The Statesman.
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of it to 10 per cent.; and the third the levy wt the llar
Taxes: What fresh attempts were to be made by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer it was not easy to ima-
gine. An examination of the H ••-art of the Com.;
mittee of Finance for 1810, woutu satisfy .every
uu-
p' • diced mind that the most vigorous exertion* o
reju
economy were-necessary, and would be effectaalz
He did not indulge the vain hope of convincing
holders of sinecure's that they ought to be abolished, I
bet be believed that he could astonish some of them
when he told them,that forltcotlaed and Ireland only
they amounted to 392,3611. The Report alluded
to likewise disclosed many other important partica-
'lan. Under the meat comprehensive title of " Corn-
pensation for lose of office, on account of the Union,
or any other causes before or since that event," was
embraced, no lest a sam than 100,0831. including a
charge that seemed' most curiously forced in, of
20001. to the Prince of Mecklinburg Stvelits. In
England. the charges for sinecures on the Post-office,
Excise, Consolidated Fend, &c. were no lest than
459,5101. and all the salariee paid for the charge of
ne duties, ascended to theenormous sum of 952,6841.
The pensions given to the American, Dutch, and
French Loyalists, to the Prince Regent of Portugal,
to the Prinee of Orange, to the Emperor of Austria
(the ally of one deadly enemy), and to other foreign-
ers, exclusive of their great military emoluments,
formed a charge of 2,143,5901. not including the
sum improperly granted to the Duke of York in
1801, none of which had been retained, and
for which- no interest was paid. The expense of
foreign corps was 962,0001. and the loans to For-
toga!, and to the East India Company were . four
millions. If the desirable object of an exchange of pri-
soners were effected, another million might be erred.
IThe sum of 176,0001. annually granted for secret
Cervices, was to be watched with peculiar jealousy;
how it was applied, none but Ministers* knew ; per.
baps to reward such agents as Captain Henry, or to
,pay informers to intrap men into offences. No lest
than 100,0001. was annually allowed' for the poet I
Clergy elf the Church of England : why could not
the poor be supported by, the rich Clergy ? la ' the'
Honourable Baronet's opinion, the. starving Manu-
facturers were much more deserving objects of
rity. Besides these various charges, large salaries
were paid to the Commissioners of Public Accounts;
who had not saved the public as much money as'
would pay their expences for a single twelvemonths.
The next head included sums which might be much
more fitly included under the title of jobs ; among
these were 80,0001. to the Board of Agriculture,
65,0001. for bridges and roads in Scotland (exceeding
the entire amount of the land-tax of that country)ll
besides other large charges for improvements near!
Palace-yard, that ought to have been borne by
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and for the
erection of a new Mint', 'At a time when.eoin was out
of circulation. The erection of barracks, which
would hate cost 500,0001. had been prudently re.
signed. The whole of these expences rose to the ex-
travagant sum of nine millions, all, or the greater
part of which, might, with due management, be I
saved to the nation, already sinking ender burdens,
which, by new exactions, were to be augmented.—
With respect to the million of money paid for the'
Civil List, the Hon. Baronet thought that the Crown
had made an improvident bargain, and as the lands
belonging to the Sovereign would let for mneh more,,
although only 50 or 60,0001. was produced from
dim, if the contract were abrogated, another million
sight be saved, and the King'benefited. The greatest
grievance of which the country had to complain was,
the assumption by the House of Common's of the
1, whole the powers of the State, by which the Crown,
hotrod of being supported was overawed by the peo-
ple. He (Sir F. Burdett) had been constantly held ,
up as the enemy to the constituted authorities—
to the authorities legally constituted he was a sincere
friend, and he would at all' times support the just
' power and dignity of the Throne. There was in that
House a boroughmonger faction, that erected it-
self into an odious oligarchy, and usurped all the
powers of the three branches of the Constitution.
In this cause most of our evils originated. The an-
coal sum of nearly 23 millions was paid as the Army
I Expenditure, but on calculating the pay of the whole
military force at the highest rate, it did not exceed six
millions. To what purpose then was the remainder
applied ? It was divided among the Officers, and was
swallowed by jobs in the Barrack and other Depart-
ments.' The same remarks applied to the Navy, and
Lord St. Vincent (no light authority on this subject)
had declared, that the marine affairs of the nation
might be conducted at one-third of their present i
expence. What then, it would bo enquired, was
the remedy? but he was lure that those who put
the question., could themselves answer it with-1
out prompting—Parliamentary Reform. On the
many occasions when this question had been dis-1
cussed, some gentlemen had professed themselves
friendly to Reform, but they •did not see the be-1
nefits that would result from it. If, as it could be .
proved, the present corrupt state of the representite
Lion was the rent raumeaf. all the etorroptioteht the
various branches of Government, the benefit Veit
would result from Reform, must be obvious to all.-ee
The -Ministers themselves, although, in the present
state of things, they were supported by corruption,l
were compelled to be responsible for many acts which
originated in the defects of the House of Commons. i
Whether war or peace would be the issue of our dif-
ferences
with America was a question, compared.
with Parliamentary Reform, of little conliequence;
and without .it, the Regent might, with any MI: I
nisters, its vain attempt to satisfy his subjects.eral
The Honourable Baronet wished to state hit
opinion with respect to the , late overtures by
Ftance for pence, because, on a former night,
had failed in catching the eye of the Speaker. The'
refusal was made by Vas Government on the-ground
of a subsisting Treaty between George the Third
and Ferdinand the Seventh. It was an abiurdflY to
imagine that such a contract could, under the present
circumstances, exist. Ferdinand was not in a situation
to make or execute it ; he was not King of Spaio, In
the usual acceptation of the words and had realigned
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Sleds. If, however, situated as this nation was
previotm to the breaking out of the new war, which
Russia had Veen rash enough to commence, the offer
made by France had been repeated to any impartial
wan, the Hon. Baronet was convinced that he would
have thought we could not have done better thpn
close with the proposal, as it would be 'a fortunate
opportunity of getting out of our difficulties and em-
barrassments. The truth was, not that we were fight-
ing in the Peninsula for Ferdinand, bat for our-
selves, and the question was, whether we were to lay
claim to the Crown of Spain? The most sanguine
hopes were indulged as to the issue of the war just
commenced in the North. For his own part, the
Hon. Baronet could not concur in the belief held
out in newspapers, that Bonaparte, from a want of
provisions, would be compelled to withdraw. Know.
ing himself nothing of military tactics, the Hon. Ba-
ronet could not help believing that the Emperor of the
French, after all his experience, would be as well
aware of the dangers he was exposed to as the wri-
ters of Newspapers, or even as his Majesty's Minis-
ters. Seeing who was at the head of Foreign Affairs,
and that the two Noble Lords opposite (Castlereagh
and Palmerston) were to have the planning of our
expeditions, be entertained as little hope of their
success spinet Bonaparte as he should of the success
of a child engaged at chess with the celebrated Phil-
lidore. It was with the hope, continued tho Ho.
'towable Baronet, of at Least awakening in the mind
of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent a sense of
the necessity of something being substantially done;
something that might snit* the minds and hearts of
the people, and that might obtain the redress of
grievances which nowhere them to the earth, that
be hid ventured to trouble the House with his senti.
meets. Measures of economy ought to be adopted.
The nation. mould bear the taxes, If necessary,
without repining, when they saw that they were as
prudently applied to their leeitisoate purposes, as
they were lavishly granted by that-Hesse. He'
elluld not expect that his sentiments would meet
1 with the concurrence of many who heard him.—
tile knew he was represented as one who was
' disaffected to the constituted Authorities, as they
were called : he denied that he was so, how.
ever—he was ready to support the Crown in all
its constitutional powera—but he owned he wax
disaffected to the vile -Oligarchy that now governed
both the Crown and the Country. To them he
owed no allegiance—but, en the contrary, would
-rather swear eternal enmity to them on the altar of
his country. lie had been accused, also, of being
the protector of those who were the distubers of the
peace. He was no such person—and neither was he
the protector of those who violated the Constitution
by calling in the military to kill and destroy the peo-
ple. Ile would contend there was no necessity for
such proceedings. The Constitution, if duly admi-
nistered, was rot so feeble as to require them; it
had no such inherent debility; it was ascot suc a
gaudy, unsubstantial thing as that, to be hung up
merely on a fine day, as it were, to be gazed upon
with curiosity, but not to be touched. It had vigour
enough in itself, if that vigour was properly employ-
ed ; and his disaffection was to the men who did not
properly employ it. While such measures were pur.
sued, he eared not wbo were Ministers; he cared
not what Oligarchs were in, or what Oligarchs
were out, the country was equally a low. There
was another subject to which he wished to call the
attention of the House, and which had been alreedy,
touched upon by the Member from Bedford on a.
former evening. It had pleased Providence withle
the last few years to permit events which had, in
effect, suspended the Constitution; and that House
bad most unconstitutionally taken upon itself pow.
ers to which it was not competent. As, however,
he did not wish to see similiar proceedings; and as'
it was possible, every one would allow, that
the Prince Regent might be taken from us while his'
father was yet living, he could wish•that some leg's.
lative measure should be adopted in anticipation or
such a possibility, to prevent the recurrence of the
same exercise of unconstitutional power by that
House, as had already taken place. 'l'ne question was
pregnant with great difficulties, and difficulties which
that House ought to provide against. When, in the
earls, part of the present reign, his Majesty was af-
flicted with that malady which they all now bad to
deplore, an Act of Regency was passed, securing,
in the person of the Prince of Wales, the xercise of
the Royal Functions, and he could see no feason why
a similar precaution should not now be taken, espe-
cially when it was considered that the Princess Char•
lotte of Wales had now arrived at those years when
a Regency might be formed in her person, and ought
to be so formed. It was a matter of wonder anti
surprise to him, and he could not account for it, but

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nem to form a new Ministiy, that saute House of C sal oat
who bad, by one vote, declared the Miuistent to I e in .rim
=lnd by another vote the competence of these .:1111.
, leaving scarcely a possiMe doubt as to the in • •
which the conversion had been erected. While we •we i "
co* that posterity will never believe that a King ‘and;
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of England were thus made the sport and prey of a Bn;'"*,111-
Petism, sustained solely by A fraudulent pretence of bring 14
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Representatives of the People, we of the present day feel ton
s the reality a the fact, which has been manifested in a lout
wain of useless wars and expeditions; which, while aneadtied
'with a dreadful waste of treasure and of life, have alitso=t sot
formly failed in their professed object, and have only answered*
the purpose of enriching the Borough Faction and their desess.
ants, as a reward for political corruption,—ln the rash rejectieg
of the late Overture to treat for peace, made on the part of se
Emperor of the French, on the flimsy pretext of a Treat) of
Hance between Isis Majesty and Ferdinand the Seventh, the,,,
In truth, no such treaty is in existence, we cannot but dee, I
meat, not only the loss of an opportunity to treat fur
more favourable than in all probability will again occur. byt.'
aim to sea in that rejection the determination of the °Hearths
to engage tbenation in interminable war; and that at a ittoss•S;
what, nos-eels by rejection of altoffers, Russia was expo, to
danger, Ns country itself was ou the eve of a ear with
.Amery th dot only threatens to leave your manufacture,
oat of event, but also to desrive this country of in trots
sg, in ease of an sinfavourehle harvest; and
lii egeneatation of taxes, in the space of the lee A)
Yellahvt es swelled a burthen•of Moen to a burthen of Si
milli° yogi{ sod during the same period has so added to tun
roupbelieorairtti arsdithe paper
ng the onem money,
Of asrestotoir7gveth2:tetrbeltsuloafih'it
other. Sinecure orces and grants of public money have Itt
given to an enormous amount—without the sanction of UT
!public service ' • money voted nut of the
The
of the peso;
by those who did not represent them. The galling erects of
the system are seen in the harshness, the insolence, the ear.
• tiality, aid tyranny of Tax Commissioners, Commissioners of
Excise, and their inferior agents, whose almost diurnal vista.
• lions place the purse of every man in a constant state of requi.
sitioa ; ashinging property, dissipating_ the resources, and es.
• bantam' the patience sssez loyal and suffering nation. Asa me.
lanehay accurnpanyineee those evils, we behold a rapid is.
Posse of paupers, of misery, and of crime; and in addition.
• we have the pain of observing a 'systematic practice in Ills
Court of King's Bench, of construing law in a manner
hostile to the freedom a the subject; an evident disbar
in the independence of the Bar, and an unconstitutional ate
of suecedaneum for the hateful Court of Star Chamber,
Ez-uffirie Infonnatious with Special Juries; and finals, as
the means of securing non-resistance from an oppressed pro.
pie, we are shocked at the establi,hment of intend inmost
throughout the land, under the name of Barracks, and in toe is
troduction and progressive increase of foreign mercenary Keeps;
by the employment of Foreigners in offices of trust, cielaud
military, in defiance of the Act of Settlement, the rights of Eirs.
lishmen, and the Common Law of the land. In all these titino
and in many others, which we forbear to name, we see manifest-
ed the influence of that rapacious and insolent Oligarchy, who,
while they scruple not to enrich themselves with the spoil, of the
people, invariably speak of them with contempt and oppro.
Mum. We beg leave, therefore, humbly to represent to your
Highness our firm conviction, that it is only by promos
• Mg a Constitutional Reform, in the Commons House of Pad a.
4seist, and thereby obtaining the cordial support of the Natio,
against those who are now usurping the Premgatives of tee
-Crowe, by means of the power which they have purloined frost
the People, that your Royal Highness will be able to form;
strong and efficient Government, equal to the perilous state of
stairs ; or to adopt and put in force such measures tee Cal) des-
tually secure internal tranquillity, National Independence, and
dually obasin a safe and permanent peaeu. Amongst the taut
misfortunes teeth from within and without, which the Nation his
I experienced, we account it not amongst the least, that after the
,;lions Borough Oligarchy had for three months actually sue
isende3 the Kingly part of the Constitution, and then Imposed ea
your Royal Highness restrictions on the Royal Prerogative as
, insulting,. as unconstitutional and unnecessary, they took
care to have the nation exposed to similar danger, to the rams
unsettled, hazardous condition, in the event of the demise of
your Royal Highness (whom Goo lomc preserve), that so insult
event they might have a pretence for renewing their factious
usurpations, for fabricating new restrictions, and keeping tie
Crows in a state of pupilage, which ought to big independent
This we esteem peculiarly offensive, when, In the person of the
Princess Charlotte, your Royal Highness's daughter, and only
child, being now of legal age, a-Regency might, according to
former precedent with equal propriety, be established, so u
to ensure the nation against the uncertainties and dangenete
which it Is otherwise exposed. We beg leave humbly to repre-
sent to your Royal Highiesa, that those only deceive yon oho
pretend that this country ran be restored to safety and content
except by redressing the grievances of tine people, by strictly ap-
plying the public money to public services alone, by extend*
the benefits of the cosistitution to persons of ail religious per.
suasionst without distinction; above all, by restoring to the
people their uadottleed rights, " rlaimed, demanded, and in-
sisted on," but unfortunately not established, At the Revolution;
amongst which the chiefand paramount is, the free choice oftheir
Representatives in the Commons Horne of Parliament; ou mite
restoration of which, we are firmly persuaded, mainly desend
the stability of the 'Throne, the Independence of the country,
and the liberty of the people.

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The motion not being seconded, it was, of course,
discharged.
REDEMPTION OF LAND-TAX.
Mr. BARING rose to move for' certain Papers
relating to the Redemption of the lAnd-Taz, with a
view to ground a motion upon it early in the ensuing
Session, should no measures he. adopted by Minis-
ters, during the Recess, to render such a motion
unnecessary. He stated, in a few words, that by
a proper management in the Redemption of the
Land-Tax, a very great increase of Revenue might
be obtained. The Motion was then put, for an Ac-
count of the Amount of Land Tax redeemed ; the
Amount of Stock transferred to the Commissioners
of the Sinking Feud, for such Redemption ; and the
Annual Amount of the Laud-Tax unredeemed, up
to the latest period that the accounts bad been made
up.
After a few words from Mr. Vansittart,
ney, Sir F. Burdett, and Mr. Calcraft, the motion
was agreed to.—Adjoerned to this day.

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FIRST RUSSIAN BULLETIN.
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by supposing that the House meant to keep the whole • SUPPLEMENT TO THE ST. PETERSBURG!' GA-
-1 Governmentin its hands.—The Hon. Bart. concluded . ' ZEITE, FRIDAY, JUNE 21 (Jute 3), 11312.
by saying, that in order to shew the radical cause of Head Quarters, 17th (29th) June, 181 g.
all the evils he had adverted to in his speech, he , Its the month of February the French troops
should move " That an humble Address be presented crossed the _Elbe and Oder, and directed their march
Ito his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and in towartie tire Vistula. Prim that time war seemed
! which Address all those objects• would be embraced." unavoidable.. In the hope of maintaining peace, hit
IHe then moved the followin g Address:— . Majesty toolc only such steps as were dictated by
TO THE PRINCE REGENT. prudence and circumspection, and with this view the.
,g We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects. the , troops were stationed without the least appearance
i Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assem- •
I bled, return our humble thanks to your Royal Highness for lof hostility. This.plan was the more readily adopt'
httlegd graciously attended to the wishes of this Home, ex- ed, from the experience of the former war having
in its Vote, intimating the necessity there was of proved that the defensive is preferable to an °tren-
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forming a strong and efficient Admisistration.—We, however, . . 2 of
deeply lament that naY Privy Councillors of this realm could By the endof April, the
site system warfare.
accept of eantosissions to that end, without explicitly laying be. French troops were assembled, slot% it listandini
Tore your Royal Highness the warlike memory MeZtUb of accomplishing which
,„ operations did not commenco lilt
, the object in view which mild oolyliave been effected by re-
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storing the people to their rigbts, and so placing your 'loyal the 12th un; proof of the effect produced on
' Highness's Government ots the virtues and --°fß'ilons of the us,. the enemy by the measures adopted by us. •
lieu. We lament that your Royal Highness's beneficent inters.. The corps under the orders of Field.Nlarshals
Lions and ready endeavour.producedno effect advantageous to ,
the country, and only gave occasion to intrigues and cabals, not Ney, Oudinot; MaCtionald, • Prince Poniatowsky,
less odious in their too obvious motives than injurious to the
character Of the Governments it being made manifest to all „
and the Guards, crossed the Niemen almost at the
men. that the. persons who possess. and those who aspire to, ...am time,,bpJurburg, rowno, Olits and Merecy•
the Offices of State, no longer r. and themselves as chosen by As 'soon as intelligence of that reached his Majesty,
the Stiverelgo, hot as the Nominees of the liorongh Oligarchy,
who eq , impede the province of the Crown and the richt, be' ordered the troops to concentrate. The point et
of the ►iohtgionsing with the one hi the ciLsice of kilts& concentrstion was necessarily at some distance from
misters, depeltitegthe other of the election et int Represeuta-• tike frooilirs; pursuant to this disposition, all ad-
flan. frit were, aphislay, neceranry to i °ha out the Ms. 4 •
ghige.suand,dhigeseem faeo 0 048 „e„ogibilloid and di,. • vanced corps fell back to occupy the positions allot-
look btu*" tV dogfight* effboth Aittg and•Poqt.ej if, after ted to them. That movement being completed, the
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day stands thus :—The corps of Count
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:aloff, hear Milne; 'the -reserve, cousistkig ef
Guards, near shwensen; the army of Pritew
Bagratbigs.,issma itst numb, from Slerinvte Wileika ;
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