Octavo. It was one of my first literary labours. An excellent Common-Place Book to the Law of Nations. MR. WM. COBBETT'S LAW OF TURN. PIKES (Price 3s. 6d.) ; or, An Analytical Arrangement of, and Illustrative Comments on, all the General Acts relative to the Turnpike Roads of England: the whole being in Answer to the following Questions:-1st. What are the General Acts now in Force? 2d. What is the Extent of them? 3d. How do they affect every Turnpike Road? By WM. COBBETT, Junior, Student of Lincoln's Inn.-Never was any-thing more neatly arranged, or more clearly explained in few words. If every Magistrate had it, what blundering decisions it would prevent! Teaching French in English schools is, generally, a mere delusion ; and as to teaching the pronunciation by rules, it is the grossest of all human absurdities. My knowJedge of French was so complete thirty-seven years ago, that the very first thing in the shape of a book, that I wrote for the press, was a Grammar to teach Frenchmen Engglish; and of course it was uritten/in French. I must know all about these two languages; and must be able to give ad-" vice to young people on the subject: their time is precious; and I advise them not to waste it upon what are called lessons from masters and mistresses. To learn the pronunciation, there is no way but that of hearing those, and speaking with those, who speak the language well. My Grammar will do the rest. BOOKS FOR TEACHING LAN- Mr. JAMES COBBETT'S ITALIAN GRAM COBBETT'S GUAGE. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. · Price 3s. This work is in a series of letters addressed to my son James, when he was 14 years old. I made him copy the whole of it before it went to press; and that made him a grammarian at once; and how able an one it made him will be seen by his own Grammar of the ITALIAN LANGUAGE, his RIDE IN FRANCE, and his TOUR IN ITALY, There are at the end of this Grammar "Six "Lessons intended to prevent Statesmen "from using false grammar;" and I really wish that our statesmen would attend to the instructions of the whole book. Thousands apon thousands of young men have been made correct writers by it; and, indeed, it is next to impossible that they should have read it with attention without its producing such effect. It is a book of principles, clearly laid down; and when ouce these are got into the mind they never quit it. COBBETT'S FRENCH GRAMMAR (Price 5s.); or, Plain Instructions for the Learning of French. This book has had, and has, a very great effect in the producing of its object. More young men have, I dare say, learned French from it, than from all the other books that have been published in English for the last fifty years. It is, like the former, a book of principles, clearly laid down. I had this great advantage, too, that I had learnt French without a master. I had grubbed it out, bit by bit, and knew well how to remove all the difficulties; I remembered what it was that had puzzled and retarded me; and I have taken care, in this my Grammar, to prevent the reader from experiencing that which, in this respect, I experienced myself. This Grammar, as well as the former, is kept out of schools, owing to the fear that the masters and mistresses have of being looked upon as COBBETTITES! So much the worse for the children of the stupid brutes who are the cause of this fear, which sensible people laugh at, and avail themselves of the advantages tendered to them in the books. MAR (Price 6s.) ; or a Plain and Compendious introduction to the Study of Italian.— This was the boy who, at fourteen, began his book-learning by copying my English Grammar for the press. It not only taught bin grammar, but gave him a taste for study, which, indeed, is the tendency of all my books; because the vivacity which they always exhibit, however dry the subject, not only entices the reader along, but animates him with the desire to be able to imitate that which he cannot help being pleased with. I do not understand Italian; but, I understand the English, in which the principles, rules and definitions are expressed; and I am proud, beyond mea sure, of being the father of the able and persevering author. Let any scholar compare this book with the other heaps of confused stuff called Italian Grammars: that is all that is necessary. If I had nothing else to do, I would pledge myself to take this book, and to learn Italian from it in three months. Then, the author made the whole tour of Italy, was in the country nearly a year, can speak the language as well as write it; and has had, in the performance of his task, industry and perseverance quite astonishing. COBBETT'S FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY.-This book is now printing, and will be fiuished by the last day of March. It will be one volume in octuva, and at as low a price as I can possibly make it, for the sake of young men and women, who have sense and industry, but who have no money to throw away. BOOKS ON DOMESTIC MANAGE·MENT AND DUTIES. COBBETT'S COTTAGE-ECONOMY (Price 2s. 6d.) containing information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family; to which are added, Instructions relative to „ahawelecting, the cutting and the bleaching Before I read this book I had of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, wine subject of effects, but really knew no sfor the purpose of making Hats and Bof- rich or poor. COBBETT'S ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN, on the Principles of TILLAGE and VEGETA- seen thing about the causes. It contains the MISCELLANEOUS POLITICS. This is the Library that I have created. It really makes a tolerable shelf of books; a man who understands the contents of which may be deemed a man of great information. In about every one of these works I have pleaded the cause of the working people; and I shall now see that cause triumph, in spite of all that can be done to prevent it. N. B. A whole set of these books, at the above prices, amount to 71. Os, Qd. ; but, if a whole set be taken together, the price is 61. And here is a stock of knowledge sufficient for any young man in the world. TITHES. THR whole country appears to be up relative to this subject. The following documents will prove this fact to be true. Ah! Parsons! Protestant Reformation and Cobbett's Tenth Sermon and Poor Man's Friend were not written in vain. But, Two-Penny Trash, No. 7 contains the whole argument, and people read it accordingly. These are sold at 12s. 6d. the hundred, and at 11s if three hundred be taken at once. Rub this out, parsons, if you can! Rub out Two-penny Trash, No. 7, or give the thing up! Read the following documents, and you will see that it is time for you to bestir yourselves. 3 "At a Meeting of the Freeholders, Yeomen, and Inhabitants of the Parish of Almondsbury, in the county of Gloucester, held the 15th day of Dec., 1830, for the purpose of considering the expediency of Petitioning Parliament on the subject of Tithes, Mr. John Hill, in the Chair, the following Petition was approved, and ordered to be transmitted to Sir B. W. Guise, for presentation: "To the Honourable the Commons of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled: "The humble Petition of the undersigned (except the tenants of the clergyman) almost Freeholders, Yeomen, and Inhabitants all other considerable occupiers of land. of Almondsbury, in the county of 1st.-It being the judgment of the MeetGloucester, Dogtrenog o ing, that tithe is not property, but merely "SHOWETH That your Petitioners humbly tax upon property; and believing that the approach your Honourable House, to invoke objects for which this tax was originally instiite attention to a subject of deep eventual im tuted, viz.-religious instruction and the reportance the present System of Tithes. lief of the poor are not only not how pro"That your Petitioners conceive that the moted by it, but, on the contrary, injured vast changes made in the numerical state of they consider that to enforce its payment is the population and agricultural produce, oppressive, unjust, and essentially opposed to since this impost was laid on, 1,000 years ago, that civil and religious liberty, to which every render the wages and work of the clergyman is entitled under the Christian dispeninordinately disproportionate, and that the decimation now exacted contributes in a great accordance degree to the unparalleled distress which preTails in the agricultural districts. "That the present mode of exaction is a fertile and detestable source of wrangling and litigation, ruinously opposed to the hallowed spirit and interests of religion, and deplorably injurious to the character and influence of its Ministers; and therefore an adequate provision should be made from some less oppro brious and oppressive source. "That the lands being now burdened with Church and Poor-rates, for the object of which tithes were originally appropriated, their uses are now nearly subverted; and, therefore, that this gross and growing evil should no longer be perpetuated. "That your petitioners consider the time is fully come for rescinding Statutes extorted from superstition by Popish ecclesiastics, and earnestly implore your honourable House promptly to adopt such measures as may best remove the intolerable burden under which your petitioners, in cominon with others, have two long been groaning." sation. Resolved, That p petitions in with the foregoing sentiments be addressed, by this Parish, to both Houses of Parliament, praying them to repeal the tithe-laws. 2dly.-Resolved, That Mr. Thomas Lawrence and Mr. Philip Debell Tuckett be appointed to prepare the petitions for signature, in accordance with the foregoing Resolution; and that they request Lord King to present and support the petition to the House of Lords, and Joseph Hume, Esq. that to the House of Commons. 3rdly. Resolved, that the proceedings of this meeting be advertised once in The Farmer's Journal, and once in each of the Bristol, Bath, and Gloucester Newspapers; and that the Parish Officers be directed to pay the cost of the same, on account of the Parish, as also that of the petitions. "4thly.-Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be presented to Mr. Thomas Lawrence, for his able conduct in the Chair. "(Signed, in and on behalf of the Meeting, by) "THOMAS LAWRENCE." ANOTHER! In the parish of Iron-Acton, containing a population of 1,200, almost exclusivey agricultural, Christmas Eve was ushered in with the following unanimous expression of the parish opinion: This petition positively expresses the feeling of the great body of agriculturists all over the kingdom; who are now experiencing that severe pressure on the land which cannot be borne much longer; and, therefore, they seem determined to throw the tithes overboard, to the very great dismay of the Reverends throughout the country, who (by the way) were, during the whole of the sanguinary war "At a numerous and highly respectable of the French Revolution, which entailed this Meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of "pressure," the loudest and bitterest sup-Iron-Acton, in the county of Gloucester, conporters of every outrage against the people,vened by the churchwardens, for the purpose albeit at the same time professing themselves of petitioning parliament relative to the subMinisters of Peace. "Verily, they shall have ject of Tithes, and held at the White Hart their reward."-Leeds Patriot. ANOTHER ! Parish of Winterbourne, County of Gloucester.-At a General Vestry Meeting, held at the Workhouse, on the 22nd of December, 1830, called by the Churchwarden, by a notice read in the Parish Church, on Sunday, the 19th of December, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parlia ment to abolish or alter the tithe-laws, the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to; Mr. Thomas Lawrence, Churchwarden, in the Chair; Present forty persons, comprising all the largest farmers of the parish, and Inn, on the 22d Dec., 1830, the following resolutions were passed unanimously, and a petition, of which the following is a copy, was signed by every person present: 1st. It is the opinion of this Meeting that tithes are a direct and most oppressive tax on the community, and especially on the agricul tural interest, and the cause of much of the distress now so severely felt. It is also the opinion that the cause of religion, instead of being promoted, is thereby much injured, through the endless animosity inseparable from the collision of the interests of the Ministers and parishioners. We therefore agree that a petition, embodying these senti ments, be prepared for presentation to both Houses of parliament, addasbi "2d. That the following petition having been the agreed upon, George Gibbs, Alfred Tuckett, and Thomas Williams, are requested to give every facility for procuring signatures to the same, efficiency of the church that receives them. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Lordships to take the tithe-system into your serious consideration, with the hope, that as the poor are now otherwise provided for, and the clergy may be so by their respective congregations, your Lordships may, in your wis* 3d. That Lord King be requested to pre- dom, devise a method for its total abolition. sent the petition to the House of Lords, and And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will Joseph Hume, Esq., to the House of Com-ever pray, staða mons. 4th. That the proceedings of this Meeting, ANOTHER!! with a copy of the petition, be published in Welshmen are not behind their English two of the Bristol papers, The Gloucester neighbours in sensitiveness to this biting evil. Journal and The Bath and Cheltenham Ga-The annual value of the real property of land zette. in the county of Glamorgan, in 1815, was 334,1027. The total annual charge of Highway, County, Church, and Poor Rates, in 1827, was 49,8101.; or Three Shillings in the Ponnd, exclusive of Tithe! The hundred of Cowbridge, in that county, contains a population, by the last census, of 5,894 persons. Of this gross number, 619 families were employed in agriculture; 220 in trade, manufactures, and other handicraft. Can it be a matter of sur prise that The Cambrian newspaper of Newyear's day thus reports a Public Meeting in this tax and tilhe-ridden hundred ?→→ To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in HIST parliament assembled. "The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the parish of Iron-Acton, in the county of Gloucester, agreed upon at a Meeting convened by the churchwardens, and held there on the 224 December, 1830, "SHOWETH-That reason convinces your petitioners, that to give a tenth of the produce of a parish, containing, perhaps, several square miles, to one man, though he have a family, and to leave but the remaining nine- "COWBRIDGE, Dec. 24, 1830-At a Meettenths for the support of all the rest of the ing of the Land owners, Farmers, and Tithepopulation, though consisting of many thou-payers of the Hundred of Cowbridge, convened sands, is to make an unfair and unreasonable by public advertisement, held at the Mason's distribution of the fruits of the earth. That Arms this day, Mr. WILLIAM SPENCER in the your petitioners find, from undoubted history, Chair, the following Petition and Resolutions that such a distribution was not intended in were unanimously agreed to the first institution of tithes; but on the "To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual contrary, that they were given in this country and Temporal in Parliament assembled, to the clergy, in trust, for the support of the "The humble Petition of the Land-owners, poor, and for the building and repairing Farmers, and Tithe payers of the Hundred places of worship, and on conditions, that they of Cowbridge, in the County of Glamorgan, should instruct the people in the Catholic "SHOWETH-That your Petitiioners view, religion, perform masses, and say prayers for with deep concern, the unhappy and alarming the souls of the donors and their ancestors, state of the Country, and lament that, after and hospitably entertain strangers and tra- the continuance of peace for fifteen years, vellers; and that for the performance of these instead of that prosperity which shonld accom trusts and conditions, they were allowed out pany it, every interest in the community is of the tithes a maintenance, food, and rai-suffering great distress; that your Petitioners ment, but were not allowed to marry, or to consider the enormous and unequal proportion bequeath or accumulate private property of the wealth of the country engrossed by the Your timeioners also find, that in process of Church Establishment to be the chief cause of set of men gained possession of the tithes, who performed none of the trusts and conditions for the performance of which they were originally given, but who, on the contrary, married wives, begot children, accumulated private property, bequeathed it to whom they would, ceased to use hospitality, and left the poor destitute. In consequence of this, the poor have been, since that time, maintained by a tax levied for the purpose, on houses and lands, the churches repaired by another tax, and new ones built by grants out of the taxes raised by the Government, to the great impoverishment of your petitioners and their fellow-countrymen. That experience has fully established your petitioners in the belief that tithes are injurious to agriculture, and prejudicial to the reputation, zeal, and such distress; and that while this burden oppresses most grievously the Agriculturist, it' also seriously affects the Manufacturing interest;-that your Petitioners conscientiously believe, that the Tithe System is as prejudicial to the best interest of the Church of England, as a Christian Church, as to the temporal well. being of the community, as it tends to produce dissent, and promote uncharitable and unchristian feelings between the Ministers of Religion and the souls committed to their care. "That, your Petitioners are utterly at a loss to comprehend why this burden should fall almost exclusively on them, when the many more wealthy interests of the country comparatively pay nothing towards the support of a Ministry for religions instruction, and from which they derive equal advantage.. + The crowd then moved forward: Mr.Hunt That your petitioners are prepared to prove which gives an account of the close of to your honourable House that, in conse- the day. quence of the vast increase of capital and land engaged in tillage within the last forty years, the value of tithe property has increased appeared in a barouche, drawn by four handin a fourfold degreee, while the employment some greys; the postillions were in dresses of capital in agricultural pursuits was never of crimson silk, with banners preceding more precarious and unproductive to the him. Mr. Hunt and Mr. Mitchell were in farmer than at the present time. "That your petitioners humbly subunit to your honourable House, that they believe the only effectual way of removing this unequal and oppressive burden on the capital, the exertions, and the industry of the agriculturist, and the doing away with the many other evil effects of the tithe laws, would be to impose, instead of the present grinding, afflicting, and distressing mode, a rate, or tithetax of two shillings in the pound, on the rent paid by the farmers; which your petitioners humbly presume to suggest would be found not only a competent, but a respectable provision, for the support of the Ministers, thereby, as they firmly believe, furnishing the best way, in their opinion the only means, by which the present frightfully alarming state of society can be allayed, and the terrific consequences (not to be contemplated without horror) averted. the carriage. On their arrival in Stamford i street, Mr. Hunt then alighted, amidst the shouts of the crowd, and took his station at the dining-room window of his house. Mr. HUNT then again addressed the assem bled multitude, thanking them most warmly for having accompanied him through the cities of London aud Westminster. The result of that day's procession was, that at least one fact would go forth to the world that though the Duke of Wellington was afraid to enter the city, he was not. Though the King and his Grace had proposed to unite with the Corporation in spending 10,0001. of the poor citizens' money, in order to give them a guzzle, he (Mr. Hunt) was no party to such a proceeding, and therefore feared not to face his fellow-citizens. He was no party to a project which, with its paraphernalia and other expenses, would have cost the people 10,0007., and therefore he was free from the apprehensions that deterred the Duke of Wellington from entering the city. [At this moment an active pick-pocket was seized by some person in the crowd; there was a general cry of "Hold him, hold him."]"Yes," said Mr. Hunt," hold him by all means; he is one of the Government." He advised them to take care of the smaller pick-pockets, and he would undertake to manage the greater ones. The Duke, forsooth, was afraid of some disturbance if he came into the city; but occasions differed, and their effects were as different. That was the third time on which they had acceded to him the honours of a triumphal entry, and yet on no one of "That a deputation do wait on the Member those occasions had any accident taken place. for the county, to request he will present and Mr. H. then repeated the greater portion of support the prayer of the petition in the House what he had in the early part of the day of Commons, composed of the following per-addressed to his assembled friends in Isling Sons:-Mr. John Spencer, Mr. Christopher Wilkins, Mr. Samuel Howells, Mr. W. Spencer, Mr. David Richards, and Mr. Richard Richards. "Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your honourable House will adopt this, or such other means as your honourable House may approve of, for the relief of the country; and your petitioners will ever pray, &c. First resolution. Proposed and carried unanimously. "That the petition now read be presented to both Houses of Parliament. "Second Resolution. Proposed and carried, "That the Chairman be requested to forward the petition to the House of Lords, to Lord King. "Third resolution. Proposed and carried unanimously "Fourth Resolution "That a person be appointed to take the petition to the several parishes in the Hundred, for signatures. "Fifth resolution "That the proceedings of this Meeting be advertised in The Cambrian newspaper. "WM. SPENCER, St Mary Church." MR. HUNT'S Public entry into London, on Monday, the 10th of Jan. 1830.. HAVE room for that part only ton-green, dwelling upon the insidious character of the suggestions of those corrupt knaves who sought to keep him out of parliament, by saying that one man could do nothing, when so many were interested in picking pockets, and enriching themselves with the plunder of the people; but the men of Prestou had determined to try that question, and see what one man could do; and were that man only backed by the voice of the people, he could assure them that the attempt would be made to break up the strongholds of corruption. He would attempt that which had never been attempted hefore; and if he had the support of the people, his efforts would not fall powerless upon the floor of the House of Commons-efforts which should be directed to the repeal of laws, almost all of which were framed for the express purpose of drawing money from the poor for the advantage |