The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-04 00:00:00

TO THE DIFFERENT CLASSES, army,
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PARTIES WHICH DIVIDE
AND AGITATE TUN DRITI3II EMPIRE.

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or Conviction does not denend on the will of
the iodosidnal, I will now attempt to produce
this result, and endeavour to place Before the minds
of Ittesl who govern Pneiety, reasons which will
modify them, that a gradual change of measores,
commencing with the iiiq wort anew and ainelionitiOn
of the lower classes, is occespary fur the peace and
safety or the country.
All the old practices of the world have the same
base: they have all proceeded from miticiples whirl'
are at variative, with experience. It has le!etisuppos-
ed by Cinr fis'isfallterttoeitt ~,,, doe investigation,.• that
n created being ran be siOterwi%e than it ills been
created, and their practices have hero in unison
with this nodose. All the evils which have heen
experienced by inankiiiil may be easily traced to
this Ilinfree ; it is the MOM cf all that we now suf.
fey. Pliesi ibis (roe error can be withdrawn, all
other errors will speedily disappear ; they are inst.-
'numbly connected with it, flow front its and cannot
exist without it. %%lit never it shall be removed.
difficulties and miseries will gradually vaniali.
This oprarently trivial error his been the chief
enemy to human improvemeist ; it is the source of
all the bail passions, sod the p ' ipal cause of
misery. When the notion has been received " fri:>t
a created being can iwconie annei tong else than the
Power which created ii iistaitleil," then the imogina-
tom supersedes and destroys judgment, and aill
Josociations of the maid become a chaos of counts
sioit, or an aggrrgrsie of contradictions and
sissencies. Such has been she state of the human
intellect from the earliest period of its history to
the present moment ; and hitherto the faculty
of has governed the proceedings of
men. 11"hein the iniogitiotios had once wrap.
posed that a created being could do somethisig
of itself, or act liv a power within itself that was
uncreated, the next step was easy to imagine, that
human beings individually, each fur himself.
could form stone past of themselves. That man
could fortn any of the external part of his nu-
tore, was, however, an absurdity too evident to all
the !lumen senses to Ise *thawed, or even (or
the imagination to suppose. But as it war so iota
paddy impossible that Ise could form the stnallesit
part of his own body, it was somehow or other
imagined that hr could easily fonts MOM part of NO
own mind ; his will, fur imitator, although to this
hour be knows not what the, will or soy part of his
mind is, or one of its directing powers. lie is es
yet acquainted with the effects only of this extra-
o-dinary crostini'. . These two errors of the imagitie-
tion made way for the third, that man, though
capable of forming a will for himself, was incapable
of forming at vorl will. or. of himself, of actuig
right; yet incapable as lie was, and though he did
not create his owe, incapacity. still he ought to be
eternally punished for the incapability of forming
a good will, or. in oilier wordy, a will to act right,
according in she notions of an ever-varying imagi-
nation. It was a necessary consequence of time
step or error, to tuppote it wrong tes art agrerahly
to nature. :hence came the sidles artificial or.
rangements of society to counteract moat, and
thus to create crimes and rill the bad passions ;
then followed other arrangements to conittere.ct
Ilse effect of those crimes and bad 1111$1.1011 whack
ignorance had crested. Such is the fumidation
of all the old systems still in the world, the
root from whence they all spring. They are in
fact but branches of the same tree, and their Gat
has ever been and ever will be the same, siamely,
ignorance, poverty, vice, crime, and misery,
or it direct poison to the prosperity and happiness
of mankind. It is the interest of every h 1111 l an be.
nig that these errors should be Low removed, and
that men should begin to derive benefit f the
experieer..• acquired thiough past age-.
The truly beitevoletit nod intelligent, who have a
sincere desire to ameliorate the coodittoti of man.
kind, without cleating nonecr.sary evil, will mit
deem it requisite for rue to descend to the exposure
of the minor errors of cal; of the parts of this
tom which vow pervades the %mid. These errors
stand already exposed to each oilier, and the great
majority of mankind have fur ceitturies past area
them as I now see thesis, except that they have nut
been permitted to perceive the errors which exist
within the immediate circle of their own 10c:ibises.
When they sli.ll be enabled to do this, the igtio.
ranee, poverty, evil possums, and misery in strYUch
men in all countries are now enveloped, will he
gradually removed. You may now way perhaps,'' if
then the world is wrong, what measures might to
he adopted to improve the condition of hunting na-
ture?" I answer—ilia a conduct the reverse of
that pursued by soy party ought to be immediately
put into practice.
In this country the most ample means exist to
give immedinie relief to all classes, without injury
to an individual of any description, or of soy rank ;
and it behoves every user tit 11111 crisis of our coun-
try and of the world, to tiring these means without
loss of time into action, that the lisingry may be
fed, the milted clothed, and the diacittatented ren-
dered peaceable and valuable member* of society.
On the strength of an experience :nth as nip other
individual has yet attained, 1 assert, mid stn ready
to prove the assertion, that she Goversiment pox-
asses the power and the roans to give imme-
diate relief to all the woiking classes ; that tins te-
lief can hr giro* only by a change of measures; and
for tile Ittirontitge of all parties that change ought
to coininence with the Covent:tient, ill 11101011 with
the most respectable portion of the community,
that the snterest of the upper and lower classes may
hr again limited, moil mutual good-will and cosi&
thence established between them. It Wilt not be
necessary to cull for sissy sacrifice of ',mistily or
opinion from H single indivithinl. There will be 1111
apparent iihriation in tiny of the existing arrange-
ments of society, except that all those who air now
naturally discontmited for waist of employment.
and olio ore barely existing lit the noitoriry of
others, or by the critmoisstiiii of crime, shall be
employed to create a very lage isicrease to the real
wealth of the State. Our present procresliugs are
se upputied to the scientific discoveries that have
'been:lately mode, that we are octuolly restrained by
them from increasing our wealth Rum the (error
iuceessint.our roverty. Such is the toconoisteut and