BIB_ID
206243
Accession number
MA 9383
Creator
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Display Date
1832 September 29.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.7 x 19.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Mess'rs Chadwick & Ireland / Merchants, / Edinburgh."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Forster's Life of Dickens.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Forster's Life of Dickens.
Summary
Concerning a series of four lectures Corbett will deliver and specifying the text he wanted on the handbills advertising them; saying "The following to be printed word for word. / 1. On the necessity of a great change in the management of the affairs of the nation; on the numerous grievances, inflicted on the country by the Boroughmonger parliaments; and, on the duty of electors to pledge candidates to measures which shall remove those grievances. / 2. On the nature of the pledges which electors ought to insist upon before they give their votes; and, on the justice and necessity of the measures to which they would be bound by those pledges, including, amongst those measures, a total abolition of tithes, lay as well as clerical, in all parts of the kingdom. / 3. On the injustice of taxing the people to pay interest to those who are called fundholders; and on the resources, possessed by the nation, for making, from motives of indulgence and compassion, such provision for a part of the fundholders as may be found necessary to preserve them from utter ruin. / 4. On the mischiefs and iniquity of paper-money generally; and on the necessity of putting a stop, as speedily as possible, to all paper-money of every description. You will see by the above that there must be four lectures. You may give notice for the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. If you can get the Theatre it will, I think, be the most suitable place for the reasons which I have in my letter of yesterday stated;" adding, in a postscript, that he will stay in an Inn on the evening of the 8th.
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