The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

SIR,-1 formerly sent you some Strictures oft the
Speculations concerning the high price of Bread, by
your Correspondent PVILIOOLA : those, not alto.
gether under the influence of that justice and impar-
tiality, which you owed to me, as a volunteer in
your and the public service, you did not insert, al-
though you obviously paid them a due attention in
another mode. I have now to repeat my complaints
against a writer of such obvious good sense, acute.
nest, and pathetic intentions, as Puiticoi..s.., desiring
to introduce into your Paper the great guide of the
respectable aftd intelligent middling and lower classes,
the Wog exploded, nonsensical, and liberticide doc-
trines of private monopoly and forestalling ! ! A
doctrine by which the people are blinded, and the
real delinquents sheltered; and of this they are so
well convinced, that their hired Prints, the Anti-
Jacobin Review, Morning Post, Courier, and others
of that stamp, universally join in the common cry
against monopoly, directing their cry to every quar-
ter but that in which monopoly really exists, or can
exist, and so warding off the public vengeance from
those on whom it ought justly and speedily to fall.
It is a cause like this, which your Correspondent,
with the best intentions in the world, is unwittingly
defending.
PUBLICOLA is right in the abstraet—" the faces of
our ingenious, labouring, and half-starved popula-
tion, art ground down with poverty, monopoly, and
misery.l But P. seems unaware of the true cause.
There ought to be plenty, and there might be plenty,
but for ACCURSED MONOPOLY; nota however, of that
spurious kind, which your Correspondent supposes,
and which is merely the liberty that every man, rich
or poor, has a right to, in the disposal of his own
property. Strange that such a man as PuSLIcoLA,
cannot see the real ground of this most obvious and
interesting subject, into which, I hope, he will make
deeper researches, that he may not, with so many
others, mislead the labouring classes, who seem to '
have an almost miraculous misconception of their
real rights, which they are so desirous to barter for
others of a superficial and spurious kind, inferior too
in value and solidity, as ten to a million. Bread
falling In the country, and not in London!—.the in.
variable consequence of that most silly of all anti.
quitted customs, an assize of bread, which the coun-
try is wise enough to do without, and at which, as
well as the popular credulity on that, and the sub-
lett of witchcraft, the courtiers, tnealmeu, and
bakers, with Sir W:LLLAM CuaTis at their head,
laugh most heartily over their cups. Does your
friend PusucoLA believe also in witchcraft
Public health and respect !
EQUAL LAWS.

2'. tir.s..EDITOE OF THE ST4TESM44N.

Sta,—A perusal of your Paper of yesterday re-
minds me of a resolution I had formed, since the
decision of the Court of King's Bench upon the
housebreaking business in Piccadilly, to request
you, on the eve of a General Election, to favour the
country with a correct list of those Members of the
Hon. House, ;rho voted for the seizure and imprison.
meet of Sir F. BURDETT (contrary to all law) that the
Zlecton of the United Kingdom, disapproving of
tyranny and Injustice, may mark the conduct of such
men by aa indignant rejection of their services, and,
if possible, compel their new Candidates to some such
kind of oath as you have often suggested, " not to
Imprison the people of England without trial." From
your known public spirit I cannot doubt of your
readiness, either by the mode I suggest, or by one of
your own, to serve the country—perhaps a repetition
for several days would be advisable.

Your's,
AN ENEMY TO NOUSE-BR EA KING, By ANALOGY,
AND EX-OFFICIO INFORMATIONS.
September 25, 1812.