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03/04/1830

Printer / Publisher: James Ackland 
Volume Number: II    Issue Number: XLIX
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The Bristolian

Date of Article: 03/04/1830
Printer / Publisher: James Ackland 
Address: No.4, All Saints street, Bristol
Volume Number: II    Issue Number: XLIX
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MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of JAMES ACLAND, Proprietor and Editor- written hp Himself. « I LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES."— Judge Bayley. Printed and Published by JAMES ACLAND ( Son* PaoeniKToR AN. KD. TOK; at No. 4, All Sain..' street, Bristol. VOL. II — No. XL1X To the Rev. DAVID JONES, Minuter of tne Established Church at Ltandogo, and Manufacturer and Retailer of Butter to his poor 1' ansliioncrs. Slit, I understand that you are a Chandler or Chapman in general goods— to wit, Butter. Ci. i-.-, I < T. , * r that last season you purchased some very Salt Butter at Cardigan, and after the neces- sary mixation, sold it by your servant girl in the Cheostow Market at fourteen pence per lb i further learn that you patronise the Truck system, paving those in your employ in goods at vour own price instead of money. Are these things true ?— if so, you convert the sacred office of priest to as censurable a purpose as they of Jerusalem, whom our Sa- viour rebuked for the lucrative profanation of the Temple of their God. An ordained Minister of the Gospel should be as conspi- cuously observant of lhat singleness of pur- pose— the salvation of sinners, as devoid of guilo and indifferent to the mammon of un- righteousness. You will probably hear from me on Wednesday. J \ MES ACLAND. SATURDAY, APRIL, 3, 1830. [ PRICE :.:-. iniri. rinit » riME. « B » towards Phillips by affording him the oppor- tunity of pleading a justification and of proving the truth of the matter charged as libellous. Subsequently you have thought proper to state that Phillips was a fool for intending to allow judgement to go by default, adding mat tr i brought mv aciiuii u^ / hk- c y-- should plead a justification. In order to allow you to do so, I have caused you to be served with a similar pro- cess in the Tolzey Court— that the public may form their own opinion of this foul con- spiracy to destroy mv character by accusations as false as they are libellous. JAMES ACLAND. To CHARLES HUTCIIINGS, Printer, Bristol. Sill, You are the Prinler of a series of maliciously false libels on me— of which Alfred Phillips is the Author and Publisher. In bringing my action against him therefore I pursued the fair course towards you, considering that you might have been misled, and a fair course To the Rev, I. JOSEPH BURROUGHES- Late officiating Baptist Minister of Llandogo. Sir. Is it true that you have been suspended from year office for the seduction of a chill, but 15 yeats of ag<? Suspended indeed! If, av I am bound to assume, the charo* has been establish- ed against you to the satisfaction of your supe- rior*, they ought, in justice to the highly respectable denominationof professing Christians over whom they preside to have degraded you from the office you have disgraced by an immedi- ate and emphatic dismissal. JAMES ACI. AND. To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOLIAN. Sin, Although I may hitherto have been con- sidered as a mere passive Shareholder in the Bristolian Bread Association, I must confess myself until now ihe advocate knd supporter of the Btoadmead or Stable Committee ; but admitted as I consequently was, to the: r pri vate councils, 1 must candidly acknowledge - \ - f Invp h • ir - A • - n .. . . film from mv eyes, and made me ashamed of giving them a support, which I own was not the result of conviction of the mind. In return for joiuing with the late Com- mittee, 1 now feel that I ought to render you all the service in my power, especially as the Committee have, by their own arguments, convinced me that your only object is the good of the Shareholders— go on and prosper. As an earnest of my wishes, I beg to snv that 1 have caieftilly collected and arranged sufficient evidence to convict the majority of the Stable Committee and their Chums of the most gross and malicious libels, and shall be hapD)' to place it at your service ; if, there- fore, you feci inclined to afford your legal friend the opportunity of a morning's call on these worthies, I pledge my responsibility as to the result. Now, Sir, I may be accused of betraying the trust reposed in me by the Stable Gents— be it so ; I neither c* re for'or value their good opinion, knowing experimentallv on how rotten a foundation is their councils and deli- berations. I know also that yous ruin is the ignis fatunsuf nil their movements— the Share- holders their mere puppets and tools. 1 trust, however, the Shareholders will rouse from their lethargy, and no longer foL low, till they have lost the whole amount of 194 THE BRISTOL! AN their shares, those men whose sole aim and Aided by despicables of the biped- monsttr resolution is to drive you from Bristol. Stare j^ ind not. Sir— if you doubt it I can produce aural demonstration. I was much amused some time since with reading in your Supplement the letter of " A Poor Shaieholder," and one exclamation of his struck me forcibly as I sat with these worthies in sweet council, during a warm debate, as to the- best meihod of getting rid of you— I mean where the Shareholder sa> s, " I'll watch it a bit." In justice to him, I will candidly own my con- , . , , .1 , ,,_„ . „„, u„„ « n. than suspect wh > is the author, aud regret that 1 version was the consequence. Another ana one 1 * principle cause was this— while in theCommittee 1 have not space for the entire production of its brain Room, during ihe lale ballot, a Shareholder less author asked what was done wi; h the daily receipts of You look almost as vivacious as when Is there not enough known to transport some people? • • • • ' M « M: — A strong wind has blown a paper into my house, from which the above are extracts. I more J. A. h— it was cavalierly answered, it will be in | CONUNDRUMS. Why is A. Phillips like a fraudulent debtor ? Because he exhibits false accounts. Why is one of the Cads of the late Committee like a March hare? Because he is wild ( Wyld). Why is C. Hutching* like a duck ? Because he sprung from a Quack and dabbles in diity matters. In what does A. Phillips resemble a jack ass ? In the sense of his oratory. In what does Wadham Cole, when frightened, resemble a pig ? In his hair. Why does one of the late Committee resemble a blackguard ? Because be is Low. Whyareihe Members of the late Committee like black rabbits ? Becouse when alarmed they run to their Burrows , How do the late Committee show their enmity to the malts'ers ? By encouraging the Cider House. Why is Constable John like a wife who wears cash the next Discoverer, and a regular account given i n the succeeding numbers of all monies paid and received. Now, Sir, I have looked through every number in vain for such an account, although I have urged on Mr. Cos^ ens and oihers the ab- solute necessity of such a statement. I say Sir, when I found men neglecting to do ( I may say refusing) that which tney said was a crime in your omitting to do, it was enough alone to turn me from the error of my ways, and to come out from among them and be whole. I call upon the late Committee, as men, to publish tneir accounts as they promised— let the Shareholders see them— let them know the worst— and it half ttie value of their Shares are dwindled into nothing, tell them so openly and candidly— no skulking.— This will at once point out to them w hat portion < f confidenco ihe late Committee deserve— nil theu I, in common with others, snail have my suspicions, dark for- boding suspicion, that all is not right. As your columns are too precious for the ad- mission of long letters, I conclude with wishing you that success which I will do my best to secure to you. Q in the Corner. N. B. I find you have already applied lex talionis to Messrs. Collis, Osgathorp, Hmchinjs, Phillips, and oihers— it will not be my fault if! the breeches? you do dot sconrge the whole of them. I Becaure proud of showing his authority, MEM.-/ beg the favor of an interview vsith Q in ; Why jg J() hn Cosse|„ | ike a ce] ebrated cook ? the Corner- he will find me quite ready to adopt any | Because he likes to rule the roast. measure to vindicate my oum character from the foul .... , . .. • ! Why were some of the Ultra-! acnon on a cer- and dastardly attach, of wilfut liars- aud at the same j ^ nightt at the Cider HousPi ljke the crew of a time to assure my correspondent the only object I have ves, e| c.„ s, jng , he Line on her way to the West all along had in view is the bencfit'of the Shareholders. : Indies ! J. A. ; B causrthey were half seas over. ! Why is a boy who- e grandmother died within THE D1SCOVERV. six dnys of his birth, like certain members of the When the righteous are in authority, the poor lale Committee I , . > . L • i, i„„„, u , i ' Because he knows nothing of his Grammer rfioice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the , c . . .. . , . . J ( Somersetshire dialect for grandmother). peopl" mourn ' : YVhy is John Cos^ ens Ike a hedae- « parrow ? * * * * * * TT L - I /"! I * Bee t' se he is parua to a Cuck > o. To the EDITOR of ihe BRISTOLIAN. U » k, < 27ih March, 1880, My Dear Sir, I beg to call your attention to Jehn Hodder Moggridge's Petition to the llouss of Commons, in the Cambrian of Ihis week, ( yesterday), against the Track System and declaiing that he is not engeged in the Mining Tiade a: all, although much interested in mineral property, in ihnt part of the country w here he re- ddes. Now hare is a complete ' humbug" and puff, which I think should be exposed in your Briato- lian— Mr Moggridge does not omit lo let the public know that he has mineral property, but he does not also inform them lhal he is one of the firm of the " Penmain Coal Co." woiking coal mines in the neighbourhood, ami thai thr parly who works the colliery follows the trucking system as much as any Coal proprietors in the county, if not more so. But Moggridge is so bad a paymaster that there are many Tradesmen and laborers who would Le glad to get paid in Goods, if they could gel even lliem, and I am credibly inform- ed, that his Gardener or Bailiff has been in ihe constant habit of lending notes for Goods to the shops, by workmen, instead of paying them m money. Your's truly. TRUTH; To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOLI AN. . Si » , i lives at Krumlin, got a wife and a large fa. mily, and though i am a poor man. i am a honest one, i works under the man wot you <! » calls King S: ork Tom, faithfully and honestly for many a > ear, i always thought Tom a scape grace, but then as long as he paid my wages what right had i got to grumble, but that ant the case now, and here we be all at sixes and sevens, there isn't a man on us but be all out a vroik, and now i wool tell what's IIIR cause, King Stork Tom wants to make us all live upon half allowance, we been laboring for him many a year, ar. d put many a thousand pound into his pocket, and the reward he hood now give us is to starve us for our pains, and our wifes an I children to— but he's a deep one every body known, what 1 says is true, he pre. tends to be on good terms with other mastei's they be foolish, and he is cunning and wicked, they thinks that he can surely cary all things a fore him, and make we work for half- price and they thinks he can, but they be deceiving thereselves, and what will be the consequence, by and bye the whol find lo their sorry, as well as we, King Stoik Tom, as is fitting to get it all in his own hands— a perly game, and if ha succids but half way, then he'l have it all his own way, the masters whol get riil of there col< re « for an hold song, and us whol be wos than slaves— is there ons niastsr among them as don't THE BRISTOL! AN 103 know King Tom, as well at vve do— don't they know all his ways and tricks, and cunning, and as he orit stick at nothing to answer his owen purposes, and yet tliey be foolish enough to join him to cut down our wages, which if they suc- ceed will beat tl. eni out of the trade, and he whol get into it him8 If altogether; but if ihey be fools to there own interests we out to ours— we have a made up our minds — we out work hard arid be starved, merely to fill King Tom's pockets more than we a done already— all that we a^ k is give, us fair play— let us have just wages, and if they ont do that, why then we had better starve nt once, than starve by digrets; and static we will, before we will be ' rampelled under feet by VILE OPPRESSORS and so no more at present from your huuible servant, HARRY JOHN MORGAN. MEM:— I have to complain that my Newport package, have been delayed in consequence of ilie re finals of the Captain of one uf the steamers to take the< n, although booked at the Packet Office; i allude to the Lady Rodney of which I understand Thomas Prolhero to be par: proprietor! This explains all— but th* private captain of this public conveyance may, with his master, '' live and learn." I hope to be their teacher. J. A. To the EDITOR of the BRJSTOL1AN. StR, Will you be so good as to ask, through the medium of your very useful publication, of Mr. George Griffiths, postmaster of this city, upon what authority it is that he every day closes the office against the receipt of letters. This, Sir, is a grievance which I think ought to be redressed A particular friend of mine, having a letter which he considered of so much importance, tint he wished to drop it with his own hand into the office, found, upon his arriving there, the aperture through which letters are deposited, closed against him. He knocked at the window, naturally expecting that the postmaster would at least have received his letter; but this he refused to do, and in consequence of his refusal, my fliend left the town with his letter in his poc ket. As 1 have Known similar occurrences in hundreds of instances, and as they are daily repeated to the great inconvenience of the l'ublic, and I should conceive injury to the v « venuc, you will I have no doubt, render an es* ential service by giving publicity to this lettei, and admonishing Mr Griffiths on the impropriety and gross irregularity of his con cuct ; and whilst we are on the subject of Mr, Griffiths's conduct, it may he as well to ask him how it comes to pass, that when mat- ters of deep importance connected with the city, are the subjects of public or private cor- icspcndence, he permit! King Stork Tom to! hold his private conferences with him at the the office ; the sacred duties of which are reposed in him, and therefore they become his $ ac< ed duty FAITHFULLY to discharge, 1 am Sir, your's & c. THOMAS POWELL, JUN. MUM.— I will write to SirF. Freeling on Wednesday. J. A. To the Magistracy resident in and about Chepstow, Worshipful Sirs, A few nights since, one Harris was cruelly beaten and robbed within ab'jut a mile of Tintern, and information was promptly con- veyed to the Chepstow Constables. What have they done ? Have they apprehended oi attempted the apprehensiouof the ruffians ? These ate questions of which it will well become you to procure a solution — for if your underlings neglect an obvious duty, be sure Sits, it is on the character of their su- periors that the blame will alight. In order to assist you in your enquiries 1 beg to intimate that I have received the infor- mation that the robb: rs have not been looked after because the news of the affairs was in t accompained with a five pound note. " Nothing lor Nothing"— he?— Pray have not the c< n- stables of Chepstow stated wages Ycur obedient servan", JAMES ACLAND. To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOLlA. V SlRo How is it you are silent on the subject of the Caerlcon Charities, and the Woodfield Collieries ? Is it because you are under the influence of your correspondent who signs himself And Prothero- ite and who tells you that you must « tic* to this illegitimate sove- reign Stork. Admitted, that thi~ man deserves all the exposure and consequent reprobation that must, as a natural consequence, follow that exposure which Anii Protheto- itc can give v ou of his misdeeds ; but why aie you to sacrifice thoie strictures which the conduct of men, no less vile than himself, demands from your able pen ? Why is John Hodder Moggridge — why aie his crimes and his of- fences to pass unnoticed, or be thrown in the shade, when if they were to be drawn before ' the public view, they would be found to con- tain as glass claims to public reprobation, i as those of his friend and coadjutor Thomas Pwtheroe? I sav, Sir. that they are compa nions and partners in lawless outrage, and unprincipled wrongs ?— outrages by them done and committed against the civilized rights of mankind ; and that the expotura of the ofFenccs of the one. and the secreting those of the other, would be as gruss an out- rage upon justice as would have been commit- ted in the case of the Pcrues had thev be£ u saved, and where the la e king was told ; hat had their live, been spared Dr. Dodd would have been No, no Sir, murdeied— act up to your motto— prove that you love honesty, in all places, not by your words but by \ our- deeds, jnfl let us see that \ on can stick to a Moggridge as well as a Prothero. That vou will make either of them honest men 1 des- pair of, but you have it in 50' ir power to « guard the public against the shoals and quick- sands of the one as well as the other, and you will act impartially and unfairly if you neglect to discharge this portion of your duty. Your's & c. JU- STITIA. Mem My" c( irre « ponclcnt may be assured I shall not allow the Kind's Commission to be disgraced without an effort for the removal of the staio from ihe Magretiacy of the County. J. A. To the LDIIOU of THE LiiMto FOLIA N. ' I here is one man at Newport, a gentleman; and there is another a very great scoundrel. This gentleman and this scoundrel have been on some occasions on very good terms, and on others on very bad terms ; when on good teims, there is no men in the land can speak higher. of one another than thci' do; and when on bad ter ns, no men can speak worse. • If vou believe Lut one tenth of what they s- ay of each other, when. on good terms they arc • two of the finest fellows in the land; and again, if you believe lessthan a tenth of what they say, when, on had terms, they oughtx both to have made, their exit under the • hands of the finisher. of the law. Now mv opinion, judging between the" two, is, that thev have each laid it rather thick upon the other. according to the feeling that influenced their opinion on trie respec- tive occasions which have called forth their de criptionof cach o- her, ind giving tnyjudge ment up, the merits and demeiits of the two, I think where A has spoken in the praise of 1} he has spoken truly— and that when B has spoken of A in terms of exposure icprobatiur. and disgust — he then has also spoken cor- rectly. The ptoblem 1 wish to be solved is, haw it is possible that honesty and roguery 196 THE DRlSTOLJAN can amalgamate, or In other words, if it is' ing vmi such pecuniary considerati in, as may possible to be true, after all that has occurred j enable; you 10 return to the place from whence and all that has been said, that B could so (> ar lose sight of every feeling that is honor- able and correct as to taint his hand by cor- dially shaking A's, And 1 would wish to a '< Hone question, if he can for one moment, believe that if he have disgusted and dis- gniced himself by again mixing himself up with the man who has upon all occasions made him his mere tool to answer his own ordid views ( and that too after the terms of reprobation in which B has spoken of him) but that the community at large will conclude that they are birds of one feather and tarred with the same brush. Your's & c. DISCRIMINATOR. I raa solve this problem in two words : you came anil practise future expeiitnenu on the flats of Yorkshire— be the ymany or few, Such would be a consistent course for your adoption and ibe lt- ast. thtit Could be done, would, be that Parliament should give you a liberal price fi: r your stock of beef, butter, breeches and b. iCon— » and make you a sufficient compensation for your enforced withdrawal of the negro experiment. t: seems that some of your lick. spittles have been pleased to threaten me with a swim in your pool— but 1 can btt you thiee to two that you are much more likely to sink to its bottom, lhan I to float on its surface. JAMES ACLAND. MEM I ST KB EST— M X A NN ESS. J. A. To MESSRS. BROWN AND SON, • Truck Masters, Abby. Sirs, Have vou heard of the manly conduct of Mr. Crawshay, with regard to the Bill now before Parliament for putting down the sys- tem so extensively adopted by you of making Your workmen eat what you please at what j- rice you choose with the sole alternative of dying from starvation if they wish to live independently ! Of course you know Mr. Crawshay to be the most extensive iron worker in the eountv of Glamorgan— having many hundreds-- pro bably thousands of men in his emplov. Mer- thyr Tidvil depends wholly upon him for continued existence as a town ; and he is, it seems, a liberal man and a just master— or. at least, such is the character I have yet heard of him. Well, Sirs, this gentleman has set you an example of which it becomes me to beseech your imitation. He has written to Mr. Secre- tary Peel to the effect that he is undersold in the market to a ruinous extent by those iron masters who compel their men to take in good* from 30 to 40 per cent of Irish discount from their wages; that therefore, if such system be longer permitted he must, in self defence, adopt a similar course, and that the misery of his workmen and the ruin of Merthyr Tidvil will be the certain result. What should be your conduct under the exist- ing circumstances' You should represent te tne le: islature that you have long oppressed vour men by the experiment of the I'ommy shon in order to ascertain whether or not the slavery of Jamaica would not become the pea- santry ( if Monmouthshire— that you cannot on SO short a trial decide that important question, but that you hope the legislature will not inter- fere between you and your serf* without allow- PriKtsd and Published by JAMES ACLAND, ( sole To IHS GRACE the DUKE of BEAUFORT. My Lord Duke, Your Grace has become deservedly popular with the Chepstowniaus by the single act of directing your agents not to extort an illegal toll; and, I feel assured that no nobleman in the land has it in his power at sn cheap a rate to secure the happiness and gratitude of his tenants and those dependent on him and on them, as yourself. Your Grace will believe that I cannot enter- tain a scintilla of personal dislike to one of whom I know nothing of a questionable cha- racter, which may not in strict justice be lefer- ed to the caprice, wilfulness or laxiiy of princi- ple of those acting in the name and, professedly, in the behalf of their employer. It is not therefore from any velatious principle that I now appeal to your Grace for information, whether or not it was your intention that justice should be meted out to the people of Chepstow piecemeal and in part— for 1 cannot imagine that when an oppres- sive toll was taken from the pork it was intended that it should be charged on the pig. Yet such is the case ; witness the monthly market on motidny last, in the upper part of the town, and the demand of toll by a renter on the lower side of the archway, for all cattle and cwine purchased, which should be driven down, wards. Your Grace need he informed that it could not have been a matter of the least difficulty to have resisted this apparent imposition— but I am no dis- turber of the peace and preferred a conditional pur- chase of the day's toll from the renter to a strife which might have been productive of mischief. The cattle & c. were therefore allowed to go free, on condition that I should pay the renter Ms.— if your Grace de- cides lhat the pig is still to be tolled by your agents to the prejudice of the inhabitants of Chepstow, and lhat the boon of justice bestowed on them is to be considered but of a partial nature. Your Grace's respectful servant, JAMES ACLAND. To MISTER ROBERT LANE, The Two- Penny Toll- Man, Chepstow. Sir, On Saturday last, the people of Chepstow were amused with about as extraordinary an exhibition, at your expence, as has ever been witnessed. Was ever jack- pudding so enter- taining ? Not at least within my experience, and I should think not within that of the oldest inhabitant. Happening to take a stroll through the market, the people thought proper to express their gratitude to me for my successful effort in the abolition of certain lawless tolls, here- tofoie collected by you Their jibes and their jeers not pleasing you, iou dared me to meet you by fair argument in the open Square— to which place I therefore removed, and we each mounted a cart— when you commenced such a volley of blackguardism as has dis- gusted your best friends, and secured to you the detestation of the people at large. You were accompanied by your two work- men and your two, constables, the latter of whotn you had instructed to seize me the moment 1 should dare to lift my hand against you. This, in some measure, accounts for the low and vulvar abuse in which you thought it becoming your character to in- dulge, until ( he assembled hundreds were pleased to prevent your being longer heaid, by raising a shout of derision which even you were unable to withstand. It was not my fault that you made a fool of yourself- nor was it your fault that I es- caped the ill- treatment threatened in divers epistles in order to frighten me from my in- tended visit. You were very properly al- lowed to retire to your house in safety after calling the Duke of Beaufort a scamp and outraging the feelings of the assembled po- pulace bv playihg the bully over them, in the person of their friend and advocate You have merited public contempt and you will enjoy that distinction to the last hour of your existence, without exciting the envy of JAMES ACLAND. TO CORRESPONDENTS. To SKXKX.— I should much like to see my Tempi* correspondent, as the evils of which he complains are ef too serious and important a nature to be passed otrr Uqhtly — he may depend on my best exertions to defeat the ianspiracy he alludes to—/ am sorry to say the system is too general throughout the various parishes of this City, and requires some resolution to attack it, J. A. To AMICUS— You ask me if it be true that process have been served on Mr Colli*, of \ orth-\ trret. Mr. 0<: athorp, All Stints' street, Mr. Wyld, Maudlin lane. Mr. C Hatchings. Tower lane. Mr. H'adham Cole, Broadmead, and Mr. Phillips, Milk street, I anttctr yes, euid that these are not the only persons to uhom I shall afford the same opportunity of puttinj thtir aster, tions to the lest, Jt Proprietor and Editor,) at the BHUTOLIAX- Orne*, No, 4, Ail SaiDt « '- Stre* t, Brit'. oi.
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