COBBETT'S POLITICAL REGISTER. VOLUME LXXXVI. FROM OCTOBER 4, TO DECEMBER 27, 1834, INCLUSIVE. C LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 11, BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET. 1834. Summer feend. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Br120.3 VOLUME 86. No. 1. Letter II. to Charles Marshall.-Letter Independent Club to Mr. Cobbett: Mr. Cobbett's Answer.-To Correspondents.- Mr. William Austin's Extraordinary Nar- rative.-Proceedings and Lectures of Mr. Cobbett in Dublin.-General Cockburn's No. 2. Letter III. to Charles Marshall.-To the Earl of Radnor; a digression.-To Lord Althorp.-To the Readers of the No. Register.-Kilkenny Address.-Answer. -Arrival of Mr. Cobbett at Waterford.- Address of the Citizens of Waterford.- Answer.-Tithes! Tithes! Tithes! Let- 1er of Mr. O'Connell to Wm. Sharman No. Crawford, Esq.-George IV.- Garden No. 3. Letter IV. to Charles Marshall.-To the President of the United States of Ame- rica.-Letter IV. to Lord Radnor.-Pub- lic Meeting in Gateshead.-History of No. 4. Letter V. to Charles Marshall.-Burn- ing of the Parliament House.-Letter V. to the Earl of Radnor.-To the People of Salisbury.-Cork Proceedings.-Ad- No. 5. Letter VI. to Charles Marshall.-Burn- No. 6. Letter VII. to Charles Marshall.-To Lord Althorp.-Poor-Law Bill.-To the People of Salisbury. Consistency of Brougham.-Lord Durham.-To Thomas Doubleday, Esq.. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. -Garden and Field Seeds.-History of George IV.-Life of Jackson.-O'Connell Tribute. To the sensible and just People of Eng and.-To Mr. Staunton, of the nor.-To Lord Althorp.-Paper-Money.- Patriot Creevy.- Negro-Work.-Treat- ment of the Irish Poor.-Fiscal Effects of 8. Turning out of the Whigs.-To the King.-Change of Ministry.-To my Con- stituents.-Letter IX. to Charles Mar- shall.-Legacy to Labourers.-Fires in England. To the King's Servants.-The Ministerial Mess.-Buxton's Blackey.- History of George IV.-Lord Durham. 9. Letter X. to Charles Marshall.-To the People of Oldham.-Sir Robert Peel. -The Swamper.-Metropolitan Toddle. -Great Public Meeting to Mr. Cobbett. 10. To Mr. Hume.-Manifesto against the Whig Depravity.-Dissolution of Parlia- ment.-The Swamper.-Sir Robert Peel. -Manchester Address.-Liverpool Meet- ing.-Birmingham Meeting. Letter of No. 11. To the People of Oldham.-To Mr. Hume. The Swamper.-Mr. O'Connell. -Whig Effusions.-The Fires.-Common Council Affairs.-Mr. Hume's Speech at Westminster.-Death of Paper Money.- -The Coffin.-Sir Robert Peel.-Letter of Mr. Hume to the Electors of Middle- No. 12. Dissolution of Parliament.-Malt-tax - VOL. 86.-No. 1.] LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 1834. No. II. TO CHARLES MARSHALL, LABOURER, [Price Is. 2d. and all these persons are, as they eat, standing up in the room, as thick as they can stand. Each, as soon as the mess is eaten, goes away; and, as there is room made, others come in ; and there were about three hundred then waiting in the yard to take their turn. There were about a hundred little girls in a school, and about as many boys in another, neither had shoes or stockings, and the boys had no shirts. Their faces were pale, the whole hundred not having so much red as your little round-faced chap that was set to keep the birds away from the cabbage Of Normandy Tithing, Ash, Farnham, seed in Dodman's field. Yes, MARSHALL, MARSHALL, Surrey. Dublin, 27. Sept. 1834. AFTER I wrote to you, the other day, about the MENDICITY, I went again at the dinner time. You know, I saw the breakfast! that is the ground oats and butter-milk, or water, or skim-milk, (sometimes one and sometimes the other), boiling in great coppers for the breakfast; and now I went to see the dinner; and the gentlemen, who have the management of the place, showed me all about it. There are about three thousand persons fed here; and, if they were not thus fed, they must either die, or thieve or rob; or more properly take by force; for, in such a case, the words theft or robbery do not, according to the just laws of England, apply to the act; though they do apply, and, I hope, alays will apply, in England. that little chap, with his satchel full of bread and cheese or bacon; he was at the proper school! He and Tom DEADMAN and little BARRATT will make strong and able men like their fathers; will live well, and be well clothed; and will be respected like their fathers, and be happy in that state of life in which it has pleased God to place them; and will not, I hope, listen to any fanatical man, who would persuade them, that to starve in rags, in this world, has a tendency to give them a crown of glory in the next. In another place I saw a great crowd of women sitting and doing nothing, each with a baby in her arms. They were sitting in rows, waiting, I believe, for their messes. Some of them were young and naturally handsome; but made ugly by starvation, rags, and dirt. It was one mass of rags; and, not what I saw this dinner.” In one long you call rags; not rags such as you see room, there were about 500 women, on the beggars or gipsies that go to ́each with some potatoes in a bowl, hopping at Farnham; but far worse mashed, as you mash them, to mix with than any that you ever saw tied round a meal, for your hogs. These people go stake to frighten the birds from our to one end of the room, and, one at a wheat and our peas; far worse than time, get their mess. There are persons the Kentish people and South Hampto put the potatoes into the bowl;shire people put up on a scare-crow to which they do by taking the potatoes keep the birds from their cherries. And out of a tub, with a tin measure, holding this is the condition, Marshall, to which about a quart, and putting the thing the Scotch feelosofer vagabonds wish to full in to the bowl, which is then carried persuade the Parliament to reduce the away by the person who is to eat it; wives and the daughters of the working [Printed by W. Cobbett, Johnson's-court.] B |