Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-30


jobs; nothing farther was TO be got by it ::
And there fore, TO save their own pockets,
they lett the people to pay the public ex-
penses as they might. The same house
OF commons that rejected the income tax
vOed the ltrge est .blishments proposed
byministers, winch require large Suns to
support them ; and they threw the pay
ment on the fundholier, or on any holder.
(Shouts ut laughter and appiause.) But
without thanks To the hous: OF Com mons,
ne rel iiceo that the detestable income tax
was at IN end. Had ministers been able
60 get II evan at the rate of five per cent.
military despotiss, would have been for
ever r,vetted about the necks of the people.
lie augured much gooti from the present
meeting. He was hrppy tina, evsn the
friends OF corruption were Compelled to
acknowledge, that it w-s 40 longer fac
tiAn who dwelt on the distresses of the
c untry, but were reduced to Confess it
tn IN elves. He conceived that this
meeting would not only 10 great good here,
but WAS even of Importance to the unfor-
tonate people of FIR nee. The petition OF
the /. very OF Loadon would carry to tn
esr ct royalty those wholesome truths
watch would not approach it from the
mouth OF ministers. The tra,hs pro-
down those disgraceful riots which had e;s-
isted in various parts of the country. TIE
manufacturers would cease 20 destroy the
property oi their employers they wosId
see that their masters were suffering as
much as the mselves !; that the Government
alone was rsspo sibie FIR the distress s
which they endured, and that TO it alone.
we owed all our grievances. (Hear)-
Here he would Gull the attention of the
Livery to the late meeting at the London
Tavern, and at which Lord Cochrane,
that prosecuted indivdual-(hear, hearl
had come forward and conferred the
greatest benefit on his country Let
Us look at it for little. A confess
son had been eXlocted from it. that what
was called the glorious terminal on of the
war, had sunk US into a state of almost ir-
retrievable bankruptcy. The primary OBJ
J CT OF this meeting, composed of royalty,
nobility, bishops. arch>bishops, and other
arches Ia laugh,) was not to relieve the
poor. but to mold out false idea of the
cause OF our distress. Suppose man was
e. tell me. said Mr.. L. that my house was
on hire, and brought only single bucket
or water to quench it, should think he
came to rob instead of assisting me. Let
Us see, then, whether the design of relief
was real, from the extent of the contrisu-
tons. A certain high female parsonage,
wham you all know to De as rich as a Jew,
Ia ,augh] gave OILY 300i. while in such
circumstances. she might nave given $780,
O00L. The Prince Regent give 5O0i.-but
here he would beg to tell them secret,
that when the royal dukes set down their
names for sums, it was sometimes merely
a decoy duck to induce others to do the
IN He recolected that the prince re
gent subscribed ,00Ol to the Russian suf,
ferers, and it might be wei to remind
people that charity should begin at home.
The duke Of Wellington, who had received
large SUNS from the country, had gwen on
ly 200l. and the piols Wi.bertor &c a thou
nd prayers. foot of tears and SOL
LIQUID Taught Again, the archb shop of
Canterbury, with his immense salary of
100000 year. only gave 10ol. Another
proof Of what he had asserted, might be
drawn from this-that while an addition of
250,000l. was made to the civil list in the
last session of Parliament, only 5000. of it
came blck to the people in the shape of
subs ripton Was it possible, then, that
su a sub cribers c1Uld believe the Distress
es to be real lie for one did not begrudge
the grant of 60000a year to the princess
Charlotte but he could not help remark
ing that every private gentleman felt it
his duty to give his daughter dowry *
when all this was to be taken from the
pockets of a distressed people, it showed
that they eith,r knew nothing at all
about the distress, or cared nothing about
it,
ITO be contnued.1