Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason Volume 14; and other crimes and misdemeanor from the earliest period to ... Henry, the Second, A.D.1163, to [George IV,

by William Cobbett

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 ...hand-writing of Mr. Tooke; that be never saw the letter which was sent to Norwich upon the sixteenth of April; he said if they had proposed to set aside the authority of the King, and the House of Lords, he would not have staid in the society, or consented to it; he thinks he was ill at the lime of the address of the London CorresKnding Society to the National Convention; he said be did not know that Hardy had written to Mr. Tooke, or that Mr. Tooke corrected the constitution of the London Corresponding Society, or that Margarot had written to him about it; he said that if the address had been confined to France, he thought they should have used stronger language than they would have done respecting Englandj he says he VOL. XXV. does not recollect any letter from the society in which there-were these expressions, " the vipers Monarchy and Aristocracy;" he did not know that the words," success" and " its efforts" were in the prisoner's hand-writing; he said he never knew that Frost had said that he hoped France might soon felicitate a National Convention in England; that he never heard of the president's answer, but that he should have thanked Mr. Frost for executing his commission; he said he has no recollection of the address upon the sixth of August, and he knew nothing of the proof copy being sent to Mr. Tooke, and nothing of Skirving's letter; he said he heard of the meeting at the Globe Tavern, and he heard of a meeting, and strong resolutions, but he was not present on the seventeenth of January--that meeting where it was voted," That law ceases to be an object of obedience whenever it becomes an instrument of oppression;" he said he was not present upon the twenty-fourth of January; he has not now read these re...

664 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

William Cobbett (1763-1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain. Early in his career, he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement, which led to the Reform Bill of 1832, and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham. Although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, two things stayed constant: an opposition to authority and a suspicion of novelty. He wrote many polemics, on subjects from political reform to religion, but is best known for his book from 1830, Rural Rides, which is still in print today.