been sinning here with your eyes rally tend to anarchy, atheism,
open; for, can you open a news and universal ruin. As tó

paper; can you hear a man
open his mouth; can you read
a speech at any meeting, or in
the Parliament; can you read
an Address to the Queen; can
you read any one answer of her
Majesty to any of the numerous
addresses, without knowing that another word for an absence of
the honour and humanity of the a fair administration of jus
Ministers are called in question? tice, The worst sort of anar-
You cannot; and, therefore, this chy is that which protects the
assertion of yours is one of the
most impudent and profligate
assertions that ever was made by
mortal man.

ruin, it is now universal, ex-
cept amongst those who live on
the tythes and taxes; and, there--
fore, all that the Radicals could
possibly do in this way, would
be to make the ruin fall on all
alike fairly. Anarchy is only

few, and leaves the many to
be scourged and pillaged at
the will of those few. Whe
ther we at present taste of
Your eighteenth paragraph anarchy, or not, I shall not
is simply an effort of jesui- take upon me to determine.
tical hypocrisy, except that it But, without yielding my right
contains an impudent asser- to say more of this matter ano-
tion on your part, that Mr.ther time, let me ask you, which
WHITBREAD "must entertain of the Devil's imps it was that
some question of the Queen's urged you on to ascribe atheis-
purity." If Mr. WHITBREAD tical principles to the Radicals?
think as the public in general Where do you find a proof of
think, he entertains no such it? Who amongst the Radicals
question; but I confess that no has attempted to inculcate athe-
answer, other than horsewip ism? You are a great man for
of broomstick, is appropriate to producing proofs; but here you
an assertion like this.
abandon the maxim, that men
are not to be pronounced guilty
without proof, a maxim which

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The nineteenth paragraph contains a charge against the Radicals, who, you say, reject you were so eager to twist into the Scriptures and contemn all an application in favour of the the institutions of the country; gentlemen and ladies of Cotand that their endeavours natu-ton-garden. Where do you find

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that you will endeavour to show on some future occasion.

You say that you have here given us a practical comment on

the proof of the Radicals being what you say they are; and why do you not attend to the precept which you give to the children, and “ keep your the doctrines that you are com“tongue from lying and slan-manded, on the highest autho"dering?" "What right have rity, to teach from Sunday to you to bring charges against Sunday. These doctrines are, -us, without supporting those fear God, honour the King, "Just charges with proof? Expect name not uncleanness." not, after this, that we shall be nice in speaking of the body to which you belong. Priests have always been meddling; but it is seldom that even they have meddled in a way so extremely wicked and insolent.

before the words "fear God," stand, in the Scriptures,

love the brotherhood." These you omit, I see, as making no part of the doctrines that you teach. To have inserted them would have puzzled you; for

Your last paragraph begins they do not mean the Ministers, with a sort of saving provision, the Tax-eaters, the Parsons, which was not necessary, under Edwards, Oliver, Castles, the any circumstances, and particu- Milan Commission, and the inlarly under the present circum- habitants of Cotton-garden: no; stances, if you had come for-they mean the People at large; ward as the friend, and not as and you would have found it not the enemy of the oppressed. to suit your purpose, to tell us, You say that this is not a ques-that the "highest authority" tion of mere politics; but aques-commanded you to love those tion of morals and of religion. whom you had just been calling Very true; for morality and MOB and ATHEISTS. You sliptrue religion calls upon us all ped out of this difficulty by to set our faces against this omitting a precept, which takes dastardly persecution, this foul, precedence of honouring the this infamous conspiracy. But King and even of fearing God.

how morals and religion can Whether you shew a disposiwarrant you in endeavouring to tion to honour the King in your give countenance to these dia-base endeavours to dishonour bolical proceedings, let us hope his Consort; whether you show

your fear of God by exhibiting and girls of England, and so yourself arrayed in arrogance, dearly paid for by the sweat of insolence, hypocrisy, and false- the brows of their fathers and hood; whether such be an ap-mothers. And, lest any part of propriate commentary on the this commentary should remain doctrines which you teach from unintelligible, one of the BiSunday to Sunday, at Harrow shops is reported to have coron the Hill, I shall leave the rected the translation of a very public to judge; but the people ticklish part of the evidence of of Harrow on the Hill will cer- mistress Barbara Krantz. The tainly want no commentary Bishop, doubtless, in bringing on the precept, which, from forth a full and detailed descrip Sunday to Sunday, you teach tion in good plain English, of against the "not once naming what Mrs. Barbara swore she of uncleanness amongst them," saw in the bed, and in putting for, thanks to that noble House the object down upon paper, which is the object of your and so bringing it before the praise; thanks to that highest eyes of our boys and girls almost Court of judicature in the land; as plain as it lay before the eyes and thanks particularly to the of Mrs. Barbara herself; in Bishops, the commentary on taking this uncommon pains, that precept; the commentary the Right Reverend Father in on the precept not even to God, was, beyond all question, name uncleanness; this com- actuated by the consideration, ment has been most amply ex-that the clergy are, as you asemplified and most extensively sert, the" the constituted guarcirculated by the Ministers and dians of morals" !!!

by the House of Lords, in the I have thus followed you, Report of the Secret Committee, Parson, through the whole of in the Bill of Pains and Penal-your letter. Profiting from your ties, and in that mass of filthi- example as a thing to shun, I ness and falsehood, the opening have used no falsehood, no misspeech of the Attorney-General; representation, no fraud, no.deand also in the evidence drawn ception, no shuffling. I have from Cotton-garden, after being met you at every point, and I imported from Italy expressly should be very willing to leave for the instruction of the boys your own congregation to judge

fered to the bravest and most gallant woman in the world.

When this act had once been committed, there was no retreat without disgrace. Dis

between us, without saying another word on the subject; but, Parson, as you stand forward in the name of the whole body to which you belong, I think proper to add a few remarks grace must fall upon somebody: with regard to the conduct of upon the advisers of this indigthat body generally. nity, or upon the Queen her

In the first place, the present self; and her Majesty bravely struggle in the country, which resolved to risk fortune and life struggle fills every body with rather than suffer the disgrace to some degree of alarm; and of remain upon her. The consewhich struggle even the friends quences of that resolution we of the Ministers themselves now have, in part, before us the lament the existence. This remaining consequences we struggle owes its origin entirely have yet to witness. What to the Church! Mark that, Par- those consequences may be, it son. The beginning of the would be temerity to attempt thing was the leaving of her even to guess at; but be they Majesty's name out of the Li-what they may, I again say, turgy. Had it not been for that the Church will have the this step, all might have been prime part of the responsibiavoided; but when this step had lity resting on its head. once been taken, the struggle Before her Majesty's name became matter of absolute ne- could have been left out of the cessity. It was a mark of dis-Liturgy, there must have been honour Imprinted on the charac-a consultation with the Bishops, ter of the Queen. It was an or with a part of them, at least. open accusation made against At any rate, the Archbishop of her. It was an indelible record Canterbury must have been of infamy upon her head. It consulted, and his assent obwas an open challenge given to every drop of blood in her veins.

It was the grossest indignity

tained.

This was a matter which peculiarly belonged to him. He is a known friend of the Ministers. His family has His cousin

and insult ever offered to any enormous power.

human being; and it was of-is a Duke, his brother Lord

Chancellor of Ireland, his son that the Church has been the Speaker of the House of Com-original cause of every thing mons. This was, I say, a mat-that now fills you with dread. ter which peculiarly belonged Comfort yourself, therefore, as to him. The law was clear as well as you can. But, keep daylight against the omission of your slanders on the Queen and the name; and if he had made on her friends within your lips. a representation to the King You have rendered no service against the omission, is there a to the cause of the Queen's perman in England who can possecutors; and have only done sibly believe that the omission mischief to the order to which would ever have taken place? you belong. Priests have, in Therefore, the whole of the all ages, been the fast friends of mischief is traced back directly political injustice and oppression, to this origin. All the former Why this is so, would admit proceedings; the Spies, the Mi-of an easy explanation. They lan Commission; and all the sub- have generally profitted from sequent proceedings, up to the their labours; but, in the preopening of the Green Bags, sent case, it appears clear to me would easily have been ob- that, if they mean to insure their literated from people's minds. 'destruction; if they mean to But this omission in the Liturgy leave themselves without a was not to be gotten rid of. It gleam of hope, they cannot do was a stigma not to be endured. better than to imitate you in. It was an act of injustice too putting forth, by tongue as well glaring to be retracted. Even as pen, viperous slanders and impudent falsehoods.

now, it is this omission in the Liturgy that forms the insuperable bar to accommodation. It cannot be submitted to by the Queen without everlasting disgrace; and it cannot be retracted without disgrace and infamy on those who advised it, and without punishment, too, for their subsequent acts.

Thus is it as clear as day light

WM. COBBETT.

DIVERS SUBJECTS. THE LETTER TO LORD PALMERSTON must come into my next Register. Parson Cunningham has occupied more of my room than I had, in my mind, allotted to him. Lord Palmerston