CHAP. ^.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 77 



1818. 



March 10, verily believe, that all those charges 

 of hypocrisy and craft, that we hear 

 against Quakers, arise from a feel 

 ing of envy ; envy inspired by see 

 ing them possessed of such abun 

 dance of all those things, which are 

 the fair fruits of care, industry,. eco 

 nomy, sobriety, and order, and 

 which are justly forbidden to the 

 drunkard, the glutton, the prodigal, 

 and the lazy. As the day of my 

 coming to Mr. TOWNSHEND'S had 

 been announced beforehand, several 

 of the young men, who were babies 

 when I used to be there formerly, 

 came to see " BILLY COBBETT," of 

 whom they had heard and read so 

 much. When I saw them and heard 

 them, " What a contrast" said I to 

 myself, " with the senseless, gaudy, 

 " up-start, hectoring, insolent, and 

 " cruel Yeomanry Cavalry in Eng- 

 " land, who, while they grind their 

 " labourers into the revolt of star- 

 " vation, gallantly sally forth with 

 " their sabres, to chop them down 

 " at the command of a Secretary of 

 " State; and, who, the -next mo- 

 " ment, creep and fawn like spaniels 



