The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-05 00:00:00

As to the "exeitensent" by the war; as is the wit
carried on "by this country and AU Snoops" for " this
" country and all Europe's e.ristence" ; as to the forcing
of " poor lands into cultivation " being now regarded
as as evil, when the wormier .e4lieferarr-bills hos been
a thousand times brought forward by yammer! the whole
tribe of Pitt as a proof of nations,' pragserity, ad
as many times called by use a proof of national folly
and delusion; as to these, I will not waste time MOD
them, and I shall now dismiss this part of your=
with calling on the nation to remark, that dm;
prime minister asserts, that the distress is ellineWl
orer-prodeetiots, in the very same *posh that he nee*
(for as to the returns I pay no stSuition to them) that
the population has increased in the proportion hf Wee
IA sines 1001, and while he auerts, too. that Mule /t
population is a proof of the increased ease and
nets of the people.' And, let the isationeesnembere
this existence of ever-productien of food is avartdi*
while all the whole body of witnesses state the leledniat
re live mach worse than they formerly lived; while it it
well known that the number of paupers is twenty to
oast greater than it was before the time of deadly Pitt;
while Mr. Scsatarr has a project for theukieg "
president inarriages," though increased population is
asserted to be a proof of increased •Itappanen! And.
let the people bear in mind, that while- ireful& is in a
state of almost open rebellion is -co of the,
wretchedness, the inexpressible want Misty and
ri suffeng of the
people, our prime minister coley e. that
we are labouring under the calamity of an ~Week
food !
Unwilling to rest entirely upon this sublime &Mules
of over•production, your lordship resorts to the SWAN
V chewer, and tells the landlords (for it is Men diet
you have in your eye), that, "some years, vie cow
" mice and manufactures were in a state of 41111POIL
" and that. as prosperity has returned to thew, without
" any reduction of taxation, so, deltibiliOl, it Wine"
"agriculture"! Good! If they swallow this they des
much wider throated than the farmers at Epson, egad
whom Lord Etteneonouou and that amiable p....
liotsts Seamen, tried the same dose in vain. loam
first place, the fact is not true. Do you call it prosperity
when journeymen inannfacturers are earning 7s. a
week ? That is the average wages. What is it, then,
in America, where they earn from h to 10 dollars a
week. and where food is cheaper than in England ? As
to the master-manufacturers, it is notorious that they
make 119 profits; and, if you ask, why they continue,
then, to manufacture, I answer, why du the Jigs-
aws: continue to ferns? Neither can quit all at once;
and, as to the manufacturer, his machinery nest be see*
he cannot sell it when it yields no profit; he must keep
on as long es be can ; and, if he barely live, it is heater
then bele( a beggar. The price of cotton wiii tell
you whet is the state of the manufactures in that way.
Preen se average of Is. 9d. a pound. it host fallen se
that of ffd.f ! It is a lower concern, altogether, than it
was. What! has there been earerprodeetiste here toot
And. has an ever reduction of wee/ come open the
sheep's baths? And have the coppices, which have
fallen le price a Ausideed and iffy per cent, had as
ever-trod ed:deo of unekrwoodt The thstier•treee, too,
have they engaged in the general conspiracy? _ His
there been an over•production of ships. of meads, of
warehouses, of coanting-houses ? For is it notasterioas
that all these have fallen in price muds mere elms eau
lima set pretendieg, that Sid Ilmilifed•
cures cannot be as advasitag. eissetpriia...lll.olloll,be
with lei prices as well as with h pine. Sett vial
has this to do with the question e dm femme medial&
Inds? What analogy Is doers is the ?
manufacturer.andmanumanufacturer.ta beak; they lon *r peNslielirrir=
sitlipe and factories pen late *doer This has her
die sees; sad. If the lands* be omillot to übdurga.;
asirepnamie. ad-will ha Wdll emostkii only ie Wear
thelemselbe mad keep gelair es, ern red over, dil dr
imble be wholly taken Imo doe bands athe denralneut
Ay the wee ef the feedkeldere ; or. at ler' till all reside,
sad tithes be wholly swallowed op by theFoutea.
What ground of hope, then, does the essmple of the
manufacturers and merchants afford ? It is rise of pries,
wy Lord, that you promise to the land ; and, pray let
me oak you, has there been a rise of price, in geode
sad ships since the fall took place? It is notorious that
then has not ; and yet, without proving that to have,
been the case, the example of commerce and maniac-
tares, even if they were, as they are not, now in &pros-
perous state, affords no ground of hops to the hued.
which cannot possibly be relieved (unless taxes be re-
duced) without a nee of prices; and, indeed. this you
confess ; this is the hope held out in your absurd doc-
trine of orer-prodeetion; and this hope you must enter-
tain, else what raving madness to talk of an issue of Ex-
chequer Bills to be lent on an assignment of the parish-
rates ; for, bow are the borrowing parishes ever to peg
the debt, unless there be a reduction of out-going, or as
augmeatatioa of price of produce?
This brings use to your Lordship's scheme for giving
relief to agriculture by the meaning' this loan of Each..
qaer Bills. I have, as my readers know. often said,
&at it is quite impossible for any man, let him be who
he may, to foresee precisely in what way the thing will
terminate. But, this measure of lending to the parishes
stet of die Exchequer seems to give us a gfi, of Float
may possibly take place. Suppose three iieemtfief
Modred pounds to be lent to a parish on au assignment
oldie poor-rates. flat sum would be about the average
of England and Wales. The poor-rates are a rent-charge
es the lad. Thus the Government, is trust for the
foodholdempensioners, placemen, soldiers, sailors. and
the rest of those who live on taxes, will have a direct
and positive lies on the hod. If prices fall still lower
than they are sow; and that I look epos as certain, if
Peel's Bill be pushed on; thett.—it ieisr, that the pa-
rishes cannot pay. Nay, it is clear. that they must bor-
row wore; for. do what you will, the laboorers mutated
will be fed either by wages or by entry; or else we come,
at once, to the state of Ireland. Loan after loannina
take place. The country may be kept quiet. The reve-
nue kept up ; and, all that will happen will by this;
that the Government, like the Nabobs ia the East In-
dies, will, n fact. be the landlord; sad, if things were to
go on; that is to say, if the present taxes were to re-
main, and if prices were to fall (as I think they will) a
third of their present rate, all that the present landlords
meld expect would be a little pension each for life; and
this would, I think, be a pretty decent winding up of the
eystem of the" Heaven•berp Minister C a pretty dewed
practical elucidation of those greed mysteries, sinking
/bade and nation/U-4th, with some observations on the
parts of your Lordship's Speech relating to which mys-
tenes I shall, by and by, clue this long. though, as I
think it. necessary commentary.

Bat, lot tan Ent see bow this Exchequer BiN scheme
taint with other parts of your Lordship's Speech. You
wart, that the imputation has greatly increased ; and
Nest the enoing`e mascrijetione bare greatly increased;
that the cooeumption of exciscoble articles (omitting
swat!) bas increased; and, all these you assert to he
proofs of the increase of the eau, confort. and imeneineet
of die people; you assert also, that the isyssatoree
and the commerce are flourishing. Now, if these facts
be tree, mid this inferencefair, what souo yea by pre-
posiag (even at the risk of driving the gold out of the
emultry) to lendfour usillioaa misname, to Use la rids...
sad that, too, on an assignment of the poor-rotoet—

make ' - • . . . I
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Tbe feet is. tiatills Sit the labourer. sad artisans
that pot mosey is theMbarks. It is thafhadholders and
the sortratsto of ihatlAslases, ow the teedeepoopie time
are doing wOll by mauls' the fuedboiders. That is the
fast. And, as to the arnaseptioss. te ekistriMa artioles
(always esarptiog sus/f!), so doubt. as I said before,
drat more will beeessemed by fendholderksoldiers, pes•
elopers, placentae aid the rest of the tasailers. thee
trostdbe consumed, if the mealy. weshle the payleg of
vsetesd sot of taxes. But this as lent peer amefert to
these, wbe late the rests! is sheet. this loss of Rt.
olowietwallis is isteeded to peeifk lAe landlords; and,
Wohoy take it. it will. to a cettaiety, bastes the day of
thidempos and notorious ruin.
• We sew some to the grand &limiest of all; the
"Si Peed," and "Aational Faith." Why it is
that are disposed to listse to may thief;
that testis to make them believe that they sea mempe
Without dentroylog the Pitt-system, you maimed II my
am& kerosine at BrigAton. It must he this stskifyisg
foneetitere emotional. that can have. at this tide of day.
Waded them to listen for one mossest. to per talk
about the rale that they might expose dress the raising
of tuns on themselves to amble the fuedlMiders to Wed
their money on tl•eir estates; that they might aspect
relief from the raising of.taxes os them; frees tie
taking away of their rents, not only to pay the imams
so the feeiholder's mortgage, as he calls it, bet to pay
Iles, over oad above, about ten yer cant. en diet isterest
Se be laid out in a way to make ki3 irriiscfpobsiore vela-
abk this it would be if left to had its oatoral level!
LlCothiog short of the dread of reform could have tamale
"them listen to, could have made them endure, without
retesting the affront, propositions so monstrous as
these 1
That the Pitt-sinking-fund was a sheer delusion so
malt, not found in places that I will net setae, has the
impudence now to deny. In vain, as fa as die adios
is concerned, do you and your colleogsre everlastingly.
repeat. that Fox as well as PITT joinedie terming that
scheme , Mich those who. from v;hatever isesplieside ma
the, still lased about the name of Ur. Fox; this may del
bat, the nation look upon them both, es to this wirsor.
as having been deceivers or dupes; and. is this ophdathe
they are fully horse oat by the event. Your loafs*
imentious a UT. HAMILTON, who, it seems, has mitts",
widths these two or three years. to thew that the Pitt
'slaking-fund was a deletion. The Editor of the Monet
. k, a few days ago, speaking of this Feed,
I ' , that it was " frets euryrrisiag, that. Rata Bs.
Iss on took it in basal, there should bays hoes so
.
psetair
to expose the delusion." if this Scotch editor
bees blinded by bis excessive modesty. be would
'hive sees (uVe be a very dull man indeed), that
one WILLIAM ITT made that delusive as clear as
daplight is V . .of the Registervpags Wilt that is
to say. on the 21st April, 1804; just about
_l gears ago.
la " Faris *easter Goias" letters J. V. fad VU. a
-eo elaborate -- 'of that "malinifioast beenbuir
Scott ' 'itor thinks it

4 he alaart of that little to the foodholinlia.
" Ir the valise oftheir:stoek.he will,bytket suseine,gsa
,au on to his rent! 'Was there ever so elver a yeti-
Lathe of the proverb: "those whom tied mesas to do-
'stray, he first makes mad"?
Ludy, we cone to " NATIONAL FAITH." thee
Faith, which demands, amongst the sacrifices to it, the
paying et three for ate; the virtual violation dell sew
tracts; do rids of every borrower; the weasels et
the tradeemia and fanners' capital sad of Or kw&
lard's inheritance; mad the absolute homage of ovary
oedema nel Wiesen, his labour being mortgaged bolero
he limoloes. To. saistela this faith is the hordals of
Ait ereedhse et yes and your colleagues. With this
Irkdose all yoseappeals to those whose estates anima-
-1 WNW prolog from thus ie fuldliout of the " rut
'ledge. Here you have a stout cooperator in die
Naimeuses or Lannon:4a. who, is the einropspers. is
reported to have said : " With regard to a hopeofrodec.
" des ettasatioo from a roductioe of the Jaime of the
0 debt, in any way contrary to Maio, knee as& terra
"fbirk, be was as ready as the Noble Berl to loud It
* with tbe most decided niprobsiitia. The cusatry
" might, indeed, for so possibility should he ierledeil
* from their view, ho reduced to a state is which it
11 would be impossible to meet its most solemn engage.
II nests; but he was far from taking any sock despond-
" lag view of the circumstances of the country as to
" seppsee that it was now, or was likely. to he is sack
a a offedition. While it was sot is such a state. they
" were called upon by every claim of policy, of keeper,
" and of morality. to oppose each a eargestiosi; mod if
O he should be so rlthrtanele as to hes to see such a
" suggestion entertained, he hoped he should befesed
"in his place. as the Noble Earl would aka be, t resist
a it to the unmet ef his astA• /admirer."
Stand to that, my Lord NIDOWNIL• and you. m
Lord LIVERPOOL, stand to Peel's Bill; aid then we skill
see, I think, if the thing con ;o en to that length. some•
thing very mach like that which I have above described;
that is to say, the laud in the actual. the positive trss-
teeship of the goverment'. the farmers its bailiffs, and
the landlord* its poor dependent pensioners for life.
Yet, this would I see ten million times rather than see
tlDebt redscod without a Wires ;(the Parliament.
Tuoess LITIIIIIIIO6II Complains, 111 bitter tau. of
distresses qj the ; but, errs whet Hier
heroine mere poulterers. they will be idler ej
Mr. Hume is our/ sad better of too than Joan
Snag's, who. for selling pamphlets. was seat, by the Ma-
Aerates of Cheshire. to Mum Jail, for four years and
• hag leaving a wife and several rung children to hi
peepers. to beg, or to starve! It is impossible to forget
these Wags, and the only way to cause them to be reor-
dered harmless In the muds of the people, is. for the
Seedier& to join the peophi l the emus of reform.
It has been amechd ever and *vet again. since t
beginning of the Session. by you. by Lord CsatirreaAte,
hOlr. Von (his MUM is really too long) and by U.
Hoek (his sass is too lug also); it .haseen asserts')
sum to the siekestiog of the hearers, dist to ranee de
interest e/ de D* world be to make the rain
;he laodluis seseite. Your Lordship's armrest
this : that the feedbolders are a great class it( cutup,
ere to the land is ; and that, by * desire/tag" dde
class, the ludas* geoid destroy a taro part of the%-
cirteiserti aied, et assno, the prodeces4Wir In,'

sort when made too
• inewiedge they Imre alo,
tss. a sort of Aihilmeidua *Nem
settles down into astassa!ion of
kheir pert is the remelt; aad thy,
yea want, and,fer the time is th,
Atat ; soy ....... yet 4:colleague, setnieet Li;
the day lo the mil Bat. Ist easel • lime „
this matter. C 0.., s, de 2401 raft the hobble:
hobble to rise. Look at this thief. Try by the km
emotes Magi.d
le the implied, would i issinedes of the interest et
theieht theserej the foodisiliers? M A mama ins!"
cried eel the Preach Met whet *by we. ssiy whip,
p kiss. To reduce people as a Itswei state sloes that
in which they are. is not to " &edgy them ;" or. if it
be, the fondhelden ere id a fair way If "dsmseTh,,,.
gee 1 What! meld the famiheiders Meow fasa la
ommagident eta redasdee of their leteredl Yes; de?
wadi coldento less; bet mold net pin meson sure,
and would got al these ceneeme mere who saw ii.
their *sty of what slakes dm tandheider se Im are 'aZ
meet Whit the wry nem argument weld, oihvii
'lime, apply Seel Mgr ledentrft. The andism, tee
lostencm ars gm. ssamstsero 1 great ensesewrr d the
lose. What! "dolts!'" litineTi Dame, dha rut
class of essiemsrs! Tee my Lori
are a great "esstosser." t! "troy" yisoljerit,
sway year ens thostemsdpeeddea year. or, redoes Goo
to me lightened (which wadi he sheet the thing) eel
lbw Mak sassy me airaesedpossede nerd of maw
'Nay. nay! it mold get we thee. h meld give het.
lords, farmers, !sheerer% tredemsso. artisans end stems.
fosterers the nine thousand pima to speed is midis
of coosonspden.
. Away, thee, with this bubble bubbla abed thstrsphti
the elastomers bf the !Bailor& by redwing Ih• Jaime
of the Debt; and. as to Loan Lawsnowne's allapasi.
" bully to pay," I should be god Se knew. Oaths way
noses by the words. He says. that it is poslikll in de
country may be resisted to a dais of insanity Se piths
fell amend bf the Mean Olin Debt. Bet. Audio
he deem such impossibility temesistie ? Mr. %New
talked is this same way 1 but wither dhilit:zefie at.
tempt to say, whet in& to ha mielhiersi es ' af
the anattsee or the impoesibility. Hahn fel-.
rings. rest mid the parson as *bee add lithe Mawr
befog abbe to Adis ei men this edidgh.jest Os Mk
Alas to writ ;if dome be sotio it weeded as pasha(
the mimeses of the imposetilify to payi mob isweni-
hilit can sever grim t! For, as I have dews Wan;
the tam become the Irestee far in fasl•
bolder.: end. all the differeece will he, that dell wbe
are landlords sow, will be beggars, Itureara, et yea.
gamier,.
Loan Larandwpe hopielsesliali Met be se Is
halos to sue the day, when the " asggestioesiVro
dicinghe interest of the Debt) " shall he slebiesia.
ed." Why. be has lived to sus it! li !resin it yen;
hues seggestieg it; I have, overand me age* mewl
the justice and the necessity elks and she
I is, at this my siement (aistehat ying Lest sod
Lord Wisdom* well know) egtevedeed by limy she
out of every Isnedred landlords is she kingdom I sat
you know also. that yen have Imo sompolled le met
to all the mesas in your power to prevent a Aided po
positim to that effect Wog brought before Paellion;
t yea are by es mein oats* that raid
.... is limier the this( elf, eves goers to de gild
month of Way
e the cards. my Lent, se yen plum. MI MI
. Pat of the (to gee) evil her with wise snit
perseveraime yea may. to this rableties If fie is-
re side Deis the oasis§ sot mac or, the heat
mutt toms their estates ; or. there sill he a erassf.,
Raise prices yes cram (widest a mild sf
Blipatoutlower team se es to save the estnlssite.
lime loessiet el the lithftlei.
ass only 'hers* itiielt dm limbistkUntik
A of otecase of Violet. of loss et Mien; w
lass gestates, riv Ri.bross qfPerreissrmit.
bate I tied so year rdsans
..r lb my rend Your of
seesintp_ot de eldsiud ""
issmsnmos.
Oars wid tie mind Inotrompiseds *f.
4.
tr=r, asd of de iliiirlibe.r
fte impiged es the slid dm,. wild Pt'
w Ahem I remseihm isei Loodidies mot Is
a*
tin se of Lords. Jest lifter esprourn•spencrirleliri-
seisms* Sill bad low tie*ed. I remember your *sit*
* the rise of the Amid In osiesosesee of tbe passing st
ides Bill. I remember your teseens pommies te perm*" tie
*l pith of duty" : sad I, bust yen wall Pogo It ".
IMO " male sommhstons you! la the darkest
of darts' the lest eve yams, windier le Orr
a ; at see or osi It; at hems or mesa;
* . the allEwartal hes hams my masted
Seth the sherommismed SW eas nr-
r
Is words, Mid. tor the anssenest
'et year Lordship- eel 11* I will new rpm,-
" The reforms* kelse_ietis, estisewerfel foes. In leis
" to erased a mt. iodise saver Were *fisted is
" Um wed& ' elf the press ; aU the chiliads of
" speedy onesentieedde Ile Senimset; all the pulpits: sit
"As assodeglieell of .dote tastes people; 1/1
" the military sad navel ; all then yeeemerr
:: seirdlamilrYihtyThiielailielillisenerat. "Bret, wethisarehas"de ear ail/. alliii.7lrabroe.i.
'' the whole of them put together; sagely. the OHM !
"This is an ally, whom so isosoars or rewards corn softie
"from es. She la s steady, sarelaidag, perseveriay,ister-
" reptlble ally : proof whist all blaedsrawals. di in-
" tripes, all temptations. all attacks, whither of issm era
" freed. She sets at dagesce all • ssifft," ell • no-
" miry t• cares DO more foe bayonets thee ses's midi
" did for the swords of daton'eninsidesa. Not a suss
" doss Mace» about spies sod isformscs, while she Isefhs
"et the employment of secret service money. She Is sever
"ft be tall* by surprise. Ever awake, ewer vratehtsl.
" ever attire and energetic ; tweet day sad night. she Is
" always freely moving on in oar cease, In spite oral! the
" terrors of jails. dungeons, halters sad axes. Sbe Is or
" mid indivisible. She is as stymies as she is straw. SP
"Isto be attacked only by sap sad mine. She is • baits
" only by bimeing up ; and, the ensiosios is sore to Dorf
" her asuitsers asd our foes is bur rains."
Against each in ally of the reformers, what is the en of
" stertsimitls-of-datr see! They may still • sis. tr I
addle; bet the DENT Is for as, end we must utile,.
i am. my Lord,
TN/ Lordship's meet obedient, _

Aud oust bomb'.
N"\l. LußßFrt

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POSTSC R I PT
TO NS. COODETT'S LETTER TO LORD LtvERP.),A.
P. S. I forgot one proof of " increment uel''eal
wealth sad eesfurt," and .o did year Lordship 114
mentioned the increased conssouption of aimaks, req•
ten, aid /ricks; I .tinnier vou should have onsittol tee
increase VAOMC4 roetad tiis noctroi.rok ! More t
two thousand of which are now actually buiMing! This
West has swelled. for many years, at the rate of almv,t
Atm snarled towns a year i and, now, just in the iirv•
portion that the (vestry is beggared.it swells daily sail
boorly ! Is this, ton, alliongs: Role Lordship'. proofs a
Olwrigias lentiomal wealth.' 'Oh, shame! O. sttiphl
Illalinord. if you cannot semi in this fact, which start"
so full in the face, the heat pOseihle pr.a. that Ow
holders, thitt the Jews and loan jobbers am! alsc4-
rs. are building these tansies with the tastesthat
Ilkley draw from the land awl the labour! esti these ?+s
proofs of nation , Are they? SoCh, however. thei
wire elated to r. Masaat.r. 'fisis sheaf ilia
ll.have her ork.
I; a 'tell - vet, that, under the despotisms of
11 Rseß. wh all the pewit, ti tht
Ihslop an goo 'sal Cities ate ellaf,eolll
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FIS 4TAI F WAN..
Wstorions, uailoasT
cokie,t. c at Me st fist I arlalwarers and artist. f is 1144. nations of this sort
era, was, at any rat* boa siod, 412 g Weary tato baats,on f r by pommels Mhos. ha
that, Aimee Ilre liavefad is alostforlalp, hasfida• . are Udit, • 111 rst a
its price? What can we want snore than this to oaks- tine pierkdiesto ganef the poor-rates! The parishes are which, attic_ soon
*tarn with contempt heelyowl& atery et maim lOW* ralaitallellty ..ataltecr. IWertiOldta Sok
traction 1 saw" that the poor y sairsogs pat for tin time, is all t;spair
As tr. the @Tramedm "by the war al Is the war hits! Bantu! What & dug It ist b woodemalY it thief i for
4wi. tti ad

g iii more elaborate ex of that ~ reatnificent births( posiden to I
have is contabbed. this Scotch editor thinks at and that r
id as "Indy en • sno ens c.ild tee dm haniliag seemed is i
, Mo, till it woe i Dr. Heseffritiri A* Sc•taiasa, the soothe
74
His I 1111 prose he sad all men lost affeelmext ate Shell* tl
is. of mehodill • .. yea Hire. I
Ideas Ab I the people welltaow. and se does pinr,lordship and person
. at. too, who it is that has exposed these delicstanel Yon do wed if a
sot like to amine. I shalleaske pee amuse. before I hare ,lords mast I
Nisi. fhiso with yog; and laiiitalkallddlattAistlias if the ii.lk Rho
mire, be trod et all, costes. thilli, dbllimilsei; bat rand I Peel's MI)
whet :ins ibis parniog aide) they, will not be sand. saws ipM
ism . they do fdetiqt to the palfirtsig ?Orman. .. therefore, ti
Wes pretest slaking-faad is neither more• nee lose reduction o
tt the 'times ass' et mew, raised in taxes, a great 'arc ad Whir. to..
bees whiepseir ears eat of rertOs and eapisek4l to be pros Thug hat
m the to the flubilli-iders over surd afore chair interest/ The glsairer fa •
seer. man must be loud indeed. WIN man view the Wog le 36' /sere,_
U the may ether light. What. this, mast that landlord be. If '
ita
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