bonds before we have done. It is our duty, too, to exert this right to endeavour to better the lot of our suffering people who go to get work in England. Their own food is sent away from them to England, for the benefit of their landlords; we receive the food, and it is monstrous injustice in us to frown upon them, if they come and offer their labour in exchange for a part of that very food which they themselves have raised. I hear that discontents are arising again in England, on account of the lowering of wages. Mr. DEAN will not lower the wages of anybody. He knows that I never gave a full working man less than 15s. a week, though found a good house and garden and plenty of fuel. And I know that a man, with a people of England! while they talk of educating you all, at the same time! Ah! MARSHALL, these vagabonds want to give you books, and to take away the fellow-subjects in Ireland. Mr. DEAN bread and meat for themselves. will tell you, that I have always set my In another place I saw the most pain-face against the ill-treatment of Irish ful sight of all: women, with heavy hammers, cracking stones into very small pieces, to make walks in gentlemen's gardens! These women were as ragged as the rest; and the sight of them and their work, and the thoughts accompanying these, would have sunk the heart in your body, as they did mine. And are the women and girls of England to, be brought to this state? Would not every man in Normandy suffer every drop of blood to be let out of his body rather than see your sisters and daughters and mothers and wives brought to this state? If I were not sure that Tom FARR would perish himself rather than see his sister brought to this, he should wife and only three small children, cannot live under my roof a moment longer. not live, as he ought to live, on less, And what, then, of his good and indus- though flour were cheaper than it is trious and kind and tender mother! The now, as I hope it will be. But, MARbare thought would drive him mad! SHALL, let us be just; let us do as we Yet, Marshall, it is my duty to tell you, would be done by many of the farmers that the half drunk and half-mad and are not able, in the present state of greedy and crawling Scotch vagabonds, things, with all these taxes and monowhose counsels have beggared the polies arising out of them, to give the Scotch working people, are endeavour- wages that I give, without being ruined ing to persuade the Parliament to bring themselves; theirs is, in many cases, a your wives, mothers, sisters, and daugh-life of greater hardship than that of the ters into this very state! Be on your labourer: they are compelled to give guard, therefore; be ready to perform 8s. 6d. for MALT, which, if there were your duty to prevent the success of these no tax, they would have at this moment crawling villains, who hope to get re- for about 3s. 3d. They would give warded for their schemes for making their men beer, they would keep the you work for 6d. a day, and for putting young people in their houses, as I do; your wages into the pockets of the land- but they are unable to do it without lords. When I get back we will have being ruined and becoming labourers a meeting at Guildford to petition the themselves. Then the landlords: why king and Parliament on the subject; to should their rents not be paid? Not to this meeting you must all come; for, get their rents is to lose their estates; though the law does not give you the and why should they have their estates right of voting, it always gives you the taken away? Those estates are as much right of petitioning; and as I shall here- their right as good living in exchange after show you, it gives you a right to for your labour, and as parish aid in parish relief in case you be unable to case of inability are your rights. So earn a sufficiency to keep you in a pro- that I hope that you will duly consider per manner. This is as much your birth- these things; and not conclude that, right as is the lord of the manor's right though others may not give the wages to his estate; and of this we will con- that I give, they would not do it if they ince the crawling and greedy vaga- could. TO MR. SMITH, AT THE PRINTING-OFFICE, BOLT-COURT. It is my opinion that, if flour were only 5s, a bushel, 15s. a week is not too much for a really able, sober, and trustworthy labouring man, who has a wife and only three small children. Dublin, 27. Sept., 1834. never did, and never will, make any of each of these Letters to MARSHALL You will please to cause 500 copies And I distinction between a married man and DEAR SIR, a single man. Why should I? What to be struck off, in the manner described have I to do with the man, more than in my last letter. Put them up in a to pay him duly the worth of his labour?coach-parcel, and send them by the And how is the single man ever to be Farnham coach, directed to Mr. DEAN in a fit condition to marry, and to lead at Normandy, Ash, Farnham, Surrey. This is not giving you trouble, but pleaa happy life and rear a family, unless he has, from his earnings while single,logy. I hope that all the unstamped sure; and therefore I offer you no apothe means of starting well in his new state of life? The old saying, that will send these letters about. "when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," is perfectly true. And how is poverty to be kept out if there be nothing of any worth to begin with? I am, Your faithful And most obedient servant, P.S. Put an ounce weight of each of Godalming. I have not time to write any thing them under cover, and direct it to our more to you now. I will, in future let-county member, John Leech, Esq., Lea, ters, tell you the causes of all this inisery, and you will want nothing more to make you all resolve to use all the lawful means in your power to prevent it from falling on yourselves. TO MR. JOHN DEAN. Two things, I hope, you will all at- I SUPPOSE that the parcels of printed tend to in my absence: first, cheerful letters will get to Farnham every Tuesobedience to Mr. DEAN, in all things, day night. And you must get them 27 years of experience having convinced over to Normandy. Send about 200 me that he will require from you no- of each Number, by one of the boys or thing but that which is proper, and that men, to Mr.WHITLAW, at Compton, who nothing will induce him to do any I hope will get them sent to Godalming, thing towards any body that is unjust, Bramley, Elstead, Frencham, Seale, or hard. The other thing is, my hope Hazlemere, &c. and all about that side that none of you will go to any drinking of the Hog's-back. You will take care to place on any account. You have no get the rest sent to Farnham, Guildford, need to do it; when you have not good Chertsey, Egham, Bagshot, and to all beer at the farm-house, I give you the means of having it at home with your wives and children; and therefore, if any of you should disobey me in this respect, and should set at nought the ing, to such a place as Purbright or example which you have in Mr. DEAN, as well as the precept that you thus receive from me, Mr. DEAN has my full authority to act towards you accordingly. With giving you this important precept, and in the hope that all of you and all belonging to you are well, I am, WM. COBBETT. the parishes round about us, especially Purbright and Chobhamn. Be very diligent about this. Any of the men will carry them on a Sunday, or in the even Aldershot. You will observe, that I have this matter greatly at heart; and therefore, I beg you to act accordingly. My native county shall not be unjust towards Ireland for want of knowing her treatment, and for want of knowing the miseries so unjustly inflicted upon her; nor shall the people of that county be steeped in similar misery by the schemes of the renegado Scotch villains, or by any body else, without seeing preciated, and that should never be forwhat those schemes are, and to what gotten, give you peculiar claims on the consequences they lead. Do not mind gratitude of the Irish people. The a little expense in giving effect to my members of the Meath Independent wishes as to this matter. If there be Club come forward with delight to join nobody in other counties to do their their countrymen in hailing your arrival duty to the working people, no man shall on their shores, and offering you an ever have to say that that duty was affectionate welcome. neglected by Your faithful friend, WM. COBBETT. Whilst the literary productions which have immortalized your name, impart delight and instruction to the mind, P.S. I have, three successive nights, the biography of their author will into numerous assemblies (consisting culcate on the heart the cheering reflecchiefly of gentlemen or persons of pro- tion, that monopoly however protected, perty) in this city, urged the justice and and despotism however fortified, can necessity of POOR-LAWS for Ireland; sometimes be subdued and broken down and, not only poor-laws, but our poor-by individual energy, fortitude, and perlaws; the act of Queen Elizabeth, ALL severance. Cu the act, and NOTHING BUT the act. From the commencement of your poliI have maintained the RIGHTS of the tical career, when you began to plant poor, by an appeal to the laws of God, thorns in the pillow of corruption, up and the laws of England; and, I have to your return to Parliament for Oldthe pleasure to tell you, that I was ham, you have been pursued as a victim heard with the greatest possible atten- to be immolated to the Moloch of tion, indulgence, and kindness; and tyranny and monopoly. Ignorance of this kindness has, indeed, marked the their real interests caused your countryconduct of every one in Ireland towards men to look for some time with apathy me.-Get all my people together, in the on your persecutions; but proscripevening, or on Sunday, and read these tions, fines, and dungeons, only renderletters to them; and remember me to ed the many extraordinary incidents of farmers WEST and FAGOTTEN and your life the more interesting. BARRY and HORNE and to all the rest of my neighbours. And tell farmer HORNE, who, like the primitive teachers of Christianity, preaches on the Sunday, and most laudably mows his barley on the Monday, that I hope, that his cows, which I forgave so often, will not, during my absence, give way to their luxurious, inordinate, and most ungodly appetites, so far as still to covet my corn, when they have pasture of their own, and while my humble-minded and frugal heifers are content with the pickings of the common. TO MR. WILLIAM COBBETT, M.P. riosity gave way to sympathy; inquiry to conviction; until the nation, disabused of its errors, broke down the out works of the infamous system against which you combated, and left the names of its defenders written in terms of execration on its ruins. The Percevals, the Castlereaghs, the Liverpools, are buried in reputation as well as in person, whilst their prisoner and exile William Cobbett lives exalted in station, and honoured in character. The professors and ministers of a faith, for which the Irish have forfeited every temporal consideration, you have vindicated from the calumnies of centuries, and the hereditary prejudices of your fellow-countrymen. You have removed the rubbish of inveterate slanders from the pages of English history; dissipated in your own days the errors which spring from those sources of delusion, and smooth the road to that li SIR,-In any civilized country where justice is esteemed, and literature admired, your character and your writings would entitle you to the highest respect and the most honourable reception. Services that cannot be too highly ap-berty we now enjoy. Besides these considerations, gentle When such a man comes to visit our duty, this address from you must and country, in order to know the sources of will give me great support. its calamities, with a view of exposing them, before those who can apply suit-men, I have particular pleasure in reable remedies, it becomes our duty to manifest a proper sense of his motives and objects. With these sentiments we venture to express a hope you will honour Meath with a visit, a county which yields to no other in Ireland in esteem and veneration for the name and services of William Cobbett. Dated at a special meeting of the club, at Navan, on the 24. of September, 1834. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ceiving this address from the county of Dublin, 28. Sept., 1834. dress. I shall here insert: 1. The statement from the True Sun of the brother of Mr. W. AUSTIN, relative to the affairs of that brother. The reader will see what an affair this is; and he will also see, that this affair must come before the GENTLEMEN, I thank you for the Parliament; for, this is precisely a great honour you have done me, in pre-case in which for that body to give resenting to me this elegantly written address; which, however, honourable as 2. I shall insert an account of my it is to me, I chiefly value on account proceedings here, as published in the of the effect which it is likely to have in Morning Register, published by Mr. England, at this critical time, when STAUNTON, to whom I owe great gratidesperate and half-mad and halftude for his very kind behaviour todrunken and inordinately greedy Scotch- wards me. men are bent upon an attempt to prevail on the Parliament to adopt measures for reducing the people of England to the state of those of Scotland, who are now robbed of those Christian laws which their fathers established three hundred years ago; an attempt, which, if it were to succeed, must render the lot of Ireland worse than it is now. and 3. A letter by General Cockburn, on the subject of a repeal of the union; and my English readers should know, that, besides being a General in the siderable landowner in Ireland, and Sir GEORGE COCKBURN is a conconstantly resides on one of his es army, tates. 4. The report of the speeches of Messrs. Attwood and Scholefield, at These Scotch monsters of the school Birmingham, at a dinner given to of the Parson MALTHUS, it is, at present, them there. I insert these, not only as my great object to combat, by explain-containing the sentiments of those two ing fully to the people of England the gentlemen, but as a mark of my respect means which these monsters are employ- for them, on account of their upright ing, and the object they have in view; conduct in Parliament. my business to Ireland is to see, and tell the people of England, what is the state of Ireland, what is the extent of her sufferings, what are the causes of I BEG, that until my return to Engthese, and what they ought to do, land, no one will give himself the trouble not only to prevent similar sufferings to write to me, on any subject whatsofrom being inflicted on themselves, ever. A man cannot do more than one but what they ought to do, to rescue thing well at one time. I have quite Ireland from her sufferings: and, gen- enough to do here; and will never, tlemen, in the performing of this my till I am again in England, open TO CORRESPONDENTS. any letter that shall come to me from my authority, and appropriated to his England. Some inconvenience may maintenance; for the excess of expense arise from this, and possibly some in- I have been under the necessity of hejury; but, these I must submit to. At coming personally responsible. The any rate, such is my determination. MR. WM. AUSTIN. EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE. house of Marietti and Co., of Milan, To Mr. S. Austin.” This was the first official intimation SIR,-As your valuable journal is at all times open to the public for redress," and ready to espouse the cause of the injured and oppressed by any abuse of (if I may so term it) that my family repower or otherwise, I take leave to sub-ceived of my brother being in the state mit to you the following statement, in therein described, and on receipt thereof the hope that you will deem the same of I immediately wrote to Messrs. Marietti, sufficient importance to appear therein. requesting to be informed what steps it In the month of December, 1828, my would be necessary to take to have my brother, Mr. William Austin, who had brother conveyed home; whether it been brought up by her late Majesty, would be necessary to apply to the law Queen Caroline, from the age of four authorities in Italy to permit his remonths, in every respect as her own moval, and what would be the expense; son, but who at her decease was left what was the name of the establishment comparatively destitute, went abroad to in which he was confined, where sieke out his small income; and twelve tuate, and the name of the proprietor; months having passed without hearing what was the state of his health, was from him caused great surprise in the there any probability of his recovery, in minds of his parents and relatives, and what manner was his income expended, repeated applications were made by me what had become of the property in his to her late Majesty's executors and possession at the time he was taken ill, friends, to know if they had heard from, and every other information in their or could give any information respecting power; to which letter I was never him; but the only persons who conde-favoured with an answer. scended to reply were, Lady Anne HaDr. Lushington having arrived in town milton, Lord Hood, and Alderman about the middle of August, I had an Wood, and their answers were in the interview with him on the 24. for the negative. Another year passed, but still purpose of obtaining more precise inno intelligence, and his family became formation than that contained in his greatly alarmned for his safety. At length letter, and among other things particu in the month of June, 1831, his rela-larly requested to know in what part of tives heard that he had been and then Italy my brother was, how long he had was very ill. I immediately wrote a been in the state described in his letter, circular to her late Majesty's executors and whether he could not be brought and friends for information on the sub-home, when he informed me that he did jeet, and to know to whom the divi-not know in what part of Italy the dends arising from his property were to asylum was situate, except that it was be remitted, and how expended; but in the Austrian dominions, but that he only one of the former condescended to could ascertain; that my brother had reply, and the following is his answer: "Stanmore, July 29, 1831. "SIR,-In reply to your letter I have to inform you that Mr. W. Austin is in a state of lunacy, and has for some time been confined in a lunatic asylum in Italy. The dividends are received under been in the condition above mentioned two years, and that he could not be brought home for less than 500l., for that being in the Austrian dominions his removal could not be effected without an order from the supreme court at Vienna, to procure which would alone |