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vinced that I could, if there, do much greater good to my country than I can do out of Parliament; that I am convinced, that I could point out the means of effectually

glad to hear, by letter, before the years I have been, very desirous tenth of January, from any gen-to be in the House of Commons; flemen, any suggestion that he that I am, as I was in 1820, conmay think useful; and shall be particularly obliged by such as may think proper to announce to me their intention to do me the honour to meet me in London, in order that I may, when I notify | rescuing the country from its prethe day of meeting, inform the sent great difficulties, and its still public of such their intention; greater dangers; that I am, as I and thereby give to that meeting long have been, thoroughly cona weight which it could not derive from a name so humble as that of

THOS. B. BEEVOR. Hargham, near Attleborough, Norfolk,

Dec. 21st. 1825.

P.S. Gentlemen must be aware

vinced, that, unless suitable remedies be adopted, and that too before it be long, there must come a convulsion of which no man can foresee the extent or the consequences; that no man wishes, of the great mass of malignity more anxiously than I do, to see that I shall, by this step, have put such a lamentable catastrophe in motion, and that to pour abusive prevented; and that, therefore, I letters in upon me would be a am not only ready, but desirous, perfectly safe mode of gratifying and even anxious, to be placed in that malignity. Therefore, I hope, the House of Commons; but that that Gentlemen will see the ne-on no account, will I expend, cessity of paying the postage of for the accomplishment of that their letters, that I may be able, purpose, any portion of those without risk of giving them offence, earnings, which, whether great or to protect myself against this spe- small, all belong to my wife and cies of hostility.

TO THE PUBLIC.

Kensington, Dec. 27th, 1825.

In consequence of the above

children.

While, the other day, in the city of Bath, the people, amidst the crash of Banks, were shouting in the streets, "COBBETT IS RIGHT! COBBETT IS, A

Address, I have to state to the TRUE PROPHET!" Just at public, that I am, as for several this same time, the WEST OF

ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL profited more, perhaps, than any SOCIETY, the MARQUIS or other man in existence, but which, LANSDOWN in the chair, were in knowing it to be destructive to my the same city, awarding MEDALS, country, I have constantly held in to the makers of STRAW BON-abhorrence!

NETS from my instructions; and The world has never beheld were also receiving experimental a triumph more complete and proofs of the excellence of the more honourable than that which LOCUST WOOD, of the trees time and events have now awardof which the Marquis informed ed to me. The triumph of MoRthe SOCIETY that He was making DECAI over HAMMON was not plantations, and that the Govern- greater than is mine over this ment also was making plantations fraudulent and pauper-creating in the New Forest. As to the system. It is like the triumph of former, the manufacture (all pro- the Sun over the Frogs: all eyes ceeding from our own soil) has behold it: it would be proclaimed spread REAL prosperity over the by every tongue; but, every man Orkney Isles; and I saw one man knows that every other man must last week, who had sold plat in know it as well as he. Still I London, (brought from Suffolk) to am anxious to make my country the amount of 1501. triumph too; but, at the same time, it becomes not me to disguise, that I should be proud of the honours that would be conferred upon me; that I am by no means blind to the certain

Why, here are grounds for the lasting gratitude of the country. Yet, what are these, great as they are, compared with my labours with regard to the monstrous, the dreadful Paper Money system? advantages, which a seat in the How long, how earnestly, with House of Commons would give what perseverance, with what me, and give, moreover, to those, patience, with what fortitude, with who are, and who, on every acwhat disinterestedness, with what count, ought to be, as dear to devotedness, and amidst what diffi- me as is my own life, and, in-, culties, what losses, what repeated deed, to whose affectionate and ruin, what obloquy, what mali- dutiful conduct, not to omit adcious calumnies, good God! have ding, to whose talents also, I am, I laboured against this nefarious in no small degree, indebted for system; by which I might have this triumph. I am by no means

blind to those advantages; I am ] when the danger should become not hypocrite enough to affect not clear to all eyes, to the rescuing of to see them; nor am I mean England from the natural and inenough to assume the mock evitable consequences of this all

humility of pretending, that they are greater than I merit at the hands of my country.

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corrupting, all-enfeebling, alldegrading curse of paper money.

State these means here, or any part of them, I shall not. I always knew that the day would come, when they would be wanted.

Those who NOW want any argument to convince them of my ability to render my country the greatest of all possible services, When in Long Island I drew up would not be convinced though TWO-BILLS, which it was my one were to rise from the dead;"intention to propose, if I should and, as to those who affect to be- become a member of parliament. lieve (for not one of them really I have read these two Bills fifty believes it), that I should make use times over, at least; and, at the of my power for what they call end of about six years, I have "revolutionary purposes," the found hardly any thing to alter. best answer to their corrupt and The course and the result of events and perverse insinuations is, that has been, thus far, and now maniit is, because to preserve my fame festly will be, so precisely that it must be, my anxious wish to put which I anticipated, that I was, a stop to the fatal progress of that six years ago, as well prepared hideous revolution, which is now for them as I am now. These actually begun. I am well aware TWO BILLS, if I become a hat it is no easy task to effect an member of the House of Commons, shall be moved for by me, and, if brought in, shall be brought in in the words, and in the ink and on paper in which and

object like this. This object has not, for so many years, occupied my thoughts, without my duly measuring its magnitude, and also the means of its accomplishment. on which they were written in For the last seven years o small part of every twenty-four hours, whether on sea or on land, on my pillow, in my garden, on my horse, or on my feet, has been spent in

thinking of the means necessary,

Long Island. I am thoroughly satisfied, that if these Bills were passed, we should soon see England once more what she ought to be; and that, at any rate, we should see property once more se

end, must, to my sincere convîcă tion, produce scenes of desolation and horror far surpassing any which England has ever witnessed, or of which Englishmen have ever read.

cure. At present it has no secu. I must, before long, come to a close, rity at all. No man, however and which, if it bring itself to an careful, and of how solid a nature soever his means, knows what he will be worth tl.is day month. One convulsion ends only to make way for another; one class of the community is crushed this three months; another next three months; a general and terrible convulsion is always threatening us; and, if a war should come in the midst of this, where is the man who will attempt to describe the consequences?

Such, as to this matter, are my wishes and such my views. If the power of doing that which I think would be a great public service, be placed in my hands, God will, I trust, give me health to do it; if that power be not placed in my hands, I shall, as SIR THOMAS BEEVOR observes with regard to himself, have the consolation of reflecting, that I have to answer for no share of whatever calami

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The measures, that I should propose, would subvert nothing that is acknowledged by the laws and constitution of England; they would tend not to pull down, but to uphold, the government of ties may afflict this now harassed King, Lords and Commons; they and half-convulsed country. would take away no lawful privi-must grieve, and I should grieve, lege or immunity; they would at those calamities; but while my tend to destroy no lawful esta- grief would be as unavailing as blishment; they would do injus- that of the most imbecile of the tice to no human being; and they sufferers, I should still be cheered would restore a fixedness as to by the thought, that all men would property, and would also restore declare that no part of them were that harmony and good will be- chargeable, to me.

tween the rich and the poor, which has so long been banished from the land, and the want of which

When the meeting in London takes place, which will be after the 25th of January, the place and manner of receiving subscriptions

seems now to be preparing the worst ingredients of a violent ter-will be stated; but I think it right mination of the series of convul- to observe here, that some mode of sions that is now going on, which subscribing without the publishing

In conclusion, let me say to my old friends, NOW is the time for

of names (where the parties may at No. 183, Fleet-street, whence choose it), ought to be settled on; it will be despatched, according to for such are the ramifications of, the Address; or he may send by the dreadful system, that, com-twopenny post (postage paid), to paratively, very few men who have the same place, addressing his any thing to lose, DARE do even letter for SIR THOmas Beevor, the most meritorious act, if its to the care of Mr. JOHN Dean, tendency be to put an end to the No. 183, Fleet-street. frauds of Paper Money. Such a mode, which will, at the same time, give the subscriber an assurance them to act with effect. As a of his money having been duly re-party our triumph is as comceived and properly applied, may plete as even our wishes could easily be pointed out. If a good have it. Events bid the whole of sum of money be raised, the ob- the community to declare us, and ject will be accomplished; but, in us only, to have been right. A the present state of things, there is greater, a more undisputed, a no other reliance. That such sub-more honourable victory never scriptions are lawful we well was achieved. But, if we stop know: MAINWARING was carried here, we triumph amidst, our in for Middlesex, and WILBER- country's ruin: we triumph while FORCE for Yorkshire, by public that country is plunged into misery subscriptions; in which (the for- and disgrace. And what a mer in particular) the Ministers and the Law Officers of the Crown openly participated; and there has, as yet, at any rate, been no law passed to exclude me and my friends from the enjoyment of this species of liberty.

country, too! A country with ten times the resources of any other of equal extent, and inhabited by a people the most ingenious, most industrious, most persevering, and renowned throughout the world for probity, sincerity, Any gentleman, in town, who valour, and, above all things, love has a wish to make any communi- of country and veneration for her cation to SIR THOMAS BEEVOR, laws: a country to which God between this and the 10th of Ja-seems to have said, Be thou nuary, or, after SIR THOMAS have strong, be thou secure, be thou appointed the day of meeting, free, be thou happy'! A counmay, if he please, leave a letter try like this, loaded with an en