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Pori As LONDON CAZRTTE, Novo?,lir 23. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR OFF)CF. Nrl l 7. 23. ift Regiment ofrragnou Goarde—Clptain Robert Evatt Ackbwo to be Major by purcbafe, vice Dalcombe, who rctirev. 7th Ditto--Aflillator Surgeon George Marne, from the 27th Foot t • be Alßitant Surgeon. loth Regiment of Li t he Dragoons—Cornet A. De Grammar's to be I.ieuteLant, without purthaft, vice Bouverie, promoted. 4th Regiment of Foot—lieutenant Henry Brercton to be Adju tant. vice Jenes, who reflgn, the Adjutantcy• sfh ."4-0.-I•ntly,m Rob, tt Pratt to be Lieutenant by purehafe, vice prmnotted in the 14th Foot • St' •• -.4nt Francis Campbell to he Captain of a cons psni.wridsout porchafe. 911 , . _L, Gent to be Fair'. withopt purehafe, vice fortie, fuperfeded quarter Matter Peter Sutton to he Adjutant, with the kank of nfism. vice Orchard, promote!. I I 111 Ditto—Sub Lieutenant Tholuai Beardmore., front the tit Resiment of Life Guards, to he Llemenant, by purehafe, vice Ct•ointiey, promoted in the 4th Wert India Regiment. vgth Ditto—Jeremiah Cowper. Geis. to be 'ntign, without par chafe, vice Pepper. promoted in the 27th Foot. e tit Ditto—Enfign George Tovey to be Litutenant,by purchafe, vise Rofs,promot ed in the 38th Foot. 9ittiy—Lyrae! Q2in,Geot to be S-eond Liewenant, without parchafe, tike Cre7gh, promoted in the 96th Foot. S4th Ditto—Captain Barry Drew. from the 45th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Mills, who exchanges; Morton Stoney, Gent. to b Enrico, by pi - chafe vice Erck,promo•ed. S3th Ditto Enfign James Thornhill to be Lieutenant, by pur • chafe, vice Rutherford, promoted. ,7th Ditto.—Enlign Odtavius Pepper, from the ash Foot, to he Lieutenant, without p:trchafe; Enlists William Tighe to be Lieutenant. vice D'Arecy, neceafed ; Faithful Fortefcue, Gent. to be Fnfign, without purehafe. vice Maguire, promoted ; Wil liam Hayes, Gent. to be Enfign, without purchafc, vice Kelly, promoted in the r4th Foot ; Donald Frafer, Gent. to be Qua ter•Maiter, vice M'L.an, appointed Adjutant ; Hofpital Mate William G. Wray to be Alfiltant-Surgeon, vice Olborne, ap pointed to the 7th Dragoon Guard.; Hofpital Mate W. It. White to be Affiftant Surgeon. 38th Lit tu--Fnfign John Welton, from the 28th root,to be I.ieu tenant, Without porthole; William Boggie,Gent. to be Enfign, without porthole vice Ellard, who reheat'. 31d Ditto—Hugh Harrifon, Gent. to be Enfigo, without porthole, vice Welton, promoted in the 7 Bth Foot. 37th Ditth---Enfign John Spread Fenton, from the 96th Foot, to he Enfign, without 'ordure. vice Hadley, promoted in the 38th Foot. 45th Ditto—Captain Oliver Mills, from the oath Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice B. Drew, who exchanges. 48th Ditto—Lieutenant Edward Parton to be Captain of a Com pany, without purrhafe, vice Skottowe, &r eared. Seth Dltto:—Enfign Richard Winter Gardner,from the 28th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without pi:rebate. 59th Ditto—Enfign Adam Meltis, to be Lieutenant, without purchafe, vice Arndt's:mg, appointed tc the eft Garrifon Batta lion ; E nfign David Graham to be Lieutenant, by purtbafe, vice Vcnwick, who retires ; Gcnige Porrldt, Gent. to be Enfign, vice 7:th Di tto—Enrign James Mackay to be Lieutenant, without pur ely:ft ; John N Fp:Ts, Gent. tei he Enfign, vice Mackay. 73t it Ditro—Enfign Daniel Stewart CO be Lieutenant, by purthaft, vice Fulton, who retires. s7th Ditto—Enfign William Boucher to be Lieutenant. by por ch ate, vice Gordon. promoted; Horpital Matelots') H. Radford to he Militant Surgeon. 118th btto.—Wilham Nickle, Gent to hetnfign, without purchafe, vice tjaedut r, promoted in the 54th Foot. Ditto--Q2arter Matter John A rmftrong to be Enfign, with out porthole, vie, Percy, fuperfeded ; gliarttr-Maller Serjeant Thomas Toln to be Quarter Matter, vice Arniltrong. 93t1 Ditto, -- Thornton, Gent. to be Fnfign, without purthate, vice Mackay, promoted in the 27th Foot. 95th Ditto—Hutpital Mate William Junes to be Alfiftaut Sur geon. BANKRUPTS. ;antes Tate, of Agaford, Kent, grocer, thopkeeper„ dealer and ehapman, to fu-tender November a 6, Dec. 3, and January 4. at ten, at Guildhall, London. Atrornies, Palmer, Tondiu- fons and Thomfun, Copthall-court, 'rhrogniorton-ttreet. Robert Prefton, of Liverpool, merchaot, and Henry Madden, late of Barbados, but now of flierpool, merchants (late partners in trade), Dec. 28, 30, and January 4, it eleven, at the haute of Mr. Henry Fotlhaw, in john-ftreet, Liverpool. Attomle, Mr. }dward Blackftock, Liverpool; or Mr. Thomas Blackftack, St. Mildred 4 t.cotart, Poultry, London. Thomas Howard and William Howard, of Mande:kr. fa'P'boi lers, dealers, chapthen. and copartners, Dec. t 6, 17, and January 4, at one, at the Hotel, I..ord.ftrea,l.iverpooL Attornies, Metfist , Cninam and Lodge, Litterpool ; or Mr. &nye, Chancery-lane. Thomas Howard, of Manchetter, foap-boiler, dealer and chap - man. (partner with William Howard, of the fame place, (oap boiler,) December t 6, 17, and January 4. at one, at the Hotel it Lord-ftreet, UV:spool Attornies, Meffrs. Crump and Lodge, Liverpool; or Mr. Battye, of Chancery-lane. Aletander Shepherd, of Neill., Yorkflure, flipwrigkt, painter, dealer and chapman, Dec. 9, at fir, Dec. to, and January 4, at eleven, at the George Inn, in Selby. Attornies. Mears Batters and Martin, Furnival's Inn. London ; at Mr. Fallen, Selby. Benjamin Rangdale, of Manningliam, parith of Bradford, York ihire. Dec. 3. 4, and January 4, at three, at the Bull's Head Inn, Bradford. Attornies, Mr. Outlet, of Bradford; or Mr. Evans, of Tkavies-ltin, Widen. Thomas Crandon. of Wigan, Laneathtre, innkeeper, Dec. 13, at four,De. 14, and January 4, at ten, at the Mtnorca inn,Wigan. t u tt e r i l i s etr iti, Mr. J. Brethertnn. Wigan; or Mr. Blaeleftock, St. 1-enirt, Poultry, London. Thomas Hadfield and William Hadfield, now or late of Wakefied, Yorkfhire, dealers, chapman, and partners, Dec. 18, 19, and January 4, at eleven, at the Stafford Arms, Wakefield. Attar- Aim Mr. James Lambert, Na. 39, Hatton Garden, London; of Mr. Carr, Wakefield. Edward Cue the younger, of the parith of Sedgley, Stalordthire. vidtualler, dealer and chapnian, Dee. y, to, and January 4, at four, at the Shakepear Tavern, in New•ftrect, Birmingham:- Attornieth. Mr. Spurrier, Birmingham; or Mr. Lgerton, Gray's Inn, London. George Kettle, of BlrMingliarrt, Wartvickthire, toy.mak et. dealer and chapman, Dee. :3, at four, Dec.l4, and January 4, at eleven, at the Sbakefpeare Tavern, Now.ftrret, Birmingham. Anomie, , Yvletfre. Tarrant and Mode, Chant. • •-lane, London ; or Meat,.. Wehh and Tindall, No. 3, Union- ftreet, Birmingham. Robert Calvert. of Gree Mary-La-Bonne.ftreet, bliddlefes, ladle and lvt.tefs-maker, Dec. 3, at twelve, Dec. so, at eleven, and January 4, at twelve. at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Bbudield, 'anaemic ftreet, Fleet-ftrect, London. Thomas Fahner, of Goodge.ftreet, parith of St. Pancras, Middle f.:x, taylor. haberdather, dealer and chapman, November 30, j Dec. 7, and January 4, at One, at GuildhalL Attorney, Mr. Pinery, Clrarles.ftreet. Thomas Rice, of High-ftreet, parifit of St. Mary, I.ansbelt, Sorry, carrier and leather cutter, Nov. 26, Dee. 3, and Jannary 4, at ten, at Guild Fall. Attorney, Mr. Gunning, CICTCOCA -then Wright, of Leadenhall Market. London, butcher, floe. 10,1 rrc. 21, and January 4, at twelve, at Guildhall. Atturn4y, Mr. J. L. Wilkin on, of White Idon.fireet, Norton Palpate. "l'illiarn Graves, late of /.10)-l's Coffee-honfe, London, merchant , d.7aler and ehapman, Nov. 30, Dee. 7. and January 4, at eleven, st Gniklhalt Attorney, Mr. Glen, Garlick HUI, Bovr.larie. thridopher Watfon Hekms, of Plymouth, Devonthire, linen- draper, dealer and chapman„ Dec. 6,7, and January 4, at 'learn, at the Both Tavern, Corn.ltrect„ Briftol. Attondes, Mr. lan Cooke, natal; or Mr. James, No. 12, Gray's Ino‘fquare, London. William Diekenfon, Thomas Goodall, Michael Goodall, and Wit ham Dkkenfon the younger, of Birmingham, Warwietihire, bankers, dealers. chapman and partner.. Dec. 6, 17, and Jantarg 4, at eleven, at Styles's Hotel, in Temple-row, Birmingham.... Attoruiet, Meffrs. Devon and Tooke, No. t o, Gray's Inn-Apure, London ; or Marrs. Barker and Unett, or Mr. Whateley, in Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. lon. 26. John Coleman, late of Fetter-lane, London, painter and glazier, at ten, at Guildhall. Dec. s. Hugh Evans, of Stanmore, Middlefez, fhopiteeper, dealer and chapman, at one, at Guildhall. ;tee. 7. Thomas Speed, htc of Cannon-Rreet, London, druggift, dealer and anima*, at one, at Guildhall. 3. Thomas Gooddy, of Sheffield, liorkfhire, grocer, at ten, at Guildhall, Linidnn. Dee. ¢ Chriftopher Atken. of KentlaoVcltinorland, merchant, at Yee, at the WLite Hart Inn, Kendal. : . LAP/ INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. 23. - /VAAL OF MI. JUSTICE JI)HNSON AT EAR. This day the long expeeted trial of the Honour a;)l Jude, came on before A Special Jury of Free h ers Of the County of Middiefex ' when the follow ing gentlemen appeated, and were [worn : Thomas Barnes, Efq. David Badham, Efq. Robert Helm; Efq. William Finch, Efq. Jr. Stellis. F fq. Richard Weitz% Efq. William Rohertfon, Efq. James Waldo., Efq. Wallin. F fq. James Douglas, Efq. Samuel Haines, Efq. John Brown, Efq. Mr. linear opened the cafe on the part of the pro fecution, and in the courfe of his fpeech read the prin. cipal counts in the indiament, which charged that the Honourable Robert Johnfon, one of the Judges trf the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, wickedly con:riving to bring his Majelly's Government in Ire land into contempt and diire?ute, and to caufe it to he believed by all his Majelly's fubjeCts, that Lord Hardwicke was an unfit perfon to govern that part of the United Kingdom ;—that the Lord Chancellor Redefdale was corrupt in the adminiliration of Lis offico;—that Mr. Jullice Ofborne, one of the Judges in the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, was ready to countenance and AM in every aCt of injultice on the part of the Irifh Government ;—and that Mr. Mal filen, the Under Secretary of State, was a perfon equally venal ; did publilb, or procure to be pub. lifhed, in a certain periodical paper, entitled " Weekly Regyler," a libel, under the fignature of Jo verna, with the general tenor of which our readers are already pretty fully acquainted. Referring to the wooden honk received by the Trojans into their City, which over topped their houfes, and whilfi it appeared to them completely innnxious, contained in it fo deadly a mifchief, the publication in quetlion proceeds to inform its readers, that this Rory of the Roman Poet was altogether metaphorical, and only meant to caution fucceeding generations, againft the employment of wooden heads in the management of the concerns of nations. It then goes on to compare the head of Lord Hardwicke to the wooden bode, which it reprefents, though not entirely compofed of wood, to contain many of the ligneous particles by which the Trojan Horfe was dittinguillred. It ad. mits the amiable qualities in private life, by which the Noble Lord was dittinguifhed, and the harmlefs and inoffensive tenor of his conduit, but lays it down that, becaufe a Government is in the hands of harm. lefs men, it is not, therefore, a harmlefs Government. This conduit in private life. the publication goes on to Rate, the author would have believed the only qua lity which the Noble Lordpoffelfed,hadhe notacciden tally learned from a Scotch Gentleman of the name of Lindfay, that he was one of the bell breeders of fheep in Cambridgefbire ; and this the libel holds out as his only requifite for conduaing the affairs of Ireland. With him, it affumes, that there were joined a float-built Chancery Pleader, by which ap. pellation Lord Redefdale, the Chancellor of Ireland, is dininguilhed, and a Clerk in an office, (Mr. Mad den) as his only advifers and coadjutors in the ma nagement of Ira& affairs. It then proceeds to draw an invidious comparifon as to what would have been the conduit of Lord Kenyon, had he been Chancel lor of Ireland, and that which Lord Redefdale had obferved. It hates, that Loid Kenyon, it was aid. was fond of money. If fo, it was his own money of which he was fond. That his innate feeling of ho nour and jullice would never have allowed him to think of transferring the fees of the Secretary to the Matter of the Rolls into the pocket of his own Score . tarp, for the purpofe of fupporting an unknown P en finny; and goes on to enumerate an immense num ber of faits of which Lord Kenyon would not have I b e en guilty, of which, by inuendo, it accufes Lord Redefdale. Mr. juftice Ofborne and Mr. Also-Wen are alto accufed of ails of venality and corruption, and i of a participation in all the peculatious of the Irilh Government. The ATTORNEY GENLRAL followed on the fame fide. He felt himfelf, he laid, in a nova and moil unpleafant fituation. He had to accti!e a judge of the land—a Judge of Ireland now made part of thefe kingdoms—with a crime which would be a difgrace to any man—to any perlnn who claimed the charac ter of a Gentleman. When, however, fuels a charge I was to be imputed to a Judge—to a perfon vedant in the Laws of iris Country, and, from his office, called on to difpenle thole Laws to others, it mull be doubly aggravated. The libel in quellion was one of the' groffell kind, and which would difgrace any man; how much more grofs and unbecoming mutt it not be etleemed, that the Government of a country fhould be traduced and vilified by one of the Judges of the' land. He paid the highett compliments to the dia. railer of Lord Hardwicke and the Lord Chancellor Redefdale, both! of whom he defcribed to bs as fu-' parlor to his eulogy as they were to the malice of the Defendant. Of the publication itfelf, he thought it nnneceffary to argue its libellous tendency : It was fo obvious, that be was perfuaded his Learned Friend who had the defence of the Learned Judge would not attempt to justify it. The only queltion then would be, whether it bad been pablillied by the defendant ? This would be proved by the evidence of the manufcript itlelf, which had been given by Mr. Cobbett upon his conviction as the publilher. The moment the original writing was in the hands of the Officers of the Clown, they let about endeavouring to difcover whole it was, and it had been afcertaiked by the uniform and pofitive opinion of four Gentle men, that. the (Lyle and charafter of it was that of the Defendant. One of thcfe perfons, Mr. Waller, was the Solicitor t) a Board of Revenue in Ireland, at which the Defendant, Mr. Jolinfon, had for many years ailed as the Alfiftant Barrifler in this capa city, he of cootie became intimately acquainted with his hand-writing, continually being in the habit of feeing his written opinions, as well as his notes and letters, which, as a Member of the bah Parliament, he franked. The other witaelles, three in number, were, from their official fituations, equally able to fpeak with certainty of the fad. If this was made out, the province of the jory would be at an end, as they would have no alternative but that of finding fuch a verdiit as would transfer to the Court the power of punifhing the libel as it juftly merited.— He felt concerned to underftand that an attempt woold be made, and he was convinced the Learned Council on the other fide would feel pain in making it, to evade the culiskiwtiaticia which this libel atufl flro , 44 'naturally carry gong with it, by alledging that there was no proof of the publishing of the libel in the county of Middlefer. This attempt, hoverer, if it were made, Should not avail the Defendant, as he was in a condition to prove the publifhing by a deli very of the letters containing the libel to Mr. Cobbett, with a requeft to him to publith them, in the county of Middlefer. The Sal witnefs called on the part of the Crown, was Mr. White, Solicitor to the Treafury, who only proved, that he received the manufcriptefrom which the libel was printed, from Mr. Cobbett. Mr. Cobbett was then called, and examined by Mr. ERSIKINB.—(The manufcripts were put into the witnefs's hand.) Will you look at thole papers ; have you teen them before r —A.. " I have." Q z _4 , When did you firft fee them, and how did you come by them ? Were they fent to you ?"—A. " There are different dates to them. I received one of them after the other." Q. , From whence uid ynu receive them ?"--" T re ceived them from Budd, the bookfeller, in Pall-mall, whore Ow I make my office, and where my letters are received." Q z _ " In what fllrm ; in the fm•nt of a letter ?" A. .• There were two o f them came in covers, di• rested to Budd." What is become of the covers ?"—A. I don't know ; I titivate immedi.trely thrown into the fire ; hut this I recoiled, that they had the bah port mark." Q...." Have ycu any doubt but that they were de ftroyed r-A. "I have no doubt hut that they were." Mr. ADAM (interpoling) " Are you certain that thefe particular covers were deftroyed r —A. "I can not fwear they were." Mr. Easausit—" Have you any doubt ?"—A. " I have none." " Having Paid you have nn doubt they were de. roycd, I may afk you what was the mark ?"-A. It had the Irifh pgll-mark upon it." Q s: " What was the addrefs ?— A." To Mr. Budd, fo. too, Pall•mall." hudd's was the place where you received it?" —A. " In the firtt place I received a letter in the fame hand writing, atking if it would be agreeable to me to publith"—(interrupted). Q t. " What became of the letter?"—A. '‘ It was deltroyed." " Have you any doubt ?"—A. " None." (I t, " Will you be fo good as to Hate, whit was contain/din theletter ?"—A. " I received rletter, en. quiring if it would be agreeable to me to receive from Ireland certain ofeful and true information refped ing public affairs in that country." Mr. ADAM—" My Lord, he is now fpeaking of the contents of a paper wholly unconneded with this profecution." Lord ELLIINIOILOUGH" He fays the paper was deltroyed." Mr. Junk!: Le BLANC — " It does not at preteht affett the Defendant." _ _ Mr. Abell—" if this be not fired on the Defen dant, it will go all for nothing." Q .; by Mr. EISKIMI..—" In the fame hand•writing, you lay ?"—A. 44 Yes, and I was (faired, if it were agreeable, to mention where I would have them di reaed to ? and in confequence, in the next number of the Regiller, I told him to fend them to Budd's, at No. too, Pall Mall." Did you receive both thofe which you have in your hand ?"_A. 4 ' I received both of them.— That dated the 29th of 04Iober fiat. They were dire:led to Budd." 'rhey were pnblifhed in the Regißer ? What date does the fecond bear ?"—" The 28th of No• vemher." 0 " Your houfe and Budd's are both in Middle fcx " They are, Budd's in Pall Mall f mine in Duke-Itrect, Weilmintter."_ _ Croft-examined by Mr. ADAM. you4l You do not live at No. too, Pall-mall, do '"—A. " No, I live at No. Is, Duke-ftreet, Weilminller." _ _ Q._ a Did you live there at the time of the publi cation ?"—A. a I did." _ Q .: _" Did you receive them at your honfe ?" A. " No, they firlt came to No. too, Pall-mall,ad dreffed to Budd." . . " Were they opened when you received them ?"—A. " The &It was opened ; but after the receipt of the firfl, I rowelled him not to open them, and confequently the next was fealed." Q._ " Who fent them to you ?—A. " Budd." („?." Whom were they fent by ?"—A. " I don't know." O" Were the covers defiroyed "-A. " I think they were." (I L " Have you ever fearched Int them fince ?" A. " I have never looked particularly for them.ex cept looking in the drawer where manufcripts are Milani , kept." What was ufnally done with the covers!of let. tersr—A. They were generally thrown into the fire." " Have yon made any recent fearch e—A. •• No, I have not." Mr. &setae to the wands. Is this your Weekly Regifter ?"—A. u It is." Mr. Richard Waller was then called, and elm mined by Mr. GARROW. He Paid, be was Solici tor to the Cothroiffioners of the Cuftorns in Ireland, which fituation he had filled for twenty-three years ; during that time Mr. Robert Johnfon was Counfel to the Board. In the fpace of ten years, in which that Gentleman was confulted by him, he had daily opportunities of feeing him write, and of receiving opinions in his hand. The body of the paper (the letter of the 29th ()Sober, being given to the wit nefs) was in the hand writing of Mr. Janice John fon ; but there were a few words which were not in his writing. The paper dated the 284 November being then handed to bim, he laid, thane had ex amined them three times before, and bad put his name to each (beet. Oo his crofs-examination by Mr. PARKS, he Paid, that fince Mr. Jullice Johnfon had become a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in idiot, all con nesion had ceafed, and he had fince then only per haps ken his fignature occafionally to affidavits. The letters were written more clearly and (mailer than the Defendant's ufual hand. The Counfel on the part of the profecution then produced Mr. Charles Ornifby, Mr. Jofhua Nunn, and Mr. jam Edwards, farther to eftablifla the band- ,-e'!:' , writing or the Defendant to the manufcripts, and then called Mr. Charles Crowe to prove that the dif 'ingninted perfonages alluded to in the libel, held the fituations flared upon the record. O Whom does the Cambridgelbire Earl allude to ?—A. To my Lord Hardwicke. Q z ... And to whom the Chancery Pleader ?—A. To Lord Retlefdale. Q. Whom do you underhand by Mr. Marfden ? A. Fir. Alexander Madden, my Lord Hardwieke's Secretary. The ATTORNEY GENERAL—" If your Lordffiip pleafes, we now propofe to read the libel." Mr. ADAM ohjeCted to this proceeding. He raid, , hat in a cafe of this very great importance—of im portance to the dittribution of public jullice, and of infinite confequence to the individual, he hoped he lhould receive the kind attention of the Court ;--ind notwithflanding what the Attorney General had laid, he confidered it his duty to his client to avail hinafet. of every objeftion, and he hoped that k would be nn prejudice in the mind of the Court to the Defendan , he made this no part of hii cafe, for he was roma.. ed with evidence direelly to fubvert that which w:s propnfed on the part of the profecution. In this case there was no publication of Mr. Plaice Johnfon's in the county of Middlefex, and therefore the venue was incorrally laid. There was no conneiting link in the evidence which could convince the minds of the Court that the mannfoipts were fent by the defire of the Defendant, to be publiffied in Middlefex. This was exactly the objection which was made in the cafe of the feven hilltops reported in the hate trials, page 403. It was an indillment for the publication of a libel in the county of Middlefex : the libel was a pe ti, ion which was prefented to the King by the Arch hilltop of Canterbury, the Whop of St. Afaph, and five other prelates of Great Britain. At the trial before the Council, there was no evidence produced of the publication by the Biffinps, by the prefentation to his Majefty ; and until Lord Sunderland was called in to prove fuch publication by the delivery, the cafe was incomplete. Nos comfier that the De fendant on the prefent occafion had written the pa per with a view to publication, and there was no evi dence that charged him %with the tranfmiffion to England. Mr. PARK, Mr. LOCKHART, and Mr. RICHAID• sots, followed on the fame tide. The whole Court, however, confidered that there was prima facie evidence to go to the Jury, that the libel was publithed in the county of Middlefex by the tranfmillion of the Defendant, and therefore Mr. Adam's objection was over-ruled, and the libellous paffages were, by the direftion of their Lordlhips, read by the officer. The firft letter, dated the 29th October, was en titled o Affairs of Ireland" introduced into Mr. Cob hetes Weekly Political Regifter of the sth of Novem ber, 1803, page 610, which thus command : . - " sir—Egu• we credits, Tevcri, was the advice will, In a dim serous moment, Laocooo gave to the Trojans. it will be remem bered, that the ern:, againit which that fagseithe skier mo tioned his countrymen. was a wooden OEM Ifs asanwymes dld nut regard Laoconn ; they received the wooden regnilantadth Of Wifdom ; they approached it, as it it padre& Ind power. Its wooden bead towered shove their bodes ; the machine Breit was of humbles wood, the en:dales found its hollow head. and exalted nothing lets thea T Z: tubes for greedy peculators and blood-thirfty titans. The bee* nious author of the Rory did not mesa to canine the lean wbieb it ineuketes, to the tale of Troy algae. He meant to take ad vantage of the eafy metaphorical exprefika, whitely by the caw mon afi nt of mankind. bad nestled Well into molt bagasse% and by Which a certain fpeciet of heeds (which the moderns have afertained to be a non-condudor of ideas), has been denoatinsted a :rodeos lead. He meant to caution future nations not to put trult or confidence in the apparent innocence of any fads wooden initrument ; and not to fuller thetas:lves to be led to exalt it into eonfequence, or to pay it any refpea. He meant to tell them, that any people who fubmitted to be govaned by a wooden bead, would not find their feeurlty in its fuppofed innostioutnefts and Its bollon nets would loon be occupied by initrumaits of mifeblef.--. When I found, Sir. this part of the kingdom overwhelmed by fuela confequences to our property, as the rapacity of Mr. Madden and big friends, and Web confequences to our lives, as the pikes of Mr. Fmmet and his friends have lately produced ; when I could trace all clock evils as the inevitable int from the head and body of fuck a government as that et Lord Hardwicke.and I am told elks fano:Statues and his armnefs, I Rill reply the fiery of the wooden hock, and I ihall Ern, notwithitanding the fate of Laocooo, mite m voice to my ecentrymen, and cry, • Bfre we crolste,Temeri.... Not, Sir, that I would be onderftood literally. Id* not mean to affert the head of my Lord Hardwicke is abfolately built of tim ber. My application, like that of the original author of the talc, is only metaphorical; yet, at the fame titre.,l cannot avoid fufpec• ting, that lithe head of his Excellency were fubmitted to the ana lyfis of any fuels inveftigator of nature as Lavollier, it would be found to contain a fuperabundatat portion of particles of a very ligneous tendency. This, Sir, is the Lord Hardwieke of Mr. A& againit whole Government • not a murmur or complaint has Deco heard.' While our pet petty has been fubjtht to the plunder of his Clerks, and our palms have been impeded to the pikes of the rebels; Rill, however, the innocence of Lord Hard wicke, as to any intentional raifchief, is held forth. lot, I reply in the words of Mr. Burke, ° they who truly mean well, mei be fearful of acing ill. Delufive good intention is oo exude foe prcrumption." And I may add, in my own wads; that the go vernment of a harmlefs man is not therefore a hamlets govern ment. Enquiry and tele:web are the duty and reburies at the ir manta, and therefore I did enquire. The refok of no Mall at tention bellowed in this math, was, that I difoovered of oat Viceroy, that he was in rank an Earl ; In manners, a gentleman ; in morals, a good father and kind hatband ; and that be had a good library in St. Janteet•iquare. Here I amid have been foe ever flopped, If i bad not by accident met with ore Mr. Lindfay, a Scots parfon. Once become (and I am fore it mutt be by Diem PROVIDE tic: ' far it would be impoilible to account for tt by fe condary auks) Billoop of Kilian, in Ireland. From this Mr. Lindiay I further learnt, that my Lord Hadvrlcke was celebrated for underianding the modern method of fattening amp as well as any man in Cambridgethire." The nest libelous pottage is contained in the fame letter with which it concludes. “ While I have been wetting. a map of the Weft ladles bar penal to hang before me. My eye wandered, I know not why, upon it, and !bed upon one of chafe little Elands which have bees lately. by the grid& troops, redeemed from the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis at Amiens. Give me leave to fuppole. that ha the covert of a few years, one of Ode little Wands Should become highly cultivated, and ebar a eanaderable portion of &kith pro perty became veiled in its land, and in its trade. Sapp*, that by bare unfortunate combination al events, this little Wand boold be =itak by infurredioa within, and boob be loudly me byen 'maim from without. Suppofe a powerful fleet of the anantles of the Britt& name by to windward, filled with troops Oar boding, while a delicate band of nifllans were fecretly arm ing in its bofom,rsady to aid that landing of a foreign enemy. Sup per% In this dither* a Committee of Weil India Proprietors, whofe money had be en v. Red in this little Wand, flaccid apply to He Dr. Addington for affiance. Su be were to rife up, and es define them to quiet their ap for got &kit istrailed Abs owe of their fleeted to a 11ery mews, farartlivehr from Gindritr. oh, tow t. fen 4941 of di kis rooffek I , a very able earprear kilt amour, Nark iron Lioroki hoe. Give me kave to ak yen, Sir, who know the City much bate than I can pretend to do, what would a Sugar Committee, truing from of their Coffee houfes, fay to itch an enterer f the walls of St. Stephen's, would be made to ring Sit. to this fituation dueed ; on the ftrensn only its own fakty ; 1 Committee, Ming from one of their Coffee- enterer from a Britlib Minifter Why, Mr, ohm's, and the chambers In Downing-dm-et, log with their vociferous reproaches. And yet, is that portion of the United Kingdom re- gal and vigour of which, at this moment, not but, as Stare in my former fetter (toted. the Enna over. •