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fleet that the promulgating of such principles may introduce a
taste for similar innovations in this country. Consider you have a
very considerable stake yourself. 1 would not be in the least sur-
prised, if a stronger and more sturdy fellow than you,' consider-
ing the influence you have over that kind of people, should re-
lish your doctrine, and applying a dagger to your breast, insist
on your sharing with him the profits of your Political Register.
An indiscretion of this kind t would not expect from you. Mr.
Cobbett ; for whatever opinion. I may entermin of the sound-
ness of your heart, I never thought your head enthusiastic or
weak enough to propose any thin; detrimental to your interests.
You knowy on may be as sentimental and disinterested as you
please with regard to the property of others, but you should be
circumspect in bestowing your commendations on a project, which
may expose your own to the ".fatal and sweeping scythe."
Your animadversions on the late meeting of the Common
Council must afford the sincerest pleasure to every honest and
enlightened man in this country. They will stew you,
Cobhett, in your real character; and remove every doubt which
may be still entertained with regard to the purity of your in-
tentions. That. Mr. Quin, you mention, is said to have been
one of the most zealous in his professions of attachment to his
Sovereign, and consequently was a lit subject for your delicate
irony : but, not withstandiug all his zeal and loyalty, you have
still the advantage. over him, that ypu are more universally
known. Believe me you are, Sir; and if any one should still
misunderstand you, I would be mere inclined to doubt his in-
tegrity than his understanding. Your allusion to Mr. Alderman
Birch was so truly attic, that, struck with a prominent feature
in your character, I cannot resist. an inclination to burrow it.
I sincerely congratulate the public, " you mars of brass," that
the tendency of your writings cannot he mistaken for the future.
But I am absolutely under the necessity of telling yonahat your
train (tf nttv and noble ideas has displeased me. 'There is too
much of the Joseph Surface in it; and if you set any value on the
continuance of my correspondence, you will abandon that rant.
You may- he as extravagant and eccentric as you please, all that
makes me laugh. You may even he as indelicate and gross as you
please; that affords me satisfaction ; for I admire consistency
and support of character. But when you affect to be sentimen-
tal, you do it clumsily, and I. wish to see you adopt a style
more congenial to your disposition. Be abusive ;he indecent ;
be thing; but avoid the dulness 'of sentimental declamation.
Even your train of new and noble ideas displeases me, because
the sentiment is absolutely false, know you like a little
bluntness). Those noble ideas, which you impute to the Spa-
niards, are not new. The friends of your bosom, of your choice
(1 absolutely disapprove of your modesty in depriving them of
the honour of the discovery) that noble nation you so much ad-
mire has long since published them. However 1 will excuse
you this time on account of your "outrageous" passion with the
Courier. You treated him as he deserved. Ile never move 4
out of the contracted sphere of national feelings, and is eternally
tormenting us vs ith the merits of the present ministry. Since 'll
began to read von, I dislike all encomiums on those men, and
would, like the Athenian boor, on that very account .vote for
their Ostracism. Bi
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