Star.
London, England, 1830-02-22 00:00:00

MR. COBBETT'S PETITION.

I:: honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, In Parliament uaembled.
:'b• petition of William Cobbett (farmer, of the parish. of
.mes, in the county of Surrey,) being dated the 15th day of
.I:ornery, 1830,
.tort humbly showeth,

That your petithiner perceives, with great alarm, that there are
otrson. who appear to he combining for the purpose of indacing your
honourable House to pass laws to cause the King's coin to be again
supplanted by a fictitious currensy, consisting of worthless rags; a
measure which, if adopted, would deprive the people of that pro-
tection which they derive from the most important of all the pre-
rogatives of the Crown, and would, in the firm conviction of your
petitioner, finally and even speedily expose the nation to the bor.
rors naturally resulting from an extinction of all measure of value.
That your petitioner, in order to induce your honourable House
not totally to disregard this his opinion, begs to be permitted to
state the following facts to your honourable House ; that is to say,
1. That, in the year 1817, your petitioner., together with some
thousands of the people of Hampshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and
other counties, sent to your honourable House a petition, humbly
praying, that you would be pleased to reduce the interest of the
debt, and all public salaries and pay, in proportion to the then aug-
mented value of money; that you would be pleased to reduce the
standing army ; that you would be pleased to reduce all the taxes,
and to abolish the taxes on malt, hops, leather, soap, and candles,
and that we the said petitioners, most humbly ;rod respectfully be-
sought your honourable house to believe, that unless measures of
this description were adopted in time, the final consequence must be
distress so general and so great as to expose the whole frame of
society to dissolution.
2. That your honourable House was pleased to give to these
humble repsesentationa and prayers, no answer other than that
which the petitioners found in a law, which your honourable House
hastily passed, to enable the King's Ministers to shut them up in
prisons and in dungeons without being confronted with their ac-
cusers, without crime specified in the commitment, and without the
power of appeal to the Act of Habeas Corpus ; and that in come.
quence of this law, many of the petitioners were thus imprisoned,
cut off from all communication with wives, children, and friends,
and deprived of the use of pen, ink, and paper ; that some of these
petitioners died in prison; that the rest, after long suffering, were
sent forth from the dungeons, without any trial, without any hear.
ing, without any knowledge of the offences imputed to them, totally
ruined in their affairs, some finding that their wives and children had
perished for want, and all cut off from the possibility of obtaining
redress, your honourable House having in the meanwhile passed a
Bill of Indemnity bearing harmless all those, of whatever rank or
degree, who had, in their treatment of those unhappy men, gone even
beyond the severity of the imprisonment law itself.
3. That, in the year 1818, your humble petitioner having fled to
Long Island, in order to avoid the dungeons and the treatment
aforementioned, and having heard of an intention on the part of your
honourable house to cause a return to the ancient measure of value,
lost not a moment in praying your honourable house not to cause
such return, without, at the same time, parsing a law making an
equitable adjustment with regard to the interest of the debt,with regard
to all contracts between man and man, and without a reduction of
the taxes to, at least, one half of their then nominal amount, humbly
beseeching your hon. house to be assured, that, if your hon. house
caused a return to the ancient measure of value without adopting
these concomitant measures, you would, in effect, more than double
the amount of the taxes, cause a violation of all contracts, fatten the
usurers at the expense of the industrious classes, and would plunge
the country into confusion and misery indescribable.
4. That, in the year 1819, your honourable House, totally dis.
regarding this solemn warning of your humble petitioner, though be
had enforced it with arguments wholly unanswerable, actually passed
a law for re-establishing the ancient measure of value, and that, too,
without any of those concomitant measures so earnestly prayed for
by your humble petitioner.
6. That in the year 1822 that distress, the coming of which had
been so clearly and confidently predicted by your bumble petitioner,
was spreading itself over the country with such fearful wades, that
your honourable house repealed, in effect, the most material part of
the law of 1819, leaving, however, other puts, which, in time, your
humble petitioner knew must, if left without remedy, tend to pro-
duce a convulsive revolution.
G. That, in the year 1823, your humble petitioner, together with
great majority of his brother freeholders of the county of Norfolk,
sent to your honourable house a petition, praying you. while yet
there was time, to pass laws for the making of an equitable adjust-
ment of all contracts, not excepting the contracts with those who
were receiving interest on account of the debt ; praying you to abolish
all unnecessary expenses; praying you to abolish the taxes on malt,
hops, leather, soap, and candles; praying you to apply certain por-
tions of public property to public purposes : praying you to restore
the people to the enjoyment of their right of freely chasing their re.
presentatives in Parliament; and imploring your honourable house
to believe, that without these measures, there would be great dan.
ger arise to that constitution which had, in former times, been a
source of so much greatness and happiness to England.
7. That your honourable House, while you received, and caused
to be printed this our humble petition, did not condescend to pay
the smallest attention to its earnest prayers and its solemn warnings,
though these were speedily followed by similarprayers and warnings,
expressed In petitions from the counties of Cambridge, Hereford,
aat. Surrey.
8. That in the year 1826, the consequence of this inattention made
its hideous appearance in a panic, which, according to the confession
of one of the King's Ministers, had. at one time, brought the country
to within forty.eight hoer: of barter," that in this state of alarm
your honourable Horse passed a bill to abolish all notes under five
pounds on the sth of April, 1829; that while the bill was co the
table of your *honourable House, and before it was passed, your
humble petitioner sent to your honourable House a petition, praying
yon to pass the bill, but not without reducing the taxes to the
amount at which they stood before the small paper money
supplanted the coin of his Majesty, solemnly warning your honour.
able house, that if the said bill were passa and enforced, without
such reduction, it would produce throughout the kingdom ruin and
wretchedness absolutely insupportable; that your honourablehouse,
not condescending even after all that had passed, to listen to this
humble supplication and solemn warning of your petitioner, passed
and have enforced, the :said bill, and that the unhappy people are ,
now smarting and writhing under the consequences.
That your humble petitioner, begs to be permitted to express a
hope, that your honourable house will not, after the recital of this
series of facts, at once so striking and so notorious, deem it an
affront offered to the wisdom of your honourable house, if he enter.
tains an expectation that you will now at last condescend to lend an ear
to his humble representations and prayers with regard to the present
and the future.
That' it is his decided conviction, that, if your honourable House
shall unhappily entertain, or give countenance to, any measure for
again debasing the currency, without, at the same time, closing the
bank against demands for gold, and making the paper a legal tender,
there will be a general run on all the banks; that another panic
will ensue ; that the gold will be buried; that there will be no mea-

sore of value ; and that all law and all the rights of property will'
yield to the ungovernable ravings of hunger and to the unbridled in-
dulgence of the dreadful pa.ssion of revenge.

That, if your honourable House adopt the said measure of de-
basement, and at the same time close the banks against demands for
gold, and that if you do this in a manner so sudden as to prevent
the run above-mentioned, your humble petitioner beseeches your ho-
nourable House to reSect on the awful consequences of tae tibusset
prices in all dealings, one price in paper, and another price in
money ; an event which has always taken place under similar cir-
cumstances ; an event clearly inevitable in the ease contemplated ;

an event that has always roved, and that always must prove, the
depth of paperononey; an event that has never failed to be at-
tended with the total destruction of every thing called credit; an
event that must, your humble petitioner is convinced, produce in
this country, a convulsive, if not a sanguinary, revolution.
That, however, your humble petitioner fears, as he thinks that
all men must fear, that if the iting's coin continue to be the mea-
sure of value, without a reduction of the taxes to the amount at
which they stood previous to the issue of the small paper money,'
civil society will be shaken to its very base ; that already, even
though the law of 1826 has not yet produced one-tenth part of its
inevitable effects, all property begins to feel its .insecurity; that the
manufacturer, the merchant, and the trader, whether wholesale or
retail, are caving on business without profit, and living on their
capital, or on the capital of their creditors ; that the landlord finds
es= the rigid law of distraint insufficient for the obtaining of his
tarot; that die fauna finds his stoat and all his mane melt impart
cepdhly away, malls the inclPPlas wants of the unemployed la.
beam serums the demands on those diminished means; and that,
wins au dim damp on snarl% the anima of both bodily and
wog anrohlt, they behold the resolvers of that mom than doubled

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tans wallowing in luxurious waste, and glittering in insulting
splendour.

That your humble petitioner hope* that your honourable House
will not interpret into any want of respect towards your honourable
Rouse an expredffion of his earnest hope, that you wM be pleased
while there is yet time, seriOnaly to reflect on the eaketraphe to
to which this state of things naturally tends; that, even at this mo-
ment, hundreds of thousands of the manufacturing labourers obtain
their miserable pittance in great part from the voluntary count.
buttons of those amongst the next clam whose means we not yet es.
imitated, the sw having long since failed to enforce a collection of
rates sufficient for the purpose, and that, in the manufacturinei dis-
tricts, to the doling. of charity on the one hand and the menace of
military force on the other, is to be ascribed the keeping of the
poke amongst a people the most industrious and the most expert
and ingenious in the whole world.

That, in the agricultural part of the kingdom, that is to my,
In nineteen twentieths of It, the prospect is infinitely more full of
peril ; that the people of England have a clear right, in law u well
as in reason, to food, raiment, and fuel, out of the produce or pro.
ceeds of the land of England; that if they cannot obtain these out
of their own means, or by their labour, they have a right to them in
the shape of parochial relief ; that they know their rights in this
respect ; that already they have, in divers instances, shown a deter-
mination not to lie down and groan out their souls under the un-
speakable pangs of hunger; that already they hays, in several in.
stances, enforced their demands of relief with cudgels in their
hands; that, in every case they have been tranquillised by a yielding
to their demands; and that your humble petitioner beseeches your
hoc. Houseto reflect, while there is time for reflectionon the swiftness
of the spreading of this species of contagion, and to rat to yourselves
the solemn question of, what could be done (f half a ~sty here
and half a county there mere in a stale qf etnasmtion, arising
from hunger, and urged on by all the hostile paseiOns knew* to
the breast of mon II

That such is a possible and even a probable event, your humble
petitioner believes that no man will deny; that, if. such as.evcnt
were to take place, it is manifest that there would be an instant
and universal run on the banks for gold, and that general bank.
ruptey, adding to the turmoil, would hasten the moment when the
word property would be without a meaning; and your humble
petitioner beseeches your honourable House to reflect, that, in
such a state of things, the choice would lie between universal
violence and bloodshed, and a transfer of all rented property
from the owner to the occupier, and thus, as the least evil of the
two, making the rich and the poor change places.
That your humble petitioner cannot trust himself to venture
on a description of the scenes which the metropolis would present
in case of any of the events above contemplated; that barely to
hint it these will, your petitioner humbly hopes, be sufficient to
induce your honourable House to lose no tints in adopting effec
teal measures of present relief, and of security for the future ; and
that, thorax*, in this hope, he humbly prays, that your honour.
able House will, with all possible speed, pass a bill or bills, having
the effect following t to wit,

1. To reduce the amount of the taxes to the amount at which they
stood In the year 1791.
2. To take from the revenues of the Church,' from the Crown
lands, and from mismanaged corporations and public charities,
whatever sum may be wanted annually beyond the amount of the
taxes of 1791.
3. To make a just reduction Of the interest of the debt, commonly
called National.
4. To make a radical reform in your honourable House, so that the
members of that House may be freely chosen by the people at
WV*

That it has been with extreme reluctance, that your humble ped.
boner has thus ventured to trespass on the thne of your honourable
House; but that, being fully convinced of the existence of the
dangers of which he has spoken ; being little sheet el certain, that
unless prevented by the measures which he has seggested, the es.
tastrophe will be even more dreadful than that which be has attempted
to describe; being thus convinced, he thought it &duty fine from
him to his country, to add the present to all the pasevarnfisgs given
by him to your honourable House, whom he, in conclusion, once
more earnestly implores to save the country from all those horrors,
into which he firmly believes it must finally be plunged by a re.
jection of those measures which he has here so respectfully, and with
so much anxiety, suggested for the consideration of your honourable
House.

And your petitioner will ever pray.
WILLIAM COBBETT.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING.

Mr. Osbaldeston's hounds meet to-morrow, at Ilisterton ; Thurs.
day, at Clipston ; Friday, at Brockhall.
The Duke of Grafton's hounds Wednesday, at Castle Thorp ;
Friday, at Wolverton (heat Ground.
Mr. Berkeley's bounds to-morrow, at Bletsoe ; Thursday, at Rox.
ton Saturday, at Crantleld.
Mr. Drake's hounds to-morrow, at Warden Kennel; Thursday,
at Stratton Audley ; Saturday, at Gibraltar.
Lord Anson's hounds on Wednesday, at Croft Hill ; Thursday,
at Three Pats ; Friday, at hailstone Wigp ; Saturday, at Sibson.
The Quorn hounds to-morrow, at Wichnerpool New Inn;
Wednesday, at Carlton Clump ; Thursday, at Beeby ; Friday, at
Nevill Holt.
Mr. Illeynell's hounds at Sudbury ; Thursday, at Bradley ; Sa-
turday, at Black Slough.
Mr. Wickatead's hounds Thursday, at Seigbford ; Saturday, at
Willowbrldge.
The Derby Stag Hounds Thursday, at Smitham Bottom; Satin-
day, at Lock's Bottom.
Jolliffe's fox bounds Wednesday, at Ontwood.
The Duke of Rutland's to-morrow, at Ropsley Kennel; Thurs-
day, at Waltham Town; Friday, at Belton House.
Earl Fltswilliam's hounds Wednesday, at Hunt's Closes; Thurs-
day, at Thornhaugb.
Sir R. Sutton's hounds to-morrow, at Saxelby ; Thursday, at
Winceby Village and Branston Wood; Saturday, at Torrington
Village and Stapleford Moor.
Sir Jacob Astley's Deer Hounds meet on Friday, at East Barham.
Mr. Caldirell's Stag Hounds meet on Friday, at 'Upton Ash
Heath.
Mr. Richard Ring Sampson's Hounds meet on Thum*, at
Bourne f Saturday, at Mr. Ade's Duffles.
Sir R. Pulatott's Hounds meet on Wednesday, at Overton-telt* ;
Saturday, at Hardwick.
Mr. Boycott's Hounds meet on Thursday, at Holy Crops.

A Requisition for a Kent County Meeting is in a
coarse of signature. It has already been numerously
signed by the freeholders.
A report having been spread in Paris, that tickets of
admission to the ball, announced at the Opera House for
the benefit of the poor, would be refused to those incom-
parable artists, Mademoiselle MARS and Madame MA-
LIBRAN, on the ground of their being actresses, several
members of the Committee of Management on Tues-
day waited ripen them to disavow any such determination ;
and, to make the disavowal complete, tickets were imme-
diately sent to these ladies.
Four persons have been lodged in the gaol of Sligo,
under a charge of conspiring to murder William Weir,
Esq. a magistrate for the county of Sligo. Mr. Cross-
ley, the stipendiary magistrate, has been engaged in in.
vestigating the awful affair ; and the evidence received,
wilfidly establish the charge against those apprehended.
There are no less than five postmasters in different
parts of Ireland now under suspension, in ionsequeace of
having unofficial communication with a person who letely
held a high situation in the General Post-Office. -r„
Limerick Evening Post. •
It seams that, owing to the circuitous nature of the
nods, .twenty-two miles are lost *est •and
York, thirty-one between London and rt.
four Wawa 10,49 n NO. Milashisier, itty between Lo.-
don and Maisie; 44*
.bolaiiin aspiala 084 Oftgowt,
and sixty-seven between London and Ethalpiugh

UNI VERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFOIiFi7. SID.
Thursday the following Degrees were confined :*
MACTIMI OP ARTS.
Edmund Damon Legb, WWI College, grand compounder.
Robert Evans, Fellow of Jaen College.
Rev. Cherie, Williams, Fellow of Jens Colk
Rev. Inn Smith Litchfield, Trinity College.

secnsions Oi MITI.

=ward
ry Hussey,umphre Christ Atstuh, iSisidisenpoondsr.
/Sainsbuys. Braosonose College.
Arthur George Palk, Christ Chun&
Horatio littutnel Fletcher, Queen's College.
John %Oen, Trinity College.
John Reed Munn. Worcester College.
At an ordinadon held by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, in the
Chapel of the Palace, on Tuesday, the.lid inst. the following gen.
deraen were ordained Priests s

John Foley, B.A. Fellow of Wadbum Why,Ozfbrd.
Patrick Murray Smythe, N.A.auto awe* thifgad•
Hugh Matthle, B.A. Pembroke Colby, Odwd.
John Vernon, M.A. Worcester Cage, Ozlhrd.
Hon. Lord Charles Paula, M.A, Ors Bal, Cambridge.
Bighead Foley, M.A. Fellow of -ad College Cambridge.

ZCCLZSIASTICAL PROMOTION/.
Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Told was ordained assistant and enc.
come to the Rev. Mr. J *Dundee.
Rev. James Walker, D.°V.:lllell=hesdie'College, Gm is
unanimously elected a Soli =by tho Andy of the
in the room of Dr.
Rev. Dr. Dealtry,llineneelhs of Whin= Whoa* II
appointed by the Lord Blisp.of Methuen imam to din Inle
Venerable Lasalles I so ass of the Prebendaries.
Saturday, Mr. Georg* and Mr. Henry Berry
Commoners of University Mei% were elected scholars on Ws
Simon Bennett's founded= In dot society.
The Rev. James Edwarla, M.A. Dewy of. Magda= ealligat
has been collated by the of Can=bmy to the. loseary
of Newington, in this county, vacant by the death of as Ye
Dt. Pen.
In the Court of Delegates on Monday morning, the suit 4 Two
w. Berme*, which has so often been before the public, cabse en
again in the shape of an appeal, and after some arguments, dr
judgment of the Arches' Court, which directed that Dr. Free shoe*
be deprived of his living at Sutton, in Bedfordshire, forthwith, we/
confirmed. This living is in the gift of the President and Fan=
of St. John's College.
LAW I PiTELLIGEYCE.

COURT OF lE1?18ll IiiNCII. Fn. 90.
Lord Tenterden sat in Guildhall for the Triel of Loudon Com.
mon Jury causes.

V. rllHtll AND OTIMILS.
This was an action for libel, brought by the plidadl4 a book-
aeUer, residing in Chancery lane, spinet the of the
Mornkg Journal, foe the publication of befeee the
Magistrates at Bow-street police-office, in die= was;
certain stated to have improperly withheld MU. of a
person named Feratandig, a teacher of the German lanpron After
the case wu opened, the Counsel on the edme sHe enammend that a
verdict of 40s. damages should be entered whet this, which was
agreed to.

CONSISTORY COURT, Fan. O.
(Ade,' Da. LUSIIINGTON.)
ELLENBOAOUGH ELLENSIOIOUGN.
This was a suit brought by Lord Ellenborough against his wife,
Lady F. Ellenborough, praying for a divorce, on the ground of
adultery having been commitW, with Prince Schwarttenberg son
of an Austrian nobleman, of immense wealth, and late an ;teethe
to the Austrian embassy.
From the arrangements betwixt counsel, the particulan of the
alleged criminality were not, as is emfamory he dims pub-
licly argued, but the adultery was char have taken
place in Barley-street, as the noble lad boa ass ash%
the part of fills de ehatebre to disooreguescem, SINNUE.
stances which admitted but of one
Dr. DOBSON briefly opened the case, sad was zeidted toil the
King's Advocate, who stated that Laiy Ellsebsaingh in-
saluted him to offer no opposition.
The JUDGE said he had read the whole of the evidence, and
found the fast of maniere clearly artablished.—Also, from the
evidence, no doubt could exist of the imputed aiminality of the
lady; therefore the Court felt itself bound; to pronoun sentence
of divorce a mend el Shore, as prayed for by Lordship.
Lady Ellenborough, we believe, is now in Switzerland. •
As soon as the sentence of supsradon between Lord Ellenbetteggh
and his Lady was pronounced In the Callback" Court,posesd-
inp were immediately sdopted to may the cause to the Bess of
Lords, where it is fully expected that a Dimas Bill will psis Wok.
out the least interruption, from the learned Civilians inS•
behalf of her Ladyship. The document tbe giy Dr.
ton, for the was on the somance ven
to the paper ce at the House of Lords. As evidmos es the
part of the promoter of the CM was not gone into on amollei li Si.
surance made by the King's Advocate, that no opposition would be
offered, the details of the facts exhibited in the libel. IMO not stated
Ito the Court. Led y Ellenborough was the daughter of Admiral
Digby, and grand daughter of Mr. Coke, M.P. for Norfolk, and
up to the present period when Lord Ellenbaough was informed of
his wife's conduct, evinced great affection foe his Lordship. Prince
Schwartzenberg, the party alleged to have been guilty of adultery
with Lady Ellenborough, it will be remembered was in the suite of
Prince Emeriti's'', last summer, and visited with the Prince at Lord
Ellenborough's. On these occasions it is believed the intimacy was
commenced between the Prince and Lady Ellenborough, which
was carried on for some short time, his Lordship being wholly ig-
norant of ths transaction. On the day his Lordship was informed
of the fact, Indy Ellenborough met him on his return home with
every apparent affection but was soon informed by his Lordship
of what he had heard : and shortly afterwards her Ladyship pro-
ceeded in the caniage to her mother's residence, and steps were then
taken by his Lordship to obtain the necessary relief. The evidence
of the witnesses in proof of the articles contained In the libel goes
to the full proof of the offence with the party alluded to, and who,
as soon as Prince Estethasf learned the fact, was dismissed
from all connexion with the k.m from Austria. The greatest
difficulty has been experienced in obtaining the evidence to render
the case full and complete, the witnesses having ban distributed in
various places. There are seventeen witnesses In the whole, though
but thirteen are alluded to in the proceedings of the Consistortal
Court. The evidence produced is stated to be unique of the kind.
Soon after the information bad been given to his Lordship by two
friends of the conduct of Lady Ellenbormh, and after Prince
Schwartzenberg had left the country, lady Ella borough alio pro-
ceeded to the Continent, taking her passage in the Earl of Liver-
pool, bound to Ostend. She was joined not long afterwards by
Prince Schwartsenberg.—An expectation was at first entertained
that her Ladyship would have defended the cause, in hope of having
the alimony (1,0001. alear it is understood) continued. The pro.
ceedings In the Consistory Court yesterday morning, however,
did not occupy more than five minutes ; and although the whole
of the witnesses are retained.—thould the House of Lords demand
their examination in addition to the documentary evidence which
will be laid before is not expected that one will be called.
At the West-end of the town the cause has been the subject of much
conversation.

Fovea raTo.- lliilianLMeioiisainaWM Indicted for having
forged an ossupthues to a MR of exchanp for 63t. 9e. (141., on the
14th blank leas, pops/nisi mbe ed by Messrs. Long aid
Co. coadbmgme. of SSA. Martin's and passing lissome
to Henry William Mn.., who keeps the Volunteer pis
in Upper Baker-eteest. dogma witnesses were called, wbt P14:41
it to be la the imodwritiag of the pekoe, ; lead the Jury found him
Guilty of ONO& let reesemmendsd him to mercy.
Swimming.— William Maas Was indicted fat obtaining, on
the 24th of November last, from Messrs. Spence, Basely, and
Weitall, cloth, value 211 L, upon the forpg o, I—
" flia=nigidt Mo. 2S, 1829.
" Iturzorin IFSDIa-Thou will please to fseward to us pr
Smith, from the Ains mil &sex Tavern, Whitechopel, to.morrow
by 4 o'ak., without 611, m under; and thou wihoblige thy Ns.
" To Mes " &JESSOP AND SON.
s. Span end Ou ling-street, Cheapside."
ON end el stet blue cloth.
The enter tralarly mound, and a witness proved the receipt
of it by the who represented that he was the sou of a .11rs.
Smith, at •
value% aunty. Swaney seven years' transpeetatise.
On a gaged indimmeat the Wooer was again found Guilty of
fraudulently obtaining
elFr at Pods, ths MartlY
Masan. ilisphenaen, al , sod was sonseced upon this
thdlosmset to emceed term WM years' transportation; making,
in the vitae, fouttamirars.
~
Easthope voted in the • majiiity, and not in the
minority of 59 against extending the eleetiVe franchise
to the Build* of Be Claw.
Petition; tole& Bemis of Parliament have been laid
down at Taunton for alpatnrs, representing the general
alba *retie** Oftreee et the eleunti:y,
delft te tiki tli• Pia Alto
.oat temederethet, 4kies , _
Valet
, 'of . Yid}iF 4" it!! fT ikt
bad aid ofiti • ttifitat 40 I 4OWS
Gni I he
period, feller *met die 'newt oloasst..

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.