out sharply, we hacks see whether The reader is now satisfied, then, that Micke it is this aimable W2d Ministry, these actibbed 8 these without being provided for in some lovers of the liberty of the press, that 320 a 90ob Sven bluow woy eint beago the other way Prosecutors in this case. 9100 betos oved blɛow wow has hundred persons have said to me, and 348 reisointupi lamps him mobey Attorney has assured me that ni 918 9 Jed: 190mm 12mo si several have observed to him, that it Oil THE WHIG PROSECUTION. could not possibly be the Ministry; that bej WTA regard to the merits of this it must be TREVOR, that at must be the affair, the motives which produced it, Parsons that it could not possibly and other matters, there will be time be this "liberal" Ministry, whose hack enough to talk hereafter. At present I newspapers have been calling upon the have only to prove to my readers that people, for the love of God, to keep out which I have been able to get none of the Tories, f for the sake of that precious them to believe, namely, that this pro-thing, the liberty of the press! Sir secution is a prosecution of the Whig JAMES GRAHAM SCOS at SCARLETT for Ministry. To get rid of all doubts upon his enmity to the freedom of the press this subject, they have only to read the though SCARLETT never brought but following documents and m Government prosecution, that on THE KING AGAINST WM. COBBETT. account of the late Lord CHANCELLOR, I beg to inform you that the above cause appointed for trial for the seventh of July being absolutely necessary to the cha next, and will most probably be the first cause racter of that Lord Chancellor and to be tried on that day. You will be served with also his Lady. This is all that I have the copy of the Special Jury Rule and an to say upon the appointment to nominate to-morrow at 12,5) 11), and if that time will not suit you, you will let some know, or I will attend to the nomination a for you. Soitoa Bade Your obedient servant, it to for Dealtry and Robinson. $29 Crown-Office, June 14, 1831.sit otin 1 THE KING against WILLIAM COBBETT. C.On the motion of Mr. Wightman, I appoint Wednesday the fifteenth day of Crown Officer. one e matter at br FRENCH STATE PROSECU odtons 4530 01 TIONS Wi' bas * all the King this myr And now we Chronicle gives the following account THE correspondent of the Morning of a trial in t the court at Paris, of some young men who had been guilty of the enormous offence of crying Vive la republique;" which means, Let us have a republic. A republic they will have, I am fully convinced, in state prosecutions that of a sovereign people can midous to carry on. have a new fact-a recent one--one of yesterday-a fact of Paris-one I deplore one I grieve over but it is a fact which should teach us where we are, and should make the Minister feel that he must march with the Revolution. The fact is a serious one-it is no less than riots in a Court of Justice at Paris, the capital of France. You know I have laboured to prevent this-to.comvince our President that these state prosecutions for political offences were anti-national, and must lead not merely to dissatisfaction, but also to tumalt. Yet, in spite of the efforts of the French and the English Press, the prosecutions are continued; and yesterday five young 管 18TH JUNE, 1931. peeds died 998. Jada y vigrade juo 3nd nods bajajte won si 19b891.84T men-two of them wearing the Deco- did not content itself with prosecuting ration of July were brought up for him for perjury A trial at the Assizes of in of having in the month of March, cried and you would have acted Vive la Republique and for having wisdom and equal patriotism. resisted military authority, and disarmed then you must remember that we are in This a state of great excitementy that public some of the Municipal Guards. This the opinions is very strongly pronounced was the charge. The witnesses Prosecution could not identify the pri- against these daily state prosecutions, soners, and the case was s matter of that the Minister persists, though all Government agent France says no,and that as he is oblaughter when a Game forward identified all the prison-stinate, hey must be convinced by though in the case of two an alibi facts which no subtlety scan elude, was unquestionable and ventured to and no fiuesse dispose of by even an swear that all were culpable, and that abundance of adjectives, in an article he saw all engage in illegal facts and in The Moniteur. And yet still the was a aMinister is unconvinced; and he thinks utter illegal cries. This man, is no other name for that he can bring France to act and feel Perjurer noi There him, for that is his title. The Court as he does. This is a great mistake, was crowded with the youth ath of Paris, and may lead to immense evils. and the public feeling was greatly ex cited But when this man gave De THE schoolmaster shall have my opinion in testimony, the feeling could not be the next Register, so suppressed cries of Down with the thank the gentleman who has sent me the witness, "He is a spy," "He is a popapers front Demerara; and also thank Col. lice informer" issued from all parts, Diggens, Barrack master at Barbadoes for and it was impossible to hear another his pamphlet respecting the uses of the husks of Indian Corn, which painphlet I shall notice word. The foreman of the jury now 9713 interfered. He was a proprietor one week, it being of very great public im I also thank the gentleman who has sent party, peace at all prices lover of the Restoration, and a hater of me a little pamphlet from New South Wales. It cannot be otherwise than pleasing to me to the youth of the metropolis. all over the world; man by record my teacMost interesting us immortalize this ing his name; me for he was called but it is particularly pleasing to me to see that Ledoux He wanted to have these a newspaper has been suspended, if not suppressed in Demerara, because it contained exyoung men convicted, and he was greatly tracts from my Register; not because it condiscomposed by the cries of the audi-tained any falsehood; but because it contained ence. 0, rising in a passion, and truth. I am pleased at this circumstance, not holding up his fists clenched in me because it has been an injury to the proprietor of the paper; hut because it showsy in the nacing aspect towards the accused, he most striking point of viewjo what sort of exclaimed, "Les menaces ne nous government this government maintains in our notre colonies; and what sort of liberty of the Press intimideront pas nous ferons it would introduce into Euglaud if it could. It devoir nous ne craignons pas vo calls upon us to be doubly upon our guard Teat poignards In When these words were against those encroachments which are daily pronounced, cries and yells of indigna-making upon the liberty of the press at home, tion proceeded from every part of the and which are made in that slow and dsly building. The Counsel of the accused manner, that they are hot to be perceived by eduje vhot braa siis to too aylaws 100 adinte refused to allow his clients to be fried the people, or flada tasbasted ad not by a jury having such a foreman, then to bala From the LONDON GAZETTE, judges retired, and an order of Courtda 104 was made postponing other opportunity! call this grave. THACKERAY,J.,Manchester,cotton-spinner. fament the tumult. I deeply regret ab dass BANKRUPTS ios I that the public could not suppress its BEAUCHAMP J. Halhorn, silversmith. indignation at the witness, and that it DAVIES, R., Kingston-upon-Hull, bookseller, HARRIS, W., Hampton, shopkeeper. market was thinly attended, both by London and country buyers, particularly the latter. Barley, on account of the high prices of hog peas, supported its Friday's advanced position, but the trade was otherwise very dull; with wheat and the intermediate samples of oats at a depression of from 1s. to 2s. per Cavendish-quarter; with fine oats, beans, peas, malt, flour, and seeds, with the exception of turnip MACDONNELL, R., Suffolk-street, Pall M'LELLAN, J., Regent-street, tailor. NOVERRE, G. R., Clement's-lane, Lombard-seed being in somewhat increased demand, street, insurance-broker. WATKINS, W., Shoreditch, grocer. WILLOWS, W., and S. Willows, Strand, fishmongers. WOOLLSEY, J., and J. Secker, Great Yarmouth, wine-merchants. SMITH, C. C., Chorlton-row, Lancashire, victualler. STONEBRIDGE, J., Wivenhoe, Essex, coalmerchant. TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1831. INSOLVENTS. DARKE, E., Stroud, Gloucestershire,maltster. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. BANKRUPTS. ASHWORTH, T., Rochdale, Lancashire, corn-dealer. BOAST, J., Trinity-sq., Southwark, apothe cary. BROWN, M., Gateshead, Durham, publican. BYERLEY, W., Bucklersbury, eating-housekeeper. BURROUGHS, J., Mile-end-road, and Amsterdam, merchant. EDMOND, R., Bridlington-quay, Yorkshire, innkeeper. HARPER, J., Monmouth-cap, Monmouthshire, innkeeper. at last Monday's quotations. Bacon, Middles, new, 44s. to 46s. per cwt. Pork, India, new.. 125s. Od. to 127s. Od. Cheese, Cheshire....60s. to 84s. ....... 48s. to 52s. 44s. to 50s. Hams, Irish.... 50s. to 60s. of SMITHFIELD-June 13. This day's supply of beasts was limited; small stock moderately good. The trade, with the primest small beef and mutton, was somewhat brisk, at, in some instances, an advance of about 2d; with lamb very dull, at a depression of full 4d. per stone; with veal, Covent-middling and inferior beef and mutton, suckling calves, and store pigs, at Friday's quota. tions. Beasts, 3,120; sheep and lambs, 23,210; calves, 140; pigs, 200. JOHNSON, P., St. Mary-axe, wine-mercht, STOCKMAN, J., Portsmouth, watch-maker. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, JUNE 13.Supplies, since this day se'nnight, have been, of English and foreign wheat, English and foreign oats, and English flour, moderate; MARK-LANE.-Friday June 17. The arrivals this week are small, but the market is very dull, Monday's prices barely maintained. THE FUNDS. barley, malt, pulse, and seeds, very limited, of Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and American four rather great. This day's published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. 46 VOL. 72.-No.1 WHAT A PICTURE OF A GO- TO THE READERS OF THE REGISTER. MY FRIENDS, no [Price 1s. 24. put forth during these five months of "suffering, and, indeed, of starvation; measure that I have heard of, "other than that of a Special Com"mission, has been adopted with re"gard to this unhappy country. "What a picture of a Government!' "And so exclaims the whole nation "now." " Having taken this passage, it made the following remarks on it; and to these remarks I beg you to pay strict attention. The subject is of great importance; it is the defence of the Whig-Ministry against the charge of having suffered the people in Ireland to In the last Register I censured the starve without any effort to relieve WHIG-MINISTRY for having done no-them; and here you have that defence. thing for the relief of the starving peo- "Lord GREY might well exclaim, in' ple in Ireland. The Morning Chronicle," 1822, What a picture of a Governon Saturday last, took up the defencement!' and yet not be now liable to a of this "liberal" body of persons; and," similar accusation. The Ministers to not content with that, it imputed bad" whom he succeeded never attempted motives to me in bestowing the cen-" to remedy the disease of the social sure. It took from my Register the system of Ireland. All that they following passage:"cared for was jobbing and corruption "In 1822," says Mr. COBBETT," for the benefit of the Ascendancy; "when there was also a famine in Ire-"that it should not be in danger from "land, but nothing like that which "rebellion; that the enormous sinecures prevails at present, there was a dis-" of the Church should not become the "cussion upon the subject in the House" subject of consideration, for which of Lords, in which Lord GREY took a" purpose the Catholic Question was of part; and as he is now Prime Minis-" incalculable service. The comfort or ter, as it is a Whig Ministry,' in- prosperity of the great body of the stead of a 'Tory Ministry,' it is worth" people of a country never, we sup-. "while for us to hear what this very" pose, occupied one moment's consider"Lord GREY said upon that occasion;" ation of a man like Lord ELDON. "and we will hear it; and here are his But it is impossible in seven months "words, according to the published re-" to do every thing. One great quesport, spoken on the 11th May, "tion has very properly obtained the "1822: What a picture of a Go-" almost exclusive attention of the Mi" 'vernment! Hundreds and thousands" "" of the people of Ireland dying in the "streets for want of food! in the midst "of an alleged superabundance. Very "true, my Lord GREY, but not a more" "frightful picture then than it is now;" " and it is you who are now at the head "of that Government, and have been at the head of it for seven months or more; and nothing has either been 'done, or attempted to be done; not even a consoling promise has been" 46 46 66 66 nisters during nearly the whole of the seven months-namely, the Reform of Parliament. We do not believe that, with an unreformed Parliament, Lord GREY, or any other Minister, is able to carry such a measure as is necessary for Ireland. The truth is, that the foundations of the strength of England were laid before the Oligarchy obtained ascendancy at the Revolution. We may see from what takes place in Ireland, what England A 44 66 streets for want of food, in the midst of an alleged superabundance.' Upon this I remark, that the picture was, indeed, truly frightful, but not more frightful then than it is now, when this very Lord Grey himself is at the head of that Government, and has neither done, nor attempted to do, any-thing for the relief of that suffering country. “would have been under her oligarchy, Lords, exclaimed: 'What a picture of "if the influence of that body had not a Government! hundreds and thousands "been counteracted by circumstances of the people of Ireland dying in the deriving their origin from periods "prior to the Ascendancy. The constant tendency, however, ever since "the Revolution of 1688, in our legislature, to consider only the rich, and "to encroach on the poor, sufficiently shows the nature and spirit of the "Government. Eut in Ireland the "Oligarchy have had it to themselves -they had a clear stage for their operations. To remedy the evils in "the system of that country, will be “both a work of time and of difficulty. "It would have been imprudent in Earl "Grey's Ministry to encumber them"selves with this difficulty, at a time when they have to make head against "a powerful confederacy, accustomed "to the plunder of the nation, and stirring heaven and earth to retain it. "Mr. COBBETT is led by the prosecution against him (a step we are sorry to see taken) to be unjust towards the Ministry of Earl GREY." 66 66 Upon this observation of mine you make a string of remarks, of which the following is the substance :-That Lord Grey might well utter this indignant exclamation in 1822, and yet not be now liable to a similar accusationthat the Ministers, who went before him, never attempted to remedy the disease of the social system of Irelandthat they would never take into consideration the enormous sinecures of the Church-that the good of the mass of the people never occupied a moment of the consideration of a man like Lord Eldon-that it is impossible to do everything in seven months-that the great question of Reform has very properly occupied almost the whole of the time of the Ministers-that Lord Grey could not, with an unreformed Parliament, carry such a measure as is necessary for The concluding assertion, either foolish or venomous, demanded imaediate refutation; and, in the following letter, which I sent to the Chronicle on Saturday, you will find, I trust, that it received that refutation. When you have read that letter, I have some Ireland-that to remedy the evils of the further remarks to offer you on this demi-official defence of the Whigs. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. Kensington, 18th June, 1831. "SIR-In your paper of this day, you published, from your own pen, something very injurious to my character, calculated to do me great mischief, and, at the same time, false. I, therefore, call upon you to make reparation by inserting this letter in your paper of Monday next. Irish system will be a work of time and "Now, Sir, this last assertion contains the subject of my complaint against you. I will not call it a sly stab; but, as I observed before, it is an assertion, deeply injurious to my character, and calculated to do me great mischief; because, if I be a man capable of affecting compassion for the Irish, and capable of imputing their sufferings to "In your paper above-mentioned, you the Ministers merely because those published some extracts from my last Ministers are prosecuting me; then I Register, in one of which extracts I re-am a man worthy of public scorn, and late, that when, in 1822, there was a worthy of having any-thing done to famine prevailing in Ireland, less hor-me, which this article of yours is so ribly extensive than the present, Lord well calculated to make a Jury do. It Grey, during a debate in the House of is, therefore, my interest, as well as my |