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BROTHER JONATHAN TO JOHN BULL.
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ADVICE . MR . WILKINSON , SURGEON , HAVING devoted bis Studies for many Years to the successful Treatment of the VENEREAL DISEASE , in all its various Forms ; also , to the frightful consequences resulting from that destructive practice , " self Abuse , " may be personally eon-Bnlted from Nine in the Morning till Ten at Night , and on Sundays till Two , at IS , TRAFALGAR STREET , NORTH STREET , Leeds , and every Thursday , at No . 4 , GEORGE STREET , Bradford , from Ten rill Five .
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OLD PARR'S LAST WILL & TESTAMENT . A MOST singular document has recently been brought to light , and is now in the possession of the Rev . W * . Abther , of East Peckham : it appears to- have been written by the celebrated OLD PARR , who attained the almost incredible age of one hundred and fifty-two years , and who left this document to a relation : it is written on parchment , and although upwards of two hundred years old is in an excellent state of preservation The following is an extract : —
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44 , ALBION STREET , LEEDS . TN CASES of SECRECY consult the TREATISE A on every Stage and Symptom of the VENEREAL DISEASE , in its mild and most alarming forms , just published , by Messrs . PERRY and CO ., Surgeons , No . 44 , Albion-street , Leeds , Private Entrance in the Passage ; and 4 , Great Charles-street , Birmingham , and given gratis with each Box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , price 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and 11 s . per Box , containing a full description of the above complaint , illustrated by Engravings , shewing the different stages of this deplorable and often fatal disease , as well as the dreadful effects of Mercury , accompanied with plain and practical directions for an effectual and speedy cure , with ease , secrecy , and safety , without the aid of Medical
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Shipwreck . —The barque City of Edinburgh , bound from London to Sydney with passengers and a general cargo , was wrecked off Flinder ' s Island , in July . The vessel and cargo were destroyed , but no lives lost . _ .-... . ¦ , Fatal Accidect . —On Thursday , in last ^ weelr , the painters employed in repairing and beautifying the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury , repaired , to their work as usual . Most of them bad been out holiday-making the previous night , and had not had any rest : owing to the intensity of ( he cold , they heated a large pan of charcoal in the room in which thev
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Fronj ih » London G ** ctteof Friday , Januarf I . BAHKEtJPTt . James Pope and Joseph Beech , Inrnsh-maken , Manchester , to surrender January 18 , and February 0 . at ten , at the Commissioners' Room , Manchester . Williams , Coletnan-street , London ; Law , Manchester . John Higham , victualler , Birmingham , January 10 , and February 1 # » at eleven , at the New Royal Hotel , Birmingham . Chaplin , Qraj ' s-iwi-scitukie , London i Harrison , Bimingbam . John Oldroyd , Jonathan Clegg , Joseph Bailey , Matthaw Healey , and John Bromley , jun ., woollen-millers , Batley Carr , Yorkshire , January 39 , at twelve , and February 19 , at eleven , at the Commissioners'Rooms , Leeds . Hall , Aldermanbury , London ; Scholes , Dewsbury , Yerkshire .
Eliaa Lindo , coal-merchant , Kingsland , Middlesex , January 13 , at one , and February 19 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Johnson , official assignee , Ba-Binghall-gtreet ; Lind » , Fenchurch-etreet . Thomas Jackson , corn and coal merchant , St . Margaret , Norfolk , January 21 , and February 19 , at ten , at the Dufce'i Head Inn , Norfolk . Flower , Bread-street , Cheapslde , London ; Taylor and Sons , Norwich . George Wilson and Jonathan Badger , victuallers , Birmingham . January 22 , and February 10 , at two , at the New Royal Hotel , Birmingham . Taylor , Field , Sharpe , and Jackson , Bedford-row , London ; Ryland ,
Binning-Henry Hlndley and Joseph Hmdley , cotUn-spinners , Halsbaw-moor , Lancashire , January 27 , and February 19 , at eleven , at the Swan Inn , Bolton . Clarke and Medcalf , Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , London ; Grundy , Bury . Mary Evans , John Evans , and Thomas Howard Evans , paper-manufacturere , Pump-row , Old-streetroad , January 10 , and February 19 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Turquand , official assignee , Copthall-buildings ; Newbon and Evans , Wardrobe-place , Doctors' Common * . James Bingiey , brnBh-maker , Henrietta-street , Cavendish-square , Middlesex , January 15 , at one , and February 19 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Green , official assignee , Aldermanbury ; Randall , Welbeck-street , Cavendish-square . Richard Perkins , upholsterer , Islington , January 15 , and February 19 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Penhel , official assignee ; Pain and Hatherby , Great Marlborough-street .
Joseph Ankers , grocer , Birmingham , January 23 , and February 19 , at one , at the New Royal Hotel , Birmingham . Church , Bedford-row , London ; James , Birmingham .
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . C . Emett and J . Hall , furriers , Liverpool . —I . Cooke , H . E . RobsoD , & . Cooke , and I . B . Cooke , cottonbrokers , Liverpool ( so far as regards 1 . Cooke ) . —C . and A . Masper , opticians , Bolton-le-Moors , Lancashire . —J . Holland , W . Holland , S . Holland , and J . Holland , worsted stuff manufacturers , Halifax , Yorkshire . —T . K . Finlay , R . F . Alston , and J . Thomson , merchants , Liverpool . —W . Dieseldorf , and A . Hu . hu , comuusaionagents , Liverpool . —W . Harrison and J . Wainwright , engravers , Church , Lancasbire . —J . Richardson and J . Holliday , tailors , Liverpool . —W , EUet and T . Lister , carpet merchants , Leeds . —J . Evans , E . Evans , and W . Crossley , iron-founders , Royton , Lancashire ( so far as regards W . Crosaley . )
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From the London GattetU of Tuesday , Janumry , 12 . BANKRUPTS . Thomas Hall , Jun ., linen-draper , Barton-upon-Hnmber , Lincolnshire , January 22 , and February 22 , at one , at the George Inn , Kingston-upon-Hull . Tilson , Squance , and Tilson , Coltraan-street , London ; Peter and Robert Wells , Hull . John Walker , silversmith , Chester , Jan . 22 , and Feb . 23 , at twelve , at the Green Dragon Inn , Chester . Bridger , Finsbury-circus , London ; Francis and Dodge , Liverpool . James Blacket , flax spinner , Stokesley , Yorkshire , Feb . 2 , and 23 , at twelve , at the Vane Arms , Stockton . Bartrum , Bishopsgate-street-within , London ; Wilson and Faber , Stockton , Durham .
Alexander , Henry , and Richard Brown , plasterers , Liverpool , January 26 and February 23 , at one , at the Clarendon Rooms , Liverpool . Wortblngton and Holt , Liverpool ; Taylor , Sharpe , Field , and Jackson , Bedfordrow , London . Thomas Robson , soap manufacturer , Liverpool , January S 3 and February 23 , at twelve , at the Clarendon Rooms , Liverpool . Cornthwaite , Doctors' Commons , London ; Cornthwaite , Liverpool . Robert Wilson , steam-engine-builder , Newcastleupon-Tyne , Februarys , at eleven , and 23 at two , at the Bankrupt Commission-room , Neweastle-upon-Tyne . Matthew Forster , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Battye , Fisher , and Sudlow , Chancery-lane , London . George Nicholson , baker , Manchester , January 23 , and February 23 , at eleven , at the Commissioners ' - rooms , Manchester . Milne , Parry , Milne , and Morris , Temple , London ; Crossley and Sudlow , Manchester .
Henry Rawdon , brush-manufacturer , York , January 28 , and February 23 , at eleven , at the Guildhall , York . Brooke , Featherstone-buildings , London ; Hodgson , York .
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NICE DOINGS OF THE HULL POLICE ' OFFICERS . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —As your paper is truly the people ' s paper , and is devoted to the exposure of abuses , wherever they exist , 1 trust you will give insertion to the following statement , and allow me to put a few questions to certain patties , maintained at the public expence , whose misdoings the local press , both Whig and Tory , refuse to bring before the puVlic eye : —We have in our police force a sergeant , who was , before he got his present
office , coachman to one of the liberal magistrates of this Borough , from which service he was dismissed as incompetent , on account of his intemperate habits . To support this petty despot in his tyrannical and disgusting pranks , I , in common with my brother ratepay en , am annually taxed in a good round sum ; and , as I think that he who pays is the master , and he who gets his wages is the servant , and as it is on all hands allowed that the servant i » accountable to the master for the way in which be discharges his duties , I , as one ot tb / s masters of this sergeant , take the liberty of asking him the following questions : —
First—Did not Smithson , No . 49 , take out of a box locker , in the house of Blith , in Chafer ' s Alley , twentyfive sovereigns , at the time of the said Blith ' s apprehension on a charge of felony ? Second—Did not he take the said money from No . 49 , contrary to law ; it being required that the person who finds stolen property , or what is suspected of being stolen , shall produce the same in Court on the trial ? Third—Did not he swear at Beverley that he took the money out of the box , and was not this an attempt , by wilful perjury , to rob No . 40 , of the credit due to his vigilance , and to represent his own exertians in a light which was not warranted by the facts of the case ? ! Fourth—Has not he , in more instances than one , been found drunk when on duty ; and has he not been shielded from the consequences by friends in high places ?
Fifth—Did not he , on a late occasion , with one of the force , go t * a beer-shop , kept by one Coverdale , on the Beverley road , against whom be had a spite , for the purpose of getting him into trouble , and , finding the door closed , did he not open the window , which the inmates had neglected to secure , and enter the house without giving any previous alarm , and force his way into the chamber where Coverdale and his wife were sleeping , and when they sprung up , on account of the noise in the room , did he not flash his lantern full upon them , and make use of indecent language ; and is not Coverdale afraid to bring him beforo his superiors lest he should bo injured in his business t Sixth—Was not a statement of the facts relative to this affair of Coverdale's sent to three ' of the Hull papers , and , instead of being published , handed over to the accused Sergeant , and by him and the reporters consigned to forgetfulnesa ?
If the above questions can be satisfactorily answered , let them be so ; if not , then , as one of those who have to pay the piper , I call upon the Watch Committee to institute the necessary enquiries , and dismiss this unworthy official from thesituation he holds . Before I conclude , I wish to ask Inspector Cudwortb if it he true , as stated , that he swore at Beverley , that he took four geese from George Richardson , who had stolen them at South-lane , when in fact , they were taken from him by Sergeant Dossoo , who took him into custody , and who is thus deprived of the credit ? I have been told that the proper course is , to bring a complaint before the Watch Committee—to that I have two objections , one is , that the Committee are Whigs ; and the other is , that with the nlen in authority , the delinquents are favourites ; any complaints , therefore , against them , would produce no really beneficial result But the press will make the public acquainted with the matter , and that may lead to an efficient investigation .
AIM ask , is , that these plain questions may be plainly answered . Justice to all parties , is all 1 seek . ' . lam , Sir , "¦ Your obedient servant , A Hull Ratkpaxbb . ' Hull , Jan . 8 , 1841 .
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WAKEFIELD HELL . —THE HORRIBLE SILENT SYSTEM . TO THB EDI ^ OB OF THE MORTHEBN STAB . Si » v- Although the publication of these letters we rather abruptly closed , I feel confident that it will be a sufficient apology to your readers to state , that it was in consequence of my incessant occupation with the Scottish demonstration * . I now resume my painful details of the workings of the system , but I must confine myself to a very few instances . ' To go through all , would occupy yova utMAe space tot bqtob tinve . I begin with a simple fact , to the truth of which a respectable shopkeeper in Leeds can testify . Somo time in July
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last , a poor destitute young man named Johnson , was arrested at Leeds , for begging ; his only alternative between starvation or stealing . For this ( legal vagrancy ) he wai committed to Wakefleld House of Correction . When he arrived at his destination , he was clad in the prison dress , the jacket of which was numbered 449 . Unfortunately the poor fellow was subject to flti , and though this . was quite well known , yet he was ordered to the tread mill , the wheel of which is so constructed that if from any cause a man should lose his hold , he is sure to be pitched on his head * from a height of twelve or fourteenfeet Notwithstanding this , the poor wretch was compelled to mount , and as might have been , and there can be little doubt was , expected , he had not ; been long on until he uttered a pitiful scream , was seized with a fit , and fell ; whether on his bead or not I am not certain , I happening to be in ft room called the
mop room at the time . They certainly did pick him up , and brought him into the room in a state of complete exhaustion . Had the poor fellow then expired , we should probably have heard that a " Coroner's Jury " had " sat upon the body , " and returned , as their verdict , " Died in a fit of apoplexy , " or " Died by the visitation of God ; " yet , under such circumstances , ' would not strict justice have required a verdict of wilful and deliberate murder against the governor , Shepherd , and the officers concerned ? Although even in Wakefield Hell , where all are wretched , and sought to be brutalized , there may have beep hardened convicted criminals , yet I think there were none so lost to feeling , as the unconvicted criminals who were guilty of the conduct described . There were many whose hearts Would bleed in secret at such a sight , but not a man , even under such circumstances , durst quit bis seat without first obtaining leave of the officers . .- .. ¦ .
A statement like the foregoing might be . donbted , If resting upon my unsupported testimony ; but to place it beyond doubt , I took a shopkeeper afterwards to the lodgings of the poor victim , and from his own lips , took the statement . which I have given you . But . I have seen others , afflicted like Johnson , with fits , who , when they fell from their seats , were seiaed and dragged about in a brutal manner by one of Shepherd ' s spies , called an " officer . " As my time drew to a close , I determined to look about me and commit to memory some of the villanies that daily took place . I accordingly watched their dealings with a poor Idiot lad , No . 237 , who sat in front of me ; he wna first sent for three days to solitary confinement , for looking about him , or some such petty offence . After this be became quite sullen , and not being able to sit up , kept placing his head between bis knees through weakness . While in this state , a little
lad , who eat near him , having been released from the solitary cell , and being very hungry , made signals to the poor idiot for a piece of bread , which the latter immediately gave to his fellow-sufferer . For this act « f humanity the idiot boy was taken and again put into solitary confinement for three days . . This sort of punishment wps continued till the lad could hot , through weakness , sit upright ; he was then placed on the doctor's list , to be strengthened with drugs . Lest this statement should be denied by the kind and faithful Shepherd , I mentioned the matter to the chaplain , gave him the lad's number , and begged him to interfere , but whether he did so or not , I cannot tell . In this manner , there are hundreds of unfortunate beings now treated in her Majesty ' s prisons . They dare not complain , that would be an additional offence . " Oh . ' but there are visiting magistrates , why do they not complain to them V I will tell you why in my next Ia the meantime . '
I am , Mr . Editor , Yours , &c George White
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THIRD LETTER TO THE QUEEN
" Cover your heads , and mock not flesh and- blood With solemn reverence ; throw away respect , Tradition , form , and ceremonious duty , For you have but mistook me all this while . " Shdkspeare . It was left to chance whether the King of Hanover or you , Madam , should reign over us . Chance decided in your favour , and , I will say , in oars . Bat ought the ruler of a mighty nation to be a come-by-chance ? Does this befit the most reasoning people on earth ? Hereditary monarchy is a chance-monarchy : our chapter of kings is a chapter of chances , or , rathtr , of mischances ;
like little children we have closed our eyes and taken what chance sent us . Chance crowned yon , and whether you had a knowledge of good , or of evil , or none at all , it was ail the same to chance . We referred our misery , or happiness , to chance ; chance drew the lot for us ; it turned up a painted queen , a trump for the Whig gamblers , who won us from the Tories ; ' for we win nothing—we are but the stake that is played for . But , by such negation of ourselves , do we not confess that we have no judgment ; that we are mere stocks and stones , heritable property ; that we have no choice and no concern in the matter ; that it is of no moment to us who or what is king f We do not leave our other affairs to chance ; and yet this , the most
important of all , since it materially affects , if it does not dispose of tke rest , is left to a kind of predestination without election , a fate in which we have no will . What is the consequence ? The chance-made king deems himself chosen of God and irresponsible to man . The land is his by divine heir-Bhip , and we that are upon it : —all is his own , and be has a right to do what he likes with his own ! What does he like ?—Judging from the fact , he likes to plague his people , and te play the devil ; as if God , who made the earth , and saw that it was good , and fit for the happiness of man , had sent a king to make a hell of his nether paradise . Let us pursue this subject a little further .
Take the first girl you meet—she may be seeking her father ' s asses , for thus was the lad Saul employed when a priest anointed him the firat king : of the Jews—choose her by chance , if I may so speak—seat her on a stool called a throne—put a stick into her hand called a sc 6 ptre—a cap , called a crown , npon her head—let old men , dressed like women , and called bishops , pour oil on her hair—and fools in fine clothes , lords and ladies , bow the knee to her as they pass—let great officers who , if the size of their salaries be an indication of their usefulness , are very important personages indeed , give her long wands , or swords , or
knick-nacks , that they may immediately receive them from her again—let all the people huzza at the sight of those monkey-mummeries , and hail her , their queen , with cries of long life to her f Let her be taught to say we when speaking of herself , and our when speaking of us—give her all power , and honour , and dominion , with ample means to maintain it all—let it , on all occasions , be said to her , that the safety of all her subjects depends upon her , who , poor thing ! c » uld not save herself from any one of them
above all , regard her as God ' s visible head upon earth . Now , what effect would all this admirable foolery have upon her ? Would it not turn her head , and case her heart in pride f Would she not , like poor Christopher Sly , be overcome by the well-acted farce around , forget herself , and queen it , in the vulgar sense * f the word ? Would she not , even if previously fit tor empire , be rendered unfit ? In short , Would she not live in a dream ? And what could : awake her ? Truth ! bat that she would never hear . Disease ! aye , that alone could cure her . Then might she say to her
idolaters" I live with bread like you—feel want , tastegrief , Need friends—subjected thus , How can you say to me—I am a Queen 1 " Time , death , these would still exercise over her a power more arbitrary than that which she was permitted to exercise over her meanest subjects . > Now , it would be worth while making a queen , and maintaining her at all this cost , if we c » uld exalt the creature so made above the ills of mortality ; or if she could exempt us from them . But it ia spent in vain , worse than vain , when , by making a queen , we unmake a woman , corrupt a Christian , and , not herself alone , but
all who pay court to her and kiss her hand for favours unworthily bestowed , honours unmerited . Formerly the kings and queens of England arrogated miraculous power . This had been something ; but , like all the rest , it was a mere mockery . I believe that good Queen Anne was the last that was persuaded she possessed it . She touched Dr . Johnson to core him ot king's evil . but the poor doctor did not get rid of it , but with bis life . The sovereign people have been long degraded and tormented by this disease , and they alone can cure themselves ; this must be done by touching you for it
Madam , you are styled the nursing-mother of yonr people . John Bull ia a great baby to be still at nurse ; and I think you may reasonably be afraid that he will some day soon leap out of your little arms . A nursing-mother ! yes , I trust you are literally so now , and that , while you g&w with maternal fondness on the babe ! that milks you , you sometimes think ef the many mothers who smile to see their babies die , thanking God , that there will be one slave the less . You do not know , but you should know , that though yonr state may be as sweet to you as sugar , it is procured for yon by similar tasks , at the expence of similar tortures . The labour * f white slaves ia hot less toilsome , nor less in vain as to , themselves , than that of block slaves , and their wrongs are greater , because their delusions are so . But the injury to individuals is the
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least evil induced by your state ; the deplorable saaK Sees of talents and virtues to vices and follie * Is of f » greater consequence . A queen should herself be , personification of troth and justice ; bat , if tU possession of these attributes were made , as jj wisdom they ought to b « , an indiapeagibli requisite in the possessor of power , would yon tu 4 be compelled to put off your royal robes , and to give place to many of the daughters , even of you poorest subjects ? ¦/¦ - . ¦ .
What do the people receive In return for deprivh themselves of all to give to you ?—Ingratitude I y ^ seem to think that they can never do enough for y « a and that you cannot neglect and make them suffer ^ much . They defray the cost of your court , and ft * Court Circular is weekly published for them to real From it they have the satisfaction to learn that , -whju they are destitute of food , clothing , and saving kno » . ledge—while they are driven to sell their souls for tk support of their bodies , yon are treating your prW favourite to a sumptuous banquet , or presenting iu with a splendid piece of plate—L « d John is oni shooting—Palmerston paying a visit to some nofclt lord in the country , where the entertainments are on *
grand scale , and Lord Normanfcy ' s game hand is vdk yet healed . This is all they get for ail they give * , honesty is weighed with policy and found wanting- ^ systematic attempt is made to destroy the nation )] spirit , and all sense of honour , wherever it exist * Political rakes rule by trick , not principle , and flaring no virtues to exhibit for admiration , strive to gab sympathy by a pitiful reiteration of those disease which their own excesses have brought on . Etiquette is all in all ; but the people have sworn by the woes d the wives whom they vowed to God to cherish—by tin wants of the children whom they regard with frates nat fear , not hope , and by their own wants and wool compounded of both , they have sworn to God ~
"Never , while breath of life shall live Within them , never to forgive The accur&ed race , whose ruthless chain Hath left on Britain ' s neck a stain Blood , blood , alone , can cleanse again !" It is enough , methinks , to be subject to the inevitalfc evils of life , without those superinduced and aggr&v »> ing wrongs which bad governors inflict . Fancying that you were placed above them by P ^ videncefor their welfare , and kept by them for ths > honour and happiness , the poor people have late , petitioned you again and again for redress , alleviation
or , at least , for mercy on the friends who have beai cruelly treated for pitying them , but no answer coold be obtained . How can yon feel for them I If oaeia your own rank were suffering , yon would sympathisf but the people are far beneath you—they are beyond the pale of yoor regard . Should any of their pettUom reach you , you must need an interpreter , aoj those around you , who declare that yon . an a blessing and a glory , and who prevent the horizon of your view from extending beyond
them , will represent the petitioners as disaffected , and will readily be believed . You see nothing but luiuria and smiling faces—how can there be poverty and d * content in the land f Besides , yon patronise chaifc table institutions—what more can be expected tnm y « u ? This more , ma ' am—that the people have aa opportunity alUwed them of earning an honest livdfc hood . They are too proud to dependon you , as you ft on them ; but if they were dependant , they woq ]| not be ashamed ot owning it , as yon are .
The people have begged in vain for justice ; they wfl not demand it in vain . They cannot comprehend whi it is that their usefulness should be so useless to then * selves , and that if you have the benefits of their useful ness , they should find you so useless to them . But yen are so situated that the follies or faults of fashici ( follies become faults when unseasonable ) are of mm interest to you than the well-being of the people . Yost Ministers make a footstool of the nation aBd a plsp thing of you : Lord Melbourne , by good-humoonj freedom , spiced with eccentricity , has made himself jos * favourite and your master .
The foreigner , too , whom yon married , must li pleased at the expence of the people . While maaj native English are dying of hunger , their last gross prevented from reaching yonr ears by music and ds > cing , large tracts of land are allotted for the present tion of game and foxes , that the Prince , your husbwij may always find good sport in hunting and shooting The famishing people are told that population increaw too fast for support at home , and that they mnf emigrate to make room for Germans . Now , itisoa of the rights of man to convert waste land to his a » But what would then become of Prince Albert ' s rabhitr
that breed for foxes . Monkeys and dogs live in tin Palace , and are fed from the Royal table , which tbl people furnish forth , but are not allowed to taste , to touch , or to see . Horses have palaces reared for them , but the people are denied both mental and : beday food—are deprived of it So corrupt is yourcoartso servile the senate , that I verily believe you ndgM outdo Caligula , and crown a monkey King . The Lordi would sacrifice the people to you , but do you sacrifice the Lords : do not be worse than Tiberius , who sail that the senate met his wishes to enslave them , but that he wished the people to be as free as their owl thoughts . ., (
In your name , your Ministers prosecute those patriot * who indeed ought to take their places , for they in an honour to humanity and the pride of the peopl * They will yet redeem their country from the sea of ink Into which she has fallen . Your Ministers render yott name odious to shelter their own obnoxious namm They are the true traitors . You are employed by thai to sign the death-warrants of criminals whose crime were caused by mal-admimstration , and you are i » strncted to honour and reward those who ought , i » - deed , to be disgraced and punished . The Queen of * Court pr « secute 8 the men of the country , and a P »* liament , not of the people , sanctions , such abomiov tions . Where are the knights of Chartist
chivahythe lovers of liberty—the restorers of rights—tte redressors of wrongs f They have fallen into the topt set for them bylaw , and are now immured in ston » cages . At York , we shall find the noble O'Connor ; at Lancaster , the bold O'Brien ; the virtuous Vinwntk at Oakham ; the judicious Williams and the herolfl Binns are at Durham , with many others in varioal places . The excellent M'Douall was recently of Chester Castle ; the philanthropicLovett and Collins of Warwidj . and the manly White was a victim in Wakeflele ; ttt over the sea , the humane Frost is tortured in exile . I might easily extend this list of men worthy to belegislators for a new and happier era . Why are taef not yonr counsellors f
Posterity will wonder , not that a female SoverelfB and her effeminate Ministers thus disgraced themselves ; but that the nation permitted itself to-be so disgraced by a weak and corrupt Government But , atasf effemiuancy , like the sirocco , has gone through the land , and softened the spirits ef all the people , of all except the honest Chartists , who , alone , are worthy to be called the peoyle—they alone are the sons # f Britola . All others are aliens in their own land—they low it not
You call on the people , who must mourn your reign , to rejoice at the birth of a successor . The Bishop ! bless it ; bat their blessings ore ominous . Thepeopto are silent John Bull must be coaxed or cowed . S » long as his pasture is good , he may be kept quiet-b « may be cajaled ; but a lean pasture makes him rig * and roar . What , then ? be is not to be fed , but tobr baited ; soldi « rs , whose red coats vex his eyes , are sent to restrain him , bnt they inflame him more . Lord and ladies , out of danger , enjoy the fight , and reward with applause the policemen who are most skilful i * provoking and eluding his fury . What squibs a « - thrust into bis sides to madden him 1 In Spain , th » spectacle is reserved for grand occasions , but in England it is constant '
I now conclude these epistles , which , I am sorry tothink , will be more likely to please the people than you ; but to the sovereignty of the jjeople I pay my loyalty , not to yours . Think not , Madsjn r that a true-bom Englishman can own allegiance to ; i Sovereign / who is weakly governed tt , ftivonriteslihat are no friends to the people , and whomake her an object , not so much of pity , as ef con * tempt Such ereatvrea ought not to be sofiered W exist , mneb less to govern us . I will not , at least voluntarily submit to them ; whoever allow thete nam e * to be- classed as slaves , or even as subject * under the debasing sway of a girl-Queen and a bedchamber Mhiistry , I beg that an exception be made is favour of -,- ' . JOHIWS RO TTICT * Tillage , Dec SOth , 1840 .
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6 THE NORTHERN STAtt .
Brother Jonathan To John Bull.
BROTHER JONATHAN TO JOHN BULL .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct362/page/6/
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