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London, England, 1829-12-11 00:00:00

NUMBER 13,342.]

CONTRACTS FOR SALT, WHEAT, PEAS, AND
WILLOW RODS.
VICTUALLING OFFICE,- Deana& 4, 14119.

them, and make a comparison of dates and circumstances, the
rapid fall and rise in the money value of articles, and then again
their depression, the sodden alternations of prosperity and adver-
sity which have taken place ; reflect, I say, a little upon these az-
traordinary changes, and you will Dot fall to see that nothing but
wrong Legislation reputing the Jassy of the Country can hays
been the cause ; It is in the power of the Supreme Government of
a Country, by an operation upon the Currency, to make or unmake
the fortune of thousands, by one apparently simple measure ; and
I feel no fears or doubts when assert that that one Act of 1819,
commonly called Peel's BiU, did so operate upon thousands, year
IT lIITCTITILT &Viten TOO Duos OM TAW or ens Norms.
AND OP WORT Dutton us eV, NOT RIOT= TO Tell VIAL mine
or TIM Caul:too, nor so its VIAL toss or nu Dims. And
bare I am not looking- merely to the money debt of we man to
another of a hundred pounds or soy odor amount. AU the At-
*Wrings and Laborious Qum are Debtors, inasmuch u all public
palmists of Nation' Debt, Civil List, Army, Navy, Chutch
Parochial Rates, Highways, the - •• "

THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING
his MAJESTY'S NAVY, le. do hereby gioe
That on FRIDAY, the lath instant, they will be ready to receive
Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the undermentioned
Articles, to be delivered Into the Victualling Stores at Deptford
viz.—

seiikrings of the labwi;us, threatening to injure fatally the moral
character of the people. The Ides that their settlement of the
Currency is newer to be disturbed, is, I think, presumptuous, and
even foolish In the extreme, and evinces a portion of that confidence
and unhappy Ignorance which distinguished those economists who
were the oracles of the day, cud the real authors of Peel's Bill

hoops or neszvsay.
One Hundred Tons of Bay Salt,
stove (hied; and Between the Ist day of May and
Fifty Tons of White Salt, stove the 31st day of July next.
dried.
Two Thousand Quarters of
Wheat-, to weigh 60lb. to the
Bushel; One half of each by the 51st of
OneThousand•Quartets of Peas; January, and thmsentainder
and by the 28th February nest.
Three Hundred Thousand Wil-
low Rods.
Samples 9/ tbtffiggablar.inft Willow Roctslot not 11whilwo
so° Great Tale) must be produced by the party tendering ; and
not any Tender for Rods will be received for WI than One Hun-
dred Thousand. Samples of the Salt, together with the Condi-
lima of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office.
Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be
delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the
Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf,
must attend to answer when called for.
M. WALLER CLIFTOA.

(unluckily fathered upon and named after him). Why not revise
andameod tenures of Legislation, which now are oonfessul by
emout, even of the promoters of those measures, to have been
passel ender a gronmistake ; and which have proved to be totally
&Benet front what was intended? It is said, I know, that wel
cannot be always legislating upon the Currency, and I should say
so toe if we yore in a right coupe ; but, if in a decidedly wrung
troorw, 10 melee owls to legislate, I. as absurd as would be the
conduct of a plot who should refuse to put the helm down when
the ship was going agalest a rock. The fact is, the postage effect
of Peel's MU upon the Agricultural and Commercial Interests of
the Country was never made matter of inquiry by the Ministers or
Committees of both Houses, or the Houses of Parliament col-
lectively, when it was passed.
In 1829, when the distress under which the productive classes
laboured exceeded even that of the present time, I emend to
peeps, to tee House the revise of Peel's Bill, I urged the neces-
shy of on doing, from the evident proof then existing of its having
been the cause of what we were suffering, and to relieve us from
whish, I cert.inly contemplated some probable alteration of the
arbitrary Gold Standard which bad been adopted. By Peel's Bill,
Gold was for the first time made the sole Standard, and the price
fixed arbitrarily at its former rate, without the lent inquiry re-
specting its adaptation to the marvellous changes in the state of this
country and of Europe, which bad taken place since its total disuse'
here as a Currency in 1797.—Mr. Holliston, in an *Wale
speech, contended against any alteration, and concluded by moving
a resolution as an amendment upon my motion, that this House
will not alter the Standard of Gold and Silver in fineness, weight.
or denomination; this he took from a resolution moved by Mr.
Montague, in 1196, when the Metallic Currency WO been unless-
ful/y clipped and debased, and it was proposed to depreciate pro.
portionably the then standard Silver. Mr. Huskisson argued that
the cases were similar, and that our conduct should be such as was
then adopted upon the advice of Mr. Montague. Whether that
advice was wise, may not be so certain. I believe if its effects had
not been counteracted by causes which he did not contemplate, the
perfect wisdom of Mr. Montague, as well as that of Mr. Hue.
kiloton, might have been brought into question ; but the state of
this country in 1696 and 1819, as respected its Monetary Systems,
had no more resemblance to each other than the systems of 14 ff•
land and China. Mr. Huskisson's amendment was carried. Is
that same year, however, and the following year, we find kin (that
is, as one Member of the Government, and a leading Member on
Currency subjects,) employed in making a most material alteration
in the value of our Currency, which was actually accomplished.
What matters it that this was done by increasing our Paper circu-
lation, instead of altering the Metallic Standard? the same end
was arrived at ; the rapid change which began to take place in the
Money vales of all commodities towards the end of 1823, and,
which, in 1824, placed us in a condition of temporary prosperity,
is fresh in all your memories ; this was effected entirely by wousres
taken for the ertension vile. Currency (of course alteration in its
value)—measures avowedly declared to be for the purpose of en-
creasing the Currency—by Lords Liverpool, Castlereagh,. &c. &c.

Industries,
and Laboriqps Classes, that is to say, out of the products of their
industry and labour ; and if by an operation upon the Cur-
rency these products and labour are made to sell fur only half
the price they sold before, the Debt is to all intents and purposes
doubled, and those Debtors, the Industrious Classes, propor-
tionally injured. THUM is NO Max WHO MOST NOT, OUT or 1111
PIODLCTS or HIS INDUSTRY, WHITHIR rune THS PLOUGH, THS LOOM,
Oft THE SAIL, OS 'SON THS SWIAT or MS BROW, PRODUCI TIMM Till
QUANTITY OF (MODS TO PAY TIM GAMS mouser OF CHARGES WHICH
WOULD nave etas ammo= raztious To Pmt.'s BILL, and upon the
passing of which this effect was immediately consequent ; it fol-
lowed more immediataly than ever effect followed cause upon any
conceivable measure of legislative interference ; to the astonish-
ment and dismay of the holders of goods of every description, the
markets gave way at Wee W, 30, 30 per cent. and the honest la-
bourer in vain sought a demand for his labour. It is the uniesr-
edify of this sudden depression which proves so demonstrably the
whole case ; if one dr two articles only had so sunk, special reasons
might have been found, but when every product of Agriculture,
Manufacture, Commerce, and the price of labour itself, all suddenly
came down to such an extent, I say the problem is solved. It is a
diminished supply of .Mciney!hat evidently must be looked to as
the cause. • If Ai' iur Money of every description consisted of
Gold and and ifone half was by a combination of causes
withdrawn from the circulation, we should of course And a pro.
portionate diminution of the quantity of money we could obtain in
exchange for our commodities and our labour; so if Peel's Bill
has equally reduced our joint Currency, consisting of Paper or
Credit Money, as I may teem it, and Metallic, of course the effect
must be precisely the same ; and that it did so reduce it, the sud-
den and immediate fall of commodities and labour is the proof.

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But the cause of , out extraordinary difficulties is I think
made still more apparent by adverting to she general circuits-
s:ances and situation of the country : in the midst of difficulty and
distress so peculiar, we possess all the elements of prosperity, the
powers of the country, the wondrous improvement Mali the useful
Arts, the enlightened intellect, the increased information, the enter-
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other country, ihbugh it brit been of late years grievously reduced,
god the •Apicultvril Cipdtal of the Country to a most
serious extent ; sdll I say,bpon the whole,There never was a coon-
try possessing so fullylbe.eiensents. Of prosperity. What then can
be the cause of the soriverial embarrassment and difficulties under
whkb we labour? rinove•that multitudes will answer, the
Two ; but I so:y.dre tareithintld 'sot kfeit, if they were payable
in Money of the iiine'raitte of that in which they 'were imposed ;
it is the monstrous act gf fionbling that value' which has occasioned
this unexampled state of things. .But even here the mischief does
not end ; the increased vitae of the Currency was of course occa-
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in the money value of every article necessarily took place ; then
came a forced twee' k of the Circulation, and consequent advalice
of prices, soon to be inevitably fullavied; is if was, by still greater
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I know full well that this change of value and state of prosperity
so brought about, was of very short duration, that a reverse
followed again, a dreadful reverse ; but why? because the
authors of these measures only half understood what they were
about; they saw that an extension of the Currency would
give relief; they lifted the ship up by that means, but
they left her under the full weight of Peel's Bill, which
soon sunk her again upon her side. But here was made
evident what alone was and is wanting, namely, an increased Cor
rency, increased means of circulating the products of the country ;
and is it to be believed that we cannot so increase our circulation
as shall suffice for the wants of the country, and lift us up again to
the prosperous state of 1824, and at the same time guard against the
dangers and mischiefs which then followed ! how can we doubt the
possibility of ultimate success if adequate pains were taken? It is
evident now that the full execution of Peel's Bill is impracticable ;
that it is only by means adopted to counteract its infleence that
the business of the country has gone on; its operation, unopposed,
limits our circulation to so ruinous a degree that a stagnation, a
paralysis, ensues; and yet every measure of 'opposition to lea fatal
power is hazardous, every effort made to counteract its influence, is
attended with more or lets danger : the more effectually it is for a
time counteracted, the greater the danger; for instance. in the
petiod just alluded to, the Lords Liverpool and Castlereagh, horror
struck by the distresses of the people, particularly kr Ireland, when
the unexampled sight of people starving in the midst of plenty was
exhibited to our eyes when these Noble Lords, I say, sawihis, they
by their measures distinctly charged it all upon the contraction of
tie Currency under Peel's Bill, tad set about the extension of it
with such rigour that they speedily effected their object ; the
Currency was largely and hastily expanded, the sun broke sud-
denly in upon us, and all was life and spirits; it was so sudden that
our prosperity was intoxicating, nor was the Chancellor of the
Exchequer lesa intoxicated with the change which bad taboo
place, when he declared that all classes of the people were enjoying
a state of unexampled prosperity. 'This was pretty nearly the
truth at the time be was speaking ; bat he, good easy man, did not
dream that the next day would come a storm, a dreadful storm,
and all his brie prospects be dashed to pieces. He did not see, the
Ministers did not see, the People did not we, that Peel's Bill
would not suffer so violent an attack with impunity. that it would
speedily bring in again all the Currency which hadsbeen so hastily
pushed out; this result, which they ought to have forgiven, took
place and panic and ruin followed. The Ministers then, to save
themselves from blame, accused the people of a nsania of specula-
tion and fell upon the Country Bankers tooth and nail; but they
themselves were the only people to blame—their measures of 1&22
and 1823, wire neither more nor less than a speculative attempt to
defeat the operative of IVel's Bill, and yet to keep it on the Stetsa,
Dash. It proved how little they understood its power ; the same
difficulties again came on, and then again all kind of different cause,
are talked of, over production, the tremendous power of machinery
is a favourite expression now, surplus population, and I know not
what. They still, however, would counteract Peel's Bill; but
then they were to do it this time very prudently, they will rake
steps to protein so large an extension of Credit Currrency, and so
, will have normal' notes of Privateßas.ks; they repeal the Bill of 1823.
establish Branch Banks of the. Batik of England. and persevere io the
most unjust attack upon the Country Bankers, the mrs,t useful persons
to the industry of the Country: Further measures are !tow talked
of ; Bank of England One-Pound Dotes are to be booed ; tbi foods

TO THE
GENTRY, CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS,

AND INHABITANTS,
OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX.

GENTLEMEN,—The difficulties which have long*
weighed heavily upon the industrious and laborious classes, now
press with such severity, so extraordinary and so anomalous is this
♦isitation of universal distre.s, that I feel convinced you must be
looking to your Representatives, to whom your most important
interests are confided. for some expression of their opinion upon
the cau'es of the calamity, and of the means that ought to be pur.
sued to avert it. There is hardly an individual now hiving a
capital engaged in Agriculture, Commerce, or Manufacturers, who
does not feel, an injury, coming as it were from an iniisible
band, and every one, whilst feeling it, casts an anxious eye around
him, and, unable to discover from whence it comes, dreads the
moment when be shall hi added, another victim, to the multitudes
of honest and industrious men who have already fallen.

Tot CORIIIIRCT 4 rtior.;so MCAT IT w MOT 111IfTWIENT TO
CARRY on rasa Commancs or Max .Courrae ; our Statesmen indeed
talk of increasing Manufactures and Commerce; and give flourish-
ing, though I: belleveOflOn. hllaciout, statemitnts of Exports and
Imports; Ships built, Tonnage, animen empipied. bay fallacious
statements, for some Gentlemen. can play with.their official returns
in a very .extratiklinary manner, and 'prove to ruined multitudes
that they are In a: *molt thiiving
.and prosperous condition. But
what avails increasing Commerce without, any profit attaching
thereto ? • Who will venture to say that Capital and .Industry now
give any profit ? Who wilt say that ether. -there is no profit, the
labourers can ise'adequately paid? •Who indeed will deny that half
our klanufacturen aid others, having capital employed in great
works, are carrying them on with an annual low, .and continue
their works only breauae their loss is less than would be the sham.
donment of their Establishments, for whiels they know there is no
. adequate sale? Mr. Taylor. in hit.. admirable work on the
Money System of 'England, quotes a remark rnade• two hundred
years ago by Mr. Graves, a writer on Money. who said, " If the
mystery of exchanges andyaluatlon of Money be not better under-
•stood, it may fare with Nations, after mash Commerce. as with
•worie bodies after much feed, that instead of growing full and fat,
they may pine away arid fall into irrecoverable consumption."
Mr. Taylor goes 'on to observe. " England lass three suecenive
times since the Warbeen on the verge of that kind of.consompdon,
and she has the cemplainrupen her. at this moment." This pic-
ture is not too highly coloured, and was ever such before pre-
sented to the eyes of any peOple on earth ? and this Meter fourteen
years of profound peace. What could produce this state of things.
I ask again, but the cause to which I ascribe it? a sudden and
trident change in the' Money of the country. increasing its value
inordinately, throwing consequently a double load upon all the
Industrious and productive classes, confounding all values and all
the public and private money obligations of the country, confusing
and obstructing all the operations of Commerce. No other country
could have borne the shock, nor could this, bad it not been, whets
the blow was fast struck, in a condition of strength and vigour
unexampled; and here, let me remark, is the reason that the dill-
sullies I have described are comparatively so little seen; a giant
blow hasbeen struck, but with giant strength the country cuotends
against it.
'; But you Will ask me what must be done? We must tell our
Ruletirthat common sense and painful experience have shown us
. at lerig:h the eau c of our *distress ; they must not longer deceive
themselves or us- with plausible statements vain hoptsi.they
cannot killer conceal the truth ond'ilatts matter of fact ; .they

You may, perhaps, more especially expect from me icommuni-
cation of my sentiment., because I ventured some years ago to de.
Blare a decided opinion upon the Calla( of the grievances then ex-
isting, and which, with variations in degree, and one short interval.
have continued ever since, and which are now accumulating and
gaining daily more destructive force. I declared my conviction
then to be, that all our sufferings were °win:: to the mistaken
views of our Statesmen respecting the Currency, and that so fatal
was the error they had fallen into, that the evils arising out of it,
however they might be less destructive at one moment than ano-
ther, could neither be conquered by patience nor would cease by
time • that any hopes of relief therefrom would be fallacious ; and
that to put off a correction of the error would only increase the
difficulty and add to the number of sufferers. I was first led to
this conviction by men of superior intelligence, and experience to
myself. who saw the error before I did, but as soon as the convic-
tion became fuUy established in my mind, the truth of it appeared'
so obvious; the re.soning upon which it was founded so clear and
so conclusive, that I have never since felt hesitation or doubt upon
the subject : every day's tale of misfortune and misery has added
strength to the proposition, and I believe there are few men of
business or reflection who do not now begin to open their eyes to
the light which 'forces itself upon them.
I say then our difficulties now ari+4 from the same cause as in
1e32 ; they do not arise from any of the commonly alleged causes;
it is nett's_ r Surplus Production, nor Surplus Population, nor is it
the effects of-the Machinery, nor want of Markets, nor Corn
Laws, nor Tithes. nor Taxes, which bare produced them. It
is the violent and sudden change made by our Statesmen upon all
our money obligations, which has caused the entire evil. The tre-
niciolous effects of Legislation upon the Currency of a Country,
the influence derivable therefrom. upon the facia nations and on
the property and bapplersi of individuals, 1s1s& understood ; but
search the history of this and every other -Coontry.closely and it
will' be made apparent ; if you only tax your memory with a re-
collection of the woes of the last fifteen years, nod leffect upon

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must reconsider their measures; they have evidently got into a are to be forced up and the fours reduced to threes, a retluct.w.
wrong path, they must try to geiright ; perseverance in error has which will distress many persons, and by no means relieve the cm
already gone to an unwarrantable extent ; they have too lon barrassnsents and difficulties ander which we labour. These coca
sought to avoid a confession of the terrible mistake that has been sures are as vain as the others which have been tried; from the
made, I say, they have gone much too far. considering the uni- history I have just detailed it is clear what alone is wanting, %eh ,t
venal districts which pervades all the industrious classes and the would bring immediate relief and what alone cars.bring permanrc'• 1
relief ;—it isms' extension of the Currency rude► safe end just lima).
But it is not only iu the case above recited, that prosperity lia, '
been the immediate result of an extension of the Currency ; the ."
,
Some circumstances occurred in 11117 ; and it is not only that pros.

perity is the immediate attendant upon an Increased Currency. a
contraction of the Currency as immediately produces embarrass-

anent and distress ; the contraction made in 1815 and 1816, prep.

story to cash payments, caused the difficulties of 1813 and distr.,'
of 1818. similar to those which again began in 1819, and Increased
on to 1822. In 1817 they were removed by the same means as in
324. Surely the events of those two periods might suffice to
satisfy any person's mind in respect to the cause of our present
dilliCulties. and of the means that must be applied and would be
Weeniel for our rdlef.
The first object of Legislation upon the Money of a Country
should undoubtedly be to keep its value as invariable at possible ;
now I contend that Peel's 11111 is shown, by. this short review, t.,
have produced effects diametrically the reverse of this object, that
the Maury of the Country has never been so variable, no such
ruinous Suctdations of value ever occurred as have taken place since
that time. What use, then, is Mr. Huskisson's famous resolution,
or of what effect but to betray and ruin? If the Money of the
Country can practically, and to all intents and purposes, be altered.
and to a great extent, in its value, without altering the Metallic
Standard, what is the ntaintainance of that Standard but a fraud ?
I do not, however, mean to say that a Metallic Standard can be
altogether dispensed with, but that it is productive of ruin instead
of utility to attempt to establish a Standard which keeps no mea-
sure with the vast commercial and financial engagements, both
public andstrivate, of the Country. The Standard to It Mel Mr.
Huskiwon is an devoted, absolutely distracts all our opentions
and will continue to be, as it has been, a source of deception and
fraud, instead of security to, the Country; there will be a never
ceasing effort to escape from its power, and as far as such efforts
are occasionally attended with success, temporary and partial relief
will be obtained ; if not successful at all, stagnation and ruin will
follow. Ministers, as we see, have been trying continually to es-
cape (tom it; the people by some means will continue the same at-
tempts, they will use more caution, both Ministers and people, but
the struggle must go on, as for file and existence, and fluctuation
and distress, in every vatted degree, will be felt, such as we have
experienced the last fourteen years, in fact ever since our Statesmen
began the work of Currency us a sound and healthful state, as they
called it. Now I do not mean to urge the propriety of any
measure of rival violence with Peel's Dill, but I &Ist upon the ne-
cessity of a most anxious revision of it, and ail our Currency Laws ;
first, I say, there is no way of solving the problem of our
ar ordiny situation, but by looking to these fatal Currencire
which are capable, and alone capable, of producing_ the Atonal), ;
then, I say, that a most diligent inqat:nvith the Oaten the in-
formation which Government can d, would inevitably lead
, to a clear view and exposure of the error that had been committed,
, and to the discovery of means effectual to the accomplishment of
L that object of primary importance, a safe and adequate Circulating
Medium.

I know there are those who will say, if the Legislature should
entertain the question of the Currency, wish a view to any altera-
tion, it would cause great alarm, destroy confidence, and excite
speculations of every kind ; but there is no ground for such an sp.
prehension, on the contrary, it is necessary to the restitution of
animism* which has been destroyed by these fluctuations and alter-
nations which I have described. Such have been the rapid changes
in the money value of all commodities, that nobody can tell what
to do or trust to; every species of contradiction to ordinary rules
has been exhibited; we have had low price with a scarcity, high
price with plenty, and people starving in the midst of abundance.—
In 1825, when Wheat was at 68s. or 70s. the average, Ministers
said the happiness and well-being of the people was unprecedented,
indeed there undoubtedly was then no complaint, or cense for any.
In 1827, when es heat was at 581.(10a. cheaper at least) and all other
articles varying in the same proportion, the same men said it was
an alarming prier, and means must be taken to facilitate the supply
of Foreign Corn. and a Bill was passed accordingly. This is almost
incredible ; but if you look into well authenticated reports of the
Debates, you will find It is very true. I say that these performances,
and their consequences, hare destroyed costlidessee, and it is abso-
lutely necessary the Legislatute shook!. take up the subject of the
Currency in a very different style from. the past, in order to restore
it. I intreat you to pause and reflect upon these • facts, because
they ate absolutely Conclusive of the question; here are shown
*sty and happiness at 68*. for Wheat—scireity and distress at 516.
I own I am surprised that the people of this country should fail
to see that this monstrous anomaly *surf arise from the difference o f
the Money at those two different periods, and nothing else ; and
that there should be Statesmen still c Table uJ deceiving them, with
the ridiculous tales of over production. &c &c.
As, EARNEST ENQUIRY INTO tat errs is off oua PRESENT SYS.
TIM MUST AT •LL EVENTS BE GONE INTO, AND • MORE COMPRI-
DIWISIVE VIEW NEST St %ULM Or VHS 'RESIST SITUATION OF THIs
COUNTST AND OF Boners. AS &WAVES TO THEIR .FINANCIAL AND
MONETARY SYSTEM'. Tee swommus AMOUNT Or OUS DIST,
THE CILNEsAL esivacmtta op CREDIT CURRENCY /OR ALMOST
RVERY urESATION Of . COMMIUSCIL
.4SD . TRADE. AND THE norosuat-
LIST Or AGAIN SWIRSEING TO ANT ERTENSITII USE OF TUN rat.
CIOUS METALS, 11110115" IT ABWEVIILLY lIIICESSA RT TO LOOK
BA.UND roe OTHER MEANS •TO GIVE STABILITY lAND SEcustyy To
SUCH • SYSTEM. BENIDIVI TIM ANCIENT PLANAR! SUBSSCWINI Tilt
ram:toes METALS To • MED PEICE, WHICH TS ATTEMPT UPON
I ANT COTNER, COMMODITY WOULp at COS.! Mammas. At the
same time it is possible our difficulties might at all events be par.
Bally removed, much easier than those who cathed them are win-
ing to allow. A judicious though slight alteraticn will often pro-
duce very considerable effects; I thank the resumpllon of the Sil-
ver Standard, and the restoration of the Small Note Ctoto.tcy,
would give some relief; at all event,, a trial mishit* made with
safety. Let it not be forgotten that Scotland and Ireland have
been allowed to retain their Gauntry Small Note eerrency with
a penalty upon ha circulation in &beat d. An arrangement so at
variance with common sense and justice can neves be pertain. at.
We must legislate again, a we must take a Vino: course front
what has been pursued. or we shall very soon eithau-t th, afore.'
of our strength and tall into a -t ate of decay, out of whi h it r
be extremely difficult to recover.
It is time the inoustsious and intelligent people of the country
should intetfere ; if the Agriculturist,. Merchat t, Manufacturer.
and Shipowner, rai.e their voice in harnsony with leach other, as
they obviously ought. on this occasion, and tell our Statesmen that
they ascribe their diffiulties to the state uf the Current y, the I.e -
gielature will certainly take the subject. into manna corsil-ration ;
I think otherwise nothing will be done till some dre;dful catas-
trophe occurs, and which, if we go on to we now are doing, will
take place at no very distant period. Is thus addressirg you, Gen-
tlemen, I have done what appeared to me an isdispetuable duty
at this juncture ; I feel confident you win give me credit for tie
motives by which I have been act6ated however you may ur may
not agree with me in the opinion- I entertain.
I have the- Honour to be. Geonernier,
Your faithful and obedient Servant,
• CHAS. C. WESTERN.

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