for what; I myself wanted to know for what, and I could not discover that for what in anything that he had said, and surely not in anything that he had ever done.

What does experience tell us then? To say nothing of NICHOLAS being Emperor, instead of CONSTANTINE; to say nothing of LOUIS-PHILIPPE, now well known to be keeping the nest warm for the other Bourbon; let us look a little at home, and see how invariably this

Now, do not cry out, "Nothing contents this COBBETT"! Do not join in that cuckoo-cry. I shall tell you pre-game has been played here. sently that I am now pretty well content We saw ADDINGTON step into the with Lord DURHAM; but, for God place of PITT, and carry on the sysAlmighty's sake, do recollect OLD tem with new vigour; we saw PITT GLORY; and do, oh! do not forget support him; when he was worn out, the citizen King, LOUIS PHILIPPE! Do we saw PITT come again, and we saw pray remember what a bawling there ADDINGTON support PITT. Death came was against me, in France, as well as in and took PITT away; but even death England, when I denounced that pretty made no breach in the system; the fellow, within one week of his installa-GRENVILLES had been cast out before tion. Do recollect that I was pretty by Pirr, or had drawn themselves nearly a whole year before the main away; the Whigs came in now; but body of this nation, in foretelling what came in with the patriotic GRENVILLEs, would be the result of his elevation who had been amongst the creators of Recollect that it was not a fortnight the system. Next came the Duke of before I unveiled the whole matter; PORTLAND, with PERCEVAL: the Duke, showed that his elevation arose from an old Whig, and an enemy of PITT. a secret compact with CHARLES the Thus it drawled along half Whig, half Tenth, and proved that the leaders Tory, till the time of the Duke of WEL amongst the Peers and the Deputies LINGTON, who was a stranger, as it were, were parties to the villanous compact; to politics; and now how stands it? and predicted that the thing must end Even the reform has made no change in in a worse government than that which this respect. PALMERSTON had been existed before. cast out by WELLINGTON; and there he Come, come; let us not be hum-is in the new set. And my Lord ALbugged: let us hope that this Lord THORP himself, what, I should like to DURHAM may be supported for our good; know, of a politician is he, other than an but let us have a foundation for that old Pittite? His father came off as a hope, and not hope away, helter-skelter, detached branch of the Whig faction to without consideration, and without ask-the support of the Tory faction, when ing ourselves why we entertain the hope? the whole system was in danger: Lord Nothing has been more common than ALTHORP himself, as a member of the for bands of tyrants, or public robbers, House of Commons, supported the or political factions; nothing has been Pitt system: he is now supporting it in more common, than for these, and par- another character, that is all: to use the ticularly the latter, when they see that expression of the old hack, BURKE, "le THEY can carry on their work no lon-" varies his means to preserve the unity ger; nothing has been more common than for them to cast out one of the band, make him a patriot, to cajole the people and gather them round him, and by his means, bring them back again and grind them as fiercely as before. Now, Even royalty itself furnishes us with do not begin your exclamations about these detached patriots; and this is well never contented," "over-suspicious."worthy of your attention at this time. and" liking nobody," and "quarreling Remember that, in the time of George with a shadow"; but, like a sensible the Second, his son and heir (father of man, have patience and bear me out. George the third) was always a patriotic

"of his end"; aye, my friend, and that end is, keeping the people in subjection, and taking from them their earnings so as to leave them only just enough for them to live and work upon.

opponent of the court. It is well known so; and I think it judicious in the people to ourselves, that Big George the Fourth of GLASGow to do what they have done was the patriot par excellence, was al-all that I ask is, of them and of you of ways making complaints of his fa- NEWCASTLE, that you will move no further, and his father of him. When he ther than the people of GLASGOW have came to the regency and the throne, he already moved, until DEEDS shall had no son to be a patriot; but he had come to make good these professions. brother Sussex to be opposed to his There is another view to take of this Ministry all his life; and there is bro-matter. The bringing forward of Lord ther Sussex now opposed to the Tories, DURHAM, and supporting him in the though no one knows that the court is manner so efficaciously begun at GLASnot in their favour. Gow, is a mode of attacking and pulling Come, come, then; let the rest of down ANOTHER MAN, who is now the nation; let the whole world be pretty generally disliked as well as conhumbugged; but make an exception, temned, and who is supposed to be O God! in the town of NEWCASTLE- working his way into the support of the UPON-TYNE. Tories. Now, as to this matter, I put But, now, do I then believe that Lord this question to myself: "Is it for the DURHAM is insincere in his declared" good of the country that we pull down wishes for triennial Parliaments," that other man?" When the roundhouseholder suffrage, and voting by robin of the members of Parliament had ballot? Do I believe that he is a hy- been signed to keep Lord ALTHORP in pocrite to the extent of declaring what his place, I asked a member what could he declared at GLASGOW? Now, my have induced him to sign it, I knowing answer is this: I do not, and cannot, that this was one of the members who. know enough of Lord DURHAM to say had voted for a repeal of the malt-tax, positively what I believe upon the sub-and who was opposed to the Poor-law ject. I very well remember that he, Bill. His answer was, that ALTHORP, when in the House of Commons, pro-at any rate, was an honest mun, and a posed householder suffrage, and trien-man of excellent character. "That," nial Parliaments; but this it is that puz-said I," is the very reason why I wish zles me, that he, while he applauds Lord" him out: it is that accursed good chaGREY, from whom he knows the people" racter which makes us pay malt-tax, tore by violence even a ten-pound suf- and makes people vote for this Poorfrage, that he should make this profes- "law Bill. It is the system that I want sion of wishes, and at the same time," to see changed, and, for that reason, bid us applaud Lord GREY. I do not" I want to see it in such hands as to say, and it would be unjust in me to say cause it to be abandoned by good it, that the whole band, seeing, at last," men." Now, sir, the man whom you that they cannot longer push on the are seeking to pull down with so much system; learning, and especially from eagerness, is the man of all men to pull the indications at the blaze at Westmin-down the system itself; and from the ster, that they have completely lost the bottom of my soul I believe, that if he hearts and the confidence of the people; were to become the Prime Minister, we that the people have entirely escaped should have every thing that we want from their powers of deception; I do in a short space of time; that, like not say, that the whole band, perceiving HERCULES, he would lay about him, and that the people have left them, have de- finish his labours at last in somewhat tached him out to lure them back; and the same way, in which that famous dethat he is now playing the part of an stroyer of monsters took his leave of instrument appointed for this purpose; the world. It is well enough to talk though this has been done before in so and to write about an amelioration of many cases, still I do not say this of the system; but, when we speak frankly Lord DURHAM, or say that I think it of to one another, we all say that there him. I would feign hope that it is not must be an uprooting, before we can

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come back to any thing like the ancient traordinary produce from plants of all government of England; before the na-sorts, has been the great delight of my tional power can be restored and the life, and it sticks to me to the last safety and honour of his Majesty's throne Never was schoolboy more eager to get. secured. I want to see all the innova-from school to play, than I am to get tions completely swamped; and my from the Parliament House to the fields opinion is that this is the man to swamp of my own corn, cabbages, turnips, them. Push him, however, by all means; mangel wurzel, and beds of all sorts of drive him about to SALISBURY and to seeds. This is no harin, but good, even FAREHAM, and to mechanics' institutes to the politics. The contrast is so great at MANCHESTER, or anywhere; push him that to move from one to the other seems hard; make him begin to feel, or fancy like a complete new creation of faculty: his seat insecure. In proportion as he at any rate, I drive both the concerns on thinks that, he will become desperately at some rate or another. The maxim patriotic; he will pour out reforms upon that, "if the devil find a man idle, he is us, I'll warrant you; he will out-bid my sure to set him to work," has no terrors Lord DURHAM; and as at an auction, for me; being always at one or the other, there is no respect of persons, I am and coming fresh at each; so that, in for the highest bidder; and as I am spite of age, the vigour always remains. satisfied that the owner of the bird's nest To speak as a seedsman, I shall have, could have more got out of him than the on the 1. of January and thereafter, unowner of the coal-mines, I, as at present til the next June, Swedish turnip seed,. advised, do declare, that i am for the red and white mangel-wurzel seed, cabformer, thanking the latter, very sin-bage seed, carrot and parsnip seed, and cerely, for the aid that he has given us all other garden seeds, which I shall in keeping up the biddings.

sell at Bolt-court, in bags of two sizes, These, dear sir, are my sentiments the large ones for a pound, the small upon the subject; and I have communi- ones for ten shillings. Those who discated them to you in this manner as a like the seeds on account of the politics, mark of my personal respect, and of my must go elsewhere and take their admiration of your pablic spirit and very LUCK; those who are not quite fools great talents. With the best wishes for enough for that will, if they choose, buy the happiness and prosperity of the ex- my seeds, and if they do not choose, cellent people of GATESHEAD and New-they will let it alone. I reckon cabCASTLE,

I remain

Your faithful and
Most obedient servant,..
WM. COBBETT.

GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS.

bage seed amongst field seeds. I have, perhaps, about two hundred weight, saved this year. I will sell none of it under eight shillings a pound. One pound is enough for any farm in England; and if two hundred sensible farmers could see my cabbage-fields, and see the troops of cattle and of hogs that are kept upon them, they would, if I were so unreasonable as to demand I COULD sell some now; but I am so it, freely give five pounds for every circumstanced as to render it very in-pound of the cabbage seed. It is now convenient to me to do it before the 1. of January, which is quite soon enough. One great object in my having a farm was, to have the meaus of raising ge- In coming to Ireland I stopped two nuine seeds; and to have them in such nights at BIRMINGHAM, and went to quantities as never to be tempted to sell see the farm of Mr. WILLIAM Martin, any seed that I was not sure would grow, at KING's NORTON; and there I saw and not disappoint the purchaser. To seven acres of ground, which I saw a raise perfectly good seed; to have ex-sort of swampy meadow three years,

more than seven years since I began to bestow the infinite pains which I have bestowed in the raising of these seeds..

year there will be four crops of cabbages
upon the same piece of ground, or upon
any other piece of ground that I choose
to select for the purpose; and, at the
very lowest estimate, the acre of ground
will produce sixty tons of cabbages,
without a weed or a bit of grass ever
being seen in the ground.

before; but which has since been again and re-formed the ridges, and
trenched on my plan, as directed in my other plants came and supplied their
gardening book, and my book called place; and before I left home, which
the "WOODLANDS"; a larger crop of was on the 9. of September, this new
vegetables than I think I ever saw on plantation was loaved, white fine cab-
any one seven acres in my life. A part bages, ready to be begun upon, from
of this crop consisted of cattle-cabbages, plants which were actually sowed on
which were planted at four feet apart the 21. of May. Being short of plants
each way; and the main part of which, I did not follow up throughout the
I am satisfied, weighed twenty pounds piece, but left the stumps, as I said be-
each. Upon a statute acre there would fore. Those stumps have now, I hear,
be two thousand seven hundred and plenty of white loaved cabbages upon
twenty cabbages, which, at twenty them, some of them three or four upon
pounds each, would weigh twenty-a stump. The young plantation is fol-
three tons and about seventeen hun-lowing regularly on; and this second
dred weight. I am against these large crop upon the same ground in the same
cabbages. They were sowed in August, summer will be, I believe, full as large
1833; they were planted out in Feb-as the first. This crop will be followed
ruary or March, 1834. They are fit to by plants which will have loaves by the
use now. I planted out comparatively latter end of April; so that the next
small garden cabbages in the middle of
March; I began feeding with the white
loaves on the 1. of June. In some part
of the ground I pulled up the stumps,
and in other parts of it I cut off the
heads and left the stumps standing
and I kept feeding with the loaves until
about the 24. of August. Now, anind,
my rows were four feet one inch and a I ordered two rows, the stumps of
half apart, in order to bring four of which to be saved, of this second crop
them within a rod; so that, the cab-of cabbages. Each row contained about
bages being at fifteen inches apart in five hundred plants. I had seen them
the row, here were fifty-three cabbages twice every day for a month or six
upon a rod, instead of seventeen cab weeks; but after I was ready to come
bages upon a rod,. The average weight away, I went a quarter of a mile to take
of my cabbages was five pounds. There one more look at them, and I could not
were many that weighed ten; but also discover one single plant which, whe-
many which did not weigh five. I do, ther in stump, height, form, hardness
however, understate the weight, when of loaf, or any other point, differed from
say an average of five pounds. Here, any other one in the whole thousand
then, were 8,480 cabbages upon the plants, though the plants had been taken
acre, which, at five pounds a cabbage, promiscuously out of the bed in which
make 42,400 pounds weight; or nine- they were sowed. I was very proud
teen tons, all but sixteen pounds.
indeed of this. I had saved the seed at
Now observe, while cabbages are in KENSINGTON with pains, and with a
the seed-bed they take up no room and degree of care and anxiety such as no
cost nothing; when planted out they one could conceive; but it is worth all
Occupy ground. Mine went out at the the pains and all the care. And it is an
time that Mr. MARTIN'S did; but mine encouragement for any other man to do
were ripe and consumed before his could the same. When I get upon these sub-
be touched; and what followed upon jects I am what the French call a ba-
his same ground? My plough was con-vard; but these are matters that we
santly going as fast as weeds appeared ought to talk of; and at any rate the
etween my cabbages. When the first talking of them can do my readers no
ows were cleared off the plough went harm.

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The cattle-cabbage, besides its yield-the more, and ten times the more, taking but one crop in the year, on the same ing the country all through; but that it land, comes only in November and the will be sold the more even in the city of winter; and it is in the summer that PHILADELPHIA itself, and under the nose you want cabbages much more than in of NICHOLAS BIDDLE himself, and of his the winter, when you have Swedish London associates, Oh! what a glory turnips and mangel wurzel. The cab-to me, that I am able to drop the hot bages come in summer, as well as spring lime upon the backs of these devouring and fall, and keep your cattle out of the slugs, even from such a distance: that, meadows and, besides all this, there is sitting quietly at my farm, amused with the superior quality of the small cab- the chirping of the birds in the day, and bages; which, I believe, is very nearly lulled to sleep by the carolling of the two to one, though the half-drunken, nightingale, I am able to drive to distraclaudanum-drenched, and quarter-part- tion the bands of fraudulent scoundrels,

insane Scotch may, perhaps, messing up politics with agriculture, think that reducing the cattle even to a coarser sort of food will tend "to save the estates of the landlords "!

HISTORY OF GEORGE THE
FOURTH.

YOUNG MEN,

who are plundering my kind and hospitable friends, the farmers of America!

THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE. TO MR. STAUNTON, OF THE MORNING REGISTER.

Dublin, 29. October, 1834. DEAR SIR, I have read in that cor

THIS work is now completed and published in two volumes, in the most perfect manner possible, with chronolo-rupt and all-corrupting paper, the Longical table and index. don Times of the 27. of this month of read it; and then you will not be hum-October, one of the most, if not the bugged! Then you will see all about most, infamous of the publications that the hero of WATERLOO; and all about ever read even in that paper, which the million and a half of taxes which I have known for thirty years to be enthat fine victory has saddled us with, gaged, with very little exception, in the annually, for ever; then you will see support of every species of corrupt how this nation has been hoodwinked government, and in advocating every and deceived. Then you will see the measure of oppression and tyranny, alcause of all the troubles, amongst which ways relying for its reward on the the THING is now reeling about. base, money-loving, monopolizing plunderers of the people in and about Lon- | don. The article to which I allude relates to that which is now, with great propriety, called "THE O'CONNELL This book of mine has been repub- TRIBUTE." Under other circumstances, lished at NEW YORK, and has been driv-I might have been excused for contenting the rag-rooks to madness. The ing myself with a bare expression of booksellers of PHILADELPHIA; all hung upon the hooks of NICHOLAS BIDDLE; every man of them an accommodated insolvent; have held a meeting, and have "voted unanimously," that none of them will sell the book! Whom God means to destroy, he first makes mad. Here, too we see the rum and the laudanum and the insanity at work; for is it possible that these supreme jackasses can fail to perceive, that not only will the book sell

LIFE OF JACKSON.

my abhorrence of this instance of the villany of this paper. But the circamstance in which I am now placed having given me a perfect knowledge of all the facts relating to this matter, it would be a shameful abandonment of my duty not to endeavour to remove from the minds of the people of England the impressions which the audacious falsehoods of the above-named paper-are calculated to produce in those minds. This Ishall