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consequences) that 7must: oiliertvise ensue from it.
As the most seasonable and effectual mode of relief,

they wotild entreat you to push to its utmost practi-
c tble limits, consistent d•ith the maintenance of
the public safety, economy and retrenchment in every
department of the state ;—they woohl urge the ne-
cessity of a material reduction of all taxes Tifiiiag
directly or indirectly on the necessaries of life, and
particularly on the wholesome beverage of the poor;
and they would also submit to your consideration
the propriety of remodelling the poor laws, with
the view of placing them, as fur as circumstances
will allow, within the spirit of the Act of Elizabeth ;
it appearing to your petitioners that those laws, as
now administered, too often operate as a premium
on idleness and dissipation, rather than as an incen-
tive to industry, and have also a direct tendency to
-encourage early and improvident marriages.
" Your petitioners, in calling the attention of
your Honourable House to the sate of the,public
creditor, disclaim any desire unjustly to invade his
rights, but they cannot refrain from observing, that
in the various financial measures introduced since the
war, he appears to have been dealt with solely as a
claimant on the public resources of the country,
without regard to his responsibility for the debt, as
a member of the community : as a proof of which
they would notice the fact, that the funded property
has increased in value in the same ratio that land has
diminished; thus, in effect, relieving the Fund-
holder from his due share of the burdens of the
war, and pressing them with increased severity on
the landed interest. They feel it also to be worthy
of remark, that notwithstanding the Government
derives a large revenue from thi. sale and transfer of
landed property, no ditties are payable on similar
transactions in the the whole management of
which is conducted free from charge to the fund-
holder.

" Your petitioners humbly request your Honour-
able House to 01:6 into your consideration, at an
early period of the Session, the present state of the
agriculturists and the labouring cldsses,and to adopt
such measures for their relief as to your Honourable
House shall seem meet."—Times.

The Courrier Francais of Friday last has a
strange article on the subject of a Commission
given by the Comite-Directeur of Paris to a
sub-committee, fin- the purpose of attending ex-
clthively to the labours necessary for the regene-
ration of different countries in Europe. "Among
the most active members of this new committee
(says the Journalist), are named a Noble Lord
(Palmerston), formerly Minister of War, well

known on account of his relations with a diplo-
matic lady, whose reputation extends from Arch-
angel to London (the Counters of Lievcn, we
presume) ; a Member of the House of Com-
mons, who has long busied himself with the
means of deporting at once to Botany Bay, or
elsewhere, all the poor of the three kingdoms
(Mr. W. Horton, we suppose), and a merchant,
also a Member of the House of Commons,
better known, perhaps, at St. Petersburgh and
at Dover, than in the Chamber of which he
forms a part (Mr. Pawlett Thomson, we sup-
pose). The Directing Committee have added
to these gentlemen a fourth personage, one of
those Whig-errants, who pass a great part of
their lives in running over the different countries
in Europe in quest of grievances to exhibit against
Institutions and Governments, and then return
to England to publish a collection of lies clumsily
fabricated, respecting what they have seen, and
what they have not seen. The Whig-errant of
whom the Directing Committee have made
choice on this occasion, has already favoured the
British with two pamphlets, of which the last is
in the shape of a letter to Lord Aberdeen (Mr.
Galley Knight)." According to this statement,
a Memoire, drawn up with great talent, has
been communicated to the new associates, in
which are exposed all the. inconveniences result.
ing to the cause of Continental Liberalism from
the regime to which England is subject, and
our four Englishmen are given to understand that
their time might be better employed, than in
coming to the Continent to make a parade of
their liberalism, and indulge in lamentation over
the fate of the llerolutioinsts,whom the tyranny
of Goverments prevents from obtaining their
ends, while they allow the regime of privileges
and abuses to subsist tranquilly in England.
" flow is it possible (says the Memoire) to do
anything solid in favour of liberty and huma-
nity, in presence of an Aristocracy, masters of
one of the most powerful nations of Europe ?"
The statement then proceeds thus :—" Have not
the late times more particularly proved to what a
degree the existence of that Aristocracy, and
the institutions which it cherishes, may become
fatal to our civil and religious liberties ? Have
they not spoken of establishing in France an
Aristocracy on the model of that of England;
and have we not been on the point of seeinz
the realization of that dreadful calamity ? Did
we not, for an instant, conceive we saw the arri-
val in our fine country ofthe Justices of Peace of
his Britannic Majesty, with their tread-mills, and
their almost unlimited powers, primogeniture,
Game Laws,sinecures, pluralities, rotten boroughs,
and the three hundred Deputies, named by the
High Aristocracy, without the intervention of the
people ? Have we not dreaded that they would
come to impose on us the Magistracy which sets
itself above public opinion, which laughs at it,
because it says that opinion is contrary to its
experience ; the Juries who find men like Car-

tile and Taylor guilty ? lor, what have these
men done more than our own journalists and
litterateurs do with impunity ? Brethren and
friends, what would have become of our dear as-
sociates of the Courrier Francais, if they had
had to do with English Magistrates and Juries ?
Undoubtedly, they would have passed the rest
of their days in the most unhealthy prison of
England." The Memoire concludes with assur-
ing our four Englishmen, that they are well con-
vinced they yield not to their brethren of the

Continent in hatred of loyalty, Aristocracy, and
the abuses that flow from them ; but they exhort
them to give a striking proof of their sentiments
in this respect, in returning with all speed to
London, to labour according to the instructions
of the head Committee for the regeneration of
England. They observe to them, " that there
is a great necessity for this, for (says the Me-
moire), whenever our enemies receive a check,
they cast their eyes towards England, and ac-
quire a new strength, on seeing what passes in that
country. That country (adds the Memoire),
which, from an unfortunate prejudice, has been re-
garded as the classic land of liberty, is now become
the type of our Jesuits, and our Absolutists. Let
it be regenerated quickly. It is said this Me-
moire very embarrassed our four Englishmen,
and especially the author of the Letter to Lord
Aberdeen. However this may be, we shall not
fail to lay before our readers from time to time,
an account of the operations of the four person-
ages who have thus become the hope of the Re-
volutionists of the Continent." The above has
probably no other foundation than the imagina-
tion of the writer. But he this as it may, there
is a great deal of truth in the sarcasm levelled at
the Liberals of this country, who can find time
for attention to the abuses of every nation in
every quarter of the globe, except their own.
Flattered with the idea that the House of Com-
mons is a floor on which the people of every