communication with friends, re-loading with irons, tossing and lations, wives and children; to buffetting about, produced a rupopen all the letters to them and ture in the body of a man who from them; to suffer them to had been sound to the age of speak to no one, except in the three-score. Upon this being presence of a jailor, and through related in the House of Comtwo gratings at many feet from mons, Canning made it a subeach other; to keep them in ject of jesting, and, in the course this horrid state for nearly of his answer to the charge, twelve months; and then to called the sufferer "the revered turn them out with broken con-" and ruptured Ogden," at stitutions, without a penny in which the House burst into their pockets, to find their way laughter! A Parson will doubthome to their beggared and less applaud this brilliant sally, starving families; and, all this and will think that it was shewfor no crime at all, and without ing great mercy to Mr. Ogden being arraigned or being suffer-not to trample all the bowels ed to know what crime was out of his body. A Parson may laid to their charge or who had think, and will doubtless say, been their accusers: even in that there has been no cruelty this series of acts, a Parson may committed on the excellent, be able to discover nothing par-public-spirited, and enlightened taking of cruelty. RILEY, one people of Cheshire, Lancashire, of these memorable victims, un- Yorkshire, Paisley and Glasgow. able to indure with patience The employment of Oliver, the his separation from his family, attempt made through the inand all the other sufferings be-strumentality of Castles, a Parson longing to his situation, put an may think by no means cruel. end to his existence in his dun- The sixteenth of August exhigeon; a thing at which you, I bited no cruelties to the eyes of dare say, would chuckle, or, at a Parson. In a Parson's eyes least, would be ready to swear the Oldham Inquest would, that the catastrophe was not doubtless, appear a most huproduced by cruelty! Mr. OG-mane and just proceeding. DEN, a very old and very wor-Equally visible would the huthy man, was amongst these manity of the Ministers appearvictims. Dragging from his home, to a Parson in the applause, given by Sidmouth to the Ma-years and a half, for having gistrates and Yeomanry of Man-presided at a meeting, the obchester, and in the rewarding of ject of which was to agree onParson HAY, one of those Ma- the means of promoting a pargistrates, by giving him the liamentary reform; at which living of Rochdale, worth twen-meeting neither riet nor breach ty-five hundred pounds a-year; of peace was committed by the and which gift is the more strik-people, the like of which meeting, as it must have proceeded ing had been held without inimmediately from the wish or terruption in an infinite number concurrence of the Archbishop of places for ages past, and, of Canterbury himself, the liv-was never, until the sixteenth ing being in that Archbishop's of August, pretended by any gift! It is curious enough, that human being to be an unlawfulin this most signal manner, the meeting! Two years and a .church gave its sanction to those half, a Parson will say, were sinmemorable proceedings! A gularly lenient, and he will turn Parson will say that it was sin- towards Cheshire and congragularly humane in the Ministers,ulate that county upon having while they were applauding seen a poor man sent to jail the Magistrates and the Yeo- from the Quarter Sessions, to manry, to refuse all inquiry into remain in jail four years and a their conduct; and at the same half for two or three offences time to prosecute a considerable charged all at once, of selling number of the injured parties cheap publications! As to the with all the weight of crown sentence on Sir. CHAS. WOLSElaw and before special juries. LEY, for suffering just indigna-The sequel a Parson will think tion to boil over; as to the trimore humane than all the rest: ple sentence on Mr. HARRISON, namely, the imprisonment of pronounced by. WARREN and Mr. JOHNSTONE and Mr. BAM- by BAILEY, amounting, I beFORD, for twelve months, at lieve, to three years and a half more than a hundred miles from or four years imprisonment în their homes; and a Parson will jail, these a Parson will think swear that there was not the criminally lenient; but I do smallest degree of cruelty in think that the transportation of shutting up Mr. HUNT for two Mr. BRUCE, even after he was acknowledged to be wholly in-ther child from her; nó cruelty nocent of the crime of which he in the not ordering of a Court had been found guilty; 1 do mourning for her brother, who think that this, together with lost his life in gallantly fighting the cool, the studied, the long for England: no cruelty in setcontrived affair in which Ed-ting on foot a new persecution wards was employed, and which against her, the moment the ended in the bloody work, per-breath had left the body of formed by a masked executioner her daughter; no cruelty with a long and sharp knife in in publishing the superscripthe Old Bailey; I do think tion placed upon the coffin of that these may satisfy even a her child, and while the father Parson; nay, I do think they and grand father's inay satisfy even you! were there, omitting the name names A Parson will approve, of of the mother; no cruelty in course, of a thousand, or, per-causing her to be hunted by haps, ten thousand other acts, Ompteda and others, who caused which I could call forth from the her to be insulted whereever she resources of my own memory, was to be found; no cruelty in especially if I were to go back the tendered bribe and insolent to the deeds of Pitt and his as-menace of Hutchinson; no sociates; but there is no doubt cruelty in any of the subsequent that a Parson will have disco-acts; no cruelty at all in silently vered no cruelty in any part of permitting detestable ruffians to the treatment of her Majesty, compare her to a street-walking the Queen; no cruelty when, upon the death of her own fathér, the first conspiracy against her was set on foot; no cruelty a martyr. Oh! no! a Farson in prevailing upon her to suppress the exposure of that conspiracy; no cruelty in loading her with insults the moment her only friend and protector was deprived of his capacity to yield strumpet, and to insist that if she cannot be destroyed as a criminal, she ought to be sacrificed as can see no cruelty in the bringing down of green bags; in asserting that those "green bags contained heavy charges; în referring the contents to a secret committee with the Archbishop 'her protection; no cruelty in of Canterbury at it's 'head; in tearing her from her child, antaying the report of that com mittee, full of odious charges (jesty to wait another three against the Queen, before the weeks before she could possibly House; in bringing in a Bill of enter upon her defence. All Pains and Penalties charging her this is, I dare say, right in the with the foulest of crimes, and eyes of a Parson; who can see in sending these documents all no cruelty in any of the things over the world three months which I have mentioned above; before any opportunity was to and who would see no cruelty be afforded her of disproving the in any of those other things charges! A Parson will see no which I could mention; but cruelty in refusing her a list of barely to mention which would witnesses, in refusing her a list require, instead of a banishmentof places; in keeping her as law pamphlet, a twenty shilling much as possible in the dark and volume. 4 In all the acts that I have may say Nay, it is taking her by surprise, after Now, Parson, if your head her enemies had had whole years should swim a little (as mine to mature their preparations really does) from this enumeraand insure the means of her de- tion, stop a little; take a turn in struction. A Parson will see no the pleasant garden that the cruelty in the opening speech of public finds you, and then listen the Attorney General, laboured to me with attention. and studied as it was; the result as it was, of the coolest deliber-mentioned above; take them all ation; no cruelty in it, though together even, you containing the foulest accusa- there is no cruelty. tions, made in the most artful possible that there may be no manner, and though it must have cruelty. But, and now mark been known at the time, what me, Parson, the "enemies” of has since proved to be the case, the ministers accuse them of that there was not even evi- cruelty. Mind that, Parson; in dence to be brought from Cot-order to convict you of falsehood, ton Garden to support the foul- it is not necessary that the miest of these accusations. A Par-nisters should have been guilty son will see no cruelty in this of cruelty: it is only necessary nor in the summing-up of the that their enemies should accuse Solicitor General; nor in the them of cruelty; nay, even that Recessity imposed upon her Ma- lis not necessary; it is only ne cessary that their enemies have [tion; but is a little covered by not acquitted them of cruelty. appearances. As to politically op posed, what does it mean? Does it mean opposed to them with regard to the Queen? Or does it mean that they are seated opposite each other in the House? It is notorious that many persons elty. rough, and, (keep a serious face, Parson) Lauderdale? These are the Lords, are they, who are politically opposed to the ministers! Did you ever read the Peep at the Peers, Parson? But, the less one says upon such a matter, the greater is one's prudence. The public know very tion to the Lord." Bear this in mind, and you will not again well how to estimate the politisay, that even the enemies of cal opposition of these Lords; the ministers acquit them of cru-and so do you, too; but, you thought that the public did not Procceding on with your sixth know how to make the estimate: paragraph, you assert, in order you thought that the little disto cause falsehood to be be-guise that you were drawing lieved, that the charges against over the matter would assist in the Queen were made by a com- effecting your malignant and mittee of Peers," including se-selfish purpose. Your words, "veral distinguished individuals, like the jesuit's creed, admit of a politically opposed to the mi- construction that would make "nisters." This is a sheer false- their meaning true; but, if we hood as to meaning and inten- take in the context you are here |