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DICKSON ON THE FIRST POWER 



mill owners, as John Bright, M.P., and R. Cobden, M.P., 

 (whose revolutionary spirit and unjustifiable teaching, with a 

 desire to dividing their estates into cabbage gardens, such 

 being with a view to gain a mob popularity that even the 

 Times has been obliged to condemn) that notwithstanding 

 such conduct, the true meaning of Conservatism is not to be 

 departed from, but the truly good old policy of Swift strictly 

 adhered to, as the only true mode of consolidating the thriving 

 interests of all classes of her Majesty's loyal subjects in Great 

 Britain and Ireland. Trusting that you will, as usual, give 

 space in your journal to the above observations until I send 

 on what will, I am confident, be more directly interesting to 

 my old city friends, 



" I am, my dear sir, yours truly, 



"J. HILL DICKSON." 



P.S. Having sent to Lord Palmerston, Sir C. Wood, and 

 Mr. Gladstone specimens of rheea, Flax, and hemp, cottonized 

 and spun yarn from it, on cotton machinery, and cloth, superior 

 to cotton cloth, at half the price, with my views on the 

 permanent good that would result by the introduction of such 

 new material into Lancashire, and having asked the Govern- 

 ment to countenance my ideas of a free grant of land in 

 India to London merchants as a company, to induce them to 

 cultivate and gather such fibres, I sent the note I had from 

 the late Sir William Brown to Earl Russell, expecting that 

 the opinion so favourably expressed by a merchant of such 

 eminence, would be deserving of a favourable reply ; but no, 

 my Lord Russell, I suppose, has no faith in Irish doctors, but 

 like Mr. Gladstone, in Garibaldi's case, prefers English — a 

 " Ferguson" to a Dickson. — J.H.D. 



