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their will such a nation was never yet en- of a Russian army amongst them, openly slaved by an invading army. The thing is shown themselves. But, those who have impossible, especially when we consider, acted from this motive, will, in all likelithat Germany had an army equal in number hood, become inactive from a similar moto that of France, For these reasons my tive; and, the French will, I dare say, be hopes from the exertions of the "German hailed, if they beat the Russians, with as "Patriots" are far less sanguine than those much apparent joy as the Russians have reof his Royal Highness appear to be.-cently been received. However, there As to the opinion, that our prospect of ex-is not, as far as I can see, any harm in these tricating ourselves from the war with advan- subscriptions. They are far preferable to tage and honour, is now better than new taxes to raise money for the "German ever," I am obliged to differ very widely Patriots." This is, indeed, the proper from his Royal Highness. There have been way of raising money for the Northern several periods, when the prospect was War. People give what they like, and much better, in my humble opinion, than there is this great advantage in this mode of it is now. The end of this campaign will raising the ways and means, that the amount tell us what is to be the fate of the North of of the sum raised is the true measure of the Germany; but, of what consequence is that national feeling in favour of the cause. part of Europe, compared with Holland, Naples, and all Italy? The battle will AMERICAN WAR.-The continual disnow, perhaps, be better fought than be- grace of the American arms in Canada fore; but, if victory decide against us, we would be intolerable in the States, were it shall be plunged into despair. The same not so far outweighed by the success of their enthusiasm does not, perhaps, accompany navy. Upon this latter subject I have rethe French armies now that formerly acceived many communications, containing companied them; but, on the other side, what enthusiasm can there be?" Security "for their properties and lives," the Duke of Sussex says will now animate the Germans; but, why now more than heretofore? These again are mere words. Neither property nor lives were in danger under the French. It was impossible, generally speaking, that they should be; for, if that had been the case, the conquered countries could not have been held a day. It is the interest of a conqueror to make the people contented under his sway. Indeed, he is, if the country be extensive, compelled to do it. There will be some malecontents; because, in cases of conquest, property and power do always, in some degree, change hands; but, the mass of the people must, in all such cases, be conciliated; and this is the true reason why, until now, we have heard nothing of the "German Patriots." To keep in subjection a whole people; a nation of many millions; to hold such a people in subjection by the mere military force of a foreign power is impossible. It cannot be done. If a whole people, including the native army, feel their proper-terrors of such a punishment before them is ties and lives in constant hazard, is it to be believed, that they will wait for another foreign army before they attempt to throw off the yoke?. The fact, I dare say, is, that the persons, who were interested in the existence of the old governments of Germany, and who, of course, wished for their reestablishment, have, upon the appearance

complaints against the Admiralty. I must confess, that I do not see the reasonableness of these complaints. No man has pointed out how the Admiralty could have prevented what has happened. That they could not, in a few months, build ships of the precise dimensions of the American ships is certain. They could only send out such ships as they had; and, that the cause of our defeats has not been the want of hands on board, the capture of the Java fully proves.—It has been asserted, in the most positive terms, that two-thirds of the seamen of the American ships of war, and especially of the Constitution, consist of British seamen. There is no such fact stated officially, and I am glad of it; for, to me, it would be a melancholy thing to reflect, that so many hundreds of our countrymen had joined the enemy at the risk, if taken, of being hung up, cut down before dead, having their bowels ripped out while yet alive, having their heads chopped off, and their four quarters cut from their smoking bodies. To suppose that many hundreds of our countrymen have joined the enemy with the

something so shocking, that I wonder how any one can coolly entertain it; what, then, must be our wonder at hearing that there are people to assert the fact, and that, too, in print! For my part, though I feel the disgrace of our navy as strongly as any one can, I prefer giving to the enemy superior skill, and even superior courage, to the as

cribing of his success to the treason of so] alone. So that, in fact, Mr. Brougham, many hundreds of my own countrymen. certainly without intending it, did harm to -To one of the three causes, however, those manufacturers, whose cause he so zeahis success must be ascribed; for, as to the lously and so ably espoused.- -The Morndifference in the weight of metal, it is not ing Chronicle had, the other day, a parasufficient to account for such uniform and graph in words similar to these:The signal success on the part of the Americans. "National Intelligencer (the American They are excellent seamen. Probably the "government paper,) has long extracts very best in the world. Their ships are "from COBBETT'S REGISTER, which it cites few in number. Their men are select; " with great applause, instead of that coarse they are all able and fresh; and they are "abuse which it formerly heaped upon the urged on by every motive that has a powerful effect in producing a disregard of life. Their officers are chosen for their great merit alone. The government, in its selection, is hampered by no interests, no consideration other than that of rendering the ships efficient; and thus, there is no sort of drawback to the native courage of the crews.

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same publication."My mind has been put to the torture to guess at the real object of this observation. I do not see any thing wrong in this American paper having changed its manner and tone and sentiments with regard to articles of my humble production. I see no sin in it. And, as to myself, what can I wish for more than to see approved of in America my sincere and zealous efforts to preserve peace between the two countries? The whole of my endeavours, as connected with the subject of the American dispute, have had this simple object, and could not have any other ob

proved unsuccessful, I see no reason why the Morning Chronicle should grudge me a small pittance of praise.—If my advice had been followed, British naval prowess would still have been without a rival. The names of Hull, and Decatur, and Bainbridge would still have been unknown. I did not wish to see this navy raised up, and I endeavoured to prevent the occasion for it. If the Morning Chronicle had done the same, it might have had its share of the praise of the National Intelligencer.

WM. COBBETT.

Botley, 6th May, 1813.

-It is stated, that the American government have begun the construction of 26 more frigates, and that the several States have made offers of 74 gun ships, one each; so that, if this unhappy contest be prolonged, there is, I think, a fair chance of our seeing a very formidable naval enemy inject; and, though my endeavours have the new world. This is what I expressed my fears of in my first and second letters to the Prince Regent upon the subject of this war. The longer the war continues the more certain is the realizing of my fears on this score. The navy of America must increase with the war; and, if it arrive at a tolerable force, we shall then begin to repent of our folly. I know, that this is very unpopular language. The country has taken up the idea, that the Americans, without any provocation, have basely joined the French in the war against us. newspapers have propagated this notion, and it is in vain to endeavour to remove it. Time and experience, disgrace and suffering must open the people's eyes. I shall, however, always say, that the Whigs and Mr. Brougham have had a principal hand in producing this war with America. Brougham had his Orders in Council to demolish. It was for him to make them every thing, especially when he had, by his great industry and eloquence, succeeded. Therefore, when told, by Mr. Rose, that the repeal of the Orders would not prevent war, he, full of his achievement, pledged himself to support a war against America if the repeal did not satisfy her. He did this, and so did Mr. Ponsonby, with my caution before their eyes, I had told them before, that the repeal would not do without the giving up the impressment. And, we are now at war for this latter, and for that

Mr.

PRINCESS OF WALES.
WESTMINSTER ADDRESS AND ANSWER.
"To Her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales.

"We, the Inhabitant Householders of the City and Liberties of Westminster, legally assembled, beg leave to approach your Royal Highness with an affectionate Address.

"We participate with our fellow-subjects (the Citizens of London) in sentiments of undiminished esteem for your Royal Highness, and of just indignation at the foul conspiracy, which, it is now apparent, has been long carrying on against your Royal Highness's honour and life. We admire the patience, forbearance, and

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resignation, with which your Royal Highness has submitted, for so long a time, to neglect and reproach as humiliating as undeserved, even to the very verge of acquiescence in calumnies the most foul, scandalous, and false. Your Royal Highness was compelled at length to vindicate your own honour, involving that of your Royal Daughter, our future Sovereign. And we congratulate your Royal Highness on the magnanimity and wisdom which prompted you to demand, in the face of the Nation,

portant occasions, the sentiments of Westminster are in unison with those of the whole country.

"Permit me to add, that there can be no doubt that the refusal of Parliament to entertain the question, only originated in a conviction that my innocence stood above all suspicion, and an apprehension that Parliamentary interference might delay the restoration to my daughter's society, so universally desired."

AND ANSWER.

from the two Houses of Parliament, that COMMON COUNCIL OF LONDON ADDRESS justice to which the most humble is entitled, "either to be proved guilty or treated as innocent."

"We are firmly of opinion that those who advised the separation of a beloved and affectionate daughter from such a mother, had any thing in view rather than the good of the illustrious object of your Royal Highness's warmest and best affections, or of the country over which she is destined to rule.

"But we are unable to express our grief and astonishment, at the cruelty, injustice, and insolence, with which your Royal Highness's Appeal was withheld from -s, or at the cold and re

The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, presented their Congratulatory Address to the Princess of Wales, upon Her Royal Highness's complete and happy triumph over the late foul and atrocious conspiracy against her life and honour. They left Guildhall a little before twelve o'clock, and proceeded through Fleet-street, the Strand, Pall-mall, St. James's-street, and Piccadilly, to Kensington Palace. In Pall-mall the populace gave several cheers when they came opposite Carlton-house. The Lord Mayor, Recorder, Sheriffs, Town Clerk, City Remembrancer, Chamberlain, and Law Officers, attended. We also noticed the following Aldermen :-Ald. Combe, Thomas Smith, John Joseph Smith, Domville, Wood, Goodbehere, Heygate, and an unusually large attendance of the Members of the Common Council. Mr. Waithman, the Mover of the Address, accompanied Mr. Alderman Thomas Smith. The procession arrived at Kensington a little before two. The Address was read by Mr. Recorder. The Princess delivered her answer with great dignity and feeling. The Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen, kissed hands, after which Mr. Waithman was introduced, when Her Royal Highness, in a clear and distinct manner, so as to be audible to all present said, "I am very glad to see you; I feel highly grateful for the interest you have taken in my honour and happiness; am sure, neither I nor my daughter will ever forget it." All the Members of the Court had the honour of kissing her Royal Highness's hand. Her Royal Highness afterwards conversed with Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Alderman Heygate, Mr. Waithman, and Mr. Favell; she observed, Answer of Her Royal Highness. "that she felt very much agitated at first; "I return you my sincere thanks for the but I hope you will make great allowance regard towards me so kindly expressed in for my situation, and my not speaking the this Address. Upon this as on other im-language perfectly." The procession re

luctant reception it met with from a Majority of the House of Commons; and we assure your Royal Highness, that upon this, as upon most other occasions, the sentiments of that Majority are no ways in conformity with those of the people; and we flatter ourselves your Royal Highness will not, from so inadequate a criterion, estimate the feelings of a loyal and generous nation. We ardently hope the treatment your Royal Highness has received will deeply imprint on the mind of every thinking man, this great, this indisputable truth-that without an honest House of Commons, justice can no more be ensured to the highest than to the lowest individual in the land.

"We assure your Royal Highness, that regard for our Country, as well as for that deference we bear your Royal Highness, will make us ready at all times to give your Royal Highness proof of our attachment and devotion, and of our anxious solitude for your welfare, happiness, and honour.

"(Signed) ARTHUR MORRIS, High Bailiff."

Illustrious Family with whom you are so intimately allied, approach your Royal Highness, to offer our sincere congratulations on the signal and decisive triumph your Royal Highness has recently obtained. "We have witnessed with horror and indignation the odious and wicked conspiracy which, by malice the most inveterate, has for so many years been directed against your life and honour; and we beg to assure your Royal Highness, that while we hold in the utmost abhorrence acts so base and atrocious, we cannot sufficiently express our admiration of the dignified forbearance and magnanimity which your Royal Highness has manifested under a persecution of such duration, and aggravated by circumstances so trying and afflicting.

turned in the same manner. The day was very unfavourable, owing to the rain and the dirtiness of the streets; but, notwithstanding, the streets were crowded, and a large concourse of people had assembled in Hyde Park and Kensington. The whole was conducted with the greatest order and regularity. Her Royal Highness took the same route in travelling as on the former occasion. She left Montague-house about half past ten o'clock, in her travelling carriage, attended by Lady Charlotte Lindsay and Lady Charlotte Campbell, and proceeded by cross roads over Battersea Bridge, and arrived at Kensington Palace at half past eleven.The procession arrived at the Palace at ten minutes past one.The same regulations were observed as when the Address of the Livery was presented. The Lord Mayor was shewn into the anti Drawing-room, and the others remained in the grand Drawing-room till they had all left their carriages,which being done, it was announced to the Princess, when she entered the grand Dining-room from a back Antiroom, attended by Mr. St. Leger, her ViceChamberlain, Ladies Charlotte Lindsay, Charlotte Campbell, and Ann Hamilton, her Ladies in waiting, and Miss Garth, her bed-chamber woman. Her Royal Highness took her station on the right side of the upper end of the room. The Lord Mayor, &c. were then admitted into the room, when they bowed respectfully. When the Recorder had read the Address, he gave it to the Lord Mayor. His Lordship presented "We cannot, therefore, sufficiently ap it to the Princess, and she handed it to her plaud the wisdom and firmness displayed Vice-Chamberlain.After the Corpora- by your Royal Highness in demanding, for tion had retired, her Royal Highness went the more public vindication of your own to the windows of the dining and drawing-honour, that of your illustrious consort, and rooms, and at the balcony on the first floor, the safety, peace, and happiness of these and was received with great applause by the realms, an open inquiry into the base populace assembled on the grass plat. Her charges of your Calumniators, or au unquaRoyal Highness had a select party to dinnerlified admission of your innocence. at three o'clock, and at half past six set off , on her return to Blackheath.

"To her Royal Highness the Princess of

Wales.

During the whole of this most arduous conflict, we have never ceased to regard the dangerous situation of your Royal Highness with feelings of the most lively sympathy, and we have beheld in the fortitude and firmness of your Royal Highness, conviction the most decisive of the unblemished rectitude of your conduct, which not only dared, but courted the most rigid investigation; and greatly as we lament that your Royal Highness should have been compelled, by any combination of events, to claim to be considered as innocent, or proved to be guilty, yet we feel with your Royal Highness that the period had at length arrived when forbearance would have ceased to have

been a virtue.

"We sincerely offer to your Royal Highness our heartfelt congratulations on dark and detestable a conspiracy, supported your complete and happy triumph over so as it was by subornation and perjury; and "The Loyal and Dutiful Address of the we are most grateful to your Royal HighLord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com-ness for the proofs we have received in so mons of the City of London, in Com-firmly defending your own honour, of the mon Council assembled.

"May it please your Royal Highness, "We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, deeply interested in whatever concerns the honour and happiness of your Royal Highness, and the

anxiety you feel for the welfare and happiness of these kingdoms-this conduct affords to us the surest pledge of the blessings we may expect from your Royal Highness, when it shall please Providence to place your Royal Highness, with your Royal Consort, on the British Throne; and we most ardently hope, that the painful recol

lection of your past sufferings may be lost in the pleasing enjoyment of an unrestricted intercourse with your Illustrious Daughter, the Princess Charlotte, and that she, without the same painful occasion to exercise them, may inherit all the virtues of her Royal Mother, and afford us the consoling hope, that taught to venerate the free principles of the British Constitution as the best protection for innocence and security against oppression, she may, should the period ever arrive when she may be called to preside over the destinies of this Empire, uphold and maintain our liberties, and reign in the hearts of a free, happy, and united people. "Signed, by Order of Court,

"HENRY WOODTHORPE."

Answer of Her Royal Highness. "I receive with the greatest satisfaction the congratulations of the City of London; no branch of the House of Brunswick can ever forget to whose exertions chiefly it owes the Throne of those realms, and I have now peculiar reason to know the value of the Constitution which those exertions purchased, because I have found it a sure protection when I had no other defence.

"The extraordinary situation in which I was placed compelled me to come forward in behalf of my honour and my life.

"I have been rewarded not only by the universal acknowledgment of my innocence, but by testimonies of affection from a loyal and high-spirited people, which I shall gratefully remember as long as I live.

and peaccable demeanor in this new and
afflicting aspect of public affairs. They
assure their countrymen the merit of their
present and past obedience is not unknown
to their beloved Monarch, who, though'
overwhelmed with cares and sickness, will
shortly be in a situation to give them fresh
proofs of his paternal regard. The Com-
mission have been honoured by accounts
from the Sovereign, dated Amberg, the
18th of March. His Majesty was then
proceeding to Ratisbon. All loyal Saxons
may rely on this intelligence. The Mo-
narch will return. In the meanwhile they
recommend submission to the course of
events. Circumstances may render it ne-
for the French General to withdraw
cessary
his troops from the city, to meet the foe at
other points; in which case the Russians
may be received and provided with quar-
ters and refreshments. It cannot be deem-
ed criminal to yield, when resistance would
be destruction. The Commission exhort
their fellow-countrymen not to suffer them-
selves to be seduced from their allegiance.
So foul an act would justly efface the merit
of all their sacrifices during the last ten

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habitants of the New Departments. INHABITANTS-I learn with the deep"At the present moment I am rather est regret, that evil disposed men, agents disposed to dwell upon this pleasing cir- of the enemy, have mingled among all cumstance, than upon any recollection of a classes of your population, and seduced less agreeable kind. The trials, however, many to break that oath of allegiance which which I have undergone will, I am confi- they had taken to Napoleon the Great, on dent, produce one good effect-they will the union of these departments with the confirm, in my Daughter's mind that attach-Empire of France. Chimerical and absurd ment to the Constitution which she already as the hopes are which these men have held cherished, and impress her more and more out, they appear to have had but too much with the conviction, that no station can be success. secure except in a free country; it is both the interest and the most sacred duty of an English Monarch to watch over the liberties of the people."

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In frantic terms they have exhorted you to seize the opportunity of breaking your chains; and confide implicitly to the promises of avowed enemies for the realization of a happiness, which can alone be conferred and secured to you by the great Monarch who now sways the sceptre of France. Reflect by whom these promises have been made; by a nation of barbarians, whose army, beaten in every encounter, was preserved from annihilation, and its kingdom from conquest and destruction, solely by the premature rigour of a season for which we were unprovided. They have followed our steps into Ger

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