PRESTON COOK. Mr. HUNT said he had another petiti Mr. BRAZIER, Worth Lodge Farm, Crawley. present, of which he had given notice, It Mr. Grove, Battler 21909 Oy bek VMP JAMES GRAY Butcher, Chichester T Mr. GEORGE ROBINSON, Lewes Arnis showed the evils of the truck systein, and was 19Mr. Horst, Inkeeper, Eastbourne, Sussex. drawn up some 12 months ago, when the hon. Lewes. Member for Staffordshire brought in his Bill bogod sd bar 9800H 5d1 970190 idguard gaad sit of bas as WILTSHIREW-9322 943 to compel the payment of labourers Mr. BARLING Fisherton, Salisburyobivibasoon after it was drawn up, but they all had money. The petition was taken round to as wages in M. STRONG, Pewsey, down the valley towards objections to presenting it, for some reason or many as eight or nine Members of that House batu Ameshuryapur 9 seiro salf STEEDS SJAMES CROWDY, Esq., Highworth. Seeing of Mr. Pika, Publican, Cricklades bad sllother, but, as petitioners conceived, because MR. WILCOXON, Preston, Lancashirevoiti it alluded to an individual, one Cobbett, who had some publication of which those hon. Je shall send all these parcels off on alq 09der bad Members were in dread. The petition was Tuesday next. There are some of the to whom they should apply to present it; and, brought to him (Mr. Hunt) at this time, to see whether he could recommend the petitioners ogentlemen who will, perhaps, not like upon being told that so many Members had the trouble that I am thus imposing and knew the statements in it to be true, he upon them; but, as I shall pay the should have no hesitation in presenting it. refused, he said, if he were in Parliament, carriage of all other parcels, they will When he (Mr. Hunt) became a Member of only have to throw the corn to their that House the petitioners reminded him of his chickens, or pigs, and put the pamphlets former declaration, and called on him to fulfil into the fire. If only a hundred la-given, he now presented the petition. The bourers, or only one, get a fat hog hon. it; and, in accordance with the pledge so every year from what I am doing, it will be a great deal more than the worth of a thousand times the trouble that I have taken, sim 10 35 s M to add as from diffis ds dewaraM AM 08 235 M 30 PRESTON COCK Tuis is the name given to HUNT, in consequence of his having put upon is flag, at Preston, the picture of a red ame-cock, clapping his wings and rowing, while STANLEY, his opponent, represented as a dunghill cock, run-winter of 1827 and the@spring of 1828, That, for some time past, previous to the ing away. This great ignorant and your petitioners have been enabled to commpudent daf, with regard to whose from 29. id. to 33 play that with such aracter and qualities and actions wages, scanty and insufficient as they are to mand, as wages for garden and other labour, nd views, the good people of Pres-purchase any thing other than the necessaries n were completely deceived, having of life, your humble petitioners have been, ne every thing in his power to families, and their children: 978003769 event the Reform Bill from passing, nevertheless, able to support themselves, their made a full exposure of his conduct, my Register of the 12th instant. In enge for this, he has brought a pe on before the House of Commons, tended to be from men who had ked for me, and whom I hud paid in visions will first insert the report the MORNING HERALD, and then the good people of Preston what Face they have been deluded to bring a themselves and this town. action took place on the 20th of Had HO OHW SHT statements con then proceeded to read the vyuo ui yah abd 2 To to To the Honourable the Commons of the asw Jins United Kingdom of Great Britain and That owing to the pressure of the times, gation contained in their humble petition at the bar of your Honourable House. D And your petitioners will ever pray, 116 The hon. Member proceeded to observe that a grosser instance of the evils arising from the truck system, perhaps bad never been brought before the House; and he hoped the system would soon be put an end to. The individual referred to (Cobbett) had been attacking him (Mr. Hunt) in his publications.; but he assured the House he was not instigated to present the petition from that circumstance. He had pledged himselfdtil present the petition many months ago, before those attacks had taken place. I must have more room, and it must be a time of less public interest, for me to give the history of this man. As to the petition, the facts are these! That it was not my practice to pay men in provisions; that I kept always eight men cand boys in house on a farm of eighty-eight acres that the men paid in food were men who had no work, and in dead of told me they were starving; that food was Thus paying your humble petitioners, in lieu of 3s. or 2s 6d. a day in money, paying them given them, that their wives and childin such disgusting food, to the utmost not ren might get a part of the food; that bworth more than thirteen-pence halfpenny it was an act of mere charity on my (hangman's wages), while the prime cost of it, part; that the meat was bought of Mr. to the said William Cobbett, could not possibly exceed sixpence three farthings.dk 10 Your Honourable House, therefore, will readily perceive, from the foregoing premises, the true cause and selfish motives which induced the said William Cobbett to adopt the infamous practice of paying your humble petitioners in meat and meal, instead of the current coin of the realm. Woo enumerated, juodai ons nogu virensdoe is to Ands your petitioners further pray that they SCALES and Mr. MATHEWS, by the ever it shall come forth, astound eve 9 PAR as Mitchell Cumberland, 9.32 Mineheadbye? AL Beeralston T Tregony...i gumenf Appleby SENT to to HOUSE WAS ONE and that all of them refused to have any thing to do with it; and that I pledge myself for the truth of these facts. There, my good fellows of Preston: that's your Cock; that's your" DARLING," called him at Manchester! A greater fool you might have chosen, for there were the lunatic hospitals for you to go get a a representative; if real life afforded you no equal to him as bully and coward, Shakspeare or Ben Jonson might, perhaps, have given you his match in PISTOL or BOBADIL; but as LIAR, your choice sets at defiance all approach towards equality, whether in real life or in fiction. The fault of the choice is, however, not yours: you were deceived; you have done good, however; for you have lifted the senseless cand malignant thing up, that he might be seen by all; and that was what was wanted. Such a thing can live only amidst troubles and strife. In stinct teaches it this; and, therefore, this horrible thing, which really ought not to be called a man, by whose presence in it your beautiful town will never again be disgraced, is raving mad at the prospect of a state of justice and of harmony, which the Reform Bill is so manifestly calculated to produce. WM. COBBETT. J. Pelham, J. C. Raine, J. Reid, Sir J. R. Rose, Sir C. H. Sadler, M.T Bostoni 19 Huntingdonshire T New Romney on [ Newport, Isle of Wight Newport, Cornwall Bewdley H **y dA Newark-up-Trenti :( MaltönЯ H‚zslyvo¶ Scott, Sir Si herewith a narrative the memorable Church and King" riots, which took place at Birmingham, in the year 1791; and, by reference to Mr. Russell's letter, page 29, you will perceive that, even so early in its career, the Times newspaper was made the vehicle of calumnies against the Reformers of that period, nearly as wicked as those it has recently contained respecting you. abgegod It is, I surmise, the crew who have the management of this infamous pub992 lication, who, backed by the parsons, have preferred the indictment now penadding against you; and, indeed, considerdoing what exposures you have made of these wretches, it is not at all surprising that they have had recourse to this assassin-like mode of gratifying the revengeful feelings which you have excited in them. old won UNREPRESENTED, suomal Clare, County-One ineligible to ni Colchester-One ineligible eids Durham One unduly elected Syed I hell Evesham Two void by reason of bribery Jud Londonderry fueligible lanoston of Nairnshire Vacated 1959 de a motion of seed I did wh -im Jaseng de tumour sta mod dad: BLOODY OLD TIMES. Mr. RUSSEL begins the letter above seeing in THE TIMES of yesterday, referred to thus: "Being in London, and "the most atrocious calumny that ever "was laid before the public, I feel it my "duty immediately to contradict it." This letter, dated 20th July, 1791, was published in the that, even then, the infamous paper was Star; and it shows just what it is now. The crew who owned it were one of the main causes of the atrocious deeds of that day. The crew have however seen their best days: they never can live in the atmosphere scourge to this country that this country of justice, they have been the greatest has had to endure. It is a crew employing a great capital in prifting to do init to me for this purpose, I send you jury to, and to inflict disgrace on, the |