GIFT OF

Bancroft

2

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Burdett, Sir F. 23, 24, 29, 47, 62, 124, Grenville, Lord, 25, 136, 141, 142, 149,

1 Kotesbue, 88, 90.

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INDEX.

0.

Oliver, 199.

Saxton, S. 516.

Stewart, Peter, 533.

Ogden, "the revered and ruptured," Stewart, Daniel, 533.
247.

Swann, Mr. 638.

P.

Smith, Mr. Wm. 725.

Palmer, Fyshe, 23, 278.

Sandt, 88, S9.

Pitt, Mr. 31, 228, 237, 238, 255, 364,

T.

t

422, 471.

Titus, Mr. 17.

Perkins, Mr. 49, 50, 54.

:

Tarquin, 89.

Paine, 92, 131, 231, 255, 364, 422, 471, Tell, William, 69.

599, 709, 730, 778.

Tierney, Mr. 175, 188, 232, 294, 428.

Peel, Mr. 121, 154, 155, 318, 362.

Temple, Earl of, 280.

Peel, Sir Robt. 195, 222, 226, 236, 248. Taylor, Mr. 466, 479.

Sidmouth, Viscount, 133, 199, 221, 318, Wilberforce, Mr. 422.

Wright, Isaac, 573.

Y.

1

York, Duchess of, 269..

York, Duke of, 269.

Yong, Madam De, 188.

Spooner, Mr. 477...

COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1819.1 [2

COBBETT'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR. you look back into history, you

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TO MESSRS. JOHNSON, BAGUELY,
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On their imprisonment, and on the
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to pursue; and on Political
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GENTLEMEN,

of good cheer, therefore. You are
young men. The present active
tyrants will, according to the
course of nature, quit the world
before you. But, the chances are,
that, if you be prudent, and espe-
cially sober, you will see the
effect of complete justice on their

heads.

They sent me, or, rather, caused
me to be sent to prison for the
same length of time, that they
have caused you to be sent to
prison. At that time all was a
deep gloom. The public mind was
in darkness. One half of even
good men thought my horrid
punishment necessary, if not just.
Then my punishment was, with
many, a subject of jesting. There
was one villain, whose name was
GILLRAY, and who was pensioned
by the Boroughmongers, who ca-
ricatured me looking through my

THE news of the proceedings
and sentence against you have
reached me. They do not at all
surprize me; for such things have
taken place, in all ages and in all
countries, during the struggles of
the oppressed against the oppres-
sors. Men should never despair prison walls. Some villains of
of the Commonwealth; for, even farmers, then fat, riding by one of
in the hardest of their sufferings, my fields, where my men were
there is a source of consolation; putting up a fence, cried out,
seeing that, in the end, those suf- "wheer be the iron bars?" This
ferings are always visited upon scoundrel race has been well
the heads of the oppressors. If pinched since, and GILLRAY,

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[4 before I had been in prison eight | tyrants, money being the all-in-all months, died racing mad! with a system of corruption. I At that time delusion was at its had long been of opinion, that the height. The war was profitable Bank-Notes could never be paid to many persons. The base paper-in specie; and, in Paper against money served its end: that is, to give a florid appearance to trade and agriculture. The nation was mad with what it deemed prosperity. The commerce of all nations was laid under contribution by the Boroughmongers. There never was so gloomy a period for the friends of law and justice.

But, I did not despair. On the contrary, I never had hopes more lively or thoughts more gay. The time, which the tyrants had given; the "abstraction from Society," as the old, hard-hearted ruffian in the den called it, or, rather the abstraction from rural affairs, in which the barbarous villains had placed me, enabled me to reflect on, and to examine into, the real state of their affairs. That reflection and that examination led to the series of papers, entitled "Paper against Gold," which has contributed more than any other effort towards the danger, which the tyrants now experience.

We must be patient. We must cast our bread on the waters." The efforts which destroy tyrannies are, generally, those which have not an immediate effect, visible to all eyes. Sap and mine are better than assault, where the fortress is strong. I was convinced that the nation's best hope was the insolvency of the Borough

Gold, I proved that this was the case. That is to say, they never could be paid in specie, without a total breaking up of the whole system of corruption and tyranny. If Corruption attempted to pay, she could not raise the taxes, necessary to pay the interest of her Debt. She could not attempt to pay without putting a stop to all the labours which sustained her and gave her the means of tyrannizing and of making war against freedom. Yet, if she could never pay, without blowing herself up at once, it was clear, that, sooner or later, she must be overwhelmed by her own base paper.

Therefore, I, within my prison walls, bent all my force to prove, that she never could pay without blowing herself up by the act of paying. This was a heavy blow for her; for, though the nation took little notice, at the time, of what I said, events went on, as I knew they would, to confirm all my doctrines and predictions.

About the time that I was sent to what Corruption thought to be death, or total ruin, the Westminster Wiseacres had before them what they called a Report from a Committee, which, in their gibberish, was called the Bullion Committee. This had been produced by a motion of the out-faction, who pretended to want to