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1 8m penning these pages.” said Cobden, sitting in his
Ho study at Dunford, “in a maritime county. Stretching
Tom the gea, right across to the verge of the next county,
“nd embracing great part of the parish in which I sit, are
"he estates of three proprietors, which extend in almost unbroken
 magses for npwards of twenty miles. The residence
of O06 of them is surrounded with a walled park ten miles in
eumferonce, Well, if Louis Napoleon were to create three
ch estates in France, it would be fatal to him. Tell the
*1ght millions of landed proprietors in France that they shall
®Xchange lots with the English people, where the labourer
who cultivates the farm has ne more proprietary interest in
"he oil than the horses he drives, and he will be stricken
with horror,”
All this was said, not to urge the land question, but to
ress upon his countrymen the habit of which of all others
they stand most in need, of learning to tolerate the feelings
1d predilections of other nations, Let us spare our pity,”
he insisted, « where people are contented ; and withhold our
“ntempt, from a mation who hold what they prize by the
figilant exercise of public opinion.” What the Frenchman
“herigheg is equality; what the Englishman cherishes is
Personal liberty. The poorest cotbager on any of the three
States that encircle Heyshott “feels that his personal
Therty ig sacred, and he cares little for equelity. And here I
will repeat,” says Cobden, that T would rather live in a
0untry where this feeling in favour of individual freedom is
i€alongly cherished, than be without it in the enjoyment of
all the principles of the French Constituent Assembly.” It
| Passages like this that help us to understand the secret of
Uobden’s position, and of his attraction. He was so much
Af an Englishman, while he strove to show how Englishmen
ight become more generous, more noble, and more just in
their indements on other nations.

‘TM ¢® ENGLAND. GOI

1853.
Alp, 49,