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its pads
_by. a mingled stream of torturing sarcasm,
contemptuous jocularity, and fierce and slaughtering
invective. His faults are coarseness, brutality, and
tedious repetition. We must add, that the matter of
this most forcible of writers rarely shows much inven-
tive faculty ; though his active and observing mind
supplied abundance of illustration to his argument ;
and, when he happens to present an original view of
any subject, it is almost invariably more eccentric and
ingenious than just. But as a political reasoner, con-
sidered with reference to a series of publications
iiroughout successive years, if we admit Cobbett to
he the most copious and diligent of writers, it is only
to pronounce him by far the most inconstant and
faithless that ever appeared before his countrymen.
He never was, in the proper sense, a party man ; that
we acknowledge. His fluctuating praise, therefore, or
blame of individuals, being incidental to his support
or condemnation of certain doctrines, is not a ground
whereon it would be reasonable to reproach him. But
for the doctrines themselves, for the principles, the
opinions, the measures, which from year to year lie
alternately wrote up, and reprobated—we speak not of
the men,—in this point of view it is, that Cobbett's
pretensions to common consistency, or common ho-
nesty, or common decency, seem altogether not so
much untenable as laughable. The man wrote as if
lie was wholly unconscious of having ever written any
thing before. He not only repeated himself, which
was his custom, but repeated, with grave contempt for
mankind, his contradictions of himself as earnestly and
vehemently as he had at first repeated the opinions
whieh he was now busy in abandoning. This, 'with
his strange and solitary perverseness on particular ques-
tions, affixed a levity to his name and character which
long ago destroyed all the influence his unquestioned
abilities must otherwise have infallibly procured him,
and the same spirit betraying itself after lie got
into Parliament, prevented his acquiring any weight
or credit there at all proportionate to the strength
and vivacity of his intellect, if he had not so mischiev-
ously abused it. But we take leave of Cobbett. For
years this Journal was the favourite weekly victim of
an animosity which we suspect to have been on his
part more affected than real. We never deliberately
injured him, as he must have known, and in his gray
we should be sorry to offer him any injustice. He
was a man whom England alone could have produced
and nurtured up to such maturity of unpatronized and
self-generated power. Nevertheless, though a vigilant
observer of the age, and s. strenuous actor in it, he lay
upon the earth as a loose and isolated substance. Ile
was incorporated with no portion of our political or
social frame. He belongad neither to principles, to
parties, nor to classes. He and his writings formed a
remarkable phenomenon. He was an English episode,
and nothing more, as greater men have been ; for what
is Napoleon, while we write, but an episode ? As a
portion of history he is extinct. He has struck moot
no where, not in Europe, not even in France, as Cob-
bett has not either in America, where his intellect first
sprung to life ; or in England, where it ripened into
almost unexampled vigour.— Times.

DEATH OF COBBETT.

(From Cobbett's Register of this day.)
TO THE READERS OF THE REGISTER.
Normandy, June 17, 1835

The painful intelligence of the extreme illness of my father;
my beloved father ; my most kind and equally beloved father ;
is really all that can be conveyed in the way of information this
day, either directly or indirectly, from him.
Possibly they may never again hear of action or thought
fruit him.
This state of things sufficiently subdues all spirit; suffi-
ciently removes power of even the least mental exertion, from
all related or connected with him, to attempt to draw the at-
tention of the readers of this work to any other subject, much
less to attempt to do justice to this
WM. COBBETT, JUN.

• Clifford's Inn,. Friday morning, June 19, 1835.
It is my mournful duty to state, that the forebodings above
are realized, and that the hand which has guided this work
for thirty-three years has ceased to move ! The readers of the
Register will, of course, look to this number for some parti-
culars of the close of my poor father's life; but they will, I
im sure, be forgiving if they find them shortly stated. A
grcat inclination to inflammation of the throat had caused
him annoyance from time to time, for several years, and
as he got older, it enfeebled him more. He was suf-
fering from one of these attacks during the late
spring, and it will be recollected, that when the Mar-
quis of Chandos brought on his motion for the re
peal of the malt-tax, my father attempted to speak, but could
not make his voice audible beyond the few Members who sat
round him. He remained to vote on that motion, and in-
creased his ailment ; but on the voting of Mupplies on the
nights of Friday the 13th, and Monday the 18th of May, he
exerted himself so much, and sat so lea, that he laid himself
up. He determined, nevertheless, to attend the House again
on the evening of the Marquis of Chandos's motion on Agri-
cultural Distress on the 25th of May, and the exertion of
speaking and remaining late to vote on that occasion were too
much for one already severely unwell. He went down to his
farm early on the morning after this last debate, and had re-
solved to rest himself thoroughly, and get rid of his hoarseness
and inflammation. On Thursday night last he felt unusually
well, and imprudently drank tea in the open air; but he went
to bed apparently in better health. In the early part
of the night he was taken violently ill, and on Friday
and Saturday was considered in a dangerous state by the
medical attendant. On Sunday he revived again, and on
Monday gave us hope that he would yet be well. He talked
feebly, but in the most collected and sprightly manner,
upon politics and farming ; wished for " four days' rain
for the Cobbet-corn and the root crops ; and, on Wednesday,
he could remain no longer shut up from the fields, but desired
to be carried round the farm ; which being done, he criticised
the work that had been going on in his absence, and detected
some little deviation from his orders, with all the quickness that
was so remarkable:in him. On Wednesday night he grew
more and more feeble, and was evidently sinking ; but he con-
tinued to answer with perfect clearness every question that was
put to him. In the last half-hour his eyes became dim ; and
at ten minutes after one, P. M. he leaned back, closed them as
if to sleep, and died without a gasp. He was 73 years old ;
but, as he never appeared to us to be certain of his own age,
we had some time ago procured an extract from the Register
of Farnham parish, in which it appears that the four sons of
my grandfather, George, Thomas, William, and Anthony,
were christened on the Ist of April, 1763, and, as Anthony
was the younger,son, and William was the third, we infer
that he was born one year before he was christened, that is,
on the 9th of March, 1762. He might, therefore, have been
older, but not much.

JOHN M. COBBETT.

ROLL'S COURT.

THELLUSON V. WOODFORD.,

Mr. PEMBERTON appeared for the petitioner in this case,
Lord Rendlesham, who prayed that he might be at liberty
to pay into Court the sum of 5,7.501., the amount of certain
rents with which he was charged under an Act of Parlia-
ment. By an Act passed for the purpose of altering many
of the trusts of the late Mr. Thelluson's will the lease of
certain property was granted to his Lordship, at an annual
rent of 11,0001., the half of which was to be paid into
Court, to be laid out according to the terms of the lease,
which the Master was to settle. When the matter was
before the Court, several special inquiries were directed, on
none of which the Master had as yet made his report.
Under these circumstances, the present petition was pre-
sented, to obtain leave for the payment into Court of the
sum in question, without prejudice to the terms of the lease
to be settled by the Master.
His HONOUR made the order as prayed.
BENTLEY V. WILLIAMS.

A Learned Gentleman, whose name we did not know,
moved in this case in behalf of the plaintiff, Mr. Bentley,
of Old Burlington-street, for a special injunction to restrain
the defendant, Miss Williams, a bookseller at Bath, from
selling, or exposing for sale, seven works, the copyright of
which was the property of the plaintiff. From the affida-
vits it appeared that copies had been purchased at the de-
fendant's shop of editions published in France of " Italy,"
" Sketches in Spain and Portugal," " The Last Days of
Pompeii," and four other works, at a price much lower than
that at which they were sold by the plaintiff. Under these
circumstances, the Learned Gentleman submitted that his
client was entitled to an injunction.
His HONOUR granted the injunction.

CHATEAUBRIAND'S "TRAVELS TO JERUSALEM
AND THE HOLY LAND."—" This work (says " Blackwood ")
is not so much a book of travels, as memoirs of the feelings
and impressions of the author, during a journey over the shores
of the Mediterranean • the cradle, as Dr. Johnson observed.
of all that dignifies and has blest human nature, of our laws,
our religion, and our civilization. It may readily be antici-
pated that the observations of such a man as the Viscount de
Chateaubriand, amid such scenes, must contain much that is
interesting and delightful: our readers may prepare them-
selves for a high gratification ; it is seldom that they have such
an intellectual feast laid before them." [Until the appearance
of the new and very cheap edition in' English of this remark-
able work, which is now deiighting the literary world, the
merits of Chateaubriand—the first French writer—were but
little understood in this country.]

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CORPORATION REFORNl.—Yesterday morning
there was a numerous meeting of the Town Clerks of various
Corporations, at the British Coffee-house, summoned for the
purpose of adopting measures for opposing the Corporate Bill.
The meeting was considered strictly private.