The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-13 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

managed as to reduce their means more, a great deal
snore, than one-half.
" Resolve!" flow ere they to resolve to have a
fair price? And who is to say what is a fair price ?
Have they not been resolving to their utmost ? Have
they not been keepiiig, and do they not always keep,
and ought they not al ways to keep, their grain till
'their interest dictates them to.sell it ? Are there riot
many who merit sell as soon as they house, to pay
taxes, labour, debts, &c. Could the farmers of one
single parish possibly form a non-selling association
! that would hold together for a week ? How, then,
is this to he dome by all the farmers in these islands?
; —lf any one were able to embody such a corps, it
i would be, perhaps, Mr. Benett (a hose name the
! printer spelled wrong .last week); and he, instead
of thinking such a scheme practicable, threatened to
go and live in France, unless wheat sold dearer vials
I Sa. or 9s. a bushel, and now it sells for less than
6s. 6il. If he be in despair, if such a man resorts to
lan attack on tythes, as making part of the evil, how
areyett to ex item any combine lions,aity determinations,
any force, of the kind ms correspondent talks of? The
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people in Wiltshire laugh in the face of Mr.fenett;
when he threatens to go to France ; and so would
all the people laugh, if all the faimerswere as silly
as he. "Go to France! Go hang yourselves; and
then to the devil," would they say, if we were
empty enough to hold such language. The truth is,
I the farmers were the great pillars of Pitt and his sys.
t'm. They drew ewer ',Words for him, for Adding-
' ton, for Pitt again, for Perceval. They were the
loudest, the most hardened, and the most brutal of
all the enemies of freedom in Engine& Whatever
was to be done, th..re were they reedy'. with their hel-
mets and sabres. They sere the princip.il cause of
that ilelatwand of those everlasting fetes that now
press them to the earth ; that now ;littlest literally
squeeze them down their own dunghill,.
l'its it is. 'list they carieut suffer alone; but, and
here illy Corresporident is perfectly torrent, they can-
nut feel a blow, though bin. ever so trilling, which is
lint felt by every other class of the community. if the
cultivator of the land tie ruined, so must site owner, so
m Jo the tradesman, so must the matii.firctuter, and so
must every one, who rereives einthieg out of cm tem.
Thnse whose iticrenes, in whatever shape, are derivthl
ft mu the taxes, are How in a liourishieg state. Ile
who lent his money to the Gavertuireio six years, or
only four years ago, Isms receives trinity ten per
centuin for that money ; but, this can no more go
on, than Botley Mill can go without the aid of the
stream that runs down from Bishop's Waltham. Tne
Miller, however much of a conjuror he may he, Can-
not give motion to the wheel with.,ut water ; nor Can
you, though as (lever a man, perhaps, in your way,
as our Miller is in his way, satisfy the demands of
the fundholders, and of the army and navy, and
place-men and Pensioners, and Judges, and Royal
Family, unless the taxes, to a sufficient amount, can
be collected ; and this never cats be done, for ann.
Cher two years, unless wheat be double its present
price. To double the price, paper-money most come
out 'till the total quantity of it in circulation equals
n list it was IMP years ago ; and, the mime!) the
pper Crimes out again to this amount, doers comes
its value, and up goes the exchange in favour of other
countries. •

Titus you are, Sir, in what odenultry people
call a cleft-stick, and, if yoe ear lid your finger in
that sitnation, you need nothing more to convince
you of she aptness of the figure. Yon %re squeezed
from both sides by a force so equal, and you are so
completely incapable of obtaining relief either by
pulling or by thrusting, that it requires but a slight
effort of the imagination to transfoim your Chancel-
lorship into an unfortunate finger. Your predics.
ment is, in the history of your system, a perfect
novelty. The abundance of the paper motley, its
constantly increasing quantity, has always, 'till of
late, been the threate • g evil. But, now, the evil
presses equally irons the other side. The abuts.
dance of the paper money, though it ruined
many people, caused the farmers, landlords, and
active traders to flourish. It raised prices end
caused discontent amongst the miserable ; but,
what were their mutinies? They were soon pot
down. All that stirred were quelled. Now, there
is nobody to quell. The poor are pleased. *they
approve of all your doings. But, unfortunately,
the poor do not pay the taxes. Loyal souls as they
are, paupers, gipseys and all, there will is good
wards the State ; but they have slot the means. The
farmers would pay too, it they could. Tney would
grumble, curse, cry, and pay ; but, their money is
gone; or, rather, it does not come. It is useless to
three tell them. They do not resist, and are hoot dis.
posed to resist. Exchequer writs they may receis ;
hut Exchequer writs cannot create the means to p
It is a submissive, passive descriwints of persons,
who now smart. The flint, of suffering for others is
gone by ; and, if they do share a little with the
rest, their satisfaction at seeing the result verify
their predictions, and making those feel who never
felt before, is much more than an ample compensa.
lion for their share of the suffering. Oh ! how the
Loyal Yeomanry Cavalry threatened the Jacobins!
What bloody oaths they swore against the enemies of
the war. How they admired the speeches of Pitt and
the pamphlets of John Bowles! Well, may they
read all these now, if they like, and what will suit
them very well, at a cheap rate. Loyal pamphlets,
and even songs, will, however, not tend to make
money more plenty; nor will they assist you, Sir,
in affording the " remedy," of which I shall treat
in my nest letter.—l em, Sir,
Tour most obedient servant,
W3l. COBBETT.

The Cuffnells and Royal George sailed from Ma-
drass for Penang and China,-the 21st of May.
It is a most singular circomstance, though ore
day's Drawing of the present. Grand Lottery is over,
that not one of the Great Prizes is yet drawn, and as
Next Thursday is the Second Day of Drawing, it is
not at all improbable the Three Prizes of x 50,000,
the Foor of 220,000, and the Three Of 84,000, will
all be drawn on that day ; and but very few Tickets
remaining unsold, Putwir feels it his duty to remind
his Friends and the Public, they cannot he too early
in their purchases at his l'ortunole .No. I,
Holborn-burs (the corner house), that they may se.
cure the above Great Prizes.—N. B. The Drawing
begins at Niue o'Clock on Thursday morning, being
the lest day but o'ie.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Nor. 11.
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MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Conimksinns in the Prince Regent's Regiment of CbefAire Yeo-
manry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Coun:y
of Chester.
Lieutenant William lloaias to be Captain, vice L.•icester, de-
ceased.
Carnet Jonathan Higginsoo to be Lieutenant, vice Hollins, pro-
moted.
Cornet Francis Sharpe to be ditto. vice Hancock, resigned.
Sirthill Wright, jun. Gent. to be Gdruet, vice Higginson, pro-
inote.t.
Robert Holbrooke, Gent. to be ditto, vice Sharpe, promoted.