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bad enough to make reflecting men consider that the 

 time was come for taking some steps in support of 

 order, but not forgetting the redress of the grievances 

 complained of. The following correspondence will 

 show what was proposed to be done in the way of 

 calling county meetings : 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"BROUGHAM, September 18, 1819. 



" I heartily condole with you on poor Pigott's death.* 

 None knew him better or valued him more justly (and 

 indeed it was quite mutual) than yourself. These re- 

 peated losses are very annoying, and even dispiriting. 



" What say you to the Lancaster Grand Jury 1 

 Think of Stanley and Hornby making no stand if 

 indeed they did not. But I am little surprised. In- 

 deed I knew the stuff of which juries in that cursed 

 county are made, and foretold the result from the first. 

 My only astonishment is their having thrown out a bill 

 for a perfectly new offence ' having a libel in his pos- 

 session, with intent to publish/ I maintain that if an 

 action be not brought against the magistrate who dared 

 to commit for this, and damages be not recovered, any 

 justice may henceforward imprison whomsoever he 

 pleases, and invent new crimes at his pleasure. 



" I perceive symptoms in these counties (Cumber- 

 land and "Westmorland) of requisitions for county 

 meetings on the Manchester business ; but the requi- 

 sitionists are not Eadical reformers, and some of them 

 have advertised to give ' the lie ' to those who re- 

 ported them to be so. 



" Whether they will be held or not, I can't tell ; for, 



* Sir Arthur Pigott, Attorney-General in 1806. 



