The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-02 00:00:00

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ti; i exertioet, in a wroog direction, the substance of thei
~.: desires is removed to a greater and a greater distant
• from their grasp.
• :i4" Let us, my friends, now no longer proceed thus
I et us stand still and eiamine the wisdom of thou
practices so dear to some of us—namely, the proms
4 s tore employeent of children, and the election 4
eseesitie• labour from a part of our adult populatiot
(Aile domande est "holly unemployed, and misers
' Isle, RSA starving, for wants f occupation. A vet
. - -lignites' share of sagacity, properly- directed, wil
. show us that, in oar character of asatillf*Claress onlj
• it is . cleerly our interest to permit children to b
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. - ,. properly educated, sod to possess •soutsd and vigor
44 oats constitutions ; that oar operatives, and all th
• e.eorking classes shout:l nut be 'asked or permitted t
. -labour 'store than tutelage hours per day, with tw
; - hoots intermission for rest, air, and meals ; and th
t is 1... in return for their labour, they should be allows
sesges ‘ulficietit to enable them to purchase whole
. some food, and come of the most useful articles 4
manufacture. View these changes in the most sutfa
voorabie tight iss which they can be placed fur it
manufacturing interest, and they will be found, eac
' ".eadoll of them, to be beneficial to it. Should th
. . . • oion•emploent-ist of children, under 12 years of agi
and the limitation of the hours of labour to twelve
inclusive of meals, occasion a small fractional add
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tt . lion to the prime cost of our manufactered article
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1. by the consequent diminution of the supply, yet 1
the latter now esceeds the demand, the prices of tt
articles will advance in a greater proportion, and II
consumer, as he ought, will snake up the difleretic
.—But any difference that may thee arise, must I
small indeed, compared to the perpetual fluctnatioi
which are made in the prices of all articles, by a fe
• • wealthy speculators buying up at once immen
4litttlitles of the raw materials, from which the.,v
~.., b,),t
....... : rides articles of commerce are made. lit,the cow
,i - :10, . .$ 'business, for instance, as being now ape' most e
"' 'tended (but the principle applies equally to all), tl
1 •'" ameliorations proposed will not affect the prime co
1, of the thread more than the fraction of a penny p
1 •-• ' , ,pound, and in the finished cloth or muslin, nut mo
.i's ' ~,,,than a fraction of that fraction pee yard—while sus
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.- . speculations will increase the prime cost of the ra
3' r, . material from Id. to 12d. or led. per pound—as
4 ,i that to benefit a very few individuals at the expen
4 . of the Public. I hod no fault with such speculation
„lout it does not become those who are the most acti
' On them, and the chief gainers by theM, to contei
, 1 iogalost "the removal of evils which affect the we
i
l ; arriag and vital interests of millions of the most hel
f . less of the population, merely on the plea that a sm,
. i .1 fiactional addition would thereby be made to t
. 1 ',prime cost of an article, whey for their own imtn
. dime gain they would add 10 or W times the anise
to its price.
t .. t, •In short, my friends, when you come to exam;
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f (ha subject fairly and honestly, you will certain
s „Atitd that no valid reason exists for the longer can
. ~ nuance of the grievous and pernicious practices whi
Dow prevail in our trade ; and that, instead of c
C i posing them, it is especially our interest, one sad a
to petition the Legislature to remove them withc
, delay, and I trust that when you heoptlispassioniv
kly and without prejudice taken allthese circumstate
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; into your consideration, you will amordingly pour
Petitions from every district ill. which inenufactui
asett.established.
ROBERT oi/VEN
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Tn consequence of its having bean understood, tl
. the four vessels, destined for these important espe
lions, were to sail yesterday, ;romilieptford, ge
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. numbers of people thronged them; al.an early In
ri4o witness lbs.. equipment that has smelted such an t
common degree of public interest. The.visiters, ho
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refer, were disappointed ; a sharp wind, which hi
%leen) the North-east, rendered it not desirable for a
,large vessel to drop down the River, during a 411
,side, and the sailing of the vessels was, thereto
: I , -postponed to another day.
Toe Esquimiux, who has already been so mu
' celebrated for the astonishing exploits which he p
forms with his canoe, is a native of Orris's Stra
t '. from which place be was brought to Leith about fs
years ago by a South Sea Whaler, having been Cut
in his ravine so far out at sea, that he had scarcel
hope of being able to regain the shore. In Scotls
be wee instructed in the English language, aft
wards in the principles of the Christian Religi,
r ,-and then baptized by the name of Jobu Sackhouse
1.. : . Ile can converse with perfect ease, an 4 w rite
name eery . legibly. He is of a copper colour
-good looking man, with an intelligent co/wiener
. 4 • about b feet e inches high, stout made, ,and posse,
I j great strength and egility. His canoe, which is
Is I`. chief appendsge on board the Isabella, is the sane
which he was found at sea; it is -14.5 feet long, is m
1 .' entirely of seal skips, and is completely water-4)ns
. it is equally pointed at both aftds like one of
, small boats on the *rhames,.comaron)) called J
I fifes ; but the upper part is coverecilike the deck
• e a small sailing . heat. There-As one opening in
f middle, into .which he introduces-more than half
1t • lower part of his .body,-; he then faetens the 51
next to this opening round his body, by means r
• belt made of a whale's entrails, while the upper 1
of his body is so well covered with a jacket of sk
that only his hands and face are exposed to '
Thus, with a paddle in his hand, he can move
i, i canoe either backward or forward, with a veto
. far exceeding that of any four-oared cutter.
the most astonishing part of Isis performance is,
t \ by which he can give his vehicle all the propertii
a lifeboat, and preserve himself, like a sea-f
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* itted.st the most tempestuous weather. lie tin
himself down on one side, becomes entirely imms
1 . in the water, while the canoe, moving in the 1
, direction with him, is turned bottom upwards,
he comes up spin on the other side, and comesit
sights himself. What makes this movement still 1
.• extraordinary is, that all this time he never
. hold of his paddle. He has already eshibiterl
. self in this manner three different times-in the It
.i before multitudes of spectators. The third es
4, tilt was on Saturday last, in the presence of I
• r Melville and others, as we noticed an Monday.
addition to the account we thengeve, it is we
• of samath, that he eater misses any object at s
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