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The Creevey Papers
William Cobbett to Lord Folkestone, 9 October 1808
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Introduction
Vol. I. Contents
Ch. I: 1793-1804
Ch. II: 1805
Ch. III: 1805
Ch. IV: 1806-08
Ch. V: 1809
Ch. VI: 1810
Ch. VII: 1811
Ch. VIII: 1812
Ch. IX: 1813-14
Ch X: 1814-15
Ch XI: 1815-16
Ch XII: 1817-18
Ch XIII: 1819-20
Vol. II. Contents
Ch I: 1821
Ch. II: 1822
Ch. III: 1823-24
Ch. IV: 1825-26
Ch. V: 1827
Ch. VI: 1827-28
Ch. VII: 1828
Ch. VIII: 1829
Ch. IX: 1830-31
Ch. X: 1832-33
Ch. XI: 1833
Ch. XII: 1834
Ch XIII: 1835-36
Ch XIV: 1837-38
Index
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“9 Oct., 1808.
“My Lord,

“Thank you kindly for both your letters. It is, indeed, a damned thing that Wellesley‡ should

* Ex-sergeant-major and publisher of the well-known Weekly Political Register, which began in 1802. He was elected member for Oldham to the first reformed Parliament.

† Afterwards 3rd Earl of Radnor; Radical M.P. for Salisbury from 1802 to 1828: died in 1869.

Sir Arthur Wellesley, whose share in the Convention of Cintra had been sent before a Court of Inquiry.

90 THE CREEVEY PAPERS [Ch. IV.
give the lie direct to the protesting part of the statement of his friends. How the devil will they get over this? Now we have the rascals upon the hip. It is evident that he was the prime cause—the only cause—of all the mischief, and that from the motive of thwarting everything after he was superseded. Thus do we pay for the arrogance of that damned infernal family. But it all comes at last to the House of Commons. The corruptions of that infamous [? place] sent them out,* and we are justly punished. . . .”