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REMOJVSTRAJVCE 0F JACK SCROWGS To the Mobility, on their late attack on (he Dulce

of Wellington,

Yod' low minded warlets ! how had you the face,

To make sich a shamefhl attack on his Grace l

I cannot imagine what madness has drove ye

To act in this way to the Waterloo covey.

To Reform of this kind. I beg leave to demur; And we better, by far. had remained as we were. Old Jack disapproves of such vagabond freaks, And hopes you may all he pull'd up by the Beaks.

’Tis worthies like you who, despising all laws, Bring shame and disgrace on an excellent cause ; And. tho' I'm no friend to the Tories, 'tis true, To them. or the Devil. l'd still give their due.

Let them all have clear stage and fair play, if you please But shame on such cowardly weapons as these.

If! had my will, l'd soon bring you to rule.

And a month at the Threadmill your courage should cool.

My political tenets are pretty well known—

A Reformer am l, to the very back bone.

With every true Whig I shake hands as a brother; And I know what one gentleman owes to another.

But your—I‘m afraid you are past all rebuke.

Thus with mud and with stones to be pelting the Duke. V'hoe'er may dispute it. I boldly assert.

Your logic is filth and your argument dirt.

And we very well know that this blackguard attack Will be beautiful nuts for the Antis to crack. Heavens! how at these doings the worthies will storm, And call them first fruits of our precious Reform.

And, no doubt, poOr Lord Grey will be wickedly slan- der‘d,

In those excellent Journals, The Post and The Standard;

These conservative scribblers will tell us anon,

' That Russell and Brougham and Grey set you on.

They‘ll tell us, no doubt, that the fact of the case is, 'Twas Reformers who pelted the King at the Races; And old Eldon will say, with a visage dejected,

These thing he foresaw, and had fully expected.

That “‘2‘ you’ve commenced by bespattering with mud, It will end very shortly, in treason and blood;

And they best way on earth is to keep us in awe,

By a system despotic and bayonet law.

And. with questions how Lord Londonderry will bore us! While'Ellen and Cumberland join in the chorus;

And the bishops will pray. in alarm at the thing.

H May God save our tithes, and our excellent King!‘

Aftd Peel. with anxiety mark’d on his brow,

\.’ill swear there‘s no safety for honest men now ; ,it Rerform having fl00r'd each covservative nob,

e all must submit to the law of the mob.

‘ ow, ‘tis owing to you that the thing is a scandal—

hat the Tories lay hold of so famous a handle; And I caution you lads to take care what you‘re arter,

Or, by .lovtle3 you may find you've beencatching a tartar;

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1832.

As long as the life of Jack Scroggins endures,

rho never will sanction proceedings like your's;

And tho' he may sometimes get drunk. I allow, He will always be first to extinguish a row.

And tho' this Reform breaks a few of our fetter’s, There's a sort of respect that is due to our betters; I'm none of your time-serving, mean sons of b—hes But paythat respect to high rank and to riches.

Now, men of the mob, I’ve addressed you in print, And I hope you will profit by Scroggin‘s hint; Don't stir up again any rascally riot,

But let Tory and Whig travel forward in quiet.

And if. with such pranks. you won't cut the connexion; May you soon find a birth in the House of Correction , For if doings like these are not laid on the shelf,

From Reform l’ll back out, and turn Anti myself. J. S.

SHOCKING MURDER NEAR MANCHEITIR.

On Friday week, as the labourers of Mr. White, an extensive farmer at Swinton, near Manchester, were proceeding to their work, they discovered a dead body, weltering in blood, in the orchard. It turned out to be that of ayoung milkman, named James Park- inson, employed by Mr. White. On Thursday he obtained permission to go to Manchester races; and on his way to the Race Course, in company with two female acquaintances, he was met b Peter Wyche, the son ofa wheel- wright at ccles (three miles from Swinton), who jeered at their appearance. Parkinson said he would remember it; and in the evening, on his return alone, he met young Wyche, who was goin to the White Lion, at Worsle , in order to rink “ success to the cart an the owner,” old Wyche having finished a cart for a Mr, Brownbill, an opulent farmer at Eccles, Parkinson charged him with having plagued his female friends, which the other denied; Parkinson persisted that he had done so, and a scufile ensued, in which Parkinson threw Wyche when he kicked and beat him severely, after which he made off to his master's (Mr. White’s) house. Young- Wyche went to the White Lion, and complained of the treatment he had met with. “ Old peter Wyche,” the father, seemed vexed, and said he “would serve the blackguard cut” ifhe saw him. Short- ly after old Wyche, his two sons (Peter and Samuel), and young Brownbill, son of the far- mer above-mentioned, left the house, rather “ fresh” with drink. They asked at the toll- house where Parkinson lived, and related to the toll-man the way in which young Wyche had been treated. The old man said, “ I wish I could light of him, I would make him as he would never purr [kick] nobodyno more." The toll-man, sus— pecting nothing, told where Parkinson lived. About eleven at night, Parkinson was sitting in the kitchen of Mr. White's house with Mrs.

White and a young female servant, when-

Brownbill, old Wyche, and his son Samuel knocked at the door, and asked to see Park- inson. 0n the deceased making his appear- ance, Brownbill, went up to him, and gentl

drawing him towards the door, said, “I think

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that you are Parkinson.” Deceased said he was; and asked “ What was to do ?” Brown- bill drew him to the door, and said to his com- panions. “ He’s here.” The girl who had been sitting with Mrs. White says, that on Brown- bill, calling out “he’s here,,’ Samuel Wyche came into the house, followed by old Wyche, and she saw the latter raise his hand to strike Parkinson, but she did not observe whether he had any thin in his band. A scuflle ensued. and Parkinson retreated into the orchard, upon which old Wyche, who was inside the house, went out at the front door. The little girl barred the door, and no more was heard of Parkinson till the next morning. His mis- tress supposed that he had returned from the orchard and gone to bed. A Labourer state a that about eleven he saw Brownbill and Sa- muel Wyche coming out of Mr. White’s or- chard, and he heard them as , that they were better pleased at what they had done than if they had “ fetched law” of him. Near the door stood oung W che, who held a knife in his hand’. Old W che came up, and said to his son, “ You 3 ould not have pulled your knife out; I have given him enough.”

hey then wen way together. In the morn- ing the decea was found in the orchard. with the carotid artery severed, which appeared to have been done by a chisel or a knife. Brown- bill and the others had no doubt gone round the house, and found Parkinson in the orchard. These are the particulars of this malicious murder. The Three Wyches, and Brownbill, who has always been considered as a “ res- pectable young fellow,” have been taken into custody. The affair has created a strong sen- sation in Manchester.

The Coroner’s In nest on the body of Park- inson have' returns a verdict of“ Wilnt Mur- dcr against Peter Wyche, sen. Peter Wyche. Jun. Samuel Wyche, and Anthony Brownbill,” and they have been committed to Lancaster gaol for trial.

MEANS OF REFORMATION’.

To make vicious and abandoned people happy, it has generally been supposed necessary first to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order? Why not make them first hop y and then virtuous. lf happiness and virtue he ime arable, the end will be as certainlv obtain- ed y one method as by the other. and it is un. doubtedly much easier to contribute to the happiness and comfort of persons in a state of poverty and misery, than by admonitions and punishments to reform their morals. Crimes are of the effects of misery, and by removing the cause the effect will cease.—Rumford.

Donation to a poor family—No present that Could be made to a poor family could be of more essential service than a thin light stew pan with its cover, made of wrought or cast iron, and fitted out to a portable furnace. or close fire place, constructed to save fuel, with two or three approved receipts for ma ‘ nourishing and savory soups and brotha ' a small expense—1b. N