The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-19 00:00:00

•

with our Paternal prodigality. That eternal insatiable
gotl,ll, u e Civil List, is still again and again in ar
rears; 850,0001. will not discharge the debt this
upon it. Let any OOP look at the l►st of the debts of
ifighir.ss the PRINCE REGENT, as stated
in oar Paper of Saturday, the amount of which,
enormous ,s it is, we are given to understand, is
underrated It} nearly a moiety,--at the " Thatched
Cottage" in Windsor Park, which has already cost
upwards of 21)0,000t. g:1,1 is only half completed ;
and at the constantly encreasing causes of this ex-
penditure in other respects, such as that endless
source of cost to the public, the furnishing of Carl-
ton-House,—and if any one can consider these, and
the diminished fund whe•sce such wasteful expenditure
Is And must be supplied, as well as that this year
will add about one hundred millions to the national
bnehens, and can believe that this. system can last,
without the AARON'S rod, whith we see thus re.
uligptl, swallowing up in one great gulph of eatrava-
g tore. • cnmfnr►s and means of existence of almost
all inferior establishments, such person must have
Sore faith in the possibility of miracles being yet
"forked in our favour lay th • authors of this system,
than we have, do all we can to keep our imagina-
tions quiet.

There can be no doubt but that the immense
amount of debt contracted by the Palace must be
shortly provided for by Parliament, and it is pro-
bable that the statement which has beets published
liaa been submitted, in order to sound the public
Heil, and to prepare it for the application which
will, very probably be made in this Session, for its
liquidation.—lt is really monstrous !- -Great in-
deed moat be the popularity of a l'rince who can
•enture to make de.nauds on his people to the extent
of millions, for his own immediate purposes, at a
time when every energy of htiman inveution has been
exhausted to discover fresh objects for taxation ; and
that these exertions have been in vain, the enor-
mous and unparalleled Loan most decidedly
proves. There cannot be a more conclusive
evidence of it, than that not one shilling of
the additional war expenditure is raised within the
year, and th •re can be little doubt, that the net re-
venue of the wield year will fall short of that of
the year ending Ist May, 1814.—The state of public
opinion is very accurately shown by the terms of the
Loan. A debt of 42 millions is created, at the rate
of interest of 51. 12s. Si. per cent. per annum. If
to this is sidled the Bonus of near 2 per cent. dis.
ceunt, it will appear that 6 per cent. is about the
amount of the interest. Worse terms that these
have never hardly been obtained even a/ the close
of a :ts , m .ch le,s at its opening. When in the
yea, 1798, the 3 per Cent. Consols were under 50,
even Mr. I'm negotiated a Loan upon much more
advantageous terms, and yet the Parliament of the
U ited Kingdom has suffered, nay sanctioned, a Mi-
nister of the Crown in having Involved the natlois In

Subsidiary Treaties, by which an indefinite sum is co-
venanted 'e he paid to the Sovereigns of Europe, who,
by this *anion prolEgateext ravaga lice, as wicked as it is
weak,dre ettablat to enjoy more adra Wages by going to
war than a lime of profound peace could afford
them ; for in the latter case they must support their
own armies, and now they are paid and fed at the
espence of Great Britain. And yet the Peti,ion of
the people of Westminster, praying for a Reform in
the Constitution of this acquiescent Parliament, has
been contemptuously rePcted by .that very Parlia-
ment, which, instead of being, as it ought to be, a
watchful and vigilant guardian of the public purse,
sanctions by overwhelming majorities the most lavish
expenditure which ever disgraced the annals of even
lir itish extravagance! But how can it be otherwise?
How esti it be doubted that a Minister must ever
command any majority he pleases in an Assembly
constituted as is the present, nho has the absolute
disimsal of a revenue of upwards of 120 millions!
This simple fact speaks for itself ! It requires no
comment. Ile who runs may read
It appears by the Message sent down on Friday,
that the Militia is to be itnme,liately called out, an
that while we are hiring 300,000 foreigners on the
Continent, to fight their own battles (if indeed any
battle is necessary, which, in our view of the subject,
we can by no means admit), we are Ong to embody
80,000 soldiers at home. For what is this domestic
armament intended? Against whols ? The universal
al probation which Ministers declare their conduct
and measures have received throughout the whole

nation, prevents the possibility of our supposing,
that any thing like Internal commotion, cur be ap-
prehended. Are these militia.rnen then to be sent to
garrrison our newly re-fortified fortresses in Bel-
gium? Are they to matt those walls which have
cost us already two millions to erect, and which ten
Millions more will not complete; and in addition
to I "first cost" sum, are we to be at the ex-
pence of garriso.,ing them also, and with Englishmen
too ? An Act of Parliament for any purpose is now
an very difficult matter to obtain ; and if the con-
struction of the Law Officers of the Crown,as to the
existing Militia laws, is correct, that we have never
bum, frk been at peace with France, notwithstanding
Jubilee Fair, and the Chinese Midge conflogratir.a,
and the Puppet Shows, and the Gingerbread Stalls,
end the Serpentine River Fleet, and the Congress
Fire-worloo and the Ililf Million of Money which
all these splendid proofs of Royal and Ministerial
wisdom to..k.frern eur exhausted pockets ; if, not.
wi hsiandiug all these rejoicings for peace we have
been absolutely all the time at war, for so have :Ire
Armin It and Squ u:olt•Cix£R.lL solemnly giveu