The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-09-23
COBBETT'S ADVICE TO THE
KING.

TThe celebrated CoBBErT. in .ate num-
Der ofhis Weekly Register, gives the
following piece of advice to his new
Sovereign.
AT any rate, your Majesty does not
seem disposed to shut yourself up; and
you may be assured that this has given |
very great pleasure to the people. ],
who had not seen King or a Regent
for five or six and twenty years before !
the first of this month, have now seen
King half dozen times; and good
hearty, notwithstanding King 100; and
up and at break fast, am sure, by eight
o'clock in the morning. That is the
King for me; aye, for the people too.
Your Majesty brings us n Queen too;
and what is more, the gossip goes, that
you "live in Queen street." If tha,
fact be once ascertaincd, you have all
the womens hearts, and then you arc
sure of the men; for in England there
is no other really legitimate and steady
sway than that of the peiticoat. And
then (for will tell you what nobody
else willy it is said, her Majesty is a
Squanderous and wastcfil servants
give il another name; but her Majesty
may he assured that this character will
if found tob Just, as Hope and believe
it viii, insure her the respect Of ali
that part ofthe community which form
the real strength and security of the
country and the throne. Ali may it
please your Majesty, this is the great
thing of alI!-rhis expenditure, this
cost ofroyality. is nowadays its great
est enemy. If your Majesty could
hear only thous andth part of what
have heard, respecting the palaces, tho
arches, the fish-ponds, and other things
--ifyou could hear only thousandu
part of the angry, the bitter, the res
entful expressions. that have heard
relative to those things; and that, too
not from those whom corrupt men cal
Jacobins and Radicals, but moderate
mild, and patient peoples; from mer
chants, farmers, gentlemen, and thos'
of the most considerate character, to,
If you could hear only thousandtl
part of them, you would come TO tn
famous old palace Of st. James, us
one other in the country, and order tn
great heap at Pimlico to be sold, an,
throw open the parks and gardens
which are now closed for the recreation
Of the people. As an Englishmar
knowing how to value the institution
fmy countrv--as a man, who wishc
most sincerely that n Government @
Kings, Lords, and Commons, may al
ways exist in England---as one who j
as anxious rs any man living to see a
voided violent change Of any sort, n
a dutiful, though not tawning, suhiec
of your Majesty; beseech you to re
feet, that it was the squanderings o
the French Court, which, mnre tina,
any other cause, produced the terribl
revolution in that country;-I beseec|
you To believe that the whole people q
England, only excepting those VIII
live on the taxes, now anxiously wis
euccess to the people of France agains
their Government;-! beseech you I
look at the effect ofthe example oftt
American Government: to conside
TINT your brother, the late King,
each of the forty-sevcn years after
became of age, cost, in the forty yea
that Government has existed; and
consider, also, how that Republic h
lowered up under that cheap Cover
mentl Clearly seeing the source of
the evils, of all the dangers that M
STARE us in the fnce--clearly sect
that the country is bowed down; ii
all foreign nations are preparing
pounce upon her; that she darcs I
hoist sail, while the Russians a
French and Americans are manifes
settling on the division of the spoil
her power;--clearly seeing that I
fecbleness arises, Mt bottom, from 4
want of due representation of
people in Parliament, what have ,
To do hut to cause that due represct
ton tn bc rcstoredl But" saws SO
one, "those who iill the seats N
would not pass u law TO do TIA
Would not they! o that your Ma
" would but try thspl 1 bsses,h