The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-25 00:00:00

as well as that of many enlightened members of the
lecklitore, to warn Ministers of the mischiefs CI
which they were answerable, not only in inere.,sin••
dorse exactions, but in the additional obnoxi
means they were obliged to employ for the purpose
enforcipg then]. It is not among the poor
" delmied peasanty of Ireland " alone that tie
law which enacts exorbitant fiscal ditties is coutinu.
ally evaded and enlisted. It happens to be the
seine in every part of, what is called, the civil.
lard world. Hew often have we had to record the
.trradfal conflicts it has produced of late in the coun-
ties of Kent and Susses ? It was but on Tuesday
we had to &mosso a very fatal instance of it in the
county of Cumberland, and eyes today we bay. er-
casion to state a melancholy consequence arising frost
it, in one of the principal cities of thts well ordered in.
habitants of Scotland, in which the practice of illicit
distillation, it is aSemed, very extensively prevails. .
We refer to those cases to show thatthe poor "deluded
peasantry" of Ireland, are in this respect no greater
sinners than their enlightened neighbours, and that
there is neither reason nor jostle* is treating them
worse. I o Cumberland the death of a poor "deluded"
man who was shot by Revenue Officers, while
smite/ling three stone weight of salt, and re-
sisting the officers, was made the subject of a
solemn inquest, and the jury, contrary to the opi.
Dion of the Coroner, it is said, returned a verdict
of " Wilful Murder" against she officers who fired.
We trust therefore that the case that occurred in the
county of Cork, where so many lives have been lett,
a. d in such as extraordinary manner, will not obtain
a less severe inyestigatian. though the p try were
deluded" Irishmen, and the corps to which they
were opposed was yeomanry. As exercise of even.
banded justice displayed In the protection of "
laded" Irishmen. might penile/mere. diminish sow.
what of is their daring hostility to the law."

We have lately had, from oar Scribes,
vaunting accounts of the increase of trade in Mill.
cheater. keeds, Glasgow, ShOfeld, and Biro/simple/sr;
bet we have from thee ma a word of the peer refer
being collected weekly. They don't tell us of the
blessings a man possessed in a anntrrovs offspring
20 years ago, when all et them timid be profitably
employed, instead of being crammed indiscriminately
in a parish workbags.. and brought up to iadolest
habits, under the degraded name of peepers. The
early idea of pauperism become habitual, and the
high spirit of a bold Briton lost in his notions of ra•
rish support. The respectable tradesman, who, is
better slays, oath' earn seven or eight pawls a week by
the assistance of his children, is mow unable to earn as
many shillings to keep fife and soul together; and
those who formerly would have enriched him sod
beta his domestic comfort. are mow am lacembramet.
'lli, state if things is attributable to the same nams
that oppress the farmers, and the Mir! must came
through the same charted. Parish expenditure is
homelier. and under the existing mismanagement the
burthens of the people must continue. When
Pitt commenced the building of Parish Palaces, he
tried to unit all the parish officers in his interest.
He was well aware how a little power 'tall d a
weak mind. He held out a lore to the mobilise of
ignorant purse-proud Tradesmen, and by rewards,
troselumeints, or by the force of expectation, the Pittitm
have ruled the parishes. Addresses poured forth
upon every flimsy occasion, sad the numerous herb
saddled the country with its present misfortunes aid
overloaded pauperism. The misled noodles, whea
too late, see what they have done. They cannot now
help themselves, and many have fallen victims to their
own weakness and imbecility. They see that Reform
in the House of Commons, which they hare so long
abused and ridiculed, is now the only choose left t•
keep the political wheels is modem. Taxes cannot be
paid, nor rent by the farmers ; and the only alternative
left us. we are told, is not retrenchment, not ecosonty,
but a tax on either fended •r real property, Of on
both. The hirelings may write and mislead as far as
they can, we will continue to expose the glacial: foUy
and iniquity of our enemies, and tell the truths which
daily become more manifest. And surely none but
stupids will be longer doped by those who are paid
for leading them astray.

A long reply Las been published in Paris, in th►
name of Miss LOVEDAT, to the Petition presented in
the name of her father, to the Chamber of Peers ; but
we think we can occupy our paper better, than by
transferring its contents into our columns. It is the
work of some mercenary scribe, who, from iynoranee
or artl6ce, alleges, that the in dive which urged the
young lady " to attach herself to the Catholic Tell.
lion i.y a bond more difficult to be broken", sat tie
apprehension •• that her father meant to carry her to
Engl.nd, where the Ca.:tulles arc not treated as et
Protestants are ia F , oar/ where she would, re •
haps, he compelled to adhere to Protestantism." This
cannot he the language of any of the multitude of esti.
grant Catholic priests, who were protected and sm-
tained here for so many years, at the expense of rt..
testant England, but must be the dream of 1011/e of the
ill-informed and enthusiastic novices who hare lately
been admitted into Use priesthood of France. "
lately noticed that the Clerical Abuanack of France
for this year, states the number of priests in actual
employment to be more than thirty-fmr thousand: at
whom wore than four thousand acre ordained &wilt
the last year. This is such a p:oportion to the r
petition of the country, that those who trembled fur tts