For the county of NORFOLK, by Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart. For the county of HEREFORD, by William Palmer, Esq. of Bollitree Castle, near Ross. For the county of LANCASTER, by Richard Potter, Esq., of Manchester; and Mr. Thomas Smith, Liverpool. For the EAST RIDING of YORKSHIRE, by Mr. Noble, bookseller, Hull. For the WEST RIDING Of YORKSHIRE, by John Forster, Esq., of Leeds. For the county of LEICESTER, Mr. Warburton, of Leicester. For the county of WARWICK, Mr. William Martin, of New-street, Birmingham. For the county of STAFFORD, Mr. William Clark, of Wolverhampton, (who subscribes twenty pounds himself.) For the county of SURREY, Mr. Chas. Trimmer, Churchill, Hazelmere. sons of freedom in America in one For the county of SUFFOLK, money thought hostile to the interests of Eng-will be received by James Gudgeon, land; he addresses himself to the bare Esq., solicitor, Stowmarket. earth, to the general mother; and rewards the country which afforded him, a refuge, by teaching her sons how to For the county of LINCOLN, by Wildraw new treasures from her fruitfulliam Bedford, Esq. of Lincoln. bosom, to improve the culture of their native products, to enrich their gardens with the vine, their fields with the turnip and the hawthorn. He watches meanwhile over the interests of the country that had driven him from her side; he teaches the people to respect the law, and despise its insolent violators; he cheers them with the animating hope of freedom yet to be restored; and how does he at last return? To diffuse comfort through the cottage of the labourer by the fruit of his gathered experience; to restore the beautiful and useful trade in plait and straw; to give new value and beauty to our forest timber, new riches to our gardens; with equal industry, benevolence, and sagacity, scattering, wherever he moves, new benefits on mankind. Admirable man! His conduct in an age in which patriotism has ceased to be acknowledged as a virtue, sends us back to the records of glorious antiquity for standards whereby to measure the greatness of his mind; sends us in vain to seek for examples of a patriotism more pure, I ARRIVED here from Wolverhampton more disinterested, more devoted. Such this morning, having been at Dudley is the man whom the reformers of Eng- and Birmingham some days ago. I land are called upon to adopt as their have no time to write any thing further, representative: and why should we than to say, that I shall be at Worcester doubt that he will be what he has been on the 15th; and shall go from thence If gold could purchase him, he had been into Herefordshire, thence to Monpurchased long ago; and as to ambi- mouth, and thence into Gloucestershire. tion, Mr. COBBETT is already in posses- To name the precise days is out of my sion of a fame which will last while power. there shall be a record of the history of England; a fame which can only be enhanced by the opportunity of conducting his country to that safety to which he has so long and so faithfully pointed the way. His own reputation is identified with the interests of his country, and he must desert the one in order to betray the other. MIDLAND TOUR. Shrewsbury, 13th May, 1830. POSTSCRIPT TO THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. Wolverhampton, 5th May, 1830. AFTER I had published the EMIGRANT'S GUIDE, in the month of August last, I was frequently applied to, in person, by men of property, for information 9. with regard to prices and rent of houses, 7. Therefore, I wrote, in October last, a No. 1. What is the yearly rent of a house in 10. 11. 12. 13. How many acres is B's farm; and What is the number of acres of C's What is the worth of D's tavern, with the land belonging to it? What is your place worth, and how many acres have you? What are the pleasant places to live at, near New York; and what is the distance of each from New York? ANSWERS: 1. From 300 to 400 dollars. 2. Seven per cent. per annum. 3. At 6 per cent. per annum. 4. From 12,000 to 15,000 dollars. 5. About 5,000 dollars. 6. 200 acres : 4,000 dollars: not well fenced. 7. 200 acres in good fence, well cultivated: 8,000 dollars. 8. From 150 to 200 dollars a year. 9. From 100 to 150 dollars a year. 10. From 15,000 to 20,000 dollars: about 350 acres, 11. 4,000 dollars. 12. 13,000 dollars; 290 acres of land. 13. Flatbush, 4 miles; Jamaica, 12; Flushing, 11; and Hempstead, 22. Now, it is necessary for me to give some explanations relative to each ques5. What is the price of a country-house, tion and answer: but, first of all, it is as large as yours, with out-build- necessary to observe, that the dollar is, ings, a garden, orchard, and a bit at this time, at New York, equal to of ground for cows and horses to about four shillings of our money, as run in, supposing the whole to be far as I can judge from the state of the fifteen acres; and suppose the pro-exchange between the two countries. perty to be within 20 miles of New The acre of the United States is always York, and on Long Island? the statute acre of England; that is, 6. What are the number of acres of 160 square rods, or perches, each rod A's farm; and what is that farm being 16 feet in length, and the same worth? in breadth. Long Island is about 130 miles long, and on an average about 8 No. 1. Will need no explanation, other than that the yearly rent of such a house, in this finest (I think) of all the towns and cities in the world, is, in our money, from 60l. to 80%. a year, with, perhaps, not a twentieth part of the English rates, and no taxes such as we pay. Nos. 2 and 3. The questions and an swers speak fully for themselves. No. 4. Will be explained under No. 12; for there are the particulars of the quantity of land. No. 5. I beg the reader to look well at the question. The country-house is a good gentleman's house, with ample appurtenances. In short, read the question, and see what you can have, frechold, out and out, for a thousand pounds, with no accursed stamp on the conveyance, and no hellish tax on the house, the land, or the windows. The orchard finds cyder for the year. But this will be more fully explained under No. 12, which relates to Mr. Tredwell's own place, all the particulars of which I know so well. No. 6. I put A's farm-house here, and not the name of the owner; because that would obviously be wrong. However, I know the farm well. The house is a good one, the land good in its nature, a good portion of woodland. A place, in short, where any industrious man might rear up and provide well for a large family; and the cost is, you see, SO01. our money, out and out. 2001. more would stock it well. No. 7. I know this farm also. It has better and more ample buildings than No. 6. The fences will last) many years without repair, The land is, in quality, like No. 6; but in much better cultivation. The woodland is in sufficient proportion. A nicer farm no man need wish for. The value is 1,600l. our money; and 300l. more would stock it most amply. 8. This suppose a house with garden and orchard and run for a cow; but not on the scale of No. 5. Quite sufficient, however, for easy and genteel life; and the cost is, you see, at most, 40l. a year, our money, with no taxes, or rates, worth speaking of. The taxes and rates alone on such a place, including tax on gig and dog and servant, will, in England, amount to 50l. a year. No. 9. This takes you about 25 miles from New York to a very pretty and pleasant inland village; but, on account of the distance from the city, the place is 301, a year, instead of 40l. No. No. 10. This C's farm is the finest that I ever saw in my life. It has a large proportion of valuable woodland; I should think 18 acres of orchard; and these the very finest that I ever saw even in that country. The quantity of apples, pears and peaches, beyond all conception of those who have never been in America. I once saw one of the orchards (about 10 acres), the trees loaded with the finest apples, and the groud below bearing a fine crop of Indian corn. The house cannot have less than 12 or 14 rooms in it; and the out-buildings and yards all upon a large scale, and in perfect repair. Suppose it be 20,000 dollars, that is, 4,000l. of our money; and the land is tithefree, and the whole so nearly being tax-free, as for taxes and rates to be hardly worth naming. This place is at about 20 miles distance from New York. 11. Is a Tavern, about 15 miles from New York, on the turnpike road. A large house with all conveniences for a tavern. A garden; and I think from 15 to 20 acres of land attached to it, part of the land being woods, which, observe, supplies all the fuel. 800l. buys this tavern out and out, land and all; and thus a' man gets it for a sum that will not yield him, in interest, on mortgage, more than 321. a year, in England. I have seen as fine crops of corn, grain, and clover, as any man need wish to see. And this estate is worth 2,600/. our money. Freehold, tithe-free, nearly tax and ratefree. A good proportion of woods; as pleasant a spot, according to my fancy, as can be found in the world. The interest of this sum, on mortgage, in England, will not now bring more than 1047. a year. You cannot occupy such a place in England without paying 150l. a year in rates and taxes, and without tithe to the amount of 50%. a year at least. Very little can any family want beyond the produce of this estate: flour, beef, mutton, pork, veal, poultry, butter, milk, eggs, cheese, cyder, malt, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, dried fruits of all sorts, feathers, wool, fuel, food for horses, wood for implements and buildings. What more, but the clothing, and some wine and groceries, all except the clothing at less than half the English price; and the materials for clothing as cheap as in England, and, generally, cheaper, even if English; and if from China or India or France, at half the English price, or less. No. 12. An explanation here will settle the whole matter; and here is the owner, speaking in his own name, and I know all about every part of the land and the premises. The house has four rooms on a floor, spacious kitchen and cellars beneath; it has a little farm-house and dairy attached; has a very neat garden, with a greenhouse in it; has a piazza on two sides of it; and is, in all respects, as neat, as substantial and convenient a house as I ever saw. Barn, stables, cowhouses, pig-pens, corn-cribs, yards, everything of the hest description. An orchard of, I should think, seven acres, which is, observe, a pasture as well as an orchard. The land, which contains a due proportion of woods, is fenced in the best and most lasting manner, and is in the best state of cultivation; and, as you see, there are 290 acres of it, all lying in one spot, with the house I cannot conclude without quoting a nearly in the middle of it. Now, most interesting part of Mr. TREDas to the quality of the land. In WELL'S Letter: "As you had the breakthis part of Long Island, they put 'ing in of RICHARD HAINES, you will soper's ashes on the land, as we do" no doubt, be pleased to hear, that chalk on the clays of Hampshire;" he has strictly followed your advice, and these, which cost about 31. an "to stick his legs under another man's acre of our money, last the land for "table, and to stretch his body in 20 years. I think that Mr. TRED-" another man's bed,' and that, though WELL'S land was all ashed. But I" he has a second wife and a young can speak of that which I occupied, "John Bull, he has saved more than two and which had never been ashed." thousand dollars, in the nearly ten Those who have read my Year's " years that he has been with me." Residence in America, have read of the fine crops of Swedish turnips that I grew there; and my land was only at about 200 yards from that of Mr. Tredwell. Those were the largest and the finest that I ever saw. Cabbages and kidneybeans and pease, very fine, I had in the same land. Land of easy tillage; and, on Mr. Tredwell's farm, 66 That is more than 400l. of our money. Now, this was a young man, twenty years of age, who escaped from pauperpay in Berkshire, in 1818; he got to New York in January, 1819; I hired him by the month till October, 1819; when I came away, or soon afterwards, he went to Mr. TREDWELL; he was a mere farm-labourer; he could neither write nor read; but he was a sober and excellent young man; and there he now is with the means of purchasing a farm of 100 acres, and all the buildings on it, at 100 miles from New York, and one of half the size at 20 miles from New York. will find a person ready to show it him. The turnips remained in the ground all the winter, and the bloom shows how very pure the sort is. No drawing or selecting has ever taken place, from first to last. The stalks are now at their full growth, and are about six feet high; and the field is at this time in full bloom. This is perhaps the finest piece of seed of the kind growing in Eng ANOTHER SERMON. Now, the reader will perceive, that I have here spoken only of Long Island, and near New York. Farther off, farms and houses are cheaper; but all these matters are fully stated and explained land. in the former part of the Emigrant's Guide, which contains information on every matter connected with emigration. But I cannot lay down my pen without once more most earnestly exhorting Englishmen not to have any thing to do THIS day, 15th of May, is publishwith Emigration Associations; not to ed, at my shop, No. 183, Fleet Street, go to back-woods; but to settle in the London, and to be had of all bookselwell inhabited parts; to see what the lers in town and country, PRICE SIXpeople do; to follow their customs; to PENCE, a Sermon, entitled, “GOOD live as they live; to mix with them;" FRIDAY; or, THE MURDER OF and not to attempt to form any separate" JESUS CHRIST BY THE JEWS": society or community. addressed to Christians of all denomiLet every emigrant remember the nations.-My other Sermons, twelve in sad fate of poor Birkbeck and his asso-number, may be had in one volume, ciates they had the visionary scheme price 3s. 6d. of forming an English settlement. They were to have a society of their own. They were to make a garden, a land of promise, in a wilderness. They were soon in confusion and ruin. The Americans know best how to clear lands: let them do it, and let Englishmen carry their money and skill to places already well inhabited, and congenial with their habits. I have always said, and I now repeat, that I grieve to think it my duty to put forth any thing having a tendency to cause men to quit England; but when I see so many families that must be ruined and brought to beggary if they remain here, it is my duty to give the information that I now give. SWEDISH TURNIP SEED. Barn-Elm Farm, 13th May, 1830. Mr. COBBETT has growing several acres of Swedish Turnips for seed. As this is a seed which does not suffer from keeping, any gentleman who would lay in a stock, or any seedsman, if he will call or send to see the crop growing, Just Published. MR. JAMES PAUL COBBETT'S ITALIAN GRAMMAR, entitled "A Grammar of the "Italian Language; or, a Plain and Com"pendious Introduction to the Study of Ita"lian." Price 6s.-Throughout this Grammar the Author has supposed himself to be addressing those who are altogether unacquainted with the subject; he has, therefore, taken the greatest paius, both as to the proper arrangement of the several matters treated of, and that clearness of explanation that they require. At the same time, the work will be found useful to those who are more than mere beginners. It professes to be an "Introduction" only, and comes within a moderate compass; but while the Author has set out by noticing points the most simple, he has, in the course of his task, studiously called the reader's attention to the greatest difficulties that occur in the study of Italian. Of the importance of these difficulties the Author may pretend to be a judge, since he has had to encounter them himself; and the want of assistance which he has experienced in books called Grammars, has induced him to think that the results of his own study, as contained in the present work, may be of service to other people. |