The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-03 00:00:00

one timid ? Wherever we tare ourselves the sedge gre
sight of distress assailer the ("VIM sea pefi114444 ;
the commercial world trembles; asansfarturere and
artisans without employment. Of the reeminiac
trading and operative community, how comparatively
few those neither ruining nor retreating, while of all
are daily added to the enormous lists of bankruptcy
Prisons, as might he augured, notwithstanding Insol-
vent Acts, in their n::ture of such injurious tendency,
crowded ; private litigations innumerable; public de-
linquency unparalleled.
The prices of corn, once, and again risen to an
enormous height, while eves the common wages of
labor are inadequate to the labourer's support, we
have nevertheless, awful to state, beheld tax after tax
levied upon the necessaries of life; his accustomed
small piece of land, perhaps the cottage lie inhabited,
alienated ; till at length this stay of our British so-
ciety, after struggles the most intense, but unavailing,
is seen fast passing to the parish-rate for subsistence,
nor falling thus alone, but dragging with them their
falling country. How gloomy the catalogues of
crime? In the Metropolis, and in the Provinces, what
direful disorders' From the grosseNt murders and
atrocities, to the lowest pilfering of infancy itself,
how are we assailed Cattle are indeed unsafe in our
fields ; goods, oa our risers; gaols and prisons, how-
ever multiplied, found wholly inadequate while ne-
verthelev• even military force, or bands of police,
anomalous to English habits, do, as it where, infer.
sect our island, while assassination ifselttliongli'utine-
cessarile nrged by soave as imply ing a change in our
national character, yet nnhappily, it is riAt our ware-
fluent lot to mark. In short, who does not see that
the miserable and horrific experience .;f a sistrr cou-
try, is with more than rapid steps apprr-.lellittc our-
selves. And is this, the condition ut oar once happy
land ? Surrounded liv evils so alarmin:r in their ex-
tent, so OW inuuis in their portent: cveats nut brought
upon us by cirrumst.tures which Imittettt!,.tgacity could
II focesee,nor !Inman iiitell:gcnce'p: event : not inflicted
in the dispensation ut lleavio, in pestilence or CI-

mine, bite the offspring of principles the most
ritions, baleful, and impolitic, counsels, ruinous
and absurd, and a in itinacity in error the m•tst
frantic ; 'originating in n total disregard of ctrry
libe;al and just policy, as it regards our for.ign
relations; and a dereliction of t'Aat 'filial legislation,
on which' ottr community raft alone reqt.
rum sitt4l iv-dem/dation% we avert. In this crisis.
we with COIOI6IIOI appruaeh your 21Injesty. Sire, ne
seri; the re-estalolislonsent of lost c.om•nerce; the cul-

tivation of remaining resources, an.l wore the revival
of those eternal principles I.f jit.tiee, Prow which
we have laretl—:lte canoe of all mi>fortnue.

We invite your Majesty to concur in every prac-
ticable manner, in plans to inturc tie littropean tran-
quillity, in ►which we are s« much involved : the ab-
staining fron► all until', interference to prop up what
is arbitrary and slesi.otic, or to molest the progress of
freedom in foreign States. 11,,,t our nation may hope
for the favor of L);% it,,. Providence, in bawds is

the well ',vim:. of F:mpirvs.
We come, Sire, that our commuoity be reassnred;
oppres.ive taxes on the necessaries of life remosed;
the millions of ciir fellow subjtcts now sustained in
whole, or in part, by the parish rate, rtplacesl its the
situation from whence they have been driven in out
British Society, and which can alone• realize the
security of our free country.
That for this their means of inderndenee he reserved
their cult:ices and eardens restored. We aver that
the needed economy he practised in our civil
list, (no unnecessary state affected) in the pension
list. That insmediate step,: he taken for the :a botilion
of all sinecures. That unnecetsary military be ohs-
ha titled.

We are convinced that your Majesty will deem it
essential that the interests of toora;iy, without n hiet,
States- cannot prosper, should he supported. To
these end. we solicit your Majesty to cense that good
principles to be patronired : the vicious, in whatever
rank they way bc found, discountenanced. We Beare,
that as the executor of our National Laws, von will
be pleased to require that the wise statutes framed
by our ancestors, be enforced., that ganging be rids.
con raged.
That drunkenness, profane swearing. lewdness,
and sabbath-breaking, be loose strirey brought to
punishment.
Disorderly meeting( for combating. suppressed.
That duelling should lepunned by Colid it.,!n punish-,
anent. That alterations in our et iminal laws, con-
sistent, as much as possible, a ith the dictates of
scripture and reason; also in our revenue lass, now
so miserably tending to impair the health, resources,
and moral comluct of the community : a, well a, those
which regard the preservation of nild iinim:lls, be

'that our systems of national i'...fence, and martial
law be improved.
For the.r our nation'. wants, we desire your Ma-
jesty's gracious in:erfercitee.
We e,,me, Sire, with these recitals of ii.jury auJ of
neglect. and their retook.
Hut, Sire, for the accomplishment of these measure
aril to assure the stability of the throne, and our na-
tion. we earnestly ryip4, hiseerh, and trust that
we shall impress your Alaiesty that you will be plea.vd
to C1.11.1r iii every measure, to restore to our country
the exerrise of those constitutional premises,
which ue have been alienated: that torruptiun and
folly It1:11' he dissipated from the lower House of Par-
liament; and for which purpose, e.pecially that an
atnelioration of elective franchise be adopted, and the
duration of Parliament shortene.l, thus affording to our
lard the means of realizing the independent sagarity
in the conduct of its aflairs in which a great people is
entitled.

In behalf of onrselres, our children. and posterity.
we intreat your Majesty's regard. As the head of as
August llonse .ttnaleama ted if. interest with the welfare
of Oleic realms. we canwst hut a-stutte a confident r&li•
ance on yoar Majesty's attention.
Finally, Sire, as holding' the sceptre of him he
%clam Kings r•ign. we most st.:emnly implore that
notice which mull events anti cir •unistances demand,
for the accomplishment of purposes. for which alone,
legitimate t;overnment is constititte-I, tt,e tranquillity,
interest, and happiness of the peoi►le, lies ke.

Sir Win. SCLO.t, ur are it!Yortne announced out
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