TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Volume I is available as Project Gutenberg ebook number 49844. WILLIAM COBBETT. A BIOGRAPHY. VOL. II. LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE. WILLIAM COBBETT: _A BIOGRAPHY_. BY EDWARD SMITH. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. 1878. [_All rights reserved._] CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER XIV. 1805-1806. “I NEVER SAT MYSELF DOWN ANYWHERE, WITHOUT MAKING THE FRUITS AND FLOWERS TO GROW” 1 CHAPTER XV. 1806-1807. “I DID DESTROY THEIR POWER TO ROB US ANY LONGER WITHOUT THE ROBBERY BEING PERCEIVED” 24 CHAPTER XVI. 1807-1809. “THEY NATURALLY HATE ME” 45 CHAPTER XVII. 1808-1809. “THE OUTCRY AGAINST ME IS LOUDER THAN EVER” 63 CHAPTER XVIII. 1809-1810. “COMPARED WITH DEFEATING ME, DEFEATING BUONAPARTE IS A MERE TRIFLE” 88 CHAPTER XIX. 1810. “THE FOLLY, COMMON TO ALL TYRANTS, IS THAT THEY PUSH THINGS TOO FAR” 114 CHAPTER XX. 1810-1812. “TO PUT A MAN IN PRISON FOR A YEAR OR TWO DOES NOT KILL HIM” 127 CHAPTER XXI. 1812-1816. “THE NATION NEVER CAN BE ITSELF AGAIN WITHOUT A REFORM” 149 CHAPTER XXII. 1816-1817. “BETWEEN SILENCE AND A DUNGEON LAY MY ONLY CHOICE” 173 CHAPTER XXIII. 1817-1821. “WHATEVER OTHER FAULTS I MAY HAVE, THAT OF LETTING GO MY HOLD IS NOT ONE” 198 CHAPTER XXIV. 1821-1826. “THEY COMPLAIN THAT THE TWOPENNY TRASH IS READ” 229 CHAPTER XXV.