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London, England, 1819-11-17 00:00:00

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PO JOHN BULL, ESQ.
iloNEst JoHN—lt has been said by a Win man
of old, that in a multitude of Counsellors there is
wisdom—,-but i am afraid that aftdirs are much
Changed since his time. You have ei multitude of
Counsellors at present, it is true ; and there may
be wisdom amongst them; but I
fear the propor.
Hon is much less than contemplated by the Royal
Proverbialist. It is a great misfortune, also, that
a considerable proportion of your little ones, are
more disposed to follow those who please their,
fancy, nod appeal to their passions; than the few
who wish to appeal to their judgment. Yet your
family have a vast fund of good sense, in the
main ; the only difficulty is to bring it into circu-
lation': but to do so, will not be a vain attempt,
if you Jotili NT, will further it by your advice and
example.

As one of your friends, it is my wish to See yam'
and yours sit down contented ; but still, not its
that state of apathy which would preclude im-
provement. There is a great differenCe between
trying to better one's self by honest industry, and
judicious enterprize, and that envious disposition
which covets the wealth of others, withoot any
proposed exertions, except those of mere physical
force and rude domination. 1 would therefore have
you hint to such of your family as, are still restless
and discontented, that they are defeating their
own purposes and diminishing their probable fu-
ture profits and earnings, when they propose to
share that which would be of little value when
divided, though its aggregated portions its. effects
are most beneficial.
Let them look at a paviour in the streets, and
see with what facility he drives down the heaviest
and largest stones, by means of his heavy iron-
bound ranimer—but suppose that useful machine
split into walki►►g sticks, or inro an emblem of
union, such as exhibited in HUNT'S procession,
and divided equally amongst an hundred hands,
where would he its farce, or what would be its
effects ? Besides, when they think of a division of
England's wealth, they must look beyond their
own immediate vicinity. Let them think how
many millions there art in the Empire, besiderthe
few thousands of badly employed operatives in
the districts round Manchester and Leeds. If in

their own immediate vicinity, they. see one man
possessing ten thousand acres, and, a thousand
men without one acre, it does not follow that an
equal division would give to these men ten acres
a piece; for there arc others at a distance, who
would naturally have a claitn to participate. Then,
even if each should have ten acres, they must. still
work to gain a produce ; and that produce, if
there should be an overplus after their own ex-
penditure, would not fetch the price in the mar-
ket which it does at present. Indeed, it would-
fetchno.price at all ; at least, not until the equal
division should begin to relapse into inequality.
13ut the share of each would not exceed four acres,
which might indeed be cultivated as a garden, but
in no other way; for who can plough if he has
no horses ?—And who can support a team of
'horses upon four acres, to say nothing of cows,

sheep, &c. &C.
Now, JOUNNY, after all, I wish to ask where is
the difference then the same quantity of work
g►ves or buys the sante quantity of produce, whe-
ther that produce shall arise front another man's
acres or from your own ? But the fact is, that
under the present system, notwithstanding the
sufferings of the labouring poor, the same van-
thy of work affords a greater proportion of pro-
duce tban it could possibly do tinder any prOposed
division. Nay, the land itself actually produces
more at present, because it is cultivated under a
greater variety of ag►icultural labour than could
take place under the proposed system. What
. could be done with four acres of the light sandy
soil of Norfolk, or of Salisbury Downs, by a
single individual, in comparison with what they
yield under rotation of crops and sheep-feeding ?
Recollect also that, as far as I know, nobody,
who possesses more than Fotta acres wishes for a
division ! Count their numbers throughout the
Empire, and count the numbers of those who do
wish for it, and then say whose opinion ought to
guide—whose physical force ought to prevail !
But even the Dividers would wish to accumu-
late after division. 'Tis the natural desire of Mr-

man nature, which • society encoi►rages and pro-
tects. One man bas one child and accumulates
1001., another 1►45 ten children, and also accumu-
la:es 1001. But has he a right to ask the first
man to share with him ? If he has, then who will
work for, or save, that which.he is not to possess ?
If yon have children, JOHNNY, you wish for more
char► mere maintenance. Yutl.w•ish to save against
a rainy day. to realize 1001. or 10001., or 10,0001.,
and to leave it to your little ones. You would
think jt a.hardship if Parliament were to pass a
law that should preveut yuUr gaillibg and savlq

es tnncli as yoti please; hay you are, etteh at pre-
sent, not vety fond of a law that forces you to
yield op part of your gains to otherp—you grumble
at the Poor Lawil—Suppnse you were to have
such a genius as AnKwalowT or Boetors---it may
be your ease some day-;-would you like, fifty
years hence, to have your savings taken from your
children, and divided amongst all th stupid, idle,
and key ignoramuses, whose genius or capacity
could never Carry them beyond the plough-tail, or
whose sottish Wahits spent all their wages at the
ale-house ? Theo, if this would be unfair fifty
years hence, how can it be tohsonent to justice
now ! Consider these questions coolly, J NNY,
and it is not in equal division, nor in national
bankruptcy, that you will look for a remedy to
existing evils. There is not, nor ever was; a
country where all the people could be certain of
the comforts or even the necessaries °Ellie; much ,
less is that to be expected in England, where the
'rely poorest consider, as necessaries' those things
which are scarcely thought of in other countries,
eeetras comforts, nay its luturies!
Nor l's it even by reducing Britain to a state mere:
ly agricultural that you could gain your desires.—
Look at Astgetta, the United States, 1 mean,
held up 'to you as the Land of Promise, where
thousands of acres may be had for almost. nothing,
all flowing with milk and honey ! But she is now
in the deepest distress, and her children actually
suffer the greatest misery in many parts, because
trade and commerce are gone, credit at a stand,
and no market for her surplus produce.
With this before your eyes, will you listen to
agitators,whotell you that:Britain's distresses arise
from causes solely within herself .:that they are
occasioned solely by the weight of taxation, and
the pressure of the National Debt ! Must you nut
look some where else for the cause, when you
see America in deeper distress yet, comparatively
speaking, without either debt or taxes ?
Besides all this, where and What are your present
distresses ? The Gingham Weavers of Carlisle are

out of employ, because ginghams are out of fa•
shion. The muslin and cotton trade is dull, be-
cause the Norwich trade is brisk, and because
stuffs have partly superseded printed calicoes at
home, whilst the American market is in a great
measure useless to you. The Woollen Weavers

feel depression, because the British Army and the
Armies of Europe are no longer clo►hed with our
manufactures; and, in general, those engaged in
preparing the necessaries of warfare, are now left

to seek employment in the arts of peace.
But iliid not all this, and much more, exist
three years ago ? Efas it not been much remedied

since tbat time ? And may yoo not thence expec

a progressive amelioration and a final cure, espe

cially when the resumption of Cush Payments, ii

only permitted tinder very favourable circum-

stances, shall assigt in levelling prices down to

your present wages, provided that revulsion does

not go further than our Politicians contemplate ?
What is there then to excite despondency or to
prompt to rash experiments ? What is to be

gained by proceedings which in themselves check

the progressive amelioration ? How are Man.

chester or Leeds to venture upon increased enter-

prize, if property is to be threatened once a
month by Political Meetings, if the standard of

tint and plunder is to be exhibited at tl►e very

doors of their warehouses ?

What have you, JOHNNY, to do with the tri-
coloured Standard of revolutionary France—the

red, white, and blue, adopted by the Jacobins, be-

cause they were the footman's livery of Elie Duke

of Orleans?

Zmirnls ! JOUNNY, yon make me swear !
Shall free-born Englishmen wear the livery of a

French Regicide Forbid it, Heaven

Your's,

IGNOTUS

• COUNTY OF KRNT.—The Election of a Mem-
ber fur this County to serve in the present Par-
liament, in the room of the late Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL, took place yesterday at the Shire
Horse on Pevendou Heath. The present Sir ED-
WARD KNATCHBULL was the only Candidate, a
proof of the estimation in which he is held in the
County. After a speech honourable to the feel•
ings and principles of Sir EDWARD, which was
warmly applauded, the High Sheriff, no other
Candidate 'being proposed, now put the pies-
tion,—Whether the Freeholders approved of
the .nomination of Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL.
—The meeting were unanimous in their ap-
probation, and the Hon. Baronet was declared
duly elected. This intimation was received with
three times three. The Hon. Baronet then step-
ped forward to express his acknowledgments for
the confidence which had been reposed in him,
and in doing so reiterated his former pledges
The meeting then dispersed.. A rumour prevailed,
that it was intended to introduce a loyal declara-
tion, relative to the proceedings at.Nlanchester;
a strong muster, however, of the opponents of
such a measure, it was presumed, deterred tho,e
who might have contemplated such a side-wind
operation, from carrying, their intention into
effect.

POETRY.

NEW REFORM.

" I nuns argenPurm,—eeraque et artes.",,-.
Q HOR. FLAC. Epist. 6, Lib. 1.
Why sitrpriz'd Carlile shuts up the Temple Of Treason?
irten flit Loyal acknowledge he now has some REASQN!
T. G. N. , .