24 FEBRUARY 1838, Page 8

A recent letter from Colonel Thump:on to the Working Men's

Association of Hull has appeared in some of the newspapers. The Colonel had been requested to deliver a lecture ; instead thereof, he sent them a pithy and pungent epistle. Ile considers the time is gone by for expecting any immediate practical good from the discussion of Ballot, Suffrage-extension, and Short Parliaments-

. All thee:, were thq disco■sona of 'mother sera. of :mother state of politics nod of iety. :since tie t:, n ...ilk clout ham come

over us, such as uoldeg is competent to hring upon a p :cal art; eseept the treachery of soma of its tameomeid vote. non. t Ii' ,late of th.,1 ;nt,c t of fraud.

the question has been, not ut a had le, a. ,, I 1. get. but of a!l.0 :tre :o keep : to be found cete'onieli! e. the tea qa.ed :one togelle:r. eoehl I... tike a titan's &-

haunt: 0 bet her he preterred tech pine algae, or a hit", alien l:e a as til.: next Ieereent to be delivered over to the tender mercies of the New Poor-are.

" The state of the cnee is this. EmgNst,ua,uinLargenumbershaddeclarelIterireoeo kti011 to obtain the improvement of their political iuntitutions, and paitietnaily to effect an alteration in the compeeition of the I loose at' Look. They 1.mi let oat too, that for bringing this to pass, they trusted to the constitutional power betuteatt.ed to them by their ancestot 8, of holding a check over Ca: Supplies; a power it Is II t very easy to induce men to agree to exercise, and which for that very reason there is no

danger of men's agreeing to exercise, except when the public mind has been fully end fairly made up on the necessity. liere, tlien. was a ilauger hell touched Whig lords as well as 'fury. The craft of the Epleutiatie was in peril. The Whig lord', who happened to be at the helm, therefore saki. " Let tie try if we cannot tern the bayonet against this pretence to stoppiug the Supplies, in time. let its try the question a here we shall have many interests to help us ; and then me shall esteblish the pre. °Went against the People of England in general." And they hire established it. almost alibied resistance un the part of the English People. I valid here for witness, that, so far as has fallen within my own ubservatiou, thine out el four of pro:cooing Liberals have either gene over flatly to the enemy's side, or shrunk front milking any

;pi ition on any and on every pretence that could invent. The Whig dii%ters said, " Let us seise Ott the supplies in Canada. Either the I:a nailians a ill resist, or they will not. If there is no resistance, then we can say to the English People, You see that the right of withholding the supplies was given tip by general consent. If there is resistance, we Call put it dose; and so establish the preeedent, that the same course shall I e followed at home a henever an &tempt sh ill be made to withhold the supplies as the means of enforcing improvement iu the form or govern-

ment." And the Whig Ministers had the most perfect success. Three out of four, as I said before, either joined them or let the thing pass without opposition, on the most contemptible pretences. Some said that it was right that the power over I he supplies

should be destroyed in Canada, because time Canadians were of French descent ; come, because Canada was a eolony ; some, because the honour of the Army was at stake, and we were bound to wish for the success of the Army, which we pay to cut our throats; some said it must be done, to preserve the to send the people to alto are prevented from keeping themselves at home, by the Cort'ulna s; some, that it was ne. cesaary in order to euutinue paying double price for bad timber, and keep you out of trading to the Baltic. There was nothing so mean, so miserable, which professed Liberals of high standing and degree did not take for an excuse, 'flue Irish Ulysses

took the time to make his separate peace, and bargained with Ministers for the bonus of Ireland being eaten last. Other men were " patting the Ministers on the back," wien they ought to have been holding theta in check by the threat of turning them out upon the first symptom of misconduct ; which is the only way iu which a Minority can make Itself felt and heard. So here we are."

The Colonel reminds the people that he had done every thing in his power "to expose, protest against, and alter this imbecile and suicidal plan of campaign ;" and goes on to warn them that they may rue the advantage taken of their credulity— "A year ago, you were a free people; you had consti. Motional bulwarks In your front, written in the blood of one tyrant, tioainst whom your fathers shut their gates, and in the exile of spottier. This year. all is swept away ; and you steed may in a fearful waiting for the time when it shall p1..ase the combined Whig and Tory lords to let loose the Army upon you with all the atrocities that have been taught to it in Canada. Last year, you were fenced about with strong decisions of constitutional law, not perhaps written down in codes any rnore than those decisions of the COmmoU law whielt say men shall not commit ponder, but equally substantial to all appearance, in their foundations in the public mind. This year Lord John Ens sell tells you in express words, that to use your constittitiourd right of stopping the supplies IS to "dissolve the constitution; " au expression tot which I hope to see him stand in the phase of Strafford and Laud, whatever may be the modificatione which the milder aptrit of the age of which be Is no part, may enforce on the subsequent con- sequences, Lord Wellington too stands by to echo, that this is the result of sueourag- ing the id:a of popular rights, which are no rights in Canada," nor any where else;" all espreemion grace:id and to be exemted from the noble lord, just as a fire ef ketry from un.- side is honest, wher: trout another it %mild be treachery. Oh,en, meanwhile that we never stood up, for any general and undefined tight of snigao,.. because resistance might be profitable. We said," Never resist the laws; resist yb4i rabbit is not law." We sithd, there ars certain laws laid down and agreed on bete", the Government and the People. and if the Government breaks these, the duty or lesistance Is on the same footing as the duty of resistance to househreaking, lee said and say still, that the Whig Ministers chose to put themselves into direct fetid contravention of these laws; and we wait to see whether the Providence white watched over the liberties of our forefathers, will not at some time put into our bouts the power of bringing them to justice. " In this position then coo !toed. If as working men or citizens of the community you feel atty grievances which you ever hoped to see redressed, lay by the expectatioe as yOil would ail wad hang up s pair of skates a hen the frost Is user, tilt the people of England tease retraced the retrograde march a hich in their carelessness and their mi. pidity they have allowed themselves to make. They ore not y et thrust into the shin. Gun of those unfortutinte nations alto here nothing to hope Ind from the same kind o; force which keeps off the wild beasts of the forest. They haw modes of aetioc bequeathed to them b: their fathers. and eat yet taken away, a Welt set them at s distanCe still from the necessity for such remedy. It is quite true, that nil heelers in the mil but an armed heresy, and that a hat is called moral influence resohrs itself finally into the belief that physical Itifillence could to found to Lucie it. lint for huh reason moral influence must not he given np. Use it then, that you may nut come to the rougher necessity of seeing the " Liberal Chub" roasted in High Chinch, and the " Working Meit's Aseoci.dion " eaten by pigs car Gar:"..on Side. There sal it time when the People of England could see bevinal their mow. and Reg the appronch of military execution, even though the oeeran relied betrays') then and the actual bodies of the slain. I tell you again, the Peop'.e of England must speak out. 'there must be no inure paltering about who ur whet is to succeed, if the present butchers are driven from the hatchet. Not olio of the homes Oat have taken place, would have been accomplished if t he Whig Miniature had been driven from their places the moment they begart to show the closest fiat eoutin the Penny Stamp. the widows dCanada world he: v L•rru uo widow's, nor the

ast the interests of the People. If five.aude eel

elnldren fatherless. How many more are to be made, in Carisdn or in Street, depends Ott how long the same process shall be deferted. All evil 4 WI dallgerolit oat. are gathering about us. The University of Ozford by its Ile; IViv l/lilti% es in Parliamen calls out for "bloat enough:" and the priest witb:n its Nt insults the Thome. by sermons on the "sinfulness" of the Revolution to as hicli :l.e leeent family uses its rights, If you call yourselves Radicals, be :mitre that the re. e is called for you by Milne. I tell yoe, the men of blood are Close upon yon, and ten know not how ellen is time it may be before all that ever happened to your lereiatlirr., may be tint a fraction of your miseries. 1 declare to you my full coin :snot'. that it at this moment tense the acrid:eine to whiell lietnnuity is liable were to tetn-Ce the eresent °meant of the throw, it would he by the mere will nue plc:mite it he did not m„, without the chance of effectual resistance, to the it' :ga: het of every thing that Mt been gabled by the People of England in coestitutiosni freedom, since the they tint Hampden resisted shipmoney. Fools and villians here down the rule, and yt or the People of England have quietly submitted to it, that n: lesist e nee is criminal,— that whatever is or mills itself supreme, is to commit Inc of violatiou first. era standing by to hold the garments, and )eti are to Lay, youn: terneily afterwards. 'fls "passive obedience" and "nen.resistanne " which our tethers scattered to the fear wands, are embodied and upon us again."

Finally, the Colonel advises, as the first step to a better state of things, that the traitor Ministry should be turned out-

" I assents

nothing but the mune faculty of judging of conserver:noes from appearances, that makes one of your sailors take in a topgallant sail, tv in:: he sees the squall chasing bin astern. But 1 do must earnestly impress on yeti, lull yon on all alio may see any sonuduele in any thing that I have said, the I.,. eosin of ;ii:ug over for the present nil debates upon what you would like if there a! = ut.y ctun.ce that yam should get it, and apply your political innnwere, if you May. • ,.y, Loran's removing the greater danger that at peeved hangs over ; and a 1.,:: Lase got something like reuses.