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On the PRESENT STATE of PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

We recently extracted a passage from this in-
teresting Tract, in order to skew the folly, false-
hood, and injustice of the clamours against SINE..
cocas iu the cases of the, Lords Annex and CAW'
lAN ; and the following pasage is well entitled to
the attention of our Readers, as it fully justifies
those who bare alledged that the distressLi of the
lower classes of the People arc to be chiefly, if
not entirety, imputewi to the sudden transition
from a state of war to a state of peace :-"
The assertion, that the distreis so g e n erally
prevalent is to be ascribed, to the rettun of
peace, bits been strongly reprobated, sot merely
as a delusion, but as a delusion 'of the:Most tian•
genius kind. r Are the perilous,' it: has' been
asked, 'mho make this assertion; piepared to
maintain that it would be an expedient remedy
for our finances, sad our disordered system, to
teem. to a state of war ? Would .tbcy have us
commence a state of war by way of cure ? To
give their opinions any consistency, they Must go
the length of these despelate doctrine's.' There
is great.fallScY in this reasoning. The exigen-
cies of war create an immense and almost inces-
sant demand for "manufacttires 01variotts descrip-
tions. We hare lived, in an e*tra9llinary crisis
in a state of the world unk'nown is any 'former
period of warfare. The continent q Europe::
struggling with ‘diffiettltiii iii every bra.eh of its
foreign cot-muerte, spiritless, depressed, %idiom
energy, and without relianci, carried okt ber'jfior
evil trade with Great 'Britain,' in whose poste

she eoold confide, and on .‘ohnse integrity,
alone site &pima. goodz conse.,
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quently fOrced their circuitous entrancOnto every
foreign fort.- But peace necessarily put an end
tO•advantages Arising exclusively .froirt the war ;
our. mAritintei superiority . eca me ,no- longer avail-
able., Competitora,throttged into..tbase'tnarkets
ivlrict bait been• monopolized lay the British Mee-.
chaut. At twine, thelitnittitinO of
,demand for,
the supply of Government was deeply, celr.
inthlett interritptio'niO iiitlustt;y`Was experienced,'
not merely to those tneinuf,ictufett connected:with
tire direct: demands. of .war,—it , was felt in'every
branch 'of frade ; for etre- extensive Chain con-
nttt& the.whole rio bi.:ineit can suffer alone.--=
The „whit stagnation of demand threw vast nn -
b•-..r: indtistrioos poor out of employ. The sud-
den and extensive
_redution of s-the , army and
navy, and of the nalia.l and military establishments,
•CliSt thousands' on the world, without resourc,s,
and withont bread. The complicated etuh4rrass-
ment, of -commerce extended itself:to the landed
interestever'dependerit 'for-their prosperity on
.each other. . •

" It marseem at first a little paradoxical to la-,
molt to., baneful coessequenca of war on tha 'Wei,
fare Of the immtry, itial at "the sante time to as-,
tribe the distress of. aim, totno ry .to its terenina,
tion ;-• but a little reflection will clear this dill
incOnstsieney. War, 'it is most certain,. canne-
ver ILA to a condition of permanent prosperity
on the contrary, every year of its progress must
carry us farther front that .ciindition, because t
yearly ttectunulotion
.of public debt must propor-
tionally exhaust the resources of .the State: The
greater the supplies of all kinds required by Go-
., .
vernturet for, the purposes of,nw, the greater the
quantity of industry employed to furnish, those'
supplies. the.taxo for the !asinteerince of
the public expenditure are audiaaonlly imposed,
isoth,sgrietalttne anatommette-wiareceive a pro-
. ,
portionate stirnules pl'ices, it is" true, will gra-
-0,41y r , i.icsattae the 'trading part Or the Nation.'
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.will add the amount of the tares, and sntuethiog
more, to the taxed commodity;'' anti every pro-
..
prictor, 'kr hotter of hid - nianifitetoros,
'throughout the kingdom, will gradually indemnify
himself by raising the price of the articles, what-
ever:they may be, ill which they respectively deal.,
,Etery one, buys dearer, iesery qne arils dearer
and so long as the wealth of the rountry will ad-
mit thisgeuerld rise of price, without preptdice .to
its prosperity,. the taxes will have no oppressive
operation ; but it is ohvionsahat the time must
one day or other, art ive,.when the huithens will
increase beyond. the ability of tile people to sis-
aain them, without sacrifices of. ,the most serious ,
kind. The late contest, full of glory as it was,
Its brought us to the edge of this precipice, -or
very near it... The ill ctiects were. palliated, in-
deed they • were greatly . warded off, bribe em-
ployment which our eXtelitive foreign trade gave
to .matturectnrers and artisans of every &scrip-.
don, .ands.by. the activity famished to our house
trade two* consumption -incident to H state of
war ; but the Peace pat an vittf to this _state of;
things.; the. competition for employment itscreas.,
•ed, while .the clematis! tor, labour
Numbers who before had constont Avages could
now earn nothing, or at leant hotattfficient to
keep poverty tit arm's length:
Now it is clear that a recurrence to a,state of
war could have 'nn permanent effect towards
amending our condition ; but it does mot, there-
fore, tollourthat our present embarrassments do
ant. arise from the cessation of that demand foi
the produce of manufacturing industry which was
faanished.:by the exigencies of hostility. A man
that, long, accustomed to intemperance, should
on to sudden abstain front all stiong drink, may
for a time, and instil his constitution has adapted
ittelttrathe change of living, Undergo much real
,suffering---the absence of all etitstulus, occasioned
by his retel) to sobriety, .will be the causeof this
depression 'and debility ; :but because we ,ailirns
this, we .are *sot therefore prepared to contend
that be ought an return again -to a' course .of
drunkenness, as n ristorat
put present stare. of commercial flepression
..irta no- means witiOn-the power of the Legis-
lature to; remedy. Government cannot, 11,sgti-,
,son:ofsearcitv apportion the produce of grain to
the population ..to halupported by it; it. cannot
-alter the,relet ive -proportion between the prieeof
aahour aud 'the ,price, of provisions ; it _raonot
.increase the demand.for employmelit t it cannot
throw capital iatothis chttamel, inditsity into,
that. , If the house
ior. Unclip market, h, over-
stocked with any commosiity,itaa not within the
competence of :Government to:find a vent for it.
Tile poorer clisses ttre'sadly rnisle tl, when they
ate (aright by the le4dera at faction to• look up to
Goveroment for the relief-of their sufferings ;' the
.
evil of it is thh (and this evilts the good which
their leaders expect fromit),, that 'finding their
distresses,nnrelieved., they are led to attribute it
to 'a disregard' of 'their condition on the pert of
'thOse- front 'whose interftrenceatiey!lied been led
to expect so moch.tilleviation. Soured hy
poiritmenti they becomeltailess, tnriodent; and
fail" of tigaintt allirestiblighed eutheriry,"

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