The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-12 00:00:00

DisTr.iminAits

Esc-Ty Prize above 1001. drawn !3d of Jannary, to have a
New Ticket. by which means a Person buying one Ticket
might get Two Prizes of 31,000/.
Fifth-drawn Prize in each class. to have 91,011 W. more.
Firpt 00 Blanks to hate Mt each.
Twenty-fourth-drat. n Prize. above 9W. In each Clue. to
hate 20,01/01. Consols, and I.ooof. Money more,
making Three Prises of 91,01.1111.
►tasT DAT OF THE. AKCOND LOTTFRT
Fifth-drawn Prise to have 2,0001. more.
First 100 Blanks to have It/. each.
SECOND DAY.
Fifth-drawls Prise, in each Class, to have 40.500/. Consols
and 300/. Money more, making Three more Prizes
of 21,0001.
The First 410 Blanks to have 191. mit+.
All the Prises and Blanks are pat into the Wheel, but only
0,1010 Tickets • and whatever Blanks and Prises remain un-
drawn after Iti4 January, will tone the ficbeme of the Served
Lottery.

would s.arcely, he necessary. Perin,: many years no
person had been more the object of public notice than
Wm. Cobbett. By his writings that individual had
made himself known in etery part of the glae where
the English la.iguage was k .n or spoken : and far
was be (Mr. Scarlett) from wishing to insinuate against
a man of undoubted talent none than his slaty to the
plaintiff absolutely detnlntleil. This he tumid say,
that he possessed such. talents for writing as durin, a
long term of years had been ntsparalleled in the his-
tory of the literature of the conistry—powers which,
whether employed for a pull or bail purpose (and fre-
quently they were enipl•iyeil tor purposes apparently
quite inconsistent with each other), always enabled
him to handle hit subject with tome of argumeut
and with dexterity of expression, perhaps in a more
eminent degree-lima any writer r:er known. Mr.
Cobbett possessed power neer the winds of the lower
orders, mill he was indebted principally for that power
to the knack %hid' he had of mixing tip in his cora-
positione, everyone's, ncossitnissity -wlttr feeling bd
tenth, sismetimes wisteriae peinliar expressiem sfebteil
the occasion tnialit demand. Need the Leaned
lien-
tieman remind the jury in how Perilous a situation
that individual was placed who became the subject of
attack by such a writer ;—need lie say that it requir-
ed no mean degree of courage to call even at the bar
of an English jury for such justice sin such an op-
ponent'? lie connexion briar -11 Mr. Wright and
Mr. Cobbett commenced when no man needed to be
asitanied of Mr. Cobbetes ariptaintance. It arose out
of a change of books, Mr. Wright being a bookseller ;
and the tint transaction to which he should advert
was a loan of DI/. by the plaintiff to the defendant,
when the latter arrived fr America. This was at
the time (it might probably be ;titbit' the recollection
of some of the jury) when Mr. Coishett, setting up for
himself as a bookseller in Pall-mall, took for his sign
the Crown, the Bible and the Mitre ; and fur his
motto. " Pear Hod and honour the King." Indeed,
at that time nothing could be more praiseworthy than
the general principles which pervaded Mr. Cobbett's
writings. The people of England having been im-
hued with the dangerous doctrines, the infidel posi-
tions laid down by Thomas Paine ; Mr. Cubbett actu-
ally published a life of Paine for the express purpose
of holding up that individual to the execration of
mankind. The Learned Counsel, merely as an in-
stance of the nervous and impressive style of Mr. Cob-
belt, would cite a passage from that very work
!low Tom lives, or what brothel he inhabits, I
know not nor does it much signify. He has done
all the mischief he can in the world; and whether his
carcase is at last la be suffered to tot on the earth, or
to be dried in the air, it of very little consequence.
Whenever or wherever he breathes his last, he will ex-
cite neither sorrow nor compassion : no friendly hand
will close his eyes; not a groan will 1w uttered ; not
a tear will be shed. Like Judas he will be retneen-
hered by posterity; men will learn to express all
that is base, malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and
blasphemous, by the single monosyllable—" Paine."
It was subsequent to the publication of that work'
for the benefit of the people of England, that the self-
designaleal enlightener of she people (for so Mr. Cob-
belt thought fit to term himself) had commenced his
Political Register; and about that time a eonnexiott
was formed between the plaintiff, the defendant, mid's'.
' gentleman of this name of Howell, for the publication.
of the Parliaassaiery Debates, the State Trills, ;end
11 the Parliameatary History. This went on until Mr.
Cobbett, on taking a trip to Southampton, was
seised with the desire to become a land specu-
lator; anal, during his absence front town, Mr. Wright
inspected amid corrected the Regish r. By aid of, the
paper system, which he was then writing down, Ilk.
Cubbett got aceonnatedation to the amount attngetber
'of from 110,011 W. to 70,110111., and these discouts were
principally effected—one bill being given another
became due—through the medium of Mr. Wright in
London. Due transaction begot another, end as hr.
masse deal of ttse try passed through Mr. Wright's
hands. WHO t, is fact, became the publisher of the
Register, for be received the proceeds and ield the
loutrings, and remitted cash at tints to Mr. Vellbett,

(-rived against Mr. Wri;:lot. More 3ir. Co!,bett
went to prison, Mr. Searlett continued, a poodtrati,a
took place in nt Ti:.1,1 newspaper, hinting that
Mr. Cu',ben had I. en di-pored to sl.andon his
Registre. .lr. (Adorn wrote a paper to refute this
imputation, and called his article A -Ve•e• noses
ai.ll to oh! bow. In that work Mr.
Colohett, after his Pt-olio:try manner, mixed up a va-
riety of subjects f•ie the a gement of the public, and,
after alluding to the libel for whicia he lead suffered
punishment, he went vin—"Walter says I made a pro-
position to government to this effect—that if proceed-
ings were dropped against sue, I would never publish
another Regi.:fer nor spy one thiug. If I 'lid so, no
one could condemn me, anti therefore I might allow
the charge of Walter to be true ; lent the charge is
absolutely false, for ne such proposition was ever made
from etc, or by my authority." And Mr. Cobbett
maw* oft to tell a story of his Imlay( certainly
u to Motley with stub an idea, worked top*,
•
*tweed's of his family ; but that he
3114rithdraw his proposition. Ilifbrtulatitly, how-
ever, Mr. Cobbett load transmitted to Mr. Wright the
farewell number of lois !tr.:Fir/re, which would have
been the concluding number, if his proposition to lio-
vernment had been carried into effect. Now the first
of the libels in ques•ion arose out of a suspicion that
it was by Mr. Wright that the fact had been commu-
nicated to The Tiaras and in expressing his opinion
that such had been the course of communication, the
defendant spoke of Slr. Wrialet as " a wretch note-
pulled in the annals of infamy, and whom he would
bold up to the horror of mankind." Mr. Srarlett then
proceeded to advert to the second libel upon the re-
cord, which originated out of the conduct of Mr.
Cleary in reading at the Westminner election of Its I ts
Mr. Cobhett's letter of 180$, in which he spoke of
Mr. Mont with feelings very different front those which
be subsequently expressed towards that gent lemon.—
That letter, Mr. Cobbett who did not disdain occa-
sionally to emp!oy a falsehood when be found it impos-
sible by argument to overcome his adversary, treated
as forged, and as the work of a man who hail forged
his (Mr. Colobett's) name upon several °evasions.—
Mr. Cobbett, its his plea upon the present record, had
eedged himself to prove those assertions to be true.
The paragraph in which lee described the big drops
of sweat—Mr. Scarleit would read the paragraph
Von, my dear Sir, know the history of this
Wright; yon know all his tricks, all his attempts.
The public do not, and I will not now trouble the
public with a detail which, if put in a snit:ebb. form,
would make a romance In the words of truth far snr-
passing any thing that ever was imagine,' of moral
turpitude. I will execute this task one day or other.
If the 'caitiff should 'put forth any thing by way of
palliation in the mean time, there is Mr. Walker, there
his fir. Hargrave, there is my attorney, there Is Mr.
Hwano, there is Sir F. Burdett Kasen.; there is my
son Jobs, who, thong's, he was then a child, will never
forget that litiotusd drops of sweat that in a cold
winter's day r 44w0 the caitiff a forehead when
be was detected in fabricating accounts: and when 1,
t &tit Johnny by the band (wl•o4ltad begun whimpe.ing
br poor Wright) and said, " Look at that man, my
dm;
_These drops of strmit.are the effect of detected
dishtmesty: Think of that, my dear child, and you
min always be an honest roan." Mr. Peter Walker
'lad Mr. Swaim were present althis scene, which took
place in my room in Pirnato to In I."
The'coutentn of this y.atagrepts Mr. Gibbon under-
took to prove the truth of. H. bad witoessos—Mr.
Margrave, the Attorney, Mr. Swain, Sir F. Burdett,
and hie (Cohbett's) son John. When were they now
They were in Court, but the justification was with-
drawn. Mr. Cobbett had not stopped there. • He bad
'gone on to accuse the plaintiff of having forged I.is
name, and of having been a spy since the year 1011.
Mr. Scarlettatust be allowed to say, this was a heavy
charge. A spy or an informer was, to his opiates,
the basest of mankind; a creature that no behest Um
Termite weld mee, mg that no wise Hoveremean
would me ; lint at the dune when the article appeared.
the ?AU bmligustion had been raised against sash

Mr. Henry Hay. a printer, proved the printing of
the libels in question.
Mr. Thos. Dolby proved the nohlirittion of 'he Re-
gixte r of the tith March, 1.519, an action haring been
brituJit against hint by Mr. Wtielt for the lib I con-
tained in that ultich nes also one of the
subjects of ibe present action. Witness appiiil to
Mr. l'obbett fur motel Nis for his defente,3, Ma. Cob-
hot then said that all that !sail been alleged in that
iihel against Wright he could prove so-he tree. Wit-
ness spoke to Mr. Col he!, of the libel, as being of WI
(Mr. Cobbritt's) own comp:shim' and no doubt Mr.
Cobbett co nnderstood it.
Mr. William Atchison proved tbat bg published the
Politiret Rvieter at the time when Mr. W. Cohhetts
jun.., arrived from America in January, Dili/. He
then resigned the publication to William the son. in
consequence of a letter rectified from the father. That
letter was slated December DOS, and contalned the
followin7 passage :—My toot William goes to take
chap.-, of all my affairs in England, relative to pub-
lications and the press.
Mr. John Reeves proved that he knew Mr. Cohlsett
in the year l!sit) and I s!I 1, and that he bad been con-
victed of a libel. At the time of that conviction he
had a communication with Mr. Cobbett before he left
town with his family ; in consequence of which he
made a proposal to Mr. Yorke, and through that
re:Wein:in to Mr. Perceral, that Mr. Cobbett truuld
abandon his Regi.ter, on condition of not being called
r up firjn.lgincnt.
Mr. John Paul, an arcountant, spoke to the award
• made by Mr. Cooke, between Mr. Wright and Mr.
• Colohett. In his ctoss-exantination he denied that he
• had ever written letters fur Mr. Jackson, for the pur-
-1 pose of obtaining money.
I Mr. W. Adams depsi.ed to the effect of Mr. Cithbett's
• letter of the year np-n toe character of Mr.
I Hunt.

Mr. SCARLETT forbore, of entire, to offer UK evi-
dence with respect to the justification, as Mr.Colihett
had abandoned that plea. On the part of the pla.n-
tiff the learned gentleman had nothing farther to sub-
mit to the. Court.
The libels in qnestion were now put in and read.
as were also a number of letter, which our prreat
limits will not allow as to notice further. The case
for the plaintiff being closed,
Cobhett entered upon his defence. He began
by observing that the proverb forbidding the cobbler
to go beyond his last, might be extremely applicable.
as well as nsefal,-10 lawyers. If Mr. !eared had
not gone beyond his brief, a great deal of time would
have been saved to the jury. The plea of 'notification-
being abandoned. {be plaintiff's counsel might have
some at once to the question of general issue ; but be
had not thought fit to do so. Mr. Cobbett then pro-
ceeded at considerable length to complain of the intro-
diction of his private letters into the present came,
and entered into detail of his various transactions with
Mr. Wright, and into an clposition of the cam of
his original- acquaintance with that gentleman.
lie denied that he had •-in rived the loan of twenty
pounds from Mr. Wright, on account of any wait of
money on his own tart; spoke of the plaintiff as hav-
ing lived is a state of absolute dependence, even for ,
food and raiment, npon him (Mr. C.) and of his having
afterwards *ring the time when lie conducted the sale
of the , lived in a style of splendour and ea-
travagamm eisybich he (Cobbett) biziotelf hid no pre-
t naiods. Cobbett pelt proceeded to date his
muttons for having removed the hones of Thos. Pains
from America to this country. Ne had not taken
that roans firm any admiradon of the Irreligious
principles Of Pains. or from any fellow-feeling with
him in his ideas of the advantage of a repsliNean go.
veranient. Indeed be (Cribber) had ever held a re.
publican govorament to he unsuited to the genius of