"THE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH IS SIMPLE." The contents of the following Papers, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, are especially addressed to the Franchised portion of the British Empire. They are written purposely for their information upon points and events not altogether easy of access. There is nothing in them intended as a personal reflection upon the creed or conscience of any individual whatever; the intention is only to rouse them, and point out their errors in judgment, as regards the Economy of the British Legislation,-whether Conservative, or Destructive Principles, are the better Policy in the Government of the British Empire. Viewing this vast Empire under all its peculiar circumstances; viz. The Constitution is the admiration of the whole World; Its Naval Powers have no parallel; Its Military Prowess is second to none; Its Liberties are Unbounded. Yet, at this moment, the Empire is distracted by Faction, showing a ferocious spirit ;-like unto the factions in Jerusalem, as recorded by Josephus,-and bordering upon the fate attending the Revolution in France, as depicted by Burke. We have these warnings before us, notwithstanding which, we have our Johns of Gischala, Simons and Eleazers of Jerusalem, our Dantons, Robespierres, Marats, &c., of France, ready to plunge us into the same distracted state as either Jerusalem or France, or perhaps both. Our greatest safeguard, therefore, lies in the power of the Elective Body, to save the Country from a similar fate attending it No. 5 is a necessary Confutation, let them attentively read the warnings given in these papers, and follow the simple language of Truth by JACOBUS VERITAS. No. I. BRITANNIA'S IMPASSIONED CALL TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. IN FOUR NUMBERS. Hereditary Freemen, if you would still be free, yourselves must hurl the Infidel and Tyrant Monsters from off the soil of British liberty; or trample under foot, to lick the dust, the Necks of Barbarous Traitors! THE ADDRESS OF A BROTHER VOTER OF LONG STANDING TO THE FRANCHISED PORTION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. THE fate of the British Empire is now most decidedly placed in the hands of the franchised portion of the People; and at the same time, the fate of their own franchised honors will stand or fall by the result of their future votes. It is of no consequence by whom these honors are ity, whether Church Protestant, testant, Roman Catholic, or Jew. claim their equal share of the blessings of the inimitable British Constitution, they must all join in one bond, to support its admirable even-handed justice, (the envy of the world,) against all agitating Levellers and Destructives. held in perpetuDissenting ProIf they mean to This new franchised qualification, so lately acquired by the Reform Bill, must be considered in the light of a new freehold property to nine-tenths of the present voters. To be franchised, was considered by our ancestors, and it is so recorded by all historians, as the greatest honour that could be conferred upon citizens, for it establishes in the franchised a birth-right inheritance, as shareholders in common in the governing department of the state they are avowedly, as it were, the first germ in the economy of the British Legislation; they are, in fact, the primitive organ which conveys the political nucleus of the Nation to the Parliamentary functions. Burke and others therefore hold it petty treason, to obstruct or refuse a franchised citizen, burgess, or freeholder, the honor of recording his vote. Solon made it compulsory for a citizen to record his vote. Yet, my Brother Electors, notwithstanding all this, Death has been lately inflicted upon some of the freeholders, citizens, and burgesses, at the late contested Elections; also personal insults, abuse, and threats have been offered to a shameful extent, by a desperate host of Radical Levellers and Popish Agitators, even in the face of day, in several parts of the Empire. Disfranchisement has also been threatened, ere the Reform Bill has attained its seventh year, by some of the very Members who were seated in the last Parliament BY YOU, and by some also who have been returned to the new Parliament BY YOU; because, forsooth, you have not returned their friends and companions in anarchy, which prevents them from going the whole Hog, in the destruction and spoliation of all that is most sacred to the interest and feelings of a true Briton: viz., the Church and State, King, Lords, and Commons, and finally our glorious Constitution. These, I say, are all to be swamped by this horde of Radical Levellers and Popish Agitators, or all your franchised honors are to be violated and annulled to make way for franchised Ruffians of the worst character. REFLECTIONS FOR THE COUNTY VOTERS. O'Connell says, the cursed £50 Chandos Voters must be done away!-Clay says, the cursed Corn Laws must be done away!-in which curses they are most strenuously joined by Hume, and numbers of the present and late discarded Members. These two objects gained, then the £50, and all other freehold County Voters would soon be annihilated:-therefore, in this case, every freeholder, yeoman, leaseholder, &c., must put their Veto against every Whig Radical Candidate that offers, or they will most assuredly seal their own, and the whole Country's destruction: their property of every description, and their new franchised rights, will soon be entirely swamped. Their only security to save themselves, is, by returning to Parlia ment in every County, upon all opportunities, wellknown true Conservative Members, stanch supporters of the Protestant Ascendency, and unflinching protectors of all our National and Constitutional rights, as handed down to us by our illustrious ancestors. REFLECTIONS FOR THE FREEMEN AND HOUSEHOLD VOTERS. Leader, Molesworth, and others, are particularly bent upon swamping all the respectable voters in every City and Borough in the Empire, by threatening to increase the household suffrage, by franchising every occupier of hut or hovel,-and if that won't do, to establish universal suffrage,-because you refuse to become slaves to the beck and call of a horde of Infidels, Radicals, and Popish Agitators, even before you have enjoyed the honor of the blessed Reform Act seven years!-you are all to be swamped. Now, Brother Freemen and Franchised Householders, every one of you must have some property at stake,-your franchised rights, as they now stand limited, give you the power to protect that property in defiance of them ; but this extension of the franchised suffrage would most assuredly destroy all that power which the Reform Bill has given you. See with what pride your ancestors speak of their franchised rights, which they bled to establish, although they have |