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be chargeable to the parish; that vagrancy and begging are diswish is, in itself, laudable, but, graceful, are degrading to the the wisdom of it must depend character of man; and because upon circumstances; and, even the English nation would not sufthe justice of it is rather more fer this degradation in the perthan doubtful, when accompa-sons of Englishmen. Justice, nied with a wish to abstain from wisdom, humanity and high-spirit parish relief at the expense of in- never united to devise any thing dividuals, who are thus to bear more honourable to man than the whole of the burden that these laws, which say, in subought to fall upon the nation in stance, no unoffending person general. There is a decay in shall suffer want or degradation your trade; there is a falling off in this land. in your wages; misfortune has But, the misery occasioned by pressed heavily upon you. Well; taxation has, in a great measure, you are part of us; you are part rendered the laws against vaof the great family of the nation; grancy and begging nugatory. and we must all come to your Those, whose duty it is to enforce aid. And, how is this to be these laws, are also those, in gedone? Why, by the parish rates, neral, who have to pay the rates which, as true as the sun, wil in the first instance; and, theredivide the burden amongst us. fore, in order to ease themselves For, who, at last, pays the far- on this score, they permit vamer's rates? Who, but the con- grancy and begging all over the sumers of his crops? Those who country; and you cannot go to shops pay the shop-keepers rates. And there the thing goes. The rate is collected on the land, because that is always visible and of ascertained value; but, in the ́end, the rates fall upon the whole community; every one paying in proportion to his consumption.

This, then, is the source to which you are to apply in case of need, and not to the purses of individuals. There are laws, and severe laws too, against vagrancy and begging, and the laws are just. But, upon what ground are they just? Why is it just to forbid the indigent and helpless to appeal publicly to the charity of those who are able to assist them? Because the law has made provision for all of us; because the land itself is charged with the duty of relieving them; because

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pass a day at a farm house with-out seeing it visited by strolling beggars. Thus does this taxing system regularly work to the ruin of the very character of the people. And, is a change to come without our meddling with politics? Are we to wait" till

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a righteous God may see fit" to relieve us, when we well know, that that God has given us reason for our guide and limbs for our help? What presumption to suppose, that we are to be rescued by a miracle from miseries, into which, as a nation, we have plunged ourselves! The man who can hold such opinions must be amongst the most silly, or most hypocritical, of his species.

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own creating; that is to say, of those who have passed the Acts

of parliament for the imposing of Thus, then, if there be not a taxes and for changing, backward total change of the system: in and forward, the value of money. short, if this Debt be not, by By these Acts the nation has been some means or other, put an end first puffed up by a fa se prospe- to, it is impossible for the nation rity, and has now been hurled to revive. Prosperity cannot down into an unnatural state of exist in a nation, where the drones misery, relief from which is more fatten and the bees starve. Your difficult than any thing that ever poor devils of masters, who also before presented itself to the hu- are at their wit's end, and who man mind, and relief f om which, are now justly punished for the without a terrible shock, is as im-support which the greater part possible as it is for us to arrest the seasons of the year.

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of them have given to the system, are mere moths and butterflies in Not only must things go back; the creation of Paper-Money. not only must the "Lord of the They may give you their whole "Soil," as. in the case of the fortunes without arresting your above-supposed village, lose his miseries for six months. Their estate; but, without wise measures, stock in trade is daily falling in and great and bold measures too, value. They are daily poorer the oss of the Lord's estate will and poorer without hardly knowby no means be the end of the ing how or why. In short they consequences of the false-money share in the distress to be endured system; for, observe, the Debt by all, the tax-eaters excepted. to the Fund-lords will remain as Prosperity! Are we waiting great after they have the lands as for this? Come to London, it is now! Twice as much is due this wen headed metropolis. to them as the land would sell for! Here, at this very moment, there Where did they get the money to are not less perhaps than ten lend? They lent no money! This thousand new houses building ! matter I have to settle with The foundation of 500 is laid at Messrs. Baring, Ricardo, Grenfell, Islington alone! What! Is not the Carrington Smiths, the Ma- this prosperity! Can the nation, berleys, and others. But, for to which this metropolis belongs, the present, it is enough to know, be in distress and decay! Oh, yes! that the Fund-lords demand twice It can, and it is; and these very as much as the net rental of all buildings are a proof of it. These the land, all the houses, mines and buildings are for the drones. canals! Of course, the land alone They are for those to live in who will not pay them; and, indeed, consume the earnings of the bees. they will have that out of their Mr. ALEXANDER BARING is, mere gains in the way of interest they say in the news-papers, and of rise in the value of money. about to build a mansion in PicThen the lands will still conti- adilly, to surpass those of any of nue, though in new hands, to be the nobles. He has bought the charged with the interest of the house and land there, which beDebt; but, the labour will also con-longs to Lady Bath. I hope he tinue charged with that interest. will call it Scrip-Castle. In the

country he has the estate, park ruining your poor wretches of and mansion that was Lord Nor-masters; you can abstain from thington's, while his brother has giving countenance to the enemies close by, one that was the Duke of us all. Yon can, in short, go to of Bedford's. This is the way the parish, where you have law the thing works. These are the on your side, and let things work fruits of the Paper-System. its way.

London and its surrounding villages consumes more than half the food raised in England; mean the food fit for human beings. Is it trade and commerce that bring these eaters together to consume? No: for go to the docks, and you will find that commerce is half gone. The eaters come to eat taxes, without producing any thing. It is the drones that assemble here to live upon the honey collected by the bees. You, my friends, are a part of those bees; and, therefore, I pray you to cast aside the councils of cant and folly, and look steadily at the real causes of distress and decline.

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Pray, look at the thing. See what a turmoil it is in. See what a war of opinions and principles. Babel never witnessed greater confusion. Does not all this clearly portend a something, which, perhaps, it would not be perfectly safe to describe, even in the way of warning? Must not something arise out of all this warfare of all the elements of confusion and destruction? Believe not, my friends, that the drain upon your labour can by any human means be rendered perpetual. Believe not, that it can by any power on earth be made to continue for many years. The nation, mighty as it is, has been bound down little by little, by the hands of false money makers; but, it must and will burst the ties.

As to the removal of those causes, nothing can effect it but a Keform of the House of Commons; nothing can effect it but men, Even at this moment the supwho will not vote immense sums porters of the system tremble. annually to French emigrants and They have a fearful looking-forfor Secret Services; men who will ward. All their measures faulter. not support Barracks and Stand-They would fain make believe ing Armies; men who dare to that they are stout; but, while face the "monster of consump- their voice is big, their hearts tion." I am aware, that you will sink within them. We are to have say, what are we to do to get that tgold, they say, instead of oneReform? And my answer is, that, pound notes, in May. God be at present, you can do nothing. praised! Let but that come, and The Landlords have taken care stick by us, and all will soon be to bind you fast. You can hardly right. I am told, that two of the move, or open your lips, in favour Bank Directors have resigned reof that ONLY measure that can cently, and I am also told, which, do us any real good. But, you indeed, I can readily believe, that can abstain from adopting error; this a very extraordinary thing! you can abstain from calling upon This is a good symptom. It indithose Landlords to assist you in cates a good deal. Therefore,

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wait, not "till Providence send saving banks, no societies, no you food," for Providence common stock; for, all these works not partially; but, go to the must, at last, rest upon the Paparish for relief; go where the per System, than which a cobweb law bids you go; make the best is not more fragile. As soon as bargain you can with your mas-gold gets about, try to get a bit ters; and wait for the famous of it; and, if you succeed, keep CASTLEREAGH's "General work-it as the apple of your eye. We "ing of events. must all have stockings still, of In the meanwhile, and during some price or other, and you will this waiting, abstain, if possible, get something. A bit of silver, from every exciseable commodity though only a sixpence, will be of except salt: tha, you must have great value 'ere long. Lay even for health's sake. Strong drink that by if you possibly can. you need not; but, it is, on the Nay, let not a penny, or a farcontrary, your duty to abstain thing, go without pressing nefrom it. Roasted Wheat is better cessity. But, mind, keep all than coffee, or tea, and costs less metal. If you get a pound note, than two-pence a pound; and change it instantly. Let it not sugar may be dispensed with. I remain in your hut for an hour. use none of these things: and I It is the symbol of the curse upon sit at the table as many hours in England. All yearly servants, the week as any of you do at your who save a little money, ought looms. Make the most of every to get it into gold or silver as soon thing. If your wives be as as possible. This is the legal cleanly as the women of Lance-money of the kingdom; this alone shire, they must be good wives. is "good and lawful money," as And, if you be sober; if you it is called by the law it is the trust more to industry and care king's coin, and it is that, in than to "inward light;" if you which alone, there can be secudo not mistake the effect of spi-rity for his subjects.

ritous liquors for the workings of Not only keep what coin you an invisible spirit; and, if you can, but, do not let any one see apply the weekly pennies to the it, or know that you have it. You purchase of cow's milk, instead of will see a day come, and that laying them out on that "milk very shortly, when a shilling will "which the lips of the saints dis-buy you thirty pounds or forty "til;" (the modern Saints, I pounds of flour! You will see mean) if you thus act, though the day, when ten pounds will be you will still suffer, for awhile, aa little fortune. They say, that great deal more than you ought, you will find, I hope, a great mitigation of your sufferings.

If, by any chance, some amongst you should save any thing from your earnings, let it be in metal money, and keep it by you. Put it into no funds, no

the Bank is to pay its one-pound notes in gold, next month, mind! Cut off the exciseable articles; stick to the bread, and meat if you can get it; or, you may do pretty well with milk and bread for a while. Water costs nothing, and I find that and water quite

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good enough for me in the way like to have their rents in hard of drink. Why not bake your cash: they want money to be at own bread? Seven pounds of flour a high value; and, at the same make nearly ten pounds of bread; time, they want high prices, and and these seven pounds of flour low poor-rates! Brave and sensiyou can get for fifteen - pence. ble gentlemen! But, my friends, You have fuel cheap; and I will, in they are fairly caught in their my next, tell you how to make own trap! yeast, as good, or better, than Pray, then, be quiet spectators you can buy, and will not cost of this interesting, this hope you a furthing a batch. Come, inspiring scene. You remember come, then! Pluck up, a little. how clearly I foretold all these Let us see what we can do; and things long ago; how I bid we can do a great deal, in this our suffering friends, Johnstone, way, at least, if we do but try, Drummond and Baguley be of and try with a resolution to suc-good cheer in their prison; how ceed if possible. I told them, that they would see, by the time they came out, their enemies involved in troubles greater than theirs. I now bid you be of good cheer; I beseech you to follow my advice; and, if The remain unconvinced by my arguments, I beg you to believe, that there is not a man in the world who more sincerely participates in all your sorrows than

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We can do nothing but this. The Landlords have us down, tied hand and foot, and muzzled. But, we can still take care of ourselves, during this grand "Ge"neral working of events." Ministers appear resolved to push the Landlords from the wall, in which we are bound to wish them success. The former are working double tides to get another Corn your faithful friend, Bill. There is a "Grand ComWм. COBBETT. "mittee of Agriculture" con- P. S. The times are full of stantly sitting in London, which interest. There is hardly a night is nothing short of an organized body of delegates, whose object it is to procure laws to make corn dear, and rents high. The object will fail, however, even though the laws were to be passed. The state of other nations is such as

passes, in the Honourable House and amongst our Faithful Representatives, which does not dwell with delight. I read the bring forth matter, on which I debates over and over again, as young fellows do the dear and to set all these schemes at defi- unintelligible scrawls that they ance; and, therefore, all that get from their sweethearts; and, such laws can do is to ruin some like them, too, the greater the more merchants, manufacturers, difficulty in comprehending, the and ship-owners, without affordmore am I enamoured of the ing any aid to the farmers and thing. I love the charming repeLandlords. These, you will per-titions; they say and say and say ceive, are not pushing for a re- and say, and I doat on the sweet peal of Peel's Bill! Oh, no! simplicity of the ideas: in short, Wise and disinterested men! They one Register does not get out of

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