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RATTLE Ol NEW ORLEANS.We were amongst tho*e who wondered that Cobbktt had taken no nonet of the battle of New Orleans, and thought, either that j he found it too sere ■ subject to he touched upon in England, or, that, as an l.ngiishman himself, he really felt mortified, and hue passed over the melancholy subject ir» silence— i We have been mistaken—He has wtitle; on the subject, in his usual syle of pith and point , —but how this bitter pill, which was wrnnn in the latter end of March IM5, did not appear in this country till the latter end of May 1816, about one year and two months, is more than we can account for, unless that it was not published in England, and hat , been cautiously reserved by the writer for his American Register.This paper is highly honorable, indeed we may say, it is highly flattering to the A- ! merit an character—Towards the e^nch su.n of it, Cobhett alludes to his former imprisonment in Newgate, and the sum of money he had to pay to his Majesty—We think it not improbable, th.it he may again be an unwi]- , ling inmate of that horrible abode, and be i again forced to pay another large sum to the ; Pnnee Regent—We ate surprized, that he 1 has so long escaped the vengeance of the power* that be, for so poignant a writer must, be to them a mosj grievous annoyance, now . that John Hull feels the sore pressure of his | burthens, Sc that the putting down of Cjtneral Bonaparte has not lightened his heavy load of taxes and restrictions —Bult. Jtmtr. i
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Hagerstown Maryland Herald and Hagerstown Weekly Advertiser
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Wed, Jun 12, 1816
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