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Here ends the letter; and if I am to be allowed to judge from the last Paris papers, and from the previous facts which I have stated, and which are within the reach of every man who chooses to seek after them, it appears to me that this writer from Paris has neither overcharged nor exaggerated his statements. Now for the viperation of the Courier." This

journal, "with which the friends and ad"mirers of Buonaparté console themselves, " and these are the statements of which an "English news-paper is made the vehicle. ""Some of the statements," the Chronicle modestly observes, "are probably overcharged or exaggerated, or may be erroneous." But it assures its readers

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shots have been daily prepared to be sent to the army. The chief engineer in this business has been created a nobleman for his discovery, and a large pension has been assigned him by the Emperor. -How terrible an effusion of German blood will this invention occasion!—The Emperor's own army consists of at least 280,000 men, and these are to be marched against Prince Schwartzenberg, with whom Napoleon is" is a kind of trash," says that immaculate particularly enraged.The other armies maintain their communication with that of the Emperor, and will be commanded by Marshals Victor, M'Donald, Augereau, Marmont, and Mortier.- -The reserve, 200,000 strong, is at Meaux, Chalons," Soissons, Troyes, and Arcy sur Aube. The towns and villages have shewn the greatest energy, and every one of sufficient age" that the letter is a genuine letter, a real and strength has entered the National Guard." bona fide letter, which "reached the About 50,000 remain here because the "Chronicle from the French capital yesEmperor would not allow them to attend ""terday." LOOK TO IT, MY LORD SIDhim.- -You may perhaps already be in- "MOUTH; if one letter can come, another formed that the Allies could not persuade a may, and this letter, absurd and foolish single French General into their interest, "as it is, proves that the writer (whoever although large pecuniary rewards, and "he be) is either a drivelling sycophant, other advantages, have been offered. Every" or a hired tool of Buonaparte's! How attempt to corrupt has been unsuccessful." comes such a letter into the hands of the The Duke of Dalmatia and Albufera have 66 Morning Chronicle? We request the communicated to the Emperor the proposals" public attention to this point, because, made to them.-The Duke of Vicenza" though we know that Buonaparté has rehas actually taken his departure, to be pre- "duced the French press to a state of the sent as Plenipotentiary at the expected" most base instrumentality in his atrocious Congress, but he was stopped in his way, "designs, we see no good reason why our because the Allies refused his passports.' 66 English news-papers should become the This circumstance has given the Emperor" vehicles of his manufactures.-With all great offence, and he has solemnly sworn "sincerity and fellow-feeling, we really that he will appoint no other Minister on "advise the Chronicle to drop, in good that duty; and now that the gall has over-time, its intercourse with its genuine flowed in such abundance on both sides," Parisian Correspondent." we must expect in a short interval dreadful scenes; bloody battles must be fought, to which the armies of the unfortunate Allies will be impelled by the famine that must await them if they avoid the conflict. Magazines of wonderful extent are every where provided to support the native army, and the diligence is unremitting in this important department. Paris is very quiet, although the singular resolutions of the Directors of the Bank produced a dis-phant.agreeable sensation. No evil otherwise has attended them; the wants of the armies were pressing, and the measure was necessary. The Empress goes every where, in order to animate all classes of the people, and she is assisted in this purpose by the principal families, who are anxious to load the army with presents, to conduce to the comfort of the soldiery during the incleof the season.". mency

Now, reader, what do you think of these sentiments, put forth by a writer who is incessantly dinning our ears about British liberty, about the liberty of the press, and who assures us that "he knows Buonaparté has "reduced the French press to a state of the "most base instrumentality.". - This hireling scribe tells us, that the Parisian letter is trash, is absurd and foolish, and that itjis the production of a drivelling syco

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-Take care, Mr. Courier, what you say about drivelling sycophants. Either you suppose that Lord Sidmouth will Look to it; that he will, without delay, put a stop to this "treasonable correspondence,' or you do not. If you do, why do you call the letter trash, absurd and foolish? Do you wish us to infer from this, that it is inere folly and absurdity which engages the attention of government, and that trash only can alarm them? Or if you do not be

lieve this, how can you avoid the charge of being the most contemptible sycophant on earth, for endeavouring to attract the notice of ministers, and to excite an interest in the public mind, by raising a cry against a document which you say is the production of a driveller, is absurd, is foolish; in short, is nothing but trash? Was there ever such sycophancy practised? Was there ever such drivelling heard of? But how comes such a letter into the hands of the Morning Chronicle? In reply, I would ask the Courier, how they come to the knowledge of many things which they announce, and with which they are every day cramming the gaping multitude, as authentic intelligence of what is passing in Paris; of the state of the public mind in that city; nay, more, of Buonaparte's precise language in his conversations to his ministers and generals? How, I ask, can the Courier acquire a knowledge of these pretended facts in any other way than that by which the Morning Chronicle received the above letter? The Courier must either have a correspondent at Paris to communicate these particulars, or all the stories with which it is filled about the Parisians being in a state of revolt, of all France being ripe for insurrection, and of every Frenchman panting to embrace the Bourbons, are downright falsehoods. But the public attention is requested to this point. Very well. The public, it seems, are not to be told the truth. This is letting out too much, Mr. Courier; for it is telling us, in plain language, that the facts stated in the letter published in the Chro nicle, which you do not deny to be true, ought to have been suppressed by the conductor of that paper. If the letter which appeared in the Morning Chronicle should turn out to be false, and this will be ascertained beyond all controversy in a few days, it can do no other harm than impeach the veracity of the writer. If its statements prove to be true, and Napoleon succeeds in driving the invaders of France beyond the Rhine, is it not right, is it not proper, that the people of this country, who feel themselves so deeply interested in the matter, should be prepared before hand for whatever may be the result?-Or are we to be told,

that it is time enough to prepare the mind for an event, when that event actually happens.

-We shall see by-and-by whether my Lord Sidmouth "looks to it" or not; but if he does, and if it is to be held a crime to publish authentic intelligence here, respecting the disposition of the forces of an enemy, I confess I do not see how any political writer can calculate upon being in safety to take up the pen. I have much to say respecting the manner in which the foreign intelligence is published in this country; but I must delay this till another opportunity.

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OCCURRENCES OF THE WAR. departure of Buonaparté from Paris, to take the command of the army destined to repel the invaders of France, is an event which will be attended with consequences of greater magnitude than any thing that has occurred during the war; perhaps of more importance than any thing recorded in the history of nations. Napoleon left Paris on the 25th ult.; but it does not appear from the French papers to what point he meant to direct his attention. He was greeted with the loudest acclamations, and carried with him the fervent wishes of his people for success.

By accounts from Lord Wellington we find that a division of the French army, under General D'Harispe, has compelled the Spanish General Mina to abandon his position, and "to retire into the valley of

the Aldudes."-The Gazette, in which his Lordship's dispatch appears, does not inform whether there was any one killed or wounded in the engagement.

Dispatches from the American government announce, that it has been agreed to enter inte negociations of peace with this country, and that Gottenburgh has been named as the place of meeting for settling the terms; but there is to be no suspension for the present of hostilities.

There has been some successful fighting on our part with the Americans. We have taken Fort Niagara by surprise, and, according to the American official details, our troops fell upon the enemy while they were mostly asleep," and committed a most horrible slaughter."

Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden. LONDON: Printed by J. M'Creery, Black-Herse-Court, Fleet-street.

COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER.

VOL. XXV. No. 7.] LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1814. [Price 1s.

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"had paid so high a price."——Now> reader, observe, that Mr. Canning told us, that it was we who had humbled France; that we had proved to the world, that we were able to stand alone in a war, not only against France, but against all Europe combined. But, then, say you, Mr. Canning had a different object in view. He wanted to inculcate the notion, that we had gained glory and reputation and conscious safety by the war; whereas Mr. Wilberforce wanted to get money for the German sufferers.Be this as it may, both these tavern speech-makers cannot be right. If we are indebted for our safety to the Germans and Russians, Mr. Canning's assertions must be false; and, if Mr. Canning's assertions be true, the Member for Bramber must have uttered a falsehood.—I must, however, take the liberty positively to deny the second proposition of Mr. Wilberforce; namely, that the Germans have achieved our security at their own expense. They may have suffered severely in the work, which work, by the by, is not yet, I fear, quite effected; but, it has cost us some

SUMMARY OF POLITICS. ROWLAND HILL AND THE DEVIL. The attack, and, as it appears to me, wanton and unmanly attack, of the former of these upon the latter, I intended to notice last week; but was prevented by the unexpected length of my Answer to Mr. Canning's Liverpool Speech, which Answer, by the by, is almost wholly out of print, though an extraordinary number of it was printed. Before I proceed, however, to notice this attack itself, I ought to give some little account of the occasion, which gave rise to the attack. It appears, from a report in the Times news-paper, that, on the 27th of last month, a meeting was held at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of affording relief to the "Sufferers in "Germany."At this meeting, the speakers were, as it is reported in the Times, Mr. HENRY THORNTON, Mr. RoBERT THORNTON, Mr. WILBERFORCE (formerly member for Yorkshire, but now member for the nice little snug borough of Bramber, of which a curious account may be seen in Mr. Oldfield's history of Bo-few millions in taxes. We have paid the roughs), Mr. BUTTERWORTH, the bookseller, member for Coventry, two or three GERMAN PRIESTS, Mr. HOWARD, a Quaker, and the "Rev. ROWLAND HILL," our assailant of the Devil and Buonaparté.

In the speech of Mr. H. Thornton it was stated, that the distresses of the Germans had already arrived at such a pitch, that, in some parts, famine and epidemical diseases had made their appearance, a fact well worthy of attention; for, we had been made to believe before, that the Germans were rejoicing in their deliverance; but, now we are told, that famine, and even epidemical diseases have been the fruit of this precious deliverance; so that, if this new representation can be believed, we may also believe, that the poor Germans would have been better if they had not been delivered at all. Mr. Wilberforce (member for the snug borough of Bamber) is reported to have said, that we were bound to assist those," who had achieved our security at "their own expense, and for which they

German sovereigns at a very handsome rate, and, we are so paying them at this moment. Taxes make misery and paupers; and, therefore, we have not only paid and are paying, but we have also suffered and are suffering from the same cause. -Whenever peace shall come; whenever the day of reckoning shall come, and that day is, may be, at no great distance, the Member for Bramber will find, that the people of England will see the consequence of the war, and that they will discover, that the wars in Germany have not been carried on wholly at the expense of the Germans.Mr. BUTTERWORTH told the meeting, that he had received 2 or 300 letters from the different places where money had already been distributed; and that, in some of these let ters, it was said: "Let England sympa"thize with us; for we have suffered in "her STEAD." Whence it would appear, that these Germans look upon themselves as our deliverers, and not upon us as their deliverers. These modest correspon

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Quakers have been persuaded, that this money is not given for warlike purposes, those arguments will, at bottom, be found to be fallacious.- -The case of the good Samaritan, with all due deference to one who professes to be moved by the unerring Spirit, is not a case in point. The poor man, who had fallen amongst thieves, had not got his wounds in FIGHTING for the good Samaritan, as the Germans have in fighting for England. The good Samaritan (who, by the by, was no Christian) poured in his oil and wine from a motive of the most pure and disinterested benevolence. He did not say: "I see, friend,

dents of Mr. Butterworth do not seem to
think that we have suffered any thing at all.
They seem to think, that our subsidies of
so many millions have been nothing. They
seem, in short, to think, that we ought to
look upon ourselves as their debtors to an
incalculable amount; and, I should not
wonder if they were to threaten us with let-
ting the French loose upon us, if we refused
them indemnification. At any rate, if
Mr. Butterworth speaks truth, as to the
contents of his continental letters; and,
who will suspect so ghostly a man of utter-
ing a deliberate falsehood: yet, if he speaks
truth, one thing is very certain, and that is,
that the Germans believe what Napoleon" that thou art wounded in fighting for
has so often told then; namely, that they
were fighting the battles of England; that
they were incurring misery and shedding
their blood merely to advance the power
and riches of England. These notions, if
Mr. Butterworth speaks truth, have been
completely imbibed in Germany; for, as he
says, his correspondents tell him, that they
have suffered in our stead; which has no
other meaning than this: that, if they had
not fought the French, we should have been
invaded and conquered, notwithstanding all
that Mr. Canning has said about the result
(it is not known yet) of the war having
proved to the world, that England is able
alone to secure her own independence and
her own greatness and prosperity.Be-
fore these gentlemen come forth again upon
these subjects, it may be as well for them
to have a preliminary select meeting, a re-
hearsal, in order to arrange their several
parts, and settle upon the doctrines and ar-
guments that each shall bring forward; for,
as they may perceive, this clashing fur-
nishes weapons for those, who are inclined
to dispute the points which they appear to
have considered as indisputable.Mr.
LUKE HOWARD, the Quaker, is reported to
have said, that the Society of Friends, who
reject baptism and the Lord's Supper,
as being idolatrous, would "join in the
"object of the Meeting, because its
"basis was Christian Compassion, upon
"which ground also he had accepted of the
"office of assistant Secretary. He trusted,"
he said, "that they would feel and act like
"the good Samaritan, who said to the host
"of the wounded traveller; take care of
" him till I come again."- -Mr. Luke
Howard's "basis" is wholly different from
that of the object of the meeting, which
was to give money to the Germans, because
they had aided us by fighting; and, what-
ever may the arguments by which the

"my safety. I will, therefore, do my
"best to heal thy wounds," leaving it to
be inferred, of course, that, the wounded
man, if need was, might, perhaps, be
able to fight another round in his service.
No: the good Samaritan, who was no
Christian, and even belonged to a set of
people thought to be reprobates, did not
stop to ask, in whose service the wounds
had been received; but, seeing a wounded
and suffering fellow-creature, he set about
relieving him at once.If Mr. Luke
Howard's motives were those of pure
Christian compassion, wholly unconnected
with all ideas of self-interest and security,
why did it never occur to him to make
some effort to assist in relieving the people
of France, who, if we have been told truth,
have, for many years past, been suffering
miseries of all sorts in the most supreme
degree? But, Mr. Howard, have we no
sufferers at home? The very day on which
this meeting was held, the news-papers
told us, that there were in the parish of
St. Giles's alone, six thousand poor creatures
actually in a state of starvation. Have they
been relieved? No: unless the humane
man who pleaded their cause with the pub-
lic has stated falsehoods, which I do not
believe. Why need we send money to
Germany, upon the pure basis of Christian
compassion, while these and hundreds of
thousands of others of our own country
people are suffering so severely as they are?
Here is quite field enough for all our com-
passion. We want no hunting abroad for
miserable objects; unless we connect the
feeling of self-interest with the act; unless
we give the money as a reward for having
fought in our service and for our security,
as Mr. Wilberforce states it; and, if that
be the basis of the gift, what becomes of
the religious principles and of the pro-
fessed motives of Mr. Luke Howard?

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"funds of the meeting.' The motion was seconded by Mr. Brunnmark and carried "unanimously."- Reader, you may not,

if you live at a distance from London, know who and what this person is. He is, and has been ever since I was a boy, a preacher at a meeting-house on the Surrey side of the River Thames, at London. He has

I am truly sorry to have been compelled to make these remarks upon the speech of Mr. Howard. My recollection of the excellent qualities of the Quakers, in Pennsylvania; my long observation, and, indeed, experience, of their real benevolence, their integrity, and their good sense, always makes me deeply regret to see any meddling and vain persons amongst them mak-long been famed for those sort of harangues, ing the Society a tool in the hands of designing politicians.But, I feel myself disposed to exercise much less forbearance towards the personage, whose name stands first in the title to this article, and whose speech, upon this occasion, exhibits, I think, as complete a specimen, in a small Compass, of egotism, vanity, folly, falsehood, and impudence, as I have ever met with in the whole course of my life.To do it justice, I must first insert it, word for word, as I find it reported in the newspaper above-mentioned, thus: The "Rev. Rowland Hill was of opinion, that "the sword had never been taken up in a "more necessary cause, than against that "wanton cruelty, by which mankind had "been harassed for the last 20 years. It "might even be termed a righteous cause: "but for the battle of Leipsic, instead of "10 per cent. we must have paid 20. He "had a worthy nephew, equally distinguished for humanity and courage, who was now fighting for an insulted nation, "and against a kidnapping of royalty, "which must have been suggested to Buonaparté by the devil himself.—(Loud ap"plause.) Buonaparté might now squeak ❝for mercy as much as he pleased; but he "had shewn none himself when he had 66 the power. His nephew had received a sword, worth a hundred guineas, from "the City of London, and he trusted they "would give another hundred guineas to "the present fund. The Quakers, as they "were called, gave no money to kill, but "were always ready to give money to cure "/applause). He thought that in every "episcopal diocese, the Dean and Chapter "should be called upon to assist the fund;" " and were he as high in the church as his "nephew was in the army, he would set "the example. As it was, he hoped they "would soon hear something from Surrey "chapel: for,

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called sermons, which seldom fail to draw
together great, crowds of the lowest and
most ignorant of the people, with whom a
bellowing voice and distortion of attitude
do usually more than make up for the ab-
sence of reason and sense. One might,
however, have expected from a person,
with whose denunciations against pride and
vanity the walls of his meeting-house (he
calls it a chapel) are continually ringing;
from a man who, in his
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no mercy upon the showy gowns and caps
of the poor girls who are amongst his hear-
ers; from such a man, from one of the
elect, from a vessel set apart unto holiness;
one might have expected to hear no boast-
ings of any sort, and more especially of that
most disgusting of all the sorts; namely, about
one's family blood. Fielding, in speaking
of a man's beating his wife, after repro-
bating the act, generally, in very strong
terms, does, I recollect, observe, that he
thinks the medicine of a reasonable switch
may be justly and beneficially used in cases
where high blood breaks out in the wife.
I do not recommend a similar remedy in
the present case; but, I put it to the read-
er, whether it was becoming in any man,
much less in a man putting in claims to
superiority as a teacher of humility, to take
such an opportunity of dragging out neck
and heels, the fact, that he was the uncle
of General Hill; and, in a speech of only
eight sentences, to contrive to bring out this
fact three several times? What had
this fact to do with the subject before the
meeting, which related to the raising of mo-
ney for the German sufferers? First, he told
his hearers, that he had "a worthy Nephew,
equally distinguished for humanity and
courage, who was now fighting for an in-
"sulted nation." Without disputing the
facts with him (for I do not know that they
are, or are not, disputable) what had they
to do with the object of the meeting? The
Nephew had nothing to do with the money
to be given to the German sufferers; he
was not even in Germany; his example,
or his authority, was not cited; his name
was not wanted for any purpose of illus-
tration. Why, therefore, drag' the poor

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