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of permanently trariqnilliiing Ireland. To that
end the Legislature must prepare itself for an
inquiry into the .circumstance's of the country,
much more extensive., aSSidUOUS, and profound,
than ,any on whiCh the labours of • Parliament
have-.l.!eeri employed. for ages'. !--44.5.riet a report
by . the:, recently -nominated ..chniMissieps' from
England' that, will suffice: :Pifer are respect-
able men their„ object is oii-e of great and
well-defined utility they will expose much
vice, and point the road, we doubt riot, to
some , considerable saving of public money :
but the fountains of the evil are beyond
the scope of their research. These may be
looked for in laws which are not applicable to

the ends of justice,—in a community, the respec-
tive parts of which are not sensible of having
common interests,—and in a Government which,
surrounded by the forms of liberty, has never yet
aspired to act upon its subjects but through the
instrumentality of fear. Such are not mischiefs
which, appear from experience to be natural to
any country existing for centuries under the do-
minion of the same masters. They are not merely
of a superinduced and artificial character, hut so
eminently artificial as to have beenk producible
only by an unexampled ingenuity and obstinacy,
in perverting all the arts of Government. Let the
Legislature of the empire, therefore, prepare
themselves, as we have said, for a review of prin-
ciples as well as of facts, when they undertake
this most thorny and perplexing subject. With
much to build up,. they will find that there is
previously no trifling extent of the political edi-
fice to pull away, even to its foundation—a task
which can .be accomplished only by.incompara-
ble skill, unwearied benevolence, and undaunted
honesty and courage.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The last Quarter's Revenue is stated to be
840,0001. above the corresponding Quarter in the
previous year ; but we must also consider what
the previous two in this year were, in order to take
a correct view.of the Revenue of 'the year up to
the 10th of October : 1820. 1821.

Quarter ending sth April £10,711,790 £10,469,177
Do. sth July 13,285,590 12,880,552
1821.
Do. 10th Oct. 13,199,962 14,040,793
Surplus in 1821 193,180

£375390,522 £37,390,522.
By the. above statement of the three quarters o
the two years it will appear that there is a sur
plus this year, over and above that of last,
amounting to 103,1801.; and we are told, and
believe, that the present quarter, ending the sth
January,, will be. goOd ; but we fear we shall
hear, when Parliament meets, that the expences
incurred in Ireland, and the embodying three
thousand additional men, will take away all
the benefits anticipated from the excess. Let
the Revenue be as productive as it may, our great
great Finance Minister, some how or other, always
,contrives to employ it without either reducing
the National Debt, or relieving the people from
the almost intolerable burthens they have so pa-
tiently and so long borne.—But can it be ex-
pected that the agricultural classes can continue
to pay their proportion of them out of their
capital (for out-of capital they•have been paying
their taxes ?) We think this impossible, from
what we actually know of their lamentable and
distressed state in many counties ; but,- at the
same time, we cannot agree with what we have
heard suggested as a substitute, viz. a specific tax
or charge on the funded interests.—We do be-
lieve, however, that agriculture must be relieved,
and that by a reduction of taxation, which cannot
take place unless the greatest economy is adopted
by whatever Ministers may rule. Notwithstand-
ing this is so manifest to the whole empire, many
of the County-Members voted last Session for the
most :shameful and extravagant Estimates, and
afterwards, when called on to vote the Funds so
neceSsary,• to support their own extravagant
votes, they turned round on his Majesty's Mi-
miiters (their own friends) and voted for a Re-
diction of the Horse Tax, amounting to more
-than 500,0001. • These Gentlemen may not meet
Parliament in better humour, or possessed of more
consistency, and it is, perhaps, an apprehension
of them that has induced Ministers to call in
the Grenvilles to their support, whom they
Will, of course, bring into the field.against the
restive part of the Agricultural Interests. Empty
purses are very apt to open men's eyes, and
itL ls not impossible that such may be brought
up by. the Landed Gentlemen this Session, and
that. in consequence they may • demand relief
from taxation (which the Agriculturists wholly
payout of their capital). If they do this, and
demand economy in earnest, they must haie
great weight and strength both in and out of
Parliament ; and it will not he the addition of
six or eight Grenvilles, headed by a Civil Doc-
tor at the Admiralty (an unnecessary Officer
there) that will enable Ministers to resist their
demands. But should they •act the part of last
year' over again, viz. demand Reduction of Taxa-
tion,.and, at the same,thne, vote Extravagant Es-
timates, we trust and hope they .will be dfeated.
To follow such-a course would he ruinous to pub-
lid credit, deprive the Fundholder of his interest,
and bring on open war between the two classes.
-We deplore the present extremity of suffering of
the Agricultural • Interests—an extremity to
which we cannot discover that any alteration in
the Corn LaWs could afford present relief. Pre-
sent relief must be given, and by Parliament—
Reduction of Taxation would diminish the ex-
pence of raising produce, by reducing labour,
Poors' Rates, and every other branch of expen-
diture,. all of which are now kept up by
excessive, direct, and indirect taxation. Here,
then, is the remedy, and in Parliament let
the Country Gentlemen demand economy, and
they • may then demand a Reduction of 'faxes
to a' very considerable amount for their te-
nants, and they would themselves be relieved
in the prices of every article they may have to
purchase, equal in amount to the abatement in
rents; but-if they go on supporting the shameful,
shuffling system of extravagance and expedients
that have been practised °Plate, they will deprive
the agriculturists of legitimate relief, and the
public creditor of his interest—for the State can-
not be -long supported by a class of persons an,
nually substribing their capital instead of part of
their gains,- • •