Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-01-11

wishes and often-repeaied remonstrances
OF The great majority of the People-i wal
that had Ills commencement IN Injustice,
that was carried ON in folly, and that has
at length terminated in tyranny, after en-
failing upon the People OF GreatBrtain d
Debt (nnlustiy called National, amount
ing to nearly 1000 millions sterling, the
interest Of which is Is millions, and this,
added TO the currenteXpences OF a proluse
and exfravagant government, constitutes
a grand total of70 millions annually, to
be wrung from the exertious of that in
dustry which these immense burdens have
long since paralyzed and ruined, q which,
in all probability can bear up but httle
longer under the enormous pressure.
4tli. Ihatwe cannot but reject, with the
utmost shame and indignation, OH the re-
suits of this long and arduous contest, *
on the disgracciul and unworthy purpo-
scs for which the burdens requisite for
carrying it OH, have been imposed on the
country; for in all the Treaties TO which
Its termination has led, the commercial in
terests ofGreat-Britain have been wholly
oyerlookcd-the interests of Kings, in OPP
position to the interests of the People,
have alone been stipulated for-the sol
emn promises and oft-repeated declarati-
ons of Government, that it had no intcn-
ton OF interfering with the internal con-
Germs of any country, but only of conten-
ding, iii conjunction win lis High Allies,
for the liberty and independence of Eu-
rope, have ali been falsitied and broken :;
and thus the faith and honor of the coun-
try wounded and compromised in proof
of which we have only to refer TO the for
chile establishment of the despicabe
Family OF Bourbon on the Throne Of
France, TO the restoration of the Pope III
Italy, and of the Jesuits and Inquisition in
Spain-and i'll short, to the re-estabisl-
ment every where OF that bigotry and des
potIsm which disgraccd TIE darkest peri
DDS OF European history /; the whole filling
us with the most anxious concern, not
only for our own civil and religious liner
tics, but also for the civil and religious
liberties of The whole OF Europe; and
teaching us Ill the most convincing man
ner, what is the nature of those objects
tor which our Government had been so
long and so pertinacicuSly contendng,
and torwhich this much abused, yet pa
tlently suffering nation, has been called
upon to shed so much blood, spend so
much treasure, and ultimately, to ruin it.
self.
9th. That, surrounded as we are, with
the most fearful and appalling evils, we
cannot but view with the most serious d
farm the determination of his majesty;
ministers TO bid defiance TO the Just wish
es and expectations of the People for E.
economy and retrenciment expectations
which, from the Recommendation 10 econ
ouy contained in the Speech from the
Throne, at the opening of last Session of
Parliament, we had every reason to hope
would not be dlsnp o MED andour alarm
is tbs more increased, because since that
time, we have heard the complaints of
the country against the hardness and
unwillingHess of Ministers to make the
necessary retrenchments, insulting.y de
nominated by one of themselves, Z" an ig-
Dorant Impotence of taxation :" and be-
cause we have seen these Ministers, in
despite of the growing distresses of the
nation. persist in the mostlavish waste and
expenditure of the public money /; calling
for immense sums TO meet the craving in
satiable Civil List increasing, instead of
diminishing, the eyorbitant salaries of
public officers; creating new offices, with
large salaries annexed TO them: adding
to, instead reducing, the already over
grown list of unmerited pensions and sin
ecures and TO crown all, because we
have seen them in time of profound
Peace, keep up an enormous standing ar
my of an 140, 900 men, one part of which,
in open contempt oftlose principles which
placed the House of Brunswick on the
British Throne, is EMPLOY ed abroad for
the purpose of supporting on the Throne
of France Family obnoxious to the ma
jority of the People, and the other part
at home, forpurposes which we cannotbu
think highly dangerous TO all those rights,
liberties and privileges, which, as Brit
ODs, we have hitherto considered to be
our birtIl-right aud inheritance.
9th. That it is the decided conviction
of tlIis Meeting, that the grand and pri-
mary cause of all the evils under which
the country now suffers, is the radically de
iectiveand corrupt state of the Rcpresen-
tailon in the Commons House; and that
it is solely in consequence of this that the
people have been deprived of their legal
share in fine Government of the country /:
that they have lost all constitutional con
trout over those who should be the guar
dams of the public purse, that they no
longer possess any security for the en-
ioyment Of their legal rights, liberties,
and privileges that their property has
been placed at the mercy of a cOrrnpt
and usurping Borough Faction andthat
Ministers, through tie prcpouderaiing
weight of All undue influence, have been
enabled to prosecute those iniquitous
measures which might have at length
brought the country TO the verge Of ruin.
9TH. That ii is fact but too we'll au-
thenticated that the great majority OF the
people, in Scotland at least, have no voice
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