The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-21 00:00:00

No man 0:10 Ills a reflecting mind can Ise favour.
able to an lllrelele or Property Tea, herons. it is,
however modified, an inquisitorial iinnosilino to
which Jack Act may succumb, bat Jon% Bum. peter
should, nn any plea or pretence whatever. A. 11 C.
forgets that every such load is artfully shifted from
the shoulders that apprently bear it, to the grand
atlas of all fioaucial burdens—the bent back of the
Isbell 'us poor, on whom every body bat the annui-
tant drones of society contrive In saddle this ting's
earl with impunity, if not spplstase. Grooved that a
Property Tag will fall nu our task-masters in Ike
first instance, tin not they contrite to indemnify
themselves by Corti lases and such istiquitoss
Acts; nay, do not they do much Hint., by
at once (towering their whole hnsselltild, from
top to toe, on the public purse in some shape or
other, in the Navy, Army, Civil !invite, and that
endless train of places, pension*. 84r. to which •
corrupt Government most be keit, or give 01' the
ghost wit host • wattle,. as it nid 4.0, Ike moment
aelf.ileidal in low life begins In work ? One quarter
will make corruption vibrate at the centre, a second
will ahalli• every foundation, a thita will hart the
ont.nor Is to the ground, and if the citadel can hold
out so long. on the last shilling and dui') of blond in
the Roprity man's persons or purser; the fourth
quarter, in a telt-dens jog s ear of osci,esble contain•
dities, will, like Sasses 'lt's vengeful strength, bring
this whole fabric of Boroughmongering architecture'
about tho cuts rf is bloated Wastes with cc crash, la
pnll'ital earl! quake, that will herr both ins and oats
in one prurni•cousts ;rave. Why, aril, shall the
People stand I..oice trembling on OOP of a pre.
airier from which their foes hose noshing to L„1,,, tot
thing to fear ? While the nation on suck a day
of juilametit Inas reckon it the ils•ii or humpy, hap.
pines; sod Bu rst, freedom, ecahlishe.l no a ...ck of i
poiitical anti Vats. poverty, that, like the Kirk of
Scotland, no stems shall ever after seta usly •1.
lome 'electing pewits observe. 0.1 it nooid be
creel to punish iouncent lea.cleal-:s, spiritiel•
le,;, &c. merely to reach their gs.ii:, loppf•sqnril ;
and so it would if roc% fuel, were known to be
bona fide Radical Reformers, for whom it certainly
would he fair in the Concentric Clubs to propose
some remuneration and sottsistetic• it, the mean.
time, if practicable or requisite, under all rircona.
stance.. The sock of redemption sh^uld not, how •
ever, he eitlett abandoned or suspended on that score
only, since whichever way natinnsl emancipation is
elected, the victims will be stumernoa for some
years ; hot what is that In the rights and liberties of
lour children's children far ages to come, erell though
the deluded objects Of Saving Banks should elI
perish in the stacks, with the properly-culled Sinking
Fund. When the integrity and talents of the Pero*
have fair play, ender Universal Male Seirragv, An.
Nall Parliaments, and Election by hillot, the tales
will be regulated and collected on proper principles;
• I shall not, therefore, anticipate the free discussion
of such subject, in your Paper at present, where,
although 1 make no pretensions to cop* with my
friend A. 13. C., as a pnldical economist, I still have
. the humble ambition of shining with him, at least,
as a man of letters, stud I remain, his and your very
obedient servant, no Alpha nor Omega, thoogh
entre nous— _ _ _ _

P. Q It —Amu- ‘t...
[The lAN,' Impel and believes there are tiers few wen in-
feasible to the applaow of their ftlinw-eititens. lie sh,tobt,
oesertneless. hale telt .oleite scruples to pobli,h the 'those
i.ot fro the public icipir• Il inelad.s. no acru.•nt of the
',titer% rat.e of the Editor b ardent gent. bat litooble talent
i• eodeatoor,o: 1,1 true his oppressed coontryroen. and 0111 e
hit (Until) Leon Si anal rnnfwea. 11,. Fenner is the rouse has
lieSer abated one 0001..01 doting hi. inealeeTaliSSl br4ra
AM 'l.i:ft (Ilse nails/ter would frighten and madden the Header)
within She .romp salts of .t prima. It will milt he ...tie..ask-
ed by Hie i old baud of desdh ; sod, n test nr the %inertia
• :oeh act.ottes his in hi. Career, he isMerses. that befog a fa-
ther, giandfather, nod grind e rued/114w. he hos IMP haPhittets
ar.l w enure of to :nary gent moss attached to Isis by Sienna
sod b.und to Snorts istrf. went, a. he feels coovioced, to prosper
oaly by the provetity of our cosmos country.

The Jews at hank/. it have been treated wits,
much severity try the attempts of the People to drive
them out of thAt place ; hut it is suspected, that the
latter have been set on in their ezcesses by certain
superiors from political resentment.
Bausacts, Ar,.. 13.—The Duke of WeLLINOTON,
as soon as he landed at Ostend, sent an Aid.de-Carnp
in Paris, who has now returned, and has followed
the Duke to Cologne. It is said that the Duke will
go to Paris he he retains In England. It is also
'opposed that his Goitre is not only going to Carls-
bad, but also to liVars tw, where the Emperor of
limas, a will shortly renew the Polish army. The
Duke's journey at this moment can hardly be sup.
posed not to have a political object. 1
The spirit which pervades the Rhenish provinces'
of Prussia may be judged of from the language em•
ployeil in a Petition to the Plassian Monarch from
the inhabitants of Creutgoach. The Petitioners say,
" During the long succession of years in which the
French power continued, we ever preserved hearts
truly Getman, and frequently this was made the sub-
ject of reproach. Ws IMO, howeerr, are (rice.] In
acknowledge, that, under that foreign power, we
had reason to be satisfied with our lot, fur the Go.
vernment promoted Oaf agriculture, industry, amid
commerce, and we lived ender the protection of laws,
and an equal distribution of lases rendered them less
oppressive. We cannot How disguke from your
11-jeaty that this prosperity has timed, that our
1
iiii!ostry and commerce haveraperienced a deplorable
,tag-itiou, lad that we Sr. (Jamaican! with total
illus."