The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

ABSENTEES.

Fermi the unquestionable information of persona
just returned from Rome, and who are going bark
in the autumn, not only the South of France and
Piedmont contain multitud.s of English, but
laii, and even Rome itself, bears some
Unice to British colonies; and in Paris alone, front
an actual enumeration which has lately taken
place. it appears, notiwithstandinz the increase
in
the expense of living there, caused by this tonne of
foreigner•, there are at present upwards of twenty
thousand Itngfish residents! This, we presume.
even Mr. Huskision and Lord Lqiirloriderry wriuhl
lint enumerate amongst the "signs of prosperity,"
which the fo►mer greeted so warmly in his lase
speech in the House of Commons, and which bola
of THEM actually pa►take of so LARGELY, 111.1 •
withstanding it is their own work—Avolutely aad
purely the work of themselves and colleagues.
By imposing a load of taxes, such as the Roman
empire, extending over half the known world,never
knew (though it was then declining under what one
of its native historians emphatically calls " the
hailstorm of taxation"), on their ill-fated country,
they have rendered it inspeactie.ible fur the middle
classes, of land proprietors, more especially, to live
with comfort; and, but fur such reduction in the
prices of the necessaries of life as is utterly ruinous
to those who produce them, impossible for the
labouring poor to live at ali. Even at the present
low prices, weal privations and much misery are
suffered in various parts of England, wh•lst in an-
other portion of the empire, starvation, disease, and
death are visiting the eulogiuna of its Government
in characters more portentously awful than those of
the band-writing on the will in the palace of Bel-
shazzar. The people of England are beginning to
open their eyes to the injurious effects of such mul-
titudes being driven• from their homes, ao4 coin.
polled to seek refuge in cheaper couutries.

Without enlarging upon the subject, as we justly
mielit, there is but one conceivable reason fur this;
and that may be corrtctly ex press* d iu a few words--
they cannot line at home! What ! not live amidst
46 signs of prosperity ?" Not lire in a country were
the Government mode►ately and considerately tikes
from its inhabitants every year but little more than
the whole income of its loaded proprietors in some
one or other of the Protean shapes of taxation, single
or combined; where, only little more thou one-half
of the produce of the labour of the poor is taken
from theta &reedy er indirectly by tax-gatherers.
custom-house *Seers, and excisemen. Whet!
desert a country where there are only abort a
million and quarter of paupers existing ou their
property ?

The fact of the increasing multitudes leaving the
conutry for the continents of Europe and America,
furnishes of itself a decisive answer to these ques-
tions; at the muse time that it throws an air of
ridicule on that criminal perversity of talent which,
whilst these things are taking ;dace throughout the
country, and so the shores of Britain, ingeuioasly
devotes itself So proclaim a prosperity unknown but
to thirst. who are enriched out of the labour and pro-
perty of the cointuuttily at large. The fact is,
*• disguise it as you Rill," that no man tears himself
for yews, perhaps for ever, from his native soil,
his conitexicnis, his property, his relations, and
his friends, bat front irresistible necessity ; no man
sacrifices his coolant. his habits, his conve-
niencas, bat because he cannot continue to enjoy
Mess. All our attachments sod all our prejudice
powerfully enchain us to the land of our birth sod
education; to•country which God and Nature hays
made worthy of all our partiality; hot where, some-
how or other, the blessings of God and Nature hare
then couutrracted, aud perverted from their benefi-
cent intention; where peace itself produces discord,
and where pleuty becomes* elan ! Much More re-
mains to be said so this subject of desertion of
country ;• yet we cannot forbear adding, dist any
resiely which should endeavour to restrain it, by
eompalsi..o or taxation, would be only TO ADD
TYRANNY TO orpeEnstote. /et Ministers make
it possihle for all clas•es to live ut home cheaply.
and at their ease, under the protection if a really
eepsysentutire, and THCIWORE, a really beneficent
and cheap Government, and the departures fur
freign shores will be strictly limited to those who
thirst after knowledge and information, and who
will in dee time return to diffuse those 64 slings
amongst their coasstrymen on their native shores.—
Wired J

PRICE OF STOCI

!KS YESTERDAY.

Bask Stock .... • . 242 Imp. 3 per Ct. Ann. 78 fa
S per Cent. tied— 80 I India Hondo.. 44 4ti pr.
791 80k {'Ex. Bills, 2 ....1,0110/.
31 Pt, c.6_ 90k 91 4 pr. pair. 2 pr.
4 per Cesste.....• • 9711 I Milo Small .... 3 6 pr.
New 4 per Comte... Oil I Lottery Tickets, 211. 18..
Hank Long. Ann— 2111 I Cons. for Ace..... 81i

BIRTH.
Ai 3rdhsrv, sear Richousl, the Lady of Henry Tower,
Esq. of a sun asid Leif.

DEATHS.
Oa Monday last, st I.yrna.ione, e'er s short bat very se.
•ere Dud painful awes, Julia it•Jluuas, Evq. ei bawl
Hasse, nerd 73.

Yue.d.iy se'nnight, very suddenly, in hi. 66th year, Tana.
Giralkolone, E.q. M.D. of Yaranowth. Abases *eyes o'clock,
after his prof. ssional labours of the day were Over, he was
returning home, but aware of his situation be stopped at a
friend'. Louse, and at his ow■ request was Weil, oull after-
wards took ■ powder, which be carried in his osisteoat
p Awl ; he had no sooner taken it than be fell Gum the chair
and expileal. Dr. Girdlestooe wa■ a native of Nr rfalk, bay.
leg been bor■ at or near Huh ; 'rite punning his studies
with the greatest dil genee, lie weld abroad, and served with
the Kiag's troops in India; out his ratans to England ►eeb-
tabtrd his diploma, mid settled in Yarmouth iu MS. A suc-
cessful case in the early part of his practice established his
reputation. He married the object of as a achy attachment,
who was then the widow of Ilse Kmv. J. Close, of Ipswiei, by
whom be had Ave children; his wife mid three children hare
paid the debt of satire, and a sots and dastalsiersailvist to
revel their irreparable low. His professional mid literary
productions are, a " Toralise on Diabetes and Vsireluatioi;*
a tramalation of the " Odes of Anacreon," aaid " Facts stad-
ia; to prove that Goleta' Lee was the real Audios' of tie
tat-
tees of Jouius."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 7 after ' I Erraiag 37 after 11.

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