Liberties of their Country, even at any price that Lord Castlereagh in his liberality may offer. If, however, they do prove themselves Traitors to their Country, there is still one great paladium left, and that paladium is Trial by Jury; To make Trial by Jury effectual in counteracting the bad and mischievous enactments of the House of Commons, it be comes the duty of every Public Journalist to impress upon the minds of Juryman while yet he may, the moral obligation which they are under of acquitting all and every individual; who may hereafter be brought before them as transgressors of those laws which encroach upon the Rights of the People; for no Parliament since the commencement of the world, ever had authority to resist the unprescriptable Rights of Man, and, therefore, as such authority has been glaringly usurped, its enactments should (in the language of the Resolutions passed at the Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, at the Mermaid Inn, Hackney;)“ be holden for naught."

If Public Meetings are prohibited, and a Bill of Indemnity should be passed, to screen the authors of the atrocious Massacre at Manchester, on the 16th of August, from justice, we conceive that Insurrection will become a Public Duty 3 and if Insurrection throughout the Country is the imicdiate consequence, we bodly declare, that that Juror who joins in a sentence of guilty against an insurgent in such a case, is a Traitor to his Country. Jurors must not, then, take the ipse dixit of the Judge, that such is the law, and they are bound to abide by it." No, Jurors must argue thus laws are maxims by which a society have agreed to live in harmony together, and to which the great majority of that society, have previously given their sanction, or they cannot constitute Laws. If a minority of that society make arrangements which they compel the majority to submit to by the sword or the bayonet, such arrangements do not constitute' Law; they are nothing more than arrangements which that society is not bound to submit to longer than they can help it. Nay, they are morally obliged to overturn such a system by their duty to their families and to posterity. It should be rightly understood that nothing can be law but what is sanctioned by the People, and according to this principle only Jurymen should decide.

We look with extreme anxiety towards the next Meeting of Parliament, which is now so near at hand; for we deem it to be far the most important period which Englishmen ever witnessed. Much may depend upon the conduct of the Whigs, who are the most insignificant party in the kingdom.

If they unite themselves with the Radical Reformers. they may yet save their sinking Country from suspending destruction: if they unite against them, all will shortly be a dreadful state of anarchy, desolation, and bloodshed. The Reformers are deficient in weath to carry sufficient weight with their resolutions. The Whigs are similarly deficient in number; but both, when united, would have every influence they could desire, and resources fully adequate to all the purposes of bringing the Tories to the insulted Tribunals of their Country, for deeds at which humanity shudders, and which cry aloud for exterminating vengeance. The villainies of the present Ministry have already raised the war whoop in the western part of Ireland; how soon the signal beacon will blaze upon fair Albion's hills depends upon the daring of the Ministry, and upon the Patriotism of the People. If the People are finally driven into slavery, and if those beacons are therefore lighted, we now breathe a fervent prayer that they may be extinguished only with the blood of the Tyrants who would anihilate the alter and the face of Freedom, and establish on their ruins the demoniacal tortures of Inquisitional Benches, and the no less execrable sword of the Military Despot. Accursed be the vile, the coward heart, that would refuse to pour forth its warmest vital stream, when " strike for Freedom and for Albion," is the cry! Accursed we say, be the heart that meanly withholds its offering as the shrine of Freedom! Accursed, doubly accursed, be the heart that sinks with terror when COUNTRY cries for vengeance and for justice!

AN OLD OBSERVATION,

Or, “There's nothing like Leather," though generally ridiculed for its Folly, proved to have more substantial Truth in it than is generally imagined. By Poor NABOAH, of Paddington.

Two thousand three hundred and forty years since,
Reigned CAMBYSES-a potent and praise-worthy prince,
As near as my story need tell;

He appointed a person, SYSAMNES by name,
To hear and determine each Litigant's clain,
With a "Mind you determine them well."
SYSAMNES, like some of much more recent times,
Disregarding his duty recurred to crimes,
Of corruption and bribery too!

For a man that had money and many a friend,
Was sure of obtaining his object and end,

Be his character brown, black, or blue.

"Much money meant merit, or much the same thing,”Was a maxim SYSAMNES would oftentimes bring,

To defend a position of wrong;

For foul filthy luere had so fill'd his mind,
To intriguing and int'rest he always inclined,
So history says, and my song.

In judging he found, when impatient to dine,
Soup had not the substance of ven'son and wine,
Inducing at once to assert;

"As the Plaintiff was poor and of origin base,
"Such surely applied to the whole of the case;"
Thús plunging him deeper in dirt.

Thus Justice inverted-the Populace arin'd,
And demanded in tones that CAMBYSES alarm'd,
That the Judge should be call'd to account;
The praise-worthy Prince promptly gave his permission,
To make a minute-a most strict inquisition;
Which resulted in this-the amount:

Of corruption convicted most clearly complete,
And of dark, double-dealing, deception, deceit,
And evils enormous beside;

Suspension-from office and trust did ensue,
And then a suspension in air-deemed his due :
So SYSAMNES with infamy died.

But CAMBYSES the potent and praise-worthy Prince,
His abhorrence and anger at once to evince,

Gave orders to take off his skin;

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Urging Flaying for fleecing the poor was but just, And might tend to make Judges more true to their trust, "So avoid his sad state and his sin."

So a butcher and tanner were called to decide,
How they would advise to dispose of the hide,
Who agreed and concerted together:

Their advice was approved by CAMBYSES the King, SAs the best, the best the most cogent exemplary thing; So the same was converted to leather.

If then (future justice to render complete)
Stuff'd and nail'd on a Lord Chief Justice's seat,
Produc'd this consoling effect;

Not an instance occurr'd for a cent'ry or more,
Of the rich circumventing, oppressing the poor,
Not a case could they even suspect.

This lesson we learn-from this terrible Tale,
Truth and Justice, tho' tardy, in time will prevail.
But the whole case when taken together,

Demonstrates with truth-clear as EUCLID lays down,
Whole Kingdoms convuls d, MAY BE SAVED or a Town-
By a wise application of Leather.

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ad of di log If Humanity shows to the God of this World,anogaibai you noilnetin A sight for his fatherly eye,

NOTABLE SPEECH OF THE PRINCE REGENT. TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY.

CURIOSITY tempted us yesterday to repair to St. Stephen's, to witness the Prince going in state to open both Houses of Parliament. As we approached the Theatre of the Boroughmongers, the tolling of the bells of Westminster Abbey, borne on the swelling breeze, sunk col cold and heavy on our hearts; it seemed like the last dying kngil of Libert

in here was anguish in the thought, Every idea,

however, was soon dispersed by the approach of his Royal Highness, who was greeted by the most enthusiastic hisses of disapprobation, from the thousands who were assembled to witness the Procession. His Royal Highness took his seat in the House of Peers, about two o'clock, and delivered, the following oration, (cut and dried, as the vulgar folks say) to a full assemblage of the Members of both Houses.

It is with great concern that I am again obliged to announce to you the continuance of his MAJESTY's lamented indisposition.

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"I regret to have been under the necessity of calling you together at this period of the year; but the seditious pracsome of the manufacturing districts of the country, have been continued with increased activity since you were last assembled in Parliament.

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They have led to proceedings incompatible with the public tranquillity, and with the pacific habits of the indus

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trious classes of the community, and a spirit is now fully manifested utterly hostile to the Constitution of this Kingdom, and aiming, not only at the change of those political institutions which have hitherto constituted the pride and security of this country, but at the subversion of the rights of property and of all order in society.

I have given directions that the necessary information on this subject shall be laid before you, and I feel it to be my indispensable duty to press on your immediate attention the consideration of such measures as may be requisite for the counteraction and suppression of a system, which if not effectually checked, must bring confusion and ruin on the

nation.

"Gentlemen of the House of the Commons,

"The estimates for the ensuing year will be laid before

you.

"The necessity of affording protection to the lives and property of his Majesty's loyal subjects, has compelled me to make some addition to our military force; but I have no doubt, you will be of opinion, that the arrangements for this purpose have been effected in the manner likely to be the least burdensome to the Country.

"Although the Revenue has undergone some fluctuation since the close of the last Session of Parliament, I have the satisfaction of being able to inform you, that it appears to be again in a course of progressive improvement.

Some depression still continues to exist in certain branches of our manufactures, and I deeply lament the distress which is in consequence felt by those who more immediately depend upon them; but this depression is in a great measure to be ascribed to the embarrassed situation of other countries, and 1 earnestly hope that it will be found to be of a temporary nature.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

"I continue to receive from foreign Powers, the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this Country. "It is my most anxious wish that advantage should be taken of this season of peace to secure and advance our internal prosperity; but the successful prosecution of this object must essentially depend on the preservation of domestic tranquillity.

Upon the loyalty of the great body of the people, I have the most confident reliance: but it will require your utmost vigilance and exertion, collectively and individually, to check the dissemination of the doctrines of treason and impiety, and to impress upon the minds of all classes of his MAJES