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Eventually he became a copyist to the garrison commander...

Cobbett had real sympathy for the lot of the agricultural labourer, at the mercy both of sharp variations in the price of wheat, and incompetent or unscrupulous landowners...

Fired by the same indignation which led him to spurn a visit to Margate two years later, Cobbett’s view of Ramsgate in 1821 was expressed in the scathing terms he always reserved for those places he considered tainted by their connection with speculators and the idle and corrupt rich...