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ENGLAND'S I'R'OSPECTS. LE'l''fEß 1. l'o JOHN BULL, tsq. Lord of the Ocean, Lora of the Isle's, Master of Arts, and a good Fellow of all Societioy &c. &c. Honest JOHN.,- - -Yonr Bible tells you, that in a usultiunde of Counsellors there is wisdom ; but, in Solomuo's days, Counsellors were only Ho . bout able ; had they been Right Honourable, then would he have told .yrnt *hat you already well know, that in a multioide tif Privy Counsel lors tide 4 ve is much contradiction. Amidst the matey who now profess great regard for your Constitution, all State Physicians or Quacks of great promise ) how few are there that can •be found to agree upon your case, and how many are there who are not even consistent with thetil selves. They all allow, indeed, that you have been in a plethora, from which you have escaped by copious bleedings ; but with respect to the slight weakness which you now experience in your con italeseent state, 'their opinions are as various as their remedie - s are contradictOry. One class, sup - - posing your Constitution pulled to pieces, like Harlequin in the pantomime, professes a great de-- sire to reform it ; but I fear they have too many tricks tore, to be allowed to undertake it, lest like other undertakers they inhume the body, though unable to raise up any thing but its phan tom. A second class thinksyOu live too high, from the cheapness of your markets. &third is afraid of your living too low, from not being able to get employment io your present sickly state. Whilst a fourth order of phySicians'asserts, that your cress proceeds from too rapid circulation ; and yet, with a strange spirit of contradiction, recom mend a forcible stimulus to - your life's blood as the only infallible method of . cure. Your worldly affairs also seem- in danger from the number of advisers, particularly of sonic who wish to have the management of. them. Gene rous souls ! they are alarmed lest you fret your self into •a decline, on account of the money you owe, though you are paying it off as fast as you can, and will do so even with greater rapidity, provided you can suffer a few Terms to pass over without any fresh law-snits. But as you have vow a Writ of Execution upon your neighbours premises; and there is no great probability of an ejectment, I begin to hope that you may speedily diminish both legal and -medical fees, and find yourself in a sound , hearty state, enjoying a cup of good Stout of your own brewing, and smoking those who are running about thinking of nothing but dividing your house for what they can get in the scramble. In short, JOHNNY, I am of opinion, that you are still able to cut its great a figure as ever but ..=-Since some of your advisers may perhaps con sider me as too figurative—l shall now proceed to examine your case, without figures, at least with fewer than are used by some of our modern cal culating prophets, who, with one dip iu their inkstand, can prove your titter ruin, in defiance of plain facts, that stare every man in the face, who will take the trouble of walking about with his eyes open. • Jr is but fair to acknowledge that, during the late revolutionary contest, you have displayed a. degree of perseverance which; if had not been successful, world have been designated by some of your children as obstinacy, and have manifest ed resources in the management of your f am ily estate, which have astoaished not onlythe world but voarself. In short, JOHNNY, it was by that steady wilfulness, so often thwarted, that you have stow arrived,"sound wind and limb, though a lit tle fatigued, at a most important crisis; but with the satisfaction of having put a successful close to a contest carried on unremittingly for a period equal to one generation of mankind—a contest in which many of your brave defenders started in the bloom of youth and have grOwn grey in the fields of glory, or on your proper Empire, the Ocean ! This contest you have carried on upon the most generous and liberal •principles ; not only for your own honour and independence, but for the salvation of other nations, even of your ancient rival, and in which your gallant sons have tirade a display of glory, both naval and military, which, I trust, will contribute not only to your own personal security, but also to the due main tenance of your Constitution. : Notwithstanding all the clamour of pretended friends, who wish to persuade you, in downright opposition to your own senses, that you are ruined, it is most satisfactory to he able to assure you, that I never saw you look better in your life—a little out at elbows, 'tis true—but a few tiurely. repairs, and rather less profusion in-pocket money to some of your little imps-, will soon en able /you 'to dance to the tune of Money, in boilt -It is not by "crude assertions-that I wish to con vince you of ibis; but I have no doubt that a fi ll*ht reference to facts, in the course of this E p i st l e , will convince you that your resources are actually in a flourishing st ate, notwithst an d ing the distress of some of your tenants and that, since part of that distress proceeds, in a great measure, from the poverty o f your neighbours, whose estates have bon been ravaged by a baud of freebooters, so will much of that distress cease with t h e opera . tion of the cause, provided you only maintain a due portion of that perseverance and of that cool, rational, firmness which have saved you during your past arduous contest. I feel the more certain of this, when I reflect, that, even (luting the protracted progress ot your difficulties, you have invariably manifested an its. *creasing energy and enterprise, net only ag a inst your enemies, but also in many and various local improvements upon your estate, whilst the indus try, and consequent reproduction of the resources ot your family have added to your real wealth, nay, haVe el en found elrpplics for the ,verx.ae mantis arising from Chute improvements. .„ A great and sudden change has indecOT - ..laiten place ; but that is rather a temporary than a rA dicaLdistress ; and, though the farming part of your family cannot get such•good prices at market as they did formerly, it is surely possible that others. of your children may derive advantage "from being able to get a bellyfull, a thing whit It some of them had begun to consider as a kind of natiii-iftl curiosity, a something whose former exist'euce they had heard of ; but whose speedy re appekrence was rather to be wished for than ex pected. It behoves you also, my good friend, to be careful how you yield to alarm upon this sub ject, bebause tbe principles upon.. which some folks prognosticate your ruin, are directly at va riance with what the world had believed to be true fur the last seven centuries, nay, at variance with the very principles laid down by these gen try themselves only two years ago. To drop all metaplior—it is easily remembered, that when the Peace took place with France in 1814, great clamour was excited by the fear of than country excelling Britain in manufactures, and shutting her out from the Continental mar kets, in consequence of the cheapness of provi sions in that country ; but no sooner did Peace produce its natural concomitant of Plenty, with a consequent reduction of price, than the tables were turned with a rapidity that bade all defiance either to calculation or conFistency, and you were told that the cheapness of provisions must prove your ruin ; without any attention being paid to the Net, - that even if taxation could not be in stantly lowered, yet the annual expenditure would he lessened as,far as had formerly been met by loans, so that there being less dernand in all the markets, all prices would soon conic:to the level of agricultural prices, whilst increasing trade would rapidly con - mu - nee a new circolation, suffi cient to meet the artificial exuberance of actual taxation, for the interest of the National Debt, above the, general level of depreciated prices.— For, though the absolute property and annuel in come from property and labour are nominally worth fewer pounds sterling than they were two years no, whilst the number of puands sterling in the interest of the National Debt continues the same, yet, as our wealth, our population, and the ttcvelopement of our industry have been in creasing during war, surely it is not too much to expect that they will do so also in peace, to an ex tent fully geloal to the difference. - It is true that so great a ehange cannot he ef fected itt. a day or in a month, nor that the re gular demands of peace can instantly give_ bread to all those discharged from war employ ; for even the decrease of taxation discharges many ef ficient hands, and ilms, though . the blessings of pt-ace are what many of your family have been long clamouring for, yet it is now found that even peace leas i!s inconveniences, and though it must eventually increase the demand for employment ; nay, trin&t produce a temporary evil, by diminishing the resources generated by war for the support of the people, not only in the various services con• nected with the army and navy, but, even in time inure legitimate pursuits of peace.. itself, inas much as a certain portion of our commerce and navigation must now be shared with other na tions. These are troths, JOHNNY, which must not be lost sight of. You must be permitted to grumble, Confess ; but you must not suffer your exer tions, nor even your expectations, to be.checLed in their operations, by a false view of your own situation : a sit nation proceeding from events over which you have no cotitroul, or which are so in terwoven in the very tissue of public weal, that an attempt to remove theta - hastily would en danger the temute and continuity of the political web._ . That lAm not attempting to keep up your spi rits upon► false grounds, may be spew❑ with the greatest facility, _from the well-authenticated fact of the increase of your family, amounting now to a total of nearly eighteen millions upon your three great home estates, indevendent of your progeny in other parts of the globe. Mr. MALTHUS, so often quoted, anti so little nutlet stood, looks to war, indeed, as a moral means of keeping clown the natural increase of population, beyond the practicable means of support ; but your experience sets this reasoning at defiance, to a certain ex tent, inasmuch as recent intervals of warfare have actually increased your family, which became more numerous not only during tke wars of 1756 and of the American Rebellion, but also in sub sequent periods ; for the population of England and Wales, ascertained in 1801 to amount only to 9,340,000, was actually 10,150,615 in 1811, to say nothing of Scotland and - Ireland, which were found to increase during the same periods, so that the aggregate population is now-incontro vertibly known to consist of upwards of seventeen So extensive a family must certainly work, and work hard too ; but we may say, though in a different sense from its usual acceptation, that thfir labour is its own reword ; for, it it be true, as recently stated, that the labour of the county of Kent is equal to 340,0001. annually, it will not be unfair to estimate the whole annual produce of tho labour •of England alonc at• rht 'aienige 200.000/. per county, or the immense sum of 8,400,0001. This sum, however, is much too moderate, if we can place any dependance upon recent calculations, which rate the annual crea tion of property, in the years 1812-13, at the immense amount of four hundred and thirty mil lions, and in the following ratio Agriculture =1.17 Manufactures =ll4 Inland trade = 31 . • Foreign Counnerce-- - - ‘1,64313 Millions. Of this t he department of Agriculture is sup posed to give employment to 5 millions of people ; and the calculation scarcely seems exaggerated, it we were to calculate the expenditure of the whole population of the three kingdoms at the rate of ONE SHILLING per clay, equal to TI-lEEE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLIONS sterling per annum! This is plain work, JoaNNY, and dcfiei all .spe cious argument ; and even if your annual Taxes were ONE HUNDRED MILL/ONS, and that sum added to your Expenditure, it would only raise the average of annual expence to the' sum of one shilling andfour-peace per Arty for each individual. it is true, indeed, that Many, eery mealy; are - . . sappotted for less; bitt if ti take tliein at uric half of the ‘4.li4e-po'pul a ti s m, you niust Make al lowances for the i:i!ater- expendittire. of the i.e= inAintler, which *ill Ftitintkrhalatice the difference to an enormous extent 'since One shilling and four-pence per day inake, only 2-11. Gs. per annum, and even dMilile sum would not amount to 501. per year; ti rate which millions exceed, even though H the liiidililest situations of social life. I %vill grant to von, that a p:i•es-- sure is felt when the Tax-gatherer calk, and (bete is no money in the purse or in the tin hitt it is not the less evident that the whOle alinital CX pence of the nation is fully equal to meet the ... an- Jima! taxation. If it were not, joitINN, you would not hate become so rich during warfare as to feel thus acutely the temporary difficulties arising from a change of circumstances necessarily resulting from the effects of Peace: Nor have all your children suffered by these changes. Some have actually benefited ; but it is unfair for some of your advisers to tell you that none have benefited except annuitants and place men ; for as it is impossible for one part of your family to suffer distress without others experienc ing a portion of it also, so is it equally impossible for one part to benefit directly in any circum stances, without that benefit extending indirectly to others--thus preserving a balance in the ag.; grepte, and to a nicer calculation than at first appears possible to a casual observer. To a certain extent, then, the distresses of one part of . the community must not be considered as a total loss to the national Wealth, or to the an nual expenditure; for though,,the nominal incomes of fixed annuitants do not increase, yet as com parative cheapness enables them to procure a greater quantity and a greater variety of necessa ries than they did before, their comfort and hap piness will at least be increased, a thing at which surely, JontiNY, you will not grnmile - , indepen dently of the additional stimulus which this 'in creased demand in quantity, though not in no minal value, will give to general industry. IGNOTUS. 0,0 We beg our Readers will particularly attend to the ad mirable Letter of IC:corns, which comes from one of the ablest Political Writers of this Country. We nay say the same also of the Author of A. C. on t beatiical Emigration, whose hand-writingWe age happy to recognize; and we trust that both of these valuable Correspondents will often en lighten the pages of Tar. Sux. Iaxo• seCciiid Letter on Monday. THEATRICAL. REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARnES.—The Belle's Stratagem: Duricourt, Mr. C. Kemttle ; Letitia Hardy, Brinmon. After Web, The Russian Fest . w.al. To which was added, The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great, NEW THEATREitoTAL, ENGLISH OnvA-HousE.—First Per fottnanee•,—How tu Die for Love. •?fitter u loich, Wanted a Governess : Principal Characters by Ms. Bartley and Miss Kelly. Second Performance—Fire and Water. Atter which, The Woodman's Hut: Ferdinand, Mr. T. Short; Alsieoa, Miss Kelly. ' MAILS. Aanzvan-1 France, I Guernsey and Jersey, Ilin, 2 Wa • terford. Due--I Lisbon, 1 Hon:burgh, 1 Gotteulioirgli, 1 Ho PRICE OF STOCKS Tl4lB PAT AT TWELVE, trej,f)cii. Bank Stock, shut Bank L. Ann. slut 3 per Cent. Red. shut India 80nd5,..... SSs• 90s. pr. 3 per Cent. Oohs Exch. .3i5.375. pr. 4 per Cents. shut I Cons. for Acc0unt......411-fii 5 per Crat. N. Ann.llXi 107 HIGH WATER Xl' LONDON Bra rx; E TO-MORRDW. Morning, 18 minutes after 9. Eveniug . , 43 minutes alter 9. THE SUN. SOLE~! QUIS DICEKE FALSVNI AUDEAT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1817. We received this morning the Paris papers of Tuesday and %Vednesday last. The iferitovving are extracts •: c 5 P.vels, OCT. 1. LIST OF DEPUTIES ELECTED EY THE ELECTORAL • COLLEGE, 1817. , .•:, N. B.—T w enty-tour Colleges have been as sembled, 17 forming the First Series, have iion,o nated their whole Deputation ; the sexes otheTs., (marked with, an asterisk) have not earnpletttl their Deputation of last year. Ain.—M. de Silans,Presid. nt of iheColiege, 111ember9flhe r j Chamber of Deputies • ' • Alpes (Basses).—Nl. Arnand, - Presiaent of the College. Alpes (1 - lautes).--:M.Angles; sen. President of the College. Cdte-d'Or.—MM; Catunartin, iron-master ; . liertwux, pro prietor; the Marquis de Chauvelin. Creuse.—MM. M:Atadier, Auseer-Duenezeam • - - Dordogne.—MM. Maine de Birair,President of the College; de Laval, Vice-President ; - Vice-President; Langlade, Mayor of Excideull: • Lure.—MM.Dupont, President of the Cour 'Royale of Roue)); Bignon, formerly a diplomatic agent; Duweylet, Vice-President di the College. Gers.—MM. Lieuteriatit-General Lagrange,Presidentofthe College ; de Cassagnulles, Vice:-Presitlent; de Lung, Pre sident of the Cour Royale otAgyn. 1-Vrault. — MM. the Marquis (le Montcalin, President of the C o llege; the Baron I..litrand Fajon, Vice-President; the Count de Floirac. • The et Vilaine.—MM. the Count Alexandre de Boisgelin, President of the College; Legravetend, Advocate of Rennes; de Monthiery Frequi,Vice,President of the Col lege; de Corbiere, formerly Deputy. ludre et Loire.—MM. Gein-Moi,atit, President of the Col lege.; de Pereeval, Vice-President,--both Ex-Deputies. Loiret.—MM. Laisn4 de Vill6vtque, President. of the Col lege; Grignoti.d'Auzouer, Ex-Deputy; Alexandre Per riot, manufacturer. Lot : —The Marquis de Rastignat, President of the College. Lortrz.—Ge.aerai amt. %Emsmftww C(`) , P;t 7.1.( ,1, Proside , t of the College ; Vice-Pai:;ident r Lice-rtetitl•ni, Misier of I.l6pit;ti; Jolly de Villiem s ~faxc'.,~.- 41 'I:ouiklaster. Meuse.—M% • Sauluicr , forinetly Deputy ; Valke, Presi , dent of the College. * Nord.—M. Vice-Prt.•sident of College. Tronclion; Proprietor; de Nlully d'f - Mcourt, President cif the ColleLTe; Lore, de icretizel, Vice-Pre dent, Counsellor of the Court of Cassation. brne.—MM. the Prince de Broglie, President .of the Cul• h•ge ; Delaunay, Vice-President ; the Count d'Orglandey Vice-President ; bruet-Desvan2;Vit:,i:.-Pr6ident—.. , lll late Deputie,i. Rhin (llatit).—MM. Fe Voyer d'Argenithi, Ex-Deputy de Serrr, President of the College, President of the Cham ber in the blit S'ssion ; Moll, Mayor of Mulhansen. RhOne (Lyon).--MM. the Ciitint de Forges; de Magneval; de Cotton, Prefect of Vauchise—All late Deputies. Seine (Paris).--:-111:1i. Latitte and Benjamin Deltssert, ban kers; Roy, AdVoeitel Goupy, banker; Be llart, Procu reur-General to the Cour Royale ; Breton, notary ; the Baron Pasquier, Keeper of Seals; Cassimir Perrier, banker. Sevres (Deuic).—Mm. the Baron Morisset, President of the College; the Baron Jard-Pan h late Deputies. " The Duke of Wellington, on the 25th ult. reviewed the Saxon contingent in France, in the Plain of Loos (Nord). 'The next morning, at 7 o'clock, his Grace set out for his head-prarters at Catubray. ".The Count Lieven, Russian Ambassador at London, and his Countess, were presented yes terday after mass to his _Majesty and the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family. " It Was the Viscountess de Turpin de Crissi who detecied the irnpostur•e of the pretended Dauer phin, tvl►o is detained in the prison of Ronln. This Lady being at Rouen, heard of this adven turer having stated that he had resided at the Chateau of Angrie. - She then recollected.Ma thurin Bruneau, the son of a woodeu-shoemaker at Vezins, and remembered all his history. She was induced, in consenaence, to delay her depar ture, in order to make her deposition. Madame de Turpin was desirous of addressing to him some reproaches ; Ido not receive advice,' said Ma thurin Bruneatt, in the tone of a Comedy King ' I only issue orders—as you are the ViscuttuteK Turpiap, I salute you.' The daughter Bruneau, wife of Launay, has constantly recognised him as her brother Mathurin. He has also been recognised by the inhabitants of Vezins, his birth place, to be the son of the late Brtmeau, a woodeu-sl►oenraker. " Madam e de Krodeuer has fixed her residence at Sackingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. " The trial of the persons implicated in the cou spiremy o f tf,' pink Noire, let► in number, emu meneed on Monday helore the Court of .Assizett... A numerous autlitory filled the Court, amongst whom were Lord Holland and Mr. Brougham. The Advocate-General, De Laptalme, opened the Yesterday the trial was resumed. Alan+ t.►ier was examined, and the prisoners were inter,. case. rogated, after this some witnesses were exantinect, and the trial was postponed till this dap, " It is said that a very near• relation of Aladatne Manson vas arrested at Paris in tie night between the 28th and 29th ult. and confined au secret an ti! ,arrival of the papers, which are expected front ,llhodez. " There have been four fires in the department of Haut Rhin, two of them caused by lightning'. , At Oberhergheini the lightuing struck the resi dence of Lieutenant-General.the Barotide Puthud. Time flames destroyed the barns and granaries, con taining the produce .of the harvest of the year. The damage is estimated,at nearly 40,000 francs. A man, named Louis Sadron, has been sen tenced to death in the Deparitnent of Indre, tor the. murder of five persons - by means of poison, ha also cummittO four acts of torgery. His daugh ter, who was an accornplice with hint, has beet 4 sentenced to compulsory labour for life. The First Council of War •ot the Twelfth MilitaryDivision.(Rochelle) on the 22(1 ult. con demned to death Dondelenx, a serjeant, and Bal levdier, a fusilier, in the 2(1 Colonial Battalion, in gat tison at Obran, convicted of being concerned in a conspiracy against the State, set an foot ita that battalion. Eight soldiers, also implicated, vet e sentenced to imprisonment for• ditfercut .‘ Some of the Journals have stated, that a let.' ter from Cayenne mentions the prevalence of a contagious malady there. The statement , is with , .. out foundation. FIVE PEE CENTS. I Tonday -65 f. 95c. 6.51. 65e. " VIENNA, SEPT. 19.—The two children of the deceased Archduchess Hcrinoine are both in it good state of health. • • ,u • , " CoNSTANTINOYLE, AUG. 25 : ,--The head-. (It .Czerny Georges has bee►► sv.au—here. It appear that he was the victim of the hatred and feill which his former cruelties had inspired. UP head has not hitherto been exposed according costmi t on the gates of the Seraglio. • " MADIIII7, :'EFT. 18 —The ship Saint arrived at CAtliz the 12th inst. l*•olu Liniu, in 419 \‘k clays depu SAT' Nay, time state tnim bus' day, fron Prir by bass lon gen, pin t Qua Wal pa r lirri low of Wtt 74, 0 t ed r oft oes~ tend AA. by