in England, by making ten farms | deavour to produce a similar coninto one; and that a redundant viction in your mind, and in the population is produced in Ireland minds of the readers of the Regisby the making of one farm into ter, by the columns of which so ten! many delusions have been dissipated. In the meanwhile,

I am, Sir,

Your most humble and
Most obedient Servant,
WM. COBBETT.

To say another word upon the subject would be an insult to the public and to you. But, I have proposed to observe on the project for sending the Irish people away. I do not wish to insinuate that you would wish to do any thing P. S. The Morning Chronicle cruel or unjust. I am satisfied of to-day (Wednesday, 23 June) that you think that their lot would has the following passage in its be bettered by their being sent to leading article:-"The Motion of some foreign dominion of His Ma-" Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, on the jesty. Now, Sir, have you thought" State of Ireland, which stood of a hundredth part of the diffi-" for last night, was put off to culties which would present them-" Thursday, when it is stated it selves of carrying this project into "will certainly be brought on. execution! I do not believe that " From what fell from Sir FRANyou have. However, these diffi-"crs on more than one occasion culties and other matters connected" in the course of the Session, it with this important subject will re- " appears that he is fully sensible, quire a second letter. Every one, "Ist, That the foundation of the who has any thought, appears to " amelioration of Ireland must be be now alive to the situation and" laid on an equal and impartial affairs of ill-treated Ireland. This" administration of justice; for eolonising project appears, coming" the protection of property can forth as it does under your high never be complete when the authority, to be caught at as a great mass of the people are lucky discovery. I have no plea- "alienated from the law: secondsure, Sir, in discouraging the "ly, that the law cannot be enhopes thus excited; but, perfectly forced in any country in which convinced that the scheme is a de-"the population, from whatever lusion, I should not be satisfied" cause, has greatly outgrown the with myself if I neglected to en-" means for employing it, and

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This writer, some time ago,

expressed his regret at the cessation of the effects of the smallpor and of the feudal slayings. He really does seem as if he could slaughter the people with his own

"that, therefore, the most impar- tiplication be more than a match "tial administration of justice in" for the most extensive emi"Ireland would be inefficient to " gration." "restore the country to order, ex"cept either additional employ"ment could be obtained to such 66 an amount as should enable "the whole population to subsist (which is quite impossible in "the case of a people with the hand. It is only seems; for he "habits of the Irish, the race means no such thing. He has "between employment and mul- got the idea of a redundant popu "tiplication of numbers, being lation into his head, his imagina"like that of the tortoise and the tion is heated with the thought,. "hare) or the redundancy of and it naturally leads him to his "hands could be drained off by remedy; namely, destruction. I "some gigantic scheme of emi- have the pleasure to believe, that, "gration supported by a heavy if he will but read my two Letters "tax on the Empire at large. Any to SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, the "thing short of this is a mere" gigantic" malady, with which "palliative, and is unworthy a he appears to be afflicted, will be "moment's consideration. If, cured. If the malady should con"however, simultaneously with tinue, I hope it will urge the suf"the emigration, measures be not ferer on to ANSWER those Let"taken for destroying the cot-ters. He has, it is true, the means "tages in every district that is of repeating opinions like the "cleared, and preventing the let-above, 6 times every week, and "ting of the cleared ground in 313 times in the year; but, I can "small patches, nothing would tell him this: That, unless he can, "be gained. A people in the and do, give a clear and full an"wild state of the native Irish, swer to these Letters, his diurnal "with no artificial wants, and no efforts will produce no effect upon "motive for restraining any of those who have the power to act "their inclinations, for their hut, in the case. I beseech him, "like the wigwam of the savage. therefore, to answer. " can be erected in a few hours, "would, if allowed, by their, mul

COTTON LORDS

AND

LORD COCHRANE.

"lately trespassed on the House "at considerable length on this

subject, that I shall be cautious "how I again intrude on their pa"tience; but the magnitude and "importance of the question, and "the great respectability of the

On Monday last, the 21st instant," petitioners, induce me to say a

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH presented to the House of Commons

"few words on the occasion. The "Chamber of Commerce of the town of Manchester is a body of

a petition from a parcel of impu-" great importance, not only as a

dent fellows, whom he called the Chamber of Commerce of Man

"commercial association, but poli"tically speaking; although by the laws and regulations, the

chester, praying that the House" Chamber is restrained from inwould do something (I hardly "dulging in any political dis"cussions. The present Petition know what) about acknowledging" had the support of numerous the independence of South Ame-" and most respectable indivirica. Sir JAMES made a speech "duals. It is signed by the "Boroughreeve, and many other upon the occasion, as, indeed, the of the principal inhabitants; reader may be sworn he did; and" and the list of signatures would this speech, before it closed, said," have been more extensive, had "not the prospect of the speedy "termination of the Session of "Parliament rendered it necessary to lose no time in forwarding the Petition to London. And, Sir, I am persuaded that, if it were not for a similar considera"tion, petitions on this subject "would crowd in upon us from "all the commercial and manu"facturing towns of the empire.

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thing that I think worthy of particular remark: something that has frightened me, at any rate. Let me, however, before I notice" this matter, say a word or two about the petition of the impudent fellows at Manchester; first of all inserting what Sir JAMMY said of it."This Petition states, that the "early and formal acknowledg"Sir James Mackintosh: Sir," ment of the freedom and sove"I hold in my hand a Petition" reignty of such of the South "from the President, Vice Presi-" American States as had actually "dent, Directors, and other Mem-" established their independence "bers of the Chamber of Com-" appears to the Petitioners in "merce, in the Town of Man-" the highest degree desirable, as "chester, praying that this House" a measure due to the interests "will adopt such measures as may "of Great Britain, and consistent "lead to the recognition of the In-" with the respect which ought to dependence of the States of Spa-" be paid to the honour and cha"nish America. Sir, I have so racter of those states. They

"declare their surprise at the " cottons," great parcels of "cal"inconsistency of refusing any licoes" to sell; nice calicoes, fit for "avowed political intercourse with

"those States, of declining to ad-hot-countries; and, they want "mit them among civilized Go- freedom for them to be "declar"vernments, and of solemnly de-ed." Impudent fellows! Begin by nying their existence in Courts

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"of Law, at the very moment declaring freedom to the wretched are courting their creatures who are locked up "friendship, and making the most your hellish factories, for fourteen. "unremitting efforts to cultivate hours in a day, in a heat of eightya commercial connexion with "them. This conduct, the Peti- four degrees, and under the driv"tioners state, seems to them to ing of your drivers, a thousand "he highly unbecoming a free times more harsh than those of "State, and to be fraught with

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"the most injurious consequences Jamaica. You are pretty fellows "to our manufacturing and com- to talk about giving freedom to "mercial interests." South Americans. The negroes who gather the cotton and put it into bags, are a thousand times

Impudent varlets! When we petitioned for reform, for the putting down of seat-selling and of better off, better fed, more gently base corruption, these very fel-treated, more happy and more lows cried out against us more free, than the poor creatures who than any body else did, and said

work and weep for your profit, and whose squalid looks, and lungs choked up with cotton fuz, tell every beholder that they never can live out half their natural lives.

that we abused the right of petition. They applauded the shutting of men up in gaol at the pleasure of CASTLEREAGH and SIDMOUTH; they shouted victory on the 16th of August; in short, they Pretty fellows you, to point out have constantly been the bitter, to the King's Ministers what they the deadly, the basest foes of ought to do with regard to foreign freedom that even the "envy of States! We shall have the roundsurrounding nations" has ever ex-eyed and hook-nosed race of hibited to the world. And now Duke's Place, come, by-and-by, they want the Government to go to to call for measures of state to declare freedom to the South enable them to sell their Oud Clo! Americans, who are in arms Their clothes, though old, are, at against their king! Impudent fel- any rate, better than your stuff, lows! They have great parcels of which "dissolves at the sight of

the washing-tub." If you be per- paper-money, all the bubbles, mitted to tell the King how he is to cotton-lords, fund-lords, seat-lords, carry on his foreign affairs, why the swelling WEN; the whole is should not the Gipseys do the blown to the devil by war. And, same? But, have you, or rather yet, you would run the risk of all have you, Sir James (for those this for the sake of a market for fellows know, and can know, calicoes!" It is said, that Jonothing but about calicoes); have NATHAN has acknowledged the you, Sir James, thought at all of independence of some of the colowhat might possibly be the conse-nies. He gets five per cent. dequences, if the King of the cotton-duction from duties by this; and faz people, and of the people who our petitioning fellows want to are shut up in their houses from get the same. But, they do not sunset to sunrise; if the King of perceive, that Jonathan has no those women who are put three Hanover of his own, and no Belmonths into gaol for crushing five gium in his neighbourhood; that pheasants' eggs; if the King, he has no Guernseys and Jerseys whose Minister wrote the letter of and Gibraltars and Maltas; and, praise to the Manchester Yeo- above all, that he has NO IREmanry Cavalry if that King were LAND! No country in which a to make a formal acknowledg- considerable part of the people ment of the FREEDOM" of colo- are shut up in their houses from nies in a state of rebellion against sunset to sunrise, and, if they quit their king, have you thought of them, are liable to be TRANSthe possible consequences? PORTED; and that, too, without

Kings can play at tit for tat as trial by jury. The impudent cotwell as other people. To be sure, ton-lords do not perceive this. the Powers of the Continent can-If Jonathan had these things, he not prevent us from declaring would not acknowledge indepen Mexico independent of Spain; dence for the sake of five per but, then, we cannot prevent these cent. Powers from declaring Hanover But, the cotton-lords do not independent of our king; nor can perceive this. They perceive nowe prevent them from taking Bel- thing but their cottons. For these gium away from the Dutch king, they were for war; for these they to whom it was given for our se- were for peace; for these they eurity. In short, an acknowledg- cried out against reformers and ment of the independence of the petitions, and for these they are colonies of Spain might, and very now calling out for encourage likely would, lead to war! And, ment to what they call rebellion, have you, Sir James, thought of even at the risk of another war. the consequences of war? A war, Pretty fellows to talk about maktoo, mind, for a market for " cali-ing foreigners have "freedom"! coes!" Do you not see, Sir JAMMY, And the Boroughreeve, too. I rethat, in case of war, the House of member, that it was a BoroughBourbon might retaliate in the reeve of this same Manchester, way of acknowledgments of inde- who announced to me, that, if I pendence? In short, war is certain attempted to go publicly into that destruction to the whole system: town he would INTERFERE.