Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-10-22

country. They feel tha. they are OF weight;
and ,ay the Morning Post what It VIII,
they feel little consolation, that the money
drawn from them, has, in many instances,
been expended by the persons to whom Is
i. granted, even previous to the grant,
In APPLYING what has here been said 70 the
question of terms of peace the reader VIII,
/ should think, see little reason TO expees
high terms of peace from the circumstance
of the taxes being expended at home
But upon this, as upon former occasions,
when have spoken of the Preseat negosi'
alton, I wish always to be understood not
as recommending low terms OF peace, oos
as desirous to caution my readers aga'hss
expecting high terms, or even good terms,
or even terms nor deeply dlsgracetut, II
peace be made at the present time, osseEv-
ing, however. that l say that II The mipls'
tiers would have recourse 20 the proper
means of alleyiating the burdens OF the
peopls thez need not make peace al this time.
I abhor the idea of peace such as think
they will make; but am persuaded it IS
impossible for them to carry on the war
without great change in the financial sys-
ten. Our choice liss between Such change
and a tsace shockingy disgrace(uh shall
blame the ministers for such q peace; /
shall remind lord Grepvile and Mr. Wind
ham of all their attacks on the peace OF
Amiens but those who are clanorug a
gainst the tax upon the fuads, VIII have GO
right to blame them at all. The pensions
and sing cures no, grsstsd for real services
or losses on behalf of the public frs, sbol-
ished; these first abolished, and a rigid
sysssm ef economy introduced IN every de-
par,meat of the public expenditure, and
that being found insufficient, further md
further tax ought, in my oPinisu, to be
imposed upon the funds, un.il the deb. be
reduced to nothing. call i; tax, because
others choose to cell il so. Deductions
from the Dividends IS the proper phrase;
and this deduction must be-, ia my opinion,
freely applied, or we must have mo5t ig-
nonipious peace. It will answer 40 par.
pose TO put off the evil day. If We are
to have peace. with cur present fiaanca!
system, II may as well come TO day as TWO
years hence. Now iadeed is the bes! tine
of She two; for does any one mag!n> that
France will be more disposed TO grant US
good terms OF peace when she comes 10
see the statement Of ofairs Of tie Eas:-
19ja comba4y{ Is mat 9 ills uodar enp, p, IS
in rseost d0utiShing state bat how comes
it then the, lord Castlereagh, the late pre-.
sident Of the board OF Consroul should
propose, as he lately had done, to raise
money fer the relief Of The company, and
for the fetbEc to guarantee the Ian ? Ia
fact, do we not k1o1V what this will come
to? And is it DOT necessary 10 caution the
public against expectation. which. It euter-
tanned, must BE disappointed. The sum
OF what have to say upon this subject is
this, and until lord Laaderdale's resurn it
vii! be useless to say more. That, with
reform 10 our financial system, We are able
TO carry on the war unsil We can obtain q
peace OF honor and security bur without
such reform ministers viii 90, be able to
obtain a safe or honorable peace ; that those
who wish to see such reform are ready
to support, with alI-Iheir means, the men
who will undertake il, will have right to
censure Whassver minister shall make q
disgtaCetul peace thai those who cling "a
the pension and sinecure ls.s, who ab.t all
sorts Of peculagors, and who clsmor against
every measure for lesseniug tho inscres!
upon the national debt, would have Nc
right 20 complain if, in order TO obtain
peace, the ministers were 70 cede the Isl,
of Wight, together With all the barns and
novels and mud huts aad bafrack masters
aud contractors and peculstors of every
description, theleon standing and bsing I