Editing William Cobbett (section)

==Refuge in the United States (1817–1819)==
[[File:Cobbett - Rural rides in the southern, western and eastern counties of England, 1930 - 5214769.tif|thumb|''Rural rides in the southern, western and eastern counties of England'', 1930.]]
Cobbett lived for two years on a farm on [[Long Island]], where he wrote ''Grammar of the English Language''.  With help from [[William Benbow]], a friend in London, he continued to issue the ''Political Register''. He also wrote ''The American Gardener'' (1821), one of the earliest horticultural books published in the United States.<ref name="Clifford-Smith, S. 2008, pp. 4–6"/>

Cobbett observed alcohol-drinking habits in the United States. He stated in 1819, "Americans preserve their gravity and quietness and good-humour even in their drink." He believed it would be "far better for them to be as noisy and quarrelsome as the English drunkards; for then the odiousness of the vice would be more visible, and the vice itself might become less frequent."<ref>Ronald G. Walters, ''Getting Rid of Demon Alcohol''.</ref>

A plan to return to England with the remains of the British-American radical pamphleteer and revolutionary [[Thomas Paine]] (who had died in 1809) resulted in the ultimate loss of the remains. The plan was to disinter Paine's remains from his [[New Rochelle, New York]] [[Thomas Paine Cottage|farm]] for a heroic reburial on his native soil, but the bones were still among Cobbett's effects when he died 16 years later. There is no confirmed story of what happened to them after that, although claims to parts of the body have been made down the years, including his skull and right hand.

Cobbett arrived back in Britain at Liverpool by ship in November 1819.

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