The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-18 00:00:00

tition hinted in the llonse, t;l)nrtly after the fast
Peace of Paris, " that some of the iieditordshire
farmers began to think it would be a good thing

to set Boney up again,"—and it is not impossible
that some folks may still be of the same opinion ;
hot Sir, I look forwaild with confidence to some
thing much better than that, provided Opposiiion
will be careful not to cause despondency to pro-
duce more mischief in a week than it can possi-
bly he in the power of Ministera to repair itt six
months !

It may be asked indeed, where do F look for
sources of improvement ? Sir, I consider the
iin-
provetnents in Agriculture, Mannlactmel, Com-
merce, and Finance, as mutually dependent upon
each other.

Agriculture will sell more. produce and get bet-
ter prices, as money circulates more freely. It
will raise its produce cheaper, as Farms diminish
in size ; increasing the number of independent
agricultural families, and heiuging lahour into the
field in capital, instead of money ; which latter
will find better employment in Commerce and
Manufactures.
Manufactures will improve from the increased

Home consumption, arising from improved Agri-
culture and Commerce ; and from the gradual

improvement which may be hoped for on t tie Con-
tinent, and in both the Americas. The United
States and the Continent may talk of rivalling us,
if they will, in Manufactures. I hope they will
try• By substituting worse Manufactures fur
Homespun, for that it all they can do for many
years, they will raise up new and richer clw,ses in
their state of Society, and will therehy increase
the demand for British fine, goods• We want

richer customers
Commerce will improve from the •same causes
as Manufactures; but, if we consider how many
ships we had in 1815, employed in the Peace de-
wand, and how many additional were built, or
taken, for the Transport Serv►ce, we must not be
surprised if some of the latter, now .necessarily
out of employ, should rot- before our Peace De-
mand can he brought to equal tie aggregate
Peace and War Demand of the most active year
of British Industry,
We.are no longer Carriers for the whole world.
We no longer manufacture cloths for clothing
Prussian, German, anti French Soldiers. Ye no
longer borrow One Hundred Millions annually.

We no longer expend r hat Burn in the Howe mgr.:

,ket in paying Troops anti Seamen who must eat,
drink, and be fed ; in wear anti tear of ships and
canvass ; of gnus, -musquets, and swords ; in
burning powder and firing away shot ; in hiring
transports ; in feeding thousands anti tens of
thousands with gOod beef, pork, bread, ruin, and
who.must now, poor fellows, work•hard and
live harder—btu still we have no cause for de-
spondeney. •We are not Pepressed !
The surplus population produced by the active
circulation of 25 years wsr--,for that is the real
fact, cannot possibly be. instantly occupied in
peace employ as soon as war employ ceases: But
that is no cause fur despondency : because we
know that great part of what was war demand
.has
already becOme peace deinand ; or, in other
words, many of those thrown out of employ on
the stoppage of war contracts, in the Iron Trade
especially, have long been in a state of peace
employ.
As to Finance, little need he said, since the re-
sumption, or rather the non-resumption of Cash
Payments; for nobody will take cash, now that the
precious metals are below the Mint price: Some-
folks said some time ago that tivtok-notes were at
a discount, but give to one man, now, a Bank-
note and a shilling, and give to another gold equal
in weight and fineness to a Guinea, and then,
Sir, who will buy; most meat or bread with their
sum

Or; as a more certain test, buy gold and pay
for it in flank-notes, and then 'let the Bullion
Gentry tell us whether Batik-notes are at a pre-
mium, or Gold at a discount.
But, Sir, if, after this, there •are people, who
will still insist upon our being in a Depressed
State, I mast ask, " depressed below what ?"
Then, if they still insist upon it, I will
at length acknoWledge that we are, and
that if it entirely owing to Ministers, whose
energy and perseverance, led and encou-
raged by his Majesty's good sense and Patriotic
fortitude, supported by the gallantr.y of our Fleets
and Armies, and the public spirit ()late Nation,
have succeeded/ in putting down the great man
who was the cause of all our prosperity ; leaving
him to stir up the earth, not in Imperial Purple,
and with the thunder of his artillery, et the
Thuilleries, Berlin, Milan, and Moscow, but in a
white jacket and straw hat, with a spade and rake,
in a garden at St. Helena, lions whence he still
issues his decrees, but more to our amusement and
less to our annoyance:.

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