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of comparison; the number of persons VI. But as the cities and boroughs to each square mile in the county; the are, in the Table No. II, not accompanumber of acres of land to each person nied by a statement of their population, in the county; the number of acres of TABLE No. III. gives them with their land to each house in the county; the population in their new boundaries; whole of the male population in 1821, and also the counties of England with no distinction, in this respect, hav-their present population, separate from ing been made in the last return; that of the cities and boroughs; and number of agricultural families, handi- then the total population of each craft families, and other families, all county, and the total number of memaccording to the return of 1821, no bers that each county is to return. information of this sort being given in WALES, for want of any return relative the last return; number of agricultural to it respecting these matters is given males in the county; number of able (as to its population) in this Table withlabourers ; number of acres of land in out the distinctions just mentioned. the county to each of its able labourers! VII. In order that no part of this In a table like this, containing such a most interesting and most memorable mass of figures, it was next to impossi-change, made by the Reform-law, may ble to avoid, either in author or printer, be left without information relative to something in the way of error, and one, it, and that information may be always and I believe only one, has been committed here; and that is, in the state ment of the number of acres of land to each person and to each house in the county of Middlesex. As I firmly believe, that a fiftieth part as much really useful information was never before given in so small a compass; so am I quite sure, that a hundredth part as much was never before published at a similar price. This Table, the whole of which the reader sees at two openings of the book, has cost me, first and last, months of labour.

at hand, Table No. IV. gives the names of all the rotten boroughs wholly cashiered, and also of those halfcashiered, by the Act of 4. June, 1832, together with the counties in which they are, and the number of voters which they formerly had, this being matter which never ought to be effaced from the minds of Englishmen.

Such is the book that I now present to my readers; and if it prove tiresome to them, I beseech them to think of what it must have been to its author! It has done one thing for me, at any rate: it has at last taught me, at the end of three-score years of labour, that there is something that can fatigue; and it is a truly curious fact that I am putting this on paper in the VERY ROOM in which Dr. JOHNSON wrote his plaintive preface to the prodigious production of his patient toil.

WM. COBBETT.

No. 11, Bolt-court, 28 June, 1832.

V. In TABLE No. II. we come to the new and important PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS AND DISTRIBUTIONS. This Table again ranges the counties in their alphabetical order, and shows, at one view, the distribution of the country for the purposes connected with the election of members to serve in parliament (according to the act of 1832); naming the counties, describing the divisions (where there are divisions) in the counties, stating the places for holding the With 43 copper-plate maps, and all election courts, stating the polling these enormously-expensive tables, I places in each county or division of a shall sell this book for 12s. bound in County, naming the cities and boroughs boards. If I were to reckon the labour in the county returning members to at the rate that a journeyman carpenter Parliament, and stating the number of is paid, I should lose about three hundred members for each county, each division pounds by this first edition; so that if of the county, and each city and bo- the THING had not been kind enough rough; and, finally, the whole number to take my thousand pounds away from of members returned by each county.me, and to keep it for me, at interest, for

twenty years past, as it has done, I might, | New York, will be a place for ENGLISH in my old age, actually have come EMIGRANTS to obtain information at; under the guardianship of one of and also a channel, through which for STURGES BOURNE's hired overseers, and might have been put up to auction; or I might have been sheared, as the two girls at Ninfield, in Sussex, were.

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PEOPLE OF NEW YORK, And those in all other parts of the United States, and in Canada.

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London, 26th June, 1832.

persons to communicate with me, or in many cases, with their friends in Eng land. It may be a channel for applications for English and Scotch gardeners, who are always wanted by gentlemen in America, and of whom and most excellent ones too, we have always many who would be glad to go, if recommended by me.

Along with the books that I have You, particularly if you be English-shipped are a good variety of those enmen, must want very much to know tertaining and instructive teachers, what we are doing in this nice little which appeal only to the eyes; I mean bustling country; and it is of import- caricatures, which, though they proance to us that you should know it too. duce such dismal harangues in the From these infamously false newspapers House of Commons, make the people you can never learn any truth; and I am resolved, that you shall have it in the Register, which will now be published in NEW YORK regularly, at the place which will be mentioned at the bottom of this address; where will also be stated the price at which the Register will be sold.

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laugh exceedingly! They have now kept us in a roar for six weeks, and they are keeping us in that state still; and it is but right that our brethren in the United States should laugh along with us, especially those of them who have been driven away by the THING. These are very pretty pictures ; ́ and I have, this day, shipped an assort- they have done more good in six weeks ment of all my books, in order to the than the toad-eating wretches of the opening of a STORE (by us called a "Royal Academy" have been able to SHOP) at NEW YORK, in my own name, do mischief ever since the good old for the sale of my Register, my Books, King" set it up. These pictures show and GARDEN SEEDS, of which I am the things in their true light; they fill us grower, this year, for the first time, on with indignation against fraud and vila considerable scale; and in the doing lany, with contempt for imbecile maligof which I, in point of care, challenge nity, and they make us laugh till our all England. I grow finer vegetables heads ache at seeing the veil taken off than any that I ever saw elsewhere; from filthy creatures, whom millions of and I have taken pains indescribable to good people have long been looking on have my various sorts true. I have made almost with veneration. They are the preparations for a regular sale of GAR-only useful pictures that I ever saw, DEN SEEDS of my shop in London, next and I beg the publishers ofthem to accept autumn; and I shall supply my STORE, of my thanks. at NEW YORK, in the same manner, and from the same source. My correspondent will appoint a proper person to keep the store; all the particulars, relative to which, will be mentioned at the bottom of this address, when it is republished at New York.

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From NEW YORK booksellers may be supplied in other towns; in which case the allowance will be very liberal. "“WILLIAM COBBETT'S STORE, NEW YORK," will be the address. Booksellers and others in Canada will find the thing very convenient. Many months in the The Register will be published with year New York is the only possible greater regularity than it used to be channel of communication between published in London, when I was in Canada and England. By-the-by, I LONG ISLAND, whence I dealt the THING hear of some PRETTY WORKS in so many good blows. My STORE, at Upper Canada. The very moment that

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REFORM REJOICINGS.

emigrants land, they are taxed, in Lower Canada, for the relief of poor emigrants! God Almighty, what a thing this is to be THE guttlers and guzzlers, who called a government! But there are agreed unanimously to carry on law to other things in that country that would prevent the people of PORTSOKEN ward make one's hair literally stand on end! from having the alderman whom they Deputies are here everlastingly to get had elected, have not yet named the redress! Ah! little do they know of time when they are to guttle down this THING! They come here; they three thousand pounds of our money. dance attendance; they get to some They find such difficulty in digesting members of Parliament "who are their last feast, I suppose, that their stofriendly to them;" and they amuse machs have not yet recovered their them, keep them quiet; they are got to wonted faculties; and whenever they the feeds and the guzzles; they are daz- come at us, they wish, doubtless, to zled; they are finally corrupted; and come well prepared. However, they they go back (if they ever go back) spies are, as the miser complained of his serand supporters of the THING. This vant in the play, "huge feeders: " God is what I have always hitherto seen; may turn their hearts, as the country whether the poor Canadians will be more people say; but the devil cannot turn lucky in future I do not know. Good stomachs. The former does not seem garden seeds are very much wanted in to be very probable; for they appear to Canada; and this is the readiest chan-be perfectly callous. There was a cunel; and, indeed, almost the only chan-rious scene took place at the voting of nel for fresh seeds. They cannot go this three thousand pounds, in our city from England before December; and of London parliament, which, as Mr. they cannot be sent up the ST. LAW- SCALES truly told them, is infinitely RENCE before it be too late for many of worse than the Parliament at Westthem to be of any use; but they can be minster ever was; for, though this latat New York in January, as mine will ter guttle and guzzle too under the be; and thence they can go to CANADA same roof, and at the very time that at any time of the year; and can always they are law-making; and though the be ready for early in the spring. greater part of them may pay the score I beg my friends at Philadelphia, out of their pensions, sinecures, retiredBoston, Baltimore, and elsewhere, to allowances, half-pay, grants, or allowcause this address to be put into the ances, they do not directly vote newspapers; and I make the same re-money, in order to pay for their beefquest to friends in Canada; who, how-steaks and mutton-chops and grog and ever, for the sake of the printer, will brown-stout and ale and porter, which take care to cut out a part of the fore- they get at BELLAMY's. The curious going paragraph; for they make short scene to which I have alluded was as work of "libellers" there: there they follows: take their types and presses and throw At a meeting of the Common Council, them into the lakes or rivers; a very which took place on Friday the 8th of natural and most effectual way of extin-June, the sum of three thousand pounds guishing inflammatory matter.

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was voted for an entertainment, to which Earl Grey, his colleagues, and all the Lords and Commoners, are to be invited who voted for the Reform Bill, and at which fete the said Earl Grey and Lord Althorp are to be presented with the freedom of the city in a gold box, value one hundred guineas each. After which Charles Pearson moved, and was conded by Mr. Thornhill, that an addiWM. COBBETT.tional sum, which is now fixed at three

The publication of the Register, at New York, will begin with this very Register that I am now writing. My correspondent at New York, will fix on the place for the STORE at once; and will announce it at the bottom of this address when he re-publishes it at New York; and he will also publish a catalogue of the books and a statement of their prices.

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thousand pounds, should be voted from in consequence of the dilemma they the corporation funds, to be distri- were thrown into? And did not the buted amongst the freemen residing in King himself

the City of London, to commemorate when victory was in their grasp. the passing of the Reforta Bill; but Order, order, from the Lord Mayor which said motion was warmly objected and several members who rose simulto by Mr. Figgins, and by Mr. Jones, taneously, and vociferated, Order, chairman of the New London Bridge order, order; at the same time Mr. De. committee, and by Deputy Tickner, on puty Brook exclaimed, he never heard the score that it was an electioneering such language used in that Court before; trick of the movers, Mr. Pearson and and some member observing there was by Mr. Walter Peacock, for the reason only one Alderman present, the debate that the said freemen would feel them- must be suspended, upon which Charles selves pauperised, by accepting the said Pearson rose and informed the Lord cash or dinner, if so laid out. Mr. Mayor he might send out the mace Richard Taylor supported the motion, and bring an Alderman into Court and was followed by Mr. Death, the if one could be found, but at this new member for Portsoken Ward, who moment the would-be Alderman, expressed himself astonished that Mr. or rather the Alderman's Alderman Jones and Mr. Tickner should attribute Hugh Hughes, Esq., and Alderman any motive to the honourable mover, Cowan, arrived; upon which Mr. Death beyond that of wishing to make all continued ; that reform in manners was hearts rejoice upon so memorable an wanted in that Court, for he had only occasion, and more particularly as it spoken the truth of the King and his was only returning, in a very small Ministers; and would not be put down. proportion, the people's own money, No man was more loyal than he was which was a very uncommon thing to the Constitution and to the King, for the corporation to do, to those but at the same time no man was more who stood most in need it, and he must firmly attached to the cause of the peoadd, it was the best act that had ema-ple, for they were the supporters of all nated from the corporation since he was governments, and to the people's firma member of it, and did honour to the ness we were indebted for the Reform head and heart of the mover; but how Bill-and the Ministers for now being was he to reconcile Mr. Peacock's ex-in possession of their office, therefore pression, namely, that the freemen he should with all his heart support the would consider themselves pauperised motion. The motion was referred to at such an offer being made them? He the General Purpose Committee. would ask the honourable gentleman if any member in that court would feel The guttle and guzzle is voted; but, himself pauperised by partaking of the somehow or other the Ministers have no three thousand pounds voted for a din-appetite for the feast. In almost all ner an hour before? Would any of the country towns, the people of prothe aristocracy that would be invited perty have been regaling the working feel themselves pauperised by partaking people, or are about to do it, at their of the said dinner? Would Earl Grey own expense. Our law-makers think and Lord Althorp consider themselves it more convenient to regale themselves pauperised by partaking of the said at the working people's expense. dinner out of the citizens' pockets? And CHARLEY's proposition for giving two it would be needless to ask if any of the thousand five hundred pounds, for to alderman would. And who, he would feast forty thousand of the working inquire, of all these were the most people, while about a hundred and fifty deserving to share this bounty? Why, of themselves were devouring three the people to be sure; was it not the thousand pounds, was like tossing orts people who carried the Reform Bill? down to the dogs and cats, to keep them Were not the Ministers obliged to resign quiet while the family is at dinner.

CHARLEY, whose taste as to decency were in the Court of Aldermen. There and decorum is extremely refined, he must be, unless, which is by no likes, as all your sober men do, a quiet means improbable, a Reformed Parliameal, and though a cheerful, yet a tran- ment should think proper to break up quil glass after it. Therefore, I suppose this Corporation altogether: we shall be it was, that he fell upon this scheme entitled to its protection, to be sure, of keeping us quiet and at a distance; as well as the rest of his Majesty's seating us in FARRINGDON MARKET- subjects. The Parliament will not aban HOUSE, that result of the prince of all don us, any more than it will abandon jobs, while he, cheek by jowl with his any other part of the people. It will own Lord Mayor, was receiving into his hear our petitions, to be sure; it will maw the fruits of our earnings, giving listen to our crying grievances; it will us about a clear nine-pence a-piece to inquire into what is done with the mofeast upon, while he and his worthy ney that is taken from us: it will look colleagues were swallowing fifteen into the why and the wherefore of the or twenty pounds a-piece of our immense sums which are squandered money. Let him not be too sure; for, away, and have been squandered away, though FARRINGDON MARKET is half a in feastings, in summer excursions, in mile from GUILDHALL, an adjournment gold boxes, and in swords set with diafrom the former might, by some acci-monds. It will inquire by what authority dent or other, very considerably aug- these men have spent our money in this ment the number of guests at the manner; and it will deal with them, to latter; and then, what a commotion be sure, as the Parliament dealt with the there would be amongst the tureens of turtle, and the pyramids of pastry! Why, CHARLEY's hair would stand an end, instead of hanging down in those graceful ringlets which adorn his head as present.

South Sea bubblers. In short, this little THING must follow the fate of the great THING: both have been FUNDING long enough: it is now high time to talk of REFUNDING. Above all things, a reformed Parliament will inquire into It is impossible to mention FARRING the affair of PORTSOKEN Ward; into that DON Market without thinking of the act of matchless oppression, and of proposed job for slaughtering cattle by daring contempt of all justice. For my steam, to which I alluded in my last own part, I should feel myself covered Register, the defeating of which job, with everlasting infamy, if I were to sit and saving us a hundred and fifty thou-in a reformed Parliament a month withsand pounds, was the great ground of the hostility to Mr. SCALES.

out using the best of my endeavours to cause justice to be done on those who have audaciously deprived the people of PORTSOKEN of their rights.

FOX CLUB.

GALLOWAY'S premises were to have been taken for the City slaughterhouse, and for the spaces around it, at an expense of fifty thousand pounds. The slaughterhouse was to have been in the THE Morning Chronicle, which is form of the Amphitheatre of TIBERIUS now become the basest of all the slaves at ROME, and was to have cost eighty of the Whigs, gave an account the other thousand pounds. So here were to be day of a FOX CLUB," held at expended a hundred and thirty thousand Greenwich, above all places in the pounds of our money; and then GALLO- world; and, which I hope is not true, WAY was to have been the contractor to getting away without being covered all slaughter the cattle by steam. There over with mud and other stuff from the are other jobs, to be mentioned another kennel. Old DADDY COKE, the sinecure time, which were upset by Mr. SCALES; lighthouse-man, was of the party; there and here is the true cause of the impla- were all the Ministers, I believe, and cable enmity to him. They know very well, that there are a hundred things which he would bring to light, if he

great parcel of their hangers-on. The impudence of this is quite astonishing, Fox never did one single thing that was

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