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PROCEEDINGS IN THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF
ASSEMBLY, JAMAICA, MONDAY, AUG. 10.

The Speaker having taken the chair, Dr. Whittaker and Mr.
Barclay were appointed a committee to wait on his Excellency
the Governor, to inquire when he would be ready to receive the
address in reply to his speech at the opening of the session. At
the return of the committee they reported that his excellency
was pleased to say he would be ready to receive it at a quarter
before four o'clock.

Mr. Hyslop then moved that a message be sent to the Go-
vernor, requesting a return of all exports from the Ist July,
1834, to the Ist August, 1835. The honourable gentleman said he
had made the wording of the motion
.different to the-original
notice he had given: it was quite evident there was some per-
son poisoning the mind of the executive, and it was necessary
to discover bow the extraordinary discrepancies in the ieturnie
had arisen. He bad seen a letter that day from St. Georges,
stating a deficiency of 2,000 hogsheads. It was a pity that fact
had not conic out earlier, ►n order that it.. might have been
noticed in the address.
Mr. Leslie moved, as an amendment, that a return for the
last four years to the Ist of August should be desired.
Mr. Grosselt coincided that the motion shotld include the
year preceding the rebellion.
Mr. Leslie pressed his amendment, and trusted that, as itwas
not likely that the sitting of the house would be protracted, a
committee would be appointed to draw up a report during the
recess on the state of the country. He felt confident that, when
a proper statement was made on it, it would be shown that the
falling off, instead of being only one-sixteenth, was between a
sixth and a seventh.

The Speaker informed the house that the hour at which his
excellency was pleased to say he would receive the address had
arrived.

The house, preceded by the Speaker and the mace, accord.
ingly went over to the King's House, when the speaker read
the following address
" THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE ASSEMBLY.

" May it please your Excellency,
" We thank your Excellency for your speech at the opening
of the session.

"As your Excellency has considered it impossible further to
delay the calling together of the legislature, we ackowledge the
expediency of postponing our meeting to the latest moment.
This being the season hitherto devoted to our private affairs, we
are willing to submit to any personal inconvenience, whenever
the public goui may require the sacrifice.

" We admit the absolute necessity of maintaining an efficient
police;
but, as the present act does not expire till the end of the
year, we think the consideration of that subject may be deter-
red until the usual meeting without any immediate injury to
the public interest. Your Excellency may rely, when that pe-
riod arrives, that we shall give the subject the consideration
which is demanded by a measure on which the continuation of
cultivation and the tranquillity of the country depend.
" The first act in aid of the abolition law shall have our
consideration.

" We congratulate your Excellency on having received such
reports' as enabled you to state that the police has attained a
degree of efficiency 'not to have been attained in-- so short a
time ;' and however anxious we may be to procure 'officers ac-
quainted with military discipline, or with the habits which are
usual in similar bodies in other countries,' yet we cannot, in
duty to our constituents, place beyond our control so large a
sum of money as is required for the maintenance of that body
for a longer period than oae year.
" We will be happy to receive and take into our consideration
those papers which your Excellency promises to lay before us,
and which your Excellency thinks will convince us that the
police has acted efficiently in the suppression ofahose momen-
tary ebullitions which have occurred, and which are inseparable
from so great a change in the frame of its society as that which
is now going on in this island.
We do not perceive the expediency of a legislative union of
the Cayrnanas with Jamaica. It is no fault of ours that the two
classes of his Majesty's subjects resident there have been placed
in their present relative position towards each other. Having
always protested against external interference with our own
legislation, we are not disposed to interfere with that of others,
and must, therefore, leave those who have occasioned the ab-
sence ofa legally- constituted government at the Caymanas to
organize the elements of society in that dependency of his
Majesty.
" Your Excellency informs os that an act relating to emi-
gration appears to be absolutely neeesbary. We have always
regarded the introduction of nurepean labourers as the only
resource that was open to the colony for upholding the cultiva-
tion of the soil, and promoting the civilization of the labodring
class of the inhabitants, and for those purposes we passed a bill
the last session of assembly, which, however, during its progress
through the other branch of the legislature, received smell altera-I
tiros, and was clogged with so many restrictions, and invested
the executive with such unprecedented prerogatives, that we
preferred the abandonment of the measure, being convinced
that, while the cost might be great, no free and useful subjects
would be willing to emigrate under such hard conditions, or
patiently to live under rules and regulations so to be imposed
and altered at the pleasure of one person, however eminent in
character and office. We fear that, unless the police and emi-
gration are combined, our revenue may prove unequal to the
double burthen, and we venture to hope that the justice of the
British parliament will not deny to us, an ancient and suffering
colony, that succour which it liberally bestows on thefltoirbine.th i
formation
of new settlements in the most distant part of the g
adding to the number of her colonies, by which she hopes to
extend her commerce and her name, it -may not be unwise in
the mother country to contribute some share of the vast revenue
she has derived, and still enjoys, hum Jamaica, to preserve and
foster what she already possesses.
" It gives us much concern that your excellency should have
been induced to characterise the mortality amongst the emi-
grants as frightful. In this we apprehend your excellency
must have been misinformed. 'Jae mortality which has taken
place has principally occurred in the towns where it never was
intended the emigrants should be located. Your excellency
may rely that provision will not only be made for the reception,
protection, and the due enforcement on both sides of the ar-
rangements made between the emigrants and their employers,
but likewise for the' punishment of those who wickedly inveigle
them from such employers after they have been once located,
and to which evil practice alone do we attribute the mortality
and partial failure of the attempt hitherto made at emigration.
" Your excellency's right of access to the correspondence be-
tween the commissioners here and the island agent in England
is defined and limited by law, and it belongs to the commission-
ers
appointed by the law to interpret its provisions. When the
act comes again under the consideration of the legislature, the
house will perform its duty in making the law so clear as not to
be misunderstood.

" As guardivas of the public purse, we have ever, to the ut-
most extent of the.rcsources of the colony, most liberally con•
tributed to the support of the government, but we will freely
say to 'emir eicellerity that we • co,isider the solemn engage-
ment which we came under in former times, and in a different
state of society,.for the support of a limited military garrison,
to have been annulled along with the far more solemn engage-
ments of the English govemment; (alder which our property in

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1835.

Our Jamaica papers reach to the 25th August. The
assembly, which met on the 4th of that month, was dis-
solved by Lord SLIGO, the governor, on the 10th, under
circumstances of a mysterious and extraordinary nature.
We gave, a few numbers back, the speech of his excel-
lency- on opening the assembly, and to-day we publish
at full length the answer of the assembly, and the angry
reply of the governor in dissolving that. body. The pre-
text for dissolving the assembly was the " unusual" and
discourteous answer of the house to the governot's speech,
in which they question the policy of his measures, de-
cline his recommendations, and pointedly challenge the
accuracy of his statements. It is clear, however, that
Lord SLIGO was either deceived by others as to his state-
ments, or be was committing the very indiscreet part of
attempting to impose upon the assembly by thrusting
upon them facts which common sense and their own ex-
perience told every member of the house could not be
sustained by evidence. In either case Lord SLIGO has
acted a very foolish part. By.this rash and intemperate
proceeding he has, to use the words of one of the journals,
reduced the colony to a " most deplorable condition."
It appears that Jamaica, at the time we allude to, was
not only deprived of representatives, it was also destitute
of a constituency. By the new act for regulating the
elective franchise, no election could 'possibly take ,place
until after the 23th September, and this is said not to
have been discovered until after the dissolution had
taken place. This is said; but we cannot believe it.
The scheme, we suspect, is much deeper than our ardent
countrymen in the plantations are suspicious enough to
believe. They do not know the whigs so well as we do,
and there are appearances near the surface of this trans-
action which induce us to think that Lord Sim() is but
an instrument, and a clumsy one too, in the plot.
Why was the. assembly called together at so " un-
usual" a period as the .4th of August ? No one has
ventured to assign a rational reason for it. The Go-
vernor did not stand in need of supplies. He did not
ask for money; he did not seek increased power, he did
not complain of -insurrection ; but, on the contrary, told
the assembly that the cOlOny never was in a more tran-
quil condition. Why, then, was the assembly summon-
ed at a period WiteU the .absence of its members from
their estates could be so ill spared ? We seriously be-
lieve that it was for no other object than to quarrel wit!)
the assembly. He proposed measures which he knew
could not be acceded to—he made statements which he
knew would be controverted. But all this was part of
the whig game, and it ended 4to his entire satisfaction,
and agreeably to his instructions. His ExcellenCy did
not obtain the support of a single member of the assem-
bly—no voice or hand was raised in his favour—the
court coterie 'were appalled by his boldness and his
open disregard of truth—and he and his speech were

censured and condemned by the unanimous vote of the
House. Such an extraordinary unanimity never oc-
curred in Jamaica before.

But all this evidently points to ulteiior measures.
Lord Suco hinted at the consequences which might
ensue. From what quarter? Not from himself—not
from a new agSkiitiV—but from the British government
and the British parliament. We understand this, and
Shall not be surprised if no assembly whatever i either
elected or summoned during the governorship of the
noble marquis. We suspect that there is a strong dis-
position in certain quarters to get rid of the West India
assemblies altogether, and the parties who cherish this
design think it will he easier to accomplish it before
than after - the payment of the compensation money.
That is our own opinion; and we regret to say that cir-
cumstances could be 'adduced in strong confirmation of it,
but we shall be glad to learn that we have been mis-
taken.

The following is from the Jamaica Despatch of the
24th August :

"STATE OF THE ISLAND.—The colony is in a most de-
plorable condition ! The headstrong "inflexibility" of Lord
Sligo, in .dissolving the house, has left us without the sem-
blance of a legislature! The, late act which regulated the
elective franchise being superseded
.by the act, which only
comes into operation on
,the 28th "September next, leaves us
virtually without a constiinency; but so little was this regarded
by the governor and his advisers, that they only discovered it
when too late. Writs were signed for the election of new
members, and it was only then, and not until then discovered,
that the constitutionat advisers of the governor had led him
into an error, from which they could not extricate him. We
are therefore virtually without the means of raising a shilling
to meet the exigencies of the country, or to sanction the pay-
ment of the current expenditure. Such, we say, is the result
of the measures which have. been produced by " untoward"
feelings towards the unfortunate colonists, dictated by motives
which, we fear, are in strict accordinCe with the views of the
anti-colonists.

" The dark threats of Lord Sligo in his valedictory address
to the House of Assembly are explained in Lord Glenelg's cir-
cular of the 20th June, already alluded to. These threats will
with us fall harmlessly, as they ought to be disregarded. We
have yielded our.all to the wishes of the mother country; and
although we have been plundered and deluded, we shall not
follow her jesuitical example; we will not even promise to
pay £80,00( a year for five years for the maintenance of a
police, when we know that our resources cannot meet it; and
if our pitiful compensation is to depend upon such a contingency,
what has become of the honour and faith of the British govern.
ment ? The threat is heartless!—but we are weak—and far—
far off from the Canadas ! If our fellow-subjects in Britain
knew the painful feelings under which We write this article,
we feel assured they would make every allowance for its
warmth.

RESULT OF THE FIRST YEAR'S APPRENTICESHIP.— We
know that Lord Sligo is now in possession of documents irre-
fragably authentic, which spew a falling off in the sugar crop
for the year ending the first of August last, as compared with
the preceding year, of eleven thousand hogsheads—this is a
diminution of one-sixth. Lord Sligo, in his speech to the as-
sembly, stated the diminution at four thousand odd hogsheads,
or one-sixteenth. The assembly, in their reply, begged his
lordship to wait for more correct returns, which would show that
the diminution was greater than stated by his lordship. For
this their reply was denounced to be disrespectful and offensise!
The coffee crop for the year just ended having fallen short of
that of the preceding year more than one half, of course did not
suit his lordship's views, and he made no allusion to it what-
ever. This immense decrease was however well known to the
assembly, and precluded them from joining his lordship in his
favourable anticipations of the working of the apprenticeship.
Here,. then, we have in figures the result of the first. )ear's ap-
prenticeship—a deficiency in sugar of eleven thousand hogsheads
—in coffee half the usual crop. Will Lord Sligo and his mi-
nions continue, with these facts, to insult the community with
their favourable anticipations ? Will his creatures now dare to
refute the mathematical demonstration here Submitted to theist,
of the working of the system for the year just ended ? It is
probable that the motive which dictated Lord Sligo's removal
to Highgate, for the purpose of evading the answer of the House
of Assembly, ma
_y tempt him to withhold from the Colonial Se-
ct etary and the British public the documents to which we have
alluded, and which disprove in tutu his lordship's statements as
to the working of the apprenticeship.
We would assure his excellency that this ruse will not avail
him. These documents will find their way to England by this
packet—they will entirely vindicate the conduct of the assembly
—complete the exposure of the system of espionage and misre-
presentation which has disgraced the government of Lord Sligo,
and which has created the ruinous diminution in this year's
production of the staples of the colony. We consider it impos-
sible that Lord Sligo can, under any circumStances, continue
Governor of Jamaica—even should the truckling.,---degraded
government, now headed by O'Connell, remain in office.-

The accounts which the London journals furnish of the
celebration of last Sunday in all the protestant churches
and chapels of the metropolis are gratifying in the ex-
treme. We also rejoice to say that the good work, in
all the earnestness of devotion, and in all the delight of
glowing recollections, was equally well performed in_the
provinces—in the crowded churches of the large towns,
as well as in the sacred sanctuaries far removed from
busy life, in the deep dell, and amid the fastnesses of our
Mountains.

Thanks be to those who on this occasion have so nobly
done their duty and rallied round the altars and shrines
of their country. The impression they have made will
never be forgotten ; and what is more gratifying, it will
never be forgiven while a single Roman catholic priest
of the. present generation survives. Imposture and
superstition have been struck as if by a thunderbolt from
Heaven ; and if the clergy would but persevere, and
elevate the wafer every consecutive or alternate
Sunday, so that all the world might hear, learn, and
fully understand what popery is, they would soon finish
the conflict in Ireland, and complete the second grand
era of the reformation.

We do not'build our hope of this desirable consumma-
tion upon any fanciful speculations; on the contrary we
rely upon data furnished by Roman catholics themselves ;
and, what is. of still greater moment, by Roman catho-
lic priests, who taking alarni at the signs of the times,
are beginning to denounce, and preparing to flee from
the pollutions of the church to which they belong. The
reader, we presume, is ttmlerably conversant with the re-
cent publications of Father CROLY. This honest priest
has been suspended by his titular, and persecuted by his
brethren for simply doing his duty, speaking the truth,
and endeavouring to reform the errors and correct the
discipline of his church. But while we regret this, we
have cause for rejoicing in other quarters, for there are
other priests who are resolved to accomplish the reforma-
tion, or dissent from the papal church altogether.
The Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday last contains
a letter addressed to Dr. MURRAY, "titular Archbishop
of Dublin," by MICHAEL CROTTY, parish priest of Birr.
The nature and object of this letter are of the very
highest '.importance. It would appear that this Mr.
MICHAEL CROTTY and his cousin, WILLIAM CROTTY, are
parish priests in the Roman catholic diocese of Killaloe,
and that between them and another priest of the name of
KENNEDY there had existed for some time serious differ-
ences on religious and other grounds, which had excited
the alarm pf_the bishops, inasmuch as the two CROTTYS
were very much beloved by their numerous flock in Birr.
Some other ecclesiastic had interfered, in order, if possi-
ble, to allay or remove the causes of these differences,
and MICHAEL was invited to Dublin to explain his:views
and wishes on the subject. In Dublin he had an inter-
view with Dr. MURRAY, the late Dr. KELLY, and other
Roman catholic bishops, and, on being called upon, Mr.
CROTTY proposed that he and his cousin should be re:
moved to some distant part of the diocese, KENNED* to
be equally removed, and other priests appointed to the
charges which they respectively held. "To this propo- •
position," says Mr. Caorry, in his letter to Dr. MUR-
RAY, " which was dictated by the spirit of peace and of
conciliation, your lordship and the other assembled
bishops replied that, indeed, you would endeavour to
effect a mutual reconciliation between us and our bishop,
provided my cousin and I would sign a document to the
following effect Expressing our unconditional ac-
knowledgment of submission to the authority of the pre-
sent titular of Killaloe, together with a declamation that
all the marriages we had solemnized for the last ten
years were absolutely' invalid, and that our absolutions
were null and void.' "

The meaning of this is significant enough. A more
monstrous proposition—more insulting to decency and
to religion—neier, we venture to say, emanated from
any being in human form. It is, indeed, so revolting,
that we cannot trust ourselves to speak nu the subject,
and shall, therefore, call upon the Rev. MICHAEL CROTTY
to speak for himself'. In answer to the proposition he
thus addresses Dr: MURRAY :

"I feel, my lord, that there are many points on which you
and I differ, and must for ever differ. But there is a neutral
ground common to us both, the undoubted gift of an all-wise
God, with which, I trust, we are both endowed, and by which
we can impartially judge on this subject;—what I mean or

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allude to, my lord, is reason or common sense. There is sls'
another point on which we can have no difference, caluell
christian charity—anti I conies's, that when I try this pror'
tion of your lordship by either test, I can hardly repress '
feeling of honest indignation at even the conception of such a'
idea. What ! my lord, to demand from me and my cousin,l2.
a necessary preliminary to a mutual reconciliation between
and our spiritual superior, a declaration which every we'
informed person in our congregation, I might add, every Per.
son possessed of ordinary understanding or common sea'''.
must know and feel to be false, namely, that all the mauls!'
which we had solemnized for the last ten years were absolute]!
invalid. What! my lord, to demand from use as a prelirninso
to a reconciliation with the present titular of Killaloe, a decia'
ration which would stigmatize us as the vilest miscreants that ere
disgraced human nature, which must for erer stamp us as dari'e
and lying hypocrites, and which could only have for its objeetl
unhinge society, to separate husbands from their wives, to
the fountains of domestic peace and happiness, to make eq.', •
and widows without pity or remorse, :u break all those ties, anj
snap asunder all those chains which from our infancy tee tau'
teen accustomed to regard as most hallowed and binding; awlj
affopl, perhaps, some profligates, if any there should be in °V.
parish, and there will be always some such characters in Wilt
parish, an opportunity of deserting their innocent victims,°
their yet more innocent offspring. What, my lord, to require
of us to sign our death warrant, to subscribe our own infairl
and degradation, to pollute our honour, to prostitute our dig"
pity, to sin against our better knowledge by such a declare:
tion, when we know and feel, and are convinced, that it is nu'
in the power of Omnipotence itself to alter the essential coost'
tution of things; when high and venerable authorities lift"
their heads in support of the contrary opinion ; when the
eminent lights and onost distinguished theologians of the church
Rome maintain that the contracting parties themselves, and 'a':
the priest, are the minister of the sacrament in matrimony; this
the mutual consent of the parties themselves is the etliciet
cause, the very essence of marriage; and that it is not in the
power of the church, or of God himself, to destroy or annibilB°
the matter or substance of any sacrament."

This is a dose for which we suspect the protestant Pub:
lie were not prepared, aad which the Roman eatboll"
laity themselves- will look upon with amazement. B`J
here it is, fresh and effervescent from the fountain-heal'
of popery, drawn by a priest, and offered freely to Cl'e
lips of all. Dr. MURRAY has, indeed, cut rather a curious
figure in the DENS controversy; but this is a tiger's CO
upon the jugular of his reverence, which will leave its
mark. Father CROTTY proceeds, and, as he advance`'
seems to broach something like protestant doctrines:--

" No, my lord, my cousin and I will never do it; we will never
prostitute our honour for the wages of iniquity; we will neve
renounce our liberties, and accept of despotism; we were bail
freemen—we will never die slaves. What !my lord, to requirs,
of us, as a preliminary to a reconciliation with our spirit
superior, to declare, in the face of heaven and earth, "that'''
our absolutions for the last ten years were null and void ;" W
we know and feel, and are convinced, that neither pope, Pries'
or bishop has the power of absolving any man from his stns; fn
as St. John says, "the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us foLI:i
all sin; and that the commission which the saviour of the 01.'1!
gave the apostles in the following words—" whatsoever ye shah
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall
loose on earth shall he loosed in heaven; whose soever sins Ye
remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose sover sins Ye
retain, they are retained; " yes, my lord, we know and are °u:
vinced that the commission given to the apostles in these w°l.d
was only a commission to preach the gospel to a world buried in
and iniquity; to receive shiners into the church, and into a tta'e
of forgiveness, by baptism; and to administer to them the°rd,
of God and the holy sacrament, as a means of grace; a con 10;
sion and a power to denounce the wrath of God against a ei°ll/'
world; to pronounce, in his name, that he pardons and absolves
all believing and repentant sinners; and that he will condel311:1
all obstinate and hardened sinners, who will not believe and
repent. That.by virtue of this commission, my lord, the ant'stlei
possessed great and extensive powers which did not descend te
their successors."

This is sound doctrine, and, therefore, it is not the
doctrine of the church of Rome. That, however, is
exactly our convent. Mr. CROTTY has spoken out; ho
lie will be treated remains to be seen ; but he does not seen)
to stand in awe of his titular, and it would not suipris'l
us to see him and his whole flock abjuring the error; 6',
popery, and coming into the fold of the reformed church.
He speaks of some of his reverend brethren, and of Dr"
MURRAY in particular, with great personal bitterness,
will be seen by the following conclusion of his letter:
---
I will no dwell on this painful and unpleasant subject;
further than to express my unfeigned and sincere regret that
you should have been the wretched nod unhappy victim of those
narrow. prejudices and bigotry, which I imagined, had bean lor
since exploded and gone out of fashion, and which, I thoeghL
had only characterised some of your unworthy colleagues of
Maynooth school, such as that vulgar clown, priest Cantwell,'"
Meath, and that pert, saucy fellow, priest Abraham, of Wate_,r,
ford; but which, I am sorry to find, have been again revived
and called into existence by your lordship's dissemination of
destructive and pernicious principles of Dens's Theology
thought, my lord, that your foreign education, your intercour'
with elegant and polished society, and your constant attendant
at the levees of-the Castle, had created a distinction in your feti
your, raised you above the vulgar level of your company, as
given you a character of exemption from the ignorant Pr'r
dices and narrow bigotry of the Maynooth priesthood. I shall 'AI,
longer dwell, my lord, upon this unpleasant topic, than tuete:,
to tell you how sincerely I lament that you and your coull'ea.i
have not more accommodated yourselves to the entighteue'
spirit of the times in which we live. On your headsltherefore'
my lord, be the consequences. I thank Heaven that my
and I live in a country where every man is allowed to worsb'
his God according to the dictates of his conscience. I raise
;
the Lord that my cousin and I live under the protection of h
British constitution, and in a country where liberty has disclosed
her genuine principles, and secured to herself an asylum agsiligt
despotism on the one hand, and popular licentiousness on the
other. I give God thanks that in this free country we are not
governed by the decrees of councils, nor by the bulls of pill°.
nor by the grim and bloody maxims of a degraclieg superstitiO'
nor by the damnable doctrines of Dens's Theology, of which yell'
any lord, have unfortunately been the advocate and propagator, be"
by the principles of sound and rational liberty, and by the bl°°'..
ings of a constitution that is fitted to the nature and the 11011
of man, and which can easily accommodate itself to the chapel
and improvements that take plac2 in the social system.
I have the honour to remain, my lord, your lordship's rneSt
obedient humble servant,

CROTTY, P. P., of 3irt.
Birr, October 4th, 1535.

Our attention has been directed to a very singular
story in the Manchester Chronicle of Saturday l°sl'
which, if it can be verified, is strikingly characteristic 01,
the manoeuvres and affinities of his Majesty's minister('
As we have considerable reliance upon the care and di"
ligence with which articles of this description are Pr°.
cured by our excellent contemporary, we give, without
hesitation, the story in his own words :
Last winter, as many of our readers may remember,
number of highway robberies were committed in the neigh-
bourhood of Rochdale. After great exertions some of the
gang were apprehended. One of them, on very good and sanj-
factory evidence, was committed to his Majesty's gaol at Lani
caster.-On a patient and careful investigation the jury fou'al
him guilty, and so satisfied was the judge as to the propriety °f ,
the verdict that sentence of "death". was recorded, which se°.
tense was commuted to "fourteen years' transportation." In
deed the justice of the verdict cannot have a better confirol3"
lion than the fact of these robberies being immediately disna°'
tinned in the absence and by the punishment of the ringleader/
in these depredations. Will it be believed, that this indiribbi
has been sele2ted as a fit object for the royal clemency? LW-lb!'
less he is a radical of the purest water—a leveller and a patri°'
Without consulting the magistrates or the judge, save, perhall
it might be as a matter of form, he received a free pardon, an
not only this, but money to take him home from the hulks, `ce
believe, and something considerable in pocket besides. W*sit
this from the "secret srrvice money ?" Now mark the scVe.
Hardly was this "friend of the people" and compatriot ar;
warm at his own hearth ere the road again became infested oil
a formidable gang, increasing in numbers and audacity, doubt.
less from an idea of impunity for "reformers" of this descrip-
tion, arising out of the pardon of their leader. Several rol.'•
bevies have been committed since, but the one described ill nu.
police report is likely again to terminate their career until ,
shall please his majesty's mis-arlvisers to let them loose, Wits
to carry out the "great principles of reform I" The very 1#1:,
sent home with a free pardon has been apprehended again—rt°':,
to, identified, and again commuted
for trial, along with fru
others, at which trial the circumstances attending this " {rede
pardon" will, we hope, be fully and patiently investigated, an
the public indignation aroused. A storm is gathering, and ei:e
long, we venture to predict, that our present disgrace will ":
swept away, arid a better and a brighter era dawn upon our
country. •

If the name of this patriot had been IlussELL, and bt;
had been convicted of robbing churches, and sentenc
to the hulks or a chain gang over the water, instead of t°
Tavistock Abbey, we should not have wondered that the
sympathies of Lord.lotm, or some other RUSSELL, n'°°ld
have been awakened in his behalf,
and a free Pard°sl
granted to him in the King's name. But it does not 3Pf
pear that he restricted himself to the harmless otrenceje
robbing the church. He was a highway robber'