Essential Writings Volume 1. William 1763-1835 Cobbett

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      Essential Writings

       Volume 1

      WILLIAM COBBETT

      

      

       Essential Writings 1, W. Cobbett

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849651763

      

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      CONTENTS:

       EDITORS’ PREFACE. 1

       OBSERVATIONS ON PRIESTLEY’S EMIGRATION. 8

       A BONE TO GNAW FOR THE DEMOCRATS. 25

       A LITTLE PLAIN ENGLISH, 36

       A NEW-YEAR’S GIFT TO THE DEMOCRATS; 63

       REMARKS ON THE BLUNDERBUSS. 86

       REMARKS ON THE PAMPHLETS LATELY PUBLISHED AGAINST PETER PORCUPINE. 101

       FROM “PORCUPINE’S GAZETTE.”. 110

       THE RUSH-LIGHT. 127

       PETER PORCUPINE TO JUDGE SHIPPEN. 155

       PORCUPINE’S REVENGE. 160

       PRIESTLEY’S CHARITY SERMON FOR POOR EMIGRANTS. 162

       LETTERS TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY ADDINGTON, ON THE PEACE OF AMIENS. 164

       FRENCH MORALS. 198

       BULL-BAITING. 199

       MULTITUDE OF LAWS. 201

       PITT SYSTEM. 202

       THE ENGLISH PRESS AND BUONAPARTE. 204

       THE TAKING OF THE INVINCIBLE STANDARD, IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH ARMIES NEAR ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 21, 1801. 210

       ENGLISH MANUFACTURES. 223

       PROSPECTS OF WAR. 225

       WAR OR PEACE. 227

       THE MECHANICAL MINISTRY. 228

       STOCK-JOBBING NATION. 229

       FINANCE AND TRADE. 232

       EMIGRATION. 233

       FINANCE. 235

       IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS. 237

       BANK RESTRICTION BILL. 245

       “CAPITAL, CREDIT, AND CONFIDENCE.”. 253

       ANGLO-GALLIC CREDITORS. 254

       TRADE AND REVENUE. 263

       STATE OF PARTIES. 276

       PAPER ARISTOCRACY. 342

       LETTER I. 348

       LETTER II. 355

       LETTER III. 364

       LETTER IV. 372

       LETTER V. 376

       LETTER VI. 388

       CORN LAWS. 399

       THE BUDGET OF 1805. 410

       FOOTNOTES: 421

      EDITORS’ PREFACE.

      The political writings of our late father are contained in exactly one hundred octavo volumes, namely, of “Porcupine’s Works” twelve, and of the “Weekly Political Register” eighty-eight; the former being a selection of pamphlets and articles written in a monthly publication, and articles written in a daily paper, at Philadelphia, from the year 1794 to the year 1800; and the latter being a weekly publication on politics, begun in the year 1802, and ended with its author’s life, in June 1835.

      Having undertaken to abridge these two works, it is but right that we should fully and frankly state why we do it at all; what we propose to give in the abridged shape, at what times we shall publish, and to what extent the work will go; and, in order to do this fully, we will