The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-01 00:00:00

To rss EDITOR or rim STATESMAN.

Ssa,—le reflecting on the boasted benefits the'
English ?MOW at the Revslotion, or change of So.
vertigo', we ere led to enquire if the commencement
of tie listioael Debt was one of thins. It appsors
to use ear 'musky was doped Into this attillfe,
which most teed le keep the S ign on his Throne,
end thes pretelve ►ereditary right by the overbear-
ing shseen it creates, even 'oppose nor Chief
Rater, or rather his servants, should trench on the
Coestitational Liberties of t►e People. At the sc.
reviles of Wtxxt AK we had s pore metallic currency,
and so National Debt. The STUAfell, with all their
tendeocy to irbitriry sway, 'sever resorted to this
per aldose, destructive dead weight upon the exertions
of the People of t►is highly f ed land. The Ditch
geeing trader, soon showed himself in the imbrues
istmedlately set on foot by the new Sovereign end
his fakhfel 'errant'. The forquent Sespeesion of
the Habeas Corpse Act, the commencement of the
Pledged Debt, and the establishment of our Na-
timid Beak, were messeros which, from the pro-
mises held out to our credulous countrymen at the
time, might appear as national benefits ; but, from
the eseiaucholy•sperienrs of as their descendants, we
meat etiedmow, us tending to uphold a system of
Mw ceasing, destructive of the ancient manners end
liberties of our coratey. The seipension of salutary
sad lied laws seas unknown to our ancestors such
sespeeidoes place the People le the same stale as if
Ile sects laws had ever saluted ; serving t►e potpiee
of the most arbitrary attempts to enslave a People
bens dews by, and writhing under, a most destruc-
tive and grinding least's**, crested by an onheard.of
sod accesulatiog Nations! Debt ; a debt forwarded
by the onset low, designing, profligate Ministers to
support their euereneee etpeaditere; en expenditure
which a pure metallic currency would render im-
possible, an *spindlier' which his led them to place
a berths• epos their countrymen and postetity, ne-
ver by fair and honourable means to be removed ;
enriching a net of men who, if the old precious me'
tale had circulated, we should never have heard of ;
they would have filled the staticse their calculating
and speculative bralos entitled them to. The ma.
chinery of art, trick, and cunning, I mesa paper
curreoch boa pee swore to destroy the •Id rode.
poodle,' habits and feeling of this country, 'lmo
eroeld bent taken place had we bees overrun by a
conquering enemy. Our coustrymes should see
things through a close Prodigy ; they should see the
Babies Corpus Ant: wee mode to severe the liberty
of the subject, which is of lake or so effect or vs.
lee, when the power of 'upending it is used with so
little ceremon►. The National Debt, the pert of a
corrept system which destroys the middle rooks of
t►e People, particsierly as they are borne down by
as excessive 'amities to pay the interest of that
debt. The. creation of a national currency of fic-
titious value, instead of a wise and honest currency
of the recipes metals, which formerly existed is
this country, a currency which was the Notion's
pride sad belts', Goal a club of schemiog mer-
chests sod traders bate been found necessary to be
the suppetters of ultimately a destructive system—a
system which pee to destroy that eat. formidable
and respectable character in this Nation—" the mid-
dle class," keels( silly theme extremes—rich and
p.or.—l am Sir, your Constant Reader,
May It, 1819. A. It. E.

Hie !Likely's ship Reveletieseelte. Got. PaLartr.
arrived at Malta the 17th .It. frees Pertameeth, end
the Wellingßem packet strived the fellewleg day
tree Felattieth.

A Correepoodent informs us, thst on Seeds/ the
id lost.. viraorable Minister of tho Establlehment.
is Derbyshire, walked 14 wiles, did duty es three
aharehos, b 7 readiai prayers and preaching (nor
times; he deo baptised as infant and church«, the
..titer, published she boos of oars emptily, married
another, sod iseterted a cerpw. 11. is 70 years of
.e.—(Skejleti Iris )

Jiro; BOay.—The boll of a boat, eatirely bent of
nmillesbie Irmo, sod lateadmi to b. fitted up in •n
Nepal style, to ply as a pump boat so tbs. Greet
Camel, was lontsreited isa Friday last hoe the bank
of the M.oklased Crawl, Fashion., mod named the
Vales., lo Mt promote, sad amidst the acclama-
tions of se immense coocoorm 44 spectators. The
eatrawa legit\ e( the boot SI foe, the width of 121
feet, weighs Nly 11 mono lb cwt. and drew, no
months. II babes of water. We believe this is the
Indian boot that has bees built in Sentlaud.—
(ldnibursh Caws*, Meg 20.)
Potatoes may be kept pod all oho year by dirties
thins in boilhog ismter as the Scots preserve eggs,
by Willa, the living principle; sod as tho germ is se
sear tbenkin It would not hurt the poste/. Ooe
Waste, or two el most, would be quite saffulont.—
This wield be of greet ass for ship-storm. le an
apes worked basket a too may be cored in as boor.
RIMASEAIII4 Occanneacst.—As • geteileman was
lst.ly tossing over Reek's-hill, wear Siosletoo, with
a poodle dog, • hue creased his polo, which was la-
oteedy Permed by the dog : pass, on discoveries her
thatasoolos, lost her ottani timidity, sad Instead of
sheens may sista, jamsmd on his bock, mod gain-
baled resod him, to the no small Darwin of tin spec-
titer.

lieeday seNtaight, a weenie of the same of Eger.
Oft, tetidieg in Mites-stmt. Neff!midi, huh%
fit her Whet to bed, went oat sod locked the door
if,., her ; the oeighbeers being alarmed at the
'Na*w of the child, Informed the mother of it, whir
Iseredirdely basteeed hew, whom she fined a ferret,
•Mich ►er heshend kept, in the act of gnewlog t►.
kids sad face of the poor creators, who was covered
witb bleed. The child still serving bit witkeet
the saallest hopes of team/.