The National Register.
London, England, 1811-05-05 00:00:00

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WHOOMMOIIIIMOI•sik
tAI%; otcwaiu, to inc Wahl LrEotr4l SiecilOg of Fri:aids to Parlia-
mentary Reform, proposed to be held in the metropolis, on
hursday, the ‘23cl of May next • and that you will recommend
a like 'consent to any friend or Wench of yours, whose names
will add respectably to the list.
" I have the honour to subscribe myself,
" Your most obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) " J. CARTWRIGHT.
" James's-street, West, April, 1811."
Upon this proauction we shall shortly take an opportunity of
very seriously commenting ; in the mean time, we do not heal- •
tate to pronounce many parts of it laboriously insidious and
highly inflammatory ; and we consider ourselves greatly in-
debted to our friend, who, by procuring us a copy of it, has en-
abled us to expose the Ilurdettite part of this private Assembly.
Among the Members of this Assembly we perceive some very
respectable characters, who, we are persuaded, could never have
atnctipned the language of Major Cartwright's letter, and who,
we trust, will disavow all participation in his specious Burdettite
plot. Of the views of this faction, Mr Cobbett, a few years
since, treated moat ably and observed with much force, " that
"he should think hignelf the nr stupid ass that ever browsed
" a thistle, were he to doubt one moment as to the object kept
." in view by them."—Speaking of the sentiments of Sir Francis
Bnrdett, who leagued with Major Cartwright •in this business,
he says : "To reason with such a man would be absurd ; he
must be treated with silent contempt, or be combated with wea-
pons very different.lnnn a pen : however, we declare our abhor-
rence o/ the principles and cr.uluct of the mon, who, in alluding
to the British Government, speaks of ' hired magistrates, parlia-*
mentaand Kings;' we DI: rtsr and LOATHE :4r Francis Bur-
I
dett, we would trample upMS him, for his false, base, insolent,
insinuations and assertions."
Still treating of the views and objects of the Reformists, Mr.
Cobbett thus proceeds :
"I shall stop here to make an observation which ought to be
very well attended to by the whole of the British nation, and
that is, that all the revolutionists, while they are endeavouring
to excite the people of Great Britain and Ireland to revolt
against the Government, pre en,. great fidelity to their country,
and bydty to their King. They pretend to have nothing in
view, but' the good, the henour, the permanent glory of the Em-
pire.' They propose to 6 amend, and not to destroy;: to make
the people truly happy, and ' his Gracious Majesty truly Great.'
Their stalking•horSe is it E I:0 a al, but their real bject is the ovz.a.
"VW ROW 011 HE MONARCHY ; a scramble for power and riches:
and this intention, should they succeed, they will boast of, with
sts unblushing a front a Lauelerdale's friend Brissot and his
gang, after they had made the: exsiting of-the insurrection of the
itali of August one of the crime!.; for which they put their So-
. stertii;n to death, boasted of having excited the insurrection
themselves!. This is one of the blackest deeds' of Republican
)trance; hut let the people of Great Britain be assured, that in-
stead of abhorrence, it has served to awaken enutiation in the
minds of the degraded and desperate factiunrwho have still the
hypocrisy to bellow for REFORM."

NlAtociv tAnTES.—On the Ist of May, according to annual
Custom, under the Will of Mr. Raise, fo7meriy a Erewer, in
Wapping, six Maiden Women, educated at has asyllini, at
Pawden .tields, Wapping, mit the Trustees at the Schonl-house,
to draw lots, agreeable to th‘ will of the founder, for the prize
of 1001. at a marriage portion. The man of the choice of the
tutoetAll candidate must be a mechanic,belonging either to the
parishes of St. John, Wapping, St Gelri;e s in the Ea*t, or St.
Shadwell; he must not be a soldier, sailor, nor water-
Irian, and must have testimonials of his character ; and the
woman must have attained the age of 22, and have lived servant
In one place three years With strict propriety. We understand
the prize fell to a young woman of the Nine of Spencer; after
which the Trustees, with the scholars of the foundation, went
to hear Divine Service, at St Geurgt's Ctutreh ; they then re-
turned to the SchOol-house to dinner, which the testator ordered
in his will, leaving five gaiueas towards the same. Another
drawing will take place on the sth Novemhei', when the unsuc-
Cessful esnaid2tes may again uy tittle tortancs.