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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register

TO THE EDITOR

... Extract of the Alarqrds of Txeedale's Letter ta L'rd Nihon, dated Wf'hiiehall, a ist Sefe. i745, from Mr. flome's lli;toy of Me Re- bellion an theyear 1 745,P . 309. That 2,o0Co01en, and these the scum i of two or three Highland genitlernen, the * Camerons, and a few tribes of the Mac- donalds, should be able in so short a time to make themselves masters of the town of Edinburgh, is an ...

EARL ST. VINCENT

... SiR,-I have often read with great plea- sure your Political Register, and if the fol- lowing can add weight to the subjects yoa have already so ably discussed, it is much at your ?? your Register of the gth of last July, there was a remark, that Earl St.Vincent did not send a naval force in time to block up Toulon, and prevent. the sailing of the French armament under Bnonaparte; who very ...

SUMMARY OF POLITICS

... IRutsr BANK PAPER.-The third read- ing of the bill for continuing the restriction on the Bank of« Dublin brought torth, on the 2tst instant, so(me facts and observa- tions, which the public must consider as in- teresting. To the bill itself no objection was made; but, on the principle of it, and as to its general tendency, Lord Archibald Hamilton begged leave to state, that his opinion was not ...

SUPPLEMENT to the Correspondence between Lord Fingall and Lord Redesdale, to which is added the justificatory ..

... 1'r~~EN t~ I e 4Lo$ Finalld Gd,4s~et 4 Leter ifrm the Roman Vatholi_ BishoP of CLJr7 ad RBoss, to ktbe RI'bM Houfrakbl - LtrdR~deqse,,d Lo~rd I-ubs CkancelloT g ?? nd, g ,A ,*E. -V47' , ;f;* ' -id41i4J~oit.Jn@?3,, My- L-Oiw, If ithehbeavy wziot ofinl 'sinuation -whereibY.I am: aspei.edinal ?? A1ordships -recft- ccorrespon4dne.. wi th.the -oEaau1 ?? r as ufbuldxd id fact as it is extreme in ...

TO THE EDITOR

... TO-THE EDITOR. SIRs,-I cannot but admire the ingenious- ness of your correspondeut R B. in the last Regtster, in destroying a building, to raiie- upon its foundationa superstructure, which, doubtless to his spectilating mind, appears as 0olid as the founders of the. Property Tax hope that measuwe will be.' le condemrns a plan founded, as lhe allows, upon. sound fi- nancial principles, because ...

VOLUNTEER SYSTEM

... I have latelv been accused of some ireonsistency in rny parliamentary conduct, and have been charged Avith giving rr.y support to hit NMajesty's Ministers; but, if thy ?? aosqrwer supporters lpn I aw, tfrey voald not ?? aniuc reassa to ti ?? C toheir friends. I despise the, Ministers so -much, thar, if I had no other motive in coming forward to decfare my sentiment on the subject of French ...

Correspondence between the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Earl of Fingall

... Correspondence between the Lord Chazncellor of Iiciand and the Earl (if Ki gall. Dublin, 15ts AUg. 1803. MY LoRD,- According to your lord ship's request I have signed, with great pleasure, a warrant for ) our lordship's ap- pointment to be justice of the peace for the county of Meath. At this moment, my lord, it is peculiarly important that every person entirusted specially with the preser- ...

TO THE EDITOR

... TO THIE EDITOR. StR,--In my last f pointed out the defect of the present establishment of the marine corps, in their not having a sufficient rium ber of field officers. I have now to obserrej that there is not proper encouragement givob ;tO the nun-commnissionred officers,.- The serjeaats in the regiments of the hiue, after servin g a certain number of years, are not only entitled to the ...

IRISH EXCHANGE

... This grand measure [the Army Df Reserve] turns out, at last, to he nothing more than a mere-adi:. tioll to the Militia, with all the evils of that system, perv rted and misapplied as it has been fao .everal yeats past. Now, in the whole of the United Kingdom, .3Sooo men are to he raised br ballot, with the privilege of exemption froth personal service, on the ?? of linding a sab- s sticote. ...

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS

... EXrosB of the State of the French Republic, laid before the Legisla ve b'Ioy, on the 25th NYivose, ]2eh Year, (HASh January, ]804.) The Republic has been forced to change its attitude, but it has not changed its si:u- ation; it continues to preserve in the consci- ousness of its strength the pledge of its pros- pt-rity. Every thing was calm in the interior of France, when, at the commencement ...

TO THE EDITOR

... TO TIIE JDTOR, I StR, So many.instances of the ais- Conduct of the volunteers, have been re- corded of late in your Regiter, that I did not think it necessary, to add to the dis- graceful list, by giving you ai account of the proceedings of the Ewell corps. I vainly hoped it would have passed off, without attracting the public notice; but, there 4aving appeared in your Register of the 4th inst ...

TO THE EDITOR

... SIR,-In the last number of your Regis- ter you have given the pub ic a detail of vile ineffctual measures hitherto adopted by the British Creditors to recover their property invested ia the French funds, under the faith of treaties, and in a just confidence they would be observel ; and you have added some remarks altogether injurious to their conduct on that occasion. You do not indeed state, ...