Indeed! But, will not the price of the goods come down with the price of your wheat? Yes; but, we shall not have the money to buy them nevertheless. Why, what will become of your money Why, the labourers, and smiths, and wheelwrights, and collarmakers, and the rest of them, will get, all together, so much more from us than they did for merly." The Devil they will But, then, good Jolterheads, will not they have that same money to lay out on manufactures that you had before? Aye, aye! But there is the fund-holder and the

the clothiers I do not know; but, I were continually losing by the I hear from Yorkshire, that rise in prices of food, in the same they are better off then theyway generally, only varying a were in times of high-prices. little with particular circumThe stocking-makers are in a stances, as the labourers in husstate of "turn-out." They bandry lost by the rise in those get 6s. 6d. a week for a man, and prices. They would fain perthey demand 8 shillings, and suade us, that, if the high prices. which, no matter by what means do not return, there will be no that are lawful, I wish they may demand for manufactures. No? get. Still the six and sixpence Why not, conjurers and disinteris better than Mr. Bennet's high-ested gentlemen? Why not; price allowance: "a gallon loaf Oh; why; we Landlords and "and 3d. a week to each person banker-farmers shall not have a "in a labourer's family:" that quarter part so much to lay out in horrid sentence of the Wiltshire manufactures as we had before. parish-book! The stocking makers say, that the labourers in husbandry, in their counties, receive double what the stockingmakers get. This, then, is a good thing; for, they are, even in those counties, ten times as numerous as the stocking-makers; and, if, whether from a falling off in foreign trade; or, from any other circumstance, the stocking business should continue to be bad, no more persons, or few, will be bred to it; the boys and girls will go to the land; and even of the present stocking weavers some will go to work in the fields; for, it is beastly nonsense to sup-judge and the placeman and pose, that there will be too much pensioner and the soldier and food raised. Let things take the sailor that we have to pay in their fair chance; let there be no still the same nominal amount as force, no restraint, no false money, before. Very true, I know you no false credit; and the labourer will have to go barefooted, and every line of life will have that to wear ragged shirts, but, the portion of food and of raiment fund-holder and the judge and and of enjoyment of every kind the placeman and the pensioner which is justly his due. and the soldier and the sailor will have the money to lay out in manufactures, if you have not. How are manufacturers to lose, then, by the means of purchase being merely transferred from you to others.

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Thus, then, Sir, I have, I think, quences, be those consequences clearly proved, that a fall in prices what they may. is beneficial to the labouring classes, composing, at least, nine-this Number, some further retenths of the nation; and, there- marks on the pretty doctrines of fore, I do hope and trust, that Mr. SCARLETT, and on the impuneither you nor any other man dent and empty effusions of the will endeavour to cause measures younger ELLMAN; but, having, to be adopted which shall tend to in this letter, performed high duty, restore those high prices, the hor- and the performance having been rible effects of which we have so singularly gratifying to me; havlong been doomed to witness. In ing the satisfaction to know, that answer to a question, ready to I have been, upon this occasion, start from your lips, whether I conveying my sentiments to the think that the interest of the debt public through the means of an can be continued to be paid with- address to a person of extensive out a return to high-prices, I say, knowledge and of real talent, I before hand, I know it cannot for will, for this one day of my life, any length of time: I know, that abstain from the chopping of Peel's Bill cannot be carried into blocks. Next week I must do even complete effect without a reduction worse than return to my old emof the interest of the debt; no, not ployment; for, LORD MILTON even if all the estates be first ta- (don't laugh, Sir !) has appeared ken from the landlords by the in print! I shall, therefore, in lords of the funds. But, what is my next, address him, who is a that to this great question? All fit enough associate of Scarlett, that I am anxious about, is, to both of them having something to see the suffering and degraded do with the fine, free, independmillions once more with bellies ent borough of Peterborough. full and persons erect. The But, it is not an affair of billLandlords, or the Fund-lords, must hooks and hatchets here: this fall, I know, by those means "Corinthian Pillar" will demand which will restore plenty and spi- nothing short of the Mallet and rit to the labourer; but, as the Chissel! labourer had nothing to do in the producing of this necessary alternative, and, as it has arisen out of the mutual and cordial cooperation of the Landlords and the Fund-lords, to these it justly belongs to endure the conse

I am,
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Your most obedient, and most humble servant,

WM. COBBETT.

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Some bars of gold were got

sent, and did not speuk, a fact, Several correspondents have which, if I had it not from unrequested, that I would publish a questionable authority, I really receipt for brewing, not mischief, could not believe. However, if but beer. I have just read, in a we duly reflect, the thing is not Hampshire Paper, sent me by a so surprizing. friend, a receipt for brewing beer that shall be almost UNTAXED. In the space of about three weeks, I shall have tried this; and then yesterday, at any rate, though I will publish the account. My not without very extraordinary calculation is, that, if this receipt ceremonies, of which the public be true, we can make ourselves good table beer for three pence a gallon, Winchester Measure; and that ale, stronger than porter, can be made for about pence a gallon, in gallon, in the

will hear more by-and-by !—Why all this ceremony?—My advice to every one, is, to lose no time. To make sure of some gold, while eight it can be got.-But, more of this same in next Register.-The Act for way. This will be something in-paying one-pounders in gold will deed to tell the people of Eng-be passed in a few days!

land. The average price of Barley is not three shillings a bushel; and that of malt is, perhaps, eight or nine shillings! Come, come! We are not going to stand this! If my receipt be true, which I believe it is, it is our own faults if we do stand it.

HOBHOUSE AND CANNING.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

I thank the gentlemen, who sent me the account of the Cambridgeshire Jolterheads; the Sussex news-paper ; the "True Briton" of the 20th April; and the Times of the other day. From the first of these two latter I see, that there is a projector, whose name is Thomas Attwood (another Banker, I suppose) who proposes to lower the standard of money, in such a degree as to make a shilling become about

I understand that I was misin-one shilling and ten pence! Only formed as to the latter being ab- think of the horrible injustice of this,

sent when the former gave him such a cutter, during the Moderate-Reform Debate. It seems, that the hero was actually pre

to the labourer in husbandry in par

ticular! He has bargained for eleven pounds a year, and, this law having taken place, his master pays him six. All domestic servants are to be robbed

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in the same way! The working classes, [not make head against plain common' who were stripped naked before, are, sense. The price of the "Religious by this project, to be skinned alive!" Tract" is three pence. Many perThe writer in the TIMES is ra- sons have expressed a wish that the ther more just. He proposes to pay Tract came out more frequently; but, the fund-holder, pensioner and place at present, this would not be conveman according to the price of the nient to the author. He must have bushel of wheat; that is to say, to time for other things. While he nereduce their interest and pay one glects not the "mint and cummin," he half- -What! Was I "mad," must attend to the "weightier matters then, when I prescribed the application" of the law." While he fails not to of a "sponge," many years ago !However, here they are, set fast; fairly furred up. I am under the influence of predestination, to be sure, or I should never put another word into print on the subject.How can things go on better? Cheer up, my friends, who are now in dungeons !

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write his Monthly Tracts, he must not forget his Weekly Duty towards the System, especially now that Corruption herself is at her wit's end. The Six Acts make an exception in favour of " Religious Publications ;”and, the author thought it hard, if he could not get his nose, at any rate, into the privileged class.- -COBBETT'S GRAMMAR, a new and neat edition, price 2s. 6d., bound in boards. It was in

general, and especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices and plough boys; but, the author has discovered, (in rather an odd manner) that it is in great vogue amongst

-COBBETT'S YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA, a thick volume in Octavo. 10s. bound in boards. Very

The LAST VOLUME OF THE REGIS-tended for the use of young persons in TER (Vol. 38) is now complete, bound in boards, price Seven SHILLINGS. It begins with the New Year's gift to the farmers. It contains the Sermon to the Good Methodists; the first three Letters to Mr. Peel; and several other" statesmen ;" and, God knows, it papers, which may be useful at this was not before it was wanted by them! time, when THE SYSTEM is in its agony. The Volume has a Table of Contents and an Index.-COBBETT'S MONTHLY RELIGIOUS TRACTS. The two first useful for those who want to know Numbers are out. The first, "Na- what America really is. “both's Vineyard; or, God's ven-New Edition of PAPER AGAINST geance against hypocrisy and cru- GOLD, that complete history and "elty." The second, "The Sin of exposure of the mystery, of the “Drunkenness in Kings, Priests and Bank, the Funds and the Paper SysPeople." Each of these Numbers tem. Price five shillings, bound in has gone through several large edi- boards.In THE PRESS, the Pretions, and the work makes the "Tract liminary Part of Paper against "Society" tremble for the fate of its Gold, containing the articles written veritable trash. Cant and rant can-by the author on the subject of the

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Sponge, before the date of Paper the climate, and of things connected against Gold. In these articles, the with the climate, of the country, for wiping off of the whole of the Debt is the use of which it is written.-In maintained to be just, if necessary to answer to enquiries about the FRENCH the happiness of the nation; and, though GRAMMAR, the author begs the public

the Landlords seem not to dare to at

to consider a little what have been his

labours since his return to England! This is a work, which he cannot suffer to go out of his hands with a single doubt in his mind as to any part of it. It would, however, have been ready for the press before this time, had it not been for the last-mentioned work, which he had promised to so many kind friends. All that he can say, is, that he thinks to have the French Grammar out during the summer. But, let it be borne in mind that the main business of his life is to watch the motions of Corruption. He has been dogging her steps for many years. She has, now-and-then, turned upon him and given him a bite ; but, now that he sees the bloody monster hemmed up in a corner, looking about her in vain for an out-let whereby to escape; when he sees her sides heave and her jaws filled with foam, he cannot quit her for long at a time. Expire she must; but, she must not expire without a last blow from him.

tempt it, that does not alter the nature of the thing. The author is satisfied, that it must be done at last, though the "Lords of the Soil" will, probably, lose the soil first.- -ALSO IN THE PRESS, a thing that is a great favourite with the author: "The "AMERICAN GARDENER; or, a trea"tise on the situation, soil, fencing "and laying-out of Gardens; on the "making and managing of hot-beds "and green-houses; and on the Pro"pagation and Cultivation of the se"veral sorts of Table-Vegetables, "Herbs, Fruits and Flowers." The author promised this work to his good and kind neighbours in America. It was principally written in that country; and would have been finished there, had it not been for Peel's Bill, to witness the effects of which made him hasten away home. Thanks to Mr. PEEL, the author set off for dear Old England in November; for, if it had not been for that Bill, the author would have remained 'till spring, and then he would have lost the inexpressible pleasure of seeing Her Majesty arrive! Peel's Bill Just published, most extensively embrought him away with his work in an

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Gardener," he thinks it contains matter more than worth the purchase money to an English reader, who takes delight in gardening; and, besides the

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