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should not be committed : but that did not suit the object "of
this prosecution ; he (Mr. Cobbett) would however read other
parts, and the Jury:would decide after reading the whole whether
he ever had a desire to instigate people to set fire to buildings, or
He then went on, and contrasted the case of Cooke, who was
executed for striking Bingham Baring, with that of Goodman,
who was sent out of the country only, at man who himself had
acknowledged to Aye different cases of alsoh • and he said that
had it nit been for the prosecution against him, Goodman
Would never have been pardoned. So that the brightest and the
highest attribute of his Majesty was prostituted to crush one of
his most faithful subjects.
Here there was a good deal of applause in the Court, when
Lord TENTERDEN said, if it again occurred, he would order
the Court to lie Cleared;
He adverttd,te the bac of Cooke again, and said that the At-
terneYstlederal should look for higher game than he was. For
a more atrocious libel than the one he was about to read had
never been ultered; it was !Token in the House of Commons,
and wasattributed in the public Papeks to the Learned Gentle-
man hirmillf. lie then read what he called the libel, which
stated that he (Cook) was, and had been, a long time at'
work for 15s. a week. Mr. Cobbett said he had evidente
which would he brought before them soon to sheik- that he
was a mere plough-boy, and had been for a long time out of
work. He then described the funeral, and the feeling,: of the
population in that part of the county oil the appearance of the
libel in qiteitioh, and he stated that they had subscribed a penpy
, each to see and get it taken out of the papers. He said thht
he was convinced, an before long he would convince the
Jury, that the whole of the three pretended confessions
of Goodman were mere fabrications, made first by the
hunting curate of Crowhurst, who was no doubt looking
out for a Bishopric • then by the three Magistrates at Horsham,
instigated by the Liberal Whig Government, for the purpose of
crushing that which they had always in their mouths, but hated
in their hearts—a free Press. It was stated, and circulated pretty
generally, that he had run away ; from whom, said Mr. C. should
I run away ?—from the Greys, the Broughams, the Lambs,
or any of that crew. No, it would take much more than them
' all put together to frighten him. He then produced a declara-
tion signed by one hundiail and four persons, among which
' nature was the name of the very prosecutor of Goodman, audit
, stated that they had all attended his lecture, that they had seen
' the pretended confession of Goodman, and that, unsolicited by
him,theysent up thisdeclaration tosay that what he deliveredhad,
in their opinion, a contrary tendency to the con struction attempted
to be now put on his words. He said he had proof that Good-
man was not at his lecture, and what was stronger than all, he pro-
duced a genuine letter, written by Goodman to his brother
while on board the transport, which, compared with these pre-
, tended confessions, bears no resemblance whatever. He went
over the points of difference, and said that Providence in most
cases overcame cunning—and in the letter there was not a word
about his lecture, not vet of the curate of Crowhurst; Nit
so very different was it, that he ascribed his then situation as the
fruits of his own bad conduct, and conjured his brother to take
warning and avoid such company as he had kept. In speaking
of the indictment, he got very warm on the way in which he
had been degraded by being sent before the Grand Jury at the
Old Bailey amongst thieves, but it was part of the system
pursued, for then people would say, ob, he is found guilty thesame
as Carlile, and he must he as bad. The Attorney-General had
taken credit to himself for not proceeding by ex officio thereby
sneering at Sir James Scarlett, hut Sir James's conduct was
manly and upright, he did not sty right, while the present pro-
ceeding by indictment was, as was to be expected from the pre-
sent Government, a sneaking Whig-like trick.=-CHere Earl Grey
and Lord Durham entered the Court and sat on tho Bench.)_
Mr. Cobbett then complained of the garbled manner in whersh
the passages were inserted in the indictment ; he was aware that
such conduct did not proceed from the wig on the head of the
learned Attorney-General, but from the Whig in his heart.
to commit any other outrages. It could only be attributed
to the low chicanery of the Whigs, in imputing such disgrace-
ful motives to him for writing his Register ' • he was satis-
fied the result of this trial, however, would do good ; it had
already done good, for this immerse auditory now in Court had
heard his declarations and opinions upon these outrages. Why
did the Attorney-General leave out other passages ? Why, but
to distort and garble his meaning. Why did the Attorney-
General put in the indictmeat the paragraph condemn-
ing the tithe system, but because it was intended to attack
the tithes themselves ; the Archbishop of Canterbury had brought
in a Bill for the composition of tithes, and a Noble Lord had
brought in another for the commutation of tithes; indeed, he
had been told that the Liturgy was to !mattered. Mr. Cobbett
next adverted to a petition, which he had caused to be presented
to Parliament, and which, as it was included in the pamphlet,
the Jury would be enabled to read, and then they would judge
whether he ever had such an intention as it was intended to fix
upon him. This petition was soliciting for some amelioration of
the distress which prevailed among the labouring classes, a class
than whom there was none more cruelly used. Look at their
distresses, at their want of labour, at their low wages, and then,
he asked, could it be a matter of wonder that they committed
outrages, goaded to them by great and overwhelming distress'?
He said it could not be wondered at, and he contended that
even when convicted, the punishments should he leniently
dealt out. At Binfield, in Sussex, a man had been
transported under the Excise laws, leaving hehind him his wife
and two daughters, who could not get employment because of the
disgrace of the father, and they were obliged to go into the work-
house ; there was one of the overseers—a Sturges Bourne over-
seer—whose first act was to cut off the long hair from the heads
of these poor young creatures, then put on them a disgraceful
dress—a badge on their shoulders and then compelled them to go to
the parish church on Sunday in that dress, or turn out to be
thieves or prostitutes ; could the Jury wonder at persons com-
mitting crime in preference to enduring that disgrace ? Mr. C.
went into a view of the poor laws, which was scandalously ad-
ministered by the appointment of improper overseers. For his
part he would sooner leave his country for ever, than live in it
with his tongue silent; he would speak out, aye, even in pre-
sence of the Greys, the Russells, and the Lambs. He next
adverted to the Scriptures, and read some verses from Isaiah and
applied them to the misrule of the present Ministry. WhoSe
property was it that was destroyed by the outrages ? Why the
farmers, and he asked, was it likely that he should incite them to
destroy the property of the farmers when he stated in his publi-
cation, that it was not owing to the farmers that the labourers
could not get work and good wages ; he told them that the die_
tress was caused by the tax-gatherer, who took from the farmer
that which ought to go to the labourer. To show his intentions,
he had in the same Register the circular of Lord Melbourne,
which contained the only kind words ever used towards the
labourers by the Whig Ministers ever since they forced them-
selves into office ' • he inserted that circular, and called the espe-
cial attention of the labourers to it, to endeavour to put a stop
to the fires and other acts of outrage. The Jury should hear in
mind, that they were to take the whole of the Register into.eon.
sideration together, and if they found the whole tendency of it
was not to excite people to acts of violence, they must return
a verdict of Not Guilty. He then read one paragra
which strongly reprobated the system of outrage that thenph
prevailed, and calling on all persons to unite in put-
ting an end to that system, and in securing the perpetra-
tors of' it ; but the Counsel for the prosecution omitted to
read that and similar sentences, because to read them would have
had too much of fairness and candour for such a malignaht
prosecution.
Mr. Cobbett was proceeding when our reporter left. There
were then on the Bench, Earl Grey, Lord Goderich, Lord Dur-
ham, th,. Marquis of 131andford, Lord Radnor, and other No-
blemen, and we understood the Lord Chancellor was also in at-
tendance : all of whom, it was understood, had been subpoenaed
upon the trial.

THE FUNDS -(THIS DAY.)

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The very great majority last night in the House of Corn.
mons in favour of Ministers, on the second reading of the Re-
form Bill, and which has so much pleased the public, has not had
any effect on the funds. Consols, which left off yesterday at 83,
opened this morning at the same price; but 80051 after it was
asertained that several expresses had arrived, when Consols re.
ceded to 82z,44, at present they are 8274. •
The news from Brussels, arrived this :appear to bee!

rsa _Js morning,
a favourable nature, and it is expected that the majority in
favour of Prince Leopold will be at least 40.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing.
HALF-PAST ONE,

Letters arein town from Antwerp, stating that a number of
arrests had taken place there of agents employed by the French
party to cause disturbances.
The Hague Journal of the sth July states, by private letters
from Berlin, that official news had been received there that a
part of the Russian army had passed the Vistula.
They mention trom Germany that various disturbances are
expected to take place in Hungary.
Consols still continue heavy, owing to Money Stock coming to
market. Money is also scarce ; but to-morrow a large amount
of dividends will be paid to the public, and money will become
more plentiful. Consols, which were in the early part of the
morning at 83, are at present 82. X.
Little or nothing doing in the froreign Market.

THREE O'CLOCK

Cormls, S2l:.
FOUR 0 CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.

Consols .... S 11 1
Ditto for Account S 4
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres
Chilian Ditto —
Columbian, 1824

Danish
Grvek, 1825
1825 3Bi

Peruvian ...... • •
Russian
Spanish l5

PARLIAMENTARY -PAPER.

WATERLOO BRIDGE NEW STREET.
An ESTIMATE of the EXPENSE to be incurred under the
WATERLOO BRIDGE NEW STREET BILL; distin-
guishing the Amounts to be borne by the Public and by Prig
vate Patties.
Estimated Value of Property to be purchased be.
tween the Strand and Charles-street, Covent-
garden
The like at the North end of Bow-street ll,OOO 0 0

£55,800 0 0

Contingencies, including Charges-of Architects and
Purveyors, Law Costs, making good Carriage and
Foot Pavements, Lamps, &c. estimated at 101.
per cent. on the above amount 5,580 0 0

Total estimated Expense to be incurred £E11,30 0 0
Of which
The estimated Value of Property which his Grace
the Duke of Bedford proposes to give up to the
Public, being part of the first-mentioned Pro-
perty, is 4,.;00 0 0

Esiimated Cost to the Public X56,880 0 0
Estimated Value of Property belonging to the Mar
quis of Exeter, proposed to be acquired by ex-
change 12,0e0 0 0

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Estimated Amount proposed to be provided
for by the Sale of Crown Property £44.880 0 0
DUNCANNON Commissioners for carry-
W. D. ADAMS itig into execution the
HENRY DAWKINS/ Act 7th Geo. IV. c. 77.
Office of Woods, &c. July 2, 1831.

So great is the celebrity of DoLßy's Dic-
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tionary of Cookery and Confectionary, of which one-third,
or nearly two thousand, of the receipts have never before
seen the light, that we understand at one of the late city
banquets, peremptory directions were given that every dish
in the dinner and the dessert, should he prepared from the
receipts contained in that successful book. Nothing will
now go down that is not ala DOLEr. As cook of the
Thatched-house Tavern, the author has superintended the
preparation of fears partaken of by the most dignified per
sonages of the land, (his late MAJESTY included), and it
was from his exercise of the above office that the reputa-
tion of Dora' as a cuisinier first arose.
The city 'of Moscnw is renowned for its hos-
pitality, as well as for the effectual use to which it is
turned ; so much so, that a modern writer gives it as
his deliberate opinion that more is ate, and drank in
Moscow in one year dual in the whole-of
•Italy in thrici
the tint!, ••