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in at the next dissolution, I really can't tell, for time 

 and other pursuits change one's taste, and one's 

 capacity not less, and I may then have no fancy for 

 either Liverpool or the Westminster patriots. 



" I mean to try my profession for a couple of years 

 longer in town ; and if I find I succeed, well ; if I 

 don't get on a vast deal better than I have done 

 during the last two years, I am not quite so young 

 as to continue leading a disagreeable and unprofitable 

 life in London, when I might enjoy more profit and a 

 thousand times more ease in the country, confining 

 myself to my circuit, on which I am pretty secure of 

 success. Believe me ever yours most truly, 



"H. BROUGHAM." 



In the spring of 1812 there were great disturbances 

 in many of the manufacturing districts in Yorkshire, 

 particularly in the neighbourhood of Leeds, Sheffield, 

 and Huddersfield. The introduction and extension of 

 machinery in many of the cloth-mills had created an 

 apprehension among the hand- workers that they would 

 be thrown out of employment. They collected in 

 large gangs under the name of Luddites, and made 

 furious attacks upon the mills where the obnoxious 

 machinery had been introduced. The mills were in 

 many cases garrisoned by the men who remained true 

 to their masters ; and these, being well armed, suc- 

 ceeded in many cases in effectually repelling the 

 insurgents, some of whom were killed, and many 

 severely wounded, in the attacks. One of the most 

 violent of the attempts was made upon the mill of 

 a Mr Cartwright, near Huddersfield. The mill was 

 successfully defended, but at the expense of many 

 lives on both sides. The military had been called 



