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 The queen is as wise as a goose, 
 
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 The great social screw has got loose. - 
 
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 _, Prevention is better than cure. Peace is better than 
 war. But even civil waris preferable to an iron military 
 despotism. The law of England, mark, authorises all 
 citizens to possess arms. The law is greater than the king. 
 The law is good. Bad laws only ought to be evaded and 
 when prudent to be resisted to the death, if necessary. 
 The Times and Chronicle of the infamous ninth of May 
 
 ‘now seem in right earnest. The country is, ‘indeed, in 
 
 real danger. The Wolf is come at last. The crisis is 
 come. England is at the boiling point. Our saftey now 
 lies in promptly showing the enemy we are prepared. 
 
 MACERONPE’S PIKE. 
 
 That true citizen-soldier, Colonel Macerone, justly 
 remarks that the population of most countries are: much 
 better acquainted with the use of arms. and with the 
 practise of military movements than the English citizens 
 now are. Every man, and almost every bey in America 
 possesses the unerring rifle. In France one man in every 
 ten has seen military service. Our insuldar situation 
 has perhaps made us better sailors than soldiers, 
 England, however, is the great workshop for arms ‘for 
 all the world, andthe fault is our own if we learn not 
 
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 rove saya that the hest weapons and readiest for citizen 
 warfare are a pike 9 feet long accompanied by a 32 inch 
 barrel fowling piece, and a brace ofgood sized 6 inch 
 barrel pistols. The Pike made of the best ash is sold 
 by Macerone at 8, Upper.George Street, Bryanstone. 
 Squaré at L0s- Men should never fight With long 
 pike in less rank than three deep, six deep is the best 
 Nothing but a body.armed with similar pikes can with- 
 stand six deep pike-men. But citizen soldiers with 
 pikes can all effectively do harm six deep, because cit- 
 izon’s 9feet pike will reach three deep further than the 
 soidier’s 6 feet musket anl bayonet. If pike cit- 
 tizens stand firm the horse-seldiers can never break the 
 eisizen ranks, The short bayonet will not protect a man 
 from severe cuts from the long sword of a bold horse- 
 soldier. The long pike will. Pike-men are equal to 
 <ouble the number of men armed on the old plan. A 
 walking solcier, mind, runs tenfold more danger in fly- 
 
 ing from a horse-soldier, than in showing a determined 
 
 week or nothing front to the mounted huntsman. | By 
 “the hye, tens of thousands of brave English privates, and 
 
 Leave French privates might have been preserved to us, 
 sndto their wives and children, and brothers, and sisters, 
 and mothers, if the victimized privates had on the field 
 of battle rationally practised the tongue exer ise as well 
 ‘asthe sword exercise. Think of the effeet of John Bull 
 eeying out to Jack Sprat, and vice versa, ‘Well Moun- 
 'sSeur, what the devil am J trying to kill your honor for, 
 “tor what in devil’s name are you cutting and slashing 
 ‘tat my vitals for, I have done you no harm; you have 
 ‘done me no injury, why should we hundred thousand 
 ‘privates goon mu rdering each other to gratify the blood- 
 
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 “thirsty hundred or two aristocratical officers who urge 
 
 ‘‘us to mutual destruction while we ourselves are despised 
 ‘‘and trampled under foot by these very few aristocratic 
 ‘‘scoundrels?”? No! no! a private soldier is taught by 
 the cunning aristocracy to be particularly sulky in the 
 battle field. No speak, die dumb. O, ye asses. A 
 bayonet loses strength by being lengthened, and becomes: 
 either too heavy or too flexible. The bayonet again 
 
 when fixed in the musket curves off from the muzzle.’ 
 
 Now this curve can be caught by a cut from the sabre, 
 
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and thus the bayonet thrust is stopped. The pike can- 
 
 “not beso checked. A roll of tin toil: around’ the first 
 
 two feet from the pike’s head prevents a sabre from cut- 
 ting off the top of the pike. In regularcharges, the first 
 ranks and the second ranks at least must always rusty 
 forward with pikes ready presented. The pistols and 
 latger pieces should have the same sized muzzle in order 
 
 that the same balls may suit the mouth of each fire-arm. 
 
 The pike and gun weigh 4 ounces less than the musket 
 and bayonet. . Remember the success of the Irish. At- 
 tack not only’ bad systems, but when prudent, the base 
 
 ‘men forming the base willing part of those base systems. 
 
 The pikes are admirably adapted for leaping ditches, 
 and making props for tents. The unfloggable blue-coat 
 
 _ soldier or Peel’s. babes receive 8s.aday. The flogged 
 
 red-coat soldier, or the British veteran receives only 10d. 
 a day, in’ order that the insolent flogging aristocratic 
 officers may better grab ten guineas a day. beh ie 
 
 THE RIFLE. 
 
 Rifles are expensive, but a single £10. rifle is mor® 
 ‘destructive than six cheap guinea muskets. The musket 
 ‘barrel is smooth; the rifle barrel is uneven. The great 
 objection to these rifles in the last war, was, the long 
 time wasted in loading. Macerone has now invented.a. 
 cartridge for loading a rifle as quickly as a musket, The 
 
 ‘American is a half-ounce ball rifle. The one-ounce 
 
 ball rifle, about the weight of a horse-pistol, is generally 
 the best. The newly-invented percussion locks are far 
 more sure than the frequently miss-fire old flint locks. 
 Use Joycr’s Percussion Powder, nitrate of. mercury. 
 ‘The present rifle iron ramrods are too light, use brass, 
 The ball must be rammed in smartly, and not pushed 
 
 ‘down’ slowly ; give the ball a smart tap as you place the 
 
 ball on the muzzle before you use the heavy brass ram- 
 
 “rod. Clean the barrel often. Macerone says, ‘‘The 
 
 “first army who uses rifles will certainly beat an 
 ‘equal body using muskets.’’ Cartridge pouches should 
 surround the body one deep, the whole weight being 
 thus equally distributed. In close action, six or eight 
 buckshot should be used with the ball in your cartridge. 
 
 Buckshot range sixty yards. The ball must be. place: 
 
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 foremost, that is, the buckshot must.be placed next the: 
 powder. Between the powder and the buckshot you 
 must place a felt, or what is.much better a circular cork 
 wad, the cork soaked in oil. Wads.are to: be a trifle 
 larger than the bore. The heat of the body damps 
 powder, always use varnished pouches to carry your 
 powder dry. A-solution of shoemakers’ wax in spirits of 
 turpentine is a good varnish. 4 
 
 ORGANIZATION. 
 
 In sudden emergencies, all the members of each trade 
 er profession ought to have previously known in what 
 articular square the class is to assemble, Lawyers in 
 Lincolns Inn, &c. &e. Citizens may be as a thousand 
 against, ten to the enemy, and be overcome for all that. 
 Jesus justly says of Charity, that Charity is the first of 
 virtues, and eovereth a multidude of sins, and so say I that 
 without the organization of the citizens all else is vanity, 
 and foolery, and vexation of the spirit. The enemy 
 partly by art, and partly by accident, is well organized 
 all over the country, and thereby. hangs a tale. Our 
 aristocratical rulers know well every aristocratical family 
 in every county in Britain. The Londonderrys know how 
 the Greys think and will act. And the Greys know 
 how the Londonderry’s think and are prepared to act. | 
 Alas, the trading and working classes have yet had no | 
 
 grand hunting: parties, and grand dinner parties, and 
 grand driving parties to meet in multitudes and thus to 
 know the talents, and the spirits, and the ways of think-. 
 ing, and acting of the non-aristocratic classes in the f 
 social subdivisions. I could organize all London’s work- 
 ing and trading classes in one little week. How? man. 
 Why, let every class of workmen and trader wear a 
 committee ordered five-shilling regimental, Scotch, or 
 other plaid dress. The uniform would show us in-the 
 gtrects as a thousand to: one against the aristocracy. 
 All should weara universal hat or cap, the different trades 
 taking care to weara peculiar trade uniform in coats and 
 trowsers. J} shall wear a Scotch breeches this summer. 
 Go ye and do likewise good citizens. The organ-. e 
 
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 “© gzation -of “all organizations, is. briefly. this, I here 
 
 trace the foundation of the true social edifice. Let. tem 
 
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 men meet, there is the beginning. Let said ten men by 
 
 frequent converse measure well the physical strength and 
 the intellectual power and the moral daring of each and 
 of allthe ten. Now choose the best man for your Tew 
 
 “Man. Let nine stick by brother Ten-Man, through 
 
 fire and water, good report or evil report. If the Tew 
 MAN merely mistakes the common interest, gaining no 
 benefit, and on great occasions is guilty only of error of 
 the head, forgive that error: You have chosen your very 
 best man, mind, therefore it is very likely that any one 
 of your less accomplished members would have blundered 
 much worse in similar circumstances, but, if on great 
 occasions, in lifeand death matters, your TEN Man per- 
 petrateth an error of the heart, a wilful crime, betrays 
 your cause, ah! then Isay nothing, but, I think 
 strongly. But be quite sure from carefully sifted evi-. 
 dence, that your TEN MAN has really been most damn- 
 ably guilty. Be not hasty. —Think—Think—Think 
 Then, act—act—act. Now then to proceed, let ten 
 men who each represent ten men meet together and as 
 in the first instance carefully select the best man, out 
 of the ten TEN MeN for a HunpRED-MaNn. Continue 
 this jack-in-the-box, patent-screw-organization process, 
 and stick like a band of brothers to your progressive 
 leaders, and all social power will speedily be in the 
 united hands of the most numerous class. Personal am- 
 bition must give way to general safety. Be united. Lay 
 aside all personal vanity for your own personal safety 
 and the glorious organization I now recommend is invin~ 
 cible. All men. must necessarily benefit ; for, the chose 
 leaders if faithless, would be permited to derive no per- 
 sonal benefit, but inevitably perish as traitors to the 
 order. In sudden emergencies when despotic power is 
 called out you may not have time thus to organize on this 
 a9 Do the best you canto approach this system. 
 
 ivide into streets and chose leaders of streets, and 
 leaders of parishes, and leaders of districts. Use badges. 
 Shoot: the officers, as recommended in the United Ser- 
 vice Journal. Spare the men—the chief officers are 
 dressed plainest. Cry out to the men, ‘peace to’ the 
 privates, death to the officers,” these cries will work 
 wonders. * But, mind, these cries will be‘laughed at if 
 
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 yyou ery out these words as you.fly away. | The privates 
 know. that they would be afterwards hanged by officer 
 court martials, if the citizen soldier do not show the 
 npaner to protect the privates who join the people. ‘A 
 _ bold front anda ery of peace at the the same moment. 
 There is the point. A poor private is now like a well- 
 known respectable animal between two bundles. The 
 citizen says to the unhappy wight, dare to fire at me, 
 apd I’ll shoot you. Very well sir, I wont, quoth the 
 private. ‘‘Dare to refuse to fire at the citizen,” quoth 
 the officer the next moment ‘‘and J’ll hang you by court 
 martial.”” What can we poor privates do? How happy 
 could I be with either, thinks the puzzled private. “The 
 devil of the matter is, I know not which side will beat, 
 _ -the officer or the citizen. When the citizen once draws 
 . the sword against military despots, the scabbard must 
 - be flung to the winds. Half-measures, compromises, 
 talkings, hesitations are childish and destructive. Rely 
 » Not on promises, and surrendering. You must destroy 
 , the political enemy at all hazards, (see United Service 
 Journal for May). Give quarter and secure prisoners. 
 Treat the enemy as the enemy treat you. Do unto 
 others as others do unto you. If the enemy hang a 
 captured citizen, do you immediately hang a captured 
 “enemy. _ This is very distressing, very painful, but, the 
 law of self-preservation demands this vigour to check 
 still greater evil. The citizen-is lost if the puplic spirit 
 once raised is permitted to waver for an instant until 
 
 -/all is accomplished. Soldiers in steel breast-plates, 
 xe Should be shot at below the breast. Regiments of boys 
 -\ commanded by boys should be established. Boze in 
 
 6 ;coatesleeves will save a man many a cut. Borrow your 
 ' qwife’s or sweetheart’s stays. Fine heavily every where 
 ‘, xaen and women who support the despotic governnient 
 » by word or deed. Take hostages from the weak rébel 
 aristocratical classes. x ie 
 
 STREET FIGHTING. 
 
 _The enemy, whether on foct, or on horse, or 
 - / using artillery, will certainly first appear in the larger 
 > ;oStreets, or.squares. .Do not be deluded into a conflict 
 Aueguch disadvantageous positions. The people’s men 
 
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must hasten to occupy the numerousnarrowstreeté flank- 
 
 ing ‘these soldier-garrisoned. large streets. Ereet 
 
 barricades by upsetting waggons, filling sacks with earth 
 
 &, the barricades being 106 yards inwards from the great: 
 
 street. Seize and fortify the first or corner houses in he 
 
 narrow strees.. Dig a ditch 10 fi wide and 10 ft deep 
 
 the earth thrown up on the enemy‘s side. Have stout 
 
 ropes with flags suspended across the streets. to trip. up 
 
 ¢ and frightenthe enemy‘s horses. Oppositestreet fighters 
 
 should join barricades across, Multiply barricades. The 
 
 ofticers will try to humbug the impatient citizens te 
 
 attack large concentrated rnassea of manmyvering soldiers 
 
 ‘The citizen-soldier’s vital policy is in causing the foe 
 
 to detatch numerous small soldier-parties by every 
 
 pozsivle device to pretend to fly. Then turn round end 
 
 conquer in detail, Send citizens to burn houses of the 
 
 murderous oflicerain the night. The peopie’s mem should 
 
 work chiefly at night. Keep a moveable secret opening 
 
 | in your barricades. Do not fight your mea too few 
 
 " together, or too crowded, mobbified.. Four deep, with @ 
 
 : riiling elbow room is to the question. When the enemy 
 come down yery deep, form citizens equally deep. 
 
 HOUSE DEFENCE, 
 
 Barricade the lower windows and doors, and cut loop 
 
 holes fer tire arms, Take roof and-floorings if you want 
 
 tunber, Use bricks,tiles aud bottles.&c. for missiles and 
 
 dust and boiling water, Blow snuff in soldiers, eyes. 
 
 Threw down burning acids, as recommended in the last 
 
 number of the, United Service Journal. Dig ditches round 
 
 . the house, use mattresses for barricades in the. upper, 
 
 windows. Remove the floorings of all your balconies lest 
 
 the enemy break thro your doors under shelter from your. 
 
 perpendicular missiles, Quickly push down scaling lad-. 
 
 ders,,break up the stair cases. Communicate by ropes. 
 
 or ladders from floor to floor, cut loop holes in the sea-. 
 
 end floor. 
 
 CHURCH DEFENCE. 
 
 _ Churches are buildings often suscepti ble, of very. good, 
 . defence. Fine news for the quaking iithe mongers! . . 
 Church walls are thick like bishops heads, the windows, 
 
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 atevhigh like bishops noses. Demolish “all school-foome 
 6r ‘small ‘houses near the fortified church; because the 
 enemy will otherwise attack your position under these 
 partial shelters, Convey the broken materials into the 
 ¢hurch to be used as missles. In all cases level every 
 oo or building commanding the spot you wish to for- 
 tify. 
 
 That the citizen may pass freely without exposure to. 
 the enemys fire, you must quickly cut interior commu- 
 nications from house to house through whole streets. The 
 noise and clamour of a popular tumult prevent the of- 
 ficer’s orders and the signal strokes of the drum from 
 beiugheard. The private soldier thus gets bothered not 
 knowing what to be at, during the confusion produced. 
 The people’s men must try to gain over the doubtiug 
 soldier to the citizen’s cause, by rational appeals to the 
 soldier’s good sense and generous dispositions. To the 
 private soldier use soft words with your intermitting 
 hard blows, if needs be on every fitting opportunity. 
 The ignorant private soldier is only made the temporary 
 enemy of the peaceful citizen, through the cruel craft of 
 an atrocious aristocracy. The apparent strength of a 
 soldier regiment should not affright the fresh-wate citi-. 
 zen soldiers. The great superiority of the drilled. 
 soldiery is in fighting at adistance. Close, quickly and. 
 boldly and you stand man to man, the greater number 
 is then’sure of victory. When the ground is made uneven 
 by ditches or barricades, a thousand diciplined soldiers, 
 are not superior to a thousand undiciplined citizens. 
 Horsé-soldiers must always be boldly faced, charged 
 and beat back. To fly from horse-soldiers is miserable 
 we Pieces of cannon should be rushed upon at & 
 
 mart run and taken at all hazards. Do not be firedat 
 from a distance—By running swiftly forward on the foe; 
 men run very little risk of beiug shot. A common bottle 
 filled with gunpowder and bits of iron is a ready made 
 hand-grenade and fix a bit of touch-paper. . Tire out 
 the soldiers. Do not fight too aften. Let citizens be 
 
 cool and determined. ‘To fear is to be three parts van- 
 
 qitished. Fear causés hard breathing, thus’ exhausting 
 strength and making a giant as weak as a child.. Cour- 
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 you man seldom or never even. Set out to. take a.walk 
 without rigidly accomplishing the original purpose, de- 
 ¢ision, courage, thus insensibly becomes the mind’s 
 habit. Soldiers and sailors are Men more courageous 
 than citizens, being always compelled to finish what 48 
 once begun. ‘Take good care the horse-soldiers do not 
 break through your citizens lines and surround the fighte. 
 ing parties. If however the horse-soldiers do succeed, 
 in breaking your line in one quarter, thus and attempt 
 to attack you in front and in rear, be not afraid, But, 
 immediately form in a square or into a circle, facing 
 the enemy, three, four. or more deep with, pikes, exn 
 tending. = | 
 : THE BEST SWORD. 
 
 A short stout broad-bladed’ sword in the right hand, 
 with a blanket bound round the left arm for a shield, 
 is a cheap, safe, effective, defensive and offensive arm- 
 
 ine for a citizen’s immediate use, in urgent cases, the 
 arm is to be kept strait in fighting. 
 HEALTH. 
 
 Keep up, your health. Enfeebled soldiers or citizens, 
 are of Course easy victims, Eat not oftener than once 
 in seyen hours. Drink not between meals. A capital 
 ooling draught on a feverish day, is a glass of col 
 water, in which you have shaken a grain or two, of bruisec 
 gunpowder. If your feet are chafed or injured use can= 
 dle grease. ! Finally waris a dreadful scourge, and let 
 me earnestly council all good citizens to be kind and 
 mérciful when victorious. God forbid that the fatal day 
 should ever come in England, when the quiet citizen 
 shall be forced by unbearable tyranny to elect between, 
 ‘becoming a temporary soldier or an eternal slave. — 
 forbid that we ever be forced to seize the brazen warrior 
 Newcastle an infatuated insolent aristocrat who has 
 already appealed to force to support fraud. The whole 
 -question lies in a nut-shell. The robbed millions want 
 bread. Will the robbing units be for ever permitted to 
 insult the starving million, by the cruel offer ofa barren 
 stone, instead of the nourishing bread; that is the 
 
 great question. _. GEORGE, EDMONDS. 
 
 “EVERY MAN A VOTE, OO} games 
 
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 "Fhe Devils’ Own that Burked the Bill, May 7, 1822,” 
 * DUTCH DUKES,* clearance the reformer as was, 
 eumberland the reformer as is, glocester the-, hethe! 
 what a nation of Newtons governed by a family of 
 Solomons. Hush!or Old: Patriot will send for Old Nick 
 of Russia. Next, we have,’ ARCHBISHOPS, canter 
 -bury, york, armagh. DUKES not DUTCH, wellingtoa 
 rutland, bankrupt beegar buckingingham, newcastle, 
 
 dorset, n umberland, bofort, manchester. MARquisses 
 of tweedale, thomond, salsbury, bute cholmondly camden 
 bath brestol exeter abercorn. EARLS of shaftsbary 
 fnorton rosslyn limrick stradbroke gordon malmsbery 
 bradforo charleville buckleu mansfield carnarvon wiklow 
 falmouth harewood’ dartmouth londondery eldon digby 
 liverpool bochamp st germans westermorland. bathurst 
 Winchelsea delawar talbot selkirk harrowby beverly. 
 Maunt-eegecum verulum -ealedon plymouth abingdon 
 walgrave glengal powis lucan brownlow warik stamford. 
 fonsdale orford macclsfild home mellville elgin. graham 
 jersey aylesdurv tankerville VICOUNTS of Beresford 
 sidmouth arbuthnot Strathallan combermere maynard 
 gort sydney’ LORDS delousy. waterford feversham 
 redesdale LINLURST (glorious republican!) wynferd 
 ferrard ellenborough ribbaldsdale warnclliffe clanwilliam 
 stranford hadington dinevor skelmersdale roden. fambo 
 rough _balearras douglas aboyne boston washingam 
 shefield montague ravensworth de broke bayning harris 
 hexley lothian saultoun colville hopetown maryborough 
 de roos. gage dunstanville. rolle manners  dufferin 
 wallace grantham arden de rothsy carbery  monson 
 forester bagot grantly cowly shampton carteret kenyon 
 REPUBLICAN BISHOPS Jichfild rochester _salsbury 
 briatol bangor exeter glocester earlile oxford landeff 
 Worcester lincoln and finally ominous hame BISHOP 
 KILLMORE. Hurra! for the French Emigration of 93! 
 
 : * We do not use CAPITA LS in speaking of common or low or. 
 ‘eontemptidle things. JOHNSON, 
 
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