XI.] CONCLUSION. 



185. To His Most Gracious Majesty, George 

 the Fourth, King of the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, 



The Petition of William Cobbett, of 

 Kensington, in the County of Mid- 

 dlesex, 



Most humbly shows, 

 186. That there was published in London, in the 

 year 1809, a newspaper called the " Courier," which 

 newspaper continues to be there published unto this 

 day; that, in this said newspaper was published, on 

 Saturda}^ the twenty-fourth day of June, 1809, a 

 piece of news, or intelligence, in the following words ; 

 to wit ; 



*'The mutiny amongst the Local Militia, \\\u.c\ih\6kQ 

 " out at Ely, was fortunately suppressed, onWed- 

 " nesday, by the arrival o^four squadrons of the 

 *' German Legion Cavalry from Bury, under the 

 *' command of General Auckland. Five of the 

 *' ringleaders were tried by a Court Martial, and 

 *' sentenced to receive fve hundred lashes 

 " each, part of which punishment they received 

 " on Wednesday, and a part was remitted. A 

 *' stoppage for their knapsacks was the ground 

 *' of complaint that excited this mutinous spirit, 

 " which occasioned the men to surround their 

 " officers, and demand what they deemed their 



