The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-16 00:00:00

SZYEN PENcr.

whit is • amillitillitgefillle *kat; or geates,Mtnitiked •
with homed disfintry: Were ft eilenerfek 7tii ion
mean Mat fare yotrpreperty until bike it from you.
If oar Statesmen were sound pelitkiti eugamippe. they
woaW find profitable employment Within oar own eon-
pito for to. time. eitr•pitleitMt wanner of laborers.
while. to effect this delightfel objeeti aN haw** id
do Oaf owev work with on nett peoples bat it Menu.
all parties Use the people at gameintrdo hew cards.
sanely to gala their stabs, and afterwards throw
tbem said. as too dirty for farther meow. This
elmtald caution oar people against being tools to par.
ties; use being either plateau. pennon, sianeriet.
tar public creditor. I onaider myself possessing a
right whims you. that setwithstaudiag the heart-
reading feelings we all experlemee is seeing upstarts
in plan, or as public peasiners, expendieg thousands
of the public money, and of obtained by them
through unworthy actions, while meritorious man
trudge on unnoticed, and mot half-paid for their skill
and komest industry; still. I must tell you. that how-
ever galling such sights may be, if all our national
industry were protected from foreign competition, sc.
eirdieg to its respective value to the State, although
this money first comes oat of oar pother in the shape •
of lams, Cot on (gratisg es paid to such supercilious
upstarts would ultimately be a loss to as; se,
when our various interests are so protected, the
stormy paid is returned to es, if expended in the coon-
try, with compound interest; for, In circulating such
stipends, they may he compared to a gardener's
watering pot, when used in a summer's day to distri-
bute its liquid for the purposst of increasing vegeta-
tine ; but should sueb unskilful worthies obtain a
controol in the great Council of the nation. they may
ignorantly, though inuosently, be Most injurious to
as; but keep them thence. so long AS we have suffi-
cient labourers to do oar work, they do us no harm.—
Should our g I industry, however, remain unpro-
tected, the injury resulting from then, would be great;
yet, however imperfect oar systems of commerce and
finance are, were all our taxes repealed to.tnorrott,
we should increase the number of our paupers by at
least four millions. The party out of place always
indawe the minds of the people with the cry of taxes,
corruption, &c. as means far displacing the party its
power; hitt our people should be on their Euard on
these occasions.
Now. as I conceive there remains no other way of
restoring the British Empire to prosperity, and of
giving our people, through profitable employment.
the means of obtaining those comforts and that wealth
which they so richly deserve, and of thereby enabling
us to do justice to our honest feelings ty acting ho-
amiably towards our public treditors, than by pre-
setting every isterest of the British Empire from CI--
reign competition according to its respective vane to
the State, and thus raising, every mans' income above
his expenditure ; I therefore exhort all my country-
men to Petition Parliament for the appointment of a
Committee to effect this desirable object, and subject
thereto let Commerce have the freedom of air, an]
invite other nations to act io the same manner towards
as.

I much regret that Sir Francis Burdett is not so
well grounded in the science of Commercial and Fh;
sandal Political Economy, as he appears to be in
Constitutional State Policy, for were be so, I conceive
be might give a powerful impulse to the public
energy that does not now exist ; perhaps as powerful
an impulse as did our ever to be lamented Statesman
the late great Was. Pitt, and although.those two great
m'm hare taken opposite directions to gain theie
points, still I believe no two patriots ever had more
similar objects in view than they bad. I therefore
hope that Sir Francis sal, for the public good, direct
his powerful mind to the acquirement of throe two
useful sciences, when legitimate Commerce, nod a
correct system of Finance may expect as able defend-
ers and promoters es they have now opposers ; when
our present quacks in the science of Political Econom7„
and exotic proteges of Mercury will be as silent in
urestmee as a fox when within the gripe of the lion:
but while they have their present influence ;n the
Council of the State, I feel alarmed fur the fate of
my country, as well as sympathy for our noble mind-
ed, yet unnecessarily oppressed labouring countrymen,
fro.a their bring di p:ived of profitable employment.
It is a serious. evil for taboo-log classes to hare
Representatives who are so ignorant, that they (one
labouring. classes) are the main spring of the wealth
of the state, while they (the Represmtatires) hire
such narrow views, as to think it trecemary to depress
the labour of our people, in order to obtain mannfac•
tore. cheap fur Foreign Markets, and that certain
por:ions of our industry are necessary to be annihi-
lated in order to give a market for the like for,tn
products as return payments. This comes of rote
church, King, MO poor no: be:eg supportA g•ne.
cal [nation, for under our p7esen• system non,. b ,t t' •
l►nded interest are interested In supporting rerinner-
4:io priers for labour, as that interest well knows
•h ,t if i:thour were dereserd, tt.ey would lone thrush
the poor's rate uwi:e as much as they would g :in by
labour. This should be well considered
when :',l-tubrrs are bring elected for Par batten!.

It is 1.14 to ,ttrbn•e the invision of our invaluab:e
n.tv'g stion, and otanufaeturiog protettion laws, to uur
not Is .ring in Parliament tomb men how as we biol
when they ware enacted, instead of the political quarks
of atoms It Is n"w I:mlp:tiled ; and if our present I)4r-
;meta ; on.is:ed of suet; 11/t.llll.,rrs as it then boasted,
our navizytion laws w 1ul« nut be invaded, nor would
nr native awl coluni.:l a4rlculture be denied their
due p utemiun.
In Cie days a our forefathers our population and
hurthens oere so enuiparyiv;ly sin.ill, and our bread:lt
of land so cotoptratively extenaive, that agriculture
protected itsAf, or wherwise the same wisdom that
led tmr forcostisers to protect the branches, would hare
given titein a dulthie motive for protecting their roots
aglicultaral interest, from foreign competition.
It appears the foreign interest is emlearourinz to
destroy by intrigaa that palladium of British po•-er
on the ccean, xWeb has always proved in hard 6.4614-