"But, as clearly appears from all their publications, the main hope of Corruption's sons has been to trace a Plot to YOU! In order to effect this, they have stuck at no thing that villainy could suggest. They have asserted _as admitted facts_ hundreds of falsehoods. As a specimen of these, the _Times, Sun, Courier_, and others have stated '_on authority_,' that you and I were in _close consultation_, on the Sunday before the riots, _with Lord Cochrane, in the King's Bench Prison_. You know that you were at _Wanstead, in Essex_, all that day; and I know that I was at _Peckham, in Surrey_, never having seen you on that day, and not until the succeeding Tuesday. The wretched man who conducts the Sun newspaper asserted, that I came up for the express purpose of organizing the Plot; and that, having prepared every thing, I _set of to Botley_ the night before it broke out.--_Here_ I have been in London, however, without having stirred out of it one minute from that time to this. I could mention a hundred other falsehoods which the sons of Corruption have sent forth with equal boldness, with equal impudence, and with equal baseness. But, the _Times_ newspaper, always preeminent in infamy, asserted, that '_Young Cobbett_' was one of the persons who _spent the evening_ with you after your return from the Spa-fields Meeting on the Monday. The object of this falsehood was to alarm his _mother_ and _sisters_ for his safety, seeing that that statement was accompanied with other falsehoods calculated to excite a fear that all who were with you that evening would be _implicated in some state crime!_ It is for the Courier, the Sun, the Post, and some others to be guilty of premeditated falsehoods, but it is only, I believe, for Walter, the Proprietor of the Times, and the instigator to the killing of the brave Marshal Ney, to be guilty of such baseness as _this_. "However, even these falsehoods will tend to good. There are yet many very worthy people, who have believed in the statement of these sons of Corruption; who, judging too much from their own hearts and minds, have not been able to work themselves into a belief, that other men could be so totally void of all sense of moral feeling as coolly to put upon paper, in the most serious and solid manner, and to send forth as acknowledged truths, that which they know to be utterly false. To such worthy persons it seems to be a libel on human nature to suppose, that such black-hearted villainy can be in existence. They cannot conceive how a man can dare walk the streets, or how he can look even his acquaintances or his own family in the face, after being guilty of such shameful conduct. They now see, however, that this really is the case; and, though there are some who will still, from corrupt motives, _affect_ to believe in the statements of these corrupt men, there will, I hope, be found a great many to say, that they have been deceived, and that they will be deceived no longer.