or by any body else, without seeing preciated, and that should never be forwhat those schemes are, and to what gotten, give you peculiar claims on the consequences they lead. Do not mind gratitude of the Irish people. The a little expense in giving effect to my members of the Meath Independent wishes as to this matter. If there be Club come forward with delight to join nobody in other counties to do their their countrymen in hailing your arrival duty to the working people, no man shall on their shores, and offering you an ever have to say that that duty was affectionate welcome. neglected by to Your faithful friend, WM. COBBETT. Whilst the literary productions which have immortalized your name, impart delight and instruction to the mind, P.S. I have, three successive nights, the biography of their author will innumerous assemblies (consisting culcate on the heart the cheering reflecchiefly of gentlemen or persons of pro- tion, that monopoly however protected, perty) in this city, urged the justice and and despotism however fortified, can necessity of POOR-LAWS for Ireland; sometimes be subdued and broken down and, not only poor-laws, but our poor-by individual energy, fortitude, and perlaws; the act of Queen Elizabeth, ALL severance. the act, and NOTHING BUT the act. From the commencement of your poliI have maintained the RIGHTS of the tical career, when you began to plant poor, by an appeal to the laws of God, thorns in the pillow of corruption, up. and the laws of England; and, I have to your return to Parliament for Oldthe pleasure to tell you, that I was ham, you have been pursued as a victim heard with the greatest possible atten- to be immolated to the Moloch of tion, indulgence, and kindness; and tyranny and monopoly. Ignorance of this kindness has, indeed, marked the their real interests caused your countryconduct of every one in Ireland towards men to look for some time with apathy me.-Get all my people together, in the on your persecutions; but proscripevening, or on Sunday, and read these tions, fines, and dungeons, only renderletters to them; and remember me to ed the many extraordinary incidents of farmers WEST and FAGOTTEN and your life the more interesting. CuBARRY and HORNE and to all the rest riosity gave way to sympathy; inquiry of my neighbours. And tell farmer to conviction; until the nation, disabused HORNE, who, like the primitive teachers of its errors, broke down the out works of Christianity, preaches on the Sunday, of the infamous system against which you and most laudably mows his barley on combated, and left the names of its dethe Monday, that I hope, that his cows, which I forgave so often, will not, its ruins. The Percevals, the Castleduring my absence, give way to their reaghs, the Liverpools, are buried in luxurious, inordinate, and most ungodly reputation as well as in person, whilst appetites, so far as still to covet my their prisoner and exile William Cobcorn, when they have pasture of their bett lives exalted in station, and honourown, and while my humble-minded and ed in character. frugal heifers are content with the pickings of the common. TO MR. WILLIAM COBBETT, M.P. fenders written in terms of execration on The professors and ministers of a faith, for which the Irish have forfeited every temporal consideration, you have vindicated from the calumnies of centuries, and the hereditary prejudices of your fellow-countrymen. You have removed the rubbish of inveterate slanders from the pages of English history;). dissipated in your own days the errors which spring from those sources of delusion, and smooth the road to that li SIR,-In any civilized country where justice is esteemed, and literature admired, your character and your writings would entitle you to the highest respect and the most honourable reception. Services that cannot be too highly ap-berty we now enjoy. Besides these considerations, gentle When such a man comes to visit our duty, this address from you mast and country, in order to know the sources of will give me great support. its calamities, with a view of exposing them, before those who can apply suit-men, I have particular pleasure in reable remedies, it becomes our duty to manifest a proper sense of his motives and objects. With these sentiments we venture to express a hope you will honour. Meath with a visit, a county which yields to no other in Ireland in esteem and veneration for the name and services of William Cobbett... Dated at a special meeting of the club, at Navan, on the 24. of September, 1834. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ceiving this address from the county of Dublin, 28. Sept., 1831. I shall here insert: 1. The statement from the True Sun of the brother of Mr. W. AUSTIN, relative to the affairs of that brother. The reader will see what an affair this is; and he will also see, that this affair must come before the GENTLEMEN, I thank you for the Parliament; for, this is precisely a great honour you have done me, in pre-case in which for that body to give resenting to me this elegantly written ad- dress. dress; which, however, honourable as 2. I shall insert an account of my it is to me, I chiefly value on account proceedings here, as published in the of the effect which it is likely to have in Morning Register, published by Mr. England, at this critical time, when STAUNTON, to whom I owe great gratidesperate and half-mad and half-tude for his very kind behaviour todrunken and inordinately greedy Scotch-wards me. men are bent upon an attempt to pre- 3. A letter by General Cockburn, on vail on the Parliament to adopt mea- the subject of a repeal of the union;. sures for reducing the people of Eng- and my English readers should know, land to the state of those of Scotland, that, besides being a General in the who are now robbed of those Christian army, Sir GEORGE COCKBURN is a con laws which their fathers established siderable landowner in Ireland, and three hundred years ago; an attempt, constantly resides on one of his eswhich, if it were to succeed, must tates. render the lot of Ireland worse than it is now. 4. The report of the speeches of Messrs. Attwood and Scholefield, at These Scotch monsters of the school Birmingham, at a dinner given to, of the Parson MALTHUS, it is, at present, them there. I insert these, not only as my great object to combat, by explain-containing the sentiments of those two ing fully to the people of England the gentlemen, but as a mark of my respect means which these monsters are employ- for them, on account of their upright ing, and the object they have in view; conduct in Parliament. and my business to Ireland is to see, and tell the people of England, what is the TO CORRESPONDENTS. state of Ireland, what is the extent of I BEG, that until my return to Engher sufferings, what are the causes of these, and what they ought to do, land, no one will give himself the trouble not only to prevent similar sufferings to write to me, on any subject whatsoA man cannot do more than one` from being inflicted on themselves, ever. but what they ought to do, to rescue thing well at one time. I have quite Ireland from her sufferings: and, gen- enough to do here; and I will never, tlemen, in the performing of this my till I am again in Engladores 1 any letter that shall come to me from England. Some inconvenience may arise from this, and possibly some injury; but, these I must submit to. At any rate, such is my determination. MR. WM. AUSTIN. my authority, and appropriated to his all times open to the public for redress, "To Mr. S. Austin." and ready to espouse the cause of the This was the first official intimation injured and oppressed by any abuse of (if I may so term it) that my family repower or otherwise, I take leave to sub-ceived of my brother being in the state mit to you the following statement, in therein described, and on receipt thereof the hope that you will deem the same of I immediately wrote to Messrs. Marietti, sufficient importance to appear therein. requesting to be informed what steps it In the month of December, 1828, my would be necessary to take to have my brother, Mr. William Austin, who had brother conveyed home; whether it been brought up by her late Majesty, would be necessary to apply to the law Queen Caroline, from the age of four authorities in Italy to permit his remonths, in every respect as her own son, but who at her decease was left comparatively destitute, went abroad to eke out his small income; and twelve months having passed without hearing from him caused great surprise in the minds of his parents and relatives, and repeated applications were made by me to her late Majesty's executors and possession at the time he was taken ill, friends, to know if they had heard from, and every other information in their or could give any information respecting power; to which letter I was never him; but the only persons who conde-favoured with an answer. moval, and what would be the expense; what was the name of the establishment in which he was confined, where situate, and the name of the proprietor; what was the state of his health, was there any probability of his recovery, in what manner was his income expended, what had become of the property in his scended to reply were, Lady Anne Ha- Dr. Lushington having arrived in town milton, Lord Hood, and Alderman about the middle of August, I had an Wood, and their answers were in the interview with him on the 24. for the negative. Another year passed, but still purpose of obtaining more precise inno intelligence, and his family became formation than that contained in his greatly alarmed for his safety. At length letter, and among other things particu in the month of June, 1831, his rela-larly requested to know in what part of tives heard that he had been and then Italy my brother was, how long he had was very ill. I immediately wrote a been in the state described in his letter, circular to her late Majesty's executors and whether he could not be brought and friends for information on the sub-home, when he informed me that he did ject, and to know to whom the divi- not know in what part of Italy the dends arising from his property were to asylum was situate, except that it was be remitted, and how expended; but in the Austrian dominions, but that he only one of the former condescended to could ascertain; that my brother had reply, and the following is his answer: been in the condition above mentioned "Stanmore, July 29, 1831. two years, and that he could not be "SIR,-In reply to your letter I have brought home for less than 500l., for to inform you that Mr. W. Austin is in that being in the Austrian dominions a state of lanacy, and has for some time his removal could not be effected withbeen confined in a lunatic asylum in out an order from the supreme court at Italy. The dividends are received under Vienna, to procure which would alone cost 2507. I then inquired whether my brother's property could not be made available to defray those expenses, and was informed that his money was invested in the funds in his own name, therefore could not be touched, and that when he went abroad he gave Messrs.rating my inquiries, and also requested Coutts a power of attorney to receive to be informed whether, if I or either the dividends, and remit them to him, of my brothers were to go out to bring but no power to sell any part of the my brother William home, he would be stock, and said he hoped that I was not delivered up; and if not, what obstacles going to stop the dividends. On my there would be to surmount. I likewise return to the city I called upon Messrs. requested to be furnished with a notarial Coutts, and received similar information or other legalized certificate of the state from them as to the power of attorney, my brother was in, together with a list and remitting of the dividends, and on of the articles said to be taken care of my informing them that Messrs. Main the establishment; but up to the prerietti had not answered my letter, they sent hour have never been favoured with undertook to forward an application to an answer. those gentlemen; therefore, on the 26. August, I wrote them in the names of my parents precisely to the effect before stated; to which my father, through an indirect channel, received the following reply: applications, and particularly as to where) the asylum is situate, and the steps necessary to be taken to have my brother sent home, was deemed unsatisfactory, and therefore immediately on the receipt thereof I again wrote Messrs. M., reite "12, Size-lane, Sept. 20, 1831. "SIR,-We have just received a letter from Messrs. Marietti, of Milan, dated 7. September, in which they request us to inform you, in reply to your letter to them of the 26. of August, that your son is still in M. Dufoun's establishment, in the same state of health, and that to have him conveyed home, it would be absolutely necessary to bind him, besides having a person on purpose to accompany him, or the consequences would be fatal. All the things he has are taken care of in the establishment; and with respect to the disposal of his income, Messrs. Marietti have furnished accounts both to the executors and Messrs. Coutts. Over and above what has been remitted, Messrs. Marietti have advanced upwards of 1201., which sum is still due to them, and for which they have been long expecting remittances from England. "We are, "Sir, your obedient servants, "Mr. Samuel Austin." This letter being silent as to the greater part of the inquiries made in my Finding that my applications to Messrs. Marietti were unnoticed, I was obliged to content myself with making occasional inquiries of her late Majesty's executors and friends, but without obtaining any further intelligence. At length my father, who had been for a considerable time in a declining state, was taken dangerously ill, and died on the 18. August, 1832; a day or two previous to which he urged and made have my brother brought home. On me promise to use every exertion to the 29. of that month I again wrote to Messrs. Marietti for the before-mentioned particulars and certificate, and hoping that if I forwarded my letter through Messrs. Coutts I should obtain an answer. I took it to those gentlemen, who promised that it should be sent; in the mean time I apprized Dr. Lushington of my father's decease, requesting an appointment to see him, and on the 20. September, accompa nied by a younger brother, had an interview with him at his chambers, when we informed him of the dying wish of our father, and urged him to see what could be done; but he merely reiterated his former statement about the supreme court, the 500l. expense, &c. Having waited till the middle of October without hearing from Messrs. Marietti in reply to my letter of the 29. August, I wrote Messrs. Coutts to know if they had received any commu nication from them, and if not, requested that they would in their next letter to those gentlemen have the kindness to remind them of my application, to which I received the following answer: which application I received the following reply: "London, 15. Jan. 1833. "SIR,—In reply to your letter of the 14. instant, we beg to inform you, that the accounts you refer to, sent to us by "Strand, London, 17. Oct. 1832. Messrs. Marietti and Co., of Milan, were "SIR,-In reply to your letter of yes-forwarded by us to Dr. Lushington imterday's date, we beg to inform you that mediately we received them, and we we have not received any communica- can only refer you to that gentleman tion from Messrs. Marietti relative to for any information you may require Mr. William Austin for a considerable relative to the affairs of your brother, time past; we will however, in our next Mr. William Austin. letter to them, request they will inform us of the state of Mr. William Austin's) health, and when we receive their reply we will make you acquainted with it. We are, sir, "Your obedient servants, "Mr. Samuel Austin." "We are, sir, "Your obedient servants, "COUTTS and Co. "Mr. Samuel Austin." Having waited till the 6. of March "COUTTS and Co. following, in the vain hope of hearing -And on the 12. of the next month I received the following note, viz : "Messrs. Coutts and Co. beg to inform Mr. Austin, that the following is an extract of a letter they have this day received from Messrs. Marietti and Co., of Milan, in reply to the inquiry they made at his request relative to his bro ther : With respect to Mr. Austin, he is still in the same state of imbecility, and declared incurable. We have obtained a certificate from the director of the hospital in which he resides, and which we shall transmit to his brother. "Strand, 12. Nov. 1832.'" from Messrs. Marietti with the certificate, and with information as to the steps to be taken to get my brother home, I wrote Dr. Lushington of the applications I had made to them, and all the correspondence that had passed requested to be favoured with a copy of between him and Messrs. Marietti or any other person on the subject, and also for copies of the above-mentioned newed my application on the 16., and accounts, and receiving no answer, reon the 18. received the following note : Mr.Austin,-On Mr. Sergeant Wilde's return to town, who is, as you know, coexecutor with me, I will make known to him your communications. "I am yours obediently, "18. March, 1833." But the certificate has never been received by me, nor any member of my family, and except the letter of Messrs. Obicini, of September, 1831, no com- I have since made a great number of munication of any description has ever similar applications to Dr. Lushington been received from Messrs. Marietti. (indeed were I to set them forth, they Concluding, therefore, that it was not would swell this letter, already, I fear, the intention of those gentlemen to give too long, to such an extent as to prethe information I requested, I applied to clude all hopes of your permitting it to. Messrs. Coutts for copies of the accounts appear) but without success; at length transmitted to them by Marietti, with a in the month of December,. I received a view of seeing in what manner my bro-communication from him, stating that ther's property was spent ; also of ascer- he had sent the then last letter I had taining why it was that during the first written him to Messrs. Vizard and Letwo years of his alleged insanity upwards man, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, who were,·· of 1201. beyond his income should have as he said, better informed upon the been expended, and whether such in-subject, than he was, and referred me to creased expenditure was continued, to them." I accordingly applied to these |