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London, England, 1806-10-13 00:00:00

on will, the Priatism
t that city, consistirEs
ived orders to hold itself

ivies, of the 12tit ult. contain
attack made. upva a •
Apolitss soldiers, WI
strong positions with •
There is no wtecti n made

tide. oc of any ze.:on
s British aresty. though
tetligence down to
; being a day later
owed battle in which
a wounded.
do its the justice to admit,
minted sines by moth
ly slonderer. Having.
s coodeft, with respea
ion, to well merited contempt,
liged in oor own defence tt,
dirty business. oar •
that this Cobbett. better

a name seleBed by invite*, ,
elation and principles of a pm.
in pursuance of Heat • '
sin& by which fie neig
blic notice., plbliellmaitkii
e.., erenee
14 intention to offer.
Maple**. ireerki4rif
mit vecsocy. Rather
14iseClipeoetinc a
mlnelp9!fLee.rosafa hairy- prn.
Sillip"".-1-4“4114 demo isimdt:
*4*Fd of bis canny. We
Vaelset ironed; h had furn.r.i his
Mr* titre taken We MI 11:4•
f such yummy. there would be a
artti he deepen the law and
Candidate—epee the list, with mck
vsy, Si! itisinCii Burdett. or 111..
I,se warnli
~1440 &vire in New
er d4COat port of alts world. midi
awed ley the contempt and ri4;cule
acur in London.arhere the quackny
were weft' Chown. On the &Mk

person to represent the thy of
the place of diet great end di.
air. and the Eleftere, we►y masef

J the hoax. became anxious to least
or could extricate hirneelf, Irish ter

qpcy, *tram the situation itt wit:seats
sif ; for, as to Mr, Peter •Porritprtq
d as a Candidate% untesarthe teal
aa, who Wished to
juste a *Asa the reak•Cassiiettet
as sot a nisart;in.Weitrnifts\er who
my thing 'so monstrous amdirstrivs.
me Earl ;Perri declared
r. Denis O'Brf es declared firealt
dr. Sheridan also avowed his ions
t lists ; mirk; Meeting was called, 4
Westminster. at the Comm and Ane
and, on the leth of September, for
ta into consideration.--lio far,
I before the wind. and this conjuror
f, on the success of his cups and Sai's.
which attended the first sceaes of du
led to aggravate its ultimate I.l4afr,
le ludicrous difficulty is which cede
d himself involved. At thz /meth;
Mr. Sheridan declined, Mr. Dor
ied a contest for Westminster. Ther
led all opposition to Earl Petry, Mt
)ledgrallismselves to supra dal
an. Here then was the case whirls
tilted and deplored, the case .066 ha
11, to corre forward and prevent by
aadidate for Westminster. and aJt
stir
,anded to and fro like afarnily bor.;*.
ridau stood forward, had Sir FrAUCIS
forward, had any man of presensims
is against Lord Percy, asCokitte"ww
ed would be the case. Le w.,uld hare
consistency, and covered his 'Ls.
igning his pretensions to a forau;^
Tiut here poor Peter was left
—there was noshing to bresk his
trey, the subject of his weekly slander,
er the course, or Peter Porcupine
mow
nd, belie his professions. and riotata
What then is the course which :his
ate adopted to extricate himself he
r Why, he put an advertivrncrir ms
as, declining the honour intended biros
id that he Gird ass time to fulil (be
Member of Parliament......HAti
tide of truth, candour, or
Rat sod conduct, he would
ince declared. Mr. Sheridan
and therefore I am douh'
ward to save the city of W.,
ng a family Borough. Eye
which det:rmirted me or

ores myself to rtir notice, now operate in a tenfold 1
4-wee; it is an extreme case, and my disinterested
t enthusiastic leveed my conntry requires a sacra-
at my hands. Such would have been the lan-
guage and feeling of a consistent and true man
NEN e but a Cliatlatan, would have attempted to
eneak oat of the Lusiness by such a contemptible
excuse as tent of lime; none but a man who
ehought he was adttressing children or fools,
soul, nave hoped to save himself by such an
apology. 'Every man that ever heard the name
Cobbett knows that be is a hard-working
man, that. he edits a weekly compilation of
State Papers, and other articles, which he is
obliged to season with a pension skilled of original
Jangler of his own invention, to make it palatable
saleable; that this vocation consumes all his
time and labour; tlsat he.must work and stick to it,
as he lives by it ; that it is food and raiment to him
his family, and must be attended to, if he would
be insensible to the calls of nature. How, then,

!riving; offered himself a eandiduto to the Mei:tort
•f Wcaminster, dare he come forward and tail
them he had not time to do the daty of a Re-
~
presentative lor how comes it tbat he did not make
discovery untiLthe ISth. Sept. the day on
which, by the resignation of Mr Sheridan and Mr.
01,13ryeag he was left in the lurch Z Indignant at such
insult to the smerfroirse of the Puhlid, we took an

sally opportunity to print out the 'efilemma into
which poor Peter had brought himself. But Peter.
teltioneith Is has since. more thao once, re.prodnced
business of !he Wes:it:4l6w 8,1e8;on. postppnsa
Lis clef, nct, and it was notstinril 8 etirday it was
vetting from Lim, :in am.apuele aadressed to the
Pe:lifts, in. thefollowing *fortis:
o I at ca contras, that the anapest of ecjoying this sleight-
Sias," via that of a candidate upon the hustings, "would base
brae 'Arens ieseptation but when 1 tookan inspaciel view
ef yew sends@ y wits I saw you receive the speeds of Mr.
litehhei with emits fee the living, and *I lamentations for
fiko4lllld ; when 1 heard you resole, unanintotialy, that a
IWO 1, and a &ware plowmen tee, Vatthe propetett w-
het Whip year regessentalin ; whom I. bard you q•ictly asv
miniog to tire propm.itioe, the it eras lopernitie so end, in all
Illerwrid, m reermansel-re !quid In merit to tn. an who had
Soh you fur years without hang represented at allowed uho.dur.
leg his sit months of Wile., had acted in dim* °prescient. all .
do Gain ptlemplr en account of which you had repeatedly
strewn bias; and ituarrr; whom I bawd you tcceive the same el
Whithrted rialablusts of applause. awn after he bad la-en chief-

isteltellental iw depciong you of the chance of obtaining a
/41teletleathei agreeable to your professed whites; when I beerd
stdw all this, I Iteinated net to conclude, that the How was
area yet come for apemen like m to stand an a candidate for
Westminster ; I hesitated not, one natinimit, to conzludo„
am it riceind some years of discipline under the hands of
* lord and his steward y that it required events ouch as had not
lit came,* pawl diet it required winch yet horn experienee,
laraterert teaches of wisdom, to bring yea to that eloper
ef mind, without which nn representative could presibly main
pen any service; and I ant, upon still further redelion, eon-
, tits',the%v ntgocliulbytri ice
unlit
,thuruou4ge,h Intrigues
pise sal the e
patriotic
nd (nods
damp of such emnbsnatiom of place but en ; until to use any,
watch-word of party in guar presence woull be to endanger the
ante or ear* of the 0111.0 f ; until this be the cane, I a.n finally
emrstneed, that, to give you an op,Lertunity of asserting year
hedspeniesce, would be a waste of an /wee owes tits mid
eentddrie
We regnant the attention of the public to this
epilog!, for such a tissue of falsehood and mean-
ness never before was deliberately committed to
welting. The speech of Mr. Sheridan, at the
Crown and Anchor, and the conduct of the Meeting
tehich 'so &ignited Prier Porcupine, took place on
the Illth of September. The speech of Mr. Whit-
bread, am! the condud of the Meeting there-
on, the other cause which determined Prier not
CO enter the lists against Earl Percy, took
place on the 99d. at Willis's Rooms.—Now
the Advertisement of Cobbett. aliu Poor. Per.
ovine, declining the eontest, because he hod got tier,
ie dated the Hitli September, and must have
been sent, as every man acquainted with the internal
economy of • Newspaper must know, to the Paper
in which it appeared, on the 18th, before Mr. She.
titian made his speech on that day, or the Eledtors
of We:;nairirter had declared any opinion upon it ;
and, as to 111 r. Whitbread's speech, on the 113 d, it
surely could no: have been beard by Cobbett, or his
cpies, previous to the Itith. Such, however, are
the causes which, he new says, determined him to
cieelin• the honoar of representing tie city of
Weitminster. It is au ungrateful task to dissect a
rotten carcase. Here, then, we drop the subject
Ea the percent.

Their !loyal Highnesses the Prince of WALIS
and the Duke of Ct. eruct left town, yesterday
/corning. to ri;:.ume their tour in the North. 'They
rvere prevented frets attendir g the funeral of Mr.
Pox, it being contrary to coquette for a member of
the itnyal Family to attend a private funeral.
Our Letters from the coast conuin some imper-
r-1 accounts of die recent attempt to destroy the
11• in Ihrilogne. About fifty rocket•boats were
in on Wedite.day night, and succeeded in dis-
i.nsing hetween tour and five hundred 321 b. rock-
• • tbutila was seen on fire in several places,
many homes in the town were unintentionally
•troycd, but the event of the damage has net
aseertainrd. Tan firing from :hc French butte-
waa continued, till daylight on Thursday-

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