Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-08-29

was to him therefore, tax OF IS per
cent. 1t was tax also from which he
could not escape, for he must either pay
or cease to live. l now see the result.
The great mass of our population is re-
duced to starvation or pauperism. This
to be sure is a frightful statement, but it
is as true as it is frightful."
On the same occasion, Lord Castle
reagh remarked in relation to the Corn
Laws: This is most sensitive, lrri-
tating question. 1t is no time to tamper
with the feelings of the people. The
agriculturists have possession of COM
plete monopoly of the corn trade"
In the debate of the House of Lords,
of the 26th May, on the foreign commerce
and general condition of Great Britain,
the leading minister, the Earl of Liver
pool, said: "The falling off which has
taken place in British exports to Anne
RIGA, of cottons, glass, woollens, cutlery,
hardware, &c. amounts, upon an ave-
rage of three years, TO deficiency OF
L3, 100000 sterling, annually. The dis
tress which prevails at present in every
country in Europe is much inferior to
that which exists in America. They are
now retrograding, retracing their i'm
mense strides, and will fall back to their
original situation of twenty years ago.
There is no doubt the population of the
United States must aizvays depend to a
great degree on British manufactures for
supply."-Is it possible that the noble
Earl could really believe that the misery
in every country in Europe is mach in
ferior to that prevailing in the United
States And if, with his knowledge OF
the causes which render such a case i'm
possible, he could not believe it, what
must we think fthe Prime Minister who
could hazard the assertion in so public
manner? To say nothing of the condi-
ton of the three kingdoms under his adj
ministration, sufficiently shewn by the
innumerable petitions presented to Par
lament, and of the parliamentary de-
bates, if attention be had to France, the
inferiority Of her misery to ours can be
tested by the fact recently promulgated
by one of her most accurate and assidu-
GUS statistical inquiries, that tzvo-thirda
of her population, supposed to be tolera-
bly, well Oft, are rarely or ever able to
supply themselves with animal food.
In the same debate, Lord Liverpool
mentioned that British muslins arc
cheaper in India, by one half, than the
India fabric of the same kind, a fact de-
monstrative ofthe advantage ofmachine-
ry over cheap labor that in the East
ern seas, 10000 tons of shipping are
employed in the service of the East In
dia Company, and 6l,o 900 in the service
OF the free traders that the yearly ex-
port of British manufactures to Portugal
and Brazil, amounted to 100000 ster-
ling, and the trade was growing one 80
and that 1900 sail of British shipping
and $4,000 seamen, are employed in the
| trade with the British American Colo
mics. BY the report of the proceedings
of the House of Lords of the goth May,
it appears that communication has alrea-
dy been held between the British govern
ment and the new administration of Spain,
respecting the abolition Of the slavc
trade. In reply to question onthe sub
ject from Lord Holland, the Earl of LIZ
verpool stated that he had no hesitation
in saying that the new government Of
Spain avowed itselfready to fulfil all en-.
gagements entered into by its predeces-
sors in this respect. On the same day
the Marquis of Lansdown, leader Of
the Wings, made the following observa-
ton He was not prepared to say that
the British government ought to exert
It's influence to procure the immediate
| independence of South America-by ny
MEANS"
Forty-fve thousand numbers of the
Sunday newspapers" are printed and
distributed in London, Oh the Sabbath.
Complaint has been made against them
in Parliament as the vehicles of sedition,
the cause of neglect of public worship,
and the reorganization Of taverns and ale
houses for the purpose of reading them.
I The society for the encouragement OF
education in France, offers premium,
to consist of medal worth COO francs,
for the best method of teaching any
branch of human knowledge"
Mr.. Laurent jeanne, of Paris, has in
vented and supported by experiments,
before the National Society for the en-
couragcment of Arts, plan forobviating
the accidents occasioned by the unruli-
ness or fright OF horses in a carriage
According to his ingenious contrivance,
nothing more is necessary than to pull
string, to lock the wheel and unharness
the horses, whatever may be their VIC
lence or whatever the speed they may
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