The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-01 00:00:00

COBBETT AND PRESTON.

When Mr. Hunt stood for Preston in 1820, he polled in eight
days nearly 100 more votes than the Skeleton-man has done in
fourteen. Mr. Hunt, too, wait notupelled to leave Preston on the
fifth day, for the purpose of taking hie trial at York. Whereas
Cobbett has continued to exhibit his boll-dog face" at the win-
dow of his pot-honse, andsto vomit ',forth his '6 palavers" to
very last hour of the election.
Sir Thomas BiVVOr has, it would seem, left Preston, without
making an apology to theinbabitants, for bringing the impudent
Mountebank into their town. Sir Thomas gives to a reason for
countenancing the impostor, that he, is under pent)* obligations
to him. Gratitude is certainly a prime virtue but we think
the worthy Baronet might have found' out a mode of repaying
the obligation, .which would not have been an insult to the elec-
tors of Preston. _

But, if we cannot excuse Sir Thomas Btevor,, still his can
we .escuto Lord Folkestone, who, it now comes put, actually sub-
scribed "50 golden sovereigns," as Cobbett calls them, towards the.
Mountebank-Hind. If the Noble Lord,. really wished to see Cob-
bett sitting beside him in the House of Commons, why did he not
lend him, like Sir Thomas Beevor, his personal countenance at
Preston ? Or rather, why did he not prevail on 'his venerable Sire
to return the " Bone-grubber" for Pownton, instead of the Poet
Latireat ! All this, we confess, we do not understand.

" Show me," replied
borough into which
Not so the conduct of Sir Francis Burden ! That 'la plain,
and opOn, and straight forward.. On being asked by colonel
tJyholoehunlicsatoin:inc.er.Bato:invococonieitt,rbeittitteihaattnodytolullellibi,egiilytgeti,nonngrt-orltmitebli,te a
much
larger
sum
than Lord Folkestone has dope. But mind-._I do this not as a
dupe. I know the fellow to be ao impostor, and that the best
way of making every man in the country of my opinion, would
be to exhibit him in the House of,Commons ; but I will never
contribute a single farthing to enable and, a min to present iiiirn-
self before any respectable body of electors."

By this time Lord Folkestone must, we think, wish that his
bo gulden sovereigns" were snug in bit pocket. When the
Mountebank ran away froM that
in 1820, the first intelli-
gence we had of him was, he had taker up his residence in
Ss.,cooyge's-fields. Where he will now take refuge ,we neither
know nor care. We recollect, however, his horrid promise, that
he would make Sir *Francis Burdett "seek refuge from the scorn
of monhind in a croAs-road's grave :" and, m accidentally turn-
ing os et lilt blood-thirsty American Register for March 28, 1816,
we find !inn, at page 374, writing thus of his present Majesty
" it »any be added, and not without reason, why a man, situate
ahthe Prince is, should wish to live at all. Very true; it is
a fife of disgrace, and would he insupportable to a man of
spirit l I"—Virnee.

It•TS(TLN-F' DEBTORS.

PETMONS OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
To be heard in ,Portugsl-itreet, Loxnox, inert THUILIDAY.
J. T. Price, HOxton Old Town; Middlesex, paper-Lager.
E Weatcoatt, Liquorvond-street,. • Gray's-inn-lane, Holborn.

silversmith.'
T.. Pownceby Three-Arrow-court, Chancery-lane, Middlesex,

writer.
J. Johnson' Great St. Andrew's-street,. Seven-dials, corn-dealer.
IL Porter, Butt-line, Deptford, Keut, poultry-dtiler.
Periett, Deptford, Kent, ship-;carpenter.
TG4o7wlll,B4r°(ll•o'lltleYtlp3liiieded,teCol'emx'mbeArkceir.
M al-road,
C. Sharp, Cbarter-house-strset, tobacconist.
R. soap, Gloucester-street, Hackney-fields, Middlesex ,tailor.
T. Buck, Sunderland, Durham, saddler.
J. Blackwood, Gceatt'furner-street, Commercial-road, nutriner.
,h It/anima,. Wyncilopm-str.eet, New-Nattl,Alaryleixme, superin-
tendent of the gas-worlo hi the litiperial Gas Corrrpany.'
ii„, Nelson, Weston-street, fiiMthwark, Surrey, carver.
T. Davis, Ititillikolle7Place, Middlesex, draper.
J. llalf hide, New-row, Deptford, Kent; milkman.
YiedCriool-PlaCe; Middlesex,
J. kiall,,King's-strqte Seven-tyali, Middlesex, patters-dealer.
J. 'ferny> istorrojk-striietNew o rthLtoad Iviinstrin car.
penteK. '
J. Mortyn, 114 liather.lane, 11olborn,
manufaxtuter.