The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-06-30 00:00:00

MR. CO BRE77'.

It has been the common lot of merit to become
the object of perscuttion.----To the possession of
merit nu man has a fairer claim than Mr.
Consery ; nor has any man encountered more
wanton and milli-ions persccutiqn. The malig-
nity, the abuse, the wanton calumnies, the per-
!'sonalities, the lies, and the scurrility, with which
this Gentleman has lately been aseelled• by the
Public Prints in the pay of those he so justly and
ludicrou,ly terms " TnE Roane.," far exceeds,
in that respect, -es well as in absurdity, any com-
positions t:iit have ever issued from the press.
The coarseness and vulgarity of the language and
style• in which he ha* been attacked, have, in
truth, been such as might not hare disgraced even
the most distinguished prilfessws of elocution in
that far-famed .Irena of oratorical disputation—.
Billingsgate.

The iniquita!ile refutation of the charge against
Mr. COBBEIT on, the subject of the famous Court
Stadia! (from which so much was expected), that
appeared in his " li.t.Gtsrett" of the 17th
merits the attention of every individual in the
Milted Kingqlom. And in the hope, that by pub.
lication in this Paper, it may still be more eaten_
siva,' circulated than it has been, the first part Is
this day inserted, and will be hereafter continued.

Mr. CoenErr, by the sole power of his per.
SOWII era-lions and unassivled talents, has at.
tained a degree of fame and. respectabililw,
which. have not re►;q Olen been surpassed.—
lie has devoted the faculties with which Nature
has endowed him, to the service of that society of
which he is an honest—and an honorable member.
Ile has caviled his potters to tear the mail: front
the ♦isages of the " rtret.te auarsens"—and the
whole gang; una rote, in full cry—arc now en.
dearouring to scold down Mr. COBBETT. Every
ertilice—every potsilde mode of perseeetion has
been resorted to—the result of all which wig bc•
—to ertmil still more widely the influence and
reputation of that meritorious individual, to whose
manly expositions the country• is so highly in.
&bud.

FROM COBBETT'S POLITICAL REGISTL7!.

" Let hi;k Birth triumph. ‘V hat ran be more great
" Nothing-- bta Merit in a lan estate.''
Tor

To the ISDEPENDEV PL"..IPLE of leArmpsiting.

TIIF. COURT MAR rIAL.

GENTI.I;STr%,

In n fonder Let.er I spoke to yews open the subleev of
pericao! ettackl, nbich the associates in eerruptioti were-
making upon me ; of which attacks l shall now streak t••
you more folly ; because, tin exposition sir the fakehosit
and malice of nor enemies is ill Sti °ugly teed tb *en, nit
only that their anise is bad, but that they know it to be
bad, and that they have neither feet nor argument In ad-
vance in Its defence. 'the truth is this : they see plainly.
that, unless they eau, by sonic mean or other, de,truy
the erect of my publications, those publications 11111, is
lime, de-Stray corruptiou and public robbery ; that is to s ty.
destroy the meat wheir they teed upon ; and, therefore, a is
no wonder that they are making such eforts to destmy the
erect of those publications ; and yet, bring qoite destitute of
the means of meeting me in the held of disconion ; being quire
unalste to make head to stand one moment against me there.
they have recourse to personal attack, just as if any thing I
did twenty years ago could have any conneciion with what I
am now writing upon the subject of Parliamentary Reform ;
just as if my haying acted thou or thus, while I nas in the araiy,
could base any awinectiou nub what L have now said oboist
the Vote of the 310 upon 'dr. Undo:Warns/lion. or ahout the
decision with sespect to Castlereagh, Wellesley, and t'crce-
cal, compared uith the prosecution and sentence of Philip
Ilittnlei. I tun acrusing the associates in corruption of sit-
rioui crint-s against the pe title ; I am exposing their robbe-
ries to the people; and I aro proposing the wears of pre-
venting ouch robberies iu future. Why do not the corrupt
defend tlietntolves if they can ? Is it common for the thief to
attack the lawyer is no a, pleading against hits ? And if he
nett! to do it, would ;lea gain hint any credit with the jury,
or at all tciel to save his neck ? Of this one triuld think the
public robbers must lie aware ; but ttsey are se stung; they
smart so severely ; thee are so tell of resentcteet against an
who are riJbets, that they commit steaclue their
pfic.aotts to tine command of reason. Against me in particular
they entertain soca mortal antipathy, that I am sore there
is nothing but their cosardice that nithAulds them from at -
'emptier, astasonation. Lu this county especially they am
deAvrate. They have (to w.'.leliever set or K..pg they belong)
her, seen all the re..!i-etable p ere of the ;,eaplc turn their
barks Ivor? theui with disdrin, after saving for mane years
been th- dopes .n one gang or the other; ant this (to they)
alarming change they ascrthe priaripally to me. No wonder
that they arc out very nice in rhea: attempts to obtain
{mace.

Souse of tlma• attempts I,fired in a fame, Letter. where
.pikt of sotto of the tai•chootio and misrepresentotimii
they bad made u'c or. 1 !rise aaw to speak of theicili at-
; and, haling $o dime, hnbing once ante sown the
tolseiiood, Inc malice, the incompni idle bosesess of the .44-
..ociates in Corruption, I w:II miter agGut take op any 4): t,
of my pater, or the time et. my reatl:rs, lilt answerinum4
thing that shall he published a.!aimt sec prrwpow:to. The, ,:e
wretches hate r .w publiihed, at an enormous ex7eoer.
cape:we et nut le-s, perhap,, than ten Mot.. and ?tam
thiag iv tuck they pretend ufl true account, of a COrft
~IAIITIAL, in which I iv ts c,nicerned, at the time
lcalinz the army io 17i2. ‘Vity, Gentlemen, they r'4'•.
when they wen. at It, as tell luive seine the full ler,;:i of
the cia..aies of Ea.:land he A inrriett, aml onbli4b,sl an at. swot
of sty I ring I •:,•If Jra tz4.l fret fer 1.17 czaZon. Th-y
might a; well have ncrescsl me iif U.; •
or any oiliet ugem.r. There world Lars beco
vs much triqh in ,och n char,le 114 in a hat they have 1.4 a
publi4ml, a Mill is a filarlioad from oar mid to the outer,.:,
to what it me.ms to cause 13 lie believed respecting! me. It
coogaicit like most other deliberate labeller's:ls, somr.'",a,,:
which 1; trite in wards, but then the amushig Acr-
verleJ by the soppromion of all the material poi. a; I‘,e
transaction. Suppose rid acre to sa),—" If sellinz seiitt
in Parliamrot be cot puisbal, it is a ihwilic .s.• ..