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1838. gaining the Radicals by showing the popular provisions ©
#~ 84. the Act. Will you credit it—the low, blackguard leaders ¢
the Radicals joined with the Tories and opposed us. TH
poor-law lunatics raised their demented yell, and we wer
menaced with nothing but defeat and annihilation at the
public meeting. However, we sent a circular to every 0
of the 101. parliamentary electors who support liberal me®
calling upon them to aid us at the public meeting, and the]
came forward to our rescue. The shopocracy carried Bh
day. Two or three of the Tory-Radical leaders now entered
the service of the Tories, with a view to obtain the signatus®
of their fellows to a petition against incorporation, TheJ
pretended to get upwards of thirty thousand names, f°
which they were well paid. But the voting has shown the!
four-fifths were forgeries. So much for the unholy allian
of Tory and Radical !
“1 mention all this as my best excuse for not having
written to you, or for you, for so many months. What wit}
going twice to London on deputations, and fighting th
battle with two extreme political parties in Manchester, |
have been so constantly engaged in action, that I have not
had time for theorizing upon any topic. Still I have no’
abandoned the design of using my pen for your magazin®
I have half collected materials for an article on convulsion®
in trade and banking, which when published will probably
attract some notice from people engaged in such pursuits.”
“ Not having received a word of news, good or bad, fro
you since I came here,” he wrote to his brother, «I con”
clude that nothing particularly important can have occurred:
You will have heard, I dare say, the result of our intervie®
with the Lords of the Council. There is, I think, not
shadow of doubt of the ultimate result of the applicatio®
but I am not pleased with the Whig Ministry’s wmode ¢
& To Mr. W. Tuid, of Edinburgh. July 3, 1858.