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“mall estate, which had been alienated from my father by 1847.
I6Cessity, has again come info my hands, and enabled me to mr. 43.
light up afresh the hearth of my father where I spent my
°¥h childhood, I say that no warrior duke who owns a vast
domain by the vote of the Imperial Parliament, holds his
eToperty by a more honourable title than 1 possess mine.” ?
f the baseness of men is great, so too is their generosity of
"Sponge to a magnanimous appeal, and the boisterous cheer-"8
 of the crowd showed that they felt Cobden’s answer to
% good and sufficient.
The following is Cobden’ own account, at the time, of
the Country in which he had once more struck a little root.
He is writing to Mr. Ashworth :—
“ Midhurst, Oct. 7, 1850,~1 have been for some weeks in
"88 of the most secluded corners of England. Although
MY letter is dated from the quiet little close borough of
Midhuys, the house in which I am living is about ore and
* half mileg distant, in the neighbouring rural parish of
Hoyshots, The roof which now shelters me is that under
Which 1 was born, and the room where I now sleep is the
"88 in which T first drew breath, It is an old farm-house,
“hich had for many years been turned into labourers’
Ottages, With the aid of the whitewasher and carpenter,
"® have made a comfortable weather-proof retreat for
mer ; and we are surrounded with pleasant woods, and
Within g, couple of miles of the summit of the South Down
hill, where we have the finest air and some of the prettiest
"lows in England. At some future day I shall be delighted
" initiate you into rural life. A Sussex hill-side village
Will be an interesting field for an exploring excursion for
ou We have a population under three hundred in our
Parigh, The acreage is about 2000, of which one proprietor,

co, 2%ches, i. 440, Jan. 9, 1650. In tho same place will be found his
Wnt of the way in which he dealt with his land.