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and live within their means) and see what he will do! He has, even to the large occupiers who doubtless, brought home, from are renters, and who are not very the Bourbon School, some remedy rich, the distress is, as yet, only for your ills! Oh, no! And he in the embryo. The thing is will now find; that flashy speeches hardly fairly begun. The loans

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are of no avail. He will now see,

were made in wheat at twelve shil-if he read as he ought to do, what

lings a bushel, and can the interest on them be paid in wheat at four shillings a bushel? Yet, this is the system which the Yeomanry Cavalry have supported! That

it will come to four shillings a bushel I have no doubt. Does

not every thing promise this? Is it not criminal, then, in these men

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should, as quickly as possible,
endeavour to understand.
he has already found to be true;"
and, if he come into the Ministry

to affect attachment to such a sys-
tem?
The petitions have said nothing(as it is said he will with Mr. Hus
about taxes; nothing about the
Debt; and, what is more, they
make a merit of their silence on
these heads. It is clear, there
fore, that they still cling to the
system,, under which the millions
have suffered; and shall we not
rejoice, then, at their sufferings?
Mr. CANNING is come back!
The poet of "the Pilot that wea-for, if we have that, we shall
"thered the storm." We shall have all the rest. I know very

kisson) I shall not be at all sur-
prized to see him break forth with
a new-]
v-light that will dissipate all
the darkness of the last forty
years. He is resolved to have
old Sarum still, but he will soon
see, that we must have, then, all
the old things! We must have
the old money, above all things;

well his way of thinking: I know," distress" has been on foot, while that he abhors all the newfangled an industrious man would have projects of schools, penitentiaries, got a wife and a couple of children.. Tract-societies, and all the canting It is time it ended in one way or combinations of the day. In this other; and an end of it I hope I perfectly agree with him, though we shall speedily see.

for a different reason. But, these are fungusses, all growing up naturally and necessarily out of the present, or, I hope I may call it, late, system: out of that very Pitt-system, which has now been abandoned; or, which, at least, has been suspended.

WM. COBBETT.

“ENGLAND'S GLORY.”

There has taken place a very serious affair between this hero

In conclusion, let me beg of and Mr. Canning, which I shall you to do something to let us notice more fully in my next. know what you intend; for it is The old hyperbole, "in the of great consequence, that we be" lowest deep a lower deep,” has informed of that, and with all now almost been made literally convenient speed. You can do true. Good God! Good God! That Engnothing; but, pray, say so, then. land's glory should have come to Uncertainty is the farmer's worst this at last! And that his friend foe. However, he will begin to should complain of causing letbe convinced, that you can do ters to be published! And that, nothing; and that may have the too, in a case, where publication same effect as a positive declara- was obviously just and proper, tion on your part. The mere and involved no breach of confisuspense must, nevertheless, have dence. However, I have not been very injurious. This pro-room to go, at present, fully into ject of "relief for agricultural this subject, which is of much

greater public importance than surely, so cutting as Mr. CANany former transaction of the NING's answer to the letter of kind ever was. It involves" England's Glory." I shall inprinciples of great magnitude; sert the documents; for they and, therefore, is worthy of pub-really are matter of deep public lic attention. Nothing was ever, interest.

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great quantities of sovereigns get out. People like them; and well they may, when such multitudes of forged notes are in circulation! Attempts are, however, making, in the Morning Chronicle and other papers, to put a stop to this only remedy

will go to pieces. They must know that shocks will arise; and, they must desire to be safe in the midst of those shocks. Leaving

duty out of the question, it is their interest to push on with the Gold.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

I have received the letter of

NOTICE TO VENDERS.

The Venders of the Register,

for the miseries of England. CANDIDUS about LORD STOurThese I shall notice in my next;TON's pamphlets. They are not and, in the meanwhile, it may be worthy of notice. They contain right for me to say, that, from all dreams; and his Lordship is, I I see and all I hear, the Ministers dare say, awake by this time. are resolved to push on. I have this from authority which I cannot particularly describe; and, I firmly believe it, because it perfectly corresponds with what I, in their in the country, are informed, place, should deem my own inte- that it is always ready for delivery rest and safety. Supposing my-to persons who send parcels to the self in their place, and foreseeing, country, by twelve o'clock on the as I do, a time of great peril, I Friday. This arrangement has would, at any rate, have the taken place in order that the Remillions quiet; and this their gister may be published every present measures will not fail to where within a hundred miles of effect. They must see, now, that London on the Saturday, If

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the whole of the paper-system venders, in any part of the coun

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try, find any difficulty in getting my superiority over the Doctors, their parcels sent off on the Friday, I will venture to say, that I am their best way is to apply directly able to prove a ten times greater to the Office, No. 1, Clement's sale of my Sermons, than can be Inn.-The Stamped Register, is proved of the Sermons of any published on the Saturday, and, Doctor that belongs, or ever did of course, goes by post. This belong, to either of the Univermay best be obtained by gen-sities,

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Acts provides for the free circu-price 3s. 6d. and it does, I think, lation of pamphlets on religion, so that I may be said to take, in this case, the benefit of those acts. I will confess, that it was those

Acts which inspired me with the

thought of preaching in print. "Tract" is beneath the thing

clearly prove the justice as well as the necessity of greatly reducing first, and, in the end, stopping altogether, the Interest of the Debt. It consists of Essays written between 1803 and 1806, both inclusive, to which are subjoined, some notes. Its arguments then were met by arguments (which

described; and, besides, the public will have mine to be Sermons. Sermons, therefore, they shall are all fairly stated) and by most be. As a proof of the piety of foul abuse. They remained the days, in which we live, and of wholly unshaken then; and, I am

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