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those acts with less horror than they have been accustomed to look at acts of arson; and, while a wise government would not fail to see this, it would hasten to take away the possibility of good being ascribed to deeds which, in themselves, are so decidedly wicked; and if the Government follow the advice I shall tender to them in the next Number of the Two-Penny Trash, they will take away this possibility, and will leave the incendiary to suffer under the execration, instead of the deep compassion, of the just part of the nation.

5. ON THE FATE OF THE TITHES.Parsons, for many years you have accused me of disaffection, disloyalty,

enclosed by Act of Parliament, in 1827, in the time of PRETTYMAN, who had given his consent; and the Bill had even passed the House of Commons, in spite of the laudable and able endeavours of Mr. RICHARD HOUSEMAN and Mr. OVERINGTON but it was flung out by the Committee of the Lords, and, I believe, in consequence of a memorial written by me, handed to Mr. HOLMES, and given by him to Lord SHAFTESBURY. I describe this beautiful Chase, with its scores of cottages, and its cows and pigs, in my WOODLANDS, an extract of which I sent to Lord Shaftesbury, along with my memorial. If that enclosure had taken place, not only would the present Bishop have had no Chase to infidelity, and all sorts of crimes, for give to the labourers, but a thousand of these (children and all together) would have been deprived of all the outlet which now enables them to live so much better than they otherwise would, So that, parsons, while we do justice to the Bishop, let a little be done to me. The Bishop goes the right way to work to put out the fires: his is a more effectual way than that adopted by the Ministers. He will, however, find some pretty hard flints in the copyhold tenants. The way to soften them is to have their names printed in a hand-bill, with the word dissent or assent against each. Only just print these, and let them see them, and their hearts will soften.

**And now, parsons, let me ask you this question: Whether these acts of the Bishop be not a great good? And then this question: Whether they would have taken place if it had not been for the fires? I have no desire to detract, in the smallest degree, from the Bishop's merit; his conduct proves him to be a truly benevolent man; but, as these acts did not take place before the fires, I must presume, that, while he as well as most of us, must have condemned those acts in themselves, they roused his attention to the cause of acts so outrageous, so alarming, and so Dew to the country; and that, thus -roused, he was stimulated to those really good works. It is this unavoidable conclusion that makes men look at

no other cause than that I proposed to take away the tithes from the clergy. Look, now, at another part of this Register, under the head of TITHES; and you will find, that, from PENZANCE to Dovor, from Pevensey Level to the Tweed, from the West of Wales to the East of Norfolk, the same sentiment prevails. "A strong feeling," says the Falmouth Packet, "of resistance to the tithe-system has displayed itself in the western part of this county. Some days ago, a solicitor of St. Ives was so roughly treated by the people of Mousehole, from whom he was collecting the tithes for fish, that he was glad to escape without loss of life or limb. Both at Newlyn and Mousehole, boards are fixed against the corners of the streets, with "No Tithes paid here,” painted on them; and the St. Just men, it is said, have offered to march in a' formidable body to their aid, if necessary." Now, these men are not rabble; these men are not Jacobins; these are people of property and of weight in the community. They do not, I dare say, read my writings. Yet, they are all of a mind. They all seem to think that tithes ought not to be. Why blume me, then? I have only gone a little before other people.

It is very strange, but it is true, that you are beaten without an 'attempt to defend yourselves. You scem sulky. But that will avail 'you' nothing. You

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might ask, why tithes, which have ex- all this is really brutalí nonsense. “Just isted a thousand years, should be found as if I could persuade med to feel what so oppressive now, for the first time they do not feel! Just as if it required You have plenty of arguments; but inflammatory pamphlets and speeches to they are all answered in a moment, and convince them, that they, who create all in this one remark that the Church the food fit for man, ought not to live Property is public property, and that on food fit only for poor hogs! Just as is wanted to be applied to the dimi- if it required any-thing, but their own nation of the taxes. This is the an-hearts to tell them, that, when they fall swer to every-thing that you can say. into poverty, they ought not to be made As long as the taxes were bearable, your to draw carts like beasts of burden! affair was left unmeddled with; but, And, if I had the power, why should I as I have said for years, something must have the will, to cause society to be give way at last; and the nation, with dislocated, and all property to be cast voice unanimous, have pitched upon the up to the winds? In the insolence of Church as the JONAH. Your ship- your hearts, you and the like of you, mates, the fundholders, the pensioners, represent me as one who has nothing the patentees, the dead-wight, and the at stake, who can lose nothing by a staff, all agree that you are wanted the scramble. Who has more at stake than I least. The fundholders are your most have? He who has more than four sons, formidable foes; but they are sure to men of talent and learning and of sobriety stand longer than you. Sir JAMES GRA- and industry never surpassed: he who HAM, the present First Lord of the Ad- has more than three sensible and virtuous miralty, wrote a pamphlet, three years daughters: he who has more than ago, proposing to take 30 per cent. from nearly a score of copy-rights of books: the fundholders; and saying not a word of his own writing, the income from about taking any-thing from you! I each of which surpasses your allowance let loose upon him instantly, and was to a curate, and the value of which to joined by the whole country. Oh, no! me depends on law as much as does the pay the debt honestly; pay it in full value of any man's estate to him. You, tale; pay it in gold; let the gold be you, talk about stake and property! of full weight and fineness. But this what are the bits of public property, cannot be done and you keep the tithes held by you at last for your lives, and at the same time, and the labourers get liable every hour to be legally taken paid sufficient wages to keep them quiet. from you; what are these, compared. And here, here is the true and only with the fruits of my talents and indussource of all the difficulties of the Go- try? The subjoined is a roll of my farms. vernment, and of all the dangers that and orchards and gardens. Look at it ; menace the country; and, be you well see it the work of the over-hours of assured, that you, or the fundholders, eleven years; master up an account of must give way. You might have so the labours any fifty of you, in the managed the matter as to make the same space of time; and then, if you fundholders the JONAH; but you have any sense of shame left, blush for have not, and must, without a most your abuse of me.. In my strenuous and wonderful miracle, be the Jonah your- incessant efforts to defend and aid the selves. labouring people, what motive but a good. One PRETTYMAN, in preaching before one could I have had, or can I have? the Judges at Winchester, ascribed the They have no means of rewarding me, acts of violence to the cheap pamphlets! even with the intimation of their grati A fellow of the name of FRERE, the tude. They cannot know me personother day, at Cambridge, ascribed them ally, nor I them. But, besides my to the lectures, when the very greatest natural disposition, that Book, which I fire of all was close by Cambridge, have, I believe, read with more profit where he would not let me lecture! But than you have, told me, when a boy,

that "blessed is he that considereth the heads above-mentioned. N. B. All the "poor: the Lord will deliver him in books are bound in boards, which will "the time of trouble. The Lord will be borne in mind when the price is “preserve him and keep him alive: looked at. " and he shall be blessed upon the earth: "and thou wilt not deliver him unto "the will of his enemies. The Lord "will strengthen him upon the bed of "languishing: thou wilt make all his "bed in his sickness."

And now, Hampshire parsons, leaving you to ask yourselves whether you have acted with these promises in your minds, I close my letter with once more bidding you look at the documents, which you will find under the head of TITHES. WM. COBBETT.

THE

COBBETT-LIBRARY.

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WHEN I am asked what books a young man or young woman ought to read, I always answer: Let him or her read all the books that 1 have written. This does, it will doubtless be said, smell of the shop. matter. It is what I recommended; and experience has taught me that it is my duty to give the recommendation. I am speaking here of books other than THE REGISTER; and even these, that I call my LIBRARY, consist of twenty-six distinct books; two of them being TRANSLATIONS; six of them being written BY MY SONS; one (TULL'S HUSBANDRY) revised and edited, and one published by me, and written by the Rev. Mr. O'CALLAGHAN, a most virtuous Catholic Priest. I divide these books into classes, as follows: 1. Books for TEACHING Language; 2. On DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT AND DUTIES; 3. On RURAL AFFAIRS; 4. On THE MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL AFFAIRE ; 5. HISTORY; 6. TRAVELS ; 7. LAWS; 8. MISCELLANEOUS POLITICS. Here is a great variety of subjects; and all of them very dry; nevertheless the manner of treating them is, in general, such as to induce the reader to go through the book, when he has once begun it. I will now speak of the book separately under the several

BOOKS ON RURAL AFFAIRS. COBBETT'S YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA; WITH A MAP (Price 5s.): treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil, the Products, the Mode of Cultivating the Land, the Prices of Land, of Labour, of Food, of Raiment; of the expenses of House-keeping, and of the usual Manner of Living; of the Manners and Customs of the People; and of the Institutions of the Country, Civil. Political, and Religious; in three Parts.The map is a map of the United States. The book contains a Journal of the weather for one whole year; and it has an accouut of my farming in that country; and also an account of the causes of poor Birkbeck's failure in his undertaking. A book very necessary to all men of property who emi grate to the United States.

COBBETT'S ENGLISH GARDENER (Price 6s.); or, A TREATISE on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and Laying-out of Kitchen-Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of all sorts of Kitchen Garden Plants, and of Fruit-Trees whether of the Garden or the Orchard. And also on the Formation of Shrubberies and Flower-Gardens; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of the several sorts of Shrubs and Flowers; concluding with a KALENDAR, giving Instructions relative to the Sowings, Plantings, Prunings, and other labours, to be performed in the Gardens, in each Month of the Year. A complete book of the kind. A plan of a kitchen-garden, and little plates to explain the works of pruning, grafting, and budding. But it is here, as in all my books, the principles that are valuable: it is a knowledge of these that fills the reader with delight in the pursuit. I wrote a Gardener for America, and the vile wretch who pirated it there had the baseness to leave out the dedication. pursuit is so rational as this, as an amusement or relaxation, and none so innocent and so useful. It naturally leads to early rising; to sober contemplation; and is conducive to health. Every young man should be a gardener, if possible, whatever else may be his pursuits.

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COBBETT'S WOODLANDS (Price 14s.) ; or, A TREATISE on the Preparing of Ground for Planting; on the Planting; on the Cultivating; on the Pruning; and on the Cutting down of Forest Trees and Underwoods describing the usual Growth and Size and the Uses of each sort of Tree, the Seed of each, the Season and Manner of collecting the Seed, the Manner of Preserving and of Sowing it, and also the Manner of Manag

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ing the Young Plants until fit to plant out; || the TREES being arranged in Alphabetical Order, and the List of them, including those of America, as well as those of Eugland, and the English, French, and Latin name being prefixed to the Directions relative to each Tree respectively. This, work takes every tree at IT'S SEED, and carries an account of it to the cutting down and converting to its uses.

COBBETT'S CORN-BOOK (Price 28. 6d.); or, A TREATISE ON COBBETT'S CORN: containing Instructions for Propagating andCultivating the Plant, and for Harvesting, and Preserving the Crop; and also an Account of the several Uses to which the Produce is applied, with Minute Directions relative to each Mode of Application. This edition I sell at 2s. 6d. that it may get into numerous hands. I have had, even this year, a noble crop of this corn; and I undertake to pledge myself, that this corn will be in general cultivation in England, in two or three years from this time, in spite of all that fools and malignant asses can say against it. When I get time to go out into the country, amongst the labourers in KENt, Sussex, HANTS, WILTS, and BERKS, who are now more worthy of encouragement and good living than they ever were, though they were always excellent; I promise myself the pleasure of seeing this beautiful crop growing in all their gardens, and to see every man of them once more with a bit of meat on his table and in his satchell, instead of the infamous potalves.

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MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL
AFFAIRS.

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COBBETT'S PAPER AGAINST GOLD (Price 5s.); or, the History and Mystery of the Bank of England, of the Debt, of the Stocks, of the Sinking Fund, and of all the other tricks and contrivances, carried on by the means of Paper Money.This is the tenth edition of this work, which will, I trust, be admired long after the final destruction of the horrible system which it -exposes. It is the A, B, C, of paper-money learning. Every young man should read it with attention. COBBETT'S RURAL RIDES. (Price 5s.) RURAL RIDES in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire,| Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire: with Economical and Political Observations relative to Matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the State of those Counties respectively. These rides were performed on horseback. If the members of the Government had read them, only just read them, last year, when they were collected and printed in a volume, they could not have helped foreseeing all the violences that have now taken place, and especially in these very counties; and foreseeing them, they

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must have been devils in reality if they had not done something to prevent them. This aiwestich azbook as statesmen ought to read. COBBETT'S 19POOR MAN'S FRIEND (Price 8d; or, a Défetice of their Rights of those who do the Work and fight the Battles This is my favourite work. I bestowed more labour upon it than upon any. large volume that I ever wrote. Here it is >proved, that, according to all laws, divine -as well as human, no one is to die with hunger amidst an abundance of food. COBBETT'S EMIGRANT'S GUIDE (Price 2s. 6d.); in TEN LETTERS addressed to the TAX-PAYERS OF ENGLAND; Containing information of every kiud, necessary to persons who are about to emigrate; including several authentic and most interesting. letters from English Emigrants, now in America, to their relations in England; and an account of the prices of House and Land, recently obtained from America by Mr. Cobbett. A New Edition. Here all the information is contained that any one going to the United States of America can want, down to the most minute particulars; and here it is shown, that a man, who does not wish to be starved, or to be a slave, ought not to emigrate to any other country. USURY LAWS (Price 2s. 6d.) ; or LENDING At Interest; also, the Exaction and Payment of certain Church fees, such as Pewrents, Burial-fees, and the like, together with forestalling Traffick; all proved to be repugnant to the Divine and Ecclesiastical Law, and destructive to Civil Society. To which is prefixed a Narrative of the Controversy between the Author and Bishop Coppinger, and of the Sufferings of the former in consequence of his Adherence to the Truth. By the Rev. Jeremiah O'CaLLAGHAN, Rom. Cath. Priest. With a DEDICATION to the "SOCIETY Of Friends," By WILLIAM COBBETT.-Every young man should read this book, the history of which, besides the learned matter, is very curious. The "JESUITS," as they call them, in France, ought to read this book; and then tell the world how they can find the impudence to preach the Catholic Religion and to uphold the funding system at the same time. HISTORY.

COBBETT'S HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION in ENGLAND and IRELAND (Price 4s. 6d.); showing how that Event has impoverished and degraded the main Body of the People in those Countries in a Series of Letters, addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen; also, PART II. (Price 3s. 6d.); containing a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, and other Religious Foundations, in England and Wales, and in Ireland, confiscated, seized on, or alienated, by the Protestant" Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments.-There are two Editions, one in Duodecimo and one in Royal Octavo,

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beach in two volumes. The last was printed
on the notion, that the rich Catholics would
like to have the work in a finer form. It was
(an error; and as it is better to sell books)
than to keep them, this fine edition is sold
for ten shillings; the small edition for 8s.
This is the book, that, has done the bu-
siness of the Established Church! This
book has been translated into all the living
languages, and there are two Stereotype
Editions of it in the United States of Ame-
rica. This is the source whence, are now
pouring in the petitions for the abolition of
tithes!
COBBETT'S ROMAN HISTORY (Price
b) VOL. I. in ENGLISH and FRENCH,
from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle
of Actium; selected from the best Authors,
ancient and modern, with a series of Ques-
tions at the end of each chapter; for the
Use of Schools and young persons in gene-
ral, VOL, II. An Abridged HISTORY OF
THE EMPERORS, IN FRENCH AND ENG-
LISH: being a continuation of the HISTORY
OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, Published by
the same Authors, on the same plan, for the
use of Schools and Young Persons in gene-
ral.—This work is in French and Englich.
It is intended as an Exercise-book, to be
used with my French Grammar; and it is
sold at a very low price, to place it within
the reach of young men in general. As a his-
tory it is edifying. It is necessary for every
man who has any pretensions to book-
knowledge, to know something of the
history of that famous people; and I
think this is the best abridgment that
ever was published. As an Exercise-book
it is complete, the translation being as
literal and simple as possible. It consists
of two thick duodecimo volumes, and is,
therefore, as cheap as possible to avoid loss
upon mere paper and print; but I wish it
to be within the reach of great numbers of

young men.

COBBETT'S HISTORY OF THE RE-
GENCY AND REIGN OF GEORGE IV.

-This work is published in Nos. at 6d.
each. There are three Numbers out: the
rest will follow in due course; and when
concluded, they shall do justice to the late
"mild and merciful” king.

LAFAYETTE'S LIFE. (Price Is.) A brief

Account of the Life of that brave and ho nest man, translated from the French, by Mr.JAMES COBBEFT.

TRAVELS.

MR. JOHN COBBETT'S LETTERS FROM
FRANCE (Price 4s. 6d.); containing Ob.
servations on that Country during a Journey
from Calais to the South, as far as Limoges;
then back to Paris; and then, after a Resi
dence, from the Eastern parts of France,
and through part of the Netherlands; com-
mencing in April, and ending in December
1824.
MR. JAMES COBBETT'S RIDE OF EIGHT
HUNDRED MILES IN FRANCE (the

Third Edition, Price 2s. 6d.) containing a Sketch of the Face of the Country, of its Rural Economy, of the Towns and Villages, of Manufactures and Trade, and of such of the Manners' and 'Customs as materially differ from those of England; also, an Account of the Prices of Land, House, Fuel, Food, Raiment, Labour, and other Things, in different parts of the Country; the design being to exhibit a true Picture of the present State of the People of -France; to which is added, a General View of the Finances of the Kingdom. MR. JAMES COBBETT'S TOUR IN ITALY, and also in Part of FRANCE and SWITZERLAND (Price 4s. 6d.); the Route being from Paris through Lyons, to Marseilles, and thence to Nice, Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples, and Mount Vesuvius; and by Rome, Terni, Perugia, Arezzo, Florence, Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, Venice, Verona, Milan, over the Alps by Mount St. Bernard, Geneva, and the Jura, back into France. The space of time being from October, 1828, to September, 1829; containing a Descrip tion of the Country, of the principal Cities and their most striking Curiosities; of the Climate, Soil, Agriculture, Horticulture, and Products; of the Prices of Provisions and of Labour; and of the Dresses and Conditions of the People. And also some Account of the Laws and Customs, Civil and Religions, and of the Morals and Demeanour of the luhabitants in the several States.

I, of course, see these works with my partial eyes; yet, divesting myself as much as I am able of the feelings of the father, I regard them as excellent books of TRAVELS; because I find them full of useful information: they give an account of the state of the people, of the relative prices of food and labour, of rents, and of all these things that enable us to judge of the effects of the governments and laws; and, which is very instructive, they abound in comparisons between our own institutions and manners and those of foreign countries.

LAW.

COBBETT'S TRANSLATION OF MARTENS'S LAW OF NATIONS (Price 17s.): being the Science of National Law, Covenants, Power, &c. Founded upon the Treaties and Customs of Modern Nations in Europe. By G. F. VON MARTENS, Professor of Public Law in the University of Gottingen. Translated from the French, by WM. COBBETT. To which is added, a List of the Principal Treaties, Declarations, and other Public Papers, from the Year 1731 to 1738, by the Author; and continued by the Translator down to Nóvember, 1815. (The Fourth Edition).-This is a large

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