They were equally ready to torture Englishmen: for mercenaries are mostly unprejudiced.

To Cobbett's eye we were suffering from allies exactly as we should suffer from invaders.

Boney was a bogey; but the German was a nightmare, a thing actually sitting on top of us.

In Ireland the Alliance meant the ruin of anything and everything Irish, from the creed of St.Patrick to the mere colour green.

But in England also it meant the ruin of anything and everything English, from the Habeas Corpus Act to Cobbett.
After this affair of the scourging, he wielded his pen like a scourge until he died.