The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-18 00:00:00

RADICAL REFORM.

DIALOGUE FIFTH.

Dicx—Now, Frank, for that levelling up which
hou saii'st so much about.-1 want w hear thee
lescrihe it.

FAANK••—th is described 'easily enough. It is'
the exact reverse of levelling down. While that is
dangerous, and dishonest, and uncertain, this is
sure, honest, and safe.—Besides, it does not take
half so much trouble.

Dick—The more to my hate all
trouble ; and it 1 had my good will, others should
nqiik for me, instead of I for them.

Frank—So they may, when thou bast once
levelled thyself up. There are many rich folks in
England who never- did a stroke of work ; and
many who have laboured hard for their riches.
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Dick—The fist sort for me, Frank : and I
don't see why I should not have been one of
them.

Frank—Nor I neither—except that their fa-
thers worked harder for them than your's did for

you.
Dick—lt was very wrong in my father to do
such injustice to his son.
Frank—lt is at least as wrong in yon to do the

same injustice to your's.
Dick—But when the rich folks are made to
share with me, it will be all the same, you know.
Frank—l don't know any such thing. You
would not take the trouble of working, if you
were not sure of your children keeping what you
had earned I

Dick—What else shonld I work for ?—You take
me for a brute beast, not to secure my property
for my OM/ flesh and blood.
Frank—And you take others for fools, not to

wish the same security for their's.
Dick—But if property is always to be kept in
the same hands, a pour man has no encouragement
for his industry.
Frank-1 trig thee again—there is always pro-
perty enough to be got by those who have indus-
try enough to get it.
Dick—Oh, then, you would have me work for
a property, instead of fighting for it ?
Frank—l leave you to judge for yourself.—ln
the one case, you have a fair chance, at least, of
growing richer, with a surety of growintz better :
whereas, its the other, your likeliest chance is
to get your skull cloven, or your neck stretched.
Dick—A haddish chance that, Frank.—But dolt
think our Radicals not strong enough to carry
matters their own way ?
Frank—l cant say :—there'd be some.slashing
and hanging first, 1 fancy—and who knows but
that would be thy share of the scuffle )
Dick—Ah, but they'd divide the estates in the
long run :—an equal share to every body, except,
mayhap, a small hit to some of the rich folks who
supported the Radicals.
Frank—Aye—as they promised, Squire Coke
at Norfolk. he should have five hundred pounds
a year, out of Holkham, when the division comes
to be made.
Dick—l dare say, too, they will let that poor
dear ill-used Patriot, Lord Fit zwilliam, have a few
acres more than his share of his estates in York-
, shire—just by way of compensation, you know.
Frank—What matter to thee, Dick, if thou art
hanged or shot before the division ?—Or if, when
the law is put down, a stronger fellow than thyself
takes thy share from thee )
Dick—And might not the same happen if I
got a great estate by levelling up, as you call it ?
Frank—lmpossible—for the law would still re-
main to protect thee in its possession.—Bless thy
simple soul !—nine in ten of our present Lords
and 'Squires got their estates—they pr their fore-
fathers—by levelling upwards.
Dick—How so, Frank ?
Frank—Why—as I told thee just now—by
honesty and diligence—rising early, working
cheerfully, and living soberly.—lndustry and
God's blessing have laid the foundation of almost
all the estates in the cottony.
Dick—How should a poor fellow like me get
such large property ?
Frank—Every hotly can't have a fine estate, to
be sure :—but every hotly may deserve one—and
why not you as well as another ?
Dick—And if 1 were ever so industrious, how
am 1 to be the better for it, if every body is
equally so ?
Frank—Providence has matte the wicked and
the foolish his instruments of supplying the ho-
nest and the prudent. Diligence is rewarded with
the losses of idleness. The wise man knows
how to get what the fool does not know how to
keep.
Dick—Are there many tsf our grand people,
whose fortune rose out of humble beginnings ?
Frank—More than 1 can reckon up to thee.
What dust think of Sir Richard Arkwright ?
He was one among thirteen of a poor cottager's
children, without either money or friends to be-
gin the world ; yet, Dick, by his talent, and in-
dustry, and honesty, he made a fortune of five
hundred thousand pounds.—Then there's --
Dickßut 1 have-no talent.
Frank—Thou bust enough to know that ho-
nesty is the best policy. Why, man, there be
more prizes in Industry's Lottery than the one
grand capital.—A fine lottery that where a ticket
coats nothing ; without one blank, and a prize
for every purchaser !
Dick—That sounds very handsomely, if it were
but true.—l should like to put into such a lot-
tery.
Frank—Try, my lad ; the chance will cost
thee nothing but diligence ; and that must gain