The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-15 00:00:00

AiIII4..II.ICAN PAVERS.

HALtrAx, (N. S.) thr. 14.—Arrived lately the
brig Airnweil, from Thurso, in Scotland, with
One hundred and thirty-nine passengers, consist-
ing chiefly of farmers and mechanics. The enti--
seutitans to till parts of America appear to be
currying on to an immense and ruinous extent ;
notwithstanding that in the Lulled States hun-
dreds are actually .starving, and have no employ-
ment, and Bri ish.vessels carrying away numbers of
their delnded countrymen back to Great Brit
at this moment there has actually been a British hi-
rate in one of the American ports entering mento
complete her crew. Numbers of letters have of
late been received in America from deserters of the,
army and navy, imploring permission to, be allow-
ed to return upon Any terms p and the English
seamen who have entered into the United States'
navy complain most bitterly of their treatment and
the extreme severity of their,diseipline ; and say,
lbw although their wages are seemingly greater,
they are badly fed, and have to purchase every ar-
ticle at an VXOI bit4nt rate. Seamen consequently
toter for the Amorican ships of war with great re-
luctance, and only when distress compels them.
About the first week in September, three hun-
dred and sixty-eight settlers or emigrants arrived
St Quebec from Great Britain, and six other ves-
sels were then reported going up the river St.
Lawrence vvisth passengers
It in in contemplation to send & steam-vessel
front the United States to Russia, where it is said
the Kmperor has proinised an exclusive privilege
for tine term of 20 years.

STI:A 110.1 rs.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SLTti.

fluiditi, Nov. 5, I IG.
much has been said for' and against
Steam-boats, that it may perhaps be acceptable
to your Readers to have some authentic in-
formation respecting them. It is I believe ge-
nerally
„known, that some of the vessels ply be-
tween Holyhead and Howth, and that the object
is to supersede the regular Post Office Paeliets,
A Gentleman high in the Department here, in
Wiich is the dispatch of the Mails, is the avowed
champion of Steam, and, doubtless upon public
grounds, has become one of the Directors of the
Steam-boat Company.
On the 19th tilt. I reached Holyhead on my
route to this place, and it was my intention to

have taken my passage in one of the regular
packers; which I know from experience to be an
admirable class of vessels, commanded by gentle-
men of acknowledged profes'sionul skill, and the
greatest part of whom have served in the navy.
I learnt, however, casually, that this Official Di-
rector was about to take his passage for Howth

in one of the Steam-ho,ns, and as I conclud-
ed that, whatever might ii..ppen to the Public at
large, they could lie% (1. tl►.nk of exploding one of

their own Directors, aint that we could not fail to
make a passage with extraordinary rapidity and
certainty, under such auspicious circumstances,
abandoned my original Intention, and resolutely
faced the dangers of being hlown up, anti
afterwards drowned, and embaiked in the Steam-
boat.

To sea we went, and proceeded prosperouly—

the weather was as favoorable as it generally i 4 al
this season of the year, and I congratulates

niysclf on my choice, and, on the good emu,
pany I had fallen into. Now, Mr. Editor

mark • how a plain tale shall put down all
cavillers against Steam-boats. We reached
nowt!' in safety, and in the unprecedented short
time of thirty-nine hours. It is ►rue that the average
passage of the Post Office Packets may be about
one-fourth of that time, bHt it nutit be recollect-

ed that they are niere vulgar common shipsoioved
by means. of masts and, sails, and • navigated by
men utterly ignorant of. the very first rudiments
of meehanics. Whercai every individual on board

the Steam- boat „from the aforesaid Director to the
Man, who stokes die tire, ib it Mall of science (in
his respective degree), and discourses most elo-
gitentiy on the ductr;oes of propulsion, &e.&e. &c.

Who then, let me ask, howevet mgent ;night
be his buskess, would not prefer a scientific pas-
slge Of 39 limos to a vulgar wie of 9 ? It one
there be, I do not envy either his teeliugs or his

Capacity.
I have now, Mr. Editor, disc(►arged my duty
to my Country, and to the Steam.!boats, by this
tribute to their superior facilities; and I am happy
to add, that it was whispered to me by no less a
personage than my Teat ned friend the Stoker, that
our fellow-traveller, the Director, has it in con-
templation to establitdi a Steam Mail Coach of 4-
horse power between Holyhead and London, to
travel with equal certainty and expedition with
the Steam-boat, and that, upon a principle of
economy, my triend is to fill the double capacity
'of Guard and 'Stoker (or Coachman).
I am, Sir, your faithful Servant,
PHILO-FUMUS.

The palpable depravation of the public taste
evidenced by the revival of Mr. LEurts's grand eques-
trian speciacie is, we think, well rebuked by *Via-
GIL

Degcneres animas Timor arguit."

Mr. KINNAIRD, it is now tftated, did not leave
Town for Bath after the explosion of the Drury-
bane Committee. Mr. K. is in Town now, having
returned on Sunday last. from Brighton, and it'
whit upon his return that he found, unexpectedly,
that his !mine and that of-Lord BYRON were su-
perseded in the Committee.
Yesterday evening, at Covent-Garden Theatre,
FARLEY, in the l'ageot of Timour the Tartar,'
having exCliimed with his usual effect, Is Do you
know who I ant ?" a frail fair one in the slips
called out, it You are FARLEY, and you shall know
who I am." The circumstance occasioned con-
siderable laughter.
We are sorry to find Sir W. CURTIS, Bart. is
confined to his house, at Ramsgate, with St. An-
thony's fire in one of his legs, which is lunch
swollen. The worthy Baronet's general health in
other respects is good.
The 3it and 7th. battalions of the 60th Regi-
ment, and detachments of the 15th, 62d, and 98th
Regiments,. are at present quartered at Halifax.,.-
tour companies 01 each of the latter two
,corp
being at Bermuda anti Newfoundland. The 100th
Regiment is quartered in New Brunswick.
• LIMERICK, Nov. 9.—Yesterday there was a
very heavy tall of snow in the county of
Since last night a smart.storm, accompanied with
heavy rain,' visited this city In the gale this
morning, the brig Hawk, in coming up to one -of
the quills, sustained some considerable damage.
At, nine o'clock on Friday night, as Dr. DROSI.
dooLa was, returning home, be was stopped at
Westland-row by tour armed men, who knocked
him down, and robbed him -of about five tenpen-
nies' in change, with which they effected their es-
cape.---(Dublin Paper.)

COBBEtT EXPOSCD.

(From "THE TIMES.")

" We believe it is now snme five or six years ar.To
iinee The Tilnes. journal put down the work en-
titled Cohbett's Weekly Register, and sunk its
author inTo obscurity and contempt. The occa
sion of this event we shall briefly retire :—Mr. Cos-
BETT bad been sentenced to two years' iiiprison-
ment for a libel : and • (luring the time that he
vas in Newgate, it was..discovered that he had

secretly been in treaty with Government to avoid
the sentence passed upon him ; and that he had
proposed to certain of the agents of Ministers,
that if they would let him off, they might make
what future use they pleased of him : he would

entirely betray the cause of the people ; be would

either write or not write, or write against them,
as be bad once done before, just as Ministers
thought proper. To this, however, it was re-
plied, that et COBBETT had written on too many
sides alrewly to be worth a groat for the service
of Government ;" and he accordingly suffered his
confinement. By the time when be came out of
prison, The Times was ready to publish the whole
of . this base transaction, on unquestionable evi-
dence, and did so publish it, in the form of two
letters ; the consequence of which was, that Mr.
COBBBTT was all but hooted, and in fact was

hootedt from a party of his own friends met to
celebrate his liberation. Since that time we had

thought that his journal bad wholly dropped to
the ground ; some other writers, such as those
of the Independent Whig and Examiner, who were
more virulent and impudent than himself, having
sprung up. We learned, however, lately, that
Cabot's Register was still in existence, having
crept on in obscurity for a series of years ; till
Oat, recently, as public distress thickened, it had
seemed to revive a little, and might, probably, by
his arts, if he were not again exposed, be foisted
into some degree of circulation among 'the
thoughtless. We have accordingly found, that
in order to puff it into notice, he has lately re-
published one of -its articles in a cheap form, for

trv(vetice, athlresied to the journeymen and la 7
hoorers of the kingdom,.earefolly, telling them

hat he will deal oat some " further intormation

to them in a future number;" we do not know
whether at the same price of twopence, or at the
more 'exorbitant °He of twelvepence halfpenny,

which his register costs.. •
As Mr. CIMEHTT appears to be a great friend
of the labouring poor
,the Lord have mercy, by
the way, 'you :hose poor that labour 'for him),
mid or the people of England in general, we shall
—not examine ourselves, but—let him prove his
Own claim to that title, in his own wordy gene-
rally. In his twopenny address he calls the jour-
neymen and labourers " Friends and Fellow-
" countrymen ;" tells then) (as is true) '' that
" the real strength and all the resources of a
" country ever sprung and ever must spring front
" the labour of its people : elegant dresses, su-
" perh furniture, stately buildings, fine roads, nay,
" even fleet horses,' " he says, " all spring from
labour." " With this correct idea (lie says to the
" journeymen and labourers) of. your own worth
" in your minds, with what indignation must
you hear yourselves called, the populace, the.
" rabble, the mob, &c. ?" So reasons Mr. Cobbett
of yesterday. But we ask him, and you, the peo-
ple at England, it it is infamous, as it certainly
is, to give you opprobrious names now, whether
it was not equally so 14. years ago? And yet you
-will find by the tolloning extracts from Cotthett's
Register, that he was the very first and bitterest
to. apply these terms of reproach 'to you, which he
now so reprobates. In his summary of politics
for July, 1802, when he is abusing peace with
BuffilarArle, he says, " If we were ready to lend
the Americans aid, then indeed the cession of
" Louisiana would" have been a happy eircum-
" solace ; but we want peace (note—this is
spoken in derision) ; peace and a large loaf',
" as the base rabble of Norwich replied to the ar.
" guments of Mr. ‘Vindham."—(Pot. Reg, vol. 2,
p. 50.) But more of this hereafter, when we
come•to his no-notions about Parliamentary Re-
form. Yet you may some of you be surprised to
find hint, as above, vilifying both you arid peace
with his friend Buonaparte. So it was, however,
at the time when the above extract was written :
be was constantly engaged In calling both pia
and him, and your friends and his friends, all the
.villains, and brutes, and wretches he 'could lay
his pen and hiS toogue to, And we will tell you
further,—what his heart we knoW tells hint,-
that in half a moment he would turn round and
begin calling you ail wretches apt! rabble again,
if he could get any thing by it. We know that
he now pretends to have been ignorant of many
things when ire wrote against the cause of re,
form; but , surely, if he was either brim or L'ued
an Englishman, he could at no time be
norant that the people of his country Were not,
as he defines those of Norwich, " A BASE RAU-
!mg ;" or if they were so, why is it more scan-
(talons in other people so to call them than it was
in him ?
" But A-propos of Buonaparte and peach with
him. He now tells you that that person is the
kindest-hearted Gentleman possible : that he ne-
ver 'meant any ill to England, only to tickle us a
little or so ; and, thatlit is a great pity we ever
conquered him ; we have thereby rivetted the
chains of Europe. Gentlemen, bear what he said
of the Corsican a few years ago, when we had
Jperhaps foolishly) endeavoured to patch up a
peace with birn : •
" The French official paper of the 14th inst.
" contains a most bitter phillippic on those per-
" sons in England, who have had the audacity to

" doubt the moderation and sincerity of lioonft-
" panel ‘l'e;. for our bare .neber ratter-
" tikined ihe.smAllest doubt on 1-11 suhject ;
" shonld as soon doubt of .1118 linotatiiiy
'' piety, of es.hicis he.g,ve such striking proofs
" dining his I;;;zyptiesn expedition : we should as

" soon doubt of his beiog beaten by Sir
re Smith, or of his deserting his army."--(Cobbeirs
Annual Reg. vol. 1, p. 286. @larch, 1802.)
" The whole world lies Opel( before him ( 800.
4, n parte). All nati ins iUe tributary to hho.
"There is every where a tlisposition to hate, but
" nu where the courage to resist Lim. • It he live:
" 20 years, France will be the mistress of the eivi-
". Bud World, and England the baseSt of her ras-

" sals—that is, if we cinninne in our present
" temper ; if we continue to set a value on no-
" thing but our our_ease our spirit
rice, or out' country must fall for ever. In
less than six years we must again be at war,
"or tve shall quietly puss under the yoke. The
" French arc at this in nient preparing the means
"of Our destruction. Wiile we are lying down
" to enjoy a long and Oct repose, they are
" busily employed in planning tile opviralions
" of another ‘var, and in preparing the means
"of execution. We 'have now upon the table
gefore us a book, just published at Paris, in-
" (Heating the method of totally destroying,
" during another war, the naval power of the.
" tyrants of the seas.' flie malignay of our
" enemies has no bounds but those of heir power.
" Their hatred of us is inextinguishable—nothing
" eau abate it ; no, not even the wretched state
"of debasement into which we have fallen. It
ce is not our hem:illation, nor our mitt, that will
" content them : they aim at our exhrtninationi
" as an independent power ; and to ()nitrate
" their views will require a spirit very different
" indeed front that which at present Prevails.
• " Various reports have been circulated as to
" the time of the arrival of the French Amba.;sa-
" dor. Some expect him next week, and some
" even to-day ; but we do not think it is likely
" that he will Arrive before the month of August
" at soonest; and Lord Wltworth certainly will
" not set out till very near the time of M. An-
" dreossi's arrival. We, for our parts, haVe no
" desire to see him. We have lately beheld lin-
" urinating scenes enough. The cup of disgrace
" must, indeed, be drank to the dregs ; but who
" does not seek to pot off the evd hour ?
" The scarcity in France is very great. Brea.:
"is sold at 8 sons per pound. The publishers of
" newspapers dare not mention the price of bread,
" or of provisions of any kind, in their 'publics-
" firms. One of them was lately threatened with
deportajon for an offence of this sou!
" done, COrsican I Muzzle them, yoke them, ring
" them, tether them, clog them, whip them, and
" goad them ! Lay on and spare not. You, and
" you alone, are capable of inflicting on them the
-" punishment due to the murderers of a
(Ann. Reg, vol. 1, 765, (June, 1802,)

This was Mr. Cobbett's view, at the commence-
ment of what may be culled the consular war, of
the tyrannic power and inundating barbarism
which we; conformity with his recommendation,
undertook to combat :
,he told us, that if we did

not destroy Buonaparie, he would destroy us ;
and now when we have succeeded, and have
actually hasten bim.down, the same Mr. Cobbett
turns and tells us, that we are all wrong,
and have done a great deal of Mischief; and that
we should have done much better to let him stay
in France, and so, as he calls it, " exterminate,
us." Why, what can 'such a man mean, or has
he any meaning at all, hot to make money of a
parcel of dupes and fools 3
" We cannot however, present Mr. Cobbett's
quondam opinions of Buoniparte, without adding
those avowed by him also respecting the Iltiur-
bons, and the lawful 'Government of France
" In March, 1802, Mr. Cobbett, in a critical
notice of a Work, entitled A Word to the Alarm•
ists on the Peace, by a Graduate of the
sity of Cambridge,' says, " When the fountain is
" impregnated with poison, who ran hope to
" drink living waters from the stream 3 We do
" not ascribe to the whole Unisersity of Cam-
" bridge a concurrence in they'. iiri;des promul-
e, gated from the press of wer
" Hunt's and our old friend Benjamin), whenee..
" it seems this pamphlet has issued ; but sse do
"think, that it is highly disgracelitho the Uni-
versity and the City of Cambridge, that that
:" press finds countenance and support. The ob.
feet of. the pamphlet before us is to persuade its
" readers, that there is no danger to, be alive-
" hended front theintercourse which the peace will
" throw open between England and France ; end
" that, ,of course, all alarm on that head is per-
fectly grinindless. We think soy ditfeietnly :
" for though we are convinced that the sensaality,
" of the republican French i 3 so gross, and that
their irreligion is so horridly blasphemous, as at
" first to disgust rather than allure our country
" men ; yet Is there great, very great danger, to
" be apprehended from a familiarity with their
" vices, especially when viewed in conjunction
" with that Admiration which successful -villainy
" beings Who make the great mass of a nation."
Observe this, Mr.CObbett'a " Friends and Fcl-
(contiMies Mr. Colibcit),,
‘I
%;1 es% tv)niete; tet!oryryn
" must confess, that we always thought different.'
eoleilllrf.itpi'laeriltsto excite,
in
the
unthinking
ly ; and we are well convinced, that if the
" storation of the House of Bourbon had beets
i
openly and decidedly declared to be the object,
U of the war, and it' that declaration find been
" faithfully adhered to, the war would have end-,
" ed long ago, and :o a manner that would liave
" spared us all the anxiety and alarm which the
" graduate of .Cambridge is so kindly enders-,
Atrioileitityvr isltutalgt4t o retireve."—(Cobtea's 'Annual
Vol. p. 302-3,)
" In the Pol. Reg. (vol. 2, p. 442), Mr. Cob-
bet( says—" tVith respect to the right which one
" nation has, in certain cases, and miler certain
" CMS Pt another, u doubted
we hohl ttt.be rt
restrictions,,
" The Allies saw in France people in open re-
to interfere 'in the domestic con-.
" against their lawful sovereign, whom
red. The
a(titedprin7t4einvaafrtli'lis natitttrttill:rilYi then
lit have intetfercd tri re.eitablish the
• ::::::::11:fi:ICIfitlawful Government cat
" How often have these who wiibed to prosecute

F- •'

" the war for the 'sake Of the Bourbons been 'au-
" cwied Of itmjustite, in wishing to impose .a
" government upon France ?' How often :leave
" the Jacobin Senators chnelded at We. effect
" which this sophism produced on the selfish and
" 'faeriona herd'? tint the friends Of 'the Bow.-
" a'nd of moimarchy hi general, wished to
" impose' no government on France ; they only
" wished to reitOre to that kiugdona her lawful
'' government."'
" We know, ' Friends and Fellow-country-
men,' (to use his own cajoling terms) that Mr.
Cobbett pretends ignorance of public atTairt when
lie wrote the above articles : but if that plea Nvere
a just one, 'bow are you and he to be sore that
lie understands public affairs better nosy than he
did then ? Ignorance, to say the least of it, is
strange stock in trade, for a man to •set up as a
public writer upon ; but when you add to this the
violeoce also with which he habitually wrote,
*lrbil subjects of which,he slow declares himself
to have bren ignorant, you will undoubtedly give
him credit for a tolerable portion of another qua- I
generally called impudence. But we will
tell yon what, after reading the above, you will
have no ditlicelty -in believing—that ignorance is
ito excuse whatever ; and that if Mr. Cobbett
were to be allowed to plead ignorance- of every
topic npou which he has once written with great
assurance, anti after wards contradicted himself
with repel fury, he would appear, even at first
sight, what he is not—ti creature so brutally ig-
norant, as oat to be able to count his oWii 8 fingers
end. two thumbs : venality and profligacy are
therefore the only cruses at his writing 'in one
way at one time, and in a different one it
anu-
ti►er ; and that without any sense of shame, or
any regard to consistency.
" But now,'' Friends and Fellow-countrymen's
of Alr. Ctiblmett, we shall show von more fully
how he treated .you and his friend' Sir Francis
Bartlett some tines ago, before we enter upon the
question of Parliamentary Reform :
" Its the Eigister for July, 1802, (vOl. 2, p. 51,)
speaking of the Brent ford election, Mr. Cobbett
says, " To rt the biifs avid advertisements which
" have been published in the county of 111iddlesex,
" one would believe that the contest was not be-
" tween two gentlemen, but between the Magis-
" trates and the thieves ; amid that the great body
" of those who have espoused the cause of Sir r.
"13urdett, have done so with a hope that, if
lie
'' were successful, there would be an end to all
" legal punishment ; and that crimes of every sort
"'might be committed in perfect security."
'l' road to lit entford is lined with ragged
" wretches front St. Giles's, bawling out Sir
" Francis Burdett, and no liastile : and at the
"'hustings, there are daily some half dozen con-
" viers, who have served nut their - time in the
" House of Correction, amusing the rubble with
"'execrations on the head of Mr. IVainwaring,"
Bc•% (Same vol. p. 90.)
" Jn the same spirit Sir Francis is repeatedly
branded as the Imitlid of the convicted traitor
O'Connor, and the acquitted traitor Florne Tooke,
and held up. to detestation " as the donagogne
" wit% his crew," or " his gullows-hating
" zens."
" To reason with such a man (as Sir F. 14:)
" would be absurd. lie must be treated with
" silent contempt, or he combated with weapons
" very different from a pen. While, however,tve
" declare out abhorrence Of 'the principles and
" conduct of the man who, in alluding to the
"' British Government, speaks of ' hired Magia-
" tretes, Parliaments, and Kings ; '—while we
" detest and loathe Sir Frani-is Burdett ;—while
" we could trample upon him for the false, base,
end itisolent insinuations respecting his and our
"'Sovereign," &c.--(Vol. 2,,p, 151.)
Now, observe; either you who are the
friends of Sir Francis, Bartlett were the wretches
which Cobbett here characterizes, or' you were
uOt ? If inn were not, what an infamous liar he
must be, because the thing which he describes
was before his eyes ; 'and if you were, what does
he mean by flittering and praising you now ?-;--
What reason have you to suppose that he loves
you better at time present time than in times past
Wit pray, mark farther the, atrocity of the above
passages. It- is your blood he seeks to shed in
them. And if becould have excited_the,Ministers
of the day to yield to his ineitenient, whom
would he Wive had now to cajole and deceive
You will perceive that hi describea you, not as 'a
there mob or rabble simply (Which by the way you
were, and which in truth is no great harm)„ but
as thieves, Opposed to the legal magistracy ; he
designates you, men who " bate the gallows," as
their fate ; anti, not to smiltiply quotations, be
again and again urges" Ministers to the judicial
13)urtier of llorue Tooke, he accuses him of high
treason, and he vilifies theJary who acquitted him
of that crime. If he hail effected thedeath of Horne
Tooke, as he then strove, where would have been
the use of the posthumous praise which he has
since lavished on him But we observe, that iti•
order to flatter you, he has even come ratind to.
F4eke, ll<smpclen and Sydney ; asking for what it
was that " those patriots died—one iii the,fiehl,
" and the other on the scaffold)" Why, this is'
incredible : be cannot plead ignorance of the
merits of those heroes who opposed time tyranny
of the Stuarts. Their charaeters were at least as
Well established in 1802 as in 1816: ,anti yet in
vol. 2, p. 719, be, in his way, vilifies Mr. Fox
for his lotithsoeme calumnies' on the House of
" Stuart, and his miserable attempts tu defend
"_ the characters of 'Russell and Sydney;" and
concludes with asking, " Where, Sir, shall I
4.find, in all the cumbrous volumes of harangues
" which you have tittered daring the' last -ten
''',years, of treasons and conspiracies against the
" Alit one and the life of your Sovereign, one single
" sentence or phrase expressive of your abhor-
" Fence of those diabolical machinations ?"
(P. 719.)
" tVe now come (for we must, in this sum-
mary, pass over a great deal) to Mr. Cobbett's
existing ootions4 Parliamentary Reform. ( r hey
last' (ling if be can get any thing by tire
change.) . hi-s'ttVopenny Address he says, with
lauds Other matter Of the same kind, that The
g only remedy for all your evils is a reform of the
"Conrniousor people's House of Parliament."
What dill lie
,say thirteen years ago, when the
House of CoMmoni was constituted pretty much
sts it is now—and we know of uo new light that

Iris descended, execnt, perhap',-.tht of iVe comet
which shone'witttiii this last font or fi‘e years ?
But, jesuitic *part „does not the following attack:
upon Mr. Wilberforce, tlie-Sid;icet 'of Parlia-
mentary Reform, point Out its Maltby es tt hidetitts
wretch %—(p. 3.)
"In a letter to Mr. \%Tilberfoice Lin. 1803,
the leading accusation against that Gent{email is,
that lie had once patronized this detestable cause,
Of the clamours for Parliamentary Reform, :first:
" begun by you an& your associato; how nume-
" rolls and how great have been the evils ! No
" small 'portion of the discontents4Ml dangers
which have existed in England or irelistul, arose
" from the doctrines promulgated by the Parlia-
" mentary Reformers, whose. will notions, in-,
" coherent plans, and nonsensical phrases, were
adopted by all those seditious tied treasonable
"combinations which," &c.
' "-He then attacks, in much stronger terms,l
The reform societies of 1782 and 1785 ; and after
stating, in italics, that " Horne Make-, who was
" prosecuted for high treason, pleaded in defence
'" dolt his society bad its view no other object than
" that which had been pursited by you (Mr. %I'll-
berfnrce), and your coadjutors," he goes on to
concludtithat " the principles broached and pro-
" mulgated by you and your assoeiates, were such
." as led to the 'commission, of high treason, the.
'" most heinous ot all earthly offences—the eom-
" Massing and imagining the death of the King."
(Vol. j l 1. p. 35.)
" In other passages, the rebellions in Ireland,
and the revolution iu France, are referred to the
peruieions example of Those among us who first
set on foot " those wild and presumptuous 'pro-
jects" for Parliamentary. Reform.
" In his summary of polities for June,
'he observes, On occasion of a recent dissolution
of Parliament,- that the people had been told,
" in two factious addresses, that tbey,are not re-
" presented in the House of Commons; that that
" assembly is no longer WliAt it used to he ; and
" that, until it be reformed, it is in vain for them
"to hope for any good from ,that (piaster." He
then goes on to state, that " the words represen-
" tation and elective franchise have done much
" towards' confusing- thebrains and corrupting, the
" hearts of his Majesty's subjects ; and though
" he has not the power of. dissipating the fatal
" delusion, it is yet his duty to contribute his mite

" to the attempt."
",Mr. Cobbett then presents his readers with
a picture of the miserable state of the representa-
tion in one of the States OE America, " where
" the elective franchise was as universal even as
" Sir F. B. could have wished it ;" and assures
them, that the choice, frequently fell upon bank-
rupts, swindlers, quacks, atheists, &c. "The
" cause of their preposterous choice is this
"The mass of 'the people of all nations .are so
" fond of nothing .as of power. Men of sense
" know that the people can in reality exercise no
" power which will t tend to their own injury.
" hence it is, that in slates where the popular voice
" is unchecked by a -royal or some other beretli-
" racy influence,thrit voice is,nine times out of ten,
" given in favour of those fawning parasites WhO',
" order to gratify their own interest and auubit ion,
" profess to acknowledge no sovereignty but that
" of the reopla t and who, whan _they once ge.t,„
" into power, rule the pour sovereign with a rod
" of scorpions," &e. 'theta quotes an Ante.
rican pamphleteer, in proof of the shocking state
of the legislatures in'thut republic; and concludes,
" Such, Kuglishmen, is the desctiption of a le-
" gislative assembly,where equal representation'
'1 privals ; where almost, every man has a vote'
" at electioni ; and where these elections do an.
nually occur. The alubitioui knaves, who
" flatter you with high notions Of your rights and
" privileges—who -ire 'eveslasting,ly dunning in
" your ears the blessings of what they call the
" elective franchise, wish to add- to the number
" of electors, because, they well know that they
' " would thereby gain an accession of strength,"
&c.--(Vol. J, p. 795.)
" Now, Englishmen !--rfor indeed, in heart and
principles, you are not the friends or even fellow-
countrymen of Mr. Cobbett, though he calls you
so--4erhaps you may he curious to know what
are the real opinions of that your self-elected
leader on the subject of Parliamentary Reform.
We will tell you, then, his latest ; because by his
latest opinions he hopes to make money t by-his
old ones he has made money, and. therefore the
old are no hunger of use, the new ones may be : •
but if ever the old one should collie in fashion
again, be assured he'll turn 'em, amid put 'em
on anew ; and though some other men would
acorn 'em as dirty and filthy by his use,
they'll be goad enough for trim : and then
Where will you be 1 Dreadfully out 'of fashion,
indeed ; and he will be the first to turn upon you,
and call you, as belles done, "'Thieves and con-
victs who have served out their time tit the
" -House of Correction." Mr. Cobbetes opinions
are like a spavined horse, which the worthless
owner who possesses hint sweat's loudly is the
I best, and soundest, and handsomest creature
breathing, till be has accommodated some'' friend
and` fellOw-cOuntrymatt" with the rip, when he
itunietliately looks about for another animal ; uses
this second as long as suits his own convenience,
tir fill he has worn him out ; parts with him, alto,
under the tame warranty of his being sound and
good ; and takes a third ; and, so on to 'a fourth
and a tiftb, or one of the old ones hack again, no
matter which. He may. at last indeed meet with.
a wretch that will tumble him down and break his
neck : only don't let him puff bim off noon any:
of you, and so break your necks instead of his
own, which he would do for a farthing gain.
" You will observe, in his.late twopenny Ad-
' dress, that ite excites you
,to ''buntings, and
pluntierings,' and devastation , and shedding 'of
blood ;" telling, you, on the suthoroy of a very
foolish man; Arthuir Young, that nut the people
who did these things in France, but those who
suffered them were ALOillt (lie puts the word
in capitals) to blame; and that therefore yon
may of course do the same, withont guilt or eri:.
minality. lie hints also, that you might take
possession , of other people's fire-sides : butt
then he says (uow, mark the' cunning of 'the
knave), " he hopes it will never Conte to pass ;
" but that if one thing more titan another could
rend to produce &ci This is..the hole' he'll
creep out at ! If he succeeds in exciting you to the

. .
and tutu &rings, titttl derastation," 1
hetalks ot, why then you'll have him, and tubed
worthies like hint, as your leaders. for he tellsi
you plakly, lo the first colomn of 'his addresa,7
(hitt " you are to labour telt], Out- limbs, and;
" -that he to labour with his Mind ';
" that on all occasions, but •mo.re
" fill occasions Hie pre tut, -it is the duty
ot those whoi labour with their limbs to ctone'
",to ti4e assistance of those who labour with
" their minds !" But should the laws be too
strong for you, then will lie desert yati---dWear
advised you (as lie has) to " proceed in a peace-
" able and legal manner ;," and—you have seen
above how he once ut4ed Ministers to the mur-
der of those whom he has since praised •: be 1150
sured that that is a crime.of DO blacker die, than
now praising
.and flattering those whom be may
hereafter recommend to be murdered.

" We reconititend these remarks to the consi-
deration of the labourers and journeymen &Eng-
land ;—it is their good we chiefly seek :—bur we
are not without the hope that the view of his own
crimes, and the injurious course which he is now
endeavouring to pursue, may affect even the ob-
durate heart of Mr. Cobbett with something like
shame and contrition,'•

INomEsTs.—An inquest was last night held at
Guy's Hospital, before T. S fiLT 0 N on the
body of Hannah Sales, aged .eight years, wiurwas
burnt to death. Mrs. Saks, mother of the de-
ceased, ttated, that about a week auoishe had
tone ,to St. Thomas's Hospital. In the evening
she left the decca,ed and another child in the
room with a tire and candle by the deceastd's
own account, the fire going hearty' ou,s,she at-
tempted to light it, and in so doing the candle
plight her clothes'; she raw hot) the court where
they lived all in flames,- but she was stopped, the
flames extinguidied, and the deceased taken to
the Hospital. Mr. Goodridge, dresser of Guy's
stailed, Marabout. a week ago the de-
ceased was brought to the hospital, with a dread-
ful burn all up the back, and one on her arm; she
lingered for about five days, and expired in strong
convulsions, occasioned by the burns. Verdict—
" Accidental Death."

Sattirday sennight an Ingoisit on was held
before Mr. Mtuita, Coroner,. at the ‘‘'hite •Bear
Inn, Manchester, on the body of Sarah Morton.
aged 16, who was so dreadfully burned, by sleeping
near a brick-kiln, that she -died in the Infirmary
on Friday last. It appeared in evidence, the de-
ceased had not any lather or mother, the .fortner
being transported smite time hack, leaving the de-
ceased and two -other children wholly destitute;
the deCeased hat!; tur some neglect lost her place
-in a weaving• shop, and rambled about many days,
until theAmforttthate accident took place; that she
had applied to a districtoverseerian.l had received Is.
relief, and upon applying a second time nothing.was
done for her : this, the worthy Coroner observ-
ed, was not a solitary instance within his recol-
lect ion of the great-necessity for a "Iroise or- place
of refuge :for the destitute, independent •of the
workhonso7-ran institution similar to the one in
London, which reflected so much credit upon its
promoters, and was the •meatts not only of saving
!flirty lives, tint adding comfort to the distressed,
Verdict--" Accidental Death."

Ft art.—Ati alarming tire brlke out on Tuesday
morning, in • -the• it veitimolonse of Alexafflict
Coxhead Heath, Esq. of the Manor Farm, Heyte,-
bury, Surrey. 1t- is. not known how the tire was
occubioned,' but it broke out in a malt-kilo
tacked to -pact of the dwelling-lvouse. In ;ess
than Ft 11 hour the house was levelled with flu:earth,
and it was with much difficulty the inmates, con-
sisting of Mrs. Heath, 'her tour children, 'and two
servant's, were sieved: A range of small buildings
Contiguous to the maltAiln •%10s- destroyed,' but
the westerly- wind Alistodged
.the flaines front.the
barns. There was, it is said, an ininranee, butt
not of one-third 'the value of the property con-
sumed.

I'ritne beef and pork were sold on &Annlay last
at Chester Market at front 311. to 4d. per lb. fine
fowls at 2s. per couple, and geebe, weighing 8 lbs.
for 3s. 6d. each.

The workmen in the Savoy have been digging
during some days past-on-the old walls of the hos-
near the-water, They have gut to severe'
subterraneous caverns, or arches, which it is sup-
posed formerly communicated with the buildings
in the Strand. Several curious untiques have been
recently dug up. An Agnus Dei was, found yes-
terday, which perhaps was worn round the neck
of some priest or religious inmate of the palace,
in the reign of Henry the Seventh. It is of brass,
with the figure of the Virgin on one side, pierced
to the heart with a dagger ; the reverse side bears
tbe,eiligy of Our Saviour, with,a Latin insctip-
lion, denoting that he died for the redemption, of
the world. There is no date to it. A number
of curious persons continue to visit the ruins daily..
Four persotware in custody on a charge of be-
ing concerned- in the ;robbery of the Gravesend
boy. It appears that .the thieves were not true to
each other, for so early us six ~o'clock of the even-
ing after the robbery, some of theta began to re-
Move, or re-steal
.part of the property,. which
coming to the knowledge of the-rest of the gang,
they went to work at seven o'clock, when they
were disturbed by the officers. The tea has been
•removed to the London Custom-house.
Yesterday Morning, one of 'We. Greenwich
coaches upset on Westminster Bridge, owing to
the fore-wheel running off; -there were several
passengers. both outside and 'inside, fortunately,
however, none were hurt except the coachman,
who received come severe, bruises.

On Tuesday night the house of Samuel Mitchell,
a piece-broker, No. 7, Cloth-fair, West Smith-
field, was hurglarionsly entered, and several pieces
of cloth and other articles stolen therefrom. The
family wet e not in the least disturbed, nor knew
of the loss until morning. There is no clue to
lead to a discovery of the villains.
immense flocks of Wilt-arcs have lately made
their appearance at Gravesend, probably attract-
ed by the immense quantity of hips anti haws at
present on the hedges in the vicinity of that place,
and which ate the favourite food of those birds.

iOLicr, :.NTELLIGENCE.

now-sTREET..
Irc.stettlay three men and a woman were placed
at ,the bar, charged with bring concerned in a
forgery to a great extent, and in uttering a forged.
draft for 15001. on the boti,;e of Sir Lc.bbnek
and Co. iii Mansion-lionse•striet,- on- the 26th of
October, purporting to be drawn by Messrs2Joslin
and Co. merchants, in
One of the prisoners, of the name of Wicks, was
clerk in tae house of Joslin and Co. The forged'
draft was paid in a 10001. and a 500/. Bank-note,-
by the house of Messrs. Lubbock and Co. and
within a very short time after they were paid into
the Bank of England, and sinwll notes of 101. and •
5/. were teccived in :exchange for them.
Messrs. ANDREWS and WNtsoaD. attended for
the prisoners, but it. was agreed between them
and :11r. Lhvtg, who attended to conduct the prow
sedition, that the general investigation should bit
postponed to a future day,
. They were afterwards privately examined, and
ordered to be remanded.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Thomas Johnson, a broker, residing
in Babb% ill's-gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, and his
wife, were brought up for examination, charged
by the parish officers with cruelty and ill treat-
went to his two female- children by a former
wife, and making a continual disturbance, to the
great annoyance of the neighbourhood. The
charge being satisfactorily proved by several re-
spectable witnesses, they were both committed to
Prison until' they found bail to answer the cam.
plaint at the Sessions.
The Magistrates of this Office waited yesterday
on the Secretary of State, to take his advice as to
the proper stem to be taken. for the preventiou.of
riot or disturbance at the Meeting, advertisedt*
, be held this day. in Spa-fields. The High Cow.:
{stable afterwards waited on the Magistrates !or.,
instructions. An the constables have orders toj,
attend.

Two. yontig Men -Were
MARII3O}IOeGH-STREEt
yesterday charged with
wounding Dennis Skeen, so that his life is intlan'
ger. it appeared that Skeen', who' keeps a b°t►'e
of ill-fame in Cabral-buildings, Oxford-street, had
long 'been known to the Police for hiS (taring rut-
flan-like conduct. He htul lately been released
from an imprisoutuent of six months for wouna4
ing a watchman. After setting the officers at
defiance, Plank at length • secured him in the
street upon a .beitch" warrant for the offeriec
he had two hoist!' pistols loaded with slugs °I
his house, and they were exhibited before Abe
Magistrates on this occasion. The wile of
Skeen stated, that hii•conditct was so violent 0'
WeiinesdaY night sling she and her daughter were
.obliged to leave the house,. and the
LW/ young
men who lodged in the back kitchen secreted
themSelees in a hack garret fur safety.. When the
wife entered the house ind found the liti
bshathane
asleep, she went .to,another, apartment,
found them, and their cal.;of murder brought the
two men to their as,ktioice 4 armed with a pnlo'r•
lie followed them into the room, and their'
defence,. Skeen got wounded .with the :Janie ,s"c,
of missile weapon as was ittied against them, Pn°
hr was tate!) to the Ilogpital 111 a d:ing,'EpaS botte•
The. _character of Sitewas.n WA so despet ate, tb''t
the young itte-11 were iinerated. •
• QU'F.EN-SQVARE.
of
HACKNEY COAr'tIMAN.-James Poole, Oliver
the hackney roach No. 1,193, was •sitintunned
fore the Magistrate on a charge of having t..teft
more thin his 'lawful fare, by (Neit4
of a Gentleman of that name, living:in the•l4lo "
0P:;
stead-road. Complainant stated, that_ the,:3
th
day of'isitteernber instant,. happening to .be e-
she whaled to retain home ,a.; speedily 3s •
the couLl ; she called defeada.it's coach Wont On'
Stand near the top of the Ilayinarket, from whiels
he proceeded with her to her oWli floor in 14"0"..
stead-road. 0:1 asking iiiinwhat his tare Was, be'
Answered 3s. Ott. which site thought. too Witch
:
itnsl told bitri so, "but he would' iot take less,
she paid'hitu that sum and took• his number..
The Magistate adjudged him to return the Lady
Is. 6(1. of the Money he hod-received from her.
With respect to the fine the • Act empowered lino
to go 'as high h lnc !tut as he appeared to he !t°
,
young driver tint yet AVell RCqUaillteti With il
ground, and his conduct had been nii”l unfee t
ri"
tionable both to the Lady and Wore zhe '
he was inelineillo act -withrienity towards
andw
therefore ould only-put on him the :lowest
mitigation allowed by the Act, which was I. Os"
t,,,
the costs. The coachman- WAS very- thatigsl
the kindness. shewu him, and paid the fine is"
costs immediately to the Clerk.

IIIitTITS.
On the 7tlt inst. at the It ht lion. the 11:4r1 of Nici,unjt*.''
orries, Ar.leyrlialt, stdtrottibittire, .the Itiglst Il_an. I'3'l
n
,ha
Sontertset of a thitigtter.
On ruetiiday'. the Fitt') itutt. at t(iit Chforibry, Soll("114'--
-Lady of C.S. Coilitt.oti, lisq. of a tlanc later.
n ‘Vetlttestiavt the Lady of l'eter Fr4t., gsq. of c°"'
O. : It
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'.‘1,1.11.R1 En. , ?
Ors the 9th inst. at Newhall', Srotlancl, tieutenantrar'
WauellOpe, eldest sort of A ritheailVairchape, FA. of NiII'!""
to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Robert, Baird, tisq, of Nati"
byt h. ,
Same d.ty, at Langley,P.arli, Scotland, Captain Ramsey, fit'
carol sou of the late Sir Alexand,n- Ramsay, Hart. of anj'"`“:,l
to .lace, daughter of ,the hate Patricia Cruielkshafahr
Stuteattaro. .
Ora Tuesday last, Mr. Tarratt,Sittgoon,
to Oe.tiavia, youngest daughter I WII. tra lielfmrl A'
0 i nt . ,
Wit tt it aro.tow.. , „ -rooples
VOlettla)l, Thounis }hangar', Es fth >11,144`t "
ci. a t vanSt
Barrister at Law, taSuo, mil,. child of the late John E ,
5.41. of Norwood: ...„ 1404
On the 7th lust. Thomas Skinner, F. 9. to ;Fru"4- r
ter..
daughter,of the late "l'hornas Shepherd, Esay.rif ',goat° ilaj.
, s,unr. &ay, James Jitchsan, 1'..1. of the E.iirreso'"".':.ti'L„ur
of Itattoo-q rill;
, ,:l. e, Malt is, to nanevs,ilaugtater of S. Wartl,Esql
t,rn-hill-Imuse, near Bath. ..
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1)IED. '
d 01) Saturilar, ist hi% lA:flags in F..xmouth,Gener4l-.1.°A14::
cr. Xic!ccr,,ol tic 11,1111 E.wiier•rs• Ijy
S`Tlt' ti":‘, Middleton-I-1011, aged 73 the
‘n,
QJ
Laptev. Wane
Ku(l)::tSti olfie"oi loN.ice:;;l‘.ll3!‘
the Ncicc for tt►c County o► Nottingham, ookl
work ou Bytany.

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