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ON THE

times," fondly connecting peace with plenty, and
plenty with moderated demands and reduced expen-
diture; and then, after a tantalizat.on of four or five
years' duration, to see the cup of misery again filled
to the very brim, every prospect of alleviation again
removed, and removed to a distance which admits of
no definition, makes the heart eiakindeed. This is
not the language of idle declamation, we nre not
vainly censuring a system which cannot be wielded.
We assert, and we do so ball', that a single shelling
of taxation on t,rht not lobe asked oi one handl, and on ht
not to be granted on the other. In the manhouil of
England's fortunes, financial arrangements would
not have been wanting to meet the migency of the
times, and that too without the creation of fresh
burthens.

VIE EX-KING OF SWEDIS.V.
--41.-

DEPLORABLE STATE

or .ua
FINANCES.

The following letter, with the signature of Gus-
tavutt, the ex-King of Sweden, is extracted front
the Currier:—

" Many journals having inserted art!eles concerniorz,
Pitney Oustasois, son of Gustavus Adolphus the rum oh
(Gosstatison), forme. Ku,, of Sweden. it it necessary to
ek plain what had been mai rispeenng obis your: Pricer,
and Iha puldir slight uu iongo-c 14 be igssovaut of all the
unlawful and tostpostifiable to iotosactions of the last elate,
,ease.
" It is time to make known that secret intrigues were
employed to semantic the from his lather, to
Le uses not only lite attachment and respect that but,:rf
inspires u. with 11,r one porn's. lost moreover, is feelocg
of personal gratitude low sods Lis bribe', who Mod made
over to him a great part of the considerable propel ty eo -
volved on him front isas mother of blessed men.or.,, the
defiler! Q.oren of Swede'', and ter remainder of which
br divided sarong Isis other children.
" Po ince Gustavus's tuner, who in the year 181? wall
separated from the Qneen, his Consort. rave her. as titre
mother of Ids child' en, the tam' omequivoral proof of
colitis/rare by teaming to lore Nlajosiy, not only the ethics-
ohm of the Princesses, but that of Prince Goostas foe also ;
however, under three renditions, v is. Ist. that their ran.
cation should be conformalfe to the ieligien iu vihiclo they
sear loons; 2sl„ to 11. e look they hold in Ille world-; and
3d. to !heliolater tipsy lo is, one Airy be called upon Ili foltjt.
" The Wens aft..ru mils I creisird •zo vies, Mall: of con-
fidence fo ono bee fitasi r Consort, by Isis ui.isy up to hoe
the administration of the above-mentioned inlivsitanrc,
relinquished in favour of his which was paid by
the Sw,..lisli Gus ouairootooml placed at tie disposal of
her sjes,y.
" lint room that moment she seemed resolved to ncr at,
solutely 'contrary to tl.e tenets( of the co:With-ow loose, Fier'
to her, essetly in the same Sialliler a, Les son, ails, olive.
ably to such, was ono his coaling ie. (i. e. at seventeen).
to torso-lot himself to hi, hails r, VoIoCCI t with him as
to loss 1111114 s destiny, loot refused ski tut flow',
din:lasing:himself ineupahla t sisal t ejecotil 'lie boom, tom-
Moir* of Isis tat ii. r, In-friend and trenefacisa. Insoigatid
by his royal mother, tor persisted in Oillolir,irg dm se.
prated orders of lois sire, alleg:log as a svasion that he had
oinised his ninthur arms his honour. not In le se her
Isola Ire had attained his 214 t s ear--a Oirgular mantle 011'
• yonng prince, who, refusing his slisjooity, a. is w ilia lisp
' disobedience that a son mig'oi solute seattily do if he were
,lit :lee. It would be revolting and contrary to manic., to
I eloa.-ge this once so VII Woo. slid so obedient a sou eon eel!
I alai site's ass *Wester ; it *wild use even lenjust lo isay, ;De-
rmot it cool.' be evidently ',royal, that I:se Qit.issiiisoollssis
of this ps tope had ivied only from hoisrll; vet, it mast tin
known, ihat she Osiiiiessil her cenfidenee, stud slid shore,
committed the charge mid toinearion of -her son, with
which she abuse was intsissfPfl, into Ilse halid, of a Cal.
• of a r. probloran, and -sit auger; who, Punt rover,
possesses title lii•st cusdd siktintrir II or
r.ru 1111 l !clod him in any way fur the silvaiion of ,Pilnce
Onstaysos's gos el nor.

IT has often, of late, been our official duty to en-
deavour to direct the attention nemeses/len to the
deplorable state of oar Finalities, and to the total in-
adequacy and imbecility of the hands I. which, in a
crisis like the present, they arc so unfortunately en-
trusted. Ask from one end of the kingdom to the
other, ask among the friends or foes of Government,
and we will venture to assert that no man will be
found whose opinion on this point, if honestly given,
does not coincide with our own. But, amidst all
this universality of sentiment, a sort of apathy, aris-
ing either from despair on one hand, or from distress
on the other, seems not much less prevalent. This
we lament to state, a strong, but alas ! a general
feature of national decay; a fixture which the philo-
sophers observed, and the historians have recorded
of the declining days both of Greece and Rome.
The effect of all bail Government is to sap the foutt-
ilations both of public spirit and of public virtue;
and its operatioas are carried on, first by creating a
disgust with respeet to public men and to public
measures, and a feeling, almost approximating to
indifference, as to both what they do, and what they
leave undone ; and next, a hopelessness extending
even further than the reality of the case will justify,
es to any ameliomation, by whatever hands, or under
whatever guidance. All opposition is -thus looketl
upon by some as useless, and by others as the mere
effect (Se logging for place and power, as the out-
cries of a faction scrambling for loaves and fishes.
The mischief thus aggravated and continued, has ut
last all the fruits and consequences. of 'unitive ap-
proval, and men, who are hated, mistrusted, and
despised by uhictem out of twenty, are yet permit-
ted to pursue their career of iniquity or folly, to
exercise that public contruul and to enjoy that pub-
lic patronage, which should so naturally be allotted
only to wisdom and virtue, because then they would
be wisely and virtuously employed. It is alone on

But the evil does not end here. If the taxing
system is to be pursued, aracial means of support-
ing it must of necessity be resorted to, and minis-
ters, we shall begin to suspect, are plain; but a
deep gsmesof the most unprincipled Iryposcrisy /when
they 'pretend to be converts to the opinions and
warnings of those who have so long and powerfully
sounded in their ears the claims of the country to u
-sound metallic currency, and the removal of that
horrible anomaly which has for so many years placed
both our private property, and the national interests
and honour, in the hands of a trailing company.
They are greater ileots than we believe them to be,
if they do not know that the only possible psestion
about the Bank Restriction is the difficulty appre-
hended with respect to the Revenue, if the value
of money should be materially raised, and it should
become, as formerly, an adequate and substantial
representative of the property of the country; and
their conduct, on the other hand, assumes a chem.
ter which we will net venture to describe, if, know-
ing and feeling how perfectly absurd it is to look
for the return of cash payments, and to go on with
increased tu,lation, as simultaneous measures of po-
licy, they have held the largumge attributed to
them by reporters, and played with the sense and
votes of Parliament.

•• Lei ooliiiily allege the 'tense of the frowns Latiorpe,
on floc titrini the Emperor A leviiider, to piers a pnia.
dux i to-Lelia' pe was bid Alex:anthill, teethes, an.l not
his goverenJr. Let sia oti Wiwr any mote the tonne of
the Eosin-tor Alexandre, oy I'ol.ot-tllting it in Ininity ili••
.elisions, as ii rantiot :smear rot imam -with the eligisay
that eharat terbt a a greet sovereign.
" It has been said in the garnet's lately,"thst the Volpe..
en, of R., n•is had apptein'eil Pint r Ciniotivits (;,•se, nor of
our of In. pri6Vaill'el•' at 111101iter time, tilti he Na. groin,:
In England nith theEitipi r.it'a perinkstua, to liiii.ii toil
,1 Atnilies, 41111 to he allowed by hint mat. eterlbig ler sloe
eiii•einoeit tor hi! teinnvit„ n nbieli v: !il inilirute that the
['silo i• 1:r..1 tow a stiftleiehey bort° .!e foi it hints. ..t.
•• Lel us, theft:lot c, put e atop to MI 1)1411% N I bkly
atentotieti in•vvhie-00, roil risitetst Ott , 41 11.4,41, to deli lull
the troll, 311111 nutIIMIIeVP il WA Lie 111.41 Ito [:emperorAlexander would early dies' All 1.1 fir as nos to ;riot.
tiny ailvire 11l 111 to Pother (gusto••• frit ei of I.i. good
intentome Inn/mils tool; oo ... , n hitt. . '.I:1 p.tilatlll a.Miel.y
.or the triiiiitiatiou lit the 0.41111.' PUll. 6,ollVllit'llisC."

Again, if taxation is to be pushed on, pauperism,
discontents, and riots must follow in its train
with it:;graratcd ftatures. Shallow politicians may
assert that taxes, if properly imposed, do not affect
the poor, but:,tieets are Letter titan n thousand specu-
lations even of the wisest heads, nod the history of
taxation will shew us that pauperism and taxation
have regularly and exactly kept pace together. Be
fore the Revolutionary IVstr, cur taxes were not
quite one third of their present amount, and our poor
rites were then two millions. In 1803, when the
taxes had mounted to two thirds, the poor rates had
ativanced to jive millions; and in 1816, when the
taxes had Leen pushed to 70,0(0,0001. the poor
rocs had risen to nearly vine. %We have thus a
clear and unquestionable tc3tituony of the effects of
taxation on public misery, and widt public misery
upon puLile morals. Then come the quackeries of
legislation, and, what is still worse, Spies und•Sus-
pension Acts, and the whole host of evils before
n hich every manly virtue flees au uy, and under
whose operation liberty expires. But we shall
pursue this melunchcly sulject no further.
"douse of Commons is our only hope, and to this,
often as it disappoints us, r.a world still cling. We
would retninti•that august assembly that a bleesli^g
country clic; to them thr potect ion, and that the
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destunes of ;tame :t.ge,; are be:amain their bonds.

grounds such as these that my man can rationally
account fcr the continuance cf our present rulers in
the offices they now hold. And, indeed, little ns
we arc ourselves inclined to encourage an apathy,
from whatever source arising, which is in effect a
desertion of the public cause, or to agree in the
troinion that there i 3 not abundance Loth of wisdom,
virtue, talent, and political experience at our dispo-
sal to form a very splendid and powerful adminis-
tration which would both maintain 'the rational ho-
nour, and mill redeem us from disgrace and ruin ;
yet should the present schemes of Government be
rcalizad and ca7ricd, should an additional tral of

'lie sibo.e tittirle it $llll to thr rtlisat of the (.0i1411,.
with titr rrgar.l Ihit he %till'in.rtl it in I. o jrtiii.til.
(Si.orit) A. 61.:41..1F5)N1.
Baec, (hale 1, 1819.

Futelligenee was rceeilied livtn Lagnyra, the•
way of St. Thomas's of the very late thtfd•of the
15th April. 0.1 the 7th of that month, a convoy
consi...tillg of set ea 11ni4.13 of war, and three trans.
coma, sailtd Irian that pf•rt, w„:14.1: a sui..l4 of pu-
vibictm tint the gl:rfilott An
despatch, date:] e„trly in April, front the ish:n.l
Chugues, on the river 1 arfivel frothf Gin.
lloritlo. A few d, ys prece.liag he had a twvvre
engagement with a body "Jr #lm:epentlealt trolr;
antottritiag to 400 men, who vi.r4 oa t'atir way to
juin ant. Paex, and consisted chiefly of EitgliNLuics,
lite whole of the detachment, wit:i the eve.ption
:thng 40 were lilted in the uc hat ; uml thaw nal
kilted were taken pi:toners. Previously to t:t
action just raentionetl, Gen. Paez had Ixeit t-o!,
p‘lltd to ret mat from the Apure un the other

tax to the amount of et,..rc mitacms a year be sub-
;n, we Fhall ourselves be driven to the very
same state of feeling which we deplore in others,
and to sy of our once hnppy and nourishing coon
t-y, 'a jam vero cosclamilans est ;" the soul has left
its tenement, and the body waits only to be eatTica
forth to bnriul.

The evil under orkich welt ave been-long struggling.
It as been r. Tar 7tion fryer, a &muse from vhkb,during
the rage and tumult of hostilities, no (me dared even
to hope to be relieved. But to sue the blessings of
tranquillity and peace at last restored to a patient,
slffering, and exlistasted people, to have heard them
greeti;i iteb other wi.th t!i: rateect or " ktter

d the ,:iver Aranc.l. Who utCcr
cotnnzantls u 66s:on of irwys comrosetl
received nn act.e4: its.: to Lis: fort 4.• rf 4*:10 ;A ~..;t.4.

tem limn 1".4.: :.1.0 retri.t.