such terms as we would almost blush to use, even when speaking of Lord Castlereagh. He finally concludes a very long speech with a very just sarcasm upon the official conduct of Lord Sidmouth, and the ill effects likely to result to the nation from the imbecile and contemptible administration of such a man. "He (Mr. Lyttleton) conceived, however, that the execution of these laws, if they should become laws, could not be trusted to worse hands than those of the Secretary for the Home Department, He was at a loss to conceive what could induce his Royal Highness to select such a person for such a situation. It was true his private character was unimpeachable; but in times like the present, when the Constitution was at stake, that should, however desirable, not be the sole qualification for the discharge of arduous and important duties. Authority in the hands of such a man was alike dangerous and contemptible. He was sure the Country must suffer from his administration. He should wish to see a more efficient person of his own party placed in that office, as he felt convinced that his exertions must tend considerably to increase the danger of the State." However just this character may be, we confess that Lord Sidmouth is not, in our opinion, one whit more objectionable than some of his Majesty's other Ministers: they are unprincipled he is contemptible; they are deep and designing in their villainies he is a mere necessary tool in their hands to suit their every purpose, and creen them from the odium of measures which are executed in his name.

Mr. Macdonald followed Mr. Lyttleton, and took the usual course of abusing the Radicals. One passage of his speech, however, must never be forgotten, although spoken by a professed Whig-"Could," said he, "such coercive measures be productive of happiness to the Sovereign of contentment to the People? The silence of the tomb might prevail, it was true, for a season, but the convulsed features of Society would ill conceal its feverish reposc. When the system of terror had been establishedwhen the eye spoke despair, the reigning Prince of the Country would turn round upon his Ministers, and demand, why they had prompted him to measures which had oppressed and alienated his People? Why they had robbed him of the truest sources of gratification which a Ruler could possibly enjoy the affections and confidence of his subjects?" This paragraph needs no comment; it is worth more than all the speeches of the Whigs since the commencement of this session of Parliament.

Mr. Peel made a speech of an amazing length, in the manner of the late expectant but disappointed Baronet, Lord Mayor Atkins, all about fire, murder, pikes, seditious meetings, trainings, treasonable publications, and all the other et ceteras which fear is capable of conjuring up to scare the senses of a pensioner or sinecurist. We intended commenting on the provisions of the Seditious Meetings Bill, but really the picture drawn of its effects, when in force, by Lord Folkestone, is so very striking, that we give it verbatim. "The Bill did not profess to be local, but they (the Opposition) hoped in a Committee to make it local. But the Solicitor General professed no such intention; he avowed his intention that it should be permanent; but if his Honourable Friends would look into the provisions of the Bill, they would see the pitiful and harrassing clauses under which the Meetings it professed to admit were to be exercised. Under such pitiful and harrassing regulations, the Solicitor General told the House that this Bill would make little or no difference in what the People now enjoyed, because the Lord Lieutenants of counties, the Sheriffs, the Magistrates, and Grand Juries, would still have the power of calling those Meetings. Bat was it to be expected, after Lord Fitzwilliam, was it to be hoped that a Sheriff appointed by the Minister would comply with a requisition, and sauction such a Meeting. There were to be no Meetings but under the authority of the Magistrates. It was true that the Magistrates could not refuse the notice, but they might alter the time, and occasion every possible inconvenience, or they might alter the place of meeting, or they might appoint it to be held in such a room that half the People would not be able to meet. But was that all the inconvenience? Were there no spies to be present? and if there was the least pretence, after one quarter of an hour, the whole meeting might be dissolved, the Resolutions nullified, and the People liable to TRANSPORTATION! And this was the comfortable way in which the right of petition was to be exercised; "And a very comfortable way no doubt it will be found, at least by the Ministerial party. The Liberties of the People are now at stake-another week, and they are gone for ever! Vain will be every effort to save them, except instantly meeting, while yet you you may, and demanding that those Bills shall not be passed into, or if passed into laws, that they shall be forthwith repealed. The only Traitors to their Country are those who bribe and those who are bribed to vote away the Liberties, Rights, and Privileges of the People, who depute

bem to legislate for the preservation of their immunities. These deputies or servants of the People have elected themselves, contrary to either law or justice, into their masters, and now will not suffer them to stir or speak contrary to their august will and pleasure. Whether this be Treason against the People or not, we leave that People to judge'; People to judge, but we certainly think that a Representa tive of the People is committing an overt act of Teason, when he gives a vote contrary to the expressed wish of the majority of his constituents. If this be not the law, it is in vain to call them the Representatives of the People, for they represent themselves. England! England! arouse thee from thy lethargy, and shake from thy majestic mein the villains who would goad thee to thy ruin-whọ would lead thee to the snares of the Hunter, who is waiting to entrap thee to fill his own coffers, by presenting thee in chains, to grace the processions of his Royal Master!

OPPRESSIVE CASE OF POOR WADDINGTON.'

WHAT a blessed time is this we live in when our liberties are at the mercy even of a Watchman! Thus we see that Mr. Waddington was taken up at the hour of eight o'clock at night, for blowing a horn and repeating the following placard, announcing a Public Meeting to be held on Clerkenwell Green :

Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!-A Public Meeling takes place on Thursday the 2d of December, on Clerkenwell Green, for the purpose of taking into consi deration those oppressive measures now pending in Parliament against the liberty of the subject and the Press; and likewise the robberries that are intended to take place, if the said measures be passed into laws. Invite all neighbours and friends to be present upon this important occasion; for these are critical times that we now live in."

Will it be believed that for this constitutional and harmless transaction, Mr. Waddington has been and now is in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, since the 1st of December, while Meagher the Trumpeter is at large, amid the scenes of his and his comrades wholesale carnage. This is an equal distribution of justice with a vengeance; but unfortunately justice and the M- s are for ever at variance. Justice is obnoxious to them, for they are well aware that if strong enough it would conduct them to the scaffold for their manifold outrages of its laws, and therefore they endeavour to crush it altogether, ere it can reach its necessary maturity.

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When we even for a moment consider the measures pending in the House of Commons to which the foregoing placard alludes, we confess that it is next to an impossibility to attempt to restrain our feelings of indignation, against their authors; and we do not hesitate to declare that any measures on the part of the People, which tend to overthrow such a diabolical junto, are justifiable in our opinion by every law of Nature, and by the ties which link every individual to his country and to society. We are charged with advocating doctrines of assassination, and, this charge comes from the Whigs both of the Houses of Lords and Commons. How very strange that these gentry were not horror stricken when these doctrines were worse than advocated-when they were actually put into practice, by the Right Hon. Derry Down Triangle! Was it not (we ask) assassination to send spies into the heart of the kingdom to foment insurrection, and then hang the insurgents? Why did not the Whigs denounce this incarnate demon as an assassin? Why not impeach him as a traitor to humanity, to his country, and to his. God?, Why not call upon the House to expel him as a source-a chief source of contamination in that House, and of crime throughout the country? Why smile so complaisantly in his face, dignify him with the title of Noble Lord or Hon. Friend; while we who would send the monster to the Hell he merits, are held up as objects of scorn and contempt to the world. It is a clear proof that the horror of the Whigs is all pretended; they are quite surprised that the Radicals should dare to think or speak, or act for themselves; it should all be done through the medium of the Whigs, who in the event of a change, will take the reins of Government, together with the sinecares, places, and pensions, into, their own keeping, solely for the adyantage of the People. Good souls! how much obliged ought, the People to be for the kindness of their intentions. The Opposition this Session have shrunk into such utter insignificance, that Ministers might with impunity carry a Bill through hoth Houses of Parliament authorising the indiscriminate massacre of all who disbelieved that they were appointed by Right Divine, to tyrannize with despotic sway over the liberties of England. They are now in fact nothing less as a body than contemptible! Even when they exert themselves, they betray a want of soul and spirit to render their efforts either effectual or impressive. That the Ministry will finally succeed in passing these measures juto laws, we do not entertain the smallest doubt; but we confidently look to Jurymen throughout the country to

protect all publishers from the consequences of such a glaring infringement on the principles of our Constitution. Indeed a Jury of our Peers is now the only palladium between us and a military despotism; and we much fear that ere two Sessions more will elapse, Lord Castlereagh will again apply to the House, with his usual canting hypocritical falsehoods of "Indeed no person is a greater friend to Trial by Jury than myself; it is the grand palladium of liberty; but liberty must not be suffered to degenerate into licentiousness, and I regret to say that several late verdicts prove beyond a doubt the necessity of an alteration, or rather an improvement in the mode of selecting Jurymen. Far be it from me to encroach upon the rights of the People; nobody regards, those rights with a more jealous eye than I do; but the proposed alteration it will be seen cannot materially, if at all, affect them, it being only to vest the nomination of Jurymen in the Crown, in all and every case where the Sovereign Lord the King is plaintiff." A speech or two in answer will be made by the Whigs, who will be sure to coincide in the alleged infamy of the verdicts alluded to, and the Bills would become law. Oh God! that we should live to see Old England in the clutches of such a set! The hour however is, we trust, fast approaching when her children will relieve her from thraldom.

It is in vain we endeavour to quit this subject: it will still recur to our minds, arousing every passion almost to frenzy at the bare idea of surrendering the liberties of the country. Of all sorts of tyranny, domestic is the most galling and the the most difficult to be overcome. It therefore becomes the duty of Englishmen to oppose its infliction, ere their efforts will be unavailing. It is the duty of every man to bleed, if necessary, for the freedom of his country; and who will say that freedom is not now endangered? Nothing can be expected from the Whigs: they are a most execrable and contemptible race of beings: they would surrender every thing into the hands of the Ministry. What can be expected from People who view or pretend to view with horror a flag bearing the inscription of " Liberty or Death." How the Tories must hug themselves on having only such an Opposition to contend with. They just serve to mislead the country with the fallacious idea that the Ministry have not it entirely their own way, in the Houses of Lords and Commons. For our own parts we are confident that the Whigs had much better have remained silent altogether, than to have stood forth with such a paltry shew of opposition to such daring and rapid strides towards a military despotism.