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Slate of Public Affairs in December. [Jan. 1 , 



dcrs arc every wliere, witli l)ecominjj 

 s\rinpathv, /rf.r/xg' t/temselves voluntarily, 

 ill subsLiijitioiis lor tlic suppoil or ejiir 

 plo} ilieiit of the thousands of iiuluslrious 

 pprsous \vl»(), ill every part of the king- 

 dom, arc (Icslitule of means, ami of pro- 

 ductive laliour. Subscriptions are there- 

 fore opened iu nearly every parish, and 

 employment, however unproductive, is 

 in some places given to tliose who seek 

 relief. 



It is thought that, when Parliament is 

 allowed to meet, some plan will Ijo pro- 

 posed for increasing- the circulating me- 

 dium, that, by means ol' /ligli prices, the 

 people may be enabled to pay the over- 

 whelming load of taxes, and keej) up 

 the enormous eslablishmcnts. One 

 scheme is, to enable the JJank of Eng- 

 land to lend ])ank paper on t/w vwrtgage 

 cf real estates, by which tiie propmly, 

 already rendered worthless by taxation, 

 will be likely to be transferred altogether 

 from the ancient owners ! W ill the 

 owners allow this, for the sake of keep- 

 inn- up enormous establishments f But 

 we can answer lor nolbing in rrgind to 

 those who Jjave s()ent flieir entire rentals 

 in the interest of pul)lic debts, to enable 

 the ministry to enforce measures which 

 the Common Ciwuicil of jjondon have so 

 accuralelv characterised as " HASH 

 AND Ri INOIS WAHS, UN.K ST- 

 LY COMMIACKD, AM) PER- 

 TIXAClOLSb^ PERSIST!:!) I.V, 

 WHEN M» HAriOXAE OJJJECT 

 WAS TO Itii <)I5I'A1NJ;D." 



Another plan is to relieve the pcojile 



French finances, however, are in disor- 

 der ; and a loan has been attempted, 

 without success, in London, to enable 

 tiie government to pay the confederates, 

 still in France, under a British general, 

 who, it appears, parses frequently be- 

 tween his soldiery and i-'aris. It is even 

 said tliat the Uritisli government will 

 pay th<,'se confedei-atcs, if the French 

 govermnent caimot! lint will the Bri- 

 tish I'arliament sanction such a misap- 

 plication of the public miracy at such A 

 crisis ? 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



We rejoice lo learn that theJMexican, 

 and otljcr South American, patriots 

 keej) the field, and are Ukely to establish 

 a free republic in those vast proviMccs. 

 If no Pitt or Diindas bribe one party tu 

 cut the throats of the other, as was ihd-' 

 case ill Rrpithliean France, these ari 

 rangements promise amelioration and 

 happini'ss to that hitherto oppressed 

 part of the world. The recent langnage 

 of the most infamous of the Jjondon 

 news|iapers is, however, portentous of 

 further mischief to Britain, from an op- 

 position to liijerty even in that dislaut 

 pait ot' ihe world, unless the people and 

 the i'arliament are carelully on their 

 guard. False alarms \> ill be spread, the 

 country will be rfr/w^A't/ info acquiescence, 

 and when it detects the falsehoods of 

 which it lias been the victim, it will be 

 tohl, as an excusf, that the war was the 

 war of the people, just as the present 

 patriotic Common Council of London 

 are now taunted Tor the (rullibilitif of 



\)\ abating the amount of T\xi;s now /«»•«»«• Connnon Coiuicils. 



applied to the Sinkinc; Fi)M> ; but, as 

 wcfear it will be found that the rkvi.- 

 NUES of the year lor the I nitcd King- 

 dom w'Mf nil' short of the lxpimiitiki;, 

 by the full amount of the said Sinking 

 Fund, we presume tiie Sinking Fund 

 (to nse a pun on a grave subject,) will 

 sink itself, unless a i.oa\ be raised to 

 sustain ttiis Simcinu 1'v\d, to pay the 

 pensioni:ks and siXi:ciuisTS, and to 

 keep up THE AKMY of 15(1,000 men in 

 time of peace ! 'I'hat tlie money-jobbers 

 will advance twenty, or e\en tiiirly, mil- 

 lions, on tiie usual security of the real 

 prO[)erty of the kini^dom, cainuit be 



NOUTH A.MtUICA. 



This country continues to :iflurd an 

 asylum to the friends of liberty, who 

 have been driven from Europe by the 

 bad j)f)licy of its governments, and who 

 will carry thither the arts, intellect, anil 

 virtues, of civilization. 



A petty s<pial)bl(', about a di[)loma- 

 tic crime, has aiiscrt with Bnssia, and 

 senes to give momentary interest to .the 

 newspa|>ers, A more serious dispute 

 has taken place with the bigot of Spain, 

 which, however, is likely to beucfit 

 libcitv in South America. 



i\lr. Maddison is abo\it to retire from 

 doubted, provided the owners of the pro- his second presijik'ncy, amidst the plan 



perly contiuue to o<insent. 

 FKANcr:. 



Tiio Bourbons, true to tiie principles 

 of tlicir family, are proposing to sustain 

 their ^' legiiimttte and desired" govoin- 

 ment by laws to enable them to arrest 

 and detain whomsoever they please — 

 aud to allow no newspaper or journal to 

 appear ualcss by ro\id authority ! The 



dits of the friends of liberal opinions; 

 and it is mid<!rst<iod hewill be succeeded 

 by Mr. i\iuMso,a gentleman of kindred 

 principles. Afay this government never 

 forget tlmt it is viewed as the bulwark 

 of freedom ; and may it set a good ex- 

 ample of the benefits resiiMing from tlic 

 practical enjoymcut of civil aud religious 

 liberty. 



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