certain of" casually omitted before "the People ")" has served only to set his character in a higher light, and to draw forth the sincerest proofs of attachment from all parts of England" (if England is to be measured by this scale, it is much smaller than is generally imagined.) "In every place resolutions were drawn up, expressive of the sentiments of each district on the assumed privileges of the House of Commons," &c. &c. in simili modo" and thus the three great divisions of the Metropolis have declared themselves on the interesting questions now in agitation; and they prove satisfactorily, that the sentiments of the majority of the House of Commons are far from being in unison with the resolutions of the People." Now it is a Canon in Patriotism, that a Country is not to despair, even though its Capital be in possession of the Enemy; and were the above really a true picture, it could only shew that the Capital was in danger; and be a stronger stimulus to the rest of the People to unite in driving from it that worst enemy of a country, the demon of Domestic Anarchy. Farther; "The Middlesex Petition was treated with less ceremony than the last by the House, being rejected after a very short debate and on the same night, the Petition from Sheffield shared the same fate. This latter Petition spoke the sentiments of a very large town in a very animated style; and from it may be collected the opinion of the great manufacturing interests in Yorkshire, which will be of considerable weight at the meeting of the county. A requisition for this purpose has been very numerously signed, and we may expect from that quarter some decisive measure on the slate of the national representation." It may be so; but I must own I never saw or heard of this requisition before nor since. Anon we come to Mr. Cobbett, and the Mutiny of the Cambridgeshire Militia: Be the cause, however, what it would, the men were quieted by the German Legion, and other troops; and Mr. Cobbett seized the occasion to utter a severe censure, in the form of irony, on the use of foreign troops." Their use and useful ness in quelling this Mutiny was no doubt very unpleasant to the feelings of Mr. Cobbett, whose publication a British Jury has decided to be a Libel,

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and British Justice has sentenced the author of it to merited punishment; and "the very useful labours of Mr. Cobbett," if exercised at all, must for some time to come be exercised in a prison, and be the offspring of one

who has forfeited his freedom to the insulted Laws of his Country. The Parliament being again adverted to, we are told, that "the Catholic ques→ tion was settled by a rejection, but it has evidently gained ground in the House" and yet comes a hope (seem ingly inconsistent) "that it will never be again discussed in either House;" but we are soon told the why and wherefore it is in another shape to be brought forward in finer style. Mr. Wyvill, with 1600 or 1700 more, have signed a Petition to the House for "general liberty of conscience;" as if a Petition was necessary to ob tain what is already enjoyed — and "for the removal of all penal laws and civil disqualifications from our Statute books, on the subject of Religion." Have we nowhere been told“ to be subject to the higher powers, not using our liberty as a cloak for maliciousness?" The writer then goes on to say, that "it is the most comprehensive Petition ever presented to Parliament; and, as it has obtained the name of the Christian's Petition, we hope every Christian in the united kingdom will sign a similar Petition to be presented in the next session. We are convinced that no one deserves the name of a Christian who is against it: for Christ's kingdom is not to be upheld by penal statutes, and every Sect may follow its own mode of wor ship, without infringing on the civil rights of its neighbour." Christ's kingdom is not dependent upon human laws; but the British kingdom is to be upheld by British means. The existence of the disqualifications complained of is part of the Civil Rights of the Establishment, and cannot be destroyed without an infringement of those Rights. We may therefore echo the concluding part of the tirade, and say, "Let every sect follow its own mode of worship, without infringing on the Civil Rights of its neighbour." The Trojans lost their city by breaking down their walls to admit the wooden horse; let us be careful not to make an opening for the Papal Bull. Yours, &c.

A YORKSHIRE-MAN.

Mr.

Scale of Yards.

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a Grafs, Gravel Walks & Shrub.

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of Agriculture. I trust, therefore, I shall, with the local advantages at tending the present scite of the Garden, be enabled to make it more worthy

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