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crone, m'lntillierdiats, Minority pensioners, paupers, and
felons.
Of Were+ senate has sided the useful arts he • won-
derful manner; it has more than doubled the productive
powers of mom. This increased power of productiveness
Lae been represented as the cause of the people's dis-
tress—hut fa/creased productiveness cannot he the cause
uf went—plenty, of scarcity. The doubled power of pro-
aleci mverreas would double the supply, if the annotomed de.
gree of industry were continent, or if this increased supply
were nut required, the ordinary quantity .of supply would
be produced in half the former hours of labour. But the
smirking people of Ermined are in neither ofahese situations.
My workiez; their old hours they do riot double their old sup-
plies—raw upon half their former hours of toil can they
ermjiry their old comforts; on the reverse, they wink longer
home fur reduced gains. In Pont. staple manufactures 14
hours deity labour vial not yield a bare subsistence, it will
rearerly procure a quarteru loaf or Iwo pots of In-tr. The
truth is that, emelt as the productiveness of labor': has been
increased, the levies on the produce by the Goveruatent anal
by privileged individual. has increased still more. insomuch
that manafirchirers suffer penury in the midst of tredili of
their nuns creating* and fiintinc, although blessed with soli-
veered peace and seiMeres of lIIIMINIIIOII
the amount Manacled from the proceeds of industry
fur the use of the stale, it is not within the province of the
Committee to eepatist... It is the amount abstracted through
the operation of minima laws favouring monopoly, and mo-
del), taken from the working maim, to aggrandize she already
rich, whereof the Committee complain. Of this they du
complain most emphatically. The wealthy, in the due use
el* their capitals, are benefactors to the working classes tool
to the while. As owners of the seeinnirlated produce of
fanner !Moor, their stuck, lent out to present .abuireers,
supports them while their work is it. progrem, surf moil, by
in,eitlrusges, it is rendered available for their several pee-
p-ors —The wealthy then are justly entitled to a share a
tine produce of venni labour, fur they have aided that pets.
abl,.lion, but they have ou right to combine, and theensi Neu
e what that share shall be, our to compel the riddle to dial
small them exclusively.
The accumulated produce of former labour as well as the
porton of present labour ought to be subject to equal laws,
to Vie free interchange requiem el by want and snooty upon
%ugh terms as individuals shall severally stem., without com-
bining either to enhance or to depress peters. The Etiglish
manufacturer senile his wares to all pate of the world, he is
44keet 10 unlimited conspetilimr. To procure a market on
the Continent he must sell his goods cheaper than they eau
be manufactured for abroad. There the necessaries of life
are not half the price which they are its this country. It is
the vie °remarka which he requires in exchange fur his inn-
,iutactorren, but these he is prohibited from receiving where
or can bey them cheapest. Bread and beer are his chief
reissioriss ; the OWIIITA of land aimd of licenaed
Eupland decree that he shall hey his earn from their farms
o•iy. (except Mined in times of great scarcity), aril bus
i::•er from their privileged stations only. By those means
rime prices of victuals is raised higher in England than in any
when country in Europe. The rental and value of laud and
!kennel houses have been thus artificially doubled within
Ox' last thirty years. But this profit to one port k.f the pub.
r has been acquired through great injestke to other ports ;
stock of the public creditor has diminished in value
male one-third, and the comforts of the manufactisr-
imm< population are deteriorated in a similar prupor-
Coe If working men, as well as rich 4111111, were
mat hinny to combine suit to raise their prices at a ill, they
might defend themselves, for a time at least, by raising 0w...
',evil to the same scale with the rich, although cumbinatioes
m.momig the neceasitints multitude *meld be far lee easily
otorieeml than among the opulent few. But this is pro-
perly bat bidden under severe persaltiee. If it were not so,
C%CleStiVe prices would deprive us of foreign trade, and drive
our capital abroad. The clatter of complaint is, that mer-
eirmpolr and combination should he tolerated min either side.
A free trade is os necessary to a commercial people as air to
u-i sal life, without it existence is pairifill and cannot be
lima protracted. Evert now we fiud that those who possess
.qUial or independent incomes are rapidly emigrating to
Carrier, countries, where their money will produce them
souse profit or enjoyments than is their own ; while maim-
Tictorers, unable to derive support from their labour, leave
their country in shoals, or, ra mining at home, give up
Ilwir hottest independence and join the ranks of paupers or
a.:.aninats!
The Committee, therefore, most earnestly call ou all people
• Lai pity the distresses of their iiithistrious cuuntr men, and
who value the preservation of order and tranquillity, to lend
their aid in emancipating the public from the partial laws
• Web limit their supply of beer and also of bread to
.fa-
'roared channels; laws which prohibit them from receiving
t est-marine of life in return for their labour, aceording
fxrse principles of open competition whereon they are
c-yeiled to yield their labour. They call on the humane
not to reserve their acts until working men are bent beneath
,olte of pauperism, or see branded with the commission
of crime.; not to neer the fare of the country with new and
euientodiows rior-houses and prisons under sufuened names,
icor to endow those abodes with comforta unknown to inde-
pendent trotkingruen, for such things allure men from in-
dustry mid honesty, and, in their expellee, by creatmg fresh
walls on their earniugs, drive the population more and more
1,110 a state of pauperism ; nos to believe that "select vestries
aaml assiataut overseen" will alleviate the people's dis-
tress, for the juin of the one and the salaries of the other
increnee it. The Committee submit that the only whole-
Defile. admit, indeed, the only effective'l general relief That
ears be given to the people is not to deprive Arm
unduly of so cinch of their earnings. The wealth, ta-
ke', and industry of this country reader its produce so
great, that nothing but a very excessive abstraction
of this produce front its producers can place them in a state
of waist. Yet they are in want. To this condition the stu-
peados,* expenses of the state greatly contribute. These,
bores er, have become in great part necessary. But
ror' tome shilling of the millions abstracted by the licensiog
monopoly is necessary upon any public, equitable, or
s:,tistical consideration. Of din nu part goes to the
dm•charge of public burdens or even to give strength to
t.e government. The expense. of one government, the
yumierrimeut of George the Third, are enough for the people
J boar—the monopolists levy, exceeding, as we have ire*,
t.te expenses of the government of George the First, ought
We le he added to it.
It the undoubted right of a free trade in beer be restored
to time public, the effect will be equal to as addition of
serval shillings a week to the wages of bard-working men,
om mm;' a similar allowance from their parish. This relief to
tike working man would lighten the poor-rates, and it would
be achieved without raising the price of triaaufactores. It is
also presumed that ailerons{ the industrious a fairer enjoy-
meat of their own earnings word,' go much further to allay
popular discontent than measure. of terror and severity.
To accomplish this VMIIIICIp4iiOII it would Ire uecessary
to I! the present arrangement of power; to transfer
the Magistrates toduence over the trade of selling beer to
I It• control of the disorders whir+ arise out of it; for this
perouse it would be unly necessary to repeal that part oldie
usurer 11. which con lines the pairing of licenses to local
m tinge and to one day iu the year uuly ; anal to give sum-
mary powers to the Magistrates to punish. sictuallers who
sl6llply liquor min their premises to persons risibly, drank ur
disorderly, or of Amara profligate characters, or to working
mac. upon credit exceeding in amount one day's wages.
J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT, Chairman.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, SEPT. 11.

S'r Robert Wilms quits Paris on Thursday, in order to
he present at the lisardiwark Meeting. The impaired beatth
of I .s sister has heeashmsed his residence in this capital.
A Narehande de Modes, basing attend twelve years ago
ri evict." a certificate of the death of her husband, who bad
the army, "honest that she might with a safe con-
science contract a SeCI a I "marriage. After a short time, how-
ever, to her great surprise, her first husband returned. There
war no doubt that the second union was null; but cub.
oirtoalt the good faith with which it kad been formed, She
fist louchand adapted a singular resolution. If appearances
and ¢ubie report may he Inhered, the possessor de juts