The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-10-01

IF the means increase along with the eMpendi-
ture Aye, but do you, then, take it for gran
ted that an increase of taxes implies an increase
efneans to pay them: that would be a strange
way of reasoning Say, rather, tia it argues an
increase OF distress Z: misery occasioned by ad-
ditlonal burdens and then you have the
proof at hand, in the increase Of the parish
rates.
Re found tfaas s6sTnAl parish rates
of Engand& Wales, L7,167.749
lie lstt them (three years before
his death] i5,34s,2O
And if they Gould now be ascertaineo, they
would, it is fair to presume, be found amour.
ting to not less than seven millions The NUN
Der of paupers in SOB, exceeded 1850 600, x
elusive of dreadful increase of common beg
gars; and indeed, is il not notorious to every
one who has eyes or care, that pauperism and
misery have increased almost beyond concep.
zion, since the fatal day when Mr. Pitt through
the folly Of a deuded nation, obtained pre-
dominance in England S nee that day, the
character of the peopls has been.changel by
Sbe pressure of misery they had grsdu ,liy W u
on, of them that independence of spirit, tbat
dread of becoming dependent, that pride IN
keeping their names from the parish books tina,
u anne to be entered on the list of ps0pers BY
the pressure of misery Occasoned ny taxation,
ali these feelings have been swep awsy, and
now no one seems ts<esre what arsl The means
lvwhie n ne can r53 shift to -tisfy the CT wings
Of hunger md 10 keep the cold from has csfcsse;
In the year 1879, or there1joIts, in a parish OF, a
r nj Sire, which has in it than hun- 4
Slred sborers' IA niles, there were bu,sseven-
families Cs tue parish book; about FIVE years.l
aec IN ri,st same parish, there were only seve61
ilot upon the PARISH, books. This IS, perhaps /
rather 5, rikag instance; out, VINO does not'
know that the increasefof pauperlsm and the
cons quent deg adation OF character nave been
dreadfull
What, reader, can ever compensate us for
this The plague, civil war, tribes 80
such an evil Half people swcp away by eli.
cher would nave been preferable to this general
degradation of character TO the fatal operat-
ON of this system, which has made the higher
ranks of life dependent upon the min ster OF the
day, and has thrown tbs lower upon the higher
an the character OF psupers thus forming and
cementing into chain of Dependence the
whole Of the c6pm4QEy, OF wli'oh. CHAM the
niostssa Hc DDS the end and t''Fg:,the
SUI s;6o will, has beer n Sfiect /
Of NJ kgsires upon the intAMl state
81 eJnt = "ABat," shah be old, - that
gr-at as sileh sac-ifict is, 1t IS no more than
orght 10 be made for tie maintenance of tie
nouns independence against the designs of
foreign enemy" ~
Why, if YOU could prove to me that the de
graduation Of he people was the best means Of
prov ding for nsiioBai defence, l might argue
wnb you upon such a proposition. But, 10
discuss this point will be Unnecessary, r we
only cast our eyes tQJwards the r atre Of our
wars; It sye only ioOk at the continent Of Eli
rope where ~c see that ali Mr.. PItt's wars have
failed, that all bis subsidies have been thrown
away; and that tue sweat Of England, while
II purchased The blood OF the albes that IL gave
her, has, IL the cad, IN every ins,ancc, insure d
the destruction Of those allilsj tIll AZ last we
see France, that France, whom he found IN
slate Of distraction and debility, the absolute
mistress u Ell Europe, ho'Jng the keys Of sil
The riyets and ports, budding fleets ia ylsc >
whence from tie topMast may De seen the
mouth OF tJe III mes, and, 10 short, making Il
y question with us when and how she Will 10
wade US there icing 40 one, not evCh lord L.
yereooi, tlist noW ever dreams that we have, or
sh iii h.ve The power OF retaliation, either IN the
WV u act OF msaacc.
Is Dot thc the real state Of tie case win
an, one deny It Is not this our situation with
tegard 70 france For what, then, have there
been.expendel niHt hand,ed millions Of pounds
in these wsgSag Ans, trsuce ii, indeed, the
>,s,s had succeeded 1t he and us success RS Of
the same school ntd diminished the power OF
Er.Dce then there might have been some room
totseyng that there was, ~ Our security from
" niaut, q compensation ioi tle fatal Ell, Gus Of
ta4suon nsy, II trsnee had been bert within