7ff State of Public Affairs in July. [Aug. 1, 



Henry the Seventh, under a series of carried on in tlic spirit of bravado and 



princes and statesmen, who never made senseless acclamation — amid the riot of 



V ar but to support the definite interests the passions, and the huzzas of victory 



of Britain, have thus been exhausted ; and imaginary glory, 



and the lands, houses, and goods, of the Nevertiickss, we have, on this occa- 



pcople have been virtually taken from sion, as on many others, done our duty 



them by public debts, equal, or nearly — the dangers of the country are unde- 



eqnal, to the fee sim])le, and by an an- niabic — and the crisis of its fortunes 



nual interest approaching in amount to is at hand — but the remedies are plain 



the annual rentals and profits. — tliough it is not so plain that sufficient 



Of course a people so burthened is of public virtue exists to guide, the 



.able to exert few of those energies pending changes to a salutary end. 



■which create the >lcalth and superiority The following comparative receipt 



of nations— yet this obvious truth our for the quarters ending July 5, 1815 



statesmen have still to learn, or the par- and 1816, has been published, and 



liament would not have been adjourned i-i a practical corameutary on the pre- 



without some eflectual remedy, or reme- ceding observations : — 



dies, being applied to relieve the dis- £xcjse— July 5, 18i5,.£'4,4r)6,140 



tresses of the nation; nor would any 1816, 3,838,802 



public establishments or expences be „ , , , „ , „ „,,„., "'^'j-^^^ 



kept up greater than existed under the Customs^3u\y o, iiA5, i-^lj--^^ 



Stuarts, when there was no debt, when no ' ' 243 509 



artificial resources were created, and incidents-ix\\yh,\U&, 3,381,370 ' 



■when the interests of England were not jgjg 3,0^0 305 



identified with the unceasing disputes of 361,065 



the European Continent. Stampt — July 5, 1815, 2,040,283 



England is still great in her soil, Iier iS16, 1,042,397 



position, licr climate, her natural pro- 997,886 



duels, and in all the essential means of Total deficiency for a quarter 2,254,8'2a 



promoting the true happiness of a nil- The following is a list of articles, from 



merous, industrious, invincible, and in- which, in 1815, more than =£50,000 was 



genious population — but her recent fo- collected in duties of Customs : — 



reign policy having disabled her from Coffee «£l76,772 



continuing to mix herself as a principal Currants 278,991 



in the quarrels of other states, and her Hemp 285,051 



commerce being cut oft", or rivalled. Indigo 86,049 



her population must be encouraged J'.°" """l, • . ' * • * 63)482 



to return to agriculture, by build- Linens, Foreign . . . 74,540 



ing farm-houses, and subdividing farms pleTgoods of Indii *. 115,127 



— her commerce must be considered -Roi^-i.x! i^.t^o. 



merely as an auxiliary — her |)ul)iic debts jjjn^ 449 710 



must be liquidated by compromising Brandy .*!!!! 68553 



Avith her public creditors — her j)apcr Rnni 175!624 



money must be controlled by specie — Siiear 2,957,403 



lior government must concede kindly Tallow 88,198 



and liberally to the starving masses of Tea 181,921 



her population — and her foreign policy Tobacco 65o,598 



must become pacific and defensive, Wiiies 817,847 



like that of James and George the First. P,*^^"* 746,543 



T ji li i- T> 1 ]Malio<:anv .... 69,713 



In these alternatives, Benevolence nni, uunUc -1 -f>< 



, , .11 • . i ji , Uak. Flanks .... il.nOi 



has, however, nothing to -egret— though Staves 96 559 



Patriotism has much to prriorm — and Fir timber' .* '. *. ! 47200.} 



Pride has something to endure. Cotton Wool '. ! ! ! 76o',561 



Ypt, wiiere are the Statesmen to be Tonnage of Shipping . 99,417 

 found who are wise and benevolent Making on these twenty-four arti- 

 enough to perform the great duties cles a total of nine smllions, and lea- 

 wliich existing and urgent ciicum- ving but u, million and a half for one 

 .stances demand of them — or where arc hundred and seventy other articles 

 the Senatois who are public-spirited named, and jterhaps one hundred un- 

 cnoiigh to jiroposc and support the sa- named. liow much vexation, and how 

 crifices which tlieir country requires great asi injury our national trade suffers,, 

 a^ the consequences of twenty years therefore, from the collection of a pal- 

 wars, originating iu false policy, and fry million and a half ou nearly 300 arti- 



3 cles. 



