The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-18 00:00:00

431ERWAN 11TELLIGENCIL

Speculation •ppsars to have pet the •hole com-
mercial world out of joint. It is a curse which
trading nations ewe to England—the nurse of the
arts. Who could imagine that the following reason-
ing referred to, or rather grouper of, this traoractinn
of • now Stole, end whose millions of acres sf en.
occupied land are selling at a price adnncieg every
day.

[/ROM Tir WASHINGTON SUZETTE, JULY 14, 1819 3
IZTISAGT OF A Lima PEON A GENTLEMAN IN

PIIILADELFUIA TO IRIS FRIEND IN TIM my.

" Mutters are gni.; on worse and worse here,
while we are foolishly looking for a remedy in the
rise of cotton in Evrope, bad crops in the Moon, war
with Sweden, dte. Some little is still about retrench.
ment—thmo who kept three servants must keep bet
one. But whit are the poor servants to do, now no
one wants them. Ilrhets these servants, and other
classes of the suffering poor, can be transferred from
enprodective to productive labours; then, and not till
thew, will the nation grow rich.
" As to your City of Washington—the best thing
to Midst., for it is to establish certain manatee-
tares; seek as tho cloth, cotton, and weaving of
stockings ; the latter ought, now that there is a duty
of 30 per cent. en hosiery, to flourish among your;
sod yet yuu have a most valuable one shut up in
your city ; while the glass factory, which did so
mesh credit to Washington, is not supported by
your capitalists and banks. Yoe will s r or
later se* your error on these points. Look at whit
the industrious New England People are doing in
their cotton factories, some of them are yielding from
lb to 20 per cent. to their capital.
" Them has been le this city of Philadelphia for
some years pest, at least 5000 persons unproduc.
Itively employed, or In other words, out of employ,
'these, set so manufacturing, would earn 'tech at least
two dollars per week, or 500,000 dollars per annum.
Of late the hatters, barness.mskers, printers, jolters,
smiths, shoemakers, type•foonders, 4e. have been
I greatly reduced; so much so, that I am sure s loss
lof another
.500,000 has been occasioned by their
want of work. Thus a million of dollars is lost to
Philadelphia alone. Certainly the state of the la.
bourieg classes in other parts of the United Stites
will justify us in escalating a loss to the nation, for
their wsnt of productive employments of at into
10. 000 000 dollars. Add to this what is lost on our
agricultural produce, the farmer not losiog by time,
but in price, and you will find the calceistion, when
compared with pest years, to stand thus—

L.,T11 ►y full on Coitus lo.oo.l.nre
oft Bread %mai ..... .
Tsbaeu 3,0110.i8.1
us Labour 10,1100.00

itl,oo , 033

" Num you may reason on this loss Of 28,000,000
dollars as you pleeso—it is as plain as any simple
seas in Pike's Arithmetic. Let your writer in the
National hetelligexcer, ender ibis signalers of a
M soma or Comma's, clew it. He appears to have
something of an ostrich's stomach, but I doubt if be
all digest tbls to his mind.

" The fall of real estate in Philadelphia is alarm.
ing. In two years, if this goes on, not a bank in
the Union will pay bee per cent. per annum; and
we shall be so crippled, that if manufacturing should
be resorted to, we shall not then, in three years, be
able to do what could now be done in one year—ma.
nefactering requiring much and real capital.
" I au confident that 100,000 persons employed
In cotton esanufactores would add more valve to the
raw material than the whole rake of one year's *s-
port of thi whole nation! Yet, I tell yoe, nothing
will be don► ibis year towards saving the nation.
" T. Cl"' says in hie essay in the National led.
ligencer, ' we work up all our raw material: except
cotton! How this got into his head, and how it
escaped from his pen, I cannot imagine—he meat
have lest his senses. I)o we work op our wool, clay,
iron, ore, pot.sih, and sand I A shovel fell of clay
would equip • dining table. A peck of sand ■nd
some pot-ash would gists a house. list. we not
been killing oar merino sheep for the market, not
Wet able to sell the wool? D 4 we coavert our see-
saw? or feel into salt ? We send corn brooms for
sweeping carpets to John Dell, who takes them to
pieces, makes th►m Into elothos.hroshes and mends •
dozen of these to pay for a hundred of the forne.r.—
It is not high profits that will give cooAdeoce to ma-

Slll,—l am willing to admit that there might be
some impropriety in suffering Mr. Hoye to become
Me leader in an attempt to purge the Agitate stable;
her it is for • very different reason than his want of
that circumspection which many of our Reformers
seem, indeed, to possess in a very eminent degree.
Persuaded, as I am, that nothing short of great roa-
rer and g.eat boldness will prowls of any avail, le
oar contest with our rannon-right men, I cannot bet
be entry to perceive the great lack of both these
qualities in those who are ever ready to find fault
with Mr. Hunt's more of setting about the work of
Reform t —they are ready enough, I'll admit, to In-
flame the People's minds by their pompous display of
their grievances; but then, they are sure to tern over
their piping-het brains for Mr. Huey to take earl
of In the moment of danger. They pet me in mind
of Major Domo, in (Jive Beard, who hosiers ha.
Waived his soldiers to face the foe, bawls oat to
them, " there—this is the way to battle," and theta
sneaking away in a cootrary direction, whispers,
' and this is the way out of it." When Meetings of
the People are called, and these milk-and-water Re.
iformers are requested to attend, they become fright.
enrol all at once, by the portentous words "rcrpos.:
sibility" and " consequences ;" which are then per.
pntely strewed all over our hireling prints; sod them
to screen their own cowardly fears, they denounce
such Meetings as highly improper—lnstead of at.
tending them, end even directing them as they ought.
What Is the consequence? Why, that our Borough.
mongers laugh at them, and take advantage of their
absence to make a jest of the cause of Refons.--•
" Look," say they, " at Ilse motly group, and their
shabby appearance; there is not a man of ability...
not a man of conseq•eace among them; look egos,*
Reformers." Sir, if we are right ie demanding
form, in GOD'S name, let us demand it as men--
boldly, and not with the tribulation aid squeamish..
ness of a fearful residence, which would imply, ws
were doubtful as to the justice of our cause. Lot us,
above all, throw back on ear enemies their taunts
and threats, as to the consequences to be appro.
handed from a too obstinate opposition to lb.
People's just demands. Have we not, for nearly
thirty years, prayed in rain for a Reform ? Was
sot Sir FRANCIS BURDILTT'S late 010600, merely for
an enquiry into abases, rejected—and yet, ate we to
be told that patience is a virtue the Reformers do not
possess. In short, Sir, my opinion Is, that so fat
from Meetings of the People being improper, die
only hope of our enemies lies in their being sop.
pressed. I am aware, some will say, that the ego
ceases to be apprehended from such Meetings will
only give oar cannon-right men a plea foe
cutting shorter the little liberty we still enjoy; and I
say, so let it be; it will the sooner set a question at
rest which it is important to be made manifest to all,
via. That we enjoy no more liberty than it salts
the safety and convenience of oar cannon right Nes
to greet us; and that it is not how far we are right
or wrong In what we ask, which Is a (pestles with
them ; bet bow far they have or have not the mean/
of resisting our demands. What is the fact ? Whet
we talk of Reform, do they not say we seek rebel.
lion, and that must be checked? When we talk of
Meeting, of the People, do they not talk of sop.
pressing them ; and when we call loudly for a redress
of grievances, do they not Call for the military ?
If I recollect rightly, Lord C--, In one of hie
late speeches in Ireland, was represented to have
said that Government ought always to conform to the
wish of the nation at large.—Taking him at his
word, let es now ascertain what proof it Is required
of the People unequivocally to show that the majority
of the nation is in f of Reform. Thus we.shostd
proceed; unless, indeed, we find that oar cannon.
right men ereny es the right of having our way, though
It should be proved that of the uneqsivocal majority
of the nation. In that case, the People would at
once be
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