Remarks on the explanation, by Dr. Priestley, respecting the intercepted letters of his friend and disciple, John H. Stone. To which is added a certificate of civism for Joseph Priestley Jun / By Peter Porcupine [i.e. W. Cobbett].

William Cobbett

Date:: 1799

Credit: Remarks on the explanation, by Dr. Priestley, respecting the intercepted letters of his friend and disciple, John H. Stone. To which is added a certificate of civism for Joseph Priestley Jun / By Peter Porcupine [i.e. W. Cobbett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$c 1794 fifteen fhips were loft to the country, in ‘ confequence of intelligence, fuppofed to have £ been conveyed through this channel to the ene- c my.—Jackfon, during this correfpondence, was 4 in Ireland, whither he went to execute his part * of the traitorous plan, which was, to procure fuch intelligence of the fituation of Ireland, and c of the difpofition of the people, as would beft c enable the French government the more effec- c tually to plan the invafion and redu6tiori of that c country. Jackfon (previous to the trial of Stone) c was tried, in Ireland, for High Treafon, and con- c victed\ but he poifoned himfelf before fentence c was pronounced on him—In the courfe of the ( trial certain papers were produced in evidence. « / [Now for Monfieur M. B. P.] *c One of the papers read was written by « BENJAMIN VAUGHAN, member of Par- “ liament for Calne, and had been cjven by him “ to the prifoner. It appeared to be written with a view to defcribe the temper and opinions of e< the people of Great Britain, refpe&ing the “ threatened invafion of the French, and purported “ to (how the improbability there was of any fuch “ meafure fucceeding, at that time, from a variety “ of caufes; and that, from the dilpofition ot “ the people, which had been clearly indicated in <c feveral infiances, there was every reaton to “ apprehend, that fuch an attempt would prove$