The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-01 00:00:00

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;destroy it. Should you, in reply.. plead, as tc those
do whey live upon the Macs," but are not aware of
this-tax, that the money, being all spent in the'coun:
try, destroys tho comparison, I have to answer, that
that circumstance cannot destroy it, because the•mi-
tterable wretch who counterfeits the coin of his coun-
try in a cellar, his• companion in guilt-whO forges
hank-notes in a garret, or their more manly col-1
league the highwayman, can advance that:plea, with
equal truth, in justification of his felony :and, there.
fore, to debtroy the comparison, you .must furnish
Circumstances to which no such reply ittn.be given.
You are, my lands and Gentlemen, by your tippet.
sition to the Bullion Committee, and suspicion of
their motives, placed iu that situation, hi which you
have no alternative, but• to admit, that the Comparir
son is complete in all its circumstance;, the' mode
excepted, or produce the•incidents that destroy it.
'And in so doing you. can have no difficulty, giving
you coedit, as I do, for having taken your stand on
the broad basis of the general interest, as the only
grounds on which you would wish to serve your own
private ends.
' But,- for the sake of argument,
,supposing the
comparison to be as complete as if we had seen with
our naked eyes one man picking the pocket -of ano-
ther of :the capital of 111 mil ions, which yields this
revenue-of 88 millions, to what are we to impute the
omission of any allusion to it in Sir F. Bardotri
otherwise unimportant Address to the 11111M' He-
gent ?--filhe competition be thus complete, how
toraesit that we have not heard of its hav;ng foru,ed
any of the points in dispute between •he Opposition
Peer*, and the Peers who solicited them to become
parties to The disgrace and robn in w`ich the present
system must terminate, by soliciting !bent !o be:otne
Member, of the new Admittistrvion?—ff the coin.
parisonte than complete, how comes it that th . pa.
riodical Press of Loudon, your own escepted, 14
that and-cnmpletely baked against the disc Issio , of
it ? If the comparison be thus comp.ete, hots conie4
it that4,ln. smoldng their pipes •and gentling their
I teer,''Sks- great ,najority• of your it...esdtcs conside,-
this nnabsevrecl cause of their own difficulties, as a
subject that omit to give way to that of the foolish
occorreneerof the week, or the trilling Veaseres ~r
tbsappointmente that may ads,• to tbniselves in the
coiirse-of their business or aniusements ?—And it the
Ccinintrison.bf. thus complete, h .w comes it that our
IN dilmeutary itefortners are .as completely silent
upon OAP object, as if Cie), meant. to pocket the 68
milcions a-year themselves, as 600.1 as they effected a
-Reform in Parliamouf? • . •

It is not for me to put these questions. and give
them answers; but I can assure the parties to whom
1 allude, and that too with as much certainty es
assured them twelve yeas' ago,. of what they now
feel from the high peke of provisions, as they call
it, that in less than 12 yeani more, possibly in 12
.montes.- this unobsarved caus., of public distress, as
it iborhaps, includes all the other causes of it, shall
eclipse Om all, and press itself upon their notice,
in spite of the inattention or 'ilesign with which they
may endeavour to discourage or suppress the dis.
cordon of it. And siith that conviction indelibly
fixed upon my mind, I am, Sir, your's resportfnilyt

HECTOR CAM 1113}:1.4.

Y 0 6' IRELAND.

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quiring the reason, his_auswer was, ' Because they
1 are ttai4 only six-leech per day for their labour, and
seldiim obtain a settlement in toss tan ilittnonths.
By. the terms of their lease they are obliged to work
as many days its will pay their rent.; and wlteti they
have accomplished this, it is difficult to get them at
ally for if they wolked at home their landlords
would see them, and order them to their domains;
so that they must remain idle, or work for their
landlords for the paltry sum of six-pence a day'
And: is this generally the case? 'Throughout all
the West.of ire:and, you may rely upon it, Sir.'—
And for what term are they thus bound ? ' For
their lives, in order to make freeholders of them.'"