Richard Cobden was an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. This is volume one out of two with his most essential political writings, this book containing his works 'ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND AMERICA', 'RUSSIA' and the first and second letter from '1793 AND 1853, IN THREE LETTERS.'