The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-12 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 12. 1823.

PARLIAMENTA la COMMENTARY.
In the Honest or COMMONS the Sinking Fund was
the only thing which caused any discussion last night.
It was talked of with as nand' seriousness and solemnity
as if it had really been etpected that it would, some time
or other, pay o'T some part of the debt.—There has been
* a Sinking Fund of some sort or other almost ever since
• the infernal debt began; that is to say, fur about a hun-
dred years; cover bas one single farthing of the debt
been paid off by it; it has been demonstrated over and
: over again, that it never can even tend to pay off; but
that It must tend to increase the weight of the burthen.
' The debt has increa‘ed from one million to nine bun-
• , Bred millions; and still the thing goes on. The gold-
' limit that has been pecking at the ssires of his cage from
the first of January to the thirty-first of December, and
. . is just as nrar to getting ont as he wits when he began, is
~.just as sens:hle a creature as these sinking-fund people.
• ...The truth is, that the sinking-fund means a parcel of.
' thepeople'e money, taken from them io taxes, to be laid
owl in what it called stork, in order to make the stock
. ....•
• ;North more than it otherwise would be ;-so that, what-
- ' •sever.the siokintfund as they call it amounts to, it is so
',wick in the way,of bonus to the Jews and Jobbers; and
. . this goes,on, bemuse it is necessary to sustain what is
called the funding system; and that funding system is
snatalued, bennee it is absolutely necessary to the Bo-
rough system. The Bortragh gentlemen are greatly
puzzled. They' 'weld foie that the Lord would be
'Pleased to take the fondholders to himself, but the Lord
... • will..not be so pliamd. He seems to have intended
• . ~ HAI as an lustrument for • the doing of justice upon Slae
Horough•gentlemen, mho begin •to cry out, that they
are, drivers or Arun' to be driven from the mansions
'of their fbrefathers. Turn atiotst, gentlemen; an-
cleat ass your families may be,, they ere not more an.
• • cient than those of the descendants of Abraham. lease,
. and Jacob. We care not, for our part, bow much the
• • • Jews take away from the Botoughtuangers. We wish,
.witb aU our hearts, that they would strip theta of their
Vier shirts ; and strip them thus we verily believe they
.. nill before the-thing he over. We have seen that sear 1
•
• cannot Le tnteredon. We alwiys said this. We were 1
rigist. . There is a dread of the assignats ; and war with
• -'. poll and without reduction and reform we ism can
: . have. There must he no reelection ot the interest of the
: • icbt without rrfotm of Parliament. locked; there 'cat-
rot be any such a thing; and it is quite surprising what
• u state of dirraction the Borough gentlemen.ta:ill be in,
in a year or two': time, if the Jews be suffered to press
. ' 4,;; in ;their prer,ent way. The main thing for the peo.
• ..•
_ pie to do, is to stand to it, that There shall be two redaction
a inter. a of debt, without reform of Parliament; and
• • wit'lbsta real refer:so too, and not a humbug of a thint
' such as Dvn Carlos would. give us. No hurry! weber.
. , fot, enough before us. Let the •ilaing.toke time, and it
wail do itself well. Let as come to no site compromise

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