The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

TIT STATESMAN,

demonstrable manner of 'lamination, be has deter.
mined on tbe necessity of those establishments, the
plan of which ha is in the habit of proposing to the
Public. That such a moo, pursuing so elver aid
candid a course, and filing 64 argument arithmeti-
cally, in proportion to the limits of the soil sad the
ascertained power of labour and machinery, should
be called or considered as a visionary, in times
wherein not or.. of the fashionable dogmas will hold
he proof, shows a most lamentable degree of blinded
self-conceit, and a fatuity of original faith such as no
villariancir can vet right. One rotation put by Dr.
Rios" was considered as a teachsteue; be &shad
if popelation had entreated at Lanark ender Mr.
Owan's meuegement, and signified that if it had,
that alone would be proof of its impolicy. Mr.
°wet is reported to have evaded the question. and
very properly; the answer was to be taken without
more coevideration for his own condesseatiou.—
Whereas Mr. Owca professes to prove (which
Judead was the belief of almost all law.gieers,
11111 Mr. MALTHUS frightemed Our own), that the
labouring population are the strength and riche" of
tevery country, and that its Increase must be a is.

tional ackaotage so long as there a►e waste lands to
cultivate, or the mass for manufacturing comforts
end necessaries remain. Mr. Owair might well re.
few Oleo to hilt at the first credo sleeve, which was
avowedly pet, sot to carry on bat to still* enquiry.
And ender what circumstances is this aseeitioo, that the
population roam& the means, enforced? For the
Doctor's question merely represented the philosophy
of t►e Malthesians, who sow form a considerable
mejnrity of the juridical sages etas klogdose. Whet
reason does experience glee as to induce s belief that
we have out.peopled Ike means of the soil ? If we are
referred to the distress of the peer generally. shall
we not be allowed, iodependest of political feeling,

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to set off on the other hand, the voloptue;'
end consuming leaury of the rich? Whether the
system of Government has been right or wrong, this
la certain i—thet as the laboeriug population have
descended in the smile of existence sod enjoyment,
the wealth and geandeur of the privileged ranks have
increased; pleasure anJ pomp hese not only lug-
' mooted the erijoyneeots of the great in the esenstural
end contrasted ratio of popular wretchedness, but
they have also cossetted a large mass of the precise.
tile population into unprofitable agents, and purvey-
ors, to their voloptiess perposes. If the Pablie were
to see, as we have seen, the increased and increasing
proportion of persons that the preseut system has
withdrawn from profitable labour to fill up the
banking and law bssioesses, the schools of physic
and divinity, the servitude of the gentry. the mi-
litary occupation, the Police, officeclerks, &c. all of
them, as Antes SMITII says, onprodoefive pursuits,
the agents of which must be fed from the public
stock, aid prodice nothing towards their ewe main.
tenants, hews espectable or stabilities they
may be; if, we say spin, the People at large could
see Mr. Owen's models, representing the bulk of
these leserioss "gents as they are numerically pro-
portioned to the balk of the whole population, and
were to consider what a mass of the praises it must
take to maintain theasond support their employers
in proud lottery, they would discover a better res.
son for the Wigton of tare poor than that of the
incapability of the soil to provide means. Besides,
what proof is there of Insufficient means, when be-
sides the segmented gratifications of the rich. we
perceive that there is a general dearth of hosinevi,
that is, that there are more means 'hen can he dia.
posed of? Are not the markets of the world
gtorteit, and the warehouses at home breaking
dew.. f— —Are there nut laws to make corn
dear, because its plentifulness inclines to sake it
too cheap? Are these indications of defective
means?—Or are they not rather proofs that some
unilateral principle is secretly at work among es,
fir separate the redundant means from the most pro.
;table consumer,. viz. the labouring 'poor, whose
efills would repay the enjoyment with better profit
ti an any foreign commerce, If the osier, of our pa.
litirs wrold allow it ?—The detection and cerrectios
of this original and unsespected
is the object for which Mr. Owen solicits the public
attention ; nothing can be more reasonable, nor can
any reasonable thing be more modestly and patiently
urged than he has done it. It becomes lb, Public at
`large to behave with the same courtesy sad weever.
amend nuclear in the examination of Monday tail.

By a Mail from Flanders, which arrived last night,
we received Brussels Papers to the 13th lust. from
which the following article is extracted :
•' Faanavoat, Juttr B.—'l'be Prince Royal of
PlilieSl4 arrived here yesterday, and will remain here
some days to ;my visits to several Courts in our
oeighboarbood. It is stated that the King of PRUNIA
will leave Berne on the 9th for Top's, and will re-
torn to his capital about the 13th of August. Prince
Fazezetcc of the Netberlands arrived here to-day;
be will go to Cobham Ilse day after to-morrow with
the Prima Royal of Pawls*. These two Princes
will afterwards go together to Switzerland. Loniag,
who attempted to inate Mr. Wu., studied at
the Usiversity of Heidelberg, which he left only IS
mouths ego. Accounts from Perth, in ['sugary, say,
that the young Client of Bellesiag, aged 22 years,
who committed the d►eadful crime of parricide, was
beheaded ow the 21st of June, at six o'clock io the
morning."
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A letter from Palermo, dated the 23J ult., states,
that ■ military conscription boa been ordrrtd through-
/let Sicily. The measure was likely to be extremely
unpopular, as the Sicilians for • very long period
have held themselves 'swept from compulsory service
in the army. _ _ _ _ _

Letters-from Cape Henry (St. Domingo), doted
May 18, notice the arrival there of Sr hoist Po►.
owe, the Iphigenia frigate, sod the Bearer brig.
'l'be Admiral was received by his sable Majevty,
Cuat,:n►nr, with every mark of ceremony and re
sped. Preparations were making for a series of es.
terteinesents to be given to Sir Home Po►rax and
Ida °Seers; and nearly all other business was sus•
peoded.

To rag EDITOR or roe STAITIISMAK.

St a,—Theeondact of the late American war becomes
highly interesting, when we consider that through
lb. fault of oar Ministers, we may be driven lota
soother. We will take a short survey of it. When
hostilities were declared, whom did the present Ad-
misistration teed out ? Ito imbecile old man, to re-
pair his reload fortune, and pay his debts, if I be
credibly informed, to a certain greet Nig
Bow was t►is armed negotiation received ? To a
man acquainted with the sentiments of the Americans
at that time, it is scarcely necessary to observe, that
the conduct pursued daring the early part of the war
was the subject of every coolie jest to our encodes.
Even whoa vigor... measures were resorted to, boo
were they followed ap ? Not with the magnanimity
of an Englishman, bet with the ferocity or the usage.
Was it noble, was It 6t for a generous People to at-
tack the defenceless husbandman to revenge ma-
selves on a Govoramout ?

What, my Lord CASTLIMEAOU, has recommended
Admiral Cocancen to the notice of Administration ?
Was it that pitiless ploodering of the poor man's
rot, which was Ile train fester. of his coodect ;1
or is it the refined elegance of his mangers, which
bath placed him at the Admiralty ? I base, Sir, as
yet stated bet a very small rod of our Dimwit to•
swards these People. After eneeareeinc the stales of
the planter to desert, we received the neke.l, mi-
serable wretches into Oaf ships; disease was MO no.:
emery atteedens ; they died in kindred. • hot of
those that survived, some were sent 11.1ifas,
others were dispersed anyone the West Indio blends.
sad I am folly correct In affirming. that not (toe-
ing of these who embarked ere now in rsistence.—
The very mop of liberty is justly dear to oar hearts;
bet can we say we benefit a poor, miserable, senseless
creators, when we seed hies tow reentry Where he

may perish by disease. I honour the feelings of my
countrymen for their zeal in favouring the liberty of
another. This is not, however, a method of carry-
log es war becoming to a great 'main. What alteeli
we have said, had slaves been taken from ear colo-
nies to be involved in misery and distress ? Would
we not have justly milliard wino the barbarity of
tech a proceeding? The latter port of the war was
Indeed conducted with more credit to Gamlen earl
honour to the Ministry. Let us pass en to thr pel...
Instead of openly assertiog set right r.f search, or
generously giviog it er, we come ,ed In a scan
compromise, by letting the tarter reit. Such, Sir,
hes been the conduct of this Ministry, who only do
things by halves when the country to be benefited.
Had we given up the poifst at once; had we treated
them u friends and allies, the so i rate part of the
Americans would hive gained a vielry over the De.
swats, and we should hese liar them in oar in.
serest for ever. Animosity did net eren_etatewith

the wart we ezcieded them fr. rn cur West India
islands ; is return, they prohibit rte vessels belong-
ing to these Islands from tottehito at their post•. I
woolci ask eny man, if a hollo c, patched ep treaty
like this elle possibly last r A•! we to be spin
embroiled with this nett :t tkro.hh the contemptible
conduct of out Ministers ?
To talk lightly of a.: American war, is to be ig•o-
real of the state of ;hat country, mid the nature of
the People. They are a heave, en Indepeodenr, and
• rising nation—they are conscious of their own
strength, and will not submit to be insulted. The
disposition of America is evidently hostile towards es;
and the prospect if dismal enoegh. Let es see, if we
return to our own country, whether the horizon will
be clearer. If we slew the manufacturing tissues,
what do we behold ? Immense messes of men meeting
mid all the horrors of fearful starving misery, to its-
plots.* Reform in the %beset of the Constitution.—
If welook at the face of the country, we shall perceive
a large sporting army scattered over it ; if we ermine
the state of orrltcrenne, we shall find that it is barely
possible to meet the •spendl'ure and pay the interest
of the National Doh'. Yet, Sir, this difficelty.
dreadful as it certainly Is, might still be surmounted,
were our Partiament confided in—but correptloo,
Sir, has witted dert.ly into the constitution of our
Rppyrooristhres, 'those only provittee now Is. to
swell the vole of a Minister, end to plender the Peo-
ple. I world ether, Sir, *Omit to open ty runny
thee suffer a welkin( tempering with Our Represeu-
wives to be cootioard. Were despotism openly In
stew itself ; were the mere farce of pretending so at-
tention to our interests, while we are daringly in-
sulted, done away with, we should know what
course to pursue. We have petitioned till the very
same has become disgusting. We cannot look for
redress ; for we may as well demand pilin sense from
the madman or the fool, as espect decency or integrity
from the present House of Commons. These wretched
men, Sir, feel the contempt into which they have
fallen; sad crouch ender it. Such, Sir, are our re•
Sections—the only reliance we have, most rest on'
ourselves; and if we mks a mike of every tie,
every sentiment that is dear to us, we deserve to sink
into the slave.
Moderate language, Sir, is of no avail; and it is
necessary to ass esp►essions shirts easy, perhaps,
rouse any latest spark of sensibility that does yet re-
main is the bosom of °ea man, who Is a declaimer
against vice, while in the practice of it—who now es•
poses the remnant of passion past, mid the wreck of
a once fine constitution—a cheremer like this will
go down to his grave ',Titled and despised. When
our aged and venerable Monarch shell be laid low--
when his death shall give ■ melancholy sort of satis-
faction to his People, sills what unfeigned senti-
ments of sorrow sod lamentation will they sttend his
funeral—with what generous leers will they sanctify
his memory, end hand his name down to posterity in
blessings for ever. Thr one of whom I speak might
have been in some respects like to ihti man. Let
him look at the contrast and think what be Is new—
What ►hnald a It of s astbra he
Brt areednais /item', the **blest or the free I
If sorb be were ant. he sight Site to tiara
The symptoms or hi. oeta dospare
Night hod that 'hoer trim gave a Threat
Cast maw it yet aim their *ism
Nast/ see these saes for atom are laws,
Rise Indy ion nettie rowel
And is PINkIIIIO Shenk/ qvirkie API
?hat rest greatness is a rsop!: • week
TACITTIS.