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ANOTHER SERMON.

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TO GARDENER-EMIGRANTS. I HAVE had before, and have now, applications from gardeners, to know At my shop, No. 183, Fleet-Street, whether their business will do in the London, and to be had of all bookselUnited States. To which I answer, lers in town and country, PRICE SIXYes, if they mean to work. If they have PENCE, a Sermon, entitled, "GOOD read my EMIGRANT'S GUIDE, how can FRIDAY; or, THE MURDER OF they doubt of success in their business." JESUS CHRIST BY THE JEWS": New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and addressed to Christians of all denomiBoston, are each of them more opulent nations.-My other Sermons, twelve in than Liverpool. The country around number, may be had in one volume, each of them is studded with gentlemen's price 38. 6d. seats in the English style. Must not gardeners be wanted, then? Every body but parsons and lawyers and doctors are wanted, and even the two latter of these would be better off, in general, than here, aye, and the working parsons also. But I can add nothing to what I have said in my EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. I see

THE WOODLANDS:

OR,

A TREATISE

On the preparing of ground for planting; on the planting; on the cultivating; on the pruning; and on the cutting down of Forest Trees and Underwoods;

DESCRIBING

that a cargo of emigrants are just gone The usual growth and size and the uses of from PORTSMOUTH to New York! I congratulate them with all my heart. There is another good lot clear of the boroughmongers! WILMOT HORTON

need not be uneasy: all that have money, health and sense, and that do not live on the taxes, will soon be away. The aged, the lame, the lazy, and the idiots, will stay with the boroughmongers. I once more beseech all emigrants to have nothing to do with " Emigration Companies," or with back lands, cheap lands! The end is certain ruin. Remember BIRKBECK and FLOWER, their wild schemes, and the sad fate of those who listened to them. As to those who talk of Botany Bay, Swan River, Nova Scotia and Canada, they are fools wholly beneath my notice: no matter whither they go, or what becomes of them.

ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

THE Eleventh Number of this work is now published; and the two Numbers that were out of print, are re-published. I intended to conclude the work in Twelve Numbers; but there must be Fourteen; so that it will be completed on the 1st of September.

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each sort of tree, the seed of each, the season and manner of collecting the seed, the manner of preserving and of sowing it, and also the manner of managing the young plants until fit to plant out;

THE TREES

Being arranged in Alphabetical Order, and
the List of them, including those of Ame-
rica as well as those of England, and the
English, French, and Latin names being
prefixed to the directions relative to each
know every thing about the rearing and
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managing of Trees myself, from the gather-
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applying of the Tree; and all that I know
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THE ENGLISH GARDENER; or, A Trea-
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MARTENS'S LAW OF NATIONS. This is
the Book which was the foundation of all the
knowledge that I have ever possessed relative
to public law; and really I have never met
with a politician, gentle or simple, who
knew half so much of the matter as myself.
I have wanted this book for my sons to read;
and monopolizing has never been a favourite!
with me; if I have ever possessed useful
knowledge of any sort, I have never been
able to rest till I have communicated it to
as many as I could. This Book was trans-
lated and published at the request of the
American Secretary of State; the Book-
seller, though he paid me only a quarter of
a dollar (thirteen-pence halfpenny) for
every page, had a Subscription from the
President, Vice-President, and all the Mem-
bers of the Two Houses of Congress, and
from all the Governors and Lawyers in the
country. This Work was almost my coup
d'essai, in the authoring way; but upon
looking it over at this distance of time, I
see nothing to alter in any part of it. It is
a thick octavo volume, with a great num-
ber of Notes; and it is, in fact, a book,
with regard to public law, what a Gram-
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THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR; a New Edition.
Of this Work, from first to last, Sixty Thou-
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by word of mouth and by letter, from young
men, and even from old men, for this work,
who have said, that, though many of them
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possess, and that it is entitled to super-
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A FRENCH GRAMMAR; or, Plain Instructions for the Learning of French. The notoriously great sale of this Book is no bad criterion of its worth. The reason of its popularity is its plainness, its simplicity. I have made it as plain as I possibly could: I have encountered and overcome the difficulty of giving clear definitions: I have proceeded in such a way as to make the task of learning as little difficult as possible. The price of this book is 5s. in boards.

Just Published.

MR. JAMES PAUL COBBETT'S ITALIAN GRAMMAR, entitled "A Grammar of the "Italian Language; or, a Plain and Com"pendious Introduction to the Study of Ita"lian." Price 6s.-Throughout this Grammar the Author has supposed himself to be addressing those who are altogether unacquainted with the subject; he has, therefore, taken the greatest paius, both as to the proper arrangement of the several matters treated of, and that clearness of explanation that they require. At the same time, the work will be found useful to those who are more than mere beginners. It professes to be an "Introduction" only, and comes within a moderate compass; but while the Author has set out by noticing points the most simple, he has, in the course of his task, studiously called the reader's attention to the greatest difficulties that occur in the study of Italian. Of the importance of these difficulties the Author may pretend to be a judge, since he has had to encounter them himself; and the want of assistance which he has experienced in books called Grammars, has induced him to think that the results of his own study, as contained in the present work, may be of service to other people.

THE HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT "REFORMATION, showing how that event has impoverished and degraded the main body of the people in those countries; in a series of letters, addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen. This is the Title of the Work, which consists of Two Volumes, the first containing the Series of Letters above described, and the second containing a List of Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, and other Religious and charitable Endowments, that were seized on and granted away by the Reformers to one another, and to their minions. The List is arranged according to the Counties, alphabetically, and each piece of property is fully stated, with its then, as well as its actual value; by whom founded and when; by whom granted away, and to whom.-Of this Work there are two Editions, one in Duodecimo, price 4s. 6d. for the first Volume, and 3s. 6d. for the second; and another in Royal Octavo, on handsome paper, with marginal Notes, and a full Index. This latter Edition was printed for Libraries, and there was consequently but a limited number of Copies struck off: the Price 11. 11s. 6d. in Extra Boards.

To be had at 183, Fleet Street. A SET of the Register, complete, from the First Volume up to the present time, is to be sold at No. 183, Fleetstreet.

Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 183, Fleet-street.

VOL. 69.-No. 25.]

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1830.

MEXICO;

OR,

[Price 7d.

they look upon the armaments, which the King of Spain is preparing in CUBA (that great island so near at hand),

THE PATRIOT-BONDHOLDERS. wherewith to subdue the Mexicans, and

WITH

A Map of the West Indies and Mexican Gulf.

bring them back to their allegiance; and one of which armaments is said to be preparing at this time. The gamblers, DISCIPLES, Mexico is, as you know, seeing the fatal consequences of this, one of those new republics which the have now applied to the parliament to poor, silly, talking thing, CANNING, said interfere, in order to make the King of that he had "called into cxistence." You Spain desist from thus disturbing them also know, that, owing to the bragging in their expected profitable pursuits! A accounts that he and his colleagues and pretty reasonable thing, to be sure, to the Collective gave of this famous re-tell him that he shall not endeavour to public, numerous fools in England lent reduce his revolted colonies to obedience, their money to the Mexican government; because such obedience would be injuthat companies were founded for working rious to English gamblers, who have, in the mines in Mexico; that goods were a great measure, been the cause of the sent from England to that country in long-continued disobedience! This is prodigious quantities; that Mexican modest enough; but this is the state in Bonds, or funds, became a considerable which the affair now stands, or, at least, branch of the great gambling that is al- the state in which it stood on the 22nd ways going on in the Stock Hell of the of May, when HUSKISSON presented to Wen; and that, of course, there are the House of Commons, or lower Colnow thousands upon thousands of mer-lective, a petition on the subject from chants, manufacturers, loan-jobbers, and some people whom he denominated bondholders, many of whom must be " Merchants of Liverpool." I shall, bytotally ruined, and all of them greatly and-by, have to show how JONATHAN! injured, if Mexico, whether by Spanish "Ah! take any shape but that!" How, invasion, or by internal anarchy, or by any other cause, be placed in such a state as to cause all these engagements with England to be broken and set at nought.

I say, Jonathan, long Jonathan, with his "long-tom," enters into this matter, making the King of Spain only a secondary object of dread. But, that I may resemble the Collective as little as posAll this you know, and have long sible, I shall avoid complexity and conknown as well as I. You know also, fusion, by first speaking of this calledthat Mexico, which is the great country for interference of our Government with of silver mines, and which has a popu- the King of Spain, the reasons and lation nearly equal to that of England, grounds for which interference were and a capital city containing two hun-stated by HUSKISSON, on the 22nd of dred thousand people; you know, that May, in a speech which I shall insert that country has had nine or ten revolu- here, though I have published it once tions in its government in so many before, because two laughs are better years; and we learn, that, at this time, than one; and because I wish, for a reathe anarchy appears to be greater than son hereafter to be stated, to have, in ever. This naturally gives rise to great this one paper, all the matter belonging alarm amongst the bondholders, the to the subject. I beg you, my friends, mining fellows, and the gambling mer- to read this, and all the other speeches chants and manufacturers, who see, that they must lose the expected fruits of their gambling, and their stake into the bargain, unless order and peace and government be established in this source of silver, and, therefore, they are uncommonly anxious for the establishment of order, peace, and government in Mexico. Amongst the causes of the disorder,

that I shall quote, with great attention; for in them you will see how the Borough people are pushed; you will see what their notions are; and it is on their notions that I shall have principally to remark.

he said, was well entitled to the consideration Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition, which, of the House. It was from that portion -of

vent the dangers that might ensue. Now, after twenty-one years of opposition between Spain and her colonies, the latter had freed themselves, and for seven years Spain had no power in any of the States. Third parties were interested in this contest. Did not our commerce suffer in 1822, when we were going to issue letters of reprisal, The consequence of threats then was, that we got from Spain 30 or 40 per cent. compensation for our losses. It was true that in Mr. Canning's State Paper, it was expressly laid down that England would observe the strictest neutrality in the contest between Spain and the new States of South America; but, then, that must be construed only in reference to some reasonable time, at which such contest was to have an end. It could not be for a moment supposed, that England was continually to look on and witness such a miserable warfare as had hitherto existed.

the merchants of Liverpool who were in com- her forces in Cuba. All the considerations mercial intercourse with Mexico. They com- of commerce, of impartiality, and of humanity, plained of the interruption to their commerce required one interposition in this case to prefrom the expeditions fitted out by Spanish subjects from the island of Cuba, and of the consequent danger and loss to their trade. We were bound by treaty to Mexico; we had a great interest in the tranquillity and in the commercial operations of that country, and ought to protect the trade between Mexico and this country. The petitioners prayed the House to take such measures as would restrain Spain from attempts so injurious to us and to Spain herself, as they must ultimately fail. We have a right to insist on the suspension of these hostilities, although we had no right to require Spain to recognise the independence of Mexico or the other States, formerly her colonies. The right hon. Gentleman, after narrating the circumstances of a menaced attack from Mexico and Colombia conjointly upon Cuba, some years ago, referred to a correspondence of Mr. Clay's, Secretary of State for the United States, giving his opinion in favour of the success of such an attack. Cuba Thus, you see, then, the real object is would then have been lost to Spain had not this country and the Government of the United to get money out of the Mexicans, under States interfered. Mr. Canning had an inter- the pretences of justice, impartiality, and view with the Mexican and Colombian Minis- HUMANITY; above all things "humaters upon the subject, to remonstrate against nity!" and the legal ground for comthe enterprise; and such interposition did in fact take place as put an end to the undertak-pelling Spain to desist from her armaing. This Government would have much to ments is, that England, or, more proanswer for, if they allowed any such attack perly speaking, Boroughland, interdicted to endanger the commercial transactions of Mexico and Colombia from attacking this country, and of other countries which CUBA, four years ago, when they were States were inclined to show deference to the about to do it; and that, therefore, imwishes of this country. He was sorry that an partiality required a similar interdict opinion had gone abroad that we now repent-now to be imposed upon Spain with ed of having recognised the South American regard to her projected attack on MexiCO. One might show up the stupidity of this reasoning, and have some sport with it; but I have no room, or time, to throw away; and, as we are now about to see, PEEL demolished HUSKISSON's grounds completely, by proving that they were WHOLLY FALSE.

navigated the southern seas. These new

Peel had a difficult part to play: the imputation against him and his colleagues, was, that they had sacrificed the "honour" of the 'country, and the interests of its merchants and manufacturers, by not interfering. He might

States, and that we were ashamed of the connexion. His own conviction was, that the opinion was groundless. He was himself a member of the Government which had advised the recognition. He feared he was wander ing from the subject. The consequences of our interposition with the new States was, that they abandoned the attempt upon Cuba. This was now four years since, and during that interval, Spain was preparing forces, and collecting them in Cuba, with a view, upon a proper occasion, to attack Mexico. He asked the King's Government whether they were aware of these forces setting out from Spain? and whether, if so aware, they remonstrated against such an expedition, and insisted that Cuba should not be made a point from which an attack could be made on Mexico? If this have said, that it was a gang of gamexpedition went out from Spain with our bling mine-sharers and bondholders that, knowledge, and without remonstrance, we did at bottom, the interference was wanted not act with impartiality; and if remonstrance for; but this was too bold for PEEL; was made, he was sorry it failed of the good effects which our remonstrance on the former and, therefore, he had to show, that occasion, with the new States, produced. Cuba there was no treaty, no engagement of ought not to be allowed to be made a point any sort, no moral obligation, that called from which Mexico would be assailed. It was said, on a former night, that the restraint put on us to interfere; and that, as to the upon Mexico and Colombia, was in the true argument of analogy, namely, that, as spirit of impartiality. But if Spain was not we had interfered to interdict an attack now restrained from this threatened attack, on CUBA by Mexico, so we were bound, our boasted impartiality was mere mockery. in justice, to interdict attacks on Mexico To get rid of that charge, we ought to impose from Cuba; as to this argument, which similar restraint on Spain. There may be

great danger in allowing Spain to congregate was the only one that had any weight in

it, Peel demolished it in a moment, by the matter as to our right to interfere, quoting a dispatch from Canning (the and as to the policy of such interference, Secretary for Foreign Affairs) to one or, speaking more plainly, the advantage DAWKINS, his envoy to the Mexican to us of such interference; and when, Congress. I quote the words; and they in cases like this, I say us, I do not mean are conclusive as to the fact. the English people generally, but the tax-eaters and the whole of the Borough and Bank phalanx, or band. And it is as clear as daylight, that the interest of this band calls loudly for interference; for the band has need of Mexico, and, indeed, has a great deal at stake in it. However, adopting the common parlance, begging you to bear in mind, that WE, the tax-payers, have an interest always directly the opposite of that of this band, I proceed next to the speech of ALEXANDER BARING, describing the sad effects of these menacing Spanish armaments in CUBA.

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But the fourth point, upon which he principally relied, he should now lay before the House. He was aware that in doing so, he did not adhere strictly to the course usually pursued ; but in a case like the present, where the honour of the country, and of Mr. Canning personally, was concerned, he hoped the House would permit him to depart from the ordinary line, and to quote the opinion of Mr. Canning himself on this subject. He held in his hand an extract from a dispatch of Mr. Canning to Mr. Dawkins, on his going to the Congress in March, 1826. The following was the purport of the extract: "You will see how earnestly "it is desired by the United States, by France, "and by this country, that Cuba should re"main tranquil. The British Government, "so far from denying the right of the new "States in America to make a hostile attack Mr. BARING was aware of the immense imupon Cuba, whether considered as in the portance of the protection of our trade and "possession of a Power with whom they were interests in this quarter of the globe. The 66 at war, or as an arsenal at which armaments amount of our exports to these newly-estawere fitted out against them, have uniformly blished States, amounted to about nine millions refused to join the United States in remon-yearly, or three times the amount of that ex"stating with Mexico and Columbia against ported to Russia, Prussia, Holland, France, "it, or in intimating that this country would and Spain. The probable advantages result"feel any displeasure at such an attack.” ing from the close commercial connexion with This is complete: not only did we the South American Government were, that not "interdict" an attack upon Cuba, they were new and rising Governments, whose but we refused to join Jonathan in re- rapidly increasing, without danger of their monstrating against such an attack; entering the lists with us as rival manufacturers aye, and "refused to intimate to Mexico or competing with our armaments as great "and Colombia that this country would naval Powers. Australia offered many flatter"feel displeasure at such an attack"! country; from the habits and information of ing prospects to the industry of the motherThus was poor HUSKISSON and his her people, she would naturally become a "Liverpool merchants" left fairly non-producer or manufacturer of our staple articles plussed! My friends, did you ever, when for herself. Great as the amount of exports half a dozen greedy fellows had just natural to expect that amount would be every to the newly-created Republics was, it was sat down to a table covered with year increased, more especially if they were turtle and venison and glasses and de- all removed out of the reach of the tease and canters, see the table with all its load threat of invasion from the mother-country. carried off by the suspicious landlord, perfect constitution under its monarchical In this way, Brazil, which boasted of no imleaving the gluttons sitting and looking Government, imported yearly to the amount of at one another? You must have wit- 6,000,000l. of official value; and even the nessed a scene like this, to have an ade-poorest of them, Chili, for the same reason, quate idea of the mortification of the imported as much as 1,100,000/. of official value. The contrast was striking as to Mexico, pensioned HUSKISSON and his "mer-which, owing to the unsettled state occasioned chants," when PEEL thus snatched from them their argument of analogy. And what was the condition of poor statesman HUSKISSON in particular, when it was considered, that he himself was one of the very cabinet that authorized this despatch to Dawkins!

Thus, then, this settles the matter as far as relates to any moral obligation that we are under to interfere with Spain in this case; it settles the matter as far as relates to any duty, on our part, towards Mexico; but it does not settle

by this tease and alarm, only imported 400,000l. official value yearly; of the remaining States in this agitated quarter, another imported only 540,000. the rest 1,100,0007. As soon as comfort, quiet, and a firm hope of peace, were generally entertained in these States, the trade of Mexico and Venezuela must rapidly increase. At present, their exchequer was only drained and squeezed to keep up a large military force, ostensibly to resist the threatened invasion by Spain, but who were not unfrequently found engaged in plundering consignments and convoys of goods and produce, to the vast loss of This, all the merchants sensibly felt; for, British subjects risking capital in that country. the transit of the political chin

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