have sent me, relative to the pa-to us; and that we laughed more, per-juggle at New York, that little I dare say, than any four men KNOB of this monster of a WEN; ever laughed before, at the "Eviand, in return, I will now endea-dence," as it was called, and par< vour to give you, not a picture, ticularly at that of RICARDO, BA but a short and slight sketch, of RING, JOHN SMITH and GURNEY. the workings of the juggle here, You remember that a short acwhich surpass, far surpass, the count of the project of the bill powers of adequate description. had reached me in the English COURIER, and that, when I had

We have the Mother-Bank one and two pound notes again; so read it to you, I said, if that Bill that, there is PEEL'S BILL com-ever go into full effect, I'll be pletely gone, and my Long-Island broiled alive. "Boiled," said GRIDIRON PROPHECY fulfilled; your brother Charles; " for we and, the Gridiron is now going up are all broiling alive now." in a few days, or, at the first lei- There were we four (for your sure moment, it having long been father was too ill to join us), made for the purpose. But, be- all the clothes upon all of us not fore I proceed further, let me have worth forty shillings, laughing at the pleasure of calling your re- these fellows, dressed out in silks collection to the time when I first and bag-wigs. We had the put that prophecy on paper. The speeches too; and never, as long bill was passed in July, 1819. In August of that year, I received the voluminous parliamentary report, on which it was founded. Just when this Report arrived, I was setting off to go and visit you, your father and brothers, at that" bubble", and where, after obplace, which, on account of the serving, that the plan was approvvast "surplus" of those things, in ed of by the wisest of men, he which its fields then abounded, I asked "what danger there could christened"GRASSHOPPER LODGE."" be in a fall of prices to the You remember what smoking hot" amount of three and a half per weather it was; that, during the cent."! coolest parts of three days, your brother Charles read the Report

as I live, shall I forget the laugh (in which CHARLES, as usual, took the lead) that we set up, when we came to that part of Lord GRENVILLE'S speech, where he described the evils of the paper

All this you must recollect, since it has remained in my head,

any other way than it has done, we should have began to suspect that we were a set of foolish fellows.

But, it is now time that I give you the sketch that I promised of what is going on here. You read some time of ago, 66 a consul

who have had so many more me. How exactly has every other things to think of than you thing turned out as we thought it have, and who have contrived, would. The singularity of the nevertheless, to introduce into thing is, that we, though at GrassEngland, by your kind assistance, hopper Lodge, saw so clearly these plantations of locusts about what nobody appears to have seen which you and I and your here; and, if it had turned out in brothers used to talk so much. Your letters tell me how you have laughed at the debate upon Mr. Jones's petition; and, upon my honour, if I could possibly spare the time, I would grudge neither the danger nor the expense of the voyage to go and have a laugh with you now. It was at Grass-tation" that had been held on the hopper Lodge where the thing was OLD LADY. You remember rightly understood, and not at that DR. TOOKE declared her disSt. Stephens down at Westmins- order to proceed from repletion; ter. It was fellows in hickory DR. BLACK ascribed it to a want shirts and yankee trousers, and of Scotch education; ANNA BROwithout stockings, that knew what DIE Swore she had the itch; and Dr was going to happen. It was at PETER MACCULLOCH most posiGrasshopper Lodge, and in con- tively declared her to be wi' bairn. sequence of reading the report, I said, as I always had said, that her that I had made up my mind to disorder was the wet gripes, or, as come home. Your father exhorted the farmers call it, a running out. me not to come, for fear of the I said that the disorder came by violence of the THING; but fits; that every succeeding fit was you remember well that I observed, "That kind young man, "Mr. Peel is sticking a harpoon "into her, from which, until she "dies, she will never get free." I said, that she would be so busy with her own pains, that she would not have time to attend to

more painful than the former, and attended with more copious evacuations. Thus has it happened; for, during this last spell, or fit, she has experienced a most terrible draining, and, after being apparently delivered of all her solids, out have come the last remains of

mortality.

the means of sustaining debilitated one bank, at least, having failed in Scotland. But, what think you of reptiles; what think you of the impudence of literary ruffians, who insist that gold is superabun

You do not, or, at least I trust that God preserves you from it, read the colums of our stupid, base

Bank of England is pouring forth
These
one and two pound notes!
shameless ruffians know that they
deceive a certain portion of the
people; but, I congratulate you
on the fact, that that portion is now
very small; and that the indivi-
duals belonging to it are precisely
those that ought to suffer. This
is now the beauty of the thing ;
that the suffering will now fall
where it is richly merited, and no
where else..

and infamous "best public in-dant at the very moment that the
structer." If you were to do it
you would find masses of lies,
such as must choke you, even in
the reading; you would find banks
smashing all over the country, six
big banks smashing in London,
thousands and thousands of people
ruined in a moment, thousands
going half mad because they can-
not get gold for their notes; and at
his same moment you would hear
these infamous wretches pro-
claiming through their columns,
that gold is so cheap as for the
bank to gain money by coining it;
that the paper is more valuable
than the gold; and this you would
hear asserted in the very same
paper that tells you that the bank
has just begged it as a favour that
a person would not insist upon
having fifteen thousand sovereigns
in exchange for its notes! If you
were to read Dr. Black's paper of first is, the terrible alarm into which
yesterday, you would hear him the church appears to have been
swear that Scotch Banks never thrown. At Winchester, a bishop,
fail; and if you were to read it
of to-day, you would find that the
honest Scotchman had taken spe-
cial care not to notice that yester-
day's post brought intelligence of

To recount to you all the vari ous incidents of the present smashing would require two volumes of registers, instead of the two or three pages that I have to devote to it; and, indeed, your own mind will enable you to judge, pretty nearly, what the state of the case is; but, there are some particular incidents that I must notice: the

a

dean, and a whole parcel of the clergy, have put forth a declaration of their confidence in the paper of their country banks. At Christchurch, and at numerous other

places; indeed, all over the coun- " House, were actively engaged "in exchanging Gold and Bank "Paper to those having demands upon the House."

There, take that, and let me beseech you to go up to Grasshopper Lodge, and there read it to that wicked Yankee presbyte

try, similar instances of the confidence of the clergy. Curious thing; that the clergy, above all men living, should come forth to support the most ticklish of the paper money. Ah, Sir! the parsons have long and keen noses.rian that I was unable to persuade A pig, the scent of which is so penetrating as to discover, at a single whiff, through the green coat and brown shell of a walnut, whether there be a sound kernel within; even this nose is nothing to the nose of a parson. To give you a specimen of the zeal of the clergy in this case, take the following, not from me, but from the Morning Herald London broadsheet, of the 22d of this month.

that ours was the only true church. See here what we have gained by the protestant reformation! William of Wickham, or Thomas à Becket, or old Magna Charta Langton, might build colleges, perhaps, and churches, and endow hospitals and schools; but the devil a bit

would those old catholic fellows

have thus condescended to stand behind a counter to be actively

engaged in the exchange of gold "CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 20th.- and bank of England paper to "Notwithstanding that a Meetthose who had demands upon the "ing, numerously and respect"ably attended, was held on house. It is curious enough, that, "Thursday, at which upwards of at the very moment that the Bishop "500 Gentlemen, Merchants and of Bristol (whose name is KAYE) "Tradesmen, signed a resolu

"tion, expressing their ENTIRE was thus engaged at Cambridge, "CONFIDENCE in the stabi- Mr. Jones was, at the city of which "lity of the Town Banks, the he, Kaye, is the bishop, publishing "'runs' on this day, upon all of "them, were exceedingly pressa little threepenny pamphlet ad"ing. We were pleased to ob-dressed to him, calling upon the serve that the persons by whom right reverend father in God to "this alarm seemed to be felt

"were of the lower orders. At exert his pastoral influence in "Messrs. MORTLOCK's establish- order to extirpate the enormous "ments, the LORD BISHOP sins of paper money. "OF BRISTOL!! and the Vice

"Chancellor of the University,

The lords and gentlemen have

"stationed themselves, and being been a little more shy in thus com

supplied by the Clerks of the ing forward to uphold the paper

was,

system. But some of them have appeared, however, and particularly LORD MALMSBURY, who if not who is, governor of the isle of Wight, with a good thumping salary. GEORGE HENRY ROSE, who is a great sinecure holder, and who has been such almost all his life time, is another that has come forward, and along with this same LORD MALMESBURY. There are others to be mentioned another time. As to the MOTIVES of these people, you will be at no loss to know what they are; and they are well known to every creature in England. The rooks themselves

not upon its Gold and Silver; not upon its Lands, Houses, Manufactures, and Produce only; but upon public confidence and public credit? And is not the Banking System one of the main pillars of our prosperity? If Paper be are the manufacturers to pay their withdrawn, and discounts cease, how workmen? How are the workmen to purchase necessaries for their families? How is trade to be carried on? Have you considered that the Banks of Nottingham are old establishments, between whom and the town and county there have been an exchange of mutual benefit and confidence for nearly Are uot their Principals known to be half a century, some of them more? men of large property, prudent conduct, and unblemished integrity? They have a claim on the public confidence, and to withdraw it for a moment, will not only be unjust to them, but most injurious to yourselves. Without Banks trade cannot go on; and you have to consider whether it would be best to be without Banks, if these gentlemen were to withdraw, which is not unlikely, or to have your dependence establishments, or to go on as you upon new, and therefore less stable have done for the last half century, with security and satisfaction. If you prefer the last, go on so now; receive or to be handed about; just ex-present alarm will completely cease. and a pay as usual, andin few days the actly like those of the medical quacks. The first was issued at Nottingham, the last at Farringdon in Berkshire. The first has no signature and no date; the last assumes to have been written by a Wiltshire farmer, and is dated on the 19th of December. These things have been put into the country newspapers; but they have been handed about in handbills, and stuck up in placards, besides.

have been playing all sorts of
tricks. I will copy two of their
quack advertisements, published
upon bits of
paper, to be stuck up

I

BROTHER FARMERS,

CANNOT avoid giving you a hint at this perilous crisis, to connected with the existence of COUNremind you how much your interest is TRY BANKS; for if they were an nihilated, every man's property would be reduced 30 per cent. at least. Instead, therefore, of withdrawing our deposits, or carrying in Notes to be changed, we ought to do every thing in of our produce depends on a circulating our power to support them; for the sale medium, and if that were taken away, we may frequent our Markets, but very little business would be done there. Be, therefore, timely wise, and consult your own interest by following the advice of one of your own body.

A WILTSHIRE FARMER.