The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-15
end. TAgLE.

The fecond table is contributed on the fame
principle with the frft, and confequentIy mutt
he equally correct. This limoIe table Of pro-
grefion mutt convince even the mott ftuoid
ftock -jobber, of the rapidity with which Great.
Britain is approaching a fate of national infoI-
vercy. 1t will convince him, that at the end
OF the lxth war, after the year '96, (and the hif
tory OF Great.Britaia is, in many inGances, but
the hitory of wars) the public debt will en-
create to the enormous fun of { 1912, 900.
5thly. I will mention another and perhaps
equally dangerous tendency of the Financial
Syftem of England. Whit the operation Of
the linking fund goee on, there is an appear
ance, at leat, of paying the interet of the debt.
Should any extraordinary emergency, however,
call for its fsipenlion for a year, ten wears.
or, even altogether, comfortable fun of mo-
ney will be at the command of government.
Small indeed will be the inducement, which
will fufiice to determine the temporary, time
ferving politicians of Great-Britain to fnfoend
the nuking fund altogether. Prefent dangers.
Preient wants, the extraordinary fuppes called
Tor by lone fayonrIte expedient, will be argyll
ments too powerful to reiift. Such meafilre
as this, will be an a6t of bankruptcy. and will
perhaps, be the frf ftep taken before the
iponge will be applied to the national debt
The mitchell which will attend this laft fen.
the ruin which 1t will bring on individuals, the
untavourable effect which it will have on tbe
Britih nation, are beyond mearure. II is f,id
that every inhabitaut, from the mot opuIent mo-
bleman in England, to the narrow-nlinded. ava
riclous ftockjobber, from the ftockiobber To
the peafant, and from the peafant TO the mean
cit domettic iervant, nave money in the funds.
5thly 1t is worthy Of remark that every fai-
lure in government-paper, of which we know
any thing, has been attended with correfpon.
dent Change IN government. We find in the
" decline and fall of the Englifh Syftem of Pi-
nance" pamphlet which cannot be too fire.
quently referred to, the following hitorical re-
marks. A failure in the finances of France nro-
duced the French revolution faiIure nj
the hnahce OF ailignats broke up the French
revolution, and produced the prefent French
contribution. a failure in the finances of the
old Congreis of America broke up the old con.
federation, & produced the ne w federal conf
tuition. May we not then expe1 change for
the better in the political condition of Great
Britain May not her national infolyencv cheer
us with one folitary ray of hope
This communication is, | fear, already too
long. The intereft which feel in enon;riny
into this fubject, has induced me TO Cav 70
much But to conclude on whatever 6dc We
view the picture which the Engfilh SyRem Of
Finance prefcnts, we NUT obferye the frcret
progrefs of decay-By whatever avenue we an
preach 1t, we hnd infalIlole fymptoms of di1o- |
l"tIon. We fee the fpiendih and magnificent
tabrIck already tottering on its BATS, and the
time cannot be far dftant, when it mua fall and
bury millions in its ruins. Every thing per-
iuades us, that the government of EngLa1d I,
on tie Verge, nay sUen in tie eaLob of BANK
rHpf1.