The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

~~ '1 there might not be a corresponding increase of the re venue of the present quarter, jibe bad not well known that its revenue had been anticipated? Why shPuld the financial prosperity of the country and its increas ing revese mysteriously stop short on the sth of Ok tuber, 1821 ? There is something hollow in all this vain-boasting, and the Ministerial press has, in the midst of its iesiapj..exultalinasdletenyed a CODS•ille•' ▪ tionsness of it. The asideliterates also endeavoured to . impress the publienwitittiiltit a belief that The"nianu factures of . else tiit;y have improved latterly ; and have mortlhan insinuated that this boasted increase of revenue .has arisen from some such valise. Here again we tietecid their wonted fallacy; and we ap ' peal, in jnetification of our application of this term, ' to•theitott-master,ibe clothier, the hosier, and the cot • ton mannfacteirer, whether or not, although more of .their respective7ahries; or at least some of them, may have been sold within the last quarter of a year than in-the preceding period, they have obtained a better . (aye ! even, we would any, in many instances a retnu- neratinx) price for their commodities? No, there is' a canker-worm preying on the vitals of the country, .a gangrenous aad acrid humour which ie tainting its • life's blood ; and that canker-worm, and that humour, is iaordinate taxation. which has been 'fatally extend ed till it pervades everf ; rank in society.—till it absorbs the proceeds of labour,--till ip dries up the springs of industry, monopolising 'such a portion of the income of the landholder, oetheprofita of the tradesman, and of the substance of the farmer and the artificer, as first embarrasses, then iiiipove/islies . , and finally ruins. And as if the natural awl" nedtssary process were not sufficiently rapid,—as if this financial consumption . were too slow in its disorganization of the social sys tem, the increased taxation of the country, which was fooluded on the doubled prices of produce, and labour, aed rents, during the war, and which were levied in a depreciated paper currency, is now, in defiance of a natural impossibility to the contrary, to be paid in a currency of a two-fold value. Under the operation of this baleful, blundering system, the great mass of the population of this country at present" groan, being burdened ;" whilst all who live on the produce of this blighting taxation exult. And it must be admitted such exultation on their parts, and as regards them selves. is not without good reason ; because, from their salaries, their pensions, their grants, perquisites, and sinecures, they derive emolument double in value to that which the same salaries, pensions, grants, per quis!tes, and sinecures, produced heretofore! In other wards they receive two bushels of the farmer's corn ; trice as much of the I .nditolders' rents; double the produce of the labour of the tradesman, and of all the iadnetrious classes, for (for the most part) either doing nothing at all, or for doing mischief. So that the Latioi,'s loss is their gain, and their cause of joy and rejoicing a real cause of grief to the nation. 'fhis is t..atter of fact, not of mere argument; this is the actual process issuing from the chancery of the present Mi. uistry ; this is fatal experience, not mere conjectural or platisiblethettry ; and the results are being recorded as imperishable materials for the future history of the country in the heart's blood of the people of England. If THE PEOPLE, the industrious classes, the yeoman acd the minor landholder, had possessed their un doubted share of the representation of the Commons' own House of Parliarnew,—if, instead of a majority of that House being returned by the will, power, or in fluence of about two hundred individuals, it were re wetted fairly, honestly, and according to the true in ter.t and meaning of the genuine British Constitution, • by . the People. would it have been possible that (in the • language of the Resolutions of the Gentlemen and Yeomanry of the county of Worcester) " prices of pro duce and labour, and rents generally, could have been doubled by Ministers bringing i n to existence a depre ciated Paper Currency, or the Country have been sa criaced.at the shrine of their cupidity and folly, by their then levying upon it a rate of taxation founded ou these doubled prices, or be finally ruined by pay- Alert of that taxation being required in the ancient 'l bullion standard, by which the property of the land. o..vner wad cultivator, and the prices of produce and labour, are brought back from the level to which they had been thus unnaturally raised to what they were before: while Me charges to Mc FUN DHOLDERS, tiusecuttlae, and Me PLACEMAN, combatted is a a vatar Paper Currency, are EXEMPTED front zionilar r, ductiws." _ _ _ It is this unnatural, unjust, unconstitutional order of things, without which the Pitt System could never have existed fur a twelvemonth, atl,l by which it has continued to exist from the time its infatuated author was callel to render up his last solemn account, down to the present day, that is impoverishing the great mass of society to enrich the few. It is this system which, as the Yeomanry of Worcestershire justly say, " has been already ruinous to thousands, and must ultimately overwhelm ALL, inasmuch as the ruin of the r,torievrtva CLASSES of society •t in the end recoil wpon the UNPRODUCTIVE, by making it IMPOSSIBLE much longer to PAT ZITHER THE INTEREST OF THE DEBT, 011 THE CHARGES pr novsmssmsNtr." " Let States that aim at greatness take heed,". says Lord Ba con, "bow their nobility and gentle►►►en do multiply too fast;' for that mxketl► the common subject grow to be a peasant and base swain, driven out of heart, and in EFFECT BUT A GENTLEMAN'S LABOURER." On Monday last. at this place, Wright, the pedes ttian. started (0 walk fifty miles within twelve hours, which he performed with ease. walking a mile in and out; and on Wednesday, at four o'clock. he again started, and completed ninety utiles a few minutes within twenty-four honrs.—(Donelsier Gazette.) On Saturday se'nnight Win. Davies and Joseph Jones, who had been twice ',spited. were executed at Lancaster. An immense number of persons were pre sent on the occasion; and the unfortunate men con ducted tiainiiielves in a manner becoming their unhappy sitnatiot. lt will he recollected that Wm. Davies was the sank who, having entered idto a combination with others, ;taut the sawyers of this town who chose to work festlowar wages than those sought to be retained by the sad combination. was led to the commission of an act "if violence which bad nearly deprived a fellow being of his life. The awful example of his fate will, weliepe, hive Us due effect, in warning workmen et the danger boo which, in an unlucky moment, they nay be urged, by engaging dminselves with such socie ties. litememli mileakans through the public prints, and a petitimilbispa.atemy amps -fti persons, were forwarded in bed ;griortaissts nee; but it was judged tartest Ili . the law Se take its course. • ••• Iv • 1 r. ~ , ~„~."„ rfvf.Taiiri aktjpj r a !mess OCTOBER 22. - " 0 "we 49rift ref} I 1 tamers all ou the losing hail. Aethir the creation of a bbbble but kalseittlies stand st frosts 15d. to 18d , beef sni to. 12d., _bacon at 10d., .§pmpLlt be iiiTaticl,Orin all Ow world can ariicleawt.has. than the present redu , now bring in England ? The prey thing will altogether becoMe so pie itfgelerial, that it will make tate as to tit s safety of their Bank of England, which they so pi for the preservation of their prof secure it to people yet ttubol . u. B! this time with another eye. The try are looking for a slice of land, n recource in the time of need—that the spot, to brave the storm, to learn to be content with moderate own production ; the master to be to cultivate his ground; his wife to milk the cows, and atitisare times. i knit and spin; to prepare the lint yarn, as in old times, far the villat linen for the family, and atoollen and boys—the g.sod truss • coat the Joseph for his wife ; to art taking, perhaps, -lib. of butter al standing in the market plate, waiti. to deal out smug po , tioo.v. Who lc live to see those old times and old remenroer my grandmother trotted: moors in Yorkshire, glad to sell tir, shen she sold the bet wheat at the rat old measure, not Winchester ; and best, at .141. a ib. of 21 nuneeF. weather or the wind, either East o wet, returning home smiling, and she had sold all, and got the MOD , (made of leather), not having spenl journey of twelve miles They, poi then dultheri with the new title of tiers." 1 hey kept company %vitt, tl wife; were looked upon as retired gars; had no apprehension of prom to the state of sreking pari relied of that would have broken their hi would rattier sleeve than cringe ant, would rather saf, " Nay, thank you," when any thing was offered. And look how all this was produced, to. gether with the treble spirit of intlepeudence ; why verily, by the neat little farm of this ty acres, which then bore the rent of 10/. pet annum, the poor-rates but 3d. in the pound, and the tithe 2s. in all—their returns in hirsieess rpe! to 21 renter—say 25/. The same land is now let at 30t. and requiring six rents to pay all charges, viz.—the sirtia of MI. Need you wonder at the present state ut things, caused by war, taxatien, and paper-money . 771 Lott. Tickets 191. 18s. trlib 6 per Cent. the Rents, from a great fall in all descriptions of prodoer; but this agent was too great a man to be controuled. he would insist on the old rents. The corn and est;k were not more than half the price, and yet, iustes of Cie old custom of paying one half year's rent with the other, he would insist upon it the day it was due. nr, in default, sell off the stock and afterwards eja% In fact, he became so great a terror to the poor cm, tures that he was frequently cautioned, but iorfrrt ua 11 y, against such proceedings. The hire Vin Nis will enumerate the acts of insubordination, bat trek never give the cause or prescibe any cure bat the L. net or the gallows; these have 'been too long tried% vain. Theprotectora of a nefarious system never disk of conciliation, they wink at the barefaced detensn ed insults given the King by the Irish Omer men, and consider their power supported by Oar wicked acts. Divide an•l govern is the, motto, the s!ieet anchor of imbecility. From bigotry and 10- crisy we can never expect liberality or political pr* deuce. Paris papers to the 28th inst. arrived this mornh,:. The principal article they contain, is from the Prli• siAit State Gazette, of the 18th, which may be nom; dered as an official declaration, caused by the report that Russia had declined the mediation of the Allied Courts in the affairs of Turkey. The statement it undertalat to cuntrselict, it represents as saying, " The Ewers: of Russia has declined all intervention of his high A'.• lies in his affairs with the Porte, and declared tbat he would have free liberty to proceed with the Turks he left it to Austria in Italy." Each of these aronl , , this declaration says,' contains a falsehood. To WO/ with the last sentence, it is well known that whit! Austria undertook the pacification of Italy, with btr own army, this enterprise and all the steps accompau.t ing it were undertaken in the most intimate wader standing with Russia and the other Allies. When his Majesty the Emperor of Russia afternV 4ll ceived, at Laybach, the first news of the mad attempt r of the Moldavian' and Wallachians (Greeks by pion, but not by 'descent or language) his acute tal• derstanding was immediately sensible of a truth, srbefik has since been proved by incontrovertible fact — viz. that the insurrection in Turkey was the work rd the same faction. the enemies of all order sad Wl' • quality, who, after they had indeed overthrown er shakeu several States of Europe by their doctrine'" and disobedience and wickedness, and had bile) it their plan of dividing the Holy Alliance of the 310 narclas, by the revolution in Naples and Piedar. now assumed the mask of religon to lead to as eve"' by which the political interest of all must be earn. gered. But the Monarchs recognised the band abi4 had prepared this evil for them, and their union ins still further confirmed. They mutually waged t he ' the insurrection in Greece, to whatever measure. it might in the sequel compel them, should not disunite them. Henceforwad there prevailed on this 140 1 ' the greatest, and .certainly an unparalleled °peso,' and coincidence between the Cabinets. Nct aWe was taken •on the part of the Russian ea*" without being arranged with its Allies. will" being approved by tbem. This declaration timer teed' to state that the demands brought fr '' ward by Rossia were recognised by all the WWl'"' 1 as fakindsl . In .treatles, justice, equity, a 94 PI: naubbity. A; such they were brought WIPP" • . .... . . . . - '.it .. . .., ~..• 1• 1 ; I V ut e e v al e et r i eves:, , no t h ine a yi every baef otiblje e s cr • et e e e e l l f onn a g n t e d omf t p r i a h t e Y e s d e l o a w u i n i t w i r i y b il , l e li a: tr i rd ; ; :, 4 : : : : THE STATE AN. „ • . .. _. 1 ~ •' y . , 44'7 ors .t e t .;", e; 1"; d' e a ip l a i l " in o n f s sh con u ages ally " de e bo ac u h c im h . i d n e' t a I i tesfaseria ma a - litsie of that anis exists, as lit been- A ! ' . . dill y, to the annoyance of every'Peer of the realm, accomplished. . . • • i gill dismal 4-7-4, litarilif r a..asaddligiiiiersimes.oratmasroONOMbros -astmoe - a p T an h eu e. xist; so had the usurderersol.Paaacts.aw i Bridge - street Associatitsn have at t art .grateful good word o e r a d r. o b f a o t u w e h ne en ig m h e b a are ' paw tor Kot)sing.catt 4114)04 rieevallan • pe—slio• ns, 7rielsio 41assiadge . r is in coll . u- lklies4nal• - to itin Mon wi . WO - actin:sin in the co:n[11181ton, but dn. ? 4 ! thlrlittneirkXf tn* . titterriiiff hiThilrifitieettni, as in thti3ll6,ring else t il im ozy g . add manna from 10d. that happehtttilfhw days since, under my eye, at the . "" "st all t ,from 18d. to 20d., White lik in a,Celler ;...... . ~..., . .... • But how can this A c l erg y ma n, with *Ally and four children, under praise, their encomiums seldom pi-Niece any thiags, in , prodace the like . thirteen years, on 444 plied by .one of times' aurae- co aut of the good donebentempt.ltmustby this Aso divertingt s oh ciai eatnroan: i dv i a ti:: reduced pitch- they tees, demanded—" What will you take us.to - Hammer - boast e canne d as r t e a d r i s ibilit y th at they among bad thet he s graveappo support ofthe ::: p have esent fallacy of the smith .for?"—" Sit shillings, sir; jump in, and I familiar to the plot shall start directly." They alighted just beyondone s, a L, I the most loyal hesi- Lord Holland's, and then nine shillings were demand- it as se i nv estments in the ed of them.—" Why, you agreed for six."—" Not I. VlrtnonsandEnnsle n Enlightened; but d;a to hear horsela it ug h m i g i a ,, z. rlly be the consequence; prndently fixed upon sir !"—". Why, that gentleman," alluding to myself , a asserted, •••11 Operty, in order to " stew it 1"—" Not by me, sir; I does not know t hat they were attacked by malevolence, scu rr ility, an d fa 4 ., hood, must have caused some pity in the audience mt. 1 lint we see things at man that let you in ; lam coachman, sir, and my fare . people in the corm- is eighteen pence, the same as if you were to go all with trees, as a good tbe'way to Brentford, and I must pay it to my mas - is the most cutting of all iatire ; so thought th e a d veco t is, if 4 mail' is upon tee." The clergyman paid this iMposition. Soon oe d ers he in w fo o r u m idn , ef o b tl o ta re aveantty d ecent tenpted company, oemulpanogiy7 evest hesipi:: assist himself. and after I observed to , the coachman, that be would lose and things, chiefly his all his customers by such practices.—" Vye, sir, the pot-house. ready at his spade informers pull us up by every trick 'they can, and we ...—.....--. look after the dairy, must pull up again upon others, by every trick we If the interests of the right arm of the UD;t4 4 in winter evening, to can, or how co..'d we stand it ? Af'er the coachman Kingdom can influence the sympathies of th e B r agj o ten and the woollen has worked for the King and the informers, and fed people, there has been no time for half a c eatery ge weaver to furnish his horses, there is poor feed for him on the remaining past that calls so imperiously for them as the preseet. a f c or loth the for cian the , m and en stu There was too much truth in this excuse. This bble." Ireland has long been the mart from when ce we h aw ttend the Aiarketr, minor trick is practised a hundred times a day in Pic- been supplied with articles of the first necessity, I Q and a sack of torn ; I cadilly, and is a serious fraud to the passenger with such as immediately meet our wants. Oar .Teary i d ing for eu :touters, lit family, or the one that may be poorer than the N eu have been victualled not only at hou se , b et i s knows but we may I coachman. The hedging those stagecoach cadgers, Principally manned with the flower of its p opu l at i on; all parts of the world, with Irish provisions, aa d 4 4 ' I six I price.; again ? I as well as the hackney coach wateruten if a n n o d t S w m h i n t i l; y fie d id o prin wises over the dr o vers, would in a great measure, in above qucntity— 1 away with the nuisance and abuse! in Piccadilly anti then why sittittld prejudices exist that would hare ta. steof2s.a bushel, tltr I other places, if extended thereto.—Fearing I have graced the darker ages ? why sot take an intermit the hotter, the 've its misfortunes hnd misrule? We have regr e t; t d Lit ' ry trespassed too touch on your columns, I remain, Sir , Nut regarding the ONE WllO THINKS THE BREAKING TIIE NECK • spirit of insubordination that existed in a sonnies or Nortli, fair or OF INFORMERS, AND SUBSTITUTING PRECEN- blessin; God that I TION, MIGHT BE A SECURITY TO THE NECKS county; we have pointed out the 'remedy, by the atit OF THE CostmusiTv. tion of which tranquillity would be effected i s , ney iii her pocket tit a farthin g; on her few mouths. The immense sums drawn fro m ti. PRICE OF sTocKs THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. , nor souls, were not Sank Stock 239 8 India Stoca country by absentees, and the cruel tyranny of they f the " Lower Or- i s per Ceßl.Red 761 7 Ditto Bonds —s 68, Ms. pm agents form leading inducements to riot. Lod the Curate and his II per Cent.cma„ 77i1 South-See Stock table, not like beg- sit per " IL WM Semis Sea Old Ann. UoItiiTENAY receives near 30,000/. a-year out of tie ;per Cents. Ex Brno MI: 1000/.is 45.65. p. county of Limerick alone, although he never saw Ls . .5001. os. 4s. os. pen. rty, or to be doomed b per Ct. Nary 111/ 111 of ; the very thought 3 per Cent, Small be. 71. pm. estate. He had an agent who trampled on the peer hearts : indeed they Long Ain 191 9-16 India for ditto Imp 3 tow (jeep. Con, for Acct 771 43 people with barbarity. It was found necessary to redact nil ask charitt, but Irish 6 oer Cent. Lott. Tickets 191. 18s. the Rents, from a great fall in all descriptions of orodort; TO THE EDIIOR OF THE SWESMAN. Twickenham, October HI, MIL Sts—As your paper frequently gives in;iiiitin ters on points of public utility, I ant itidoCed to offer the following fur your inset tion. Last week, the Islewortli coach, while the coachman Was letting out an inside passenger, was run away with •' by the horses, upset, and a young woman on the box killed upon the spot. Unfortunately, the regulators and legislators in coach affairs, appear not to be of thy.t class that travel by them; and the object of protecting the last tittle of taxation, or penal indiction, appears to be of more importance than public safety ; anal while a quibble on the adjust ment of a trunk to an inch, makes the coach proprietor a victim to the common informer, points on the hazard of life, are left unguarded. A penalty exists on a stage coachman giving the reins to a stranger, or I believe leaving his horses, but no method is provided how a coachman with no outside passenger, or only a Nanale as such, shall let out an in side passenger, without quitting his box and reins. Going to Richmond a •few evenings since by the stage, I observed a boy riding on the steps behind, who as soon as a passenger .41*a:ended from the top at Fulham, the boy mounted thereon; at l'utney, on another pas senger presenting, the boy refused to go further on the steps again, to the disappointment ofthe coachman, who informed me, that if the 'Cadger was perceived on any part above the steps, as he had his number of passengers, he should be pulled up by the informer. From enquiries I have learned, that most of the coachmen would employ such attendants, to save themselves getting up and down, were it not for paying for them as a passenger. Stages rarely carry their full outside number half their journey, and a boy of light weight would wake very little difference to the safety. d, seat might be plepotely constructed for him below the centre of gravity, and a penalty, enforced on the coachman descending, without the other relieving him, would prevent the occurrence of the accident before stated. The guards of many of the long stages appear to be more for this purpose, than to defend the carriages from highwaymen. If such a boy, with the number and name of his coach, like the hackney coach waternien, were to be licensed to every stage-coach, those host of depredators, pilferers and extortioners, that are a nuisance in Piccadilly, at tint Elephant and Castle, at Greenwich, and other plying places for stages, might be done away with. The boy with his respective coach, would he off therewith ; and only one to every coach, would be nothing in compari son with that obstructive host, which annoy every foot passenger, as well as traveller, particularly if limited to occupy the space alongside his coach and horses. In Combat, and many parts of the City, where there is no stipendiary police, street keepers with the authority of constables, are appointed to prevent such nuisances, and keep carriages in a line; whereby, as in tiracechurrh• street, for instance, where a hackney•coacb stand is In • A Cadger : a vulgar term for helper or assistant, recli ner to coach-stands ; a corniptioa of cadet. Those =dom, or men in manilas with them, are said freqeently to follow upon the steps, until they see an opportwaity to pillage I beadle. Au. of a passenger. They are never detected, in Iconsequeace of being, of aseessity, eoehtierates. HIGH WATZR AT lAN it 4m-5/ulna TO-MORROW. Morning 56 min. after 4.—Evening 19 min titter S. LONDON: TrESDAT EVENING, OCTOBER 39, 1821. STOCK EXCUANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The market opened this worning at 73 78 for the Account , and 77i for Money. The Subscription' to indemnify Sir R. WILSON, whicl► on Saturday, amounted to more than 64100/. has since that day, as our readers will perceive, received an addition of 51111/. The New Times has been affect ing to doubt whether Sir ItonenT would obtain the countenance of the country. Let it wait a little before it decide. The friends of independence are nut frater nised by Associations Übe the Pitt clubs, and the Clergy. They acknowledge no leader, and are not to be moved by a nod. They have no craft which they feel in danger, no resentment to gratify, no intimida to extend: They are act►ated by none of the conta gious impulses which spread through the rank, of the supporters of corruption. 1 hey act spontaneously, from a sense of the duty Odell one man owes to another who suffers in a public cause, and from a feeling coadoon to sapelior winds which have the spirit to resist oppression. It may there fore take wore time to move them, than to move those corporate bodies who act at the word of complaint. Of such it cannot be expected they con sist. As little can it be supposed that they can be found in any large proportion among the dignitaries of the Church, or in the Army, or in any corps that is under authority, or has Si) preferment or prospect to risk. It would not even be surprising if they were not abundant among the wealthiest classes of the world; for it is not wealth, we are aware, that creates an independent spirit. A high authority has said, " Low bard it is for a rich wan to eater" into some associations ; and The New Time and The Morning Post, and The Courier, way, there fore, be allowed their sneers at the small number of bankers and great merchants who attended the public meeting at the City of London Tavern, or whose names appear in the subscription list. Wbo can suppise, that those xho are always looking after gain will give, Where they can get nothing► from those who divide the loaves and fishes. The respect they might obtain from men of sense and'principle would, in the estima tion of such, be a poor equivalent for the bonuses or the contracts they might lose. la these classes the subscribers to Sir ROBERT WILSOX cannot reasonably be expected to abouna ; but still, after all, there happily are other Classes ie the country among whom the love of independence is nut extinct; and reduced as these n.ailte in tins cumstinces by the pressure of a misgoverning syr teta, they have still a spirit to contribute a portion of what is left them, to the support of a higie.l minded individual who, on account of hie peeress a nd gallant conduct had keen divested of hie The appeal to thew is new bat beginning so be made he their respeotiya &tele% aad -the results canasi hitherto be -Wiwi.. Wt see confident,. bow. .. .." etit &tattiSman. THE BEITISE STATESMAN" IS INCORPORATED win " Tel STATEsMAN." ..; i `. _~ .