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No. 14. To Henry Hunt, Esq. Letter III. On
the Terrible Scenes exhibited at DERBY.
in October and November, 1817; and
particularly on the conduct of LAWYER
CROSS of Manchester,-Postscript, on
various subjects.-Notice to Correspond-
ents in England.

No. 15. LETTER B. To the Freemen of the
City of COVENTRY. Mr. Cobbett offers
himself as a Member for that City.-His
Motives for making this offer.-Unfitness,
Inefficiency, and Perfidy of "The Re-
giment."

No. 16, To Henry Hunt, Esq. Letter IV.

* On the DERBY Beheadings. STEWART

co-operates with CROSS. "On the Scheme

to silence the Press altogether. On the

Bow-string system.
Mrs. Brandreth an

object of national care. On the Death of
'the Princess Charlotte. New York Con-
sul and Addresses. Postscript, on various
subjects.

No. 17. LETTER C. To the Freemen of Co-

VENTRY. On the profound Ignorance of

those who have had the management of

the Nation's Affairs for many years past.

LETTER I. To Messrs. Benbow, Evans,

Sen. Evans, Jun. John Roberts, John

Smith, Francis Ward, John Jonson, John

Knight, Samuel Brown, John Baguelly,

and the rest of those who have acted the

3 same truly noble part.

No. 18. To the Honourable the Commons of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled. The
Petition of WILLIAM COBBETT, dated

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Vol. 33, No. 1.---Price Two Pence.

COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1818.

NOTICE.

The stamped Register having been continued together with the Cheap un-stamped Register, from the commencement of the latter, on the 28 of November, 1816, (No. 18 of Vol. 31,) to the time of Mr. COBBETT's departure to America; and the Commissiouers of stamps during that period, having objected against the same Work being published with and with out a stamp, Mr. Cobbett was induced to alter the title of the un-stamped Register to Pamphlet. This alteration commenced with No. 7 of Vol. 32, and has been continued to No. 38, the end of the Volume But, as the

reason for the alteration; has ceased to exist,

there having been no stamped Register since

No. 13 of the said Volane, the commence

ment of a new Volnae appears a fit opportu "nity; for restoring," the original title; of "REGISTER.").

It is necessary, however,, to observe, that the restoration of the original, title, will not prevent the stamped Register from being resumed, and carried on together with the un-stamped Register, in the event of the Pab lisher receiving instructions to that effect from the Author. Indeed, either the revival of the stamped Register, to enable those who cannot obtain it in any other ways to receive it by Post; or, a small additional charge for the unstamped Register, for the beneat and encouragement of lenders, who, at the limited mle of remuneration afforded by the present extremely low price, cannot be procured in sufficient numbers, must be resorted to, or multitudes of intended Readers must continue to be disappointed.

Shortly will be published, Bound in Boards, price Seven Shillings, the whole of Volume 32, containing 38 Numbers, being all that were published in the course of the last year. Also, for the conveniente of those who pos sess the first part of the Volume, written in England; the latter or American part, commencing with No. 15. (with the Leave taking. Address prefixed,) will be published separate lg, bound in beards, price Four Shillings and Sixpence.

ΤΟ

HENRY HUNT, Esq.

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OF MIDDLETON IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON

LETTER I.

On the Intrigues of the Junto in Westminster for making that noble-spirited City a Rotten Borough.

North Hampstead, Long Island,
October 17, 1817.

MY DEAR HUNT,

My intelligence from England, though not quite so regular as I could wish, comes, at this time, down to the first week of August. We have later news in the public. prints; but I have no intelligence, that I can rely upon, of a later date than the 5th st that month., By paying great attention to what is said in the COURIER and in the MORNING CHRONICLE, those sparrers in double-padded gloves; those hirelings, who appear to be so desperately angry with one another, and yet who, at bottom, have the same object in view,, namely, to support a tyrannical Borough-faction, who are able to make the nation pay the expence of Mr.STEWART and Mr.PERRY'S riding through the streets in chariots, instead of being, as nature intended them to be, employed in the sweeping of those streets; from these corrupt and infamous chan nels of information, used, as they are, as the weapons, with which the two divisions of the Boroughfaction fight against each other;

Printed by W. Jackson, No. 11, Newcastle Street, Strand.

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from these channels of information, knowing, as I do, how to extract truth from their falsehoods, as the bee knows how to extract honey from poison, I am able to judge pretty accurately ofevery material occurrence in England, and to be able to say, with no great risk of error, what is the real state of the country. You remember, that, a few days after the Absolute-Powerof-Imprisonment Act was passed, you and I saw, in the Strand, STEWART and PERRY meet, shake hands, and enter, laughing, into conversation. I wish, with all my soul, that, at that time, some able painter could have drawn us and them. What a contrast! But, I trust, that the difference in the appearance of our persons and that of these two squinting, downlooking, sallow, doughy and dirtyskinned men; I trust that the difference in our persons, great as it was, was not a thousandth part so great as the difference in our minds and hearts. What! meet, shake hands, laugh, and talk, at the very moment when the two 'old battered hacks had just come from their printing offices, where they left, as we saw the next day, paragraphs most furiously assailing the motives and the conduct of each other! A writer of great fame, observed, many years ago, that he wondered how two priests could pass each other in the street without laughing. But these hacks of ours are far more unprincipled than any priests that ever existed. They are far more shameless, Give them but the wages of infamy, and they are well content to pass through the world, loaded with the scorn of mankind. Nevertheless, one being the tool of the faction which is in, and the other being the tool of the faction which is out, from their labours I derive

pretty nearly all the information, which, for present purposes, I require. I wish, however, that those of my friends, who very kindly supply me with newspapers, would now and then send me a third newspaper, where matters are detailed, the detail of which matters is equally disagreeable to both divisions of the Borough faction. The weekly paper, the OBSERVER, though far from being up to the mark in political principle, is, génerally, a very fair relator of facts; and it frequently contains matter, very useful, and which matter never finds its way into the aforementioned vehicles of faction. I wish to be furnished with this paper regularly; and, indeed, this is the paper, so copious as it is in all the branches of information, whether for politicians or for merchants, that I should recommend to all persons out of England. Besides these, if there be any particular paper, that you think I ought to see, I beg you to have the goodness to point it out to the publisher of my Register in London. As the session of Parliament approaches, the schemers, the political quacks, will all be at work with their pamphlets on the subject of remedies. I wish to be furnished with these; and the publisher of the Register will know very well how to provide for the accomplishment of that wish. It is of great consequence to me, and, I trust, it is of some consequence to the nation, that I should be thus furnished. For, though I know very well, that the schemers can invent nothing to prevent the catastrophe, which I have all along predicted, I should like to have, from time to time, an opportunity of showing the folly of their schemes.

It is my intention, before I have

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closed my present public corre- I should only have to refer to it spondence with you, to hold up here, with regard to some of the to the execration, and, at the same effects of these intrigues; but, it time, to the ridicule of the country, is, perhaps, the best way to regard one of the most desperate of these the nation as being wholly ignoschemers, whose name is TOR rant of these intrigues, and to proRENS, and whose scheme contem-ceed to give a history of them acplates, in the year 1817, the trans- cordingly. portation of the people, because the I have been led to the discusland is insufficient to bear food sion of this subject at present, by enough for them; who proposes a paragraph, which I have seen to transport the labouring people, in a London paper, or rather because there is a surplus of mouths, extracted from a London pawhen we all well recollect that the per, stating that "it is expectParliament, without a dissenting ed, that Lord Cochrane will voice, in 1816, ascribed the mise-"resign his seat in Parliaries of the country to a surplus of "ment, and will be succeeded by food. Ah! the tyrants are en"Mr. ROGER O'CONNOR." It is tangled; they are caught in the possible, that this is a mere idle net of their own weaving; their rumour, especially with regard to despotic views and actions have the expectation of my Lord CоCHbrought the nation into misery; RANE's resigning. But, while even that misery now threatens to over- his Lordship's intention is possible, whelm themselves, and, in their the intention of filling his place struggles to avoid destruction, by Mr. O'CONNOR; that is to say, they are exhibiting all the fool- the intention of the intriguers, is eries and all the inconsistencies of not only possible, but so very prothe madinan who is not yet reduced bable, that I think it to be my to a harmless state. bounden duty to begin, without But, as being the matter, which loss of time, to caution the electors present appearances render of the of Westminster against being made most pressing importance, I shall the dupes of any such dirty and address you, upon this occa- selfish intrigue. It were a pretty sion, upon the subject of the in- jest, indeed, to think of bartering trigues of the Junto in Westminster. the seats of Westminster in this With those intrigues you and I manner! It shall not be done, have long been well acquainted; however, without a most strenuand it is time, now, that the nation ous effort on my part, and I am at large should be made acquainted sure it will not be done without with them also. For, now, every most strenuous efforts on your thing must be laid bare. The Bo-part, to prevent the success of so roughmongers have drawn their scandalous an attempt to destroy swords upon us. These intriguers the hope of seeing liberty revive are at us with their stiletto; in England. and it would be folly indeed for us to keep on fighting in muffles. If I could be certain, that my last Register, dated on the 10th of this month, would go before this, in point of publication in England*, * It was No. 37, published on the 20th Dec.

In order that the nation at large may be enabled fairly to judge as to this matter, I think it necessary to go here into a minute history of this Westminster Junto and of all its intrigues, down to the very time that I myself left England.

thing more than a tool in the hands of the Honourable Baronet, of which fact I shall by and by have to remind you of numerous proofs.

When I have so done, I shall endeavour to show, that the people of Westminster have now a great stake in their hands; and that, in all human probability, more will This Committee, with Mr. depend upon them, as to the re- BROOKS always at its head, has, storation of the country's liber- however, retained very few of its ties, than upon any other body of original members, who were many people of equal number. in number, several of them very The Junto in Westminster, con-able men, and all of them brought sists of a part of the persons who together by their zeal in the pubwere the managing Committee in lic cause, from the being animated Sir Francis Burdett's first election with which motive I by no means for that City. Of these, Mr. exclude Mr. BROOKS, who has SAMUEL BROOKS, glass-man, in no other faults, that I know of, the Strand, was, originally, the than those of being a very timid Chairman. When the first elec- man, with a great fondness to be tion was over, in causing the suc- thought in favour with the powercess of which no man had a tenth ful and the rich, with a good deal part so much to do as myself, I too much of conceit, and with a was of opinion, that the Com-little too much prudence for the mittee ought to dissolve itself; because foresaw, that, by becoming a sort of established body, they would become possessed of powers, which they might make use of for mischievous purposes; I foresaw that it would be impossible to prevent them from intermeddling as principals, when, in fact, they ought to have considered themselves as merely the agents of the people. This was the opinion, also, of Mr. HORNE TooKE; and I remember his observing, that this Committee, consisting of men by no means qualified for the task, would become dictators to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT; and that he would then become the Representative of a Committee, and not the Representative of the great City of Westminster. This, too, was, at that time, the opinion of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT himself. Notwithstanding these united opinions, however, the Committee has lived along from that day to this; and, I am very sorry to add, that, of late years, they have been no

times and the cause. Of the
whole of the original Committee,
I recollect none that remain, ex-
cept Mr. BROOKS and Mr.
ADAMS, which latter does, I be-
lieve, very seldom give his atten-
dance. I know that none of the
intrigues of which I am about to
speak, have the countenance of
Mr. GEORGE HARRIS, who was
one of the most zealous, the most
active, and the most efficient, of
the original Committee. Mr.
STURCH remains, I believe; but
whether he takes much of an
active part I do not know. The
Committee, at present, is like one
of those Regiments, that have
been cut to pieces abroad, and
that is just come home, being, as
the army term is, a Skeleton; or,
to speak in terms, perhaps, more
appropriate, what remains of it
is the Rump of the old Committee.
Mr. BROOKS has often said, that
he and his son, and son-in-law
could form a Committee at any
time. This is, indeed, a verita-
ble Rump! A worthy guide and
organ of the great City of West-

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