XI.] CONCLUSION. 



One Thousand Pounds, being the amount of a fine 

 imposed upon you by the sentence of a Court of Law, 

 in the year 1810. I have laid your Petition before 

 His Majesty, and have to acquaint you, that it 

 has been returned by His Majesty, without the signi- 

 fication of any commands. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



Robert Peel. 

 William Cobbett, Esq. 



196. This was, to be sure, what I expected ; 

 but, it was right to make the demand, and to 

 make it in the manner in which it was made. If I 

 bad had the money given back directly, it would 

 have produced no change either in my opinion^s 

 relative to any of the parties, or in my language 

 in speaking of them and their measures. I look 

 upon the money as my due : I say nothing about 

 compensation for sufferings, for losses, for ruin ; 

 for, if I were to speak of this, I should include 

 the consequences of the exile to America in 

 1817, occasioned by the power-of-miprisonment- 

 bill, which I always regarded, and which I still 

 regard, as principally intended for me. But the 

 thousand pounds I paid to the King ; and to the 

 King I will, on all proper occasions, apply for 

 the money. At any rate, therefore, I owe the 



