258. - Right, Fe. 
the packets of the people could be reach- 
ed, has at lait had an effe&t to oblige the 
different clafles of fociety to forego a 
great part of the comforts formerly ua- 
derftood to belong to their ref fective fi- 
tuations. And the portion of income al- 
lotted to fuch purpofes, which in the hands. 
of individuals would have encreafed the 
powers of general pomfunipess) and have 
raultiplied the {pri ings of domettic induf- 
try, 18 now mortgaged to pay the intereft 
of a growing nati ronal de ebt. 
The object of our, and every good 
cont fitution, mult be, to preferve to the 
multitude ot indi viduals the full enjoy- 
ment of all the comforts ng fro 
individual ex “ertions, and from the advan- 
geous circumftances of their fituation. 
ari Om 
arrin 
ut whether the aye powening “influence 
F: ; 
Of our fyftem « does not now fwperfede the 
effet: of: fach principse in--our’ confti- 
tution, is a queftion of which every man 
xingdom, h high as well as low, can 
eee own experience. Our 
alue national profper 
new means for the fup- 
n3; €very little comfort 
_ waich growing nate, or the improved 
powers of labour: ve added to 
the foek of individual enjoyments, ae 
apacious , hand of taxation has ereedil ly 
eized upon. So m nach indeed have we 
1 familiarized to this new order of 
Ss that without Eee we daily 
€0.j} people anxio fly fugeetti n¢ CD- 
reral centu ption not yel .ex- 
Tnboured fi by tax xation 5 2 as if all th hat a man 
might | ha 
(Gre 
bee 
a 
5 GR - 
ane 
We find alfo our Gira 
men “and political as Cos Na- 
tional pro {perity, not by the fum of Gade 
yidual enjoyment, but by mi they call 
our refources, and ee ‘the number of 
fighting men we are capable of maintain- 
jig in the field. ‘ 
A fyfiem of 
wifdora, ih: ould, alone with. evidenc 
its genera] uti] lity, € exhibit features of per 
ma anency. ft would afk, however, if 
. Sere es 
nera] utility Or 
siavd 
government founded in 
permanency can be difco- 
ences of W hich 
ae land-rent 
thole « expences 
idity, as to have. 
a Short adminiitra- 
Tn fuch circum- 
be ad ity to 
c thir ceen year 2 
flances, therefcre, may it not be 
_ Hate arew plain quefions for general di. 
cuflion, and perhaps in béing- e#ble to trac 
the evil tg its fource, , be led to the Boke 
of i its errors. 
Does not the wealth of every nation 
dont oF i 
> 
vy 
their 
rity : 
ae 
of Taxation. 
Immediate annual labour ? 
‘Of the-accumulated favings of the la- 
~ beur of former years i > 
And of a rent in intereft, drawn for the 
ufe of fuch part of thefe accumulated fav- 
ings, as may have been lent to foreign 
countries, and employed-in foreign la- 
bour? 
If, therefore, the amount of the im- 
mediate annual labour, with the addition 
of fuch annual rent, fhould not together 
be equa al to the general annual expenditure 
ot the country, the fteck of accumulated. 
labour will be diminithed'to the extent of 
the defalcation; but in a country not go- 
ing back, is it cont alfo evident, that the 
great praport ion of every bur then mut reit 
upon labour? 
If the exchangeable value of a commo- 
dity does not depend upon its coft, but is 
limited by a market competition with 
fimilar cop NAGE? the wages § of labour, 
depending altogether upon the market de- 
mand for Huhehnale intermediate charges, 
whether arifing from increafed taxes or 
from other circumftances, not being poi- 
fible to be added to the market price of 
this commodity, mutt of neceflity fall to 
be deduéted from the amount of wages the 
merchant can afford to bey to the work- 
man. ‘The labourers, therefore, of this 
country, highly eonee by nature, may 
at laft find themfelves in no better fitua- 
tion than the labourers of thofe countries, 
to which nature has almoft wholly denied 
the means of exchanging their induftry. 
I know I am within bounds when I 
ftate, thatthe labourers of Great Bri itain, 
upon an average, already pay a twelfth of 
their income towards the permanent taxes. 
How much more far prifing; however, 
wae this be af ftated, that tuch labourer 
has one month out of ay twelve of his 
labour, deftined by inheritance to purpo- 
fes which brin 19 HO return whatever to him 
or to his family. Such cannet be a na- 
tural, and therefore certainly not a per- 
manent 01 rder of things. For, 
__ df it isnot competent for an ind lividua} 
to. burthen his indivicual pofterity, by 
what bie right can any number of indi- 
viduals entail burthens wpon their gene- 
ral See eyen upon a plan of fuppofed 
benefits to be tr -anfimitted t to them? 
Gourn Al, 
er 
Fo the Editor of the Moxgthh I agaxine, Ki 
SIR, 
Have been much pleafed with the re- 
lations which have appeared, in the 
different numbers of your Magazine, a 
paireting 4 the Vory Saas fagt in natu 
hits, 
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