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07/04/1830

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The Bristolian

Date of Article: 07/04/1830
Printer / Publisher: James Ackland 
Address: No.4, All Saints street, Bristol
Volume Number: II    Issue Number: L
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WEDNESDAY, Al- RIL, 7, 1830. To Oic EDITOR of the BRISTOLIAN. Sir, Wishing to give publicity to the following facts, i shall take, with your concurience this opportunity of so doing, through the medium of vour widelv circulated paper. Haying occasion recently, when travelling, to take some refreshment I went in one of those worse than Drug Shops, called I ublic IJoute;, ' . her" I r'- iired to Save a gla.< « r> f good al?.,- instead of which I was served with poison, fey which, in the course of a few mi- nutes, I was completely intoxicated, though I am certain I did not swallow more than half- a- pint. Now I ask, is this proper treat ment of the public P Is it any wonder that our streets are filled with ruffians, just turned out of the public- houses, ready for villany and plunder? Of what use are the Excise- Officers if they do not see that this beverage ( which if thev did their duty would befit for pifblic use! be lawfully manufactured, I do firmly believe that most of the stuff sold under the title of beer is nothing more nor less than a Tincture composed of Coccu'. us Indicus. Quassia, Gentian, Opium, 1 reacle, and Sulphate of Sine, last not least with perhaps a little malt and hops, 1 his is Beer Mr. Editor,— this is the accursed stuff from which the tax has been taken, & c. of which his Majesty's Ministers contemplate a still greater consumption In what other wav but by this adulteration is the total difference, between home made and brewed beer to be accounted for. I would also refer to the abominable and confounded adulteration of bread, it has been justly called the '' Staff of Life;" but is the alum which is mixed with it in so large quantities, rto de. triment to the public health— are there no laws to prevent these rascally tricks! There is nothing like making these things khowrij in truth, I think it highly improper that this community should any longer be ignorant of the real cause of half their diseases, such as Apoplexy, Dyspepsia and Constipations of the bowels, & c. & c. I shall therefore be much obliged to vou by your early inseition of these facts in your excellent journal. I remain, Sir Your's. & c. Amicus l'uh/ i( ie Sahilis L'/ iii urgicusqiie. Mm - Neurit) tn:. ;!: i; g be • r. tfh- Jcii of: V• :'.•„- nature— this is a Very sensible letter; and although probably somewhat exaggerated contains enough ,, f ilie truth to extort a " Thank God I3' fioui the brewer of hi* own beer. Hut for the iniquity which have been so shamefully perpetrated on the slaveholders in ibe Bread Association, 1 should be strongly tempted to endeavour to secure a whole » onie and cheap beverage to the community. My objection to such attempt has hitherto been the state o.' site law, which, under the existing system, would have placed tile eunccrri at the discrttioo of the Iirewer who if dishonest, might have sold the property to an excisement for a mere HOUR All that would be necessary to such end, he could at any time effect bv carryjug a few dru^ s into the brewety, and by informing his Iriend the Excise- man where to look for them. But the duty being- about to be taken off, this ob- jection no longer exists: and itseems that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer intends permitting the brew- ing of beer duty free forthwith, provided it be not delivered before October. Such association should be started, and if scottn- drels could be kept out of the management— it must thrive and prove beneficial— but who, alter the in- gratitude I have experienced; would subject them- selves to similar misrepresentations and their friends to similar robbery by would be secretaries, managers and warehousemen. He were a bold man whu could screw hisjeourage to that sticki « £ place. J. A. To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOL! AN SIR, I be but a poor man, but 1 thinks I should know hour to iiehaive myself better than some who thinks themselves gentleman. Will ou plaise to give me your opinion, cause. I shall bs satisfied with that, as evry body here sayes you are the best adviser for poor and rich. Well, Sir, you no doubt have heard, for you hear every thing, that we poor col- liers are in a very bad state, and we be it Newport now trying to get justice done uF, and we were all at Pillgwenlly on Wednes- day on the subject of our rights, to meet the Coal Merchants, and to arrainge about our wages— Well, Sir, every thing was going as well *< she could-. he evnpcted, till si nar , wot you called ( and wot all on us docs now call) Sloik KiDg Tom comes up to one of our leaders, and says Stork King Tom to our leader *- who are you and what are you— some gentleJBin's bastard 1 suppose ?" So says our leader^ says he, " I am not a bastard, you low born blackguard— I was born in an ho- norable way, arid if an old rascal of a lawyer at Usk had not robbed my parents of iheir property 1 need not have been a poor collier, and ( said our leader) 1 never had the lapstone on myfknees ry> r a hempen cord round my neck.'' Oh ! Sir, if you was by to see Kir. g Tom's face — he turned so pale as a ghost— ant! he foamed at the mouth, and bit his lips— so some of us poor men hollowed out to the rest • take care, don't go near that man ( pointing to Stork Tom,) he'll bite''— the people at Newport says he is mad — Will you please find it out for us, cause if he is mad there are scores will dip him ; aye, and thoroughly too* Well, Sir, now 1 know all about Stork Tom, and every thing we read in your books about him is true— he is a bastard, and to think he should call an honorable born man one, he! he!! he!!! to do it — thougn one v man, standing bv me. said'twas only a knack Tom had of talking to himself. Well, Sir, but rnv question for your opi- nion, if you plea- c, is this heie — If our lead< r had given Slot k King Tom a thorough thrash- ing, could he have nScd the law again- hii » ?> 1 MEMOIRS: and CORRESPONDENCE of JJMES ACL AND. Proprietor and Editor- written " i Himself. " I LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES."— Judge Baylnj. Printed and Published by JAMES ACLAN'L) ( SOL* I'BOPKIITOR AN » EDITOKJ at NO. 4, All Saints'street, Bristol. 198 THE BR1ST0LIAN ] f you think not Sir, let Stork King stand clear— we be determined to souse him. Laird. Sir, that Stork Tom thought we would mind him and lttend to his orders; • why, we never thinks a bit about him nor nobody cares any thing for him— I be wrong, SiT, we does think bout Tom sometimes for when we sits down and reads your books and all his titles wot you gived him, and we traces such fun from em about Tom ; we lafFs till us bant fit to work for a hole hour after, not the least laffer amongst us. Stork King's late Partner George fc. vans is a Gentleman born and bred, compared to Tom, we will attend lo him in all iespects. He would not stop in partnership with Tom— not Mr. livans indeed, he was too much of a gentleman. j If I had but your laming, I would send 1 you news— 1 will do my best, Sir, and will take the liberty to write again to you. 1 am. Sir, Your very trusty sarvant, A Poor Collier. MKM :— I think I have shewn the poor colliers that I can give their oppressor a body blow without the violation of the'law of the land, unless it be law, that a bad roan shall not be exposed lest such expo, sure inflict upon him the punishment of the contempt liis conduct has provoked. Before 1 have done with this Siork- Kinj- Tora I shall floor him wi: h many a truth aud without an atom of fibbing, knock bis character iuto one mass of chaotic criminality. J. A. To the Right Reverend Father in God, Bishop of Ltandaff— the Reverend Thomas tewis of Port- skewelt— the Reverend Thomas Leyson, of lfatseUs; Clerks, and alio to Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar, and Sir Thomas Robert Salisbury, of Llantern Baronets— Capel Ambe Loft, of Pontipool Pari— William Phillips, of Witson— William Jd( taxis Williams, of Llanqibby— Charles Lewis of Saint Piers, Esqrs. and to all others ( John 11 odder Mog- gridge of IVorfield, only and always excepted) aha are TRUSTEES of the CARLEON CHARITY. Reverend Sirs and Gentlemen, It is in your character as Trustees of this important, extensive, and useful ( harity that 1 address you in refeience to the performance of your neglected duties; which duties, by your acceptance of the trust reposed in you. you, oneandall, virtually at least, covenanted faithfully to discharge, and one portion of which you will, 1 anticipate, admit, was, at least to protect the Trust Property from law- less and unprincipled depredation— and that, if it were possible to establish the fact that you had countenanced, connived, or winked at the maUappropriation of the funds or re sources of this Charity, Jand of which \ ou should be, as it were, its Guardian Angels, your conduct would be not less reprehensible than is that of the heartless individuals with whom, to the loss of the Charity, you are unfortunately intermixed, and who, for the advancement of their own sordid gain, have basely diverted, as far as in their power lay, the Trust Property from the charitable uses for which it was intended. That you, or any of you, have been guilty of such countenance, conniving or winking, 1 am loath from your high and respectable characters to believe; and yet, how am 1 otherwise to account for the remorseless out- rages of John Hodder Moggridge, one of vour Co- Trustees and a Magistrate of the County, and of Thomas Prothero of Newport, your confidential Attorney, Agent, and Trea- surer? I am told that these wicked and base lucre loving men, taking advantage of their respective situations, have confe derated and conspired for so many years to inrich themselves out of the funds of this Charity ; that they have done so in the broad face of day, and that to the knowledge of all around them, except as regards the know- ledge of the should- be guardians of this Charity, yourselves. And, that although the work of dishonesty and fraud has been so public in its progre s you, the Trustees, were ignorant of the ruthless devastation of and unprincipled spoliations that have been and still are carried on by the two unprin- cipled individuals to whom I refer. Is this vour excuse?— is this the reason for your for- bearance ? It is indeed the best that can be offered— for were it otherwise, in what light would your dereliction of conduct be neces- sarily considered by the virtuous and the good ? Ignorance indeed carries with it the seeds of crime, for it proclaims a negligence, a disregard of duty, if not virtually a for- feiture of the confidence and trust reposed— but connivance is still worse, and therefore unfavorable as appearances are, 1 would fain, for the honor of our common nature, hope that you have slept at your posts, rather than entertain the rovolting idea that you had intentionally countenanced the frauds and robberies that have been perpetrated. If my conclusions are correct, you will not fail, forthwith, by the course you will adopt, to convince the | ublic that they are so. You will adopt such proceedings against the delinquents as shall put an end to their disgraceful proceed- ings, as shall bring them to public justice, and force thein to restore the thousands they have purloined through the disgraceful means lo which they have had resort. I know not whether you have read my expose of the nefarious transactions of your brother Trustee, John Hodder Moggridge, and of his coadjutor, your confidential attorney, agont, and treasurer, Thomas Prothero, as publi> hed ' in the Bristolian of the 27th of February, last, and re- published in its columns on last Wedne*" | day— if you have not, I pray of you to do so, j and in addition to allow me to lay before your eyes, and those of the country at large, the fol- lowing detail, every word of which together with the communications made in the letter to which I reter, 1, in my conscience believe to be true. ' Tiie two delinquents use the charity lands, just as they please, and for their own purposes, as much of them as they please— they erect engines, wears, dams, lay down tram- roads, make water courses, and make a receptacle of no small portion of this land for the ashes and rubbish produced by their extensive, lucrative and illicit speculations, all which you have hitherto silently permitted in ignorance I trust of what has been going forward— but this is not all, for John Hodder Moggridge, in addition to all his other acts of malversation and turpitude, has been allowed by your confidential agent, at- 1 lorney, and treasurer, to excavate stone, for the erection of magnificent and extensive buildings upon his own private property, for which he has paid, as I have been credibly informed, in a similar way as he paid for the timber and underwood, which he felled and cui on the charity lands, which he also converted to his own Use ; the barefacedness of which last mentioned act. called forth the unwary expression of astonish- ment at ks indiscretion of even his friend and coadjutor, Thomas Prothero, your confidential attorney, agent and treasurer! You have here an outline, and barely an outline of a few of the outrageous acts of these men connected with the Carleon Charity. I have so far done my duty, and it lemains with you to do yours— if you discharge that duty faithfully and intrepidly, you may yet convince the world that your offence hitherto has been that of omission and not of commission— if you neglect it, your names and your conduct, will be identi- fied with those of Moggridge and Prothero, in which event it will be matter for future consideration as to what measures it will be most eligible to resort to, for the purpose of obtaining that redress for the injured and oppressed which justice demands, and for the obtaining of which no exertions of mine shall ever be wanting. I am, Gentlemen, Your's obediently, JAMES ACLAND. P. S. If vou adopt means for redress, let not the Treasurer's Accounts go uninves- tigated— let them be carefully investigated, and I shall be a little out in my judgment if you do not discover the hundreds, if not thousands, that he has profited by the mit- use of the fundi entrusted to his care. THE BRIST0L1AN 199 A SOLILOQUY On tituing the tombre fact of Alfred Phillips ( on* of a Deputation from the ultra- Committee.) " Angels and Ministers of Grace defend u « !" What COSSF. XS dost thou hither send us ? Is it' a goblin damn'd,' who iu his dark hole Has just been dining on lime aud charcoal ? Zounds ! ' tis a man, yet a very coarse oue— Ladies and Genis, ' ti « A. PHILLIPS the Parson ! Johnny Straw, was it meant in fun To jeer and quiz this thing forlorn ? What ha< the Parsonic Mason done That thou should'st hang him up to scorn f Perchance ill will prompted thee to shew, That ALPREO of spelling nothing knew, From certain proofs 1 much incline To think this failing is also thine. if liberally acting— permit me to j the proboscis far excels the patronymic in J_ I - niiti- aiTfmitnKt. opportunity a » k you, how fared the Pauper as to his paro. chtal pay and wages during his employment by you the Master of the said Workhouse— no doubt sumptuously every day, More anon, Your's & c. FAIR PLAY M » *:— Really this Mister Christopher can turn the misfortunes of the miserable to his own account, and if it be true that this is his usual practice, I think the parish have a right to expect that at least he will feed his own workmen. J. A. PF. TPB P. Col- To MISTER CHRISTOPHER, blaster of Ptnny well- Road Workhouse, lector of Taxes, and one of the uoutd be Grtut Men in Office. Sir, I believe your daughter who resides with you is a Widow, and owns a House in West- S reet, for her you still act the Steward, and in your transactions with various Tradesmen on her accoufit adopt the same liberal course towards them you yourself are prone to. Now, Sir, as you have expressed yourself regardless of a publicity as respects your conduct in this life, I have obtained leave to introduce this letter In the Bristolian by way of a beacon to the Tradesmen of Bristol. In September last you applied to a certain Tradesman ( whose charac- ter for honesty and uprightness of dealing you Know to be irreproachable) to view the said pre- mises, and give you his very louest estimate for painting and coloring the same, accompany- ing the order with those inducements which you know so well how to make use of on similar interesting occasions. The Painter anxious to please and secure the favors of a great man as yourself, so estimated as to place it as he thought, out of the power of any man to undervalue him. but lo! he little thought in making a bargain with you Mister Christopher, he was leckoning without his host— you alike regardless of ihe two days he had wasted m measuring the Premises and dancing attendance on your Lordship, on the Common rules of a Tradesman, employed one oj the Pauptrs on parish pay in Pennywell- Road Workhouse, ( of which you are the Renter) to do the said work on account i f your Daughter, yonrself finding materials. Now, I ask. you, if this be the governing principle of yor mind, do you think you will in future find one other Tradesman, or even a Pauper in any other Workhouse who urill give you iha like A BALLAD. Shareholders all, both low aud high, For poor A. P. lament, Who never told a wilful lie, But when ou evil bent! In stable room with speeches long, And falsehoods not a few ; He ne'er gull'd any of tht throng, But those who thought him true ! At Bakehouse too— I do deelare, So zealous he and true ; He kept all scoundrels off with care, Save, those of his own crew. By trade a Mason and Bricklayer, And in accounts well versed ; He now turn'd reputation slayer, Wbeu lo! his own died first. With Tolrey suit and Fine in view, He made a solemn TOW ; To prove his charges all were true, And would had he known how. In Cider House he oft was found, With troubles sors and many • And had with drink bis seuses drown " d, But that he ne'er had any. Oh then, with tears your eyes shall fill, For Broadmead well may say; That had his tongue and pin bees still, He ne'er had goue astray. To WILLIAM SHAYLE. Ironmonger, Munnow Street, Monmonth. '• The wise commerical Will. Sbayle." *• If yon don't come down, I'll fetch you down." SIR, In venturing to open a correspondence with so great a man as yourself ( for conceit may magnify a mouse into a mountain) I hold some excuse to be requisite, and con- tider that the Burgesses of Monmouth have a right to ask rae why I intrude any thing upon their attention which would seem to have no greater recommendation than the name of yourself and the nose of yourself— two out of the way lort of thing6, though outrageousness. Wherever I go— however unexceptionable and pure tb « moiive of my visit and however noble and valuable the object I seek— there are * Ure to be some few, who, anticipating evil or inconvenience or exposure to themselves, play the fool and provoke the truth- plumed pen of the satirest. So it was at Chepstow, where the parochial doctor stood forth a very Quixote to oppose my passage by splashing my boot- heel with the mud of his personal abuse. But I compounded for this Doctor Till, A med'eine which he found a better pill. To swallow ; and I followed up the dose, Willi a six shilling draught whichCliepstow know s Its pauperlord took from the sick man's cloathes. And as it was in Chepstow, so is it in Moiv. mouth where you have aped ( he worthy doctor to the vety letter. Dr. Evans called me a " scamp" and I gave him such an echo that now he would gladly scamper from Chepstow to Chester in a snowy night to unsay his say. You also have called me a scamp"— and think you not to hear the revet beration ? You have climbed the dunghill— you have crowed your superiority— and do you imagine that I cannot ' fetch you down"? You were once a mere nailer— you are now nothing more than an iron- monger, with a bra- zen forehead and a copper nose. You are not a ' scamp," because you are said to be rich and have never left the sill of your door lo serve your neighbor. But any opinion I may entertain of you will be of infinitely less weight that such record of facts as your Life and Adventures may afford and 1 therefore enter mvself a student— your character being my study and experience my teacher. So, Sir, I begin by spelling my A. B. inyour primer, and if I prove a dunce, you may hang the fool's cap on my head and trounce me for my stupidity. •• Once npon a time" — to wit, somewhere about the turn of the century, you had a garden wherein stooda fruitful pear me and a commodi. ous summer- house. The pears were vejy lus- cious us you thought and very tempting as others experienced, for, every night some poor devil lound himself unable lo resist the tempta- tion— and every morning you complained that yourfavoiite pear tree had been plundered. Of course you talked aboul it and among the many to whom you complained of ihe" thievery chaps'' was a droll wight named Phill- Thomas, on « hose advice you agreed that you two should ihe next night quietly carouse in the summer- house with a well charged blunderbuSs— plenty of short cut and quantum siiffictt of tlrOug liquor on the table. As the story goes, you vowed deadly ven- geance on the " thievery chap," and declaring 200 THE BR1STOLJAN that your garden was part of your castla and ' claimed a) yovi walked to the door and bolted calling yourself an Englishman entered on vour watch with an oath to kill the mur- dirsome burglaiies." The night was dark * * * * * The hour of midnight pierced the silence of the tfloom with awful peal, when \ ou, with Phill Thomas at your back stole from the summer house on your first round of obser- vation- But you carried your blunderbuss on that occasion to no purpose, and after having per- ambulated the various walks of your garden without delecting as much so astray sparrow, you returned to your pif; e, and your « rog, observ- ing to Phill '' there's nothing stirring but the wa- Lcrin the river," So, to it you went for another hall- hour and how long your patience would have lasted had there been no interruption— i know not ; hut upstarted i'hill Thomas', whose ears were quicker than yours and who observed to\ ou that he beard a stealing footstep round the corner of your snugseiy. As soon therefore as you could toss off the remainder of your glass and catch up your deadly weapon, out you sallied in the direct course of your favorite pear tree, " lhere Le is!" cried Phill, " astride the further branch of your pear tree." " As sure as eggs is eggs I see him," you responded as you crept along— and speedily you were within shot of the marauder. " Holloa, Mister Thief," you cried, * take notice; if you don't come down I'll fetch you down— that's once" But he obeyed not your mandate. " If you don't come down, I'll fetch you down— that's twice!" Still he remained astride the branch. 41 If you don't come down, I'll fetch you down— that's the third and last time!" But the unfortunate wretch was immovalle — you fired— he fell to the ground— Phill Thomas ran to him— you rail to th « house and had scarcely entered your back- door when your companion joined you with the intormation that you had murdered a fellow creature. ' 4Pooh ! Pooh! Phill, its only shooting a thief." " B'Jt it occured to Phill that you ought not to have shot him without having first stuck up a warning board in a conspicuous part of your garden— and all the honor of apprehension, trial, conviction and execution, Hashed at once upon you. To make a long story short you persuaded Phill Thomas to throw the body in the adjoining river for the remuneration of £ ii. The next morning, whilst you were serving a customer in the shop, 4 poor woman entered. You enquired her pleasure; she said she wished to see you alone— and you preceded her into '. he shop parlour. " If you please Sir," said the stranger " I'm the widow of the unfortunate man you shot last it. " He was driven to sieal your pear » by distress" continued the applicant" " and he was a good husband to me Sir, and a good father to our two little ones ! Btlt now— I must go home to my parish with no one to help me or lo care for me." " Well— well good woman J must help you to get there— it is an unfortu nate biiainess— but take this five pound note and get out of Monmouth as quickly as pos sible— you know he was a murdt- rsome bur- glary— and what's done can't be undone." The sorrowing widow look the £ b and left Monmouth with her children — or at least you heard nothing more of her or them for a consi- derable period. The next occasion of your hearing of the poor woman occurred at a respectable public home when you were one uf twenty to supper at the invitation of your old crony Phill Thomas. The cloth beins lemoved— the glasses being all charged ( 1 think with punch), and Pmll Tho- irus in the chair, the company were called upon to toast '' 1 he donor of the feast!" All stared— as well they might— bat all drank the toast— when the chairman being called upon to explain, told the story as I have now narrated it. But to this story he gave the following explanatory sequel;— The man you murdered was only the figure of 11 man— to which a string had been fastened and the end of which string was held by a coadjutor in a lane bounding the pear tree side of the garden, and violently jerked by him when you fired. The widow was a poor woman on the tramp. " I gave her JjL2 for her assistance," said the Chairman, and with the remaining £ 8 1 have provided the fare of this evening." Even now the urchins, as they pass your door, salute you with " if you don't come down, I'll fetch you down ! " For myself, I'll have another shot at you on Saturday. Meanwhile, take for your con- solation, that all I write will survive the memory of even so great a man as yourself, and that your only chance of being talked of hereafter depends on my immortalizing you, in my printed " Memoirs and Correspon- dence." JAMES ACLAND. was a partner, the management of his affairs came into your hands, Now, it happened that old Mr. Steder died without executing the deeds, and you therefore made it your business to hunt out his grandson and heir, Charles Steder, at Chepstow— when having summoned him to the George, you presented a paper desiring his signature, and offering him first and then increasing your bid. ding to d'. tO. But in vain— for Charles Steder was not the fool you took him for, and refused to sign away his binh- iight even at the bidding of Tom Prothero Where- upon, you threatened him with a prison until he consented to siyn the paper ; but he laughed at your threats, which however imposing at Newport— are only ridiculous at Chepstow. The occasion of your visit to Chepstow was consequent on your having sold the land in question to one Cullimore, of Pennaland, who refused to pay up the purchase money bccause of the absence of a satisfactory title. Mr Jones has now,! understand possession of the property, and has frar. klv told the rightful heir that the whole estate is recover- able by an honest and liberal attorney. I hope before long to be able to see Mr. jone « on the business. JAMES ACLAND. rs> § hlr' " Hush, my good woman!" To THOMAS PROTHERO, The Stork- King- Turn of Newport. SIR, I leave your regular history in the hand of your able historian— and to which he may if he will, append my occasional observations in the shape of notes to his more regular records of your delinquencies. Some years since Mr. Jones of Bulmore near Caerleon percbased 19 acres of land near the Rock and fountain between Newport and Chepstow for -£ G00, of Mr. Wroth Steder. you ex- 1 Win'M the Bank failed in which Mr. Jones To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOL! AN. Cardiff, March 80, 1830. Six, A report having been circulated here that I had invited and employed you to write against the Corporation of this place, of which I am a Member, and which report is no less true than detrimental to me in my debilitated and distressed situation—! shall esteem it a particular favour if you would, as soon as possible, write a private letter to me that I may shew the gentlemen, to disavow this assertion. 1 am, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. WHEELER. MF. W.— This is not the only application < f die kind received by nxefrom Cardiff, I therefore give a pufc- tie answer to one, for all. 1 am employed by no person to write against any individual or any body of men. The report alluded to by Mr. W . is, there- fore, as be states, untrue, and I imagine that it could only have originated in the fact that having re- ceived an anonymous letter relating to Cardiff affairs, and having been informed in Bristol thai Mr. VV. could give me some information on the subject, 1, when al Newport, drove over to Cardiff and called on that gentleman. His affliction however precluded the poossility of my entering on the subject , vith him, and to this momeut, he is ignorant of the object of my visit. J. A. WANTED TO RENT, A Small HOUSE, in a good thoroughfare in the Town of MONMO< ITH. — Address, pot't pa d. J. A. Printed and Published by JAMES A CLAM), (, ole Pro| M- ietur and Edit » r.) at the BnisTOLtAS- OFi'ict., No. 4, Ail ' Saints'- Street, Bristol,
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