The National Register.
London, England, 1808-03-06 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

little what the one can afford to give, before you deter-
mine what the other should receive. Might you not re-
flect, that the people of England pay ten times more
per head to the service and retainers of Government than
any other people on the face of the earth. When we talk
of merits, ought we not to allow that. the merits of such
a people are very extraordinary ? Applsing, as we do, so
much generosity to others, ought we not to apply a little
mercy to them ? Would not this be good policy, even in
the way of self-into rest ? The woman should have care-
fully fed and tended her hen that laid golden eggs—this
was the plan for getting many eggs. Our politicians
should recollect, that the people are the hen that lays the
golden eggs, and if they allow her to get lean and sick,
they will soon find a failure in the eggs.
There are too many among us who arraign those truths
as not salutary, but dangerous. And those who dare to ex-
press them, thevdeuounce as the mostexecrahle ofmank Md.
whose oh ject is to excite disaffection among the people. The
accusation is hypocritical and unjust. The natural and
proper effect of these truths is to excite in you, the au-
thors of the' abuses, a spirit of correction and amend-
tnent, and then the affections of the people would he gain-
ed rather than alicaated. If you adhere to the abuses,
you ruin the country, were the people as tame as sheep.
'i'he more tame they are indeed, the more rapidly will
the ruin be accomplished. You, who arraign these salu-
tary truths, are the people of evil design. You arc not
only thieves and robbers, but you wish to have the power
of knocking all the watchmen on the head.
But it is a mockery of the British. army, and of the
British people, to talk to us thus of the services of Lord
Lake. Who ever fought in India that did not gain battles
There is hardly an officer in the service who would not
have done the same things, if placed in the same situa-
tion. Lord Lake obtained his reward. Ile was raised to
the highest honours and emoluments of his profession.
These are the reward of the soldier ; and these arc and
ought to be a sufficient reward. How many a meritori-
eas officer, struggling up the asrent of preferment, would
regard the attainment. of such a command as that with
which Lord Lake was invested in India, as the most noble
reward of a life devoted to the greatest exertions and dan-
gers Why, after this magnificent recompense, fully ade-
quate to the merits of Lord Lake, are the people of
England, smarting with taxation at every pore, to be
called upon to pay from the profits of their labour, enor-
mous sums to his family ?

Lord Lake, we are to!d, has ::ed poor. The more
unworthy he. It. is well known that he rot in India
what. might have kept him from being poor : nor is it
unknown in what way a great part of what he got went
from him. But why should that conduct which in ''thy•:;
is the object of reprobation and disgust, give Ow
of Lord Lake a claim to dip their hands in the eshansted
pockets of the people of England ?

But Lord Lake was made a Lord, and his family must
be enabled to support the dignity of the Peerage. !
the Peerage must be supported, zt the expellee of the
bical of the poor! The dignity of the Peerage is to be
upheld by having a rave of Lords, who are to live upon an
assessment levied on the people ! They who betray the.'
dignity of the Peeragf., and sacrifice it to their own sel-
fish ends, arc the men who are instrutnental in making

such Lords. Is it possible that the people
order of men, for whose support the poo)
their hard earnings is unnecessarily diminir
such a situation is one of natural and inh,
tion. The ►hole order of Peerage sutfer
wretched experiments on the Peerage hav4
inroads in this country ou the respect foi
have been most powerful levellers.
It is not enough for us, the people of
this poor Lord, was the co-adjutor of Man
and a favourite of the Prince of IVales.
ties that debate against one another in Pa!
circumstances might afford motives to th,
posing the pension, and the other for not op'
these motives concern not us. They depew
with which ours have nothing in common.

What becomes of the mass of rich since
leged services of this sort arc to be reward
defended, on the score of being a fund for rew.
and services. How happens it, that
services are to he rewarded, Parliament is
go into the pockets of the people, the sinectu
all absorbed in other ways. For what gm
the Marquis of Buckingham a sinecure iv,
a-year ? IF all services are to be reward(
upon the people, let the people, at least, h.
of the sinecures. Let them all, to the las)
abolished, and let the taxes to an equal any
diately remitted.

REVIEW OF POLITICAL DECL,

No. X.

EXAMIN ATION OF MU. COI3BETT'S
I:OSCOE's PAMPHLET
(Cenlinued.)

We are afraid our Readers will become tired
attack. That is not our fault. NS e hale pledged
expose w hat ever we bud most. absurd in reason.
genius in practice, in the political writings of
cannot help it, if Mr. Colibett.just now stands
Let our Renders. however, only reflect, if the;
what we have given them of Mr. tobbett's spei
his own !trade•r: must be. have aiready
allowance of Mr. Roscoe, and fair threatened w
not a fifth.

NVe camot help reserting to that must inlet-et
gent. at the prereso crisi3, of all national soitici
tion, the question of Peace or War; and wt ith •
fall in their minus of the doctrines of \lr. Cobbet
Last too Numbers we Mise laid hefire our Read
eisbai to reflect serinn-I v shat sort of advocal
hunt the ..;\ itent of terror and of war 4 prol
them rettect to!), :Ton tier conseipeoces uF :11r.
trint.s. In his Iteri•ter of June 44*, I'o6, pp. 96t
I have viechred, anti now repeat the declara,
" Inv lived opinion, that without a great redact
(it is iropnas;ble for thi; coutor caley on ti
a very fz.ss• years longer. .'lld, if this be the
" question that remains to be determined is, Iv
tiou to no etiected 1 believe. three is but on,
" by greatly reducing the amount of the diode
" the national d .ht.- That is to say, we cm,
carry on the ar for a few years loager, by del
lion unable! to pay the interest of her delfts, tl
and strictly. by :t national bank roptey, by tak
the national debt, or at least by a composition ss
tory, and that a forced and arbitrary compositin7

There may be a specie, of consi.tenev in the
of Mr. Cohbett. to N% hid! the publir•tiors not to
41(1 LIAM j:Fertiuu tat; repeated

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