INDEX.

GENERAL INDEX.

Contempt, consequences of bringing legisla- Joining Plat-a Letter on, 826

"Mouchards," 38.

Money, quantity of in the Kingdom, 44.
Money Hoarders, 771.
Monks and Friars, 198.

"Morning Chronicle" escaping from
darkness, 339.

National Guard of France, 196..
National Lie, 93.

Neutrality with regard to France and
Lord Liverpool's Speech on, 131.
Non-resident Clergy, 579.

Notes, the inimitable, 484.

Norfolk Petition, 237.

Rational Reform, Mr. Cobbett the greatest
enemy of in the opinion of Mr. Coke and
Michael Angelo Taylor, 261.

Religion, "blessed comforts of," 198.

Ricardo-Resisting game-keepers, 36. 394..

Report of the Game Law Committee, 405.
Reformers, English and Scoteh, 58.
Revolution, the French, 193. 488. 581.

Spain-Rise of prices, 328. 643.

Rise of produce in consequence of failure of
crop of no avail to the Farmer, 324.
Romans, the practised "Equitable Adjust-
ment," 776.

Norfolk, Mr. Cobbett's connection with, 276. Roads, 37.

Norfolk pauper, 486.

Norman poachers, 412.

Norman encroachment, 391.

Savings Banks. 236.

Scalding Grass for Platting, 542.
Secret Service Money, 19.

Olivers and Edwardses, no such in France, Seeds, Forest, 120.

18.

Oldham Inquest, 193.

Onions exported from Connecticut to the West
Indies, 545.

Orange-men, 48.

Over-production, 103. 336.

"Paper against Gold; quotation from, 456.
Pauper, a great Norfolk, 486.
Parson-justices, 577.

Pensions of the Erskines, 726.
Petition, the Kentish, 791.

Petition from Hereford, against the Game Bill,
551.

Petition, the, of Mr. Cobbett, on the Game
Laws, 386.

Peers, the Chamber of, 31.'
Paupers, 66.

Paper-money system, effects of, 13.
People of France, 1. 193.

Peel's Bill partially repealed, 351.
Petition of Farmer Deller, 299.
Preparing grass for platting, 542.
Pretty gentlemen of Whitehall, 131.
Press, the London, 17.

Press, the liberty of, 21.
"Prices of produce," 307. 643.
Prices, reason for low, 45, 643.
Priests, 32.

Prime Minister, the, 153.

Prisons in London full of farmers, 781.
Prices, rise of, 328. 643.
"Principle of mistake,'' 266.

Prices, effect of paper-money on, 472.

Protestant Church in Ireland, 49.
Prosperity of France, 27.

Prophecy, the Gridiron, 347.

"Puff out," 483.

Petition, the Norfolk, 257.

Plat-a Letter on the joining of, 826.

Police, the French, 17.

Potatoes a cause of moral degradation of the.

Population of Belfast, 58.

Small Farms, and Farmers, extinct, 79.
Septennial Act, 20.

Size of the Old Churches-proving the falsity
of the Population Returns, 82.

Six Acts, 193.

Smali-Note Bill, 350.

Smith's English Botany, Extract from, 529.
Society of Arts, 526

bett, 527.

Medal of, voted to Mr. Cob-

Souls, the care of, 580.

Soldiers French and English, 196.
"Sorry Jade" Mr. Canning's, 804.
Society for promoting Christian Knowledge,

606.

Speech of Earl Stanhope, on moving an
Amendment to the Lords' Address, 283.
Speech of Lord Stanhope, on presenting
Mr. C. A. Thomson's Petition to the Lords,
368.

Speech of Lord Folkestone, 166.
Spies, 18.

Standard of value of Currency, 450.

Straw Bonnets, 305. 434. 513. 667. 744. 822.
Sun-rise Act, the Irish, 517.

ac

Superiority, reluctance of the People to ac-
knowledge, 596.

Seduction of Soldiers punished by death. 19.
Table showing the Currency in which Taxes
were paid, in 12 years ending 1821."-From
Mr. Western's pamphlet, 451.

Tithes, 589. 614.

Tithes, none in France, 32.
Tolls, 37.

Trial by Jury, 42. 95. 201 725.

Trial (Gainsford v. Scovell), 121.

Trifling Mistake," Mr. Hobhouse's, 725.
Truckling, Mr. Canning's, 231.

Turnpike Laws, 38. 549.

Vast Improvements, " on
Roads, 378.

the Brighton

Villages disappearing whilst London is in-

creasing, 77,

Waterloo Column, 12. 158.

Poor lands-Mr. Ricardo's plan for throwing | War, England comparatively shy of, 13. 131. 148. [

Irish, 518.

Poverty, happy, 516.

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VOL. 46.-No. 1.] LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1923. [Price 6d.
Published every Saturday Morning", "at-Seven "o' Clock."

A LETTER

FROM THE

PEOPLE OF FRANCE

TO THE

or done by the government of a
country; by the nobles, as a body;
by the gentry, as a body; by the
clergy, as a body; by the bodies
of merchants, manufacturers,
farmers; in short, by all the re-

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. presentatives of all the classes:

NEIGHBOURS,

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that which is said or done by all
these; and, also, by their general

Pays de Caux, 3 April, 1823. organ, ninety-nine hundredth parts
of the press of a country: that
which is said or done by all these,
may, we think, be fairly said, to
be said or done by the nation.
Nevertheless, we make an excep❤
tion in favour of those Englishmen
who have acted the part of fair
and open enemies and rivals of
Frenchmen. With this excep-
tion, we address ourselves to all
the People of England.

We read in your newspapers
very strange things concerning us;
and we think we have a right
to remonstrate with you on the
subject. We are aware, that,
amongst a whole people, there
must be many who dissent from,
the general opinion and the gene-
ral conduct; but, when we speak
of the opinions and conduct of a
nation, we must take that which is

general as applying to the whole.
We beg that it may be borne in
mind, that, in addressing ourselves
to the People of England, we
make an exception with regard
to those of you who have acted

justly towards us. It is our wish
to be just; but, that which is said

We read, in your newspapers,
many false representations con-
cerning the situation of the people
of France; but what you say,
through this your organ the press,
may be reduced to this; that we
are an enslaved people; that the
Bourbons are despots and tyrants:
and that we are chargeable with

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haseness and cowardice, becausetary enterprise, which has been we do not rise against these Bour- already, which is, which will be, bons, and drive them.from power. This appears to be the substance of what you say. You appear to be in a state of great impatience for us to bestir ourselves, and get

and which must be, injurious and humiliating to England! If you dare not be sincere, we dare. This is the plain truth. You have all at once been seized with a

because these Bourbons have be

This is a very good reason for your disliking the family of Bourbon; but it is by no means a good reason for our disliking that fa

rid of this which you call despo-hatred against the Bourbons; tism and tyranny. Now, in the first place, it is a gun an enterprise, which you are little hard, that we should be cen- convinced must tend to the degrasured by you for submitting to a dation of England. family, whom you cherished during their exile, and whom you were so anxious to restore to their throne. In the year 1800, Buonaparte proposed to you to make mily; much less is it a reason for peace with him. Your answer our rising in rebellion against that was, that you had no confidence family. Your countryman Burke in any peace that could be made said, that Kings ought to have with France, unless the family of long memories. We see no reason Bourbon were restored. The why a people should not have a whole world is well acquainted long memory; and ours must be a with the efforts which you made short memory indeed if we could' for the restoration of this family. already have forgotten the whole of It is therefore very extraordinary to what has been done by England, hear you now declaiming against during the last thirty years, for this same family. To be plain, the purpose of crippling, ruining, you now dislike the family of degrading, and brutalizing the Bourbon. Not because that fa- people of France; a people inmily has at all changed its cha-habiting so fair a portion of the racter; not on account of any globe, and being, in number, three thing that it has done, or is doing, times as many as you are. From with regard to the people of the dawn of the French RevoluFrance themselves; but because tion up even to the present hour, France, with that family at its you seem to have sought for nohead, has now undertaken a mili-thing so anxiously as for our de