cerned. I immediately wrote an answer to Mr. Davies, to say, that he could not do any service more grateful to me than attending the Committee, and giving them every assistance in his power in executing the purposes of their inquiry, and in detecting the falshood to which his letter referred; and I think on the following day I communicated Mr. Davies's letter to the chairman of the Committee; I had no other knowledge of Mr. Davies, nor ever saw him, and never heard of his name except in that letter.

By the means of any other Writership, has your lordship ever endeavoured to faciliate any other person's coming into Parliament ?-Never in my life; I never had any communication of such a nature; nor have I ever had any interference, direct or indirect, in the disposal of any Writership, other than those, a list which is now before the Committee, the appointments to which I apprehend will speak for themselves."

ship do? Did the high blood begin to
gallop in your veins, and did you kick
the dirty jobber down stairs; or did you
consign his devoted carcass to the foot of
a porter? Neither! your lordship did nei-
ther. But, you tell us, drily, that, having, at
that time, no Writership to dispose of, the
negociation, at that time, closed.Well!
but, reflection told you, that this was not the
way for an honest man to become a repre-
sentative of the people? Not at all, it seems;
and, you are not ashamed to tell us, that
you renewed the negociation with Reding;
that, having mentioned the circumstance
to your friend, Lord Castlereagh, he told
you, that he had a Writership undisposed
of, to which he would be happy to give
you the recommendation, but enjoined you
to see that the person recommended was a
proper one.
Oh! yes, yes. It was just

so in the case of Mrs. Clarke's and Mr.
Donovan's recommendations. They were
all mightily proper persons, who were pro-
moted through them. All was quite regu-
lar too. MR. BURTON, the Welch Judge,
found something most delightful in the pro-
motion of Sammy Carter, her footman,
though he found a great deal of fault with
the poor lady herself. All her appoint-
ments were excellent; and so, I dare say,
Mr. Reding's would have been.But,
my lord, my lord! Pray explain to us, in
the country, who are unused to these re-
fined matters, how it came to pass, that
your lordship, who, when you and Mr. Re-
ding had first the mutual honour to meet
and to negociate, had, "no wish to save any
expence," did, before you had the plea-
sure of seeing him again, think of mention-
ing to Lord Castlereagh, that Mr. Reding
wanted a Writership?--Well; but to
come to the point; leaving your lordship
to answer this question; to account for
your not half-killing Reding, when he
offered to put 3,000l. upon your lady's toi-
lette; and for the mild manner in which
you reproved him when you accidentally
met him afterwards, at the Marquis of Sli-
go's: leaving all this without any particu-
lar comment, let us now come to the point
with your lordship. The question put to
you is this: "Did Lord Castlereagh offer

Now, then, how stands this Case ?Reding tells us, that he made to lord Clancarty, who was then one of the members of the Board of Control; that is to say, one of the persons whom we pay to see that the East India Company act properly: He tells us, that, to this lord he made the proposal of a swap of a Seat in Parliament for an East India Writership.Lord Clancarty tells us, that he became acquainted with Reding in consequence of a proposition, respecting a Seat in Parliament; -that Reding told him of a friend of his (Reding's) who wished to vacate his Seat, but wished to make his retirement subservient to the object of obtaining a situation for a young man. -[Stop, here, reader, and observe the verbosity of this lord. Why not say, in one word, that he wished to make a scap]-Well, come, my lord, let us hear it.That he wished to make his retirement subservient to the object of obtaining a situation for a young man, a son or nephew, and added, that if a Writership could be obtained for the party, the said friend would willingly retire. -Very well, my noble lord. Very well. Now, upon this villainous proposition being made to yop, who was a member of the Board of Controul, and who knew that law upon law existed to prevent Seats in Parliament from being obtained through any other means than the free voice of the people; upon this villainous, this corrupt, this infamous proposition being made to your noble lordship, what did your lord-my Lord of Castlereagh, you, who talk of

you this appointment of a Writership for "the purpose of facilitating your being re"turned to parliament, if that could be ob"tained by this means?". Your answer, is, “ CERTAINLY.".

-You are then

asked whether you told this to Mr. Reding; and you say, that you gave him to understand it.- -Very well.- -And, now,

deed, the greater part of the nation, have long been convinced, that there was no such thing as jacobinism existing in the country, and that the cry of jacobinism, set up against every man, who complained of abuses or corruptions, was a mere lure, a mere contrivance, to deceive honest and

Now

dered as our enemies. There is no contemptible troop of your body, who have come out to, our view in these disclosures; come forth, then, and disclaim them; prove to us, by your works, that you are not partakers in their principles, or be content, that we lump you all together. -Show me, you trading Anti-Jaco-uninformed men. But, it was not 'till Mr. bins; shew me in the whole of the list of the miscreants and of the mean and contemptible wretches that have been exhibited to the world, through the means of these Inquiries; shew me, amongst the whole, one single jacobin; one single man that has ever been accused of jacobinism or of disloyalty. Not one; and THE PRESS, though there are hundreds and hundreds of persons attached to it, some rich and some needy, and all of them possessing more or less of talent and of means of information; the Press is not disgraced by having one man belonging to it found dabbling, even in the smallest degree, in these base transactions.- -Of lawyers, of parsons, of soldiers, of doctors, of merchants, of men in office; of all sorts of people and of almost all professions, there are some or one to be found, except that of the Press. There was one bookseller, whose name was, indeed, mentioned; but, it was as his having advised the drawer of the Military-Club Address to abandon the project, and that drawer was stated to be a purson.The Press has none of the filth of the thing resting upon it. Nothing has it had to do in the corruptions; its only crime is, that it is well known to have paved the way for their exposure; but, and let the fact be well noted, every one of those, who have conspired against it, has, from the highest to the lowest, as far as things have yet gone, been, in due order and degree, severely and justly punished, and thus, I confidently hope, the course of justice will proceed, 'till the nation as well as the Press be righted and avenged.

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TRADING ANTI-JACOBINS.- -I have long delayed the execution of justice, in a set and formal manner, upon this race of politicians.I have often called them traders, regular traders, and the like; and have occasionally shown how dearly the people of England have paid for the " loyalty" of the said traders. I have said, many times, that they found Anti-Jacobinism a thriving trade; and that, therefore, they were unwilling to give it up. I have pointed out the many efforts, which, from time to time, they have made, to make the people believe,that there was still a jacobin conspiracy going on. Many, and, in

Wardle came out with his exposures, that
the whole nation saw clearly to the bot-
tom of this villainous deception. It was
not until his Charges, which, in the hope
of being able to cry him down, were an-
swered with a charge of jacobin conspi-
racy, that the whole mass of the people
began to see the detestable fraud, which
had so long been practised upon them,
and of which many men of great under.
standing had become the dupe.- -Now
they are completely undeceived.
they see, that a Jacobin means a man, who
endeavours to root out corruptions and
to prevent public robbery; and that, as
the word imports, an Anti-Jacobin means
exactly the contrary. Still however, it
will be useful to expose the traffick of
Anti-Jacobinism. Hitherto we have
considered it as something of a secta-
rian, or political, nature; but, we are
now to abstract our minds from all such
associations of ideas, and to consider
Anti-Jacobinism merely as a trade; a
trade in the plain and common accepta-
tion of the word; a mere money-making
concern; a calling upon which men enter
with no other views than those of Lloyd's
and the 'Change, and to which apprentices
may be bound in the regular course of
law, there being gradations in it from the
master tradesman downward, through the
foreman and journeyman, to the sweeper
and sprinkler of the pavement before the
shop. In this case, as in all others,
the best way is to proceed with the stating
of facts; for, a few facts answer a bet-
ter purpose, they produce a deeper and
juster impression, than can be produ-
ced by any general description, from how-
ever able a pen it may proceed.I have,
at different times, noticed, and shall here-
after notice, several persons, who have fol-
lowed, and still do follow, this once flou-
rishing trade. But, if I were called upon
to name the tradesman, who has obtained
the greatest celebrity in his way, and who
most deserves that celebrity; the man
who is, in this trade, what Mr. Packwood is
in that of razor-strops, truth would compel
me to say it was MR. JOHN BOWLÉS.
There are others, who have had great vogue,
and have not been without their profits,

tioned, thought that John's weighty matter would be apt to be too heavy for the wire-drawn work in which they excelled, or whether they were afraid that he would, as senior tradesman, and projector of the establishment, aspire to be the head of the firm, they soon jostled him out of the concern, for which, it is said, that John never cordially forgave them. Messrs. Canning & Co. being engaged in other branches of business at the same time, were, however, compelled to have assistance; and, not liking to take an additional partner into the House, they got a respectable journeyman to superintend the business for them, a Mr. WILLIAM GIFFORD, who had written some good poetry and better prose; who was a very sensible, acute, and, I verily believe, a very honest man; who never ought to have been exposed to the necessity of becoming the journeyman of Canning & Co.; and who always appeared to me to be cursedly ashamed of the calling.

such as Mr. Green, Mr. Redhead Yorke, and the co-partnership of the Rev. Messrs. Nares and Beloe (the latter of whom was, sometime since, in the British Museum, whereby hangs a tale yet to be told ;) there are several clergymen, each of whom has traded very thrivingly upon his own bottom, and there are some others who have carried on the trade, with many journeymen under them; there are Mr. Goutz and that pink of knighthood, Sir Francis · D'Ivernois, amongst the foreign traders; but, at the head of the whole most assuredly stands Mr. JOHN BOWLES.- -This gentleman was, as the phrase is, bred to the bar, but, to use the pun of Admiral Paine, the bar being, I suppose, bad bread to him, he changed his calling in or about the year 1792. He appears to have begun, about that time, his manufactory of Anti-Jacobinism, with a pamphlet against TOM PAINE, which being quite to the taste of that minister, who lent, without law, £. 40,000 of the public money, without interest, to two-At the end of 26 Numbers the manufacof his then majority in parliament, he made ture stopped, all of a sudden to the great, our hero a Commissioner of Bankrupts, worth, surprize of every body; but, the fact is I believe, about 3 or £. 400 a year.--As that the raw material was wanting. Messrs. yet, however, the term Anti-jacobin was Canning & Co. had expended their stock of not in use. The trade had begun; but epigrams and antitheses, and, in the latthere was not a sutiable name for it. The ter Numbers were reduced to downright traders called themselves friends to their punning. Their pride would not suffer them king and country, and the like; but, John to resort to the stores of their journeyman; Bull loves short appellations; he is ever- and so the thing went out, like the snuff lastingly prone to abbreviate; it was, there-of a candle. Short, however, as was fore, necessary to find out an appropriate its duration, it produced a very powerful term whereby to designate the persons en- example. Mr. Wm. Gifford had first a pagaged in this new and thriving trade; and, tent place given to him; to that was added a to the honour of the Church, be it known, double commissionership of the Lottery; to that the term Anti-Jacobin was, at last, disco- another place in the Household, making, vered by a clergyman.--About the total amount, about a thousand pounds a year year 1796, the trade seemed to be some- for life. Pretty well, I think, for 26 weeks what at a stand, and therefore, the govern- superintendence on the printing and pubment, as in the case of other useful trades, lishing of the droppings of the brains of such as that of printing bank notes, &c. Mr. Canning, Mr. George Ellis, and Mr. took it, in some sort, under its immediate John Hookham Frere, neither of whom protection; or rather, it showed an exam- ever knew him previous to that time!ple to be imitated by others. I here allude Reader, stop here, a moment, and ask to the establishment of the " WEEKLY AN- yourself if it be any wonder that the taxes "TI-JACOBIN' news-paper. This was an are heavy. Ask yourself if it be any era in the history of the trade. Messrs. wonder, that the land-owners are little Canning and Frere (John Hookham) and more than stewards and collectors for the George Ellis were the principal Directors government. Ask yourself if it be any in this establishment. They were, too, wonder that family hospitality has ceased, the fabricators of the choice articles, that and pauperism has reared its head where went from this shop; but, in setting the plenty, or, at least, comfortable independthing on foot, they were unable to proceed ence, formerly presided.Are we told without the experience of Mr. John Bowles, by the traders, that these places must who, from what source the reader may have been given to somebody, and that, easily judge, found the means of set- therefore, it makes no difference to us, in ting all the machines in motion. But, point of expence? First, I deny the prewhether the three persons, before men-mises; for, such places should be abolish