Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-11-26
From CoJ1sn's Register.
TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

My LoRD DUKE
L. In my last letter proved, tia, the hired write,
OF tn Quarterly Reriec must have known. in May
that PoLiGNAc's blow was intended TO be- struck
IN July poor hired mortal like this could no.
have gotten this knowledge from PoLiGNAc. 1t
must have been communicated 10 him by someJoiy
an London; and, when one looks rowly into the
affair, appears evident only that tho nj II wa
fnotcn in London BEFOREHAND but that it was hatch
Ell in London; that the whole thing was contrived
here; lnstigated here and that the object of the plo,
was, not 10 do any good TO the Bourbons; no; to
uphold Meir throne and their power; but to serpe
the purposes ofthc 6oroughrnongers Of England; to
secure to them the quiet enjoyment of the rich fruits
OF their traffic Lest YOU should not know what n
borouyhn,onger Isl will describe him to you lie
Is man, or rather, monster, who trafiicks i'm cor
ruption who buysor sells seats, and who is called
borough monger we Gull n traffickcr in iron an
ironmonger. traficker in cheese cheesemonrcr
Perhaps it would be more proper 20 call him seat
nlonger; or more proper still, cote p,onger, and
then the French term would be marcidnd de goies.
2. II being matter OF great Importance that the
French nation now clearly understand, not only
what borough monger is, but also what is the eX
tent of the trafick, that nation ought be inform
ed Of the following undenable facts; that Is to saw
that, IN 1893, Mr.. Grey. now Earl Crew. present ed
petition to he House of Commons signed by him
self and others, stating, "tha decided majority of
that House was returned By one hundred and Gty
four men, partly peers. and purity great comuoners
and by the ministry Of the day." that he offered to
prove the allegation by witnesses at the bar of the
House, and that he not permitted to brine his
witnesses to the bar; that there was an appendix to
this petition. containing list of the names of all
the peers and great conimoners, who thus returned
the members, exhibiting the number of members
returned by each; and that this list is recorded in
the Annual Register for the year 1885, that IN 1879
the House ofCommons had resolved. that an nftempk
to traffck in seats in that House was shighIv cri
mimi in minister IF The king; that il was an attack
the dignity and honour of the House an infi;ngc
ment on the rights and liberties of the people and
an attempt TO sap the basis of our free and happy
constitution" that, on the S5th April 1909 I.onp
CAsrLEREAGn, then minister of the king having
been proved to have thus ira ffcked the House re-.
solved. THAT it was ITS bounden duty to maintain at
oil times, jealous uard on its purity; but the at
tempt. in the present instance not HARM, been ran,
red into effect, the House did not think It necessary
to proceed to crimina, ing resolutions: that alas
in only sixteen days after this, Mr. MApocxs. mem
her for Boston, accused this same Cas,lercaqh to-
gethrr with two other ministers of the kim moi on
ly OF irafcking seat but of having complet ei
ths bn, gain, and carried u into Gii effect. tim, Inv
ing made this charge Mr.. Madocks owed. that the
House Should inquire into the natter that tho
House then debated upon this motion; that there
were three hundred and ninety five members nre
sent; and that hcar it, FrcnchmenN three brn,irod
and ten voted against all lnqury and that ton ns
speaker in the debate openly declared .sbecous.
tins 'raihck was as notorious the sun al noon dan,
IL Is, then, evident. that the borouphmon ers
must have had great desire to put an end 10 free
election by ballot IN France for If that system contip
ued there; If France were happy and prosperous nm
der nat sys' en- how was England, suffering 10 Sc
sere'y u"uer "S system 10 be expcctei tn remain
long in submission to il? In fact we the eformers
(beng nineteen twentIeths Of he nntion now had in
addifon to all our other arguments, this: "There is
France prosperous and tranquil with fr e elections:
ana why should not we be the samei America, you
may say. is precedent for Us; but France, France
with king and peers and established church: if
she be Tranquil and prosperous with fee eIec,,ons
why should moi the people of England have the pow
or altf r1A ft..--
gument there wac no answer; and the borouphmon
gerI saw, that they either destrov the grounds
~ the argument; must, before long, piye IN tbc;.
profitable trade The latter was not TO be ,houobt
OF ana therefore they resolved on the forme that is
to say. TO destroy The free elections in France Our
false or foolish newspapers talk of rrERNIcus plos
Austria had no interest in plunging France into con
fusion; she had no interest in putting down free
elections IN France, she had no fear the ef
fect al The example; the French were tranouil and
onented. because they were prosperous: tho kim
OF France was in the enjoyment Of Gnict mower o.
nough TO disturb the tranquility of France was the
interest Of nobody in the world our borouqhmonpcrs
only excepted but it their manifest interest Tim,
precisely tint stouki be done tohich Poonac ncmn,eJ
10 DO For 1t he had succeeded, the borough monGer
would then have answered our petitions Thus. "boro,
you see the cf'cts offree elections in France The
French have frcd the wild thing and they have haon
obligedto abandon 1t; therefore, hold your tonoues
Thus, then, they had the most powerful of NJ,
possible motives TO ins'iCae PoLIGyAc to the deed
and now let us ser the facts support of the opnon
tnnt hey did usfigate him, and indeed that aon rs.
them the plot was hached PoLIGNAc had lived
in England during great part of his life. and had
been constantly amongst our borougbmonoers q
The plot began to be talked of in France Immediate
" after he went from England to France, in August
1879 D. The pamphlet Of Corfu, which was sort of
manifesto in justification beforehand orthe coup d.
etat was published at Paris early N 1880. and oeore
NE Chambers toere Distorted. H. That IN this nan,
Phlc,, Corfu stated, that MoNrEseurEU was wrong
In describing the English House of Commons as
representing The people at large for that of the CSC
members, the drisiocracV and The cro,ra chose The
rho!e ereep' III; and he asscc Cd that This ought TO
DC the case IN France b. That this Corfu who is n
lawyer land counsellor ofthe royai at Paris
had be'or" he wrote his pamphlet been for sereral
gedrS' part OF his time. an this country that he was
ieas'"d ny the boroughm1ngers, and particularly by
those lawyers who are their tools; that he was Ia
Ken about to public places aud was seen Gyequen,-
" sitting ecen on the bench 9Th the jllyes. g. That
af'er all thus, he goes from London to Paris. and
there publishes pamphlet to show. tina, the ors-
tocracy aud The crown choose all the members Of the
house OF commons except III, and that his ought
10 De TIE cGse France. Z TIM rCfu-nino nov, =,