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No. 3. An Address to the Men of Norwich.

On the Brunswick Knights-Lord Sid-

mouth's Letter to them." Glorious Re-

volution." It is not true, that our old

Forefathers were ragged and Starving Beg-

gars. Schemes of Mock-Reform.-Meeting

of Deputies in London. Hatton-Garden

Work.

No. 4. An Address to the "Weaver-Boys"

of Lancashire. On the Manchester Pigtail-

Meeting.-False-Alarms of no avail. The

Ministers do not wish for Sham Plots.-Sig-

nor Waithman's show, with all his pegs and

wires. His Letter to Sir Francis Burdett

and Major Cartwright.

No. 5. A Letter to Lord Sidmouth. On

calling out the Yeomanry, &c. On the

Prince's Speech. The Vulgar have eyes to

see.-Base Demagogues.-Lord Cochrane's

motion in defence of the Reformers.-Li-

verpool Vestry Extraordinary.

No. 6. A Letter to the Life-and-Fortune Men.

-Meeting on Portsdown.-Misery and not

Reform the Cause of Riots.-Funding Sys-

tem the cause of Misery.-Dreadful state of

Islington, Coventry, &c.-Poor Dugood's

Petition. Mr. Hunt's Petition. - Mr.

Hunt's Letter to Lord Sidmouth.

No. 7. A Letter to the People of Hampshire.

-Hampshire Petition. Mr. Chute's charge

against the Meeting.-What does wild inno-

vation mean?-A list of innovations.-False

charges of Mr. PERRY against Reformers.-

Surrender of Sinecures.- Political Clubs

and Combinations

No. 8. A Letter to Earl Grosvenor. Thanks
for his Lordship's defence of the People.-
Fair Play's a jewel.-The Question of Re-
form fairly argued.-Annual Parliaments.-
Universal Suffrage. Mr. Brougham's sin-
cerity. Foul conduct of the corrupt Wri-
ters.-Green Bag and Cheap Publications.

No. 9. A Letter to all True-hearted English-

The Suspension of the Habeas Cor-

pus Act.-The Sedition Bills.-The Peti-

tion of Mr. Cleary.-The Petition of Mr.

Hunt.-The Defence of Annual Parlia

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No. 24. A History of the Last Hundred Days

of English Freedom. Letter IV. On the

Extraordinary Conduct of Sir Francis Bur-

dett, during the last winter. On his Mo.

tion for a Committee-and on his Speech at

the Westminster Dinner, on the 23d of May

last.

No. 25. English Parliament. Its pretended
Elections, and artificial Debates and Divi-
sions.

No. 26. To Major Cartwright, the venerable
Leader of Reform. On Mr. Wooler's at-
tack on me; on that Gentleman's Trials for
Libel. On the proposition to elect the Lord
Mayor as one of the Members for the City
of London:

No. 27. A History of the Last Hundred Days
of English Freedom. Letter V. On the
Green-Bag Plots and Report.-On the con-
duct of certain individuals relative to these.

On the Renewal of the Absolute-Power-

of-Imprisonment Act. On the question,

whether this Act will ever cease?

No. 28. A History of the Last Hundred Days
of English Freedom, Letter VI. Doctor

Watson's Trial and Acquittal-Acquittal
of the other State Prisoners.-The unravel-
ling of the Plots.-The whole Scheme

blown into the air.-The mask pulled off.-

The Boroughmongers left without the
smallest disguise. The real Men of Blood

discovered. Conclusion of the History of

the Last Hundred Days of English Free-

dom.

No. 29. To Peter Walker, Esq. of Worth, in
the county of Sussex. On the Spy-system.

-On the Calumniating-system. On the

conduct of some base Merchants and Mas-

ter-manufacturers. On the conduct and

projects of Mr. Wooler.

No. 80. To Lord Viscount Folkestone. On

the questions, whether a Reform of the Par-

liament would tend to injure and degrade

the Nobility, or whether it would tend to

produce the contrary effect.Letter from the

Publisher to Mr. Cross, one of the Counsel
for the unfortunate State Prisoners, who

were lately tried and convicted at Derby.

No. 81. Letter to Lord Viscount Folkestone

concluded-Another Letter to Mr. Cross.

No. 32. To William Wilberforce, Esq. a

Member of Parliament for the Rotten Bo-

rough of Bramber. On his general Public

Conduct, and especially on his recent sup-

port of, and attempt to defend, the renewal of

the Absolute-Power-of-Imprisonment Act,

by which the people of England are placed

on the same footing as that of the subjects of

the Old Bourbons.

No. 33. To Earl Fitzwilliam. On what the

Morning Chronicle calls your "Munificent

Donation" to some of the distressed people

of Ireland..

No. 34. To Mr. Benbow, of the town of Man-

chester, one of the English Reformers, now

imprisoned in some prison in Great Britain,

under a warrant of a Secretary of State, in

virtue of an Act, lately passed, lodging the
absolute power of imprisonment in the hands

No. 35. To Mr. Benbow. Letter II.
of the Ministry. Letter I.

No. 36. To William Hallett, Esq. of Denford,
in Berkshire. On the noble stand which the
Magistrates of that county have made in be-
half of the Reformers, who have been put
into Dungeons under the Absolute Power-
of Imprisonment Act; and on other matters
relating to the desperate state of the Bo-
roughmongers. Letter I.

No. 37. To William Hallett, Esq. Letter II.
On Sir Francis Burdett's motion; and on
Corruption's new source of consolation.
No. 38. To his Royal Highness the PRINCE,

Regent of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. The Petition of WIL-

LIAM COBBETT, of Botley, in the county of
Southampton, now residing at North Hamp
stead, in the State of New York.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 4, 1817.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Cheap Register is now publishing to the trade only, at No. 8, Catherine Street. Strand, London, at which place that Trade, in Country as well as Town, will please to apply: The price to Newsmen, Booksellers, and other Retailers, is 12s. 6d. a hundred; and, to those in the Country, who take a thousand a week, or more, regularly, 11s. a hundred. This present Number begins Vol. 32, which will be closed at the end of six months. Any one may be supplied with complete sets from No. 15 to 26 of the last volume; that is to say, with all the Cheap Registers.- Correspondents will please to address their letters, post-paid, to WILLIAM COBBETT, Jun. who wishes to engage a couple of men, who have been used to selling news about the streets.

PAPER AGAINST GOLD. Having about 200 copies of this work, and wishing them to be read at this critical time, I shall sell them to the Trade at 8s. a copy, and retail at 10s. a copy. The work consists of 2 Vols. octavo, very well printed, on fine paper, and bound in I

boards. The retail price was 20s. but,

the curious

wish to have the work read now. and, therefore, I have reduced the price order to meet the poverty of the times, of which times the work itself is a prophecy. -It contains a history of the Bank, the Debt, the Revenue, the Poor-Rates, the Stoppage of the Bank, and of all manœuvres of that time. It does, in short, leave nothing unknown, appertaining to that dreadful system of Taxation, Loans and Paper-Money, which has finally brought this country to ruin and misery, which ruin and misery are not only foretold in this work, but the reasons are given and the proof produced, why such a result ought to be expected. This work contains the fruit of part of the hours of that imprisonment, which my enemies hoped and expected to kill me.The time

is now nearly at hand, when those few principles and predictions of this work which yet remain unfulfilled, will be put to the test; and, as I have once before said, by this work let my reputation as a political economist, stand or fall.

A

NEW YEAR's GIFT

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OLD GEORGE ROSE,

On the Workings of Corruption's Press. -On the Romsey Impostor, JACKSON. -On CHAPPEL, the Pall Mall Impostor.-On the vile calumnies published by WALTER of the Times.-On the Saving Bank Bubble. On the Scheme for preventing the Labouring People from Marrying. On his Sinecures.

Peckham Lodge, January 1, 1817. Well, GEORGE! how do you feel now? Do you not think, that the drama is

drawing towards a close? Since the time,

when I was shouldering a musket in the army, and when you were serving out grog and slops in the navy, what wondrous events have taken place! We have both been considerable actors in this grand drama; and our manner of acting may now be reviewed with a better chance of justice to us both than upon any former occasion. You have received immense sums of the public money; I have never received a farthing of that money, while I have paid away from my family more than fifteen thousand pounds in taxes. You have written pamphlets to urge the people on to war against the people of France; yo have frequently foretold, in these pub cations, that the

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sinking fund would lower the Debt, and I would not make a stir. Indeed, when,

that prosperity would be the result of the
measures of the government, in which
measures you have had a great share.
have, for more than eleven years, been
opposed to all your assertions and opi-
nions; I have foretold national ruin and
misery as the result of those measures;
you have become possessed of immense
wealth and fine mansions and estates,
while I have been put two years into a
felon's jail and have paid TO THE KING
a thousand pounds sterling in the shape
of a fine. Yet, GEORGE, I question
whether I am not pretty nearly as happy
as you are! I am convinced, besides,
that time and events have not yet done
with us.
Qur hostile assertions and opi-
nions have been pretty well put to the
test already; but, the exposure of the
trial is not yet nearly so full as it shortly
will be. The approaching Session of
Parliament will open millions of pairs of
cyes, which have been glued up by false
alarms for the last twenty-five years.
And, here am I, at my post, fresh from
the fields, with a brace of sons, bred up
in a mortal hatred of all that I so justly
hate, ready to stick fast to the skirts of
the system, having only to regret, that
Pitt, Dundas, and Perceval are not alive,
and most sincerely wishing good health to
you, to Canning, and to Castlereagh.

In the meanwhile, I think it not unuseful to address you upon some matters by way of preparation to the grand scenes that we are about to behold. And, first, on the base attempts of Corruption's press, particularly with regard to myself, and more especially through the means of one JACKSON of Romsey in Hampshire and of a bookseller, named, CHAPPEL, in Pall Mall, London.

I was not weak enough to suppose, that, when the Register began to find its way throughout the kingdom to the extent of between twenty and thirty thousand every week, that Corruption's sons

after a silence of more than seven years,
the corrupt proprietors of the Times,
Courier, Morning Post, and Sun, were
galled into the assertion of that audacious
falsehood of Mr. Hunt and myself being
engaged in plotting with my Lord Coch
rane in the King's Bench Prison, while I
was at Peckham in Surry and Mr. Hunt
at Wanstead in Essex, I was not at all sur
přised. I knew, that there was no false-
hood, of which they were not capable; I
knew their minds and hearts to be fashioned
to the inventing and the perpetrating of
any species and any degree of villainy; and,
I was well aware, that the more decided
their conduct in this way, the greater
they would expect their profit to be.--
These vile men appear to have believed,
that something like a treasonable plot
would be made out, by hook or by crook;
and, upon this belief, they, at once, ven-
tured upon the infamous assertion before-
mentioned, and added, in the most positive
terms, that I, having assisted in contriv-
ing and preparing the plot, set off to Bot-
ley, the night before it was to be put in exe-
cution; though I have been in and near Lon-
don from the middle of November to this
day. And yet these atrocious men have the
effrontery to call upon the law-officers of
the Crown to punish even petitioners as
libellers! Their object in these bold
falsehoods, was, to cause the nation to
believe, that all who contend for a Re-
form of the Parliament, have it in view to
excite people to riot and to commit assas-
sinations. About 200 desperate men,
consisting chiefly of starving sailors, they
magnify into a formidable insurrection,
and which men, though they had arms in
their hauds, did no violence to any body,
except in the unlawful seizure of the arms
and in the wounding (if that really was so)
of one man who attempted to stop them,
and who laid hold of one of them. This
contemptible riot, which consisted of a less
number of persons than one half of the

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