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who pretend to rnak_ provi.sion t all the vie'ssitules (.1
human affairs, which is exposed to be overthrown. by such
common occurrence as a short harvest, and under which the
price of food is subject within six. years to a difference of. 10f
per cent ?
. The-ra is, however, one presumed evil, which the Coro Lae
seems to prevent, though it is enumereted by Mr. Tooke as
' one of the causes that may lead to its overthrow, viz., in.
creasing population. The curse of the Co-n Law is to place
'an artificial limit on the supply-of food, much nithin the natural
limit, which cur peoille can command or can 'purchase, and
consequently it keeps down the population to the level, of the
quantity of feed grown at hole. Trade is hampered, mum-
. facture is restricted, labour has less weans to purchase Lod,
less is- consumed, and after the growing population i-
stifled or starved out of existence, then we hear of the
abundance of native cord which the law causes to be pro
duced.• This is a specimen of the narrow reasoning of those
who confine their views chiefly to comparisons of figures, froln
which Mr. Tooke is not wholly exempt. The law stifles-the
capabilities•of the merchant and the manufacturer, reduces the
population to the level of what our own soil c,n supply. and
then On account of its sufficiency, the law is held up to admi- ,
ration. Our corn-law makers put fetters on the legs of a swift
runner, and then they boast of the fleetness of a cripple win;
keeps up with him. We now understand why such ciipples
as the Marquis of Chlndos is content-d. Opulence, skill,
knowledge, and entererize, are all pleasing or displeasing.
great or little, by comparison ; and he is satisfied ty,cause the
Corn Law has pressed other claSses into the shrivelled dimen-
sions (in these particulars)of the landlords, and of those whom
Lord Althorp described at the late meeting as most
ignorant farmers. The Corn Law- has so checked
Mercantile opulence, that it no longer waxes faster than the
the rent of a spendthrift landlord. It has so tamed Incr.:an-
tile enterpriz3 that the sluzgishness of Lord Chandos and his
boors may be undisturbed. It has so curbed increasing mer-
cantile skill that the agriculturists, -borrozing its idle re-
sources, may now hope to overtalee it. - It has S 3 checked the
growth of knowledge, which i; coincident with the growth of
population, that in all these particulars the shrunk and meagre
Lords of the soil are no longer ashamed of their skeleton-like
deficiences. This, however, is an aspect which, existing in
the probable, not in the actual, is not noticed by those who
compare only existing prices,, and the Cora Law seems occa-
siorndly to suit the society which it curtails of its fair propor-
tion, lk.cactea we Cannot see with our bodily ers the cn,st
prosperity which it prevents. We do .net differ from Mr.
Tooke on this point, we confirm his views by can-ying them a
step further. ,Ills book should be studied.

TO DANIEL O'CONNELPL, ESQ., MP.

Sta,--The world gives you credit fir great power with the present
Mit:istry, a:l in the actual state of parties no cue can doubt but that
you and your frionds (I believe I should more correctly say your fallow_
era) can determine at your pleasure the fate of any measure which may
vitally affect the existing Administration. A:med with this power,
you c.tn, and it is plain that you do, make the Government attend to
all your real desires. I say real desires, to distinguish' them from such
as are expressed by you merely to gain and ma;htain pocularity-Tliberal
sentiments, which die in the utterance, and are never pressed to practi-
cal co',,:lusion,. •

Among the many commonplaces of your rhetoric, a merciful and ra-
tional system of punishment has long held a conspicurms place. I have
often mylultheard you advocate with much warmth and apparent zeal an
entire abolition of the punishment of death, more esptcially death for
politicA ofen:•cs. My present purpose is to tes! the sincerity of those
proirssions of nwrciful and enlightened sentiments by the appal which
I now•make to you.

Pardon me, Sir, if by this distrustful mode of speech I may seem to
disparage you. Heretofore, I put undoub ing faith in your proles.
sines; and in your promise, solemnly sancCened by an awful appeal to
the Almighty, to bear witness to the sinceri:y of the pledge and the fide-
lity with which it w::s to be redeemed. I believed you when in this
solemn form you engaged to defend my unfortunate clients, the much_
oppressed people f Lower Canada. Put that engaeement was never
fulfil7e I, *You c float 'deny that this premise was male; you cannot
deny that the present session brought the occasion when the pledge
which that promise contained ought to save been redeemed. You can.
not deny that you broke your faith, careless alike of the many Miseries
endured by a p,aple whom you had declared to be oppressed, and of the
solemn—nay, s,:c.ed—forms with which you had sworn in the hoot of
thc:r need to afrortl them the powerful Protection of your hearty advo.
cacy. Do not, then, I entreat you, wonder at the doubt with which I
cow a;pcal to your many fervid-declarations in favour of mercy and le-
niency in punishment. Up to the moment at which you thus broke
your pledged word I had undoubting faith in the rectitude of your pur-
poses; I gave you freely and rtalously the poor aid of my voice and my
vote; and, further, I gave you the sincere homage of my understand-
ing and my feelings as the earnest and powerful friend of your country
and your race. ICI now distrust you erroneously, lam not to blame. I
did not ask you fer your promise; it was not through my advice or act
that you were led to forfeit it. '

At this moment butchery, Lcan call it by no other name, is going on
in Upper Canada. Two men, two honest men (I care not who gain•aye
me), have been mercilessly hanged by the representative of the Queen,
by the servant of the Whig Ministry. For what have they been thus
-barbarously destroyed? For standing up for the right—for supporting
the cause which has made Washington immortal--,for opposing the inve-
terate misrule of England over her subject pea .essions—she misrule
which has been the bane or Ireland, which America manfully over-
threw, and under which Canada and the rest of our colonies have
groaned, and will still groan, so lung as the factions which now divide
sway in England, govern and mar her destinies ; for opposing a crack.
brained despot, whom every sane man aims to have been titter for
Bedlam than to be a ruler; for becoming involVed in an insurrection
whi,:h that ruler has acknowledged was brought on with his r,erfect
knowledge, which ht: foMented, and which with folded arms he saw
gather to a head—an inmurrection which, thus, piovoked, bad it suc-
ceeded, would have conferred immortal honour upon the now wretched
victims, and enternal disgrace ul•on the presumptuous arrogance of Sir
Francis Head. Such was the cause in which tho,e unfortunate men,
Lount and Mattis ws, have already sufferer;, and fo; which many others
arc doomed to di-. Adams and Hancock in I 77t; gained the reve-
rence of the whole civilised ucrld fir snaking the same effort. Ilut they
made it succeesfully. Death and disgrace are the lot of Lount and of
Matthews, b,use they failed. Such arc human judgments!
Lord North ha I decreed for the two American patriots those tender
mercies which his worthy successors have dealt out so liberally
to the Canadia❑ rebels. Lord North was met .and defeated by the
sturdy militia of New England, and honour is now the wed cf all
who took part in the glorious struggle that followed. As
.sure I am,
that ha 1, success attended the eabrts lately made in Canada, the siege_
aerate descendants of the Adana and Hancocks, the Pu!nams, the Hen-
ries, and the Washingtons, whin how join in the cry
.raised against the
lock'e3s rebels of Canada, would jlave been the Erst to 13 ave bailed with
interested enthusiasm the liming of this new star in their republican fir-
mament.

-• But the Canadians failed, and now perfect safety for existing order
is by all said to be insured ; 'yet to gratify a- brutal desire of vengeance,
Lount and Matthews have been hanged, and morearc to starer, the same
dreadful punishment. You can prevent this further butchery. You
and your friends can, if you so please, by your influence over the Ministry
at once arrest these disgraceful atrocities. You cannot do it by phrases
of infected commiseration, by declamatory' exclamations of horror, by
questions easily asktd and easily answered, or shuffled Oa' without an
answer. No ; tell them that if they continue this horrid proceeding you
trill not sancticn it—that you will not consent to continue them in office.
Tell them. this, and you will ho listened to and obes'ed. If you' refuse
this course, never I beseech you, inflict upon the people cf Eng-
land your eloques.t elegies over the oppressions of Ireland, nor your in-
dignant vituperation of Ireland's enemies. You mourn over the destruc-
tion of Emmett, you execrate the very name of Isis musrderers. Your
Irish poet indulges in melancholy strains upon the fate of Lord Edward
Fitzgerald, and Iti,h hearts beat quick, and their eyes glister!, when
they think of the story of his woes, and the woes of his hapless family.
But was the wailing of hi, children and the misc..), of his wife snore
piteous than the sorrows, and the despair, and the agony of the poor
suflin•ers in Capada ? • Was his lusty given over for dissection, and every
feeling ootraeed by to horrible an attack upoh every kind and good
and tender sentiment of conjugal and filial love ? I know not how you
feel when you read of these thing; but I confess that lam not stois
enough to hear of them without turning indignation against those who
have thus dishonoured our name and our nation. Tell me not that for
Ireland's good you ore competed to overlook this outrage upon huma.
nity. No good ran come of it. The men who will do these deeds in.
.America will not regenerate Ireland. Place, profit, power, considera-
tion—all these may possibly be secured by passing over and sanctioning
these atrocities—personal aggrandizement may be attained, but good for
Ireland, good laws for her people, equal justice fur all, never. Do not
believe that men so base as these 31inisters, so utterly dead to every
generous, every expanded, every kind emotion, can ever ton the race of
thegreat and the good. To work out a nation's happiness, in spite of
the opposition of interest and of power, requires men ofgrea and stead.
fast virtue, of enlarged and accurate viewli, of exalted and generous sen-
timents. Lo^k around •you, con over the names of those who now
figure as the Ministers of England, and point me out the man, not
pigmy in his intellect, narrow and crooked in his policy, base and de-
graded and grovehing in his disposition—name hint, if you find him, I
beseech yisu. Let the people know-who is the man thus distinguished
from his fellows, and let us have your warrant for his goodness and
his greatness. But sure I am of vile instruments it is vain to ex-
pect great deeds. To rescue Ireland from her prevent misery great
deeds; great daring, great honesty, are needed. Has not experience
taught you not to expect any of these things from your Whig friends ?
From the hour when they forged chains for Ireland, to the moment at
which they consented to hold office, after having given up every one of
the principles upon which, in a liberal mood, they promised to make
laws fur her—from the proposing of the Coercion Bill,* to the giving up
the appropriation clause, give me one instance in which they have not
proved themselves weak in purpese, shuffling .ia policy, contemptible in
conduct; and yet from these men you hope freedom for Ireland, and you
bear with them, thought they rob a people of their liberty, establish mar-
tial lew.in her courts, and ernoloy the gallows as their grand instrument
of protection Once again I cek, will you aid and abet these deeds—will
you sanction oppression in Canada while you preach mercy and tolera-
tion for Irsleod ?

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, -
J. A. ROEBUCK

Raymond-buildings, May 19, 1838,

* Scme I saw a par.:graph in the Spectator of a speech in
which y.. 0 was ,epar:ed to have said, in the midst of much abuse rfithe
English Radicals, that " they never ruled their voices against this
Coercion Bill." The other parts of the situps: ation may be carrectly
reported, but this accusation is so distinctly and notoriously Use, that
I am quit: sure you would not have di red to haz.:rd it.

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CAULINCOURT'S RECOLLECTIONS OF NAPO •
LEox.—This is one of the very few works that is -destined to acquire
more than merely ephemeral reputation. We have perused it with g:eat
interest. In a biographical tvcrk emanating from a French source, the
first question ought to be Is it genuine ? The present production con.
talus, as We think, internal evidence of honesty. The book is such as to
leave no doubt that it is true its spirit, and we arc led to look upon it as
one of considerable historicat.value. As one of reading interest it is
certainly not inferior to•O'Meara's " Napoleon in Exile," while it is re.
lievcd from the tedious minuteness and eternal obtrusion of egotism
which so disfigure the biographies of other celebtated Frenchmen of that
era.—Cotthl7.
. .

THE Co RoNATION.—The arranaetnents for this
solemnity are rapidly advancing in the Earl Marshal's department. The
Pecrs and PCVPS6CS have all received their letters of summons, and the
IRh d-i 3 of June is fixed as the last day upon which they can signify
their intention of being present. The requisite accommodation in the
Aney will then be appropriated to them, and the tickets issued. The
of June is the last day that any application for admission will be re.
cAved for Persms who in right of their offices would have had the privi-
le;e of walking had there been a procession.
Thursday morning the workmen employed in remov-
ing the immense rcanidieg fronting the stone entrance at Euston.
-grove,- leading to the London and Birmingham Railroad, completed it.
During the wee:: the elegant iron gates will be affixed, and the wooden
palinf s removed. The whole, when completed, will present an elegant
appearance from Euston square and the New.road.
Twenty ewes belong to a farmer at Trittenden,
Kent, this year produced 39 lambs, 36 of Which had arrived at maturity.