The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-04-25

the enemys Ton . renewal OF the war |? Aud yet,
bow is the army TO BIZ rsifcd without a total
change in the preient fyaem and will net this
be Objected to by fome, merely hecaufe we are
at war ? Ia Mort, turn which way you will,
difficulties Of every fart preient ti,s,nieses to
the accomplishment Of this great, this primary
object.
In the department of finance, (fuppofing the
funding fyhem TO bc perevered in lort, Henry
Petty, though afiited, and perhaps directed, by
the great talents of lord Grenvie, will find DIFF
hcu'ties which no man ever before had to en-
|counter.-Every one witnelFed the, ,ernbarraR.
ments of lait year. Every one was ready TO pro-
nounce the tource of taxation to be exhaufed,
aEd the atfertion was echoed back BY the unani-
nous voice of the ground-down, the teazed.
and harai1ed people.-Yet mutt there be found
new taxes, and that too to much greater a.
mount than laft year. They nun be found,
aud mutt he raifed too The fcore upon the
continent is not yet paid off. We fhall be com,
PEELED to defray the expenfes of Napoleon's
campaign. Another large addition to the fund
ed debt; further creation of banknotes
further and further depreciation of the paper.
money. All thefe NUT take place and. i,
ihould never be forgotten, that they win be tire
unavoidable consequences of the me ,fpres az
Mr. FIT and his underlings. This Gnould r.
Fafed too. 1t fhould be made known RI r.
kingdom for if, according to the old nr,t,;re
the chancellor OF the exchecuer ihould chools
10 repreient the finances of the couHtry in a
lPre2eroas fate, he will take upon himfelf all the
lreipohhoiiity TOR the continuation of fate of
property. But 1t is IN vain to talk about PROF.
pe,7tr; 1t is IN vain to endeavour apy- lonoert r.
digu'fe the truth; there are two hundred tbo,-
iand men 'nthe country who have now tcep IN
inc cotton every day makes an addition r.,
the number; and, to attempt to keen ,,,, ,hs
deception, even if ii were not criminal. wort,
be the excefs Of folly. AS connected with ~
department OF finance, we mutt, too, remember
the Hate OF the poor. Upwards of tx million,
y,ar are nov" raiied upon the parifres to be
dealt out in aid Of thoie means bv which th. IT, Us
oourer obtains his bread: and of perfons reee;,.
ing TINS AID there are upwards ola million. AN
dill the labourers, having families, are now 49,,
per5 = hIsI new fate of things which b.,
oeen produced by the funding and taxing fyc:
tenn, pulled to an extreme. Let us not he ~.
iwered, by the obfervations, that there r,ua h.
poor that tnerc always has been, and that there
always Will be, in every fate of fociety in every
country IN the world. We know there ,,ua y,
poor +; we know that fome mutt be very ,,o,r
we know that fome mutt be maint,;n.a
liHed' at leait, either by the parifh or bv vnlnn-
ldry aims but, is there any one who viii d.ny
enat THIS is new and mott deporable R,te -
Things, which has rendered all the Iabour.re
having families, paupers The phin f,a ~
that a man with 4 wife, and with for cb;Isra,
thar are unable to work, cannot now ON, orb;s
laoonr' Poihhly provide them and himfeIf with
the means of living. do not mean tbat ne -
not live eomforta6fy, for, to comfnrt fh 80,
have long ago bid farewell; but af,trt and .,,,
ready to prove, that he cannot provide tbcn,
without Parlih aid, with Efficiency of food,
! moi 10 Jafi!tT their cravings but to G,1o;, Ec
AND VIII any one fay that this fate of things is
luch as England ought to witnefs /? Vyill Even
O'd Koie, wailowiug in the luxury of eighteen
thouiand year drawn from the public purfe
! lay that nothing ought to be attempted n ale.
VIE lneie iunerIngs! There are hundreds of
."ouianoS or ,ne people of England who never
taite any food but bread and vegetables ,nd
VINO icarcely ever know what it is 10 have = full
meal OF thefe. This is neau it was NOT e. i,
| former times; 1t was not 70 even tilt of H.
years: the oaufes are Obvious, and thew o,,'rr+
to be removed. / know that to remove tr,ors -
NOT the work of "A day. There muR he tirna
ana even long time, allowed for il. bpt AZ
new mnIltry fhonid lofe no time in CONVINCING
.n9 people, mar they perceive, and that thew
with to alleviate their fufferines that ,hs, G
cereiy with to reftorc the labourer TO Gomrtb;ne,
IKE llie; for in his prefent pinng, fsmi1,;ne
ltate IT may, almof without a figure he r,id
tnat " IN the midtt of life he is in death TIM,
| th's is not an exaggerated picture that II do.o
not proceed from thoughtefs feeinq. or fro,, =
oaie oefre OF currying favour with the rabhIe
will think, be readily believed by anv one
who will but below Jingle minute in co3,e,n-
piating the iltuaton of the agricultural Isbonr.
err. His weekly wages (for fhaIl lunnoCe hin,
neper to lelf a days qvork either from recres.
non or heknelj), is, upon an average 70 mil
ing putting it at the very highef. The aver.
age price of the quartern loaf is eleven pence
upon an average it is, indeed, much more b,It
let us take the very lowef. Here then are tb,
means OF purchafing 5s pounds Of bread in \
week' which is little more than 4 pounds
Gay TOR qo0'&ing man, his wife, and 4 chill.
oren ! Absolutely not enough to flpport life
| Nof6ing for drink nothing for CLOTHING No.
th'ng tor bedding, for houfe hold goods. for
fuei' or for houfe rent! The evident concIuG.
onis, that fome of them muf die. nnIefs tbe,
are Imported in exiftence by the parih. or IL
voluntary aims. "Well," fome overgorsed no
TART will fay, "St what matter is it, 70 that ,bev
are Imported, whence the fnpport comes .,
Inc matter is this, that the labonrers are bnn,-
oied, debated, and enflaved The tendencv &c
the funding and taxing fyftem is carried TO it's
extreme, to draw the produce of the labour in
10 unnatural channels, into the hands of NET, ART
cormorants, and to deal it back again in drb-
lets, under the name Of relief or Of charity. ;1t
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