vu) PROTERT AGAINST THE PHILANTHROPISTS. 185

“Titicize me unmercifully. But I have vitality enough to 1841.
f18e above the little trips which my heels may get at first. Zr.87.
Ultimately these attacks will only give me a surer foothold.
The Part of my last speech that struck home the most was
8 the close, I had observed an evident disposition on the
Tory side to set up as philanthropists. Old Sir Robert
Inglis sat with his hands folded ready to sigh, and if needful,
% Weep over a case of church destitution; he delivered a
Reming panegyric upon Lord Ashley the other night, styling
him the JSriend of the unprotected, after he had been canting
about the sufferings of lunatics. Added to this, Peel has been
Professing the utmost anxiety for paupers, and Sir Eardley
Wilmot, is running after Sturge. When 1 told them at the
tlose of my speech that I had been quietly observing all
bhis, but it would not all do unless they showed their consistency
 by untaxing the poor man’s loaf, there was a still-1088
 and attention on the other side very much like the conduct
 of men looking aghast at the first consciousness of being
foung oy, My style of speaking pleases the gallery people,
®1d has attracted the notice of the Radicals out of doors.
Bug the Tories, especially the young fry, regard me in no
Other way than as a petard would be viewed by people
ma Powder-magazine, a thing to be trampled on, kicked
about, Or put out in any way they can.”*
When Cobden rose on this last occasion there were cries
patience from the ministerial side of the House, but
this did not prevent him from persevering with an argn-Tentative
 remonstrance against the incredulity or apathy
"Ih which the Government treated the distress of the
so ufacturing towns. The point which he pressed most
bY Was the interchange of food and manufactures be-Color
 England and the United States that would instantly
W repeal. He quoted from a petition to the Congress
2 To P. Cotden. Eapt. 07. 1011.