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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register

SUMMARY OF POLITICS

... SUAMIMARY OF POLITICS. AmE:RICAN W AR.-We 'have 'notv tbe Gazette account of the battle of 'CAi'pawa, and also the American 'account of -that *memorable and important contest.-.1- -I guessed our force, at about three -or four thousand men; -and it appears nIow, that it did not a2alUnt to three thousand, out of vvbich we lost in'killed, wounded,- nissing, and prisoners, 8il78 ! The Americans ...

ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS

... |-. .1 ON CAPITAL PUXIUSEMETS. I M Ma. tOiB3EI~t Itis with feelingr of -unfeigned regret, tha- I observe, -os looking over our provincial newspapers, SQ. mn any symptons of the increase of crime, -in, imultipind, accounts of executions, which arm daily, and almit every wbeje, taking place, of individuals wh1o0 have forfeited their lives'to the-laws of their country, Noless taiinftve of these ...

AMERICAN PAPERS

... I I1 MERIC4N P4PEBI . ~~W, .'il:'iv.-9 td2 >,.;i'''t~igW T':6 ! 0 ;p.:|d6I The f'klq 4etlq s~saXe ,y je~erd*y, .senit ,toboth H oussf Cogs's by thle Preside~nt ete -Uited- Stat~es. 'thle suiliments ii c x- dt-& in. bEoth ouses, are ,purely u)atibial, asiA almnost u-nealnois :-- : -ee:!S 3 ngfit t~h-nz7ed &tdeA. - I lay befote Congress rmunkations +jo: reeivd fro the yPleaipot~entianies of the ...

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS AND FREE ENQUIRY

... |LIEERTY OF THE PRESS AND FREE ENQU~TIRY. KR. CQOBRETT,-In my last I ventured to make some remarks on the police of State Pros Sutios, :for matters of opinion, and also on the Bible Societies. 1 noet propose to Chew the state into which the Republic of Letters it thrown respecting the Dilble itself.. In doing this I am well aware of the censure that will be cast upoV ine; but feeling satisfied ...

AMERICA

... I . -A .. - . II -. ,mxricA. ; MR. CoIETT.-Sir.I have beeii astonilshed, ofate, to bear so* disaffieted people atterapt to defend the conduct 4 the Americatr G£overumexnt, in .av-ing Itj pres iwptiw toAgo to wa with us,-wsth iis, Sir, wiio hayv-i all qtasn trbatad -dhii with so vi-uh lenity and forb'wance. In I the fast -place, Sir, if oiaparite chse la Ipass nomiensical decrecs, wlbiph e ...

GAMING

... GA.m iy. MIa. CoBXTx-.-Permit me to ex- press mny thanks to you for the very just and striking views presented to the public in your last week's Register, on the inm- moral tendency of every species of gaming; and* the pernicious efects of indulging children in habits of playing at cards, an d other games of chance. The sentiments you have there expressed do equal honour to your understanding, ...

THE IRISH EMIGRANT

... TBE: IRISK EMIPRAKT. MwtR. C OflET.-aoWinlng Se umver- sally have done in crying down the. Con- scription under Napoleon.-Labouring as -we so earnestly do to ,aholish the Slave Trade though practising upon sa extend- ed a scale the humaane method of impress- ing inen for the. use .of our Navy, and jus- tifying the measure, by so umany plausible arguments, still. let -:us hearken to -what miay ...

MAGNANIMITY OF BONAPARTE

... I MAGNANIMITY OF; BONAPARTE. Sir,-In the Morning Chronicle of Feb. 25, . is the following article- : The Count de Escars arrived, we are told, on tbhe 8th, at night, at Troyes, the head-quar- ters of the Allies. The two Counts de Polignac, who, as our readers may re- member, were arrested. and tried with Moreau, have matde: their escap e from Paris, and are arrived at head-quarters ...

PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.—If we are to believe the prosti

... PROGRLESS OF Xr7EH FRECH REOLU- | TXON.- If we -re to believe the ptoti. tUted press of this countr, lFrance is cc :i on the eve of being invoivqd in all those scenes of cby.and blood,.Mhieh-afflcted her during the piigoianance of dliscoraant factions-even while- the Paais Journals are altogether.silnt as to the -pretended convulsions in that all .other cities,, the public attentilo h'ie is ...

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

... -I SiR,-In the letter wnich lately appear- ed inayour.REGIsTER, on the severity that has been frequently exercised by the Proctors of tl1e Universitv of Oxford on certainr ulnfortunate females, it is stated that, in the city-prison to which they are genera2ly committed, in damp weather, the cells in wihich they sleep literally undown with water; that there is no glass in the lvindows, and ...

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

... UNLVIRSIWyOF. OX]&ftORD.~~ Ow r-VWI3LCa&iICELLOR' G6oiUr1 4wnl '' ;.'': .R~vmwxl-,O -Tax -P20 TORSS. -. S Mr. IWirpdu. clhAiaoission chaw apIaeM it, Oxmfxd,iw cosequengcoithe -94W1WTatious sacer~tain otatgf. th1at.ai v.rsity, apear.i Loutu4 .er. Dfthe d the1 g~t; - riwer Tctazed, WI-* MdPI$Itamssinn in.oL-stating that 14tijqftwceoafte Vtce..Ghcuwfr'sCoaun. a airocm- uARva 4m beazpf~srofh ...