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'mail that eonfosims amifiniseiv most g." on inn easing. If
you sett me where is the remedy or say, as modern politi-
cises are apt melte Ilia the evil in time will care itself
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I coutrad that these ate remedies; and 1 deity that !been',
if unchecked, will rare itself in any other way thou by
perpetually istereasimt the necessity fur the adoption
of those moonlit s. A only enlightened stattxusw will
aVeli, by wise ameliteatiug measures, those isereasieg
reale, whieleif permitted to proceed wurbuteliell, will ine-
vitably derange the anal ertinn which is his duly to di-
&vet andicuutrul. Past history exhibits nu combination of
eirtiiiiesiasers which beats any analogy to lb. piesent
Cri6int: the time never existed when luowledge and misery
were au closely mad emeasively nailed. That such an union
r .0 be of lung derelict's, is ihspassible; one ur other must
prevail; sad no Naiad competent to look into futurity eau
he at any loss lo eunjettsee'which must yield to the other.
The only safe course which Government's can wow pursue
is not oppose, but to read anal direct, knowledge.
Those Governments' which will not, air mama net thee,
will have Wen-snag difficulties to encounter, which no ar-
talent power opposed the permanent w:lrdieing of the
people whom thergovern, ran long withstand. 1 tritst,loy
Lord, the IlrilisliGoreniment is sinedestilied.lo be one of
these. I feel eatAdent that there is too•mneb good inten-
-16111 and intelligence seat amongst in to permit this evil do
he inflicted on • Rada so willing to remitter its temporary
interests to the security of Its future liberty and happinewe.
'lt is these c.maiderations which Online me to bring before
your Lordship these liberal semediet fist existing evils
which tan be alone effectual. Security call noir be found
roily in that system of milky whit* regards *hemmer train.
lug, 'amnion, and advantageous employment at: the wort-
nag dame; as the primary ohjeets ef Covenneseal. 'Every
other remedy which-50y be attempted will prove a mere
palliative, and now a very short-lived palliative. Sias, my
laird, hew utterly vale Mat it be to attempt these awns,
while au large a part of the popalatiou us I have desevileed-..
ohile not adults milt of either sex, bwt even child/no of a
tender age are torquiforl to labour in witheolthy oeenpailons
for 14 or 15 hours per day? Sorb a practice kits 'arisen
from the blind efforts of Ignorance, that, in its catenates to
grasp at instantiate wealth, &arils the only mire menus of
Mauler its permanence abet ils benefits. The opposers of
the anteineratieus proposed would be themselves great
lesions by their adoption. Let the aubjeet be viewed fairly
eves as sae of mere pin or peniniary pruit oely, and it
wale, be esti to prove to the satisfaction eat every out who
'has Not her. trained to become a mere niatinfatturer, nr
whose naiad has nil been tea deeply imbued with the pre-
jounces of trade, that ell parties interested mast necessarily
be cabins wider the regulathas which ought now to he
sidopied—almt *that more weskh shall be created for all,
at a less cost, sad with more comfort, to each. But I need
not occupy your Lordship's time with the detail, of an te-
nement, only to those whose ideas have been coo.
Seed within the af a certain class, sad who are ea-
mipiently•ineriespetent loony process if reasoning, in which
it is lovelies, to view society se a thine, tool nut iu little
detached and eueuanteted podia's.
The ipi4iion is mow before the Legislature and the coun-
try, where 1 have long wished to it, that its principles
might be fairly mad fully disco aped by Stabsusen who berg
no Unfree!, either real or imesioary, in the repeat destruc-
tion of the health, morals, pod hippie's' of tiorir
i7tAlort`s-4bwq only Metre" lekerwards is perish relief.
regret, however, tb eyeshot she amelioiating alarms which
the Bill before me co 1M in its present form, are Made.
quate to remedy the evils ?Inch row rain, sad which twig
ago ought to have beeMpreveptest. its rosette/an limit its ;
iuteWed sinclioratioas Jo Cotton Mills only, and permit
children at nice pan old to he eilaployed in them from that
period to sixteen yeah; of age, twelve boors and a half
we day, allotting only rum hoer anal a half ter meal, end
exercise ins the open air. I hive no doubt the WM- ihreeker
with whom ibis Bill originated, sad who has devoted so 4
touch time to the subject, is aware that theta rumbaing, are
very inadequate to meet the existing evils. He was probably ;
',lrani hn oak more, lest be should increase the opposition of
those wll4 thinklitetasehres harvested in perpetrating an
oppression on their fellow-creatures, worm than soy *ism,
of Ilse same extent with Which the Imam race has hens
hitherto Gained. We are uuteronainted with any Nation,
acacia or modern, that has 'offered its buodreils of Show-
Medi of children, of roma to twelve years of Kr. to
work itteesesully orifices bars pet day in se otarlivated
unhealthy atmosphere, olloniog them only forty miaow,
out of that time for diluter and champ Of en, hide* they
breaths often in &alp cellars or to Renee% is arailatollioa
row streets or dirty Mae. Sail this system of
• be by the British Legislator, if theiPalli.pelips.
posed shall be allowed to peas in ids pretest Stale ter it is
is evidence takes bdova's CeatialUat sit the Holm et Coal-
man', appointed to bireplitiate the subj.°, that swell prac-
tices prevail in other mama 'choice as unhealthy as the cot-
ton. It cannot fur a "worst be supposed that the Legisim •
lure will wow compromise ifil'cherafter by giving its MOO-
leaflet tumid) &beets. For better would it be that the evil I,
should remain is its fell talent, than that lbs.simar •
should he mocked by esteatettesdp which swirlyllMdt wad
petty, paltry relief to theme scaplisid la WM liasall; arum
Allaaatif•licturel, *kik ammo*. -Autd hawk,* of
Am other situations ere IA to experience an the oppression
and slang of which I now complete.
My Load, I do hope that this important subject will be
lakatzamd tiefesultd. by the
iluiast
miienbc Crow. on
on
the its
des =Off drhiepeellrthat rem: Wien or viy will
uleat reprove
formatiun is
▪ fieseseisey to compel them to protect She oppressed Rod
ibebialplees ; sad that they are willing of themselves so be-
gin the wed; at pedal raiatasstiutt, at that pestnt from
-Wake stare say • twattlisial eatersailua can ewer tbalrlittlet
' 1-4111ot is, by attemling wail to the proper trebling and We-
ed*, Maio( onterstioa. Let this porn be adopted
polarearm of the damsel& volley of Goat Britain ;
it any early be wanted, that her past ileeting.pro-
aperity and success will heroine as shadows, obeli con-
trasted with her (stare pemostient strength and glory.
Alurtnuate opportunity at the proper moment now m-
orels itself to begin this admirable work, i.n,l let us hope it
will be seism' with avidity by our most enlightened States-
wen, who discarding the ittniirant Rod ilegradiug feelings
' of party, wilt unite all their efforts in a rause he which all
have a common interest, end by the ailopthiti of timely pre-
veinier measures, founded on prineioles leading to union
and gootLwill swag mankiad, will overcome those evils in
the social system, which now in den', direct' threaten
terribly to dissolve all existing government* and Waits.
none_
Ito, ray Lord, sod I pot the question 'to you as a practi-
cal Sharman, ram the habits of the generation be well
and properly ionised while they continue to be immured
atom from infancy within our demoralising and unhealthy
mannfietswies for 114 or lb hours per day? Or rather, my
this's!, nodal the greatest comity to human nature devise
more effectual means by which to blight every hope of im-
eruvemetit or happiness to man ? Could such a being, in
inc plenitude of his emoting and hatred, so surely settle in
set N toilWr any a blasting curse on human beings, or au err-
issfl.ct upon them every form slid degree of miss fly 10
N. hurl, their nature is liable? Tu advance one step hiTunil
i• mere pretence to ameliorate the wretched condition of the
se mhos% classes, the sole instruments by which user tines-
a. le.„ use comforts, and our luxuries are produced, they
most he protseted from that oppression to %bath they are
oust a rooter'', and their children most be plaei•J under sir-
, issustioicess in which they may he trained ill habits useful to
themselves and to society. If the Sill new before she Ix-
gisl.,t nee secure not Sheer objects, it will nut tires I Ray thing
that had not sisals letter lie left it odour. Isimead of eon-
tionng the provisi 0000 • of the Act to Cotton Mills only, they
extend lo all manufactures iv nate" er not carre-1 on
in mienr loosens instead of rlsilcl,.n being edemas d at
nine years of age to work iu Comm Mills twelve and a half
boors per day. with only all haof and a half :us meals and
nervation' nu child should be admitted to work in any nia-
litieseisily before Iris yearn of age, and at for more than
six home per day until he is toilet years old. And 11.0
loarUclalsr should be permitted to employ I Mier young sir
fer 3 luUrsr period titan twelve hours per slat, allow inz
1:e m out of that time one boor fur breakfast usol another
Is, log ten hours for full and 4160G111111
TWO" 'llan visa aurr,luer tl glut brut
4!,...1111 e' lit it,., alkar s.f fusgalAr end Nettie mil.
iistab;i,lii.d a. li.t. list 4kUrt of daily labour to be

AT NINE O'CLOCK TO.ILIORROW lIORNING (Thom-
Amy). LOTTIERT DILOVII. Three Prizes of 30,0001,
fah oilier Capitals, and 8 Pipes of Port.

CADY-MT.—Holiday at the Beak, Esehesser, East I.ai■,

sad Sloth &s Houses.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LO N DON,

WEDNESDAY, MARCO 25, 1818.

The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday arrived
last inght.—The Theatre-Royal of the Odeon was
burut down on the 20th. lu a city so devoted to

theatrical

this must be felt a notional

calatuity.—The following account of it is given iii
the Monitenr:—

PARIS. MARCH 21.

required from the working classes, would sot be still more 1 of nxien, owl restored the coarse of trade be-
ecsmomiral suit profitable for the country. - tweets that country anti the Island or Cube.
I am folly swam of the clamour which them propositions
will at first fall from the Wad avarice of commerce; for The Lord demised for a debt of 40,000 frolics at
eeele/eleel lei Par trains her chit'llaa to see °or their Saint I.4ogie, is Lord Spencer Chichester.
immediate ricappartot Interest; their idles are too confi'act-
rd at, ram dim hired the riming week, meg* es year Leticia from Hanover state. cwt the return of
at the amnia. They have beet. taught, eny Lord, to cos- the liatioverinis contingent of the Army of Occu pa-
alder it to Ise the creme of wisdom to expend millirem of
Wil 1 .
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capital, and yeses of catraaadia,,,, ,441"r0 tm
jeali. as - lion to I entice is decided upon. . General Count
well as to saerifice the health, morals, nod comforts of the D'Altess. also commtods this COlitingetd, is ex-
pest ream of the solijerts of a nimbly emaudpirei,mtelinsaset theiLtaLy.
peeled immediately
at
flanocer.
saelesply improve the ensoufatture uf,
Resod fur, pins, Needles, sad thsviada—that they way have
the singular salisfactiou, after insinosse care, labour, slid
anxiety os their own parts, to destroy the reel wealth and
strength Of their roma ry by gradually sindereniniug the PlO-
ests sod physical vigour of its inhabitants, for ibe sole end
of relieving other nations of their due share of this enviable
process of pin, neeolk, and thread making.
I tense, my Lord, it is out by such rata that our great
mairroal contents ire benethrward to be directed. ' If their
'en* is to predonsiaale is our roomed,. the vital interests
of else country most *minim utterly...imaged to the grossest
political ernes. It is the creed of this elms, that au effort
or expense should be spared. to improve dame trilling burble,
sad Waterier, which, when perfected, see of not iotrisisie
vale, whatever, which cannot add a particle of strength or
comfort to the empire' ; while any attempts to ameliorate
the covidition of human beings are decried as unatecevaary
and visionary, as 'Morning out of the proper haziness of
life, which to them is solely and eachisigely to .iittssoelate
wealth—wealth which is unt only acquired at the expense of
may Wog dist is frilly peat and valuable is the character
of a amino bet which, when acquired, lx swim% rah in the
highest degree injurious to themselves aid others. It is, my
Lewd, to such kind of itifitteare as I have now described that
the hem leanest. Of she rotatory have been sacrificed /or
Veare; sod if din trenvcronend cannot proceed without
MK* aid, it la nut difficult to see to what it will speedily
lend.
Should it be urged upon you, my Loci], that these sad
other mnellorotiteg measures will give such a stimulus to
population that the world will soon be WO emalf fur its in-
hallimida, I cannot imagine that your Lordship will routem-
plate melt Pa argotteent with any alarm. I Mead to take
au early opmatunity of skewing that this dread of ao excess
of population has Ito better firondation thou exists for the
Martyry terrors of ghosts and hobgoblins; that at this mos
meet for earth is a coloparative desert ; that all its present
lidlieldtasits sre suffering for the want of a Notch more es-
population ; and that whets the subject comes to be
• ly understood, no real mil led! ewer be appreheaded
eV
this source.
Being strongly impressed with this view of the sobject,l
hive felt it a duty imperative twos Me, dins publicly tie
sesenamssod to pone Lordship, as Prime Minister of the
smestry. to adopt, Isy meows of the Bill now under the con-
Mderation of the Legislature, a declared principle of gra.
'dually and systeinsiissilly reforming the growing evils of the
country by well and property forming the habits of the ris-
ing generation. It is obviously a necessary prelimioary to
Ws work of reformation, that the asainifecturer should re-
linquish the presiiMitre and oppressive employment of chil-
arm.. The importance oldie subject of this letter mailers
it unnecessary to apologise for having thus' occupied so
AIM of yur Lordship's time. the assured that with every
afeeling of respect for the long sacrifice which you
tailor your private conduits, in the discharge of
I remain, my Lord,
Tour Lurdship'a must obedient humble Servant.
NOBEItT OWEN.
Nev. Lanark, Nara 20, 1816.
•No real advantage has occurred from enabling oar
fashionable females tufo, clime line lace sad muslins at one
fourth of the former prices ; but to produce item st this
-, ninny thousands of our population have existed amidst
aiirre and wreichednees, and been carried prematurely to
their graves.

'ably Should not have *We probably paid any -particoler
atieution to the Meeting held last Monday in Pa-
lace-yard, had not the remarks of seine of our
contunporarirs'seemed to render w kW words of ob-
servation necessary. The inhabiting* of West-
minster have, for a considerable length of time,
been distinguished by the peculiar freedom, we
had almost said boldness, with which they have
uniformly expressed their political sentiments, so
that in Parliament, and throughout the country,
Westminster is regarded as the most decidedly
popular part of the community. This Bistinetion,
however, by no means convey, an admission on the
part of those who make it, of any superior prat-
:tie*, Issgacity, or of more enlightened views of the
nature of our mixed constitution, in those who
lead the voice of the people in their public assent-
' blies; on the contrary, it IS •synoiiiinous in the
mouths of Ministers and their adherents, with revo-
lution and anarchy, and is 'felt by the Opposition,
properly so called, us too frequently iticonsikent
with their rational assertion of the geueral liberty.
The promotion of a Reform in the represen-
tation of the people in Parliament is the avowed
object of the " Meo of Westminster ;" but
they are little aware how very much the violent
conduct of some among them has hitherto retarded
the completion of their wishes. Nothing is more
easy for the oppokids of Reform than to stigma-
tize the proposition by extending to all its friends
the unfavourable character of one or two of its
least worthy advocates ; and, notwithstanding the
evident injustice of such u dispensatioo, nothing
has ever been more successful.. The great body
of the people, those we mean who, by the posses.
*ion of wealth and learasitig, enjoy the greatest por-
lion of power and inflaeuee, are ever apprehensive
of sudden changes ; their terrors are easily ex-
cited ; but the effect is, to make them cling more
closely to what they have long been taught to con-
rider as the sheet-anchors of the general safety.—
We were not a little pleased to find that Mr.
RUNT'S coarse invectives seemed no longer to pos-
sess any charms for the people, and that his pro-
positiou (to which any one who please* may give
ass epithet) of making the payment of taxes
conditional with Reform in Parliament, was re-
ceived with the detestation it deserved. Such
a suggestion (for the thin veil he attempted to
fling over it could not conceal its deformity) was
nut only one of the most dangerous, but to our
minds appears one of the most cruel that could be
lung out fur the consideration of the multitude.
Could the ignorant or rash man who made it an-
swer for the consequence of his fully ?—would he
repay to the poor artisan, who might be ',educed by
his flattering advice, the severe losses he must sus-
tain if he were to suffer his goods to be taken in
execution fur the payment of taxes ?—or would lie
save the unhappy man from ,the consequences of
violence or outrage, in case of his interrupting the
process of law ? From the occurrences which
took place on Monday last, the downfall of Mr.
Mar's popularity with the populace may be easily
anticipated.
Distinguishid as Sir I'IIAWCIS BURDWTT has
long been for his peculiar felicity in addressing is
popular assembly, yet we never heard him to snore
advantage than in his speech on closing the Meet-
ing on Monday. The Honouruble Baronet pos-
sesses the two principal requisites of oratory—a
sound understamtiog, and a sensitive heart. He has
wit, too; but in him it is never levelled against the
inisfortunes or the maladies of his fellow-creatures.
To I the suffitings of the people, o► the wrongs
of outraged humanity, form Ito topics fur ridicule or
levity. He never disgusts his heurers, nor degrades
himself, by exposing the infirmities of a wretched
being whom he had previously oppressed, nor
could lie ridicule sufferings he had himself pro-
tipster,. It belongs to others, we believe we should
rather say another, to indulge in these playful
topics, and to barter the good opinion of humane
reflecting mind., fur the noisy acclamations of a
few inconsiderate retainers on the Treasury Bench.

A deplorable event has ',teed consternation in
the quarter Saint-Germain. At half-past three
o'clock a tire broke out in the boll of the illitatre-
Royal of the Odeon. In a few minutes it burned
with great fury, and the theatre became the prey
or the flames. The 11101 it prompt aisistolice was
afforded. The firemen, aided by detachments of
the National Ihnisril, the Royal Gaunt, the Royal
Gensdurnierie. &e. and a great 'mintier of citi-
zens, were upon the spot, for the protection of
the theatre, and to prevent the flame* from spread-
ing to The Riles de Racine and de Corneille,
only separated from it by two arches. At half-
past four the timber work of the building
fell with a great crash, and the flames ceased to
hove any food lost the ruins on the bottom *of the
bull. By the activity of the assistance the lives of
all those resident on the premises have been
paved. The fuur sides of the Theatre, the grand
dwelling-phice, and the stair-cases, have been
preserved. The Chancellor of France and the
Grand leferetoilary of the Chandier of Peers
repaired to the spelt of ou tie first revolt of the
event, Mid reniaited duns;; the whole time of the
fire. his Royal highness the Duke of [terry was
}resent, and very active upon the oerasioss. Ilia
Excellency the Minister cf General Pollee also
afforded his best rseriloits. Two woirresi, one of
whom resoled on the third story, owe their lives to
the courage and activity of a young luau osineil
Joseph Anisibil.
A letter from one of the first houses of the
havaimali, dated 4th Jatma-y, states that the cop.
lure of 11;iia has pttpluceti the entire pa6licatiais

Yesstetday the Hanovesian Minister hail an
audience of the i'merns Itscest ut Carlton-house.

A letter from Buenos Ayres, dated December
Muiro- _ _ _

is 'lhr l'ortiornme took po•*ession of Coition dcl Sacra-
Omit° ou the 20th instant. 1711. privateer Indepetitleure de
la Sud sailed on the 17th instant with dispatcher front this
Government to Rio Jaritiru, and it is ealocitil that she will
call al Puitsinmith before. Ow Morns to dna s iv/i.e. Arrived
the Elieueser, Clark, front Loinlou awl Monde Video, and a
Slowed. ship, prize to the emigres. privateer , and Out the
19111 the Mumma° Ginn St. HAlena."

Thr ships destined for the voyage of discovery of
the Northern Passage into the Pacific, we under..
yr:au/Iday from the titer. The officers
►►re tuuti'dt•ut of soccer., and the well ore in the
highest health utilt spirits.
Oti Tur.ilay la.!, the Molt•, ussr•smeots, •od
other 1"111,1. lehilitt to the lute Property Tux, front
Htr t isinsterricrinriit to the conclusion, were collect-

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