Star.
London, England, 1830-05-27 00:00:00

THE MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD AND MR. HUNT.

TO THOMAS ATTIVO6i, ESQ. BIRMINGHAM.
36, Stamford-street, London, May 12.

Si li,—ln the Morning Herald of Friday last, May 7,
time is a letter addressed to you, wherein my tsatne is introduced
11 ur 12 times very uncourteously, to say the least of it. But as
the waiter, or supposed writer, has not had the courage or the ho-
nest) to put his name to it, and as it is published without any date
or addrcsa, I take leave to send this brief reply to you, assuming
this position, that you are either the author of the said letter, or,
what I consider very nearly the same thing, that you have made it
!our uwn by sanctioning its publication, without giving me any
other clue to judge from whom it came, save that of your name be.
env; placed at the head of it.

the first place, Sir, I have ever held, and still hold, that man
to be either a coward, or worse, who publishes a personal attack
upon another, without giving his own name and address.
ThiA raid letter professes to be an answer to, or critique, upon,
0:11c proceedings that were reported. in the Morning Mankl, to
have taken place at a Meeting of the Radical Reform Association on
day auntie month, but what month it does not state; nei.
then is it even pretended that I was present on that occasion; how.
it appears that the discussion was upon the Bill brought into
tits house of commons by the Marquis of Blandford for Reform ;
It father appears that some one of the speakers at this meeting
resumed to designate that part of the Marquis's plan called
lloutrlioltler Suffrage " monstrous injustice," because the speaker
thouitht it would exclude two-thirds of the population from
vetia4 at elections, and that, out of the payers of 00 millions of
only those who pay 13 millions would have the right of
%oraig, whilst it would exclude those who pay the remaimng 47
millions ; upon which, after lavishing great eneomiums on the Mar.
ftlis's bill, the writer falls into a violent passion, and instead of an.
+weritlg either the argument, or attempting to prove the incorrectness
of the a.sertion, in good set terms uses the following elegant epi.
'ucts, and calls the following names f—
ist. 3lr. Hunt's learned lawyers.
1. 11 r. Punt's men call it.

3d.
Mr. Hunt's men the vanity to suppose.
4th. Mr. Hunt's men say.
521. .!r. Hunt's men now appear to approve.
t;:h. llant's men now call upon the people.
Employed by Mr. Hunt's men.
11. h, The editor of the Adorning Journal declared that Mr.
Hun; was on an understanding with the Government.
9th, While Hunt was in the Chair.
10th. lam in utter astonishment that Mr. O'Connell should have
I-3de stich another blunder u tendering himself to be the tool of
Mr. Hutt in London.
lith, The Marquis of Blandford resisted the attempts of 3Ir.H out.
12th, Mr. Hunt is a Government contractor.
13th, Hence the disappointment of the Government contractor.
Now, ;sir, permit me to aak you, who are reported to be a
..;:rolvtilati and an upright and amiable man, how you can
yourself to the world in sanctioning such matter as the
Ante to be publishtd? The putting forth of such vulgar
unnicaning abate might, for. a moment, gratify the bad
pat.sions of a little grovelling mind ; but do you, Sir, believe that
'itch trash as the above will add one leaf to that laurel with which
would wish to deck your bro.? Do you, Sir, think that such
.ititnelining trash will injure me in the eye of any rational and re.
:heat% man ? The writer says Mr. Hanes men say this, and do
that. By :his he would insinuate that those who attend the Radial
Reform Association, that the 110,000 persons who attended the
Radical Doming, that the Meeting of Merchants at the Egyptian
the Freeholders of Surrey, and the Livery of London, who
"metioned, unanimously the resolutions which I proposed for
Radical Reform at each "lace ; in fact, if he Inclea" all those
"ho are advocates of a real and Radical Reform, Unieerad
xiiji.uye, Annual Parlionsenit, and Vote by Maki ;—if he
I.t.tns to say that all these, which include nine.tenths of the' people
}ink:hind—if he means to say that all these are Hat's men, why
r. lie pays me a much hightit compliment than ha intended, or
has I can possibly merit. But if he means to say that I have the
rUtaTIS of exercising any Improper inflames wee an portion of thL
respectable and numerous class, he huinuates *a which is not
In's: in fact, the tether knows that I possess no 1111111111011 OM any
Portion of the people other than that which I have obtained by a