Republican Herald

The following characteristic letter from Cobbett, addressed to Mr. Horton, the author of a pamphlet, called "three letters on emigration," is taken from an English paper.

"Sir: You need be in no anxiety about getting rid of the industrious people of England; you may withdraw your proposition for mortgaging the poor rates, in order to raise money for transporting them to the banks of Nova Scotia, and the wilds and swamps of Canada. They are going of their own accord, and at their own expense. From Kent and Sussex about 3000; from Yarmouth 400; from Boston, by canal, to Liverpool, recently, about 200; from Yorkshire and Lancashire, by way of Liverpool, 1500, or thereabouts, now recently; from Hull, gone this year, and going, about 7000! from Scotland, about 2000. All, with the exception of the poor amongst the Scotch, bound for the United States; for, though some of the Hull and Yarmouth ships are bound for Quebec, the people are going to the United States.—I have been on board of one of the ships now going from this place. I have had great pleasure in finding that these spirited people have too much sense to think of remaining an hour longer than necessary in the barren spot under the sway of the Thing's officers. Some of these people carry more than two thousand pounds each with them. Three millions of gold will, this very year, go from England to the United States, by the means of emigration. No, no, Wilmot, the paupers do not go. The aged, the insane; these all remain to be kept along with the dead weight; with the Hanoverian officers, widows and children; with the pensioners, sinecure people, the two Admirals to every ship of the line, the three Generals to every regiment of soldiers, and the rest of the Thing's affairs. Famous news for you and Malthus!

WM. COBBETT

P. S. Those emigrants say that when they get to the United States, they are sure to find no laws for "disposing of their dead bodies for dissection."

Yours, &c.