The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

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frieW of cerrept elections at any rate. All persons, pnyid
me armed Vies, are to vote. Therefore the tax Tatlierere
Sedate tie taxes of the dionffeeled till they be below the
.mirk, sod etegetteite those of the toyed; till they cote
ip to the mark ! This is a very good way of doing the
thing. It takes tales off where it takes away the right
of 'mine; *hie-Atm • retWeieleet fw the linnet
6' Moeirint." If the devils of Priests and thee:. coad-
lutors can. get as tee a few year*, they will feed one
way to make, the Machine " work weir They will
Anil out how to set its cog. and its teeth in such a wits
as to mike the poor pay for the rich. They will fild
out how to make the disaffected pry for tie loyal, an..
he shut oat from even smelling to a rote; and thee will
take carea-that every one, who only ventures to whisper
the word corruption shall lire the life of a toed ender
*arrow. The Chronicle is perfectly rig ht in its opinion
dub the devil.; want to bully, or when lie, the Spaniards
into the adoption of the use of the teal " Taziog-Ma
chine." This is.what they are all driving it. No matter
of ;what ?Witty, they are ; they are all driving at this
.point, k,eowing, fr.'m long eeperienee, that, after al',
after all the braegioes shout legitiwate g,weenmena,,
the only really • yfi 'iota thing to grind a peopie (Imre
line, is a " Taxing-Machine," standing upon a tr,
"partite" base. Thet is the sin of thing that "rork.
" welt; that is the sort of thing to leave the mars of the
people nothing to tall their owl; or, at kart, if they
do call any thing their own, to make 'be wor'eera of the
" Machine" laugh at therm—The French feliows have
sot, as yet, got (keit " Aluchine ' to work so very com-
pletely as to produce effects like these. flit should now
be brought to perfietien, it will slake the roues of the
people a set of mere drvdps, olio,e lives are spent
in getting together something for the workers of
the " atchine" to take away from them, to
enable these workers to live in ease, Inviter, amt
profligate expenditure, and that shall make the
despicable drudges talk of their iii.ertn nod peopeet!,
all the while ! Then will it be a Machine (list " works
0 well". Hut, the French devils must take rare of one
thine; and that is, not to contract TOO LAttGE A
mut A good, thumping Debt sloes very well. It
greatly assists the regular work Machine",
ing of the 6-
and makes it grind singularly tin-. But. if they over-
charge this astonishing " monument of 'vermin wisdom"
with Ibbi, ha motion becomes uncertain ; it takes me'.
dem jemps ; therein a "reozerecm' ; sod, like many an.
fortunate creatures in coal-pits and elsewhere, the very-
wer•ere of the '• Machine" are liable to be blows up, or
entehrd to atonse.—Now, war, thought it be one of the
great materials that the •• Machine" makes use of, and
one that usuAly tarns to the gpatest proji:, still it is
always acroLipanied with Debt ; and. if the French En-
giurers do not take care, they may orerload their Ma-
chine in this way, and that, too, before they have brought
the Machine " to work to the above-described perfectioe
'When the" Machine" is one- overloaded, sod dr.iektily
o,w:o:lied, with Debt, it is douse hr. Is is like otenses
made of cast-iron : once cracked, there is nosiepairisig it.
It may he deed, for a it bile, but the mischief. it does to
Me workers of it are so great. that /Ivey...after a lime, me
Wompelled to give it up even (or their own sakes. In
fact, it, in the long run, takes to grinding the worker!
: ahieh, though very amushig to the bye-
-I;ander, is by no weans amusing to the Machine.
Workers. who, as they sink down into the hopper, maim
ptielli tetrad wry-faces and such a hullabaloo of a noise,
es plainly indicate their newiification and torment. Let,
therefore. the French F:nxincers and Machine Workers
bear these things in mind : and, with this rather long
preface, we beg row to lay before our readers the fol-
lowing account of the present state of the " Machine" in
Fraoce.
With regard to the Ciovernment, the objects of its po-
ley way he fairly stated to be bat two—toe keeping its
present power. and the can:inning it foe the fotnre. In or
der to F. rare the first o: :here two objects, the press i-
kept owlet in every puss!) t. .I:miner, and by 'redoes arts
a majority Abtnired iu t• e two (iambi-re. The grand its
'Mimetic of chaining the hitter is the powertel engine o-
education. 'Mere is It pres.mt scarcely any liberty of titer
press In France; though there is no Censor, a Jeernaliat
dere not Insert any Wog :oat is onpolo:able to the Mini,-
ter, as the publication a Lis paper tear be sr,spentled fade -
finitely during t,e ideas%r^, trahu•tt any reuses
asslyvied. and his livelihood taken away. If the Clumbe
of Cepulles is petitioai I.:•e petition is referred to a Cou.r
mlttee, and reasoned upon to tes tern WO* Chamber by Coe'
Chairmen ; but no sooner does a liberal Member rise hi
speak upon it, but lie is saluted by retro otattsroix,oc,zeir,
fin cloture. In other words, question, queotlon, cud his pet'.
thou Is rejected by a great majority. Every effort seems to bts
horde to keep down the press; the harshest tsetse r. s are adept-
ed against the booksellers t and they grecoielemnlag,hspri••
wing, and fining the aothors day after day. Obnoxious
books, that they ;moody dere touts* yet, see forbidden to
;Voltaire. Roueseau, 8.1 till be prohibited, and that the
be reprinted, and berc acttbl ilte In I short thee;
• proscription will extend, as in the latter yearn of Beeispart..
‘ll2lolt to the Classics theusseivea. The seemid object of
their policy is the rlectione. Each oepartreemt, you ate'!
• know, elects a number of Deputies. preportlored to that of
Its inhabitants, and by the new law part are elected by the
College d'Arrondiasement, and part by the College du De-
portee:mit. The College d'Arrouditsi.trient Is composed of
a 1 those who pny Sttt3 frac. s, direct contribution, and yr-
wagds, who vote only for the Itere4ter for the Arroudisse-
ment, as belonging to the College t f that 1121111 t.. Tke tio!-
lege du Deportee:rot is wade up of tnose who are entitled to
vote for the Members of its trroodisseasent. provided they
do not pay less than 100 frarcs of coati. belles. Tess
the College du Departemeat is geasrally atunrosed of a very
few electors. grey much under Eta ineutmos of tea Crowe,
and seldom, if O.K. any one bat a Royalist. 'lke
only places, therefore, that the hileisters have to contest IN
the Arrondissements, which may be.iecured by either of
these two ways, through the Prefer, or theism/1v the Presi-
dent of the College. The great use of the Prefet is to re-
duce the smogs of the contributions gl the electors, and
Was to strike out of the lint of electors awl who are vgiu-
rourable. while on the miler haul bacon add thew. whom he
supposes writ inriinzd to the ti.ntronegt. torrrasiog
11/re:r contratotiun. 'l';:e :Ist: of the couttibutiee are is has
hands, lie refuses to produce them, and racoons the ears of
the Ministers are shut against any complaint against their
partizan. 1 have hefrro shown you there Is no way O. Ict.
ling at him through Pens, sr the Chamber. The other
method Is through the l're2ideut, named by the King: ash
the Beretta Provisoire, named by the President. The el .c-
-lions In France, 'RN yon well know, re carried on by ballot.
Each elector ewers up 1,, s where the President *nil
the Sellable, thnt is the four exatuitiers of the ballot, are
seated. wri:es the name of the catatidete for whom he tote*
on a piece of paper, end throws it Into so urn. When the
electors base all Noted, the urn is opened. awd the press
counted by the President and the reamibera, gad the stew
of thessweesstel candidate pm:hinted. Ererg allay Aar
defends spine the ixityray of the Preikidral and the eAu-
nainerd, Uslttrtonotely there is a greet ovvrsight In the law
In 'hie point ; the examiners are, ft is true. elerted by a Os-
.-eau Proalsoire, but the nil real& Prorisoirc is clericals
the Provident ; he thus sleets bt,jricgdf, who elect their.
party for ezamtrers. The result or, that the President and