The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

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there might not be a corresponding increase of the re-
venue of the present quarter, jibe bad not well known
that its revenue had been anticipated? Why shPuld
the financial prosperity of the country and its increas-
ing revese mysteriously stop short on the sth of Ok
tuber, 1821 ? There is something hollow in all this
vain-boasting, and the Ministerial press has, in the
midst of its iesiapj..exultalinasdletenyed a CODS•ille•'
▪ tionsness of it.
The asideliterates also endeavoured to
. impress the publienwitittiiltit a belief that The"nianu-
factures of. else tiit;y have improved latterly ; and
have mortlhan insinuated that this boasted increase
of revenue .has arisen from some such valise. Here
again we tietecid their wonted fallacy; and we ap-
' peal, in jnetification of our application of this term,
' to•theitott-master,ibe clothier, the hosier, and the cot-
• ton mannfacteirer, whether or not, although more of
.their respective7ahries; or at least some of them, may
have been sold within the last quarter of a year than
in-the preceding period, they have obtained a better
. (aye ! even, we would any, in many instances a retnu-
neratinx) price for their commodities? No, there is'
a canker-worm preying on the vitals of the country,
.a gangrenous aad acrid humour which ie tainting its
• life's blood ; and that canker-worm, and that humour,
is iaordinate taxation. which has been 'fatally extend-
ed till it pervades everf;rank in society.—till it absorbs
the proceeds of labour,--till ip dries up the springs of
industry, monopolising 'such a portion of the income
of the landholder, oetheprofita of the tradesman, and
of the substance of the farmer and the artificer, as
first embarrasses, then iiiipove/islies., and finally ruins.
And as if the natural awl" nedtssary process were not
sufficiently rapid,—as if this financial consumption
. were too slow in its disorganization of the social sys-
tem, the increased taxation of the country, which was
fooluded on the doubled prices of produce, and labour,
aed rents, during the war, and which were levied in
a depreciated paper currency, is now, in defiance of
a natural impossibility to the contrary, to be paid in a
currency of a two-fold value. Under the operation of
this baleful, blundering system, the great mass of the
population of this country at present" groan, being
burdened ;" whilst all who live on the produce of this
blighting taxation exult. And it must be admitted
such exultation on their parts, and as regards them-
selves. is not without good reason ; because, from
their salaries, their pensions, their grants, perquisites,
and sinecures, they derive emolument double in value
to that which the same salaries, pensions, grants, per-
quis!tes, and sinecures, produced heretofore! In other
wards they receive two bushels of the farmer's corn ;
trice as much of the I .nditolders' rents; double the
produce of the labour of the tradesman, and of all the
iadnetrious classes, for (for the most part) either doing-
nothing at all, or for doing mischief. So that the
Latioi,'s loss is their gain, and their cause of joy and
rejoicing a real cause of grief to the nation. 'fhis is
t..atter of fact, not of mere argument; this is the actual
process issuing from the chancery of the present Mi.
uistry ; this is fatal experience, not mere conjectural
or platisiblethettry ; and the results are being recorded
as imperishable materials for the future history of
the country in the heart's blood of the people of
England.
If THE PEOPLE, the industrious classes, the yeoman
acd the minor landholder, had possessed their un-
doubted share of the representation of the Commons'
own House of Parliarnew,—if, instead of a majority of
that House being returned by the will, power, or in-
fluence of about two hundred individuals, it were re-
wetted fairly, honestly, and according to the true in-
ter.t and meaning of the genuine British Constitution,
• by. the People. would it have been possible that (in the
• language of the Resolutions of the Gentlemen and
Yeomanry of the county of Worcester) " prices of pro-
duce and labour, and rents generally, could have been
doubled by Ministers bringing into existence a depre-
ciated Paper Currency, or the Country have been sa-
criaced.at the shrine of their cupidity and folly, by
their then levying upon it a rate of taxation founded
ou these doubled prices, or be finally ruined by pay-
Alert of that taxation being required in the ancient 'l
bullion standard, by which the property of the land.
o..vner wad cultivator, and the prices of produce and
labour, are brought back from the level to which they
had been thus unnaturally raised to what they were
before: while Me charges to Mc FUN DHOLDERS,
tiusecuttlae, and Me PLACEMAN, combatted is a a-
vatar Paper Currency, are EXEMPTED front zionilar
r, ductiws."
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It is this unnatural, unjust, unconstitutional order
of things, without which the Pitt System could never
have existed fur a twelvemonth, atl,l by which it has
continued to exist from the time its infatuated author
was callel to render up his last solemn account, down
to the present day, that is impoverishing the great
mass of society to enrich the few. It is this system
which, as the Yeomanry of Worcestershire justly say,
" has been already ruinous to thousands, and must
ultimately overwhelm ALL, inasmuch as the ruin of the
r,torievrtva CLASSES of society •t in the end recoil
wpon the UNPRODUCTIVE, by making it IMPOSSIBLE
much longer to PAT ZITHER THE INTEREST OF THE
DEBT, 011 THE CHARGES pr novsmssmsNtr." " Let
States that aim at greatness take heed,". says Lord Ba-
con, "bow their nobility and gentle►►►en do multiply
too fast;' for that mxketl► the common subject grow
to be a peasant and base swain, driven out of heart,
and in EFFECT BUT A GENTLEMAN'S LABOURER."

On Monday last. at this place, Wright, the pedes-
ttian. started (0 walk fifty miles within twelve hours,
which he performed with ease. walking a mile in and
out; and on Wednesday, at four o'clock. he again
started, and completed ninety utiles a few minutes
within twenty-four honrs.—(Donelsier Gazette.)

On Saturday se'nnight Win. Davies and Joseph
Jones, who had been twice ',spited. were executed at
Lancaster. An immense number of persons were pre-
sent on the occasion; and the unfortunate men con-
ducted tiainiiielves in a manner becoming their unhappy
sitnatiot. lt will he recollected that Wm. Davies was
the sank who, having entered idto a combination with
others, ;taut the sawyers of this town who chose to
work festlowar wages than those sought to be retained
by the sad combination. was led to the commission of
an act "if violence which bad nearly deprived a fellow
being of his life. The awful example of his fate
will, weliepe, hive Us due effect, in warning workmen
et the danger boo which, in an unlucky moment, they
nay be urged, by engaging dminselves with such socie-
ties. litememli mileakans through the public prints, and a
petitimilbispa.atemy amps -fti persons, were forwarded
in bed ;griortaissts nee; but it was judged
tartest Ili . the law Se take its course.

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