The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

. ~r Mt Twums ArrwooD AND THE FARMERS' JOURNAL This Weekly i Piper, called the Farmers' Jownual, isiich Isms low, for several years. the groat deluder of the tamers, and whicte has been, perhaps, the cause of more ruin to them than all the other publications of the shy; this paper, which has, for so long a time, been in flicting on the farmers the curse of Will. HALL'S unspeak. able delusions; delusions as to the uninformed,and insults to the understanding part of the agricultural comma.. nitr ; this save paper does; at last, appear to be penal his of therm/4,201y of its sins, and, which is still more praise, or, rather, pardon-worthy, seems to he disposed to make some atonement for them. It has, not only un der the name of the great Agricultural Quack, Wane, hut in its own name, been contending, tooth and nail' far the last three years, that the distress of the farmer' arose solely from the importations of fereiga cora, and that the sole remedy was, a duty on all eons imported.— In spite of reason, In defiance of experience the most am. pie, in open and outrageows opposition to common sense, these assertions has it persevered in for the last three years! • Now, however, under the name of Mr. Teowsa ATV WOOD. this heretofore wickertifinmial, this prodigiously sinful newspaper, which usiOst well eXclains, indite lan guage of the famous Sonnet of DESDARRIAOZ, • Male j'ai taut fitit de mal, sloe jamais to boat* Ne tus p4rdoonera sans blesser to justice ; that is to say " I have dome so mach misehiV, that thy " mercy, extended towards me, would be an imputation on thy justice :" now, however, this wretched sinner of a news-paper, is, as we hive ja,s . t. ohs d, endeavouring to make some atonement by saying, by Asserting and by standing to it, that the distress !moorhen solely from the rash payment measures; and that 'the sole remedy is somethiog that shall counteract those measures. The articles to which we allude, came from the pen of Mr. Thomas Attwood of Birmingham. I (for it will be best to speak in the first person) inserted one of these articles, or letters, of Mr. Atttwood, in the Register, and in this paper a week or two back. I low find a second, aid I shall insert it Also, suhjoining, in this case, some reick3as of my own. I have numhere4 the paragraphs in order that I may refer in fewer. words to such as I Cosy find it necessary to remark on. The letter is well wittier), it discovers great ability in the writer, it shows that he possess groat knowledge of the subject, and it is oorthy of an attentive perusal by both landlords and Sin, Birmingham, Nov. IS, 1. 10 me letter inserted in your Journal of the 2.1 Septrinlier, I represented thit fictitious obllgAtione were impos►d upon the country, during the war, to the pro h4ble amount of 2.0 4 1 millions sterling. The whole of these ram:nous luiriliens, contracted in Bank notes or f.irthings, are nun mode convertible by taw into heavy gitiorai; and since they are thus abide to amount to about Eighteen Tleousand Tons of solid, (hold, instead of a few reams of paper, it is essential to be assured of the correctness of such • representation. 2. It is eettain, from Parliamentary returns, that 1047 millions sterling of the national debt were contracted between the yeses 1793 and 1519, although part of the enormous debt has in the mean time been redeemed.— It is certain also that the pay of the soldiers and sailors, std the salaries Of all the placemen, pensioners and de pendants of the Government, were during that period doubled, and in many Instances absolutely trebled • and that this doubling and trebling of the general oLliga liona of the Government, was brought forward and jus tified on the express ground of the depreciated state of thecorreuey. The annual value of these encreased pay. omits may be taken at shout 10 millions sterling; sod this. when turned into principal money, at 20 years pur chase. amounts to 21.2) millions more of public obliga tion, contracted by the Government during the war.— Herr then are 1247 millions of public obligation &ctn. ally contracted in fictitious, or depreciated currency, si bleb err:slily did not command, on the go, more than one half the value which it commanded before the war. and which it now again commands. 3 It may be said, that some small part of this predi. giros mass of obligations was not contracted in depre cated currency, because the instilly at the more, which ot.easioned the rise of the sailors' wages, took place in the year 17%; and some considerable loans were con s, Acte d for by the linvernmeut helm. the Rank Restric tion Act took place in 1797. It (nay then be thought that cutoraets termed prior to 1797, were entered into it money of time ancient value, and of course ought so to rcdeemed : lint neither of these inferences is co • . In the first place, the greater part of such contracts have long since changed hands, and have become ttsesferred to pr. twins oho love 1;on for them, and of course are not entitled to any other kind of money than such as they advanced and con tr./OPd fur ; and is the next place, it appears by the Par- Itimenury Returns, that the depreciation of the cur. terry was literally 511 per cent. before the year 1797; for that is the rise which bad even then taken place. not in the prices of provision. merely, but in all articles of property and labour generally. where oot counteracted by (oral or meelsaniaal eiremesstaages. •• - 4. The inundation of papermaney„ whi c h was °era. 1 , 4111fd by the Batik of England first issuing 51. notes in 1793, and. by the extended issues of au many country li ink., 'shirk took ;dace soon after that. period, emu- Lined with the extensive system of taxing and loaning hiclithe tiovernment chefs asloptedi, 'and *hick left scarcely an idle guinea in the cuuntry; alt these circueu -11`.111re; combined had occasioned a generairiseof prices, and consequent depreciailon of abont.4o per cent. in the g. oral csirrency a the editntryo print , collie year 179/. although such deprecistion•was alopeai* in the price of:old ; because. as Mr. Cohbett lialgepeatedly 'hewn, it is, the tendency of iner , ased issues of paper to &pre d it.. and '• carry down" the gold itself, fur a certain period. until the gold has bail time to find other mar kets a hero its real value is better appreciated. After the year 1797, when tbi metallic standout was perma nently rewired, this rhhaof 50 per cent. in the prices of property end labour was confirmed, and another rise of or 70 per cent. more look place; and thus the ge -1...ral rise of prices during the war became permanently from 101 l to IN per cent. It is. therefore, evident, that the whole of the obligations contracted during the war, acre contracted in a depreciated currency, cummandi leg, on the twenty years average of the war, nut more than one'balf of the value which the currency of the country commanded before the war. _ 5. Some persowi pretend that it was not a depreciation of the currency which i cessionol this general and per manent rise of the prices of property and labour, but some peculiar alteration in the relative supply and de .m.irht of commodities and laltour, which was occasioned be the excitements of the war. This is evidently a dis tinction without a differences for if the rise of prices is acknowledged to have been permanent and general dur ing the war, it Is of no consequence by what cause it wa occasioned. Whether it was occasioned by openly coin .1 ). i •b I ~. r , ~,. I r 1 THE STATESMAN. lag one guinea into two, or by making one retinal per form two operations where its formerly performed one. can make no differeuce whatever in the question of the peliey or justice of wantonly breaking op • system upon which such 400rmons obligations had been founded. When men contract debts or obligations, Oil do got contrast them upon money, hat upon property. They do not borrow money for the,porpose of holding It, bat for the purpose of eoabling them to hold property. ff. therefore, they borrow money, or burrow property con verted into tooney, or contract monied debts in any war, which enable theta to hold, perhaps, 11.10 acres of land. or lOU tons of iron, they are jut as effectually injured and defrauded by compelling them to repay money which rommawls 21)0 acres of land, or 200 tons of iron, as if they had been decidedly and openly compelled to repay 40s. for every 203. which they borrowed. Of what con tinence was it to the tenantry of the country, when they contracted their present obligations, whether the high prices which guided their judgments, and constituted the cunsideratinn for their contracts, were occasioned by any extraordinary circumstances of the war, or by any direct reduction of the metallic standard of value? Both circumstances are alike to them. The fraud and robbery entnutitted upon them, the violation of contracts, and the outrage of "good faith," with all the ruin and the misery which we now see, are jnst as real, whether the high prices were owing to one cause or to another. The high prices formed the basis and the equitable con sideration of their contracts, and therefore, when the high prices were reduced hyl Legislative measures, the high contracts which were founded upon them ought to have been reduced correspordently at the same time. 6. Sr. also in the imposition of taxes during the war. The high prices formed the basis on which they were , grounded, and without which they a could have, been imposed. The high prices limited also the quantities of value which the quadrupled taxation drew from the country, just as effectually, whether they were using to a direct reduction in the standard of value, or to any other circumstances whatever. Z. It is eviden , , therefore, that 1247 millions sterling of public ohligations was imposed upon the country is depreciated currency during the war, which wow not upon the average worth more than one half of the value which the currency before the war commanded. Let us now inquire into the private obligations contracted be tween man and man during the same pet iod. 8. The whole rental of England and Wales during the war, amounted to 43 millions sterling per annum, as stated in the Propertidat Returns. It is but reason able to believe that about one ballot this litmus subject' during the war,to legal obligations of one kind or other; either mortgages, bonds, rent charges, jointures, 'Dui ties, or settlements of some kind. 1 his, at 311 years purchase, witioonts $o 645 millions sterling. In Ireland it is well known amp a much greater proportion than one half of tire war rental uas under sumo kind of se questr.dion. and in Scotland probably not h less. I have heard alone gentleman who possesses 350,0001 s of Scottish mortgages. If to thole two masses of private obligationa we add the general book debts, or what the lawyers tall "simple contract debts," of the three kingdoms; and if to the whole we add a yaks. tion of the obligation., by way of lease anal ',f-increased tithe, entered into during the war, we shall certaittlyl find g►ounds for bidieving, that all these otiligatioas poel together will riot amount to leas tbau another WO mil lions sterling ! 9. We have thus 1247 millions sterling of . public obli gation, and 125.5 millions sterling of private obligation, in all, say two thousand five hundred millions sterling of public and private monied obligations contracted during the war in depreciated currency! Of course, it is not possible to he quite correct. Hot in such immense sums, a hundred millions or two is but of little caner quence. 10. Now, Sir, itmight have ►een thoagLt, tbat after having contracted such a prOdij(0111 mass of ,public and private obligation ; alter baring loaded the nation ' with such enormous burthens, pressing with their mor tal weight upon every nerve and sinew, and every artery of the social system ; I ear, Sir, it might have been though', in such a state dating' as this, that if any measures in our monetary system were necessary on the return of peace, they ought, in common honesty, in com mon prudence, and in common humanity, to have been such as would have relaxed the burthens of industry, and have set free the national energies, is order to meet the more effectually the tremendous pressure of the na tional obligations. Under such a state of things, we should not have been surprised to find the Govenment of the country, bearing in mind that the safety of t' se peo ple is their first duty to attend to, depreciating still fur; tber the existing currency of the country, in order to lighten the intolerable pressure of the national burthens. and enable the !deductive cl to bear the more easily, and discharge the more readily, the prodigious obligations which the common safety of all hail inipused upon them. In such case, if the value of the pound ster ling, on the twenty years average of the war, had been ascertained to have been equal to Ilk, of our ancient money, we should not then have been surprised to find the (Internment coining 9.. or be., or even ss. of such ancient money into a pound sterling, io order to recruit and recover the tainting energies of a nation, exhaust ed with so many exertions, nod reeling tinder so many burthens. 11. But, instead of this, instead of relaxing the pres sure of the national burthens,what do we find to be the case ? The minguisled Legislature under which we live, without being invited by the national voice, without being solicited by the monied parties interested in the question, without even enquiring into the ••• policy" of such a mortal mea.iire, have voluntarily and gratuitously pesseil laws, the express object and effect of which have been literally to double the whole: Tu give five thousand millions sterling in payment of 2,5410 millions sterling, or to speak ,more •in particulars to give two bushels of wheat and two days labour in the discharge of all the multitudinous engagements in which the nation ur individuals contracted to pay one. Never, (ruin the very beginning of time, have we yet seen ; tir%er, to the very'etid or' time, eloali we again see, a meantize of tricii enormous and such wide-spread ing destruction as thin : 12, Now, what the Legislature can possibly have in tended in this conduct it is difficult to say, because they have never condescended to inform us ; en the contrary, they have continually rep ted that they were not going to double our burdens, but merely to increase then' 3 or 4 per cent. It I were disposed to draw harsh conclusions, I should blame the great landowners, and I should say, that it is to their greediness that they one their own and their country's rain. The great land- owners had made contracts nits their tenants, and with the tiovernnient, to pay their rents, salaries, and divi dends, in farthings, passing current by law for pounds aim ling. Cutler the action of these nominal pounds sterling, they had contrived to double and treble those rents, salariee, and dividends. Hut when peace came, they wete not content with farthings; they were out content that these enormous fictitious credits should be paid them in farthings, in the seine money in which they were contracted, nor in real sixpences, passing current by law for pounds sterling ; nor in real aisil hags, nor even in half guineas, passing current by law for pounds sterling! Rut, forsooth, they must needs hare heavy guineas! In the delirium of their pride ' and their folly, they insisted upon having the intrinsic ' value of heavy guineas, where they only advanced or ' contradicted for the intrinsic value of farthings! Hee -1 lig laid strong hold, as they thought, upon the nation's throat, they took advantage of a 1.. gal quibble to ley their tenantry and the nation prostrate at their feet'. Not lipeansisg, I suppose, to persecute to the death ; not meaning absolutely to destroy the sower.% of their own prosperity ; but merely purposing to bleed and bring , down the plethora of the middle classes. until the de• I gradation of their political wealth shoul I make some amend, tor the superiority of their intellectual power' I dare say; this was all that the landowners meant. They only meant for the fanner to put on Isis smock frock, and for the merchant aml manufacturer to results, the hamble habits whim h become " vulgar people ;" and then there would he a proper distinction between noblemen and persons in trade. Ilt turas out very unlucky, that these fine expectations are disap pointed. The great landowners hero been surrounded by a hind of interested and designing men, and into their toils they have fallen, as completely as ever bird fell into the fowler's net. And whilst the Jews and Lawyers are quarrelling about the spoil, the Rsdi eels step in to claim the lion's share' 13. The Members of the Legislature are Creditors. and although most of them are also debtors, yet being creditors to a mock larger extent, the interest ut the cre ditors Las probably preponderated in their minds. They are all either landowners, fundowners, or placemen ; and as such are interested as creditors of the active el via,-• of the farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and traders, from .whom Han whole of their income proceeds. Having well fastened their legal claims round the necks of these unhappy cl of men, the Members of the Le gislature were anxious to substantiate those claims in " forte monnoie" as the French call it, in strong power- ful money; and in their eagerness to ',corn/dish this sll•iumportant object, it is possible that they may have forgotten duly to consider the interest of !lode unfurtn nate debtors. It possibly may have appeared right in their eyes, that the farmer should put on his*" smock frock," and that the merchant should resume the ft ugal habits of his predecessors, forgetting their own !orbits have advanced at least equally with those of the envied farmer ; and that if it is right for the farmer to resume the " smock.frock," it is at least equally right for them selves also, to resume the double-horse, and the hung beef, and the beer, and the rush-covered Boors, with which their ancestors were content. And forgetting; slsn, that habits are a second nature, cad that when men's habits are once fixed, it is not possible to drive thrum back again. through any other process than that of ruin. It. Now, if we had had another House of Parliament, consistiag all of debtors, or of persons in whom the interest of the debtors preponderated, we should pro- bably have found is such a House of Parliament as great a disposition to halve the national bar thens, as we have found in the present House, to doe- Lie them. lYe should have found in such a House of Parliament as great a readiness to coin five oil mint shillings into a pound sterling, as we bays found in the present House to main twenty of those Wl lings into a pound sterling; and these two Houses thos balsocieg earth each other, the House of Debtors wish ing to halve the standard of value, and the House of Vro ditors to double it, a mild, at last, have come to a com promise ; mod each party giving op its intended eta& lions, they would 63re settled dons in coining ten old mint shillings into a pound sterling as justice and etas. 'son required, and all would have been right. The prices, of property and labour would have been peas d at: just double the level of 1791, and tinder that doubledt level of prices, the house of Debtors would hare accused, the just rights'and interests of their constitoents ; awif the farmers, merchusts, manufacturers, and traders., would have discharg•ed their doubled rents, debts, tithes, and taxes, 11101 the same ease as they did doting the war,and before the war. Tits improvements of society would about have covered the real increase of taxation #tica 114.1. aid the general comforts of the population would have been secured, uninjured, and untouched, 15. The same observations will boll good with regard to the public pun, and alio with regard to the three 'embed professions. They era .all of them interested against the public, until the destruction of the public returns the ruin upon themselves. The proprietors of the public papers, whether daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly, may all be considered as creditors, and as such interested in obtaining "fore* siommie' for their credits, contracted is 14011110 TC." They hare all of them a tiled is price for their papers, which not liable toglic fall, and indeed is almost as severe as if pros ',sited by the law; and since their circalation thins brings them is a fixed income, it is their intcerst, to render that fixed income as powerful, or as valuable as possible.— Without any disparagement, therefore, to the principles at integrity of these gentlemen, it rosy be reasonably presumed that a strong interest of this kind has biassed' their judgments, and induced them to look with fay.iiir hie eyes upon that general depression of prices, which whilst it has halved or destroyed other men's property, has literally doubled their own! lo this way we may perhaps account for the utter ignorance, anal for the apathy or total silence, whit which the public press in general have tretve.l this vital, this all important sub ject. If we had had another public press conducted by debtors, or by persons in whom the interest of the debtors preponderated ; or if the prices of the publist papers had been exposed to a fall of one half, say from 7,1. down to 41 upon each newspaper, whilst the taxes. debts, and engagements, of the proprietors continued the same; we should in either of these cases. I appre hend, have found that the conductors of the public press would have exhibited a little more knowledge upon this important snbject, and a little more anxiety to expose the plunder that has been palletised upon the country. - • 16. it would appear from these observations that the interests of the debtors, that is the people at large, upon this question at least, have nut been properly re presented either in Parliament or in the public press.— rimy have %hewn a marvellous pertinacity in protecting the Interests of the creditors; but unluckily they have forgotten the poor debtors. The words " public faith". have been dunned in our ears until tee are almost deaf; but unluckily those words hare only had reference to the interestaof the creditors ; and whit is still more nn• lucky, in bur anxiety to do ample justice to 'the err. Mime, and to ercore them their plunder in "Art( monnoie," we have unwittingly imposed rush bnrthena as bare broken the hacks of the debtors ! And thus• both creditors and debtors are like to be involved in one common ruin ! 17. So it seems, if we were disposed to inoralize. Mr. Editor, that we might deduce all the national distresses from the national vices, front the general grer.:iness, jealousy, and malignity, of one class of society toward■ another ; for although I thus censure the public press, and the learned professions, yet I am by no wears pre pared to say, that the public at large are composed of any better materials. In every trade 1 have seen quite us much indifference, or rather quite as much jealousy and nialigni , y on the part rt . the greeter capitalists toward• what ■re called " little fellows." as I have presumed on the part of the great I indowners to scuds theniselvre. instead of holding forth the hand of friendship to lift up andenconrage the ex twisted wretches, who'll) every tradeore sinking; under the weight of their doubled burthens, the greater capitalists too frequently Wilms in millet' and malignant satisfaction, as if sh e sufferings of their little rivals might tend, in some de pee, to diminish their own. It is nut until the greater capitalists begin to feel ruin at their own door, that the fountains of their hearts are opened, and taught by their own miseries, they learn to feel fur the siderite* of 18. Begging pardon of yo?r readers for the apparca; lrvily which I have greatest this staiiikl a alibi et r 4 hi. h I kno.: admits of no loftily, but compels the dcfp. est anxiety 11.1111 every upright wino'. I reititinnitb pest, sir, your obedient listable . THOM tt ATTWWID. Now, I ant aware, that the readers of the w:. erelaim, • here is nothing that you yourself have told ur many three ever." Very *true; bat, it it sae t a l in ie is sa s i t n e e it th . ;n a g o . wed then, ln n jeetil t t e ha S t ir tre . he diTTW ITe ptbe•D."*lt h 7 osi:l.t to be observed, too, that appeared at the Loolos T. Tern sea petitioner og.lia.,t rect.'s hit 1; and that, e . fore the hill was passed, he 11.4.1 (~ithout ack 4 w m t, meat indeml) what had been said, its a Letter to 114E4 1 the year before. Ile is nut a tile plagisr;st, lik e 'squires FAULT and Wk./1 ;he outs melte tomelitth. acknowledgement ; he due, give a hit of a tap at nv shop door.; and, therefore, we may pay attention to hie The statement in paragraph 4 I.a. never, as far at i have observed, beers made before by any Doty but nn. self. Nothing Can be truer. than that the money was greatly depreciated long Gefute 1797. It is a grew: mistake to suppose, that the paper was not depreeiwr4 because it was said to be payable is. geld it tie 82110:. Bat, Wile. Mr. ATTWOOU gives we credit fot this diact. very of the. paper "carrying dowse' the gold, to Turrets, !heti preten.led to any such merit; :IZI ilia 'homily merit I had, in this case, was that of butts ; amplified and illustrated what Me. Pastes. with maw pruphetic:voice, bad said upon the subject. I ilesn ' quoted Mr. - Pat x a's weeds, from his fames, einayss " Decline wad Fall *fate British System of Fil1111%: . a work ittatsviii be road with admiration, when his etap-1 a nd bass traducer...her aiding :a the rein of thEr coital/1, mill be rotten and forgotten, or rensemlitsei only to be fed. In that ;matins' essay are the great principles that have guided my pea. He crd not. indeed, foresee (for who could imagine say thing so monstrous!) the desperate measure of 1797; het, to this hair's breadth lie saw and foretold the Late of it. alsten le 11798 he wrote his essay. He then said: the hunts cannot pay is gold now. 'the paper is nor depret4. " sad. The Paper•rooney par' dews the p!4 . . . . . " along %%ith it first, and the gold palls it dens "at lest. Paper-money is strength is the t , " gistaiesi cad teeakeess is the sad. Public aria " is suspicion asleep: let it awake, let the holders of the " notes rash to the beiak for payment: and tr, tilay i f ‘• fi rst wi ll hare the best elizecs; Ale, the Be ust 4. pay a quarter part of what it ha. oat." This prveil. Lion was verified in less than twelve months frous it t hese of his writing the Essay; sad he was is Free:. %ben he wrote it! If hie advice had bees foMew. , what a happy country England might have be at is, ,lay! But his advice always included the destractioa f the "elective /cauchise" of dear Canon and .IParro. Old Sarum! And what is the happiness of Englel compare! with that! Tile wise owe have chosen to listen to lircinue :t• stead of Mr. PAWN. and not to see that papsepoile: .doams gold. Therefore, they, of coarse, c•5ti,,4:(,4 ,- ; . p,.. there could be no depreciation before 1;4; fenetiv, plAcy naturally came to the eoeciusion, that AP market price of gold was the standard by which to pleasure IL' amount of the depreciation of the paper. This error was first publicly put forth and merle faeltionsbbr SAINT IiONNSII, in 1810 and 1811. It arrivoral te.l • perfection under the aaralag of litcoaato la Itil9t , sod the caluinnlators and persecutors of Mr. tarns are son testing the conetveseas. and that they way limo their fill of these, every jam *do mast whet. In paragraph lg. Mr. ArtivonD speaks of Obit 'nett to have been done le•the WU of " rektring" the Lar ders, when the Paaliameat was forcing gold payments bark. Mr. Armour) does not 'peek out here. ilt chows very clearly the robbery. the cost/ism/Ma, that ought to'have been prevented; but, be does not say Me it might have been prevented. He no a bete tela us ' what ought to have been done; bet leaves as to eon:hid that he is 4 opinion. that nothing Ought to hire heen done. Novi. here I differ widely from him; fur, I think. that we ought to hare conic back to eel.- payments at the peace; and that the meassoreso to lie Hearse "in way too tong" petition ' , lglu toe been adopted in the same time, together Witt, -unit other stereenree, which I did not snuck rare ahatit destrihis , 4 in print. I wan always for emits peplums. but wile concomitant measnrar. Lord 'Pollution@ found wee r lition " too hind," and therefore slid not pr. sent it. tie said, that the !louse serer ettended. to each Pon; peti• l i ens ! F a ith t„ .• the /hose," will attend. one of these odd days. to something a great deal Lougee: A how containing persons with such long names should nut, think, object to a little length in petiiions. • lime is one of them, who is called. Rickard Plantagenet Nil - gent Chandos. Temple Grenville. or 'watching Is.. is that, and the frame ut Lord Folkestone hinsself is Lord Frilliest Pleyelt Bo:merit Plecornt Folkestone. the name of about forty or fifty of- them would occupy as much teem as my plains ilia. dud, if they 16014 come to that petition at lest! What rein, what cala mities. would hare been prevented, if that pi-tidos 1,4 been acted us! And. after all, after malice. folly, awl lase pride have dime their almost, to auttietbieg like that peritioa,the thing must come ! What Mr. ATTWOOD 1133 - 9. in paragraph 13r stage the• Lent s oieti Wanting to get gold instead of paper.is tree Aiktigh tr'kttt, lie-aboald have quoted my words; lot. say tomtits. though they will like kir. Acrwooti• perhaps, *ill recollect. that, I too, laughed this no tion of 'kJ, Jollerheady at the time. ".'o," said I, th:y tingtre they-wet* tolesoss. d asamadarseg„mraal from efstar tenants, and as mach is a/044W 111641#405i to they Issd been getting in paper The great, prowl. stupid asses!" This was the nay I heated thew; mil if there be • assain all Eagland who enjoys their die appointipeet end confusioa more than I do, 1 would fide are tbst matt : that I may participate with Lim la hues resents j'itY.' I have before me the declaration 441,1.01 AYLSFoItD sod the rest II those protested 'Paw the In's-keeper at Met idea. Ism:nate he snifered Comsat r to his h i s What a has* wretch 1 nail be, it di,' riot rejoice at this moment In paragrhpli IS Mr. Arrwono speaks atilt Prrw; and hero lie is is some respects, income' and asp''. First, as to the incorrectness. What does be mess by saying, that the newspaper people hare daable4 their gains? We hove, he says. Visa price for ear papers which is almost as secure as i f tercet Ly :aw. " Aftwool" Why not onite? Is not ..I.e pries fued by lee? And. is it possible that he does not know, lust the Ottoriii the. greater pan of the cost? Does he nut knew, that 111: , stamp costs mare than bafof what we receive for • news'. paper ? How was the newspaper fo come doss. hoot to whea the stamp was still afil. ? And does be think, that so many pa t ers arc so a as saed to be - veld by nearly one bah: And does be sot know.. - that it costs (in the priLting) as muck to riot ONO paper as two hundred and /fie parrs? . Ire knows notbiag at all abort this matter— 111 will observe, however, that pristioir and paper. _ ~; ~~ I