lish, or of Foreign manufacture, yet he is bold to say, that it hath in it a certain mystical property, the straw to the sinking does not pretend that his yard man, is caught at by his almost wand, like Ithuriel's spear, is forgotten party, flatters himself endued with every inherent that, if the Whig Noblemen and quality for proving by it's touch, Country Gentlemen of the whether goods are truly EngUnited Kingdom will rally round this Triennial Banner, planted at his Linen Draper's shop in Fleet Street, being a silken three- which in an eminent manner ilcoloured kerchief on a yard-lustrates the doctrine he wishes wand; and if the said Whig to inculcate; for as three feet Noblemen and Country Gentle-make that true English measure, men will adopt his astonishing one yard, so three yearly sesdiscovery for reviving the fra- sions make that most desirable ternal societies of United Eng- English measure of legislative lishmen, United Scotchmen, duration one triennial parliaUnited Britons and United Irishmen, in one grand United Phalanx of Reformers, pulling two different ways and calling for two different objects, the said Whig Noblemen and Country Gentlemen will, in the opinion of the said Signor Waithman be and I can hardly write the words, soon called into power, by the I so tremble with joy: I have united voice of those who are disgusted by their past, and offended by their present conduct! ment. 66 Glory be to the memory of the Legislators of 1894!" VICTORY! I have just a moment to say, only a moment to say, that THE BILL IS THROWN OUT! Thus are the Queen's and People's enemies defeated! That "Although Signor Waithman innocence, which was before ac knowledged by all honest men, is now proclaimed to the world by the House of Lords itself! Where All cities, towns and villages ought to illuminate.-I wonder how Castlereagh, Wellington, are now the base conspirators? Scott and Jenkinson now feel! Shall they go unpunished?--All congregations will, doubtless, pray for the Queen on Sunday! This is a glorious day for the people, who have, at last, begun to lay the ax to the root of Corruption. This victory has been atchieved by the people with the Queen at their head. God Almighty, I repeat it, sent her here, expressly for our good; and, I hope, that we shall profit from the blessing. Illuminations A new and complete edition of the PEEP AT THE PEERS, with numerous additions, will be ready in a few days. Also the LINKS OF THE will begin on Monday, I hear.- LOWER HOUSE. Printed and Published by W. BENBOW, 269, Strand, VOL. 37.---No. 18.] LONDON, SATURDAY, Nov. 18, 1820. [Price, 6d. TO THE PEOPLE OF DOVER. On the triumph of the Queen and the People over persecu tion, carried on by the means of conspiracy, subornation and perjury. London, Nov. 16, 1820. Ministers, we have had to re. cord. The black annals of the last three years and a half exhibit a sufficiency of failure on the part of the people to obtain justice and to avoid oppression. Let it not be said, therefore, that we were insensible of victory when obtained; and especially when that victory has. been obtained by means the most fair and honourable. MY FRIENDS, The victory, which has just To record this victory is the been gained by the Queen and object of the present letter, the people over a combination, which I address to you, the Peothe parallel of which has not, ple of Dover, because, in the I verily believe, ever before obtaining of this victory you been witnessed upon the face have acted a most distinguished of the earth, is a subject worth t We have all done our of the attention of all mankind. best. We have all done well; It is a subject for the mind of but you have taken the lead the moralist and the philosopher, amongst well doers; and it is as well as for that of the politi-probable that if people less cian. At any rate it ought to zealous, less active, less prompt be recorded, and some of the and less resolute than you had leading circumstances apper-been placed on the frontier; taining to it ought to be pre- had been placed as an advance served in such a manner as for guard to the nation, the result them to reach the eyes and ears might have been very different of future generations. Disgraces from that which I have now to enough, proceeding from the record, and of which our chilwickedness and folly of our dren's children will not only 3 F Printed and published by W. BENBOW, 260, Strand. read with pride, but of which against the Queen, and enactthey will feel the beneficial ef- ing her degradation and difects; for, great and glorious as vorce. This monstrous Bill was the victory is in itself considered, brought in and read a first time. it is comparatively nothing when Then, before it was read a sewe compare it with all its mass cond time Counsel were to be of consequences. heard and witnesses were to be examined in order to convince the members as to the propriety or impropriety of passing the Bill. After these Counsel and these witnesses had been We have before had seasons of rejoicing; or, at least, they were called by that name; but what were those compared to the present occasion! They have always been a mixture of con- heard, the Bill came to the sestraint, affectation and hypo-cond reading; and, as you have crisy. The present rejoicings been before informed, there come from the heart; and they were for this second reading, have their foundation in sound a hundred and twenty-three reason as well as in generous Lords, and ninety-five Lords feeling. against it. But, there was Before, however, I proceed still a third reading, and on to an account of the manner in Friday the tenth of November, which the public joy has shewn the question was taken on this itself, I ought to go back a third reading, when the former little, in order to trace the pro-majority of twenty-eight was céedings of the House of Lords reduced to nine! There was down to the moment when the yet another stage after this; Bill of Pains and Penalties was for, after a Bill has been read finally cast out. You will bear even a third time, the question in mind, that this was no trial is put upon it: "THAT THIS in 'the usual meaning of the BILL DO NOW PASS." These word trial. There was no in-were the words these were dictment; no charges regularly the six awful words, which made; no warrant or commit-after all the Ministers had not ment; no jurors impannelled; the courage to pronounce. All but merely a Bill, brought into these stages in the passing of a the House of Lords by the Mi- Bill are so many periods, most nisters, stating certain things wisely contrived to give time for reflection, and to prevent it is very evident that he exthe possibility of laws being pected the Bill to pass, seeing passed unadvisedly. Very sa- that no man, who can avoid it, lutary indeed are those regula- is ever the spectator of his own tions; and never more salutary discomfiture and disgrace. The than upon the present occasion; Ministers, therefore, when they for, I think it is very evident, went into the House on that day that if the Bill had passed, this were manifestly resolved to pass country would have been in- the Bill. There were only the volved in universal uproar and six words to pronounce: they confusion. Great, however, was had still their majority of nine; the indiscretion in pushing the but their courage failed them; Bill on to a third reading. This and instead of saying" that this clearly shewed, that, up to the " Bill do NOW pass," Jenkin very moment of the time when son, Lord Liverpool, the very the words "that this Bill do man who had brought in the "now pass;" up to this very Bill, put the question," that this moment the Ministers were re-" Bill do pass THIS DAY solved to carry the Bill. But" SIX MONTHS;" which when that moment arrived they question was carried without a were afraid to pronounce those division, and which decision words. That they intended to means that this Bill be put an carry the Bill; that they had end to for ever; for, you will this intention previous to the meeting of the House that day, is very certain; for, Castlereagh was in one of the galleries amongst the Lords, during the whole of that day's sitting; and you will easily beheve that he would not have been there, if with it. Indeed, motions of this he had not been confident that the Bill would pass. His duty did not call him there; nor, indeed, was it very becoming for him to be sitting amongst the Lords. But there he was; and ed. The six months never come, observe, that when a prorogation of the parliament takes place, every Bill, which has been brought in and not passed, is wholly put an end to, and has no more an existence than if the paper had never been blurred sort are very frequently made. and this is regarded as a mild and genteel manner of getting rid of a Bill, or of throwing it out, as it is more commonly call |