Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-10-03
FOREIGN.
From the baltimore Hing.
STATE or ENGLAND.

THE olio7vins' extracts from, Cobett's Regis
ter, though not very nese, will be- fund ve-
ry Interestingly
George Rose will tell YOU, that You are to
judge from the imports and exports, the cot
ton mills and spinning jennies and sir John
Sinclair will say, look at the increase of ca
nails, turnpike roads, new enclosures and
threshing machines; while it is not impossi-
bic that Messrs. Perceval and Ryder may en-
deavor to draw our admiration to the fruit
full statute book, where we shall find grea-
ter bulk of laws passed during the sway of
Mr.. Pitt and his Successors of the same
scEool, than was was passed from the origin
of Parliaments in England to the reign of
George the Third; but,
= Ye f-iends to truth, We stdfesmrn 1vfo snruey
Sc The rich snnl joys increase, me Poos DEF ay;
1t yours to Judge by other signs than these
it is yours to judge by those effects which
regard the happiness of the people and the
permanent security ofthe country's indepen-
dence.
If, in a single family, consisting of ten bro
theirs, all engagedin Industrious pursuits, and
gaining each comfortable subsistence, such
change was introduced as should lift one or
two into coach and four and plunge the o.
ther eight into misery or dependence, would
any rational man, any man having a due sense
of real good and evil, any man having just
notions of happiness and of honor; world a
ny man say, that that family had been pros
porous s-Wouldh he not say, that, upon the
whole, its affairs had been badly managed
And, If he would point to the person VIII had
been the cause of the change, who had the
absolute control over the affairs of the whole
family, would he not charge that person
with having been the cause of a great e.
vili
Just such has been the great and general
tendency of the system of Mr. Pitt; a sys-
TEN, which has taken the earnings away
from the nation at large and heaped them
upon select individuals, who have been found,
in various ways, necessary TO the support of
the minister's power.
This is proved by facts that no one can
deny, and which facts stand recorded i'll the
official documents laid in Parliament, exhibi.
ting the increase of the national debt, the
taxes, the expenditure, and paupers.
Millions Of Pounds
He found the national debt 257
He left it n S. $40
His successors of the same
shool have carried it to IL
He found the annual taxes Is
He left them Al
His successors have carried
them to 70
He found the annual expen-
diture 81
He left il 20
His successors in the same
system have carried it to 80
Well! eXclaims the true Pittite but, what
signifies this, if all go on increasing together?
If the means increase along with the expen-
diture /? Aye, but do you, then, take it for
granted, that an increase of taxes implies an
increase OF means to pay them: That would
be a strange way of reasoning! Say, rather,
that it argues an increase of distress and
misery occasioned by additional burdens
and then you have the proof at hand, in the
increase of the parish rates.
He found the annual parish
rates for England and
Wales L2.167.74o
He left them (three years
before his dcath) L5,348,205
And if they could now be ascertained they
they would, it is fair to presume, be found a
mounting to not less than seven millions. The
number of paupers i'm 1903, exceeded ,2OO.-
900, exclusive of Dire adful increase of COM
mon beggars and indeed, is it not notori-
GUS to every one who has eyes OF ears, that
pauperism and misery have increased almost
beyond conception, since the fatal day when
MIR. Pitt, through the folly of a deluded natl
on, obtained a performance in England
Since that day, the character of the people
has been changed; by the pressure of mise
ny they have gradually worn out of them
that independence of spirit, that dread of
becoming dependent, that pride in keeping
their names from the parish books, that
shame to be entered on the list of paupers
by the pressure of misery, occasioned by
taxation, all these feelings have been swept
away, and now no one seems to care what are
the means by which he can make shift to
satisfy the cravings of hunger and to keep
the cold from his carcase. In the year 1880,
or whereabouts, in a parish of Hampshire,
which has in it more thana hundred labour-
ers' families, there were but seven families on
the parish books about FIVE years ago, in
that same parish there we're only seven not
upon the parish books. This is perhaps, ra-
Their striking instance but, who does not
know that the increase Of pauperisln and the
consequent degradation Of character have
been dreadful.
What, reader, can ever compensate us for
this The plague, or civil war arc TRIES
to such an evil. Half a people swept away
by either would have been preferable to this
general degradation Of character to the IA