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According to the indictment, and make it a power of only the third the case for the prosecution, Pit-rank. taway was the man who actually fired; and, therefore, it is not very The first of these charges I likely that if this were so, James answered in my last. I will now thought that Pittaway could save shortly notice the others. What himself by telling the truth against

the man who was only an abettor." cruelty,” then, did the King disBefore and after this expression, cover? Why, says the Chronicle, he protested that he was innocent; he put to death NEY, and others: each made the same declaration

when all hope was gone; and What! lay the death of NEY at James was only prevented by ex- the door of Louis! This is true haustion from repeating it at the London-press impudence! NEX gallows.

I now leave the case of these had sworn allegiance to the King; men, which I have gone through NEY was one of the King's gesoberly and sadly. The precipi-nerals; NEY had part of the King's tance of the law, in case of mur

der, left no opportunity of ob- troops under his command; NEY taining a reconsideration of that was sent by the King to fight case before they suffered. I against Napoleon; and NEY joined thank you for allowing me to co

operate with you in making it Napoleon. Was not this treason? better understood, and in prevent-And was the King of France to ing it from being speedily for- have no law to protect him, while gotten. I am, Sir,

A LOVER OF JUSTICE.

LOUIS XVIIL

In my last, at page 30 and the following, I inserted, from the Morning Chronicle, certain paragraphs, charging the late King of France with weakness and vanity; with cruelty on his resumption of power; with ingratitude towards England; and with having reduced his own kingdom to a state of political abjectness, so as to

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ours has so many treason-laws to protect him? Oh, no! Ney's friends never had to complain of Louis: they complained of the. "greatest captain," whose treaty, they said, protected the life of NEY. No man has ever, before, laid the death of NEY to the charge! of Louis; and, as to his conduct, generally, towards those who had been guilty of crimes against him, never, in the whole world, was there in a case in anywise similar, a thousandth part of so much lenity. Look at the executions for treason, at the imprisonments and ruinous fines for what is called sedition;

look at the Pitt, Perceval, Castle- Paris, as a spy; and that the reagh and Sidmouth measures in French Government proved to all England; and then look at the Europe, that it was Wright who acts of Louis the XVIIIth.! His had brought the conspirators over. reign was mercy and gentleness, And, as to the "Machine Inin the extreme, when compared fernal," the Chronicle must know, with what took place here in any that Buonaparté, just after the ten years of the last thirty, though peace of Amiens, told Mr. Fox, here there was no revolution at that Mr. WYNDHAM was the inall, and, indeed, no real necessity ventor, or patron, of the Machine for any rigorous measures. Infernal. Mr. Fox denied this:.

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The next charge is, the King's ingratitude towards England. The

The King is charged (See p. 30, but, at any rate, no one, until now, of this vol. of Register) with ever imputed any of those schemes always" labouring for his re- to Louis the XVIIIth., or, indeed, establishment" as King of France to any of the Bourbons. The. Well; and what then? It really Chronicle may just as well say is a little too hard to blame a man that the Bourbons made the false for trying to get his crown away assignats in London, and sent from one who has notoriously them to puff out the paper-money usurped it. But, the means! The in France. Chronicle says, that the conspiracies of GEORGES, PICHEGRU, and MOREAU, and of the Machine Bourbons never owed this Govern Infernal, show what sort of means ment, or country, any gratitude at. LOUIS thought proper to accom- all. They were just suffered to be., plish his purpose. Now, this is here, in order to assist our own cause very mean. The Chronicle must against the republicans. We made know, that Louis had no more to a treaty of peace and amity with.... say as to these conspiracies than the usurper of their throne, and the printer's devil of the Chronicle never so much as named them in the had. The Chronicle must know, treaty! They were never suffered that GEORGES, PICHEGRU, and to appear at court in England!«. the rest of that set of conspirators, were sent to France in an English They were never acknowledged public vessel, commanded by one by our Government as the King WRIGHT; that Wright was taken and Royal Family of France! and confined in the Temple, at Our Government always declared,

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that their restoration was not at account of "gratitude due to Eng-'

all the object of the war!

land." They have made one pretty large re-payment in their Spanish expedition. The possession of Cadiz and of Corunna ́ may, I suppose, be looked upon as a grateful return for our taking away, during our "CONQUEST" of France, the frontier towns spcken of before! The Chronicle is rather impatient, then. Louis XVIII. had not time to show his gratitude to its full extent. His successors will; I engage for them, do that which he had not time to do.

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say this!

Are not these facts notorious? What gratitude, then, did the King, or does his family, owe to England? The little money that was given them by the Government was pretty well repaid by the Toulon fleet, which, be it remembered, was never restored to the King of France. To be sure, they must owe us a great deal of gratitude for stripping their museums, and taking away some of the best of their frontier towns! They know all about the real cause of Napoleon's return from Elba. They know who it was that brought him back; and they know also what he was brought back for! They know that, after we had boasted that we had seven hundred thousand foreigners to assist us, and that besides, half France was for us; after we had, with all these to aid us, got to Paris AS THE ALLIES of Louis XVIII., the museums were rifled by foreign we called ourselves the "conquer-soldiers. Louis got the " CONors of France!" The Bourbons QUERERS away! And, during know all this: they have Castle- his nine years' reign, he saw his reagh's and the great Captain's people completely recover from notes yet! They will not forget all their embarrassments. He was those notes, in some of which the able to send an army to take posright of conquest is so modestly session of Spain, while his people put forward. They will, I dare scarcely felt the expense. His say, be ready, in a very few people are, beyond all comparison, years, to state and to settle the the happiest, and, in reality, the

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The last charge against the late King, is that he reduced his kingdom to a state of political abjectness! It really does demand a great deal of brass to Never did kingdom so rise in a similar space of time. It was the Usurper, mind, who brought the foreign troops to Paris. That great kingdom was, indeed, in a state of political abjectness, when

most free, in all Europe. His The Boroughmongers are the fleet he left in a state that will greatest enemies that I have, and enable it to meet us on the sea, I wish well to any thing, or any single handed, in a short time. body, that I think likely to injure His colonies, in short, every thing them. belonging to France, is in a flourishing state. But, can we look at Spain; can we look at Cadiz; can we think of our own sneaking attitude, and not be indignant at the insult offered, to our understanding by a writer who tells us that France is in a state of political abjectness, and so reduced as to be now no more than a power of the third rank!

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COBBETT FARMING.

I HAVE recently been in Herefordshire, where having witnessed a specimen of the effects of my system of farming, I was anxious, for private as well as for public reasons, to make a communication

on the subject to the public as soon as possible. I, therefore,

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However, this is the way that this London press (and, indeed, the press of the whole country) has always gone on. It knows, that the mob of readers wish that France addressed the following Letter to may be a poor, little power. It the Editors of the MORNING knows, that a newspaper which CHRONICLE and of the MORNING flatters the said mob's wishes, will HERALD, in which papers the sell better to the said mob. And, Letter appeared in the early part therefore, France is represented of the week; and, for the inser

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to be a poor, little, insignificant power! Well; but I; what do I tion, I here present those genwish? Do not I also wish, that tlemen my best thanks, France may become a poor, feeble nation Flat and plain, I do SIR,-I beg you to have the good

Kensington, Oct. 2, 1824.

ness to insert the following statement not! That is to say, in the present in your paper. It is, indeed, calcustate of things. I am much more lated to do me service; but it is of great public importance, and is full of anxious about seeing Borough-interest and of curiosity to a very mongers pulled down, than about large part of the community. seeing anybody else pulled down, be that anybody who he may.

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and published at New York, the first In 1818, I wrote, in Long Island, part of the Year's Residence in

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ly turned back from the turnipridges The wheat was drilled on the 11th and 12th of March. -The crop was forty Winchester bushels to the acre and ten gallons over upon the whole field, 1821. Transplanted Swedish. Turnips at different times, from 3d of June to 7th of July. The amount of crop twenty-four tons of bulbs per acre, and seven tons of tops. All carried off the land, and applied to the same purpose as those of 1319.

America." It was published in
England in the autumn of that
year. It contained, amongst other
things, an account of the mode of
cultivating that invaluable root, the
SWEDISH TURNIP. I spoke of my
cultivation of the root at Bot-
ley, as well as in Long Island. Se-
veral persons in England pursued
the mode at once, and, to their
great
profit, have adhered to it ever since.
But, there is one gentleman, Mr.
PALMER, of Bollitree Castle, parish
of Weston, near the town of Ross,
county of Hereford, who has, in con-
sequence of having adopted my sys-1822.
tem, made an improvement in agri-
culture, worthy of the attention of
every landlord and farmer in the
kingdom, and worthy of the praise of
the whole country.

Mr. Palmer read the " Year's Residence" in the winter of 1819; and, being convinced by my reasoning and my facts, he, at once, resolved to act upon my advice. He prepared two fields, the one called Brick-kiln field, and the other called Hiscups; the first containing 15 acres, and the last 17. The two fields have borne, during the last six years (1819 and 1824 included), three crops of Swedish turnips and three crops of wheat. But let us take the crops, year by year, of the Brick-kiln field, which may serve for both, there being scarcely any difference in the crops of the two fields.

1819. Drilled Swedish Turnips—a

single row on the top of each
ridge, and the ridges four feet
apart. The crop twenty tons of
bulbs to the acre. The tops from
seven to eight tons. The tops,
in November and December,
flung about on pasture land, to
cattle, sheep, aud pigs.-The
bulbs carried off also, and oxen
and sheep were fatted with them
during the winter and spring

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Drilled Wheat—as in 1820, in February, but without ploughing the land at all. Just drilled it upon the land as it had been left by the Swedish turnips.-The crop was 32 Winchester bushels to the acre.

1823. Drilled Swedish Turnips-as

in 1819.-The crop twenty-two tons of bulbs, and from six to seven tons of tops.-All carried off the land, and applied to the same purposes as those of 1819 and 1821.

1824. Drilled Wheatas before, in February, and without ploughing. The amount of the crop is not yet known, it being but recently harvested. It is, however, estimated at thirty-four Winchester bushels to the acre on threefourths of the field, and forty bushels to the acre on the remainder.

The other field (Hiscups), 17 aeres, has, during the whole of the six years, been treated in the same manner; has borne similar crops; except, that, this year, its crop of wheat seems to exceed that of the other field in a considerable degree.

the Swedish turnips, and never for Mr. PALMER always manures for

months. the Wheat. When these two fields 1820. Drilled Wheat-at eight inches have Wheat, he has his Swedish distance, on ridges four feet Turnips in other fields. Every farapart; that is, on the land mere-mer will be able to judge of the in

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