The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

If "lisintAnEn" has paid his rates in the borough, and inh2.
bited the house he alludes to the last three years, be 1144
clearly a right to vote. He should put in his claim to vote at
the ensuing municipal election.
We are this week absolutely inundated with letters, and the
few we have been compelled, almost at random, to ado Pt.
will not, we fear, satisfy all our correspondents that we 113'e
been judicious in the selection.

Zbe Ribcrpoui tanifalb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 18;5•

The democratical and levelling principles which per-
vade a large portion of the inhabitants of that common-
wealth of, physic and disease, called the city of Bath'
where ghastly and deformed creatures, whose very sha-
dows remind you of their coffins, as they glide or are
wheeled past you by day, and whose loud revels and in-
curable gambling by night, when all is dark, seem to jai'
cate their inevitable destination—these principles, we saY,
when taken in connexion with the abject dependence °I
the i Cants, who feed upon the crumbs of the wealthy
and Itigripon the sick, the dying, and the dead, are alto-
gether unaccountable. How it happens that those why
derive their means of subsistence from a ciilonv of re-
tired or locomotive gentry, all of whom
,I)ave_fixed
comes, few of whom are engaged in any business, and
who spend more or less luxuriously those incomes oPill
which the people of Bath live—how these people hapPe°
to be radicals, ready to cut the throats of the poor inviv
lids on whom they prey, is one of those problems
which we will not attempt to solve.

It is said of rats and other vermin, that nature has
planted in them an inexorable hatred of the sick and
frail portion of their species, and that they take an 0"
traordinary pleasure in persecuting and destroying the
Whether the radicals of Bath are the rats of our "
der" in that unwholesome charnel-house, it is not for 1314
who happily know so little of it, to decide.

But we see and know enough to satisfy any ordinary
curiosity that there is something wrong and rotten ill,
Bath. The whole city stands much in need of a power'
ful salivation. One ARTHUR. ROEBUCK, who, as part °f
the world probably knows, is a sort of political Bunker
to honest JOSEPH HUME, and is, besides, a poor creature'
of the rery meanest capacity, empty, needy, and pre-
suming, alike arrogant and ignorant, is one of its repre-
sentatives in Par!iament. To this very shabby pers°l3'
who is, like WASON, EWART, and a few others, the gib"
cats of the House of Commons, fretted into play occa-
sionally for the sake of sport—to this person a dinner
was given by the rabblement and bonegrubbers of Bath,
on Wednesday last. At this feast there were preset)",
Colonel NAPIER and JOSEPH HUME, but nobody else,
whose name was ever heard of in -publiciife. There
were three speeches, and GOD be praised, only three, de-
livered—one by, this Colonel NAPIER aforesaid, another
by ROEBUCK, the member, and the third by JOSEPH, the
Greek.

They are all excellent in their way, and exceedingly
characteristic. We do not say that they are treasonab/et•
for that is rather an obsolete word but that they are
marked by all that is cowardly, seditious, and disloyal, ice
shall endeavour to prove. Colonel NAPIER, we beliele'•
was a soldier, and a good one; but whether he is now a dig'.
sappointed man, weak enough to suppose he can gain Pan e;
pularity in such vile company by libelling his superiors
insulting his Sovereign, we have no means of ascertain"'
ing. For his own sake, and that of his family, we hoe,
that mental obliquity can be pleaded as his excuse, an
that he will live to regret and atone for the false step be
has taken, and the degrading position in which he Ps
placed himself.
But to show that we have good grounds for making
these charges, although a plentiful lack of reason for in:
dulging in these hopes, we beg leave to extract the riches'
morcels from the reported speeches of the three worthies'
we have named.
First comes Colonel NAPIER. His health was drank
in conjunction with that of the army and navy, and be I
reported to have uttered what follows :
" Well, then, English or un-English, they would have the
ballot, and, what was more, they would have a strong
of democracy into the constitution—they would have a he";
of lords amenable to the wishes and feelings of the people t,
large—they would have that OR THEY WOULD HA
VP
NO HOUSE OF LORDS AT ALL."! !! !
" England once did very well WITHOUT LORDS, 6'."1
might do so again." II!!

ROEBUCK follows NAPIER, and he says— '
" He openly avowed that his object was, by a series of forth':
and greater changes than any which had yet been ado-plod, t° fie.
stroy the dominant power of any section or party, and to Plate

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