The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-13 00:00:00

T. rex EDITOR or les STATESMAN.

ets,—Sensible of the warmth of your feelings, and
convinced of the peril of your principle+, I have
bees surprised that year animadversion tias net been
mere poiniedly directed to the untenable, and, I might
ay, false and injurious doctrine lately laid down at
York Assizes. Never, pother, were dodo less
fogodaut in fact, or worse supported by argement,
thus these delivered by Mr. Jusico BATLZT to the
Grand Jury recently reasoned in that city; sever
were cosclosinos less legitimately drawn from we-
lshes mare fallacioss, than his Lordship's soles•
averment, that burdensome imposts are conducive to
the public weal, and that the costar, is at this ma-
mma in a prosperous condition. Never, fill now,
could the Bench boast of a Judge whose confidence in
Ms own fortitude, or in the imbecility of his .editors,
was sulfides. to describe as auspicious to commerce
mod enterprise., a degree of legation that Is beading
Ifs contributors to the tern, ; sod the Wad as po-
mpom's, whose population is unemployed and positive•
iy fami.hing.
When his Lordship o:paneled on the bosalts ac-
cruing to the People, free the benevskaat of Go-
vernment in abaracting and dissipating their pro.
petty, that they may enjoy the advantage of earning
it over again, sod of oar Joarrithing state as a can-
viscid end ludustriess nation, either his jodgment
was beguiled by the unhappy Isauriasce of his ims.
entities, or self•interest deliberately domineering
over his conscience, Wooded t►e delesion of his
bearers. If the first of these be the true sopposifloo,
we most pity the country, the judgment of whew
legal oracles is the slave of their fancy : if the latter
lament that their personal prospects and their duties
are subject to artefact end contention; and, is either
case, most ask °waives, whether the bouts sod
beads of such iodide' presidents are worthy of iae
Proving as English Grand Jury.
Tasslion ropiness! Englaud Is a prospering
coodbion ! Why, Sir, this country is one wide-
spread scene of melancholy and losolferable indigos=;
sod of aims growing out of the dire fortifier, of
busier ; and this deplorable state of things is the in•
iteltatsPand palpable resell of the merciless warily of
Government. A creel and ongesartes st niggle against
the tights of iliePropl• of the Continent, has eshasated
the sosoorces of err own; sod from the deep of what

we once possessed, the seemly pittance loft se by the
eat I ravage, behoves silty end seventy esillltros
are annually deducted t• sopped so onemstitetiow.
el Standing Army, t• ligeldato the is Oriel of so
solvable debt, sad to peeper Royal sod Right Ho.
wearable appetites. Tease a blessing) then hour,
Sr, het it happeeed tMo this coontry was sot Messed
loeg ago ? Why has not that sacrifice of Misdeeds of
millions, spent, brat in opposing, and thee in sepperl.
Ing, those ancient friends of Ragland, the Boansoirs,
severed sat eternal peewit'? Dot his Lordship
skims that we are to a Inerishing conditios I Then
why are t►,People complairting? D.ll they affect disuse
to sanction their dossed of a Reform of Parliameat ?
or do they ask a Reform, as their only security spinal
fete's pillep sod epptessies ? If poede►oes tat.
silos Is foreseeable to their prosperity, le seek the
seduction •f its weight, is adoptiog a Wasp method
for the impresemeot if their condition ; and if their
condition is presperoes, their pretence of a poverty
that can so easily be disproved, is rather injedicloos.
—The troth is, Mr. Roscoe (and Judges, who
through the increased criminality, see the angereated
indigence of their country, are the last who have to
learn the fact), that now, in the very moment while I
sat addressing roe, the depressed head of commerce
U stooping luster sod lower—the homes of millions
of unoccupied artisans are wasting inch by inch—and
the general stale of those rostra, is giving the retort
direct to the sops ralleled aysertinn, that inordinate
imports are beneficial to the great body of a comma.
airy, end that Kagland it is d prosperous condition.
I es, Sr, year humble servant,
Assad,. Hilt SCRUTAron.

RUNT'S WIT of this even R••
formes. en meeting will, hiss et MorlAl.ton tee .•Iher
day, after acces•itig his is the easel amentrr, said,
Why, oho Ministerial Prpoes are aloes at
work about 'on, they pettotn,ll. hoop you be bat
wafer. They d• so, said Hums., and le that they
bate acted like sleets-eagiaes, bit it is throogh the.
1 kayo been raised se high.
Tat: Patect Rloll9ll'll 11111711-111111.—ThIp Prior*
Regent's Birth-day was cel..h.tated by rowneand of
his Royal Highness *a the 17th of Janes lea, bf a
Coast Gals, for the encouragement of the Made and
sswmere• of the country, /sc.; Miser demonatra.
lions of rejoicing. else took plant thaw. Not with.
standing which, yesterday was obweved proMy gone.
rally in a variety of ways by diforent evehlishmeeis
end larlitidoals. A number of bells were ringing in
ow cowls of the day. The King's Geerd ineeeted
duty a' St J.mes's Paler., with the state maismais,
prorodod by the elrem•m•jnv in his Mato smiform.
The E•gio slid the Hope rire.ollico own le new slosh.
Inc with their eeEiiws, preceded by bonds of wind M.
Irsseents. pa►aded the principal 41011411 of London,
Wes.minster,sod their eiwireas.The wesiefthe
ware were aberssaids regaled with a tlialaw. Thos
British Fire-office, in the Strsed,wes closed from be.
sines, luring the day, Of a clew holiday. The holies
Opera-11.e5,, sold other patine Owes, se cell as sumo
of the Itori tessirsteses beews, were illominsted.
A di..ner was 'men in the pages sod ether persons of
the Royal establishment at Carlton.hoese, as wallas
shop of the livery there sea at the King's Maws. Mr.
A•TLIT gate a towing maid on tM occasion OS the
Thom) ter a beet.