wright, a radical of the old school. So early as 1774, he had published a "Letter in Defence of American Independence." He was at that time an officer in the navy. Fond as he was of his profession, he threw it up rather than take part in the war against our colonies. He entered the militia, and rose to the rank of major. Three years before the date of his letter, he had been present at a meeting held in Birmingham for the purpose of electing a "legislatorial attorney," who was to knock at the door of the House of Commons, and claim the right to look after the interests of that great town in Parliament. With all its population, its industry, and its wealth, it was unrepresented. In its case, and in the case of many another English town in those evil days, taxation went without representation. The major and four gentlemen who stood by his side at the meeting were put on their trial at the Warwick assizes for misdemeanor. Another of my uncles had been on the platform, but he was young and insignificant enough to escape prosecution. His brother, the barrister, was one of Cartwright's counsel. On the morning of the trial, the old fellow said to him, " I hope they will send me to prison. It will be the best thing for the cause, for I am sure to die there. I hope they will send me to prison." The judge was too wise to make such a martyr. Cartwright's four friends were

punished with imprisonment, but he himself was let off with a fine of a hundred pounds. From one of the pockets of his waistcoat, which, after the fashion of the previous century, he wore of a great size, he drew out a large canvas bag, from which he slowly counted one hundred pounds in gold. 'He believed, he said, they were all good sovereigns." Even the judge himself was amused by his composed manner and his dry tone. Cartwright outlived his trial three years, dying at the age of eighty-four. His statue stands before his house in Burton Crescent, London. His niece, Mrs. Penrose, under the assumed name of Mrs. Markham, used to be well known to the children of my younger days by her histories.

DEAR HILL, - Colonel de Vergier and two other French officers, escaped from Bourbon Dungeons, dine with me on Thursday at 5. Make one with us if you can.

Yours truly,

J. CARTWRIGHT.

Remember the Titles of the several Acts re

specting Juries.

BURTON CRESCENT,

Tuesday, 12 Nov. 1822.

M. D. HILL, ESQ.

Boswell Court, Carey Street,

Lincoln's Inn.

The major, it is said, usually signed his letters, "Yours radically." These French officers had escaped from that tyranny which the armies of the allies had imposed on France, and on so much of Europe, after the defeat of Napoleon. The common tyrant had been caged in St. Helena, but over each unhappy nation the tyrant of the ancient stock was only the more firmly fixed. What the rulers of the earth were doing in the year in which this letter was written is thus shown by Miss Martineau: "The king of Prussia amused himself and his advisers with devising a plan of a new order of nobility which should suddenly become as imposing and influential as if it had been a thousand years old. Ferdinand of Spain was inventing tinsel ornaments for the Virgin. The restored Bourbons of France were studying how best to impose dumbness on their noisy nation. The king of Sardinia was swimming paper ducks in a wash basin to while away his time." My father met one of the French officers who had escaped from the Bourbon dungeons, who said to him, in English with a foreign accent which added not a little to his humor, "I was once hanged in France, but, very fortunately, I was not present on the occasion." He and his fellow-prisoners who had been happy enough to escape the gallows, to which some of their associates were sent, had been hanged in effigy. The same officer told my father that many of his

He Contractors for fale of the Lands and

The Contractors for face Ringe Ducen and Prince, have refolved to begin their fittings for Sales upon Monday the Fourth of March, 1649. as to all fuch of the faid Lands (onely) before that time Surveyed, and Certified to the Register, whereof there fhall be immediate Tenancies; from which day the refpective preemptions of the immediate Tenants are to begin: And for all fuch of the Lands, whereof there are fuch immediate Tenancies, and whereof the Surveys fhall be returned after that day, the faid refpective preemptions to commence according to a late Additional Act of the 18th of Febr. 1649.

William Tayleure Clerk, areading the Contractors.