The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-27 00:00:00

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V:estest degree of distress pereeded the country. ft
had lately been stated in that House, that theceentsy
was at pr ,scnt in a state or rain joy and
nest; but xis lie pronounced to he the leaguer of
Aititity. •ha finance gmstios of this country was wo
eloobt on. of the greatest intricacy; bet without en.
toting i„ o complicated details, he ass sore it was
irapessi* e for the People of this country to pay the
taxes necessary for coudecting the Government, and
ter discharging a debt of 800,000,0001. It bad
be.,. well said elsewhere, that this Debt represented
property, tsbich once had been, but which dkl not
now exist. It was quit. Impossible that these tales
could all be paid. livery 30 years sheet thirty',
hundred sinless sterling of mosey would be raised
from the industry of this country, end yet so pert of
the Debt would be reduced.. It bad bete mid a genii
part of this emery resented aghin to the People, and
provided them ariththomeaesofsebsisteelle.lt cerise's.
IT di t; but thane was a groat differeocobotween thei
supply which the People derived from the natural
splices, sod that !which they derived throreett the
absorbent streleerp of Governmeet. It would be I
said, too, that If law were reduced, the grips di
tabour would be reduced also. Bet it did not follow
that wages would he so far reduced as to allow the
acs greater comforts than what they at present
enjoyed. They had Ore repertories of history,
end the esample of the population art France and
Americo, to show that the comforts of the Peo-
ple were segmented as taxes were reduced, and
when there were few fiscal laws to iaterfere with
the settlement of Ostend prices. In the etre case.
there was a healthy body with sound limbs ; in the
ether, a amnia body with tinselled limbs. ll
was Ibis system which at present was harrying
rich and poor into • chaos of anarehy. It was slid by
Dr. Adam Smith. that the wealth of a country coos
sifted in the comforts and eirj.ryments which the Pee.
ple, both rich and poor, were able to obtain beyond
the necessaries of life. It was known, however. that
multitedes of people in this country were mumble to
process even the necessaries of life. Another writer,
who was distinguished for the spirit of freedom and
benevolence diffused in his works, bad come to the
painful conclusion that the industrious poor of this
cosetry were in a deteriorated condition ; bet be bed
said, that this might he.. attain from the increased
• population, while the fruits of the earth had not pro.
bably kept pace with that entreated population.—
Many, however, ibeeght that the fruits of the
earth bad kept pee" with the popelation.—...
At all events, that could erely have a ;leftist effect
en the condition of the People. He believed that
the Ministers of the country had brought it into that
Mate, thst the question was sot whether the Book
• might to reseal, cash payments or met, bet how se
in,olvemey could be declared with the loam pfeja-
. dice to capitalists of every description, and with
• the least detriment to the isethulions of the woo-
Ire. God forbid that any such avessere should
'Oho place, merely to bessefil these who bad ceased
• all our calemities, sod in icier to enable them
•to avail Usesselres of the fardlities it would give
'them to plunge the country into fresh difficeities.
Name bet an idiot would think of paying the dabs of
.profeseed gem Wen.—What wools' be the coesequence
of enabling Ministers to raise supplies? We shoeW
have enteral sent to Aaveriesterst to retiree' pee.
sewed Injustice, bet to extirpate Republican Us.
blishments ; lumber to South Amoeba to restore the
intseisitioe, sod eimblelreedlnemd ter skeet through
the back those who were ebonies" by thole poises
virtue ; another to India, to seise ell the MINIM and .
occupy all the territory trees the Gears to the Cas-
pian Sew; sod soother to Fmk*, to week a metal
knee I. the Ministers fee bowleg rejected the COO.
-cities of the Holy Anisette. Let k not be sop.
'posed Mat be would glee this power soessoditionelly,
even to tee Howourable Gentlemew, amend hint, to
those who weeld have saved the eintetry from so
many anneal MalaibllS of taxes, foe which military
-glory was a poor reward; for where was the coon.
try which had enjoyed it, and bed net been reused
by It ? liven to thee who wield have saved their I
country from the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus
'Act, and the other Reformers of the system, be
would not be disposed to give this power, till the ,
'country had obtained the only effectual security, a
reformed Parliansent--s Parliament reformed by a
rs'ional extension of the Elective Franchise—a Par-
•%sonetit which should not exhibit mach a scene as had
been witnessed a few nithts ago in that Hower. (We
believe the lions Member alluded to the greet number
'of Members returned by the county of Cornwall, who
'came forward to take the oaths at the same dwel—
l!, was happy that his Right Hon. Friend (Mr.
Tierney) had given notice of a motion on the subject
of the Bank Restrictions, ansi he should think it his
duty steadily to support it, because he was anxious
%that every possible information should be obtained so
a sohject so closely connected with the welfare of the
country. end which might accelerate the termination
of a system that generated crime, and which it sp.
peered Minister, resolved to salotain by pervever.
'ante in saegainary esecutinos. It was not his inters.
'floe to oppose the motion for a Committee of Supply,
because he was not disposed to embarrass the Ger
ternment so far—(//ear ll—but be hoped the 'object
would be takes up by others better qualified to as.
Cues it, importance.
A MEMBER, ender the opposite gallery, mid
that in ca levitating the debt at 800,000,0001. the Hen.
Gentleman bad forgotten to give credit for what bed
been redeemed of it. Another remark which 'idled
the cheers of the !louse, we could not catch.
The House having gone into a Committee of Sop.
ply. Mr. Brogden was celled to the Chair epee the
males of the Chancellor of the I:sorriest, the Sep..

ply was voted of teem and the Muse is
The Report was orders:l to be taken tote cessidera-
. 800 to.reerrew.
DR.. D'IIIALLORaN AND CONVICT SWIM
Sir T. B. MARTIN rehousing, se countered the
• impression nude by en Hen. Gentlemen last night.—
If there was any blame impetable, it ought not le be
attached to the Noble lord at the bead of the Horne
Department : it ought to be transferred to the Beard
over which be had the benison to preside. Ois the
9th of this month he bad made a calculaties epon
the proportion of deaths in convict ship', end he
found it to he 53 In 6109—that is, I in llama lit.
The lion. Gentleman had Meted that they bad been
crowded so herribty that it was sickening to see them.
lie bad said, that six of thou bad We crowded