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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1822.

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better to trust. to their own abundant anclne-
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glected resources :I.t home, th aan rely on preca-
rious. revenue . too often' derived by oppressive
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means.

• - [NEW TIMES.]
-By a reference to the awfteport; it Will be seen
that the Constitutional Association has-entitled
itself to:the thanks and gratitude of the country,
by bringing to justice. a circulator of Carlilels
seditious and blasphemous publications at Man-
.aiester.•'When we consider the tremendeusevil
that may be occasioned insuch a town and neigh-
bourhood by these detestable publications-I-
when we reflect on the numerous population of
manufacturing labourers whom these works are
. calculated and intended to convert into Rebels
and AtheistS we-cannot but rejoice that this pro-
secution; in spite, or all the arts of chiCanery
Which were made use of to frustrate it, has been
brought to its just and legitimate conclusion.—
Ridgway, the individual convicted, had the des-
perate hardihood to move for a-new trial, upon affi-
davits; which he must have known to :.be utterly
false ! Those affidavits;hOwever, were distinctly
and positively disproved by no less than six wit-
nesses; and we are somewhat surprised that Mr.
Justice Bayley in passing Sentence should have
thnitted to dwell. on a feature of such peculiar
atrocity in the culprit's conduct. The. great
pressure of public matters of the highest interest
has alone prevented us from going minutely into
all the proceedings of this case; 4ut we trust we
shall have an 'opportunity of doing so in a day or
two. Meanwhile, we wish it to be distinctly re-
membered that the only verdict hitherto deliver-
ed in any of the prosecutions instituted by the
Constitutional Association is this verdict of Guilty
---that: the other culprits under .indictrfient by
the Association have availed them Selves of every
possible trick and subterfuge to defer their trials.;
but that they must soon be forced to face a jury
of their countrymen.

[BRITISH PRESS_;]
It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report
that. Mr: Brougham last night submitted to the
Rouse of Commons his promised view of the
State of the Country. The exposition was
such as might have been expected from the ac-
knowledged talents. and .learning of the Ron.
Member, and will no doubt be read with interest:
The length of the debate prevents us from no-
ticing the particulars of the statement, further
than that it referred principally to the depressed
state of the agriculture of the country, and to
the necessity of reducing the amount of taxa-
tion. . The Resolution :with which he closed his
speech was framed for the' purpose of pledging
theljouse into an immediate inquiry into the state
of the country, and to the accomplishmeut
a reduction in the burdens of the people com-
mensurate with' the alteration produced in the
value of the currency by the resumption of Cash
payments: Lord Londonderry opposed the Re-
solution, and moved the' previous question, and
Upon, this the House divided; when there ap-
peared, for the previous question, 212; against
it, 108--.—majority 'for the Ministers, 104. Thu
majority, we fear, offers art alarming augury. to
the hopes and wishes of the country. It. is per-
haps to be,regretted that the motion was brought
forward in so thin a Honse—not one-half of the
whole Representatives was present.

[Tilt TIM Es.]
The American House. of Represebtatives, has
been lately occupied with discussions on the
best means of prchnoting the growth of native
manufactures.. This project appears, from the
history of the United States, to have been fos-
tered all. along by the sanguine feelings of 'some
of their most eminent citizen's, rather than
grounded on any solid .calculation of advantage,
or suggested by the natural course of things, and
by the actual capacities or exigencies of a people
not yet advanced beyond the agricultural stage of
their existence. Mr. Jefferson's jealousy of Greta
Britain first led hint to circulate and enforce .the
doctrine, that AmeriCa ought to manufacture for
herself. He endeavoured to act upon this notion,
but failed, as might have been predicted; and .11Jr.
Madison, who attempted to tread in his footsteps,
experienced a similar failure. It does not. belong
to us to say to what extent the circumstances of
the United States ,may have been moditied_by
the last war Ivith England ; or how far the en-
larged investment of capital in home manufac-
tures, while the intercourse with this country V-vis
locked up, may have furnished the, Legislature
With fresh and powerftil motives for recurring
to a ,system formerly unsuccessful ; bnt it .seems
the effort is likely to be made. In the IJuuse
of Representatives, on, the 7th ult.,,'Mt,.Rich
moved the following, Resolution, which was Or-
dered to lie.upon the table :
nesolyea—Vhat the 'comma, tee of -Ways- and Means be
instructed to prepare and repott a Bill, providing for a mu-
iterate atia,nal increase sit (lot les.for a term Pf years, )tPon flak
imiroFtation} of. such cormnotlities as cat), ,withl the PTO:4'o4m
common in ot!'ier countries, and a cull veiijtot application of
.the means of the citizens of the United States, be protio-se4
.atipo.c.larice .frons thooestic AMerials, antilotia .1P514.4t,i4e
rejac,llPot!„siro;ll*ttonsesti.c. eo,ritmoditiesi
.to coraspense,ak
convenient period, and be Oink aanuaily progressive,. till it
than -base readied an amount deemed privet fora pt.rmaneut
vicise.4l,nty,"„, „
he above resolution seems to have beep ;framed
on the , of kalancing one dis'a4vApt,!age
_lf the ,
citizens of the nitedAta, tes
‘at:ei.;ent on '.indulging, thpnselyes,,with fp,keig,u
luz,ur es ~they. mu,st.,:do, so, says ,
coaitribultng more effectuplly ,tham
to Op public .11evenue. iF.oreigiitilartufacinOsare .
:I*JIJit.IPIKPqsS t°,.lWcinFTe4sl,Pg, 404esj;;
.hut its the triam;fibjeOt prutessed 'by: tzne.uipycx
to encourage We AnNe...wpfea-ct4Kes?,
'pretty plain that, 'in. the lame pidportion as the'
Treasurtis benefitted by receips at the Custom-

house on the arrival of foreign, goods, the pur-
pose of the law will be defeated by the non-
consumption of the home article ; while, vice
versa, if the • home manufactures be consumed,
in the same ratio Nvp I the .tax he unproductive.
On the distant remedy for thiS last evil, of a
future extisei it would be premature to Offer any
'comment.: • • • • ,