The Statesman.
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that a meal of good, victuals and drink is a rarity, hours, to express oor joy that 49 gears of tk
amongst the labourers in the perish of Droxford I' King's reign are already past; to clap bur Muds
Nu : in so many Words / auk not thus told ; butt and to shout because hu has passed Moe yeastelm-
* what am Ito think of their situation, when I aiii; yeti,' the age of man; Lasing and dance and drink
called upon, as, a proof of my loyalty, to son.' fur joy" because the King is, very old ; to be fail
tribute tusailds the porches t at one meal iii of joy,* to overflow
.kith gladness, iii abort, be-
iffy yews_ for the labourers ef' *bet pariah ?----- cause the Kind" W.' attained to =an age, which,
My labourers Sir, stand in its need of any such' according to the course olnature, Must render ithe
largess ; thpy have, from me, She Means of per: remaiader of his reign of but short duration.
chasing bre*, meat, and beer, t4ery day of Noir: Nu: it certainly is nut at this that you call upon
lives ; no pariah officer cm. gees their faces ; they us • to: rejeicei Dot-at...kw hat,' then, would you.
ere not slaves, but as free as lam myself ; if they have usrejnice ? If ant it the old age of the King,
ace cause for rejoicing on the 25th 'instant, they which is just the MUM thing its the mere length of
will du it—if not, they will let it alone, and the reign; if dot at this, you must then wish us to
prulaability is, that they will, on that day, earn rejoice at and to celebrate the changes and events,
bread, meat, and beer for the next. If all la- of his reign, and, in this ivay,No express our gra-
,beucers were in this situation, we should have nu titsrde for use guod•which the natiou has derive
occasion toraubscriptiuus fur the purpose of feed. from those changes and events. Let us, there.
.ing the poor 1 ind, indeed, that degrading open.; fure; ice whether those champs and events are
Atop, Roder which all the labourers are now.ao seal as call spoil us fur expressions of•joy and
•days included-, would won bear a different Mean. iratitude. -
.14 . - • - When the King mounted the throne, the Dest'4l
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on foot 'of which the nation pays the interest in foam,
settitig
th Sir, se to the manner of
this subscription, unconnected with the particulat amounted to about 90 millions; it now amounts
cesiasitan, I have a . very .great objection. The' to nearly 7(X) millions; and, one year's 'taxes
. tweet Ipereeivo, of every person whom you oz.. now is nearly equal to what the whole Debt
, peat to subscribe, in each. Tytbing of the parish,. thin was--!'khe Pour Rotes of England and
:ia pot flown upon, the subteription paper, and in 1 Wales then einiaunted to *bout a million and a
that state thu.paper is handed to him ; so that, if! quarter annually; they.titow amount to more than
Ile does not think proper to give his money away ".'six millions annually. The number of pariah
_spotty-our reconamendattion, his 'Moir, is to Mandl poppers Was then about two han.lred thousand;
upon, the list, with a blank against it, which ,-th it number is outs above twelve hundred thar.
.4141 k, AUVS, ill that ease, amount to It pecitite sand. Time are pretty good kegs, Sir, that
,erf,•&4l, .to assist in feeding and making glad the we have no cause to rejoice at the clomps of this
simark of the poor. A very goad jedge of human reign. But, Sir, there is one, which will be
Aoki'', and of the Moral duties of mon, .has ob. very pat to your ~ arouse, trheu you have the
.1, that" the recommendations id superiors poor,leboureis of Druafurd Parish assembled on
r auivtrue strongly of 'comma/de ;" and, Sir, the Jubilee.day ; and that is, that, when, this
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.iiaintotl ceiseltly die weight which your fortune, reign (Alan, it cost tile labouring man.fice days'
d Leipecialtysoue office of acting Justice of the work to earn a ousoel of flour, and !fiat now it
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.4cit (tqc niiij oncln the parish) necessarily give costs him ten thee work to earls a busiael of deur;
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and fiat, it he Josprons to have three children, it
Vo.9o,niest bi• you to excuse me• if I apply this
). . c`Ohilmi to your.. ,present recommendation, is, siput tut commy
on run of was, utterly imp
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.Ih, I think, lam completely justified in doing, possible tor.him to earn bread enough for ins fa-
mily to car, to bay euthiug of meat, timik, cloth.
tstriqg thatiou hare scut, round tow names, realty
asriSten upon ,the, ,siibieription list ;an act so jag, fire, and house-rent. Pi-ay, Sir, state this
..olotaieely presumptuous (though, I am sure, fact to she yootig ones; the old out, will not need
it was nut go tatendad) that, had I been ever be told of it. StAie ibis tact to them, and if they
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so tntitit 'diapered to anitscribe, I should not de sot rejoice, it it very strange indeed. Then,
Sir, if you should have some politicians in thenhave done it, . withoit protepting against the
exer,cise et. such manifest dictation. The real higher scats of the festival, you may entertain
thou with the history of the last fit ty year's glue
, blob is, that habit, powerful in every walk
of life, is peculiarly so with persons en. ries, in diplomacy and in war. You may relate
. tgoted with public authority of any sort to the-p how no lost the continent of America foe
see degree L ,and, upon this occasion, you the sake eta tax; and how, foe the sake of other
ortauy• do anevr to me to have forgotten, .taxer and of corruption, we got possession or
that, when
.writs;;g
.your circular letter, you vail.cuutitries in the East, through the means ut
were (lot upon - 411 : Bench, where your of. MI6& -countries enterprising young men, with
Aieo ,frequeaily smakea it your duty to die. seethe!, a second shim() their hacks, and with, it
-, , but tehiCh offiee gives 70 ii nn **hi whatever 'lee mum,,
greater stock of ideas, contrive .0
r,•*ea e
dictikoi. recommendations to
-auy - any per. draw upon the taxes raised in England as to Dept'
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etwalebetestr, for subscriaideoi of money, 43tat from their estates those, by whom the said tales
..eeteeially to erd r 'the collection to be made b) • hare been paid.---,from these tupics you may
.the' °Waters of thy poor, or other pirish•officers, dip-rue into matters of a warlike nature.: you
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-- - • usually - )140 by the parish to code( t may rewind dui, " loyal" audience of the capture
UP ' Cirellftiblilleei, Sir, it is in In li would British army at suratoga, sud of an-
, Call the subscrip4on oo_ ethos. at Turk town. Dunkirk and the fielder
rself, and with the other gen. 'will; a coarse, become the theme of your praise,
thing originated, the ciao. aftee which, iu duo place, will- follow Ferrol,
a voluntary act, and you Beams Ayres, Cairo, Cintra, Corunna, Talo-
ns reasons for what you bar• sera, and Walcheren. You will, then, doubt.
farmers of the parish, with less, attempt an enumeration of those who have
insensible to the weight to ueen slain during the thirty years of war, with
set, whom you must be
which this nation has been blessed out of the hap-
send hack your paper with py fafty ; nut w °tad it be amiss if you were to
names ; with teele persons, lay before the convivial guests a detailed account
wilt say, that the act of of those who have lately died at NValcheren, and
posed* be voluntary? of the thousands of sick amid wounded left behind,.
s are onerid •: they apply 4, by our General in Spell', to the mercy of the
'ti for with a viewer feeding, I' reach ; aye, to the mercy of those very French,
and .altie, io • aft subsecip.. whom the " loyal" writers in England denunii_
purpose, set on foot iii such a nate " blood-Wray villains." - Returning again
to the blessings of . our present state, and the
r, spun the Apposition, that
, fooling and treothig the poor, cause we have for joy, you may remind your
costs,. be proper; seta, upon the hearers, that the King's servants, in their ea.
hat there are cases to justify
Immo care of us, have introduced a very coissi-
this subscription has been set derable body of foreign troiips into the country;
:on foot, I have, in this case, an objection to the a whole Legion of Germans, horse, foot, and'
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, thing on account of the occasion; 1 object to the artillery. You may remittal them of the pretest
state of Ireland, and bid them nut to forget the
',principle' of your proposition; and, because I
„thin number of years, during the present reign, that
' „think it may be useful tb the public, because I
I think it may tend to produce, or increase, a right saw the personal security act suspended, and
way of thinking neon this and other political sub- during which years many of their countrymen ,
'sect;, I shill here state the reasons upon which were kept, fur years, in jail ; without being
my objection,is pnncipally founded. brought to trial from first to last, If this be
. The 25th a this month is, it seems, considered, not enough ;if you find them still backward In
by some persons, at least, as a day for the ex. rejoicing, remind them of the taxes they have to,
pressiog of tuitional jut, ; that it is, in short, to be pay, and of the purposes to which they are ep-,
alloy of Jubilee, that is to say, of rejoicing and plied; and, pray do, Sir, show them that there'
all sorts of merriment and signs of gladness; and are many individual sinecure placcnten, and many
it is to be so, fur what ? Why, it seems, because, pensioners, any one of whom .wallows up 111111%*
. open that du, the King enter, upon the fiftieth of the taxes, in one month, than goes to the keep-
year of his reign.. Now, Sir, if I had no other ing of all the pour iu Wexford for a whole year.
Ojection to your proposition than that which is —Should they still be insensate to your elo.
.. founded upon the nature of the occasion, if its queues, replied them of the history of the Danl_
general principleond if Us manner, were such as ing, not forgetting your old neighbour, late a
1 upproced of ; and, if the Jubilee-were erpreerl.ol tenant of Newgate. Your auscreud cosikjuaors
stated to be merely s mark of personal respect to may etvoitild to them the cases of the ilusly Due.
I kis illAjesty, under whose reign I was born, I tors O'Meara and Lucke, and of the. Rerereud
. should awry willingly have joined your sobscrip.. Mr. Beazeicy, and bid any one proiLuce, if hil
tiou ; but, Sir, so far from this being the can, any thing the like thereof iu any reign.—
case,. so far (rain its being expressly declared, Any loyal lady, who chances to be present, may
that the Jubilee is to be regarded as a mark enter upon the rise, progress, and suspension of
ofi erstosal respect towards the King, it is per. the 64 Delicate Investigation ;" and, if they still
rectly notorious, that, with those individuals who, remain.tonoved, why tell them, tell them your-
have taken the lead in the thing, and who,, ndeed, self, Sir, the history of the Gurniers stud their
first set it ma foot, the object is any thing but sinecure.
that which I have described, and, that one of the I should not have revived this topic, Sir, had not i
main purposes is, in this indirect manner to obtain your letter, circulated through the whole parish,
what will ue construed into a general approba. and, of course, amongst many of my neilotio
lion of all the ministerial mestere, of this long hours, left it to be clearly inferred, that ail these
and unfortunate reign; rather than aid in effect. who did nut give money,. to be expended in a way
lug which purpose, I shall certainly run the tisk that you, mod hlr.Gernier, and Mr.Nott„ chose is
of exposing myself to your implied charge of alit. puint out, were disloyal men. I have every reason
loyalty, tel the justice and decency of which charge to suppose that you knew, that any sentiments were
I will speak more particularly by-and-by. opposed to any celebration of the day in question;
riot, let usinquite a little closer into the subject to auy got or deed which might give countenanes
of rejoicing. You cull spun me to rejoice en the to the thing to be called a Jubilee. But whether
froth anniversary of the King's secession to the you knew this, or not, a Circular letter fro
throne. Now, even viewing the matter in the best you,making the act of subscribing a teal of loyalty,
possible light; even supposing that you %Lib the and aceompaaied with a subscription paper having
Jubilee to.,he held with reference to the King my name ready written upon it, coeliegently in*
solely, to.,the King personally ; why would you ferried the accusation of disloyalty. Yon middle
' hare is rejoice at this flow it fellienlar I _Yoe one paper with a list of names as Subeeriben to the
certainly would net call split sip your neigh- habitue, and asongst those nano yes place
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Oivicy. With yonrsel
Altman, wllh wilful the
tribinion is, of course,
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hlbsae,any candid man
inOticrihiug;cooltepussiii
These ?hjeciiuns are
Sitt/scripflons called I
or treating fhb poor
dim'. for iii:tterer purl]
manner. tre, Sir, iiF
asbseripliapa'fOr foedltl
ray, in csrtain cam,. b
Sisrthcr.supposition, that
the winner to which chit