of having been able to resist the power | people, out of kindness, have to explain of all those tugs; as a complete proof them to me. It is also wonderful, that of which, I mention for the satisfaction as in the case of the sun and the moon of my readers, and for the mortification and the stars, I am quite satisfied with of those toad-eating, spiteful devils, the witnessing the effects. This silk affair, hired scribblers of the Scotsman, and however, afforded one very pleasing JACK WALTER and the she proprietors of circumstance. It was all put in motion the bloody old Times, the fact, so honour- by a wheel, turned by three men; and able to me, as well as to all the other par- there was a great number of young ties concerned in it; that Mr. SPIERS (the women and girls employed at the work, greatest land-proprietor in the county of and all very neatly and nicely dressed. Renfrew) came to PAISLEY to be chair- The things they make are beautiful beman of a dinner, given to me there, on yond description. I went afterwards to the 26th of October, accompanied by his see the weaving of shawls and of waistson-in-law, Mr. BONTINE, who is a can-coat-stuff at Mr. BISSETT's; the means didate for the county (against Sir Mi- and operation relating to which, apCHAEL SHAW STEWART), whose address peared still more wonderful. In these I shall by-and-by insert, who is a young fabrics our countrymen now surpass, man of great promise, and who is, I am not only all the rest of Europe, but glad to say, likely to succeed: this ve- those of India too; and I understand nerable and universally-respected gen- that PAISLEY surpasses all the rest of tleman, accompanied, besides, by his the kingdom in this respect. A blessed eldest and second sons, did me and the Government it must be to produce a reformers of PAISLEY the very great ho- state of things in which a barrack, furnour of presiding at a dinner, which nished with well-fed, well-clothed, and was conducted in a manner worthy well-armed soldiers, is established for the good sense and public spirit of the the purpose of keeping in a state of parties, and which, after short, neat, obedience to the laws, these ingenious and pertinent speeches from the gentle- and indefatigably industrious people, men whom I have named, and from who, while the soldiers are well fed, others, and particularly from Mr. well clad, and well lodged, have not SPIERS's eldest son, who discovered, in half a sufficiency of food of the very this little specimen, quite enough to coarsest kind; have their bodies half convince me of his capacity to be covered with rags; scarcely know what greatly useful to his country. After a knife, fork, and plate mean; and have, these things, this dinner terminated at a in many cases, nothing but a mere whisp very early hour, without a single man of straw to sleep upon! Blessed state of appearing to have partaken of anything things! Better that the country should stronger than water. Here I, in fact, be abandoned; better that it should took my leave of the people of PAISLEY, become a desert, than that such a state amidst marks of friendship, such, in- of things should be suffered to exist; deed, as I have everywhere experi- better that destruction should come enced, and such as would, if there were upon the whole of us, than that the no other ties, bind me fast, to the last makers of these beautiful goods should hour of my life, to the service of my be thus compelled to live like hogs and grateful, kind, and generous country-dogs, while those whose bodies are de men. corated by these goods are wallowing Dalzell House, near Hamilton, 28. Oct., 1832. in luxury, proceeding from deductions The day before the dinner took place made from the earnings of these indeI went to see the beautiful manufacture fatigable people. On the same day, of silk, carried on by Mr. FULTON and when I expected to go and see Mr. Son. I never like to see these ma- DUNCAN HENDERSON, who, from his chines, lest I should be tempted to attachment to me, or rather to my endeavour to understand them. I con-writings, had taken so much pains to stantly resist all the natural desire which cultivate my corn, I was informed, that This noon-lecture at JoHNSTONE was I had to see his widow, for that he had have had some new thoughts come into died on the day of my first arrival at her head, if she could have witnessed GLASGOW. As a mark of my respect the indignant and enraged looks of my for the memory of so worthy a man, a hearers. man of so much public spirit, and so justly beloved, I went to see Mrs. HEN- to make up for the idle time in the DERSON, at which she was very much evening that was to be passed at the pleased; and she showed me a letter, dinner. So that, here have I been in written by myself to her late husband, Scotland twenty days, and I have lecon which he had set so much value as tured every day except the Sundays, to have it framed and hung up as a pic- and on each of the Sundays I have writture, and of which letter (if I get a copy ten a Register. Having travelled, beof it in time) I will insert a copy in this sides, the better part of two hundred Register. Not to see him, and still miles during the same time, slept in more to find that he was dead, really seven different beds! "What!" the cast a damp over my pleasures at PAIS- LORD ADVOCATE and ABERCROMBIE LEY; though at no place where I have and the POTTERS and SHUTTLEWORTH ever been in my life was I ever received and their mountebank, and CHARLEY with more cordiality, nor was my re- PEARSON and Sergeant WILDE and ception anywhere ever accompanied Lord MELBOURNE and the tallow-man with circumstances better calculated to and brewer privy-counsellors; "what!" leave lasting impressions of gratitude will they all exclaim, "will this devil of on my mind; amongst which circum- ours never die and never be ill!" And stances I must by no means overlook old daddy BURDETT, that poor decrepit the hospitable, the kind, the cordial, patriot, will exclaim, "What! and is the brother-like, and sister like mauner "he then actually to come and pull me in which I was received, lodged, and “ along by the ears, 'yout' or no gout, entertained by Mr. and Mrs. ARCHIBALD "and perhaps through a heavy fall of STEWART, of whom I took my leave" snow; is this never-eating, neveryesterday morning (Saturday the 27th)," drinking, never-sleeping, never-restand came to this place by the way of "ing, inflexible, hard-hearted dog, to Glasgow, stopped again at Mr. BELL'S, come and remind me of what I used being there taken up by him and" to say about the regiment and the brought to HAMILTON (where again in a room; about Lady LOUISA PAGET church) I lectured last night. I forgot "and Mrs. Fox and her daughters; and to mention, that, even on the day of the" about hired sheriffs, Parliaments, dinner, I went out, in the middle of the" and kings;' is he to come at last, in day, and lectured at a very nice little " reality, and drag me as a badger is manufacturing town called JOHNSTONE; dragged out of his hole, and remind and I will be bound to say, that a more me of what I used to teach about the soul-stirring sermon never came from "necessity of pulling down great fathat pulpit before. I did not melt the "milies; ' and, above all things, is he hearts of my audience, but I made them" to come and drive me out to face the pretty hot, when I described the man- "cheated people of WESTMINSTER, Or ner in which my Lady SUTHERLAND compel me to help him to tear the had swept the people off the land in the " leaves out of the accursed Red Book?'" North. "What!" exclaimed 1, "have From GLASGOW to HAMILTON (near we not a right to be upon the land of which is the famous palace of the Duke our birth? Are we to be told, that of that name), the road runs along not we are bound in duty to come out far from the CLYDE, and we enter, in "and venture our lives in defence of fact, into what is called "the vale of the "that land against a foreign enemy, Clyde," which has in it everything that "and yet, that we can be swept off can be imagined that is beautiful. Corn"from it when the landowners please?" fields, pastures, orchards, woods, beauFaith, my Lady SUTHERLAND would tiful in their own form as well as in the 66 1 66 66 variety and fine growth of the trees. London; and supposing him to be in a Dr. DREAD-DEVIL (who wrote in the dreadful rage on account of some great same room that I write in when I am at disappointment; matter would come out Bolt-court) said, that there were no of his mouth something like that which trees in Scotland, or at least something the Scotsman of yesterday, the 27th pretty nearly amounting to that. I instant, has belched out in his rage at wonder how they managed it to take him about without letting him see trees. I suppose that lick-spittle BoswELL, or Mrs. Piozzi, tied a bandage over his eyes, when he went over the country which I have been over. I shall sweep away all this bundle of lies. I have no whim and no prejudice to gratify: it is my business to speak of things as I find them. On the 1st of November, I am to go to LANARK, which is at the "falls of the Clyde" I defer my account of this vale till I have been thither, and until I have seen both banks of this beautiful river. How surprised my readers will be to hear of Scotch orchards, one single orchard being worth from five hundred to a thousand pounds a year; and that, too, an orchard not exceeding ten or twelve English acres in extent; and, how indignant they will be when they are told that the present Reform Bill, brought in by a native Scotchman, GIVES FEWER MEMBERS TO ALL SCOTLAND, than are given to a population in Eng land NOT EXCEEDING THAT OF EDINBURGH ALONE, and not anything like that of GLASGOW alone! the kind treatment that I have met with in Scotland; and particularly at the thought of a public dinner being to be given to me at GLASGOW. Read the article, I pray you, and you will see' how the wretch writhes; you will think that you hear his vile blood boiling under his dirty skin. A dinner! Ah, why does nobody give him a dinner? He knows very well he is the man that ought to have public dinners given him; that he is the man that ought, in reason and in justice, to be the object of public approbation; and yet his dull-eyed and besotted countrymen cannot perceive it! Well, if I were he, I would let them perish then; I would take no notice of such stupid creatures! But, what will the beast say, then, to the dinner at PAISLEY; to the ringing of the bells at FALKIRK; to various other such demonstrations in every town and every village that I have gone near to? Why, he will say that his countrymen are all rogues or madmen. Well, then, why not let them alone. But, seriously speaking about this matter, the hireling fellow would be wholly unworthy of notice, if he were not the tool of the Whig-faction, and particularly of JEFFREY and ABERCROMBIE, whom, if I had been a little But to remark on these matters, and to prove to Englishmen, that this treatment of Scotland is as injurious to Eng-earlier, I would have blown out of the land as it is to Scotland herself, must be put off till the next Register, which will be dated from I cannot tell where, WM. COBBETT. THE DEVIL water, even at EDINBURGH itself. These men clearly see that I have brought into Scotland a mass of information, which will finally be their total overthrow. They see that I have put the struggle upon a new footing. That it is no longer Whig-faction against Toryfaction; but both these factions combined against the phalanx of the people. They think that I am likely to be one of the leaders of that phalanx; and, READER, you never saw the devil, of therefore, rat never sighed for the decourse, and, unless you read the Scots-struction of cat so sincerely as they sigh man or the bloody old Times newspapers, for mine. This poor hired reptile puts I dare say you never will; but, suppos- forth nothing of his own; he is merely ing him to be well represented in the a dog set on by his employers; and caricatures that we have recently seen in what he writes is only worth reading as GRINDING HIS TEETH AND CURSING. I insert the article, which exhibits the COBBETT IN GLASGOW. 66 66 it shows that I have stung those em- "morbid parts of our social system, no ployers to the quick. With this preface" man is better acquainted, or more "skilful and amusing in his demonstrations; and although not a bit cleverer than his neighbours at untying any of the Gordian knots of our perplexed politics, he is not afraid to deal Glasgow, 29. October, 1832. "with them after a more succinct and "SIR, It is now a long time since I less laborious fashion. Now, this "had the pleasure of addressing you." being more congenial to all those "The political excitement having in a "who would rather act than think, "considerable degree gone down with comprehending a respectable mini66 us, things have been somewhat stag- mum of society, it is not to be denied "nant for the last four or five weeks," that the advent of the Great Grum"with the exception perhaps of our "bler has been hailed with infinite sa"harmonious Jubilee. To revive us a "tisfaction by the above description of "little, however, we have had a visit, persons, and with a more chastened 66 as well as you, of the great Lion from" delight by the lovers of amusement "the South, who has condescended to" in general. 66 66 66 "show us hyperboreans his teeth, and "We can understand why all men "to growl a bit after his most approved "from the Lord Provost downwards, "fashion. He has been well lionized" (who, good easy man, it is thought "here, and is likely to be still further" had no easy seat of it the first lecture) "entreated. Nearly a brace of hundreds," should have been desirous to hear a public dinner, and the unequivocal" Cobbett; but speculation is afloat as "patronage of at least one of our Par-" to the motives and objects of the mi"liamentary aspirants, are no bad re- "nimum who are going to honour their "turns for three nights' performance of "idol with a public dinner. By some, "this ancient vender of political cata-" it is conjectured electionering influ"plasins. ences of no small weight are expected "There are certain substances in na- "to result from his visit and dinner; by "ture which possess a marvellous pro- "others, that the Political Union' perty of attracting sticks, straws, and" will incontinently declare against the "other worthless substances. Our" debt being held to be national; while, "friend Cobbett possesses this faculty by others of more sanguine tempera"in great perfection. Wherever he " ment, it is imagined that in William 66 goes, by a sort of natural attraction," Cobbett they behold, in so far at least "he is immediately surrounded by all" as the dead weight is concerned, an"those whose more volatile opinions," other Peter-the-Hermit, who peram"as well as generous contempt for rigid" bulates the country to deliver the body "public virtue, naturally dispose them" corporate from the body of this "to welcome one who either supplies "death!' Whatever may be the occult "to them arguments for their own reasons for bending the knee at a cr 46 66 66 views, or at least powerfully laughs public board, to the immediate abo"others out of any which they may "lisher of national debt, tithes, paper"chance to possess. However, to say money, pensions, standing army, corn"the truth, we have laughed heartily "laws, malt, and all taxes whatsoever "with, and sometimes at, the old gentle- "-to him, the greatest political rene" man. The wight is indeed to be pi-"gado who has ever lived-who has "tied who expected any illumination" been at once the eulogist and de"from William Cobbett; yet is he very "famer of Burke, the contemner and "entertaining, and occasionally very" worshipper of Tom Paine, the heart66 happy in his sarcasms. Like a "less detractor of Thomas Muir, and "skilful coachman, he always applies" the ungrateful libeller of Sir Francis his whip to the raw.' With the "Burdett-the vulgar panderer to Eng "lish vulgar pot-house prejudices, and" and return to Glasgow on Monday, "the unceasing detractor of Scotland" in time for the public dinner to be " and its antallectual' people-what-" given him on that day." "ever, we say, may be the motive for "bending the knee to such an honest, "patriotic man, it is a subject of morti"fication and shame to all of whose "character and talents Glasgow has any "reason to be proud. You will proba"bly hear from me again upon this laughter-exciting topic; in the mean " time, I remain, sir, &c." NEWS FOR LONDON. ABUSIVE WOMEN, DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. It is rumoured that the Whigs are likely to find it convenient to dissolve the Parliament very early in December. I hope they will give me time to get into Berkshire, to tell the people there something about JACK WALTER and his man STODDART. However, I shall get there if I can. I shall quit GLASGOW on the 3. of November, shall go by KILMARNOCK and DUMFRIES to CARTo Dame Anna Brodie and Mrs. Fanny LISLE, thence to DARLINGTON, and then Wraight, She-Proprietors of the push on towards the Wen with as little bloody old Times, and Cousins of interruption on my route as possible. Jack Walter, who has the incom- Let us get together; let me be one of parable impudence to offer himself as the number; and we will soon see a Candidate for the County of Berks. whether laws are to be made by candlelight, and the penalty of death voted Dean SWIFT says, that, "when for by men coming reeking from a "women behave like blackguard men, smoking-room, or men picking their "they are no longer to be considered teeth, or belching out the fumes of "as belonging to the sex of which they brandy-and-water. We will soon see "wear the ordinary apparel, but are to whether there be to be a real reform or "be considered as bullying inen, and no reform at all. "are to be kicked down stairs accord"ingly." Not being disposed to go up your stairs for any purpose whatsoever, I cannot, of course, act towards you upon the principle of SwIFT, though I am determined to go and overhaul Cousin JACK as soon as I get back to the Sooth. In the meanwhile I send you a piece of news from the Glasgow Chronicle of yesterday, the 27th inst.; it will give you singular pleasure, I dare say, and may serve to comfort Cousin JACK until I can get back to him, when I will give him confort enough I will warrant him. SCOTCH REPRESENTATION. HERE it is that the reform will work wonders. Scotland ought to have had a hundred and twenty or thirty members at least, which I do not put upon paper to have it read while I am in the country; for this that I am now writing cannot possibly be read in Scotland till two days, at least, after I am out of it. I will show hereafter how beneficial it would have been to England, as well as to all the rest of the kingdom, if "Mr. Cobbett arrived from Paisley Scotland had had her due share of "early this forenoon at Mr. Bell's, members; and, oh! if 1, when at Clyde-buildings, where he resides Edinburgh, had known what I now "during his visit to Glasgow, and soon know, what a basting I would have his "after, accompanied by his secretary given that Lord Advocate, upon "and Mr. Bell, set off in a post-chaise own dunghill, for his baseness in bring" for Hamilton, where he is to lecture ing in a bill which takes, first, the town "this evening. We understand that of DUMBARTON in the county of Duм"Mr. Cobbett, after visiting Hamilton BARTON; then goes across the CLYDE, "Palace, &c., will proceed to Dalzell, into the county of RENFREW, to tack |