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In the Press. ไป TH THE "AMERICAN STOVES" from Mr. COBBETT'S Model are now ready packed A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND AND WALES.-This Work, in Baskets, so that no delay in the execution which has been so long in hand, is now in of orders will take place: also, the "LONthe Press. It will contain the Name, Situa- COBBETT's Model, price 31. 10s. GITUDINAL CORN-SHELLER" from Mr. tion, &c., of every Parish, and even of every Hamlet; it will contain a description, and an Account of the Country; also of each County; and will, I trust, convey more use Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. VOL. 74.-No. 10.] LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3RD, 1831. [Price ls. 2d. tence of execration upon every man who represents the heaping up of masses of property, as a national evil, and as injurious to those who create all the property. This letter, dated from Manchester, was written by a man who never was at Manchester; and I will bet you ten sovereigns to one, that, if I be furnished with the means of calling what witnesses ARMING THE RICH AGAINST I please before a competent tribunal, THE WORKING PEOPLE. DOCTOR, TO DOCTOR BLACK. Bolt-court, 1st December, 1831. I will produce clear proof that Brodie himself wrote the letter; which, besides its bad grammar and inherent stupidity, and the praises which it bestows upon Brodie, all the facts and circumstances that are stated and alluded to, prove I SHOULD take no notice of bloody it must have come from some resiold TIMES, of stupid and sickly GLOBE, dent of Salisbury; while the endless or of the still more stupid and sickly praises of the Printer-Banker-LieuCOURIER; but when YOU, who have tenant-Colonel, form a strong presense and sincerity, and whom I have sumption that the letter was written by actually dignified with the title of the Printer-Banker himself. Doctor; when you become the serious and strenuous advocate for arming the rich against the working people, I really feel alarmed, being sure that, if your efforts prevail, our country must become a scene of desolation and of blood. Therefore, I beg you to reflect well and long before you determine to pursue this course. I notice, in your paper of to-day, a letter, pretended to have been written at Manchester, containing great praises on the military association which has been formed at Salisbury. On this letter, and on this military association, you bestów great praises, and, indeed, you recommend similar associations to be formed all over the kingdom; or, in other words, that there may be a general arming of the rich against the poor in towns, equivalent to that arming which consists of yeomanry cavalry in the country: you want a town foot-yeomanry, to be ready to fight the working people in the towns! And yet you find fault with the working people for entertaining feelings of hostility towards people of property, and you pass a sen I shall now take the letter bit by bit, remark upon it as I proceed, and show its baseness and insolence, and also the mischievous tendency of it. SIR, Manchester, Nov. 25, 1831. I was in Salisbury on the 2d of November, when your paper of the 1st, containing a letter from "An Inhabitant" of that place, was put into my hands. It happened that this was the drill day of the corps of Volunteer Infantry therein alluded to; and being much pleased with the observations contained in your paper, and having been myself formerly in the army, I strolled out in the afternoon, to see what sort of stuff this corps was composed of; and I must confess, that if I was astonished, in the first instance, at the military appearance they presented, I was much more so at the extratheir movements. No man seemed to me to ordinary facility with which they performed be at a loss. Every one knew his place, and I was particularly struck with the manner in which they performed the difficult manœuvres of street firing, aud with the wonderful order they preserved in charging with bayonet in line. In fact, I have never seen a regiment of regular soldiers preserve better order. I was surprised to find that this corps had not been embodied much more than nine months, and that they had never had an adjutant to instruct them. I learnt, on further inquiry, that their Lieutenant-colonel, Mr. Brodie, though he had never been in the army, had a | and before this battalion existed if natural taste for military tactics, and that he Brodie's battalion could fly through the had, during the last war, been an officer of volunteers, and that there was an intelligent air, carrying waterspouts with them, serjeant-major; and that by these two, and by they might, indeed, do some good; but a few serjeants and corporals, who had been what good are they to do by swaggering formerly members of volunteer corps, the about the streets of the little tranquil battalion had been brought to its present excity of Salisbury? They are, it seems, traordinary state of perfection. I must not omit to add, that I was further informed, that under all circumstances, "to preserve the exertions of these persons have been ren- the public tranquillity.” Yes, as long dered the more successful by the great zeal of as that tranquillity is not disturbed; but the parties whom they had to instruct. The bat only let a real disturbance come; let a talion, I was told, consisted principally (both officers and privates) of tradesmen-that the couple of thousand chopsticks be got mayor elect even was a private-that many together, in hostile array; let them other privates were wealthy men, or the sons enter the city, and let one single flint of wealthy men-and that the remainder were stone come, whizzing within a few artisans, but all respectable, and all having a strong esprit de corps. My informant added, inches of the head of Brodie, away goes that the formation of this little battalion had all "his natural taste" for military done more good than any one thing he had ever tactics, and away scamper the members recollected to have taken place in Salisbury; of the corps, each to his counter, his that it had united" for a good purpose," men of different political opinions and of different desk, or his taxing office. It is the grades in society and that he was quite sure FIRES, 'which, as the writer of the that, under all circumstances, every member Brighton Guardian eloquently says, "is of the corps would do his utmost to preserve the plague of plagues;" and this horrible plague, which has been augmented by the calling out of the yeomanry, must, of necessity, be brought into the towns by the establishment of corps of defiance like that of Brodie. The working people are the millions after all! the order of the worid requires that they should be so: and, what does the very sight of one of these yeomanry or volunteer corps (called out in time of peace) to these working millions? Why, it says precisely what we shall find Brodie himself saying in the next : the public tranquillity. extract. I have been thus diffuse about this corps, As to the buttering of Brodie, the knife and the loaf were in his own hands, and also the lump of butter; so that it is no wonder that he laid it on ''pretty thickly. “His natural taste" for military tactics was so likely to be found out by a Manchester traveller, who happened to have been in the army; so likely to see Brodie and his tame battalion, and who “strolled out," to look at it! This is all so likely, that we will not, for a moment, question the truth of it; nor will we doubt that the famous corps .consists of comparatively rich people; but with regard to the information because I am convinced that, with such a which this inquisitive Manchester gen-force, Salisbury is secure from all riots and tleman picked up; namely, "that the "formation of this little battalion had done more good than any one thing that he ever recollected to have taken place in Salisbury; as to this piece of information, which is conveyed to us in a sentence which a chambermaid would have been ashamed to construct; if I had been the Manchester man, have as to this piece of information, I would, asked Brodie WHAT GOOD this band of swaggering blades had accomplished? The FIRES in the county of Wilts are three times as numerous as they were 66 before the yeomanry were called out, disturbance. Had such a body of men existed them to account for doing so? Let me give them one word of advice. Let them be wise while they can. If they are desirous of saving this yet happy country from all the horrors of the first years of the French Revolution, when from the contempt on the part of the nobles towards the middle classes, the government of that wretched and devoted country was vested in the very scum and dregs of society. If, I say, they are desirous of saving their country, let them, at once put their trust in all those who have property to defend; let them place confidence in them, and I will answer for it that their power and influence will be sufficient TO KEEP THE REST IN SUBJECTION. Subjection means to throw down under, or, to be thrown down under ; it fairly means, in this case, to trample down, or to put down and keep down by force. Brodie need not have taken the pains to tell the people this in words; for he tells it them much more convincingly by the mere exhibition of his corps of tawdry fribbles, with guns in their hands, hairy caps on their heads, and a parcel of belts strapped round their bodies; which arms and accoutrements would, as Boileau said of the Dutch, only serve, in case of need, to retard their flight. One may say of Brodie and his corps, as the French ambassador said to the chief of a Swiss canton, who had boastingly shown him the arsenals of the republic:-"All "that you have to do now is, to pray to "God to preserve you from the folly of attempting to use it." The very sight of Brodie's corps tells the working people, we mean to keep you IN "SUBJECTION: we mean to have your labour, and to give you so little "for it, that you shall have nothing but " potatoes to eat and water to drink Times, and the nasty stinking Globe, puff off as the sure means of putting a stop to the fires, and which even you, Doctor, have condescended to praise: this is the language of the sight of Brodie's corps. And, what is the natural effect of such language? Why, to make the poor hate the rich, and entertain towards them unquenchable animosity. Human nature must be totally changed: defiance and contempt must excite feelings of conciliation and love, before these broad and insulting threats cease to excite hatred and revenge. How many fights have we all seen produced by a word of defiance, or by a holding up of a fist. The bare sight of Brodie's corps, is the holding up of a fist to the working people of Salisbury; and, now, coming to this writer's GRAND POINT," do you think, Doctor, that it would be wise to raise such corps in the great towns? Do you think that it would be wise for a corps like Brodie's, consisting of a handful of oft-handed manufacturers and clerks, to be exhibited, in the way of menace, to the working people of Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and the like? That is the grand point you and your correspondent are aiming at; and, from attempting to carry that point, God preserve the people of property in those great towns. This insolent and emptyskull scrawler has the ignorance and impudence to say that "SUCH a body of men" would have prevented the ruinous proceedings at Bristol! The stupid creature never saw either Manchester or Bristol. The presumptuous simpleton thinks that every town in the we mean to compel you, by these kingdom, except London, is like Salis"bayonets, to live upon the price of a bury; a quiet little place, with about "gallon loaf and threepence a week for seven or eight thousand inhabitants, the "food and clothing!" This is what broad and convenient streets of which, the bare sight of Brodie's corps says to when you go from the WEN, and hapthe working people of the great, fruit-pen to be in them in a week-day, are ful, and beautiful county of Wilts, where so still and so free from people, that, you find an ancient church in every mile, until you have reflected, you think that and where scores of villages have been all the folks are gone to church; this nearly totally depopulated by that more ass really seems to think that this little than infernal system of ACCUMULATION, silent place, lying in a valley surrounded which Brougham and his society have by immense plains, is like Manchester published a book to applaud to the skies, or Birmingham; and that his corps which book the beastly and bloody old would keep the working people of either |