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

rum OF the funded interest of England. Peace
and economy, and the getting rid OF all the
heavy expenses (erccht the national debt
are the means he proposes to save it from
destruction. We believe that neither peace
or war, economy on protusion, would at the
present moment, prevent that result, which
The common course of her continued system OF
Hnance must produce, and rOiiich is embraced
i'll the words Sclt destruction.
The day is now too late to begin upon re-
form the minds of the ministry, of the no
bles, of the suffering multitude of the nation,
are not Congenally disposed towards this SEN
tiDIent. 1t would be commencing a career IF
virtue while grooming under load of vice
it would be attempting the restoration of
bloated age and infacy to the fair form and
features of spotless youth. 1t is a task too
herculean for the labours of the present age
or its Etorais-aId would be as ridiculous as
a frail sister in seragio of courtizans at
tempting to restore to purity and virtue by the
wild rawlings of mind diseased and tortured
by long sutferings.
The salvation of the funded interest Of En-
gland is out of the question: must and Mill
haze lis n'arch-and in the words of Mar
shall Ney, we reply to Mr.. Ce5bett. " Re
poluftons neUer gro back7vQrdS."
Get rid of all your eXpences, says Goblet,
"ercehtMe :.atiOnal de6t." The getting
rid of the national debt would be, at once, a
national bankruptcy This is what Mr.. Cob
bett y ould avoid but this is what must hap
pen; for although in 90 years of zvar En-
gland has added 700 millions to her national
debt. 1t would not be redeemabe in 100 years
OF peace. Besides, in the pursuit Of this war,
she has created a numerous host of depend
ants, whom tn dsband at once, IN order to
restore herself to the economical standard OF
1899. would oe to give the signal for the most
dcsfierafe sfiufts of the nation, TO revolt against
the government.
There is, also, another, and heavier re-
Election, and which no ministry of that ma
ton would hazard in experimen.-which is,
that the hrst year OF peace would be far more
expensive than any year of war yet expert
enced.
In order to place G. Britain upon the eco
nomlcal standard of 1792-she must disband
her armies, reduce the number of her officers
and place the remainder upon half pay ; she
must disoand the greater part of her naval
force, pay off her seamen, some of them have
not trodden on the earth these ten years and
to whom years upon years of wages are due,
and lay up the greater part of her navy in
dock, or upon the newly discovered meti.od
OF preserving shlpS-she must sink fhepl
she must annihilate many, and cut down or
retrench almost all of her present establish
MEM -~---stch IS her ordnance depart
ments--Her navy Experimentation mill
sub-contraCtors, and all the host Of Offices,
and officers dependent On them she must
reduce herself to the level Of other nat;ous
and no longer pretend to any dominion on the
ocean, or any other privileges than these adj
initted and recognised under her own munich
pal regulations, Us regards her colonies she
must torego ali idea or incorporating COM
Inerce, or or being the carrier OF Eurape
she must submit to see, throughout Europe,
IL O MI
tactareS and she must acquiesce in those
measures which will result, rs regards her
self, IN Limited and CircumsCribed COM
merce-
To decrease her debt under these latter
combinations, economy, alone, will never be
sufficient; and if, in state ofpeace, by all
the economy, she can resort to, she can avoid
yet further adding to tit will disappo;nt the
speculatianS of those who have most deeply
considered this sUbect-To resort to a new
taxation, in day OF peace, would be but an
Irritation on the people, and lord Castlereagh
has declared, that taxation throughout the
Kingdom, has nearly reached its maximum.
In this view of the subject, what chance,
what hope is left for Euslan by embracing
peace instead of war!
In the present state OF her national debt
and her taxes, she has placed herself out of
the pale of nelghboring natonS-neither her
with thoSe of the Continent O.; and in day of
peace, Notwithstanding all MIR. Goblet NAV
say to the contrary, she must either interdict
the importation of grain or enact corn laws,
or other expressions equally calling, or she
must abandon her agricultural interests, on
which depends both her national debt and her
national existence
No-1he day is too late for any system of
either peace or economy 60 restore her. In
her wickedness, and blindness. she has street ch-
ed the cord to that extent which now threat
| ems to be rent into a hundred atoms, and no
human ingenuity or wisdom can embrace it
or restore it to ats former strength or elasti-
city. England must now, like other dynaS-
ties and Ike all other systems of false phi
! losOphy, witness tue downfall of her splendor
| and, be II peace or war. the march and the
| goat Will be the same. We were long ago
convinced, even as far back as the first de-
claration O. the peace Of Paris. that the first
| object OF England would be to look up
new war. We did not, we admit, consider
or calculate on the so sudden return Of Bona
| parte to giveher . pretext we expected
| she would have found one in the conduct of
| Ferdinand, and taken tic part Of liberty,
(nost astonishing y in aiding the Spaniards
| OF South America. to efnauCiTlatf tbpunsetvee