“But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire?"”

—  William Cobbett

Cobbett's Weekly Political Register (5 January 1822).

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English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763–1835

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