The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

STAIR OP TIM COUNTRY. Inn George 111. succeeded to the throe of them rentwa, the wnowt of the public debt unwanted to 147: millions, with an anneal charge of eiyht millions flee tie ezpayeeetqf fkoespeest ; end this aLa period of, Vie most extended as well as the most brilliant war fare this Volustry eery knew, and at a time when the -view itsrffilleas States of North America formed an integral part of The British Empire. To rend from it those States at a cost of more tbsn 200 millions.. ter theArst greet achievtment in modern times, of that malignant system, which from that period dawn to the present time. loss bteo incessantly engaged in enderrenring practically to establish the •neoasti tatlonal and un•ater•l doctrine of taxation without representation, both at home and abroad. lint the circumstances to which we would more .particularly wish In attract attention, are those of the , period immediately preceding the war for the resto 'ratios of the Bourbons in 1793. when wheat nod other psis. together with live stock, and in general all the prime necessaries of life, mad for about the same prices for which those articles *ell now; when ear labourer•, mansfatturing and agricultural, main tained themselves in comfort on the wages of their labour; when commerce and reenter:tures were ho noes able sod profitable employments; when the hus bandman &either sewed nor reaped in vain; when the landlord, matedly and regularly, received his well paid rents; when the tradesman wanted neither cus tomers nor profits proportioned to his expenses of living sad carrying on his concerns; when neither the farmer, the landlord, nor the tradesman. hoe , the use air practised the abuse of the " bill-system t" when bank paper, not payable in gold on demand was unknown; and when the spirit of monopoly cursed not. the rage for specelation blasted not. nor the poverty and demoralization consequent on these things. or inquisitorial property taxes. or extended lottery-schemes. on multiplied official oatha, and an I eel difficulty of living, had sot filled oar pa rishes with paupers, and overflowed oar gaols with criminals. Prom the breaking oat of the French Re volution, three years before the high prerogative no tion of iliaisters bed bee. alarmed, and the esta blishments of the country had been increased, with • hope of an encase for interference being afforded for repressing by force publicly (as it bad been en deavoured to be stifled by fraud covertly in the treaty of Pilafs) the rising liberty of Freese. so that the establiabasents of the country were P • no means at _by. the lowest ebb of expense at this period, yet were there then maintained only 53,000 regular soldiers; no militia milled out, nor efSeieet military staff. and only 33,000 militia enrolled; the cost of the ••hole of which did not exceed two millions of mosey. 'the whole expense of carrying on the Go vernment was Gen somewhere about six millions. find the interest of the public debt sine Wiliest 1 , so that, at that period, the total demands of tie tioverameot es the people did sot exceed Moos millions. It is true the prosperity which the ease try so much enjoyed was eves then befog sapped sad sadermine4 by that corroptioe. ►ut for the locreesed strides of which it gold sot now hate bees pissed in its present deplorable sitoation ; it is true elm Thu the great Lori Chatham, Sir George Saville, and other great and wise uses forewarned the country of its danger from the thettlocreasing rotten aodeerrept stele of the represeotation - ortho pimple in Parlia- ment, the knowledge 'Of which induced Mr. Pitt solemely to declare that under such circumstances no 119/411IT VAN COlll.lll be ilimister. With so infidels ties bordering upon madness, these warnings of evil omen were not only disregarded. bat the country placed, as it were in bravado. In circumstances of em►arrassment, calculated to increase t►eir pressure fourfold. There were not wanting string grounds of suspi cion that the war of 1793, as well as being meant for the restoration of that same Bourbon race of Kings which bad repeatedly attempted to dictate a ruler to the people of these itingdoros,aod which bad recently bees greatly instrumental in rending from her the largest portion of her Empire. was also istesded to prevents Reform of the Parliament, the necessity for which hid then become generally apparent. Be t►is as it may, the present Ministers. or they in part with others their preceptors and predecessors in the same system of politics. have c•ontrived to spend of the monies of the people, since that period, TWO THOU SAND MILLIONS, and to leave the Country Nine Hundre4Millions is debt at the present moment. By the apologists for abuses, by those who have benefited by the system, and by all who, reversing the eternal ord►.r of• things. deem the great body of the people nothing but a eager Acad. made to be governed by the arbitrary will of a privileged few, it will be said, all these things wet* stet... Nary to stop the spread of French principles, and to pat down the dangerous mili tary poweref France; and with that most profound and conecieuthaec statesman. Lord Londonderry, all the eyeophaotg and tax•eaters will doubtless add, that " the prospects of the future are, MR now, as satisfactory as the retrospect of the past is glorious 1" How far and how " gloriously" these objects have been attained, let a comparison of the two cowries. in regard to their public burdens, decide. Facts, like " dead men. tell no lies." On " glorious." well-governed Britais and Ireland, containing. by the late returns, a pupal.- tion of 18.00000, about 55,000,0001. of money are levied in 0 meet taxes, of which nearly 40,000,004/. are required to pay the interest of the debts Ministers have incurred ; the people. with the exception of the Scots, enjoy the happiness of being tithed in kind. or the indulgence of commuting for the same at a cost of 5 or 8,000,000 of mosey; they have more than two millions of paupers to main tain at a charge of from 8 to 10 millions ; and, be sides all these odventroges. they have the exclusive ones of tolls, church, and highway-rates ; and. in ad dition. the Dissenters in (treat Britain and Irelaad, are graciously permitted the privilege of supporting their *ma clergy. In " Arm6kd," " revolettionarry" Framer, a population of 30.000,000 has to pay, in taxes to the State, about 31,000,0001.; but it has NO TUTISIS. NO POOR-RATIO. NO TOLLS, 1110 CRURCR sue HIONWAT-HATES, sod the Ministers of dissenting congregations are paid by the State. Such are the resells of Lord Londonderry's OLOZIOUS nasaosPtcT What his satisfactory prospects have produced, are producing. and threaten shortly to consummate. will be more particularly the subject of a fat ure consideration. r ' IL -- • _ _ _—mety et astended by their waited alma his Excellency tb• Mamma Waqaally, on Friday, and presented the fellowitti stidtese Dr. I. To HIS EICIILLBSCY TIC MAT .11.11111 etreaste MARQVgAIt WEL LLLLL T, LO4IIFLIMITIMIXT 011121,11.. •ND CSNaIAL novaamol 011 I • • " May it please your Bseellency.—We. as Directive of the Farming Society of Ireland, most respectfully present to your Excellency a espy of our chores". by whicis we are entitled to the veined privileges( calling your Excellency oar patron. u And we confidently trust, that ander the gablasee of such a patron, the Farming Society may be made as eMcleat lastrement of mach advantage to this country. " Its objects and its lahonrs bate hitherto Writ di rected (we hope successfully) to improve ploughisg. draining. and Irrigating ; to the Impertatho sad, groith of seed corn. the dispersion of good implesseats. sad the improvements of neat cattle. sheep. aid arise. Whatever advancement in Aericeltere Ire] Vs bout, has been principally effected sielte its. na tio., and by its mean.. - - " Latterly. the efforts of the Society have brew fet tered by the limitation of its fonds, eider the otetreesary system of g I retrenchment. It looks forward with hope to better times. sad to the sleds. mod Übe ratty of your Excellency's patronage. " The Society comprises amongst its menthe's al most all the rar.k and respectability of the coitifiy— ready to co-operate in every exertion towards apical tarel improvement which year Excellency. their respected patron, shall do them the honour to suggest. " Your Excellency's comprehensive mind, n Mist it admit, the importance of improved agriculture to every country. will intuitively appreciate its peculiar value to Ireland, as the most effectual means of providing Firmament employmeat fors distrafssed population, and of fursi.bieg to the State the full benefit of her great natural resources." To which his Excelleery was pleased to return tie fullowian gracious answer : •' WaLimiLiv. " Under the authority of your charter, 1 seeept the honourable charge which you hare been Aosta to intrust to me, wish a high seam of its public impost- Mies. "It will be my anxious endeavour to steed every assistance within my power to the Paribing Society. is the promotion of its useful and salutary objects; sad sincerely hope that you may contisse to advisee the agriculture of Ireland. and to diffuse the spirit of honest industry. " It is palatial to me to learn, that the efforts of the Society have bees fettered by the limitatio• of ip feeds. ander the system of gesersi retresehment lately adopted; and I shall ►e happy to mail 'yowl( lof any peeper mesas of auguseetiag year feeds, con- sistently with the attendee which is due to the Orion, 'tummy of the public finances. But I mast emit' this opportunity of declaring, that it is mei less my. inclination Goa my besedee dusty to give every aid to the progress of that wise and necessary system of general retresehmeat which has beets adopted ►y his Majeety's Government sad by Parliamest ; and which , is as essential to the tree dimity of the Crows. as h is indispensably seeessary for the security of the State. and for the interests sad welfare of the people. " I am deeply Impressed with the value and the im portance of ►our institution ; and sensible u I must be, et the utility of such establishments, is w►ssever country they may have been introduced, I feel that they are of more peculiar interest and advantage in Ireland, where the introduction of habits of lodes trions labour is indispensably r. quisite for the safety of property, and for the happiness of the great body of the people." Law Arrotsyssexvs.—Mr. Plunkett has not yet been sworn is Attorney-General.—(Drb/in Er king Pest. Saturday eveniag. illou.tomt, JAN. 3.—Os Thursday night last. a pensioner, named John Cassidy, was so severely beaten by a set of ruffians, eleven in number. on the Fah-greee of this town, and adjures to his hoes, that he has been since confined to his bed. Tile cowardly attack on an infirm sod defenceless man, al most within the precincts and call of oar barracks, renders this outrage peculiarly audacious. Os the Saturday following. between the hones of seven and eight o'clock ie the evesisg, 14 or 15 .. fel lows went to the house of John P.dge. a sober sad in dustrious boat-builder, living near the Royal Canal Harbour, and having called him out. they attacked. knocked down, sad beat him most unmercifully. His wife and sister-in-law, on hearing the sadden eatery. ran out, and in their eusest but ineffectual 'oder soars to save the poor fellow. reeeleed-asteeisi-beo. jury. He at length effected his escape into a uteri bowing house, but not without sustaining very se rious cuts and bruises on the head and various puts of the body. INFLAMMATORY NOTICI. The following is se exact copy of a sotto* posed on the town ramp. near the Shand,', on Monday inorning last : " UOOO MEWS roe lICTCUSRS." " Any person taking the contract for soldien' meat. or any process-server. shall he met with Are and destruction. and this is your sufficient notice. (Signed) " Captain ROCK, and his White Boys." (lrestrarath Journal.) REVENUE OF IRELAND (IP ROM TUB BRISTOL IiSICIIRT.) It Is not generally koown in what degree Ireland is at present a burden to Great Britain. At this mo sent all should know it I it is a part of the persici one system of politics which kas iodated this coun try from its former proad pre-ssairmaco. whisk has al ready destroyed mostof the eowiferts of tbeindsotriass sod middle class of society. sad which at this inn meats incapacitates the rood " Woos of the Ocean' from being any thing bet a bully amongst the na tions. By the treaty of (Talon homes* Brost Britain and Ireland, the latter was board. besides paying the interest of the debt contracted before that period sad other separate charges, to make good 1-17ths of the this Situation, so to t.. oak - arad &al • prblk bdrakrtiptey;Q TilisitsWi I *stem . si-jer soualko bosbolloral in OM& ildite. sad irkh Isebetteenkerdew-memadated la the year 1818. 1 —The debt of Irkeittl the itseolontiod with that of Urea* Britain aimed! tifthMat the kaowiedge of the British people. e g/w their being aware of the twirl% or demerits or the meseare. ot of its enormous effects sod tremeodnols cossequeseee.— Since the Sib of Jimmy. 181/, most enneesi- Intl/ fur the tan-eaten, the tutenashrancre,revesuee. esti expanses% of the two constrim bate bees blended together is one mass, in tho esters. as relates to this clam of worthies, of a proteettowaity. Th• produce of taastioa is Irelasd is sow considered merely as making a part of the genital Weems of the Vampire, without any regard to the proportions lied is the treaty of Union! That we, on Ms side the water. may form eerie idea of the hankies east spelt us, km the name if Ireland—la she name of a enateirtymadag with pettakellons, and th• memos 4 Idle.Oisperity. and Itappiame--ia the manse of a ,Sydney mow said to ronteia star seven sillies, of inehalaltaute—we subjoin the followitti table of the revenue and espestlitare of Ireland ander the &dial nistratios of Lord Londonderry, at fear different pe• tied'. before sad up to the time of this tastable ar rangement being made by his Irish Lordship is the year 1816. which unr readers are at liberty to ender eland is only a sort of preliminary introduction to the history and mystery" of wee of the greatest political humbugs ever practised on a pack-horse of a nation. Teen. I ()resorted's*. Netlisymest. I Espeuditors. 1.806,964 IMO 19113 19116 1.181.1193 2.446.718 1 9,80A.316 1.314,06 7401.01 BALM 11.346.4715 111.80.433 FS til preserve 1813 •• 01 1 fur fart gi)t kteittfhltalt. eraTls2iAll" a 111100IPINATED Witt " LONDON: . 81111/AT EVENING. JAIIVAIIIT 9 R , 1921. STOCK XXCHANOK TWKLYK O'CLOCK The ralsoars of yesterday sat gainiss tomb credit. then is little tisisg is tits stubs!, and sot mai; differ- saes laths pries; Commis Wag TS ta f. The whole account bas now bees published of t►e last quarter's, sad of the last year's revenue, up to the Sth hutant, with that of the corresponding quarter and the preceding year. Before any part of it was made knows to the pnblic, it was announced. accoeding to the language usual ea the like occasions, as an eel dense of the Ihrurishiag state of the National Finances and while a slight acknowledgement was made. by the Ministerial writers, of the distresses of the Agricul tarel classes. which. wilh their dependants, by the way. constitute almost a moiety of the active part of the community, it was impudently wealetained that the amount of the tales was a satisfactory proof that the country. was, with this exception, in a very prosperous condition. It must occur to all oar readers that this language. which is nothing more tbs. the cant of office, has bees so often repeated and as often exposed, that it fails to produce the least effect on those whom it is designed to delude. It is an easy matter, how ever. to gloss over an account, and the trick may re- 1 main undetected till the statement comes to be exam luta. The boast of Monday (with the advocates of Meadow) was. that there bad been an increase in the last quarter of more than four busdred thousand pagoda above the corresponding quarter of last year, the amount of the whole year estemetied that °Ake last. by almost six hundred thousand pundit. This &mount. to those who live on taxes, was extremely cheering I but. like many a preceding statemeat was wilted up with guile. The amount of the cue wins of last quarter. above that of the corresponding quarter of the preceding year, was more than three hundred thousand pounds ! This statement looked exceedingly well, till the amount of the preceding year was compared with that of the year immediately before. and then it was found that the customs of that year, with which those of the last were compared, were more than seven hundred thousand pounds less than these of the year that had preceded it. Com pared, then, with the year ending J y. 1820, which we have no reason to believe was a year re markably flonrisblog, the customs of the last year will exhibit a defalcation of more than two hundred thousand pomade. That the customs of last year should bows **creased above those of the preceding we are not all surprised. The independence of Spanish Ametica has opened markets new and vast to the en terprise of our merchants; and shackled as our ma nufacturers are with &cal duties, compared with those of other sakes, thuimdaatry and skill of our artisans have tornished their proportion of supplies for the encreasell 4•414.4. The factories of Manchester. Hi,. :-"'".-.."........'.'gd ".........—ND A 1 .: # 1 . . 41 a . t h i lt 111 0 ' ... .14H 4 W . • .'' 4r t." -.1m.6.-. • 1 .... y ire*/ tarnime ii —MARQUESS WELLESLZY THIS . . 47 laTilig" geliy iimesistea Ili ont _ .iiiineeto 16.4 joilivremoi di. lig : c me OAK, die Didcii onaisstmilse Sid of lidiaili. ADM°. or Tv' "RIM° B°CIITY TO T. : k ....,:.....(7.....„..;;;;I:::::::. fIll: a • , ' sad Viiimiiiiit WV/am as a iiispittailos from theldsi- , ~ _, • may lame it , mains , e fi . . _ _ _ _ . . __ . . . _. , .________ this SUMMON, .11111 eil 4.1911,911 j S.M. IV 6.9#.618 i sable we reference. 3,5113.(09 vat our fl MIMI WATS". AT lAolliele-ONIINIS 700 W. Weskit VS. after ♦—EulSlag 18 us. after & PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Reek Stock SIB 3 per evil. Red... . 771 3 per Mato. Ex. Div. si per Cost 4 per Ceuta & per Celt% Navy.— 101a111 I 3 per Gent Loaf; Atte . . 19 7.16 9.16 lisp. *per Cott 7 6 111 & ear Cent DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India linisk. Ditto Roods ..1 746 776. poi South S.. 5t0ck............ Booth Set Old Aaa......... W. 101101. i• is. p. —son:. Sa di. pal. 46.110. p. Indio for ditto Con. for Acet Lon. Tiekets.......lW. inflate, sod Clisegsw have thus hew apis sailed late activity, ad the wages paid is sessequesee to workaseo. have Owning ennead soother breach of the Reines,. This favearabie opening has given fresh vivacity to specelatioa ; bet like other new markets ltewy soon M glutted by overweealeg saves. lure, mud cannot be calculated apes as a regular mad steady *such of trade. The Excise, however, it es. - creased ! The somas, ea the last quarter above the ameont of that of the ismer year is more than se venty-Ave thousaad poled., said on the whole year, alteve that of the preceding. it is more than a hundred sad eighty theasand. This is owleg. partly, to tbs ranee to which we have just sew referred, the stimulus given to the utanafasturing part of the population, ad in pan also to the reduced poise of the Niamey articles of subsistence, which has eashled the la. bowleg classes generally. whale wages Inn am bees .rodased, to expend a larger pontos than formerly of t►eir lateen es those articles which ems under the Excise. The lacrosse, it appears. has Aker been are those articles which. whin the eirniadasses assumed, the lab■riag classes pliacipally wmtld as sume, on Malt. is Spirits. sad es Tea ; making toge ther, in the amain of duty. fey the last lissMar alone. an increase above three bemired t►sasand roads ; but from which most its deducted the &- yeas' which has takes plan in other ankles. eel which smald hare boos very esesibly felt le the ammo the Excise Ditties. had ant these demand, awes( the labourieg classes incidentally occurred. Had the so. comet. however. been as latteriag as ofkial ass would boast, we are not &smog the journalists who would he ready to eengrateriate our reader, es the ausesatt ; because we ►elie►e t►at few of our readers. or of the public generally. derive any advantage free it, but that most, if net all of t►ere, find themselves the worse on that gement. It most he iesteashentt aid bushing ie soy to boast of the amount of Laio . when it is evident that, to make the country easy, its Me den toast be essentially reduced. On the whole. in sober truth, the friend's, Ilinieten themselves mast see there is so occasion to rejoice. The Consolidated Lend which was deicleat in the quarter ending sth Jaguar, 1821. 833,521 f., is deficient this quarter (eeoliag Sth January 1822) 1,311,4• The total dekko" of th • Coneolidated Feed on the sth January 1321. was 8,806,92 W., and on the Sth January 1322. it is A& ciao 9,562.9841. making as increase of debt asseass. iag to 736.0551., se that oar tsars e4kd debt now remiss 33,6111.394/.. lad oar fended debt about 800.000.011114. with a taxation ea t►e people of 54.0011.31101. —.- To make this ►erdeo men oppressive, It is new to he levied. when the resources .1 i large portion of Este. popoledea. the egrisubste is as exhaust:o Ma% and whoa She altered°. Is the ralatin OWN* mosey sail esmostlitiee aggravates, is the wee pie. portion, the preerere of to:sties. The Gothic ULTRAa of the Bourbons (i f tee an to believe the Free& penal', all of which, eseept the Joirrisl de Paris, stake the assertion), have con verted the Pebilisoig, or Banal Ground of these emi ant Anniston who once shoes In France with lite rary splendour. late a church, and expelled the hoses of Yosemite sad Rousseau from their place of rest. An action of medalists. worthy of the Grand &Igoe,. or the floversor of Paces! What wield the peopie of Haglund say. if the present Ministers effected the distraction of the monuments is Weasels ster Abbey, and had the boner of Shakspeare. sal !liken, sad Newton, removed to a Parish Banal (hotted? Earope would reprobate the 'Jenkins) act. Yet Voltaire was the Shaking,* of Fraser, aid Priests, Kings, and their Satellites, would le the nine teenth century, an like the destroyers of Rome. and Isnot disgrace epos a whole nation by ouch a deter mind act of ladecency. This we look epos as a yen latioaary omen, and the new attempt on the Press. as as accompanyieg indeeement to remove a set of fana tical monsters. whose Kneen most be a disgrace to any Commits, or any Country. That nation, which bends the hopes of prosperity and happiness upon bigotry awl iatokreacr, mast, instead of acquiring power, ',reader opposition, and endanger its Moven meet. linebristiaa conduct will at all times inspire hatred. Mine right iti Kings is now become a lag bear eves to the multitude, and its ioduence lost, es eept among Hose who profit by it. The Prieetheed in every country aid the arm of power; but the people are the sufferers. The policy of Kings and Priests is to keep the people in mental and bodily subordinatios, bat the day is gone by ; the tradesman, the artisan, and labourer can read. sad understand too. They see and justly complain that their earnings by the sweat of the brow, are expended upon an idle. degenerate. wanton sot of fellows, whose hypocritical slew of sacer dotal holiness is destined to support tyranny, whose et tenor bespeaks the lamb, and whose conduct betokens the wolf. Experiesce has been thrown away on those French peepers ; twenty-6n years of beggary in tbie country, has ant preyed sudficieet to teach them Phi lanthropy; and the traestions at ,Xieraer, would be re' mewed in Paris, if the COWARDLY SNOTS dare try the elitist of their malignity. We see their drift ;we see their endeavours--endeaniers that „ill abet their ow■ destruction. We sincerely hope the people of France will also watch their mad moiler reramtio , - ary projects, and do as the impels of Spain have dine. insist upon their dismissal, ■nd the benefits of the CHARTER. which ►he Bourbon signed slier his w awa,' journey to , Ghent. and on beittz placed on the :brave of Frames, by the despots of Europe. Sh : • II i .. xs3