1817. The COURIER, in relating my flight to America, actually discovered a good deal of feeling. He sang a sort of requiem overmy departed politics. "Glory" and Perry each gave a long-armed stab at my back, lest, by possibility, I might survive. How do they stand now? And how thus far, they have been, and ruin. As applied to himself, he fulfilled they will be nearly to the does not know the meaning of very letter; and, when I know the word. Ruin, indeed! Why'; that mere hatred to me; mere I was ruined, as they call it, in reluctance to afford proof of my foresight, and of the wisdom of my suggestions: when I know, that, from motives like these, great and weighty things have been done, and others left undone, shall I not rejoice at the consequences! Aye, that I shall! and rightfully and reasonably and public-spiritedly rejoice too. do I stand? Those who now suffer, or are about to suffer, approved of such motives of action, or they did not. If the latter, they must have participated in feeling with myself, and must be ready to say that my joy is just, though they cannot partake in it: if the former, they deserve ten thousand times more than they have suffered, or can suffer. Distance, time (the great smoother of asperities), the happy life I led, the absence of misery, envy and malice from my sight, had, in a great measure, made me forget the bad in England, while the good remained fully in my recollection; and, if I could not but well remember the stern-path-of-duty men, hatred towards them had given way to But, do I not see, in the course contempt. I saw, in 1818, what of these predicted events, the the system was about to be at, possibility of ruin to myself? In- and the confirmation reached me deed I do not! With a month's in Peel's Bill. I clearly saw all breathing I will dig, plant, sow, the consequences just as they are plough, mow, pitch, or load with now beginning (for it is only any man in England over forty the beginning) to make their years of age; and, what is more horribly ominous appearance; being compelled to do either for a and I set myself to endealiving would not give me a mo-vour to discover some means ment's pain. Nonsense! A man of providing a mitigation of the like that laughs at the idea o evils. I think I succeeded; and ་ན events, as they proceed, con-base and malignant foes into em-' firm me in that opinion. I am barrassment, confusion and disnot sure, that I was not a great grace ? fool for my pains. Home I came, The millions are rejoicing, and however, with the motive of do- must I repine because the thouing the whole country good if I sands suffer? I have had no could, and with a certainty, too, hand in the producing of their of great private inconvenience if sufferings. They have been the not suffering, without the smallest makers of their own ruin; and chance in the world of any thing have calumniated me, who in the way of private advantage. warned them of their danger. But, when I was met by the Am I to cry because the eyes Lancashirers with threats of inter-will come out of those houses ference; when I saw them draw which a false prosperity has out horse, foot and artillery; created? Oh, no ! These when I saw a man put in jail for houses, and many other things going round a town to tell his that we have boasted of, will reneighbours that I was returned main to be, for a few years, at any in good health; when I saw Six-rate, a monument of the effects of Acts get ready for me with all an accursed system of paper-mopossible dispatch, and an attempt ney; and it shall be my business made by some to point the se- to point to them as a warning for verest of those acts particularly our children. I am a spectator, at myself; and when I saw the and little more. The millions conduct of the rich ruffians at being well fed and well clothed, Coventry: when all this had I care less than I can describe taken place, was I still to endea-about the rest, I shall dismiss, vour to preserve those rich ruf- as I long have, questions relating fians and others like them? Was to the money-affairs of the counI to put on sack-cloth and ashes, try, as things in which I feel no to weep and wring my hands and particular interest. I shall state tear my hair, because my own the cases; describe the measures; predictions, which they had uni- offer my opinions as to the formly despised, were about to consequences, and, provided be fulfilled; because events were the millions be well off, care approaching which must do me nothing, or less than nothing, if honour, while they plunged my that be possible, about those consequences, until they reach the" determination, they had forpoint at which Reform of the "warded them a box, containing Parliament is to begin. "eleven thousand sovereigns, Now, Money-Hoarders, 1 bid" which was the last sum they you farewell. If you follow my " should undertake to supply.". advice, you will be safe: if you-Perhaps this is not quite cordo not, you will lose your money:rect. My little bird tells me, that in either case I shall have done my Mess. Heywoods were the meduty. If you secure your money, dium for issuing Sovereigns at I shall be glad; and so I shall if Canning's town, commonly called you lose it glad in the former Liverpool; that they had received: case, that you have acted wisely and well off; glad in the latter, that you have been punished for your perverse endeavours to uphold a system which brought so many millions to misery. WM COBBETT. and issued two hundred and nine thousand sovereigns; that, on, or about, the 20th of June, they wrote for a fresh supply; that, after a short delay, they received eleven thousand more, accompanied with a particular intimation; that the little bird does not. know whether they have applied for any more; that the last sovereigns received by Heywoods were coined, as appears by the P.S. Since the above was written, I have seen Mr. WOOLER's Paper of the 10th instant. He states, in the way of extract from Mint-Ticket, on the seventh of a Country Ministerial Print," June.-This is not all that the the following: "that, in reply to little bird tells me; but, I do not 66 1 an application made by Hey- think, that there has, as yet, been "wood and Co." (paper-money any determination positively ex-issuers at Liverpool)" for a fur-pressed by the Bank to make ano"ther supply of gold, they were ther stop. That the issue of sove"informed the Bank of Eng-reigns has ceased at Manchester is "gland had determined not to is- certain; and it ceased, too, about the same time, that the last paltry sum was sent to Canning's town. Oh, that that town may taste fully, of, that it may be crammed to the gorge with all the fruits of the sue any more specie at present; "lest, however, Heywood and "Co. should be exposed to in"convenience, from having had "no previous intimation of this 4 Pitt-System! All the fruits of that trious and; honest labourer and system, which would have been tradesman. Believe none of the nipped in its bearing by a Reform representations of the base monof the Parliament!—Mr. WOOLER ster: it is a Stock-Jobber: it is ingives a very interesting account famy: it is the mortal enemy of of premiums given for gold in va- king and people. Believe, not a rious parts of the country! And word that it says: it is in close of the knavish attempts of paper-league with every thing that is money vagabonds to persuade the false and cruel. NAPOLEON. P people, that the king's coin is not so good as paper-money! I agree with Mr. WOOLER most cordially in recommending to the labouring In my last, I just quoted from classes, to servants, to farmers, the COURIER (Government Newsto tradesmen; in short, to every paper) the statement of the death body, not to keep a rag of paper-of Napoleon, the duration of the money in their hands, while they illness, and the alleged cause of can get the King's coin, for that the death, expressing my deterand that only, is sure. mination not to say another word The gold is not to be got of coun- upon that subject. An able try paper-money makers, per-writer has sent me, for publicahaps; but you can compel them tion, an essay expressive of his to give you Bank of England thoughts as to the "real facts;" notes. Get these, and send them and he does, indeed, bring to up to London,and then, for the pre-light, on good authority, matters sent, at any rate, you get the of a nature too, far too, interestgold. But, bear in mind, the Bank may stop if it please!!! You see the danger. It is plain before your eyes; and if you lose your all by delay, you will have nobody to blame but yourselves. What ruffians, plunderers and murderers call the respectable part of the press is a deceiver, a stock ing. for me to meddle with. Let jobber, a thing whose office it is to delude, cheat and ruin the indus- zealous in this cause, why not collect all the facts; why not character, while I detested his write down the tale in plain Eng- conduct. He was a General in lish; why not speak of all the the service of a free people; and actors as they deserve to be he used their resources to make spoken of; why not name them them slaves, as they had been all, and speak of their conduct as before, and that, too, for the the heart suggests; and send the aggrandizement of himself and work, or carry the work, and publish it where, and where alone, it can be published? We shall, doubtless be (as, indeed, we are) amused with accounts of his last words. His own attendants will be made to vouch for this and that. Poh! I believe nothing that is said, or can be said, by those attendants, unless they be first safely settled in America. I advise my readers to look upon all they read about the matter as nothing. To treat it as they would the scraping of a grind stone, or the creaking of a door. The man is DEAD !!!!! We know that; and that is all that we can know; unless we have an account published in America. family. The French people sent him forth to put down despots; and he became a protector and creator of despots. Every thing was made to yield to his ambition, which, at last, degenerated into a species of vanity, which sunk again into infatuation. His dis vorce from her who had been the cause of his elevation, and that, too, for the avowed purpose of establishing a dynasty, and especially when this dynasty was to be founded on, or interwoven with, that of the hateful Austrian ; this, this alone, if there had been nothing else, called on every lover of freedom to rejoice at his fall. What had not France smarted long enough under the Thus far as to the treatment baleful Austrian ! Were the and the death of Napoleon; but, people of France to be thus inas to his conduct and character, I sulted with impunity? And, let must say, that I am not of opi-it be observed, that the insult nion with those, who have pla-coming from a man that they had carded the streets of London raised from the dirt, was with pressing invitations to the thousand times more stinging people to go into mourning; for than if it had come from one, I never (for many of the last whose rise to greatness was reyears of his sway) admired his mote and unknown. ten |