Cobbett's Weekly Register

No. 12. Dissolution of Parliament.-Malt-tax
and Currency.-Bull-Frog Meeting.--To
Sir Robert Peel.-Stanley and Graham.
Sir Francis Burdett.-Coventry Elect n.
-Sir Charles Wolseley's Address to the
Southern Division of Staffordshire.-Malt-
tax Debate.-American Currency Ques-
tion.-Seeds.-Life of Jackson.

No 13. To Sir Robert Peel: Letter I.-Sir R.

Peel's Letter.-Mr. Harvey.-Legacy to

Labourers.-Garden and Field Seeds.

To the Editor of the Standard.-Malt-tax.

-Kentish Bull-Frogs.-Poor-Law Bill.-

Good News from America.-Coventry

Election. Mr. Williams's Speech, &c.

47-757

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.]

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