The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-03 00:00:00

~~ y -<< ~. ~_ s. * meet 7,1100,6001. (hear, bear.) The qeeetion owl tripe fen iii people imagined, namely, whet Moe fartmehmese to fro on drinking barley in their win' 4hether they were to .retoro to their pipes and Sir .11 .11orleverwn ; the wain!) was whether the whole frame, apricultaral sory .. rius to be subverted, and whethi .~ the hard earned freits of honest iodustry were ti reliever/el lathe meet insidious and nefarious way .. the Pockett• of thel tasteless Ate those of the idle.? — eWbef was t fill • sine? where the icimer paid she. eteliiht • -ef *heat, three score of sheep, 'imams haidelitaineee tweinewer the deemed* upon him, poq ettlieed toperetine., it sae singular that allover to eletheapPlications Made hi the p eo ple to retlinntellt wise Alta lending, could be donel What ! *oohing tabs done? Whim then; wait , the emeipotence e 'of Parliament ? Did riot thee hon. heomein 1797. pass a , • 'Mill, ebaeglng a gold for apaper eurreete—did they not 'vies a resolution Zedering that a Potted -Dote and a Shil lin were equal toe:Guinea, it satiate Shen Guinea, were .actually selling in the eoinstff a-piece? What .then were they to believe Where they to Understand eliit.Parlianaent was omitipleteist only in enacting measures which proittood ruin and Althssie • hot imaltent as to any enetweee which might affordteller ?Ttwould ben libel upon * bow. house to broach say each doctrines ? lint they . were,told thafMinisten were willing to relieve them, bet Iltet thee knew sot what to do When Ministers saw the llnetion in diairess and difficulty; distress not .ruing out of any finks or foillewof their owe, bat of circumstances over which the sufferers had no oontrottl, and when those Ministers stated that they knew list what to do, his an *wer would be, " I shall telt you what to ..do—gri out of 016eSsed s velte room for other men who will try what can bejloae." Perhapn'theysnight-evant employment .on r e. Pine. from ace, if en he would recommend them to say. 1 1 0 4 that.old sycophantic commie, Polooice, .who said: , Let me he no awiatilitt to &State. e • eee '• But keep a farm. end carters." ikklllll4.`• Indeed he abould desire oo better spat in these enll times than to see hii Majesty's Ministers quittiewtheir present posts and iromedtarefy entering up on ]opt leans of large farms of poor land, with the rent, tithe, and taxes, contracted during a paper curren cy.sed new to he paid in a gold onei[laughing]. The tonht would be preferable even than sendin them to er h loo g l to Cohhett, although they could n o t have a hettee master to teach them the theory of agricultural distreme his plan would be spelt a practical lesson, that they would. in one year; learn more of the real state of agricultural distress, than they could obtain in ten years, if they remained in their present offwes and salaries [itteschine]. The Hon. Gentleman, after some further observations, advised. that the people should persevere in praying for a Parliamentary Reform, without winch no effectuel relief could be afforded to the country. He had beard it asked what benefit will Reform do ?—you . emit alter the natdre of man. He thought very differ ently ; can was the creature of circumstances, and was acted upon be what was passim; around him. Take any tows where there was a free election, Reading, for in seines, of which be bee the honour of being an elector ; in that borough every inhabitant paying scot and lot lead e ease e ani the electors, who were near 900 in num. her, it followed as a matter of course that no two repre sentatives heiet able to provide for the private interests of the whole of the voters, they naturally returned to • Parliament awn who they were convinced wool.' watch ever their public interests [hear, hear!) lie by no werame meant to.claim snore honour or integrity for the mood Reading than those of other places; he supposed them pretty ranch on a par; but if these persons were divided hat° small corporate bodies of 24, each to return Peteoers, ft might then become their interest to return Members who would support a profligate expenditure of the public money. In short, it was not the man who corrupted the system, but the system which corrupted the mas, After some further remarks explanatory of the inoperative necessity of a Reform in Parliament, he concluded by reading the petition, which want of room obliges ns to omit. Mr. Neel.* seconded the Petition. . . Mr. Conner,' wait his objection to the Petition was, *it it was tool me, too %leak, and not astfici-ntly apple. cable to the objects of the meeting. That petition had beensent to him; he had pernse.l it attentively, and ha.l duly attended to its arguments, the which appeared to him not calculated to ansever their present purpose. He had, before he left 'London, prepared a Petition, which was certainly much shorter, he believed much clearer, end he also believed more fit to he adopted on that occa sion. He had shews that petition to the gentlemen who tad moved the petition just read, and had given hint the 'option ef presenting it for the consideration of the meet ing, which thatehonotwable gentleman 1. .1 declined. It not, therefore, quite correet in that gentleman to 'state tha' he (Mr. Cohhett) meant to enclose his petition. Mr. Marsh said he (Mr. Cuhhett) woul.l answer his ar gument • ; ate ha I heard no argninenrs from that gentle man which he hail not heard or read somewhere before; it was not necessary, therefore, that he should enter into acceleration of those arguments. lie assured the meet ing that if, in the observations which he had to make, be failed to rai'e their mirth, it must be not only from an hut a want of inclination to do so. '1 hat was,- in his opinion, a most melancholy meetint ;—many gen, tlemen then present hail attended with sorrowful hearts and with most Arent wishes for relief from their distresses' .—(Hear.) If the meeting arreed with him in di at peti tion belled drawn np, the, would return home highly gra tified by the consciousness of havin it taken one step, at least. aloud' the attainment of thee which they so much de sired. After some allusions to the Meeting which took fiber six years ago on Portadown Hill, he proceeded to *earl his Petition, sentence by sentence, ocrasiouiliy coin reusing as be went along. The snbstnnce oet the Peti tion was similar to that adopted at Norfolk. 'After some olaseevatione neon the josticoas well as the eqeity of the claims set forth in the Petition, Mr. Cohhat'adverted to the Hereford County Meeting. The lying, stock-job bine, London Newspapers, had stated that he bad been defected, that he bad been driven off the Stage at Here ford; this was not the fact. The proceedings of that day had bean moat irregular. The Lord Lieutenant be. amine frightened at tile noise which wag made—he left the Chair, awl a Petition said to have been carrier' was • 'at up and presented to the House of Commons. There the &Wiens dropped until a few days after, when the real ' Petition, his Petition. was presentid by Mr. Price, who observed that it *attained 1,180 signatures, the first of which was that of a Cliegyinan, rector of a large parish in the eounti ; that 400.0 f them were hirer. landholders, Om fine 100 of whom were worth 1,000,0001. Upon that petition Lord Folkstone who had given notice- of a motion for the stb of Match, on the subject of an teptit able adjustment of the Public Debt, after observing that this Vl•ifr till. 00011 11 petition which hart barn re psented' teethe honsieto that effect, postponed his motion to the 12th of Match, at which time he would submit to the' e betese, not only the necessity of reducing the interest of the public debt, hut* also of adjuinine ell private com users between maltase man. Mr. Cobbett concluded by teree eleca hope deer the Meeting Would adopt his pe atten—thesr doing so would have the effect of inducin g the other vountiet to follow their examplend the quee. tins would shortly be brought to issue in a Parliament, liether a etiaogeskonld take plate` or the landlord Imo hie land, the tenant his last s h i llin g , sad the labourer the tend which was necessary to the support of himself and his family. • Ile. li% Renee seconded the motion for the adop'ion of Mr. Cobbetes petition. Mr. Mare then mime 'coward, sell aid, "Here 1 am once mereeny frionds,elter two yeas and a bait incarceration in a eaagoisa. wither altered i.spirit nor lo priusiples.—(Ap- had -. 7 eys advocatei - varong,—(Applaese.)-rlie was much gratified to pear the tengitage and seatiyneuts *Web fell from Ike lipt•of the fló viewable Baronet who, resided ; hut balsam olasertat.** for u,phOicling these opinions he had been peitieeuted for tal lest tan years ; in fact helped never made use of lengnsge so violent ; lie did not by this term mean to impugn it; on the contrary, it was the language of an pigliahman of an ho nourable mind, coming before his countrymen prepared to do them um let of justice.--(Appiesse.) The Worthy Baronet hadaold them that Ifs object wow to dO away with the whole corruptionin the House ofConunons. Why, whoever went farther/ .iteppearecl.however,that lathe year IbuS a change in *Onion had beenelfeetita ; and that parties weromunimous on this question: lie bad beardaomething about a sutheientße, fdrm,but not toga the whole length. Were tberthen ; for half measures er whole ones? ( C ries of " Wholeones, to hal sure!"). Why tbeh he thought that they scarcely no!' sietatood ;the Meaning' of responsible Reform; but they 'nil knew the distinction between liberty and thraldom; and.that man insist be an infamous wretch who could. fix the etignii of ./Flavery on any one [applause]. He was preyared to pupport the• Amendment ploposed . by Mr. Gobbett---There *appeared to be antstog the present ,as setithlt, about 1-241ths, who' *ere respectable. who hail good hats on thrir beads, andlood 4)64 on. t heir Inadra.;_ netwi:listanditig diet:rink Of . ti!e times.; he therefore looped that no impiideitttnxesfitills "meld hare the audk . city td stand up in the. Noose of Commons, and say, the.' Meeting was composed of - the rabble of the county ; sea should that be the case, he trusted that an honest indivi dual would be found in that 'place, willing and capable to rosette them from the imputation. The times had' wrought this change of opinion among the farmers, who, however different their conduct on former occa sions, now patiettly listened like rational beings. The crisis was now arrived, when all measures that did not go to the root of the evil would be disregarded, and Re form would no longer be delayed by either Whig or 'fury. The landlords who 'mimed them to call for re duction in taxation should set the example by lowering their °an rents one half (bravo!). He would ask, had . Sir Thomas Baring lowered his rents one half (much disapprobation) ? Some Gentleman behind him said he bad done so. r. i(" What is it to you whether he has or not?—'flff, off!") Sir ['nom ss HARING begged that they would preserve that quiet conduct which they had hitherto observed to the other speakers, and hear Mr. Hunt. He [Sir T. H] was ready to answer for himself. Mr. Huss. resumed his address. He would ask the farmers whether reduction in their rents would not be a great relief to them ; but before that took place they might be ruined (applause). Mr. H. then enumerated from a Report printed by order of the House of Com mons, various items of expenditure for .the maintenance of the Yeomanry Cavalry, to Somersetsblre pointing out the swim re-rived by the Commanding (deer, contend ing that this expenditure ought to be abandoned. The Chairman haul strongly . recommended them to abstain from personalities, but in the commencement bad treat ed the late High Sheriff with one of the tightest dress ings be had ever beard. Sir T. &salmi, after slightly imiicing the personal al- Issions made to him by the preceding speaker, said, if he had not lung ago made reductions in his rents, he should have been ashamed to have shewn his face at that meet ing (bravo!). If lie stated any thing untrue, many of his tenants were present to contradict him. The Hon. Baroiset in moat &Aug ttr,ns animadverted ou the cruel remarks made upon Lord Portsmouth's adiiction, and pa- - thetirally described the situation of the unfortunate NObleman during his examination. Mr. FLEMING, M. P., expressed his satisfaction at seeing such a numerous and respectable Meeting of the County assemblesi upon that occasion. He had abstained from addressing the Meeting at an earlier period, he at tended the Meet:rig from a Terling that it was his duty to heir the opinion+ of his Constituents rather than deliver his own. The Meeting would do him credit for having dour his duty as a landlord. They were told, it was true, of the propriety of getting rid by a summary pros ens of the oblivion+ which they were bound to bill towards the right; creditor. This doctrine might do very well for those persons who bad been guilty of such an abandonment of their engagements in private 1 fa (bear, hear!). Such persoits might perhaps recommend such an out age upon public faith and public honour; but he did trust, indeed lie felt confident, that the honest upright Yeomanry of that county would never consent to relieve themselves from their dismesses by an act of pub lie rebbery ; for he could give it no milder appella 'ion. Good God! if the public credit were to be once shaken in this war, the whole frame of society would be overturn ed, social cempasts must I.e at an end, and the laws of trntb, justice, and honour must perish amidst anarchy, distrust and mutual enmity (applause). They would be rich indeed, even stills the half of their present incomes, could they but make up their minds to abscond from their creditors, or avail themselves of the advantage of the Insolvent Act (hear, hear!). They would be rielt, if they made their minds up to plunder the poor mecha nic, the helpless widow, or the unprotected orphan. of the hard earned pittance scraped together, and placed in the funds as a provision against sickness, old age, or any other c Amity (cheers). Would they consent to rob the poor industrious classes, who had placed their little all in a Savings Bank, upon the security of the honour and character of the colliery (" no, no")? Or did Gentle men believe that a violation of public credit would affect the rich fnnilholder only ? If so, they were lunch mistaken. The rule of right once needed, who could draw the line? Thelionostrable Member, after some further observations, which want of room pretentsms from giving, coriclurbid•by moving as en Amendment, Resolutions adopted by the Ge neral Cemmittee of the Scotch Counties (Sir sincteir in the Chair) for the purpose of intmirlng into the mussel 6f agricultural distresses of the country, and the means of re lieving them, in which it was recommended to make silver a., standard conjointly with gold; to these Resolutions Use Ho nourable Gentleman added a prayer for the further reduction •of the euty on Malt: and also that a . proteethig duty upon Flax, Hides, Tallow, Butter and Cheese, eettivelent.lo the necessary burdens of testifiers paid by the • prods:m*7s of those articles in this country, le highly exist:diem; that the total exemption of farm houses from the,Window • Tax, as well as the shop windows of these forged in mete, would, In the present distressed cirettennahalls of the cultivators, be an acceptable Indulgence. The Rev. Mr. WRIGRE Wooded thle Amendment. Mr. MARSII replied in an eloquent and argumentative mannerto the observations which had been urged against his Petition. We regret that want of space prevents tag from giving the Hon. Gent.'s speech. Mr. KNISH? (the present High Sheriff), said that though he certainly would have c.rnvenert a Meeting If appliod to. yet he felt himself hound to protest agalatt both the first Pe' tition and that of Me. Cobbatt, as he did nut consider tie prayer of either, if granted, likely to be productive of any beneficial effects to the country.—(Cries of hear, and Wort.) Atter a few words from Mr. Hunt, the last Amendment was pat and negatived, there not beteg ono hand held up in its favour. Mr. Cobbell's Petition was also put and negatived by a large Majority. Mr. Marsh's Petition was then put and carried with loud applause. Mr. Laws proposed a Vote of censtireon the late/fish She riff for haying refused to convene the :Netting; It was clr ried unaniothody, as was also a vote of thanks to Sir T. Bating, slid the other Magistrates be whom the Meeting It L A been contenell. It was put and eairied that the Maltese 's , ._ .. . MAILS. - • - cytie. DIM AIR. DV/. 2.... bublirt 0 11. ;Holland • 1 11. •. . Waterford;. • • 0 I .... H aro hro 0 I ... . G & Jersey. • . .0 1.... Frayee 0 • (K... Lisbbn. • . w... .1 0.... Flanders . .. ... :3 0., .(19.ttenburg... 3 , o ....m a ki .... . .. 0 I y Imiesing\!rif the itrice of beer would put the r classes in good Atemour, and di.pose th , ro to irw.tr.l in Nemec of national honour. Mr; Itn in certainly a sound ploilns6pher as to this We always told him how much more cffiraciu.:e than tracts, either mural or religious. In a this, a recruiting acrjeant is a much bettat.indo. . other men ; andif Mr. Brougham bad real), been a recruiting ',grant, ht could not have talked mu: e senribly upon the subject. House OF COMMONS CATECIIISM.—When we had Mr. Vanning at school, we did not proceed with him by question and answer: we proceeded as masters dealing out instructions to our scholars. Mr. Brougloafn goes another way to work ; and we think we are hint like Dilworth in the picture at the head of his spelling-Folk, sitting in his chair, with his pupil standing befooe Lino and goingon thus : Mmoren.—Have you read the speech of Mom. de Chateaubriand ? SCNOLAR.--lloareAraroed Sir. MAirett.—Very well. M. de Chateubtiand rays two things: first, that the Duke of Wellington said iu evolve:- ration at Verona r that the King .of England had no " objection to make to the conduct of with regard ".toSpuia :" second, thaethere wagon of f icial coteg iteu in by the Duke of Wellington at Verona, saying, "that " this cannery favoured precautionary measures along "the frontier between France and Spain." Now, what say you to the first of them..? SCHOLAR.-1 say, that "it is not to be received ca authentic." M As:ea.—And what say soon to the second of ther e ? SCROLAR.I say, " I have no doubt but the iiirlicidar_ " proposition to which he alluded was correct—that ;al •- •• position was, however, part of a long and argumentut " tire *etc, and therefore was not hr itself to be held es " expressing the unqualified opinion * of Closer 'went upon " tbetrubject. That paper might, in the course nf ar " potent, admit a proposition, for the sake of contra .' dictirg it afters aids." M A STER.— What, Sir, do you say that the prop ;: , ion was afterwards contradicted? StiIOLAR...-" I beg leave to explain. I believe I al- Wed to the admitting of a proposition for the sake "of contradicting it afterwards. 1 meant that a prose " s:ti tn, which was not meant to be granted, might Le " introduced for the sake of being contrasted with aa. "other proposition, and that it might afterwards be con " tradicted by the general scope of the argument!' Mamas.-1 am satisfied with this explanation. So should not we have been. We are more severe masters than Mr. Brougham. We can see something very like a contradiction in the latter ease, of the state ment by the explanation. As to the first questisu, the answer is by no means satisfactory to as. M. de Chatel% briand may have told a lie ; ' but we have no proof that he has. He speaks positively, and without any di.sgaise oe inset)* to disguise; and to tell as that we are ovt •o believe him, is not quite enough to satisfy us of the faille:- Wed of his assertion. In short, we do believe him; be *pose we find collateral matter to support us in this be lief. When the long argumentative note coiner, we 'Shall know which party speaks the truth. At any rate, the language of our Minister at Verona Could not hsve Wee very decisive in opposition to France. In short, *it'll-ye that the views of the minister have greatly elicrageil as to this matter. It would be useless to at tempt to come at the bottom of this until we get at the official documents. Those must come out, first or Ist; )11,is and we really think that until they do come est, we can not call in question the assertion of the French Minister respecting thrum. As to the speechifying in legislative egoldies,, we now see that the French can play at dist etttavoll es we. We Dow see that they can answer the . rtivectres that are made in one Houses of Parliament-- Ana our noisy piers may abuse the the speech of M. Chateaubriand as long as they please. We look upon it ai a most able and conclus:se manife'sto, as towarrlit all those who approved of the war against -the French in 1793,--and at all the several pauses in that war, down to the year 1815 inclueive. Intetropted by other and more pressing matter, we were compelled to be, ak off abruptly in the IlVister of lan Smut-Jay ; or else, in of e and the same day, the English press. and the French press woald have contained complete proof that the wars of England against the French people Were acts cf most abominable ag,greesion, or else the King of France is now most folly justified in the war that he is entering on as to the people of Spain.— Tbe ,horning Chronicle says that M. de Chateaubriand has shown the cloven JON, by pointing out the necessity of the nor, for the sake of preventing Spain fromform -I'.l alliances that might endanger France, and even ex pose her to invasion, at some future time, from the Spa nish fronti'r.—lf this be a (-Liven foot, we showed it to the Chronicle /bur monthi ago. We then told ttte Chronicle that the French would go to war.ahrl that one of the objects of the nar would be, to make Spain as mach dependent upon Frame as s':e formerly watt.—Bat l 'it is no cloven foot. It is an open declaration of an In stentiost founded io true French policy; sod if we bad I had a mind to thwart this policy, we should hats. ,tire rerolution in Spain _limn the beginning, and by th:s Terme taken it fur ever (nab( the - bands of the Hoare of Bourbon. Ths hared of our Government; its bassta of the principles of the Spanish revolnilms,prerentei , :s from doing this before ;. and now it very likely to be too late to attempt to do it.— We, therefore, should have teen by no means satisfied with Mr. Canning's answer; though they were so perfectly satisfactory to Mr Bruneham.— Mr. Brougham asked Mr. Canning 57(114 , thing about the prospects of grace or war, and Mr. Can ning answered that the hope of peace was diminished. We never saw any such hope at all ; and the 'only vet sion f o r us is, whether we, England, are:to take an:, part in the war.- This question and answer work betwe, 9 Mr. Canning and Mr. Br.rtteltain we rptrEci Lli UNDERSTAND; and the public will be enabled to :111 ••• i drrtand it in a very short time. . ten 1 HAMPSHIRE MEETLY(}. The Meeting ea; Lehi at iVischester. on Senn* lest, called by Sir Thomas Baring and other tusgistrati'.*, threeof %shorn were clergymen, in consequence of a ref.• icd to call the :11eeting on the part of the late !With • Tiiit STATESMAN...... .. • . •-• . . , .----- 1 Wa. Le ns. 1 7gine I 110 d 3$ Wi1t." 1. f' 4111 0. 1113 1,7 0 , 1 4 Petition nn behalf skiltbE •i,, pod j ,. it th at the lo / • . . , et h er ens; the pli risj,lnitt 10 , 1 i . pie _poit .. . r oil by the Bounty •l'le , i • , i.lii lirigorotts t 100i p t si atv sbi d. 4 i .1 sottoin returning then!cs.. se hat art , Acorns forty Jam P I 1111Plf lea 1141. ' e erigitefuse to call a Conti's? N ' i • for vett -•••-.„, sis f• - It had's.° 'e t tut owled of eau - (air T.• 11. ). should consider a roniu lint lona' pulln%e; h. Brougham I "," her of them that binee that time a dispute had taken p ace would always be reedy to 'unveils - s true couracibatbelnall matter. 11 etn";..betweesiblot tad dlr. Gobbet bat he homer leo should eon. done upon that occasron.—(Loud cheers.) 10 oe. since there that no private ;reline-0o personal paimosity , •Mr. litaaosfrli. M.P. said he should feel pleasure in pre- beer was t from - should induce him to betray the great pohlia mile which he void!, their Petition to the House. ' case like tti le,?— had always advocated since he could. disilltltuish tidal from The Meeting was dfssolved at tes minutes to Ire o'clock. -dim moat ..- ; . , PRICE OF STOCKS inns Bank Stoek I 3 par73ij 3 per Cl.Cona ....72i 73i 73 ,31 per Ct. 4. per Cents— . I New Fours ......• • .9141 4. per Ct. 1711..: Gortp Ann .• • fop: 3 per . Ct. Irish b ...... DAY ;AT ONE O'CLOCK. ludia o Stck ; . 934 _ _ • Ditto 11;Md5....22s 23s.pas South Sea Stock South Sc. Old Atm. ... . . Ex.Rill.2d. j Os lls s pm. .1001%. --1-51101. 91 114.. pm. ...95 Ns pm Coo.for d00t..721 7h 7217$ LotteryTieltata 221. 194. Xite Watewfunt. *- .3113NPAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1523. HEREFORDSHIRE PETITION. By niisteke of the Printer, the Herefordshire Petition, moved by Mr. Charlton, was inserted in our paper of Friday,Thstead of the real petition of the county, which was presented by Mr. Price on Thursday night; eolith "was the petition the same as that of the county of Nor folk, With the addition of a parsgrapit at the head of it , and to which petition were subscribed eleven hundred and eighty names, instead of :even hundred names, as asserttd by the stock-jobbing prese. The petition Pre sented by Mr. Price was that which was prevented to the meeting at Hereford by Mr. Cobbett, anti which really was and is the petition of the county of Hertford. PARLIAMENTARY COMIENTARY. On Friday night, nothing material took place in the House OF loans; but in the Commons one thing of great importance. There were two or three thing' wor thy of notice. The first was Mr.Maberly's curious scheme for taking off seven millions of wee, as he called it, and for keeping up what he called public credit without wh'at he calls the Sinking Fund. His scheme about a further sale of the land tax is a curiosity ; but a curiosity not worth one single line across a column of oar paper. His scheme appears to have been supported by Mr. Rirardo and Mr. ?yerney; and to hare been opposed by Mr. Alexander Baring, who made stout fight for keeping up what they call the Sinking Fund. The parsons at a heole-and-ecor ser meeting where Mr. Coke presided in Norfolk, voted the siuking fund to be a mere bones, gives to the fend holder over and above his interest. The parsons were perfectly right in this. tut then the parsons were of perfectly wrong in calling the Norfolk petition fraudu lent, and abusing its author; the petition Called for an eqeitableartjustment of this affoir; and fhat author bad gi-• yen the parsons this eery doctrine of a bonus; a taming that the parsons themselves never perceived or thought of.— As le the Sinking Fond, if we had money in the Fantle, we should like the Sinking Fund of all things, until we could get the money out.—During the discussion on Mr. Maberly's motion, there was jnst as common place . * talk abont the credit of the country, and there appeared to he jnst as great as expectation of loans, and of all the old Beings-on in ease of war; just as great an expectation of thee, as if Peers Bill had never been passed ! Not a wo:d about assignet's never paying in cash again : poblie credit and national faith seem to be as much in the bloom and vigour of life as in the days of Pitt;, and for any Aiog' • to he gathered from the "ep•eehes of these great starer Men, we are to cairl on war:, if peed' be; without the ornallest alteration in the currency' Upon which we shall only further observe; that we shou'd be 'ha; py in deed to'eee the experiment tried: lay on the Property-tax and collect it in gold : that is what we should like, men of the stern path, * to see you attempt to do.—Mr. ilfaberly, in the course of his epees, said that the adoption of his plan would release the fundholder from those appre hensions of the reduction of his iotereet, which appre hensions the approaching discussions mere but too well ca'eelated to excite.—Whether the fundholder have any apprehensions of this Fort or not is more than we can say; hat we can assure him, that it mast be a reduction of taxes to a much deleer amount than that of seven millions, that will put the smal'est stop to the tran'fer of estates. Of this, however, we shell have more to say presently. Besslane t.—it seems that the m'.aisters have brought in a Bill fur extending the liberty to retail beer. Whe ther this be to supply the place of Mr. Brougham's sill or not we du not clearly oite)ver ; but that gentleman seemed to give this new bill, as fa as it went, his sup port. Upon this occasion he observed that the poor mail paid more than the rich man in tax upon beer. This is very true; but, the way to relieve the whole; to extend the use of beer, and to cause an inmate in the denrftndl for barley,.is to tike the tax wholly off the malt ; be eart.e they the millions' would brew fur theniglers. Mr. Brougham recommended . last year 'the reading of Mr. CoVett's little work called " Cottage Economy." That work. not only trashes the art of brewing in schall families, but shows all the advantages of it, ir. pint of morals as well as in point of economy; ocvn.my national as well as domestic. Mr. Broughatn se. Ins to think that the retailing of beer by a greater number of perlone than now retail it, would have somewhat of the • atne effect. In a sma ll degree it might; and we greatly approve of his exertions in this tn.tter ; but %s hat ought to be done is this: take the tax wholly off the malt; and Brest part of the beer in London, and about five or six ether great towns ; and leave it on the beer every where else. How peer, rather than not take the .whole of the tax off the malt; we should take more of the vac off the beer any where ; fur, it i brewing at home that is wanted. WI,, th e w ind has got strong hold of any new and favourite idea, it is prone to make every incident that arises con; tribute towards the importance of that idea. Mr. Brougham's mind seems to be taken up with war. therefore, upon this occasion, thought proper to obseeres - 11 1 "' °ff ' ~- ••.:~ I Pr - :