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THE LAST SESSION, 



CONSUMMATUM EST ! The tories have closed their senseless labours, 

 and with their pestiferous breath have blasted the hopes of a great 

 nation, on whose shoulders they have been raised to the controlling 

 power they possess over the people's rights and just demands. Deaf 

 as adders to the voice of reason, duty, and humanity, they would 

 even shake the throne to preserve their own authority, and to hold 

 dominion over the purses and liberties of their fellow-subjects. 

 What, then, should the Commons do ^ The question has been an- 

 swered in the Great Council of the nation; it has been answered, by 

 the general voice, from Penzance to the Hebrides, and will be an- 

 swered by the mighty acclaim of millions who have long felt the 

 unrelenting lash of an oligarchic faction, which, if not subdued, will 

 nullify every measure by which England can be saved from con- 

 vulsion from a conflict more fatal than any recorded in the history 

 of modern revolutions. 



The people of England have proved themselves hitherto the most 

 patient, the most enduring, of any on earth ; they have cowered too 

 long before 



" The bishop's mitre, and high plumery 

 Of insolent chieftains;" 



they have borne the ' whips and scorns,' and supplied the extrava- 

 gant demands, of their oppressors with unexampled fortitude, in hopes 

 that some regard to humanity, some Christian feeling, would at 

 length enter their breasts, and relieve the suffering nation from bur- 

 dens too ponderous for its strength: but the " last session" of their 

 lordly rulers have convinced them that there is no help for England, 

 but in cutting off the resources of a faction become paramount in 

 the state, and whose very existence depends on the fiat of the 

 oppressed. The Commons' House has nobly done its duty ; it 

 has convinced the people that they have still a portion in the land 

 of their fathers, and that they havet he power, if they have the will, 

 to liberate themselves from the unholy chains which have kept them 



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