The National Register. — London, England, 1817-03-31 00:00:00

E3IIOR.4TIONS PRAORDINARY ! LORD COCIIRANP.'S EX Vi:tilTlON TO SOUfH AME RICA; A NO RKi , !q(3ll.7.ii,i DESERTING. His Lordship being, resolved to view, during a few months, the operations wing on in South America. has advertised fur a loan of 10,0301. and to dispose c,f a valuable property in Hampshire, to enable him to tarry his plan into execution. We understand that this Noble Lord had determined on this quixotic ex pedition some months ago. What rational object he am him in view, what essential service he can possibly render to the Spanish Patriots, either by his advice or his personal exertions, we cannot divine. But has his . Lordship "obtained leave of absence" from the "wor thy and independent" electors of Westin aster?—What if Sir Francis Burdett should be taken rick!—lf Hunt should break his neck at Pridport!--If the " veteran" Major should die! (God ibrbid!)—Cobbett "and his two sons" fled to America! The prospect is too gloomy to dwell upon!—No meeting for reform in Palace yard—No Spa.fields harrangues—No Poiiticol Re : . gtster—No mare parodies of the Creed, the Decalogue, sod the Paternoster—No Spenccan Philanthropists— No Loddites—No Blanketeers—The Stocks rising-- Trade reviving—and the "suns of corruption" trium phant—O! temp.! 0! mar.!—What will become of "Tee cone?" as poor dying Cushman called it. The poor may henceforth be fed with rich soup, and there will be no one left to call it poison—Ministers may retrench and the Prince be liberal, and there will be, none found to impugn their motives. Should all this take place, who will may "servo in Heaven," for there will he few left to "reign in Hell." It is whispered that other military politicians besides Lord Cochrane, and who have also made a figure in Courts of Law, are preparing to visit South America. Lord Coehrane, we understand, has raised the sum of 10,0001. and bought a fine vessel, nearly as large as a frigate, which he proposes to man with the best sailors he can procure, for his voyage to South America. I%IR. contirl"r s ENIIGR ITION. Cobbett has really fled to America, by the way of Liverpool, in consequence, it is believed, of his having incurred penalties to an enormous amount, by publish ing his Paper without a stamp, and of the Stamp Office having commenced proceedings against him for the re covery of them. It is also whispered that he is prosecut ed fur his Address in January to the Weaver Boys, in which he says, should Parliament pass laws for suspend ing liberty, rebellion must inflow. He must have known of this prosecution these six weeks. He has disappeared at the moment he might have been arrested under the Habeas Corpus Act ; at the moment it was expected a Revolution should be effected at Spa-fields by the Blau- krteers, &c. The grand Meeting at that place was fixed for Monday last. Mr. Cobbett, has caused the following letter to be puVisbed in most of the Papers, in some measure ex plaining ill: reasons fbr his flight to America. Some J 8 years ago, this cunning political weathei co_li was compelled in some sense, to quit the United Sates, on account of a fine levied upon him, of 5000 dollars, fur a libel. On his arrival in this country, 11:- direct, d the most virulent abuse against America and the American C'aracter generally. Na lanktoo-e was too coarse—no Calumnies too offensive—no epithets' too strong, for his pen. His very heart and soul seemed to burn with in dignation against the whole race of Yankees.—Even the land itself was hateful to him—Their laws, their man ners, their customs, their principles, their whole con duct were all described as tainted with villainy, and faiu:;ht with every thing mean, contemptible and base. —He could have served them as he once wished to serve Sir Francis Burdett :—he could " spit upon them —stamp upon thtm," &e. Sze. Let the tidlowing ex tract from the first Numb.m of his Porcupine serve as a specimen : . _ Notwithstandinz h example of America, and the more drea.lllll examph: of t: ranee, I fiti.l the emissaries or the Re im:Aran faction fi:r such it really is) still preachint: tana ticisin and ; still hawlin4 tor that chan..c which they have the an tacit to denominate ref proi; exe:•tinr, al! their nefurnms iticennity in sapping the foldidatitin of the Church and the who waist experience tlic consequences, may, for aught I know, be excused for e:ltariving at thrse attempts; ton ME, who have semi acts passed by a Repnblican le,os:ature, more frantlaileut than forgery or el/111111;Z ; FOR ME, who have seen Republican officers of - irate °tiering their country fur sale, for a few thousand dollars ; colt Kilo It IVC Seen Repithilean judges became felons, and felons become Republican Judges ; Fon Mk. 50 hold my Minds, and tamely listen to the insolent eulo• giA of tb.pithlican Governments and rulers, would he a shame fol abandontic. it of principle, a dastardly desertion of duty." - - - - Such were his opinions, such his language concerning Amer is a within these few years put. But what has latterly been his language respecting the very same people, the very same land, the very same laws, habits, customs, and principles? Finding that his conduct in Ewrland was such as to render it possible a second —re treat to the American continent might, at no distant prioa, be a convenience to him, he has, without conde seig to avow any reason fur his change of sentiment or language, latterly declared, that America was a very tine place, the people very wod, the laws very wise, the houses very fin?, the coaches and chariots very nu merous.; and that which he had betiwe described as a " h:11 upon ear.h," he has r•Tresented as little short of a second Parafim?, :tad the iniLibit is as scarcely infe rior, in point ofin.locence, purity, and virtue, to our first parents bethrc the Fall ! His flight, at this period, to use one of his favourite elegant figures of speech, has " let the cat out of the bag." His latt•.r eonduct concerning America is now amply illustrate,'. —Mr Cobbett is obedient to the di rections of Scripture, at, least in this point : he is careful " to make to himself friends of the Mammon of un righteousness," that when his conduct in one country haa rendered his rendered in it no longer comfortable and proitable, the inhabitants of another " may take him into their houses." Various causes have been assigned or conjectured for this his second emigration. The Morning Chronicle of this day, does not believe that it has li.:eu occasioned by any intimation from the Stamp Office, as suggested above : and we are partly of the same opinion. But what could induce any one to suppose that (great as its circulation has been) the bare stamp duty of 4d. on every sheet of the 2d. Register, would amount to the enormous sum of 80,0001. ? Sure ly 4,800,000, coppies of that work cannot have been issued within the space of the f:iw months that the nu- . stamped Register has been published. This is beyond all calculation and all truth ! We know not what ex actly what the penalties are in such cases, but the Pa per above referred to says, that if the Commissioners had pursued for the penalties instead of the duties, they would have amounted, on the number sold, to more than a million of money, instead of 80,0001. Besides, should this business of stamps have been the cause of his flight, what are we to say concerning the other " Registers"—the other two-penny weekly newspapers—which still remain unmolested ? Are they less liable to the Stamp Duty than Cobbett's " Pam phlets?" Most assuredly nut--Indeed some of them have much more the appearance and character of a Newspaper—they contain more articles of direct intel ligence—more news in the proper sense of the word, than Cobbett's Registers lime ever done. They great ly injure the circulation of the regular weekly Journals • in the publication of which an immense capital is em barked and very little profit, (after the reduction of 4d. for the stamp) obtained. On this subject a Paper of yesterday the following judicious observations. " We are not surprised at the Commissioners of the Stamp Office adopting thi.. measure, as it was notoi ions that Cob hetes twopenny pamphlet materially lessened the sale of weekly Newspapers, loy which tneans he injured the revenue, as well as the property of private individuals, to a very se rious extent. The readers of weekly Papers are generally those persons who do not take in a daily Paper, and it became a familiar observation with them, when applying for a Newspaper at the chance shops on a Sunday, to say " Let me have Cobbett's twopenny-worth of Polities; I shall not pay nine pence for a paper.'"l'llos it is evident Cobbett had three purposes to answer—his own profit, the injury of the revenue, and the propagation of his political principles, among the middling and lower orders of society." But we must suspend our remarks to afford room for Mr. Cobbett's farewell address : TO THE PUBLIC. Liverpool, Mach 26, 1817._ "My departure for America will surprise nobody but those who do not reflect. A full ansl explicit statement of my reaso..4 will ap ptxtr in a few dap, probably on the sth of April. In the mean while. I think it necessary to make known, that I have fully em powered a person of respectability to manage and settle all:my in England. I owe my countrymen most sincere regard, which I shall always entertain for them in a higher degree than toward.; any other people upon earth. I carry nothing from my country but my wife and children, and, surely, they arc my own, at any rate. I shall always love England better than any other country; I will never become a subject or citizen of any other state; but I and mine were not born under a Government having the absolute power to imprison us at its pleasure; and, if we can avoid it, we will neither live nor (lie under such an order of things. If I have not taken leave of numerous friends in London and in the country, it was because I should have been made unhappy by their importunities and the expressions of their sorrow. I make an enormous bacrifice of pro perty and of feeling; but when my heart feels the tugs of friendship, and of all the interesting objects in Iliunpshire, it i 3 reconciled to the loss, by the thought that I can enjoy them only during the ph a sure of a Secretary of State. When this order of things shall cease to exist, then I shall again see England. C orinETT. We may just add, that the reasons why no intima tion of Mr. Cobbett's departure appeared in his Register of Saturday lust, is to be found in the fact, that Satur day's Number was prepared a week in advance. We are to have one more—and then—What will become of the hawkers and pedlars, whom he swore to protect ?-- and where is the vengeance he vowed against the criers of last dying speeches, and the hdlad singers, provided he must not be allowed to peddle without a licence, — and print newspapers without a stamp? We suppose all these high matters are left in the hands of his friend limit, who lately took " the poor boy Dogma" into his holy keeping. But, really, Mr. Collett, it is hardly fair to leave your friends thus:—You should not have risen from the table before the cloth was removed.—But, we cry you mercy—that is the way with the polite world—and you hate politen;:ss, it 13 so aristocratical.—Finally : what, if Ctibbett's destination, after all, should not be for North HAY AND STY VW PEK I.OAII. .1: s. d. .0 s. d. Aver. £. I. d. 'Fray 3 0 0 a 0 o o— 4 11 0 Clover 3 0 0 a 0 15 0— '3 17 6 Straw 1 Ili 0 al ti 0— 2 f 0 /flay 50oa110 0— 5 10 n VirrirrEcriArtr. (lover 7 0 0a) 0 0 71 0 0 Straw 1 18 0n 2 8 0 2 3 ii i thy 4 4 0 a 5 15 0 4 19 6. SMITHFIELD i Clover 5 10 0 a 7 0 11 li 5 0 (Straw 1 It 41 a 2 5 0_ 2 0 6 Sr. JAIIT.i.S T!TT NITTONAT, ItEGisTErt. MARCH Ml. America, but for the Smith of that a twopenny- weekly pamphlet in Sp•iuish---though not in pure Uaxtilian—would make such " a nice pretty little book !" N. Lord! OFFICE OF °RONA NC F. 2511 March. ism THE Principal Officers 9f his Medcsly4 Ordnance do hereby gine notice, That Proposals rill he towered at their (Wr . as or Wire Wednesday, Me 9th day of April next, from sad, - Persons as may he wililnz to vndertake th e e ap:dy of FEATHERS for the ser - viee of this Departmenl, foe a the , years, determinable after Me expiration of the first year, upon arti e r thrce months. at the option of either party, Putt, ray the articles may be viewed upon application at the Priacipal Storekeeper's Office in the Tamer ; and to the regret': Offic,rs of he Ordnance ice the !Oyu! .4 rsrnal, Woolwich ; and fnr. Cher Particulars, too:ether with tlie Teams and Conditions of the Contrail, may he known at the Srecetory's Office in Pall-glad afwesaid, any day between the hours of ten and tbnr o'elork, where the propotais mutt be delivered, .scab l up, and indorsed . 4 Proposals for Feathers ;" but no proposal can be admitted niter the said 9th of it, at twelve o'clock at noon of the slow day ; neither will one, tender he noticed unless the party making it, or an agent in his behalff shell attend. By order of the Board. cRF:tr, g.errtary. orricE OF oIioNANcE, 2.4 m March, 1817. THE Principal Officers (4 . His Alifjes(tin Ordnance do hereby Kive Notier, that Pinpoints he reeilved at their Office. in full-. Mail, on or hepre Friday, the 11th of April nest, from Judi persons as may be se:lling to undertake. the Supply of STOVES, RANGES, fize. for service of this Department, for period If Three )"nos, ileterminabk a ft er the expiration of the "rat ymr, upon notice of three months, at tlie optioo of either party. Patterns of the Articles may be viewed upon apptiention et the Preivipal Stoteherpers Office in the Tower; and farther particulars, sagether with the ho r ns and ronditions of the Comb act, may he known at th , Secretary's Wire in Poll Mall suieretaid, any day between the homes of ten and Au, o'clock, where the proposals must be deli• vrrrd, sealed tip, and endorsed, " Proposals jiff Stoves, Ranges, size." led no proposal OW be admitted alter the said 1114 of April, at tar kr o'clock at noon of the same day ; ne i/her will any tender hr noticed unless ths party matting it, or an agent in his 66W, shall attend. .0/4 Order of tier Board. It. 11. CREW, Secretary. OFFICE OF 0110N.1.YrE.2.511e March. Ism TITE principal Wicers cell Majcety's Ordnance tie hereby Kim. metier. Oust Proposals will be received at their Office in Peel on or ktiere fredaaday tha 9th .'ay of April pert. from suet, Persons as may be willing to undertake the Supply of COP PERSMITHS' ARTICLES, for Servi-r ot this nepartrient.fier a pc, but of three years, determinable alter the expiration of the first year, iipvni notice of three months, at the option (neither party. Patterns of „Mieles may be viewed upon application at the Principal Storekeepers' ofl7rc in the Tower ; and farther particu. tars, t Nether with the terms and rcaditions of th e Contract, t 71231 be known at the Secretary's Wire i.e Pall-Mall ajiercsaid, any day be tween the hours of ten andtiour o'clock, where the proposals must be detirered, scald up, and endorsed " Proposals for Coppersmiths' Articles;" hot no proposal ran be admitted after fie said 911 i day of April, at twelve °Woe kat noon of the ranee day; neither wilt any tender he noticed, unless the party making it, or an agent in his be• hay shall attend. fly order of the Board. R. 11. CREW, &tertiary. LONDON MARKETS. (V3llll-EXCITANGZ. MARCII 31. We had some arrivals this morning with Wheat from Essex and Kent, and a considerable quantity of foreign Wheat during the week; consequently, fine samples sold at Monday's prices, hut or• dinary was dull, and from 2s. to 3s. per qr. lower. Batl(7 is dull, and from 2s. to 3s. per qr. cheaper. Malt is also dull. Boiling Peas are 2s. per qr. In Grey Pease and Beans no alteration. Oats are brisk at Friday's prices; Is. per qr. dearer than this day week. s. s. IVhrat 6O a 62 Fine ditto lO2 a 121? Itye 6 a 56 Fine Barley 34 a fin Malt. S. E. White Pease64 a 66 Grey Pease Si a 46 Beans 26 a 64 Ticks 16 a 42 Oats I. S. Poland Oats 20 a rt Potato ditto 42 a 51 Fine Flour .100 alO5 Second ditto 95 WA !tape Seed... 5411 a Sit PRICE OF DREAD. The hi;hest price of the best Wheaten Broad throughout the me trvolis, Is staml by the Bakers to be 17F1. the Quartcm Loaf.— Sonic Bakers sell the Quarteni Loaf from id. to 3d. lower. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN PER QUARTER, IN ENGLAND AND WALER, TOR THE WEEK ENDING lAN. Ye. Wheat • I Rye Harley Oats Henna Pease I I I I n 3 3 60 4 50 5 32 7 53 9 54 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR, Computed fmm the IZeturr s made in the week ending Mar. 26, is Otte . I Id. per cwt. exchisis eof the Duty of Cinitom paid or payable there on on Importation thereof iuto Great Britain—(Sutnniay's Gazette.) PRICK _ Smith.) s. d. s. d:' Beef 78a48 Mutton 3 10a 5 0 N'cal ...-0 0 a 0 0 Pork 4 0 a 6 0 lamb 3 8 a 5 0 IF MEAT, MoNmv:. Id. NI.; Ile,:ttrqf Cattle at Smit fleavto, about-- 2100 Sheep 16400 Calves Pigs 340 lAticu 31. gwle and Leurte.harl. Carcaye s. d. s. d. Beef2Ba4r) Muooo —3 0 a 4 9 Vcal a 3 4 Pork 4 0 a 4 8 Larnb 0 0 a 9 0 ('O.II. 31,111 K - - - - Ships at Market. Ships sold. a. d. 6. (1. DAY. M .111C11 213 57 . 1) Newcastle I 20 I frwn I32Cs 12 3 12 I Sunderland 4 0a37 9 PRICE 01 STOCKS DAY. 5 per Cent. Conzo 7llll Ditto for Account 5 ikr Cent. Navy 991 l OVii Ditto Bondi (5 per Cent.) 'l7 pm. Imtinos :—Printed and pnlitisfitvl by H. WI La s, at Ne. Wt. S HAND, oppot4e Exett:r 11,angt. ; and tinwartkd int'. the Country by all Nawaucti. Closk. of i'oc hoods, and 1100ka 41,44 sc.os of l'ol.tago. 104