The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-30 00:00:00

SAL sArir 011711.1.

The shove is the motto of the SALMIS' COMPANY
of London: stud sPhoegh nothing is mote true then
that "salt gives a savour teensy bit we eat," yet our
rapacious Ministers deprive us, by feistiest, of that
little levity. Lord T.itiater once stood ep in the
Morse of Peers, and made s powerful appeal to she
hearts of the Noble Lords about him, by declaring
that, unless the Parliamest solid for miss( the
K tna's debts and eolarging this Civil List issaisse, his
)I*acner's tradesmen could sso longer servo the Royal
Fassily(for they were hie quarters in arrow rs),and thee
It might be said. shot his " Royal Master (she Karl wu
then Reward of the household) bed not a loaf 4./
bread to eat." This was eseegh, the debts were
paid, 340.0004; the Grit List was segmented by
100,0001. !! Now, we may say, with equal truth,
that the CiEST FAMILY Or Tilt NATION is In PS-
Irma distress, [ohm's, very bard, and yet renew
get "salt to its porridge." Let us sea if this &else
ratios sail have asy effect upon those hard-hearted
Aristocrats, who, in the superabundance with which
their tors partial fortune affords them, hoes ass
conception of the pain arid privation of hunger, sod
want of the common necessaries of life.—The
butted Member for St. Manes, properly observed
in the House of Commons last night, that Nothing
abort of the low state of the unmet last per pre.
vested the Committee appoioted to sesamlne into the
question recommending the immediate Repeal of the
Salt Tar. The Revenue now being stated to have
improved 3,000,0001. there could surely be so gond
reason for not taking off the unpalatable impost. This
urns a dwitlod at upon the necessaries of the poor :
one which affected every article of their subsistence
—their batter, their cheese, their pork : in short, it
operated with immense hardship upon them, the
bushel of salt being raped at forty times its value.—
Will not all this 410 ? No ! this Tax most be cos.
sinned rasher then one beePeater shall he pet upon
hilt pay !! Another consideration is the las profit
on the securities given and penalties compounded for
by prosecutions from the Etch., The core quence
of all ills use, that the bonds of ibis suture
Riven derlog the last throw press amounted le
a sum sn enormous as would scampi, bo credit.
ed, name!), 107,844,0001. In fart, nose but
great capitalists and speculative monopolists ran af.
ford to ger into the fish.coring line of booklets.-
I.his, Dr. Puttiossoaa said. Ire had bees snared
was the case, b.. She coring earns of *assist the wont
«Itemise proprietors, such as Lord 1114Dostat.s and
she Earl of SlCAleoltO.

Thus it eppeUrs,tbet by the muses of tepilal held
by one issndfel of men, end the masses of lased by se
ether. it is difficelt in discover whet preperty the
Pilaf! of Ike People hire a rieit on, data they base
unt eves, a sot. its the staking heirs for the protec-
tion of their byes.

Tile Cootie*. he asserting t►e fisttering prospect of
1,1,1, takes no nodes of Ike forty-five bsoltroptciev
during the last week. No doubt that political
economist will ascribe that lona list of failures to
grrst spradatious, which be anal bis frieods insist
upon it always ►eep pact with augmenting, prosperoas
COMINSVILY.

It has been asked tatty the Duke of Yuen is a
erecter General than XLNOPIIIUNI ? The answer la,
hems* the latter only commando(' inn ihoesaud to
retreat, the former ten thousand in advance.
Th.. last C.nsaa liken, two years ago, of the In-
habitants of North America, makes the population
het oven ten and Astro millions : when they publish.
od their Deolsration of Independence they were n..t
(pile four nidlintis. As they Ste lint likely to I.e
6,soirsed again wills the yellow or pestilential fever,
at Isar not from the same ramie as Warr, it to pro.
hah!e that in ten years more their pigeon embera
may he 'morels's, ti.,01at.41!! Some thootands at this
Nan are preparing In omkille from Ireland. If the
Csibeile Hill should sot me there *V.! be crowds so
liter the Atlantic.