was false; and, like a just and honourable | porter, be sold much dearer than wheat is man, he immediately told Mr. Wardle, now selling here.-From America, then, that he had imbibed opinions injurious to nothing of any consequence can be exhim, and had expressed himself accord-pected; and the only question is, whe ingly. He did not recollect what he had, at the same time, said about Mr. Dodd; if he had recollected it, he would have made mention of that also,-The letter of Lord Folkestone, taken together with the retractation, are, in fact, the strongest presumptive proofs of the falshood of Mrs. Clarke; and, indeed, if any thing could now be wanting to convince the public, that all the calumnies, of every sort, issued by her and her associates against Mr. Wardle, have had their origin in a most foul and infamous Conspiracy, these documents must produce that conviction.

SCARCITY OF CORN. Since I mentioned this subject before, I have seen more and heard more, relative to it; and, every thing that I have seen, or heard, tends to confirm me in the opinion, that the crop of wheat will be short beyond all example. I still think, that it will not be half so great as the last year's crop; and, I should not at all wonder to see it forty or fifty pounds a load (40 bushels), even though Buonaparté should suffer us to get all we can from the continent of Europe; and, if he should put a stop to all exportation of corn, the price must be enormous, and the consequences may be fatal.

ther Buonaparté will, or will not, permit corn to be sent from the Baltic to England; if the former, the price may, possi bly, be kept a little down; but, if he does not permit us to get corn from the Baltic, my sinçere opinion is, that wheat will be 30 shillings a bushel, and the quartern loaf half a crown, before Christmas; and certainly, that, let what will take place as to importation, meat will be exceedingly dear." Forewarned, forearmed," they say; but, the only arming that can avail us in a case like this is that of patience, For, as to "substitutes," and making coarse flour, and the like, they are of no use at all. The evil is a deficiency in the quantity of food, taking all sorts together; and for this there is really no other remedy than that of doing with less food than usual, until a more abundant supply can be obtained.

count of the Trial. Why I do not give it In my next, I shall give some achere, shall then be stated.

WM. COBBETT. London, 22d June, 1810.

COBBETT'S

The short crop of grass will greatly add to Parliamentary Debates:

the calamity; for the scarcity of hay must necessarily compel people to keep horses more upon oats, and that will cause another diminution in the food of man. From the long-continued drought, there is a likelihood that fodder will be scarce.

Cattle are every where selling at reduced prices. Every one seems to wish to get rid of mouths. The consequence of this will be, that meat will be comparatively cheap for a little while, and, in winter, excessively dear. It is nonseuse to say, that the wheat has mended. It cannot mend, where there is none upon the ground; and that is so generally the case as to make the prospect truly alarming.- -Some people comfort themselves with the prospect of great importations from America. America never did, and never can, give us any very large supply; and besides, wheat is now ten shillings a bushel in America, and, of course, it could not reach us under about forty pounds a load. So`that, at this moment, wheat, brought from America, must, in order to answer the purpose of the im

The Fifteenth Volume of the above Work is in the Press, and will be publish ed with all proper dispatch. All Com but it is particularly requested that they munications will be carefully attended to; may be forwarded as early as possible.

KING'S SPEECH AT THE PROROGATION.

On Thursday, the 21st of June, the Parliament was prorogued with the following Speech, by Commission:

My Lords and Gentlemen; His Majesty has commanded us to acquaint you, that, as the public business is now concluded, he thinks it proper to put an end to the present Session of Parliament.-We are commanded by his Majesty to express the satisfaction he derived from the reduc tion of the Island of Guadaloupe by his Majesty's arms, an event which, for the first time in the history of the wars of Great Britain, has wrested from France all her possessions in that quarter of the world; and which, together with the subsequent capture of the only colonies in

more or less the slaves of Licentiousness and Vice, and from some, Virtue seems almost to have taken her flight, when Private Interest almost universally predomi nates over the Public Good, it requires no common degree of Firmness and Integrity to stand forth, and oppose the impetuous Torrent-In such circumstances, the man is rarely to be found, who can at once resist the Temptations of Wealth and Power, despise the Taunts and Ridicule of those who have sacrificed Conscience at the shrine of Interest, brave the Threats of those who strive to crush all Opposition

destruction, by rashness and imbecility, of | and Corruption, when all Classes are thousands of his Majesty's gallant soldiers and seamen, the profuse expenditure of the public resources, or the corruption of the representation of the people.-Your Petitioners, abstaining from animadversions on matters which will, in all probability, become the subjects of legal investigation, humbly state to your honourable House, that, considering the premises, and being anxiously desirous that the true dignity of your honourable House should be maintained, they do strongly, but respectfully press upon the consideration of your honourable House the necessity of a Reform in the Commons' House of Par-with the iron hand of Power, smile at the liament, which may ensure the purity and integrity of your honourable House, and above all the responsibility of Ministers.→→ And they further beg leave to submit to the wisdom of your honourable House, the expediency of summoning Sir Francis Burdett, to assist in the deliberations which must necessarily take place on this momentous subject and also of performing, what your Petitioners cannot but consider as an act of justice, by the liberation of John Gale Jones from imprison

ment.

NOTTINGHAM RESOLUTIONS.

[The 8th Resolution was, by mistake, omitted at page 923; and is as follows.] 8. That the pledge which we demand is, that they do not sacrifice the Liberties of the people to their own undefined Privileges, and use constant and unceasing exertions to obtain a thorough Reform in the Commons' House of Parliament. To this we look as necessary to the security of our Liberties, to the salvation of our Country. If the House of Commons be not the Representative of the People, but of Peers-Where is the, People's Voice to be heard; where is their cause to be pleaded? When the House of Commons shall truly represent the People, the Privileges of the Commons and the Liberties of the People will be one.They will then ensure at once our respect, our confidence, and our firm and united

Frown of Adversity, and remain undaunted at the sight of the walls of a Prison. But rare as is the discovery, we are willing to hope and believe that the People of Eng. land have found such a man in You.

In this dearth of Public Virtue, labouring under repeated Disappointments, though not yet sunk into despair, we naturally become cautious in giving full credit to any man, until his integrity has been tried, and we have reason to believe that his Private Conduct corresponds with his Public Professions. From what we have been able to learn of your Private Life, the Duties of the several Relations in which you stand to Society, whether as Landlord, Husband, Father or Friend, have been properly fulfilled. With the greater confidence, therefore, we have looked for a faithful Discharge of your Public Duties, nor have our Expectations been hitherto disappointed. When by what is generally deemed a trifling sacri fice of Principle, you might have basked in the sun shine of Prosperity, you have chosen to weather the Storms of Adversity, folded in the Mantle of Integrity.

At one time the object of general odium, insulted by an infatuated and misguided People, you shrunk not from the Field of Duty to seek Popular Applause. But at length, in a great measure through your instrumentality, the eyes of the People are opened, their Burdens have made them feel, and their feelings have enlightened their understandings. They now see their real friends, and are ready to offer their Tribute of Gratitude to you. For your recent conduct, for your firm stand in defence of the Liberties and Rights of Britons accept our unqualified Thanks. But gratifying as the expression of the Approbation of your Fellow-subjects Sir; In a period of general Depravity must necessarily be to your Feelings, we

support.

To SIR FRANCIS BURDETT. The ADDRESS of the ELECTORS and INHABITANTS of the Town of NOTTINGHAM, in full Meet. ing assembled.

trust that you possess a much higher source
of gratification in the pprobation of your
own Conscience., Sir, in your ho-
nourable career. No effort is lost. Let
us not in this instance suffer disappoint-
ment. So shall the virtuous part of your
llow-subjects revere and love you, and
e Blessing of him that was ready to pe-
rish, shall come upon you.

THE CHRISTIANS' PETITION, Presented to the House of Commons by Samuel Whitbread, Esq, on Friday, June 8th,

1810.

from the doctrines of the established Church; your Petitioners feel it to be their duty humbly, but earnestly to remonstrate against the longer continuance of any of these intolerant laws; and they do in conformity with the premises expressly petition this Honourable House, that every such unjust law may be repealed, and the rights of conscience may thus be restored to all the subjects of this united kingdom; at the same time they declare to this Honourable House, that if the legislature of our country should not feel themselves convinced, as your Petitioners do, that every trace of intolerTo the Honourable the Commons of this ance ought to be immediately expungUnited Kingdom in Parliament as- ed from our statutes, yet if the repeal sembled, The humble Petition of the un- or modification of any of our intolerant dersigned Christians in behalf of them- laws should now take place, particularly selves, and others who agree with if the Test Laws, as far as they affect them in considering absolute liberty of our military force by sea and land, conscience respecting religion to be should now be repealed, your Petitioners the unalienable right of all men, would view with sincere gratitude any such Sheweth; That it is the duty of all measure, as a still farther advance towards men, to examine as diligently as may be the complete restoration of the rights of in their power the doctrines of religion; conscience, and at this crisis would conand after such diligent examination, to sider it as having a salutary tendency to adopt and to profess what may appear to allay religious animosities, and to unite them to be the truth; and that in the per- the great mass of the community, in a formance of that duty men ought not to zealous defence of the empire against the be obstructed or discouraged, or other-meditated attack of our gigantic and allwise tempted to act hypocritically by any law, tending to bias them in the course of such examination of the doctrines of religion, by subjecting them in the case of their dissenting from the doctrine of any established Church, to suffer death by burning or otherwise; or to suffer any corporal or pecuniary punishment, or be injured in their reputation by any disability more or less disgraceful.

That your Petitioners acknowledge with high satisfaction, that in the present reign considerable progress has been made towards the full restoration of the rights of conscience by the wisdom of Parliament and the benignity of the King, rescinding various laws in whole or in part which were violations of those rights: yet since other Penal Laws not less injurious to those rights remain unrepealed, since some of these laws subject to corporal punishments or pecuniary penalties; others, as in the case of the Test Laws passed in the reign of Charles IId. subject to disgrace, disabi. lity and privation of civil rights, persons whose only offence it is, that in conformity with their duty, they have examined the doctrines of religion, and by such examination have been induced to embrace and to profess religious opinions different

grasping enemy. And your Petitioners shall ever pray.

To the Christians' Petition for liberty of conscience the gnatures annexed, by Roman Catholics, members of the Church of England and Protestant Dissenters, which are contained in sixteen duplicates, amount to, viz.

Names.
In the duplicate from Sheffield 73
In that from Richmond
Newcastle.....

68

40

The total amount of 16 duplicates 1,560

N. B. A Duplicate from Manchester containing 93 signatures, on account of informality, has been kept back,

THE DUKE OF KENT.

duct, which took place in Parliament last winter, either direct or indirect ?-A. I feel confident that our Royal Highness has no such knowledge or acquaintance. (Signed T. Dodd.)

Q. Have I, to your knowledge, ever had any acquaintance with, or knowledg of, Mrs. Clarke, or any communicatio with her, direct or indirect, upon the subabove-named, or any other ?—A. I am confident your Royal Highness never had. (Signed T. Dodd.)

the same communication to me in writing. (Signed T. Dodd.)

The Duke of Kent having seen a recent publication, entitled "The Rival Princes," in which he is charged with having sanctioned and encouraged the adoption and prosecution of measures tending to the manifest injury of a brother's honour and interests, it is impossible that he should not feel anxious to counteract immediatelyject the impression which must dwell with the country, while such foul and unmerited aspersions remain unnoticed. To remove, Q. Have I ever expressed to you any therefore, from his character that stigma sentiment which could induce you to be which would justly attach to it, if it were lieve that I approved of what was brought not in his power to prove that there has forward in Parliament against the Duke of not at any time existed the smallest foun- York, or any proceeding that would tend dation for a charge, at the very idea of to his obloquy or disgrace?—A. Never. which every honest man must recoil with I have heard your Royal Highness la horror-and indignation, the Duke of Kentment the business, viva voce, and you made has determined to lay before the public the following Declaration, which was made and committed to paper by Captain Dodd, on the 26th day of July last, in the presence of the Earl of Harrington and Colonel Vesey, and which was delivered to him, to be used at his discretion. At that period the Duke was induced to require this Declaration, with a view to his own satisfaction, in consequence of various reports and insinuations which have gained circulation. The communication of it was consequently confined to his own family, and to some of his friends; and he had flattered himself that it would be unnecessary to make any appeal to the public, on a matter which affected himself exclusively: nor is it without sincere concern, that he now finds himself under the necessity of entering thus publicly into a vindication of his conduct. He is, however, confident that every liberal mind will give him credit for taking a step which he feels to be due to his character, to the honour and dignity of his family, and which marks his anxiety to stand well with the country in general.

QUERIES put to Captain Dodd, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and his Answers thereto, 26th July 1809.

Q. Have I, either directly or indirectly, sanctioned, advised, or encouraged, any attack upon the Duke York?-A. Never. (Signed T. Dodd.

Q. Have I had, to your knowledge, any acquaintance or communication with Colonel Wardle, or any of the persons concerned in bringing forward the Investigation respecting the Duke of York's con

Q. Have you ever, to your recollection, expressed yourself, either by word or in writing, either to Colonel Wardie or Mrs. Clarke, or to any other person, connected with the investigation on the Duke of York's conduct, in any way that could give them reason to suppose that I approved of the measure, or would countenance those concerned in bringing it for ward ?-A. Never. But I have, on the contrary, expressed myself, that your Royal Highness would have a very dif ferent feeling. (Signed T. Dodd.).

Q. What were my expressions on the subject of the Pamphlet which appeared, passing censure on the conduct of the Duke of York, and others of my family, and holding up my character to praise; and what have been the sentiments which I have uniformly expressed on similar publications, whether in the newspapers or otherwise?-A. I have invariably heard your Royal Highness regret, that any person should attempt to do justice to your own character, at the expence of that of the Duke of York, or any other member of your Family-(Signed T. Dodd.)

Q. During the ten years you have been my private Secretary, when, in the most confidential moments I have given vent to my wounded feelings, upon professional subjects, did you ever hear me express myself inimical to the Duke of York, or that I entertained an expectation of raising myself by his fall?-A. Never; on the contrary, I have frequently heard your Royal Highness express yourself very differently. (T. Dodd.)