The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

TO THE LOYAL PEOLPE OF ENGLAND

It is now nearly four years since (when the country was,
as it is again, on, the eve of a general election), I presumed
to intimate an opinion that a trick upon the people of En-
gland was contemplated by her Majesty's ministers. I told
you that " an administration which had obtained office by
means politically dishonourable, which by an ;undisguised
alliance with professed revolutionists had forced itself upon
the late gracious monarch, and that on the pretence of carry-
ing measures it had not carried—an administration which,
with economy on its lips, had squandered hundreds of thou-
sands of the public money on useless commissions at home,
and on worse than useless contests abroad—an administra-
tion which had become contemptible from impotence, and
hateful by its tyranny, which had stigmatised poverty as a
crime worthy of the astile and its coarser food allowance—
that that administration was about to attempt, by a new
Juggle, to re-invigorate its expiring energies." I told you
that their " cry would be The Queen and the Ministry, the
Queen and Reform, or some other phrase equally calculated
to delude." I added, that if you " could once more be
gulled, the seat of the minister was safe," but that " if you
were awake to the delusion, it would crumble from beneath
him." And I concluded by expressing myself confident
that " the trick would utterly and ignominiously FAIL."
Was I right or wrong ? I was correct in every particular.
The Queen's name was paraded with the most indecent fami-
liarity in every whig newspaper, and upon every hustings in
the country. It was openly insinuated that to vote against
a ministerialist was to vote against the wishes of her Ma-
jesty. But what was the result? You paid no attention to
hints so improper and unconstitutional. You bad too much
respect for the sovereign to permit yourselves to inquire into
their truth or falsehood. You had a great duty to do, and
you did it. In spite of all the trickery of the most unscru-
pulous faction that ever struggled for ascendancy, you sent
into the new parliament a greater number of conservatives
than you had returned to the former. You had been asked
to strengthen ministers, and you replied by weakening them.
You left them no stay—nothing upon which to lean, but the
great Irish impostor, and the serfs whom he deludes and
lives upon. But you did more. jou sent such a phalanx
of good men and true into the house as rendered even the
stay of that impostor unavailable to them. They have been
repeatedly and disgracefully beaten, with him and all his
serfs at their back. And what is their resource now ? They
have the audacity to threaten another appeal to you!—to
you, who gave such an answer to their last, which was made
at a juncture more favourable to their hopes than any that
can ever occur again.
What then ? Do they think that you have, in some de-
gree, relaxed your hostility to their principles ? and that you
are ready to reverse your former verdict ? By what, then,
do they hope to have soothed you ? With what " joggle"
are you about to be—if you are not already—gulled? CHEAP
BREAD ! This is trick the second ; and, if you are the peo-
ple I take you for, it will be trick the last.
I shall not now enter into any examination of the present
corn-bill. Whether its alteration or abolition might, or
might not, be advantageous to the nation, is nothing to
my argument. I contend that you ought not to intrust the
decision of a question so momentous to a Government com-
posed of Quacks and Incapables. Just glance with me over
a few of their acts during the last ten years, and you will not
think my epithets too harsh. They gave you the Reform
Bill, which they assured you would cure all your ills, PhYei-
cal and political. A vast majority of you, for a time, believed
and supported them. But who now boasts of its healing
virtues ? It is a failure, and its own authors confess it !
They gave you next the Corporation Reform Bill. What
did it do? It threw, for a year or two, all the civic power
into the hands of their own partisans, who have proved them-
selves as incapable as their leaders to occupy any station of
trust, and who have been already discarded, in most places,
from the stations they occupied. The Corporation Reform
Bill is a failure, and its authors confess it ! Another speci-
men of Whig legislation was their Poor Law Amendment
Act, or what is usually termed the New Poor Law. That
the old generous Elizabethan Act had been greatly abused,
or that it needed amendment, nobody ever denied. But to
amend has not to magnificent, a sound as to abolish, and to
produce something new. Accordingly the Whigs were deter-
mined to produce something new, and they did, so. They
produced a measure which has never yet been worked out—
which never can be worked out—because the feelings of Eng-
lishmen will not endure it. "No relief but in the work-
house," which is the stern mandate of this new tyranny, is
not, and cannot be, enforced ; and if so, their New Poor Law,
too, is a failure! During these changes, the expenditure
began to exceed the revenue of the country • and by the way,
I suppose of increasing the latter, they reduced the Postage
duties. They gave you, lastly, the Peppy Postage. This
was, they asserted, a boon to the poor. The hypocrites !
they talk of being friends of the poor, who bad covered the
land with Bastiles for their reception ! But to pass this
over, has their Penny Postage succeeded? Not it. iedeed.
The deficiency caused by this change, is four times the
amount they expect to raise by a scheme which will peril,
and may ruin, the• agriculture of the country ! And, this
brings me back to their " trick the last"—the Corn Laws.
Whether they are sincere to their professed intention of
substituting a fixed duty for the present fluctuating duties—
whether the announcemeut is a mere fraud, an electioneering
manoeuvre—or whether it is made for the semi-traitorous
purpose of embarrassing the future government of the
Queen, I shall not stop to inquire. I care as little about
their motives as, I trust, you do. I maintain that, be their
motives good or be they evil—be their inten ions honestly
entertained or be they not—be they the most patriotic, or be
they the least patriotic ministry that ever graced or dis-
graced the land of their nativity, I maintain that they are
incapable, utterly incapable, of carrying any view into effect.
Incapable, not from the opposition they meet with, not from
the impracticability, in every instance, of their designs, but
from sheer want oflegislative ability. A majority of you
trusted them long, supported them long, believing them ho-
nest, and hoping that they would learn the art of government
from experience. But you have seen measure after measure
held forth as a panacea, and.you have seen them successively
fail. In seven years you have seen more than seven millions
added to the national debt ; and that they call retrench-
ment. You have seen hundreds of thousands lavished on
commissioners ; and that they call economy. You have seen
expeditions to Spain, to Egypt, to. China ; and that they
call peace and non-intervention. To use a vulgar but ex-
pressive phrase—you have been HUMBUGGED !
You have been humbugged for ten long and disastrous
years. But if these men give you the opportunity they
threaten to give, you will,
_I am persuaded, take ample RE-
VENGE. And revenge, in this case, will be a virtue ; it will
be ,one of the greatest of human virtues—it will be TRUE
PATRIOTISM. This revenge you will begin at the hustings,
and achieve in the polling-booths. You will tell the Whigs,
wherever they appear, that you have given them a long and
patient trial ; that your verdict is adverse to any renewal of
confidence in them ; and that you will choose men who will
neither be the vassal slaves of •O'Connell, nor the betrayers
of a young, an innocent, and unsuspecting QUEEN !
ROBERT STORY.
Gargrave, May 25, 1841.

We believe it is generally understood that his Royal High.
ness Prince Albert will visit his Grace the Archbishop of
York, at Nuneham, on the 14th of next Month: His royal
highness will doubtless honour his owu university with his
preiseneor.—awArd Herald.

Garrow, and John Lilly, hence at Bonny
A ship, supposed to be the Huddersfield, hence off ditto
Magistrate, and Lady Combermere, hence at Fernando Po
Currency, Parkin, hence at the Cape of Good Hope
Caledonia, Lawson, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for this
port 24th March
Cintra, Renfree, from Manilla for Sydney, N.S.W. Bth Dec.
Zoe, Holmes, from Calcutta at St. Helena, and sailed Bth April
for this port
Lady Leitrim, Clements; Brigand, and Belgrave, hence at An-
tigua

Elizabeth, Wood, in 25 days ; lrlam, Morphew ; Alice, Anwyl .
Martha, and Victoria, hence at Barbadoes
Camerton, hence for Trinidad, off ditto 22nd April
Swift (packet) from Falmouth, at ditto 2gth April
Rising Sun, Christian, hence at Laguna in 45 days
Dart, Gray, hence at Ancona
Ariel, Dutton, hence at Trieste
Traveller, Boyce, hence at Pillau
Susannah Jay, Marshall, hence at Riga
Orion, Lundbeck, and Comet, Scott, hence at WV:mg
Cove, -, from the Mauritius, off Portsmouth
Princess Charlotte, King, from Bon bay, off Cork
Alexander Liddle, Henderson, from Laguna, at Cove
Portland,from Savannah to this port, was spoken 16th May, in
lat. 43 0, long. 43 0
.Trewartha, hence for Naples, was spoken off Gibraltar
Gondolier, hence for China, was spoken on the Equator
Agnes Ewing, hence for Halifax, was spoken 28th April, with
loss of foremast and jibboom
Rhoda, Matthews, hence for Leghorn, was spoken 15th April, in
Premier, , hence for -, was spoken 25th April, in lat.
4 0 Njong. 18 0 W
Mary Bulmer, from Bombay to this port, was spoken 7th May,
in lat. 23 0 N, long. 38 0 W
Courier, Huntress, from Lima, at this port; sailed 7th Feb. The
Thomas, Worthington was discharging. The Thomas Fielffen was
to sail for the lee coast for light freight. The Bonanza was ex-
pected daily from the Chinean Islands, ,to fill up for this port. On
the gth April, in lat. Li o S, long. 22 0 W, spoke the Matilda (late
Scott,) hence for Sydney
The London, , froth Yarmouth, N.S. at this port, sailed
3rd May. On the gth May, in let. 43 0, lon. 63 0, fell in with the
Paragon, hence for Halifax, in a sinking state. having been run on
board by a large American ship the day previous, and took off the
crew. On the 12th, in lat. 43 0, lon. 50 30, the London struck an
iceberg, lost bowsprit, foremast, rnaintopmast, and stove her
larboard bow. Shortly afterwards heard a crash, supposed to be
caused by another vessel running against the ice, which it is feared
foundered, but the weather was too thick to distinguish her.
The Fortitude, Arbuthnot, from Buenos Ayres at this port. On
the 25th ult. at 5 a.m. in lat. 47 0, N. lon. 23 so, %V. saw a large
steamer, without funnel, a crippled foremast, and large paddle-
boxes, painted of a dark colour, with a large topsail set on the
maintopmast, a topgallant sail ou the fore-topmast, and with fore
and aft sails, about ten miles distant, steering to the N.E. and
making but slow progress.

THURSDAY, JUNE N.W. fresh

A nadven.—Princess Charlotte, —, from Bombay—Charles
Eyes, Moss, from Valparaiso—Harriet, , from Buenos Ayres
—Gracio, —, from Maceio —Eden German, —, from La.
gtura—Columbine, Joseph Cunard, Birnie, and Abbot
Lord, Nowell, from New Orleans—Marchioness of Bute, —,
from Mobile—John Bentley, Desbro, from Savannah—Gleneira,
—, from Marseilles—Venus, Blumtell. from Bilboa—John
William, Wuff, and Carl Christian, Birr, from Danzic—Henrietta,
—, from Stralsund—Bellerophon, Schroeder, from Wismar—
Alert, —, from Naples—and Providence, Albrecht, from Danzic.
SAILED.—Rosa, Farman, for Dordt—Oxeubjerg, Dreyer, for El-
sinore—lsaac Allerten, Torry, and Sheffield, Allen, for New York
—Beethoven, Moore, for Valparaiso—Favourite, Harrison, for
Harlingen—and Caledonia, Harvey, for Riga.

The vessel seen by the Fortitude, and supposed to be a large
steamer, disabled, was in all probability the London, from Y ar-
mouth, N.S. that arrived here yesterday—the dcscliptlon and po-
sition of the disabled vessel agreeing with that of the London
Dart, Grey, hence to Ancona, was spoken 2nd May, in lat 37,
long, 1 E

Reliance, hence to Ceara, was spoken 27th April, in lat. 6 N,
long. 27 W

Black-eyed-Susan, hence to Beirout, was spoken 27th May, in
lat. 49, long. 7 15
Australia, hence to Bahia, was spoken 14th ult. in lat. 38, long.
16
St. John, hence to Quebec, was spoken 6th ult. in lat. 45, long.
48.

Grenada, -, from Calcutta. off the Wight
Swan, Hughes, from Alexandria, at the Cove
Goodluck, Payne, from Buenos Ayres, off ditto in 52 days. On
28th May, in lat. 48, long. 15, spoke the Queen Victoria, for Liver-
pool
Lady Adams, -, hence at Valparaiso
Leonora, ly arrison from Demerara, at Trinidad
Garland, Larkin ; Samuel, Kelly ; Elvira, Wills ; Jessamine,
Jarvis; Donegal, Hardship; Wanderer, Dixon; Thomas, Edmond-
son ; Trial, Bell; and Margaret Parker, Dunn, henbe at New.
foundlaud
Buoyant, Stanley, hence at Newfoundland, lost mainboom
Shavt , Scott, hence at ditto, lost mainyard
George Robinson, Lockyer, hence at ditto, mainmast sprung
Andes, -, from Falmouth. at Trieste
Zeldenrust, Koning, and Alista, Brought, hence at Zwolle
Stour, Atkins, hence at Helvoet