"in? teaching nations how to dustry or perseverance. I might live," is the wish of,

Sir,

* Your very obedient and humble servants,

have failed in effecting good; but, you may be assured, that I would not, like some out-ofdoors talkers, have secured my.

THE FEMALE REFORMERS OF self from failure by taking care.

COVENTRY.

ANSWER.

never to make the attempt. I would never have shown myself too lazy, too feeble, or too timid to impeach ministers, If I had asserted those ministers to be worthy of a halter; and especially if that assertion had been founded on the conduct, as described by myself, of those ministers towards a virtuous, a

I receive with inexpressible pleasure and gratitude this mark of the esteem and confidence of the Female Reformers of the City of Coventry, whose disinterested and spirited conduct during the last election, I shall never forget, and never think generous, and barbarously treatof unaccompanied with feelings ed Queen. of admiration.

I

As to those persons, whose

It is very true, that the votes purses fed, armed, and put in of a great part of your husbands, motion the ferocious and bloody sons, and brothers were with-banditti at Coventry, they are, held from me by the proceedings be you well satisfied, now of a" ferocious and bloody ban-tasting the reward of their con"ditti." Those husbands, sons, duct upon that occasion; and, and brothers, were, like the rest in the present, they see nothing of us, but men; had they been but indubitable evidence of ruin women, the result, I am persuad in the future. Your lot cannot ed, would have been different. be made worse; but theirs may Their conduct, however, and will. They themselves ascribe to their anxiety, not for will, at last, cry out for deliverthemselves, but for you; and, ance. They will at last cry out therefore, I applaud their motive, for help; and, will they not be whatever reasons I may have to sufficiently punished by the relament its effects. flection, that they have no right to address this call to any but Peter Moore, and Edward Ellice?

In the excess of that partiality, which I had the good fortune to excite in your minds, you, doubtless, greatly over- Satisfied, as I long have been, rate the power that I, by being that nothing but a Radical Replaced in the parliament, should form in the Common's House have had to serve the country. can restore us to harmony and But, my desire to render such happiness, my exertions towards service you cannot over-rate; accomplishing that object will and, of one thing I am certain, never cease but with the acthat, if my desire had remained complishment. In the making ungratified, the cause would not of these exertions I shall conhave been a want of zeal, in-stantly be animated by the hope

of alleviating the sufferings of deavour to show her Majesty the industrious classes in every what a gulph is opening before part of the kingdom, and espe- her. The people have done cially in the City of Coventry. their duty: but, if the Queen quit I am addressing myself to them to rely on a "selfish facmothers and wives. It is, there- tion," the people can do nothing fore, unnecessary for me to more. attempt to describe the feelings excited in my breast, and in my family, by the wish expressed in the concluding part of your letter; or, to assure you, that that wish is returned with the most perfect sincerity. As, however, domestic happiness depends in a great degree upon

"PLACARD CONSPIRACY."

(DOCUMENTS CONCLUDED FROM THE LAST REGISTER, p. 1699, 1700.)

MR. PEARSON'S LETTER.

Chronicle.

SIR,-In your Paper of this

ourselves; and, as long and To the Editor of the Morning attentive observation has taught me, that sobriety is the great promoter of gentleness in parents, and dutifulness in chil- day, I perceive an Advertisedren, permit me to hope, that you will receive as a mark of my unfeigned regard, an expression of my anxious hope, that you will, one and all of you, as mothers, wives, relations, or neighbours, use your utmost endeavours to cherish that guardian habit, without the constant observance of which, the choicest of God's blessings are bestowed on us in vain.

I am,

ment from Mr. Denis O'Bryen, in which, under the pretence of being desirous of ascertaining the address and character of the several witnesses upon the back of the indictment against him, he takes an opportunity of discharging his arrows at myself, and various other persons, for the part which we have felt it our duty to take in this prosecu tion. Had Mr. O'Bryen confined himself to the professed object of his advertisement, I might have considered it unnecessary and impolitic, but, as it would not have been either untrue or unjust to the living or the dead, I should have quietly P. S.-I have some fear, that left Mr. O'Bryen to have reaped the Queen will, after all, be all the advantages which he sacrificed by the intriguers for could have contemplated by place. They are working hard such a procedure As, however, to take her from the people and that gentleman has thought fit make her an instrument in the to introduce my name to my hands of the Boroughmongers, disadvantage, I shall violate a I shall, as soon as possible, en- rule which I had prescribed to

Your faithful friend,
And most obedient Servant,

Wм. COBBETT.

London, 3d January, 1821.

myself, of not saying one word Denis O'Bryen recollect in any of him, or his case, while und er "narrative" this passage? prosecution. "When I first heard of the

Mr. O'Bryen's advertisement charge on which Mr. Bennet is a repetition of one published has so much improved, 1 litein your paper some days since. rally PUBLISHED myself—until I had, however, resolved not to sickness struck me down. I got reply to it, making some allow- DAILY ON HORSEBACK-I rode ance for the naturally-agitated to Bow-street-I WENT TO PUEfeelings of a gentleman, placed LIC AMUSEMENTS-I stood at in Mr. O'Bryen's situation.-my windows contrary to cusSince, however, it now appears tom." What a pity, Sir, that that his cool reflection approves among this gentleman's equesof the conduct which I had at-trian excursions he could never tributed to his passion, I shall find his way to the office of his not permit the plea of momen-solicitor. What a pity that he tary warmth and intemperance did not exchange an attendance any longer to screen him from at one of these places of" public the consequences of his unjust amusement," for an attendance insinuations, and wilful mis-upon the Three Learned Counstatements. Mr. O'Bryen, in his sel whom, in his advertisement, advertisement, says, "Until the he says he has retained; and it 15th ult. (November), the du- really appears to me, Sir, that ration of divers ailments disabled it would be much more consisme from attending to any duty tent with the ardour of Mr. beside my health. In the inter- O'Bryen's character, as well as val since that period, 'my utmost with the delicacy of his situation, power, with a pen in my hand, if, instead of " publishing" himhas hardly accomplished an ob- self, and "standing at his winject, in my estimation, more im- dow contrary to custom," he portant, than the punishment of had occupied himself in making all my non-parliamentary per- preparations for those proceedsecutors; unavoidably, there-ings which he now pretends to fore, lost the last Term." have had in contemplation. Thereby implying, that he had Really, Sir, I can hardly continot had, since the 10th of Octo- pue serious while I read Mr. ber last, a day, or an hour to in-O'Bryen's vapouring about his struct his solicitor as to the hos-prosecuting for a conspiracy. I tile proceedings which he pre-should like to see an indictment tends he meditated: the" object" setting forth a catalogue of the to which Mr. O'Bryen adverts as grievances of which he comhaving employed his utmost plains; only let it be in rhyme, power with a pen in his hand," and seasoned with a little of was, probably, that of writing a Mr. O'Bryen's wit and pleasancertain "narrative"---what a try, it might stand a successful pity, that men who write much competition with the humourupon the same subject have not ous consultations of the renownbetter memories! Does Mr.ed Hudibras with the sage ex

pounder of the law in his day. [liament. It, perhaps, may not Mr. O'Bryen's threat is, how-be irrelevant to inform this genever, not more ridiculous than tleman, that, as a consequence of is the insinuation contained in that which he now sneers at the next sentence of his adver- under the name of Reform, I extisement contemptible and pect the pockets of the honest base: he says, My vigilunt and industrious classes of the adversaries, aware that a pro- community will cease to be secution for conspiracy was taxed, to reward apostacy and among my legal contemplations, treachery with either sinecure anticipated my taste, and brisk-places or unmerited riches. If ly furnished me with one at this can be called "a division of their hands," as if the indict- the booty," I confess that I ment found against him by the am anxious to partake of its adGrand Inquest had not contain-vantages in common with the ed charges of the greatest mag- rest of my suffering countrynitude and importance, but had men. been adopted as a " set off" for As an attached friend of Mr. any proceeding which he might Fox and his principles, you have have meditated. Whereas Mr. doubtless seen with disgust, the O'Bryen well knew, that, so persevering endeavours of Mr. far from having "anticipated O'Bryen to connect his name his taste" from any knowledge continually, in this transaction, of his "legal contemplations," with that of this distinguished in my letter to you on the 13th statesman. That Mr. O'Bryen of Oct. last, in reply to a scurril-enjoyed the friendship of Mr. ous attack from Mr. O'Bryen, I Fox, is certainly, true; and that informed that gentleman, that 1 he also had the confidence of intended to prefer a Bill against several of Mr. Fox's friends, is him for a conspiracy; and that, equally so; and had that inditoo, upon the precise evidence on vidual lived, he might, perhaps, which this indictment was found. like his friends, have found Mr. O'Bryen thinks fit to allude good cause to lament the calato my civility towards him on mity. the night of his apprehension; If Mr. O'Bryen, in spite of and I can assure him, that my his late intimacies and associacivility was not intended to pur- tions, still feels any friendship chase his praise, neither did I for the man, or respect for his (I confess) expect that it would memory, I would pray of this have called forth his sarcasms. gentleman, in mercy to the reBut I do not attach that import-putation of his friend, not useance to either the one or the lessly to drag his name before other, to suppose that it would the public, until Mr. O'Bryen aid me in the division of the shall have established his inno"booty," which Mr. O'Bryen, cence of the charges, brought in return for my kindness, pays against him. It is now 14 years me the compliment to suppose 1 since Mr. Fox was consigned to look for from a Reform in Par- the silent tomb. Peace be to

his ashes! It is no part of the duties of friendship, to drag him forth to be exhibited to satisfy the inquiries of the curious, or to gratify the suspicions of the malignant. The persecution of a man's enemies pursues him to the tomb, but there stops short. It would, indeed, be cruel, were not the grave to protect him from the suspicious kindness of his friends.

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to see the name of Mr. Fox (rearisen from the sepulchre), almost as soon as the name of his Grace, in patronage of such a subscription." This is one of the few assertions in Mr. O'Bryen's letter, in which I fully concur. I am" in full light," and I do verily believe, that, were Mr. Fox re-arisen from the sepulchre," we should see his name precisely where that of By this extraordinary adver- the Duke of Bedford now stands. tisement, the Duke of Bedford The attempt of Mr. O'Bryen to is made to share a portion of excite commiseration by perpethe writer's resentment, for hav-tually recurring to his intimacy ing subscribed towards the ex- with Mr. Fox, I have before pences of the prosecution. In adverted to, and his constant apjustice to his Grace, it should peal to the Whigs, is not less be observed, that the subscrip- reprehensible. Mr. O'Bryen tion alluded to was sent to for- knows well that he has not now, ward the inquiry into this mys- and has not had, for a long terious transaction, without re-time past, any part or lot" ference to the mode in which with that body. Whether an it was to be applied, and with-association with the Whigs out knowing the individuals would be creditable to either who might be so far implicated him or them, I leave those who as to become the subjects of feel any interest in the question prosecution. If I can appreciate to determine. But Mr. O'Bryen the Duke's motive in contribut-knows that he has, under his ing the sum in question, it was own hand, assigned a supposed worthy of the House of Russell, slight from his Grace of Beda desire that the march of pub-ford, as his reason for " changing lic justice should not be imped-sides," so long ago as August, ed for want of pecuniary means, 1815.

and without reference to any Mr. O'Bryen knows, and I. feeling of fear, favour, or affec- know, and Mr. O'Bryen knows tion. Did Mr. O'Bryen stand in that I know, that he has voneed of pecuniary means of de-luntarily chosen to record his fence, I make no doubt but that the kindly and generous disposition of his Grace would prompt him to be equally a contributor to that gentleman's necessities.

Mr. O'Bryen says in his advertisement" Were the reader in FULL LIGHT, he could not but concur with me in expecting

connexion with Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning since August, 1815, and to point those statesmen out as the probable successors to that place in his affections which had been held successively by Mr. Fox, Mr. Burke, and "Poor Sheridan.”

Had Mr. Denis O'Bryen main