Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

The following article has been kept on hand, because we had commenced another series of communications which were entitled to the precedence. Boston Daily Advertiser.

WILLIAM COBBETT.

To those who are acquainted with the history of William Cobbett, it must be apparent that his pen has always been at the service of the highest bidder, that to cloak his venality he has constantly raised " an affected yelp" about the " hireling presses," and that with the most unblushing effrontery he invariably asserts whatever he believes will best subserve the designs of his employers without the least regard to veracity. Our democrats, however inconsistent upon the correctness of his politics and the truth of his asseverations. They delight to retail his ribaldry and promulgate his opinions of our Otises and Pickerings and Harpers. As they, so much respect his sagacity and regard to truth, I have made an extract from his prospectus to a Newspaper, in which he has drawn the character of these same democrats. The paper was entitled, The Porcupine. The following is the extract.

"Having in America, witnessed the fatal effects of revolution; Having seen piety give place to a contempt of religion, plain dealing exchanged for shuffling and fraud, universal confidence for universal suspicion and distrust; having seen a country, once the seat of good neighborhood, torn to pieces by faction, plunged, by intriguing demagogues into never ceasing hatred and strife; having seen a people, once too fond of what they called liberty to bear the gentle sway of a British king, humbly bend their necks to the yoke, nay to the very foot of a set of grovelling despots; having in short, seen the crime of rebellion against monarchy punished by the tormenting, the degrading curse of republicanism, it is with the utmost astonishment and indignation, that I find any of those, who have the press at their command, endeavour to bring on my native country the very same species of calamity and disgrace.

" Notwithstanding the example of America, and the more dreadful example of France, I see the emissaries of the republican faction (for such it really is) still preaching fanaticism and infidelity, still bawling for that change, which they have the audacity to denominate reform, still exerting all their nefarious ingenuity, in sapping the foundation of the church and the throne. Those who want experience of these consequences, may, for aught I know, be excused from conspiring at these; but for me, who have seen acts passed by a republican legislature, more fraudulent than forgery or coining, for me, who have seen republican officers of state bartering their country for sale for a few thousands of dollars; for me, who have seen republican judges become felons, and felons become republican judges; for me to fold my hands and tamely listen to the insolent eulogists of republican governments and rulers, would be a shameful abandonment of principle, a dastardly desertion of duty."

&c.—These are the sentiments of Cobbett, whose authority is so much respected by American democrats. When it is recollected that he resided some years in the United States, and that this character of our good republicans was drawn by him previous to the patriotic exhibitions of those Idols of Democracy the Browns, the Gannets, the Mangruders, the Skinners and the Bidwells, we must exclaim with the Boston Patriot, "how well he knows them."

TALIO.