b : 1) -' tt(< ) i elnisi tf— » • » *< « > ll 1I » . n> dt fi W* tr>' cu'. ij ,, u na Dl a'' 91 « i sari) / nfa MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of JAMES ACLAND. Proprietor and Editor— written by Himttlf. " 1 LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES."— Judge Bavley. —; — ——— —— — ——• . i .. Printed and Published by JAMES ACI. AND ( SOLR PROPRIETOR AND EDI. ORJ rt ilie Rr ISIOLIAN OFFICE, Eris'olisn Court, Bridewell Lane. VOL. IV— Mo. XV. SATURDAY, NOVEMBELS 27, IS30. [ PRICE 1 JTK TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISTOLIAN. SIR, Among all the meeting* that have la'ely taken place in our City, in reference to the W vrh raie. none will exceed the Temple Parish meeting, on Monday Morning last, the 22d instant, for unfair proceedings and abusive language. On the Saturday there were hand- bills out in different parts of the Patish, to request the Rate- payers to attend the said Meeting, which Sir, is a constitu- tional act, but to my great astonishment, I am informed, that by so doing, two of our Parish have called on the person who had thern printed, and threatened him with a prosecution, saj ing it was a Libtl! Poor silly mortals, I pity them for their ignorance, I would ask them il our late Attorney Gene- ral advises them to such a proceeding. But Sir, on Monday before the Meeting began, 1 was informed by a respectable Tradesman of the Parish, that that great robust blustering man, Young Nickless told him, that his father had said, if I attempted to be at the meeting, Mr. Gwyerand himself intended to order me out, and to charge me with defrauding the Parish of the Taxes— I replied, 1 am greatly obliged to you for the information, but be- lieve me its a strong stimulus for me to go^ and away I went with two others with me » but believe me, it was with great difficulty I could get in as they kept the door close in side, the room being quite full; however, as soon as I was perceived by John Nickless and Mr. Robert Ring, an attack was made upon me by those men, ordering me out of the room, saying I was no Rate- spayer.— I said, that I came there on behalf of my tenant, Mr. Norbury, who was a Rate. payer— Robert Ring then came up to me, with his fist to my face, saying, Windsor if you do not go out of the room immediately I will turn you out. for you have robbedtht Public— John Nickless, the Pawn Broker, came towards me at the same time, declaring also, that I had com- mitted a robbery on the Public, and he could prove it— I replied to all this, well Gentle- men, you will soon be called upon to answer for this unjustifiable conduct, and then left tbe room. I shall soon inform you Sir, of such vil- lainous proceedings, that have been practised against me since 1811, by Magistrates and Gentlemen, ( professedly,) Tradesmen, and others, as will make an honest heart shud- der and tremble. I consider Sir, it is not a circumstance to be trifled with, for to have a host of inveterate enemies constantly perse, cuting one individual, and he to be confind in a dismal prison nearly two years and a : . r. : - 1 II , . , J , t, . . : i ; Mi 1 S • half for no cause whatever, but because he would not comply with a most abominable request made to him by his master— I haye been persuaded by many for some considera- ble time past, to publish an account of my persecution, and now this charge before, a public assembly, compels me so to do, and I hope and trust, that you and some other Friends, who hate oppression, will assist me in such an important undertaking; but before I close, I beg to say, that I am not the only one who was charged with robbery, you. Sir, are charged with robbing a person of a Silver Sipoan; if it be true, I hope the man will prosecute you for the act, but if, on the contrary, I hope and trnst you will stick to him like a leech, for he boasts of his thou- sands— but more of this and the proceedings of the Meeting in my next. I am Sir, your's, & c. JOHN WINDSOR. Nov. 26,1830. . TO THE REV. C. P. BULLOCK, Rector of St. Paul's. Reverend Sir, 1 dare say you thought me very impudent last Wednesday, that I ventured to adnress tnyseli to one of your situation in life— but you must pardon me, it is a way I have. I am one of those, Sir, who are of opinion that the age ot THE BRISTOLIAN 542 nperstiiion is passed away, to return no more— moment, and doubt the certainty of its arrival ? claiming, " the destruction of despotism i » hat Priests are but men, paid lo teach us ac- The. meagre forms of our over- taxed, over, at hand— the good of the man// cannot much cording to the divine laws and to inculcate into worked, and half famished artizans— the wreiched longer yield to the will of the arbitrary few ?" our minds the moral precepts of the Gospel - hotels they are destined to inhabit— the haggard Then Sir, if such be the case, as it most cer- that they, ( like us) are liable to human errors countenances of their half clad wives— their tainly is — is it not the duty of every good and imperfections, and that the laity may hear naked and perishing children— the heart- rending citizen, ( at a time unparalleled in the Histo- appeals of the starving wretches who crowd our T Nations, when no man guesses what streets— who pass us more like shadows than ' the morrow wil1 bring forth) to endeavour their mandates without trembling, and scruple to- obey them when they imagine they are perverted from the truth— hence Sir, it was that 1 promised to address you again, and hence it is that I now proceed in redemption of my pledge. Your endeavovr was to prevent the people from seeking the attainment of Reform— It is mine to counteract the evil effects of your pulpit elo- quence. In my last I said " it may be very well for you, in jour present condition, to say> *' thinks cannot be belter— it works well." Now, least there should be any misunderstanding as to what 1 intended to convey in these words, 1 will stale that I do rot believe you can really think that the present is a perfict system, or a good state of things— only it " works well " for yotij and you are contented. I am not, it does not " work well " for mt— it does not " work well * for thousands of my fellow creatures, and I com- plain to you not because I think you can restore my just rights as an Englishman, to me— not because 1 think you uill assist to obtain them— not because I even hope that you will acknow- ledge your fault— but because I would undeceive those whom jott have deceived— whom you have sought to hood- wink, in the brightest day tbal ever beamed. The Reform i would have Sir, and which you would ptcvent my having, and upon which, ill the hope that others may peruse this letter, I have a few words to say, is Parlia- mentary Refoim— and this should be the agency realities, as they seek some pent- house under by every legal and constitutional measure in which to recline •* their houseless heads," and his power, to bring about that good and per- which may partiall yshield tbem from ihe chilling feet state of Reform, which alone can avert rain and the killing frost of an inclement season from our beloved though unhappy country, the sorrows of the still less fortunate member of society, the broken down tradesman, upon hose hopes the muiky cloud of poverty bas fallen, blasting his joy. and making creation's desart of his once guy heart— the hapless man who has seen better days, and whom the severe visitations of providence, or a lack of employ- ment, has driven to the dreadful alternative of seeking parochial relief, and who receives 2s. 6J. a wttek tn maintain himself, his wife, and three or four children from starvation*— who is thus compelled to drag out a miserable existence upon this scanty pittanci— hoping as he gazes in heart broken anguish upon his fast fading wife, and the wretched offspring of their fondest affection, until DKATH, from a want of necessary sustenance, closes the final scene o this appalling tragedy— all proclaim the horrid sjstem that demoralizes and pauperizes a fertile country. Is there anv one who can reflect on these the revolutionary horrors that menace her with destruction. It is und.- r this impression . that I write, and under this impression I look . for an explanation of your conduct— it was my intention in this letter, to have pointed out the nature of the Reform I would have — but as it has already become '' very lengthy,'' I shall conclude for the present, signing tny self A LAYMAN. • A man is known to the author of this letter, who is himself nearly blind, hU wife sickly, aud who lias three young children lo support on Two Slnlluigs and Sixpence a Week. SPIRIT OF ' 1 HE Ps'BLlC JOURNALS^' A question has sprung up on the subject ot the abolition of rotten boroughs, whether the proprietors of such places ought not to be indemnified on their disfranchisement. We have been frequently called upon by letter to give our opinion upon this point, and shall things, without feelings of a just and virtuous , therefore give it frankly. We answer, jes; indignation, as he compares them with the they ought to be indemnified; and we will wanton extravagance of the Aristocracy— the give an instance in point. A Noble Lord is Tax eater* and the tools of " Arisiocratic saicl to have just paid to an Hon. Baronet which I wonld obtaiu economical Government usurpation r" Is there any one who can upwards of ^ 150,000 for a rotten borough, and CHTJKCH REFORM. ; remember, that one man of real sterling in- not far frotn town The affair is indeed so Good Sir I crave your patience while I firij tegrity is ground to death by taxation, that public, that the House of Commons is at once treat ot Parliatneniary Reform. There has he may gratify the pampered appetite and disgraced if it does not take it up. And the been no subject more freely discussed than that j ' he unseemly ambition of some insolent, im- proper way to indemnify his Lordship and of Parliamentary Reform. There is no subject so moral and extravagant Lordlmg. and not cry those of whom he has bought the borough i « , well calculated for public discussion ; the com- " shame," that such a state of things can be ? b>' sending them all to Newgate for a breach inon place circumstances of life bringing its Is there any one who has noticed the seem- of ptivilege. This is the way in which we necessity hourly under our immediate notice, ingly miraculous and overwhelming spread would indemnify all the dealers in the lights Who can look aTOtmd him and doubt the of political knowledge amongst all classes of of the people for the loss of their infamous fcecessity of Reform? Wiio can reflect for at he community, without involuntarily ex- trade,— Turns. « The new Administration afford an earnest of their intention to effect all practical retrenchment in the public service, by abolishing the place of Vice- Treasurer of Ireland, the uselessness of which we were at the pains of exposing, on oc- casion of the nomination to that office of its late occupant. The union of the mint with the Board of Trade is also an important saving, ( o say nothing of the Lieutenant- Generalship of the the Ordnance, which, in accordance with the recommendation of the Finance Committee ( so wantonly rejected by the late Cabinet), is to be reduced. It is also the intention of Ministers to reduce their own salaries to the extent, we are informed, of one. third. The accounts of ( h Vice- Treasurer of Ireland are to be brought to a close in the course of a couple of months, meanwhile, the duties are to be performed with- out remuneration. ft is rumoured that Mr Doherty is to succeed Mr. Joy in the A torney Generalship of Ireland.— Morning Chronicle. It has been the misfortune of England, for some years past, that its Government and its Legislature have lent too reaely an ear to the heartless theories and sordid advice of a class of doctrinaires, calling themselves " political economists," who, under the pretence of a philosophic zeal for social improvement, are the most devoted and intense worshippers of Mammon that this or any other country has ever produced. These public teachers, in their adoration cf wealth, have alwajs urged the supposed advantage of large capital in the hands of the few, to that distribution of property which insures the independence and comfort of the many. With curious incon. sistency, at the same time, they ascribe the same evils of the country to a superabundant population, while the carrying of their own plans into execution tends to throw additional numbers out of employment. They were advocates of machinery to the utmost extent, while machinery, by sup< r eding human la. bour, increased the evil of a superabundant population, of which they so sern usly com plained. They approved of that monopoly of land which consisted in throwing several small farms into one large one— the enclosure THE BRISTOLIAN w of commons and the waste of manors, which took away from the poor man certain valua- ble rights, the deprivation of which, along with the fall of wages, threw him irretrievably on the paiish. In this situation it became that he who was able and willing to earn an honest subsistence " by the sweat of his brow," should starve, or submit to the degra- dation of receiving public alms ; and that even, when fully employed, a portion of his wages should be the miserable dole of the pauper, for which he was obliged to suppli- cate the surly authority of the overseer, who gave him the scanty pittance of a mendicant, and made him feel all the humiliation of a slave. A state of things so unnatural and oppressive, it was easy to foresee, could not always continue without being productive of disorders that would shake the foundations of societ r. Imtfre- secl with this coviction, we endeavored, last session of Parliament, to induce Ministers io take to ' his slate of things inio consideration, and to devise some means to obviate the. conse- quence of the misery and discontent of a popu- lation, that a sense of hopeless suffering was rapidly hurrying to despair. We staled, in words to which we can, if necessary, refer, that the great mass of the laboring classes mus have some effectual relief, or that the result would be a senile war. The events of the last few weeks have unhappily confirmed otir antici- pations, Several of the southern counties of England are new in that state of open and violent hostility between the poor and the rich — between the cultivators and ihe proprietors of- m « 1, that may be fairly called helium plusquam senile, and the flame of which is daily spread- ing into oiher parts of the country, with all the rapidity that we see a confiagraiicn spread, when the flakes of fire from a burning house fall among combustible materials. That it may be put down at first by a vigorous employment of organised force we entertain no doubt, but we are equally convinced that the danger oi- the re. currence of such disorders, and lhat to a more dreadful extent, cannot be removed, unless by the adoption of such policy as will effect the s r amelioration and improvement of the condition of the laboring classes. Let it, therefore, be the object of Government, as soon as the autho- rity of the laws shall have been vindicated against the authority of lawless intimidation, to inquire into the causes of the misery which has driven vast masses of the rural population into a state of desperate resistance toestablished Government The causes, we believe, will be ascertained without any very long or laborious inquiry— bi £ to supply the remedy— hie labor, hoc opuc est. How to afford employment, and adequate rt*- numeration for that employment, to the laboring classes of a country situated as England now is, presen- s no ordinary difficulty to the mind of a Statesman. With a taxation which, when we take the enhancement in the value of the currency efft c e< i by " Peel's Bill," is more than equal to, thai of the war and wilh a state of prices that only suits the lowest rate of a peace establishment, he farmer is clearly unable to pay adequate - wages to I. is laborers, and yet discharge his obligations in rent, tithe, and taxes, without' being mined. The proprietors of the soil, if they wish lo preserve their property from, ultimate destruction, must therefore come for- ward, and, while they make an equitable abatem'- nt of rent to ibe farmer, allow such small allotments of laud on the lowest possible terms to the poor, as will afford them some chance of supporting themselves and families by honest industry, and independently of the parish funds. The Clergy should also lower their tithe to a level with the state of prices. It is better to throw a part of the cargo overboard, than that ihe ship should sink wilh the whole to the bottom. In the mean time it is the duty of ibe Government 10 lighten the burdens of the country, by making such reductions in the expences of ihe State, as will allow of an important diminution of taxetion.— Morning Herald. A Reform Meeting of the Ward of Far- ringdon Without? was held yesterday, at which but one opinion prevailed among all the speakeis, namely, that the people were incitled to, and that it was their dutyfpromptly to insist on, a full, fair, and fiee repiesenta. 6QTHE BR1STOLI AN tion in Parliament. A gentleman, named Wood, in impressing this point on the atten- tion of the Meeting discoursed many home- truths remarkable for their sound and perti- nent common sense. Alluding to the " over- bearing power of the Aristocracy," he ob. served that " it was the curse of « . his country." We could wish that there had been little or no truth in this remark ; but, unluckily, its rigid correctness is its chief characteristic. Ihe power of the Aristocracy is, at the present moment, unconstitutional in every sense of thp tetm. The Monarchy is limited indeed compared to it; the House of Commons are its Ministers j the people its most abject slaves. Over every department of Church and State it throws the malign mantle of its authority., The taxes are its stQck- in- trade ; the means — the corrupt means— by which it upholds its despotism and tramples the freedom of the country un- der foot. It is idle at this advanced period to. trace the course by which this hydra headed monster raised itself to its present unjust « minence; to track the stealthy sinuous windings by which, inch by inch, il worked itself into power, leaving the venom of its slime wherever it moved ; the main point now to acertain is, not'how or when it fiist attained such an undue share of the Preroga- tive, but how it may best be brought down to its fitting level. Of the power of the Aristo- cracy as defined by the Constitution, we are. and ever have been, the staunchest supporters. We look on it with pride and « ven reverence, as keeping a due check on the encroachments of the Sovereignty on the one hand, and those of the people on the other ; but when not content with being one of the three ruling ]> owers of the State, it would usurp the rights of all three, and combine them in its own person, we feel it our bounden duty to pro- test against such a grasping unconstitutional monopoly. Fortunately the hour is at hand when the people shall be raised, and the Aristocracy lowered, each to its proper sta- Ihe means of- eventually doing justice to both principles which it has professed, and the con parties— Fiom the Sun of Thursday last. sequent exclusion of the whole of the late Whatevet may prove to be the conduct of the Administration and its supporters; it possesses new Ministry, or whatever support it may re* a certainty ol office, and a certainty of leisure ceive within the walls of the two Ilou- es of ' fulfilling ' he pledges which it has given, and Parliament, nothins is more certain than that for , he introduction of every measure which it no Administration was ever for,. ted under ierm beneficial to the public interests, auspices more favorable to the accomplishment | wh'ch no 0, her Administration ever enjoyed, of the most desirable measures. It has come : a, ul lo which i, s own dishonesty and duplicity into power, indeed, by its own ac>, but the!' 0,, 1y can an end' Nor are , hfse , he onIy wishes of the people were with it, nay, prompted it, we belieie, to act as it did< in overthrowing the Wellington Administration, Hnd their re' joicings crowned the accomplishment of the victory. The late Administration had become odious to all classes, from its prosecutions of the press—- a suspec'ed disposition to favor arbitrary and despotic measures— its refusal lo sanction a refoim in the representation of the people* and, finally, its consummately ridiculous and farcical proceeding relative to Ihe great civic enterainment to which his Majes'y had been invited ; the present acquired instant popularity from the mere fact of the political party to wlrch it belongs having overthrown a Ministry disliked by the great mass of the public, and lhat popn lariiy has been increased by a sub* eqiien t declaration ihat a reform of the representation o. the people— a retrenchment of all useless ex. penditurt— and a determination nol to interfere in the internal contents of other Siates, formed the basis of its policy. Difficulties il will have to encounter of no ordinary magnitude, in guiding the vessel of the state, and accomplishing the salutary measure to which they pledged themselves; and difficulties there also are in restoring tranquility in those counties and districts in which disturbances have broken out; but then it possesses immense advantages in the encounter— it has the King on its side, as a sincere friend to its measuers— it has the country on its side, which is tire?) of paying always, and receiving no benefit— it possesses the influence of the good name which it has acquired from the circumstances above detailed— and, finally, in the determinnlion of the public not to suppor' tion. Reform, be it ever so trifling, will be any Government which shall not observe the 1 emptations to do good. The spirit of the time', and it must know it, will not brook delay, dishonesty, or duplicity. The lime for gaining the public ear by plausible professions it gone-- every one now looks to measures as the proof of men's political firmness and honesty, and if the public discover that the captivating phrases of reform, retrenchment, and non- interven- tion, are only words ad captandum vulgus, and not the expression of the real wishes and in- tentions of the existing Government, thev will as certainly hurl it from the administra- tion of the affairs of the country, as they helped, with might and main, to overthrow the Wellington Cabinet The succeeding Government will not then be Whig or Tory — it will be Radical in every sense of the word ; and if disasters accompanv its occa- sion to power, those only will be lo blame who promised to lead the people to " green pastures and deligh'ful streams " and when they had brought them in view of them, re- fused to permit their nearer approach. We make these observations in no unfriendly spirit. We cordially support the principles piofessed by the present Administration ; and are only anxious that they should carrv them into full and complete effect. They can split on no other shoal but that of departing from them, and betraying the cause ( of which we do not suspect them), which they have pledged them- elves to suppoit, Let them adhere to it with unflinching integrity, and theirs will be the glory of establishing, in the affections of a loyal people, a title of fame. Mre perennius, Regalique situ pvramidum altius ; Quod nou imber edax nou aquilo impotens Diruere possit. Morning Advertiser. Printed andPublisbcd by JAMES ACLAN1), ( SOLE PROPRIETOR akd EDITOR) at the BRISTOIIAK OFFICE, firistolian Court, Bridewell Lan « .