But it was after October 10, when the Ratification had arrived, that Cobbett’s wrath boiled over, and he appears at his finest. In the number for October 12, he gives vent to his impassioned feelings in words like these:[63] ‘On Saturday last, such a scene was exhibited in this metropolis, as we never expected to have lived to witness, and having witnessed it, we care not how soon we resign our existence! ... a vile degraded rabble, miscalled Britons, took the horses out of the carriage which contained the two French Citizens, Otto and Lauriston--the latter of whom they mistook for the brother of Buonaparte--and dragged it from Oxford Street to Downing Street; then back through the Park, and, not content with taking the usual carriage road, dragged it through the Mall, a place appropriated, exclusively, as a carriage road, to the use of the ROYAL FAMILY!!!’ But Cobbett had good reason to be sore, for the mob had smashed the windows of his dwelling-house in Pall Mall, and at his office in Southampton Street, because he would not illuminate; so he takes his revenge in a peculiar manner. ‘He did not know that there existed in the country, any force whatever, to compel his Majesty’s subjects to exhibit, at night, manifestations of joy at an event which, in the morning, he had stated his reasons for believing to be a subject of deep concern. But he has unfortunately found himself mistaken; and he is, therefore, under the necessity of apprizing his readers, that, until the principles of the British Constitution, and the laws of the realm, which have ever been objects of his fervent admiration, and most zealous support, can rise superior to the destructive rage of a senseless and infuriate rabble; until he can derive that protection from the Police of the Country, which every subject has a right to claim, but which he has, hitherto, been unable to obtain; until, in short, that “_tumult_ of exultation,” and that “_delirium_ of joy,” which a Ministerial writer so emphatically described, and so earnestly wished, might _increase_, shall have subsided, the publication of The Porcupine will cease, and the mob be left to exercise their vengeance on an empty office.’ But he did not long leave the populace thirsting for his utterances, for the paper was resumed on October 15. At length all parties pleased to yield, A treaty was in London seal’d; And Nap with pleasure had to say That England own’d his Cons’lar sway. The Royalists were vex’d at this, They took the treaty much amiss; It seem’d (as for a time it was) Destructive of the Bourbon cause. This Amiens treaty, as ’twas termed Was in October month confirm’d; And London, tho’ so ill repaid, Illuminations grand display’d. CHAPTER XXIII. THE PEACE OF AMIENS--CESSION OF TRINIDAD AND CEYLON--INTERNATIONAL VISITS--FOX’S TRIP TO FRANCE, AND RECEPTION BY NAPOLEON.