3792. - letter from Arcticus. : 
_I must own, on taking leave of this subject, that 
from all I see brewing in your part of Europe, £ 
tremble for the constitution which has been the glory 
of my life to think, and say, I was born under; and: 
that as the effort of all its sons. widely dispersed over 
the globe, is to get a competency which we hope to en-. 
joy insecurity under its benign protection, where the 
hair of a man’s head, nor a single tree on his estate, 
eannot be touched, either, by the hand of power, or 
the wild grasp of democracy, the most savage, blind,. 
and horrible of tyrants, it is discouraging ‘to think,. 
that our prospects run even the least rifk of being. 
blasted after all our labour. 
I live in hopes some patriot writer will’ point out: 
the dangerous tendency of such direct and indirect 
provokatives, to a people who, in the present crisis,. 
have rather occasion for calmers:: such as your judi- 
cious: annunciation of a plan on the carpet to take: 
off the internal duties on coal and salt, which would,. 
if practicable, make your minister immortal; nay, e-. 
ver the attempt would point him out to future gene-. 
rations as the truest patriot who has ever. governed! 
the country, 
It is flattering to myself to declare that I perfectly- 
agree with you in all your propositions and direce: 
_ specific charges, of fiscal, or other regulations, which, 
however innocently intended, do actually militate a. 
_gainst the industry of the subject, and ought to: be 
remedied immediately, if they do not materially affect. 
the revenue ; and if they do, a gradual modification: 
ought to be tried, till they answer the double inte-. 
trest of the public creditor, and the industrious sub~- 
ject. j 
