The Litchfield County post., 1826-12-12
From the National Journal.


There is great deal of just aud biting
satire in the following article from an Eng
lish paper. While the starving condition
of the most industrious of her population,
and the dimunition in her public revenue,
clearly indicate the decline of her CONNER
cial prosperity, and while every account is
gloomy with the pictures of distress which
are sketched from glance at her most
popuious districts, there is strange reck-
lessness and extravaganza in the manner in
which the income of Great Britain is appli-
ed: when we read Of the public funds be-
ing directed to the raising Of splendid pal
aces, and to the payment of the debts in
Cured by the branches Of the royal family,
while thousands of those who constitute the
bone and the sinew of the country, are as
king, with emaciated forms and haggard
visages, for morsel of bread, which pray
ers and tears can hardly obtain, we are ir-
resistibly urged to the conclusion, that such
a government is not the best calculated to
promote the happiness Of its people, or to
secure its own perpetuity.
From London paper.l
/" We have been favoured with a COPY
of rather singular letter from Count de
Bid, a Piedmontese Refugee in Lon
don, addressed to Don X, an exiled
Spaniard, who has sought safety in Eng
land, from the persecution Of Ferdin-
and 80
81 have never ceased to speak to Mr..
c. about relieving the great distress of the
unfortunate Italians and Spaniards, who
have sought an asylum in this generous
country. l told him that the English gov
eminent had always afforded bountifnl re-
lief to those who suffered in the cause of
royalty, and they ought not to withhold a
miserable pittance from the Italians and
Spaniards who had suffered in the cause OF
liberty and justice; they had pensioned the
Toulonese and Corsican Emigrants, the
American Loyalists, aud all the French
Royalists and as to Withdrawing the
allowance to a few poor starving Span.
iards and Italians, it was disgr--
"True," said the English Minister, IN
terrupting me, tive pity these. poor exiles !;
but really the English government is now
so distressed, that they can no longer af-
ford to be bountiful.'' The English are
called on the Continent, philosophical
people, reasoning people, free people,
and an ingenious people. If there is one
epithet that can more truly characterize
them than any other. I should call them a
lying people. They not only tell lies, but
they look lies, and act lies. Wherever
/ go, hear nothing but distress, and of
general bankruptcies and ruin. but / see
every where the same number Of equipa-
ges, the same number of servants, liveries
as splendid as ever, and no dimunition in
the sumptuous living. In London / see
none of the good houses uninhabited, no
bills up at windows more than usual, and
whilst all the improvements are ON splcn-
did scale, architects state to me, that it is
only poor and bad houses that are bad
speculation, and cannot get Inhabitants
On the first of August, Lord S., a
great opposition lord, was SO kind as to
take me in his carriage to spend the day
at town about seven leagues from Lon.
don, called Windsor. His Lordsllip said
that he believed the English Ministers
would help the poor Spaniards and Italians,
but they were too distressed. Mon
Dieu," forgot myself, and exclaimed
{" This is the grandest Gothic castle in Eu-
rope; how extensive are the alterations,
how solid the improvements, how vast the
additions, and the magni6cence and rich
ness Of the interior designs surpass even
the grandeur Of Napoleon. How much Of
revenue, my Lord, will this exhaust !''-
His Lordship said that the English Parlia.
ment had granted in the first instance only
IL, 0OO, 900 francs, (f5oO, 600 ;)but that the
improvements would probably come t.
nearly double. SGcre, said ! 70 myself
twenty-four millions Of francs y this is very
great distress.
eve rode through beautiful park, and
I beheld a superb maisOn ckampetre -
"Whose is that?" said |. "Thatis His
Maiesty's Cottage orne, just built, = replied
Lord s. "Cottage!" said LIE it is a
sylvan palace, and how much did it cost?''
Ill IS reported 10 have cost only 100, OO(
francs, (GsO, 900. but ! suppose the 'ex,
pense may be somewhat more than double
but it is built in wet situation, and is IL
pulled down. Mon Dieu,' / said within
myself, "pull down million and a half o
francs; this is much distress. And pray
my Lord. how much did the grand palace
at Brighton cost /" More than all TIL
yearly revenue of your master, the King Q
Sardinia" answered the English Lord