesmen, without from a person so inconstant and scarcely an exception, are in the capricious; one day, nay, one most embarrassed circumstances, hour, all zeal and energy and and that, too, from the same cause hope and confidence, and the that is sinking the farmer. He next, pouting, sulking, despairing, does not move an inch. What a "dull as the weed that rots on fine occasion to come forward Lethe's wharf." Who is to do with a petition from this great any thing with a man like this? I know the curse of attempting the country has been reduced, it. Aye, but I "praised him." tracing all the evils to the parWell! and what was I to do? liament, showing the dangers that Bad as he was, he was our only now menace the country, and cock. We were to make the most showing the remedy to be a Reof him. We tried all means to form! What an occasion for make him fight. Major Cart-giving the example of this great wright praised him too, and has city to the rest of the nation! never been accused of "inconsis- How great, how good, how ef

city, stating the condition to which

fectual would that example be! | tenant; and yet, do you hear any Oh, no! The lady is in a melting thing from him in the way of putmood, and the fickle fribble turns ting an end to this state of things, his back to her! or in that of doing justice to the

He is a great land-owner in se- sufferers? Oh, no! He is “ geveral counties, and where is the pre-nerously" giving 500l. towards cious person of this "great man" assisting the “houseless;” he (and, of the son of placeman Hobhouse? curious enough, along with Mr. For fifteen years was he railing, Kean) is setting a clap-trap of this in almost every speech, at dinners sort, while he is neglecting the and palace-yards, against "the great means of preventing there great families.” He was the only real demagogue that I ever knew. He was always wanting to pull down "the great families." He

being any houseless in existence.

However, we have but a few days to wait now before we see the part he will act in this some

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can now endeavour to creep what new drama. We shall see

whether he will vote for the abolishing of" useless places," and whether his faithful Sancho will vote along with him for abolishing

under their skirts. Let them beware of him; for, in firking him under their skirts, I may chance to scratch them. But, at any rate, many of these are coming the Commissionership of Arcot forward with some feeling for their tenants. Does he? No, faith, and catch him at it if you

can. He knows very well, that he is profiting along with the fund

holder; he knows how enormously

he gained from the labourer during the war; he knows, that, now,

Debts. The fact is, we shall see him do nothing even now, except, perhaps, to vote for a Corn-Bill (as he tacitly did before), waste another winter in a state of torpidity, and come out in May, at the purity-of-election dinner, sitting with eyes half shut and soul

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he is profiting from the loss of the absorbed in self- complacency,

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while Hobhouse, Kinnaird, Wil-1" Glory" is an old bird, and son and the rest of his creeping does not like to let you put salt

things besmear him over with the slime of their nauseous applause.

I am, Sir,

Your most obedient and

Most humble Servant,
WM. COBBETT.

upon his tail. He saw, too, a

rival, perhaps, in the Reading Rump; and " Glory," like the

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Turk, bears no brother near the throne." So that "C. F. Palmer, Esq." and "J. B. Monck, Esq." were compelled to put forth their profound matter about " moderate reform," unheard by these illustrious guardians of the liber

P. S. I see, that there is a Rump formed at Reading, in Berkshire, precisely on the "Glory" plan. The evident intention is to make ties and honour of the city of that public-spirited town a rotten Westminster.

borough in the hands of Messrs.

Palmer and Monck, to descend,

THE

EMIGRANTS' COMPLAINTS,

On returning to England from the
United States of America.

VARIOUS have been the com

probably, to some others of the "purity" gentlemen. They have adopted the very phraseology of the Westminster Rump. The people of Reading ought to be put upon their guard against this plot; for a plot it is. The Read-plaints of different persons, coming Rump want, clearly, to be ing under the character above in close alliance with the Rump described. FEARON published a of Westminster. They invited whole book of complaints, one of Glory," Hobhouse, and Kin- which was, that the women were naird to their " purity dinner" so reserved, that there was really on Thursday, the 17th instant.no intercourse between the sexes, But, these cocks were shy. an assertion which must have

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"stance of my having got into the "house of Mr. Cobbett." If you had done this, the "reserve" of

puzzled MALTHUS exceedingly." dence of the Yankees in keepLet every one speak as he finds," ing me at a distance from their Mr. FEARON. I, who used to" families, of that you will judge dance with Yankee girls more by the use that I made of the than thirty years ago, and who" admission which I got to that of have lived in Yankee lands seven- "Mr. HULME; and by the lies I teen years altogether, say, that the" have grounded on the circumwomen of America are at once unstarched and modest, frank and innocent, sensible and gay; and I do not say this under command the American women would have of the petticoat, having no relation been accounted for, FEARON'S a native of that country. But, complaint, however, is only a Mr. FEARON, there is a difference trifle compared with those of in men. Consider that! Most others. When I was coming women, in all countries, are home, this last time (1819) we endowed with great powers of had about forty returning emidiscrimination in matters of this grants, in the steerage. Some sort. When, therefore, you were English, some Welsh, some

asserting that there was no intercourse between the sexes in Ames

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Scotch, some Irish, some Germans, and one Italian. There were men, women, and children, of almost all ages. I endeavoured

rica, and no getting admission into families, you should have been honest; you should have described to find out the specific reasons of yourself, and have said: "Under- their return. In the cabin there "stand, however, reader, though, were two young men, a Mr. PEN"a great Freethinking Chris-ROSE, an Irishman, and a Mr. REID, "tian,' in back and knees, and a Scotchman, two very agree“face, and tongue, and brains, I able companions. The Captain, but so so; and, as to the pru- besides being an able seaman,

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always sober, was a liberal, gay, and good-natured man; and we had a great deal of fun, part of which consisted of narrating, as I collected my information from the passengers, the grounds of their dislike to America; or, in one word, their complaints. Mr. REID used to play on the German flute;

SONG.

1.

'Twas on board the Hercules
That we ventur'd on the seas
From the port of New York, in November, O
The Captain, Nuthan Cobb,
More fit for such a job

Than any one that I can remember, O!

2.

Of each people and each tongue,
Some aged and some young,

and the two made a bargain with We passengers all have conspired, O !

me, when we were about mid-pas

To hasten quickly back,
To taste of food the lack,

sage, that, if I would put our cala- And give rest to our jaws now so tired, O!

mities in America into the form of a song, one would play and the other sing it to me. I chose for the tune "The pretty Girl of Darby, O!" which Mr. REID often played, calling it one of "Moore's Melo

3.

For each good day of work

We had ten pounds of pork
Without placeman or parson to cheat us, O
But, we wanted to meet

At the corner of each street
Roasted pigs to cry aloud, Come eat us, O
4.

And (beside the naughty pīgs)

The horses and the gigs

dies." Hence arose the following Did not come to take us out a riding, O!

"Melody," which describes, and fully and fairly describes, the complaints, if examined to the bottom, of my unfortunate fellow

While the pretty Canton Crapes

And the coats of var'ous shapes
Kept as close in the shops as if hiding, O!

5.

Then, the folks with feather-beds
Took it into their heads

passengers; and, if I were to That they had themselves a right to use them,O?

write ten volumes upon the subject I could not, perhaps, do it so much justice to the general body of returned emigrants.

"And these beds from us to keep,

Who had come to help them sleep;
And for this Yankee trick, we'll abuse them, O!

6.

We, who bachelors remain,

Have, with Fearon, to complain,
That the pretty Yankee girls, sweet as honey, O!
Did not come, with all their charms,
Jumping into our arms,

To give us up their persons and their money, O!

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