The National Register. — London, England, 1808-03-06 00:00:00

146 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. little what the one can afford to give, before you deter mine what the other should receive. Might you not re flect, that the people of England pay ten times more per head to the service and retainers of Government than any other people on the face of the earth. When we talk of merits, ought we not to allow that. the merits of such a people are very extraordinary ? Applsing, as we do, so much generosity to others, ought we not to apply a little mercy to them ? Would not this be good policy, even in the way of self-into rest ? The woman should have care fully fed and tended her hen that laid golden eggs—this was the plan for getting many eggs. Our politicians should recollect, that the people are the hen that lays the golden eggs, and if they allow her to get lean and sick, they will soon find a failure in the eggs. There are too many among us who arraign those truths as not salutary, but dangerous. And those who dare to ex press them, thevdeuounce as the mostexecrahle ofmank Md. whose oh ject is to excite disaffection among the people. The accusation is hypocritical and unjust. The natural and proper effect of these truths is to excite in you, the au thors of the' abuses, a spirit of correction and amend tnent, and then the affections of the people would he gain ed rather than alicaated. If you adhere to the abuses, you ruin the country, were the people as tame as sheep. 'i'he more tame they are indeed, the more rapidly will the ruin be accomplished. You, who arraign these salu tary truths, are the people of evil design. You arc not only thieves and robbers, but you wish to have the power of knocking all the watchmen on the head. But it is a mockery of the British . army, and of the British people, to talk to us thus of the services of Lord Lake. Who ever fought in India that did not gain battles There is hardly an officer in the service who would not have done the same things, if placed in the same situa tion. Lord Lake obtained his reward. Ile was raised to the highest honours and emoluments of his profession. These are the reward of the soldier ; and these arc and ought to be a sufficient reward. How many a meritori eas officer, struggling up the asrent of preferment, would regard the attainment. of such a command as that with which Lord Lake was invested in India, as the most noble reward of a life devoted to the greatest exertions and dan gers Why, after this magnificent recompense, fully ade quate to the merits of Lord Lake, are the people of England, smarting with taxation at every pore, to be called upon to pay from the profits of their labour, enor mous sums to his family ? Lord Lake, we are to!d, has ::ed poor. The more unworthy he. It. is well known that he rot in India what. might have kept him from being poor : nor is it unknown in what way a great part of what he got went from him. But why should that conduct which in ''thy•:; is the object of reprobation and disgust, give Ow of Lord Lake a claim to dip their hands in the eshansted pockets of the people of England ? But Lord Lake was made a Lord, and his family must be enabled to support the dignity of the Peerage. ! the Peerage must be supported, zt the expellee of the bical of the poor! The dignity of the Peerage is to be upheld by having a rave of Lords, who are to live upon an assessment levied on the people ! They who betray the.' dignity of the Peeragf., and sacrifice it to their own sel fish ends, arc the men who are instrutnental in making such Lords. Is it possible that the people order of men, for whose support the poo) their hard earnings is unnecessarily diminir such a situation is one of natural and inh, tion. The ► hole order of Peerage sutfer wretched experiments on the Peerage hav4 inroads in this country ou the respect foi have been most powerful levellers. It is not enough for us, the people of this poor Lord, was the co-adjutor of Man and a favourite of the Prince of IVales. ties that debate against one another in Pa! circumstances might afford motives to th, posing the pension, and the other for not op' these motives concern not us. They depew with which ours have nothing in common. What becomes of the mass of rich since leged services of this sort arc to be reward defended, on the score of being a fund for rew. and services. How happens it, that services are to he rewarded, Parliament is go into the pockets of the people, the sinectu all absorbed in other ways. For what gm the Marquis of Buckingham a sinecure iv , a-year ? IF all services are to be reward( upon the people, let the people, at least, h. of the sinecures. Let them all, to the las) abolished, and let the taxes to an equal any diately remitted. REVIEW OF POLITICAL DECL, No. X. EXAMIN ATION OF MU. COI3BETT'S I:OSCOE's PAMPHLET (Cenlinued.) We are afraid our Readers will become tired attack. That is not our fault. NS e hal e pledged expose w hat ever we bud most. absurd in reason. genius in practice, in the political writings of cannot help it, if Mr. Colibett.just now stands Let our Renders. however, only reflect, if the; what we have given them of Mr. tobbett's spei his own !trade•r: must be. have aiready allowance of Mr. Roscoe, and fair threatened w not a fifth. NVe camot help reserting to that must inlet-et gent. at the prereso crisi3, of all national soitici tion, the question of Peace or War; and wt ith • fall in their minus of the doctrines of \lr. Cobbet Last too Numbers we Mise laid hefire our Read eisbai to reflect serinn-I v sh a t sort of advocal hunt the ..;\ itent of terror and of war 4 prol them rettect to!), :Ton tier conseipeoces uF :11r. trint.s. In his Iteri•ter of June 4 4*, I'o6, pp. 96t I have viechred, anti now repeat the declara, " Inv lived opinion, that without a great redact (it is iropnas;ble for thi; coutor ca l ey on ti a very fz.ss• years longer. .'lld, if this be the " question that remains to be determined is, Iv tiou to no etiected 1 believe. three is but on, " by greatly reducing the amount of the diode " the national d .ht. - That is to say, we cm, carry on the ar for a few years loager, by del lion unable! to pay the interest of her delfts, tl and strictly. by :t national bank roptey, by tak the national debt, or at least by a composition ss tory, and that a forced and arbitrary compositin7 There may be a specie , of consi.tenev in the of Mr. Cohbett. to N% hid! the publir•tiors not to 41(1 LIAM j:Fertiuu tat; repeated . kr' MARCH 6. 7 can respect am nor remains of th c islted ? In fact, acrent degrada.. ms 's by it. Such 1 . 1 re made dismal tv a rank. They tio Enc,Pland, that rquis Welleslev, pf the two par- 3rliament, these he one for pro. pluming it. But re nd on interests t• ct cures when al- led ? They are 1.1 'ewarding merit ways, w henever called upon to ire places being 66 .cat services has worth tO,OOO/. led by demands lave the benefit to 4 last farthing, be M .count be limner- LAMERS. ATTACK ON of Mr. Cobbett'e 'ged oursely es to 1 n, and most dais- the day, and we I pre-eminent.— are tired with rcula•ions, what had three da's with a fourth. if .sting and impor- ects of delibera- the recollection in our ders, we entreat ales they are by omulgated. Lot . Cobbetes doe- -66, 967, he says, ration, that it is rtiut rxpenra, the war fur only e ca s e, the Only f•ze is this refine- ne way, namely, lends paid upon n only hope to 'daring the na- that is, literally sing a *purge to ith her credi• on. present conduct athert. Ile h:is „ohs and 4gaill.