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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register

TO THE EDITOR

... Extract of the Alarqrds of Txeedale's Letter ta L'rd Nihon, dated Wf'hiiehall, a ist Sefe. i745, from Mr. flome's lli;toy of Me Re- bellion an theyear 1 745,P . 309. That 2,o0Co01en, and these the scum i of two or three Highland genitlernen, the * Camerons, and a few tribes of the Mac- donalds, should be able in so short a time to make themselves masters of the town of Edinburgh, is an ...

TO THE EDITOR

... TO-THE EDITOR. SIRs,-I cannot but admire the ingenious- ness of your correspondeut R B. in the last Regtster, in destroying a building, to raiie- upon its foundationa superstructure, which, doubtless to his spectilating mind, appears as 0olid as the founders of the. Property Tax hope that measuwe will be.' le condemrns a plan founded, as lhe allows, upon. sound fi- nancial principles, because ...

TO THE EDITOR

... TO THIE EDITOR. StR,--In my last f pointed out the defect of the present establishment of the marine corps, in their not having a sufficient rium ber of field officers. I have now to obserrej that there is not proper encouragement givob ;tO the nun-commnissionred officers,.- The serjeaats in the regiments of the hiue, after servin g a certain number of years, are not only entitled to the ...

TO THE EDITOR

... TO TIIE JDTOR, I StR, So many.instances of the ais- Conduct of the volunteers, have been re- corded of late in your Regiter, that I did not think it necessary, to add to the dis- graceful list, by giving you ai account of the proceedings of the Ewell corps. I vainly hoped it would have passed off, without attracting the public notice; but, there 4aving appeared in your Register of the 4th inst ...

LORD ST. VINCENT AND THE NAVY

... LORD ST, VINCENT AND THE NAVY. I SiR,-In looking oyer your weekldy pubiications, in the last year, I have been a good deal struck with two letters dated the xith Feb. and ioth April from Ply- rnouth. signed An Englishman,' insert- ed in your Register of zgth March and both oif A ?? is with trul- patriotic concern, I find, that these two letters have not produced their merited effect. I. do ...

INTELLIGENCE

... - INTELLIGENCE, FOREIGN.-Intelligence has lately been received from Constantinople stating that tresh disturbances has broke out in Egypt, n See Home's klisrory, p. 66 to p. 9S. that the Arnaits ?nd the Arabs have Vuiited -and made themselves masters of AlesaiNRIfi8, and-that all the foreign consul~ and vide-cdd-. fsuls, together with many of the principal. inhabitants had fled and taken- ...

ANTOINE LUTZ

... ASTONE, LUTZ. ?? Stuart has s-ignified to the 01E; cers of the Foreiign Brigade, whbich serV. ed in Egypt, his Majesty's permission to wear the wedals transmitted, to them by the Grand Seignior, for their distingcuisb. cc ed callantry, at the battle of Alexandria, on the 21st of March, 1S01. His Mijesty his also been . graciously pleased to -allow. ANTOINE LUTZ, late of tbe Minorca Queen's ...

SUMMARY OF POLITICS

... SUMMA&RY OF POLIMCS. BRIfrisH HCjzrtbr'Rs on the French Funds.--rA paper; entitled- a short statement of facts relative to claims of British Creditors on the French Funds, Ias just been printed and circulated, prepa- ratory, as ithis thought, to some applica- tion to parliament for redress; and, it is with a view of preventing the success of any such application, with, a ,view of ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1804
Newspaper: Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6976 | Page: Page 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 | Tags: News 

CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE

... CORPS DIPLOMAT1QtUE., SIR,-Of all the absurdities and errors vhich have characterised the conduct of the pretent administration, the neglect thev have manifested in not correcting a fault of their predecessors in office, is nut the least re- matkable. I mean, Sir, the appointment of inefficient persons to fill the post of minis- ters at foreign courts, as well as adopting some mode whereby the ...

ON VOLUNTEERS

... 4 I may be blamed at such an awful crisis for speaking so plainlyv- but plain dealing is nrow the only medhod to recover public ?? is only a good thing while we have means of converting it into cash. We shall not long be able, after the inundaiims of paper to %which this system gives birth, to stop Ministers from making Hank Notes a legal tender, and then adieu to the apoearapce of specie at ...