was yet to begin, where such a conclu- | To conclude: I have now performed sion was come to as that of the baronet? a task not at all to my taste. I should What orator before ever so made his infinitely have preferred a continuance distinction between two competitors for of a friendly political connexion, long confidence, in a trust of the highest im- maintained, and, on my part, with the portance to his auditors and the state; utmost fidelity, to what has taken place; and in the same breath declared, that, for that connexion in its latter period, although one of them had “paramount afforded me a pleasing prospect of being pretensions" to support, he recommended shortly placed in a situation to have the other, and earnestly prayed their given me, for promoting the cause of "unanimity" in his favour!!! radical reform, for the salvation of our country, ten times ten-fold means. But that connexion having, by the other party to it, been put an end to, I have thought it right to submit to you, who have a great interest in knowing the truth, the foregoing facts and reasonings. How luckless hath been that persevering reformer's "wish" for better means of promoting his object! Most unfortunately, that "wish" happened to be unknown to a brother reformer who had the best means of knowing it,-to one, who must have "thought" his venerable friend with paramount pretenTo you it must be left to judge, how sions to a seat in Parliament, the essence far Mr. Cobbett, in his writings, prior of inconsistency, not to have entertained to a possibility of his having any knowthat "wish!" ledge of the second act, in the West But, as ill-luck would have it, in minster election drama of 1818, was summer that wish" becomes the vic-justified in his opinion, respecting the tim of a "THOUGHT;" in autumn, motives of Sir Francis Burdett's conduct when the thought has passed away, the towards myself; and how far that deepthroat of the "wish is cut by a BE-sighted person has shown himself a LIEF; and such a BELIEF! Does not prophet, with regard to the close of the this talking about believing and wishing, baronet's political career. bring to mind the old adage on the proneness of men to believe as they themselves wish? But no matter! At all events we can, at the worst, divert ourselves with the tricks played before us. If we cannot turn them to use, they may serve us for sport. But it is the proper end of farce to treat us with a laugh at folly, and the exposure of double-dealing, while it leaves behind a little moral instruction. And have we not been feasted in both ways, and with that benefit? When, last summer, it was intended to deck untried, inexperienced youth, in the spoils of long-tried fidelity, the veteran reformer was discovered to have the crime of being "OLD:" this winter, when versatility is thought to be coming into fashion, he is, it seems, accused of the sin of "INFLEXIBILITY!"*-inflexible, indeed, would be his risible muscles, were they not moved by such exhibition of the tricksters! * So he was informed by a correspondent who r the accusatior, It will, however, be allowed, that I have not kept a malicious silence, indulging a secret wish, that Mr. Cobbett's prophecies may come to pass, for exposing and disgracing one by whom I feel myself to have been ill-treated ; but that I have bestowed on the party as wholesome a warning, and as sound advice, for the public good, and his own reputation, as could have been given him by his best " personal friend," under a sense of the highest obligation received at his hands. JOHN CARTWRIGHT. USES OF COBBETT-CORN-FLOUR. IN my last Register I gave an account of these uses in the following words: We use the corn-flour in my family, FIRST as bread, two-thirds wheaten and one-third corn-flour; SECOND, in batter puddings baked, a pound of flour, a quart of water, two eggs, though these last are not necessary; THIRD, in plumpuddings, a pound of flour, a pint of water, half a pound of suet, the plums, and no eggs; FOURTH, in plain suetpuddings, and the same way, omitting the plums; FIFTH, in little round dumplings, with suet or without, and though they are apt to break, they are very good in this way; in broth, to thicken it, for which use it is beyond all measure better than wheaten-flour. Now, to make BREAD, the following are the instructions which I have received from Mr. SAPSFORD, baker, No. 20, the corner of Queen Anne-street, Wimpole-street, Marybonne. As I have frequently observed, the corn-flour is not so adhesive, that is to say, clammy as the wheat and rye flour are. It is, therefore, necessary; or, at least, it is best to use it, one-third corn-flour and two-thirds wheat or rye flour. The rye and the corn do not make bread so bright as the wheat and the corn, nor quite so light; but it is as good bread as I ever wish to eat, and I would always have it if I could. Now, for the instructions to make bread with wheatflour and corn-flour. Suppose you are going to bake a batch, consisting of thirty pounds of flour; you will have, of course, twenty pounds of wheat-flour and ten pounds of corn-flour. Set your sponge with the wheat-flour only. As soon as you have done that, put ten pints of water (warm in cold weather, and cold in hot weather) to the cornflour; and mix the flour up with the water; and there let it be for the present. When the wheat sponge has risen, and has fallen again, take the wettedup corn-flour, and work it in with the wheat sponge, and with the dry wheatflour that has been round the sponge. Let the whole remain fermenting together for about half an hour; and then make up the loaves and put them into the oven. The remainder of the process every one knows. These instructions I have, as I said before, from Mr. Sapsford; and I recollcet also, that this is the way in which the Americans make their bread. The bread in Long Island is made nearly always with rye and corn-flour, that being a beautiful, country for rye, and not so very good for wheat. I should add here, that there is some little precaution necessary with regard to the grinding of the corn. The explanation given to me is this: that to do it well, it ought to be ground twice, and between stones such are used in the grinding of cone-wheat, which is a bearded wheat, which some people call rivets. This, however, is a difficulty which will be got over at once as soon as there shall be only ten small fields of this corn in a county. I have just received some very fine, corn from Mr. DURBAM, at Sandwich. The parcel weighed about a pound perhaps. Mr. Durbam paid the carriage; but the porterage was sixpence. I therefore beg my friends not to send me any more parcels of any sort by coach; for their paying the carriage is, under the laws which I have the honour to be obliged to submit to, no protection at all to me. For a parcel weighing about a pound, and the porterage of which was in the fellow's hands before I knew it, I paid ten-pence! When Mr. Durbam's parcel came, with the ticket of sixpence porterage upon it, the porterage was refused, and the honest person who brought the parcel was told he might take it away if he would. Anxious, doubtless, that I should not be disappointed, he asked what I would give for it, and being told two-pence, he took it. The parcel was become his own, or that of his master, and he was humane enough to part with it for two copper pennies, just half as much as William Sutton, a Hampshire lad, was condemned to death for having, with a parcel of others, extorted four copper pennies, from some one in that county. WOODLANDS. My book on the raising, planting, and cultivating Timber- Trees and Underwood, taking every tree at its SEED, and showing how it is to be made into a TREE, in the most expeditious and profitable manner. Octavo, price 14s. AMONGST many others who have thanked me for this book are, Mr. Dox IRISH TITHES! THIS must be reserved for another KIN of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Mr. week. Oh! what bloody work it is! HODGES, one of the members for the county of Kent. Mr. DONKIN said to me, that by following my instructions, Published this day, No. 9 of the he had plantations as lofty in five, as HISTORY of GEORGE IV., price other people had in twelve or more sixpence. years. Mr. HODGES, who has tried my Also, TWOPENNY TRASH, for mode of trenching, has applied it to January, 1832. hops also, and, in a letter, an extract from which he authorises me to publish, he says; "I performed this method in " a very stiff, poor field, after thoroughly "under-draining it, preparatory to planting it with hops; and I have no From the LONDON GAZETTE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1831. no hesitation in attributing the vigour ALVES,J., Norton-st., Fitzroy-sq., bill-broker. "and the produce of that plantation to BANKRUPTS. "the effect of that mode of trenching." BARNFIELD, W. jun., Mark-la., wine-mer. The Rev. Mr. MORRICE, of GREAT BISSILL, W., Quarndon, Leicesters., bowlBRICKHILL, Bucks, never could grow manufacturer. spinner. maker. GRAY, J.,Blackman-st., Southwark,victualler. agent. HOPKINS, J., Hare-st., Woolwich, grocer. strawberries at all, and hardly any-thing CROSBEE, T., Birmingham, caster. well, till he got my " ENGLISH GARELLISON, L., Knaresborough, Yorks., flaxDENER," which also contains the in- GILLING, T., Stoke-la., Somersets., paperstructions for trenching. He at once trenched his whole garden agreeably to those instructions; and now everything flourishes in it, and he has the finest strawberries that can be imagined. Now if the FOOL-LIAR, who sent about his franked circular to proclaim the COBBETT-CORN (that I gave for nothing) to be a "fraud," had a square foot of land upon the face of this globe, I should not at all wonder if he were to send round another franked circular (if he could find out the readers of the above books), containing the copy of a voluntary oath that he had taken before the Lord Mayor declaring that he had tried the method, and had found it to be" the greatest fraud that ever was palmed upon the public." Leaving this HUGE FOOL, however, to trench, when he gets it, his square foot of land as he pleases, I strongly recommend to those who have my books, or either of them, to pay particular attention to what I say about preparing the ground. WRIGLEY, R., Rochdale, Lancashire, cornBoth books are perfect in all their parts; but as to the preparation of the ground, their contents should be known to every one who cultivates the earth. SPRINGETT, Linton, Kent, cattle-dealer. currier. WOODHEAD, S., Ovenden, Yorks., worsted manufacturer. WRIGHT, A., London, merchant. dealer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. NIVEN, J., and D. B. Niven, Glasgow, soap- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1831. INSOLVENTS. BAKER, T., Folkestone, Kent, carpenter. MITCHELL, H. G., Bermondsey-wall, wine. merchant. BANKRUPTS. BACON, J., Worthing, Sussex, wine-mer. CUTBUSH, W., Wilmington-square, Clerk- CALVIN, J., Worcester, hatter. EGGLETON, H. D., Charles-street, Trevor- GREGORY, W., Leeds, lace-dealer. MARTIN, C. E., New-st., Dorset-sq., Mary- MASSEY, G. L., Portsea, linen-draper. SAXON, J., and W. Royston, Handforth, WALTERS, T., Manchester, draper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. ROXBURGH, J., Bothwellshiels of Shotts, tanner. This day's market was tolerably well attended by the buyers of London and its vicinage, but very thinly by those who reside far from town. As the supply of English wheat was limited, and the duty on that of Foreign growth 25s. 8d. per quarter-a rate that is next to prohibitory, the wheat sellers were, at good, but though it is considered to have This day's supply of beasts was great and been that of the great Christmas market day, it was neither greater nor of better quality than that of this day se'nnight, especially when it is considered that about 800 of the beasts were turned out unsold from last week's markets. The supply of small stock was rather limited, but fully equal to the demand. The trade was throughout dull, at but little if any variation those of the prize beasts that have been sold from Friday's quotations. At the cattle show, have produced about 4s. 8d.; of the prize sheep, 5s. to 5s. 4d. per stone. Beasts, 3,549; sheep and lambs, 16,880; calves, 110; pigs, 150. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Dec. 23. The supplies this week are moderate, but the commencement of the market, rather the market is dull at Monday's prices. stiff to advanced prices; but as these were, if at all, submitted to in but very few instances, the trade throughout might be considered as dull. With wheat, barley, oats, rye, malt, seeds, and flour, at last week's prices; with beans and peas at a depression of from 1s. to 2s. per quarter. In seeds exceedingly little was doing. THE FUNDS. 3 per Cent Cons. shut. Consuls for Account (Thursday), 84, UNPARALLELED! EORGE CRUIKSHANK'S 32 Graphic G Illustrations of a POLITICAL AL PHABET; with 32 pages of letter-press. Fifth edition, corrected. Price 6d. ! 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