as well as country; and it must take | tary asylums, pensions, sinecures, and to place; the labourers must have their give to parsons, and to build new palaces due. The thing will work, and is work-and pull down others, and to pay loaning, thus: 1. The labourers have, by means of the fire, the power either to ruin the farmers in that way, or to make them pay them wages, which payment would be equally ruinous to them. mongers and all that enormous tribe; and to be expended in various other ways not at all necessary to the wellbeing of the nation.. These forty millions a year must now remain with the working people. » No wonder the bloody old Times, the organ of the Jews, cries out for "A SPECIAL COMMISSION." These monsters would see half the people in the world murdered, rather than see their vile per-cents in danger. However, in spite of Lord Grey's declaration about up 2. All but the lords, parsons and fundfellows say that the labourers ought to have the wages demanded. 3. The farmers can be saved from ruin only by a very great reduction of rents, tithes and taxes. 4. The question for the farmers (and, in-holding "national faith," in pretty deed, the tradesmen) is this, Shall they put out the fires at once, by giving the labourers their due, and by calling them to their aid in legally obtaining a reduction of rents, tithes and taxes; or shall they endeavour to put them out by carrying on a fight with the labourers! imminent danger those per cents will be, if the labourers get just wages, and get them they will. What is the proclamation to do in arresting the progress of acts of which a specimen was given at WOODCHURCH, in Kent, last Monday week? The labourers of Appledore and Woodchurch, about 500 in number, summoned the farmers to meet them This is the question which the farm- on Woodchurch Green, and made them ers have presented to them for their de-agree to a rise of wages; and then they cision; and, in short, it is come to this: dispersed, telling the farmers that they Is this destructive war to go on till all might compensate themselves by with law and all personal safety are at an holding the rectorial tithes, by making end? or are the 113 Privy-Councillors the landlords reduce the rents, and by to cease to receive 650,000l. ster-refusing to pay taxes; and they offered. ling a-year? and is Burke's pension and their services to effect these purposes Grenville's sinecure to cease to be paid? for the farmers. Next Saturday is ap and are the loan-mongers and Jews pointed for these farmers and the men and stock-jobbers to cease to be paid at to meet to petition for parliamentary the present rate of interest and is the reform, reduction of taxes, and a revision dead-weight to be put an end to and of the tithe-laws. Thirly of these is the army to be reduced to the stand- farmers and tradesmen were summoned ard of the last peace? I have taken to Cranbrook to be sworn in as special Grenville and Burke merely as specimens. constables; and only THREE would But, it is come to this: the farmers and take the oath; all declaring, that they the tradesmen have to choose between were not afraid of the poor; for that the two. For, it is beastly nonsense to they were already worn down by tithes, suppose, that the increase of wages rents and taxes, and had nothing to lose, can be squeezed out of the farmers and Thus, the middle and lower classes are traders. The truth is, that, for many making common cause. The conse years past, about forty-five millions a- quence will be, that the food and raiyear have been withheld from the work-ment will remain with the working ing people of England; about five or six people to the amount of that forty milmillions have been doled back to them lions a year which are now drawn away. in poor-rates; and the forty millions from them. The direct taxes will not have gone to keep up military acade- be paid, because they cannot be paid; mies, dead-weight, standing-army, mili-and the farmers and labourers, being of one accord, will soon begin to make than none at all: The economy talked of is childishness. ། ADVICE TO THE FARMERS. T. READ all the Numbers of Monthly Two-PENNY TRASH. They cost 1s., there being six numbers. 3. Read my POOR-MAN'S FRIEND, price 6d. It will tell you all about the rights of the poor, and all the laws of God and our country relating to this matter. And what is to be the result of all this? Why, a violent destruction of the whole fabric of the Government, or a timely, that is, an immediate and effectual remedy; and there is no remedy but a radical reform of the Parliament; because, as I have a thousand times said, nothing but such a Parliament can 2. Read my SERMON on the RIGHTS adopt an equitable adjustment,” and OF THE POOR and the PUNISHMENT of reduce the expenses to what they were OPPRESSORS. It is one of 12 sermons, at the last peace. The tottings up of the vol. price 38. 6d. the advocate for the standing army and the New Police are nonsense. The whole of the taxes must be reduced to fifteen millions a year; and I think they will be reduced still lower than that. The Government of this country might be 4. Read, if you can afford it, my carried on, and the honour of the coun- History of PROTESTANT REFORMATION. try and its power and weight supported, That will tell you how parishes and and the taxes not exceed six millions a tithes came, and how poor-rates came, year. I know this well; and I am al- and it will show you, that the laws of ways able to prove the truth of what I the church and of the land provided say. And why is not this done? Why that the poor should be relieved out of are we not to have harmony, liberty, the tithes, and that poor-rates ought and happiness? Who stands, or who never to have been necessary. The stand, in the way of this desirable state of things? Let it be who it may, some thing must now give way; the first blow is aimed at the tithes; the next will be at rents; and then the land and the funds will come into strict collision. As the farmers will make common cause with the labourers, so the land, or the 5. Make common cause with your lafunds, will make common cause with the bourers in all that is just; for that is people. The Scotch place-hunting the only way to stop the fires, and to crew have long laughed at me for pre-save yourselves from ruin. Call them dicting an open war between the land all together in your several parishes; and the funds. Do the conceited and explain to them the reasons why you arrogant and greedy and mystified are unable to pay sufficient wages; and vagabontls laugh at me NOW? Chance join them in a petition to Parliament may postpone this war for a little for a reform of the Commons House, while; but the seeds of it have taken and for a great reduction of taxes. Do root, and up it will come, as surely as this, and the fires will stop and my wheat came up last March, though be safe, and the country will soon be kept under ground by the frost from put to rights again. the 6th of December. price of this book is Ss. the small edition, in two volumes, and the large size, 10s. Read particularly the introduction to the second volume. This book will show you how the aristocracy became possessed of a great part of their estates. you will Upon the rest of the plans of the ministers I have not room to remark To be published on the 29th instant, here. I will, in my next, remark on COBBETT'S HISTORY OF GEORGE IV., what was said about parliamentary No. 3, price 6d., containing the history reform; and I will show, that, if the of the conduct of the Whig-faction, reform be not radical, it will be worse when in place; in 1806; and of the in trigues of them and of the Perceval fac- the Atlantic, could not reach that tion, by which the unfortunate Caroline THING across the Chaunel! I have was sacrificed. Also, same day, COBBETT's TwoPENNY TRASH, No. 6, to be published on 29th instant, will make as clear as day-light all the causes of the Rural War, and will point out the only remedy.N. B. A copy of this has been sent to each of the Ministers. Also, Mr. JAMES COBBETT'S TOUR IN ITALY, price 5s. LORD BROUGHAM ! I LAUGH as I write the words! The reader will find something about this Lord (I laugh again) in the Proceedings in Parliament. I really cannot bestow any more space upon him here. What a figure he will make this day twelve months! He is come too late: the feasting is over! FOREIGN AFFAIRS. of reached it; I have found its sore place, and I know how to work it. The two crews of loan-mongers are both in the same boat: they must float or sink together. My son's letter, which I here subjoin, will explain the rest. Yes, Citizen-King and Banker-Minister, Í will be with you in due time. Curious, the same postman that brought me this news from France, brought me a letter from New York, telling me that my Register, published here in June, about MEXICO, and laughing at BARING and SIR BOBBY and that set, had been republished there, to the great amusement of Jonathan! Well, I was born, to be sure, for the express purpose tormenting these devils of boroughmongers and Jews! Ah! Sidmouth, Sidmouth! How much this world will owe to your Power-of-Imprisonment Bill, and to your brother Ellenborough's sentence on me! If it had not been for these, I should have been gardening, THE readers of the Register will re-planting, and ploughing, at Botley collect that, the week before last, these last twenty years! Ah! Doctor published a letter, in French as well as Addington! You will be the regenerator in English, addressed to TALLEYRAND'S of poor Old England, after all! master, the famous Bourbon-CitizenKing, relative to the stock that that famous king of the "best of republics" had in our fine THING'S funds. Now, then, there is a newspaper published at Paris, called LA REVOLUTION, which was setting the Bourbon law of previous security at defiance. This paper had 1. HAVING before endeavoured to been prosecuted; but had appea'ed to make you acquainted with the state of higher courts; the process was not the law with regard to the press, I ended, and the paper was going on dur- | ing the time. But, now, mark! This paper inserted part of my letter to the Bourbon-Citizen King, who had chosen the English funds to keep his money in; and the very moment that it did this, it was STOPPED BY FORCE! All its numbers that were at the post-office, were seized there; and all the rest seized by the Police at the printing office! Bravo! What, I have smitten that stock-jobbing THING too, have I! I said that it would be hard indeed, if my arm, which had been long enough to reach this THING across Louis-Philippe! SIR, FROM MR. WILLIAM COBBETT. LETTER V. Paris, 20th Nov., 1830. shall now completely succeed in opening your eyes as to the liberty which is possessed by the people of France, by relating to you a fact which has just taken place. That fact is, in the first place, that the "Revolution" was seized at the post-office on Thursday night," and that all the Numbers printed on that evening that could be found at the office of the Journal have been seized also; and the remaining part of the fact is, that this Number, which is the last the Editor has been allowed to print, contained a part of your second letter to 46 At 2. I had intended to make this letter honórables who sit at the palace of consist of a description of the system of the legislative bodyvin Our answers taxation, as the budget is now coming “were of a nature, we think, to prove i forward, and as this is the most essen to the gentlemen of the board (paras tial thing of all but onrust first give "quet); that by this expression weydo you the particulars which I have useernot deny the rights or authority ofs tained with regard to the above fact. the Chamberg we have recognised its The budget, the law of election, trial of“ power of acting, but we have spends the ministers, decision about the peer-"sisted in maintaining that this power,? age, all depend greatly upon this matter except provisionally; could only emas concerning the press, and it is no wonder" nate from a general newbielectionsera that the anti-revolution party wish to "We do not believe that the seizures dispose of this matter first, in order to which has been made to-day has any destroy its influence in maintaining the "connexion with this interrogatory. rights of the people in those others. ItThe commissary stated that it was in appears to me to be beyond a doubt," consequence of our neglecting to give that the copying of your letter to the security but, the cour royale has not! King of the French roused the impa- yet decided that the old law is not tience of the party I have mentioned," contrary to the new charter; and, the and determined tliem to check this grow new deposit adopted by the deputies, ing spirit of the press without further" has not yet passed the Peers, nor res delay. The law which is now in pro-ceived the sanction of the King gress, settling the cash-security at 60,000" all events, we shall deposit the secu francs, not being yet passed, the Jonr-"rity: the formalities of the law of nals which have submitted to no secu- Charles X. require three days in order rity are the most powerful in opposing for this deposit to be effected; wer the passing of it by the Peers, and the" therefore must defer the continuation sanctioning of it by the King so that, of our publication until Wednesdayy in order even to pass this law, the party" the 24th of this month. We shall are obliged to resort to that of CHARLES then continue the Revolution of to procure a cessation of hostilities on "1830;'rands it shall persevere in its the part of whose who write for the "career of unmasking the stock jobbing people. There hever was, I think," ministry, as it did in that of unmask " ing the ministry of doctrinaires."! exte 4. If the "Revolution" do, after it have become a fund-holdery persevere with the same powerful annoyance which it has aided by several other: most admirably conducted Journals, hitherto given to the stock-jobbers and to the doctrinaires (by which they mean those who pretend to a monopoly of all the wisdom as well as to the possession of the greater part of the produce, of the country), I think that the present taxing ministry will not be so successful as it appears to expect. It is truly a taxing ministry, as I shall endeavour to show presently, and appears led away with dreams of absorbing the last half-penny of the poor; but, let us hope that the dreams will not be realized, towards which hope nothing is more favourable than the stands which men of property and education are now making to sus any thing so strange, anomalous; contradictory and unnatural as these proceedings; one cannot compare the system to any thing one has ever heard of: it is precisely the same as if the siege of Paris, begun by Charles, had been kept up by Louis-Philippe. 3. Upon this important affair, the following is the declaration of the person the most interested, the editor of the "Revolution," issued yesterday, the 19th Yesterday, our numbers were "seized at the post-office, and this morning a commissary of the police effected another seizure at our office, leaving us not a copy.".We do not know precisely on what account this is done. We were summoned yes terday before M. Roussigné, jodge of "criminal instruction, who interrogated tips as to, the great liberty which we take of qualifying as provisionary the 2 雪 1 tain the press. I really do not know this number is unusually bare of origi- sins! fixing to those proceedings. Certainly, the fact which is contained in the shorts article of news from Bayonne, that the Government have kept the Spanish patriots in the dark until they had as 5. Several seizures have been made sembled on the frontier, and, when besides, but none at the post-office, waiting for reinforcements, oblige them nor has any other editor been sum- to go to be massacred, or to retire to moned to the sanctum-sanctorum, which where they have no prospect but of term I use, as there is some degree of starvation, is not one which demonstrates mystery attending all the purlieus of a very brilliant colour to pervade the the official habitations of the emissaries heart which dictated the councils affectof the law, have never heard of any ing those unfortunate men; but this is other seizure at the post-office, and the only one which I can find in this only of one stoppage, which was on the paper at which the Government could occasion of a false statement in the possibly look ugly, as they say in Ame“Quotidienne," during the disturbance rica, unless it be your letter. Fo about the ex-ministers, relative to the retirement of the Royal Family to Neuilly in that case there was a specified ground, and as soon as the error was corrected, the papers were allowed to proceed. There must have been something urgent, also, in this case, to suggest the seizure to be made first at the post-office. As it happens, however, 6. Now, with regard to this letter, F bave already said that it was only partly copied. The part containing a state ment with regard to certain large póssessions in the English funds is left out, the statement being alluded to by the editor as one which he had ascertained to be erroneous. By the way, one might ask how it was possible to discover the |