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. i v. -v.;.--. -;y J. -vv -til3-- -ANlT''i: - s--r mmmmmBmmmi . 'V . j . ; 1 - - rr . it-' 1 -A. a - . . 1 4 v - r . . . ... .i.-.2-- ,,r. . TrtJfn Cobiclt'iPor.tlCal neater, Jn.7.. COBBETT's liFCAN,PKOJECT tkvtfi innaUl parti. rnorwlrots 1nrnrUnd? to Gentle. ill VA 1 ' . . .n EliiirbiHL.uljf may woh to bt wp- rtiexl ilb Arocrcaa pubUcat.on ; to Grn? applied wVA'KrUh IMbUcations; ami ta li?eT in GcrsctaU. Teclha vx Lodge, Jan. 21 ,81 6. I'lirc now before me, six very veil I written essays Irorti one peron, seni mr last veek, all which I should glad lv insert, uere if not for the existence o"f cirenrnstancea, which it can hardly be hecesirr fp me; minutely to des cribe. A. letter from l. S. of Read ii, received s orae months ago, about the auditing of aecotinU ; and a great number of others, of preater or less merit, and, for the most part, contain ing facts, ery curious lq themselves and Wry interesting to pople in gen era! ; and, moreover, well calculated, in my opinion, to do a great deal of pood to the wo;!i, it made public; all thc-e are io the same situation. Now, it mast be" very provokinjr to the wri ters to reflect, that these papers would j be suppressed, and it is very painlul to roc to think, that I am IiaSle to" be S!jpecteil of a wish to see them sup pressed. Thereforeft is intendetl.-to send all such papers to'New York, and to cause tliem tube published there, in marter! v, oc half-yearly, volumes, un-1 iter the title of' Cobb ett's collection ofl Sipprrsed Communications. Dius the field of utility is Hung open to any man, who has the talent and the will to do gftod with his pen, on the sub ject of government, .politics and rffi ion, and of characters and acts, con nected with those subjects ; or on any other subjects of-general interest.- Few men will be "found hardy enough to deny, that, if the field of disdusion be free, Truth will prevail, in every contest with falsehood. Therefore, it mast be an unmixed good to afford men the means of-freely expressing their thought's. There are, however, certain conditions, necessary to be stated here, upon .which alone com munications will be admitted into the intended 44 Collection." 1. If the ComrriUii'ca.t;ori do hot contain die tatcaentofaxiyyuf ncv to the public, afiectinj thechajveter oifany ihIakHuI person, or any pArt.cuUr botly ordcrtp tion of persons the writer may afiix his real name, or not, accord. ng- to ht own cho.ee ; because arginncnt and infrrtnet w nt not ibp support of witneMCn. 2. When thecom!uxirLcit:on dues contain sHchfccL and n hen, of course, the justice of the statement, and the prtpr,ety of makm; it pui.c, mu-t ueptrvl pon the truth orfact, ami that agxiji upon the vev.iotv oi tijcwr ter, iieraMst b(5x d"!:.f. ' rr.ay pu5.l,Iy.bc die caseT?e tc-J rvime t it. as rr. Jus reason to fe.tr the consequences ot tru.h appearing uiuler his name, though in a distant country, ie mut add a pri vate ;iote, pont.ng out h.s. name, and )Uce of abode, as to cndlr tie to satis fy mjaelf to thcurr otcttt that be has slated. 3. That die subject, of die crnuicSstiorK be o: pvoU nurr, la.rly so considered. . Tbat the I-cucr or Essay, relate to some- thing, in ih.ch the public is interested ; and that it deal uot in anecdote purely of a private paint. e en though the parties conctnicil be really publ.c men 4. Tlut the comuiumotjun, if watendctl to be pu .Lkhcd witlkrmt alteration, be care, tiilly written and pointed. It itbe a mere A.M,ora merejff, communicated, with out a wish tor it to appear m the fame lorm in print,lrss Care w.U be necessary . But, ' 111 T ' "'.HMtuVi4WI ttl tended to, unleis it come .n a hand so le " giblc as jw)t to expose the printer to mis takes. J. That everr comainn'.catiou be addressed to Vii.!axCo"bktt, at J?;'r tieiir Siuttcjnptvx i or left, directed : tle rane, at the oftxe of the IV!itical Kcgistcr, lmlon ; tk1 that,in all cast, there be r.9 thcrge ftci,,5 tc c A"A thjs bemg ! a vtry ser.ou matur toie,. who fej re.Tcs a Rrwt manv letters, though a mcreirdie .o vhc iktij hot end .toem. 'l ! e field bcir. thu fairly opened, J any penon, on the above1 conditions, . rr av write ta me with perfect freedovt,. and with the 4conDdent expectation,! that what they write will le published, iv iwiijguDucrsioou, oi course, tnat the Tanguage will bedecoroas ond -that the matter be such as outfit not to" be considered libellous. . The receipt of all such communications will be ac knowledged in the nexf orsucceeding Ilegister. K (o;ahy promise. tqjia- vport iuto this country the publication in GjUcstion, or, to be aidinj and aa- that -is wholly QUt of the question. All that I engage to cfo js, to send, and (the. dangers ot the seat excepted; ..m cause to be published, sVch communi Mtmnsas I shall receive for that pur- ! pub)icatioii, this being a matter, which, ! from tlie mature of the case, must bGj ttAi Ann .1 i sunn urcm wuiun 1 left wholly U,mj juagmenu TO UEyTLEMRK, IS ftSUMKDj WHO MAT WISH TO BE SUPPLIED WITH A.ME- bipan Pcb Li cations. My Plan oft)- penincand keeping up a Literary TERCOURSE ueiween crrianu ami k mcrica embraces the object of secur ing the facility of persons in the two couptrie& respectively coming at the current publication's of the other coun try in a mole more regular and spee dy than any that has hitherto been practised. Orders will, therefore, be received in writing, addressed to me, as above, for any particular American Publication old urnew ; or for the new publications generally, or those of a specific class, of . that country. So that such order may be confined to a particular'work to all new works on law, or on medicine, or on theology, or on political economy, or on govern ment and domestic politics, or on ma thematics, or on mechanics, or on any branch of the arts or sciences, &c. &c. or the order may embrace all new pub lications of. whatever description they may be. The orders thus received will be transmitted to my correspond ents in the United States ; and, whn the publications arrive in Kngland, they will be delivered to the Gentle men who have ordered them, they pay ing for them at the rate of 25 per cen tum higher, than the retail price in America, and no more in any case whate'ver. I, of course, include Book' sellers amongst the Gentlemen whn may wish to be thus supplied ; and I shall think myself extremely hanny to be able, by the activity which I nope toive to my correspondence and in tercourse, to furnish them, upon any occasion, with the mens of republish ing a valuable American work at a pe riod earlier than they would be able otherwise to do it. To Gentlemen, ik America, who MAY HVISILTO BE SUPPLIED WITH En- g lis ii "Publication's. -Every thing said under the last head may be con sidered 2Lg repeated under this, with the mere change of the names of the countries ; and with this alteration as to the channel of application, that Gen tlemen in the United States will please to give their orders, for the present, solely to Mr. John Morgan of Phila delphia. In all cases the Orders should be in writing, and as specific as possi ble. I hope I need scarcely add, that 'in. case any gentlemen should think nfoner to leave to me the work of se- M. it "HI bcprurmeJ ,,he best rnv J''graent- As to the pubhea- tions co oe imporieu, wnere orders are somewhat discretionary are, given, I shall spare no pains to obtain the aid of good judges in America. One of the particulars of an, Order might, be no to exceed a certain sum. Tie main thing appears to me to be to in sure $peea in the execution of orders ; and, it is my intention to nuke all considerations of con venience,expence of shipping, &c. give way. to thisgreat object; and, on no account, to suffer the execution of an Order, however small, to linger a single day beyond the first, on which it can possibly take place..' 1 expect shortly to receive ample catalogues of American books" ; and I am taking steps to send out to 4incrifa English catalogues, and shall he glad to have sent to me, - for the purpose here stated, the catalogues of any of theooksdlers in England, Scotland, ofrlrcland. . To READERS IN. GENERAL. After 3 man has worked 'himself into a fond r hess for a project, he is, rerhans. the worst possible jude of its chances-ofi success'. But.-as, in this case. I have. aiid shall have," no publication of mvJ own,,ndr ny one in which , t amr or can .oe,.a.i a.n interested in tle mere sale of, either toelprt or import jas I am not, and slll .not bey a bobfcsil ler& failujoTsucxess, would produce Aiclispc hopes whidi; lenteptainof contrihutirig in tbis way also jf towards bringing the men of ttnrJ Ja. the Hwo eountries, better acquainted Avith eairt ntlier .Mineas.a scheme for making, nebple 4alk to'each other across eAtiantic I. do not Jcnftw .when I have enjoyed so much pleasure as I felt yesterdWuD- m opening ja letter ftnt ne u fromj home. ;' It is a letterifrom a geritle- man it Sshville in th fe state of Te NESSEENashvilleis si berland River, which uated on Ciim- falls U)to the Mississippi at 10-10 mites distant from the Gulph of Mexico. - There are se veral cnains of mountains between Nashville and Philadelphia, and the travelling distance is I suppose, more than 1000 miles, Yet tlais letter ad dressed to me at " Bottjey, near Sduth ampton, England,"- arrived safe in that village ! in less than two months from the day of its date. Tlhe object of the letter is to obtain thejResister regit' larly in future, and alsp the preceding Numbers of it, for some gentlemen at Nashville, an object which it will as suredly accomplish, aijd by which ac complishment it will piore than real ise Pope's beautiful idea of the power of Letters; to waft ji wish from Iq dus to the Pole." Pqests assure uM, that, by faith, mountajins may be re moved, a fact, which, having no actual experience to the contrary, I am by no means disposed to deny; but,; I have here before my j eyes a proof, that mountains and wildernesses and seas are no obstacle td the powers of thi mind, seconded y those , of the pressi There is, however, and l wavsmust be, considerable delay' oc casioned by sending jto America the Registers which havi; been ' print ed here.. ; There is the tifne for printing; the time and expenc2 required for; shipping ; the time wjiich elapses, af ter shipment takes pljice, before the ship actually sails and, which is more than all the rest, my pen is here con fined by a tether inich shorter than that which may be obtained for it by sending soiKe of its productions in ma nuscript to be published in the United States. I have spolen of my inten tions as to this -mattejr before ? but I will now be so explicit as to leave no room whatever for conjecture. Jn a short time, two persons will go oat to the United States, j Their business there will be to receive orders; for' books to be sent fromj England to A merica, to receive, vtfien they arrive from England, the bdoks so ordered ; to receive from me. atit to execute or der for American books, to be sent by them to England ; toj receive and for ward to me any .written communica tions from Gentlemerj Jn America jj to publish any work which I choose to nave published iR Anjericaj but more especially to cause ta be printed and 1o publish " CobbetPs lVeelcly Politi cal Uegister," at NeV-Yort, It is in tended, that they sjiall publish the work in precisely tKe! same form that it has itf'Xjigland $ ajid that they shall cause the numbers td'jfollow each other weekly, if possible ; pr, at Jeast, as re gularly as the arrivals of xtfie manu script will admit ofj -Each Number will contain my own principal Letter I orEssAY, which will jbe first published i iu tbs correspondinglnumber in ;Eng ! land, beginning witfi N0.......V0II SO) together with Votes' containiig such explanations or aditwnal facts1 as maybe thought useful on the other side of the Atlantic.; The restpAthe American Register Will contain matter wholly new, sent out in manuscript, in - the charge of person oing to Ameri ca, or 01 persons sent expressly. I ! .I he publication will begin ivith the present y$ar 5 and the titiejojf the first-Number of will be in these words 'C0B BETTV .WEEKLY' POLITICAL REGISTER. VoiI SO, No. . . IVritten'in Jfnglamt . . .i. . . . , and published at wVcir-lWfr, . .... J . , i8ic f;j .. . . ' Sonue persons wil! wonder, &! some: w-jjl lapgn,.at the Jtea 6fvsucb an;un dertakingft;: But, gre'at as the' labor must be, it being nether more orders th'an that , of . wriflpg forrthe jpreisj nearly five paes of f he Register eyery jdayrof rnv life, Sundays inclirdedi to tgbthcr xtith that ofjmakingV at; least,4 two' manuscripl copte for fear, of ac-j xidents, this is noj, morethanjaTrian! ra ay (la, ht has thejwfll J The trou ? ble and .expence" o-iendinout' the rniinuscpt, lo sayfrjothing ot Aesend t tig" $i Of, the ageQsj or ambassadors, prft certainly beonstderablie will iorapel me to teeJc";copitiq?ij for thesfe divell; aaj a rerounratipnl : fprt tirtie rand labof by . price Withip, rRegisterf jm neb: hl"h lerriri'propbrtion id its, bulk; thathlit loCpublrcationi in America genraiiy.- ' ; i .- . i .-at . r .i' . . ' . i ii'irnin iii'iiir umairijjidi is'iui ubi a be barter of a WKir,' with: to ji-lIS"11?-?,?"? jwngp lowance or eight cents out olthe twen ty-five tiobobksellersi or pthers; wht may take any quantity, hovvever s'mallJ xo sen again. 1 ne paper apu pniuius niay cost about 7cents, the-agency in America 2 ; so that there-may remairi about 8 cents for authorship and send ing but manuscript. The Agents or Publishers at New-York will receive orders froni Booksellers, or other rf- tailers, only, and will not, except, at J iL '7r 11 . 1 " 1' .TI invir own omce, sen to lnniviquajs, as it would be to make their employment too confused to suffer them to "be re tailers alf over the co'.ntry, and thus to hampqr themselves with debts and vill be required to discharset' vell the office of Publisher, and to be punctual j and full in their correspondence with j me. If therefore, the publicafiftnj should be thought worth the trouble of obtaining it from a distance, the Book sellers in the different citie9 and'towns, will have nothing to do but to write to the Publishers for the number of co- flies that they may wantr The Pubr ishers.will, I hope, execute their or ders with that regularity and speedy with which 1 shall enjoin them to exe cute every order, whether great or, small irfl'amou it. v Tliey .will receive j all letters which gentlemen in Amefi-j and they will be strictly charged to be H very attentive to every person wno may wish to make me arSy communica! tion or whatever kind. The names of the persons, to whom this business is to be committed, are Mr. Henry Gob- bett, my Nephew, and Mr. G. S. Old- field. I haye wrought myself int9 'a ' i persuasion, that 1 am, rjy these means,, able tp render great services, not only to the people of America but the cause of freedom and happiness generally not leaving my. own native country out of-view. To make known to Ameri ca, and, through her, to a great part of the worlds what is passing in England; what the conduct of her government really has-been and is ; what have been, and are, the effects which that conduct has produced upon the people, here : what is our real situation1 what is the true character, and what arp the J motives, and views, of nersorrs ri au- thority in this country, whose power' j and infloence- have had such weight in deciding on the lot of other na- 1 tions ; to do this, and that, too, through 1 the channel of "such a press as that of America, appears to me to be likely to be attended with effects that cannot i possibly be other than good. And if . : ; I am asked, why I presume to suppose, , j that my interference is necessary to I. this end, I answer that, though I -am1 'well aware' that America contains ma4 ny men, whose wrishe are as good $ and w hose talents are far superior to min& yet, that, from the local experience which I have accideqtly acquired, and fronvtjiat kpowledge of all sorts of af fairs In this country, whrtht solnany vinr nf nhsprvfltinn. finnvaraation And dili-ent enquiry arid application have ! I much doubt, whether any i man,though of tentimes the talent6s!nkv seti abprrinciple. titute of tlmse advaritages,woutdbeable MWebrpe ject t for either my work will saccee.d . li ....II cnlr nnrlor fho nmnnti tjnM i ; IP tnOSeWHO ar.V iiihijsicia .m insiur iK. ,uate, that L am about to stfinjtiirly; inr publishing, in ' .another peuniry, ofibler pens and moreextensiTO fciio. indeodentconduptDf Mr. ledge; 'So that, be thfe retult whatsit &?A$1 f 'fosJ man'l sl,al hkvetne satisfaction" retfect, that, if I havg m)t Beenable : ii"'eA plisjd by otherk...-: .Mm in this amm"k reishi.alKes-, 1 oTj3ere',itJiat; the'TOuuvii'iiu statements rejauye 10 ine auu - wuijs let under ench circumstanceria soTar' 1 :4. ii - Ai'- 11 preSS, WniCO COUVpiruiy uauifaiiuiio, oitrac v -?vf .Km ' ' " ' I rl to theworiu, . is always open. io "t vv" ir J:? f' ' VX Vritersmoayoow t ' M qpponentswith , fr ta&eensidethatf I;am7an r lh nthsbeforrintS3ibj replyietfsa AdMinuorofibfetatl M foohaTtnarxpottion thevPr , f h( cTv; alond," wre not; her Hps' slalectbli' k m e ans ot h 1 n; revenge ;an d tha 1 snaii now ive a ioose to mv nen. let Ltittfif it"funon whblTy ihirestrairied bVV anyconsiderAtionix deconin oroi tthgjilnJU firsf oexoeieax mj ow n ooiect, tor tMo lax fpeeilecite disgust in the thoeof;C thipefiple' whpm .Iaillmm)' -ateljaddrJsel0 and ioihe nexfe fdace it wod luft expose then pubi :F 1 ish ers Wgaf plrfnis foreV those whoj to grat!fyfi the waigrwn byiheTjQ abuse & caluni&yj xvUl firijj themlelve? . (thoiigli, perhaps riDt'agreeaDlyj) di appoiStedf yrm4im' In shorts f and ilrrs irtaviniriri " one ffnye. phrase) of every essj or article.- tfet lUV authorised tol be J-publishedlhe sNufest,pal:6fi?. j English system shall be artmeopen- ly to i say ; inis pitgni noi;lo oe jree twj itfed to be rmblislied ' in Engf 1 ly pern land.1 Having now fully and candj3!yexjt plained jny .intentio'iis,; without th smallest reserve, cor resnond tints and friends imiyin'futureVsave themelvest the trouble ot puttmsanv rjuestibns to me on tj subjejet j-and if tliere be 6 J the rs, who have been inaking;iiiqtnries, ' whether by themselves or spies, as to-' whether I am 44 fiavingny thing print ted f o. be sen t to America,'1 tfie y may now either give up tuexhase ordirec .xneir terriers across tne ocean; W. COgBETT.' FUOMTfiE BALTIMORE ATSlOnf. EDER AL-p ISA GRl?E1rr. ; Oh the National Bank questibh atse riou s d iy ision took pi ace am o ng the f e- I deralists in Congress. In the debate soroe dfltys ago, Mr; Webster, an nbte; fbut violent member of the party, point; euiy conaemnea tnose 01 nis irienas who, voted' for the bill, and charged them.tHift the desertion, not only of their principles but of their friends. MryHrilberk whose honest and inde- peuuut """wc c iu reason to admire, "protested with warmth agaipstthe prcscripiion whiclj , had been enounced, by 51. V epste against those federal members wh .were m favor oM he bank ;"and said that he came to CohgresstQ act from tha convictions ofhis own mind j& should aespise mmseu 11 nexcwisuDmito do as this orthat side.ffthe House; pointed site 8":; Mf; ?.Wor valso denied the fright of Mr- Webster to lecture- otber federalists for purliW; ing the course HvhtcH; ihelufy' .re- scribed to thejm ; declared that h e not' " be drilled to yore in" this Or that I mariner i" retorted . thecharge of in t consistency upon mvi vepster ana - .- W, PP? 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