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are hatching schemes for preventing the labouring 

 people from having" children : who are ahout spread- 

 ing their nasty beastly publications ; who are hatch- 

 ing schemes of emigration; and who, in short, seem 

 to be doing every-thing in their power to widen the 

 fearful breach that has already been made between 

 the poor and the rich. The government has nothing 

 to do but to cause the law to be honestly enforced; 

 and then we shall see no starvation, and none of 

 those dreadful conflicts which the fear of want, as 

 well as actual want, never fail to produce. The bare 

 thought of forced emigration to a foreign state, includ- 

 ing, as it must, a transfer of all allegiance, which is 

 contrary to the fundamental laws of England ; or, 

 exposing every emigrating person to the danger of 

 committing high treason; the very thought of such 

 a measure, having become necessary in England, is 

 enough to make an Englishman mad. But, of these 

 projects, these -scandalous nasty beastly and shame- 

 less projects, we shall have time to speak hereafter ; 

 and in the mean while, 1 take my leave of you, for 

 the present, by expressing my admiration of the sen- 

 sible and spirited conduct of the people of STOCK- 

 PORT, when an attempt was, on the 5th of September, 

 made to cheat them into an address, applauding the 

 conduct vf the Ministers ! What ! Had the people 

 of STOCKPORT so soon forgotten 16^ of August ! 

 Had they so soon forgotten their townsman, JOSEPH 

 SWAN ! If they had, they would have deserved to 

 perish to all eternity. Oh, no! It was a proposition 

 very premature : it will be quite soon enough for the 

 good and sensible and spirited fellows of STOCKPORT; 

 quite soon enough to address the Ministers, when the 

 Ministers shall have proposed a repeal of the several 

 Jubilee measures, called Ellenborough's law; the 

 poacher-transporting law ; the sun-set and sun-rise 

 transportation law; the tread-mill law; the select- 

 vestry law; the Sunday-toll laws; the new trespass 

 law; the new treason law; the seducing-soldier- 

 hanging law; the new apple-felony law; the SIX 

 ACTS; and a great number of others^ passed in the 



