The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-03 00:00:00

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*- .3113NPAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1523.

HEREFORDSHIRE PETITION.

By niisteke of the Printer, the Herefordshire Petition,
moved by Mr. Charlton, was inserted in our paper of
Friday,Thstead of the real petition of the county, which
was presented by Mr. Price on Thursday night; eolith
"was the petition the same as that of the county of Nor-
folk, With the addition of a parsgrapit at the head of it,
and to which petition were subscribed eleven hundred
and eighty names, instead of :even hundred names, as
asserttd by the stock-jobbing prese. The petition Pre-
sented by Mr. Price was that which was prevented to the
meeting at Hereford by Mr. Cobbett, anti which really
was and is the petition of the county of Hertford.

PARLIAMENTARY COMIENTARY.

On Friday night, nothing material took place in the
House OF loans; but in the Commons one thing of
great importance. There were two or three thing' wor-
thy of notice. The first was Mr.Maberly's curious scheme
for taking off seven millions of wee, as he called it, and
for keeping up what he called public credit without wh'at
he calls the Sinking Fund. His scheme about a further sale
of the land tax is a curiosity ; but a curiosity not worth
one single line across a column of oar paper. His scheme
appears to have been supported by Mr. Rirardo and Mr.
?yerney; and to hare been opposed by Mr. Alexander
Baring, who made stout fight for keeping up what they
call the Sinking Fund. The parsons at a heole-and-ecor-
ser meeting where Mr. Coke presided in Norfolk, voted
the siuking fund to be a mere bones, gives to the fend-
holder over and above his interest. The parsons were
perfectly right in this. tut then the parsons were of
perfectly wrong in calling the Norfolk petition fraudu-
lent, and abusing its author; the petition Called for an
eqeitableartjustment of this affoir; and fhat author bad gi-•
yen the parsons this eery doctrine of a bonus; a taming that
the parsons themselves never perceived or thought of.—
As le the Sinking Fond, if we had money in the Fantle,
we should like the Sinking Fund of all things, until we
could get the money out.—During the discussion on Mr.
Maberly's motion, there was jnst as common place.* talk
abont the credit of the country, and there appeared to he
jnst as great as expectation of loans, and of all the old
Beings-on in ease of war; just as great an expectation of
thee, as if Peers Bill had never been passed ! Not a wo:d
about assignet's never paying in cash again : poblie credit
and national faith seem to be as much in the bloom and
vigour of life as in the days of Pitt;, and for any Aiog'
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to he gathered from the "ep•eehes of these great starer
Men, we are to cairl on war:, if peed' be; without the
ornallest alteration in the currency' Upon which we
shall only further observe; that we shou'd be 'ha; py in-
deed to'eee the experiment tried: lay on the Property-tax
and collect it in gold : that is what we should like, men of
the stern path,* to see you attempt to do.—Mr. ilfaberly,
in the course of his epees, said that the adoption of his
plan would release the fundholder from those appre-
hensions of the reduction of his iotereet, which appre-
hensions the approaching discussions mere but too well
ca'eelated to excite.—Whether the fundholder have any
apprehensions of this Fort or not is more than we can
say; hat we can assure him, that it mast be a reduction
of taxes to a much deleer amount than that of seven
millions, that will put the smal'est stop to the tran'fer of
estates. Of this, however, we shell have more to say
presently.
Besslane t.—it seems that the m'.aisters have brought
in a Bill fur extending the liberty to retail beer. Whe-
ther this be to supply the place of Mr. Brougham's sill
or not we du not clearly oite)ver ; but that gentleman
seemed to give this new bill, as fa as it went, his sup
port. Upon this occasion he observed that the poor mail
paid more than the rich man in tax upon beer. This is
very true; but, the way to relieve the whole; to extend
the use of beer, and to cause an inmate in the denrftndl
for barley,.is to tike the tax wholly off the malt ; be-
eart.e they the millions' would brew fur theniglers.
Mr. Brougham recommended . last year 'the reading of
Mr. CoVett's little work called " Cottage Economy."
That work. not only trashes the art of brewing in schall
families, but shows all the advantages of it, ir. pint of
morals as well as in point of economy; ocvn.my national
as well as domestic. Mr. Broughatn se. Ins to think that
the retailing of beer by a greater number of perlone than
now retail it, would have somewhat of the • atne effect.
In a small degree it might; and we greatly approve of
his exertions in this tn.tter ; but %s hat ought to be done
is this: take the tax wholly off the malt; and Brest part
of the beer in London, and about five or six ether great
towns ; and leave it on the beer every where else. How-
peer, rather than not take the .whole of the tax off the
malt; we should take more of the vac off the beer any
where ; fur, it i brewing at home that is wanted. WI,,
the wind has got strong hold of any new and favourite
idea, it is prone to make every incident that arises con;
tribute towards the importance of that idea. Mr.
Brougham's mind seems to be taken up with war.
therefore, upon this occasion, thought proper to obseeres