BINET MINISTERS. { { Lord President of the Council. Lord High Chancellor. Lord Privy Seal. President of the Board of Trade. First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister). Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Master General of the Ordnance. Secretary of State for the Home Department. Secretary of State for the Department of War and Colonies. President of the Board of Control for the NOT OF THE CABINET, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and Secretary at War. Sir S. Shepherd Solicitor-General. C63 AON SUMMARIES OF POLITICS. Literary Fund and Washington Benevolent Soci To John Cartwright, Esq. on the Peace between Interesting Documents, 599. Letter III. on the Message to on the Hope of Suc- cess in a War against France, 644. tive to the commencement of the War, 689, 705. Letter V. on the overthrow of To Louis, on the Causes of his late Expulsion, &c. 417. The Endyinion and President Frigates, 605, Nottingham Petition against the War, 621. Petitions against the War, 639, Notes on Jonathan's Letters from Boston, 678-31- Abdication of Napoleon in favour of his Son, Historical Notices of the War, 783, 821. A By Stander, on German Troops, 16. Erasmus Parkins, on Religious Persecution, 19, Justus, on the Edipus Judaicus, 24. on Legitimate Sovereignty, 538. Public Rejoicing by W. W. 120. A Thinking Briton, on the State of the Nation, Civis, on the Inquisition, 173, 277. --, on the beloved Ferdinand, 208. Occupations and Miracles of King Ferdinand VII. An Old Bachelor, on the Bachelor's Tax, 333. R. F.'s Defence of the Farmers, 337. Verax on Religious Persecution, 378. H. on the War with France, 411. A True Briton, on Retrenchment and Reform, 439, -, on British Political Objects, 816, Petition of the Livery of London against the War, Hampden, on No War with France, 445. Official Account of the engagement between the General Jackson's Account of the Operations at Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, 317, 381. Report on the Retaliating System, 633. Report respecting the War with Algiers, 665. FRANCE.-Ordinance of the King against Napow Declarations of the Emperor Napoleon to the French people and the Army, 372. Answer of the French Government to the Decla- Act Additional to the French Constitution, 537. Dispatch, the Duke of Otranto to Prince Met, Correspondence respecting Overtures of Peace, 660. Speeches of the Emperor, &c. at the Champ De Speeches at the opening of the Legislative Ses- Accounts of the battles of the 15th and 16th of Address of President Lanjuinais to the Empe- Napoleon's Declaration to the French People, 805. Address of the Parisian Federation, 809. Proclamation by the Government Commission, 810. Account of the battle of Waterloo. CONGRESS AT VIENNA. Declaration of the Al- Minutes of Conference respecting the Answer of PRUSSIA.Account of the battle of Waterloo, 826. PRICES AND BANKRUPTS. Record of the PRICES of Bread, Wheat, Meat, Labour, Bullion and Funds, in BREAD. The average price of the Quartern Loaf, weighing 4lb. 5oz. 8drms. in London, which s WHEAT. The average price for the above period, through all England, per Winchester Bushel of MEAT.--Per pound on an average for the time above stated, as sold wholesale at Smithfield Mar¬ LABOUR.--The average pay per day of a labouring man employed in farming work, at Botley, in BULLION--Standard Gold in Bars, per Oz. £5. 23.—Standard Silver do. 6s. 34d. N.B These FUNDS.-Average price of the Three Per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, during the above period, 603. BANKRUPTS. Number of Bankrupts, declared in the Loudon Gazette, during the above period, 581. COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER. VOL. XXVII. No. 1.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JAŃ. 7, 1815. [Price 1s, 1]. TO JOHN CARTWRIGHT, Esq; THE INFLEXIBLE ENEMY OF TYRANNY. 66 ON THE Peace between England and America: see........ [2 event, the consequences of which they feel before hand. It is, therefore, incumbent upon us to place the whole of the matter in a clear light, and thus to do all that we are able to counteract their efforts. nuance until now; and, 3d, of the causes which produced the peace. When we have done this, the consequences of such a termination of the war will naturally develope themselves to our view. Happily this war Botley, January 1, 1815. has closed before its causes and its objects DEAR SIR,-When you, a few minutes have been forgotten. We are yet within after I was enclosed amongst felons in the recollection of every circumstance; and Newgate, for having written about the though I have, over and over again, stated flogging of English Local Militia-men in them all, it is now necessary to recapitu the presence of German Dragoons, at the late the material points, and to give them, town of Ely, came to take me by the band, if possible, a form and situation that may and, looking round you, exclaimed, "Well! defy the power of time. All sorts of vile "I am seventy years old, but I shall yet means will be used by those who have the .........." when you controul of a corrupt press, to misrepresent uttered that exclamation, little indeed did to disfigure, to disguise, to suppress, upon I hope that your prediction would so soon this important occasion. Thirelings are seem to be in a fair way of being fulfilled.raving with mortification at this grand The peace with America is certainly the most auspicious event that I have ever had to record, or to notice, since the first day that I ventured to put my thoughts upon paper. It opens to mankind a prospect of happier days. It has, by a stroke of the FIRST, as to the cause of the war? pen, blasted the malignant hopes of the though there had been several points in enemies of freedom, baffled all their specu- dispute, the war was produced by the imlations, flung them back beyond the point pressment, by our naval officers, of men out whence they started in their career of hos-of American ships on the high seas. tility against the principles of political and Republic wished to take no part in the civil liberty; burled them and their para- European war, especially after Napoleon graphs, and pamphlets and reviews, and all made himself a King, But she, at last, the rest of their hireling productions, down found, that, in order to avoid miseries equal into the dirt to be trampled under foot; to those of war, it was necessary for her to` changed their exultation into mourning, arm and to fight. We stopped her ships their audacity into fear. Let those to on the high seas, and our naval officers imwhom liberty and slavery are indifferent presed such men as they thought proper, talk about boundary lines, passages, fishing took them on board of our ships, compelled banks and commercial arrangements; you them to submit to our discipline, and to will look at the peace with very different fight, in short, in our service. The ground eyes; you will see in it the greatest stroke on which we procceded to do this was, that that has ever yet been struck in favour of the persons impressed were British sub, that cause, to which you have devoted your jects; and that we had a right to impress life; and struck, too, at a time, when almost British subjects, being seamen, find them. every friend of freedom, except yourself, where we might. The Republic denied alseemed to have yielded to feelings of despair. The together our right to take persons of any description by force out of her neutral A But, in order to be able fully and justly ships, unless they were soldiers or seamen to estimate the consequences of this peace, actually in the service of our enemy. But, we must take a review, 1st, of the cause perhaps, if we had confined our impressof the war; 2d, of the causes of its conti-dents to our own people, she might not |