have, all along, been supporting the ruffians, and shooting at the people at their command, are now for decamping. The rascals would gladly have the thing go on in the old way. That is, they would gladly thrive from high-prices, and grind down the poor, at the same North Hampstead, 5th July, 1819. time. They would gladly ride MY DEAR HUNT, their "gavallary" horses, and To-morrow the wood-cock shoot-shoot at the "disaffected." But, ing begins; and I always think of they find their means slowly meltyou when I see these broods of ing away. They cannot, they say, wood-cocks; and, thinking of you, I naturally think of the recent › tricks of the Boroughmongers. I have read the Report of the Royal Commission, about the inimitable Bank Notes. I have read the account of the Bill, passed and assented to in 24 hours, to save the fractions of the Old Lady. I have read the Report of the Select and Secret Committee about the paying in specie. I will offer a few remarks upon each of these tricks; but, first, indulge me while I say a word or two upon the general state of the villains' affairs. Their poor-rates now swallow up a good part of the rents. They have reduced the labouring classes to bread and water long since; but, wages, in the shape of wages, will no longer supply them with bare bread. The farmers, that base race of men, who "keep their capital." No: devil's in it if they should, when the fundholders, who have lent their money to the Boroughmongers, want their money. The base dogs aré, therefore, sliding off. I have seen many of them here. Their thoughts and wishes are very curious. They, being free from the accursed system, wish it to last. They hate the people with a perfect hatred; and they love the system to the bottom of their hearts. They love it more than any thing, except their money. They wish the people to be wholly ruined and subjugated, seeing that they can no longer enjoy any thing there themselves. They say, that the system will last. That the rulers will get on very well. That they are in no danger. That the thing is as likely to last as ever it was. That it discovers no symptoms either of destruction or Priuted by HAY and TURNER, 11, Newcastle Street, Strand; 1 1 1 and complained that they called for parish-relief. I told him, that he would meet with no thievish labourers here, and none that would call for parish-relief. "No,” said I, "they will not thieve; "they will have no need; for, they "will eat as good as you eat, and "drink as good as you drink; and "they will have as much of each as "they like; or they will not work "for you. They will swallow no "dry crusts, I assure you. In "short, if you farm here, you must "work with your labourers; or, "at least, you must eat with them "at the same, table. They will. "neither consider you nor call amendment. In talking to one of said they were lazy and thievish, the emigrants of this description, the other day, I asked him whether he were an honest, sober, industrious and skilful farmer, with a sufficiency of capital for his business. He answered in the affirmative. I then asked him why he left England; he said, that it was because he perceived, that he was daily growing poorer and poorer. I asked him, if this was generally the case with the farmers in England. He said it was. Why, then, Sir, said I, how do you imagine, that such a state of things can last long? If the honest, sober, industrious men of property be continually becoming poorer and poorer; and, if the prospect be such as to induce them to flee from the country in order to avoid real pauperism, how can you imagine, that the system is calculated to stand? He did not know what answer to make; but, he said again, that he thought it would stand; though, in his defence of his emi-ers. gration he had said, that he had fled from the danger of a convulsion. I could easily discover, that he had enjoyed high-price and the yeomanry cavalry work; and that he had fled, not so much from the system, as from the popular vengeance which he knew to be his due; and, that, while he wished the system to last, he feared it would not. He talked of the labourers in England just as the fat-jowled fellows of farmers do at home. He called them the peasantry, and you their master. No: they "will not thieve from you; but, "they will make you give them as "good food and raiment as you "have yourself." His yeomanry cavalry pride, that is, his brutal pride, was hurt at the idea of feeding with his labour "What!" said he, " sit at "the same table!" "Aye; and "take care to carve fairly too. H. "you be rather unwell, you may, "perhaps, be indulged with the "first cut; but that is all." If a man of this stamp bring a wife out, he is a ruined dog. Her upstart airs will keep all, labourers, except blacks, at miles from his house; and blacks will plunder her even of her shifts. Faith, this tribe cannot go to a better country than this, in order to get cured of their insolence. Nobody will quarrel or dispute with them: they いと will be left to wash and cook for themselves. They will enjoy a state of perfect uninterruption. These fellows imagine, that they are coming hither to have slaves, as they had in England. That have, for years past, been growing up above their proper size. They have fattened upon the spoils of the mass of the people. Their turn to suffer is now come. The poor and the fundholders press them. They, therefore, flee with their gains, in the hope of finding an absence of the tax-gatherer; in which hope they are not disappointed; hut, they forget, that this is a country where the labourer eats. They find, when they come here, that the American labourer takes what the Boroughmongers and the Paupers used to take in England. They find, indeed, that, if they will work themselves, they may grow rich; but, snacks, is the word here with the labourers. Give them a fair share, and you may do very well; but deny them this, and you must labour yourself for yourself. So true is all this, that a very large portion of the farms are farmed on shares. One man finds land, buildings, and manure, and the other finds labour; and the parties go halves in the produce. This is done upon as good farms as any in the country. If an orchard is to be gathered: one finds labour and the other trees, and they go halves. So that the "Yeomandry Gavalry" must not sup pose, that they are going to enjoy the whole, if they come here. If they will have American taxes, they must share with American labourers. I have met with some aristocratic emigrants. These are rich men, become such by speculation of some kind or other; or by some lucky hit in trade or manu. facture. I saw one of these a lit tle while ago. He hated the English government; the kind of government; not the Boroughmongers, as such, but as nobilily.I told him, that I had no objection to nobility, provided the people had their rights. He said Reform was nonsense. Nothing short of a revolution. would do. "Why," said he, "what signi"fiés a man's obtaining wealth by "his industry, if there are privi"leged orders that still consider " him as nothing at all." All this description of men ascribe their havings to their industry or talent; when, perhaps, if the truth were known, they have got rich by the most abominable frauds and ofpressions. They talk of the suf ferings of the people as of mere trifles. Their complaint is, that their money will not put them on a level with the nobles. This is a most rascally race, and they come to the first country in the world to be punished; for here their wealth will not purchase them so much as a nod, even from a negro. However, from one motive and A 1 The wiseacres at Westminster talk about French and Prussian loans taking the gold out of the country. They forget these tens of thousands of emigrants, almost every one of whom bring some. The three men that I now employ brought out, amongst them, twenty-nine good old guineas, all which they have now. I should not be surprized if their bank were richer than the one in Threadneedlestreet in ready money. Nor, it cannot be said, that people came hither by my persuasion. I have never advised any one to come. I have rather en another, hither they come in swarms. There are several distinct settlements. Many shipshave, of late, brought out people (each ship) with more than a hundred thousand pounds in their pockets. I should think, that the three years, which will end with May, 1820, will have seen a population, equal to that of Hampshire, quit England for America! The tide rolls higher and higher. The Boroughmongers would gladly see the paupers go off; but the paupers cannot go! The paupers are their own, especially the aged, infirm, and helpless. The labourers that come are, generally, of deavoured to persuade people prime quality. Young, strong, not to come. But, come they do, confident in themselves. Honest and come they will. Let them. and prudent, because they must have saved money to pay their passage with. Every sum thus paid is so much taken out of the means of England. The money paid to the captains and owners of American ships, amounts, for each person, on an average, to fifteen guineas. A hundred thousand persons bring away, in this manner, a million and a half of guineas, never to return. Suppose these emigrants to bring out in their pockets, each of them (taking rich and poor one with another) five pounds, this makes up a couple of millions sterling, wholly lost to the English nation. How-perty. They must displease, and ever, the great loss is the labour, skill, and industry of the emigrants. This is a loss to be repaired only by length of time and a radical change of systeur, "Better the nation be destroyed; "nay, wholly destroyed, than that " it be under the scourge of des"picable tyrants." At any rate, this surprizing emigration proves that the nation is in a most miserable state. People may grumble without cause; but, people do not flee without cause. They do not pull up stakes and set off, without reason. Farmers, who are so firmly rooted, are not plucked up without cause. We know how attached they are to home. They must necessarily leave near and dear relations. They must make sacrifices of pro give pain to, many friends. And, in addition, they must cross the ocean. Do men, and stingy fellows too, do such things without 1 cause? They have loved the sys- | work for them here and yet they tem. They do love it still. They would fain see it last? but, they love their money; and they are afraid, that, if they remain, they shall lose their money. This is the ground they act on; and thus we extort from them a proof of their opinion, that the system cannot last. It is not their words, that we have: they would be worth nothing: it is their actions. Their actions prove that we are right; or that they are fools. The Borough-villains have, in their speeches and addresses, long been talking of the disaffected. They to prohibit the introduction of have been talking of the "lower food? But, the truth is, that, come; and, they must, therefore,... come, because, and only because, they are fully persuaded, and almost certain, that they must be ruined, if they remain. Thus have we these, who are amongst our worst enemies. orders" being misled by demagogues and by two-penny trash.But, are these " Yeomandry Gavalary" disaffected, then? Are they, too, misled by demagogues and by two-penny trash? It is not a parcel of speculating merchants that are coming hither. Their removal would be of no consequence. It would argue nothing, except that they thought something more was to be gained here than was to be gained in England. But, the "Gavalry" coming, proves that they have reason to fear the loss of all they have. They are not "disaffected;" for they love the tyranny and hate the people. They do not come in search of freedom; for they are willing and base slaves themselves, and like to have slaves under them. They know what they are coming to: they know that they will not find slaves to The cruel Corn-Bill has done the "Gavalary" no good. I always said that it would not do them any good; while it must do the mass of the nation a great deal of harm. Can there be any thing in all the world more ridiculous than a manufacturing people making laws without high price of produce, the taxes cannot be paid; and, if the ports be open, the price cannot be high. I wrote to my son, some time ago, to tell him, that I would take care to send, or carry, home, next fall, a good lot of bacon, better than they make in Hampshire; seeing that I have Indian Corn and Hickory smoke, I could have landed it in London at sixpence sterling a pound, the whole flitch, with the ham on it. But, upon looking into the taxing book of the Boroughmongers, I find that the tax that I should have to pay on it would amount to twice as much as the first cost of the bacon, including freight and insurance and all other expences! What a monstrous thing is this! What is the use of fleets and of commerce, but to enable one country to participate in the abundance of another? Why should not the |