him by his station, was attacked by an outrageous rabble, part of it armed with muskets and other weapons of offence, who fired sundry shots, and on whom a fire was consequently and necessarily returned. In addition to this, a Catholic Clergyman, for discharging his duty as a Magistrate on a previous riot, is obliged to fly his country residence from intimations of revenge among his parishioners; and as a casting vote in favour of extending the bill to Erin's Isle, a deputation of indigenous Radicals wait on the Magistrates of a town named Carlow, requesting to know, "whether, in case Mr. Hunt should go thither and preside at a public meeting, the Magistrates would interfere to disperse it by force." The lofty soul of the Orator, Champion, Martyr, and Hero, must, I conceive, feel non-describably indignant at the sans ceremonie rejoinder of the audacious Magistrates, who, with all due gravity, gave notice" that they knew nothing of Mr. Hunt(is it possible?)-except from having read in the newspapers, that an Itinerant of that name, sometimes styled Esquire, had collected together several riotous assemblages of the populace in different parts of Englend; but that if he, or any other person, should come to Carlow and

attempt to act in that manner, they should perform their duty by setting his squireship in the stocks for a vagrant!" Is such contumely to be borne ?-Forbid it, Chivalry! Forbid it, illustrious Brewer! Go, in spite of their teeth, and give" powder and shot Watson" the lie, who in his last letter upbraids you as a coward, afraid to hazard" a perforated skin,” and in its precursor broadly hints that you are a spy, because you dared not take advantage of popular feeling on your triumphal entry into London. from Manchester. "If Mister Hunt had not sufficient wisdom or judgment, or had secret reasons for not taking advantage of the popular feelings at the time of his liberation from prison, to bring the cause of Reform to a close, which I shall ever maintain it was then in his power to have done-if," &c. Poor pickstraw! if St. Luke shield thee not from Newgate, I fear that instead of abolishing the public debt, thou wilt shortly add an item of one shilling* to its already enormous amount.

To return to the false prophets: While the news of a second brutal riot at Paisley, in which a rescue was effected for a Radical, and the Jack Ketch's fee.

Magistrates, Sheriff-substitute, Constables, and Soldiery, were defied and assaulted, was in the mail-bag, on its rout to the Metropolis; J. P. Grant, Esq. gets up in his place in the House of Commons, and asserts that there exists no necessity for the immense military force concentrated in Paisley and its neighbourhood.

While these Balaks of Radicalism are thus crying Peace! peace! when there is no peace," we are doomed to witness outlawry, and even excommunication, resorted to, as the sole effective supporters of justice in part of the empire; and a man of property, by the operation of the former extreme punishment, deservedly hunted, with a fellow-culprit, from his native land, and his property consigned by escheat to the Crown.

In vain does Cobbett, to whose principle and honesty America and Sir F. Burdett bear such overwhelming testimony, turn bully to Jacobinism;-in vain would the Cuckoo of agrarian equality and happiness, John Cam Hobhouse, attempt to expel the representatives of the people from their post, by his tautology of scurrility and slang ;-in vain does his brother jail

bird, Doctor Watson, beak the wires of his cage, and try to win sympathy by his melancholy ditty;—in vain does the chief palanquinbearer of the Goddess of Reason, Richard Carlile, demand better allowance than jail-fare ;in vain does some wretch, who vilifies the title of Dissenter, run through all the doublings of sophistry, and enter with polluted feet the sanctuary of Scripture, to purloin its doctrines in promoting a cry for a subscription in behalf of a profligate, who gained his bread by declaring the Bible to be a string of absurdities and lies;-in vain does the Morning Chronicle find a corner for such an infamous correspondent:in vain, in fact, does Radicalism exhibit all the transformations of a Proteus, and all the black and white changes of a cameleon-Loyalty is too lynx-eyed to be deceived-it can neither be decoyed nor seduced from its stern and strict sentry. To the eyes of Argus, British patriotism unites the inexhaustibility of “the everlasting fire of the ancients," and will ever come out of the furnace of trouble like molten gold purified from its alloy of dross.

JULIUS.

SIR,

LETTER XII.

TO THE SAME.

January 1, 1820).

THE "Misleading Journal of Europe" having exhibited its usual feline ferocity in an unusual degree since the baiting I so lately bestowed upon it, I proceed forthwith to put in execution my "conditional" threat. Don Quixote the Second, like his crack-brained prototype,. seems determined to

"Run a muck, and tilt with all he meets."

Not content with charging a windmill for a giant, alias a paragraph of the Courier's for a production of Mr. Canning's, he turns upon poor Sancho, alias The Morning Chronicle, and belabours his unfortunate back, for presuming to pass an opinion upon the correctness of some of his misconceptions. Let me, however, humbly suggest to this hot-headed knight-errant, that all Sanchos are not equally obsequious, and ready to submit the nudity of their seats of honour to the butt-end of his baton. To speak plainly, The Times-server finds himself