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dare to think and act for themselvo, untutored
and untrammelled by a boroughmongering despot.
are to be found in the list of the majority. NV,
expected to have found the name of EDMUNL
PEEL in this list. After what the Hon. Mew.
ber said at Newcastle, we were fully pre
pared to find him supporting the Ministeri,i'
Bill, if not with his eloquence, at leas.
with his vote. But, it seems, we have been di..
appointed, and that the name of PEEL is destined
to become still more celebrated for consistency
and straight-forwardness. We do not regret the
defection of this Hon. Member. We are far
from envying the Anti-Reformers their acqui-
sition of such a treasure ; God forbid. We are
generous, and wish them joy of their bargain,
and earnestly hope that each may long continue
to deserve the other.

The news from Poland is so contradictory,

that we shall refrain from any observation till
•% authentic accounts are received. The report is
very prevalent that Wilna is taken, and this opi-
nion we expressed some days ago.

' By a letter from our Portsmouth corres-
pondent, we find that the fleet under the com-
mand of Sir E. CODRINGTON sailed yesterday,
fully equipped in every way with their war com-
plement. The fleet consisted o f the following:—
Caledonia and Prince Regent, flag-ships ; Asia,
Talavera, Donegal, Revenge, Wellesley, Al-
fred, Barham, Curacoa, and Pearl. Com-
modore Lord YARBOROUGH, in the Falcon,
ship yacht, and 25 of the Royal Yacht Club
vessels, and nearly 200 other sail, accompanied
the fleet. Some of the ships were so hard pressed
for men that midshipmen were on shore re
cruiting.

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The following are extracts from German
Papers, which relate entirely to Turkish affairs :--

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(From the Courrier de Smyrne.

ALEXANDRIA, APRIL I6.—lbr.tham Pacha, the son of
the Viceroy, has been here for some days past. The
chief motive of his visit was the expected arrival of the
fleet of the Captain Pacha in our port.

;ate-street ; to
he agency of
pence.

ACKS AND

It is said that the Admiral of the Porte is to confer with
the Viceroy on the measures to be taken for organising the
different provinces of the Empire now under the govern-
ment of the rebellious Pachas. This re'ates chiefly to the
Pachalik of Bagdad, acain-t which Mehemet Ali has re
ceived orders to send 8,000 of his troops. The Viceroy
will receive the Captain Pacha in his Palace of Schubra,
where preparation► are abeady making for his accommoda-
tion. Every body is curious to see Halil Pacha, who has
a great reputation for his talents and polished manners.
Great levies are making in Egypt, which cause a consi-
derable emigration among the Arabian country people, who
endeavour as much as possible to escape from the necessity
of becoming soldiers. A second ship of the line will be
Brion launched. Another, of 120 guns, is just put on the
stocks. The great object of the Viceroy is the increase of
his navy. The land troops, now stationed between Cairo
and Alexandria, are estimated at 50 000 men, viz., 40,000
infantry and 10,000 cavalry. The Viceroy has lately
formed a Guard of Honour, of 1,000 men. There are,
besides, some regiments scattered in Upper Egypt, and
83000 men in garrison in Candia. Thus Mehemet Ali's
army amounts to about 70.000 men, and his navy is
increased with incredible rapid,ty.
ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 19.—A1l the Franks here have
been in the greatest embarrassment fur above a fortnight,
because not a single Italian or French ship had arrived
for a month, which is particularly strange at this season
of the year, when many vessels might find freights. The
ships of Trieste and other Italian ports, at anchor here,
were afraid of putting to sea, because the uncommon sus-
pension of all arrivals gave rise to a notion of a war
between Austria and France. At length, the day be-
fore yesterday, a French man-of-war was descried, and the
sight of the tri-coloured flag was a subject of great joy.
It was soon learned that it brought secret dispatches for
the French Consul-General at Cairo, where he has lived
for some months, quite away from all other Consuls: a
courier was immediately dispatched to him by the Vice.
Consul. (A corn ier on a dromedary, requires only twenty-
four hours to ao to Cairo, but on foot or on an ass three or
four days.) A report is now spread here, that the Consul
has received from his Government instructions to persuade
the Pacha by all sorts of promises, among other a that of
giving up Algiers to him, to support the Porte with his
whole force in care of a war with Russia. Ido not give
much credit to this unauthenticated report, which
has some appearance of probability only from the circum.
stance that a part of the Pacha's troops that were to march
to-day for Syria has received counter orders. It seems
that an expedition is to be undertaken against the Pacha
of St. Jean d'Acre, who refuses to pay tribute to the
Sultan. The Sultan, it is said, has given this Pachalik
to Mehemet Ali, who intends to go with 20,000 men to
displace that Pacha. The issue of this expedition is sot
doubtful, as the Pacha of St. Jean d'Acre has not above
5.3000 men, and not a single man of war fit for ser-
vice. But,another question is, whether the Sultan will not
one day demand all their provinces, otherwise Mehemet would
he master of the greater part of the Turkish empire.
Candia is wholly subdued, and governed entirely in the
European manner. In Senaar the towns are conquered,
but the inhabitants of the villages fight bravely fur their
independence; the climate too is in their favour, for almost
all the Egyptians sent thither die, and the regiments of
that country must be composed entirely of natives. The
conquest of the country has already cost above 10,000
Men ; but what does that signify if the annual consign-
ments of gum and elephant's teeth do but come regularly:
new soldiers may always be got together from the villages.
In January disturbances took place in several parts of
Senaar, and a physician from that country assures
me that the troops in gala icon there are in danger of being
wholly destroyed, if they do not soon receive reinforce-
Ments. Ibrahim Pacha is still here, and often drives in a
little cabriolet through the quarter of the Franks. We
have had heavy rains for some days, which is extremely
rare in this month, as r rsons who have lived here forty
years do not remember an instance of it.

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The prosecution against Mr. COBBETT has
failed ; and, we must confess, most deservedly.
Ministers are themselves happy at the result,
because they were forced to take the
course they did, bF the accusations of the
Ultra-Tory party in Parliament. But in acting
upon that pernicious advice or instigation,we can-
not help expressing our deep regret. Mr. COB-
BETT, with all his faults, surely deserved better
treatment. Ministers will in future do wisely
to discriminate between their real friends and
those who only profess to be such from mo-
tives that are only understood when the con-
sequences are past redemption. Mr. COBBETT'S
services in the cause of Reform were too merito-
rious and too effective to be ever forgiven by the
boroughmongers—why then should the authors
of that great measure be made .the unwitting
tools of disappointed malice to avenge the
Tories, by persecuting m
k.OBBETT ? And
?
what is now the- result of such simple conduct
Behold the lame and impotent conclusion !
The jury could not agree—and Mr.
COB-

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.

a: d. to s. d. a. d. to a. d
Kea 3 6 3 8 Veal
Mutton 2 6 4 0 Pork
Lamb 10d. to ss. 4d.

ROLLS COURP:
IK RE ROSE'S CHARITY.
Mr. GARRATT stated that this cage came before the Court
by a consent petition, for the confirmation or the Master's re-
! port, approving of a scheme for carrying on a,charity in Somer..
setshire. A reference scheme
bein made to the Master to appoint
iiroper persons as trustees, and to settle a seheme for the applica-
tion of the surplus income of the charity estate.
The MASTER of the ROLLS enquired whether the Attorney-
General appeared.
Mr. GARRATT did not consider it usual to require the at-
tendance of the Attorney-General in such a case under the pre-
sent practice.
The MASTER of the ROILS observed, that this was the first
;hoe he had been made aware of the existence of such a practice.
Mr. GA RRATT obsefved, that In a Cisde or the Attorney-
General v. Dove, which was heard before Lord Gifford when
Master of the Rolls, his Lordship refused to allow the parties the
costs of the Attorney-General, ob•erving that there was no n:?-
cessity whatever for making him a party.
Mr. BICKERSTETH was not aware of the existence of such
a practice; but he was perfectly sure if it did exist, the soone •
it was put an end to the better, as it would be attended with th..
worst of consequences, and would lead to the constant committal
of frauds upon the Court.

Mr. GAR RAT I' sated that in consequence cf the decision in
the Attorney-General v. nove, he had always acted with great
caution in advising his clients to make the Attorney-General a
party.
The MASTER of the ROLLS observed that it was quite
a surprise upon him if such a practice was in existence.
He should make no order upon the petition until the Re-
gistrar had enquired whether such a practice existed or
not; if it did, he should feel himself bound to consult with the
Lord and Vice-Chancellor upon the subject.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
STRIKING OUT CAUSES.
PRITCHARD v. ROWLANDS,
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN applied to the Vice-Chancellor this
morning for the restoration of this cause, which had been struck
out in consequence of the non-attendance of Counsel, all parties
being anxious for its restoration.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, that when the cause
was called on, he was informed that Sir Edward Sugden, who
was leader, was engaged before the Lord Chancellor, but in con-
sequence of the junior Counsel not being in attendance a'so he
ordered the case to be struck out ; and as it was quite apparent
the Court would never have Counsel to attend it unless some-
thing like a rule was adopted and adhered to, his Honour
could not grant the present application.
Sir E. SUGDEN considered it a ease of as great hardship as
he had ever witnessed. He was not much in the habit of asking
favours of the Court; but if his Honour refused the present one,
he never would ask another favour from the Court as long as he
lived.

TheVICE—CHANCELLOR felt exceedingly sorry, but could
not accede to Sir Edward's request.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, .JULY 7.
TRIAL OF WILLIAM CORBETT.
(Concluded from our Paper of yesterdaY.)
Mr. Cobbett then read several passages from the Regi-
ster, tending to show that he had dissuaded the hbourers
from resorting to acts of violence, instead of exciting
them. It might be said that part of this was not writtea
by him; but then it was published by him, and under the
same head of " Rural War." He was sorry to trouble
the Jury at such great length, but he had tublished in
his life more than one article, more than one paper; and
he must call their attention to some other of his writings.
He was accused by the public prosecutor of wickedly and
maliciously excit ng the labourers; but that public pro-
secutor, and the King's Ministers who ordered the pro-
secution, must know, though they were, perhaps, what
the French called borhe, they must know that this
was a most absurd charge—they must know that he had
alw iys entleavoure 1, and tiny know that that was his con-
stant practice, to promote the good of the labourers; and
that all his letters, all his endeavours, were directed to pro-
mote the happiness of the labourers. This had been the
habit of his life, and to set ve them all his efforts had been
directed. Then about ten or twelve years ago he pub-
lished his work on " Cottage Economy," with a view of
teaching them how to make bread and beer, and in the
best manner, and otherwise provide for their comforts. In
a similar spirit he hail written and published a book called
the Poor Man's Friend. He never had encouraged riots,
but always endeavoured to promote peace and quietness.
Then in his letter to the Luddites of Nottinghamshire, in
1817, who had been guilty of rioting, he did what be
could to persuade them to be quiet and respect the property
of their employers. If he were to speak only of his own
motives, this would be apparent; and those motives were
known to his Whig prosecutors; but be was able to con-
firm the evidence of his motives by the evidence of facts.
Ile was not about, he believed, to betray any secret, but
this very publication of his to the Luddites had been re-
vived by the instrumentality of his prosecutors, and re-
vived at the very time that the fires were raging in Kent.
Early in December, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham,
had applied to him to give him leave to re-publish his
letter to the Luddites, because, in the opinion of the Lord
Chancellor, it was calculated to have a good effect on
the minds of the people. Toe Lord Chancellor had
applied in the name of a Society with which he was con-
nected, for this purpose, and he had sent to ask on what
terms he would allow of the re- publication. The So-
ciety was the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know-
ledge; and this Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Society,
with the Lord- Chancellor at its head, came to 'him to
quiet the labourers by sonic of the stuff out of Cobbett's
sedition shop. Another member of that society was his
worthy friend the Attorney-General. His worthy friend,
who accused him of stirring up sedition—of stirring tip
the labourers to destroy property, had applied to him for
leave to publish his writings as a means of quieting the
labourers.—(Applause in the gallery.) This was so
monstrous that it would not be believed that the same
Lord Chancellor and the same Attorney-General now pro-
secuted him. The Lord Chancellor had asked him his
terms ; he said he did not like the word terms, and gave
him leave to publish it, if he liked, with no other condi-
tion than that he should publish the whole of it.
That was all he cared about ; because, in advising the
labourers, he had always defended their rights. What had
been done he did not know ; he had given leave, and had
lent the Lord Chancellor a copy of the work. As this
lending would be, as his Lordship knew, a purrlication, he
had himself published again, on November the Ist, the
publication of 1816. His Learned Friend (the Attorney-
General) called his writings false, scandalous, and seditious,
and a Society, of which his Learned Friend was a member,
borrowed his books with a view to publishing them. The
Register for which he was tried, was published on the
11th of December; and, a few days before the publication,
the Lord Chancellor borrowed the fruits of those talents that
are now called execrable ; so that on one day his talents were
useful and honourable, and the next they were styled exe-
crable by the same persons. The Lord Chancellor was now
one of those who were prosecuting him for being the au-
tiler of one work, when he had before thought his (Mr.
Cobbett's) works were well calculated to put a stop to the
violence of the labourers. This was, indeed, high-minded
chivalry : and the Noble Lord, and his worthy friend (ihe
Attorney General might " glory in the well-fought field."
He remembered a case of a man being prosecuted for being
in possession of a copy of " Paine's Age of Reason." It
had been seen lying open in his house, and that was held
to a publication ; and as his sending his letter to the Lord
Chancellor would be regarded in law as a publication, he
had thought it necessary to republish it himself. Mr. Cob-
bett next referred to a speech which he had delivered at
Salisbury in 1822. To hear his accusers, the vile Whigs,
the Jury might almost believe that he had hoofs, and they
might expect that his legs terminated by a cloven foot—
(A laugh)—but he bad always advocated the cause of the
labourers, and always had endeavoured to prevent them
from committing violence. At a dinner at Salisbury in
1822, at which there were 300 big farmers, who were an
untoward audience, he had told them to act snore justly than
they did towards their labourers; he had told them that
the laws of God and nature required them to treat the la-
bourers better ; he had told them, that as long as they kept
their labourers at a gallon loaf and 3d. a week, they must
expect their labourers to be discontented, and he had
warned them, that if they continued to treat their labourers
so, they would make England blaze as Ireland was then
b'azing. Mr. Cobbett here read the Register in which
the speech he delivered to the farmers at Salisbury was
reported, and then continued. But it might be said by
his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General, that be was a
very good man in 1822, and bad since become a very
wicked one ; he would come therefore a little nearer to the
present times—to the date of the fires in Keot, and he
would refer to a little tract lie had published on November
Ist, when the fires were all blazing, and this formed a
part of his second tract ; it did not sell as his Learned
Friend said his Register did, for a shilling, it sold for
twopence, and if be had wanted to urge the fires, then
was his time. Let the Jury hear, then, what be had
written. Mr. Cobbett here read through a little pamphlet,
addressed to the labourers. In reading it, he said that he
found in it a reason why Mr. C. W. Wynn bad laid on
him the other night in the House of Commons, and why
that Hon. Gentleman bad said that he would rather that
such pamphlets were prosecuted, as excited the labourers
to set fire to stacks, than blasphemy.. The reason of this
was, that he had stated in this pamphlet that the Wynns
received a large share of the public taxes, which, in his
opinion, they were very unworthy to receive. He was, in
fact, the watchman, the man in the tower, who could be
neither coaxed nor wheedled, nor bullied, and who would
not rest till we had cheap Government in England ;
and that the pockets of the people were more re-
'fleeted than at present. They knew that he taught
doctrines contrary to their interest, as the Times Un-
puted such a feeling to the Judges about Parlia-
mentary Reform, they thought that their interests
would be injured by his writings, and therefore they were
resolved
to get rid of him ; but they should not, he could
assure them.—[Mr. Cobbett was then proceeding to explain
that he should call as witnesses, Lord Brougham and

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'Others, When he was stopperby the Judge, and the pro
feedings suspended fot some time. The Jury retired, anti
Cohbett prcdtiCeil a respectably sized basket, out of
which he took fodd, ahil drink, and indiilged hiinself in
both. Afte: a pause in talking that was filled up by these
other amusements, Mr. Cobbett proceeded.] —.The first
witness he should eall Would be the Lord Chancellor, ti
prove that his Lordship hail tirade an application to bin
in Decemb-r la,t, to obtain his L• tier to the Luddites, an('
his Lordship would tell the G ntlemen of the Jury that h.
had stipulated no terms; but that the whole of the letter
should be pUblished He should then call tle• End o
Radnor, who had known him for many years, and bi
would prove that he (11.!,. Cobbett) was not a persor
likely to stir up the labourers to wicked di struetion.
meant also to call witnesses from different parts of Kent ant'
Sussex, to prove, not th it he had not done any thing tc
stir up disturbance, but that hd bad done a great deal ti
prevent it, and so restore quiet. H • should even call Lori
Melbourne to prove that the sentence on Goodman no,
not executed, and that he was sent abroad, whit,
Cooper, who made an attempt on a min. life, wai.
-
put to deal). After the Jury had heard the evi
deuce, they would dismiss, he had no doubt, with
scorn and contempt, this complaint of the Whig Attorney
General. This was the second time he had been brought
by an Attorney-General before that Court. He hail heed
writing for thirty years, and only twice out of that third
years had he been brought before the Court, and it was
f‘ritierly done by an apostite Whig. What, indeed, or evil
had the Whigs not done? He hail lived for twenty-on)
years under six Tory Attorney-Generals, and had not been
prosecuted, though, if he Ltd been a Whig lawyer, le
could have found out many libels. But the Whigs weri
always a most tyrannical fiction—they were always
most severe, the most grasping, the most greedy, and the
most tyrannical faction that was to be found in history.
They had seized what remained of the Crown lands—they
I had taken to themselves the last portion of church pro-
perty ; they hail next passed the Riot Act and they had
afterwards passed the S-p•ennial Bill. The Government
was now acquiring credit for doing away with the rotten
boroughs; but if they deserved credit for doing thein
away, let it be remembered that the Whigs created
them. They had established an interest in the regulation
and giving consistency and value to corruption. Theo
came the Excise Laws, which were brought in by the
Whigs and theirs, too, was that offensive statute 1)%
which the Irish men and women might be transported
without Judge and Jury. There was indeed no
faction so severe and cruel. They did everything b%
farce and violence. Other fictions only scourge us wi
rods, but they scourged us with scorpions. The last time
he had been brought before that Court, he had been sent out
of it to two years' imprisonment amongst felons, and he ha
been condemned to pay at the end of two years a fine of 1,000/.
to the King, which the King took and kept. He had been
bound, too, in a penalty of 5,0001. and two sureties in 2,5001. each
to keep the peace. From the society of felons he had ransomed
himself at the rate of twelve guineas a week, which he had paid
to his gaoler, and his whole expense for the two years was 20
guineas a week. He had been carried 70 miles from his family,
and shut up in a gaol in the hopes that it would kill him. It
had pleased God, however, to bless him with health, and though
deprived of liberty, by dint of abstinence he had outlived the
base attempt to destroy him. What crime had he committed ?
For what was it that he was condemned to this horrible punish-
ment ? Simply for having expressed in writing the indignation
he felt at an English Local Militiaman having been flogged, sur-
rounded by a guard of German soldiers. He had only expressed
the indignation he felt, and he should have been a base creature
if he had not expressed the indignation he felt. Now military
flogging excited universal indignation. If there were at present
any of the Jury alive who found him guilty and sentenced him to
that punishment, what remorse must they not feel at having
contributed to punish him for expressing the indignation which
is now considered to be a virtue. He had been punished then, as
he was prosecuted now. But why was he now tossed down before
the Court by the Attorney-General? What were his sins ? He hail
called on the Government to respect the law—he had cautioned
them that hard-hearted proceedings were driving the labourers
to despair—and that was his crime. Let the Government give
them back the old law, let it give the people the old Game Law,
not the new Game Law. lie had read with horror of a Magistrate
being accused to the Lord Chancellor of subornation of perju,y—
he had read of that Magistrate being reinstated—and he had
shuddered with horror at supposing that a starving labourer
might be brought before such a man, and in conjunction with
another such Magistrate, might be sentenced to seven years'
transportation for being out at night; and such a Magistrate
might be himself a game preserver. That was a monstrous
power, and ought to be
.abolished. But the Ministry would,
perhaps, adopt the measures he recommended, and prosecute
him for recommending them. It was the same with Parlia-
mentary Reform. He had recommended that in his writings ;
he was the leader of the band. He had discovered what Reform
was necessary, and he knew that the Ministers would be com-
pelled to grant it. As he had said in his letter to the French
Editors, they were married to Miss Reform, and he was the man
who led them to the Church by a halter. For supplying that
halter, they had made that attack on him through the Attoriwy-
General ; but he was satisfied that the Jury would see that the
prosecution was most malignant and groundless. They knew his
intention was not bad; that was a mere pretence to inflict peen-
niary ruin on him, or that he might die of sickness in a gaol, and
so they might get rid of him whom they could neither buy nor
silence. It was their fears made them attack him, and it was
his death they intended. He looked to the Jury to protect him
from this intention, and he trusted they would. But if it should
so happen that he should be condemned to die in that Court, lie
would with his last breath pray to God to bless his country and
curse the 'Whigs : his revenge he would bequeath to his children
and the labourers of England.
(The concluding sentence of Mr. Cobbett's address was fol-
lowed by applause, which the effbrts of the officers of the Court
could not immediately suppress ; and Lord Tenterden declared,
that if he found any of the persons who were so expressing
themselves, he should know how to deal with them.)
The witnesses were then called for the defence.

John Hay and Henry Hay, who Mr. Cobbett called to prove
the publication of his letter to the Luddites, did not at first
pear. One of them came afterwards, but the ATFORNEY..
GENERAL was understood to say he would admit that point.
The Lord Chancellor was then called and sworn, and exa-
mined by Mr. Cobbett—The first question was—Did your Lord-
ship apply to me—the Attorney-General interfered and objected;
but the Lord Chief Justice overruled the objection. The Lord
Chancellor then went on to state, in reply to a question from
Mr. Cobbett, that he made some application, through the Secra-
tary of a Society to which he belongs, to obtain a copy of a papor,
written by Mr. Cobbett many years ago, which could not be got
in the shops, and to obtain his permission to make use of it, and
print and re-publish.
Mr. Cobbett asked—Did you not apply in your own person to
my son, and in your own name by letter ?—The Lnrd Chancel-
lor did not recollect how the application had been made. It
might have been through Mr. Cobbett's son, who was then at
Lincoln's Inn, but he did not precisely recollect ; very likely he
did make the application through Mr. Cobbett's son ; he had
certainly had some communication with Mr. Cobbett's son.
A letter was put in and read from the Lord Chancellor to Mr.
Cobbett's son, requesting to be informed of the date of the letter
to the Luddites. It also stated that if it were found that Mr.
Cobbett had already done all that he wanted, he might be ready
to publish that letter in proper terms.
The Lord Chancellor recollected that the Address to the Lud-
dites was in the letter. Question :—The name of the Society
was, The Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the
application to Mr. Cobbett was made with a view of making use
of that publication in order to put an end to the bad feeling which
prevailed among the people; Sir Thomas Denman was a
Member of that Society, but he did not know that the Attorney-
General knew of the communication made to Mr. Cobbett.
Cross-examined—The work was obtained on condition, he
believed, that the whole of it should he published. He had no
objection to state that the Society did not publish it, and that the
reason of that was, that it contained matter the Society deemed
contrary to its usual course of proceedings ; not that the letter
contained anything objectionable on the score of the labourers ;
it contained observations on individuals, but he regarded it as a
very useful publication ; one ground of requesting it was the
effect of Mr. Cobbett's name among the labourers; he believed
that he should be able to identify the publication.
Lord Melbourne was next called, and sworn, and stated, in
ya question from Mr. Cobbett, that he recollected the
reply
tonas Goodman; he received his Majesty's pardon.
Mr. Cobbett asked on what ground he was pardoned ?
Lord TENTERDEN objected to this question, and it was
not put.
The Earl of Radnor examined—Had known Mr. Cobbett for
twenty-five years, he believed ; he had been a constant reader of
the Register.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to a question as to
the character of the .Register.
The Earl of Radnor did not suppose Mr. Cobbett was likely to
stir up the labourers—quite the reverse,-(Applause.)
Lord TENTERDEN said, he should be under the necessity of
ordering the Court to be cleared, if such manifestations inter-
rupted the administration of justice.
fhe Earl of Radnor stated, that he could elucidate the doubt
as to the date of the Lord Chancellor's application to Mr. Cob-
bett ; it was a few days after the publication of the alleged libel
he then pointed out to Lord Brougham that Mr. Cobbett would
probably not be unwilling to allow his Letter to the Luddites to
be e published, and he believed that it was at his suggestion that
the application was made.
Earl Grey, Mr. Cobbett stated, was summoned to inquire into
the motive for pardoning Goodman. As that point was not
allowed by the Court., this Nobleman would not be called.
Mr. Cobbett wished to call evidence as to what he stated in the
month of October.
To this the ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected, on the ground
that the mere circumstance of Mr. Cobbett's having given lec-
tin-es some weeks before was not evidence of his intention.
Lord TENTERDEN thought the evidence should be confined
to a general inquiry as to Mr. Cobbett's writings.
of particular facts.
Mr. Cobbett wished to show that he had inculcated the con-
trary to what he had been accused of.
Lord TENTERDEN repeated, that the evidence must be ge-
neral; he could then receive it, but he could not receive
Pennevi-
dence sworn—Mr. Cobbett was at his house, at Lewisham,'
b o
the month of October he had been a reader of the Re.
r
about twenty years ; he was present at a lecture given by
at Deptford, in October, 1830, and did not think Mr.
Cobbett was likely to excite the labourers of husbandry to com-
mit outrages on their employers; he thought the very reverse;
the witness was a manufacturer of machinery, and a practical
engineer; he had made thrashing machines.
major Wade, examined by Mr. Cobbett—Lives near Maidstone,
and owns several farms in that neighbourhood ; had always been
a reader of the Register, for, he believed, thirty years ;—he was
present at a lecture given by Mr. Cobbett, in October last ; did
not think Mr. Cobbett a person likely to entertain a wish to incite
the labourers to destroy the property of their employers; most
decidedly not; thought that Mr. Cobbett's literary labours had
had a direct contrary effect.
Mr. F. cousins, a miller and farmer at Tonbridge, had been a
reader of the Register since 1817, from the time of the Dungeon
Bill ; was present at a lecture at Tonbridge, in October, last
year, and thought Mr. Cobbett to be the very reverse of a person
likely to incite the labourers to destroy the property of their em-
ployers.
sir Thomas Beevor— Resides in Norfolk ; has been a reader
of the Register for fourteen or fifteen years ; and had, since then,
read the whole of Mr. Cobbett's writings ; had heard him give a
lecture in Norfolk, and had known him personally for five years;
thought Mr. Cobbett quite the reverse of a man likely to incite
the labourers to outrage.
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frteu xirCobbett,t
Mr. Gutsell—Had read the Register for seven or eight years,
and had attended a lecture at Battle in October, 1830. Thought
Mr. C. the very contrary of a person likely to incite the labourers
to destroy property.
Mr. Palmer, a land-owner and farmer, of Ross, Hereford—Had
been a reader of the Register for thirty years ,• had known Mr.
Cobbett personally for several years ; had heard him deliver lee.
tures last summer, and bore the same testimony in Mr. Cobbett's
favour. Uses thrashing machines, and employs about twenty
labourers.
Mr. Joseph Blunt, an owner and occupier of land in Hamp-
shire—Had read the Register from January, 1822, and had re-

-eived Mi. Cd'abett sere' al times in hi. houic, and gave the tarn
testimony:
Mr. Cobbett wished to Pitt in as evidence his speech at Sa'isbur
in 1822. . .
The AT lORNEY-GENER A L ofteeted that it was not evl
lent ,though helmet not objected to Mr. CObbeitstating the fact
Mr. Cob!,ett said, Mr. Horne To k.s was allowed to put in
evidence a ptltlicafl,m in 17;2, then twe've rears old, and not re
Wing to the sul ject of his ft4a): 11 rae Tooke had brought a:
witnesses the Bishop of Gloucester, ahtt ethers, who had know/
:tint for forty years. He hoped that the same la", would be des.
out to him. The trial was referred to, and it was shown the;
Mr. Debrett Was sworn to the publication.
The Arro R ti:ETVEN FM AL objected still, but
Lord TENTERDEN dechtei% OP, the authority of the de-
tision in Horne Tooke's c .s?, that that sin sett might be put in.
The speech was put in and read, as well as the loiter to th•
Luddites, and some other portion of the Register.
Mr. Cobbett then stated, that that was his defence.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose to reply. He could as-
Aire the Jury, that so far from be:lig surprised at the number of
witnesses whom M. COb.teit had brought forward to express
:heir opinion of his writings, father astonished at the
xmcity of the number, for he was not airaitf apiabi of repeating
:hat he believed Mr. Cobbett to be one of the MOst able; inge-
nous and effective writers that this country had ever produced.
['he thing to be lamented was that that ability had been Tins.
ipplied, and that instead of turning his powers in that direction
where they might really prove of service to his countrymen, ht
illowed them to engage in a course which had mischief and ill.
toing for list &jet., It Was somewhat difficult to speak of thf
writings of Mr. Cobbett sit a!! to meet that gentleman's teeth)}
an the subject; for if it was said that tfie4 (code cy was wrong
•ih, then how savage and cruel were the utter-eis Pf Mtn an as-
sertion—how ready were they to enter into a conspiracy agains•
him—and how eager were they to join in an attempt to destroy
this self-estimated person ; for, however talented he might be,
he surely overrated himself when he supposed that his powers
were sufficient to induce those who had to investigate this sub-
ject to wrest the law from truth or justice, for the purpose of ob-
taining his conviction and, on the other hand, if it was said
that it was not worth while to prosecute the libels that
his publicationS contained, then the cry was that they were
most wretched and pusilfanimmis creatures, ready to betray
their public duty from fear, or other personal motives
The Jury now had the libel fairly bCfOre thefll—they had heard
the writer's own exposition of its nature and tc'oriencyand
was for them to pronounce whether or not it was the Wicked and
atrocious libel that those who had directed this prosecution Itch
it to be; and whichever way their verdict might be, he had to
doubt that it would pro‘P satisfactory to the Government at .d
the country.
Lord TENTERDEN began his summing tip by observing, that
if the Jury thought that it was a pu licatton eau:mined to melte
the people, to whom it was addressed, to acts of violence and
disorder, they could not hesitate to pronounce the defendant
guilty ; for, as Mr. Attorney-General had very itoperly tole
them, every mall must be presumed to intend that which fol-
lowed as the obvious consdquenres of what he had done. He
earnestly requested the Jury to discharge from their minds every
matter of fact not given in evidence, and not relevant to the
question which they were called upon to try—they were bound
to diScharge from their minds all that they had heard about
Whig and Tory, about this faction and about that, and limit the
grounds of their decision to those considerations merely to which
they could legitimately apply their attention in the exercise of
those functions assigned to them by the law. His Lordship next
adverted to Mr. Cobbett's address to the Luddites, to the circum-
stance of his having been requested to reprint it, from which
he proceeded to read to the Jury several petitions of the
evidence given above, telling them that in making up Bich
minds they were not to be governed by the general cha-
racter of the previous publications of the defendant, but by a
careful and impartial consideration of the publication set forth in
the indictment. If he were to pronounce an opinion upon the
motive and tendency of the libel, he would say that passages more
strong could not easily be selected, and it would be for the Jury
to say not what effect might have been produced upon persons of
strong minds and enlightened education, but what that effect
might be upon the minds of men circumstanced as those to whom
it was addressed—whether it was not more calculated to excite
them to mischief, than to induce them to pursue that which was
good. With that single remark he would dismiss them to the
consideration of their verdict, in the full confidence that they
would not allow their minds to be swayed by an r considerations,
excepting those which ought properly to influence theirdecis'ons.
As to the attempt at intiinidation which had been made be ore
he came into Court, lie was sure they would not allow it to have
the slightest weight, but that they would fearlessly discharge the
duty. which the laws and Constitution imposed upon th4n, by
coming to a calm and deliberate judgment.
Several papers were then handed to the Jury, and they retired
at five minutes past six o'clock, and, after about two hours' de-
liberation, they sent a message to say that they could not agree
in their verdict.

His LORDSHIP sent word back "that they must agree," and
the Jury were again confined to their chamber.