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hatched system of funding; if they could see, that they owe their ruin to bands of Jews and loan-mongers and such-like devils, their rage would be against them; but, not seeing the distant and hidden cause, they lay on upon that which is near and visible. The farmers are, in fact, the unconseious agents of the aristocracy and the loan and fundjobbers. What! and do they not see this now? Has it not been explained to them often enough? Well, then, let them take their reward!

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As for ME, my friends, the whole body of aristocracy and loan-jobbers have sought my destruction for nearly thirty' years. They are now in the situation into which I said they would bring themselves; and let them get out as they can! I hope, that, in all you do, you will be guided by justice; and, in that hope I remain, what I always have been, your sincere and zealous friend,

WM. COBBETT.

HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION.—' Thinking that this work, which has been translated into, and published in, all the languages and in all the nations of Europe, and in the republics of North and South America, deserved to be, put into a fine book, I published about two years ago a large edition in TWO ROYAL OCTAVO VOLUMES, the paper and print very fine and costly, with marginal references, or abstracts, and with a copious and complete index, making a really fine library-book, sold at one pound eleven shillings and six-pence, instead of the eight shillings, for which the small duodecimo edition in two volumes was! and is sold.. I was out in my estimate: I did not consider that the quantity of piety and justice and sense was not always in a directo proportion to the length of purse; and that while the cheap edition was, as it is, continually in great demand, the dear edition remained on hand, or at least went off much more slowly than things must move to be agreeable to my taste. I have, therefore, resolved to quicken the motion of this edition by selling THESE TWO ROYAL

OCTAVO VOLUMES AT TEN SHILLINGS, only two shillings more than the price of the two duodecimo volumes, making to myself a solemn promise never to publish a dear book again. These books, like my other books, may be had of all booksellers in town or country.

RURAL RIDES. These are published in a thick volume, duo- decimo; the price was to be 10s., I shall sell the volume at five shillings, in boards: it is a collection of all my rides in the several counties of "Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glouces"tershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxford"shire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire: "with Economical and Political Observations relative to matters 66 applicable to, and illustrated by, the State of those Counties "respectively." The book contains 668 pages, and is neatly put up in boards: the volume is printed in a manner to fit it for a library.

EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. A new edition, price 2s. 6d. With a list of clothes, sea stores, and other things necessary for a young man, to fit him out well, and give him a fair start in America. The last edition of this work had a Postscript; but I have now added a List, in consequence of many applications on the subject. It will be very useful; for where so many little things are wanted, some are generally forgotten; and, when once you get on board of ship, it is too late to say, "I forgot to bring" this or that. I, though a cabin-passenger, have given a shilling for an onion, to a steeragepassenger, who had had more forethought than our captain had had. This list is, however, principally intended for steeragepassengers.

Published this day, 30th of October, price 1s.

A SKETCH of the LIFE of GENERAL LAFAYETTE. Translated from the French by JAMES P. COBBETT.

Published at No. 11, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and may be had of all Booksellers.

[Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court, Fleet-street.]

COBBETT'S

TWO-PENNY TRASH

For the Month of December, 1830.

TO THE

FARMERS OF THE COUNTY OF KENT;

On the measures which they ought, at this time, to adopt and pursue, in order to preserve their property and to restore their country to a state of peace and harmony.

GENTLEMEN,

London, 21 November, 1830. BEING at a dinner of farmers, at the town of St. IVES, in Huntingdonshire, on the 29th of May last, I saw handed round the table divers copies of a hand-bill, notifying an approaching public sale of farming stock, in that neighbourhood; and one of these bills having been given to me, I saw that, amongst the farming stock were a fire"engine and several steel man-traps, all in excellent con"dition." In the evening of the same day, I, at the same place, gave a Lecture to these farmers; and, referring to this. hand-bill, I told my hearers, that dismal indeed were the times become, when fire-engines and man-traps formed part

LONDON: Published by the Author, 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street ; and sold by all Booksellers.

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of the implements of husbandry! I told them, that, when society was in its natural and proper state, no life was so happy as that of the farmer; having all the health that air and exercise could give, having all his real wants supplied by his land, his dealings attended with no risks, his commodities being all so much ready money, his pursuits as solid in their character as the earth that he had to till. But, if once the natural tie between him and his labourers were broken, farewell to all his happiness and even to his safety; for that, if his flocks in his folds, and his stacks in his yard, were not as safe as his purse in his drawer, or his body in his bed, instead of being the most happy, the farmer was the most miserable, of all mankind. I told them, that, if the fatal hour should ever arrive, when the labourers in general entertained deep hatred towards the farmers, there would no protection be found in man-traps and fire-engines; that the deadly element they always had at their absolute command, and with which nature had furnished them as the least desperate means of preserving themselves from starvation. I, therefore, besought them to think of these things in time; and, with all the force that I was master of, I urged them to cast from them the vain and the cruel thought of being able to keep the labourers in a state of halfstarvation, by the means of man-traps and fire-engines.

Gentlemen, farmers of Kent, most of you have heard of my name thousands of you have heard me speak in public, many of you have honoured me with your personal acquaintance, and a real honour I have always deemed it; and to` you I appeal, whether you have ever heard me open my lips, on the subject of the state of the country, without pleading the cause of the labouring man, and without urging you to guard, in time, against the fatal consequences that must result from his being rendered desperate. Within the last ten years, I have been in all the counties of England,

Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Westmorland, Durham, North amberland, and Cumberland. In all the other counties, that is to say, in thirty-three of the counties of England, I have, at some time or other, during the last ten years, made speeches, in different towns in each county; and never, in one single instance did I make such speech, without stating the hard case of the labourers, without calling upon my hearers to do them justice, and without telling the farmers, that, if justice were not done them in time, the consequences to the farmers themselves would be dreadful; for, as I always told them, "though they have been, by unseen degrees, "brought down to live almost wholly on miserable potatoes, "that is, to live on what you know a hog cannot live upon "and be in good health, the time will come, the time must 66 come, when they will endure this no longer; when "reason and nature will claim their rights; for, be assured, "that, though the basest assembly on earth have praised "the labourers of Ireland for lying down by thousands and dying quietly from starvation, the labourers of England "will never do this, and God Almighty forbid that they "should do it!"

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This was the conclusion of a speech made at Andover on the 14th of Oct., 1826, to my own countrymen, the farmers and hop-planters of Farnham in Surrey, many of whom had known me when a boy, and all of whom knew my origin and all about me. But, gentlemen, farmers of the beautiful county of Kent, has not the bettering of the lot of the labourers been the great object of the labours of my life? I have ridden on horse-back nearly all over the counties of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Wilts, Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Berks, and others, going, as much as possible, by cross-roads and into villages and hamlets, that I might learn by my own eyes and ears what was the state of the working people, and that I might be able to plead their cause

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