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    read and tremble , and through the loopholes of 14 fVibid & £ - pfesfifons we see William Cobbett studying the humkfcitlet or tending his farm , until another week call him forth to put the hook in the nose of the monster , the many-heskfed public . But this is holy ground . When we read such preo&pti as we remember with delight on domestic duties , and know tnejf were backed by so exemplary practice , we regret that such a man should ever have been taken away from those high duties to earn the cruel retaliation of our late ( Heaven grant that it hare passed away !) dynasty of oligarchists , and to deal out vengeance at those publishing periods . If for cruel insults offered to those dear

    relations Cobbett ' s periodical invective have been called forth ; e if * t has he not been cruelly attacked in those dear and holy interest * , and do the Doctrinaires discover that Cobbett ' s writings had the qualities of ( see * Times , ' June 20 , 1835 ) ' coarseness , brutality , and tedious repetition V Why , against such tyrants and ag&nfet their successors , or against all governments , if all balance between

    cowardice and cruelty , what could he utter , but that they were cruel and cowardly and the vilest of their race ; how could he be coarse and brutal against such monsters who wield a giant ' s power to do wrong ? How many an injured father and husband have pined in the impotency of their revenge , and died in the hope

    of meeting their oppressor in more equal field , and , like Ugolino ^ of Dante ) , gnawing the skull of the detested in their imagined hellf And those who have not waited for the posthumous consummation of revenge , what have they done ? they have unseated kings » and sat on their thrones—aye , conquerors have grown out of * the

    ranks' before now . Our soldier lived in the age of press-prose cutions and Weekly Registers : has he not wielded his weapon well ? One of the race of the Tomkinses , who have ' to do * far their families , did he not boldly step up from his hearth at the call of humanity ? And that prosecution which followed , and that fine which was exacted and paid—one thousand pounds from a journalist who did not live upon advertisements , one thousand

    pounds from a father of a family of small children , with a wife on the puerperal crisis , one thousand pounds and his personal liberty from a man beginning life , and only not so borne down with the hard task of building up his house in this taxed country as not to hear unmoved the cries of the outraged militia-men flogged by , or under the surveillance of , our foreign mercenaries ! If there be pootry in the passions , was there none in Cobbett * * vindictiveness ? Shall servile editors and simpering critics wonder

    at the Register and its plain-speaking ? What martyr to a _ passion is nice in choosing his attitude , or hesitates to take up \ vfeat weapon is at hand f Detestable is the partisan ' s faim praise to a buried rival !—outrageous all that has appeared fit thelViMes' and its followers on this subject since the mtfatifc , choly ttarrt ' * ' -

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    WilHam Cobbett . 546

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/45/