The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-14 00:00:00

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LOANS TO LANDLORDS.
Some of the public priats, notoriously attached to
the Ministers, and always *append, as& in general,
ant unfairly millpond, to speak their sentiments.
have openly justified, or attempted to justify before
hand, the lettdiag of Exchequer Bills to Landlords, at
3 per cents., in order to amble them to pay off mort-
gages, for which they pay 5 per cent. Now, if this
were to take place, and, really, the conduct of some of
the landlords has been such that we think Mey west
expect some such thing, here would be a menet bribery
and corruption such as even this country never
heard of, and never dreamt of, before. Every oar.,
to be sire, who has borrowed money, at 5 per cent.
and who cannot pay off the debt, will want to get part
of this 3 per cent. loan. Ten times, or twenty times,
the four millions will be waited. A fey, compara-
tively, can be gratified. Those few will, of course, be
selected by the Ministers.—" Oh, no ! by erniunissiox-
ers !" And, play, willselect the Commissioners
—Nonsense ! impossible that snail a thing can be at-
tempted ! Impossible that bribery, that Airing so
direct and open can take place. The Ministers dare
not, we think, attempt so barefaced, so insolent, so
infamous a thing ! What ! Actually take Landlords
(some of whom may be Members of Parlitnemt, or
relatives of Members) into open pay! This never
can be thought of. We, without any conjecturing about.
the matter, say, as in the case of • repeal of Peel's
11111, the thin; is too infernos. to be attempted! Of
coarse we conclude, that the mercenary prints have, in
this instance, overstepped their bounds. But, what
must the minds of the conductors be made of ? They,
at any rate, think of the thing, and are prepared, if it
bad been, or could be, adopted, to justify it. That
Is to say, they are prepared to justify a measure, which
world be neither more nor less than a purchasiog,
an open, an avowed, purchasing of the landlords with
money taking out of the taxes raised on the people
at large ! Such is the mercenary press of England!

TRIAL ST BATTLII.—ThIS may be very well in a
profession where, as Congreve (the poet we mean) has
it, the brains are lodged in the Leily; but, we think
it a very imperfect mode, under any ciretnnstasces of
the parties, to decide questions of morality, law, poli-
tics, and arithmetic. If the jury and judge, for in-
stance, were to be called on to revise their decision by
appealing to the pistol, we should soon see the sharp
shooters our masters. If he who brings forward
charges of peculation and p:under will but admit
the right of the accused party ro apocal to the test
of powder and ball, the chances must always be in
favour of the accused and against the accuser. Wbo
would be a judge, if be were compelled tofight every
villain that returned from traosportatioa ? A crimi-
nal is a criminal, in. rliatever rank of life be may be.
The calling of himself a gentleman is nothing. And
no unconvicted man ought ever to think himself as
heiag, in any respect, upon a level with one that he
'accuses qi crimes, whether those crimes be of a public
or of a private nature.
Whea Sir FRANCIS lIVRDLTT complained, on Totes-
day evening (as Mr. Cobbett did years ago) that there
wen Sominaries of Infant So/di, re, Lord Palmerston
answerad, that the greater part of the soldiers' chil-
dren were put out to apprenticeships. Indeed ! And
why? Why are the soldiers to be favoured thus ?
Why their ctildren, any more than those of the la-
bourers and artisans, who help to prep the soldiers
Ind their children ton ? But, as to the fact, are there
not barracks for infant soldiers I is there not one
at Chelsea, and do we not see them parading and
marching about, and do we not hear their infant
drawl Is there not a barrack of the same sort at
Southampton ? And what does this Island rant
with all this? What is, what meet he, the real ilvsi,;,‘
of it?

Tita►eutxo MACHINEI.—We are very happy to
hear, that the farmers in Norfolk and Suffolk have
bad the good sense to lay aside their threshing ma-
theism. Any thing that they can stow save in this
way must go to the Landlord and the Parson. They
can, in the present state of things, get nothing for
ilsibseins and families. And, why should they make
themselves, for the sake of others, the iostrnments of
keeping in a state of starvation, the labourers who are
in tact their fellow•suferers? If the landlords choose
that all the present taxes should be paid, let them pay
them. The farmer should resolve, at all events, to
give up no more of his capital, if be can, by any
means, avoid it.
AGRICULTURAL Dmmess may, before the end, as-
sine many forms; but, we take it, it is hardly Os-
eible that it should go on, nista all the land be
le the actual possession of the g went. The
labourers must be fed. The koalas meat be fed too;
twilit seems to be a 'potion, whether these latter
will lose their all and still remain tranquil. It is
possible, that they may, in time, de something of the
sort that the labourers in Norfolk and Suffolk have
lately been doing. If Mini, distress were to lissome
as picedirkg as that of the labourers, consequences
might arise the ultimate effects of which we venture
not to anticipate. In the meanwhile, however, let of
hope that every tenant will thisk"Well of his danger
in time.

3lr. SVKISS, member for Hall, in presenting a peti-
tion, on Monday, from landowmers and occupiers in
'Yorkshire, stated that one of them had estates that
had yielded him thirty thottactud pounds a year. It
is pleasant to see such uses coming, at last, with their
complaints.
The MKS of BUCKINGHAM, I. 410 Wing a porta of
sispenny sugar a week for Me Ilse of a large farm-
house, gives us a pretty good idea of the scale of ex-
pellee and taxation that he has in view. Two onsets
of sixpenny sugar a day fur a fa.-at-ltosee convinces
us that his Grace mesas the boys and girls to have
very few goo.eberry puddings ; but, now we think of
it, his Grace does not allot the farmer and his wife
any children!
A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, dated the sth inst. in
the Journal de Paris of Sunday, contains the following
paragraph :—" It is understood that on the occasion
of the approaching marriage of King George IV,
' with a Danish Princess, a Treaty of Alliance wilt be
concluded between England and Denmark, in which
certain modifications will be stipulated relative to the
navigation in the Baltic."
Mona Success AT HAZARD'S !!!—No. 7839 draw.
this day a Prize of Twenty-chousauti potted,. was sold
, in shares
467, drawn by Hazard
a priz
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diaoshaarea
No. s,
on the first day of drawing, last Tuesday fortnight.