FROM

COBBETT'S POLITICAL WORKS:

BEING

A COMPLETE ABRIDGMENT OF THE 100 VOLUMES WHICH COMPRISE THE
WRITINGS OF "PORCUPINE AND THE WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER."

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

BY

JOHN M. COBBETT AND JAMES P. COBBETT.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY ANNE COBBETT, 137, STRAND;

AND W. WILLIS, MANCHESTER.

London Printed by Mills and Son, Gough-square Fleet-street.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

To Mr. Baring, on the Workings of the Taxing and Paper Systems

To the Solicitor-General, in answer to his Speech against the Queen .....

Letter from the Queen to the King.

A Passage from a Letter to Earl Grey, on the Distresses of the Nation con-

sequent on Mr. Peel's Bill; on the President Munroe's Message, and on

the expected Revival of Commerce

A New Year's Gift to the Farmers, explaining the Causes of their Present

Embarrassments......

To Mr. Huskisson, on the Poor-Laws and Poor-Rates

To Mr. Attwood. The manifold Blessings of a large Loaf.

To Mr. John Hayes, on Lawyer Scarlett's Poor-Law Bill

To Mr. Coke, on the Question of Large Farms and Small Farms.

The Landlords' Fortune-Teller...

Cobbett's Letters to Landlords. Letter I...

Letter II.

Letter III.....

Letter IV.

....

Letter V..

Letter VI.

Page.

155

167

177

190

196

204

Letter VII...

Letter VIII.

Letter IX.

211

To Mr. Huskisson, on the Effect of Taxation on the Affairs of the Farmer

and the Landlord; particularly addressed to the people of Chichester.. 228

The Farmer's Wife's Friend. Addressed to English Farmers' Wives...... 232

Late Banker Coutts

To any Ploughman, on the recent Report of the Agricultural Committee

To Mr. Western, on the Consequences of Repealing Peel's Bill

A second Letter to Mr. Western, on the Consequences of Repealing Peel's

Bill

To Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., on the Injustice on the part of Landlords, in

holding Tenants to their Leases under the present circumstances..

To Mr. Brougham, on his Doctrine relative to the Privilege of Parliament

with regard to Publications respecting Reports of the Speeches made

in the two Houses

......

To Mr. Ricardo, on his Proposition for Dividing the Land, in order to pay

off the National Debt

To Parson Malthus, on the Population of England

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251

259

273

286

299

317

325

335

To William Wilberforce, on the State of the Cotton-Factory Labourers, and

on the Speech of Andrew Ryding, who cut Horrocks with a cleaver.. 351

To the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on his Speech in the House of Com-

mons on the 23rd Feb. 1824
367

To Sir Francis Burdett, on the Project for Colonizing the People of Ireland 383

To Sir Francis Burdett, on the same. Letter II.

394

To Lord John Russell, on the Report of the Committee of the House of

Cominons appointed to Inquire into the Practice of Paying the Wages of

Labour out of the Poor-Rates; and to consider whether any, and what

Measures can be carried into Execution for the purpose of Altering the

Practice. Letter I.

To Lord John Russell, on the samo. Letter II.

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