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son. 2- they did so ;but they were as watchful and as de-
termined as ever. The Leaders laid down to rest, but they
laid down with their armour on, and with their weapons
under their pillow. As for their ern imaries, they never
slumbered even for a moment; and while it was thought
that this wicked fiction was rooted out of the country, it
was raising new levies in the dark ; and the mischiert,
opinions which were supposed to have worked their o
destruction, by the frightful consequences whielt had feel,
lowed them, were spreading as actively, and were received
as eagerly, as ever.
No one suspected that the repLl of tllc Conbination
Lams would be the prelude to those insurrectionary move-
ments among the workmen, which have followed, and'
which threaten the utter annihilation of our prosperity as
a commercial nation. Those wtio supported that meature
are not blameable for went of foresight. The master
manufacturers themselves, much to ti'e credit of their
liberality, advocated tile repeal of those statutes. Out of
upwards of sixty masters examined before the Setae'.
COYXIT TEE, all,with the exception of three, gave their
evi-
tdenee strongly in favour of the repeal. They showed, in sal
doing, their attachment to those principles of justice, and
'lime tics of sympathy and humanity, congenial to the
feelings of all-upright men, which bound them to the true
interests of their workmen; nor were the majority of the
workmen themselves backward to acknowledge this; but
their Minde have been poisoned by the delegates whom this
mischievous faction have sent amongst them. The ill dis-
posed, as be-g the most easily misled, were first drawn
into combination, and they, in their turn were made use of
to settlece and terrify the better classed' their brother work-
men to join the Union. The latter accordingly hive been
hitherto compelled to go with the stream, and—in opposition
to their own honest feelings—to desert every principle of
gratitude and every sentiment of justice.

The Bradford Committee, in their Address to the working
classes throughout the kingdom, to which we advert above,
produce in triumph the following letter, in proof that the
Operatives will receive ample support in carrying on their
efforts, and that they will not be compelled to make
peace from the want of an energy sufficiently desperate to
aid them in carrying on the war. There never was a crisis,
when it was more important that the public should be fully
acquainted with the real spirit and true character of the fac-
tion by whom the operative classes are at present so sadly and
so fatally revolutionized. It is clear, from the language of
this litter thro•.ighout, that it is not drawn up by a eurpentcr
or a joiner. It is an instructive sample, however, of the
temper and feelings of the IItacCTO:IT from whose bureav
It emanates :
TO THE CO3IIIITTEE OF THE EO3I;IERS' ANtrt WEAVERS'
London Castle, Castle-street, Oct. 3, 11125.

0 ENTLrmrs,—The first Society of Carpenters anciJoiners in
Loadon, upoa making this sum Lof. 'their second subscriptien to
you, the combera and weavers of Bream!, and your associates,
are desitous that it should be attended with a decided expression of
their clews and sentiments, relative to the questions in which you
tue engaged; to the end that being informed of the spirit lbw
actuates us, and our determinations on the subject. they may
afford you some encouragetnent to persevere ionhe on.intitortant
contest a contest embracing no less a question then whither
the millions of Englund, who perform all the essential service to
the community (and without whose united labours England would
be nothing hi the scale of nations), shaft submit to be trampled upon
by a few sordid tyrants? whether, white they are incessantly en-
gaged in contributing to the affiluenee and comfort of others, they
are to remain the victims of unrequited toil; doomed to poverty
and abject wretchedness, and not to be allowed to associate for
mutual essisunce, tut their Unions to be destroyed. and they left
individually at the mercy of men whose desires age ter
Keep them low as low can be, eittoa Jed lit;
To make them toil like beasts,
...tai4lol! se. saw. let
• That they like gods may fare?' 1.7r7.,.;.1 I '9'
?hoes humans creatures, your employers, who appear to &Vire
so much pleasure from seeing you in want and misery, have, very
indiscreetly for themselves, altered the nature of the dispute. It
is no longer an isulated question whether the combers and weavers
of Bradford shall be trampled in the earth, or become the snisera-1
ble slcas.nf wealhi and pride ; though that was calculated to call
into active exercise every spark of humanity and strong _desires tier
your success ; but the insolence of their pride appears to know no
(moods. They have now declared war against us, and against every
society, or union of mechanics, in the kingdom ; but rely upon it, a
complete detest will be the consequence. What ! shall it be en_
dured that a handful of purse-proud tyrants (wholtare been made
rich by the profits derived from the labour of men whom they would
now starve) shall demolish the only means of secarity ? No ! we
henceforth identify ourselves with you in the struggle, and ardently
hope and believe that every society or union in the kingdom trio do
the same. and thereby teach these infatuated men a lesson they have
yet to leant, thati the mechanics of England are determined. no
longer to be treated worse than beasts of burden, subjected team-.
lasting labour, and rewarded by extreme poverty. That they In-'
sist on having a compensation for their labour, sufficient to procnie
the necessaries of life, and that if our Legislators enact laws that
cause en advance in those necessaries, they must of necessity pro-
cure an advance in the price of their labour, corresponding thereto,
' and that for this object they willunketogetlier, and being convinced.
of the importance of thus uniting, they will resist with all their
energy, by lawful means, every attack on their unions or socie-
ties, knowing that union is the ark of their salvation. Being satis-
fied of the utter inutility of individual exertion, to cope with
men whose leading maxim appears to be to make themselves
eery rich by meanly screwing and pinching those they em-
ploy, and keeping them very poor. To you we return our
,sincere, thanks for the spirit and firmness you hare have dis-
played undir your trying citenirertances. Rely upon our con-
tinued assistance, until the lined issue of your contest, which must
be triumphant, if you remain Linn. Be not alarmed at your foes,
tito•e are for you than those -which are against you. Every honest
man. (very friend of humanity, every spark of independence, all
that is helttittebble in our nature is enlisted on your side. Your
opponeeta are the sel9sh, the corrupt, the sordid, mercenary crew,
'Au would sacrifice whole hecatomb: of their fellow-men at Ow
altar their men agrandistment. These must be defeated, in-
justice must not triumph, or we shall become the degraded vassals
of these men, subjected to their arbitrary caprice, the victims of
their tender mercies, which we know to be cruel, posseedeg a life I
no, •N•orth retaining on such a tenor. The antidote to this Is
reloe and rtftweess.
. Signed an behalf of the Gest Society of carpenters and Joinem,

JOHN Ne.WIIERV, Secretary.
By order/f the Committee.
JOHN TESTER, Secretary.
13radfurd, Oct. 25. 1625.

If this letter is intended to convey the sentiments and
feelings of the operalires, it is essy to see what would be
the fate of the masters, if dragged before their scat of
judgment. But we have inuch teo good an opinion o'
them to think that they adopt the systematic prin-
ciples of rebellion and outrage to which it is attempted Ic
make them partici. Noe totnzlanfl if the system ()I
democratic anarchy which their leaden are secretly pre.-
paring for her skisild.take tifeck battier the I,e,;it-
'lmre, in its wisdom and experiencP, may effectively oppose.
to this confederacy we do not know ; but, certain ft is, that
it the working -lasses consent to Arc made tire. instruaientr
of it, alqiati,l being the worst cahtwiffin oti theft eofintry,
sod; roftwt their own ultimate ruin. .

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LIirERARY GLEANINGS.

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No. LV.
Brants:, Conars.—A remarkable feature of the writ-
ings of the time of Bishop Corbet is the cheerfulness
which reigns in nearly ail the compositions, whether of
laymen or divines, of the metropolis or the Universities.
They who were, by office, the gravest characters of the
realm, were incessantly interchanging effusions of wit,
gayety, and good humour, eulogy or elegy, congratulation
or satire. Wit overflowed from songs, sonnets, pamphlets,
acid sermons. The character of wit was universal about
town, in tile church; at Cambridge and Oxford; in all
ranks, from the monarch to the clown.
RICOARD CORSET, successively Bishop of Oxford anti
Norwich, was horn in the village of Ewell, in Surrey, in
the year 1582: he was the only son of Beret, or Bene-
dicts, and Vincent Corbet. Of his father, whois highly
praised by BEN JONSON for various virtues, little seems to
be known, beyond the fact of his being, either by taste or
trade, a gardener. He resided at Whitton, near 'Twicken-
ham, where his son, the Bishop, spent his declining days.
Richard Corbet received the rudiments of his education at
Westminster, and was thence removed, in, 1591-S, to
Broadgate Hall, and the year following, was admitted a
student of Christ Church, Oxford. in 140 S, he took the
degree of Master of Arts.
In 1612, upon the death of HerritifMrttree of 'Wales, the
Universty deputed Corbet, then one of the Proctors, to
pronounce a funeral oration, " who," to me the words c:f
Antony-Wood, " very oratorically speeched it in St. Marie s
church, before a numerous auditory." The oration still
exists (in Latin), and is Printed in Mr. Gilchrist's edition.
On the 18th March in the following year he performed the
sane duty, in the Divinity School, on occasion of the in-
terment of Sir THOMAS .lioni.Ey, the founder of the
libra.y known by his name.
When King Janes Paid' a visit' to Oxford:15t101,
Coen ET preached before him. The monarch presented
him with a mark of his favour, in the shape of a ring, of
which, during Kt sertnosr,- the Chaplain seems to have
made an ostentatlons display. The Wits of the time did
not lose so favout aid . e oppOitunitY of holding up to ridi-
cule a mats from whom alley bad so often suffered in a'
similar way. The foliewiag is a specimen of their attacks
upon him, transcribed from Antony Wood's papers in
Ashmole's Mus.eatn
• " The King and the Corer, .
Desirous of sport,
Six days at Woodstock did lie
Thither wont the Doctors.
•
And satin.slcev'd Proctors,
Witte thereat of the learned fry ;
Whose faces did shire
With beer and with wine,
So fat, that It may be thought,
University cheer,
With college strong beer,
lthide them far better fed than taught.
A number beside,
With their wenches did ride,
(For scholars are always kind)
And still evermore,
While they rode before,
They were kissing their wencits?bchind.
A number on foot, vie,
NVithout cloak or boot, !'A 4 t
And yet with the court go they world;
Desirous to show
How far they could go
• To do his high mightiness goad.
The Reverend Dean,
With his bend starch'd dean,
Did preach before the King;
A ring was his pride
.:1‘.3
•:- To his bandstrings tied— b
taw
Was not this a pretty thing?
The ring, without doubt, :
•
Was the thing put him out,
And made him forget what was next ; •
For every one there,
Will as)... I date swear,
lie handled it more Man his text."
Stenos Conner died July, 1635, and was buried at
Norwich. "He was," says FULLER, "of a courteous
carriage, and no destructive nature to any who offended
counting himself plentifully repaired with a jest bison
him." Several curious anecdotes are collected from MSS
by Headley and Gilchrist, which illustrate hie character in
our opinion, do honour to his memory, and form an amiable
hi:inclusion to this alight compilation of the few particulars
known of this joyous and amiable man.
" After lie was Doctor of Divinity he sang ballads at the
Cross at Abingdon ;on a market-day he and some of his
comrades were at the tavern by the Cross (which, by the
way, was then the fittest hi England ; I remember it when
I was a freshman ; it was admirable curious gothic archi-
tecture, and tine figures in the flitches ; 'twas one of those'
built by King
complained he had no custom—he could not put off his
ballads. The jolly Doctor puts ofi his gown, and puts on
the ballad-singer's leathern jacket, and being a handsome
man, and a rare full voice, he presently vended a great
many, and had a great audience.
" After the death of Dr. Gc edwin, lie was made Dean
of Christ-Church. He had a good interest with great men,
as you may flint in his poems; and that with the then
great favourite, the Duke of BUCEINtUIAM, his excellent
wit o'er 't was of recommendation to him. I have forgot
the story; but at the same time Dr. Fell thought to have
carried it, Dr. Corbet put apretty trick on him, to let him
take a journey to London for it, when he Fiord already the
_grant of it.
4' His conversation was extremely pleasant. Dr. Stub-
bins was one of his cronies; he was a jolly fat doctor, and
a very good house-keeper. As Dr. Corbet and he were
• riding in I,ob-lane, in wet weather, (it is an extraordinary
sleep dirty line.) the coach fell, and Corbet said, Dr.
Stubbins is up to the elbows in mud, and I am up to the
elbows in Stabhins: "—Rdrospectire Review.
The Mike and DUchess of Clarence, the Duke of Cum-
berland, the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Leopold, Princess
Augusta, and the Princess Sopljia, visited the Duchess of
Kent on Thursday, at her apartments at the King Pa-
lace, Kensington. The Royal party partook of a dejeune,
I
and afterwards returned to their respectircresidences. The
Princess Augusta accompanied the Duke and Duchess
of Clarence to Bushy. Prince Leopold proceeded to his
residence at Claremont.
On Saturday the Duke of Cumberland dined with the
Princess Sophia Matilda, at her Royal Higlinesse resi-
dence on Illackheatli.
Yesterday morning the Duke of Cumberland attended
divine set vice in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace,
and beard a sermon by the Rev. 1)r. Mao:My. The an-
them was " By the Waters of Babylon," composed by
Boyce. The trio was admirably sung by Messrs. Salmon,
Vaughan, and T. B. Tale. Mr. Attwood presided at the',
organ,
Yesterday afternoon the Duke of Cumberland visited
the Princess Sophia, at the King's Palace Kensington.
The Princess Victoria, attended by Baroness Ileristane
and Miss Litz u, took an airing an Saturday, in the Hi-
bridge-road.
• Mr. Secretary Canning arrived at his residence in Down-
Mg-street yesterday afternoon, from the scat of Earl
Darnley.
Mr. and Mrs. Husk's:ton arrived at Doverint 'Friday, from
Calais, on their return iVoln Paris, and Immediatelyptocceelecl
on a visit to the Earl anti Countess of Liverpool, at Wilmer
Castle, where also Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. Ellis, and
Mr. Freres, were staying on a visit. On Saturday morning
,lie Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. and Mrs.
tlttskisson; Mr. F.'llia, and Mr. Frere, left Widmer Castle.
gr. secretary Cinttiqg stopped at 'Cobham Hall, Kent, on
a visit. to Earl Darnley. The Earl Or Li-veil:tont proceeded'
to his resilience a;
:Coombe Wood. M. and Mrs. Huskis-
ion, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Frererirrrived in town On Saturday
ItigHilt.
His Majesty's Honourable •Ilbard of Cendetnen Pen-
, 'dopers dined together on Saturday ,at the Vreemasons"f a-
vern, to commemorate the .sth of November.
A King's Messenger was sent off front the Secretary of
'State's office for the Home Department oji • Friday, to
iEntlgLititstbotuonrtghrli.Friglrmeaets
dh,isligsthattioorn
aaltl
itohvee
rf aoyfm
Ina rekrcrti st e v cinie-
. will continue to act every evening this week, and we be-
!ieve, regularly .t ill to-morrow se'nnight, when this favourite
iitacc of entertainment will close for the season.

ind nations with dismay. The same Missionaries are doing (-ITV. SA? UNDAT Est:misc.
the same errand, and working for the • same end. Thr- • This Lying the Atinistrsary of Gunpowder Treason tea'.
% irsys, combined with the moral patriotism and inbred kept a: a close holyday, at the Bank and Stock Exchanges
loyalty of. the great hnik of die people, intipped them, for Speculators met as usual on the Enyall' Exchange, Lut thi
the time, of the.i vowel.: but it was only
.fer the time, businces was mearly nominal. Commis fur the November
They fuulA it w.s; to suspend the operaeons for a sea. ..ceolint were called 872 :.
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