440 DEDICATION. 



Amongst his other labours, he has perform 

 ed a very laborious journey to the Western 

 Countries, and has been as far as the Colony of 

 our friend BIRR BECK. This journey has pro 

 duced a JOURNAL ; and this Journal, along 

 with the rest of the volume, 1 dedicate to you 

 ' in testimony of my constant remembrance of the 

 many, many happy hours I have spent with you, 

 and of the numerous acts of kindness, which I 

 have received at your hands. You were one of 

 those, who sought acquaintance with me, when 

 I was shut up in a felon's jail for two years for 

 having expressed my indignation at seeing Eng 

 lishmen flogged, in the heart of England, under 

 a guard of German bayonets and sabres, and 

 when I had on my head a thousand pounds fine 

 and seven years' recognizances. You, at the end 

 of the two years, took me from the prison, in 

 your carriage, home to your house. You and 

 our kind friend, WALKER, are, even yet, held in 

 bonds for my good behaviour, the seven years 

 not being expired. All these things are written 

 in the very core of my heart ; and when J act as 

 if J had forgotten any one of them, may no 

 name on earth be so much detested and despised 

 as that of 



Your faithful friend, 



And most obedient servant, 

 ! 



WM. COBBETT. 



