Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 59-60William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1826 |
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... Distress . - Good God ! Surely my eyes deceive me ! -Na- tional Debt . 7. - State of the Poor ; and projects of the Scotch and English Landlords . To Mr. Lawless .- " Best public in- structor . " - Foreign Loans . - Aris- tocratical ...
... Distress . - Good God ! Surely my eyes deceive me ! -Na- tional Debt . 7. - State of the Poor ; and projects of the Scotch and English Landlords . To Mr. Lawless .- " Best public in- structor . " - Foreign Loans . - Aris- tocratical ...
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... distress does nilies , for whose benefit and ag- not arise from overtrading , but in grandizement , more than for any the folly and wickedness of an inca - thing else , the whole of these sources pable and corrupt Government tam- of ...
... distress does nilies , for whose benefit and ag- not arise from overtrading , but in grandizement , more than for any the folly and wickedness of an inca - thing else , the whole of these sources pable and corrupt Government tam- of ...
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... there is some plan to be fixed on , to render this currency secure from fluctuations ! Good God ! Need we wonder that we are in embarrassment and distress , when we are governed ing it in gold 143 144 TO MONEY HOARDERS .
... there is some plan to be fixed on , to render this currency secure from fluctuations ! Good God ! Need we wonder that we are in embarrassment and distress , when we are governed ing it in gold 143 144 TO MONEY HOARDERS .
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William Cobbett. distress , when we are governed ing it in gold ; preparations for by laws made by men like this ? the ruin of hundreds of thousands The close of the paragraph , how - of poor men ; loans made to South ever , points the ...
William Cobbett. distress , when we are governed ing it in gold ; preparations for by laws made by men like this ? the ruin of hundreds of thousands The close of the paragraph , how - of poor men ; loans made to South ever , points the ...
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... distress will end in a dreadful such a calamity ; and he tells " us in The Register of to - day , " that so long as he is excluded from his proper place in the « Government , ' the details of his plan shall never be seen by any eyes ...
... distress will end in a dreadful such a calamity ; and he tells " us in The Register of to - day , " that so long as he is excluded from his proper place in the « Government , ' the details of his plan shall never be seen by any eyes ...
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amongst average Barley Beans believe Bill bonds Borough Bowring Burdett bushels called cause church COBBETT Corn-Laws day's market debt deputies Devizes distress Ditto duty Ellice England farmers Flour foreign friends gentlemen give Gloucestershire Greek Greek Government Guildford hear Hops Horncastle House Hume hundred interest Joseph Hume July King labourers Lamb Lancashire land landlords last week letter loan London look Lord Luriottis Malt Manchester manufacturing means meeting ment Messrs Ministers Monday morning Mutton nation never Norwich Castle Oats offal paper-money parish Parliament Pease persons petition poor Pork Portugal pounds present Preston pretty quarter Rapeseed ruin Saturday Scotch scrip sheep shillings Sir Francis Burdett sold sort speech stone Stowmarket suffer supply taxes thing thousand tion to-day town trade trees Veal Warminster Week ended Wheat whole WILLIAM COBBETT Wiltshire
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Page 377 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 377 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 137 - Cheltenham, which is what they call a " watering place " ; that is to say, a place to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards, and debauchees of all descriptions, female as well as male, resort, at the suggestion of silently laughing quacks, in the hope of getting rid of the bodily consequences of their manifold sins and iniquities.
Page 211 - ... franchises were granted as much with a view to preserve the breed of animals, as to indulge the subject. From a similar principle to which, though the forest laws are now mitigated, and by degrees grown entirely obsolete...
Page 699 - His majesty acquaints the house of commons, that his majesty has received an earnest application from the princess regent of Portugal, claiming, in virtue of the ancient obligations of alliance and amity subsisting between his majesty and the crown of Portugal, his majesty's aid against a hostile aggression from Spain.
Page 725 - I then said that I feared that the next war which should be kindled in Europe would be a war not so much of armies as of opinions. Not four years have elapsed, and behold my...
Page 507 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I have directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be prepared, and they will, in due time, be laid before you. I...
Page 719 - ... able working men, and. as many boys, sometimes assisted by the women and stout girls. What a handful of people to raise such a quantity of food ! What injustice, what a hellish system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped on the fund-holders, pensioners, soldiers, dead-weight, and other swarms of tax-eaters ! If such an operation do not need putting an end to, then the devil himself is a saint.
Page 725 - I dread war in a good cause, (and in no other may it be the lot of this country ever to engage!) from a distrust of the strength of the country to commence it, or of her resources to maintain it I dread it, indeed — but upon far other grounds: I dread it from an apprehension of the tremendous consequences which might arise from any hostilities in which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting...
Page 761 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...