VOL. 48.-No. 5.] LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1923. [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Seven o'Clock.

A LETTER

FROM THE."

abuse, which you have poured

forth upon us through the columns

of that vile thing, the London

PEOPLE OF SPAIN press, of a large part of which

LOAN-MAKERS, fabricators of and unprovoked abuse, addressed paper-coin, you who make for a polite remonstrance to you; tunes of a million of money by bade you look at home; and did, "watching the turn of the mar- in fact, nearly quiet you, as far ket," obdurate extortioners, grind- as related to France, We are ers of the labouring man, choicest not presumptuous enough to think, agents of the borough- villany, that we shall silence you; for, true descendants of the money-compared with your incessant changing murderers of Jesus noise, what is that of the falls of Christ, we have read some of the Niagara? To produce in you

I

Printed and Published by J. M. COBBETT, No. 183, Fleet-street.

either silence, or shame, is far our lands, and drink our sweat beyond any power that we pretend and blood. If the English call it to possess; but, we rely on our liberty" to have the labour of power to render your falsehoods the child in the cradle mortgaged and malice harmless by an ex-to Jews and Jobbers, we do not; posure of them to the impartial and, if this be liberty, we desire amongst mankind. to be slaves. We, therefore, reYour malignity towards us is per-joice, that this set of men have. fectly natural. We have escaped been put down; and that the bonds from your grasp; and you are now cursing us, as the fox did the cock, when the latter had got on the limb of a tree from out of the jaws of the former. We shall presently advert to the particular heads of your abuse; or, at least, to a part of them: but, the plain, general view of the matter is this: A set of men, acting under the

and mortgages, which they had given you on our lands and our sweat, have been cancelled for ever.

Thus have we taken a general view of the cause of our joy and of your anger against us; and we will now, as we proposed, advert to some of the particular heads of your abuse of us. You revile us

names of liberty and toleration, for rejoicing at what you call the having got hold of the powers of government in Spain, were mortgaging, or selling, the lands of

overthrow of our constitution and the conquest of our country by the French. As to constitution, we

Spain to you, the vile Jews and have just explained what that Jobbers of London, and were mort- word meant, namely, a system

-dience to our own native King, large part of us were fighting and by which we were rendered with you against revolutionists, slaves to you, the Jews and Jobbers you then praised our efforts, and, of London. So much for consti- what is very singular, you said tution. We care nothing about we were fighting for independence, the name of it; it might call itself though, in fact, we were fighting free as long as it pleased: its au- for you. Strange, that, when we thors might say, that we could not had King JOSEPH here, when he be free without having our lands was putting down convents and and our labour sold to the Jews priests, you called his conduct and Jobbers of London: they sacrilegious, you hallooed us on might say what they pleased about to drive him out; but now, when this. The effect of the thing is all the French have come to help us that we care about; and we did to put down others, who were not believe that selling us to the doing what King JOSEPH was Jews and Jobbers of London made doing, you call it sacrilegious in us free; or, at any rate, if that the French, and abuse us for rewere freedom, we did not want to joicing at their success! What be free. can be the cause of this? We Then, as to the change being will tell you: King JOSEPH did produced by foreign troops, which not mortgage our land and our you choose to represent as á con- labour to the Jews and Jobbers of quest made of our country by London: if he had, you would those foreigners; as to this mat

ter, you conquered Spain your

selves in the year 1814, if the

have been for King JOSEPH; and upon the same ground, you would be for King Devil.

French have conquered it now; But, we have not yet done with and, it is curious enough, that, this charge against us, of rejoicing when you had the possession and at the conquest of our country by command of our country, and a foreigners. If a monstrous tyranny

be existing in any country; if made King of England, and reone man or a set of men, have mained King of England for life,

been able to get a band of armed wretches together, and feed and clothe those wretches well, in

though the real King of England and his heirs were alive all the time: this happened only about a

order to keep the people of the hundred and thirty-five years ago: country in slavery, the people of this you do not call a conquest such country are not only justified of England, though it was much in rejoicing at their deliverance more of a conquest than that by the hands of foreigners, but which has now taken place in are in duty bound to call in and Spain. This you do not call a to assist such foreigners. If you conquest of England; but a " glodeny this, what becomes of the rious revolution;" and the Dutchcharacter of Englishmen? To be man you call your "deliverer"! sure you are a privileged nation: you are licensed to do any thing that you please; and to revile the rest of mankind for daring to think

Wonderful nation! wonderful Jews and Jobbers! Your modesty exceeds every thing belonging to you. Your attachment to liberty

about doing what you do. But, is very great. Your justice is still, there was a Dutchman that equally conspicuous; but your did go over to England, only modesty passeth all understanding. about a hundred and thirty-five Your Dutchman brought you a years ago, who took fifteen thou-"glorious revolution;" the Duke sand Dutch soldiers along with d'ANGOULEME has "conquered" him, who fought against and beat us! Modest Jews and Jobbers, let some of the English, who was not us see a little how this matter only received with acclamations stands. The Dutchman, soon of joy, but who, being a Dutch-after he had delivered you, was man, without one single drop of placed on your King's Throne. English blood in his veins, was He soon began to give away to

some of his Dutch followers the] But, why need we go so far lands and possessions belonging back, if we want a precedent for to the Crown of England. He the introducing of foreign troops had not been in the country but into our country? One of your a short time before he began that newspapers, the Morning Chro system of borrowing which has, nicle of not long ago, has this reat last, created the intolerable mark: "From the present aspect burdens which now press the " of affairs in Spain, there is ceronce happy people of England," tainly little chance of either Ireland, and Scotland, to the earth." the principal or the interest of Here, then, is the great difference" the Spanish Debt ever being between your deliverer and our" paid; for an idle priesthood and deliverer: yours began that sys-"foreign soldiers will, in future, tem, which has mortgaged all the" be sufficient to consume all the lands of your country, which has " productive labours of the mortgaged the labour of your chil-" people." We said before that dren now in the cradle, to that the English were a wonderful hellish tribe of Jews and Jobbers, who amass fortunes of a million by watching the turn of the market, whose extortions and grind-than any people that ever existed ings have reduced the most industrious people upon the face of the earth to a state of half-starvation; while our deliverer, has freed us from those "bonds" of incipient extortion and robbery, which and will, in this place, make a would, in due course of time, have made us wretched, toiling, weeping, melancholy, half-starved, and half-naked slaves.

people; and wonderful they certainly are: they must be hoodwinked to a far greater degree

before, or even this London press man would not have dared to put this upon paper.

We will leave the idle priesthood to be talked of by and by,

remark or two upon this idea of the people of Spain being, in part

at least, eaten up by foreign sol