Lord Mayor of London either a Knight or a Baronet, for trampling on the imprescriptible rights of those freemen who happened to reside within his jurisdiction. If, Sir, you can say all this and prove it, and also by commencing, shew a determination to reform the abuses of the Governmsnt-then, Sir, and only then will you be supported by the great mass of the People. The hissings and other marks of disapprobation which for years have resounded in your ears, will be instantaneously changed to cheers of gratitude; the nation will hail you as its preserver from the horrors of perhaps a sanguinary Revolution, and in time you will ascend a throne hallowed by the blessings of a free and independent People. What a contrast, Sir, between such a state of things and the present degraded situation you hold in the estimation of the good and virtuous part of the community! Is such an object unworthy the exertions of a Prince to attain? or have the People become as insignificant in the eyes of the Prince as the Prince has long since rendered himself in the eyes of the People?

You had better, Sir, not allow matters to proceed to greater extremities before you commence the desirable work of Reform, or the People will attribute your exertions rather to fear of the effects of their resentment than to the natural goodness of your disposition. For my own part, I have had no other means of judging of your character than from your political conduct, and you must excuse me when I say, that the natural bias of your heart has not appeared to me in a very favourable light. The private character of a Prince should not, I believe, be considered the criterion of his worth, for a Prince is exposed to many more temptations than other individuals, while he is seldom gifted with more than ordinary resolution: when, however, in his official capacity, he acts inconsistently with our ideas of virtue and universal benevolence, when his judgment is brought into action for the benefit of those who have elevated him to a throne,we must ascribe it to the heart or to the head; and if we have good reason to suppose that he has sufficient judgment to discriminate, we must attribute it to the former; indeed, to which ever we attribute it, but one inference can be drawn, and that is, that he is unfit to govern. Beware, Sir, how you drive the People of England to come to this conclusion, which is but the first step towards an insurrection; or rather lose not a moment in conciliating the irritated feelings of the People, and of thus obviating the fatal consequences of this conclusion at which the People have at last arrived; and where, if redress be not afforded, I feel confi

dent they will not stop, but lead you to the fate which Princes (less guilty in the eyes of the nation) have, ere now, been compelled to submit to. Once more I repeat, that the Prince who confides in such a man or in such a Lord as Castlereagh, trusts in a person who sooner or later will conduct him to, I was going to say, a madhouse. A traitor is not to be depended upon! Choose honest men for your Ministershonest men for Judges-honest men for Magistrates,—and you will have honest men to hail you as their Sovereign with the loudest enthusiasm. If you place a different description of characters in power, Rebellion and Revolution will be ever stretching wide their jaws to swallow Prince, Crown, and Courtiers in one promiscuous ruin. It is true, Sir, that a Prince feels the bitterness of his fate, for conviction flashes on his soul, that misconduct was the cause of the unenviable though just decrees of punishment inflicted by a liberated people.

Farewell, Sir; you may, perhaps, again be addressed by your Royal Highness's most obedient,

J. GRIFFIN.

REAL MOTIVES FOR THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE INQUEST AT OLDHAM.

THE inquest on the body of JOHN LEES, to which we have had occasion in several of our numbers to refer, has now been adjourned, without any sufficient cause, until the 1st of December. It is our duty to point out to the public the motives for such unprecedented administration of justice. In the first place, then, it was very evident that a verdict of WILFUL MURDER must, from the weight of evidence, be registered by the Jury; and, consequently, the Magistrates, Yeomanry, Cavalry, and Constables of Manchester, would, most probably, be shortly conducted to the scaffold. Mr. Ferrand, the Coroner, (a man after Castlereagh's own heart) follows the advice of Mr. Ashworth in perverting Law and Justice for the purpose of screening those murderers from the vengeance of their insulted countrymen. Their efforts were, however, defeated by the superior capacity and legal knowledge of Messrs. Harmer and Denison. In every instance their chicanery has been detected; and, as a last recourse, they adjourn the inquest for nearly two months.

* Two very different things in England, as we have seen in the two trials, or rather the Inquisitorial proceedings against Mr. Carlile,

Many are at a loss to conceive what their meaning is in taking this extraordinary course of proceeding; and, indeed, we doubt if Mr. Ferrand knows more about it than merely obeying the orders of the Cabinet, which is more sacred than law to such a contemptible fool of the Ministers and Magistrates as this Lancashire coroner. The meaning of the Cabinet for giving him those directions, are obvious to every observer: Parliament is to meet on the 23d of November, and, doubtless, a Bill of Indemnity will be passed; which, of course, will render useless any further proceedings in the case of LEES. We do not come to this conclusion from any apparent necessity of such an act, but from the well-known predilection for murderers and assassins inherent in our most gracious premier, Lord Castlereagh. We would stake even our existence that the amiable Lord by courtesy, will not introduce a bill to indemnify the sufferers upon that melancholy occasion. No, no! but at the end of a two hours' speech, deprecating the evil intentions of wicked and designing men, and laying forth the difficulties of the magisterial trade in the execution of their duties and their liability to err from the purest and most humane* motives, out will come a recommendation to the Honourable House to take into consideration the loyalty of their motives, and in their wisdom to indemnify them for having, in the exertion of their arduous duty, slightly infringed upon the laws by committing a few trivial assaults. The House is very complaisant to his Lordship, as we have, in several instances, witnessed to their discredit; but if in this case they agree. to the motion of his Lordship, they will be traitors to their country and to their God, and will one day expiate their offences (the word is too tame,) their enormities with their persons. Indeed, the House of Commons (if such it may be called) has long since forfeited every claim tot he respect or to the confidence of the people, by their barefaced usurpation of an authority which they were never delegated to exercise. They are, therefore, classed in the ideas of the people with the horde of Usurpers and Traitors to the Constitution with which our unfortunate country has too long abounded; and it is our most decided opinion, that if they do not look more narrowly to the sufferings of the people, which it is their duty to redress, they will be overwhelmed in the vortex of what we cannot close our eyes upon-an approaching Revolution. Every Bill of Indemnity

We doubt not but Lord Castlereagh will labour hard to prove that the Massacre at Peterloo, proceeded from an excess of humanity on the part of the Magistrates, &c.

that is passed through the House of Commons, is an act of treachery against the Constitution, and all who are in any way accessary to its enactment, are parties in the treason and violators of public justice. Let them beware! they are worthy of punishment! the wrath of the people is kindled! lay but anothor faggot, and destruction will attend the unquenchable fury of its blaze!

DEFALCATION OF THE REVENUE.

WHAT a state must that country be in, when the patriotie parts of its population rejoice at the distresses and losses of. the Government! And thus it is with England, after a warfare in which the gold and the blood of her children was largely squandered. Peace has arrived, but has brought no blessings with it. God has most benevolently showered down his abundant harvest throughout the country, and the people are starving in the midst of plenty. It is needless now to enter into an explanation of such extraordinary contrarieties. The Country is sufficiently aware that the mischief originates in the Cabinet, and until that Cabinet be reformed, there can be no expectation of a change for the better. By curtailing them in their pecuniary resources is the most feasible method of accomplishing this most devoutly to be wished for result. The quarter ending July gave great hopes to the Reformers that they were securely reaching the desired end; but how much more sanguine must their hopes be now. The defalcation of the Revenue for the quarter ending in July, was £800,000.; that of the quarter ending this present month of October, is computed at £1,200,000. forming a minus for the half year, of £2,000,000. Now when the new taxes are taken into consideration, by which Ministers expected to raise a surplus revenue of £3,000,000. per annum, or £1,500,000. for the half year, it of course follows that they are £3,500,000. less than their expectations. This is a most cheering prospect to all ranks of Reformers, and must be particularly gratifying to those who have adhered to the resolution of abstaining from excisable articles. On tea alone it was calculated that there would be an increase of revenue of £300,000. for this last quarter; it, however, appears that there is (instead of a surplus) a decrease of no less than £165,000. If the Revenue continues thus decreasing for six months longer, our aim will be accomplished.

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FURTHER OBSERVATIONS OF THE CASE OF MR. CARLILE.

THE long-expected Trial of Mr. Carlile is put off for ever. A fair trial would have elicited truth, and therefore Mr. Carlile was sent before an inquisition, which, after hearing one side of the question, (the Attorney-General's) refuses, with worse than Spanish bigotry, to hear the defence of the accused. The feelings excited by the massacres at Manchester were not yet subsided, when a still more infamous proceeding compels us to give full reins to our indignation. For the Jury (whether under the influence of prejudice, or of gratitude for that which it would not be prudent to mention), we declare that we entertain the most sovereign contempt, even now, while they are drawing their pursestrings over the earnings of the few preceding days. For the Attorney-General we entertain a something bordering on abhorrence. We conceive him to be worse than despicable. What! a Deist to come into a Court of Justice as a persecuting advocate for doctrines he disbelieves. Shame! shame! Sir Robert Gifford. Why, we ask, did not the dignitaries of the Church, who are so active in assisting the Government in the plunder of the nation, stand forward upon this occasion and confute the Age of Reason by argument? One and all they have shrunk from the contest; and what is to be from thence inferred? Why, that the Scriptures cannot bear the test of Reason, and therefore Christian persecution must be resorted to, for the purpose of keeping a little longer inviolable the revenues of the Church. Those who have the wrong side of the question are invariably the first to resort to force; but in despight of persecution the principles of Deism will triumph;-yes, the Age of Reason yet shall be. An unprejudiced and an unbiassed Jury will, ere long, stamp a proper value upon the writings of the immortal Paine, and their predecessors, who yesterday held themselves up to the execration of the world, will blush (if they be not strangers to shame) at their conduct in consigning an innocent individual to a dungeon. He was charged with publishing a work declaring the Bible to be an imposition on the world, and when he offers to prove such declaration to be true, the Grand issues forth

his solemn interdiction? Gracious heavens! how long is this infernal system to be tolerated? How long is the impious,. the blasphemous, invention of a set of hypocritical villains in the garb of sanctity, to bę palmed upon the world as the