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"There never was a period in "the history of this country, when "all the great interests of the na❝tion were, at the same time, in "so thriving a condition. KING'S SPEECH, 3d Feb. 1825.

"must come, unless you repeal or four times; and then, listen to We have now before us all "the paper-money law (Small me. "note Bill), which law will soon your bragging assertions about "inundate the country with pa- PROSPERITY. We have here per, and, at no distant day, will the braggings, put into the mouth "send the gold out of the coun-of the King, up to so late a period try."-Mr. COBBETT, (Reg.) as 1825. We have here, your 6th March, 1824. braggings about permanent and solid prosperity; and now, I will give you a picture of this horrible prosperity; I will show you the face of this "joyous country, smiling in plenty." I will now show you, in an account of the bankrupts and the insolvents, for the "Any panic or any thing that first six months of the pre"would make a run upon the sent year, such proofs of pros"Country Banks, would blow perity, as would make you and "their (the Ministers') prospe- your colleagues, if you had any "rity' into the air and themselves feeling, call upon the hills to God knows whither. cover you. I am about to show "Nay, without any panic at all, you, that the first six months of "the system naturally tends to its this year has produced more bank❝ own destruction. It takes some ruptcies than the whole of any "time for commercial transactions other year, for seven years past, "to operate upon the system, so even including the year of 1819;

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far as to produce an absolute I am about to give you a state"shock; but it will come, even ment of insolvents, enough to sink "without war, and without any the heart of any honest Minister "thing suddenly alarming. The within him; I am about to show "present high prices of food can- you, that, in short, you and your "not long co-exist with gold pay-colleagues have broken up the "ments, even at the Bank of Eng-country; that you have entirely land. These prices must, at no broken up, that you have abso"distant day, send the gold out lutely ruined, the whole people. "of the Country."-Mr. COBBETT, (Reg.) 12th Feb. 1825,

The following table will speak

"There ARE PERSONS, for itself. It is perfectly horrible "who imagine that our PROS- to contemplate: it exhibits six "PERITY IS NOT PERMA- months of such terrible ruin that "NENT; but the House will, I am sure, concur with me in "opinion, that it rests on the "MOST SOLID FOUNDA"TION." Mr. ROBINSON, March, 1825.

There! Read that, and let the nation read it. Read it over three

one wonders how it could be patiently endured. What! five thousand and thirty-three bankrupts and insolvents in one six months! Five thousand and thirty-three families broken up, and torn to pieces! But, let us now come to the horrid scale of ruin and degradation.

"must come, unless you repeal or four times; and then, listen to We have now before us all "the paper-money law (Small me. "note Bill), which law will soon your bragging assertions about "inundate the country with pa- PROSPERITY. We have here 86 per, and, at no distant day, will the braggings, put into the mouth "send the gold out of the coun-of the King, up to so late a period try.' Mr. COBBETT, (Reg.) as 1825. We have here, your 6th March, 1824.

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"There never was a period in "the history of this country, when "all the great interests of the na"tion were, at the same time, in "so thriving a condition. KING'S SPEECH, 3d Feb. 1825.

braggings about permanent and solid prosperity; and now, I will give you a picture of this horrible you the prosperity; I will show face of this "joyous country, smiling in plenty." I will now show you, in an account of the bankrupts and the insolvents, for the "Any panic or any thing that first six months of the "would make a run upon the sent year, such proofs of pros"Country Banks, would blow perity, as would make you and "their (the Ministers') prospe- your colleagues, if you had any "rity' into the air and themselves feeling, call upon the hills to God knows whither. I am about to show

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"Nay, without any panic at all, you, that the first six months of "the system naturally tends to its this year has produced more bank❝own destruction. It takes some ruptcies than the whole of any "time for commercial transactions other year, for seven years past, "to operate upon the system, so even including the year of 1819;

far as to produce an absolute I am about to give you a state"shock; but it will come, even ment of insolvents, enough to sink "without war, and without any the heart of any honest Minister "thing suddenly alarming. The within him; I am about to show "present high prices of food can-you, that, in short, you and your "not long co-exist with gold pay- colleagues have broken up the "ments, even at the Bank of Eng-country; that you have entirely land. These prices must, at no broken up, that you have abso"distant day, send the gold out lutely ruined, the whole people. of the Country."-Mr. COB

BETT, (Reg.) 12th Feb. 1825,

The following table will speak

"There ARE PERSONS, for itself. It is perfectly horrible "who imagine that our PROS- to contemplate: it exhibits six "PERITY IS NOT PERMA- months of such terrible ruin that "NENT; but the House will, I one wonders how it could be pa"am sure, concur with me in tiently endured. What! five thou"opinion, that it rests on the sand and thirty-three bankrupts "MOST SOLID FOUNDA- and insolvents in one six months! "TION. Mr. ROBINSON, Five thousand and thirty-three families broken up, and torn to March, 1825. pieces! But, let us now come to the horrid scale of ruin and degradation.

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There! Read that, and let the nation read it. Read it over three