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London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

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• • 4 ~/ Updhailmod, TamedeN, Jen. 14, 1823.
benstminue.-EVery 'Week, until the " NOwirotat Yeo.:
inew's Oa acrre shalPstart, it is my intention ttiaeldress
a letter to yeti. Thelirst objects of these letteis will be
to defend-you against the misrepresentations aisilsalam.
airs of the Mercury, that is to say, of Mom Barks
lad Kiiderbrode of Cockey Lane, Norwich.' F*; you
will oblierve, that we are ;very weak indeed, if we be
angry with the dog that is set to bite us, and not with
ellose who keep the dog, and whose him on. If my dog
kill, or tear, or worry your sheep; it is I that must be
answerable to you for the damage, and especially if 1
know hint to be a sheep biter. You are, indeed, justified
in knocking oat the brains of the devilish car if you
can get at him; but, in the present case, weratmot very
Well ascertain who the cur is; and, then,. if it be Mr.
Sseon, he has no brains to knock oat. So that we must
110OCe. to our friends in Cockey Lane ; and make
them the responsible parties.
The misrepresentations and calumnies of these men
are perfectly monstrous, and.these 1 mean to expose to
iuitable detestation.—But, besides this, there is their
ig„noronee to expose; and this is really almost incredible.
One would hardly Suppose it possible for men, who have
bad to do with the press. for so many years, to be en

profoundly ignorant. This ignorance would be ;natter
of sport, were it not for the reflection, that it must, is
some degree, communicate itself to the readers of the
paper. Habit makes people, and especially young people
take for right and true what they see in print. Then,
even this would be of less consequence, if the effect were
not so fatal. Thousands of men have been ruined,
totally reined by being led along into false hopes by this
newspaper. It is, as you will presently see, still engaged
• ih this Woilrof delusion. Whether this proceeds from its
• ign7rance sw Its oiati.,:e, the effect is the same ; and that
effect ought to be enunteracted.
When the " NORSILIC YgOMANII GAILITS" shall.
hems actually staited,•at Norwich, where it will be
„o.dad published, it will be easy to counteract this We-
Add. I am, indeed,• inclined to believe, that we shall
abate the 7nuisanee•altogether. After our battery shall•
be fairly opened.ir will not, I believe, be long before the
sham fortress in Uockey Lane will surrender. Until we
open our battery, I shall send forward a sort of advanced
guard every week to gall the enemy and to scour the
country of him. These light troops will come in the
farm of open half-sheets, price three hatfpence, only half
of which is to be the price to the venders. The other
half they will have for their trouble. So that, if ipy
gentleman choose to send for a parcel to put into the
hands of a labourer out of employ, in order that he may
carry them about the country, such gentleman has only
to write to the Register Office, Nu. 183, Fleet Street. A
suQlcient supply will, of course, be sent to the venders
of the Register at tiorwich, Lynn, Yarmouth, and Duey
Saint Edmonds.
Now, then, Gentlemen, let na look at the last Saler-
dw's Mercury, and see telether it he not high time the'
something were done to rescue the country from-the.
impu'aion of giving currency to such a jnmble of igno-
rance and malice. The paper that I ha►e before me
professes to take " a review of the politicil transactions
"of the past year." I shall not insert the whole of this
article ; hot, I should be glad to know if any man of you
have read it through; for, that man, .if there be such
a man. I declare to surpass Jon in the virtue of patience.
The writer begins his " Review" thus:—
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We now sit does to our used task of reel-wing the po-
" idlest transactions of the past year. One suhject .may be
" said to have rerressed the public mind and almost to have
"occupied She whole attention of Parliament, for nearly all
" the grand debates during last Session were either incident
" to or arose out of " The Distresses of the Agricultural
•' CI ." AM it is this subject, which, rather woofer-
" guidable than improved in the appearances itpresents. is
•, still the question upon which the whole prosperity of the
"toiletry still hinges, '
• . Do you understand this? You understand, that he
sat, and did not stand, While be was hammering some-
thing out of his head ; you can guess, that he meaned
to say, that the subject bad occupied almost the whole of
the attention, instead of having " almost occupied the
la hole attention :" that to say, not Analog quite occu-
pied any part of it: you can, possibly, guess at his
meaning here; but, to guess at the rest ; to guess at how
"formidable" stands opposed to " improved," as applied
to the" appearances" of a •'subject ;" to geese how the
" subject" becomes" the question," and how the "pros-
perity" of the country " hinges" upon the "subject," so
betosne the " question ;" to. guess at these I defy you
and all your successors fur fifty generations to come.
Strip Ills thing of the mere cramming or wadding, aid
it stands thus; • This subject is still the :location -upon
which the prosperity hinges."
These ere time very first three sentences of this" re-
view" of the " political transactions of the past year."
We shall, I dare say, see enough of this as we go on.;
but, it is the ignorance of this writer as to the causes of
your stffering, and as to what is necessary to be done to
save those of you who are not already ruined ; it is this
ignorance which is most worthy of yourattention. The
writer talks about the Distress of Agriculture ; about
he Revenue ; about Ireland.; and about our Foreign

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