The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-04 00:00:00

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6arY-created ills, sales. it be to make the 'word
ref(/' ridicolows; or, at least, to weaken Its effect
when applied to the reel erils which now sr
press the country. Let religion he free. say we; bo.
unless all be freely tolerated, we are decidedly against
partial (scum to this, that, and the other sect ; which,)
as we before observed. can only tend to rut up awl de-
stroy that subtle spirit. that spirit of reform, which is
new becoming geseral aid consolidated. The Col-
lariats are just as good. mid no better, that other
people. We wish them to be left to believe, or 'Hobe'
Howe. just what they like; but, we do not wish their
contrite and crotchets to come and shake as uproar
about religion at a time like this. •
Thp Catholics' is a very different ease. Mr. CAN-
Num took urea-iot to observe, that his notice for a
Bill to enable Catholic Prete to Pit in Parliament was
peei:ire for the 38th of April. Pere. 11111 r readers
will obse• ye, are a body of persons. who are kept oat of
their hereditary rights, not because they have violated
any law that was is existence when these rights
arose sir were first given. lint bemuse they have
tiered to the religion of their progenitors, which. too,
was the religion of the progenitors of us all in this
kingdom I It is to sine *Aerie; no trete* that
they want to be iedniged in ; they want no relfef front
any restraints as to any thing of a fincifsl nature.—
They want to sit in the seats which are theirs by
right of inheritance ; they wart their Girth-right ;
just as the people wants theirs ; namely, to choose theme
who sit in their Horse of Peril-meet Whether Mr.
Coristet will be ready to pie the people, after be
leas done with the Peers. we pretetsd not to say; but,
at soy rate, we will say. that, dear as is the right of
the Peers to their mats, it is sot clearer that that of
the people to the choosier of nice to fill theirs.
The AgricOural Report, which Lord C
mat, the eight befits, se very anzioos to screen from
discussion anti) after the holidays, could not, our rea-
ders will perceive, be kept beigdod up 90 long. ft was
like the "arm wins." It hinted forth last night,
tad produced a discassiou by far the most interestiog
that we have had to notice. daring the whole of the
Sresion. It was introduced by Mr. BIN FT Tof Wilt-
Aire. in preseating a Petition from the owners acid
amorists of land I. that comity. He was followed,
Mr. Ettics, who was succeeded by Mr. F. Lawn,
Mr. Worms, Mr. RICARDO, the Hon. G. Bat NET.
Lord CAPT AAAAA Gll sad Mi. Past; for. as to Mr.
'Ce triarr; who *limed the_ itibore. be *PPeall
to
have said as much on the oat side se es the WWI
so that his speech ansomets to Whist. As all dee
doctrines. all the dons of those who centered the
Report, and who decribed the Wien sod falling state
of the coun•ry. are merely repetitions of opinions and
confirmations of prophesies of the pea which is putting
this on paper, we should want heart to go over what
is become so trite, aid so tiresome to our minds.
—We can hardly beteg ourselves to believe,
that it can be necessary spit to go over the subject ;
yet, when we see, as we do now on the table before us.
such ignorance as is, after all, sent forth through
tilt Morning Papers, and especially by the Old Thiee.
in the shape of commentary en this very dehafe. we
cannot remit sliest; bat feel ourselves impelled to
pat on paper a few words, if it be onir so chew that
all England is not mad.that the mind of all Englasd
is not bemaddied like that of the poor creature whir
writes the balf-novel and half-gossiping stuff to which
we have just alluded.--Mr. &tics took the right
view tithe sahject; no new view. to be sure ; but to
be right and original oe this sebjest we defy him. He
chewed, that the object of the Committee was to rider
the pike of corn and be said, tint. with Pest's Bill
in forte, this tees impossible. He stated. that. la 1814,
the country flank notes stamped amounted to eleven
millions, and in 1821, to only two and a AoY'suitiosts/
In short, be contended. sow is April, len, for all
that the Long Island prophet had contended (in ad.
Tenet and in the way of warming) in July, 1819.
He also contended, with that same prophet, that
our prices must come down to these of 'fillet; aid
with that prophet he declared, that a reoolaßott, nitre
silent bet more effectual. was roil( es here sow than
had ever gone oa in Fraser i He ematendod, that, to re
turn to cash-paymeats.trithoat rederial centred*, was
madness ; andolid sot dm prophet so eoutend is that pc
tidos. which he sent from )wag Island in the early part
of 1818, but which Gard POLkeeTarte did not present,
imeause the House did sot Ulm long petitions! Faith, we
believe "the Rowse" will mot be so "ice soon! We fancy I
it will find itself blessed with a little more patience
shortly! "The House not like," indeed!!—Mr. else
tics cease red the Committee. sad very jostly, Gr tit i
going hoe the causes of the distress ; and he (as the
prophet always has dose) ascribed this wholly to MAP,
sties co-operating with cheerer in the valve of the
currency. Mr. Ettics's was a clever speech. It bad
nothing, sad could have titbit% original is it, It it
was to be right. The prophet has barred up every
avenue to originality oa any sobject of this sort ; hut
it was, nevertheless, clever; and it was valuable be-
cease it came so fatly to contras all the predictions
of long Island.and to tell the disciples of the prophet.
that they Night to rejoice in their triumph ; for that
their faith is "the munition of rocks."—Mr. Fes rie-
test Lewis, one of the Committee, defended that cele-
brated body of men against the csosare of Mr. Buttes.
Hs said, that this Committee was ealy a eow.ionatioe

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titedtlast year, mad, it 15...1.
eeAs tie distrees! law"! to.
ceinatey Igh laughed at ski laseldhes bp& !
would it not have been of owe use to call a whim
eV twos* to whether there be any distress fa Ame-
rica? Why rid they ailed that without any evidence
at all. wham hundreds of witnesses were at band.
American* es well as Baglish ? Why do they still
assert it, without prodieciog a single American news-
paper that contain* a petition on any such +abject ?
This was a thing of the very Met importance; andl
yet no inquiry, no desire to get at proof about it!—
Mr. WerTBILN followed nest; anal, he observed, that
"the distress was such as c.rld not have ken antiei-
" pared." No? Was it not anticipated by the Long
Island Prophet, while he was at pingh ? Was it not
all aatieipated, in detail as well as is gross, a year
before Pates Bill was proposed? Oh! bat Mr. Was-
sang did mot read the " too leer, " perificu: and the
Letter to Tierney! More fool he, then ; that's all.—
This gentlest., after having stated. that farther in-
quiries bad coofirmed his opinion that two-thirds
of the Essex farmers are insolvent; that the distress of
the country woolsl compel them " to rip up" Paces
Bill ; that it was impossible to go ea with it ; that the
(louse would he compelled to take that Bill into et:mai.
dentine ; said, that if on other metier would bring
the subject forward, he would r—Egad! We shall
Nave the feast of At gridiron, then! But; Oh!
can it be possible! It is one way, indeed, of driving
the prophet eraey. We toast break his leg, or arm,
or make him really drunk with wine or gin;
or he will be so puffed up to such a bulk that he will
burst with vanity. Perhaps it will be better to get
WALTZ* and his sisters to " ii4k" hi w *gain! How-
ever, we most leave this to time, and, for the present.
proceed with our debate in the " CoUnriet."—Mr.
Amino° nest came, and began by saying, that " it
" was impossible that Peel's Bill could be the mob
" earn of the distress:" anal this be attempted to
show in just as odd a eon of way as we ever noon-
ber to have clapped ear eyes on. Tice whole of hls
argument was built on a weak idea of Mr. Werreag ;
timely. that the money had been raised is edits only
25 per cent. Take that for granted. and Pest's Bill
(theCash-Projeet)is setae main cause. Bot, though
this is more titan four and a half per cent, it is no-
thing like what the Bill and Hank measures have pro-
dated. If the country Bank notes have biles off is
the degree of from dere* to two and a half, this is •
little more, we take it than four aid a half per cent !
Mr. lascsaga could not believe that all rent could
be takes away by the taxes, of which farina
only paid a portion ! flood Odd! Why, this is going
upon flit nation, that prices an still the same. If a
mat can play rent and get a living profit with wheat at
tea shillings a lembel, can he do either if it fall to
five and the draft of taxes remain the same? The rent
and profit are to come out of a muds price with cer-
tain taxes; and if the price go sad the taxes nimbi,
how sae there be rent or profit? It makes one itch
all over ; it makes one rub one's shoulders, and al•
most jump about the room, at bearing this, and at
hearing it put forth In the form of serious arguomoto;
We most say, however, that we are inclined to arm
the return of common sense from the reception of this
speech of Mr. RICAUDO, which was attended with onto
of those strange cheers that we had oar ears shocked by
in 1819, during the sittings of the famous Parliament
that passed Peers Bill and Sir dos; two inflictieme
equally memorable, but precisely opposite as.** thole
objects. Mr. Hans BENlglir came next; and, after
Isabela'. that taxation was the cause of the distress;
after observing, that, if taxation were not reduced,
the country would soon be brought to the state of
India, where the Z:mixdartt finding their property us-
productive, gore it up altogether to the Goner:meat ;
after °burring this, which, we think, we have beard
observed Fy some one before; after saying that be
knew a family whose rental was reduced from £6.000
£l,BOO by Paces Bill ; after saying (and very
reasonably.) that he wished the taxes raised for the
Slaking Feed to be repealed, the pl.n of which fond
was a "notpicte imposture." fabricated by that
" great juggler Purr;" attar this. in which we per-
fectly agree with bits. die same having been said by the
ploughing prophet. any time during then lam 20 years ;
after all this, for which we thank Mr. BENNET,
because we know that it will and must produce an ea-
, *talent effect ; after all this, he said something in
which we do not so entirely concur with him; namely.
that the Loadlords ought to make a compromise a ith
the Fandholders. There are other parties besides the
Landlords. AU 11. e intimations class, hare as
much to do with the matter as the Landlords hare. Let
the people at large dome a House of Cot:moos, and that
House will settle the maner amicably, and without each
a House this never ran be done. Lord CAITLCIMAGII
(Oh ; new you shall see what you shall see ! as the
showmen say) followed Mr. Bangs r, and began by
deprecating a premature discussion of what was,
" hereafter to be so folly discussed." He then expressed
his astonishment at Mr. Bentswe's talk of a "coaspro.
min." He talked of the " delusion," the great i'eal of
" delusiou that had been scattered through the country
" upon these stthjec.s." and implored members. implored
Honourable Members to " go home to the country
" with their minds fire fro a the gloomy apprches.
" ,noes, the gloomy pie:tote and prognosgcs. of Sir,
" BaDINIIT ; and with a rtsolution to impress on the
" minds of their constitnrnts. that our CIRCUM•
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