Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-19

of>its merits. tIear, hear He agreed with the
hon. baronet that that was not the fitting occasion
to press motion OF such extensive interest 10 dvi-
sion though he differed entirely from the hon baro-
net In his estimate of it's merits and tendency He
could not but lament that the hon. baronet had au-
died. contrary to tho usage of that house, to the pro-
ceedings OF the other branch of the Legislature
Nuch illusions were at all times nconvcnient-in-
deed unfair, as the parties attacked necessarily
unable to explain or vindicae their conduct at the
place and instant of its being animadverted upon. In
the present Instance the hon. baYonet had not only
attacked his noble friend the head of the Govern
ment but, he confident quite unintentionaliy, had
msrepresented his noble friends observations. He
was satisfied thaehs noble friend did not, the hon.
baronet had stated, ascrlbe the distress with which
unfortunately the manufacturing and agricultural in
terests were then visited to the Introduction of steam
and machinery. All that his noble friend said was
that partial distress was by means incompatible
with improvements in those elements causes of
our national greatness and prosperity. His. noble
friend by means lamented these improvements,
but only contended that their ntroduction-he parti
cularly alluded to the power loom-might at first
aggravate the distress by throwing a certain
number of hands out of employment, and that this
partial dimnntion of the demand for labor did some
times tend, with the great efforts made to undersel
foreigners IL the markets of tue world, to create
temporary distress in the manufacturing districts
Was it fair, he asked, to make this opinon-no mat
ter how erroneous--the grourd of charge against
the Prime Minister, of ascribng the dstresses of
the industrious classes of the community to the inn
provements of machinery. (Hear.) No man felt
noble friend, as no man was more deeply impressed
with the conviction ofthe intimacy between improve
ments IN science and art, and national greatness.
Several other Members ke,-whenth Galleries
were cleared for division.
For the amendment 1, against it &C.
The report on the Address was then read and adop-
ted.
$40 Mis art thou at last Dragging John Bulr
We lately Informed our readers, that Goblet, so
well known in this Country, traversing the North
OF England, lecturing. (from all accounts immense
audences) on the state CT trade the universal de-
preston, paper money, Reform in Parliament, the
debt, &c. weekly narrative of the incidents of
his progress is published in his Register, and great
curious from his minute and original reflections
the state OF things in the places which he visited, the
causes, and the remedies Among others, he visited
s'Proud Preston in Lancashire, for which lie stood
candidate at the last Parliamentary election in 1926
and against which he is believed to entertain some
i'll will for his bad success on that occasion. Some
allowance perhaps is to be made for this feeling but
there is too good reason to suppose that his picture
is not much overcharged, and that it is applicable
with more or less force, to all the trading towns
in the North and Centre of England.
ssThe situation of Preston is deplorable To SO
low state has the trade come that some or at least
one lone was named to me) of the manufacturers who
the work done at io,oer price in that way. Let
any one judge them what the wages that the poor
creatures must receive who do the work now! Indeed
when looked at the body of good and sincere men,
Industrious and ingenious men, who stood before me
at Preston; when behed the rags that covered them,
unworthy of the name of clothing; when I beheld
their pale and thin faces, their sunk eyes, and their
ANXIOUS and miserable looks the picture presented by
my own group of men and boys at Barn Elm, rushed
into my mind could not forbear cursng the horr-
BILE system which had reduced so many mcrItorious
men to such state The coverings of the bodies
of these people of proud Preston, in which borough
observe, Lord Derby has mansion, far inferior
TO the coverings of many spor- hoy that have seen
IN many OF the fields of Surry and in Hampshire
1es, the stakes, put up III the fields, twisted round
with straw, and then covered with garments to
brighten away the birds / have never seen covered
with such miserable rags as the people proud Pres
tom are covered with. There might be a couple
three thousand standing before me- and leaving out
the garments of the nsolent and tyranncal masters.
verify believe that the covering of the whole with
the exception of the wooden clogs upon their feet
was not worth forty shillings. I remember that my
father used to buy tons of rags chop up for manure
Tor his hop ga.den. Scores Of garments have seen
among those rags far more valuable far better look
ing, than the things which covered or in part cover
ed, the nakedness of this shiveriDg and il-treated
group The very day that we were at Preston, the
Quarter Sessions was holden there, and before the
GraDd Jury was dismissed, and while they were in
tile Dox bowl OF soup was brought into the Court
and after having been tasted by the Chairman, was
handed round to the Magistrates, and then to the
Grand jury who appeared to have Toasted upon this
occasion, Ia gan,meie, the French cali it, that
Is to say, sitting round the in circle, and hand
ing the spoon from mouth to mouth. After the re.
past was over, the Chairman escorted the Grand Ju
rors to encourage the making of similar messes in all
their districts, order to relieve and comfort the
poor To this art thou come at last bragging John
Bull This is the result of having "twcdconuuered
France and restored the Bourbons! This is that
Indemnity for The future" which the Heaven-borr
Pitt promised as the effect of the war. What the
soup was made of cannot say; but this know well
that any thing so horrible this picture humilia
ting to the nation, never heard of before. wish
the poor people TO whom this soup is rendered coult
come in body fifty thousand, and see the tox-ea
tiers rolling in Hyde Park, or going to cvce. The,
would then at once see cause and effect