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Cobbett's Tour in Scotland; And in the Four Northern Counties of England: in the Autumn of the Year 1832
Cobbett's Tour in Scotland And in the Four Northern Counties of England in the Autumn of the Year 1832 Author:William Cobbett General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: Published at 11, Bolt court, Fleet street Subjects: Scotland England United States England, Northern History / Europe / Great Britain Political Science / Government / Legislative Branch Political Science / Political Process / Elections ... more » Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. The publication of this Tour has been put off longer than I could have wished. I intended to put it to the press immediately on my return from Scotland to London, which return took place on the 23rd of November; hut, upon my arrival in London, I found, that the Parliament would be dissolved in a -week or ten days from that time; that I must be compelled to go very soon back to Lancashire ; and I found so much business upon my hands, during the short space between my return to London and the day of the dissolution of Parliament, that it was impossible for me to find time even for the writing of this short preface, and for attending to the sheets of the work as -would have gone through the press. With regard to The Matter contained in this little book, it consists, as the reader is already apprised, of a record of my observations, madetluring the Tour described in the title-page; and also of a record of transactions, rather of a political nature, in which I myself was a principal actor. I have inserted the divers parts, according to the date of the place and time, at which, and when, the)- were first written. In giving an account of the reception which I met with on my Tour, I have thought, that justice to myself as well as to my friends required, that I should preserve the sev...« less