and was received by the vast multitude with | TAYLOR, F., South Moulton-street, and immense cheering.

BRICHENO, R., Hemingford Grey, Hunting-qr. Fine bright malting samples did not obdonshire, borse-dealer.

SMITHFIELD.-Dec. 10.

This day's supply of beasts was numerous; but-though it embraced several hundreds of well fed oxen, steers, and heifers, of various breeds, but more particularly Herefords, short-horus, and Devous,-not, in the whole, so prime as it generally has been so near to Christmas. The supply of sheep, calves, and porkers, was rather limited. Beef, sufficiently prime for Christmas consumption, sold readily, at an advance of from 2d. to 4d. per stone; but with the ordinary kinds, as also mutton, veal, and pork, the trade was very dull, at nothing beyond Friday's quotations.

The beasts consisted of about equal numhers of short-horns, Herefords, Devons, and Irish (principally) oxen, steers, and heifers; and Welch runts, chiefly from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, and our Western districts; with a few prime Sussex beasts, Scots, Staffords, &c., from various quarters, and Town's end cows.

Full four-fifths of the sheep were new Leicesters, in about equal numbers of the South Downs, and different white-faced crosses; the remaining fifth about equal numbers of Downs, Kents, Kentish half-breds, and old Leicesters; with a few horned and polled Norfolks, horned and polled Scotch and Welch sheep, horned Dorsets, &c.

Beasts, 3,311; sheep, 16,190; calves, 110; pigs, 330.

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VOL.78.-No. 12.] LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22ND, 1832.

ΤΟ

THE COBBETTITES:

ON THE

ELECTIONS,

AND MORE PARTICULARLY THOSE OF

OLDHAM AND OF MANCHESTER.

Guildford, Surrey, 18. Dec., 1832.

MY FRIENDS,
BEFORE this will reach you, the cor-
rupt press of London will, with much
about the same sort of feeling that a
thief goes upon the treadmill, have an-
nounced to you the fact, that I AM A
MEMBER OF THE REFORMED
PARLIAMENT. The corrupt thing
seems to have hesitated: it gave an ac-
count of all other elections that had
taken place; it cheerfully did this; but
the election of OLDHAM, though it
might have been cited as an example to
the whole kingdom, the corrupt, the
mercenary, the Swiss-like daily press of
London, kept unnoticed, until the last
possible moment, and, when compelled
at last to mention the matter, the cor-
rupt and mercenary thing did it, as it
were, for the purpose of showing how
very foolish the thing is, as well as how
very corrupt.

[Price Is. 2d.

that I hear you all thus exclaim; and that I hear your voices echo back from the United States of America; aye, and from France and Italy and Germany also. My friends, men who are intoxicated in the hours of success, are not fit to be trusted with any matter of weight; because such men are sure to be depressed, are sure to be rendered desponding, and to be deprived of the powers of exertion in times of adversity. With such men the public can do nothing: they are of no use: because, they are wanted during the tide of success; and because, when to stem the tide of evil becomes necesSary, they are incapable of exertion. I appeal to your sound understandings; I appeal, particularly, to your recollection of the past; 1 appeal to these to give you an assurance that I am by no means intoxicated upon this occasion; that I feel that I have imposed upon me a greater burden of duty to my country than I have ever yet had to bear; that I shall stand in need of all the aid that you can possibly give me in the performance of that duty; that I shall need the countenance and support of you all in every part of the kingdom, and more especially of those of my sensible and virtuous constituents, who, in every act, in every word, from the beginning to the end of this affair, have set an example to the whole kingdom, and have entitled themselves to every exertion that I can possibly make, for their and our country's good, from this moment to the end of my life.

My friends, you will now, I dare say, and with delight and with just exultation, recall to your minds, that, on a hundred Before I proceed to put upon record occasions, I have told you, that the the interesting and most memorable affairs of our great and troubled counfacts relative to the elections of OLD-try, never would, I believed, be peaceHAM and of MANCHESTER, let me first, ably settled, without my having a hand in imagination at least, shake hands with in the settlement, if I should live for a you all let me have a laugh with you: few years longer: you will remember let me imagine that I hear you all ex-well, that in 1821, I told Mr. BROUGHAM claim, "There! they have got him that I clearly perceived, that a great "then, at last; and let them make him object with both the factions was, to "find his level!" Let me imagine keep me down: and that this object

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would be finally defeated, even by the | an occasion having arisen which called efforts of the factions themselves: you for it, and CANNING, HUSKISSON, and will bear in mind, that, in a letter ad- Lord LIVERPOOL, being then alive, I dressed to Lord GREY, in 1823, I told reminded them of the time when we his lordship that I was well aware of four dined together at a party; that we the monstrous and unnatural combina- were then not very far from being of tion which tacitly, and in some sort, the same age; that they were just then instinctively, existed, for the purpose of (the year 1800), starting upwards; that keeping me down; and that the com- I felt, at the time, that I had a great deal bination would finally be defeated, even more talent than the whole of the three by the means taken to effect it; to which put together; that I knew well, that I I added the following remarkable should soon pass them in the start, if I words: "EVENTS, which are the chose to take the same course; that I "masters of us all, are constantly at saw two paths before us, one strewed "work for me, and against this un- with flowers, and the other strewed with "natural and wicked combination; and thorns; that I liked the flowery path a "these events will produce one of two great deal better than the other, but "things, a peaceable adjustment, in that, at the END of it, I saw discom"which I shall have a hand; or, a de- fiture, disgrace, and the curses of a suf"grading and tormenting of the people, fering people; while, at the end of the "until, unable to endure the injustice path of thorns, I saw triumph, honour, "any longer, they will, in some con- and the blessings of a grateful people; "vulsive movement, shake the whole then I said: "You have flourished "frame of society to pieces :" you "hitherto: there you are, lolling in must remember, that soon after the " gilded chariots, strolling in pleasureDuke of WELLINGTON came into power, "grounds, feasting on turtle and venison, I addressed a letter to him, in dedi-" in possession of wealth, even to an cating to him a new edition of Paper" incumbrance: there you are, while I against Gold, in which letter I gave him" have to live in a manner the most a pretty full history of the works of the "frugal, have to rise early, labour combination of the two factions, those " through the day, and eat the bread of works having for their principal object" carefulness; but here I am covered the at once stupid and mean and cowardly" with the blessings of millions; wish of keeping me out of Parliament." are you covered with their curses; I detailed to him the mighty mischiefs" and, safe as you think yourselves, which had been done to the country, in mind, I tell you, that OUR DESconsequence of this stupid wish. I" TINY HAS NOT YET DONE showed him how many mischievous" WITH US." Dismal as were the measures it had given rise to, and what ends of these three gorgers of the public ruin and misery it had inflicted upon this nation. I told him that he would pursue just the same course as his predecessors had pursued in this respect; but that events would defeat the combination at last; and that, if we live but a few years, he would see me in that Parliament, to keep me out of which, such monstrous means had been used; and that I should see his name rubbed

from the corners of the streets, and his picture come down from the sign-posts. You will remember all these things, and you will remember them with delight. You will remember, that in 1826, after the PRESTON election of that year,

there

money, for them to come to an end at the time that they did, was preferable to their living along to see this day. These things, my friends, you will now remember with pleasure. It is now a time to remember them, because it fashions our minds as to how we are now to think, and how we are to act for the future.

As a mark of victory, on my own account, over the combined malignity of these factions, I set a very high value upon this seat in Parliament. But I set a higher value upon it, as vindicating the character of the Commons, or common people of England. I have always stood

Against this insolent language towards the Commons, or common people, I have always protested, ever since I understood anything of public affairs; it is impossible that men can retain their liberties and properties in safety, while they suffer themselves to be looked upon as a sort of cattle upon a farm. I have always inculcated the necessity of resenting this insolent language towards the common people. I have never taught disrespect towards the King, or I have never

firmly up in defence, not only of the rights, but of the character of the common people, who, of late years, have been looked upon by both the political factions, and by all the hordes that live upon the taxes, as not being of the same flesh and blood with themselves. These insolent people, while their stomachs were crammed with the fruits of the people's labour, have been applying to them every term and every epithet, calculated to cause them to be looked upon as beings of an inferior order, his lawful authorities. whose feelings were not entitled to any taught contempt for the peers, or for consideration at all; the two factions their privileges; but I have always disagreeing in everything else, have maintained the rights of the Commons cordially agreed in endeavouring to to be treated with respect; and, by exoppress the Commons, or common peo- ample, as well as by precept, I have ple. They have called them collectively taught the Commons to resent, and to "the lower orders," the "peasantry," avenge themselves, if possible, as far as the "population ;" and when they have the law would allow, on all those, be spoken of them as being collected to- they who they might, who should use gether for the exercise of their rights, with regard to them any degrading apthey have had the audacity to call them pellation whatsoever; and, amongst all the "populace," or the "mob." In the things which have given me pain short, by degrees, beginning about fifty during my life, nothing has ever given years ago, the industrious part of the me so much, as to see meritorious incommunity, particularly those who dustry and labour seeming to bow the create every useful thing by their la- knee, and willingly to acknowledge subour, have been spoken of by every one perior worth in rank accompanied with possessing the power to oppress them worthlessness; and in wealth, no matter În any degree, in just the same manner how acquired. When society is in this as we speak of the animals which com- state: when men adore power and pose the stock upon a farm. This is riches, without any regard to the connot the manner in which the forefathers duct or character of the possessor, real of us, the common people, were treated. freedom cannot exist. When rank is Nobody ever had the audacity to think accompanied with good character and of calling them the "lower orders," just conduct towards persons of inferior "the peasantry," and the "popula- station, then it is just and becoming to tion," they were called, and they called treat the possessor of that rank as a themselves, as the law called them, person of superior degree in society. "the Commons of England." These When wealth has been acquired by were a King, Lords, Clergy, and all the clearly legitimate means, by rare skill, rest were the "Commons; and that and by rare industry; by the application made up the English nation; and its of these to the conducting of concerns government was the government of the naturally tending to the greatness and King, the Lords, and the Commons. happiness of the country, then the posBefore this present family came to the sessors of wealth are very properly obthrone, never was the degrading appel-jects of respect, not only with their lation of pauper known in England. I neighbours, but with the community at do not ascribe this to the family you large. But when their rank and their will understand, but I merely state it as reference to an epoch, before this degrading treatment of the Commons began.

riches have been acquired by foul and disgraceful means; when they have been the effect of tricks and contrivances, properly characterised by being called