The National Register.
London, England, 1819-06-28 00:00:00

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No. 1194.—V0L. XII.]

POittiCid Urtrotipecr.

VILIC E 9,1,d.

opened wide the dmr of admission to all who be
lieve in nothing ? If services like these are nut re-
warded, who will -hereafter be found to render them
with equal zeal zed similar devotion ? Malt and
Wool are the hallowed ,ground we have chosen :Intl
challenge fur our own ; there have we raised out
kmples, which even the High Priest himsclf cannot
enter without committing profaLatinn." Some
such remonstrance as this we should have though:.
most natural and nr)st Lecont4ng, and would cer-
tainly have best accorded both with past events and
the probability of future contingencies. But, to
come to graver argument, let us Irpe that thew
things will at length epen the eyes of those who have
so long.been blind. We .fully and sincerely sympa-
thize in the evils which these new taxes bring with
them. But those who petition or complain ought to
42 aware hew :wally impossilde it is, in our p:csent
exhausted state, to look fur any increase of Revenue
.from other sources than either the first necessaries

of life, or the more ilireet process of taking the
money, in its own shape, from our pockets, and that
nothing can be so ridiculously absurd as to vote away
millions in the gross, and then shuffle and murmur
ut the manner in which they are to be raired. We
have often been taunted with the charge of finding
fruit with every thing without propo.,ing ary
scheme of our own. Now let us only ask what
possible substitute excerl a Property-tax, could have
been found on this occasion, by these remonstrants
themselves; and even a Property-tax would not
have answered the object dills Majesty's Ministers ;
as they have expressly stated, that should hostility
break out, they mean to have that liken,isc ; and
that it is only now reserved " as a broad and was.
sive shield," which is to be prof against every ag-
gression, and resist the thuntlcrbolts of War. how
soon that storm may reach us, we will not venture
to predict, but we may safely and undeniably assert,
that no measure which Parliament could have
adopted, would have lull so direct a tendency to acct -
'crate its progress as the terrible sanction it has just
given to this increase of taxation. War does a:lt
more certainly beget Poverty, than a rich Exchequer
produces War, and the only effectual cheek upo:a
the ambition, the folly, end the pride of Princes, is
the difficulty of providing the means upon which
those vices feed.

The Anniversary Festival of the .tt.tladie Cha-
ritable Institutions in Somers Town was numeyously
and respectably attended at the FreCTMISOICS Parent
on Thursday. The •Duke'd Sussex was unavoid-
ably prevented from presidia;; at dinner, but in the
course of the evening-nrriv,d, just as the Rev. Dr.
Lindsay had concltu au impressive speech
commendation of these meritorious Establishments ;
in the course of which he bestowed a deserved
encomium 'on the humane and charitaMe Mrs. Frr,
a lady whom he described as devoting her tyldz.
time to penetrating with blessings the abodes et'
wretchedness. The health of the Duke of Sussex
having been given, his Royal llighn,:ss retatmd
thanks, and strongly recommended the Establish-
ments to the humane consideration of the charitabk,
and concluded by giving" The Ladies, who were
in the gallery, and honoured the Meetiog with
their presence ;" the toast was drank with three
times three. The Royal Chairman then announced
that the subscriptions of the evening among the
ladies prostint were es/. and at the table 387/.
Ilis Royal Highness then gave " ht;thit of the
Doke and Doehess of Kent and the little Princess,"
which was received with elks( rs ; soon aft:r %OIL-4
the ladies retired, and the company enjoyed thew.
selves to a late hour.