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very formidable; they look so like have they done? Not got us a men; and the stick, stuck in their Reform. Oh, no! That is a hands, looks so like a gun! The work for far different men; but, Boroughmongers, like the birds, have they done any thing? In look at the thing, at first, from a distance. They survey it from divers spots, and in different lights. They perceive in it no capacity to do them harm. They skim round it, coming nearer and nearer at every flight; till at last, finding it to be a pure sham, they wholly disregard it, and proceed in their impudent plunderings in just the same way as if the shoy-hoy had never been stuck up. Nay, sometimes the Boroughmongers, like Morrell's sparrow, make the shoyhoy instrumental in the carrying on of their depredations.

Look at the conduct of these shoy-hoys during this present session; and then say, whether it would not have been as well to put in their seats so many old coats, stuffed with straw, having, for head, a large turnip on a stake, with the latter to run down through the straw to support the body erect. There have been the two shoy-hoys above named; the shoy-hoy Chamberlaine from Southampton; the shoy-hoy Palmer (I think it is), about whom the people of Reading were fools enough to make such a fuss; the two shoy-hoys from Nottingham; the two shoy-hoys from Coventry; many others, besides the grand shoy-hoy BURDETT; and, what

the midst of such favourable circumstances; in the midst of unparralleled advantages'; in the midst of the troubles and frights of the Boroughmongers, not one single blow have any of the shoyhoys attempted to strike! What! did they suffer the Report of Bank Note Commission, of the Bank Committee, and all the rest of it to pass without saying a word. Not a word in the way even of observation on a Bill, that ran its whole race in twenty-four hours, to protect the Bank against the payment even of fractional sums! What! suffer all the masses of lies, all the tricks, all the frauds; all to pass, and make not a single effort to expose, merely to expose. the imposture!

As to BURDETT, nothing was to be expected of him. He has made himself of no weight at all, Besides, he has let pass twenty years of opportunities; but, the City Cock, WAITHMAN, could he draw up no motion, no resolution, no address; could he put nothing upon paper to expose such infamous falsehoods and to place the imposture in its true light? No: and I told you so, long and long before the parliament met. He is of no more use in the House than a sucking baby would be.

He has not the capacity to put two sentences correctly upon paper. When he begins to write or to speak, he knows no more when or how he shall end, than he knows when, or how, he shall die. He is like a child upon a lofty tree with the ladder taken away from him.

And this is the stuff, is it, that the people choose to defend, or obtain, their rights! It is a triumph, is it, to send a shoy-hoy like this to fight against our oppressors!

But, what could he do? If this question be put to me, I answer, nothing, except expose his ignorance and want of talent. I told you, that, though brass was well enough, in such a place, bare brass, brass and nothing else, would be of no use; and so it has turned out. But, though the City Cock could do no good, another man might have done good. Another man might have taken the Reports of the Bank Committee and worked the Boroughmongers half to death. I, for instance, in lieu of a better, would have taken the grand Report, and, in the form of Resolutions, which I would have moved in the House, I would, point by point, have exposed the

falshood of its facts, the fallacy of its reasonings, and the worse than childishness of all its pretended designs, expectations and hopes. I would have stripped the impos ture of every rag of its disguise, I would have caused the fraud to fall lifeless to the ground, and I would have made the impostors stand aghast in despair, in spite of their majority and their army. Then again, upon the Poor-Law Bills, how many fair opportunities to assail our foes! The labour of twenty days, in this way, would have given quite another look to our oppressors affairs. The effects of that labour would have been to embolden our friends, to sustain their hopes, to quicken their zeal and energy, and to cow down our enemies and thin their ranks.

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What is it to us whether Burdett or Castlereagh fill a seat, if the former do nothing for us? Stop a bit; when I get home, this skulking gentleman shall do something. He shall be suffered to sit in a sinecure seat no longer. He shall have trouble of some sort. He shall do his duty, or he shall have to defend himself against the reproaches of the people of Westminster. I shall mix up no private affairs with public matters.

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The private affairs I will settle who were as eager to cause with him distinctly. But, for Waithman to be elected as if their years, I have, in vain, complained lives had rested on their success! of his neglect of his duty, and his I knew the man would do nothing duty he shall now perform, or I of any use, because I knew he will give him more to do to defend could do nothing of any use. himself, than the doing of his duty babble in the Common Council is would amount to. He shall no one thing, and to fight crafty tylonger sit quietly in a sinecure rants in their strong hold is seat. This I promise him. So, another thing; and these things he may prepare himself for exer- differ very widely in their nature. tion, in one way or another; or, However, I am glad that this confor quitting the seat, which he has ceited brawler has been tried. so long uselessly filled. I will He has long been the secret enemy listen to none of his desponding, of rational Reform, and now he will despairing, lamenting cant. He be harmless; for, no man of any can do something, or he cannot. sense will, after this, ever place If he can, let him do it: if he can- any reliance upon him. not, let him turn out, and make room for some one that is willing to try.

As I said before, there is not one single man in the parliament who labours, or who has any intention to labour, for the people. Where has been that Reading-Member, about whom such a noise was made? What has he done? Voted against Castlereagh? That is to say, for Grenville? This must be

It would be far better for us to have no shoy-hoys than to have them. They only tend to support the system; because they suffer the deeds of the Boroughmongers to pass in silence. Upon here and there an insignificant all that he has done; and a presubject they are busily eloquent. cious sum total of services it But, upon all the vital questions amounts to. This is in the Burthey are dumb as posts. In dett way. And Mr. CHAMBERshort, by their silence, they do as LAINE. What have we gained much as they are able to assist the by his being elected for Southtyrants. How much ashamed ampton? What is it to us, whethose men ought now to feel, ther he or young George Rose frank letters? To make the elec-form would put into the parliation of such a man matter of ment, would make the place unfit triumph is to discover great folly or very little public spirit.

for them. They have conceit; but, they also have vanity and fear. And, therefore, they will never attack the system.

To say nothing about the Mother Fraud, one would have thought, that the breaking of Portsmouth and Gosport Banks was a subject to awaken a stone to speak. Those banks have broken for twice as

many pounds sterling as there are men, women and children, in the country in which they were. Only think of a scourge like this? It is said, in the newspapers, that the alarm was as great as if the

This session of parliament was one, during which the tyrants were to have been fallen upon with every advantage. Two men, even one man, of knowledge, talent, spirit, and integrity, might have worried them half to death. They had to come before the nation with an apology for broken promises; with a retraction of all their boastings; with avowals of the most disgraceful kind, disgraceful to their understandings as well as to their hearts. They were an object so inviting to the plague had been in every third finger of scorn, that the hands of house in the country! What a the dead would almost seem to be scourge! And not draw a single raised against them; and, while word from a single shoy-hoy! the nation was putting up a geWhat feeling can BURDETT have neral hoot at them, there sat the for the people or the country, and shoy-hoys as if they had been suffer so large a part of the nation gagged!

to be thus afflicted and hold his

tongue? For my part I look upon

But, my friends, the truth is, that the shoy-hoys, even if they had the necessary talent, have no desire to see any real reform of the parliament. They know well, that such Reform would put such men as they aside. They know well, that the energy, which a Re-tem.

such silence to be criminal in the highest degree. But he is a fundholder, he has deep interest in the success of banking, his seat enables him to frank letters for a bankinghouse; and, in short, he would be sorry to see an end to the sys

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the workings of these three par-
ties as mere spectators, having no
interest in any thing they do; and
then we shall keep ourselves in
the right temper of mind.
I most anxiously hope, my wor-
thy friends, that you will enjoy
good health, and that you will
soon see the day of justice arrive.

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Not a word from him, or from | ground to proceed on, is to do our any of the Shoy-hoys, about the cause great injury. Let us view clandestine transactions between the Bank Directors and Pitt. Not a word to point out this crew to the just resentment of the people. Not a word to show how false all their statements have been. No attempt to expose the vile impos ture. The thing is now come to what I always saw and always said it would come to; and not one word does he utter upon the subject. The rest of the shoy-hoys have no talent: they are real bundles of rags and straw; but he, who is a man, shams shoy-hoy, in order to skulk out of his duty.

We are then, set up with three parties: the ins, the outs, and the shoy-hoys; which, if Mr. Hone have a mind to try his hand again, will make a better parody-trinity

than the parties he took before.

The object of these remarks on the shoy-hoys, is to convince all those who read, that we have no dependence on any body now in parliament; and that, therefore, we must rely upon ourselves. For, to depend, when we have no

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