The National Register.
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Tin NATIONAL REGISTER.

To THE LAND-OWNERS OF ENGLAND.
GENT L E 7.1 EN,--_ls ari En ti and a mechanic, feel-
ing naturaliy anxiou; for the real rand permanent prosperity
my native country, with due submission to rank and
fortune, I have taken the liberty to of a few observations
to your serious attelvioo. These have been .L,aggested to me 1
by my prof: esional habit a: a mechanic: if they ate la due 1
time attended to, they may be the means of supporting our
ascendancy is our mann faci ut es for foi eien trade. The I
time is now fast apprea..bing when you, Gentlemen, Will be
vafled on to submit, in your turn, to priva•ions, unknown I
the war. '!hiswill manifest itself to you in a
general reduction of the peseta eetravagantly high rents of
'your lands. If we take a tetrospective view of the times Iftl
our the beginning of this war, and compa; e the rents paid
If
for land at that period, with what is now paid it'll' the same 11
bred, me shall tied that one half the land is advanced duu-
"ble, and the other half treble, or more. 11% this rapid ad I
Vauce, you have coveted all your exit a expellees of pro-I
perty-tax, and other war taxes ; aed, beside', peck?ted a ,
neat profit of neatly one half the extra nut. You have thus 1;
thrown all the weight of the war upon the tuidd.e classes and
labourers; on whose Inirthens, privatons, and almost gene-
4;al pauper ism, I 'iced not comment. These persons have
no opportunity, or means of extending their praits, to
meet the advance ; von, Landholders, have laid on for
`number of vcaiF. As the bright and pleasing prospect of .
a general pt -ace is Cast approaching, the manufactui-ers
each country will start in 'lipid puisuit to gain the prize of 1'
commerce. That country, ‘vltiele by its own local ad van-
1
tageous plans of inertial-sound policy, of agriculture, &c. 1
can manufacture the raw material at the least expellee and ,
labour, will *ultimately have the greatest advantages. This
principle admitted, how is the present price of labour in this
country to be reduced? We must go to the first source of
the evil, which t take to be the extraordinary high rent You
have laid On land. For all provisions we depend on-the
cultivation of the earth, and so. long as the present high
Tents are suffered to continue, provisions and other neces-
saries must continue to bear a high pt ice, to enable the far-
mer to pay his rent. This will, of course, keep up the price
of labour, which ought to be reduced ; lot the manufacture'
of this count' V cannot support so great a dale' encein the price
of labour, as there is now between this country and France.
As much labour is performed theic for two shillings as we
are paying five shillings for. ' How must this difference•
be obviated, so as to put the two manufactiners oil a fair and
equal footing in a foreign market ? The. evil, gentlemen,
originated with you in the first instance; with the overgrown
farmer in the second; and with the country banker in the
third. You, gentlemen, were tempted by the prospect of
recAving double 'Jr treble rents. The second set of actors in
bur drama performed a deliberate overbearing adt of m
injustice, by depriving the small farmer of his farm and
means of etistence, thus checking national industry, runt
}'educing him to a state of vassalage verging to pauperism.,
to the great and manifest injury or the common stock, Our
third performer, the country baei..er, has rai,ed; himself on
oppression in every sense of the %void, issuing lictitie•us cur-
renejr with no real security to the holders of these local notes
without controol, artificial
and thereby closing. an 101 l ux,
money, which thu, enab!es these two deseiiptions of per,
sins, great farincrs and thuney dealers, jointly - and singly,
.to keep ick the p;..icloce of the land. By these
means, a scarcity is created at their pleasure ; and the con-
sumer pays double the price for artieres,of pritue.peces.sity
waicL ihey ouLht. tti 11.4. e keen s.;:d foro aad which they

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would have sold for, had they, been kept in the hands of the
induso ions and small farmer, *hose capital being small, but
real, rendered it needful for him to feed the markets regu-
larly, to the exclusion of all artificial scarcity. If we reflect
upon the number of these oppressive banks, we shall find
there are above eight hundred. Taking their issues to aver-
age 30,0001. each, there is found a capital of twenty-four
millions of what they call money, which actually belong to
the public, but for which they have no real securty. These
notes act against the public in every direction. You, gen-
tlemen, have been a party to this unjust system, which, if
not speedily checked and reduced to the old system, or new ly
so, that of-
small or moderate farms, with a general reduc-
tion iu the present price of land 15 or 0 per cent. so as to
make a sensible reduction in the present price of provisions
and labour ; no peace will restore us to that flourishing vi-
gour our manufacturing constitution requires. This evil can
in no way he obviated, but by a general reduction in the
price of land, being the first pi inciple and grand foundation
of trade and real wealth, by farms being reduced to a mo-
derate size, and all country bank-notes being entirely abo-
lished.-1 ani yours, gentlemen,
AN ENGIIsIIMAN 0? 111 E OLD SCHOOL.

THE BE.LST I t MI SEVEN HEADS, AND THE

171-0 HORNED BEAST.

Enerott—Permit me, throogh the channel of your valuable
paper, to submit the follow iug briet and general ideas on that part
of the JStlceli.4p. of the Revelatimis, ascribed fo'St. John, relating
to the Beast with Seven 'Heads, and the Two Horned Beast, t • the
consideration or such of your learned readers as have more leisure
and knowledge than myself, who may be induced by my remarks to
attempt a (Miller explanation.
It is certain that kingdoms and empires are beautifully repro.
• sent ed iti proplretic language, under the type 'of beasts, trees, 4ice.
• and persons as parts thereof; slid' as the !torus, branches, roots, ow.
consequently, 1 contend, that the Beasts alluded to, refer to Empires
and Kingdoms. and not to-persons, as have been frequently, but
think erroneously, conceived.
! I shall not notice the trifling difference in the deteription of the
Beast mentioned le the li.) c. 3 v. " the Dragon having seven heads
and fun horns, and seven crowns on his headsin and the I)east men-
tioned in the f 3 c. " with severe beads and ten horns and ten crowns
• on his horns." further than by stating, that I think them to allude
to (me and the same Beast, but in different clunactets and !fines. the
first, seerniagly meaning the. Roman empire, whilst under the domi-
nion of the Pagan Emperors; and the latfec, Mist under the
ban emperors.
• 'After'-the division of that empire lute eastern foul western, the
Beast auay be said to- ha% e existed, nominally, under the Bishop of
Rome, who, without further than a possessary who, icy, took upon
himself to give (what li,e.hod not iu himself) the Imperial Crown of
the Caesars (the kingdom of the Breit) to Charlemagne of France,
who, therunpon, liveame King and Emperor, and as such, his empire
or sovereign authority then suited the character of the Seven Headed
beast in its last moments. Now it seems that one of its heads was
wounded, and as it were to death, bat tile wound was healed. Per-
haps this was the same bishop (the head) who, upon giving Charles
magne tl:e sovereign wino,' its of the beast, may he said to he
wounded thereby, and the %%mind was. heated probably by Charle-
nrigne'A elthre:ling the seat'of the Beast ." Rome" upon that same
llbishop .` iasocureignty" by the title of Pope. From that instant
takes It tilt' ,S,:‘ VII Headed Beast was 4lstroyed, and the beast with
"Two Horns aluae and existed hi the kingdom of France, which I
(Intik is clearly .hewn by the sangninary edicts- and persecutions, of
all ices kingv•down to the death of Louis: XI.V. (with two or thice
exceptiOns) i;s favour of and to support the cover, ign power of the
Pope' mid which seems to correspood with the vitt:insistences men•
ti:med in the chapter ; and as th • first sovereign ptivier• was givers
by Charleitnigne Pope, l think that the image of the &list
mentioned to the 14th verse. was then' made. Hence my emielo-
sioos are, that the Two Ho' nod Beast.is meant the .I.:t.gdotti
of
France,- and that by the ilnages of the" beast Oneauing of the old
Sev.euMeaded Beast) is meant the. sovereign power vested in the
Pope. 'lle vroid is to be found in the last vcrse—', Wait the