COBBETT'S WEEKLY REGISTER. VOLUME LX. FROM OCTOBER TO DECEMBER, 1826. NN LONDON: Printed and Published by W. COBBETT, No. 183, Fleet-street. 1826. CONTENTS OF VOLUME LX. No. 1.-Rural Ride, from Highworth to Cricklade, and thence to Malmsbury. To the Radicals of Stockport.-Jolterheads defeated.-To Wm. Cobbett, Esq., on Manuring Land for Forest-trees.-Botanical Books.-The Poor Man's Friend. 2.-Rural Ride, from Malmsbury, in Wiltshire, through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire.-Andover Meeting. 3.-Rural Ride, from Ryall, in Worcestershire, to Burghclere, in Hampshire.-The Poor Man's Friend. 4.-Rural Ride, from Burghclere to Lyndhurst, in the New Forest. 5.-Rural Ride, from Lyndhurst (New Forest) to Beaulieu Abbey ; thence to Southampton and Weston; thence to Botley, Allington, West End, near Hambledon; and thence to Petersfield, Thursley, and Godalming.-Common Hall. -"Greek Cause"! 6.-Rural Ride, from Weston, near Southampton, to Kensington.— "Greek Cause "!-Subscription, to make up the deficiency on ac "The progress of our ruin has not been so rapid as some persons seem "to imagine. It has been on foot for more than twenty years. From "the year 1793 to the present day, the number of the paupers has been "increasing. The farmers and tradesmen wore the appearance of prosperity; but, it was a false appearance, arising from the bubble of paper-money. The disease of taxation and of consequent pauperism was constantly at work in the bowels of the community. Family after "family were pressed down into the list of paupers. Small farmers became labourers, and labourers went one after another to the poor"house. Small farm-houses, those numerous scenes of frugality, industry, morality and happiness, became, one after another, the scene "of the labourer's misery. The lands went to stretch out the grea "farmer's tracks or the Nabob's park. And the cottages of the labourers "became sheds for cattle, or fell into rubbish, while poor-houses rose "their heads aloft all over the country. During the sway of Pitt and "his successors the houses and villas round the metropolis have been "monstrously swelled in number; but during the same period how many "thousands of happy hamlets have been wholly deserted and destroyed! "This has been caused by that pernicious system of taxing and papermoney, which has huddled property together in great masses, and which has reduced to mere labourers almost the whole of the people. "The property, thus amassed, has become more immediately under the "control of the Government; so that, at last, there exists a state of things from which the idea of private property is almost wholly "excluded."-REGISTER, Vol. 31. p. 611. RURAL RIDE, From Highworth to Cricklade and thence to Malmsbury. ing, and came to look out of th iun-window into the street, I perceived, that I had seen that place before, and, always having thought, that I should like to see Devizes, of which I had heard so much talk as a famous corn-market, HIGHWORTH (WILTS), MONDAY, 4th SEPT. 1826....When I got to DEVIZES, on Saturday even- was very much surprised to find, A Printed and Published by WILLIAM COBBETT, No. 183, Fleet-street. [ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.J |