The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

in a media* of carrency to be proposed, or a standard
of value to be adopted ? Nu, not he. Mr. Cobbett in-
sists that the cash-payments system is our total and cer-
tain ruin—and he declares that it cannot 6e rescinded ;
that the ministers neither will, dor can, nor dare, repeal
it. Such is the species of his exultation, and such the
Satanic pride and joy of Mr. Cobbett."—Eurrost.
You might have spared yourself the trouble of writ'
ing "Rditor" at the bottom of this; for no roan in
the world ; none of all the beasts that went into Noah's
ark, nut one of all the reptiles; nothing that God ever
made or suffered to exist, except the Editor, the miser-
able quick of quacks; the underling, the lrbackuon of
that Sydrophel, Webb Hall, could have put such a parse
graph on paper.—ln the first place, as to the publication
of Mr. Attwood's letters, what newspaper in England
would be so b-astly as not to see its own interest in
publisiliog them?—As to the Reverend Mr. Cruttwell,
how does Mr. Attwood include him in his censure on the
press? And as to tby "owe conduct," thou worse than
the ass of la Mancha I what has thy conduct bees but

that, which might have been expected from an impostor
whose very bosinese it was to delode the farmers on to
their kiln; tad to prevent them from making any one
I.exietlei tending to pave themselves? Yon talked of
Mx liquidation of. the Debt, did you! You talked of
ineryirpt.iff; did you f• of paying off that, to pay the in-
iteteei of which has been found sufficiently ruinous ?
Mow was any thing to be paid off, without taking the
ieelittliei frets the landlords and the capital fermi the
!frintritri? Irt.2 tallied about this ; and this was your
merit! Tell me, wretched sinner, bad you ever the
courage to propose a reduction of the interest? Had
,you ever the courage to propose a disbanding of the
;army; had yon ever the sense or the courage to propose
.any tine. thing by which any real relief could be oh-
,tained ? Now as to your charges against me; but, be-
. fore I come to them, let me look back at your baseness
with regard to the cultivation of the Swedish turnip.—
In answer to a correspondent who asked you if yogi
knew of my one who bad tried Mr. Coldiett's plan of
rattiest's% tintSwedish,trrnip. which plan your cor-
respondent had read In •.ehe Year's Residence you said,
4. We know something of America and of Unbbett too,
and have sot much faith in either," or words to that
effect. What ground had you to justify this observation
I have been informed that you, impudent quack as yew
are, have said, tb'at ftow knew me in. Atterica ; end I
know the King:. but never did his Majesty speak to ma.
and I metier spoke to you in the whole course of
my
life; so that you are impostor all through. Bat aril,
iu say, that I catch et all tit; passing subjects of the
baud, and call them ell nay own. Yawns falschnotl item
Oteicero addition from any exaggeration in the terser
bot,this is a falsehood so directly opposite to the notdt
ifoos troth. that it seems to be peculiarly your otro,—,
So fey from Claiming what belongs to others, I at al-
ways mom scrupulous in disclaiming every merit :asp
cribed to me which does not belong to me ; and, *belt
yon came to see the STATESBI•N of last Monday, where
in observing uprao Mr. Attwood's compliment to myself,
I took such pains to show that it was not dam to me but
to Mr. Paine; when von came to see that paper, you
would have blushed, if blush could have penetrated
through your hide,—But, now we cams to your caution
to Mr. Attwood. You tell bins to take care that. I do
not turn round on him and contradict him, merely bey
cause he coincides in my own opinion! You then pro.
pose a test, by which to try the merits of my exertions.
This test is, or, rather, the tests are, will I propose a
remedy. Beast! .1 have proposed the remedy; dis-
tinctly proposed it in a Petition to the House of Com-
mons. 1 did it io 1918, in order to guard the Parliament
against such a measure as that of Mr. Peel; against
adopting such a measure without concomitant- mew
sures.--Hare I not proposed it also; or, at least,
rate gre.tt leading measure of a remedy. In the
proposition is !licit was proposed to, and adopted by,
' the County of Kea! ?—The other test is, will I " agree
with Mr. Attwood, or any other, in a meditent of curren-
cy to be props.-d, or in a standard of value to 6e
adopted?" No," sty you ; and no say I. Bat what
does this prove ? Only that Ido not agree with Mr.
Attwood ; that is to say, that Mr. Attwood does not
agree with me. 1 will agree to no new swindle. I will
scree to no robbery of yearly servants ; no robbery of
tradesmen, no robbery of Savings' Banks people
anti Friendly Societies, no robbery of people
that have recently lent their money. No base hy-
pocritical scheme of fraud by which a new and
numerous class of persons are to be ruined ; no vile, no
atrocious assignat-projeet, which must inevitably throw
every thing into confusion, and disgrace the character
of the nation for ever.-1 propose, I have repeatedly
proposed, that contracts should be rectified, private as
well as public ; that justice shall be done to every man ;
that public property shall he applied to purposes of
liquidation as tar as is consistent with the safety and
dignity of the throne ; that where wrong has bern done,
right shall come and take its place ; that, sacrifices be-
ing absolutely ne c they shall be made by all and
not by a part; that our difficulties shall be looked in the
face and grappled scilh ; and, lastly, that my life shall
be taken from me if any part of my proposition shail be
found impracticable.—Thiv has been the nature of my
proposals ; end because l will not give them up in ex-
change for a swindling aseignatproject; heeatwe 1 will
not give up a proposition, which to execute repliers
seal: resolution, and every public virtue ; becanse 1 will
not give up that and condescend to become a you, cun-
ning; sod tame cheater, you accuse meof exulting in the
miseries alai? country; Indeed Ido say that the
cash-measures have been the immediate cause of the
ruin : 1 do say that the 13111 cannot be rescinded ; that
the Ministers neither wit/ nor can nor dare repeal it: I
do say all this; but do I say nothing else? Do I say that
the Ministers can do nothing but repeal this Bill? I say
they con ; for I say they can retorto the Parliament and
reduce the interest of the debt, reduce thearmy to next to
nothing, reduce the salaries and grants, rectify contracts;
and do every thing necessary to the rerun atioa of the
nation's happiness. And what do ,oar do, thou foulest
of all the reptiles from the ark of Noah ? Why, in the
very paper from which I quote the above, you say that
they rum' reform the Parliament in time to afford the
landed interest relief. It they cannot do that in time,
they can do nothing in time. That they may do in tits

course of a month. if they sill; sod of this your de
laded readers may he well mewed, that, until a reform
take place, no relief will Ise given to them.—Not do it in
time I Why, the Parliament can work pretty fast, when
it likes. It did not take many days; only- about fuer ;
to pass a Bill to authorise Sidnsoutls and Cartkreagh,
or either of them, to shut any of us up in soy jail in the
kingdom, and to keep os there as long all they pleased.
•withont letting us know who were oar aecneets or what
we had done to merit being laid by the heels. It took
only four days to do this; and SMosooth stated, as an
argument in support of the measure, that publications
were abroad, in which he was sorry to say the late-c4l.- '
errs could find nothing to prosecute with a chance elf
success! Again. only last winter, the Parliament acts.
ally took but eight-and forty hours to bring in anti to
pass a law, which shot the Irish people in whole dis-
trict', up in their hosier from sunset to sunrise. on pin
of transportation,for Meen missiles' absence! And that
authorised the transportiag of people, without trial by
jury? What ! Can the Parliament work so hard as
this, at times, and must it be for !lotion ags in passing a
law fur reform? Why, altogether, there are more than
a thousand law makers. And could not the as bolethou•
sand pass a law in the space of a week f What an mesa
lent tone to take! Here we point oat a remedy; awl
the men who oppose us begin by setting it down as rah*
for granted, that our remedy cannot be adopted ; and
I then abuse us, and Call us perverse, became we will sal
join in their abominable ',simile. which is, besides, cal,
culated either to produce confusion' or to rivet our
shamus for ever !—A reform might be made. and the:
whole matter justly settled in one month from the time
of the nieetiog of Parliament. If this be not done, .lea
the consequences fall (and they will fall) on the heads of
those who oppose the reform ; for, WITHOUT
REFORM THE. INTEREST OF THE DEBT CAN-
NOT BE gig 1..) MA D. Let every Boroughnionger mick
those word over his fire-place. Let him paste them
upon the forehead of each of his perjured agents. For
my part, I would rather see every inch of lend in the
kingdom.transferred to the Jews, jobbers, dead weight,
and to the pleceluen and sinecure people, than use a re-
duction BEFORE a reform. Ob no! Begin with
reform. Let us all have something to say in settling a
lower in which all are concerned.
One word in additition, in the way of caution to
those farmers who continue to read this miserable jour-
nal. It is now right as to the runup!' the distress; but
it is just as great a deluder as ever, as to a remedy. It
thinks it to he its interest to flatter the hopes of the
farmers and landlords of getting high prices again. it
possibly may think (for it is capable of thinking a
thing-that is stupid) that there is sock a thing as ode
bfishing a depreciated currency. This is Mr. We No elk
scheme. If attempted, it would only work the rui
a different shape, and finally produce a convulsion a
country. But is there the smallest chance in the w d
of Mr. WESTBRN succeeding in his project? There is
rot; and yet this beastly journal is holding out this
hope to its readers, and, therefore, as far a' it is success•
fel, it mast amid to their ruin,and would, if possible,make
an eddition to the magnitude of its own sins.

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TOZIIiaT EVIIIM44I, DECIIIIIIR 21, 1322.

STOCK EICIANGE. HALV•IPAST TWELVE O'CLOCIL-.- I
Collllolt opened this morning at 8044 with some business
doing. They got up to 9041 and lowered again to 4.—
Up to this hour we do not hear of any express having
arrived from Paris, which may be accounted for by the
Stock Exchange at Paris 'Ting shut on Snnilays; but
had there been any important information in Sunday's
French papers, they would have been in London early
this morning. Various are the opinions in the City on
the return of the Duke of Wellington. By some it is
imagined and reported that the King of France lies
given him a Carte Blanche to settle the disputes between
the two Governments, upon which lie has returned fir
furtheriestractions from our Government ; after which
lie will proceed in person to Spain to cnnsnit with the
Cortes to adopt such, measures as may prove agreeable
to the French Government.—Consols remain steady
at 804.
Fonsism FUND/I.—This morning the shove market has
been rather brisk, particularly in New Spanish Bonds,
which opened at 55, were done at 551, and afterwards went
down again to 66. All other Foreign securities remain sta-
tionary.
Chili, 7.24—New Spanish,s3 —Old. RI to Gi—Ressia, 1384
New Prussian, tto-o.d. rtbi to 85-11braish. Dt—Neepnitt•ii
774—Colombian, 081--Peruvian, 774—New Spanish Scrip,
94 die.

Paris papers have been received to the 22nd instant,
but they throw no certain light on the momentous
points at issue. The Journal des Debars continues its
articles in favour of peace, while the Etuiie, which, as
our readers know, is the chief organ of the war party,
charge■ the Josertted des Detests with taking up the
pacific side of the question, with a view to influence tile
funds—and the letter Journal retorts by charging its
adversary with a direct interest in the fell of the funds,
which its articles are calculated to produce. At the
sane time these journals mutually reproach each oilier,
with (what very probably is true) &hosing the press for
the purposes of stock.jolibing,theQuotidimuse,with great
simplicity, flys " it is affirmed that the Syndics of the
Exchange Brokers, having presented themselves to his
Excellency the Minister of Finance, to solicit from him
some information on the real state of things, M. de
Villele replied that the present situation of Europe
required great circumspection on the part of sr.
dilators. It is added, that his Excellency cis-
avowed all participation whatever in the articles
of the Journal des Debate, which 'had been at-
tributed to him by I journals." The Vio-
/moot de Uhateanbriand arrived in Pattie from
Vienna,on Friday morning, and the Duke of Wellington
left Paris for London very early the morning of the Der

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