The National Register.
London, England, 1809-06-11 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JUNE 11.

oo7ht to suffer, and that hell its:ff, as painted by the most
fiery bigot would be too mild a punisl►ment for him."

Is it possible that this deprecation of a spirit of revenge
was written by the sanie being, who, according to his own
confession, falsely accused a fellow-creature (Mr. Swan-
'wick. of Philadclphia,) of a crime at which humanity and
nature revolt.

Who that has a character to lose, or a reputation that k
worth preserving, will send their opinions to be mangled,
garbled, and dished up for the public, by William Cobbeti,
the sui disant Pa:Nct PAL Literary Advocate of Parliament-
ary Reform. Head this my Lord Folks:one, aied if the
clrymels of modesty are not already awaked up, let the
ready blood mantle iu your cheeks, BLUSH, my Lord,
and feel, as you are, DEGRADED.
" You say a remark or two seems necessary here, in an-
swer to the insinuation, and indeed the open accusation
o,;ainst all those who stand prominently forward in the
cause of reform. It is t!iis that they wish for,. confu-
sion, for the annihilation cf property, and for uproar and
bloodshed."

Pe-mit me to transcribe a few of your own observations,
rhich certainly appear to justify the • insinuations, nay,
more, the open accusations to which you allude. At the
period of writing this paragraph, or those I shall quote,
you must have written piemeditated and• deliberate false-
hoods. Make the election yourself; these are the facts,
the conclusion is inevitable.

" Once more returned,' once more Linder the safeguard
of that Sovereign, who watched over me in my infancy,
and the want of whose protecting arm I have so long had
occas'ou to lament, I feel an' irresistible desire to commu-
bicate to my countrymen the fruit of my experience; to
ezew them the ityur!ocs and dig.radinT consequences of dis-
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content, di,loually, and innovation, to convince them, that
thry are the freest, as well as happiest, of the human race;
:end above all, to warn them against the arts of THOSE AM-
MITIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS DEHAGOGUES, who would willingly
reduce them to a level with the cheated slaves, in the bearing
of whose yoke I have had the mortification to share."
.4 Their stalking horse is REFOrtm but their real object is
the OVERTHROW OF TAE moNAncv v : a scramble for power
and riches : and this intention, should they succeed, they will
boast of, with as unblushing a front as Lauderdale's friend
Brissot and his ply-4., after they had- made the ,exciting of
the insurrection of the ,10th Qf August, one of the crimes
for which they put their Sovereign to death, boasted of
Having elicited the instureetion themselves ! This is one
of the blackest deeds in the annals of Republican France ;
but let the people of Great Britain be assured, that, in-
stead of abhorrence, it has served to awaken emulation
in the minds of the degraded and desperate faction, who
have still the hypocric.y to bellow
,frr REFORM.

" The people have been told that they are not represented
in the House of Commons, that, that assembly is no longer
what it used to be, and that until it be reformed, it is in vain
for them to hope for any good from that quarter. The
words reply sentation and elective franchise have done much
towards confu4ing the brain and corrupting the heart of his
Majesty's subjects : and though we have not the vanity
to suppose, that we possess the power of dissipating the
fatal delusion, it is our duty to contribute our mite in the
Mtenipt. ( To be continued. )
A MODERATE RSEORiIER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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