The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-02 00:00:00

FASIIIONAIiLE ENIIG:tAN I'S.

We haveiong lamented the folly "of those tvho
'desert their countty, fOln tnotives of vanity and
ostentation, to tivish lhat money upon our ene-

. ivies which niioit be epyployed for their own lib-
nouranil theAdvantageof their countrymenat
from -the -recent attempt upon "the lffe of a
Hero who ought to be dea* to all Europe, as well
as to this eauntrv, as the for Mer was rescued from
'oppression by his valour, skill and Military genius,

we hope that our Emigrants will note be rontince
of the danger as well as of the folly of these ex
cursions. Considering the debased and brutalize,
character of' mottern Frenchmen, and their lustre

towards this country, we should not_he surprited
if a general massacre should 'take place in trance
As soon hs they are released from those armies
which are the best Protectors of that country, as
well as Guardians of ;he safety of Europe, that,
would otherwise" probahly be disturbed by a new
.race of Revolutionary Reformers, who might then
be expected rise upon the ruins Of all legitimate
authority. This subject,is now becoine so inte-
Jesting, by the infamous attack that we have
noticed, that we avail ourselves of the following
observations which appeared in The (Dublin)
'Correspondent :

as the public energies are throveing
off those' restraints by which they had been em-
hatrassed, and wisely and vigorously as the Gri-
remittent are exerting themsel ies,. let it never he
forgotten by those whom Stock Jobbers and Se-
dition Jobbers are endeavouring to delude, that
is to-say, the People, that a new difficulty lots
added itself spontaneously to all those which the
war of twenty-•wo years has bequeathed, and
which the peace, guaranteed down to the present
'by armies, has engendered. This difficillty,which
consists in the worthless passion which prevails
for living upon the Continent, turns an iu‘mense
share of tlie tents of Ireland and Great Britain
into a tribute to Prance. It drains the United
Kingdom, according to computation, of upwards
of nine million% 'sterling annually--a much greater
sum than has been exacted from France by her
conquerors for all her bloody enormities. Let
the good people of the United Kingdom bear it in
.tnind, that among those unworthy Emigrants who
squander the produce uC our lands and iabour
abroad, are to be
_found many titled and untitled
declaimers against the legitimate revenue of the
State—men who disseminate inflammatory ora-
tions and writings to agitate and unsettle. the
people's minds, and who .will not help the coun-
try which they affect to• commiserate, by spending
their fortunes at home, and by contributing their
share in providing public labour with employment.
Tire taxes, whatever they are, are spent 3inong
the people who pay them ; but the rents which
tire spent abroad, are SO much of the public pro-
perty'taken away for ever, never to return in any
shape. There is not a meeting before which the
Government has, been arraigned for the last. two
years, where the taxes of all ilioSe, who attended
eqUalled amount .the money spent. in France
by the very persons who were endeavouring to
exasperate themrinto open violence against pay-
ing any pay-
.. Does not.every non see, that an
coitgoing of so many millions annually, no mat-
ter for what purpose, must operate 'greatly tlo.the
pithlic detriment it not apparent, to common
sense, that nine millions annually drawn from the
United Kingdom to the Continent, must be of in-
fiviiely greater injury to the country 'pan nine
tittles as touch raised in Taxes, and spent at home
in animating labour and industry ?

" When we take all those things into consider-
ation, we cannot but feel astonishment that the
people, instead of • crying to he relieyed from the
'Window 'fax, or any peculiar impost, do not
rather raise their reclamations against this ex-
Iratisting drain, which. ,the country .is. enduring
with almost contemptible patience, to gratify the
caprices of our paltry Emigrants. lifive millions
only be :drawn from the United 'Kingdom, for
whiChthere is no equivalent returned, the loss is
too great to be supported, and it cannot he long
sostained without giving plain proofs of its perni-
cious influence on the public interest, -What an
outcry an additional Tax of 10,0001. a-year would
cause—and yet we pay, with iguominons compo-
sure, millions annually to a body of Emigrants—
cast so much wealth away for ever—so much of
the aliment of our public industryof the nutri-
ment ol Our public labour-the very thing, which
of:all things we can the least spare;—anti we do
this conscious of all its mischiefs--convinced of all
its.had.effeets,7 without raising a single mtamer
against it, or ever turning to the Legislat tire. to'be
relieved 1-rum its consequences. Is not this amaz-
ing,l Wanting capital; we are annually stluander-
ing it, by sending it to a foreign' country for
nothing.—Wanting a prOperstimulus to 'labour
and industry, we are slackening even that which
we may command, in order that we May ennui-
bure to animate and foster the labour and indus-
try'of France. This is a subject upon which iris
really very difficult to play a Stoic part."