in a state of int intoxication; and we may " Ireland," and for "their own" realso here observe, that not a single spected and emphatically their chosen accident occurred to cast a gloom upon representative, "Dr. Baldwin." the proceedings. *** At the village of Glanmire they were met by Mr. Ronayne, who was received by Mr. Cobbett, with all the warmth of an old friend. Mr. Ronayne went into his carriage; Mr. O'Higgins, a gentleman by whom Mr. Cobbett was attended, having resigned to him his seat, and removed to the box, where Mr. Hodnett sat. has been in England, in Wales, in Scotland, in France, and America, he never saw so beautiful an approach to a city: on one side Dunkettle Wood, and on the other the hills of Glanmire, intersected by the glassy and apparently land-locked river, on which there were several boats. keeping pace (if we might so speak) with the procession. At one o'clock, the procession formed in Patrick-street, and in half an hour they were in motion. The carriage of Dr. Baldwin, M. P., led the way. He was accompanied by his son, Master Herbert Baldwin, Messrs. Creedon and O'Donovan, secretaries of the Cork Trades' Association, (who, together with the hon. Member, were to present the Nothing could possibly look more Citizens' Address to Mr. Cobbett,) and beautiful than the progress of the proMr. Rouiere Pearce. Mr. Ronayne's cession, as it wound round the road in carriage followed, and with him were that beautiful valley from Glanmire to Messrs. Thomas Sheahan, M'Eligott, Dunkettle. The scenery was of unriJames Hayes, and Hennessy. The valled beauty; so much so that we have Messrs. O'Keeffe followed, and were heard Mr. Cobbett say that though he succeeded by numerous vehicles and troops of equestrians. Mr. Cobbett was met at Watergrass-hill, over six miles from the city, by a large body of people, headed by an immense banner, and a band of music, and was greeted by Mr. James Hodnett, Mr. Dwyer, of Middleton, and the following gentlemen who were deputed to present the Address of the Letter-press Printers of this When they came near the city the city: Messrs. John Knox, R. O'Conor, throng was terrific, so much so that John Moore, James Archibald Campbell, there was constant apprehension of the Eugene Murphy, James Smith, and lives of children and women, and not John Boylan. The address was printed unfrequently of men, from the prancing on white, satin, in a style that casts of the horses, and the turning of carlasting honour upon the printers of this riages. Repeatedly they were obliged city, and more especially on him that to stop, and as frequently the deafening executed it, Mr. William Oakshott, of shouts of welcome burst simultaneously Mr. Bolster's establishment. Mr. Cob from the crowd. On entering the outbett expressed himself highly gratified, skirts of the town, every window was and said that no mark of respect could crowded with anxious faces asking as he value more. On passing Sallybrook he passed, "Which is he?" many of he received a salute of twenty-one whom we recognised to be not of kinguns from a battery which had been dred politics or feeling with Mr. Cobexpressly constructed for the purpose, and at about a mile and a half outside the village of old Glanmire, he was met by Dr. Baldwin, and the city cavalcade. Dr. Baldwin alighted from his carriage By the new church of St. Patrick the and welcomed Mr. Cobbett to Cork, in crowd stopped. There could not have the most cordial manner. Mr. C. shook been less than seventy thousand souls prehim warmly by the hand, and thanked sent. They gave three thundering cheers him repeatedly. This pause of the for "Mr. Cobbett and Dr. Baldwin." procession was the signal for one loud Numbers crowded round his carriage to hurra from the thronging multitude for have the honour of speaking to him, "Mr. Cobbett, the English friend of and several he shook hands with. We bett, but who were led by irresistible desire to see the historian of the Protestant Reformation, the matchless writer of the Register. (Cheers). It put him in mind of the words of Cassius to Brutus : ང་ལ་ག་ཝཱ The fault is not in our stars, gond Brutus, "But in ourselves, that we are underlings, had forgotten to say that frequently the horses were seized for the purpose of taking them from under the carriage, and drawing him into town, Though Mr. Ronayne requested them to desist they still persevered, and nothing preAfter some other observations, Mr. vented them from paying this highest de Cobbett concluded, and returned by monstration of feeling but the entreaty Academy street to Doctor Baldwin's, of Mr. Cobbett himself, and the expert-Camden-quay, where he was still - folness of the postilion. The procession lowed by thousands. Several toasts were given by the respected host, with appropriate prefaces. The first of which was, "The Reform King.", "The People" was the next. *a denta " Old Ireland,” anaest "The English friend, the Irish peo ple, William Cobbett. 3 pasla The Repeal of the Union."^\ "The Liberator of his country,” Da-" niel O'Connell on Va moved on through Patrick-street, to the Mr. Cobbett dined with Dr. Baldwin, Chamber of Commerce, through the together, with five-and-thirty gentledensest mass of people that ever was men, who were invited to meet him. seen in Cork, with the one exception of They continued to enjoy the proverbial the triumphal entry of our Irish friend, hospitality of the hon. Member till after which was such as no man breathing twelve o'clock, when they dispersed. but Mr. O'Connell could ever expect. Amongst those present were, Messrs. There must have been from eighty a Charles Sugrue, James Minhéar, Richard hundred thousand present. On arriving Ronayne, James Hodnett, Counsellor at the Chamber of Commerce, it was and W. O'Keeffe, Dunbar, Morough, found utterly impossible for Mr. Cobbett Rev. James Daly, Arthur O'Leary, D. to enter it, so the hon. gentleman stood O'Sullivan, Val. Barry, D. Casey, Thoup and said, to those around, that he mas Sheahan, Francis A. Walsh, Jerethanked them sincerely for the cordia- miah O'Sullivan, Fitzgerald, &c. &c. &c. lity of their reception. He said he had received two addresses, one from the citizens of Cork and the other from the printers. He would not attempt to reply to them, they were both of too much importance, and, therefore, he would take sufficient time to prepare a proper reply. (Cheers). There was an expression in the printers' address, an address upon which he set a very great value indeed; it was " "unfortunate country." Now, he disliked the ex- Mr. Cobbett related many adventures pression, it was not a fact. The coun- of his boyish days, when he had to strugtry was not unfortunate, but it was mis-gle against all the disadvantages of managed. (Cheers). Could a country poverty and want of friends, which were in one town of which, (Clonmell), there listened to with the greatest attention were 60,000 hogs slaughtered every by the gentlemen around him, who, year; in which there were 60,000 fir- when breaking up, declared it was one kins of butter sold, and in which so im- of the most pleasant evenings they had mense à quantity of corn was bought, spent during their lives. be an "unfortunate" country. No, it could not. An Englishman never said his" unfortunate" country; he said his ill-treated, his mismanaged country; he could always find some one to blame for it, (cheers); but he never said that the country was unfortunate. No country In the evening, notwithstanding their could be so that had such a fertile soil disappointment, every house at Everas Ireland. It could not be " unfortu-green was illuminated, and several bonnate" unless God made it so; or that it fires and tar barrels were lighted. had been devastated by the elements. On the whole, it must have been most It being generally understood that Mr. Cobbett was to have dined with Mr. Ronayne, of Evergreen, thousands had assembled there, and the roofs of the low thatched cottages were covered with men, women, and children. ment. grateful to Mr. Cobbett, and such as to ance, in the composite structure of show him that if you do good for antociety; you have displayed their Irishman he never will forget it, and paramount dignity; you have eluci always endeavour to return the compl-fated their peculiar interests, by developing the influence of the national debt, of taxation, and of paper currency on the demand for their services, on ADDRES-ES AND ANSWERS. the wages of their labour, on their exYesterday morning at \ten' o'clock penditure, on their independence, and the Deputation of the Citizens and on their happiness; you have thus not Trades Association, consisting of the only asserted inalienable rights, but honourable Member for Cork, Dr. Bald-strenuously laboured to improve their win, and Messrs. Creedon, Carver, and permanent condition. O'Donovan, and the following gentle- For these immense services to their armen, composing the deputation from order, and to humanity, they tender you, the Letter-press Printers, Messrs. John sir, their sincere, respectful, and ardent * Knox, R. O'Conor, James' 'Archibald acknowledgments: and they further Campbell, John Moore, Eugene Mur-beg leave, as Irishmen, to convey to aphy, und John Boylan, were received by Mr. Cobbett in Dr. Baldwin's parlour, when the following addresses and replies were read : 29t ** MR. COBBETT'S REPLY ou, the national gratitude, for your manly, liberal, and powerful opposition, to that Coercion Bill, which annihilated, for a season, the liberties, as it insulted the pride of Ireland: and also for the TO MR. WM. COBBETT, M«P.) u uniformy inclination of your feelings and Sir, The industrious and the la-opinions, as a statesman, in favour of a bouring classes of the inhabitants of country which has been so long the Cork, a numerous and a distressed body victim of internal faction and discord, of men, suffering from the impolicy and ind of British monopoly and imisrule. injust ce of former Governments, and scarcely venturing to hope that the pre seat more popular administration inav rescue them from the overwhelming ruin of an oppressed, and impoverishing country, defraudel of its annual income, Gentlemen, That any class of perby the very act which anihilated a son, in a city, so famed for good sense, once its petition independence, and its public spirit, and political discernment; rising manufactures. These classes, hat any class of persons, in a city, sir, address you, as the powerful, in which has chosen to represent it in Pardefatigable, and faithful advocate of inment that honourable Member who the order to which they belong. You manfully took the lead amongst you on have not confined your services to the this occasion; that I should be honoured members of that order, in your native with an address of approbation from land, but have extended your guardian any class of persons in such a city; but, care, and efficient support to its interests that such an address should come to in almost every state of the civilized me from the industrious and labouring world. You have instructed its mem-lasses of such a city, is an honour bers on their domestic economy, and findeed. on their productive labours; you have Gentlemen, begging you to be asfor their benefit simplified the rudiments ared, that I am fully sensible of the of knowledge, and cleared away from value of this mark of alue of this mark of your approbation; the avenues to the temple of scienciarticipating with you in the very faint and literature, ale zobstructions which retarded their advances, or prevented their appremel to its hallowed precincts; you have demonstrated their inipor ope, that the men now in power may do something to rescue you from the sjate of ruin and dilapidation of trade, ommerce, and manufactures, into 圈 2. That those unjust exactions having ceased, and that application having been made, an equitable adjustment ought to be adopted; that the interest of the debt ought to be justly reduced; and a just liquidation, or just payment of interest, ought to take place. which you have been plunged by their sures recently adopted and pursued. system of monopolizing and central clearly exonerate you and me, gentleizing, which system, if unchecked, men, from all share in the duty of disseems likely at last, to cause even law charging that debt, and this will, i making to be carried on by machinery, trust, clearly appear from these plain moved by steam; trusting that your and undeniable propositions :whole country will seek for redress of 1. That, as was held in the memoyour wrongs, not in supplications to rable petition of the county of Norfolk, the wrong-doers, but in the wise and all unmerited pensions, sinecures, grants, resolute exercise of the power which allowances and public pay of every sort, Ireland now has of choosing men to go ought to cease; and that the Crown to the Parliament, and there demand Lands, and a large part of the public justice in her name, it being impossible property, called church property, ought for me to believe, that any wrong can to be applied to public uses, before one remain existing, with a hundred able farthing ought to be deducted from the and resolute men to demand and insist interest of the debt. upon redress; having thus shortly, but most respectfully expressed to you my sentiments, as to those matters, suffer me to beseech your particular attention to two of the topics alluded to in your highly valued address; namely, the presumptuous pretensions of the aristocracy, and the nature and effects of 3. That the means of this liquidawhat is called the National Debt; with tion, or payment of interest, ought to regard to which I beg leave to state: come out of the general taxes of the That as to the presumptuous preten-country, laid fairly upon all property, sions of the aristocracy, it will be my personal as well as real; upon the duty, in the proper time and place, to fruits of industry, as well as upon the inquire fully and in due form, how they land itself; because, though, the debt came, not by their ribbons and coronets, was evidently and avowedly contracted but by their power, and by the means for the defence of the land; still, as the of upholding that power; to inquire poor-laws gave the whole of the people what portion of their immense posses- a right, in case of need, to come to the sions has had its source in services land and demand a share of its producé, rendered to the state, and what portion to defend the land was, in fact, to dehas sprung from other sources; to in-fend their right to that share; and, quire for what and in what degree they therefore, and only therefore, they were, 'are entitled to the enjoyment of public in conscience, and in accordance with power, and of respect and veneration the law of the land, bound to contribute from those who live under that power; from the fruit of their labour, towards to inquire in short, and to inquire le- the just liquidation, or towards the gally and methodically, who they are, payment of just interest of the debt. whence they sprung, what they have 4. That now, however, all is done for us, in order that we may duly changed! That an act has been estimate their value, and that we may, passed, which abrogates the poorin obedience to the precept of Holy laws; that the Lord High Chancellor Writ, cheerfully render honour to whom proposed this act upon the express honour is due. ground, that the people have no claim That, with regard to that prodigious whatever to any share of the rent, or and portentous phenomenon in the poli- fruit of the land, though, to have relief tical region, curiously enough called the therefrom, is necessary to save their nation's debt, while everything pur-lives; that, in many cases, the people chased with money is called the King's, have upon this principle, been driven principles recently proclaimed, and mea- off the land; as having no right to be upon it, though born upon it; and that philosopher, the scholar and the gentlein consequence of such driving off, man, the universal lover of mankind, "vast numbers of them have perished and their liberties, both civil and reof want." 5. That, therefore, in a debt, contracted for the purpose of defending the land, the people, who own no land, can have no share; and that they ought not to be called upon to pay in any way whatsoever, out of the fruits of their labour, any portion of either the principal, or the interest of such debt. ligious, it could not be expected that you should not make one amongst the few, the too few, unhappily, we are obliged to say, of your fellow-countrymen, who strive to redress the evils with which this ill-fated land is afflicted. Yet, sir, we look forward with the most ardent hope for the time when, with the assistance of such kindred and noble 6. That the fruits of the labour of spirits as yours, and from the rapid the people, being thus wholly released progress which intelligence and the from all contracts and obligations ap- wish of asserting the rights of human pertaining to the debt, the debt clearly nature are making in the breasts of becomes a mortgage, a real, a bona fide, men, we may hail the light of freedom a tangible, mortgage on the estates of and happiness dispelling the clouds of those, who borrowed, or who gave oppression and inisrule, which have so their assent to the borrowing of the long darkened the horizon of this unmoney, including (with the nation's fortunate country. Happy, sir, to be consent) those parcels of public pro-able to pay you this slight testimony of perty, called crown and church pro- our esteem and gratitude, for your exerperty; and that, as to the mode of sa-tions in the cause of Ireland, and of tisfying this mortgage by making those mankind in general. estates legally available for a purpose so manifestly consonant with equity and honesty, the lenders, or stock-holders, may, I trust, safely rely on the sound sense and the justice of the people, and on the wisdom, the "good faith" and the "vigour" of a reformed Parliament. We remain, sir, ever gratefully yours, &c. J. KNOX, Chairman, R. O'CONNOR, Secretary. [On behalf of the Cork Typographical Association.] MR. COBBETT'S REPLY TO THE MEM- THE ADDRESS OF THE CORK TYPOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION, TO WM. Gentlemen, I have felt peculiar COBBETT, ESQ., M.P. FOR OLDHAM. pleasure in receiving this address, that Sir,-We the members of the Cork pleasure being greatly heightened by Typographical Association, feeling it the circumstances of the time, the place, our duty, in common with the rest of and the interesting manner in which our fellow-citizens, and proud and high-you did me the honour to present it to ly gratified at having the opportunity me. on this occasion of being able to do so, In young men enthusiasm is always step forward with enthusiasm to wel-natural and becoming; and you by come your arrival in this our native meeting me many miles on the road, city, and to return you with the most in my approach towards your beautiful heartfelt gratitude and satisfaction, our city, and the representing to a man who sincere thanks, for your truly patriotic has written more than a hundred voand disinterested conduct, in so strenu-lumes with his own hand, and who has, ously advocating at all periods, the perhaps, caused type to be pressed upon amelioration of the wrongs and de-a greater breadth of paper than would gradations, which our unhappy and cover over half the county of Cork; distracted country has so long la-you, gentlemen, knowing that in all boured under. But, sir, in recog-those volumes not one sentence hostile nising in you the philanthropist and the to true religion, hostile to morality, hos |
