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have Lords, Dukes, Grand-Crosses, in slavery; and, that, therefore, it is imClergy, Regular Army, and tythes; pray possible to believe, that the people of for these things, in their behalf, as long Russia, and Germany, and Hungary, are as you please; pray that the Americans not all perfectly free. I dare say, that may have as good a government as we Mr. Dickinson said a great deal more have; but, because they have it not, do upon the subject, and produced facts not hate them. I was really very happy as well as arguments to prove, that Mr. to perceive, that you were hissed for this HUNT's motion was an unjust attack sentiment, at the County Meeting. I upon those powers; and, I confess, that was happy to perceive it, because it was it would be a great treat to me to see a sign, that the people of England are those facts upon paper. coming to their senses upon this the most MR. BINNS, a publisher in Philadel important of all subjects. Why could phia. In the COURIER of a few days you not have expressed yourself in terms, back, there appeared an article from an less hostile to every generous and humane American paper, pointing out some of feeling? I confess, that Mr. HUNT'S mo the means, which the government of that tion, though if he thought it true, he was country ought to employ to annoy and right in making it, might fairly be objected injure England; and, the Courier, at the to by any one who thought differently. But, head of the article, observes, that it is you might have reprobated the endeavour taken from a paper, published by one to describe England as not free, (if you BINNS, who was engaged in the regarded her as being free) without say-" TREASONABLE plot of O'Connor." ing that you hated the Americans. This The article contained a very urgent reit was, that shocked the meeting, and, commendation to the Congress to pass accordingly it hooted you, as appears efficient laws for providing comfortable from the report, as published even by means of subsistence for English de the Times newspaper. Every effort serters; and also to pass laws for the ought now to be made to produce recon- destruction of English commerce by Ame ciliation with America; and, you appear rican privateers. Now, it does, and it to have done all that you were able to do, must give one pain to see an Englishman to perpetuate the animosities engendered exerting, with so much zeal, his talents and by the war. Mr. DICKINSON managed the powerful means of the press against his opposition to the motion more adroitly, his native country, that country being He observed, that the holy-war Powers, ours as well as his, and containing, as now in Congress at Vienna, were, "he had we know it does, so many excellent in considerable reason to believe," engaged dividuals, such a mass of industry, in in an effort to unrivet the chains of the tegrity, and virtue of every sort. But, African slave, and, therefore, he could let us be just let us look at the other not consent to any motion that might side; let us consider the cause of this seem to glance against their people being hostility in Mr. BINNS; and every canfree. So, Mr. DICKINSON concluded, did man, though he may still, and will it seems, that, if the "sacred-oause" still be sorry to see, that England has powers should settle upon some general such powerful enemies (for a press really prohibition against the increase of slaves free is all power) in her own children, in the West Indies, there cannot possibly will be less disposed, I do not say to remain any thing like slavery in Russia, blame; but certainly less disposed to abuse Prussia, Poland, Germany, Bohemia, Mr. Binns. This malignant writer calls Transylvania, Sclavonia, Italy, Spain, or him a TRAITOR, This is false. He Portugal. I should like to have heard was, indeed, tried on a charge of High the chain of argument, through which Treason; but, though the greatest talents this member for Somerset arrived at such were employed against him, he was found a conclusion from such premises, I sup- to be "NOT GUILTY," and was, acpose that it must have been something cordingly, DISCHARGED by the Judge. in this way: That the sacred-cause" He was taken up in virtue of a warrant powers are all perfectly sincere in their from the Secretary of State, the Habeas professions; that, being so, it is impos- Corpus Act being then suspended; he sible to believe, that they would shew so was imprisoned in the Tower; he was much anxiety for the freeing of the Afri- conveyed to Maidstone to be tried; he cans, while they held their own subjects was there declared to be NOT GUILTY,

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and was discharged; and then he quitted" was able, concerning which he hesi the country, went to America, there be-"tated, but he seemed disposed to came a citizen of that country, carrying "come, if there was a place in the with him the recollection of what he had" coach for him. And this depoactually undergone, and of the risks that "nent further saith, that the mother he had run in his native land. Besides," of the said Arthur Young being we must not overlook the state of the" present on the said last mentioned occountry at that time, and the dangers, to "casion, also urged the said Arthur which every man, called a JACOBIN was Young to inform her of the names of exposed. A strong and most curious" the Jurors mentioned in the said letter fact, relating to this point, came out on "to whom he had spoken, as stated in Mr. BINNS's trial. Mr. PLOMER, who" the said letter, but he refused to comis now the Vice Chancellor, was a Counsel" ply with her said request, whereupon for the prisoners, and a most able Counsel" this deponent advised the said Arthur he was. Just as the Jury were about to "Young to consult Mr. Forbes, an atbe impannelled, he applied to the Court" torney, and a relation of his as to what to have read the following AFFIDAVIT“ would be best for him to do, and to and LETTER, which Letter, as the reader" act accordingly, to which he the said will see, was written by a Clergyman of" Arthur Young seemed to this deponent the Church of England, named ARTHUR" to assent. YOUNG, to a Mr. GAMALIEL LLOYD," his acquaintance and friend. I shall insert the two documents, just as they stand in the State Trials, published in 1798, by Mr. GURNEY.

Sworn in Court at Maidstone,
"the County of Kent, May 21,
"1798, before

F. BULLER. "GAMALIEL LLOYD." "DEAR SIR,-I dined yesterday with "KENT TO WIT-The King against" three of the Jurymen of the Blackburn "James O'Corigly otherwise called" Hundred, who have been summoned to "James Quigley otherwise called James Maidstone to the trial of O'Connor and "John Fivey, Arthur O'Connor, Esq. “ Co.; "and it is not a little singular, that John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiak" not one yeoman of this district should Leary, on a charge of high treason." have been suipmoued to an Assize for "Gamaliel Lloyd, of Bury St. Ed-" this county, nor to any of the Quarter munds, in the county of Suffolk, Esq. Sessions (excepting the Sessions (excepting the Midsummer) for “maketh oath and saith, that he this de- more than fifty years, These three ponent did, on or about the 3rd day of men are wealthy yeomen, and parti May instant, receive the letter here-“ zans of the "High Court Party." Now unto annexed from Arthur Young of this is as it ought to be, and as they "Bradfield, in the county of Suffolk," are good farmers and much in my inClerk, and that he hath frequently re- terest, to be sure I exerted all my clo ceived letters and corresponded with "quence to convince them how absothe said Arthur Young, and that he "lutely necessary it is, at the present 1 verily believes that the said letter is moment, for the security of the realm, written by, and in the proper hand wri-" THAT THE FELONS" SHOULD ting of, the said Arthur Young: And "SWING. Frepresented to them, that this deponent further saith, that he "the acquittal of Hardy and Co. faid "saw and conversed with the said Ar- the foundation of the present conspithur Young on the 19th day of May racy, the Manchester, London Corres instant; after this Deponent had been ponding, &c. &c. urged them, by served with a writ of subpoena requiring all possible means in my power, O TO his attendance at Maidstone, in the "HANG THEM THROUGH MERCY, 4 county of Kent, on the 21st day of a momento to others; that had the May instant, with the said annexed let others have suffered, the deep laid con"ters, upon which occasion this depo spiracy whief is coming to light would "nent informed the said Arthur Young have beef necessarily crushed in its inthat he was so subpoenaed for the fancy. These, with many other arzu purpose aforesaid, and urged the said ments, I pressed, with a view that they Arthur Young to come to Maidstone should go into Court avowedly deter aforesaid, and meet the charge, and mined in their verdict, NO MATTER “extenuate his fault in the best way he WHAT THE EVIDENCE, AD

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*cent man committed to gaol never offers | " extravagant. I have now as fine a sight a bribe to a turnkey to let him escape, "of the chalk-hill opposite as ever was "O'Connor did this to my knowledge. seen. The sun is setting upon that "And although THE JUDGE IS SUF" vile land, and presents an object not a "FICIENTLY STERN; AND SELDOM" little disagreeable.

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ACQUITS WHEN HANGING IS "NECESSARY, the only fear I have is," Dover, May-day. A. YOUNG." that when the Jury is impannelled, the Addressed "GAMALIEL LLOYD, ESQ. "Blues" may gain the ascendancy. In Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk." short, I pressed the matter so much Now, the reader will bear in mind, that upon their senses, that if any one of Mr. BINNS would probably have had the three is chosen, I think something these three men amongst his jurors, if Mr. may be done. These three men have LLOYD had not made the letter of the gained their good fortunes by farming, Reverend Gentleman known. This let* and I think they are NOW thoroughly ter is an instance of the length, to which "sensible THAT THEY WOULD LOSE men went at the time when Mr. BINNS “EVERY SHILLING BY ACQUIT- was prosecuted; and when he left Eng"TING THESE FELONS. I have seen, land. Can any just man say, then, that Sir, that detested shore, that atrocious he blames Mr. BINNS for seeking an "land of despotism, from Shakspeare's asylum in America ? And he cannot "cliffs, Calais steeples, and truly I shud- blame him for seeking that asylum, "dered not at the precipice, but by con-can he blame him for acting the part of a templating the vicinity to me of a mis-patriotic citizen towards his adopted "creant crew of hellions vomiting their im- country; or, rather, towards the country "potent vengeance, and already satiating which has adopted him? How great so "their bloody appetites upon my country. ever may be our sorrow at seeing the Ah, my good Sir, we are safe; it is arms, and the more powerful pens, of "next to a moral impossibility that in Englishmen wielded with such effect too, "Sussex or Kent they could land in against England, our accusations against force; the batteries, forts, &c. are so them ought, at any rate, to be confined numerous, that hardly a gun-boat could within the bounds of truth. And, does escape being blown to atoms. But this foolish and base writer in the Courier **Ireland, alas! alas! it is lost, Sir, I imagine, that he will, by abusing Mr. "fear it is gone. Here Government are BINNS, and falsely accusing him, dimi"now expending hundreds of thousands nish the powers of his pen? Mr. BINNS, "in fortifying what can never be at- safe on the other side of the Atlantic, "tacked; they are fortifying the Castle may, probably, laugh at his calumniator's "with out-works, ravelings, counter-malice; but, if it has any effect at all on scarps, and immense ditches, and they him, that effect must be to make him are absolutely furrowing under the more zealous in his hostility against Eng"rocks for barracks; it is, indeed, a most land. It is a fact, of which I have no prodigious undertaking, but absolutely doubt at all, that, if ever our country ex"useless. It is a pity, indeed it is, periences any serious calamity from the "when money is so much wanted, to see power of America, she will owe no small "it so wantonly wasted, and all done in portion of it to the revenge of men, who "throwing down the cliff upon the beach. have emigrated from her. The native "Remember me to Mrs. L. and your fa- Americans are brave, ingenious, enterprismily, assure her we all expect a re-ing beyond any other people in the world publican visitation here. This county but, still the accession of hundreds of "is split into party; but I never enter men of talent, burning with revenge and "the habitation of a yeoman but I see communicating that passion to their chil "the sword of its owner suspended; dren, must have dreadful weight in the "GLORIOUS SIGHT! But the militia, Oscale of hostility. Is it not, therefore, "Lord! at Horsham, Shoreham, Ash- a species of madness in a man, who afr "ford, Battle, Lewes, Brighton, Ring- fects to write on the side of the English nier, &c. &c, I very seldom meet government, to resort to all the means in "with a sober man, 'tis nothing but a his power to keep that revenge alive? In "dreary sight of drunkenness. Fine sol America the paths of political power are "diers in action. their pay, their pay so open to all its citizens, adopted as well as

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"MURDER! MURDER!" "This is the good old cry against "cruelty and oppression: never had any more occasion to raise it than I have. "A most ungrateful clamour is raised ast my existence, though in the * course ofuture my dissolution cannot "be far distant. The English nation is indebted to me, much, for carrying "Lord Wellington and his brave troops "through a course of brilliant victories. "The naval superiority of England has "been sustained by my aid; the American navy has hid its head under the waters of its own harbours at the opproach of my power: and yet meetings "are now holding in many parts of England at which I am stigmatized as cruel. "opressive; as most tyrannical and iniqui, tous. Now, considering the very impor"tant services I have rendered the country, this, I again say, is most ungrateful. In peaking of me. nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice. Let the bles sings I have copferred, as well as the trouble I have occasioned, be remem"bered. Without me, Buonaparte might, "this day, perhaps, have been master of England and Sovereign of the World. "It is most unhandsome as well as ungrateful to kick and cuff, to insult and "Traduce me,the moment it is supposed my ald can be dispensed with.

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Is it not what it always was? Is it not what it was when Sir FRANCIS BURDETT described it in the address, which he moved in the House of Commons in 1812? Has it become more cruel, more oppressive, more inquisitorial, more partial, more tyrannical than it was then? Has it changed its nature, or the mode of collection changed its effect, since Mr. CARTER was sent to jaol and fined for libelling it and the measures of taking it from him? Whence, then, this new discovery? Whence this light, all at once broken in upon the nation? If it be true, that the tax is, in its very nature tyrannical, as it is now called, it follows, of course, that this nation has been submitting to tyranny for the last twenty years. There is no denying this conclusion, if the premises be true; and therefore, I wonder how men can look each other in the face, while they are passing such resolutions.--The trusli is, that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our Taring system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe, that immense fleets and armies are necessary. And, at the same time, prices having been reduced nearly one half by opening this island to the exports of a country where the taxes are comparatively trifling, the receipt at the Exchequer must diminish without even any diminution of the number of taxes. The peace is, as I said it would be, a sort of Revolution in England. The people are sore. They were drunk last June and July. The drunken fit is over. and they are now in a state of lassitude and pain: aching heads and empty purses.-The whole of the achievements of the Property Tax THE PROPERTY Tax." have not, however, been named by the The above is taken from the COURIER Courier, who has overlooked grants of of the 18th instant; and, it must be con-public money, sinecures, the restoration fessed, the complaint of poor Property of the Pope and the Inquisition, and Tax is not altogether unfounded, though many others, it pretentls too far, when it talks of making the American Navy hide its head," and of keeping Napoleon out of England, which the people could have done without a Property Tax full as well, at least, as with it. It is, however, very amusing to hear this tax so outrageously abused", the Bath was held, at the o'clock, at

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"the Prince's Chamber, Westminster, at "loughby Gordon, Knight of the Bath," "which were present-His Royal High-in his ever to be remembered examina "ness the Duke of York, asGrand Master; tion on Mrs. Clarke's affair with the be"the Rev. Dr. Vincent, Dean of West-loved Frederick. I suppose this is one of “minster, Dean of the Order; the Right his achievements." LORD COCHRANE'S “Hon. Sir David Dundas, Sir George H. are, indeed of a very différent Order. The Burlow, and Sir Richard Strachan; the expression which the representatives of "Genealogist, Sir George Nayler; the our most revered Regent, the Right Hon"Deputy Bath King of Arms, Francis ourable Henry Canning, thought proper Townsend, Esq. and the Gentleman to apply to the American navy, when he "Usher of the Scarlet Rod, G. F. Beltz, described it as hearing a few" bits of "Esq. all in their robes.-The object of" striped bunting," cannot but bring to "the Meeting being merely to communi- every man's recollection the extraordinary "cate to the Chapter the measures which achievements" which vessels, bearing "had been adopted for the DEGRADA- this striped bunting," have performed "TION of Lord Cochrane, and the ex- over our, hitherto reckoned, invincible pulsion of his banner and achievements navy. One of these bits of red ribbou, from King Henry the Seventh's Cha- which decorate the knights commanders pel, the Chapter adjourned soon after of the new order, is, I understand, on "three o'clock."-So then ;— the new le- the way to Lisbon, as a reward for gion of Honour have held their first this statesman's elegant, and witty, and meeting, or " Chapter," as they call it; novel designation of the American navy. and, in a manner perfectly consistent The list of his achievements" must with their "most honourable" intentions, then be put up in Westminster Abbey: they have commenced their proceedings and no doubt they will occupy, with with communicating on the important peculiar grace and effect, the niche, vasubject of having expelled LORD COCH-cated by the "expulsion and degradaBANE from their "honourable Order," tion of Lord Cochrane," which the and turned out his banner and ́" Achieve- Chapter" of the honorable Order” ments" from King Henry the VIIth's has just assembled, in full form, Chapel. Lord Cochrane's Achieve ratify. I confess I should like to see " ments!!!"— I have carefully looked over this list of our Ambassador's “ Achievo the list of names of this honourable fra"ments." It appears that a griev ternity, beginning with his Royal High-ous complaint has been made by ness, our beloved Frederick, the Duke of some of the persons calling themselves York, and I can discover very sufficient Heralds at Arms," as to a sort of reasons why they should be most aux-intruder, who has been put amongst ious to get rid of any record of LORD them, by the Prince Regent, and whose. COCHRANE'S "Achievements." Cer- peculiar duty, is said to be to manufje. tainly there is very little relationship ture, in good set terms, the Aebiete... between them and the achievements of ments" of these "honorable gentlemen,” the members of this "most honorable fra ---Now, I think, the whole College of "ternity." Can any of these men be so Arms, Heralds and all, even ineluding silly as to suppose that they have " de- these new intruders, will be rather puzzled graded," as they term it, LORD COCH-to compose the poetical effusion which RANE by this measure? Can they sup is to decorate Mr. Canning's banacr pose that they haye inflicted upon him Fiction is the soul of poetry. This then one moment's pain? Poor men! They will be apoem of first rate merit. I shall sadly deceive themselves: LORD CоCH-endeavour to obtain a copy of it, and I RANE suffers no regret at quitting the as- shall certainly gratify my readers by giv sociation just remodelled. The quilling it to them as soon as it can be prodrivers at the Horse-Guards; the Post- cured. master of the Duke of Wellington; our beloved Frederick's Private Secretary, and such like gallant pen, are certainly little fitted for the society of LORD COCHRANE.

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Mr. COBBETT.--I have hitherto, ob served no particular notice in your Jour nts" of these men must nal of the proceedings of the assemblage most curious descrip- of royal and noble negociatiors that Forget "Sir James Wil-compose the congress, of Vienna. It is said

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