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     em 1. CHARLOTTE-TOWN, 
     
    

    
     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