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COB
farm sold, 1814; settles abt Westmeon,
 Hampshire, 8; domesticitr
of, letters, 5; embarrassments of,
13; living with son Frederick at
Barnet, 1829; loses son and
daughter, 1830, 21; removes from
Westmeon to Farnham in early
part of 1827, 14; death of, at
Droxford, June 15, 1833, 29.
Oobden, Mrs., mother of Cobden, dies
in 1825 of typhoid, 6.
Jobden, Richard, born June 3, 1804,
at Midhurst, Sussex, 2; ancestors
of, 2; grandfather of, 2; goes to
* Yorkshire school, 1814-19, stat.
10-15, ill-used, 4 ; goes to London as
olerk to his uncle, 1819 ; unpleasantness
 of his position ; offered situation
 at Ghent in 1822; not approved
of by his father, and remains in
London, stat. 15-21, 5; friendship
for brother Frederick ; kindness to
father ; younger brothers, Charles,
Miles, and Henry; his diary, expenses,
 amusements, «bt. 20, 6;
promotion of, to be traveller for his
uncle’s house, ®t. 21, 1825 ; his desire
 to know affairs of the world,
great energy, 7; two first business
journeys of; visits Shrewsbury
Abbey, Aug. Oct., 1825; birthplace
of Burns, 8; eye of, for character, as
shown in his early letters, 10 ; first
journey to Ireland, Sept., 1825, =t.
21 ; describes peasantry ; desolation
of Dublin, 11; crosses from Donaghadee
 to Portpatrick, Feb. 1826,
®t. 22; anecdote of captain of vessel
in letter to brother Frederick, 12;
sees Jeffery, Cockburn, and Scott in
the Court of Session, 1826, et. 22;
financial crashes in 1825-26 ; failure
of employers, Feb. 1826; spends
unwelcome holiday at Westmeon,
13; family of, mercurial spirits of,
under misfortune, 1826; he spends
pleasant days at Isle of Wight and
Chichester, 1826, ®t. 22, 14 ; obtains
situation with Partridge and Price,
®t. 22, 1826; his usefulness; sets
out on road, with muslins, ete. ; in
1828 with two friends enters into
business as salesman on commission
 ; small capital, 15 ; his method
of working up his business; introduced
 to Fort Brothers, mt. 24,
1828, 16; hopefulness and prospects,

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1828, 24, 17; the quickness with
which the character of, widened,
1833-36, 25; writes a play; first
oublished letters and pamphlet,
1835, 26 ; visits America, 1835, ®t.
31; his opinion of, 30; vindication
)f his own country, when in Americ,
1835, 33; at Niagara, 1835, 85-37
 ; estimate of America, 1833;
38-40; return to England from
America, Aug. 1835, 40 ; first speach
vt Manchester, Oct. 1, 1835, snd
>amphlet on Russia, 1836, 41; acrount
 of the Spanish mantilla, 43;
starts for the East, Oct. 22, 1836,
‘eturns to England, April 21, 1837,
13 ; journals and letters, 44; visits
Malta, 1836, 48; goes from Atfed
wo Cairo, 1836, 53; visits Alexindria,
 49-51; sails up the Nile
rom Atfeh to Cairo, 53, 54; visits
Pyramids, 55; describes Cairo,
ind interview with Mehemet Al,
1836, 56-64 ; second interview with
dehemet Ali, 66; description of
Tgyptian manufactories, 67; he
eaves Alexandria, Jan. 19, 1887, 68;
he massacre of Scio, 68, 69; descrip
ion of island, 69; arrival of, at Con:
stantinople, 70; describes city and
»eople, 71; voyage to Smyrna, 72
"8; goes to Athens, March 19
.837, 80 ; describes Smyrna and the
ife there, 74-80; at Athens, 81;
rom Athens to Patras, 83, 85; goes
to Malta, 86; conversations aboub
the Navy and Malta, 87 ; arrives at
Falmouth, April 21, 1837; a profitwble
 holiday, 88; two first pamohlets
 considered ; his philosophic
yifts and definite ideas, 1835-85
'8 ; the influence of Combe on, 93;
4; pamphlets, the doctrine of:
merits of as a statesman, 94, 953
serceives the necessity of adapting
jovernment to the improving coBlition
 of the people; struck bY
nereasing eo in North of
ingland, 1835, 96 ; the factory 7
em, a new social element; BIS
sonception of this new social pro
slem, 97; his method of surveying
society ; resolves questions of State
solicy in matters of pecuniary col
ulation, 98 ; how history bears out
ris principles with Government ; his
icientific feeling for good govern-