The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-11-07 00:00:00

,TRSMAN.

that is wanted. Without that no efanit ores can
he taken: sad It is la the power of the lieu a by this
means and this means only, to save their estates. It is
in their power to cell out the Yeomanry; I do not mean
Von their horses and with swords In their bands; bet
to call them •ont to petition for that Before', without
which an equitable adjustment cannot take place.—The
call upon the landlords of other comities will hardly be
treated with disregard. In short, it will produce meet-
ings in all the other counties, the farmers to a man being
perfectly ready to come forward of themselves, and only
wasting sonic one in each county to give something like
method to their proceedings. Scattered about as they
rare; unused as they are to meetings of any sort, it is
net Wall surprising that they suffer even their beds to
he fibs from under them, and seem contented all the
while. lam satisfied that if two hundred principal farm-
era were to sign a requisition in erery county in England;
that if all the Sheriffs were to refuse to call meetings
upon each ',guild lion ; that if these farmers were then to
sign a petition to Parliament for a Reform, stating in
their Petition the circumstance of the Sheriff's refusal ;
I am perfectly satisfied that If this were to take place,
the Parliament would never separate without enacting
a Reform of some sort or other.—lf the present state of
things continue bat for a little while, or, rather, if the
present progress continue, the whale of the present race
of farmers must be destroyed ; that Is to say, their very
beds must be taken from under them, and they mast be-
come laboereer, if not paupers. Now, this is a revolu-
tion more terrible than has ever yet taken place in any
country in the.world. Bat the fact is that it cannot be;
It mast be prevented by some means or other: I cannot
say how, but I know that to this fatal progress a stop
must be pie Such a monstrous thing as for the lands
of the country to yield no rent cannot be suffered.—
Laadlords, tenants, labourers, all the inhabitants of
Town as well as Canary all the proprietors of the
soil, and all the metiers of industry cannot and will
not remain in a state in which they are mutual oppres-
sors and ternseaters. la London, indeed, we see little
of the evil; but is the ooentry, all those whom mutual
Interest so naturally unite, are rent asunder, and placed
to a state of incessant hatred and hostility by the p
coarse of things, This most come to an cod. If not
prevented by a change in the system, it will end in uni-
versal confusion; for end it mast, and that at no distant
day. The twins adopted by the Committee at York
appears to be the wisest and the safest that could be
pursued. That great county oeght to take the lead;
and if its example be followed we shall soon see the face
of things take a change. The farmer, beggared as be
is, may keep the remnant of hie stock and may revive,
and the Landlord may yet say, that be has an estate to
leave to his cbildrea.

THEODORE HOOK.
fa war paper of to-morrow, or Saturday, will be found 1
.'report of the (Mollie! Commissioners at the twelve
thoesoad pears defalcation of this man, who was tree.
*Emit the /sled of Mattritius! Our readers will recoi-
leds whops, ad Me. raosittart, said in his place io
the House of C 00910009, io answer to a gamalmsof Mr.,
Bennett. that Mr. Hook's conduct bad Web .porteotly
how:mute& What that conduct was one lodide AIM
see, from the report of the Commissioners and loos as
extract from Nook's urination by them. We, for oar,
parts, have moor ettaossed an absence of all hoseurahle
aoudad sad f.m. so complete, and 90 shameless.—
How this man came to be appointed to so important as
office we should regard as something weaderfal, had try
admen a newspaper-monger, devoted to the °oversees.
appointed Consul at one Foreign station, bad we trot
soon the soterisms editor of the Satyrist appointed Con-
sul et soother Foreign station of great importance, and
had we sot board, in coiner with the public at large,
that lib link was the author of a pamphlet. Ming
Op the tablets of Castlereagh, sod insisting upon his
KOMI fur office io preference to Mr. Cflialing, it the
that when the duel took plans between these two rivals
=yr. The result, however, a defalcatioo to the
of twelve thoosand pounds sterling; that is to
say, a debt from this man to the pnblic, and we hope to
see measures with regard to this debt pursued, precisely
aimilu to those which are pursued with regard to other
isovernmest debtors. However, a pretty sharp lookout
10 be Isept epos this occasion. The sum which
ill. outonairoo have on of the tare, and let it
be recollected) that It is sulfideot to maintain about
cis hundred labo nod their families; that is
to say shoat three dimmed persons for a year.—
The interest of it is sufficient to maintain thirty
labourers sad their families fur ever. Can our read-
ers dissever any ream,. why a sum like this should be
eserreil to be swallowed up by TISCOD•Itg 1100 K. If they
oitooot. they will naturally desire that it *Wield be re.
Mond to the pnblic ; or, at least, that the party who
withholds It shall be so treated as to deter others from
fearing his example.

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