The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-16 00:00:00

is an affair between him and the Deity. On earth
we usurp on the rights of others the moment we
make their religious belief a ground for setting our-
selves above them, there being nothing in their be-
lief which prevents their virtuous discharge or all
the duties of a good citizen.—Morning Chronicle.

It is lamentable to think that to whatever quarter
we turn, or whatever interest comes under consi-
deration, we discover marks of that complicated moral
and commercial devastation which has extended
over the whole country, and is gradually exhausting
our resources, impairing our energies, and sapping
the very foundat►ons and institut►ons of society.
For several years has this fatal disorder been making
progress. First it assailed the extremities—one
limb after another—it attacked the head last year
and caused delirium—at present it has seized upon
the chest, and by and by it will be at the heart.
This will be followed by convulsions, agonies
indescribable, the wild curse and the deep
groan—and then will come the end. It is strange
that those who have most to dread from the
effects of this political plague seem the least
active in their endeavo►►rs to eradicate it, and,

like desponding and desperate men, shut their
eyes, incline their heads, and in sullen silence
wait their fate. Every day for the last four years
has afforded proof of our rapid decline—of our dimi-
nishing powers—of our increasing weakness and
helplessness. In agriculture, commerce, and manu-
factures we perceive nothing but augmenting em-
barrassment and progressive decay. The three car-
dinal interests being injured, the lesser and depend-
ent ones must suffer in a corresponding if not in a
greater degree. If the former be distressed, the
country tradesman and retailer must be embarrassed
in the same ratio. If all these suffer privation, the
market of the manufacturer must be narrowed. If

the supply of the manufacturer be limited to the
demand, diminished production must require fewer
hands, or what is the same thing, reduced wages.
As the distress increases in one branch it must in-
crease in the other, for where the cultivator is
pinched the manufacturer cannot be prosperous.
We have already illustrated these propositions by
the various details and official documents which
have been laid before Parliament since the opening
of the present session. We have shown the rapid
decrease in the consumption of all exciseable com-
modities—the consequent fall of prices—fall of profits
—fall of wages—a fall in many places down to the
pauper and starving point—and this, mind reader,
among a people who have taxes just as exorbitant, en-
gagements as onerous,longleases as high as we had dur-
ing high prices and high wages. In addition to this
we have higher poor-rates now than we had during
high profits and wages. Let any sober and sensible
man reflect seriously on these facts, and, with his
decision as to the possibility or impossibility of the
present system being persevered in much longer
without producing a national bankruptcy, we will
be satisfied. We care not who the individual is,
provided he can count his ten fingers and judge im-
partially, for we are certain his verdict must be in
our favour. By the grace of Parliament we are en-
abled to submit some additional facts worthy of
being made known. If we could persuade our coun-
trymen to judge by facts rather than by empty, sel-
fish, aryl perverted speeches in Parliament—by offi-
cial documents rather than by the slippery and insi-
dious falsehoods of the quacks and the foreign job-
bers—by common sense rather than by what is
called argument in a certain house of bad fame—we
feel persuaded they have power to save them-
selves. If, however, they continue to drink at the
poisoned fountain, and allow themselves to be
juggled and deceived as they have been hitherto,
they must abide the consequences. These conse-
quences will be arrible. They will fall like the curse
of God on them, and on their children, and their
children's children. They will expel the landowner
from the mansion of his fathers. They will turn
the minister of religion into the highway to beg-his
bread. They will convert our flowery fields into
barren heaths, and overturn all that is noble and
virtuous, and venerable and independent, in this our
father land. The struggle may be long—it may
perhaps sometimes appear to be doubtful—but, if
we persist in our present policy, all that we fear
arid predict is as sure to happen as that the sun
shines. The document to which we allude has just
been printed by order of the House of Commons—
it exhibits the declared or real value of all our ex-
ports from Great. Britain and Ireland front 1815 to
1830. It comprehends both produce and manu-
factures.