ANOTHER ERROR in the last Register. Mr. Samuel Smith meant his 27. for the French, and we put them down to the Belgians. la vie de Napoléon; qu'il traça le plan" In an anonymous letter to Mr. Cobde l'assassinat de Paul premier, empe- bett, 21." It should have been, "From reur de Russie; qu'il se joua de la foi James Gudgeon, Esq., Stowmarket, des serments; qu'il voulut que ses agents Suffolk, for himself and Mr. J. A. Webb." diplomatiques fussent des instigateurs de complots, des brouillons, des directeurs et des régulateurs de machinations, de vils espions, de honteux corrupteurs; qu'il leur ordonna de fomenter la sédition, de provoquer et de payer l'assassinat, et enfin que tout CELA ÉTAIT VRAI, ou que VOUS ÉTIEZ LE PLUS GRAND CALOMNIATEUR qui eût jamais existé. Je ne sais, et il m'importe peu de savoir de quel côté est la vérité; mais l'une de ces deux propositions doit nécessairement être vraie. Cependant vous voilà aujourd'hui rassemblés, chers et bons amis; eux, s'il faut en croire les journaux de Paris, impatients de vous embrasser, et vous sans doute non moins empressé de vous jeter dans leurs bras. Maintenant, chers camarades, restez enlacés dans les bras les uns des autres jusqu'à la semaine prochaine où je tâcherai de dévoiler les causes de cette heureuse réconciliation. En attendant, je suis avec les sentiments qu'un homme, tel que moi, doit avoir pour un homme, tel que vous. 0 0 9 Total up to 14th Oct..... £221 9 N.B. The list, in the Register of 2nd Oct., contained 31. "from Maidstone." It should have been from "the Reformers of Leeds, near Maidstone." The letter was addressed to Sir THOMAS BEEVOR, and as he had not a moment to spare, I promised to attend to the insertion in the list; but, in the bustle of the day, I did it imperfectly, for which I beg pardon of the good men of the village of Leeds. ANOTHER ERROR in that list was this: This puts all to rights so far. A book will be kept open, at my shop, in Boltcourt, to receive Subcriptions for the French until Monday, 1st November inclusive, when the account will be closed, and the money sent to Paris by Sir Thomas Beevor, through such channel as he may please. A Patlander W. Roweliff..... .... .... 9 3 0 10 9908 0 10 6 076 6009 2355 0 2 6 0 12 0 0 10 0 Total up to 14th Oct.....£ 13 1 8 As I said before, I engage that my own collections, independent of what shall be collected at my shop, shall amount to 30%. 1 am not without hope, the sum will, in the whole, amount to 100l. But, be it what it may, I engage to send an Ambassador with it to Brussels, at my own expense; aye, an ambassador to represent truly the millions of England! Those laborious millions, who sympathize in every nerve and every vein with the brave men who have shed this blood rather than continue to toil and sweat, to support in luxury a rapacious and insolent Aristocracy. Those brave people, who had always been so faithful to the French, merited the support of the French now, and, I dare say, expected it! The French people were ready to flee to their aid; but, alas! the moment I saw a banker at the head of the French parliament, put there by the almost unanimous voice of the members, I saw that, if the French the Dutch plunderers and ravishers had did assist the Belgians, it must be with-beaten the people of Brussels, for whom out the consent, and against the will, of every honest English heart was bleedthe French government. That govern- ing, this corrupt, this dirty-blooded ment, that Talleyrand-government, left thing, put forth the following flagitious the Belgians to their fate, while the words: people of France were burning to be in "The populace or workmen out of Belgium. However, these brave peo-" employ must have been the chief ple, though thus abandoned by the actors in those sanguinary conflicts. Funding System Government of France," Great disunion existed in the ranks, did not flinch from the combat; they "and paralysed the councils of the more fought the Dutch troops, and drove the" respectable insurgents. The CommitDutch king out of their country. "tee of Public Safety seemed to have And here we ought to remark on the" consulted its own safety by flying to baseness of a part of the London press, "the French frontier; the Regency had and particularly on that of the OLD" ceased to act from Monday the 20th TIMES paper, which is now universally" instant, and the Provisional Governcalled "THE BLOODY OLD TIMES," "ment existed only on paper; the head from its having uniformly advocated" of it, M. de Potter, being probably punishment, cruelty, proscription and" still in Paris. The poor misguided blood, against all those, in whatever" citizens were thus left to fight for the country, who were striving for freedom." redress of imaginary wrongs under This vile, this atrocious paper, which leaders as ignorant of real grievances has always been the favourite tool of "as themselves. Such, we hope and our bribing borough-villains, actually" trust, is the end of a revolt which hunted unfortunate CASHMAN to the gal- originated in a mob, and has termilows; it applauded, and, indeed, sug- "nated in a massacre,—which was as gested, the dungeon and gag laws of "mad in its conception as it was conSidmouth and Castlereagh; it urged the “ temptible in its means of execution; Bourbons, in 1814, to slaughter those" and which would only excite our ridiwho had served Napoleon; it called on "cule, if our feeling of the ridiculous our Government to strip the Museums" were not overpowered by our horror at of Paris; it justified the killing of "the needless shedding of blood—by our Marshal Ney; it justified the murder of sympathy for the innocent sufferers, the Protestants at Nismes; it called on "and our pity for those whom the LAW England not to put up the sword, till" MAY CLAIM AS ITS VICTIMS, James Madison was deposed. These" facts and a hundred other proofs of its bloody-mindedness I can, and, the moment I have room, I will, prove from its own columns; and I will also publish the names of its proprietors as soon as I get back to London. " after the sword has been sheathed.” Reader, English reader, think of the baseness of the wretch who could sit in safety himself, or herself, and put this upon paper! Women, when they do engage in bloody deeds, are known to be more bloody than men. As they are For these very sufficient reasons, this more ardent in their affections, so they, infamous paper is called "the bloody when the devil has taken possession of Old Times ;" and, really, it ought to be their souls, are more ferocious. And I printed in red ink. True to its charac- really do think that this bloody passage, ter, this bloody old Paper, not having this justification beforehand for the foresight any-thing like equal to its works of the Dutch king's hangmen malignity, thought, when it heard of and bowel-rippers, this handing the the march of the Dutch army to Brus-people over to the executioner in sport, sels, that the Belgians were defeated; must have come from the pen of some and, always having blood in its eye, devil-possessed woman. If so, how the began to bespeak the halters and axes for she-devil must have raved and tore her those brave people whom it had the in-nasty matted hair, when she found that famy to call "a mob." On the 28th the "populace," the mere“ workmen,” of September, when it was reported that the "insurgents," had beaten the Dutch No. I. murderers and ravishers, and had driven such reduction must take place, or the them and their "royal" leaders out of nation will be convulsed. Where are, the country! Leaving the Bloody Old then, the means of war, or of subisdics? Times till I have time and room for a At this very moment the several parishes regular basting of her, let me now ad- of London and its environs are comdress a word to the Belgians. bining, in order to obtain relief from the taxes with which we are already loaded. Here are a million and a half of people, now actually in motion against the taxes. What more is wanted to convince any man, that new taxes cannot be imposed; and yet how is war to be made or subsidies paid without new taxes? And, when you reflect, that war would cut off half the trade and manufactures of the country; you must see that war would plunge us into utter confusion. TO THE BRAVE PEOPLE FRIENDS, Rochester, 13th October, 1830. Be assured that the MILLIONS OF ENGLAND applaud your glorious deeds, and fervently pray to God, that your valour and virtue may be rewarded by ages of freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Amongst these millions, I, who now address you, am one; I am But, besides this obstacle, there is, collecting some mites of money to be great as this is, one much greater, much presented to the widows and orphans of more immediate, and much more frightthe brave men who fell at Brussels, not ful, to our government; namely, the as the means of relief, for that you will FUNDS, associated with and dependent provide for, but as a mark of our admi-on, the PAPER-MONEY. England is ration of your conduct, and of our sym-rich, England is great, England pathy in your cause. But, of far greater abounds in all the sources of wealth and service to you I may possibly be, by of power. But, this same England has communicating to you information a Debt and a paper-money, which, if which you will never get through the channel of our Journals, the far greater part of which are at the command of the Government, or, which is nearly the same thing, under the influence of the all-corrupting paper-money and loanjobbing system. Forty years of experience, ten spent in the United States of America, and thirty in England, enable me to offer you, in this important crisis, matter which I hope may be deemed worthy of your attention. suddenly blown up, would bring down the whole fabric of the government, level the Aristocracy and the Hierarchy with the earth, and, in all likelihood, make a total change in the proprietorship of every possession in this kingdom; and, observe, it is impossible for this govern-. ment to go to war, at this time, without causing the Debt and paper-money system to be blown up. The statements and arguments to prove the truth of this would demand It is, in the first place, of importance more time than I have to spare at for you to be assured, and you may be present. The facts are notorious here; assured, that our Government will not no one denies them; and, in these facts stir hand or foot against you, in the you have the explanation of the wonderway either of war or of subsidy; and ful phenomenon, that this government that, therefore, "like your Belgic sires keep quiet as a mouse, though kings of old," you may now be free, and form are driven from their thrones, or shaken just what government you please. The on their thrones, all around it. Engsituation of our Government is this: it land is rich, as rich as ever in valuable cannot, even now, collect taxes sufficient things; but England has a paper-money to pay the interest of the Debt in full, to five times, and perhaps (including and to maintain all its establishments as paper of all sorts), to twenty times the they now are; yet, the taxes are so amount of her real money. This paperheavy as to produce misery the most de-money has drawn all property and all plorable, and discontent raging from enjoyments into the hands of a few: one end of the country to the other. destroy it all at once, and there is, in-, All the middle classes of society are stantly, a new distribution of property! calling for a reduction of taxes; and The object, the possibility, is the most terrific that ever engaged the con- vive, no man can precisely tell. The templation of man. And, observe, at taxes to pay the interest of the Debt, in this very moment, its existence, the France, cannot and will not, be paid for power of the government to uphold it, another year; and when they cease to is a question as to the length of time, be paid, the revolution will march on every man being satisfied, that it must to a real republic, a cheap government, be destroyed first or last. and a rich and happy people. At present bank-notes are payable, on Here, then, brave Belgians, are the demand, in gold. The gold is now leav-causes of your safety. You are free to ing England in great quantities, and in choose your form of government. On that all directions. If this continue, a law subject, I will, with great respect and must be passed to put a stop to pay- deference, address you in my next Numments in gold; and then our paper-ber; and, in the meanwhile, I pray God money becomes assignats. This would to prosper all your councils, and that blow up the whole fabric in a short the result of those councils may be to time; and every one knows, and every cause your happiness to make you an one says, that a war would instantly example to all other nations around you. produce a system of assignats. Here, Belgians; here, people of France; here is the source of your security against foreign attack. Austria and Prussia and Russia cannot march without English money; English money is to be had only by blowing up the whole fabric of government in England, and by throwing back society into its first elements; and, therefore, English money will not be had. WM. COBBETT. THE MUSICAL SCOTCH BISHOR OF Ro CHESTER must remain hung up on my peg for another week. My Son has brought from Paris THE LIFE OF LAFAYETTE, which will be published, in English, at my shop in Bolt-court, in a few days; price about Is. BROUGHAM must have patience; he and his maker, Baines, the great Liar of the North, and the humble Lord Milton, shall all have it, before the meeting of the Collective. What sport we shall have with Baines's member! TRI-COLOURED HANDKERCHIEFS are sold at No. 68, Gracechurch street. 1 can. Correspondents will be so good as to Southampton. I want to get at FLEMING, if write to me at the Post-offices, as above, if they have any-thing to communicate relative to my Tour. I am now at Rochester; Wednesday, 13th. (Advertisement.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL! France is in a somewhat similar situation. Why is her new government so anxious "to preserve the peace of LECTURING TOUR. Battle, Saturday, 16th. Europe"? Why does it check the Spanish 20th. Chichester, 21st. Portsmouth, 22nd. Lewes, Monday, 18th. Brighton, 19th and patriots? Why did it leave you to your Gosport, 23d. Isle of Wight, 25th. Portsfate? Why does it so largely pay Charles mouth (or rather Portsea), 26th. SOUTHX. for the massacre at Paris? Why did AMPTON (if possible), Wednesday, 27th. it send Talleyrand to England? What my next I shall speak positively about made it so very contented to let the field of Waterloo remain in the hands of the Dutch King? Because it has a DEBT and FUNDS that it wishes to preserve; because the Chambers are deeply interested in that Debt and those PROSECUTION OF THE PRESS BY THE WHIG Funds; because bankers and loan-mongers and stock-jobbers, all of whom thrive on the toil of the people, have, as yet, the power in their hands; because they know, that war would pre-affairs. free from the odious Stamp Duty. vent the interest of the Debt from being paid; and because that would take from them the power of living in luxury on the sweat of the people. You see the Banker-Deputies of Paris becoming bankrupts; you will see more of that; A friend to the freedom of the press having sent to the the two governments of France and Eng-it, than by selling one hundred copies of the POLITICAL office a sovereign, the Editor cannot better appropriate land are at work to uphold the two sys- LETTER, at one penny each, to be had at the office; or tems. They will fail. That of Holland Mr. Strange's, 21, Paternoster Row. is already nearly gone. That of France will follow; and how long ours will sur Political Letter Office, 1, Bouverie-st., Fleet-st. THE CRISIS has now arrived, which is to determine whether Englishmen shall be at liberty to discuss the measures of Government, and communicate to each other information on the present appalling state of The prosecution now commenced against the Author of the POLITICAL LETTER by an information at the suit of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, will bring this question to an issue, which cannot be doubtful, if he be but fairly supported by his fellow-countrymen bodying a comprehensive digest of Foreign and Domestic This day, a Monitory Letter to SIR ROBERT PEEL, emaffairs: the size of the Examiner. Price 4d. Sold by all Newsmen. Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, VOL. 70.-No. 17.] LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23RD, 1839. TO THE NEWSMEN. ΤΟ FRIENDS AT CHICHESTER, MY FRIENDS, [Price 7 d. who, poor man, had been Secretary' of State for the three departments, and had been leader of the House of Commons for several weeks 'while he was insane, or else the North Cray jury were liars and perjurers; "unfeeling' as I was represented to have been in that case, and also at the death of those "mild and merciful" kings, George the THE next will be a DOUBLE REGISTER; Third and George the Fourth, the first that is to say, two Sheets in size, and," the best of fathers, and the last the of course, price in proportion; for the best of husbands" as well as of fathers; purpose of having room for that PLAN" unfeeling as I was said to be in the OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, for case of the "liberal” CANNING, who which I believe the people of England was so witty, and who set the "feeling" will make a stand, and without which I House in such a roar of laughter, in am convinced that England will never alluding to the bursting of the body of again be quiet. OGDEN; 66 unfeeling" as I was called when I mocked at the ruin and the suicides of the Yeomanry Cavalry, some of whom killed or wounded five hundred unarmed and unoffending people at Manchester; "barbarous" as I was said to be when I commended the people of Westminster for pelting (in the month of August last) BURDETT and HoвHOUSE off the hustings of Covent Garden I HAD got to Lewes in Sussex, and with cabbages and turnips, the weather should have been at Brighton on being too dry to afford a supply of that. Wednesday night, at Chichester on mud which would have been more apThursday, and so on agreeably to my propriate, and the slaughter-houses benotification; but, on Wednesday morning too distant to supply, on the spur ing came the London papers, bringing of the moment, the still more approme the melancholy intelligence, not of priate materials of guts and blood; the death, indeed, but of the very "hard-hearted" as I have, with regard dangerous illness of my old mother of to these, and other unhappy sufferers, Threadneedle Street! I know, my been represented to be, nobody can say, good friends, that you will sympathize with truth, and, I am quite sure, that with me; I know you will feel for me; you, my friends, of Sussex and Hamp"course" and rough and harsh, as I have shire, will not say that I have ever disbeen called; "brutal and big-paunched" covered any want of feeling for, or any as ANNA BRODIE (who, by the bye, want of filial attention to, my old ought not, God knows, to abuse mother, or, rather, our common old paunches!) has represented me; un-mother, of Threadneedle Street. feeling" as I was said to be in the case My breast full of those feelings for of the mild and humane and modest her, which feelings had existed there for Castlereagh, who said "He shall end more than a quarter of a century, judge his days on the rock of St. Helena," of my state when, on Wednesday mornand who, tender-hearted creature, after- ing last, the bloody old Times, the not wards cut his own throat and killed less bloody Courier, and other papers, himself at North Cray in Kent, and came tumbling in upon me, each appa S |