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TO MESSRS. JOHNson, Baguely,

AND DRUMMOND.

On their imprisonment, and on the
line of conduct which they ought
to pursue; and on Political
Shoy-hoys.

North Hampstead, Long Island,
80th June, 1819.

smarted under their tyranny. Be
of good cheer, therefore. You are
young men. The present active
tyrants will, according to the
course of nature, quit the world
before
you. But, the chances are,
that, if you be prudent, and espe.
cially sober, you will see the
effect of complete justice on their
heads.

They sent me, or, rather, caused me to be sent to prison for the same length of time, that they have caused you to be sent to prison. At that time all was a deep gloom. The public mind was in darkness. One half of even GENTLEMEN, good men thought my horrid THE news of the proceedings punishment necessary, if not just. and sentence against you have Then my punishment was, with reached me. They do not at all many, a subject of jesting. There surprize me; for such things have was one villain, whose name was taken place, in all ages and in all GILLRAY, and who was pensioned countries, during the struggles of by the Boroughmongers, who cathe oppressed against the oppres-ricatured me looking through my sors. Men should never despair prison walls. Some villains of of the Commonwealth; for, even farmers, then fat, riding by one of in the hardest of their sufferings, my fields, where my inen were there is a source of consolation; putting up a fence, cried out, seeing that, in the end, those suf-"wheer be the iron bars?" This ferings are always visited upon scoundrel race has been well the heads of the oppressors. If pinched since, and GILLRAY, Priated by HAY and TURNER, 11, Newcastle Street, Strand, for T, DOLBY, 34, Wardour Street, Soho.

before I had been in prison eight | tyrants, money being the all-in-all months, died racing mad! with a system of corruption. I At that time delusion was at its had long been of opinion, that the height. The war was profitable Bank Notes could never be paid to many persons. The base paper in specie; and, in Paper against money served its end: that is, to Gold, I proved that this was the give a florid appearance to trade case. That is to say, they never and agriculture. The nation was could be paid in specie, without mad with what it deemed pros. a total breaking up of the whole perity. The commerce of all system of corruption and tyranny. pations was laid under contribu- If Corruption attempted to pay, tion by the Boroughmongers. she could not raise the taxes, ne There never was so gloomy a cessary to pay the interest of her period for the friends of law and Debt. She could not attempt to justice. pay without putting a stop to all the labours which sustained her and gave her the means of tyrannizing and of making war against freedom. Yet, if she could never pay, without blowing herself up at once, it was clear, that, sooner or later, she must be overwhelmed by her own base paper.

But, I did not despair. On the contrary, I never had hopes more lively or thoughts more gay. The time, which the tyrants had given; the "abstraction from Society," as the old, hard-hearted ruffian in the den called it, or, rather the abstraction from rural affairs, in which the barbarous villains had placed me, enabled me to reflect on, and to examine into, the real state of their affairs. That reflec-blowing herself up by the act of tion and that examination led to the series of papers, entitled “Paper against Gold," which has contributed more than any other effort towards the danger, which the tyrants now experience.

We must be patient. We must cast our bread on the waters." The efforts which destroy tyrannies are, generally, those which have not an immediate effect, visible to all eyes. Sap and mine are better than assault, where the fortress is strong. I was convinced that the nation's best hope was `the insolvency of the Borough

Therefore, I, within my prison walls, bent all my force to prove, that she never could pay without

paying. This was a heavy blow for her; for, though the nation took little notice, at the time, of what I said, events went on, as I knew they would, to confirm all my doctrines and predictions.

About the time that I was sent to what Corruption thought to be death, or total ruin, the Westmin. ster Wiseacres had before them what they called a Report from a Committee, which, in their gibberish, was called the Bullion Committee. This had been produced by a motion of the out-faction, who pretended to want to