The Statesman.
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*rinses, it is certainly prepared to adopt sueli a modi-
fication of it, as is out opposed hi the prej,i.lices of the
times in which we list.; and a iihi atiou I am
really to proposc, u sball not interfere with the existing
tiovernment or Religion of the country, of be detri-
mental to individuals of any rank or class. This moth-
fixation will leave to the present Church nstalolislutletit
the useendarey it now pen.M.,441.% and to the Dissenters
:he rights of conscience and full religions lisertv. On
this basis. a -dem now he formes!, wu h might,
speedily reiiile the c tttt uicy from its pecuniary embar-
rassments, and from the demor,diraton is now
thil!y spreading offer the Emi..re, cud which, if not
checked by other measures than raer:ive enactments,
n ust very soon involve ilex renetts7 in far greater di ifi-
iititics than it has yet exprrietircd. Fates. arrange-
nasnb shall be forinitt to give effect to the industry,
• ~.i'.!, at.d capital of this country. the present frame of
,iuriety rannu: lie lung held togetiser.

It is now evident that these valuable materials of a
Nation's prosperity, are by the existing system, pare-
Ivsed and reedereu of little avail, when they ought to be,
and might be, made efficient and productive—When they
ii.; 414 be applied to give beneficial orciTation to all
who are is want of employment—to reduce, and gradu-
ally render unnecessary the Poor Rates—to diminish
the most pressing of the public linrthens—and out of the
increasing Revenues of the kingdom, gradually to re-
duce the Public Debt ; while, with thr.e important re-
sults, other arrangements would be combined, to secure,
on principles of science, a superior character to the lower
classes." The effects of these measures would he to in-
duce foreign Powers, from motives of interest, to open
with us, and with one another, a free and beneficial
interchange of the advantages which they could mutu-
ally impart.

Sach, Sir, are the outlines of the aelvant tges which I
have to offer to the Government and Population of this
country, whenever the prejudices naturally arising from
the localities by which they are surroamle,l, shall permit
a lair and honest inquiry into and propusals.

Seeing how you are enveloped with inextricable diffi-
culties, in every direction to which your present system
an extend, I await the time, which c nt now be far
dioaut, when the unavoidable Necessity for a change
ahall overcome those prejudices of localities which weak-
co' the wind, and deprive it of those clear, distinct, and
strong powers of judgment, which are now so requisite
vi enable the world to derive benefit Irvin past experi-
ence and improvements.

My request is nothing for myself, but that you will
i:Lpartlany examine the arrangements which may relieve
!ou front ditfvulties which, experience trill soon prove,
are insurmountable by any other means that can be
devised, and which, sooner or later, the liovernment of
this country, for its own security and political interest,
will find it necessary to adopt.
It is true, some of the Members of the House of Com-
mons who took part in the debate on Sir It illiam Ile
trespigny's nostion, applied the terms visionary or im-
practicable to part of the measures which I have to pro-
ose. These liestlenten, however, in justice to thetn-
belt es, should study these arrangements much wore ac-
curately and profoundly than they. have yet dope,
before they pronounce a judgment on a subject uhich
is so far removed from their ordinary thought and
reflection.

1 have the honour to be, most respectfully,
Tour must obedient,
Loudon, Jan. 1, 1.10. Iton EltT OREN.

INF4LLIBLE RULES rose REDeCING j GREAT

EMPIRE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sta—When T contrast the tone and manner of those.
dastardly spirits, who compliment people in power with
an offer to support whatever measures they may deem
necessary is the crisis of the fate of a great and hitherto
free people, with the dignifie.l deportmeat of our im-
mortal anentors, who wrested the late great charter of
English liberty from a tyrant in Ronnimeile, and even
with that spirit which, at a mach later period, did
" claim, demand, and brain, upon the right to petition,"
and did declare " all commitments and persecutions for
petitioning elleptl," I am tempted to inquire, with an-
guish and gloomy foreboding, what has occasioned the
lamentable change ? Though the causes of the deplo-
rable prostration of truly British spirit, which has been
recently eshihited by certain classes of people, may be,
and indubitably is, owing to various causes, yet may it
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be chiefly attributed to the enervating and pestilential
effect of the venal part of the MOM press, of which
the London.Coorier, of the 4th of December, exhibits at
once an instance and a proof when it advocates, with
unblushing effrontery, the adoption of one of the late
measures (now, unhappily, law), from a precedent in
the very worst of times, which was one of those scan-
dalous exertions of arbitrary power that precipitated
the country into a state of revolution. " The right
to imparle was solemnly argued and 6 tally refused
(says this virtuous Jonrualist), in the case of the
seven Bishop*, when the Judges derided that defendants
were not entitled to imparlance, but must plead imme-
diately." These were the times when Jefferya and Kirk
flourished, and when Russel and Sydney were perse-
cuted by a perversion of law and justice, which will
hand down to the detestation of the latest posterity the
infamy of the former, and consecrate to the gratitude and
love of the most distant period the self-devotion, the
patriotism, and the sufferings of the latter. at the
prostituted part of the press is right, if it be right to
perm. certain ends, by the means best adapted to injure'
them; and in this object it& accordance with those an.
der whose dictation it is, is sufficiently apparent, for
both seem to have studied with effect the infantile roles
gives by Dr. Franklin, for reducing a great empire.
If you are told of dierontents, never believe that they
are general, or ►hat yon have given OCCASION roe
TIME j therefore do not think of applying any nawawr,
or of CLANGING AN OIFINSIVI MEASURI; redress no
grimace, lest the people should be encouraged to de-
mand the redress of some other grievance. Grant we re-
quest that is just and reasonable, lest they should make
anotilier that is wareaseciabk. TAU! ALL TOUR IN.
FORMATION OF TIM STATE OF TUN COUNTRY FROM TOUR
spill AND AOCITS; SECRITI TIMM LIVING ACCUSA-
TIONS, LIST THEY seouLts Is CONIUTID I but act upon
them as the clearest evidenes; and belief's nothing you
heir Jives Ike riends of the people. Suppose all their
complaints to is invented and p►omoted by factious de-
inagogaes, whom if you **rid catch and hang ell would
be Piet."—(l'ranklin's {Yorks.) ARISTIDMI.