The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

Stae•-,Clbserving in your Journal of this day a report of an ap-
plication to Sir Itichard Ilirnie by Captain Cooke (erroneously
called Coke), relative to the publication of his Memoirs, I beg
Inlay that I am at a legato know what could have prompted him
to make such en unfounded statement, and hope you will allow
me the opportunity of giving a verrect account of the transaq-
tion, that the public may see Who la really the injured party.
The facts of the case are .as follow t.eAbout two years since Cap.
tato Cooke sent some papers, through the medium tif his frieud
Colonel Napier, to the editor of the United Service Journal fur
insertion in that work, and for which he was most liberally paid.
After a few of these papers had so appeared, Captain Cooke
called upon me, and proposed to complete his Mtwnoirs for sepa-
rate publication in a large volarne, at an agreed price, with
liberty to insert a finv more of the papers in the nailer! Seel/ler
Journal, which was accordingly done, When, however, to due
time, the pripting of the separate work had xeeded to some
extent, I found that Captain Cooke did not tend to bring his
Memoirs down to the termination of his military career, but 'to
stop short at a very interesting period; and to induce him tie
complete them, I consented, at his request, not only to make op
the sum of titit, for tire-,eopyright, which Captain Cooke has
tong sine, revolved,byte at his regatta, also to pay him a further
autoin the event of the publication of a second ettitiOn i and I
hold Captain Cooke's agreement accordingly; to complete bit
Memoirs forthwith, in two small.oetavo volumes.
It I. now shout twelve months since any Of the P 4 efs 4/4 imam* in the linked *rviee Journal, about which time tlle work
was sent to the press for separate publication ;, but will it be be:.
lieved, that although Captain Cooke has been paid for the papers
inserted in the Journal with his consent and approbation, and
has also received In addition '2Ol/. for his complete work, and has
et present no Anther possiWe claim upon me I have not been
able to obtain above a volume anti a half of 'the inanuacript P
tinder the plea of my having delayed thy publication of a work,
the entire manuscript of which I have never yet been able to
obtain, Captain Cooke demands the ilirther sum which would
he only payable in the event of .a second edition being Prinultt-
After baying thus stopped the publication of the work for the
last six months, by unjustly withholding froM me the rernalnelet
of the manuscript. Captain Coke called upon :me
when I took occasion to tell him I would be trilled wit!' oe
longer, and that I should inetruet my solicitor to proceed Against
biro tbri the.....!ft""Y *ennui, and the other torpertmi
when, .nata:.to of insulin hip his rmintisetvi for publication as
he is bound in hotiour Anil justice to do, he proceeded, it seems,
to Sir Richard Birnie and eenintaineit that tie is an 111-used
man I—. With many apelogiati for the length of this ocentnutties„
Ceti, I am, Sir, your very, witted and obedient servant.
t 3, :levy Burtillfltott-iteeit,lfov. 30. H. coLBURN.

ritVoll.sl IN ME SCOTCH ItEPRESEN

l'A'n VD StSTEM.

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The foliowing extract states the reply 61 the Lord Provost of
of Edinburgh to the requlsitiOn presente4 to MM total a meeting
to prepare a Petition for the ekfentrion of the eledire tranchlre,
and the resolution taken bY the' reip.4ll6tionists in Conilognlnce
(From the Caledottleitt lierestry.)
111shle ertent, Nov. 26, MO.
" Sm.-4 have this evening had the honotif to receive your
letter of this tlayts date) informing me that a Commlttet had bt,en
appointed to wait upon me tomorrow, to deliver a requisition
very numerously signed, to call a ittmettng of the inhabitants of
Edinburgh and its vicinity, for the purpok of preparing and sign.
tag a petition to Parliament for extending the eltrtive franchise
In the counties and burghs in Scotland ; and Rather intimating
to me that, tis Chief Magistrate, it was wished I should tall the
meeting and take tne or do one of those without the other,
as most agreeable to me.
" I have been at all times anitielts to meet the wishes of my
telliiw;citizens, but, as Government Is jACIIX4tI to (loan that is re.
einleife tru this it subject, I shall not at (,went interfere,
and, therefore; I must decline the honour of receiving Ott depth
tation.—l have the Wino* to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " W. ALLAN, Lord Provost.
" Cleghorn, Esq."
In consequence of the above letter, a thrseting will be held in
terms of the following reqpisition
° The at9to or Parliamentary Representation being tkilr brought
Under the Consideration of the house of Commons, we roiliest a
meeting of such of the Inhabitants of Edinburgh and its vicinity,
ifiore especially householders, as are of opinion that the Election
Jaw Seetland requires amendment; In the Assembly Rooms,
on Saturday the 4,11 of December, at one (Mock, for the purpose
of preparing anti signing a petition to Parliament lot extending
the elective franchise lit the counties and burghs of Sentland, it
being understood that the meeting is not called in order to disettss
any details, but merely to convey trl Parliament the opinion of
those favourable to the general principle CS extending the from.
Ai 40, "

signed by IIE2 of the most respectable citizens of Edinburgh,
headed by Mr. Jeffrey,

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

NORTH AM PTO N,

Wittumanottouon, NOV. 50.—A party of rioters having bEeh
captund in breakleg a thraridhpinachine at a village in the
neighbourhood of Oundle, were conithhtett from that place to
Northampton county gaol, in post.chaists Mitendod by con-
stables and about from twenty to thirty outriders, trttm Oundle
and Thrapstone ; they being desirous of increasing the Estort,
one or two of them injudiciously rode forward to this towh,
gave the alarm, and called n;thri the constables and inhabitants
to assist them, The shoemakers (shots being the manufacture
here) and other mechanics left their work tit wit a v the escort-
ing of the prisoners ; when abent the centre of the town, the
whole cavalcade were going at a most rapid rate, and on tinning
a very sharp corner the bat chaise upset, surrounded by At least
five hundred people; the principal part of the constables halted,
the prisoners, two in number, and one constable inside, were as-
sisted out without much injury ; the cry of rescue was imme-
diately given, stones picked elf the newly-repaired road flew in
all directions at the constables on horseback, their horses became
unmanagable, and In five minutes the two prisoners were taken
up a narrow lane, and got clear away. The prisoners in the first
chaise were forwarded to Northampton, and there safiely.lotiged
In gaol. During the afternoon and evening the town was in con.
fusion. About nine o'clock at night, the party who had rescued
the prisoners paraded the streets with an effigy of the Duke of
Wellington, which they burnt in the centre of the town, and
broke the windows of most of the respectable inhabitants, par.
ticularly those persons who joined In escorting the prisoners.—
This morning, about six o'clock, the inhabitants of this place
were alarmed by the cry of tire, when it wax ascertained to be at
a farm yard occupied by Mr. Dearlove, at Higham Park farm,
about seven miles from this town, on the Bedford road ; the
engines were forwarded from hence with all possible despatch,
but, notwithstanding, one corn stack and part of another were
consumed. There is nodoubt of the tire being the act of an in.
cendiary, but there is no reason to think it arose from the dis.
turbances which occurred here yesterday, It is to be regretted
that another hre broke out last night in a farmyard, in the
parish of Thrapatone ; but, happily, only ono straw rick was con-
sumed. The Magistrates of the Division have been sitting all
day at the Town-hall, and have sworn in upwards of three
hundred special constables.