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tion. We have overthrown kingdoms to build them up anew we 

 have unseated tyrants to place others in their room we have slaugh- 

 tered millions of our fellow men we have caused an amount of mi- 

 sery which no imagination can conceive, and we have tickled our- 

 selves into the belief that this is Glory ! And by whom has this 

 amount of Glory been won ? By our present wretched and starving 

 poor ! Our mechanics, our artisans, our labourers of all classes, our 

 wives, children, and infants their toil has produced the means of 

 our national Glory they who have worked at the loom, the mill, and 

 the factory. With them have originated the crosses, the titles, the ho- 

 nours without them all the lords in the land could never have de- 

 stroyed a nation, or massacred a people ! 



And now that the glory has somewhat faded, let us peep behind 

 our tinsel trappings and see the result a starving population, and a 

 debt more than the property of the nation can repay. If you wish 

 a further insight into the causes of our national prosperity, look at 

 the reports of the Factory committee look at it well, all you that 

 lavish money on Bible associations, and weep tears \>f joy at the re- 

 ported conversion of a savage. You may possibly be brought to be- 

 lieve that objects nearer home have some claim on your sympathy 

 and regard. The frightful details which have been brought to light 

 in these dens of suffering and iniquity, could in no other nation find 

 a parallel. None could contemplate such degradation but a soul- 

 debased money-loving set. The heathen glories in the tender mercies 

 of the scalping knife and tomahawk ; but to undermine the moral and 

 religious feelings, to prostrate the physical strength, to charge the 

 brow of youth with the cares of age, to subdue the buoyancy of 

 childhood by the whip of the task-master, to dim the sunny days 

 of infancy with toil and tears is the glory of the British manufac- 

 turer ! 



PECULIAR DISTRESS. The following announcement has been ex- 

 tensively circulated by the newspapers : 



"INSOLVENT. Mr. (we omit the name,) of Drury-Lane Theatre 

 came up from the King's Bench on Tuesday, and passed the Insol- 

 vent Debtors' Court !" 



We protest against this pompous heralding of private misfortune. 

 What is there extraordinary in any gentleman of Drury-lane, or of 

 any similar establishment, creeping through the loop-holes of the 

 law, which the humanity of the legislature has introduced especially 

 for the relief of the oppressed. It will hardly be believed that this 

 gifted individual when at Drury-lane was not in the receipt of more 

 than 8/. or 10/. per week! How could any actor, even of inferior 

 capacity, exist on so paltry a stipend ? Fortunately for the managers 

 this disgraceful fact was not generally known at the time, or there 

 can be little doubt but that they would have been visited with the 

 indignation of a justly incensed public. What is there extraordinary- 

 then in this individual adopting the course he has ? Actors are an 

 ill-used race. The best of them does not gain more than 50/. per 

 night, and considering the brandy and water they drink, it is not a 



