The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

inflate, sod Clisegsw have thus hew apis sailed
late activity, ad the wages paid is sessequesee to
workaseo. have Owning ennead soother breach of
the Reines,. This favearabie opening has given
fresh vivacity to specelatioa ; bet like other new
markets ltewy soon M glutted by overweealeg saves.
lure, mud cannot be calculated apes as a regular mad
steady *such of trade. The Excise, however, it es.
-creased ! The somas, ea the last quarter above the
ameont of that of the ismer year is more than se-
venty-Ave thousaad poled., said on the whole year,
alteve that of the preceding. it is more than a hundred
sad eighty theasand. This is owleg. partly, to tbs
ranee to which we have just sew referred, the stimulus
given to the utanafasturing part of the population,
ad in pan also to the reduced poise of the Niamey
articles of subsistence, which has eashled the la.
bowleg classes generally. whale wages Inn am bees
.rodased, to expend a larger pontos than formerly
of t►eir lateen es those articles which ems
under the Excise. The lacrosse, it appears. has Aker
been are those articles which. whin the eirniadasses
assumed, the lab■riag classes pliacipally wmtld as-
sume, on Malt. is Spirits. sad es Tea ; making toge-
ther, in the amain of duty. fey the last lissMar
alone. an increase above three bemired t►sasand
roads ; but from which most its deducted the &-
yeas' which has takes plan in other ankles. eel
which smald hare boos very esesibly felt le the ammo
the Excise Ditties. had ant these demand, awes( the
labourieg classes incidentally occurred. Had the so.
comet. however. been as latteriag as ofkial ass
would boast, we are not &smog the journalists who
would he ready to eengrateriate our reader, es the
ausesatt ; because we ►elie►e t►at few of our readers.
or of the public generally. derive any advantage free
it, but that most, if net all of t►ere, find themselves
the worse on that gement. It most he iesteashentt
aid bushing ie soy to boast of the amount of Laio .
when it is evident that, to make the country easy, its Me
den toast be essentially reduced. On the whole. in sober
truth, the friend's, Ilinieten themselves mast see there
is so occasion to rejoice. The Consolidated Lend
which was deicleat in the quarter ending sth Jaguar,
1821. 833,521 f., is deficient this quarter (eeoliag Sth
January 1822) 1,311,4• The total dekko" of
th • Coneolidated Feed on the sth January 1321. was
8,806,92 W., and on the Sth January 1322. it is A&
ciao 9,562.9841. making as increase of debt asseass.
iag to 736.0551., se that oar tsars e4kd debt now remiss
33,6111.394/.. lad oar fended debt about 800.000.011114.
with a taxation ea t►e people of 54.0011.31101.—.-
To make this ►erdeo men oppressive, It is new to he
levied. when the resources .1 i large portion of Este.
popoledea. the egrisubste is as exhaust:o
Ma% and whoa She altered°. Is the ralatin OWN*

mosey sail esmostlitiee aggravates, is the wee pie.
portion, the preerere of to:sties.

The Gothic ULTRAa of the Bourbons (i f tee an
to believe the Free& penal', all of which, eseept
the Joirrisl de Paris, stake the assertion), have con-
verted the Pebilisoig, or Banal Ground of these emi-
ant Anniston who once shoes In France with lite-
rary splendour. late a church, and expelled the hoses
of Yosemite sad Rousseau from their place of rest.
An action of medalists. worthy of the Grand &Igoe,.
or the floversor of Paces! What wield the peopie
of Haglund say. if the present Ministers effected
the distraction of the monuments is Weasels-
ster Abbey, and had the boner of Shakspeare. sal
!liken, sad Newton, removed to a Parish Banal
(hotted? Earope would reprobate the 'Jenkins)
act. Yet Voltaire was the Shaking,* of Fraser, aid
Priests, Kings, and their Satellites, would le the nine-
teenth century, an like the destroyers of Rome. and
Isnot disgrace epos a whole nation by ouch a deter-
mind act of ladecency. This we look epos as a yen-
latioaary omen, and the new attempt on the Press. as
as accompanyieg indeeement to remove a set of fana-
tical monsters. whose Kneen most be a disgrace to
any Commits, or any Country. That nation, which
bends the hopes of prosperity and happiness upon
bigotry awl iatokreacr, mast, instead of acquiring
power, ',reader opposition, and endanger its Moven-
meet. linebristiaa conduct will at all times inspire
hatred. Mine right iti Kings is now become a lag-
bear eves to the multitude, and its ioduence lost, es-
eept among Hose who profit by it. The Prieetheed
in every country aid the arm of power; but the people
are the sufferers. The policy of Kings and Priests is
to keep the people in mental and bodily subordinatios,
bat the day is gone by ; the tradesman, the artisan,
and labourer can read. sad understand too. They
see and justly complain that their earnings by the sweat
of the brow, are expended upon an idle. degenerate.
wanton sot of fellows, whose hypocritical slew of sacer-
dotal holiness is destined to support tyranny, whose et-
tenor bespeaks the lamb, and whose conduct betokens
the wolf. Experiesce has been thrown away on those
French peepers ; twenty-6n years of beggary in tbie
country, has ant preyed sudficieet to teach them Phi-
lanthropy; and the traestions at ,Xieraer, would be re'
mewed in Paris, if the COWARDLY SNOTS dare try the
elitist of their malignity. We see their drift ;we
see their endeavours--endeaniers that „ill abet their

ow■ destruction. We sincerely hope the people of
France will also watch their mad moiler reramtio,-
ary projects, and do as the impels of Spain have dine.
insist upon their dismissal, ■nd the benefits of the
CHARTER. which ►he Bourbon signed slier his w-
awa,' journey to, Ghent. and on beittz placed on the
:brave of Frames, by the despots of Europe. Sh