The National Register. — London, England, 1814-05-22 00:00:00

n Tin NATIONAL REGISTER. To THE LAND-OWNERS OF ENGLAND. GENT L E 7.1 EN, --_ls ari En ti and a mechanic, feel ing naturaliy anxiou; for the real rand permanent prosperity my native country, with due submission to rank and fortune, I have taken the liberty to of a few observations to your serious attelvioo. These have been .L,aggested to me 1 by my prof: esional habit a: a mechanic: if they ate la due 1 time attended to, they may be the means of supporting our ascendancy is our mann faci ut es for foi eien trade. The I time is now fast apprea..bing when you, Gentlemen, Will be vafled on to submit, in your turn, to priva•ions, unknown I the war. '!his will manifest itself to you in a general reduction of the peseta eetravagantly high rents of 'your lands. If we take a tetrospective view of the times Iftl our the beginning of this war, and compa; e the rents paid If for land at that period, with what is now paid it'll' the same 1 1 bred, me shall tied that one half the land is advanced duu "ble, and the other half treble, or more. 11% this rapid ad I Vauce, you have coveted all your exit a expellees of pro-I perty-tax, and other war taxes ; aed, beside', peck?ted a , neat profit of neatly one half the extra nut. Y o u have thus 1; thrown all the weight of the war upon the tuidd.e classes and labourers; on whose Inirthens, privatons, and almost gene- 4;al pauper ism, I 'iced not comment. These persons have no opportunity, or means of extending their praits, to meet the advance ; von, Landholders, have laid on for `number of vcaiF. As the bright and pleasing prospect of . a general pt -ace is Cast approaching, the manufactui-ers each country will start in 'lipid puisuit to gain the prize of 1' commerce. That country, ‘vltiele by its own local ad v a n - 1 tageous plans of inertial - sound policy, of agriculture, &c. 1 can manufacture the raw material at the least expellee and , labour, will *ultimately have the greatest advantages. This principle admitted, how is the present price of labour in this country to be reduced? We must go to the first source of the evil, which t take to be the extraordinary high rent You have laid On land. For all provisions we depend on - the cultivation of the earth, and so. long as the present high Tents are suffered to continue, provisions and other neces saries must continue to bear a high pt ice, to enable the far mer to pay his rent. This will, of course, keep up the price of labour, which ought to be reduced ; lot the manufacture' of this count' V cannot support so great a dale' encein the price of labour, as there is now between this country and France. As much labour is performed theic for two shillings as we are paying five shillings for. ' How must this difference• be obviated, so as to put the two manufactiners oil a fair and equal footing in a foreign market ? The. evil, gentlemen, originated with you in the first instance; with the overgrown farmer in the second; and with the country banker in the third. You, gentlemen, were tempted by the prospect of recAving double 'Jr treble rents. The second set of actors in bur drama performed a deliberate overbearing adt of m injustice, by depriving the small farmer of his farm and means of etistence, thus checking national industry, runt }'educing him to a state of vassalage verging to pauperism., to the great and manif est in j ur y or the common stock, Our third performer , the country baei..er, has rai,ed; himself on oppression in every sense of the %void, issuing lictitie•us cur renejr with no real security to the holders of these local notes without controol, artificial and thereby closi n g . an 101 l ux, money, which thu , enab!es these two deseiiptions of per , sins, great farincrs and thuney dealers, jointly - and singly, .to keep ick the p ; ..icloce of the land. By these means, a scarcity is created at their pleasure ; and the con sumer pays double the price for artieres,of pritue.peces . sity waicL ihey ouLht. tti 11.4. e keen s.;:d for o aad which they MA I' 2'2. would have sold for, had they, been kept in the hands of the induso ions and small farmer, *hose capital being small, but real, rendered it needful for him to feed the markets regu larly, to the exclusion of all artificial scarcity. If we reflect upon the number of these oppressive banks, we shall find there are above eight hundred. Taking their issues to aver age 30,0001. each, there is found a capital of twenty-four millions of what they call money, which actually belong to the public, but for which they have no real securty. These notes act against the public in every direction. You, gen tlemen, have been a party to this unjust system, which, if not speedily checked and reduced to the old system, or new ly so, that of small or moderate farms, with a general reduc tion iu the present price of land 15 or 0 per cent. so as to make a sensible reduction in the present price of provisions and labour ; no peace will restore us to that flourishing vi gour our manufacturing constitution requires. This evil can in no way he obviated, but by a general reduction in the price of land, being the first pi inciple and grand foundation of trade and real wealth, by farms being reduced to a mo derate size, and all country bank-notes being entirely abo lished.-1 ani yours, gentlemen, AN ENGIIsIIMAN 0? 111 E OLD SCHOOL. THE BE.LST I t MI SEVEN HEADS, AND THE 171 - 0 HORNED BEAST. Enerott—Permit me, throogh the channel of your valuable paper, to submit the follow iug briet and general ideas on that part of the JStlceli.4p. of the Revelatimis, ascribed fo'St. John, relating to the Beast with Seven 'Heads, and the Two Horned Beast, t • the consideration or such of your learned readers as have more leisure and knowledge than myself, who may be induced by my remarks to attempt a (Miller explanation. It is certain that kingdoms and empires are beautifully repro. • sent ed iti proplretic language, under the type 'of beasts, trees, 4ice. • and persons as parts thereof; slid' as the !torus, branches, roots, ow. consequently, 1 contend, that the Beasts alluded to, refer to Empires and Kingdoms. and not to - persons, as have been frequently, but think erroneously, conceived. ! I shall not notice the trifling difference in the deteription of the Beast mentioned le the li.) c. 3 v. " the Dragon having seven heads and fun horns, and seven crowns on his heads i n and the I)east men tioned in the f 3 c. " with severe beads and ten horns and ten crowns • on his horns." further than by stating, that I think them to allude to (me and the same Beast, but in different clunactets and !fines. the first, seerniagly meaning the. Roman empire, whilst under the domi nion of the Pagan Emperors; and the latfec, Mist under the ban emperors. • 'After'-the division of that empire lute eastern foul western, the Beast auay be said to- ha% e existed, nominally, under the Bishop of Rome, who, without further than a possessary who, icy, took upon himself to give (what li,e.hod not iu himself) the Imperial Crown of the Caesars (the kingdom of the Breit) to Charlemagne of France, who, therunpon, liveame King and Emperor, and as such, his empire or sovereign authority then suited the character of the Seven Headed beast in its last moments. Now it seems that one of its heads was wounded, and as it were to death, bat tile wound was healed. Per haps this was the same bishop (the head) who, upon giving Charles magne tl:e sovereign wino,' its of the beast, may he said to he wounded thereby, and the %%mind was. heated probably by Charle nrigne'A elthre:ling the seat'of the Beast ." Rome" upon that same llbishop .` iasocureignty" by the title of Pope. From that instant takes It tilt' ,S,:‘ VII Headed Beast was 4lstroyed, and the beast with "Two Horns aluae and existed hi the kingdom of France, which I (Intik is clearly .hewn by the sangninary edicts - and persecutions, of all ices kingv•down to the death of Louis: XI.V. (with two or thice exceptiOns) i;s favour of and to support the cover, ign power of the Pope ' mid which seems to correspood with the vitt:insistences men• ti:med in the chapter ; and as th • first sovereign ptivier• was givers by Charleitnigne Pope, l think that the image of the &list mentioned to the 14th verse. was then' made. Hence my emielo sioos are, that the Two Ho' nod Beast.is meant the .I.:t.gdotti of France,- and that by the ilnages of the" beast Oneauing of the old Sev.euMeaded Beast) is meant the. sovereign power vested in the Pope. 'lle vroid is to be found in the last vcrse—' , Wait the K.