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. BPIEDY, EFFECTUAL, afid PERMANENT kited, if they really exist, are of no ordinary nature;
itELlEFfor the DiSMESSES of the COUNTRY.1 and as their troth or falsehood can be eaniy known;
lit is sniely, in the present state of the ,cOontry, •
A LETTER FROM
LI MILERPOOL. OWEN TO THE EARL OF
duty incumbent on your Lordship's Administration
V
to ascertain whether this statement be a fallacy
or a fact.
Experietice, derived froM long prattice, hai deve-
loped to me the knowledge of as invaluable moral
• , .
seience,through which; when gradually and judi.
ciously applied to the business of life, the immediate
distresses of the country will be easily removed, an
abundance of valuable employment will be found;
and a state of prosperity will be permanently secured;
such as, without a knowledge of this science, must,
be deemed visionary and impracticable. On the
experience of nearly thirty, years of successful eaten- -
sive practice, guided by this science, I now claim
from your Lordship a fair and full
:public in/testi-
gation of these measures, which, after great cost
and toil, and much rirental exertion, have been de-
vised soles' with a view to give bread to the hungry;
and relieve the wretched from the niiseries which
now they most unnecessarily suffer.
I offer to submit these measures for emnnination

TO THE WORT HON. THE EARL 01 LIVERPOOL,
FIRST LBll/5.07 THE TREASURY, &C. icc. &c.

New Lanark, rune, 18§o.
MY LORD—Unwilling as I have been to come to
this decision, my duty to my fellow-creatures, to our
common nature, which is now so grievously op-
pressed, compels me thus publicly to enter the lists
in direct opposition to those measures of political eco-
nomy upon which you have declared it to be your
intention to act, under- the accumulated and accu-
mulating distresses, which threaten to overwhelm this
and many other countries.

For your private character, my Lord, I entertain
feelings of respect and kindness; but the best inten-
tioned individual in the world, in your Situation, may,
by his errors, commit such mistakes, as to plunge an
Empire into an abyss of misery, and then coolly say,
as you did on the Marquis of Lansdown's late mo-
tion, that you knew of no remedy, except « time
and patience."

under circumstances, if they contain errors; the most
trying fin- the individual who has to support and
defend them. I offer to be fully examined at the
bar of both Houses of Parliament, respecting the
science on which they are founded—the detail of the
separate practical parts of which they are composed
—the immediate and remote results which are likely
to arise from them—and on every point connected
in any way with my proceedings, or with the mea-
sures Which I have to propose. Undei these circum-
stances, my Loid, if I am mistaken, the acuteness,
e'oquence, learning, and practical knowledge of both
Houses, must put an end to my errors of theory and
practice for ever.
Yet, my Lord, for the benefit of my fellow crea-
tures, in a full consciousness of the rectitude of my
intentions, on a conviction, the strength of whiCh no
words can convey, in the truth and righteousness of
the cause to be defended, I willingly offer myself,
opposed to all the prejudices of society, to this fiery
ordeal.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, very
respectfully, your Lordship's most obedient servant,
ROBERT OWEN.

My Lord, the subject is too urgent and important
to permit the waste of time on useless ceremony, for
a conflict has now publicly commenced between the
measures which have produced the existing evils, and
one intended to remove them and prevent their recur-
jence in future* and which conflict, for the sake of the
rPoor and distressed, and the well-being of all, ought to
be speedily:decided. The measures now supported by
your Administration are right or wrong ; if the for-
mer, then must starving thousands either immedi-
aLly emigrate, or submit, uncomplaining, to their
doom, and die. But if these measures proceed from
principles of mistaken political economy, and I can
satisfactorily prove them to be wrong, then is there
hope of better times at hand, that our population
may again smile in plenty, and that our prosperity
may grow, side by side, with the prosperity of other
And this task I mean to perform.
The individual who thus addresses your Lordship
is insignificant—one who sets no value oil
v.ho claims no merit, who never will claim or accept
reward for anything he may do ; although, if he can
succeed in the developement of a few simple princi-
ples derisied from the laws of nature, he must essen-
tially and permanently benefit his fellow-creatures.
Humble, however, as he is, he has been engaged for
many years in acquiring actual experience in the art
of governing; and he has, during the same petiod,
accurately and clo•ely watched the progress of your
Lordships Administration; and he concludes that
his proceedings are nearly as familiar to your Lord-
ship. The results of the measures of your Adminis-
tration and his, if you will forgive the comparison,
are widely different. The one, with every inlagina-
ble advantage, has inflicted misery over a once pros-
perous Empire; and the other, under many peculiar
disadvantages, has given happiness to a Colony, ,
which was a scene of poverty and misery—a Co-
lony which it was more difficult to create at first,
in the midst of the prejudices which surrounded it,
than it would be now to govern a powerful nation
upon the same principles, provided those prejudices
were removed. The Administration' of which you
are the acknowledged head, has had the most ample
means ever put into the hands of men, to attain any
great and good public object—means created by the
extraordinary exertions of millions of your fellow-
creatures, abounding in wealth, and aided by won-
derful scientific' improvements; your Administra-
tion, too, has had the willing mind of the most power-
ful modern Empire to assist you, whenever you re-
quired its services, and, with these, what have you
done? In one word, my Lord, through the errors of
the system on which you have been compelled to act,
you have admirably succeeded in paralyzing indus-
try ; in diminishing wealth ; in opposing the interest
of manufactures to agriculture, and of agriculture to
manufactures, without knowing how to reconcile
them ; in impoverishing and degrading the working
, classes ; in generating universal discontent; in mul-
tiplying the most frightful crimes, and in the adop-
tion of measures which put the Empire to immi-
nent hazard.

NICHOLAS BOYLAN, Esq./of Hilltovrn, in Ireland,
has at this time living in his family three men ser-
vants, whose united ages and servitude amount to
three hundred and forty-six years. Their names are
Quin, Horish, and Gogam ; the first is 77 years old,
and has livei in the family 46 years; the second is
75, and has served 42. years ; the last is 70, and has
acted as land steward for 36
A false report has got into several Papers of the
spy Edevards having been apprehended in the North
of Scotland. The following paragraph contains the
explanation of the mistake :—" Monday se'unight,
George Skene Edwards, alias Gordon, lately residing
at Crombie Cottage, Skene, accused of entering and
searching several houses in the parish of Echt, armed
with fire-arms—of assuming the character of an Offi-
cer of Excise—and of behaving in a riotous and dis-
orderly manner,, was discovered at Montrose, in con-
sequence of a reward offered by the Procurator. Fiscal
a the Justice of Peace Court of Aberdeenshire for
his apprehension, and taken to Aberdeen.—Friday,
the complaint exhibited by the Public Prosecutor
against him was proceeded in before the Justices ; and
after the examination of witnesses, the Court found •
the complaint proven, and adjudged Edwards to be
confined in Bridewell, and kept at hard labour for
the space of Six Months."
The Nail-Masters, who met at Dudley, on Friday,
came to the resolutiQjl, " that Nailors' Wages be ad-
vanced on the 10th of July (being the Monday after
quarter day next), by the parties present, to the prices
fixed on the 22d August, 1818, provided that in the
meantime all the other Nail-Masters sign a resolution
to do the same." They also agreed to the following
resolution : " That nothing short of urgent necessity,
occasioned by certain Nail-Masters giving extremely
reduced wages, by paying their workmen in provi-
sions and otherwise, could have induced the Meeting
to have consented to the reduction made in the wages
on the 9th of May last, it being a measure adopted
only in preference to that of discharging their gark-
men and abandoning their trade."
RADICAL REBELLION.—A Special Commission of
Oyer and Terminer, for trying all treasons and mis-
prisions of treasons, within the Counties of Lanark,
Dumbarton, Renfrew, Stirling, and Ayr, has now
been received, and we understand it comprehends
the heads of the four Courts, and all the Lords Cons..
mis,ioners of Justiciary. The Grand Jury, it is said,
is to be assembled at Stirling on the 23d, and at
Glasgow on the 26th instant ; and if True Bills are
found, the trials will commence early in July. Mr.
KNAP, brother of the Gentleman who officiated in
the same capacity during the last trials for treason in
Scotland, is to act as Clerk of Arraigns, and has
already left Edinburgh for Falkirk, to make arrange-
ments for summoning the Grand Jury.—Glasgosa
PaTheper.
Charleston Courier, of the 11 th of May, states,
that George Clark, lienty Robert Wolfe, James Grif.
in, and Ilicnnes Railsford, convicted of piracy, and
of the murder-bf Captain Sutiay and four others, of
the British brig Ann, upon the coast of Florida, were
ordered for execution on the following day. A re%
spite for the two latter was expected, on the ground
of theirliaving been recommended to mercy by the
Jury: A very circumstantial account of the piricies
in which these men were engaged has been pub-
lished, and discloses a series of atrocities of the most
revolting description, particularly as relates to the
mode in which Captain SUNDT and his Mate were
put to death. They had ceased all resistance, and
surrendered all they possessed, but were stabbed in
the act of supplicating for their lives.
CaIIEr.CIIIANGI Arum 111.--Our supplies of all Grain Mtn'.
nne abundant, particularly Of Wheat and Oats, of which the
arrivals have been tinprecidentedly large fcr this time of the
year; yet prime samples of white 'Wheat Support last Monday's
prices : all other sorts are full Ss. per quartet cheater, wiehour
being able to effect sales at that decline. • Oats arc full is. per
quarter lower, and very heavy sale. Beans are Is. per quarter
dearer. Barley is nominally as on this clay week, having little
or no demand. In other articles no alteration.
Sarreurtma )Alas!, Jew 11.—Ileef, 4s. Od. to ule. per
stone of sibs. ; Mutton, 4a 6d. to 6 10d. Veal, Is, 144
Pork,Sa lid. to es. ed. LarnbAs.6d. to Ts. Intr.--Canis at Market
Beans, 11120; Calves,l9o; Sheep and Lambs, 19,690; lip, Aft
Hay, W. 10g. to 4L 4s. Clover, SAP. to 61 10s. Straw, IL eg
to 11. 14s.

These are the results of the measures so long pur-
sued by your Administration, and in which you have
publicly declared it to be your intention to perse-
♦ere. While your Lordship's Administration has
been thus employed, the person who addresses you
has been very differently situated and occupied,.
From the most thorough conviction of the error and
evil arising from old established prejudices, he has
had to contend against them ; and, to aid him in this
Herculean task, he possessed no resources of any
kind, except a settled determination to remove the
miseries which he discovered those errors were hourly
producing throughout society. He had to acquire,
by his industry alone, unaided even by the common
learning of others, all the means necessary to attain
this important end ; and, under such circumstances,
" time and patience" were indeed truly necessary to
enable him to secure the object so near to his heart.
By these, however, he gradually acquired a know-
ledge of the science of the influence of circum-
stances over human nature, with the means of con-
trouling them; and, by the application of this science
to practice, he hopes speedily to save civilized society
from the misery which it now unnecessarily inflicts
upon itself. He has already, in part, applied this
science to influence the character, conduct, and pro.
ceedings of a population the least likely to become,
as it now is, a striking example to this and to other
nations. In the midst of the misery which the mea-
sures of your Administration has inflicted on this
country in particular, he has been permitted, through
a knowledge of this new science, to raise up a
people who, solely through the means of their own
labour, are in the actual enjoyment of more substan-
tial advantages, and more solid happiness, than you
and your Lordship's colleagues, without personal
inspection, after all that has been said on the sub-
ject, can suppose. it possible to give to human beings;
and yet this is but a mere preliminary step to the
superior benefits which this science can easily bestow
on every one. Such is the individual who addresses
your Lordship, and these are his claims to the at-
tention of the Public. The usual candour of your
Lordship will admit that the facts which I have