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Bristol Job Nott;

No. II.]

OR,

LABOURING MAN'S
MAN'S FRIEND.

(Third Edition.]

JOB NOTT GIVES SOME FURTHER
ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1831.

[Price 1 d.

conceited, but not enough to be of any substantial for knowledge. In three cases out of four these service to them. The poet has said sort of meagrums end in poverty. It might have "A little learning is a dangerous thing, been so in my case, but for the little patrimony •Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." which my good father left me. Depend upon it, I told you that my father was a buckle maker, Now I think that this generation is proving by the most respectable and the happiest course that but for my part I never could settle down to sad experience the truth of this saying. As to a man can pursue is to go on steadily in one line buckle making; and I'll tell you how that was. men drinking deep into learning and science, when of life, provided it be an honest one. Thereby a You are already informed that my honoured parent they have to work from morning to night to get man is continually getting more and more exwas in the habit of writing for the press, and had their bread, why its a moral impossibility. "Art perience, making more and more friends, and a useful knack that way. Now as he was much is long and life is short." It takes seven years, bettering his condition in one way or other, but engaged in business, and had but little leisure to according to law, to learn the art and mystery of "the rolling stone gathers no moss." Besides, the prepare his lucubrations, he used to compose his a cordwainer. It used to take a good part of a would-be-literati above described, almost always papers in a very hurried manner between whiles, man's life to get thoroughly master of any useful get dabbling in politics; this leads them to public and then he would set me to copy them. By these science. But now, forsooth, they manage these means I by degrees contracted a taste for com- things better. Some fifty or sixty artificers are posing. I also caught a spice of my father's gathered together at the close of a hard day's work, quaint style of writing. This was all very well no matter how tired and sleepy. There they sit in its way; but it didn't quite square with buckle on the benches all of a row, close packed, mouths making. The little smattering of learning which open. Out steps the lecturer, just turns the stopI had picked up made me eager after more; and cock of their understandings, applies the torch of so when the shop was shut at night, I used to get science-whiz goes the intellectual gas! and all up stairs and pore over old Latin books, and study the avenues of their minds are immediately illugeometry and algebra and the like o'that, and minated with the bright beams of knowledge! make chemical experiments, and grind an old electrifying machine, &c.

I

But, perhaps, you will be ready to say that Job Nott should be the last to discourage mechanics from seeking after learning, since he himself got a spice of it in spite of the shop; aye, but my good friend, who is so fit to guard others against

houses for the sake of reading the inflammatory trash with which unhappily too many of the newspapers of the present day are filled; and the consequence is, that they grow discontented and ripe for any mischief that is proposed. This view of the matter supplies an answer to one very common argument in favour of Mechanics Institutions and the like. Isn't it better, they say, for the operatives to spend their evenings in the lecture room than in the ale house? This sounds very plausible; but I ask in return does not this sort of literary training produce a love of politics, and a fondness for debate and speechifying? And has not all this the effect of sending men to the alehouse, and that in a temper of mind just suited to

I managed, indeed, to do my duty in the shop pretty well; but it made me miserable, because was always hankering after my books and experiments. I am the more particular in relating a snare as he that has fallen into it himself? Had render them fit tinder for the sparks of sedition

this part of my history, because I think that there is a lesson to be learned by it. I can't be persuaded that these Mechanics Institutions are good things, because they serve to unhinge the minds of labouring men, who get a smattering of knowledge, just enough to make them discontented and

Job Nott stuck fast to buckle making, he might and infidelity to kindle? So, then! some one have been a master in the trade by this time, may be ready to exclaim-So, then! Job Nott is instead of doing job work in the literary line for the enemy of knowledge, and wants to keep men less than journeyman's wages. I am convinced in ignorance, that they may be held in bondage. that a vast deal of mischief comes of men getting No such thing, I assure you; I'm not for keeping above an honest calling under pretence of a thirst men ignorant of any thing that will do them good;

channel.

Well, I've not gone on far with my history this time; but never mind, the less there's told now the more there will be to tell another time.

HOW OLD JOB NOTT USED TO KEEP
CHRISTMAS.

but I don't want to have them made wise only to the ablest clock-makers in the city to repair my are all loyal to your earthly king, and would be do evil: and when its as plain as the nose in one's father's old clock, I were to send for a tinker to shocked to do a disloyal act any day. much more on the King's own birth-day. Let me then entreat face that the march of intellect has been accom-repair it? wouldn't you call me a blockhead for you to shew your loyalty to the King of kings panied hitherto by the march of misery, its surely my pains? Well! I can't see that there's any to-morrow, by keeping his birth-day in the way the part of wisdom to inquire a little into the real more wisdom in employing tinkers, and coal- which you know will be most pleasing and honourable to him. Our factory will of course be closed: tendency of things. I'm not the enemy of know- heavers, and chimney sweeps to repair the good But the house of God will be opened. Thither I ledge, but I would have it directed in its proper old constitution of England! Let it be repaired, shall go myself and take my family with me, and but let it be done not by a set of political tinkers there I hope to meet you all; and I trust that you will go thither, not merely to please me, but out So long as it flows and cobblers that don't know any thing about the of a sense of your duty to God, and with your Knowledge is like a river. within its proper channel, and flows deep, the river wheels and springs of the machine; but let it be minds impressed with unfeigned gratitude for the is most useful and beautiful, bearing our com- done by those who understand the business of great mercy and goodness of our heavenly father in sending his beloved Son into the world, as at merce on its bosom, and adorning the country government. Surely they that have served their this time, to deliver us from sin and from its awful through which it flows; but when it bursts its time to the business are fittest to do the job! consequences. I trust also, that whilst in God's "Cobbler stick to your last" I say. house, you will all join heart and voice in the bounds, and spreads over the whole face of the service, and behave with devout reverence during divine worship, and listen to the sermon with the country, it carries with it devastation and ruin ; forming here a stagnant pestilential marsh, and utmost attention. In the full confidence that this my advice will be attended to by you all, I have there a raging impetuous flood; overturning the ordered every man to be supplied with a piece of boundaries of the land. Just so knowledge remeat, enough for dinner for his family, a measure of potatoes, and some rice to make a pudding; strained in its proper bounds and flowing deep, is and you will, every one of you, receive 6d. to most beneficial; helping on trade and the useful provide yourselves and your families with some wholesome beer to drink with your dinner; but arts but when it breaks out from its legitimate As the Christmas season is just approaching, I mind, I insist upon it that no one of you go to the bounds, it either spreads in shallows over society, am put in mind of old times, and can't help think-alehouse, but that you have your drink fetched generating moral and political pestilence, or else ing how differently my honoured father used to home, and share it with your families. I wish you keep Christmas from the way in which some men also to be at public worship in the afternoon; and like the raging flood it overturns the boundaries in his rank of society now keep it; and how much I enjoin you above all, that there be no card playof social order and civil government. Again, I more proper regard was paid to the season by the ing, or singing of idle songs, or other unchristian assert that I don't want to check the spread of any operatives in that day, than is paid to it by the conduct in your houses. I hope you will all knowledge that will do men good, that will make worthy father used to do. On Christmas Eve he motives, out of a desire to shew your love to the same sort of persons now. I'll tell you how my comply with these suggestions from the best them better citizens, better subjects, better hus- used to call all his workmen together and address Saviour; but if there be any who feel no such disbands and fathers, and in one word better men; them in some such words as the following: "My position, I would remind them that their time is honest fellows, to-morrow is Christmas Day. I mine; that I give them a holyday for the express but I don't wish to see them entrusted with scarcely need tell you that that day is appointed to purpose of serving God, and that they have no weapons, which they know not how to employ for be kept holy in remembrance of the birth of our right to abuse it to purposes directly opposite to a good purpose, and are therefore tempted to blessed Saviour, who, as learned men reckon, the end for which it is given." came into the world about this time. Now its a In some such way as this my good father used to employ for a bad one. For example I don't wish crying shame that men who call themselves Chris-address his men at Christmas Eve, and when he to see men taught just chemistry enough to make tians, and thereby profess to be subjects of Christ, had finished, they would give him a hearty cheer, pyrotechnic balls for incendiary purposes, nor should spend the day on which they celebrate his and each of them would bear off his portion of the birth in acts of disobedience to him. What would old gentleman's bounty in high glee, every one just anatomy enough to Burke their fellow crea- you think of a set of people who should pretend to wagging his head and putting his hand to his tures, secundum artem; no, nor just politics keep the 4th of June in honour of our gracious forehead as he passed, and some of them saying, enough to think that they can relieve Parliament Sovereign King George III., and yet, instead of "God bless you sir, and I wish you and madam, paying him any respect on the occasion, should and all the family a happy Christmas."-Now, I of its labours, and can make a better constitution spend the whole day in dishonouring him, talking dare say, the above account of how old Job Nott for our country in half an hour over a pot of treason against him, breaking his laws, and bidding kept Christmas will be read with very different porter at the Red Lion, than has been produced him defiance in every possible way? I'm sure feelings by different sorts of persons. Some who you would think that these men were the basest are masters will like the advice very well, but by the wisdom of ages, and has been viewed with of all traitors to turn the King's birth-day, pro- won't approve of the pieces of beef; and a great admiration by the whole world! Mind! I don't fessedly kept for his honour, into an occasion for many operatives will highly approve of the beef say that our noble old constitution doesn't want such men were a set of cold-blooded deliberate All I can say is, that this is the way some masters rebellion against him. Wouldn't you say that and the beer money, but won't like the advice. some repairs; so does my old clock just at this miscreants? But what then shall we say of used to do in my honoured father's time; and this time. It was my honoured father's clock and I those who, professing to keep the birth-day of the method of talking with their workmen and reasonKing of kings, the Lord Jesus Christ, instead of ing with them, and encouraging those that behaved look at it with veneration! that wants cleaning doing him honour on that day, spend it in drunken- well with marks of favour upon occasions, had a and repairing; but nevertheless I defy all the clockness and gaming, cursing and swearing, jesting great effect in uniting masters and men together. makers in England to make a better: indeed I'm and foolish talking, or at best in idle dissipation, "Ah! says Jem Cavil, masters were very different directly contrary to what we are taught by his in them there days to what they be now, there's almost afraid to put it into the hands of modern holy laws. Isn't such conduct the greatest insult mighty little of that sort of giving Christmas clock makers, for I see no such clocks made in that can be offered to Christ, to pretend to do him dinners to workmen now-a-days." Aye but, my "this day; and I am afraid lest when one of your honour by observing his birth-day, and yet on that friend, ar'n't there two sides to that question? very day to do all they can to dishonour him and to Ar'n't workmen somewhat different now-a-day to new-fangled clock makers has pulled my old clock injure his cause?-This is just like the conduct of to pieces, he should not know how to put it together the traitor Judas, who said to Jesus, Hail Master! and kissed him,' when his whole design and object claims as HIS, again. But, what, if instead of looking out for was to betray him. Now, my fine fellows, you | Sabbath day.”

every hour of which the great Lord of the Sabbath This year Christmas day falls on the Sabbath, "Remember that thou keep holy the

what they were formerly. There isn't half the bles. On one occasion, a body of them suddenly person, to break open his house, and attempt respect paid to a master now, that used to be. armed themselves with sticks from a pile of faggots to burn it about his ears; and if they could have And how can workmen expect to have special on the neighbouring quay, and attacked the con- forced their way into the room, where were the kindness shewn them, if they don't attend to their stables, but were quickly put to flight. In the objects of their resentment, it is hardly to be work, and behave orderly and respectfully to their course of the day, a respectable citizen, one of the doubted that the foulest murders would have been superiors? At the same time, I must say, that I special constables, being separated from his party, committed, in that moment of fury. Aye, Cousin wish there were more attention paid by the wealthy was chased by the mob to the quay, and forced into Job, in that nameless tissue of treason and blasto the immediate wants of their workmen and poor the water: he very narrowly escaped by getting into phemy, on which you told me you intended to put neighbours. 'Tis all done now by poor laws, or a boat at some distance, and while swimming and a mark of infamy, they don't scruple to recomby benevolent societies of one kind or other. Now struggling for his life, the unfeeling rioters watched mend such things in cold blood. Hear it, Brithese methods don't bring the rich and the poor him from the bank with shouts and laughter, as tons! and if there lurks in your bosoms a spark together. The parish allowance is not bestowed savages might have done. of loyalty, let it burn with generous indignation. by the rich as a free-will offering, but levied as a About three o'clock, part of the constables were These treacherous friends of yours, advise you to tax, and often times reluctantly paid; on the other allowed to return home. Towards evening the disgrace your name and country by assassination, hand, it is not received by the poor man as a kind-crowd increased; and under cloud of night, the not merely of the King's vicegerent, but of Kings ness, but claimed as a right, and murmured at as rioters grew bolder and more violent. The themselves. In their last number they devote less than his due. Benevolent societies, again, mayor, attended by some of the magistrates, ap- several columns to ridicule more execrable than though very good things in their way, do little peared in front of the Mansion-House, and endea- the lowest Billingsgate. And who do you think is toward the cultivating of a mutual good under-voured by expostulation and entreaty, to prevail on the subject of it? The KING, our KING. The standing between rich and poor. The dispenser them to go home, warning them of their danger, alphabet and dictionary they can command, and of the public charity is giving that away which is if by persisting in their criminal conduct he should therefore in speaking of persons of rank, they not his own, and the objects of the charity know be compelled to read the riot act. During this have abolished titles, shewing plainly enough that not their benefactors, and can therefore have no kind and conciliatory address, the mayor and those they would annihilate the persons and offices too if particular personal regard towards them. It is the around him were assaulted with a shower of stones, they had the upper hand. But, indeed, they don't intercourse of kindness which attends on private by one of which the person next the mayor was mince the matter, by hint or dark surmise; but acts of benevolence that most cements society severely hurt. At length, the riot act was read, while they talk currently of Burdett and Peel, and together. Those public charities which visit which declares that all persons assembling tumul- Brougham, and "William Guelph," (meaning his and inspect the wants of the poor, come up nearest tuously, are guilty of a capital felony, and may be Majesty King William IV.,) they address with the to this; but there is nothing like private bounty, punished with death: and messengers were des- usual forms of politeness, and pay more than bestowed by the more wealthy upon their own patched for the troops, which till now had been royal honours to Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Cleave, Mr. immediate dependents or poor neighbours. This kept in concealment. In the interval of more than Carlile, and Mr. William Lovett. Mr. Hunt binds close the bonds of society by the ties of half an hour, before their arrival, the mayor and is degraded into plain Hunt since he became an sympathy and gratitude. Mind, I am not finding those who were with him in the Mansion-House, M.P. The words tyrant and oppressor are for ever fault with benevolent societies, by no means! but were in the greatest personal danger. The people in their mouths. As you shall often hear the I wouldn't have people make their subscriptions on the outside had driven in the constables, torn drunkard rail against drunkenness, the thief against to public charities an excuse for neglecting pri- up the iron railings in front of the house, and with dishonesty, so the men who keep up the hue and cry vate; "this ought ye to have done, and not to stones, and large pieces of timber battered in the against tyranny and oppression, are themselves the windows, and window-frames, and the pannels of greatest tyrants. To rule according to the laws P. S. Perhaps some of my readers who may the doors; and were, with the greatest difficulty, is the Kingly office; to attempt to rule contrary recollect my father, or may have read his writings, prevented from forcing a complete entrance by to the laws and Constitution, is tyrannical, no will be ready to say, "this address sounds too barricading the windows and doors with beds and doubt; but since our Constitution was settled grave and methodistical for old Job Nott. He was furniture; they had entered into the dining-room upon its present foundation a century and a half a merry old prig, and could whip out a joke upon and another room on the ground-floor, and de- ago, and since the accession of the reigning family occasion, as smart as any one-and wasn't always stroyed the contents, and had made such a breach to the throne,-from such tyranny, we have happily very squeamish about the delicacy of the thing in the street door, as enabled them to rake and been more free than any other nation in the world. neither." To this I answer, that I've great reason sweep the hall with stones and large bars of wood; Now, mark what a tyrant in grain, must that man to believe that my worthy parent, though he never and they had, as it appears, provided and placed be, whose duty is not to rule, but as a citizen and could regret the noble stand he made for his straw in the dining room, for the purpose of set- subject, to obey the laws; to obey the magistrates, country by his publications; yet, in his latter days, ting fire to the house. On the arrival of the sol- to give honour to whom honour is due," to was sorry for some of the coarse things which diers, the people withdrew from the attack, but they" fear God, and honour the King," but who flies occurred in his writings," there was no good in showed no signs of alarm, and received the soldiers in the face of one and all of these sacred duties, it," he used to say, one may be cheerful, and with loud cheers. and strives with all his might to lord it over all Here was the Mansion-House, the appointed ranks and conditions of men above him, not exeven witty, without fouling one's mouth or one's paper with undecencies;" such was the old gentle- dwelling-place of the newly-elected chief magistrate, cepting Majesty itself? This is pride, this is ty man's word. I will also take this opportunity of a partial ruin, and only preserved by a guard of ranny with a vengeance. The envious toad puffing saying, once for all, that I trust and believe that soldiers from entire destruction by the mob, who itself up with swelling words of vanity to the size my honored father saw some things connected with seemed eager to rush in, and dye their hands in of the ox. It may be said, perhaps, there is no religion in a different light, towards the close of his blood. And why? Because of the presence of a great mischief in words. Read what St. James days. At one time of his life he used to hold the judge-an upright judge, (with his politics we have saith: "The tongue is a little member and boastlax notion, that it didn't much matter what a nothing to do) who with the honesty and boldness eth great things. Behold, how great a matter a man's faith was, provided he led an honest life; but of an Englishman, had spoken his mind in the little fire kindleth. And the tongue is a fire-a in his latter days he saw his mistake on this point, House of Commons; and whose arguments had world of iniquity; it setteth on fire the course of and used to say, "error is manifold, but truth been publickly sifted and replied to, and outvoted nature; and is set on fire of hell.” there, by a majority of the members. Reformers, My friends, the "unruly evil of the tongue full and Anti-reformers, Englishmen, let me ask you, of deadly poison," is fearfully manifest in the prowas it like English fair play, or was it the work fane and treasonable pamphlets by which the peoof the cowardly assassin, for such a cause as this, ple of England are insulted. Aye insulted,--for I to insult a member of Parliament, a judge or am less dishonoured by being buffetted and spit any man; to pelt him, and break open the house upon, than by being appealed to as capable of the where he was a guest, for speaking his mind as we foulest crimes, assassination, treason, rebellion, have said? And what had the mayor done? It and such like; spoken and written to, as if I was his duty in the office he held, to treat the

leave the other undone."

must be ONE."

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A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE BRISTOL
RIOTS.-No. 2.
(Continued.)

Soon after the arrival of Sir Charles Wetherell at the Mansion-House, about mid-day, some thousands of the labouring classes assembled in Queen Square. The rioters had several skirmishes with the consta

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Recorder with hospitality. They were of opposite Aye, but Cousin Nehemiah, you are not to tell political sentiments, and the people knew it. Yet the public what I tell you; there's a law against the rioters did not scruple to attack the mayor's forestalling.

J. N.

of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do the streets, and they retired to plot further mis-
chief on their beds.
well." (1 Peter ii.)
What a miserable contrast was this to the

were an Italian bravo or bandit, or one of the
disciples of the ferocious Robespierre, that French
ultra-radical, who was guilty in the first instance,
While the duty of Christian subjects to their
of shedding royal blood, and afterwards became a Kings and Governors is thus clearly pointed out peaceful happy close of the week, so beautifully
tyrant, whose guillotines made the streets of Paris in the New Testament, some of the most terrible described in the "Cotters Saturday Night," by
to flow with the blood of the people.
judgments recorded in the Old Testament scrip- the favourite poet of Scotland, whose strong pa-
To return to our narrative, the whole of Queen tures were inflicted on the Israelites for sedition thetic genius always true to nature, has given in
that poem such a picture of his own home, as
Square was in darkness, the rioters having put out and rebellion. With a new and terrible judgment,
the lamps. In the large hall, the lamps were still God visited Korah and his company when "the must lead us to lament that his pen was often
burning, and through the shattered doors and earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, employed far more unworthily.
window-frames shewed distinctly the interior of and they and all that appertained to them went
the lower apartments, now filled with constables down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon
who had defended the staircase from the rush of
the rioters. During the evening, Sir Charles We-them, and they perished from among the con-
therell escaped by the roof, and soon afterwards gregation." And on the morrow when all the
left Bristol, as was publicly intimated next day at congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron,
and were gathered against them, wrath went out
from the Lord "to consume them as in a mo-

noon.

These disgraceful outrages having proceeded thus far, how ought they to have been checked? When ought the dragoons to have been ordered to charge? Whose duty was it to give the orders? These and other knotty questions it is understood will be solemnly investigated, and I intend to pass

them over.

It is much to be feared and lamented, that up to this period, and beyond it, many of the labouring classes, who would have shrunk with horror from taking any part in a theft or house-breaking, gave encouragement directly or indirectly to those who had no such scruples?

commit the most daring outrages.

to

But my friends, have you ever seriously considered what a riot is? The radical writers gloss it over smoothly enough. Have you searched your Bibles on this important subject? I must beg your attention for a little, while we examine it

with the seriousness it deserves.

ment;" wrath which could only be appeased by
the atoning sacrifice which Aaron was commanded
to offer, as a type of the great High Priest, Christ
Jesus, who was to come and offer himself, the one
great sacrifice for sin. But, before the plague
was stayed, and while Aaron stood between the
dead and living, holding the censer of incense,
fourteen thousand seven hundred persons died of
the plague beside them that died in the matter of
Korah. If, under the Christian dispensation, it
has not been the ordinary course of Divine Provi-
dence to inflict temporal judgments for particular
offences in so signal and marked a manner; yet
the Lord will reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment, to be punished," (2 Peter ii.) and who
does the Apostle proceed to tell us shall be the

The toil worn cotter frae his labour goes,
This night, his weekly moil is at an end,

Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes,

Hoping the morn in rest and ease to spend,
And weary o'er the moor, his course does home-

ward bend.

The cheerful supper done, with serious face

They round the ingle form a circle wide,
The sire turns o'er wi patriarchal grace,

The big ha' Bible, once his father's pride;
His honnet rev'rently is laid aside.

Then kneeling down, to HEAV'N'S ETERNAL KING,

The saint, the father, and the husband prays;

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing,
That thus, they all shall meet in future days :
There ever bask in uncreated rays,

No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,
Together hymning their Creator's praise.
In such society, yet still more dear,

While circling time moves round in an eternal

sphere.

The youngling cottages retire to rest :
The parent pair, their secret homage pay,
And proffer up to heaven the warm request,
That He, who stills the raven's clam'rous nest,
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,
Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,
For them, and for their little ones provide;

Can it be supposed for a moment that because a multitude is engaged in a riot, only a fractional part of the crime falls to the share of each? Is it a trifling offence to stand secretly approving, hiss, throw stones, break windows, or cheer on the chief criminals, the ringleaders, so to speak at Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; that great and solemn day, Chiefly, them that ringleaders? It is those, my friends, who come walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, that from curiosity, or worse motives, and remain after despise government, presumptuous are they, selfthe riot act has warned all respectable citizens to willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of digniseparate from the guilty, and go to their own ties. But as natural brute beasts made to be taken homes; it is they who make a mob the dangerous and destroyed, speak evil of the things that thing it is. In mercy to them bloodshed is de- they understand not, and shall utterly perish, in layed so long, and the rioters are emboldened to their own corruption." Infidelity and sedition, But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside atheism and treason, go hand in hand. In the Let us hope that such simple and happy scenes nature of things it must be so. Men that honour are not unfrequent now-a-days in the homes of not the King and obey not their Governors, who our cottagers; and that in our crowded towns, are divinely ordained, cannot fear Him by whom there are many families where devotion sheds its they were ordained. Because the Bible condemns holy calm on the closing day, in the midst of them, they shut their eyes against its heavenly surrounding profligacy. But domestic happiness light, which exposes their evil deeds; they strive and contentment must be rare, where the frequent We are to resist the beginnings of evil. Now, to spread the fatal delusion, and to make their own ale house lures the labouring man from his home, mark the origin of a riot. Here are envyings, va- darkness universal. Reject then, I beseech you, where political registers and Sunday newspapers riance, emulations, hatred, wrath, seditions, strife. the feigned words with which these men would take the place of the Bible, teaching him to negStrife, which Solomon tells us, is like the letting make merchandise of your souls. Depart, Ilect his cheerful fire-side, his wife, and children, out of water, and then it swells, and rages, and boils like a flood, in waves of tumult, drunken-pray you, from the tents of these wicked men and and make him discontented with himself and with touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all every thing, and every body around him. ness, revellings, and such like. (See what St. their sins." (Numbers xvi.) Paul says of them who do such things, Gal. vi.) During the remainder of Saturday night, the A riot is directly contrary in all respects to the peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, meek-mob continued in front of the Mansion House, but ness, temperance, and love, which are the fulfilling besides occasionally molesting the soldiers, they of the divine law. A riot defies all human law were not guilty of any further outrage there. The and authority, and God's solemn ordinance. "For dragoons were ordered to draw their swords, with who have favoured him with subscriptions to his there is no power but of God, the powers that be the sides and backs of which, they dealt them publication, and requests that they will oblige him are ordained of God, whosoever, therefore resisteth some hard blows. About midnight the rioters went by paying for their papers, monthly at farthest. the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they in a body to the Council House, and smashed the A kind attention to this suggestion, will grealty that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. windows. The cavalry pursued and charged them, assist him in his financial arrangements. For he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the which they returned by showers of stones from the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon corners of the streets and lanes. At the top of him that doeth evil. Wherefore, ye must be sub- the Pithay, (a steep narrow lane,) having struck ject not only for wrath, but also for conscience one of the 14th Dragoons, the soldier turned, and sake." (Rom. xiii.) Again, the same inspired shot a man who is believed to have been unconApostle writes, "Submit yourselves to every ordi- cerned in the riots: no other lives were lost. nance of man, for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the KING as supreme, or unto GOVERNORS, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment

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Amidst such scenes of tumult was the morning of the Lord's Gay ushered in. These wicked disturbers of its peace were at length driven from

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thyself, I warn thee not to make the same mis-
take; it looks so conceited, and the world is so
censorious about it, and so forward to put ill-
natured constructions upon it!--and, therefore,
Job, once more I warn thee, never to write thy
own history!

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upon the coxcomb! but, perhaps, that would only table of contents; and by-the-bye, nine times out make the puppy strut about the more. I, I, I, !! of ten, the table of contents is the best part of the I did this-I think thus-so say I; poh! trumpery, book. It's a lucky thought, says I to myself. I it makes one sick to see such a little upstart take could, indeed, a tale unfold! but no, I won't un"I could a tale unfold."-Hamlet's Ghost. such airs upon him! I'll give thee a piece of fold it; but I'll wrap it up so as that it shall go Let him unfold it then if he chooses, for I'll be advice Job, beware of I-I-ing it too much either in into a nut shell. Why shouldn't my pocket book whipt if I do; and I'll tell you why. I remember talk or in print; and be sure, he added, (solemnly be as acceptable to the public as Author Carr's, on one occasion, when my good humoured Sire taking his pipe down and applying the tobacco- which went through so many editions? 'Tis done, was smoking his pipe in the chimney-corner, one stopper as he spoke) whatever you do, be sure you I send to the printer, and out it comes. winter's evening, after he had been dictating to never write your own history. Mind that, Job! me a paper for publication, he said to me, Job, 'Twas one of the greatest blunders thy old father (says he) canst tell me which is the proudest letter ever committed; and as thou'rt a bit of a scribbler in all the alphabet?" Having rather a turn for EXTRACTS FROM MY POCKET BOOK. finding out riddles, I immediately set my wits to Being the heads of the suppressed Memoir. work to find it out. Perhaps father, says I, 'tis letter A, because he's at the head of all the others; Job Nott out of his time-good bye to buckle or, perhaps, 'tis B, because he's the first letter making-seeks his fortune in Bristol-dangers of in all Britain; or, perhaps, 'tis C, because he youth on leaving the parental roof-happily escapes surmounts the Crown; or, perhaps, 'tis D, be- Now, will my readers believe it? I never for them. Fondness for calculation induces him to cause he's at the head of all Dignities; or, stop one moment thought of my honoured father's attach himself to an eminent financier-worked to father, I think I've got it now, I think it must be warning till after the second number of this paper the bone-flesh and blood can't bear it-escapes G, because that's the head of him who's the head was in the press, and when it came suddenly into into the country and follows his literary pursuits. of our land, and the source of all dignity, George my mind, the very blood rose in my cheeks, to Rhyme tagging-difference between that and III., God bless him! Well done, Job, said my think that I should not only have begun to write, poetry. Embarks for Ireland-strictures on the father, thou'st got a pretty vein in the conun- but actually to publish my own history. Says I to habits and customs of the natives. System of drum line; but there's a letter that's prouder than myself this is a bit of a sticker! How shall I get out terror-United Irish-White boys-Tythes-all these, and if thou canst not find it out, I'll tell on't? I can't go on sinning against my honoured Hedge Schools-Ignorance and consequent misery thee; the proudest letter in all the alphabet is the father's express injunctions; on the other hand, of the Irish peasantry. Tired of bogs and butter letter I. Ah father, said I, that's true, and I see how can I disappoint the expectations of the milk, and glad to re-cross the channel. Travels at once what you're after. You mean that I is the public? Poh! don't flatter thyself, Job, I ex- in North Britain-contrast between Scotch peaproudest letter, because he's the fullest of self, claimed, recovering from my reverie; expectations santry and the Irish. At Bristol again, in a new the greatest ego-tist as they say. Well done, Job, of the public, forsooth, pshaw! What do the character; pursues his literary vein-joins a desays the old gent., thou'st hit it off exactly now! public care about thee, man? Why, surely, the bating club-evils of such associations. Engages That's just what I mean. Let who will be the poison of egotism is already working in thy veins. in tuition-infelicities of pedagogues. Gets marspeaker or writer, letter I is sure to cut the Prythee, have done with writing about thyself; ried; a good wife a great blessing-little blessings greatest figure. I wish Mr. Pitt would put a tax just give 'em the short of it-just give 'em the follow. Advice to young men to be prudent in

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