The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-06-06 00:00:00

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LONDON:
THURSDAY RYINING..II::I2 6, 1822.

SACK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLUCX.
The market re =tins in the same state as yesterday ;
very little doing, without the least tluctoatioa. This
is 'opposed to proceed from the Jews being great
holders of stock, and waiting the opportnnity of a rise
to commence their operations, and front the jobbers on
the other hand being great Bears, and tengisg the
Market when an opportnnity offers. Consols fur the
opening are 80/ti, and Reduced 781.; 4 per Cent. 94g.
FOREIGN FUN DS.

Very little doing in this Market this morning; bat
New Russian Stark remains still heavy.
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Rponisis. 0:d • - - 61 lo demand.
Brapniiran - • - 721
Neve Russia - 811 nominal.
PIVFMII • • 86
Danish - . • 8.4
Columbia • - - - Bi
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PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.
Re omitted, in oar last, to notice, that, from a short
'Aberration of the Secretary to the Treasury, it ap-
pram a claa.e is to be introdneed into some one of
the hundreds 'of thousands of a" passed or to be
passed, to ttatAorise the selling of t►e " vegeta*/
" powder " any penises, who do not deal la reeve
arecre.o. Jost as if wheat or rye were regetaldeo say

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_ more thin coffee or cocoa ! There seems, on all bands,
to be great reluctance to call the thing by its real
same. It is breakfast powder, or vegetable-powder,
or soy thing but the real thing. To call it roasted
wheat or rye (rye is best), which costs, on an average
of the two, only three fertisiags • porta, world be so
weight.! The fact is, however, that those of the
people, who do 'net DESERVE TO STARVE, hay
the groin, and roast it themselves. The rye makes a
drink so much resembling coffee in taste and smell,
only much snore wholesome, that those most merit
starvation, who do not use it in preference to coffee;
and, what a lexy devil i: must be that will not, once al
month, take the trouble to roast haifa dozen pounds of
grain. Does any one think that a reformed par/ia-1
meat would take the duty off coffee and tea' They
certainly would not ; but would be mach more likely
to double it. These things and spirituous liquors ought
to be taxed most heavily; for it is the duty of every
government to watch over the health of the people.—
The great Doctor, however, for this evil is, to take the
tax wholly off malt and hops, and sae; people to
make a quart of good beer for about a half pansy.—
That is the Doctor that would drive away all the
quackeries of " vegetable powder" and all the grind-
ing offreans to put amongst foreign coTec. and drying
of ash-Woes to put amongst tea, which are now car-
ried on to such an extent. Ash-leaves will destroy
the grass and other plants en which they fall and
rot; -and, a very strong decoction of them would,
doubtless, poise* almost any animal. Tea, and some
sorts of it in particular, is little less deleterious. A
cat is said to hays nine live., but we know an apothe-
cary that took them all nine out of one cat by a decoc-
tion of tea; and we &requite convinced, that one•balf
of the ailments that make young women look sallow
and that shorten their lives is owing to their drinking
of this stuff, which is a quite sufficient cheek to an
increasing pepalation without the aid of any such pro-
jects as those of Lawyer SCARLET! or Parson MAL.
ruus.—By-the-bye, these projectors cot a tolerably
ridiculous figure just at this time. The Irish, who
are no Poor-Laws, and who live upon potatoes. are
cramping, while the nation is in distress from sayer-
aboadonce offoed ! We bear, that there are sonar of
the corrupt and profligate and cruel wretches, who
come over anosally from Ireland, who ascribe the pre-
sent starvation to a earrptirapopwlefion. Miscreants !
How comas it, then, that thousands upon thoussids of
parts).* of COIll aro coming to England frosts behind
at the very lootusat when the Irish labourers are