inform me, where I could procure such a number as I shall stand in need of.-You will please to send the books di rected to me, to be left at the Post Office, Knutsford, till called for.-Believe me to remain, Sir Charles, in the cause of Reform, "Knutsford, Aug. 9, 1819." Your obedient Servant, "WILLIAM COX." Being convinced that this was a trap, after considering for some time how I was to force this villain into the snare he had laid for me, I decided on writing to him the following letter: SIR, "September 22nd. "You would have heard from me before this but I have been so engaged of late; and the books I have sent for were detained on the road for above three weeks. I have, however, now got them; but, upon enquiry, the Parcel being much over weight, i find the Post Office will not take charge of it, therefore you must point out some other means of its being safely conveyed to you; besides, your Post Master has an excessive bad character, therefore I do not like to trust a parcel of this kind to him. I must therefore contrive to send them to you by some other means.-It will give me great pleasure, to be the means of assisting the Reformers of your neighbourhood: and, although I shall only send three copies of the books in question, I shall with pleasure furnish you with several others, should you be able to dispose of them.-I beg, however, for your sake, as well as my own, that caution is the order of the day; for many would be glad to catch hold of us, Reformers; but remember the old adage "Old Birds are not to be caught with chatf." So I may say they shall not easily catch me: for this once l shall be too cunning for them as a burnt child dreads the fire-they have caught me tripping once, but I shall be cautious for the future. "I fear you are surrounded by a damnable set of Aristocrats, who even will not employ a poor man I understand if he presumes to think for himself; but your Cheshire gentry were always famed in the first place, for want of brains, for being very tyrannical, and for their stupid pride, even to a proverb. And their conduct on the late Manchester massacre shows that they do not lack cruelty. We must, however, be of good cheer; we shall be able ere long to send them to the right about-that we may in this succeed is the sincere wish of your friend and brother reformer, "C. WOLSELEY." www In answer to the above letter I received one from him, informing me, I might send the inclosed parcel to the White Lion, in Knutsford. I did send it and at the same time begged a tenant of mine to go down by the same coach, and I followed an hour afterwards; my directions were, that he was not to lose sight of the parcel, and before he had been half an hour in the Inn, my Gentleman walks in, and enquired for a parcel for William Cox. It was delivered to him in the presence of my tenant, who immediately asked him if he was Mr. Cox? He said, "Yes ;-you will be kind enough to put that down in writing." He then said, his name was not Cox, but Vaudrey, and that a Mr. Hodges sent him for it. This, however, my tenant made him put down; signing his name to it, and then went off with the parcel; which, Sir, contained a few numbers of the Chris tian Observer, and the rest in Evangelical Magazines ! ! ! I had written on a small paper in the inside, "The man who opens this is a scoundrel, and so are his employers-I would advise, however, that some of the numbers should be sent to the Manchester Magistrates, and that it would do no harm to send the remainder to those of Cheshire!". Now, Sir, from whence do you suppose this villainous transaction emanated? From Mr. John Hollins's house, Attorney, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions; and the very man who signed my Indictment! AND MR. VAUDREY, AND MR. HODGES, HIS CLERKS. Now, Sir, for the probablé motive for this villainous plot. Is it not just possible, that finding the evidence there was to support the paltry and contemptible prosecution against me, was too weak? Might not this be a scheme to strengthen it? Yes, Sir, as sure as fate, this was the motive; and for this I was to be ensnared. Luckily, however, I have turned the tables upon them, and they shall answer for their scoundrel-like behaviour. I have given a written account to Sir John Stanley, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and to other Magistrates, and also to the Lord Lieutenant of the County. I shall take up no more space in your valuable Publication, by making any further comments. The Public can appreciate the conduct, and I am certain will condemn the act. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Wolseley Hall, Oct. 7, 1819. C. WOLSELEY. REVIEW OF "AN ADDRESS TO THE CATHOLICS." We are well aware that many Catholics are prejudiced against the cause of Reform, lest that Religion would accompany the Government in its fall. The reason for imbibing this idea is the great majority of Deists in the ranks of the Radical Reformers. The Established Religion would most certainly fall from its pre-eminence, but no other would be erected in its place, to the exclusion of different theological opinions. All should he placed upon the same footing, totally unconnected with Government, and depending on the Reason and Truth of the doctrines they inculcate for proselytes, and on their proselytes for support. The Deist requires only a free toleration and public canvas of opinion; the Catholic requires more, for he is petitioning the Legislaiure that the opinions, in the exercise and promulgation of which he is tolerated, should be no bar to his eligibility to accept situations under Government. have seen this week a Premonitory Address to the Catholics of the United Kingdom, which contains many shrewd remarks, and upon the whole is well worthy the attention of those to whom it is addressed. We are extremely anxious to unite to the Reformers the great body of the Catholics, which can only be done by divesting them of their prejudices, and entreating them to look on us as brothers in a cause, the triumph of which will crown them with every thing they can desire, without resorting to the pitiful Right of Petitioning. It is for this purpose we quote the following passage, to display to our Readers the spirit of the pamphlet. We "The union of politics and religion is prejudicial to the pure aud due administration of both to the latter, though it does not destroy the stamina of Faith, or extinguish the taper of Truth, which will for ever burn in the Holy Tabernacle, yet in its effects it is extremely deleterious and paralyzing; it introduces into the bosom of the Church worldlyminded hypocrites, who pluck away a rose and plant a blister on the fair forehead of Religion; it becomes unavoidably the apologist and supporter of the Government, good or bad, with which it is connected; and the connexion, though unnatural, is so close, that the disgrace of the Government is reflected on the Religion, and the downfall of the one almost always accompanies that of the other. An equitable Government needs no assistance from the Ministers of Religion; and is it not a scandal to religion and a manifest evil to the community, for the Clergy to receive the pay and become the support of a tyrannical and unjust Government? "No person, therefore, who accepts the sincerity of this declaration of my religious sentiments, will, think that I wish the Catholic or any other Religion to become politically predominant. On the contrary, I repeat my most anxious wish, that throughout the world there may be no political Religion that the influence of the Holy Spirit, and the partial and corrupt patronage of temporal Governments, which in their natures are essentially opposite, may be completely and for ever disunited." THE DEVILS THAT STIRR'D UP THE STORM. A NEW SONG, by the R-G-T's Ministers, and the M- -R MAGTES. COME join me all ye who to murder are foes, Then sing C-agh, skilled in blowing up strife, Each brother he against brother's life, Chief Devil in raising the Storm. Sing Deputy R-g-t a praying old wight, With blood from the victims dispatched to black night, Sing * Nullius filius, a jester most keen, He'll laugh at our misery, and banter, I ween, Our M-g-trates sing with heads warm & hearts cool, † Sir Knave and Sir Fool so dazzled each tool, That they willingly stirr'd up the Storm. Now abroad is confusion; but where it will end, May the Devils that rais'd it, bereft of each friend, * Geo. Canning, son to Nobody; ergo, an honour to Nobody. † Who knows, but some of our Mr M---tes may have Bt. or Kt. at least, tagged to their names. Printed and published by T. DAVISON, 10, Duke Street, Smithfield. Cap of Liberty. A London Weekly Political Publication. No. 8, Vol. 1.]. Wednesday, October 27th, 1819. If Humanity shows to the God of this World, [PRICE 2d. C. PHILLIPS. ADDRESS TO THE INDEPENDENT INHABITANTS OF MANCHESTER AND ITS VICINITY. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, In the accumulated distresses, under which our country has been suffering, since the apostate Pitt confirmed the establishment of the Boroughmongery system, you have borne perhaps the largest share. For a length of time you worked hard for that, which though it prevented actual starvation, yet could not be denominated a subsistence. You witnessed your wives and children crying for bread, and had it not to give them! If all the evils of Pandora's box were to fall with their fullest force upon the head of one unfor tunate individual, that individual would still be happy when compared to him who. in full health and vigour, hears the plaintive moan for nourishment from helpless infants, and has not wherewithal to give them? Yet such has been your case! and for what have you borne all this?-To support the villains who robbed you of your very comforts; who deprived you of every enjoyment, which a good and benevolent Creator showered down upon this world, for the benefit of all those who by industry were inclined to reap the grateful harvest; yes-to support them in idleness and splendour. They told you-but why need we repeat what they told you, since you are now aware that their very sentence is characterized by falsehood and imposition. Your eyes were at length opened to the villainy of their proceedings, and you resolved to deliberate upon the methods necessary to be resorted to, for the recovery of a fair remuneration for your labour, You met for that purpose, but in the very teeth of Printed and published by T. DAVISON, 10, Duke Street, Smithfield. |