] 824.3 Political /iffairs in June 559 



|>1)ilo80|)irical and radical remedies are attendance! While ttjese points and 



llu'refoie out ot'the qnesliou. Meml)crs principles arc irreconcilable or unre- 



of Parliament may mean well, Liit tliey specled, — while tiiey oppose systems, 



cannot reconcile contradictions, — they and the systems are to be untouched, 



cannot persuade manufacturers to pay — much cannot be effected by Parlia- 



liigh prices tor labour, when it can be ment, whatever credit may be due to 



obtained for lower prices, — they cannot individual members; and we are far 



enable landlords to get high rents with- from being disposed to deny, that great 



out high prices for produce, — they can- zeal in the public service has been dis- 



not enable poverty to live as well at high played during the past Sessions, 



prices as at low prices, — tiiey cannot As one means of returning into cir- 



enable people to pay enormous taxes culation the taxes flowing from the 



withoutdepreciatingthevaloe of money, country to the metropolis, tiie Eank of 



and making every thing dear, — they England have announced measures 



cannot, if things are dear, enable half- creditable to him who planned, and to 



fed manufacturers to live, — tliey cannot the enlightened spirit of the Court of 



confer wealth on foreign nations, to Directors who adopted them. They 



enable them to purchase manufactures propose henceforward to advance, on 



at high prices, — they cannot prevail on stock and public securities, three-fourths 



foreign governments not to encourage of the amount for one or six months at 



their own domestic manufactures, — four per cent, and to make loans on good 



they cannot maintain public credit with- bills at long dates, in addition to their 



oiU paying the nominal interest of tlie past practice of discounting at four |)er 



debt, — they cannot make justices of the cent, bills at three months. Both these 



peace either wise or humane, when they measures, as well as that of their lending 



are appointed to their oflTice without on mortgage, are fraught with advan- 



reference to the powers of their heads, or tages to the landed and commercial 



the qualities of their hearts, — they can- iuterests, and must, in due time, promote 



not make men more honest in proportion in an unexampled degree the prosperity 



to the distress they suffer, or are threat- of the country. 'J'lie only danger is a 



ened with, — themselves ehi>'fly lawyers, system of favouritism and iiulilical par- 



they cannot prevent lawyers from de- tiality; but the J3ank Directors are 



vouring the substance of debtors and wary men, and do not abuse their trust, 



creditors, by lea\ing these to setlle except when adroitly imposed njion by 



among themselves, — they cannot rccon- some wolf in sheep's clothing. The new 



cile the tithe system with the agricul- 

 tural interest, — they cannot prevent 

 rapacity and abuse of power in colonies 

 maintained at thousands of miles from 

 the seat of government, — they cannot 

 reconcile the enjoyments of absentee 



measures will have effects which will 

 figure in our national history. 



The London Gazette has given the 

 official details of Sir C. M'Carthy's 

 disastrous engagement with the Ashan- 

 tces; and an account of the destruction 



landlords with the local prosperity of of an extensive village in the vicinity of 



tenants, — they cannot vote against the Succondee, in retaliation on the natives 



interests of the patrons of t!ie boroughs for having fired on one of our boats, and 



which they represent, — they cainiot disarmed several soldiers who were 



prevent needy electors from receiving escaping from the Ashantees. 



bribes,— they cannot prevent connnit- The first despatch is from Major 



tees of magistrates, and other authorities Chisholm, dated February 23, and thus 



which decide by majorities, from being commences— 



cruel, — they cannot render close corpo- It is with infinite sorrow I acquaint 



rations, which fill up their own vacancies, you, for the information of Earl Batluirsf, 



wise or respectable, — they cannot leave that since I had the honour of addressing 



to jtulges anil benches of magistrates the 

 power of imposing discretionary punish- 

 ments, and victims of law not be 

 exposed to undue prejudices and pas- 

 BJoiis, — they cannot colle«;t large reve- 

 nues without exj'Osing the people to 

 indiscriminate severity from revenue 

 boards, — and they cannot expect jinors 

 to Ix'stow min.'li extra time on riases 

 brought br-fore them, while tlie jurors 

 are unpaid by the public for liieir 

 JVIoMiiLY Mah. No. ;H)7. 



you on the 3(1 inst. on the subject of the 

 engagement which took place near Assa- 

 niacow, in the Western VVassaw country, 

 on the 2 1st inst. I have ascertained that 

 his excelleacy. Sir C. M'Carthy, was se- 

 verely wouiidefl, taken prisoner, and ira^ 

 mediately put to death by the barbarous 

 enemy ! I am cnncenicd to state, that of 

 eleven officers of the regulars and militia, 

 who belonged to his excellen<'y's division, 

 twu only have returned here. I\lr. J. T. 

 Williams, secretary, and another gcntle- 

 4 C luan. 



