that there should be any thing takes away his tenth bodily, in

left for rent: for rent is not kind; if there be any thing left, necessary to the raising of corn the landlord may have it; but, if and meat. Rent is that which is the tax-gatherer take so much as to left after the necessary cost is de- leave nothing for him, nothing can frayed. And, if the tax-gatherer he have. And this is very nearly come and take away all that is the case at this time. In fact, not absolutely necessary to be ex- there has been very little, and, pended in the actual raising of the upon an average, nothing, for the corn and meat, is it not clear, that landlord, this last year, but what came out of the capital of the tenant.-To show the fallacy of the notion of the Ministers, we have only to observe, that, if their doctrine be true; ifrent be to be included as amongst the necessary costs, it will follow, that, if they put on ten pounds an acre rent, and the government make the taxes' ten times what they are now, the price of the corn and meat must be

there can be nothing left for the landlord? Is it not clear, that the landlord can have no rent, unless

it come out of the capital of the tenant? -The Ministry mistake

the matter, as well they may, for

they are very weak men; they take rent into the cost of raising

the produce; and seem wholly to forget, that all the costs must be

defrayed long before there be any thing in hand for rent. The la-equal to them, however small may bourers, the tradesmen, the far-be the quantity of money afloat; mer and his working cattle must than which proposition nothing, be fed daily, and so must the tax certainly, ever was more mon gatherer, for he puts his invisible strous. Without the support of the hand forth and takes away nearly labourer and farmer and tradesa half of every penny that is ex-men and working cattle the conpended in any shape, be it what cern cannot go on. In proportion it may. The parson comes and as they are hardly taxed, they

will live worse and worse. Be- were not high enough now to enyond a certain point they cannot able the farmer to pay rent. be taxed; then the remedy is the Faith! there was no must in the necessary stop to the increase of case! Nor would the brilliant idea taxes; but, as to rent, that is un-of Mr. RICARDO be found to be necessary to the carrying on of more true, that the land would go the concern; and, in the present out of cultivation. Do, I pray you, state of things, the government gentlemen, said (Mr. Cobbett), wholly takes away the means of pause a moment to contemplate paying it. But to cut this matter this piece of matchless absurdity! short, this, as was before observed, Do, I beseech you, ask yourselves is the conclusion to which this what you are to expect from the doctrine of political economical wisdom of men, who, with grave necessity would lead; that, if ten faces, can state to you, that the pounds an acre additional rent throwing of land out of cultivawere now put on, prices must rise tion is necessary to relieve, aye to meet that addition! Hence to relieve, the farmer and the (he continued) we came at once, landlord!-Oh! no! Land would souse into the mental mire of the not be thrown out of cultivation ! great corn-bill quack; namely, The people, let come what would, that it is high price that causes must have, and would have, food currency, large quantities of cur- and raiment; the land must be, rency, and not large quantities of and would be tilled; the present currency that cause high price; farmer first, next the landlord, so that, it was not the assignats

that caused a French loaf to sell

for a thousand francs, but the high

and next the parson might be stripped naked, and thus stripped they must be if the present taxes continued to be enforced; but,

price of bread and other things that caused the assignats!-Prices must the land would still be tilled and rise, they told us, because they the people fed, though the farmer

might be, in fact, the tenant of the prosperous and happy days.-He government. Mr. WESTERN, mem- sat down with giving, by permisber for the county of Essex, had, sion, as a toast, "energy and in a pamphlet recently published," prosperity to the county of Sussaid, that there must be a struggle" sex."- Upon rising again to with the fundholder before the take leave of the meeting, he oblandlord yielded his last acre. served, that he saw with pleasure If the "struggle" were in open field, the landlord would speedily triumph; but, the fundholder remains snugly at home, and sends out the tax-gatherer, who, with silent step and unseen hand takes

some gentlemen in the room, who had been, on the 15th of February, 1817, at the memorable meeting on Portsdown Hill. He begged the meeting to recollect, that the petition then and there agreed upon, prayed the House of Commons to reform itself, to reduce salaries, pensions, sinecures, and the interest of the Debt: if that petition had been graciously re

away the rent, which is in fact, taking away the estate. Far from his (Mr.Cobbett's) wishes would be a state of things which would, in all human probability, overturn that form of government under ceived, and its prayer granted, which their forefathers had enjoyed the meeting never would have so much freedom and their country known those distresses which now so much renown; but, his convic-harassed them; and the country tion was, and he solemnly declared would not have seen a state of it before that most respectable things that had placed every spe meeting, that unless those reduc-cies of property in a state of tions were made, to the making peril."

of which a constitutionally re

formed parliament could, only in On the morning of Wednesday, his opinion, be adequate, this the following hand-bill was circukingdom never could again see lated throughout the city, and par

ticularly amongst the farmers.

From whom it proceeded no one

"COBBETT'S

appeared to know, and, indeed, GOOD WISHES TO FARMERS !!!

nobody appeared to take any notice of it, except to laugh at it, The base misrepresentations, how ever, that it contains; the garbling

"If these Men choose to be deceived, they may : but, at least, it shall be with their eyes open, so that they may rather appear to this case, as in so many other be conscious knaves than stupid cases, the readers of the Register gulls, for we shall tell them how must at once perceive. Farmers; he has spoken of them and their like other people of sense, are distresses.

( that the vile authors resorted to in

able to discover very quickly the motives from which such things proceed; and, accordingly, they treated this thing with perfect contempt. In no place where I

ever appeared had I greater rea

"Cobbett's Register, Dec. 22, 1821. "Well, then, say the Landlords, Parsons, and FARMERS, but what are we to do? Do? Why do as the soldier does at their halberts

grin and bear it. You, like Dives, have had your good times, the Radicals, look them in the let Lazarus have his. Look at

son to be pleased than at Chiches-face if you can.”

ter, not excepting even Hunting- In a Letter to the Farmers, don and Lynn. The friends of dated Dec. 15, 1821, he thus inWebb Hall and the Ellmans had sults those to whom he addresses here fair opportunity to show his Letter

themselves once more. Here I

was amongst total strangers, nine out of ten, at the least, never having seen me before; but, not a single opponent appeared.

"4 scorn to play the hypocrite: I scorn to disguise from you that I have seen your sufferings with satisfaction."

In other parts he says:

"That he thanks God for their distresses;" and that “He had risen from his Bed to pray for their Destruction. "

COTTAGE ECONOMY,

AND

THE SERMONS.

THE last Number of each will be completed for publication on Saturday the 2d March. The Index for each will be given at the same time.

TULL'S HUSBANDRY Likewise, owing to the rustic harangues will not be ready so soon, by a few days, as expected. But it will, without fail, be completed within Three Weeks from this Day.

THE INDEX

To the last Volume of the Regisgister will be given in the next Register.

LAWYER DENMAN.

another opportunity for doing justice to the chivalrous gentleman, and likewise to the would-be papa of the Check - population Bill, about which we heard so much last year, and which was threatened to be brought out again upon us this Session. But, it may be well here just to remind the first of these learned pleaders at Nisi Prius, whose memory seems to fail him in some particulars, that the honest gentleman against whom he was advocate, and with whom he affects such a total unacquaintance, and against whom he pleaded so ardently, so zealously, and above all so effectually, and between whom and Mr. Cobbett he thinks there appears to have been a quarrel; that for this same honest gentleman he was arbitrator in an inspection of accounts tendered by that gentleman to Mr. Cobbett; which accounts stated there to be a balance due to Mr. Cobbett of FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS, being a sum only SIX THOUSAND POUNDS LESS

THIS Lawyer of chivalrous than the sum awarded by the umfame, has lately shown himself pire referred to by the said Nisi alive, as the Lawyer of Major Prius, and then almost shirtless Cartwright in a prosecution of as well as briefless lawyer and the John Wright for a libel. The arbitrator for Mr. Cobbett; and libelling and villifying of Mr. Cob-which sum the said honest gentlebett seems to have been the pro- man was eventually compelled to minent object in the conduct of pay in place of the five hundred this prosecution, but there will be pounds.