The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-22 00:00:00

of 800.. improved modification iu Its cAllecrion of
taxes, of some telrencholent ollthor east sum* abo
sorbed by it of fuer millions and half yearly,
was about half of their total amount at the coo.
mencenient of the war. In the ray* of t!.e duly upon
scampi, that lenity infliction upon the People, which
one might suppose would collect itself, there mss fly
system of patronage followed by one of wastefel ea-
pendo ore, o hide bespoke me Jed! iaclinatiou,to eco.
nosey in these who soffermi it to cuadeue.
wen• in I ports of the country distributers ap.
pointed, oho were petted strangers to the districts
to which they were attached, het oho received large
seems of Ilse profit—sums •loch wereemermees when
compered with the net amount of the tas itself. n•
would admit that improvements la this way might
properly to come from the Fetecutive; bet with all
their economical professions, boiled not my that they
wriest all disposed to carry them into effect in those iris
stances where any of the chieftmerces reftheir patron.
ego and influence were likely to be cut on.—Frost
their own voluntary acts in tech , be espreeedl
nothing; bat he did hope and @spec, that they might
be made to see sod to fee! the necessity of compel.'
anal even in these where they were vernally
most teluctent to yield The keret, had ta'ked id
glnwieg terms of the greet bier f the V:
lie did mot mean to lessen any favourable impression
which shat might make. It was well to hirer, thee
this year there was more ;mid into the public trealuri
than in the preceding ; but it would be mach better
to leans, that there was less paid out of It.—(llser,
hewn—lt wand be eat mottle satisfactory to Loos,
that in proportion as our resources hemmed, the
disposition of Ministers to use them economically
increased also—to know that reductions not reo
trenchments were the result, not of compulsion, bat
of inclination. But from the experience *hick the
House had of their (Mioistmel dicresitione in this
respect, little kept was to he entertained nn this
heed.. All the reductions which had been so
much vaunted of, when eseeeteri, were produced
after every struggle had beta made to •vaile !hem.
—They were the result of a disagnmehly alterna-
tive to which Waling, had been foreed—" that
or go;"--[lieer, hear !] —so alternatire, which,
by the way, they never hesitated to comply wills,
to the preservation of their places.—[liter, heor!)—
They lied thus acted in the la.t Partiathont. It fee
wined to be seen how much they could make of the
dispositions of the present. After whet he is iw
the preesut state of the country, taking. into condo
aeration the very many important facts which this
Spies\ bad omitted, as well as the few which it em-
braced, he did not think there was such tropee grimed
for congratulation ss the Address set fortt: ; and the
House could not be too guarded iu their rereptioo of
these very pleasing accounts of the general prosprelly
of the country. They were always talculated to lull
(.that vigilant attention to economy in 'he public el-
-1 peediture, ohich a less latteriec prospect rendered
I more conspicuous, though not less necessary. It
I might be true, that the ;mink sevens. use last yew
greater by three millions and a half than lo rem pet.
noes one ; hut it was equally tree, that it was less
by two chilliest§ and a half thew that of the) vv
1803; and peen with a Sinking Fond of fifteen ton.
nous nominal ineemet, there *mild Mill be a 41.
,county to be provided fee. But elludelio. so.mh. I
street to be favourable, yet, while be sew it 'ernes-
peuiesl with sorh evils as roister' in it still depressed
Mateo( some branches of nun otannficturrilei ile
be intimated such a dreadful incresse of crime le
every part of the country. nest each a conaequ.st
~leer in the jails—whilst he perceived *hat
call a legitimation of pooperoree,
Ilea misery which it produced in ever, part elf
the country, he cooed not bat think
eters might find something hotter to do than roe.
gratulating the House at.d esrh other on the pro.
sped!), of the country.— ( /Icor. Agar!)—lf as
geoid, in the present moment of peace, and with the
Word asereass of our resources, go bet a snot; way,
1 if, indeed, we at al: advanced, in laying I h • founds.
tine el a system which ought mitigate toe public
burdens-1r at present we mid do no more tears
flitter ourselves wish the prospect of their becoming
less heavy, how would it he in time of war—he
would not say a war of aggression, bet retie iif self.
defence against those nations whom oar own absurd
and false policy should excite against es? Th,t such
a war could only be contemplated as a remote possi-
bility, he was by no 111P3114 inclined to believe; ante
if it did occur, haw could we be prepared for it, lc
we ereg!ected in time of peace sad comparative pros
purity, that prudent economy which would reader e.
better able to support its burdens? The Adds's.
had spoken of the " intimate' union which sebeiste:
between this country and its Allies; bet the word
was 100 smat.ry to make a strong impression no lh
British Public. They looked for that sobstentia7
kind of profession which, within, treating of the in
timacy which subsisted between this country and A-
nther Powers, might lead them to sweet some sub
Menial benefit to them, something like real amid
radical economy and retrenchment in the public ese
penditore; and for the "intimacy" with foreign
Powers, they wished it to he of that kind which
world 'mead eqsal justice to all, whether they acts
strong or weak.—[Meer, hear!)—Of the British
Public. that gave themselves the trouble to esquire
into the details of those national crieferenc.s which
were said to be undertaken for the bewelit of all, but
where it would seem only the interests of a few one
consulted—on this subject he shoold be disposed to
say a little more if a Noble Lord (Castlereagh),
whose shsence from Isis piece he regretted (panics.
lady from its cause), had been present. Ile might
be disposed to enquire, whether, in considering the
interests of that chaos of minor States, whine nom-
;nicotine seemed to deprecate discussion, a whirl.,
People had not been suffered nitre annihilated by those
high professors of religion and jostle.? He mielet ask,
whether a Member of that Illy Association—she
head of a Christian country, and a Mast Christine
King—had not evaded the en-cation of that principle
in which almost every poser in Europe contnual—
that the fridge is human flesh should cram. ? 11",,
then he bad the decency to take Muse ute.sures fire I•C
effectual abolition, or to disavow and put an end to
those practices by which lb. arcompli.hrocirt of 1.44
object had been evaded? Wbother h.i.t
had dots. that in Franco labial Smile hessell wirier
Feediriand himself had I.?ere hru:ieli so no.•e'v
Treketrd using the I Ater, for i* ass

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