bread and cheese, called me to him and saying that he would give me.. some, chalked out a big thing and a little thing upon a board and told me that that was the bread and the cheese! Remember this, and if you do. I need, just at present, say nothing the subject of the Reform, which is now talked of, and which, if carried into execution, would probably give us a pretty good representation in about seven or eight hundred years, from this day. However, to speak candidly, and with the most sincere wish, to see a real reconciliation take place between the great families and the people at large, I do hope, and indeed I believe, that they now see that something in the way of Reform is absolutely necessary to the restoration of peace and security in this kingdom; and, if I perceive that they are acting in the spirit of conciliation, I am sure that I shall recommend to you not to be impatient; and, above all things, not to oppose whatever they may at tempt to do, if it has at alla tendency to remove the great cause of all our calamities. We shall not be able to judge until February, what is intended, and let us, therefore, wait patiently to see what it is. burn all over when I think of the an-apron and bothering her for a bit of swer that - I could have given to this speech of Mr. Brougham. Upon those same boards where he is, I certainly ought to be; and, if I were there, the nation should soon be convinced that something, and something efficient, too, could be done for it even by one man, notwithstanding all that has been said upon the subjeet by those from whom much has been expected and nothing received. Would I, think you, have sitten silent while a hundred and ten thousand pounds were granted out of the taxes "to augment the maintenance "of the Poor Clergy"? Sir Francis Burdett may say what he will about the difficulties attending a discharge of his duty in that House, but are you to be made believe that he could not have opposed this grant, that he could not have made a speech against it; that he could not have drawn the attention of the nation to it? In short, we owe it, in a great measure, to the indolence and negligenee of men whom we have confided in, that we are not, at this day, in a state of prosperity, happiness and tranquillity. You have seen, my good friends, what one man, though at a distance of three thousand miles, with a great ocean between you and him, has been able to do out of the House; and I trust in God you will see the day when that man will show you what one man can do in the House. You will have seen, in some of the newspapers, the following article, which appears to have been first published in the Morning Chronicle: "SIR FRANCIS BURDETT AND COB"BETT. The Friends of Coвветт, a few days since, waited on Sir F. "BURDETT, for the purpose of obe 66 You will have perceived that something of a Reform is really talked of in the House! But you will recollect taining a reconciliation between my story about the waggish carpen- "them. The Baronet was, however, ter who, when I was a little boy in " inexorable. He said, Mr. Соввитт petticoats, and pulling my mother's" could not forget the many false "roods published in the Two-penny | dinner given to me there, to unite with "Register, which the writer must " have known if true or false; if " true, no honest man would wish to "renew an acquaintance with him " (Sir FRANCISs), and if false, what " could be thought of the individual " promulgating such atrocious calum" nies, with a knowledge of their be"ing such? Here the conversation | ended, and the persons retired." This Morning Chronicle is the property of James Perry, who has been a hack of that despicable faction, the Whigs, for upwards, I believe, of forty years. This vain coxcomb has lately told his readers, with a sort of dignified melancholy, that he has not many years left to combat for what he calls the liberties of his country, and that, therefore, he hopes they will believe him to be sincere! This is, I suppose, in imitation of Lord Grenville, the reports of whose speeches tell us that he has, of late, dealt in the same sort of language. But, as to Perry; as to this malignant old hack, I would not believe in his sincerity if his declaration came forth only two minutes before he was put into his shroud. He has been particularly busy, since my return, in endeavouring to asperse me. He has been distorting and misrepresenting every thing said by me at the Crown and Anchor. He has been engaged with Wright and his pretty associates in putting forth lies in order to mislead the public; and now he has taken the lead in this story about Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. I will now tell you the true story, in the following words: when I was at Liverpool I was most strongly urged in private, and even by a speech, and a very eloquent speech, of one of the gentlemen at al Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. A similar request, and from persons on whose judgment I set great value, was made to me at New York. As I came on to London I perceived that the wish was very general. While at New York, I had read Sir FRANCIS's letter to the Electors of Westminster, upon the Manchester Tragedy, of which letter I very much approved. I had read also an account of the Proceedings in Palace Yard, relative to the Manchester transactions; and, in those proceedings, I thought I perceived what amounted to a proof of Sir FRANCIS's desire to cooperate with Mr. HUNT. My deter, mination, from the moment I read of those proceedings, was this, that, when I came to England, I would bury, with regard to the Baronet, all the past in oblivion; and that, if he were disposed to exert himself to his utmost in behalf of the People, to cooperate cordially with him. At the dinner at Liverpool, I declared my readiness to be the first to move; and to go to him, and, in the language of Scripture, to say: " is it peace?" When I came to London, a gentleman from the country, in a day or two after the dinner at the Crown and Anchor, asked me whether there were no means of producing a reconciliation between Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and me. After some conversation upon the subject, I gave this gentleman his commission, in the following words : 66 "4. Dear. 1819. " I am ready to tender my hand to "Sir Francis Burdett, and to tender my whole heart and mind, to be "exerted, in co-operation with him, " for the purpose of endeavouring to " rescue our country from the fangs of "its oppressors. I am ready to bury "all private considerations in oblivion. "I have seen, all through the country, "proofs of a most ardent desire, that an union should take place; and, I am resolved, that no private feel"ings of minc, shall obstruct that "union." 66 "WM. СОВВЕТТ." The reasoning on which I proceeded was this: Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has now, no influence, no weight of character, more than a common man. He is unable to give me any support or aid: I can derive no assistance from his mere name or countenance: I can gain no weight of character, no power to do good by the mere circumstance of intimate co-operation with him. But he has the power to put me in a At the same time that I delivered | situation where I shall be able to do, this paper, I told the gentleman who was the bearer of it, what I had told all my English friends at New York and what I had told to particular friends at Liverpool, that I never would be the under-worker of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT again, and, that, I would have nothing to do with him any more than with any other common person; that I never would consult with him; and, in short, that I would have nothing in the shape of co-operation | with him, except as one of a public meeting, perhaps, unless he would immediately, and out of his own purse, furnish the means of facilitating, as soon as the occasion should offer, the entrance of Mr. Hunt and myself into the House of Commons. And this, I told the gentleman who was the bearer of the paper, that he had my full liberty to state to any person whatever, either in conversation or in print. This gentleman expressed his wish that these terms might be communicated to Sir FRANCIS by myself, to which I had no objection; and I told him I should give the terms in writing, with permission to their being published as soon as Sir FRANCIS chose, and with a declaration, on my part, that I should make them known to the public without loss of time. for the good of the country, ten thou- their man, unless the rich man will put his | I am very sure he can do nothing hand into one of his bags in order to against it. The few persons who furnish the means of surpassing the affect to regard him as of any consepoor man's single exertions. This quence to the cause, are of the most was the ground that I proceeded contemptible description. His adheupon; and I am very certain that this rents are confined to the Concentric ground will be regarded as perfectly- Society of Liverpool and the Rotten good by every one who is not servile Rump of Westminster; a set of creaenough to say that mere money ought tures who are remarkable equally for to be preferred to every thing else. feebleness and malignity; a little nest of groveling vermin; little strutting would-be-great men; puffed up with conceit, aiming at superiority over the common people; fellows who wish "DEAR SIR,-From a conversation to pull down the great that they may "I have just had with Sir Francis get astride in their places, and burst"Burdett, I am persuaded the en-ing with envy when they see another closed cannot be rendered available. This causes me regret; but I have "thought it best to return it to you " with my assurance, that it has not "been used or seen." On the 9th of December, I received the following note from the gentleman who had been the bearer of the paper above inserted: This was the whole that took place with any knowledge of mine. How the hack, Perry, came by his blind story, I cannot pretend to say; or whether it was of his own hatching altogether. However, it was necessary to say something, and in print, too, in order to satisfy my friends at New York and at Liverpool that I had fulfilled my promise; though, as I then told them, I was well convinced that all intimate co-operation with SIR FRANCIS BURDETT would be wholly unavailing, unless upon the terms which I pointed out, and those terms were such that I could hardly believe it possible that he would bring hitnself to concede to them. For my part, I have a feeling of perfect indifference with regard to the future public conduet of SIR FRANCIS BURDETT. Of himself, he can do nothing for the cause of the people; and pursuing the open, fair and honest I shall pursue my own course, singly. My banishment; of which the pious booksellers seem so much afraid, was productive of this advantage, among others, that it taught me to depend upon myself. I am resolved' to walk in the trammels of nebody; and to have no intimate conInection, as to public matters, with any man. You will, I am sure, be interestedness of my views? When I satisfied that I shall pursue the right say that I will never receive any porcourse, as far as my judgement will tion of the people's money to my own enable me to pursue it, but, at any use, I mean to exclude all grounds rate, I never will again have to com- for shuffle. I mean never, as plain of having been betrayed or aban-long as I live, whoever may be doned. in power, or whatever the state of You will perceive, by another part | things may be. I am ready to serve of this Register, that I shall speedily my country in any capacity for which publish a daily paper; that I shall I may be qualified. But that service, continue, let them pass what laws they if I am ever called upon to give it, will, to publish the Register in some shall be given freely; and without shape or other. With my pen, I my receiving any payment for it of shall do what I can; but I cannot any kind whatever. do with that pen a ten thousandth My friends and fellow Countrymen, part of what I could do if I were in I now conclude by assuring you, that the House of Commons. I am think-your-addresses have given me great ing of a mode of acquiring the means to effect this object; of these I will speak hereafter; but, in the mean time, take from me, this distinct and solemn pledge, that whenever I receive, directly or indirectly, any por-ance of our duty, that motive would satisfaction; that it has been received, by me, and by every person in my family, with feelings of sincere gratitude; and, that, if we still wanted a motive to urge us on in the perform be found in these testimonials of your I am your faithful friend, N. B. The addresses from the Fe tion of public money, however small, in any shape whatever, I from that moment, acknowledge myself to be infamous. From that moment, I now before-hand, declare that I shall be a traitor to you, and that I shall deserve the greatest punishment that your vengeance can inflict. As to provision | male Reformers, together with my anfor family, I have, thank God, not a swer to those addresses must be resoul belonging to me, that does not ❘ served for the next Register; for in that answer I have to communicate some information respecting substitutes for tea and coffee, which I think will be of very great benefit. I am preparing the plan for putting into execution the Resolutions passed at the Crown and Anchor for promoting sobriety, frugality and an abhorrence of gaming; but the information which I have to give with regard to substitutes for tea and coffee, is of a nature so interesting and may be so prefer a single grain of honour to tons of gold, or thousands of acres. Thus sustained, my wants are very few; the capacity of myself and my sons, to labour, very great, my stock of reputation and of popular confidence exceeded by that of no man, what a wretch should I be to barter fame for pelf; and, indeed, what a wretch should I be, if I could but for one single moment, leave a doubt existing in your minds, with regard to the dis |