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who are eating horse-flesh and grains (draff) in Lan- 

 cashire and < 'he>hire ; who an 1 harnessed like 1: 

 and drawing gravel in Hampshire and Siiv-ex ; who 

 have 3d. a day allowed them hy the ma. 

 .[Norfolk ; who arc. all over Knirland. WOISfl f'-d than 

 the/;/o//.v in the jails. Go. and tell them, when they 

 rai-e their hands from the pi.r-irough, or from the 

 jrrain- tuh. and. with their dirty tongues, cry " No 

 J'ojxry;" go, read to the degraded and deluded 

 wretc:, -count of the state of their Cat/ml ic 



forefather-, \\ h lived under what is impudently 

 called " I'lipix/i fti'jH'r.ftf/t' . v/, /////." ;md in 



times which we have the audacity to call "the 

 dark ages." Look at the t/ t ,>,i picture o'f the French; 

 and. Protect., n t Kni:li<hmen, if you have the capacity 

 of blushing left, hlu-h at the thought of how preci-ely 

 that picture fits the Knirli.-h nw! Look at all the 

 parts of the picture ; thefuoiL the rainn-nt. the game! 

 Good God ! If any one had told the old Chancellor, 

 that the day would come, when this picture, and even 

 a picture more deuradiiiLT to human nature, would fit 

 his own boasted country, what would he have -aid I 

 What would he have said, if he had been told, that 

 the time was to come, when the soldier, in England, 

 would have more than twice, nay, more than thrice, 



MI allowed to the day-labourini: man; when 

 potatoes would be carried to the field as the only food 

 of the ploughman; when soup-shops would be open 



; the Knirlish: and when the Judges, sitting on 

 that very r.endi on which he himself had sitten for 

 twenty years, would (as in the case of last year of 



.nplaints against Magistrates at XORTHALLER- 

 TON) declare that i:ui:.\n AND WATER were the general 

 food of working people in England? What would 

 lie hr.ve -aid / Why, if he had been told, that there 

 was to be a "REFORMATION," accompanied by a total 

 devastation of Church and Poor property, upheld by 

 wars, creating an enormous Debt and enormous 

 and requiring a constantly standing army : it' he had 

 been told this, he would have foreseen our Y-. 

 state, and would have wept for his country ; but. if 



