The first of these charges I answered in my last. I will now According to the indictment, and make it a power of only the third the case for the prosecution, Pit- rank. taway was the man who actually fired; and, therefore, it is not very likely that if this were so, James thought that Pittaway could save shortly notice the others. What himself by telling the truth against the man who was only an abettor. each made the same declaration "cruelty," then, did the King dis Before and after this expression, cover? Why, says the Chronicle, he protested that he was innocent; he put to death NEY, and others: when all hope was gone; and What! lay the death of NEY at James was only prevented by ex- the door of Lours! This is true haustion from repeating it at the London-press impudence! NEX gallows. I now leave the case of these had sworn allegiance to the King; men, which I have gone through NEY was one of the King's gesoberly and sadly. The precipi- nerals; Ney had part of the King's tance of the law, in case of mur better understood, and in prevent- A LOVER OF JUSTICE. LOUIS XVIII. der, left no opportunity of ob- troops under his command; NEY taining a reconsideration of that was sent by the King to fight case before they suffered. I against Napoleon; and NEY joined thank you for allowing me to cooperate with you in making it Napoleon. Was not this treason ? And was the King of France to have no law to protect him, while ours has so many treason-laws to protect him? Oh, no! Ney's friends never had to complain of LOUIS: they complained of the "greatest captain," whose treaty, they said, protected the life of NEY... No man has ever, before, laid the death of NEY to the charge of Louis; and, as to his conduct, generally, towards those who had been guilty of crimes against him, never, in the whole world, was there in a case in anywise similar, a thousandth part of so much lenity. Look at the executions for treason, at the imprisonments and ruinous fines for what is called sedition ;) In my last, at page 30 and the following, I inserted, from the Morning Chronicle, certain paragraphs, charging the late King of France with weakness and vanity; with cruelty on his resumption of power; with ingratitude towards England; and with having reduced his own kingdom to a state of political abjectness, so as to : look at the Pitt, Perceval, Castle- Paris, as a spy; and that the reagh and Sidmouth measures in French Government proved to all England; and then look at the Europe, that it was Wright who acts of Louis the XVIIIth.! His had brought the conspirators over. reign was mercy and gentleness, And, as to the "Machine Inin the extreme, when compared fernal," the Chronicle must know, with what took place here in any that Buonaparté, just after the ten years of the last thirty, though peace of Amiens, told Mr. Fox, here there was no revolution at that Mr. WYNDHAM was the inall, and, indeed, no real necessity ventor, or patron, of the Machine for any rigorous measures. Infernal. Mr. Fox denied this: The King is charged (See p. 30, but, at any rate, no one, until now, of this vol. of Register) with ever imputed any of those schemes always " labouring for his re- to Louis the XVIIIth., or, indeed, establishment" as King of France. to any of the Bourbons. The Well; and what then? It really Chroniele may just as well say is a little too hard to blame a man that the Bourbons made the false for trying to get his crown away assignats in London, and sent from one who has notoriously them to puff out the paper-money usurped it. But, the means! The in France. Chronicle says, that the conspiThe next charge is, the King's racies of GEORGES, PICHEGRU, ingratitude towards England. The and MOREAU, and of the Machine Bourbons never owed this GovernInfernal, show what sort of means ment, or country, any gratitude at LOUIS thought proper to accom- all. They were just suffered to be plish his purpose. Now, this is here, in order to assist our own cause very mean. The Chronicle must against the republicans. We made know, that Louis had no more to a treaty of peace and amity with... say as to these conspiracies than the usurper of their throne, and the printer's devil of the Chronicle never so much as named them in the treaty! They were never suffered to appear at court in England! They were never acknowledged had. The Chronicle must know, that GEORGES, PICHEGRU, and the rest of that set of conspirators, were sent to France in an English public vessel, commanded by one by our Government as the King WRIGHT; that Wright was taken and Royal Family of France! and confined in the Temple, at Our Government always declared, D2 that their restoration was not at account of "gratitude due to Engall the object of the war! land." They have made one pretty large re-payment in their Spanish expedition. The possession, of Cadiz and of Corunna may, I suppose, be looked upon as a grateful return for our taking away, during our "CONQUEST" of France, the frontier towns spoken of before! The Chronicle is rather which he had not time to do. 'Are not these facts notorious? What gratitude, then, did the King, or does his family, owe to England? The little money that was given them by the Government was pretty well repaid by the Toulon facet, which, be it remembered, was never restored to the King of France. To be sure, impatient, then. Louis XVIII. they must owe us a great deal of had not time to show his gratitude gratitude for stripping their mu- to its full extent. His successors seums, and taking away some of will, I engage for them, do that the best of their frontier towns! They know all about the real cause of Napoleon's return from Elba. They know who it was that brought dom to a state of political abjecthim back; and they know also ness! It really does demand a what he was brought back for! great deal of brass to say this! They know that, "after we had Never did kingdom so rise in a boasted that we had seven hun- similar space of time. It was the dred thousand foreigners to assist Usurper, mind, who brought the us, and that besides, half France foreign troops to Paris. That was for us; after we had, with all great kingdom was, indeed, in a these to aid us, got to Paris AS state of political abjectness, when THE ALLIES of Louis XVIII., the museums were rifted by foreign we called ourselves the "conquer- soldiers. Louis got the "CONors of France!" The Bourbons QUERERS away! And, during know all this: they have Castle- his nine years' reign, he saw his reagh's and the great Captain's people completely recover from notes yet! They will not forget all their embarrassments. He was those notes, in some of which the able to send an army to take posright of conquest is so modestly session of Spain, while his people put forward. They will, I dare scarcely felt the expense. His say, be ready, in a very few people are, beyond all comparison, years, to state and to settle the the happiest, and, in reality, the most free, in all Europe. His The Boroughmongers are the fleet he left in a state that will greatest enemies that I have, and enable it to meet us on the sea, I wish well to any thing, or any single handed, in a short time. body, that I think likely to injure His colonies, in short, every thing them.... belonging to France, is in a flourishing state. But, can we look at Spain; can we look at Cadiz; can we think of our own sneaking attitude, and not be indignant at the insult offered to our understanding by a writer who tells us that France is in a state of political abjectness, and so reduced as to be now no more than a power of the third rank ! COBBETT FARMING. I HAVE recently been in Herefordshire, where having witnessed a specimen of the effects of my system of farming, I was anxious, for private as well as for public reasons, to make a communication on the subject to the public as soon as possible. I, therefore, However, this is the way that this London press (and, indeed, the press of the whole country) has always gone on. It knows, that the mob of readers wish that France addressed the following Letter to may be a poor, little power. It the Editors of the MORNING knows, that a newspaper which CHRONICLE and of the MORNING flatters the said mob's wishes, will HERALD, in which papers the sell better to the said mob. And, Letter appeared in the early part therefore, France is represented of the week; and, for the inser to be a poor, little, insignificant power! Well; but I; what do I tion, I here present those genwish? Do not I also wish, that tlemen my best thanks, France may become a poor, feeble nation? Flat and plain, I do not! That is to say, in the present state of things. I am much more anxious about seeing Boroughmongers pulled down, than about seeing anybody else pulled down, be that anybody who he may. Kensington, Oct. 2, 1824. SIR, I beg you to have the goodness to insert the following statement in your paper. It is, indeed, calculated to do me service; but it is of great public importance, and is full of interest and of curiosity to a very large part of the community. and published at New York, the first In 1818, I wrote, in Long Island, part of the "Year's Residence in America." It was published in England in the autumn of that year. It contained, amongst other things, an account of the mode of cultivating that invaluable root, the SWEDISH TURNIP. I spoke of my cultivation of the root at Botley, as well as in Long Island. Several persons in England pursued the mode at once, and, to their great profit, have adhered to it ever since. But, there is one gentleman, Mr. PALMER, of Bollitree Castle, parish of Weston, near the town of Ross, county of Hereford, who has, in consequence of having adopted my system, made an improvement in agriculture, worthy of the attention of every landlord and farmer in the kingdom, and worthy of the praise of the whole country. Mr. Palmer read the "Year's Residence" in the winter of 1819; and, being convinced by my reasoning and my facts, he, at once, resolved to act upon my advice. He prepared two fields, the one called Brick-kiln field, and the other called Hiscups; the first containing 15 acres, and the last 17. The two fields have borne, during the last six years (1819 and 1824 included), three crops of Swedish turnips and three crops of wheat. But let us take the crops, year by year, of the Brick-kiln field, which may serve for both, there being scarcely any difference in the crops of the two fields. 1819. Drilled Swedish Turnips-a single row on the top of cach ridge, and the ridges four feet apart. The crop twenty tons of bulbs to the acre.-The tops from seven to eight tons. The tops, in November and December, flung about on pasture land, to cattle, sheep, aud pigs. The bulbs carried off also, and oxen and sheep were fatted with them during the winter and spring months. 11820. Drilled Wheat at eight inches distance, on ridges four feet apart; that is, on the land mere ly turned back from the turnipridges -The wheat was drilled on the 11th and 12th of March. -The crop was forty Winchester bushels to the acre and ten gal lons over upon the whole field. 1821. Transplanted Swedish . Turnips -at different times, from sd of June to 7th of July. The amount of crop twenty-four tons of bulbs per acre, and seven tons of tops. - All carried off the land, and applied to the same purpose as those of 1319. 1822. Drilled Wheat-as in 1820, in February, but without ploughing the land at all. Just drilled it upon the land as it had been left by the Swedish turnips. The crop was 32 Winchester bushels to the acre. 1823. Drilled Swedish Turnips-as in 1819. The crop twenty-two tons of bulbs, and from six to seven tons of tops.-All carried off the land, and applied to the same purposes as those of 1819 and 1821. 1824. Drilled Wheat-as before, in February, and without ploughing. The amount of the crop is not yet known, it being but recently harvested. It is, however, estimated at thirty-four Winchester bushels to the acre on threefourths of the field, and forty bushels to the acre on the remainder. The other field (Hiscups), 17 acres, has, during the whole of the six years, been treated in the same manner; has borne similar crops; except, that, this year, its crop of wheat seems to exceed that of the other field in a considerable degree. Mr. PALMER always manures for the Swedish turnips, and never for the Wheat. When these two fields have Wheat, he has his Swedish Turnips in other fields. Every farmer will be able to judge of the in |
