The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-07-29

more, and faster and faster, the value OF her
stock or promissary paper. This is an evil
she is aware Of-but how can she avoid it ?
The ministry of the nation are aware of this
disaster; but it IS one which their prcdeces-
sors forged for them, and chained round tleir
necks, and they were Obliged to accept the
letters when thev accepted the office. They
are aware, also, that although this evil makes
its rapid strides To destruction yet tat
peace would mate still greater We have
explained how England stands as regards the
rest OF the world. She is prohibited from an
interchange OF the first articles OF life. A ia
mine may distress her, but the most luxuri-
ant crops can never put her upon an equal
ity with her neighbours. She must ever with
her present system, be, at least, two prices
above them. We have seen the effect of ten
months OF peace. We have seen the corn
laws enacted. We have seen the riots, the
convulsions, and all but the revolution they
produced.
The ministry OF England 6o1ueUsr mad, are
not blind they see the inevitable horrors
which must ensue from England being so pla
ced, as to view the advantages which their
neighbors have over them. most stu
plt minds can make the comparison between
bread and 10 bread and the state of Eng
land is such, she must not suffer her poor the
means of reflection. The moment she does,
they are up in arms, or else they emigrate. In
six months, alone, of peace, not less than 20
or $4,000 English subjects migrated to the
continent, leaving their estates, some of them,
nehind them, and drawing the rents, while
others carried with them all they possessed.
From what reason was this To avoid taxa
ton and oppression, and to eat, on the other
side or the Channel, or the German Ocean,
their bread at half the price thew could at
home ; to enjoy the light of heaven gratis, &
the lu2iuries OF the earth, its fruits and its
roots, without paying for them treble value
above their appreciation.
war, therefore, say the ministry, is a sa-
ter experiment than peace. We know the
one-it Is now become to us a system-it is so
long since we have essayed the other, that we
blunder at it and are alarmed-6c it is, there
fore, dangerous. In the one, which is war,
we nave only to pursue the old beaten track
increase of debt and increase of taxes in
the other, we have to commence new sys-
CEN we have to devise reforms-we are
called upon for economy and the retrenching
measures-and we know nothing about either
In wort--we may live Ill a state of war
IN that OF peace, we run risk of being hang
ed.
1t is thus that the ministry of England argue
And their iDferences, although shocking to
son.
The word feaee has an electric sensation
throughout all classes of people in En- land
They expect from IT an end to the calamities
OF war ; they look forward TO those blessings
which, their education leads to believe, are
concomitants and SYNONYMOUS to it's existence :;
the ministry know better they know that
the evils are not TO be lcssened in one, two or
three years of peace they are not certain
fhaty <-sN.,lI t<x.l
sands or tens of thousands of their subjects
might be annually spared from being shot, by
peace-but then their very subjects would be
Paupers on the public increase the public
want; and be so many mouths breathing muir
murs, and discomfort, and rebellion.
In hne-England must now march on--and
as Cobbett says. she has reduced her hundred
pounds from 90i. which was its value in 1898.
to 40l, in 1915, which is 5oI, in % years She
must bound on with her remaining 4Oi, to the
Gniph and, as Cobbett aptly says, "whe-
Their the surface of the mill be smooth or rough,
the stone descends with increased velocity to
bottom. Should it meet an obstruction"
(Which may mean signal defeat, or a corn
rot lit makes a great jump and reaches lit
all at once"
With due Difference, therefore, to Mr.. Cob
bett, we are ofopinion 10 philosophy can save
her; not even her enchanter, D7irLin, could he
rise troUa the realms of MINos. unless that
he advised her to cut down her remaining 4Ok.
to 2Oi. reducing the national debt one half, &
then adopting the code Of prudence ard eco
nomy toreducc the remainder, abandoning at
once all IDEAS OF her national pomposty, and
taking the sackcioth and ashes Of guilty
bankrupt and paying four shillings in the
pound, provided that time is allowed.
". 7. Mar. AdUocate.