XL] CONCLUSION. 



of the consolation aflforded by occasionally seeing his 



virtuous family, obtained, through the intercession of 



Gentlemen belonging to the Corporation of London, 



leave to reside in the house of the Keeper, to whom 



he paid for this indulgence, twelve pounds for every 



week ; amounting, in two years, to o?ie thousatid two 



hundred and for tij- eight pounds. 



192. That, with any detail of the numerous other 



expenses, losses, injuries, and mischiefs of endless 



variety, attending these two years of imprisonment, 



and the other parts of the merciless sentence, your 



humble Petitioner will not presume to trouble your 



Majesty ; but will conclude with, first, expressing his 



gratitude to God for having preserved him and his 



family, amidst all these terrible sufferings ; and, next, 



with appealing to the justice of your Majesty, whom 



he humbly begs leave to remind, that, at the end of 



these two years of pain and of ruin, he paid into the 



hands of an ofiicer of the crown, a thousand pounds 



sterling, for the use of your Majesty, whom he now 



humbly prays to be graciously pleased to cause the 



said thousand pounds sterling to be restored to him, 



your Majesty's humble Petitioner and faithful and 



dutiful subject, 



W. COBBETT. 

 Kensington^ 2bth August, 



1828. 



193. Such was the statement of my case, 

 which I forwarded in the usual way to the Secre- 



