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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 29,
Will be repeated Dr. Arne's 'Opera of ARTAXERXES
Artaxerxes, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Arbaces, Mr. Manvers ; Ar-
tabanes, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mandane, Miss Rainforth; Semira,
Miss Poole.

After which, Mr. Butin's Comic Interlude of MY
NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Somerton, Mr. Cooper ;
Mr. Brown,'Mr. Meadows; Mr. Smith, Mr. Bartley; -Mrs.
Somerton, Mrs. W. Lacy.
To conclude with a New Comicality, called PUNCH'S
PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN kING JOHN, and
MAGNA CHARTA. By the Writers of " Punch." King
John, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridgway; Pan-
taloon, Mr. Garden ; Columbine, Mrs. J. Ridgway ; Clown,
Mr. T. Ridgway.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 21. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Private Boxes to be had at. the Box-office • of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond street, Mr. Mitchell Old Bond-street;
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and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mart._

Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
!ow, at the Box-office, from Ten till Pour, where Season
Tickets may be had.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET,—
:` THIS EVENING, DEC. 29,
Will be r. peat Congreve's Comedy of THE WAY OF
- THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699.
Sir Wilful! Wit:emu/I, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining;
Marwoud, Mr. Stuart; Witwoud, Mr. Charles Mathews;
-.Petulant, Mr. Buckstone; Waitwell, Mr. Strickland; Mil-
lamant, Midame Vestris; Lady Wiafort, Mrs. Glover.
To be followed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis
Quatorze, MT. H. Holt; Fricarleau, Mr. Webster; the
Duchess- de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma-
itre Celeste.
To conclude with a Grand Comical Burlesque Bur-
a, RIQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince
Tiquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews Green-horn
the Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles ;
.Tia*Prineess Emeralda, Madame Vestris.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
LAST FIFTEEN NIGHTS OF THIS PRESENT
SEASON:
The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, being
compelled, by its Lieeuse, to close on the 14th of January, Ma-
,!larne Vestris, airs. Glover, and 'Madame Celes'e; Mr. W.
ltirpen, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Webster,
mri I ilk. Strickland, will not perform beyond that period again
wit raster week. _

J. F. ARCHER, Box Book-keeper.

FINICESTHEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 29, ,s
Wit be repeated an English Version of Bel:ini's Opera
likLA 80gliNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr. W. H.
'‘Vtiso.; Aiessio, Mr. Walton ; Liza, Mrs. T. 11. Se-
VI ; Anaina, Madame Eugenia Garcia (her first appearance
e English stage); Elvino, Mr. Templeton.
a nvoludo with a New Fairy burlesque burletta, entitled
R YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr.
Oxberry,llrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval,
and M. beneze, who will melee their first appearance in this
country in the incidental ballet.
Places and Private Boxed to be had at the Theatre, and at all
the principal Libraries.

THEATRE ROYAL,, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 29,,
Will be repeated the new Burleka, entitled THE MER-
CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters
by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard,
Wieland, Alias Chaplin, Miss lirooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan.
After which, a New Faree,oelle YANKEE NO TES FOR
ENGLISH CIRCULATION. "Principal Character,. by Mr.
Rice (the celebrated representative of Negro Character),
Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Maynard, Mesdames 1.1. P. Grat-
tan, H. Beverley, and Chaplin.
Io coaeluile with a New Christmas Pantomime, exiled THE
CHILDREN IN THE WOOD ; or, HARLEQ UIN AND
NOBODY. Harlequin, Mr. Frampton; Anti .(;lows (No-
body), Mr ieland ; Clown, Mr. If. Beverly; _Pantaloon,
Mr. Sanders Co umbine, :Visa Bullin.
II(M.", to Pif; 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open. at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.

DA YIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEA."I'RE.
AI usual, the most magnificent Pantomime in London--A ter-
rific hit ! Acknowledgedbyd andietices crammed to the ceiling
_SupSplendi
ments. Scenery— Unequalled Appoint-

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THIS EVENING,DEC. 29, - -
Will be repeated a New Drarea, entitled RICHARD
SAYE, in which iiircss!,;,.i_r_..eies, Hicks, R. Hornier,
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Nrcfne4c mwilhl
plelrforl Howler, Mrs. 11. Vii iing,
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%de 0, .r . f--, • • equip, Mr. Harvey; Clown, Mr—, C. Mont o_
... ' ed. • oon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Collunhillic,.illisslll. R.
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Mestej Sams, Ilitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, are Agents
for Private Boxes during the run of the Pantomime.
Places and private-Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kersebilrer, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four. !

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
51 minutes after 11 Evening 0 minutes after 0.

LONDON :
THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 29, 1812.

Ever since the: close of the war, if not before,
almost every class of political ireformers have
been accused by their opponents of wishing to
get rid of the National Debt. Some persone,
like the present Secretary of State for the Home
Department, have not concealed their desire to
reduce it by the strong hand. That mode of pro-
ceeding corresponds to•border law, and the pre-
judices of birth and education may be pleaded in
excuse for the Right Honourable Baronet. But
whether political reformers have breathed a
word on the subject or not, their opponents have
invariably accused them of wishing to cancel the
National Debt. All other topics of abuse against
the League being exhausted, this is now taken
up, and the League is accused by a Contempo-
rary, notorious for striking with any weapon
which comes to hand, of having for its latent
object, to cancel the 10ational Debt. " While
you live," was Dean MILNER'S advice to an in-
timate friend, who had begun to, reproach him
on finding a pack of cards on his library table,
" never be afraid of bugbears." If there were
the least chance of the League being alarmed at
the revival of this antiquated piece of stale abuse,
we should repeat Dean MILNER'S advice to it;
but there is nut, for the League is not now to be
frightened by a monster that has been paraded
so often, that even the little girls pluck it by the
tail.

It is said, with an air of uncommon sagacity,
that " the National Debt is a mortgage on the
land ;" if it be so, who mortgaged the land but the
landlords, for they have and had the legislative
power, and why should not the land pay the
' mortgage ? It it be unable, why should not the
landlords, like other miscalculating or spend-
thrift proprietors, suffer a foreclosure, and allow
their creditors to have the property mortgaged
for what it is worth ? But this statement, that
the land is mortgaged for the National Debt, can
only be received with explanations.
Of itself land is worth nothing. Like sunshine
or rain, it is merely one of the natural elements
by the help of which the industry and skill of
man wins or creates food. In its natural state it
produces nothing but rank grass, bushes, and
trees, which must be cut down or rooted out, or
burned—as in the United States—befßre it can be
productive. If the land be left unt:lled, too, what
does it produce ?. Rank grass, bushes, and trees;
and it must be again conquered, as it were, be-
fore it can be rendered productive of food for
man. Sunshine and rain lend their fructifying
powers without any previous labour; but the land
must be cleared, and kept cleared, of natural in-
cumbrances before it can be employed to supply
food. Land, therefore, we repeat, is merely one
of the natural elements by the help of which the
industry and skill of man creates food; and, but for
one circumstance, it would be as wise to talk of
the National Debt being a mortgage on rain or
sunshine as on the soil of the empire.
Rain and sunshine cannot be monopolised,
hut the land can, or, rather, the people by whose
labour it is cultivated may be enslaved. We all
know that the land has been monopolised, and
that the people who lived on it were succes-
sively made slaves of by more than one con-
queror, whose power to exact the toil of their
slaves has descended with modifications to the
landowners of our own times. W hen men talk
of the land being mortgaged for the National
Debt, what they really mean is, that the land-
owners, claiming a power to dispose of the indus-
try of the people, have pledved that to the
holders of the National Debt. In Parliament,
and out of Parliament, the landowners, by way
of taxation, have claimed, and exercise to this
day, a power over the industry of thelpeople,
somewhat similar to that which was first
gained by the sword. They may possi-
bly have given up some of the produce
of that industry to others in contract-
ing a National Debt, but what they have
pledged to pay it is not the land, but the labour
of the community. The land by itself could not
pay one farthing. The National Debt, there-
fore, is a mortgage on the industry of the people,
who having that mortgage to pay have become
impoi.;erished, while the landowner has been
enriched.
Ve must remind those who talk of the land
being mortgaged for the National Debt of the
two economical truths—that all wealth is the
produce of labour, and that nearly all which is
annually created is annually consumed. These
two truths prove that all taxes are and must be
paid by the annual produce of industry, whether
it be applied to the soil or a steam-engine. It
is not the land, therefore, but the labour of the
peasant and the husbandman, the labour of the
weaver and the spinner, of the smith and the
tailor, of the machinist and the manufacturer,
which annually pays the whole interest of the
National Debt, as well as pays all the rent of the
landlords and the profits of the capitalist.
Asserting broadly that industry pays all
taxation, it is scarcely worth while to notice, as
another refutation of the statement that the

land is pledged to the National Debt, that the
bulk of. taxation is levied on consumption, to
which all persons contribute, that the land
scarcely yields, directly, the thirtieth part of the
annual taxation, and that if the industry and
consumption of the nation be not diminished
by the total repeal of the Corn-laws, it is a mon-
strous bugbear to assert that lowering the rent of
land by such a repeal, would have the effect of
ditn.inishing the revenue and endangering the
public credit. We shall briefly show that it
would not, and that the League is composed of
man who would be amongst the last in the king-
dom to sweep off the National Debt.
The first effect of abolishing the Corn-laws
would be to increase the industry of the commu-
nity. Mills, forges, furnaces, power-looms,
steam-engines, ships, locotnotives,would instantly
the set in motion, or receive an additional im-
petus. It would be impossible for the industry
of the country to be increased without a corre-
sponding increase of consumption. The revenue,
which has of late suffered so much as really to
endanger public credit—hardly assured by the
unpopular Income-tax, at which the holders of
property assessed under schedule A begin to
kick most vehemently—would be immediately
increased, and the dividends more easily and more
certainly paid. The abolition of the Corn-law
would remove from the people the tax they now
pay the landlords, and enable them to contribute
more to the Exchequer. It would also release
trade from a restriction, and instantly increase
the productive power of the community. The
industrious people would both gait} more, and
they would have less to.give to the landlords. The
course, therefore, , adopted by the_Anti-Corn-law
League, apart from its intentions, is about the
best possible means to secure the continued pay-
ment of the National Debt. It will give the

nation capability to pay; and, wanting that, the
most sanguine would scarcely look for the pay-
ment of the next dividends.

As for the memh ers of the League designing
to cancel the debt, 'nothing can be more absurd.
They are nearly one and all manufacturers, and
if not personally haterested in the preservation of
the debt, as man jr of them are, they are all
closely bound up by ties of interest with bankers
and the monied dosses, most of whom are large
holders of the publi c funds, As a class they are
infinitely more interested i►t the due payment
of the dividends than the landlords. They
belong to the moniec 1 classes. They are
captalists, and that which they are said to design
would deeply injure them; selves. The accusation,
therefore, that the I,eagu e design to cancel the
National Debt is as absur d as it foolish to sup-
pose that the repeal of tlb e Corn-laws will injure
the national revenue, or endanger in the

smallest degree the payment of the dividends.
Such absurd accusations and such silly inferences
show how hardly the landlords and their scribes
are driven to find anything to say in support or
their proved injustice.

It is for us quite amusing to find Lord JohN
MANNERS, the son of the Duke of RUTLAND, a
foremost bread-taxer--a man who, we will ven-
ture to say, would never be heard of but for his
father's wealth and station—" adding," as lie
says, " his protest against the national idolatry
of wealth to those which have of late so sea-
sonably appeared frOm divines and philan-
thropists." Would not his protest be more effi-
cacious if he were to give up his appanage, and
rely, like other men, on his own labour for his
own subsistence? There would be something
like consistency, if he did that, in protest-
ing against other men idolising wealth. lie,
however, only follows in the rank of certain
" divines," who, having got for the Church
from the people, and fro►n the Church for them-
selves, all that they can, now preach against the
idolatry of wealth. Not that they blame
,it in
Bishops or Deans, but in master-manufacturers
and capitalists it is a great vice. They do not
even reprobate it in Dukes. We have yet to learn
if any of them hai•e lifted up their voices against
the avarice which is embodied in Acts of Par-
liament; but the avarice of traders is an abon►i.
nation in their eyes. To hear youthful
.Lords
and eminent divines launch out against the
idolatry of wealth, apropos of manufactarers
endeavouring to grow rich, and not thinking of
granting holidays to their workmen, appears to
us another example-of the cant which is now so
common, and which finds a necessity for reform,
and an occasion for the exercise of justice and
philanthrophy, everywhere but at home, -
These gentlemen discovered nothing to blame
in the pursuit of wealth as long as it was confined
to the nobility and clergy, and as long as their
pursuit of it was crowned with success; but
when the other classes imitated their example,
and surpassed them in the acquisition—when
manufacturers became more opulent even than
Bishops and Dukes, then it became convenient
to cry out against the idolatry of wealth. A
little envy has I►ad a much more powerful effect
on their minds than the precepts of their Divine
Master, which were utterly neglected till they
could be directed against the intruding opulence
of the trading classes.
We hope we are not idolators of wealth, and
we are glad to.find auxiliaries in denouncing that
idolatry. At the same time we should like the
Lords who preach on this subject to begin by vot-
ing in the House of Commons to abolish the_
bread-tax, and by laying on the altar of the new
divinity all the pensions and emoluments which
they and their families have extorted from the
people. We should like, too, that the divines
• who uphold the new worship by their words,
should set the nation an example by their deeds,
and, resigning to the poor all of what the clergy
in successive ages have plundered the poor, be-
come the worthy successors of those who had
neither silver nor gold. At present, does a
rumour prevail that the Metropolitan is ill, all
the Bishops are at once set in motion, courting
the Minister, wooing the patronage of some great
nobles, in order to benefit by a translation. Is
there a rich living to be given away, there are
scores of applicants, all eager to forsake their
flocks, whoa► they say they are appointed to lead
to salvation, in order to get a larger income. Is
there a lectureship or a preachership vacant in
the City, worth having, there are more clergy
seeking for the post, than clerks sending to an-
swer an advertisement for a steady young • man
who writes a good hand. In Parliament and out of
Parliiiment all sortsof intrigues areset on foot, all
sorts ofmissions and societies promoted, to increase
the emoluments of the clergy; and while that is
the general practice,.what avails it that a few
divines, who give up nothing, denounce the ido-
latry of wealth which prevails amongst laymen ?
Let the clergy only act on the precepts of their
Divine Master, and then their preaching against
the idolatry of wealth will be as efficacious as
even Lord JOHN MANNERS can wish.

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