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LIFE OF ({OBDEN,

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1846. the concert was closed by the recitation of verses in honov*
Er. 42. of Richard Cobden.
On their arrival at Genoa, on their return from all bhes®
honours (May 20), they found that O’Connell had died
there the previous day. They at once proceeded to Pay ?
visit to his som, and from O’Connell’s servant, who had bee?
with him for thirteen years, they heard the circumstance
of the great patriot’s end.
Cobden’s diaries of this long and instructive tour are #
copious that they would more than fill one of these volume®
They afford a complete economic panorama of the countrie?
which he visited, and abound in acute observations, and
judicious hints of all kinds from the Free Trader’s point of
view. Their facts, however, are now out of date, and
their interest is mostly historic. The reader will probably
be satisfied with a moderate number of extracts, recordit8
Cobden’s interviews with important people, and his impre®”
sions of historic scenes. }
Dieppe, Aug. 6th, 1846.— Called and left my card With
the King’s aide-de-camp, at the chateau. The King was out
in the forest for a drive ; on his return received an invitatio?
to call at the chateau at eight o’clock. We found thirty
forty persons in the saloon, the Xing, Queen, and Madam?
Adelaide, the King’s sister, in the middle of the room, Low®
Philippe was very civil and very communicative, talked
much against war, and ridiculed the idea of an acquisition of
more territory, saying, ‘ What would be the use of OW
baking Charleville, or Philippeville? Why, it would give *®
a dozen more bad deputies, that’s all!’ Said the people
would not now tolerate war, and much in that strain. BE

® The common report that O'Connell intended to quit Eogland and close
his days at Rome was untrue : on the contrary, his own inclination was
stay at Derrynane, and the journey to Italy was only undertaken Bt the
urgent solicitation of bis friends. He was conscious up to the moron?
of bis death.