hoods shall be confronted with facts, and the credulous covered with confusion for having listened to the criminal. Then for the dumb assent of undeceived prejudice, and halfgrin, half-scowl, with which hardened depravity attempts to brave detection. Retreating from this scene, with what countenance will you tolerate the condolence of that hypocrisy which outwitted you into a state that shall really call for the consolations of sincerity? serio-comic distortion of a WOOLER's or a COBBETT's face, on such an occasion, I can only conceive excelled by the mock-piteous features of the Devil on welcoming a new-comer to his infernal domain.

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Gentlemen, if in the present Session of Parliament you should retain brass enough to weather its scorn-if you should not be absolutely silenced by derision, or tongue-tied by shame, we anticipate a winding-up of your folly-we expect to see the men, who by their countenance of Radical Reform, have raised it from inertness into malignant motion-we expect to see such men deprecate those very measures of precaution which they have been the chief causes of rendering indispensable.. The

Sun of your favour has resuscitated the almost inanimate carcase of Jacobinism, and it now stalks among us, stinking and infecting as it goes. Gentlemen, you are arraigned of high crimes. Would to God 1 might convince you of the error of your ways, and prove to you that you have as usual thrown yourselves into a dilemma, from which there are but two ways of escape-honour out of the question. You must either solicit the protection of the Loyal, or patriotically share your possessions, and be received with open arms by the Radicals. Beware, gentlemen! go not among them on any other condition, or they will exact, surely and severely, of you, the penalty of being rich and great.

JULIUS,

LETTER III.

TO THE SAME.

GENTLEMEN,

December 6, 1819.

My second Letter to you, though not printed, was in the publisher's hands before the meeting of Parliament. In it your defeat is anticipated as so signal, that I could not refrain from offering you my prospective condolence. That defeat has been completed, and the Loyal have gained a victory beyond their most sanguine expectations. Your notable sophists did their utmost at the opening of both Houses, but sound argument threw them on their backs, and overwhelmed them with a majority almost unprecedented in the annals of Parliamentary Divisions.

In this epistle I shall abstain from conferring the dignity of prominent disgrace on any individual of your corps, that I may attach it the more undividedly to the body corporate. Your budget of blunders (to call it by the mildest name) is too enormous for examination in de

tail, and gives abundant proof, that however strictly you might be catechised before entering either House, not only must your catechism have been inconsistent with itself, but that you also must have forgotten what little consistency it possessed. In compliance with the necessity you impose upon yourselves of indiscriminate opposition, you open a new campaign by supporting a bad cause! As a work of supererogation, you volunteer to it a ruinous advocacy. Not contented that your cause should involve in its badness the certainty of ultimate failure, you adopt the surest means to accelerate its ruin; and, like ignorant physicians, sacrifice your patient, long before his time, to the experiments of kill-or-cure remedies. The Radical Reform bantling you have adopted is " Parlia mentary Inquiry into the Events at Manchester on the 16th of August;" and it looks just as becoming and natural in your arms as a little blackamoor at the breast of a white mother.How you can dandle so fondly a creature thus palmed upon your support I know not, unless I give you credit for believing it to be a bastard of your own blood. I am particular in the adjunction of the title Parliamentary, as it renders the inquiry demanded and rejected

absolutely specific, and by so doing exposes the designs of the times-serving press, when confounding Parliamentary with judicial investigation. In disapproving of Parliamentary interference, Government advocates the best and most legal of all modes of inquisition.

Gentlemen, we are arrived at an era in design, when it is necessary for some men to render every object odious in vulgar eyes, which those eyes have been accustomed to revere. The effects of these wretches' attempts have unfortunately multiplied the means of renewing their labours, or in other words, have themselves been converted into causes. The Manchester meeting, involving in its very composition the necessity of dispersion, was a malignant effect of the above-stated attempts. It has now, in its events, become the main-spring of additional exertions. On these events is founded a demand, the grant of which would ensure further success to the levelling doctrines already too fearfully disseminated, the denial of which be misused to justify to deluded men the outrages of unbridled discontent. Though I shall hereafter bring yourselves forward to testify that the Radical Chiefs neither