The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-21 00:00:00

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left wing of the building was blown down, and the
rubbish precipitated through the roof, into an apart.
meta that had just been quitted by one of the family.
The hurricane has also done considerable damage to
the new mansion of Mr. Goodman, and several
other unfinished building.

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TO AGO R RS PO N rDE NT,IN AIMER ICA,
oN 11H E E/IPoic*, THE TAXER:* OF GREAT.
BRITAIN, • MiIIfARED WITH „THOSE , cry ,A4lF-
tuck: " • ' •

391.066- 1
21.996,626 9 41
3.404,527 11 )1
29,463,520 10 S.
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15,991,11341 14 1

reZtaiStill; wk VeOantrWilap;e;,
Aostrio, Pros* add- oboe 'sober
Powers .. e. .
liseellaotoes Services at lime and

Abroad , ..

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daring the nine months, ending the 13th of
amounted to 82 millions of dollars, of
millions were the procieds• of the public
and the remainder derived from loans. '.
-barsements for Publit-txpettellteres during
period exceeded 31 millions of dollars., and
'the Treasury on the Ist of .July near ire mi
dollars.
Taking your without fractions,
itwould be for the last year, 47,5501000 do
while ours lwas 455,874,443 dollars. So that
es.peoditurel =halve of peor•rates, tythes,

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county and corporation goverement's, i, more than
nine times aa great as yours. The popetation of tee
two countries, -leaving out our paupers, is, as (.shall
show, by-and-bye, nearly equal, the greater ppm-
' -•e-itl-ti.04.11'.. - • • latititt being, however, I. believe, on your side. The
[FROM CODICEETIS REGISTER.] • . "*paupers must be left out,, as you will perceive, be.
.DEAR cis,---Your request would, long ago, lave,
,esemit isimpossible that they can contribute, in any
Jeer] attended te, if I had had more leisure. for .the. n:atishateeers towards the meant orineeting this
task. For your valuable information, relative to OU'Penikitttflle,-s"-s•••“it; • •
youe-agricalture, your flecks, and your manufac. ; Bet-expendifere is of little importance when corn-
tine; ram much obliged to you ; end, if the two : Pared to reiffilxis:lT tales. Here it is that *e touch
countries, were.a t peace,. you abroad receive, from. me . closely open men's pockets. The swans of expend-
all the useful inforeation .wich it is in my power tog consists, in part, of ioans. 'Giese loans may,
to give yoke upon several heads, which• I shall not .or may not, ever be paid off. It;ou; may, perhape;,
touch upon in a letter passing through the prat, . Pay them off l/y. lairds ;., we: WV\ pay .them off by
but which,. I hope, the restoration of 'harmony be-' i SAtlle.yet unknown ateem6. What we have to look.
tween our two countries, may, iti a year`or two, at i et,..ia the.tnoteelleirtiee, manner, therefore, is, the
most, make it convenient for me to communicate to i amount of.the T4ltt..;' because this is what the
,you through the ordinary channel of the post. I PooPia realiY,Pars- 0! ~. " • .‘i •_:.
You wish to knew what is the amount of the en- . The amount of nor taxes, pikiintw the Treasury,
'noel expences of; our Government; what •is s the i.during the last year; ,iris • 7,44,10,3831. 17s. fled.
amount of the tatter 'paid to the Government ; eeet I Wean! very precise iira)pekeepirtg of ear accounts.
'IS Ike amonet of istifpnor rates; what is the amount I AcCording to•Nir. Vadison's statement. in his Speech,
of otte•tythis;7ind you'sish 'me to show the come 4the money-paid-into yoes.Teesseegollering the.last
paiison betvreenebese and the expenses in America. years was 14,550,000 .droil4,-(7to &late- one
'Ypu elso wish to hive my account of the state of Taxes.omounterl to 296,10036.;• which is rather
the people here; or, in plainer terms, you wish to more than twentsutlinir litiomOunt of tour yeur'i
'twee-how we stand as to mode of living, and as to tames. But you must bear fie wield, tivek, there is a
crimes *and punishments, 'compared with the people considerable difference between 1k amount cud-
of youellespublic. . i lasted, and the amount poid,ltoo ear' Treasury
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1 Amongst other deductions from this better sum there
To perform this task as it ought to be performed,
is, lam 'afraid, beyond .my power. .1 do, indeed, I was thusum of 3,504,9381. lls. sd, deducted from
know more eheut these matters than -Many of my i the gross receipt, or collection, for the purpose of
neighbours ;. but I cannot bepe to discharge the task j.PlsYiug the " charges of manages that is 4'
to your satisfaction,;.who ere so accurate in all your [ley, fur the purpose of *paylcig 'the persons em.
statements and calculation., .and who, with AlLyour . pitied in the assessing, the supervisiug, the surveys
indulgence in other respects, are pot to be satisfied,. ! ins the inspecting, the collecting, the receiving, the
unless yen find others as accurate as 1 ourself.— i transmitting, &c. of.. money paid into the Tree.
Nevertheless, I will do all that I am able to do in , spry. Now,. 3,504,9381, 114. sd'. is 14,019,754
dollars. So that the lace eapence of the getting
returu .for the very valuable information, n hich I
together of our ••taxes ' amounts; you see, to owe solely to your attentive kindness, and eNA
serves me as a guide •hrough those numerous errors, very nearly as much as the whole of the taxes
with regard to your country. into which I see others raised upon you ; that is to say, if Mr. Madison's
of my- coentry men continually falling. '
slteement be correct. And suppose each of those
I gat happy, thee you 'have not called upon me persons, one with another, to receive 501. or 200
for opinions ; that Yoo lieve not called upon me for dollars .a year, here are wages for 70,068 men, con-
conclusions, drawn from premises that I am to state ; ' stititly employed in the business of the tames, while,
that you confine your request to an 'account-of niere . supposing you to pay.your tie-gathers at the came
facts ; that yoO have not wished to expose me to ;kat., you have only 3,504 persons constantly em.
the mortification of seeing the effort of my facts I PloYed, is this naYs
destroyed, er perverted, by the superior 'talent* of i The PODR-RA.TES form another item of Eng-
those, who might, with merciless hands, lay kill of; "41 taxation,. in midition to the above k,susil. a very
my feeble, attempts at an application of these facts to important item it is now
,become. If ine do not
the sustaining of any political theory. It is, I „..i know the nature of this tax and of its:application, it
petty agree with yo„, the best and fairest way', its i may be necessary to state, that this is a toe levied
such a ease, to content my self with baro facts, Lear. I upon all househoulders and landholders, fbr the sup-
ine the reader, whether public br private, to draw his Pnrt of loch persons as are too poor to support them-
own conclusions ; tecause the points of controversy, • selves., It is assessed and collected by persons, op-
if any arise, can be at one, decided, and because pointed by the taxed people, its every parish, coil' d
that r.,ader, who is not capable to draw just con. Overseers of the Pour ; but, before they oan prow
• clueloi.e from facts drafty slated, is not worth the teed to collect any late, they Must have the appro-
otteriee fit the writer, and is of little more consee bation of a Justice of the Pewee; who is, as they all •
quence in society than a worm or a fly. tare, appointed by the Crown. . In the dlitribution.
In speaking of the steesesx of our Governmentll of this money, the Overseers ore again liable*lo. the
I must confine myself to tile annual expences, and, conlroul of the Justices of the Peace; for they may,
In this case, to the list year's expenses'; that is to upon the application of any,mpper, order, without
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ley, tho year which ended on the nth Janney, Mt - optiwitoit• ortneettito roll the said peeper, in
manner that they please. This, therefore, is a .
Ale in the comearative part of my statement, I mast saitY
speak of dollars on your side, and of pounds stet. frtgEs not paid into the Treasury, but disposable oil.
ling on our side, I a ill, for the sake of easier mi. de the jerisdktion, tad' at the distreßou of his Ma.
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milation, take the dollar at five shillings, instead of iestY'S Justices of the Peace. - The Office of Over.
'four siellikies and silt ',mice, which is its real sterling : leer is performed without any pay.
,It iewdeiy, or
value.— Rot the state of our paver currency will `service, aerticet whickeeery taxed hoesebolder is. liablwto be
folly jeelify this advance; and, indeed, it would "ROW
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tolltikeutes
of
justify a further advance. This, however, is not I ^ws•thens "4° the "mu" *this tact which,
material enough to induce us to enter into spy • you svillubserre, forms att. addition to that °Utile
taxes already noticed, it was, in the year 1803, whet%
lahoured calculations on the subject ; especially as
the Report was laid before Parliament, 5,318,2051.
it is contended here, by a great majority of the Go-
vertinient finances's, that our paper has undergone ; For the last year I have only computation to, guide
no depieriat ion at all. I me; but, that assures me, that the natierr.paid In
To bc.t.in„ then, with the expences of our Govern. I P°"-rates, last year, 7,896,5561, ;or 31,586,221
.dollirs, being more than twice the tunoura of all the
moot, in treat Britain only, for the year ending en
the sth of January, 1814, the total sum expended uses
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you paid during the last year, if.ler.
i' Madison 'satatement be correct. . But that I may •
was i13,V68.6101. 16s. 114.1. I speak from dace-
I not expose myself to the risk of being charged with
meats laid before tlw Iloilo of Commons, and there-
la wrong computation, I must first state that no offi-
fare, I run no risk of error or of contradiction.— la
account of this important matter has been Laid
This oasoltelntal sun.), exclusive of the expenditure
before Parliament, since 1803; and that, therefore,
belonging to Ireland. l'o'go into a detail as to the i
several particulars would fill five or six Numbers of iI am forted to reeert to computation, the grounds of
my Register ; bat the great heads 'of the expenditure which I will now sceptically state. 1 have the means
it may be worth'your while to know. These were 'of "wing at the esact amount of the poor-rates in
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as follow : i Bisltop'e Waltheneparish, where my farm ties, for. •
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Charge miscreant of the National Debt t
dialed-Tear. This is 4 parish subject to no floctua.
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for the sow ' X 41,997,375 17 5f • tion of proved!), i it has no moutfaetories its it ; it
civil Lift .
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Colitis of Justice. Mint, ialaries and ntreeteenAntisa lards tract of amble,
Alto
~. . • e34,937 19 7} •Inalidows !PO, lIJ4 Waste iced.. . Therefore, I may
Allowance to Members ot the Rapt Fa- rerffairly. take 'the Increase of the poor-rates here
mily, Pennons. &c.
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Ciiil List of Scotland 113,176 4 lii as a criterion ofthe increase of ,the poor-rates of rho
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matt Bowies and Pearionr, and Militia whole country, especially, if 'we find, (tom the °gl-
and Desarltuu' Warrants ... . N 1•056 1 111 cial repotts, that the poor-rates of, this parish. had,
Nall •6. ••• •• '4.1 ii
~4,4 for nearly 30 years, up to 1803, kept a very nearly
Ordnance , . •• ,••
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• to 3. I exact pace with the poor-rates of the whole nation.
1 There were three different periods, At Which the re- .
iport of 1803 took the poor-rates of the •whole na.
don 9 • and also the poor-rates Qf Bishop's Waltham

*rish; antl the statement was as fellows, observinz,

. xi 16,172,103 15, tb hew/over, that, as, to
.poor-rates, we speak of only
Deduct Suats for Ireland, Six .. .. 4.104.201 18 A gniliniOndr:*l4o,-.Scutiand not being under the
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Total Expeeditare of Grail enti1i.......,,e113,i168:610 16 10i Pde. r 1111irs : . ) • , -
,- : • fil, • 1:2, "2- . ~ ' ti 2 ' '. • .-Fskiiiid * Waks. . Bislthe's Walden'. . .
Now, as to the comparison between the expenditure- 1171716* year
- . Al:00.916 11?-71 f6he)ez" •.• . ~. . 041
of this Government and of yours, I must speak of 1781 - . 2,167•54, lill+, • • -, . ts,o
the latest period of which I have any knowledge • uf, 1803* -' 5.948.206 ISM - . - '1„.595
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your ezpenditare; and thOugh you are in • a state of 1- ,Iliegnite.:seirpvlsing tei olosierie bow exact 'are.
war end of unprecedented expence, you most bear' thos -propertiousi• hes regaloOy• this, parish kept
in mind that we are in a state of war aixo.--1, pew, for. 2; ye4s, with:the. wbele 'natio*
,in the in-
I find an account of your expenditure in Mr. Ma-creit4 pf itkixeer-rates. Baty in t order to lease no
dison's Speech, of the 20th of September, 1814, room flieljtikon this head, lA, subject being one of
which Speech, by-the-bye, mbny persons here think the iitose#.*perts'nce, we will eee'what
.proportion
will be his last, except that which the Times News. ;Allis pariN'accordiug to - its • population,. bad of
papersuppoSes he wilfthalte at nit exit from the world.. paupers„ig .1803 i. there being nc account Of the es-
-milt. Madison speaks thus on the subject of your. fists's nymketi! 64 _paupers previous to
_4803, and
finattces:—" The monies received into th..T!easor.v.... ' 41-=-- - . - ' "-

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mor your Heys pumper •ot paupers previous to lava, eon •
trglltevakilgve being ao likelihood that we Alien ever see
June lair onoor.
which 11 I. l.:ailand and. W ;-les/ • 131.Mtp's Waltham.
revenue,', rgirm.F. XS, tge P^104140,4 1.773
r even •• . I,es6,Sai P.toper. _ 2.+6 •
The disw E,cillieve of rions 'io
; the same A1,74160n .es. ir ~. , •
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rtd left in Now; if you aiuttiply die paupers by seven in 7; . -.. ' .-"..,
miHions of both instauces, you will 64 that they oteount to "I, • :t.
'; nearly the whole of the politalation, making it op. -4' . X.
sns, then, pear, that in 1803, there wets nearly one peeper to •
0 dollars, every seven persons in the parish. of 13ishophi Wal-
that oar thaw, as well as throughout Englund and Wales. It
rthes, and was -said, in our newspapers, that the Eu3peror of
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