hats and shouted, "Long live King Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom William IV." At ten o'clock the procession began to move amid the roar of the Park guns, and the scarcely less noisy acclamations of the multitude. On its arrival at Charing-cross, the procession moved in the following order: Mr. Lee, High Constable of Westminster, with The Farrier of the Horse Guards. A posse of New Police Constables. Eight Marshals on foot. The Knight Marshal and his Men. The Household Troop. State Band, Kettle-drums, and Trumpets. Heralds. of Great Britain and Ireland, is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince William, Duke of Clarence; we, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm, being here assisted with those of his late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, Citizens of London, do now hereby, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the High and Mighty Prince William, Duke of Clarence, is now, by the death of the late Sovereign, of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful Liege Lord William the Fourth, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith (and so forth). To whom we acknowledge all faith and constant obedience, with all humble and hearty affection, beseech The King-at-arms, supported by Serjeants with ing God, by whom Kings and Queens their maces. Troop of Horse Guards. do reign, to bless the Royal Prince, 66 "GOD save the KING." At the conclusion, the air was rent by cries of "Long live King William," and handkerchiefs were waved in a manner the most loyal and enthusiastic. It is difficult to conceive any thing more imposing than the appearance of Charing-cross and its immediate vicinity on the approach of the procession. The streets were lined with spectators in thousands, coaches and vehicles of every description choked the way, and the houses from basement to roof were The procession then moved slowly crowded with persons anxious to witness along the Strand towards Temple-bar, and offer the tribute of their cheer to the gates of which were closed, accordthe passing pageant. The ringing of ing to custom. On a herald demanding the church bells, the discharge of ord- admission in the name of King William nance, and the shouts of the multitude, IV., the gates were opened by the City added greatly to the excitement of the Marshal, who conducted the herald to occasion. From the Opera-house to the Lord Mayor, who, attended by the Charing-cross every position that af- Sheriffs and other municipal authorities, forded the chance of a view of the cav-awaited in their carriages the approach alcade was occupied by clusters of of the cavalcade. At the end of human beings, and the whole scene Chancery-lane, the proclamation was presented an extremely animated appearance, the gay dresses of the females not having been as yet superseded by the sombre garb of mourning. The procession having halted, the following proclamation was read: "Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God to call to his mercy our late Sovereign Lord King George the Fourth, of blessed memory, by whose decease the again repeated, and the dwellers east of Temple-bar afforded satisfactory evidence that their lungs and loyalty were as strong as those of the inhabitants of the court end of the metropolis. At Wood-street, Cheapside, the proclamation was also read, and again at the Royal Exchange, under circumstances precisely similar to those already described. The last proclamation took me, as Bristol and its environs, place at Aldgate. At the conclusion of taking the whole together. A good each proclamation, "God save the and solid and wealthy city: a people King" was played by the state band, of plain and good manners; private virand the assemblage displayed the ut- tue and public spirit united; no empty most enthusiasm. noise, no insolence, no flattery; men Throughout the whole of the line of very much like the Yorkers and Lanroad, the windows and tops of the castrians. And, as to the seat of the houses were filled with spectators: city and its environs, it supasses all that every spot that commanded a bird's-eye I ever saw. A great commerial city in view of the procession was crowded, the midst of corn-fields, meadows and and the streets presented an immense woods, and the ships coming into the mass of living matter. The procession centre of it, miles from any thing like was splendid without being gorgeous or sea, up a narrow river, and passing beextravagant. The assemblage attracted tween two clefts of a rock probably a by it was immense, the Strand from hundred feet high; so that from the Charing-cross to Temple-bar presented top of these clefts, you look down upon the appearance of a sea of heads; and the main-top gallant masts of lofty we may say that few public ceremonies ships that are gliding along! within the memory of the present generation have been received with more distinguished marks of enthusiasm and interest. TOUR IN THE WEST. COBBETT'S TWO-PENNY TRASH; OR, POLITICS FOR WORKING PEOPLE, EXPLAINING Just as I was closing my third Lecture (on Saturday night), at Bristol, to How it is that the People are made Poor. a numerous and most respectable audiThe first No. (price 2d. of course) ence, the news of the above event arrived. I had advertised, and made all was published on the 1st of July, and the preparations, for lecturing at BATH one Number will be published on the on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; 1st of every succeeding month. It will but, under the circumstances, I thought be in the Duodecimo form; and the it would not be proper to proceed thi- twelve Numbers of the year will make ther, for that purpose, until after the a nice little book, to be read by the burial of the king. When that has scholars in the Lancaster and National Schools. Better far than ALLEN'S taken place, I shall, as soon as may be, return to Bath, taking Hertfordshire tracts! and Buckinghamshire in my way; from Bath, through Somerset, Devon, and into Cornwall; and back through Dorset, South Wilts, Hants, Sussex, Kent, and then go into Esser, and, last of all, ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. into my native county of Surrey. I shall then have seen all England with THE Twelfth Number of this work my own eyes, except Rutland, West- is now published; and the two Numbers moreland, Durham, Cumberland, and that were out of print, are re-published. Northumberland; and these, if I have I intended to conclude the work in Just published, No. XII. of life and health till NEXT SPRING, I shall see, in my way to SCOTLAND. Twelve Numbers; but there must be But never shall I see another place Fourteen; so that it will be completed to interest me, and so pleasing to on the 1st of September. MARTENS'S LAW OF NATIONS. This is the Book which was the foundation of all the knowledge that I have ever possessed relative to public law; and really I have never met with a politician, gentle or simple, who knew half so much of the matter as myself. I have wanted this book for my sons to read; and monopolizing has never been a favourite with me; if I have ever possessed useful knowledge of any sort, I have never been able to rest till I have communicated it to as many as I could. This Book was translated and published at the request of the American Secretary of State; the Bookseller, though he paid me only a quarter of a dollar (thirteen-pence halfpenny) for every page, had a Subscription from the President, Vice President, and all the Members of the Two Houses of Congress, and from all the Governors and Lawyers in the country. This Work was almost my coup d'essai, in the authoring way; but upon looking it over at this distance of time, I see nothing to alter in any part of it. It is a thick octavo volume, with a great number of Notes; and it is, in fact, a book, with regard to public law, what a Grammar is with regard to language. The price is 17s., and the manner of its execution is, I think, such as to make it fit for the Library of any Gentleman. THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR; a New Edition. Of this Work, from first to last, Sixty Thousand Copies have been sold; and I verily believe that it has done more to produce real education, as far as correct writing and speaking go, than any book that ever was published. I have received from the year 1820, to the present time, continual thanks, by word of mouth and by letter, from young men, and even from old men, for this work, who have said, that, though many of them had been at the University, they never rightly understood Grammar till they studied this work. I have often given the Reviewers a lash for suffering this Work to pass them unreviewed; but I have recently discovered that the newly-published EDINBURGH ENCYCLOPEDIA says of it, that, "for all com"mon purposes, it is the best Treatise we possess, and that it is entitled to super"sede all the popular, and many of the "scientific, productions on the subject of "our language." The price of this book is 3s. in boards. A FRENCH GRAMMAR; or, Plain Instructions for the Learning of French. The notoriously great sale of this Book is no bad criterion of its worth. The reason of its popularity is its plainness, its simplicity. I have made it as plain as I possibly could: I have encountered and overcome the difficulty of giving clear definitions: I have proceeded in such a way as to make the task of learning as little difficult as possible. The price of this book is 5s. in boards. Just Published. MR. JAMES PAUL COBBETT'S ITALIAN GRAMMAR, entitled "A Grammar of the "Italian Language; or, a Plain and Com"pendious Introduction to the Study of Ita"lian." Price 6s.-Throughout this Grammar the Author has supposed himself to be addressing those who are altogether upacquainted with the subject; he has, therefore, taken the greatest pains, both as to the proper arrangement of the several matters treated of, and that clearness of explanation that they require. At the same time, the work will be found useful to those who are more than mere beginners. It professes to be an "Introduction" only, and comes within a moderate compass; but while the Author has set out by noticing points the most simple, he has, in the course of his task, studiously called the reader's attention to the greatest difficulties that occur in the study of Italian. Of the importance of these difficulties the Author may pretend to be a judge, since he has had to encounter them himself; and the want of assistance which he has experienced in books called Grammars, has induced him to think that the results of his own study, as contained in the present work, may be of service to other people. THE HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT "REFORMATION, " showing how that event has impoverished and degraded the main body of the people in those countries; in a series of letters, addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen. This is the Title of the Work, which consists of Two Volumes, the first containing the Series of Letters above described, and the second containing a List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, and other Religious and charitable Endowments, that were seized on and granted away by the Reformers to one another, and to their minions. The List is arranged according to the Counties, alphabetically, and each piece of property is fully stated, with its then, as well as its actual value; by whom founded and when; by whom granted away, and to whom.-Of this Work there are two Editions, one in Duodecimo, price 4s. 6d. for the first Volume, and 38. 6d. for the second; and another in Royal Octavo, on handsome paper, with marginal Notes, and a full Index. This latter Edition was printed for Libraries, and there was consequently but a limited number of Copies struck off: the Price 11. 11s. 6d. in Extra Boards. To be had at 183, Fleet Street. A SET of the Register, complete, from the First Volume up to the present time, is to be sold at No. 183, Fleetstreet. Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 183, Fleet-street. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 10TH, 1830. "History is the most profitable study that men of leisure can apply themselves to, "because it contains examples of all sorts: "in faithful history good men stand as "marble statues, erected in the temple of "immortality; and bad men hang as male"factors upon gibbets, exposed to the public "view of the world to all posterity."-HERON. HISTORY OF KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. Barn-Elm Farm, 4th July, 1830. [Price 7 d. the more disposed to do this, as it is high time that justice be done to the memory of the unfortunate WIFE of this King George the Fourth. In their conduct towards that generous and brave QUEEN, the people of England did themselves immortal honour; and now when they are called upon to mourn for the death of her husband; now is the time to give them the true history of her treatment by that husband and his Ministers; and to give them the true history also of the life and reign of that Same husband. This, therefore, God giving me life and health for the purpose, I am resolved to do, at the time and in the manner that I have above described. But I shall not let the present month, nay, nor the present day, pass without exposing the impudent falsehoods with which the newspapers teem respecting this King, and the transactions of his reign. The Morning Chronicle of the 30th of June, I find, has the following passage; and base indeed should I be to let it pass without a mark of my scorn for the authors. It is on the subject of Peel's praises of the late King. On the anniversary of the memorable and ever-glorious day, when, on the other side of the Atlantic, the descendants of Englishmen resolved to perish rather than be taxed by men not chosen by themselves, I announce my intention to write and to publish a history of the life and reign of the King that now lies dead. I shall do this in about eight "Sir ROBERT PEEL, in moving the or ten Monthly Numbers, beginning "address in the Commons, alluded to on the First day of SEPTEMBER next; so "the blessings we had enjoyed under that the FIRST Number of this work" the reign of his late Majesty, observwill go forth on the same day with the" ing that' in the course of a considerLAST Number of the ADVICE TO YOUNG "able portion of that time during MEN. The form will be the same; but "which his late Majesty reigned over the numbers of the History will be" the country, we enjoyed the highest larger, contain more paper and more blessings which are conferred by print, and will be sold for eight-pence peace, and he believed that much instead of sixpence. I make the num"of the benefits we have derived from bers larger for the purpose of getting "the mild and beneficent administrathe work out the more quickly, and that "tion of the laws during that period, it may have some practical effect. It "were owing to the mild and generous is my intention to write and to publish,“character of his Majesty himself'; in the same form and manner, a com(6 that we have lived too near the plete HISTORY OF ENGLAND, for" period of these occurrences, to be the doing of which I have long been able to estimate in their full force all possessed of the materials. My inten-"the benefits we have derived from the tion was to begin this in September; "mild and beneficent Government of but this event having occurred, I shall "the late King'; and that, whether begin with this last reign; and I am "in peace or in war, during the whole C 666 666 course of his delegated power, If this fawning feelosofer had lived "whether as Regent or as King, he in the times of Caligula, Nero, or Henever exercised, or expressed any liogabalus, he would, I'll engage for "wish to exercise, the prerogatives of him, have praised them. It is not here "the King, except for the relief and "the advantage of his people.' 66 "be a question, whether the late King were a bad husband, or otherwise; it is the Thus far the flattery of PEEL, who, general principle laid down by this though not excusable, is, nevertheless, sophisticating feelosofer; it is the prinnot so very impudent, he speaking ex- ciple, the hellish principle, that a King officio. But where are we to find words who is a bad husband is better than one to express suitable indignation at the who is a good one; because his exwords of the Scotch feelosofer, who "ample will serve rather as a warning proceeds thus: "Sir ROBERT PEEL" than an encouragement." So, then, a "could not with propriety have intro- King who should be a black-leg, a "duced into his portrait of his late MA- spendthrift, a gambler, and a cheating JESTY, the shade as well as the light; gambler too, a notorious liar, a false "but it must be admitted that in what friend, a breaker of pledges, a drunkard, "he did state, he did not depart far a glutton, and, in short, famed for every "from the truth. The character of the vice, would, according to this Scotch "late reign certainly was mild and feelosofer, be the best of all possible "beneficent; the chief defect, perhaps, Kings; "because his example would "in the late KING was his profusion serve rather as a warning than as an " and extravagance. A great deal too encouragement"! Bad fathers, then, "much has, we think, been said as to must be better than good ones, "his private relations. With the ex- cause their example will serve as a "ception of the proceedings against the "warning." Bad mothers, adulteresses "late QUEEN, when he allowed his pri- above all things, are the best of mo"vate feelings to disturb the tranquillity thers; "because their example will "of the nation, we do not well see that serve as a warning to their daughters." "the public have anything to do with The way to have chaste daughters is to "the private life of the King more than let them know that they have a strumpet "with the private life of any other in- for a mother; aye, and to hear their "dividual. LEOPOLD, of Tuscany, after- strumpet mother praised at her death. "wards Emperor, has been celebrated This is Brougham's broad-sheet; this is throughout Europe as the model of his "best possible public instructer.” "Sovereigns, and yet his mistresses were almost as many in number as "the wives of King SOLOMON, and his offspring in proportion. Great allow ance ought to be made for the situa"tion of the Royal Family of this country, under the tyrannical act which "Oh"! says the Doctor, "but I say, "imposes such cruel restrictions on "that his example will become a warning, "their marriage; and as far as example" because people will dislike a King that 66 goes, conjugal correctness is such a strong point in the national morality, "that there is very little to be appre"hended on that score from the influence of the Sovereign. The Sovereign who "is a good husband may, in this country, dispense with many virtues; but, "if he be a bad husband, from his un"popularity on that score, his example “will serve rather as a warning than '-an encouragement." 66 66 SARDANAPALUS, OF HELIOGabalus, would have given a bushel of jewels for a feelosofer like this. Such a writer is capable of attempting to justify every crime known amongst men, not excepting even that of murder. "is a bad husband." And will not people dislike a man for being a bad husband? Will they not dislike a mother for being an adulteress? And does not the principle apply as well to these cases as to the case of a King? If it be good to have a King who is a bad husband, he will be better if he be also a bad son, and best of all if, in addition, a bad father! Because, then, he will be so very “unpopular," and afford his people |