The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-10-05
From the .NoaO York Journal of Commerce

From the yNoao York Journal of Commerce.
/ ENGLAND.
! biackwood's Magazine for August, has lone
article bearing this portentous title: "On the
approaching Revolution in Great Britain-in a
letter 10 friend The writer states in the
outset, that all he possesses, and all he ave,
shall possess, is in the English funds, from which
il can never be liberated without the consen,
fot trustees. He then breaches his appreben.
sions, amounting, as he thinks, to nearly or
quite certainty, that the wheel of Reform. az
IL rolls round and round, will very soon DRAG
along with it the public faith, and work, either
IN whole or in part, forcible extinction of the
national debt, at the expense of the stock. hol-
ders. Anticipating the objection that under
these Impressions he would not be likely to an.
Preach his subject with very good temper he
replies '
"ln one sense you are right: 1t is true that I
an consumed with burning just will
presume to say, righteous Indignation at the
1 r scenes now passing in this country
iruo 1t is, that sicken with DISGUST at sesino
nose shlngs sanctioned sanctioned? nav NOV.
La anu PlsclpitatseJ by the very rulers of the
idnu winch but a few years since were aqitatad
as 'he mere reveries of sedition, bv few brand.
ca ana stlgmatlzed incendiaries True Il !.
tnat shudder at seeing ministers. senates and
the MOBILES OF the land Cooperating with drrnk
en- zeaiots TO bring about changes less than
.he roast OF which but dozen of years ago,
men, women, and children having the excuse
utter ignorance, were hunted by cavalry,
cut down or trampled under their hsrsss' boofs
by yeomanry, thrown by crowds into dun.
geons, and afterwards pursued to ruin and be-
gary-sxlled, or even dscimated by the exec1.
tloner. True, also, that loatbe the very sound
oi nay mother,tongue, when can hear the Eng.
iish senators having the utter baseness to nre
Tend the. sanction for their present designs 81
william Pitt, whose very dust would be spita.
ted-whose bones would tremhle-in his praye.
could ne be made sensible, with human sym.
pathy, OF what is now going on in that England
Hhici ne once protected from a pollution less
formidable, and less desolating revolution"
Inc repeal OF the Corporation and Test
Aets,-ths passing of the Catholic Relief Bill,
and {" the prodigious extension of late years civ.
en- to the shallow schemes of popular educa.
ton, aided by the French Revolution of 1880.
f-hnv@ r-aParaI IL ~yJ tho Ssriter ma nj ina
Tor the present Reform Bill. This bill, he
takes 1t for granted, will soon become law of
the land "Fcr, no matter what struggle NAV
DC made for the moment in the Upper House
no matter what notifications of the Bill in IL.
hrst outline may be conceded, for the present
10 the tears OF one quarter, or the noble vic.
lence oil another-it is now past all human re-
slstance to stand between the awakened mad
ness OF the people, and the cup of lcentious
power which has been brought to their lips"
The effect will be tremendous. The new pow
! ers which it will give to the people, will change
entirely the character of Parliament "The
| next House of Commons will be COM
posed Of men having as little power to resist
their democratic constitutions, as it is likely
they will have the will or interest to do so."-
And what will be the consequence Why, in
tho language of the writer, "they will still
further enlarge the powers of tho next electors.
The qualification will be redueed-ths elective
franchise prodigiously extended And as each
succeeding Parliament becomes more and more
radical, Chursh property and Colonial proper
ty Will be successfully attacked. But as these,
subject to their necessary membranes, will
satisfy but for moment the eager demands of
the people-and as the expenses of the array,
navy, and civil service, admit of no material
reduction-the National Debt will be seized
upon as the only means of adequate relief In
the language of the writer
The result then is-that the National Debt
will offer the one sole bait to the rapacity Of our
new electors. Nothing, it will be felt at once
can be effected to tighten the public burdens
in degree which will bring home the allevia.
tlon senslbly TO each mans purse, short of some
large reduction ofintersst on the national debt
And of necessity, the reduction of interest is
pro tGato reduction of the capital, the amount
: OF which is of course estimated upon the scale
OF the annual interest. But in reality, the cap
ital will sink in much more than that proper
ton. Ii is the augury, the omen, which will
chiefly be regarded. Perhaps at FIRST no more
than third will be extinguished But that
third, by anhihilating the sanctity of the prop.
erty, will reduce the remainder to so uncertain
[ hat, - ILL H. IL.
less on the terms of desperate debt.
Such is my conclusion; and considering the
absolute powers of dictation which the new
electors will enjoy, and the great extension Of
those powers which every Parliament SO chos
en- cannot fail to make under that authority Of
their revolutionary NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
also the ho2elessness Of all other resources pul
f together, and the immediate relief from Thu
i alone (for out of every three guineas of taxa
t ton, recollect that in round terms two go for thu
payment of public interest 81 do not see how
my conclusion can be resisted-that within fiy
years from this date, successive extinctions o
, the funded debt will have annihilated that spe
? cies OF property, made a wreck of the publ
faith, and reduce to bsggary all those who ha
no other dependence.
Will ths..bo the climax Of our misfortune ,
f Far from it Though no change can arts
| which will personally affect myself and thos
, In my circumstances with ruin SO absolute an
/ so rapid, yet for the nation at large-for hi
. mighty nation, hitherto so great and glorious
: other changes are demonstrably at hand, whic
l., mako me ashamed almost of dwelling on an
- thing so trivial by comparison as my own pr
vate ruin. OF the extent TO which these chang
es will 60, that they will and must travel tn
Q whole length Of abselate destruction to on
: present mixed form Of government, canno
!, hide from myself. That the narrow.minds
ii and sordid electors, TO whom eur future dest
a Les ara confined, will consent even on pecun
i. airy considerations, to pay an annual million "a
Q monarchy and the equipage Of its establish
Q ments, which on the cheap American plan ca
# be replaced at once by an administration
n board wages under Consul, President, or 9th,