Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-04-11

,roops aud General employed in the Ne
r,uI war. but il was too much, TO ask their
,nouakfed appreciation of that war,when
The House, al lcas', himself, was ignorant
gifts cause. lie expressed, also, his sat
isEiction AZ the assurances he'll ont Ia us
of the continuation o!Prace, bit he had
lad considerable fear O. that policy which
was now stated to be meant To preserve
the Peace of Europe, which he consider
cd as dangerous in its moral Influence on
our army. .'s-gcrous 10 The constitution,
aud destructive ofall Justice, sound poll
CIV. and the liberty of other nations /; and
AL this without obtaining one advantage
truly British. Some of the nations of the
Continent looked on lis as The actual
subvcrters of their liberties aud others,
as having called fort;, their enemies in the
common cause. which, being now no lon
ger necessary, their Governments had put
downby force The course that he should
have preferred would have been 10 have
conciliatcd the People of France and of
every other nation in Europe or else,
that we should so far curb the power OF
France as that, whatever her inclination
10 disturbance might he, we might view
IT with unconcern. Buta third course
lad been adopted, which woul eventr-
ally occasion the present Government
OF France to go to war with the country
which had established il. AS TO the in
ternal distress this country, lie could
find no parallel for il III our history
The Speech had assured lis it would be
but temporary and such an assurance
accorded with the hopes and wishes of
every one; hui they would Ill discharge
their duty If they rested upon that assur-
ance alone. without examination iuto the
causes ofthat distress, Il how ourresources
night beimprovcd for It's removal. This
period had been compared 10 that which
succeeded the American war; but he cal
ed OF those who remembered tiiatperiod
tosav, whether then our hospitals, work
houses and streets were filled with wret-
ches, perishing for want of food and clo-
thing, or that the manufacturers or the
landed interest were SO oppressed as at the
present! Besides, our debt amounted
then 10 nothing like the present, nor did
the taxation. The deficiency I'm The rev
enue was then but To millions, now it was
five times the sum- Would any one then
say that these two periods of distress
were the same either i'll extent, in their
causes, or in tho methods Of cure Mr..
Pitts remedy forthe former distress was,
to lay on new taxes to cover the deficen-
CIV OF the revenue. If the causes oftne
distress were the same, the remedies
would the Minister now come forward
and propose new taxes, TO cover the cnor-
nous deficiency of last years revenue
a. To what amount would tho Noble Lord
UiverpOoD say he could make his reduc-
tions on the Peace Establishment, as Ie-
commended by the Speech! Would he
reduce it s, 8 or 10 millions No for
the deficiency in last car amounted 10
81 millions, and with very possible re-
duction, there would be a deficiency 10
considerable amount, which must be pro-
vided for. The great cause of our dis
tress was the forced paper circulation
an evil which the country had not to la
Dor under at the close of the American
war. They had seen no attempt of Min
listers to remove iliats evil but, on the
contrary, it vas their intention still ia
keep up that fatal paper currency. Such |
outragcs as those committed yesterday,
called for the Indignation of Parliament
and the punishment OF the law; but, from
the best attention, he could not bring
himself to think it connected with any
scheme Of the disafiected but arising
from the airocity Of some Individuals
He hoped, therefore, that in return for the
patience aad forbcarance of the People.
they would not deprive them of any part
of the Constitution. In his opinion, tire
SvCCCii usu lLOt 90 ldE SiDuHti III IT'S piPu-
ges OF economy and refrenchment He
then concluded, by moving an amend
ment TO the Address exactly similar TO
that moved the night previous, by Mr..
PoNsoNEY, in the House of Com
mons.
Earl Harrowby said, the Address which
had already been moved, was perfectly
sufficient 10 answer every purpose which
such an address could be intended for
No one, who did not remember the end
of the American war, could have an idea
OF the deep dependency which pervaded
tile public mind on that occasion. 1t was
one thing TO say, that when ii country was
Ill state of distress, excessive taxation
added to that distress, and it was ano-
Their thing to assert, that taxation vas the
cause Of our distress; for there was last
year reduction OF one third of our taxa
ton: and our distress was nothing while
our taxation was much greater than it
nowwas. The paper currency was ano-
fier source of our evils, in the mind of
the Noble Earl but let them strike the
balance between the distress il was sup
posed TO have occasioned, and the glory
1t had produced for us among the nations
ot Europe, and then who would hesitate
to have recourse TO it again, If such ano-
tbercrisis should requireit?
Earl GrosveBoF supported the amend
ment,
Earl Bathurst said that on former occa-
sions, when the Regents Ministers made
reductions, they ALWAYS stated that more