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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1834.

My House, No. 21, Crown-street, Westminster, facing the park, and having a door into the park on the other side, I shall have ready to be let, in about a week. It is a house fit for any gentleman's family; and it is just about six hundred yards from the chair of the Speaker in the House of Commons. There is not a better or pleasanter house in London. The particulars and the terms will be stated in the next Register. I should be much obliged by any editor of a newspaper, who would insert this notification about the house.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

[Price Is. 2d.

"Father and mother and I,

"With a stout and trusty band, "Beat a poor little boy,

"Till be couldn't go nor stand."

The villanous newspapers: I might fernal birth: these prodigious monsters, call them hellish; for they must be of incried up the "victory of Navarino," as nearly one and all, town and country, something "which would not suffer in

a comparison with the most brilliant "naval achievements of England"! And, oh! their praises of the gallantry and skill of the French and their admiral! Their intolerable baseness in this Bolt-court, 1. January, 1834. respect, their praises of the French and Ir was my intention to insert in this their crowing over the poor Turk, the week's Register, the famous Message faithful friend of England for two hunof the President of the United States; dred years, against these very French! and to remark particularly on the very It was enough to drive one to distracinteresting financial part of it; and tion as one read, reflecting that such on that part where he speaks of the words had dropped from the pens of villanous manœuvres of the grinders of Englishmen; and it required all the paper-money. Seeing him, however, patience, all the forbearance, all the in a fair way to blow the whole of the long-suffering, all the equanimity, all infernal machine to atoms, I shall defer the cool and placid resignation, belongthe expressions of my joy on that ac- ing to my character, to preserve to me count, or, at least, the detail of those any portion of my senses ! expressions, in order to make some remarks upon the subject stated at the head of this article.

By-and-by, it came out, that this "brilliant" and "glorious achievement," was an "untoward event." I did not, My writing-life has been so long, and however, stop for this discovery: I said, I have always seen so far before me, at once, that it would lead, and that it and have so constantly put upon paper must lead, either to a war with Russia; predictions of what would take place, a resolute and desperate war; or to a that, as events now come on, I seem to base and cowardly abandonment, not have very little to do but to re-state, only of the rights acquired, but of the and, most commonly, merely to re-print character acquired for England, by our [Printed by W. Cobbett, Johnson's-court.]

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wise and brave forefathers. To-day, I every epithet and term descriptive of read in the Times newspaper, that Eng-villany, two of those who so designated land, in 1828 and 1829, did "commit me having since cut their throats, or "the baserress of leaving the Turkish killed themselves in some way or anoempire to the tender mercies of ther; when my reasonable and just pro"Nicholas, the Duke of Wellington position, which was adopted by the as"being fairly over-reached, as in 1831, sembled county of Kent, with a minority "she and France together, from similar of four voices, or at most seven; I, at "mystification practised on the Whigs, that time, put it to the plain under"barbarously deserted Poland. They standings of the people of Kent, what now reap the fruits of the double would be the situation of England if "crime. However, the design of Russia again called upon to go to war, or " is palpable; and fixed, we have reason quietly submit to a curtailment of her "to believe, is her resolve to execute it, power. I made use of these words: "judging by her known preparations."The figure of eight and the eight I believe it was to the tender mercies" noughts say to the King of England, of the "magnanimous" gentleman who" You never shall go to war again while was so much praised for having ordered," we are in existence." Then I put to or approved of, the burning of about a them: "Would you be content to see thousand women in child-birth, in his" the French come and demand possesown city of Moscow, and to touch the" sion of DOVER castle; then come up hem of whose merciful garment the" the MEDWAY and take possession of "ladies" of England galloped so many "UPNOR castle, to say nothing of the miles; I believe that it was he, and not" dock-yards and the arsenals? No: NICHOLAS; but it is of very little conse- SO far from being content with this, quence which of them it was: this very" your blood boils at having the quesTimes newspaper joined the rest in ap "tions put to you. Ask yourselves, plauding the battle of NAVARINO, and then, how such aggressions are to be in being delighted with the conse-"prevented, except by being prepared quences of that battle. There will be" for war? And then, again, ask youra time to talk of Poland hereafter, per- "selves how the nation is to move haps; but what is Poland, compared " one step in the way of preparing for with Turkey? The monsters, who, war, with this mill-stone of debt about chiefly through the instrumentality of" its neck?"

the blaspheming Jews, have barbarously Much about the time I am now murdered, or doomed to the cruelest of speaking of, or soon afterwards, the slavery, the unhappy Polanders, are man who is now the Lord High Chanobjects of my execration; but, their cellor said, in the House of Commons, deeds there do not endanger the power "that he thanked God, that the nation of England but in a very indirect man- was BOUND TO KEEP THE PEACE ner. In Turkey the autocrat comes at " in a bond of eight hundred millions !"* us at once; and we must strike, or ac- There was quite enough besides this to knowledge that we dare not: and then make me shudder at the idea of that we come to the disgraceful point, at man's possessing any political power in which I have a hundred and a thousand my country; but, if he had never uttertimes said we should arrive at last. In ed anything else to have displeased me, the year 1822, when I proposed, at a that one sentence would have been sufcounty-meeting at MAIDSTONE, to add ficient. It argued (and it argued conto the petition a prayer, that there might clusively) that he was either wholly be a "just" reduction of the interest of destitute of judgment, destitute of the debt; and, when that petition, so knowledge, or destitute of love of counadded to, obtained for me, in the House of Commons, from persons who, being now in the House, I will not here name; when it obtained for me from that body

try, and of all feeling for its honour and its safety. Beyond all doubt it was one of the two former; but, no matter which of the three, each equally dis

qualifying him for the possession of man must be a rogue who could pro

political power.

pose, or assent to, a diminution of the amount of this bond. After these things, is it not farcical in the Times newspaper to talk in this way, and to put an "if" respecting an enemy's belief of our being afraid to go to war? Why, we are afraid to go to war; with all our thundering navy and thundering army, we are afraid to pronounce the word wAR. We know that we cannot go to war without breaking the bond in one way or another; we cannot break the bond without subjecting ourselves to be called “ rogues ;" and we are justly afraid of being called "rogues." So, here we are, literally bound not to strike, though we have a

What! rejoice, a man rejoice, that his country is unable to go to war and that man a statesman, too; and that man now a servant of the King of England, and the keeper of his conscience with regard to high matters of state and government! It is very true that the nation is bound to keep the peace, in a bond of eight hundred millions; but is this a thing to rejoice at, except by the bitterest enemies of England? It is very true that the bond exists; but is it so binding that the nation must lose its power, and be sunk in everlasting disgrace, rather than break the bond? No individual can bind himself to suffer fleet and army, which, God knows, death, whether from sword or from ought to be ready, and though we have want. The loss of power to defend it- already received blow after blow, and self is death to a nation; therefore, to we are now receiving a blow greater that point a nation cannot be bound. than all the rest. It is just thirty years Upon the occasion of the petition from since I went to a play. The last time I Kent, the same man said, that there went I saw WALDRON in the character could be "no such thing as a just reduc- of GEORGE DOWNRIGHT, giving Fawtion of the interest of the debt." Put CEtt a "6 hiding" (with an ash-stick) in the two assertions together, and state the character of BOBADIL, who had a them thus: "That it is subject of joy long swaggering sword by his side. "that the nation is bound in a bond of" Draw! draw! draw your spit," ex"eight hundred millions not to go to claimed the former. "Tall gentleman!. “war; and that, the amount of this Tall gentleman! I protest..... "bond cannot be diminished." Put" Oh! damn your protesting! Draw these two together: and then you have your sword!" which the other took the assertion of the man who is now good care not to do; but being well Lord Chancellor, that the nation can provided with sheepskins under his dress, never go to war again, and that he is quietly took a walloping that made the glad of it; and then you have, I think, whole theatre resound; and, afterwards, a pretty sufficient reason for the Ameri- when questioned as to the cause, lifted cans grasping the FLORIDAS, and invad-up his hands and turned up the whites ing, and squatting down in the Texes; of his eyes, exclaiming: "It was the for the French invading Spain and dis- stars; certainly, the stars." 'Certainly posing of her government at its plea- not, captain," answered young WELLsure; and for the conquest of TURKEY BORN, "it was the stick: it certainly by RUSSIA. was the stick, captain, and not the stars.

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The Times newspaper of to-day says: Aye, and it is not the stars now that "If an enemy believe that we are afraid withhold our hands; neither will it be to strike, he will do so for us." Be- sufficient for us to plead the bond; the lieve! He must be hard of belief, in- world is too penetrating and too just deed, if he reject belief on the fact that not to ascribe our want of resentwe are bound to keep the peace in a ment to the true cause; or, rather, our bond of eight hundred millions, and want of the act of showing our rewhen he is told so by the man who is sentment; for, all our efforts to disguise now Lord Chancellor; and that, as Sir from the world that we feel resentment ROBERT PEEL, in his memorable rating will fail of success. The true cause is, a of me, rather more than hinted that a change in the character of the governing

powers of England, whose great prin- ing the American rebels to fight into ciple was, for ages and ages, the main-the bargain. Here we are with an tenance of the greatness and the honour army of a hundred thousand men, helof the country, cost what it might; to meted, their breasts covered with brass think nothing worth a straw that was plates, their horses as big as elephants, not calculated to endure for ages; to each carrying half a ton of fat we despise wealth and ease and show, when have foot and horse grenadiers, light put in competition with the bold asser-infantry, dragoons, lancers, horse guards, tion of the rights of the country abroad, and all the "finest troops in the world:" and of its genuine, solid, untinselled improvement upon improvement in the liberties at home. This great principle dress, in the arms, in the discipline and has departed froin those who rule us: manoeuvres; the drum and trumpet's a huckstering, counting-house, usurious, everlasting sound half stuns us, unless discounting, bill-broking principle has we get away to the mountains of Scotsucceeded; and here we are, ready to land or of Wales. And what is all this faint at the idea of a "shock to PUB-FOR? What is it FOR? I have LIC CREDIT," while we affect not to asked that question a thousand times, perceive that the whole fabric of this and never yet got a satisfactory answer. kingly Government is rocking backwards and forwards and ready to come tumbling on the heads of those who ought to be its upholders.

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Here we are with 170 admirals, 1,684 captains of the navy, 110 of which admirals have been made since the peace, and 413 captains have been made since If an enemy believe that we are the peace. Here we are with about afraid "! Believe it! Why, every 200 generals, and 16,000 military offination knows it. Does this editor of cers of different descriptions. And here the Times newspaper imagine, that my we are, with all these upon our hands, Register is not read in Russia, because it and not daring to pronounce the word is not read by certain stupid men in Eng- WAR. What, then, is this navy and this land, who do not read, not because they army for? Why do they cost us fourteen think it contains falsehoods, but because millions, eight hundred and sixty-nine they are told that it contains truth? It thousand six hundred and eleven pounds is absolutely impossible for any man a year? All appears to be naval and regularly to read this Register without military, except that there is no fight: being certain that this kingdom cannot a commander in chief with a levee like go to war without breaking the "bond"; that of a king; and a staff, like that of and, the ears of the whole world have a sovereign prince at the head of his been dinned with the ten-thousand-times-army: eternal paradings and musterrepeated declarations of the Ministers ings and reviewings and mountings of and the Parliament, that they will not guards; marchings and countermarchbreak that bond; Ministers, Parlia-ings, and shiftings of quarters, a "MAJOR ments, and three successive Kings, have STURGEON" at every corner of the street: declared that they would preserve what footmen and grooms and porters and they call" NATIONAL FAITH;" which lackeys, with bits of round leather is as much as to declare, that the nation glued up to the sides of their hats, indishall never draw the sword again, cating the profession of their gallant though an enemy capture the Isle of masters; but not even a footman to Wight, or come and demand possession of the Tower of London.

pronounce the word wAR: military and naval academies: young gentlemen in In the meanwhile, what a figure do troops to be the nation's deffenders; we exhibit in the eyes of the world! epaulets at right angles, and cockedHere we are with a greater naval force; hats as fierce as the arrows of Death a naval force costing more money than themselves: club-houses, and "panes of the navy of England cost, when Eng-glass costing five pounds a-piece, and land was at war with France, Spain, with waiters in silk stockings. TRA and Holland, all at the same time, hav-FALGAR SQUARES, WELLINGTON PLACES,

WATERLOO PLACES and WATERLOO | forty!" will exclaim some crucifying BRIDGES; ACHILLES, the conquering usurer. They might be down to one, if ACHILLES, stuck up, stark naked, by the they would, but I would go to war. "ladies" of England, swinging back his shield, and holding his menacing fist up towards the bullet-proof windows. Temples and palaces decorated with standards won in the field and on the seas; galleries erected to exhibit them in; and a people creeping about, viewing the sights, listening to the rattling of the drum and the clamour of the trumpet, hearing that the Russians have taken possession of Turkey, and not daring to utter, even to one another, the terrific word, WAR.

But how would I get the means? There are the thundering navy and army, ready made to my hand; and as for money, I should take that which now goes into the pockets of the usurers, and other taxeating idlers. I might take, to be sure, the two hundred and thirteen pounds a year that go into the pocket of the REV. THOMAS PENROSE, who has had it for twenty-one years, for having been five months Charge d'Affaires at FLORENCE, having two church livings in England all the while. I might take this, or else the deuce is in it, and let him live upon tithes : aye, and I would find out some civil list or dead weight that should supply four of five other millions for fighting the

say, "I am driven to straits, and can keep no cats that don't catch mice." Away would go the picture-galleries, and gate-ways, and the panes of glass costing five pounds a piece, and the waiters in silk stockings, and the horseguards sweating under brass breastplates; away would go the carriages in

This is our real state: this is the figure that we are making in the eyes of the world; and this is the light in which we are viewed from one end to the other of that world. What, then, is to be the end of this? For he is Russians. "Come, come,' I should mightily deceived who supposes that our humiliations are to end with the execution of the projects of Russia with regard to Turkey. When I have finished this article, I shall insert a letter which I addressed to the "Cobbettites" some time after the battle of NAVARINO, from which the reader will see, that the present events are only mere fulfilment HYDE PARK, the sweet-scented and of what I then saw and predicted. That letter should be read with care from the beginning to the end; because the ultimate consequences are there very clearly pointed out and sufficiently dwelt upon.

ogling pensioners, and the footmen in white stockings, and with ropes hanging down from their shoulders; and away would go the mowers, with a good swarth of grass, up Regent-street, and Those consequences, round about the base of the monument shortly described, being, a close union of the lover of the darling Mother between Russia and the United States CLARKE; and then the nation would of America, and finally joined by France; and, of course, the complete humiliation and bowing down of England.

Referring the reader to that letter, for a more full statement of my opinion as to those matters, the question that will now be put to me is this: "Would you, "then, if you were prime minister, go "to war?" Yes, at once, or quit my place. At once, and my fleet should negotiate the Russians out of CoNSTANTINOPLE and all the Turkish territories: the autocrat should hear England speak from the mouth of the cannon, and from no other mouth.

"Why, the funds would be down to

begin to be in fighting order; and the Russian and the Prussian and the Mynheer and the Parlez-vous and the damnable sly Yankee would all begin to get blows instead of long bits of writing, full of cant, of lies, and of feelosofy. In one word, I would undertake to beat the Russian bear and repeal the malt tax at the same time; and if I did not do both, I would agree to be the next annual victim for the Jews to crucify at Easter.

Very well, now; this is what you would do; but, what do you think the Ministers will do? Ah! That's a hard question: I can tell what it is likely