The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-23 00:00:00

With as vision' wish to assist this inquiry, I will shortly
state what I estari.ler to be something of en answer to those
"'yellows, which, however incorrect, may at least lead some
better infonne.l persou to explain their Nature avid
ors/sties.
The taxes which are moonily collected, appear to my
stied to be composed of a cerisio queasily of food and
clothiwg, drawn from the various classes of society, sot ex-
actly is the goods themselves, butts their representative to
the full 'mouse, sleety. This money or goods feeds the col-
lectors, On whole machinery of Government, and all who,
haling lent their capital, now live opus its iolerest, forming
together 'total of some millions of individiesh. What they
dowel consume or employ themselves. they give or lead to
others, thus supporting soother great body of oar population.
Take from the taxes, and you out sally impoverish the dhoti
receivers of shat moor,. but you dielwalehe them from lee&
ing to other,, ue employing those 'whop Ow derive thee( sop.
poet tbroostirtheie ossows. I esuset for a moans amp's*
that the weereey which is actually paid all over the kisgdost
to the tas.gathevers la gold, silver, copper, or bask metes,
ceases biotin-elate as sous as it gels este their hands, and if,
as it mast be evident to all, it centimetre to circulate, its very
circulation must soonest a aneher of persons is proportion
to its 'steam. TIN■ member resets be very small, she. it
bee to do with the positive sum of Arty or sixty minims@
steeling, yearly collected and yearly song again. From
these consideration., it sppean that a reduction orlaxatiou
would nut only change the course of meaning, but for a
time impoverish wait 'umbers of the people. This sato-
trolly brings us to the second question, vit.—Whet MUM
pasts rise ?
1(11 be true that the majority of oar people depesol on
the labour of their baud, fur their daily bread, must it not
follow sea natal?, consequence, that their sopped, like their
employment, must rest opus the market that is found for
the produce of their labour. Are they sot maintained by
the wages which they receive, and are out their employers
enabled to pay them just i• properties to the roll* they
derive If such be the case, eon we suppose that those em-
ployers, who • few years back were able from the work of
these same labourers to eopply minima with food, clothing,
luxuries, sod article: of waste Red rapine, and to insistent
*Own is greet aloondesee who sow live on almost nothing;
can we supproe, I say, that those employers sot lledifig the
same defused, can support the people who live by their
labour? No: the fact *hews that they 01141004 for MOW
they hive move produce in all quarters shoe they can sell,
and, therefore, not being able he employ labourers with pro-
fit, they leave them to be paupers. And this is the metes.
vary resell of a state of ibises where the majority live upon
the employment give* them by the nebsority, and where this
minority possess the knowledge sod moon of producing
more than it ea* find a market foe within its owe littleeirele.
Foe I would ask, what can procure the workman his Wend if
he Lad mot employment?—what will iodate the employ_
to give work to the labourer, if be led not a profitable mar-
ket?—aid where is he to look for an ultimate and Portals
market, but eniuNg thine who are capable of Owns( employ-
sent, that is, of speeding mosey? But this capability so
looter exists. The minority are amply supplied every
where, sad are only looking out how they Atoll digress of
their aerobes, is order to be able to employ the poor to
create more. This surplus, however, they coma dispose of
at home, for among themselves they have notegh, sad their
work-people are too poor to bey it of them, and other
nations are its the same state. The truth is, that whea tbe
minority posses abundance, the majority fall into want, for
it is only starchy among the employers which gives work so
the 'Amnion classes, and it is only this work which supplies
the latter with mosey to purchase what they have already
been producing. Do you thee *oppose that the dlfficaNies
of the country are to be removed by reducing tensing, sod
thus throwing ion poverty • long chain Sr active individuals,
who have seen much of the world, and who are little fitted to
spend their time quietly starving in sloth aniLidisoops? Is
it pot clear that such a step would only remove the hordes
from the shoulders of one part of our popelatios, equally ens
tithed to bee, unto these of assurer, increasing trouble of
every sort by the cheap? This brings me to the third goes-
ties, via. What it the real smote of the mations' debt ? and
II anew it will be found that every farthing that is given to
pay its interest is necessarily the support of • large proper-
lion of our population.
The national debt may be likened to • barren island,
risen hone the ass sod joined on to Great Britain, having a
greet quantity of the fertile soil of the latter spread over it,
lies diminishing the fertility of the see to add to that of the
ether. Over them two Wesel, the population of the nee is
at length spread, being staistaiord as mach is proportion
by the one as by the other. Wert we sew le sink the an.
lionst debt island, that part of our population which 'oboists
apes it wooed he overwhelmed is destroctios, while the,
asaibilsiion or the trade and c.aaseems, which Goat Britain
eajoys daring its existeoce, would half rein the rentsiong
part of the wanes. It is Itssa dew to me that anther re-
dectios of taxation, nos dinainialsiag the inbreed of the so.
those, debt, strikes at the root of the evil. We have bees
too long going so in our peseust poems to alive of mesh
mestere., for all clamors. sea psosiese of pepelatissi
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