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the compel that Spain and Portugal slicitild be
gc:entletnao had "" "P to the enemy as neutral ginund. The Hon. 1
!..lic•.•d of the 'defence Of Cadiz, and
aked wheiher that was to be the spot on wkiClr
„fain„ was toy be defended.. He (:fir, C.) :Would a;;.
linn
wewere in a state to up any-spot of
lground,-b •eause it inuQt. be a stop to Bhonaparte to
:,drance his views upon this Countty. The Hon,.
I"ttritleman had found many scenes of despondency;
Ilfh" vcis so blind-'as to imagine that
;1. Quid not present themselves, or that a people Could
ttie simu:t4oeously against their oppression, with all.
rile symtne..!iy, orderr, and means ofregul,tr exeny
rat" red with one general %ill, and acting
gon,i jut :like, The House- had been told a
,;e4l formerly about the regeneration of France;
dsi: if it Was expelled that all on a sud:!en -Spain
should he regenerated, and that there was nothing
t() do. - • i

.".When.these hands. had tornthe bands awaYi
i: But bid the intant.g6 t:port.and play."
e would ask the Hon,. Gentlentab ;to, shew him
a ~"Y Monarchy 'r Republlc which at.the end of two
ftars after its regeneration, could -cOndud its war-
4r' at all—that could present, he, wouldepot say-
1i
: . lt.* me iris of 'conquest, but resistance of the sort that
. 14:, had given: In affording assistance to Spain;
t;„ce %",uld'inuch rather calCulate 'on the interest to
derived to both countries than to look at it on the
ana ' .i. --, . • . •
', - 01...gnerosity. Great Britain was the citadel
i- which the enemy aimed. The outworks. must:
e defended, and it. was as much for the interest
°s for the honour of this nation that we should fight
~,, 'lh Co :biped rather than against confederated
ti atiuns. N.lnch hail been said by the Hon. Gentle-
,e
i''lll 'a i h respea to the Juntas: If any blame, was
'lit'Pwahle to his Majesty's Government for not hay-
; a "rthe outsetestpulated for a particular fhrin of
i'v'rnirtent, he wished to take his full share of thata
.'"le. Ile rt.ceived his information fi mu Mr.SteWart, •
1,11(1 ;t could not be expeaed that he was to be the
o";neg)rist of the Junta ; but when the dis p
.atcht:s-
. Nlr. Stewart disclosed the names of such men as
I.4orida Blanca. Inellanos, and Saavedra, as persons.
0 rllitig the gevernmenf, it ~va4 not for him to onjea;
it
I:4's sufficient that they composed Li Govetninent
tv+-ssing the-contidence of the country. As to the
II or ill-founded hopes,of a general rising of the
' tiecilale, certady he was not justified in thinking that
te whole- of Spain was roused, The Asturias and
Ne North of Spain had completely risen: The Right
liVll. Gentieman.then noticed varions'opinionS that
ti, .gone forth, but in and oht;of:doorS, in. which
ttralaetstaesrst'itli'eyrehcalvraerg,
deodn.ex tit li
li)seiigottioo -urnalbfiltpct
Gneion
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bitchy upon the people of Spain. When he leek,
,s to the time of Charles V, and of
.Philip,the V.
h 0 had yesigned the Crown in favour of the next
)i, sussession, and recollected that Ferdinand the
11'1. A as declared from every rornenin the kingdom
111)e Sovereign ,of the People's choice,' was- it too
ech to say that Ministers should not - have
441ati hal said that they should not have uotilid-
• ' L i'l 11:e .runta. What" would the lion. Gentleman
114 had them do '?
Were they to have criticised
tle_terthatton of the Government ? Was it for- the
not
Government snotpa Olt the Junta was
bard the Cortes ? Was that the time to come for-
' bsard when the enemy was intrenched behind the
Cro .?
Would- it have .been right to .have restricted
11,' army in P, e ugal, end not to have lengthened.,
a;le' e- alas, winch might eventually lead to the
'a,,v4tioti of Spain ? He was firmly of opinion that if
?giations had.cotne fron the ports of Cadiz and
1413'4111, those sAere.points which Government were
11 t Prer'ared to abandon. The Hon., Gentleman
'd alluded to Spanish America :• if Spanish Ame-
ti(a was.desirable to this Country, the price of it
I''; European spirit. But the Hon. Gentleman re-
' i-u.tlded him of the language of " Shylock," vilto,
. li.4lenting the 10'53 of his daughter, but still having
treasure uppermost .in his mind, exclaimed,
Would she were dead, and my ducats in her
af1137" With respectto the cause-of Spain being
`l)erate, he could not agree .with the Hon.
. , elll li c.' , mwa 1.1
~s bueicTafiusec,o_nitfent
contended,
eed, lastno
notwithstanding
si
tnailtlyd i
nsiglout
the
arrive,2i...oi,),,.,,,riT)h, ei)rtonsupsettic.leus,phaicirh otfhetlis country. Spain
awed Much to that spirit of patience; endurance,
. ,• ht,l4 long-suffering, that had carried her through so
-,""q struggles,. w hich still animated the people to
i°lllinue the contest, and which ultimately blight
_tee'lre the most favourable results. : Looking at the
:z?erience of the past, he' would ask whether an-
:l'7 year like the last gained
_to Europe was not.
iimll trial ? • Was it -the proi)er•tirne for abandon-
flg a cause when the cries of millions were heard.
. ' ooki .
Ili , ' ug up to this country for ass:-.tance ? He never
a.' ehtertain distrust of the pt,ople of Spain,, nor the
Nl;Otest dotabts of the gates of Cadiz-being open-,
,:: to a British force when the time' of neceS--
fY arrited. That time did arrive, and a British'
I,re Was adrnhted. An HonOurable. Gentleman
' :4 Said that ." the war had been cond,uaed with
fil"ity -which did not belong- to generous war-
r`•t ' What 1. did - the Honourable Gentleman
to.
wau the generous -warfare of Buotiapare in Spain?
11. 'l' that the sort' of charaaer he .wished to. give
1,,, clesolated traeks of that person? How many
I.,'"L' cause tO mourn his progress. Was it then. to
.a.-, endured that our army should be liable to such
tl'; i.lipotatiori ? . He trusted the English arms' did
am' 1. eugage in stich ta artare. He tad been ac-
iCsed because he exulted in the losses of 'the
Nt,;e'ell in .Spain. He confessed that he , lool:ed
t " admiration at 'the instauct: .. given of pa-
, triPie veilg,?an, they- wee- topics of ccio•
a ''')ll -to 11,nn—long might the struggle, continue,
t?ti ifs course tn.:. cleathful. Was' it eot consolation
2t-bY such alas of vengeance there was even one
Tit..
Irss to carry- liis scourge.itno other parts ?;
ii i"..,•," were some pet sons who looked with edrnira-
st'u.and• joy at what they called-the enemy's glory
atrd British calamities. The Right Hon. Gentleman
that
•itiverted. to America, and expressed his hopeS
xi `it 'here would be no war with that country. He
ie,ver entertained the least doubt but if America was
It 't alone she would see her true interest, and that
ditferences between the two countries would at.-
.1;!ve at that point to which they- had ultimately ar-
k,,'el• : He congratulated, the country on the last
v:1, of Congress: He professed to have perfeti good
t)!11 towards Mr. .Erskine, but he moist' again assert,
'tit that Gentleman had disobeyed both ,the letter
4t,'''''' -the spirit of his instruetioos, and lowered the
xe'''4e of the country. He concluded, expressing his'
triltireconeurrence with the Vote (if Credit;
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speech of the Right
6.. ,= eater. 2tihrried. that _the hopes which tie
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• would •
held Out not be reanzed. In that Opinion he
'‘`ir as fortified by the latest advices received froth
Spain, which spewed that:there was no cordial co-
operation. There were two parlie's in Cadiz, And
the anirnositieihet ween them )mete so grein; that the
fortifications in the Isle of Leon were carrying on in
consequence very 'Sluggishly, He could not agree
With the Right .Hon. Gentleman; that the destrue-,
Lion of the seven hundred Frenchmen in revenge was
to b.?. vie wed in any other light than a horrible one.
• Mr. WHITBREAD, in the course of explanation
ohSeryed, that the atrocities imputed to Buonaparte
Were not greater than had, been coinmi,tect by a
Noble MarquiS in India.
-Sir MettivCiii.i,Eity denied the charge of the
Hon.-Gentleman. -The atrocities alluded to, were
not committed under the eye of that Noble Marquis,
for he was at a considerable distance.

Mr. WHITIHiEAD CatltCtlduti that he was as much
implicated as though preient, and was as liable to
be charged With them as Buonaparte with atrocities
in Spain, fur he was 'at Paris when those atrocities
were atiing.
After a few vhservations in explanation from Mr.
Canning, the Bill was read a third time, passed, and
ordered to the Lords.

'The Admiralty Courts ReaoulatioU Bill was read .a
third time.

•
'The CHANCELLOR of, the EXCHEQUER. added a
Clause for, regulating the Table of Fees in the Office
of Registrar.
.The Bill was the passed;
'The Salaries Accounts Bill was read a third time.
- Mr. BANKES
,proposed several vet bal amendments,
which were adoptel• He then wished to introduce
a provision tOr preventitig persons retiring from of;
five, and having a suffieent income, from receiving
-pensions. •
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This amendMent was opposed by Mr. WYNNE'
and the clie%‘-NCELLOR of the EXOEIECLUER, as unjust
iii its priticipe;
.and was, negatived. The Bill was
Olen passed. . • -
Tne,Mutiny Bill was committed for Wednesday,
on' which, day Mr. V 7 '.NNE intimated his intention
of stating his views upoli the subject, and then of
aliowiug the bill to stand oyei• till next sessions.

'Tvlr. BROUGI-1,61, in the absence at the Learned:
Gentleman, (Sir 5, liornilly) Oostponed the third
reading of the Canal Robbery Bill, until ttiis .nay
throe months.

On ih" motion Of the CHANCELLOR of- the.EX-.
CHEQUER, an Address was voted to his4lajesty,
praying that lie would be OsaseJ to :fikk-r t<> b,• laid
heithe the House, specifications of the Skikiius and
Livings of the poorer'Ciergy, Sce,
The CHANCELLOR rat IoeE4CHEQUER moved,
that. the House at its rising do adjourn tilt Wednes-
day ti-ext.—ordered. • ,
At Three o'Clook this morning -the House ad-
journed till Wednesday next.

1 TRIAL OF 111:8. WILLIAM COBBLI.F.'

COURT OF`KING'S BENCH, JUNE is.

This important case, in which the Liberty of the
Press, that pall:!d 'um of British Freedom; is so detp,7
ly involved, came on to be tried before G6:flight
Hon. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, at Westminster Hall,
precisely at nine O'clock ye‘,:erday;, -
The AT_roRNEY-GENERAL. opened the case on the
behalf of the Crown. He. stated, that the- libel
having been published so. long ago as July t sop,
some reason would be expeeled fOr the cause having
been so long delayed. Mr. Cobbetrlivitig at such a
distance, and taking advantage of 'his just right of
deferring his pleadings, the cause was brought for-
ward at the earliest period that the forms Of
.the
Court would admit. • Thteatened with invasion, it
was thought proper that a certain portion of the po-
pulation of England should be trained to arms. In
1798, Lord Castlereagh brought in his Bill, by
the. Local Militia 'might be cared out for 28 days,
though they had only l)en
.called out 20 days.—
When the Cambridgeshire Militia was called out,
some dissafieded persons in tne Isle of Ely caused
them to Mutiny, and it was found necessary to call
in the military in the neighbourhood, and five of the
ringleaders were sentenced to receive 500 lashes,
part only of which they received. The German Le-
gion-
.who were thus c tiled itr is composed of body
of brave vviro, when Hanover was-over-rnn,
quilted their country, and entering into his Majesty's
service, have ,conducted themselves with. bravery,
and it was no disparagement to the army to
say,- that the German Legion haVe shared the glory

'with them. At the tiattk oi T:tlavera the German

Legion"took three standards. .No troops had ever
cOndutted•thernseires in a more quit, orderly, and
tuber manner, and,he could not Mid that any coin-

plaint had been made against them. Mr. Wardle,
in a rnoti:;n in the House. of Coalitions, had pro-
posed to disband the Gerinart Lt-giOn, ag;i!;st wpich
Mr. H.uskisson offered . sufficient rea,..ils. A pat.a-
graph soon after appeared in the .Courier, which 11.
would read :

" The Mutiny amongst the-Local Militia which brok'e out
at Ely, was tbr.unately suppressed on Wednesday, by the ar-
-rival of four q uadruns of the German Legion Cavllty, from
13urv, under the command of General Auckland:

the ringleaders were tried by a Court Niartial and sentevicedt;
receive coo la'shes each, part of which puoisinnent tlit•y re-•
eel ved •cL ednesday, arida part Was rernitted A -stoppage for:
their knapsacks xvaslhe ground of complaint that excited
• this mutinous spirit, which occi6ioned the-men to surround
their officers, and demand shat they • deermd their arrears.
first division df the German Legion -halted yesraday
Ni i markek, nn their return to Bury."
.
Courier (ministerial) Newspaper Saturday, June 24 Cdoo.
\\rith this-paragraph, -as a text to a Sennoii, had
Mr. Cobbctt beaded his paper. • • .
.TheATTOUNEY-GENERAL then read the alleged
LOCAL MILITIN AND GERMAN LEGION. -
" See tN:r motto, English reader! See the Anooo,'and
then do pray recoiled all that has been said about the way in
which Buonaparte raises his soldiers.',--Well done, Lord Cas-
tlereagh ! This is just what it was thought your plan would
produce. Well s:lid,. Mr. Huskisson I It really \ not
without reason thit you dwelt, with So mucheatnestnCss,
upon ,the great utility of the foreign Troops, whom Mr.
Wardle appeare4 to th,nk of no,utiiity at all. Poor Gentle-

mai! he tittle imagined how a peat:genius in:glit find use-

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tut eMployment tor such troops. He little imagined that.
t hey'might be made the means of compelling Englishmen to
submit to, that sort of discipline, which is . so conducive
to the producing in them a disposition to detenct the
country, at "the risk Of their lives.—het •Mr. Wardle
look at my motto, and then say, whether the • Ger--
man Soleliers are of no use.—Five hundred lashes each
_I
-Aye, that is right Flog them ; flog them; itog them !
They deserve it, and a great deal more. They deserve a flog-
ging- at every meal, time. Lash them daily, lash then
duly." What, shall the rascals dare to mud y, and that
too when the German Legion -is so near at hand ! . Lash
them, lash tlittn, lash them They deserve it. 0, yes ;
ri.ey merit a double-tailed cat. Base dogs What, mutiny
LI the sake of the 'nice of a knapsack I 'Lash them flua-
.

them Ir Base rastaisi iVntti'ny for the Price efh gnat's Ain
and then., uptit: the tlin.,,,rance of the Getinau valtilers,
take a ticigging a 4 cptietly ~,.,so many ti ot trues
do wits sort of alilace Ei. Li; but I really
should like to kii,w lioWtfie inhabitants took ;r•tt one fwodier
int he face, while this scene was' exhibitii:g iii tt eu town.
I should ITlce to have been ,able to see their t.;,...e5, and to'
hear their observati..iis to each otiwr at the pc-
currence at 110111 Z, wtil, one would' hope, teaCn the ltyal.a
little caution ipispealting of -the means which. Napoleon em-
ploys (or rather, which tney say, he '(niplOys) in eider to
get together -and fo'. discipline his Conscripis. Tti',.:re is
scarcely any 'one of these loyal,.per-,ons, wit, has not. at
various times,..cited the hanii.cutiti gs, and' other means
.4
force said lobe usod in drawing mn it the young me of 1. ranee:
there is Scarcely one of the loyal, who has not cited these
meairs.as proof, a complete proof, that the: peovie of
'France hate Napoleon and uis Government; as,i,4 with re-
lue.t.thce in his wars, and would fain see another
I hope, I say, that the loyal will, itereattc:r, be cab-
tious in drawing such conclusions :.ow th.tt they ;see, Oat
our' gallant defenders,' not oiriy-requ,ro physical leslraint,
•in certain eases, but even a little biood drawn nom their
backs, and that too, with the aA and assistance of 4.,ormatk
troops. Yes, I hope tlieloyal be a little nvire upon
their guard ID drawing COMA it:Ao,lls against .Napa teen's popu-
larity. At any rate, every- tune they etc-4 in !Untie, burst
out in execrations against the .1. tench lot sulk-ling themselves
tie be cliained.togetlT-and toned, at the poo.l of the bay-
onet, to do military duty,' 1' shati just the pas-
sage, which I hale taken for a pipit,' to the pi,..,eut
I have heard Of some other pretty lit tit' tintif;s tit me. wirt ;
but, I rattar choose-to take my instance (at-A.l a very complete
one it is) from a public print, notorious.y under the sway of
the Alitirltry." • -

The Attorney-Generaihei'e .Nwtnt ins, a detailed
exatifination of she libel in its various. parts., and in-,
sisted it was ciearly meant to t.!a:fte the artily to i'e-
voit end resioance ; it was a. sther at th-pn for being
subdued in thf. ix mutany - by Gelman troops, and he'
entreated the Jury to observe -what alplicatioti was
Made of the term 10ga1,"7 wherk Cubbett
found occasion to use-ii-:- it was always uttered With
a, sheer, and exhiFikedts a.terin of icitroaeli. With
respect to trie indirect abuse which yeas atempled to
be thrown on (host unfortunate it,re:.lrtets ...who had
been received into. Our pay, he kit it a t.tuty to say
something. on helialf .9( those Men wee het: fri,:nd-
less ancl'withont a ct,i-intry. They wit re inosfiy his
Majesty's Hanoverian subjeMs, ,t-no preferred set v-
ing their natiVe and hereditary tiverel:gt.i than .to
their eks- 101 c,,i?querur of their native
laud. When- tht.it;couutry s: as subdued, they left
it, a..d ..tt ere' rec,ived intd,tytr pay: 48-oictivrs,,thpii-
cotittui;7l had atways been ekt!to),laty.'. At flume they
hid,condneted • t•.crusAves ‘vt h Subordination and
propriety, and .the Id Cii2y hathai w s dorte their
.thity with imnour and .courage.- At the b,it!Lt of
Tataiera, covered the thitish arms with
glory, the German LegiOn took i s tuft ;hare of the
dang,,er ;:nd of the .ito,.o.utr. at that d for out 'of
the,hve sutudards 'three of iltem were taken
by the Gettuart Legion..- It was' th•erJire: a wicked
attempt to nol,i out site: met-, as ottjets e,f I,nlijic
hatred and delestAion, and it was but' a justice due
to them- to defend their reputation when so attack-
ed. IXe trustO Me Jury v.ould look
.through the
bel catidour. and impartiality, and he is as sore
the -result must be a conytinitm in their winds, that
the .(l iendant"publi*ed 1:01 in 'the spirit' of fair
discnsSion, but with the iialignant view.Of sowing-
distifieciion m the army, and to bring the
Aciirti-
uistrtticnt'of the-country into ettruetupt. If they so
thought, 'they must of mcessiy proLourice the de-
ien:l.tht

The publication was admitted, and Mr. Cobbett
acknowledged Ininselt the 11.11-hor. •

Mr.: C(1:4 ETT then addreSsihg the court, said, he
should take up as little time as possible, doing to
himself as much justice as he thought he deserved.
Bvt the hard wordy accumulatt.d, and-thunde!ing
acchsatiops that had been used, would not mislead
the Jury. Sir William Hall,: Attorney, General in
the*—titne , of William the Third, had said-,-." lit
Spain the Inquisition`cihthel pershns'in sun Lenitos,
that they might be rendered hideous by being thus
dressed up." Be wished the ,'fury to put on his
words'rro nerving but that which he -had, and
. he
trusted that they would acquit hhh. That the At
toiney General was not infallible,. was sutEcientsly
proved by the chvge that lately .11-d been made
against a person of the same prolest.on, who -wa,s
even accused of wishing the Kin:} dead--but the
Jury did not, by their verdict, slicw that they
believed the Attorney General. - In the whole
world there was not a Man who hati been more
calumniated- than-, hiinself (Mr. Gobbet), and, in
the pi-opagatton of that calumny, he certainly
did believe' his, Majesty's Ministcrs to be. "im-
plicated. This: as a goes-thin of intention, and,
if they
,could believe,_him guilty of. What was im-
puted to hint,. they- must thilik, him capable of any
thing. Even in the very streets" he was calutn4
niated by placards. By otte Person who had a pen-
sion of two hundie,l pouhds per annum, and which
Lord Sidmouth had struck off, was as-
serted at the 'foot of a caricature of a, rin,,st out-
' rageous nature. (Here I\it'. Cobh-eft:read it.] On
seeing this, in vs hicia it was- asserted, that he
had, 1793, tece'R ed 40001. for 'circulating a
Pamphlet 'against Reform —feelin4 himself thus
cuarged, he had vt-r4tien to Lord Sidmouth; from
whom l,e had received a most candid answer.—
Lilere Mr. Cobbett rea 1 a letter
•from Lord Sid-
mouth, chhtradiCting the taspersihnQMr. Cobbeit
then adverted to a form'er prosecution in the Court of
King's Bench, in which he had been-prosecuted for
the publication of a written, by a .ItOgt.,, 0
IP.?wevcr; now etijos,ed a p,nsioh, and which, by
the Literality Of. Mr. Perceval, Was increasrd
8001. per annum. He then adveried to a pro=
secutioh ag:.inst ltitn fbr a libel in America:, on
tie trial for it aaear, d, that the Sparnith
MinisTer had contrived plot to poison, his Ma-
je::ty's trnips• in America. 'Having: ,suffered ih
his forune in that cause so severely for his King
and Couhtry, that very case had ht en ripped up,
and.brought;agai'mt hitn on a fbrmer occasion by
the Atiorney General. Mr. Cobtlett then confirm-
ed to read the calumny published aiainst hini in
the caricature history of his life, air,' continued, by
observing that, in ,his private life, he had fulfilled
every duty*ithin hispower. It had happi.kned that
Lord Craven, wanting to make a road',for the con-
veyance of caution in Hampshire, on inquiry .into
the means of making it, every one said, go to Mr;
Gobbett. Thus he wars not suspected of dis;oyalty, and
had been engaged list Session in car rytng the Bitl for
that purpose through both Houses of He
worth! DOW eudeasour to refute the chat„ae that had
been' speLifically brought against honn. The `cbiarl.:.e
s as that 'he maliciously intended to ex 4e disaffec-
tion, &c. The information stated iiicil to cfrr that,
being au ill-disposed setlitiousperson, and in hatre,d
1, of his Majesty and hiS Government—that is, that
he LlIt.'4UL to do an injury to his country. But if

zli4
c. ifr44,
ttey found him guilty, It. mlst. be on thc. pr icip
that stick his intenti9n, 1 kei.,,g,ez.i thtli- pat-,
ticolar-attention tO this; fa; iii ti.e.
Sisted .the whole of this-clse. iv r..Ccbbeit then att.

. _
verted to tic Attoyney-General nt
.opening, in which be was in error fiatthatitl ' itaci
intig been ready to come lletere the Cotirt.
Ore deoied, 'that he had avallel hiinscii!
ot any advantage to d,.-1:11,r the trial for one hour. &';
far from it; his iatewst renderM it: deiirable tb.it it
s!_htild not be •deferred, fora persoti with a factli!y•
children just old enough to be Elm-flied, and Witt:

Wife. in a situ: lion • ihat increased his ernbarras,-

.tnent and distress, cOuti. not •he supposed •19
hue any mot-To for evading jw,tice, The .A,-•
torney-Generll
.had dwc,lt on the
.word " Fu}-a1;"'
it trig t' hlve been supposed, 'that ,he had 160
much discretion to' make tise.ot that word as a

term of reproach. [he July, if they I:att read hi 4
paper; most know it. Tice Attorney-General must
know it. Were were peri,ons who had set up pr,2.

ten ions to. exclusive -lovalty—such mei-) for in.
stance, as Mr. Liowks,_Mr. Hunt, arht Mr.
hers, who, the rnoment th.it any measure of retrench-

orient; was proposed, latinedf.tily open with-a Cry ('t
Every one must know .his meatniq..-; to.
be by that word an imnical application to those hy-
pocrites,..t. hoaffeCling loyalty are any thing
Another set of called themselves Ki ng's frientlq,
vi/Ito ev&ybody most know it to be his opinion that
they.aKe.nOi the Ittog's friends. The Attorney 4...-
.neral knew the whop-paragraph to be safirical, a (Ai.
ticistrfon Lord Casflereagh's Bifl, the Mischief from
whieh 110 hid ueen very tnrward in anticipating. pat 4

. _
oh ! says Lord,Casilereagh; you cannot mean me,
'you must meNI: the King—" :speaking t.f floEging,,
it cannot mean toe." Why,liy,and by-if. the. Mi-
nisters poled in the street with. n.-,ud,
should be told, the mud - teas 'thrown a: the
-King; and. not at the .Minister.. Sir -William
Blackstone says, the, proper nobjeals of criminal in•
formation, are
,such
.misdemeanors as endanger or
disturb .the Govemnent, all 'other offences ought
to go before that wofold shield of k'reedotu,a Grand
Jury ; a nit)demeanor of this nature too, says he,
ought to be prosecuted immediiitely. Yet this staid
a wholtS ~,(-7fvetnonili, before- it Was brought be fire
i Court of Justice. There was nothing in the pa-
per to _affront' the K'ng. If the information had
said,..he had intended to attack Lord Caitlereao,
he should admit tire fact. Tire Attorney-Gene-

4 ral had slid. on a former occasion, • that he did
not meddle with writers for attacking
, I~7inisters-r
this was .a mere 4tt:ick.:opop Ministers, and every
body Lii,w it.. The.,„foised construMiun
words W3S obilinUls; was ridiculing the rnea-
i sure, and in sayino- " flog.—thein," he meant
!..nothiog more thiu a 4dicule of .Lord Castk.'
ref, is measure. . The use rmLle of Bnona.

vute's treatment -of. Aoldiers, was to,- niake.
the trealinent of the Local Militia a warniog

to Mini.;ers to di2,iit from, that 1.11,--`4lStKe.- Were 4
• we never to complain of, soldiers being ill trealety
If we were to 'sto a s= l ier flogged to death, was no.
!wive, no, to move in. his defence ?, ob.
Jett. was' to cause the folly of the tneasure to J:ke
done; away. A fellow frith a smock. frock
sentenced to fi. e hundred lashes for mutiny ;
_but
:this was not. a mutiny'; a squabble allow a march.
guinea: he -4,1,1 told Lord Ca'silereagh that by'
that measure he bad just made these.rilen soldiers
enough to dislike labour,, and yet not soldiers enough
to cease to he Ja'aourers. Lie Would read 'what
Lord Genviiie had said.

Lord ELLEl,ispanuon intF,dered; he thought the
reference to Parrkrrnetrt improper.
Mr: •C01381.,,TT euntinued—lt was said by' Mr.
whitbresti AA_ the tri.-atnient of soldiers in
Duke of Cumberland's regiment was•ps' severe as
ever, and even pickotting in hat regiment, altliongli
the pradices had. been discontinued in es ery otirer.
Bt2t did Ivir. Whitbuad mean by that 'to bring his
•
Majesty and his Government into contempt? .
Lille. ATTORNEY-GENgPAL here' interfered, and
Lord ELLuNtior.touox said„V.at the allusion to .what
had passed in,P,irliament had BO proper reference to,
the Defendant's defence.]
_

dostETT'resumed----The man who meant to .
excite aisaffeaion in the army would not have' taken...
such opert.aneasures as hid been 'imputed—He
would hare proceeded mere secretly a!•d iusi~iiously :,
!tel.+ cud suppose a cs,e," in which a nun should be -
so wicked, or, so imprudent, as to publish an -ac7
count kvhich might have a te,ndeney to produce in-
.calculable mischief. If, for instance, when our
shores were threatened with the immediate presence
of the enemy, and our fleet were going off to meet
them, a man should say, in any public newspaper;
that there was a-great deficiency, not only of coui
foils, but even necess,ries, for the use of our fleet- ;
that it wits deficient at every article that was requi,
si.e. Such a publictnion might be presumed to have.
been published with an evil intention, although, itt
fact, no such intention might exist. Such a publi•
cation he would read—[Here Mr.Cobbett.read a pa-
seg:aph froM a News, aper.] 'For this:paragraph -
the kte.Attorney7Genend (Sir A. Pigott) had insii-
ttitcd a;:prosecutio:i,' however, present
Att,U`n._•y-General bad abinloned. 'Yor this, he did
not tocan to cast any Lettettion on the Xttorn,ey-
who, he was 'convinced, hid -dropped
the prosecution,' trop; 'persuasion that there was
'no evil intention lit the wind of the writer. - In
late prOsecution in that Court (against the MorniNg
Chrohiete) the Attorney-General had said, that it
wets not his practir.e to prosecute Men for warmth
of. discussion or a(AtuadytisiOn on- the measures ,of
••Government, where is ably proceeded from indis-
cretion or inadvertency; li.had once been observed'
by Lord Erskine in that COtirt, on a similar data, *
sion, that there wrere many eases in which expres.,
sons, iii themselves offensive and dangerous) might •
•be used without having•any evil intention. if, for .
instance, in coming d ma to that Hall, which was
then occupied by the accnnunodatiOns for the trial of
Mr. Hastings, be had expt essed his dissatisfaction at,
before Stuffed into this hole in the wall,' (speaking
of the Court of coalition Pleas)—if he had said, " Is' •
there peter to be an end ()fans Hastings's trial 1
wish the roof might fail in an.: crush them altogether,
and so nut an ei.d to it." This, in itself, would be •
very oflensise, and very wicked -611- the face of it,
but without an evil intention could be proved,
'wortld not any' Member have been laughed at, wilt)
should .move .for Lk expulsion from the House
Coinmons-i Such was the observation of that
Lelrned Lord. If every passage that is written
:s to a:-mt, of such forced construe ions as had