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ought to be written in letters of my hope is that we shall hear no gold. Many years have I been more of it; for, if that prosecuwishing to hear such words tion were to succeed, every from the lips of Lord FOLKE-writer must be placed in a state STONE. I hope GoD and his of jeopardy too perilous for any Lordship will forgive me for the man to think of exposing himwish, but I really wish he were self to, unless from mere necesa WHIG; for then I should sity. To punish a man for inhave some hope that the rest of tending to cause it to be believed that party entertained senti-that another man is hostile to ments similar to those of his his Majesty's person and goLordship. However, we have vernment, is the most monstrous this from a nobleman who may thing that I believe was ever be supposed to have had a yet thought of by a prosecutor. pretty ardent attachment to those things called Rotten Boroughs. Let us hope that this is a beginning of a change for the better. Let us hope that such men begin, at last, to perceive that their own safety depends upon that Reform, for which the people have so long been praying, and for which praying, so many of them have been punished.

I would have the reader bear. in mind that this is a prosecution begun by Reformers, and supported by public subscription! Thus, we lay down the rule, by which we ourselves are to be governed and dealt with; and, I again say, that if this prosecution be persevered in, and succeed, a blow will be given to the press and to public liberty, such as no Minister and no Attorney-General ever attempted to give.

TO THE EDITOR.

PLACARD CONSPIRACY. In the list of witnesses, published in the newspapers, as WARBOROUGH ADDRESS. having appeared to the indictment against FRANKLIN and Mr. O'BBYEN, there is the name The following Address, said of ARTHUR SEALE. It is curi- to have been most admirably ous enough that the same name written by Miss Maria L. N. should occur amongst those of Tubb, a young lady nine years the witnesses against Doctor of age, only, was presented to her WATSON and Mr. THISTLE- Majesty, on the 18th ultimo, by WOOD, on their trial for high Mr. Benjamin Tubb, as a deputatreason, in 1817. This latter tion from the Parish of WarARTHUR SEALE was a printer, borough. and printed some bills for CASTLES, some of which he gave to Doctor WATSON; and he appeared with CASTLES, as a witness against the Doctor!

We hear but little now about this Placard Conspiracy; and

"To her most gracious Majesty Caroline, Queen Consort of England.

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May it please your Majesty, "We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Inhabi

Warborough and of Shilling-
ford, in the county of Oxford.
I rejoice that I have been an

tants of the parish of Warborough and of Shillingford, in the county of Oxford, beg leave most affectionately to congratu-humble instrument in the hands late your Majesty on the glori- of Providence in raising the tone ous demolition of that conspi- of generous sentiment in this racy which so recently menaced country, and of diffusing a spirit of independence and of liberty your Majesty's destruction. through the great mass of the population.

From the walks in life to which our humble avocations The discussion which my necessarily lead, we find ourselves deficient in language to wrongs have occasioned, has not do justice to our feelings of in- been regarded with apathy or dignation at the malignity of indifference by the people, as if your merciless persecutors, and it were the petty dissension of at the profligacy of your Ma some angry sect, or the conjesty's prostituted calumniators. temptible brawl of factious poliWe, nevertheless, concur in ticians. The people entered sentiment with the great body with ardent zeal into the disof the people, who have preced-cussion relative to the Queen, ed us, on this occasion, with because they knew it to be vitheir addresses of congratulation tally interesting to their own to your Majesty. personal welfare, as far as that

We participate also in the ge-welfare is connected with the neral joy that pervades the na- principles of justice and of lition, on the determination. of berty. your Majesty to make this country your place of residence. . May that resolution be the presage of future glory to your Majesty, and of happiness and prosperity to your insulted and oppressed people.

THE ANSWER.

I gratefully accept this loyal and affectionate address from the inhabitants of the parish of

These principles have triumphed over the force, the machinations, and the treachery of such a gigantic conspiracy, as threatened at once to destroy the rights of the Queen, and the freedom of the nation.

The joy which I feel on this occasion is felt by the people; and whenever the popular transport is connected with the triumph of popular rights, it will always experience my approbation, and excite my sympathy.

TO THE READER.

The next Register will contain a Letter, addressed to her Majesty, most respectfully submitting to her Majesty a statement of the dangers to be apprehended from a reliance on the Whigs.

Printed and Published by W. BENBOW, 269, Strand,

COBBETT's WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER.

VOL. 38.-No. 3.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1821.

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The REGISTER is now published by

JOHN COBBETT, No. 1, CLEMENT'S

[Price 6d.

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EARL GREY,

LETTER III.

INN, where it will continue to be pub-On the recent declaration of his

fished 'till a situation more convenient for the Public can be found.-The Newsmen and others, who receive Registers in the Country to sell there, and who may, this week, be disappointed of their usual supply, will please to address any applications they may have to make, to JOHN COBBETT, as above; postage free.-A New Edition of Mr. Cobbett's Year's Re

Lordship and others, relative to
Parliamentary Reform

London, 17 January, 1821.

MY LORD,

I, last week, announced my intention of addressing a Letter to

sidence in America will be ready for sale her Majesty, shewing the "dannext Saturday; and a New Edition of his" ger of her Majesty placing rePaper against Gold the Saturday after."liance on the Whigs;" and This work will have added to it some Pa-instead of doing that, I am not pers of a more recent date, and Mr. Peel's only addressing a letter to your Bill will be subjoined in the way of ApLordship, but in the course of pendix.-The Links of the Lower House, which has been unavoidably delayed, will be which it will appear, that I have published on Wednesday the 31 inst, in the great hope, that there may be form and of the size of the Register, and no danger in her Majesty's will be sold at the same Price.-A New placing such reliance." Oh! Edition of Peep at Pears is now published, shocking inconsistency!" This in this same convenient form and size.-All will be literally fulfilling the canLetters and parcels for Mr. Cobbett will, If directed as above, postage paid, be did assertion of MR. BROUGHAM ; punctually attended to. The publication namely, that, not content with of the Register will, in future, begin every changes keeping pace with the Saturday Morning at seven o'clock: pre-four seasons of the year; not cisely. content with even monthly changes,

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N. B. The next Register will contain the QUEEN'S ANSWER to the "KING's my changes are "from week to "week" and that, in short, I

LETTER TO HIS PEOPLE."

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am consistent in nothing but traitor for endeavouring to obtain change. that Reform; Pitt might do this Before, however, this bustling without any inconsistency. The politician, this philanthropic de-whole House of Commons might, fender of spies and patron of without any inconsistency, pass Grannies' Schools, this statesman during thirty years, acts and euloof St. Omers, this framer of giums on the Pitt sinking-fund, Protocols, this thwarter of Queens, and, at the end of that time, call this quondam Radical and present it a "Humbug," as I had called reviler of Radicals; before he, it seventeen years before. Mr. upon this occasion, give tongue, PEEL, might not only be guilty of as the signal to the yelping and no inconsistency, but might demangy pack to join in the full cry; serve cheers from all parts of the before he do this, let him inquire, House, when he brought in a whether, since the publication Report, in direct opposition (as of my last Register, something to matters of principle too) to his have not taken place to warrant, former speeches and votes. Mr. and even to call for, this change WESTERN was guilty of no inconin my opinions and intentions?sistency, when he, one year conThis is a circumstance too trifling, tended, that the misery of the perhaps, to be noticed by a per-people arose from the superabundson engaged in the sublime and ance of food, and, the next year, miraculous work of satisfying the that it arose from a surplus popucries of hunger by teaching thellation. An immense book might sufferers their A, B, C. But, be filled with proofs, that it is no though this may be unworthy of inconsistency in any other human his notice, your Lordship's example being to change his opinions of men may do something towards keep-and things, and that it is great ing an "inconsistent" man in inconsistency in me to praise a countenance. Pitt, to be sureman, even a man, at one time, and Pitt, that founder of English to consure him at another time, ruin and slavery; Pitt might, a though he may, at the period of one time, say that, "without a the censure, have taken an instant "Reform of Parliament, no ho-advantage of my absence to pro"nest man could be minister of mulgate through the newspapers England;" and, at another time, that I owed him money, and to enmight pursue Mr. TookĖ as a deavour to cause it to be believed,

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that this was the cause of my flight; made by your Lordship yourself, though he may, from motives the at the late Northumberland most unmanly and malignant, county-meeting, might be cited. have clandestinely conveyed my You there declared, that your private letters (relating to the opinions, on the subject of Resaid money) to the press; though form, had undergone considerable he may have given his counte-change, and that you did not now nance and support to a band of see the thing in the same light, in conspiring wretches, whom he which you saw it at an earlier must despise, but of whose services time of life. No! What, change he stands in need, for purposes, an opinion, and that, too, upon. which will, at no distant day, be a matter of principle; and of a fully explained to the world: an constitutional nature! immense book might be filled is well for your Lordship, that with proofs, that it is laudable in your name begins with a G and all other men to change their not with a C; or, you might be opinions, and their consequent accused of inconsistency, and of conduct, according to the changes being more changeable than even that new information, increased English weather!

capacity for judging, or an ad- However, let me not longer dition of knowledge, may dictate;teaze your Lordship (who have and that, in me, this is not only mantiness belonging to you) wth not laudable, but that it ought to the nonsensical spite of the mean subject me to every species of and dirty Hunks, and let me come censure and abuse, and that it is to the subject of my Letter, right and moral and religious in which is, the recent declaration a dirty, under-working, malig-of your Lordship and others, renant, rich hunks to hire hacks lative to Parliamentary Reform. for the purpose, to feed and pam- In order to derive as much, per them out of his own pocket, aid as possible from the manner while his niggardliness would of proceeding in the discussion almost go the length of starving of this vital question, I shall first the mice out of his house: an state, from the reports that lis immense book might be filled before me, the very words of with proofs of this description, these declarations; resting here and, to stamp the whole with the circumstance, that they have high authority, the confession, come forth rather tardily, and not

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