The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

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'IIIE ST IKBD4AN:

Ala. COBB b;7T AND J,s F. 11URDET7'.

The following eocriripoodenoo appeared la a Jeer.
nil of yesterday, sod has been copied sad animad-
verted .pon in several of Ilse Morning Papers• We
ingot. the Letter's§ they have thus become poblicdo-

COSellif :--•

" To MR. TIPPER.
" Rorer Ilmenpoestd, Wand. Nov. 90. NIL
" DEAR 11a,—First let me acknowledge my
deep linos. of the kind mariner in which you have
uniformly spoken to Mrs. Cobbett with regard to use;
and the,. without further waste of that lime, of which
I have so little to spare, let me come to holiness,
end let me lay down, before I proceed to sir own
particular, affiir, some principles which I hold In be
jest to my conduct towards my creditors le gewerai.
" If thereby any man who no pretend, for one me.
meet, that mine is an ordinary case. sad that nut
laving enough to pay every body, I ourbt I. tie re.
girded es an insolvent deldar, in the users, accepts.
tion of the words: and if be does this after being
apprbistl that the whole force of an infamous
tyranny was embodied into the shape of derpotic
ordinances, Intended for the sole purpose of taking
from me the real and certain and increasing means
of paying off every debt and mortgage in 1 • '/ ) ears ;
—if there be any man whose prosperity and whose
means of profitably employing his own indosery have
remained wholly untouched and unaffected by OW
despotic and sodden acts of the Government, and
who is yet so insensible to all feelings of humanity as
well es so willingly Mimi In every principle of either
moral or political justice: —if there be any man who,
wholly absorbed in hit attachment so his own Immo-
dials interest, is ready to cat blame on a debtor,
who bus hod his means of paying cut off by en opera-
tion as decisive as that of air earthquake, which
should sink into eternal nothing his bride, his houses,
and his goods; —if there be any man, w:in, if he
had been a creditor of Job, would have insisted that
that celebrated ohjert of malignant devils' wrath,
which bad swept sway his flock+, his herds, his sons,
and his daughters, was an insolvent debtor and a
bankrupt, and ought to have been considered as such,
spoken of as such, and as seek provided against;. —if
theta he any sects man as this, to whom I oar
any thing, to such man I first say, that I despise
hi whom the bottom of my soul; Ind then I say, that if
• dare meet me before the world is open and wt Men
charge, I pledge myself to cover him with as much
shame sod infamy, as that world can he brought to
deign to bestow upon so contemptible a bring. For
such occasions as the oars here supposed, if such or.
cosine should ever occur, I reserve the arguments
and cancluslop, which the subject world naturally
suggest. To you I treat no such arguments are ne-
ces.ary, and therefore I will now proceed to slate
explicitly my intetitious with regard to what I shall
end to do in the way of paying eft debts. I
hold it to be perfectly just that I should never, in
any way whatever, give up one single farthing of my
future earnings to the payment of soy debt is Eng-
land.
" 'When the sneety is too weak or eowilling to
defend the property, whether mental or of a mere
raiding.y and vulgar species, and where there is not
the will or the veer in the society to yield him pro.
tection, he becomes closely abseiled of all his erlipage.
Gavots of every sort to that seriety, became in' rvery
bargain of every kind it is understood that both the
parties are to continue to enjoy the protection of the
laws of property.
•' Bet from the great desire which I have not only
to return to my native country, bet also to prevent
the infamous acts levelled against me from injuring
those perms, with whom I have pecesiery engage-
ments, and some of whom have become my cut-
ditore, from feelings of friendship and a desire to
serve me, I eagerly wave all claim to this principle,
aed I shall neglect no means within my power fully
to pay and satisfy every demand, as far es that cast be
done consistently with that duty, which calls on me
to take cars that my family here the means of fairly
exertieg their industry, and of leading that sort of
life to which they have a jest claim.
" It is clear, however, that to do any thing in the
way of min off most he a work of some little
time. I place great dependence on the produce of
some literary labours of groat end general utility ;
end it is of these that I am wow about more portico-
lady to speak, and to make you, Sir, a distinct pro-
posirion.
" First, I most beg you to and in a Register,
which I now send home, a letter to a French 'coon.
diet, whom the Boreoglimongers of Englsonl, by •
robbery of us for the restoration of the Bourbons,
have replaced in his title of Count.
" When you have rood that letter, you will see a
pert of my designs, as to my present endeavours to
pay my debts. ' The Maitre ainglols' has long
been the sole work of this tied in vogue on the Con-
tinent of Europe, in England, and in America. It
was the only book of the sort admitted into the lira.
lonian Schools of Bonsparte, when it was adopted
by a direct ordinance.
" Yoe will see that it is sent from Frames to F.ng-
land, sod in this country it is imported from France.
Both editions (separate end coeval) ere sold at :•ew
York, and in ell the towns here. I have always been
afraid to leek into Ibis hook, from a consciousness
of
its jesperfretione, owing to the circumstance of
haste ender which it was originally written.
" Yoe know as well as any man what the proba-
ble event of sale end durable profit of the eleleflre
right to print such a book are. I am now engaged
in making this book ride eemplete, under Ibe title
of ' The Rnglisle Master, by William Cobbett, car-
gelid, Improved, anci.greally enlarged, by the As.
Ar.bitosolf.' If'yoe understand French eneugh to
OA it with a perfect understanding of its meaning,
yeti well, Byes read this book, Wily 800 the causes
ilti(West celebrity. b
Its clearness', its simplicity, its wooderfel sp•
Merle to its purposes, its engaging sod convincing
properties, make it so unlike all the offpring of
pedantry, that it is no woordorlhat it should have
made its may into general . I will make the
new edition supplant ell . d once inemedeately,
end to you I propnre to the care of securing
the copyright WWI in England and France. A second
work, and one of still more importance as a source
of profit, is also now under heed, namely, The
French Master; or a GfICOOIIf to toad French to

Eellish Persons, by William Cobbett.' Yoe will
easily see that if I nodal twenty-tee years age
sassily write a book in the Finch leagues, I.
Frank permits, hew able I most be to write beak
le the &testi Mugger I. melt Frisch. Indeed
my knowledge of the whole mailer is se complete,
that the shin, coulplicated sad abstrate as it le le its
natant it is as easy to me as it ls for me to *elk •r
sit. This work I will pledge my oilstone will sweep
any very speedily all competitors. My chiklrmo
(some of them) sre sow braising Fres& by lb. prim- 1
ciples and riles which will constitute this book, and
this glues me every apportesity of perspiring and co-
rnetist( all sort. of impediments sad embammesests.
" son William wrote French at 14 years *ld
better than aineantlas if the Frostbites that I have
us, known. or at least that I have ever aim write;
sod both Jolla sell he speak now Freed' as well as

the gimlet part of Freedmen.
'6 1 shall publish both these week% end went the
copyright of them, in America, where there is a
cleat sale Inc books of this description ; bet from the
Crest intercourse now misting between England and
Flifflre. the WO will be mach more considerable in
those countries.
'' in shoot two mouths, or lest, I shall seed to
Mr. White, to b. delivered to yes (if you will en-
dertoke the thine), she matter for these two works.
Yoe can Meow(' the copyrights in England, sad also
in Frolic.. It is impossible for we to say what sill
be their predeee; and I know will that imesediste
produce is set to be expected; jet it would be irra-
tional net 4,0 believe, that these works must in •
short time Sighs to be • soars. of reel sod mobster,-
list profit, the proceeds of which I shield devote
to the iiiirisiseinse of the deists lisle to yno ; and if
they exceeded that, to „ether pelves's. la the mean
while, slime would be she foonsiation of profit, from
the sates merce, Isid in this country, from which,
however, I should for some time shot espect tiny
thing beyond what I shriek' owed here. Ido
not Isomer that slime would be soy objection
to the moiling of this copyright is France; bet I
should set approve of this being death, Stogie/id,
bm.use time may make them • sperm of great profit:
and turtle', bosom I should not like for me or my
sons to be precluded flow fetete improvements of the
works themselves. As to the particular application
of the smutty that troy anise from this fair and
booeurshle Gnome, after an equitable discharge of
roar demands on me; and as to the precise mode of
proceeding in toe boldness, them most be the 'object
of • letter Is accompany the manesctipts, which, you
will unilereland. are unto in a state of great forward-
WIN so that, as time Is valuable, I hope that you,
who understsod such matters so well, and oho have
se mach actieby anti intelligence, will upon the re-
ceipt of this letter. arid upon the atrength of what
lee sill see addressed to the beggsrly tool ofa French
blackguard rascally Noble jems-jastre. make an"
ormisiry amongst the race who trade its the fruit of
men's minds. Yoe know them pretty well, and I
haves perfect reliance on your prudence, integrity,
! and Industry.
" I am, yes will perceive. getting reedy a Gram.
mar # the &villa Language. This, which Is a
work which I have alivajs desired to perform. I have
pet late the shape of • series of letters, addressed to
any beloved son James, as a meat of toy opprobstion
of his affectiossate and dutiful condect towards his
mother during her 'Amoco from me.
" In this work, which I have ell my life, gime I
was 19 years old, had in my coatimplatios, I have
assembled together the fruits of all my observations
on the construction of the English language; end I
• have given them the form of a book, not merely with
a view to polio, but with a view to fair fame, and
with the still mote agreeable view of instrectiog, in
ibis foundation of all literary knowledge, Om great
body of my ill-treated and unjustly coatemeed coos-
trymen.
I I believe it to be coke impossible that this work
should not have a very eatensive circulation in Eng-
land and America : and that it should sot hoof nosy
years duration its point of profit. Whatever plait of
this profit ern, without endangering the well-being
of my beloved amid exemplary, affectionate, and fir.
looms family. he allotted to the discharge of my debts
or encumbiauces, shall with scrupulous fideiity be so
allotted ; bet as to this particular object, mid es to
uthm sources of gain, I will first take care that the
acts of tyrannical confiscation, which have berm put
is force against me, shall net deprive this family of
the memos, not only of comfortable esistence, but
that it shall not deprive this family of the means of
seeking fair sod hounerabledistinction in the world.
It is impossible tor me to say or to guess at what I
may, with my cansjent bodily health, and with the
aptitude sod Wintry h are now because • part
of me, be ebb, to d he way of literary works
productive of gain ; can with certainty declare.
that beyond the lie of safety to my family I
will retain we *speed nothing eatil not man shall say
of me that I owe hist. farthiog. With regard to soy
profits that may ails* from the Register in England,
I at present hue* scarcely any thing ; sad I have
not any time to digest any regular plan relative to
that matter: I shall de this in the amine of a short
time.
" As I have folly apprised Mr. White of the min-
tents of this letter, I beg you to communicate with
him en the subject, sod to tell him very freely your
opinion relative to the whole of its coolest.; I have,
all circumstances considered, a very strong desire to
retain my reel property is that country, whkh I so
ardently love, and to which I kayo preserved,
through all circumstances, so invariable a fidelity;
and though I would shandon that object rather than
de any act of real injustice, I will never, while the
preset infamous abrogation of the laws of my fore-
fathers mans, set my heed to any deed, or glee
either espressly or tacitly, my sanction lose infornoto
a violation of my rights, as well as the rights of all. '
16 We shall hardly be able to get the manuscript
off before the month of January next, but in the
mean whit I shall be glad to hear from you, end to
receive from you :toy suggestions thatlea may thick
useful.
" I hove the pleasure to tell you that we all
enjoy esrellent health, and I asset, yna that it will
gigs Ira all great pleasure to bees the same sort of ac-
count from yourself, Mrs. T., sod family. I am,
my dear Sir, year most obedient and most humble
settstit,

" WM. CORSETT."

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