Star.
London, England, 1830-02-08 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION.

ADHESION OF THE MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD.
We have much pleasure in giving the following letter
a place in our columns, knowing—as we do—the pure and
independent principles which have so long obtained for
the writer of it a distinguished rank among the patriots
and reformers of his day :
TO THOS. ATTWOOD, ESQ, OF BIRMINGHAM.
Edinburgh, Feb. 7, 1130.
DEAR cannot read the insinuations against you
and your much honoured brother-reformers of Birming-
ham, in Mr. CORBETT'S Register of last Saturday, with-
out hastening to give you and them, under the hand of
one of the oldest, and (thank Gon) one of the sincerest
reformers from the beginning, now alive, the declaration
of my perfect conviction that Mr. CORBETT, whose
mighty talents I so much respect, has fallen into a great
mistake, which I am sure he will be anxious to acknow-
ledge, when he obtains a hearing at Birmingham, as I
hope he will, in imputing such unworthy motives to you
and your companions, as to have entered into this Union
for the mere purpose of getting " base paper money back
again and eternal depreciation," and then to abandon
" Parliamentary Reform."
Really, Sir, if this were the case, instead of being
amongst " the bravest of the brave" and the wisest of the
wise, as I now hold you, I should consider you among
the lowest of the low, the meanest of the mean ; but the
thing is utterly impossible : you have drawn the sword of
law and justice in the cause of reform, not hastily, but
determinedly; and never, never will the men capable of
forming such an Union, or of joining it after it has been
formed, as I hereby do with all my heart and soul, con-
sent to sheathe that sword until the old law and liberty of
England shall be restored, and the House of Commons be
again in reality, as well as name, the Commons' House of
Parliament.

Although I have the grant pleasure of being known to
you, I am better known in your town and neighbourhood
under the signature of
THE OLD LAWYER.
P.S.—Since writing the above, I have received from
the Marquis of BLANDVORD a copy of his letter to you,
in which he does me the great honour of introducing him-
self to you as a friend of mine ; but that which is the
most important part of it, that which verifies to you and
the whole country all that I have said of the statesman-
like talents, independence, and incorruptible integrity of
this worthy scion of our illustrious MARLISOKOVOIt,
whose very name is victory, is the following passage in
his letter to you, which I here transcribe, because I know
it will be read by our brother-reformers all over the king-
dom, (and happily for Old England, they are now not a
few) with the same interest and delight as were the first
letters I had the happiness to publish from this Noble-
man to myself, upon the great subject of Parliamentary
Reform ; and which, together with his subsequent motion
in the House of Commons, contributed in no small de-
gree, to flash that conviction upon the minds of thousands,
of the expediency, and propriety, not to say necessity, of
that measure which now prevails over the whole country,
and which the men of Birmingham have the honour of
being the first to announce in so grand a manner.
From Lord BLAN DFORD'III letter to Mr. ATT WOOD :-•-•
" Without further digression, I, therefore, proceed to de-
clare to you the intense interest and satisfaction I have re-
ceived, at perusing the account of the whole of the pro
ceedings at the Town-Meeting. I beg by all means, that
my name may be enrolled among you.
(Same.) 4, BLANDFORD."

We have received a copy of the Letter above alluded to
by the " Old Lawyer," which does high honour indeed
to the noble writer. It is as follows :

TO THOMAS AT? WOOD, ESQ.
Stx—Though I have not the honour of your personal
acquaintance, I feel assured that I may use the name of
our mutual friend Mr SCOTT, to justify the step I take in
addressing you. But on public grounds I feel 1 may also
take this liberty.
Without further digression I therefore proceed to de-
clare to you the intense interest and satisfaction I hays
received at perusing the account of your late town's
meeting. I beg, by all means, that my name may be
enrolled amongst you.
I wish, with all my heart, it were in my power to con-
tribute in the shape of subscription in the proportion in
which it might be expected of one, whose misfortune it is
to possess so high a rank, and still be so crippled in his
as to find it inconvenient to do what might