This is, to be sure, a very fresh bales of paper-money. This "the Sheriff of Middlesex, on raised prices, and made the jolter-"the Octave of Saint Hilary, heads chuckle. But, first or last, But, first or last," for a certain misdemeanor, this paper must come back. It" or you will be outlawed.'cannot be kept out for any length "This notice is also posted on the of time without driving the gold" door." out of the country. It is pressing hard in that direction now. When pretty scene to be viewed in a the country-banker is now called Protestant Church in the metroupón to take up his paper, the polis of England. But, if this holder of that paper may DE-ceremony were necessary with MAND GOLD. A Bank-of- regard to the unnatural and monEngland note is not now a legal strous BISHOP JOCELYN, when is tender as it used to be. You it to be performed, I wonder, with may demand the gold in exchange regard to JonN MOVELLY, the for the country bank note; and soldier of the Coldstream Guards, whenever this demand shall be- who was the beastly JOCELYN'S come any thing like general, the beastly companion? Will no man thing is at an end. move, in Parliament, in order to find out by what means that soldier avoided the arm of the law? is well known that he was bailed out of prison. Who paid the forfeited bail? Who were his bail? How did he get away? How is BISHOP JOCELYN, OR, A PRETTY SCENE IN A It I copy from the newspapers the he returned to the War-office? following pretty little article:-Is he returned as discharged, de"On Sunday evening last, at serted, or dead? "Mary-la-bonne Church, after However, this matter shall not “divine service was finished, and thus drop. The moment I have a "the congregation on the eve of little leisure, I will put into a retiring, a gentleman got up in three-penny book, a complete his"the centre of the middle aisle, tory of this transaction. SOUTHEY, "and there read aloud the follow-the author of JOAN OF ARC, and of "ing words: Oyez, oyez, oyez ! WAT TYLER, and of the Life of "(calling on the Bishop) come WESLEY, has written and pub"forth and surrender yourself to lished what he calls "the book of the Church." I will write "the been printed in a few days. The second Number is published this day (30th December). The third will be published on the 30th of January, and so on, month after month. To prepare the French translation for the press has re not be published until Saturday the eighth of January, 1825.-[ observed, in my last, that I should leave the Catholic Association to have the French republished at Paris, if they chose. But, an occasion appears to offer for my getting it done there with little or no difficulty. I shall, therefore, take the necessary steps for the book of the Bishop" of that same Church. I will have that book of the Bishop translated into French, and I will give it all the circulation that lies in my power. If these two enormous criminals, the Bishop and the Soldier, had under- quired a little more time than I gone the sentence of the law; if expected. The translation of the they had met with the fate which first Number will, for this reason, others meet with, guilty of the same crime, I should have said, "let them rot with infamy attached to their names;" but, seeing what has taken place, the press, as far as I have power over it, shall do its best to render them justice. I shall get this "book of the Bishop" out in the course of the winter, and shall sell it, as I said before, for three-pence; so that purpose. It will probably be ten it may be within the reach of days or a fortnight before I shall every one. This is due to truth and justice; it is due to the miscreant Orangemen, who exulted with joy while the flesh was tearing from the back of poor BYRNE, and who gave marks of peculiar to the Association, that will be the exultation while the poor fellow best way, and certainly the most was dragged along by the statue of pleasing to me. William the Third, whom the Orangemen call "THE DELIVERER." PROTESTANT REFORMATION. FORTY thousand copies of this work (each Number of it) will have know for a certainty that I can have it done. When I do know for a certainty, I will give information of it in the Register. If it can be done without any expense I think it necessary to notice here, that I have forwarded a quantity of both the first and second Number of the Reformation to MA. J. C. SCULLY, bookselier, No. 35, Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin; to whom I have also sent Ireland as more fully entitled to sacrifices of this sort than any other people that I have ever known in some copies of my English Gram-what I earn, I wish to have nomar, French Grammar, Year's thing but what I earn, and I do Residence in America, Cottage not wish to be rigid even in the Economy, and, I believe, some securing of those earnings. I other books. To several gentle-have always made great sacrifices men, who have written to me from to what I deem the public good; Ireland to send them books, I beg and, as I look upon the people of leave, in the first place, to present my thanks, and, in the next place, to give them the following information that it would be very the world, I am willing to make inconvenient for me to have several greater sacrifices for what I deem booksellers or others to send books to be their good, than I have ever to in Ireland; that I, therefore, made in any other case. My offer, shall send to MR. SCULLY only; therefore, to MR. STAUNTON, is, and that I have agreed with him, in fact, almost a leaving of it to to sell at the same retail price, to himself, how much he shall pay make the same allowances to the me for permission to reprint and trade, and to do every thing the republish the Register in Ireland same as is done in Fleet-street; regularly. · so that any person in Ireland may be supplied by him upon exactly the same terms as if supplied by has my permission to publish this Register, as he had to publish the me. I am, I expect his answer in a few days; and, in the meanwhile, he With regard to the Political last Register, and, in order that Register, I have been extremely no obstacle may be thrown in the anxious, that it should have a way, I shall write him word that quick, a convenient, and a cheap he has my permission to repubcirculation in Ireland. lish the next Register free of all therefore, in negotiation with MR. cost to him. STAUNTON, of No. 4, SuffolkStreet, in order to effect this object. It is very clear, that, if the that nothing can resist. It will, Register were re-published in especially during the ensuing SesIreland, I should lose something sion of Parliament, be of the by that; and, indeed, something greatest importance, that the peoconsiderable. I have nothing but ple of that country be kept con The affairs of Ireland now press themselves upon us with a force thor, a letter of thanks at the least; but it is not on grounds like these that I should have complained of an American bookseller: from that quarter, I should have expected very little in the way of ceremony. But, those who have read this Treatise, must have seen that it was written in part, at least, to convey a mark of great respect and of gratitude to a lady, who and whose family, I had the good fortune to have as stantly truly informed of what is passing here, and especially as far as it relates to themselves. The Register will necessarily contain the matter which will be useful to them. It cannot circulate amongst them directly from me; and, therefore, I am extremely solicitous that it should be republished in Dublin; to which let me add, that there is this motive besides, that I shall reflect with some degree of pleasure that I am giving some little employment neighbours in Long Island. When to paper-makers and printers in I sent the book forth, I really Ireland. thought ten thousand times more, sat ten thousand times more value upon, this only return that I had it then in my power to make for all the kindness that I-and my family had received at the hands of the lady in question and her family; ten thousand times more pected profits of the book. Now, what should this miscreant "J. Robinson" do, but reprint every part of the book EXCEPT THE I will here, though it has no-I thing to do with the subject before me, except that it relate to the republishing of books, hold up an AMERICAN BOOKSELLER to the indignation of every man who shall read this Register. Amongst my labours, is a Treatise on Garden-value than I did from any exing. This Book, of which we have published several editions in England, and of which I have sent two editions to America, has been reprinted and republished DEDICATION! I could almost at Baltimore by a man whose find in my heart to go over to name is J. ROBINSON. I am persuaded, that though the law would have allowed it, there is scarcely a bookseller in England would some associates or partners at the have been guilty of this act of town of Frederick in Maryland: demi-piracy; and I am sure that and I hereby confer on the whole there is no one who would have of them the appellation of mean done it without writing to the au- and mercenary blackguards. Baltimore and wring, if I were able, the scoundrel's head from his shoulders. He has, it seems,. TURNPIKE TOLLS. On the twenty-fifth of last month my eldest Son (Mr. William Cobbett jun.) applied to the Magistrates at their Petty Sessions at Dartford in Kent, against the tollcollectors of the lessees of the tolls on that road. His application was to produce witnesses to show, that the said collectors had taken too much toll in two particular instances, the penalty for doing which was, according to the act, five pounds for each offence. The lessees of the tolls employed Mr. ADOLPHUS to appear at the Petty Sessions in their behalf. Mr. ADOLPHUS Contended, that the information ought to have been laid within three months of the commission of the offence. My Son contended, that the act allowed a twelvemonth. The Magistrates acted upon the opinion of Mr. ADOLPHUS, and refused to hear the evidence tendered by my Son. At the same time, the learned gentleman told my Son that if he were dissatisfied he might apply for a mandamus to compel the Magistrates to hear the witnesses. Here, also, his opinion was acted upon. The mandamus was moved for during the last term, by Mr. FRENCH, and their Lordships which rule was duly served upon the Mag's rates. Now, behold the salutary effects of acting upon Mr. ADOLPHUS' opinion. The Magistrates, by their Attorney in London, made a tender to my Son of TWENTY POUNDS,on condition of dropping all further proceedings on the subject. This, of course, could not, without showing a litigious spirit be rejected. Here was a sum amply sufficient to meet the two demanded penalties, and also to meet the expenses attending the motion for the rule. The public will want nothing further to assure them, that the Magistrates had well ascertained the fact, that they had done wrong in refusing to hear the evidence. The question may, therefore, be looked upon as settled; that as the law now stands, twelve months andnot three months, are allowed for the laying of information for offences of this sort. I mean to impute no blame to Mr. ADOLPHUS. He did his duty to his client in persuading the Magistrates that they were acting right; and they, perhaps, are not greatly censurable for having deemed his interpretation of the law preferable to that of the gentleman not at the bar, but who happened, in this case, to understand the law a little better than granted the rule to show cause, themselves. |