MEMOIRS * nd CORRESPONDENCE of JAMES ACL AND. Proprietor and Editor— written by Himself. I LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES Printed and Published by JAMES A CI, AND ( SOI, k PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR) at the BRISTOUAN OPFICB, BristoHan Coort, BrideweH Lan*. VOL. IV— No. xr. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1S30. TO THE HEADERS OP MY M& MOIRS London, Thursday Night., SoLe. j fist wrote you, ( ha people of the M.- tropofi* have breathed from their political deip inssration of opinion and power. The thou- ands who on. Tuesday night congregated together for ihe manifestation of thoir almost Maanit » » tt » abhorrence of Ministerial despot- ism, hare profited, or are seeking to profit ftoia their experience of That and preceding lights. In my letter to 7011 of Tuesday last, L told you that I had just heard, that the people were assembling together in various parts of the Metropolis— and I was not de. rtived in my information, After the depar- ture of the Mail, the anticipations I had Kftertained were realised, and from nine • o'clock until after midnight, 1 was an eye w itness of those scenes of popular ebullition, which I consider to be but the precursor* of occurrence* of much more important re. suits. The Newspapers of the day, with very few exception^ are conducted by a pack of as despicable - hirelings, and as contemptible weatherccfc'kS!' as ever disgraced a free press. Their « cc « unt*. therefore of the recent trans. actions, are utterly unworthy crcdit; and are, in fact, known by every inhabitant of Lon- don, to be atrociously false. For instance: — is there any assemblage of the people ? They are designated as pickpockets,—" Do the Police attack them ?. That force is said to have con utctea itself with unprecedented valour — Do the people resist? We are told that the « rioters" delight in blood.— Do the Polca succeed in bludgeoning the unarmed and unorganised multitude ? The rioters are • set of cowards. Such are the slavish mis- representations by which it is sought to deceive those, whose ignorance . on the subject, gives a Chance of success to the imposition. You in Bristol may possibly suppose, that the " New Police" is the great grievance complained of, and sought to be removed hy the Citizens of London— than which opinion, however nothing can be more erroneous. This force originated with Sir Robert Peel- yet it is the Duke of Wellington that is mob- bed 1 Mark this one fact well— for it speaks volumes. The Duke is at the head of the obnoxious administration; his Majesty is made to open Parliament with an Address, which displays the grossest inhumanity to" pards a suffering people ; the Duke declares in his place in the House of Lords, that the prayers off th « country for Reform deserve 1 not the slightest attention ; the people there- upon assemble in expression of their sense of this insult from their paid servant; upward] of five thousand Military Polite rire marched upon them to silence their cries fdr justisc— and the people then raise the cry of '* No PoHce." Such are the simple facts on which the Knavish Journalists arrive at the conclusion, that all the dissatisfaction of tbe inhabitants of London^ consists merely in their objections to the Police. But you know nothing about this uncon- stitutional force, and may need the informal lion I am about to give you on the subject.- They are admirable conservators of peace and order, wherever they have been intro- duced, on Ordinary " occasions 3 but they arc a Government force ; that is, they are ap- pointed and paid by and at the command of » the Minister of the Home Department. This is the great objection to the Police— for if, as in the present instance, the Administration be opposed to the Rights and Liberties of the , People, this Military Police— this Constabu- lary Army may be wielded, as it is now, in; defence of Corruption and in destruction o£ the independence of a free people. Had the. constitution of this force been Parochial, it would have been hailed throughout the country, As an invaluable' improvement of THE BRISTOLIAN 530 • ur aleansof » fety, and of protection to the social interests and social rights of the entire* population of Great Britain. Oa Tuesday night, the Police were- too much foi the people. Mind, I say " too father than " too many," because ' tfejpT supeiiority consisted more on their regi. ' sncfital discipline and soldierly supeiiority, than. tn their numerical strength. Indeed, ka< l the Police teen defeated, the People wolild still have suffered a temporary repulse, upwards of Ten thousand Military were ifctier arms in Saint James's Paik and other prlaces in the Metropolis, as a corps of butch- ers in reserve— if they are to be considered the unthinking tools of the Ministers— and if I'. niay foim an opinion of the aiders to be gjiven to the soldiers by the barbarities on the part of the Police to which 1 was an aye witness. Sines Tuesday night, as I have before stated, the People have been thinking— with the exception, perhaps, of some few hundreds, who went to work last night in one of the ^" Eastern Districts, to furnish themselves with weapons of defence frointhe iron railings in front of the houses. The rest have been thinking. About what, do you suppose? The Public mind has been considering whether the muster of the Military and Civic force, and the putting down public opinion by violence, prove the truth of the Duke. of Wellington's assertion, that the exisiing or- der of things requires no alteration. The P• S— J" my ntst, you shall hart intelligence about your tuo Petitions J. A. SPiRII'OF TUB PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our able- contemporary, the Scvtiman, takes similar views to our own as to the cause of the late Ministerial evolutions After quoting the famous declaration of the Duke of WelliPgion, that the nature of man was incapable of reaching such perfection as belonged to our admirable Legislature, our cotemporary remarks:— " This is quite unequivocal. The Ministers, after coquetting with Reform and Reformer for some time, have sworn allegiance to bribery and corruption once more. This, with other facts, sali- fies us that the Government elands on ntzc ground. We are conH lent that such a declara. tit> 0 would not bav* been made by his Grace twelve rrionihs ago under similar circumstances; and we are grossly deceived if it will not turn out that their language and. bearing, in aeference to every popular subject, has undergone a marked alteration. In fact, we are more than half con vinced, that they bad in view some concession to popular feeling of the kind talked of, and that it has been abandoned because tbejunciion with the Ul'ra Tories has enabled them to dispense with a species of support out of doors, which a short time iigo they consideied desireabie, or necessary. The Duke said he had not now any plan of reform in contemplation— uot that be never had any. We have li tie doubt that the Government has received an ii fusion of Jacobin Public mind has been enquiring whether, j leaven into iWcoaipusmati, and that its character fce<? ause the people were bludgeoned on Tues- is essentially changed. ' I'he winding up of the day last, the poor man can be expected to 1 Duke's speech w as a sop for his new allies, the gfbw fat on water gruel for the year ensuing, ^ Ultra Tories. If the poiut were doubtful, we " file Public mind will assuredly come to a wotii. l refer to the speech of1 ihe seconder of the ooVfect conclusion respecting these mutter-.',' Address in ihe ii » use of Commons- There is Meanwhile, I repeat, that if the Ministers, one family in. Scotland that owe » a! l its lustre to ( Whofevfcr they inav be) give not Reform, the 1 what Mr. Burke calls ' the shameful parts of the PiOple Will take Reft rm— and then the losing Constitution,' the Members of which have an un- ifJrtyi tftat is, Sinecurists and the Locusts' rivalled s.- gacily in dWoiering how the wind of, the State, will'call such Reform aRevo-' ti, s lutoa. Your'j faithfully, at Ihe ' fireasuiy, and iVhat sort of' opinions are of will be in request there. This person '• ' - j... t- Xprtssed regret at the issue of the attempt made JAMES ACLAND. by; Cbarlts the Tenth' to destroy ihe French Charter} When be ventured to give utterance to such a sentiment, we may be sure he knew bis ground." There is no doubt, t we think, that the Duke of Wellington, observing how much the Aristo- cracy in general kept aloof from- the people, when the latter gave so unreserved an expression to their. sympathy wilh the French after the Re- volution, counted on the same alarm which swelled the ranks of Mr'. Pitt, at the period of Ihe former Revolution. lie thought all lesser differences would be forgotten, and that the Aristocracy of all shades of opinion would throw - themselves into his arms, as being the only man who could pilot the vessel of the State through the dangerous rocks and qnickiands on errry side of it. It is evidently hot a weakness bis Grace to think too favorably of human nature.' Unfortunately for himself; be hot only thinks unfavorably of mankind, but forgets ibat men, however in their principles, like to find some pretext which they conceive the world dues not see through, for their aberrations. Hypocrisy has been defined the homage which vice pays to virtue, and his Grace seems to bavt forgotten, that even where virtue does not exist, its place fs supplied by hypociisy- He thought be had only to whistle, and the Tories would- all tuib inu » his arras. He knew that the regard professed by them for our Protestant Constitution was a piece of affectation, and seems to base t>*_ lieved, that after allowing a decent time to tbens for their grhf, they would be glad to return to ibe crib. But ibe Tories have not answered the- cal!, In the pamphlet, " The Country without a Government," the Tories allied to rectite the credit of being honest men. It would, per- haps, have been nearer ( he truth to say. that they are afraid of losing the credit of being honest, men, by too abrupt an union wilh the grea't _ destroyer of the Protestant Constitution. They hang back for the resort part. It may be also,, thai they bad information of the ground at Court being hollow under the Duke of Wellington,., and did not like tut. sacrifice appearances fur nothing.. However, it would be unfair to sup- pose that, in the case © f # om. e of the Tyries,. THE BRISTOLIAN 531 the bead is more in fault then heart. Burke on one occasioa remarks, that the House of Com- mon> is not " wholly corrupt* though there is a laTge portion of corruption in it. There are Members who generally go with the Mini- tor who will not go all lengths." The Duke pre" few whole length men, but it may not be politic to let men too plainly to see the low estimate* you form of them. How much his Grace must- have been mortified to find- that, instead of his D< cla- mtioo against Return), and his hign- 3owi" humage to the beauties of the English Conslitu" nun as it is, placing him in thai palmy statr on which he calculated when his underlings pub lished, at his instigation no doubr. ibe sentence of eternal proscription agairM Mr. Brougham, jt has literally bad m « - effect of co< ering him with such an excess of popularity, that Mr Brougham has been obliged to take him under feis protection. Of all the moruS, * tion » he b « » experienced, ; b# most bitter mu » t have been the compassionate appeal on bis behalf by Mr. Brougham. wheu he soiicludtd hits speech on - Mcnday night j— Sir, i wish I had not lived to see the day VhtH forg'- tfulw- ss of those meraoraWe achieve- ments which have made for the Duke of Wellington, us a soldier, as a conqueror, as the fltfeudt- r of his county, a great, a brilliant, an impdrishable renown has been coupled with the deflation of his Grace from his own proper sphere, and hit attempt to make himself what, jl la plain, nature, who made him so great a Genera!, never intended to make him,— 4 great « nd useful Statesman:— when forget Ai lues s by the rabble of those splendid merits which no subsequent demerits ought ever to eraze from the memory of his country ; merits as a soldier, and in some respects, merits as a Statesman too, ( although I am aware that on that point tbere differences of opinion); I say, Sir, I wish I had not lived to see the day when that forget fulness OQ tbe part of the people, united wiih foroet- fulness on the part of the Duke of his own proper sphere, have rendered it impossible for hitn sairly to accompany his . Sovereign on his visit to those subjects, whose hearts bis Majesty so fully possesses.—( Hear, hear, hear.)" But in nearly all his manoeuvres his Grace ha' been unfortunate of late. His lender regard for the citiiens of London, and for his Majesty, 1- somewhat uncharitably ascribed to motives of a less exalted description. Tne city people do not hesitate ascribing to him a design of wishing to hold up his Majesty as unpopular, in order tha1 he might screen his own from the regard of foreigners. Mr. Tickncr, in the additional report of the proceedings, at the Common Council, on Moaday, says— lie considered that, on this occasion, the; , Lord Mayor eleci had been made the scape goat of ttae Cabinet; itiai nothing could more effectu- ally denion^ ralethe weakness of ihe Gover. nm. ent than the eagerness with wf>; « ;; i the Minister se^ fl Upon ibis really unimportant communication. In Uct tie considered that ( tie Duke ot Welling- ton, aware that he would not bentvived with car « » « » , and not wishing to let other nations know ; o< » i .!• required a guard to conduct iiiui into ( he city, was gl* d 10 gel bold ot « u excuse for not entering tax g » tee, resolved to advise « t> u might serve to m* lc his Majesty purticipa e in the an popularity.— ( I learr. hoar.)*' This is a home thrust. With regard to Bel- gium ha has been unsuccessful. if lie intended to interfere, but wuhed 10 deceive the public into a belief that he » oiid not, the indignation ol that public will frustrate the design. It he did not tuiend to interfere, the public will not the less believe he intended, but has been frightened into abandonment of his design. In short do what he will now, tlie worst motive will be attributed to him. Like the boy and the wolf, he will no longer be l^ heved. ^ Morning Chromclc. History will record iu am » ng the " re- markable events'" of tae year 1830, that the King of G, tej. t.- Britain dared. noi, dine with, his faithful citizens of London, because his Ministers were unpopular! The more all reasonable people reflect on the advica given to the King on this occasion, the more they condcsnn itand certainly the explanations given by the Ministers in both Houses, of the grounds on which the celebrated letter from the Home Secretary to the Lord Mayor was written, made their case appear still worse than even those who have least confi- dence in their political capacity could have anticipated. It was indeed impossible for any one, who believed that the gift of understand- ing had not altogether departed from those who direct the affairs of this great nation, to suppose they could have taken a step, which threw the country into such a dreadful stare of excitement and alarm, upon such a slight and despicable material as they produced in their own vindication. The natural inlerente from the letter of the Home Secretary was, that Government had received authentic in- formation of a deep and wideh- spread con- spiracy to compass the death of the King, and rerolusion ?, e the State. Do they pretend that they were in possession of any such rn- formation i Nothing of the sort. The letter of the Lord Mayor Elect applied solely to the apprehended consequences of the unpo- pularity of the Duke of Wellington, who, if lie did not choope to accompany his Sovereign into the city " sufficiently guarded," as the writer of that uulucky letter advised him, had jt in his power, to prevent the threatened mischief by excusing, himself to the GHjit. authorities, and preferring to take up a posi„ tion for that day in the neighbqufhood,' of the Horsq Guards. But to prevent his RoyaL Master from, mixing among his, faithful dJwL affectionate subjects, because he d » ml r. M expose in his presence his own unpopularity,., was aa exercise of Ministerial control ewer ihe Royal atiind, which we hope, for tfe « honor of Uqy- tlty itself, jpjU rqnjain; on; annalf the, cflu^ itiy a solitary prcvQedqat— an a& t, wkhg^ tjirr^ itatipa as it is if ithput ' ample. Extrame, indeed,, shwid hjtvjj* j^ ftn. the flartger— imrninenM. he pepil- r^ tliiat jwfftyW-. have justiftsd the GoverwetM in„ tufin^ g a. day of regal residing, and j^ tiyity into ens of univ^ al and itJ| te. t}$ e. dismay ar. d^ conster- natiqn— a day, not merely of terror, to, all, hut of certain calamity to many, by the tttjnew* 44 THE BIMSTObiAN consequences of li e rapid fall of the public been compared with the overflowing crowds of' regarded with no friendh feeling the revolu jecurities, which must have swept away the loyal and peaceable subjects) dared to offer property of numbers by the instantaneous re- violence to any person forming pan of his vulsion. ' ihe Duke of Wellington when Majesty's cortege, the people- themselves, un- called upon in the House of Lords to. explain assisted by either police or military, would have liis conduct, admitted that his Majesty was soon put an end to at: attempted riot, so insulting one of the most pupular Sovereigns that ever to the Sovereign, and, we venture to say, with- reigned in this country, and that he was, out any bloodshed, would have delivered the perhaps, the Soveteign that best deserved to rioters safely into the hands of justice. But we be so. We believe that, before the delivery admit that no precautions could have prevented of the unfortunate Speech which the Ministers the Sovereign from hearing in the expression of put in his mouth at the opening of the Ses- sion, his Mnjesty enjoyed among all classes of his people, a boundless popularity ; and we also believe that whatever was foolish and impolitic and ungracious in that Speech was attributed, as it onghtto be, to Ministers, by people in general; and if any portion of his subjects were disposed to be less enthusiastic in their admiration of him, in consequence of allowing himself to be made the organ of such sentiments, their allegiance was still as faithful and as firm as ever. 1 hey might not shout so warmly in his train, but they would be no less disposed to shed their blood in his defence.- But though the popularity of a' King is to be gained by a gracious address and kindliness of manners, it can only be preserved for any great length of time by the goodness and wisdom of his own acts; and if bis Majesty allow bis own interests and the feelings of his affectionate people to be much longer sported with by Minis- terial authority, as on the present occasion, we cannot but anticipate with regret tbat, alihongfa the loyalty of Englishmen to the Throne canno1 thereby be shaken, the personal popularity of tfce Monarch may be considerably impaired But the Duke of Wellington says tbat the letter which was written by bis Majesty's commands to tke Lord Mayor, had no reference to the qtet& mof popularity. it had, with great sub- ratissiofi to his Grace, a reference to nothing else — but it was to the question of the Duke's the people, how unpopular his Ministers were, and the Ministers did not like that their Royal Master should have such unequivocal evidence of the little estimation i( i which they were pub- licly held. Hence the advice which has had such pernicious consequences, and which makes Ministers justly chargeable with the moral cowardice of fearing to encounter public opinion for we believe they had nothing else to fear upon thatdny. If insinuation bad been poured into the King's ear, by any pan/, of any danger personal to himself, it would be. well if he silenced them by such an answer at that whick the glorious F. liaabeth gave to the courtiers who pretended that there was a plot to assasinate her " I will not believe any thing of my subjects that a parent iaight nut believe of his children." Morning Herald t\ i e m :— 1 he foUomitg excellent observations o* the character of ant uf the leading Metropo litau Journals ( a. hick instead of being the organ of public opi* iun, is the perverted tool of a 9/ rrvpt AimiHiitraiton. J ai it applies so aptly to one uf attr otun Provincial Newspapers, may be worthy of preservation, ff'eltiagtun Gulch read it !. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIMES. SIR,,— 1 have been long a silent observer of your defence of the Duke of Wellington's Administration. Whatever it may have made me to think of you in other respects, it has increased, perhaps rathertban diminished my admiration of your talents. Uutil the popularity it had reference, and not to tr. e King's.! opening of Parliament I went cordially with ? V fact js, that if any small nnthbtr of despe*; you. I might suspect ( as ptehaps you did raj* men ( and small their number must have | if you did not really knew,) that the Duke tion in France, and looked with still greater impatience at the transactions in Belgum; but this created no prejudice in mv mind against him. My sentiments was that as long as he ev need a disposition to adopt his mea- sures to the existing circutnstances of the country, no man knew better what these circumstances required, nor had a better chance of going on usefully, than the Duke, both from the prestige in his favor, and the moral courage with which he is endowed. On this point I shall go no further. The Duke is in the hands of the • country; let publie opinion deal with him, but I will yentnre to hint that even your defence of him will not be long efficacious, if you steer so close to the wind as you have done in your leading article of this morning. Reform is necessary, or is it not If it be not neces- sary, then some of the best and wisest iegis. latorsof this Country have been con ending for a shadow. If it be, how can you, one of thcorgans of the public voice, presume to say that the misguided multitudes who have rioted in our streets have no in- terests in it f Nay, the pickpockets ami prostitutes you mention are interested in reform, if reform be necessary; for corruption in a Government pre- eminently fosters vice in every class of society But" is it wise to attempt to attach odium to eVerv opposer of the Duke's Government who speaks above his voice"! ' Nay. I askyouhas there ever been an instance of popular oKaitement in. which the. insurgents were who ty mistaken iu principle as » eU as in practice ? It would lt » ve been better r « have shown that vie hate an instance before- us. than to insinuate that the present popular commotion i& confined to the two ( Saasea 1 hare uamed. But I wan', from the li- adiiuj ifournal of England a manly defence of the Govern- tuent, or none at all. The public have a right to this from you, and if you d « ny it, you will, fail in keeping the Duke up, and he may drag you CUau from four high plsea with Una. You s> ave a letter quoting some passages writ, ten 2000 years ago by a wise man, and signed " A Patriot." Tb « Patriot" ns< « a two edg « d sword. Why didhe not tell you the passages he. quotes were wiitten by aKing- a sated epicurean? Hut th. we passages are merely aflirmaiixe, and although true enough when written, ate assuredly not true now. Artificers do know something more than the work of their hands. They know the effects of administering to the luxuries of th ® rich : they know that the labourer has a right to the produce < f his toil, and that a Government is corrupt that deprives him of aa undue portion of it under any pretence. Our labourers- know these things— they reason-, upon them. They inquire does corruption exist f They ahk, should it < be perpetuated ? They speak loudly of ttieir grievances. I think they' may do so without being banded with thieves or the associates of prostitutes, But you affect to address yourself exclusively to street rioters, o4 whose spirit and proceedings noone less approves thau your most obedient servant, PH1LA N THRO PO 3 » London, Nov. 10. Pi'titf « » d: PaWMwd by JAMFB ACLAND,. Ps » riyrr# B..< s » , S » i » « ) OfUe*, flriUpHwC# « t, BrldWdl La*