The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-30 00:00:00

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stances, and to rewire droving trade, it is evident,
must he preceded by an imperious abstinence from all
future schemes of foreign aggressinn an.l interference
with the rights of independent stater. Certainly our
landed proprietors will recognise a common interest
in reducing the rents of their lands. It will be essen-
tial that those restrictions upon our commercial inter-
course which have, at least in modern times, become
obsolete, should he abandoned, and a judicious ar-
rangement succeed our army be almost wholly re-
duced, and a system, dictated by the principles of
wisdom and experience in the conduct of our national
defence, be introduced.
Equitable taxation, and approved modes of ma-
naging our finances will be acted on.
lin the collection of the taxes also the plans of jndi-
cions persons will be adopted.
A real and efficient economy must be introduced
into every branch of expenditure. Details of these,
it is unnecessary here to mention.
By these means, and the cultivation and employ-
ment of all improvensent in sciences and the arts, the
perseverinr energy of our countrymen will be doubtless
effectually struggling with difficulties as heretofore.
DELTA.

CORPORATIONS versus Mgt LIBERTY grad
PUBLIC PROSPERITY

SECOND SERIES:—LErssit IX.

" Time lay* open frauds. and after that discovery there is
no passing the tame trick upon the mice.--I:EsvaAsoe.

Stst—The frauds of the (ireen Bag Administration,
and all the other members, tools, and agents of the
accursed system, are :low fully exposed to public
view, and can never be obliterated from the memories
of the p 'or starved mice, the people. Never will
the people of this country again suffer themselves
to be &Wed by the same set of tricksters, or under
the same hollow pretences. The political knowledge
which they have so dearly acquired, can never he
nnlearnt. The people at large have a full compre-
hension of their proper interests, and of the umuner
in which they have hitherto been deceived. By the
discussions of the last six months, the rising gene-
ration of Britons have become a new race of Beings.
In this age of illnmination, the adherents of the pre-
vailing system of misrule, have alone remained in
ignorance. Having but little collision with the ex-
ternal world, and accustomed to regard their own
faction as the universe, they are utterly incapable of
judging of the real state of public opiuion, or the
protrress of knowledge. Like :genies, whenever a ray
of light breaks into their cells, they are ready to try
" fire." But on this occasion, they will cry in vain;

for no miracle will come to their assistance: nor, ex-
cepting by their immediate partisans, a single
bucket of water he brought to quench the conflagra-
tion. Their usual watch-words of " sedition," " trea-
son," " blasphemy," " Ste. which they
had heretofore employed With but too much su-cess,
are worn thread-bare, and except by a few fanatics
or maniacs, now held in the utmost derision. Still
they will proceed in their blind and furious career,
heedless, or perhaps unaware of the farther calamities
which they are about to bring upon the country. in-
stead of bending their whole attention, as Statesmen
of ordinary integrity and understanding would feel
themselves bound to do, to an inquiry into the mise-
ries already afflicting the different classes of the com-
munity, and into their causes and remedies, all their
care seems to.be to stifle inquiry, and to allow the
evil to t;:ke its course. It was, doubtless, in a great
measure with a view to divert the attention of the
public from their universal and severe sufferings, and
to anspend their complaints, as well as from their total
incapacity to calculate upon probable results, that
Mrnisters au ragerly bewildered themselves in the ne-
farious proceedings against their Queen, by which
their own downfall, if not the ruin of the country, is
shout to he accelerated. Bit, neither in their blind-
ness, selfishness, or perverseness, are the Ministers of
the Crown either singular, or unequalled ; nay, I
question whether they are unsurpassed. In illustra-
tion of these remarks, let ns take a view of the con-
duct, upon the present emergency, of their rivals for
place, the Whigs, as they are usually called. Did
they, as a body, conic forward, boldly, manfully,
wisely, generously, and at once, as men in their shuts-
alion would have done, if of free and uncorrupted
minds, in defence of an obviously persecuted, and to
lie presumed innocent woman, and that woman their
(,Inert so! with the exception of a few choice
spirits, such as must always exist amongst a numerous
body, they meanly skilled and held aloof, until they
found that the magnanimous people of England showed
an unanimous determination (for the hole and corner
men are not worth the eounting upon a division) not
to stiffer their illustrious Queen to be persecuted to de-
struction by any authority +miler Heaven. They thou
indeed began to evince, with a degree of cautions ad-
measurement, just so much integrity and zeal in the
cause of justice, as they conceived might entitle them,
by the help of some comparative public favour, with-
out raising premature obstacles to their preferment by
pronouncing the Queen decidedly innocent, to replace
their foolish and desperate opponents. They have
also, in a similar spirit of discernment, generosity, nnd
wisdom, pronounced such oracular opinions upon the
subject, whirls is utmost of all deserving of considera-
thin, both as a remedy for present, and a preventive
of future evils,--a reform in the representation of the,
people,—that they have forfeited all claim to that pub-
lie confidence, which they were ambitious, upon this
occasion, of obtaining : and the lengths, which they
have gone in favour of the Queen, although lint paltry,
are not likely to recommend them in other quarters.
It would he exceedingly amusing for a stranger to
heur,..in the " Chambers" of Parliament, the taunts
of the veterans of each battalion upon those of the
opposite ranks, defending their own transgressions by,
the worse, trausgressions of their adversaries, if ho
mold wholly abstract his mind from the contempt*.
Iles, of thp dire calamities into which their trans-
gressions respectively have plunged the nation.
If the opposition really imagine that they them-•i
aches could govern the nation, in its present un-
happy . state,, without a thorough Reform of Par-
liament, we must suppose them to be Inferior in
slipceroniont even to Ministers, since these may the
thee" nnarally be presumed to fall into such a delu-
sion respecting themselves, froth their long habits •of
'misrule. It is folly, or bulkily% to think of any re-