... CoMMoN's DEBATE OF FEB. 1? 1816. 1 (Concludedfrom Page 224.) That some distress must, follow from the change in our condition, in conse- quence of the cessation of war, was na- turally to be apprehended, but he was afraid that all the distress which now ex- isted in this country was not at all attri- butable to that change. There was in fact only one effectual remedy for the public distress, ...

... - I MR. BIIRZBEcK'S LETTER, On the laughing At the Farmers : with Mr. fiobbeft's remarks thereon. I think, Mr. Cobbeti, that those supe- rior persons who are so witty upon the farmers in their calamities, and indulge their good humoured spleen in ridiculing us for having imitated them, though at a humble distance, during -the late sea- Son of hollow prosperity; I think, Sir, that they ought to ...

... TO 6fTHE PEOPLE. OF TIlE UNITED STATES OF : . . AMERICA. LETTER I. Distresses ofEngla.4d.-Chancellor of the . Exchequer's Remedies. is account of the Revenue.-Standing army that we are to hate.-L-anguage of .'qorke and Castlereagh upon this subject.-Real. state in which we are with regard to ihe *army. . i It is now my intention to Address to you a series of- Letters upon the affairs of this ...

... Sli RO bERTW ISr- AND HIS AssoCIATES ON FRANCE. I tondsdo, SI Jan. 1816. Such thingsshave- been doing, -and are doUng, in France, that I have, for my part, been -afraid to trust my pen in any obser- vations relating to them. But, this affair of Sir ROBERT WILS ON must have a word or two. The story is this: that the three Eng- lish officers, so often named, assisted LA- VALLETTE in his escape, ...

... TO THE CHANCELLOR F TOWE EXCuEQUER. LETTER XIV. Monuiments.-Distresses of the Country. -Flouzrishnga trade.-Income Tax.- Howling Farmers.-Wr. Huskisson. London, 7 Feb. 1816' SxR,-Well, you have met! The wis- dom of parliament has beeu resorted to; and, now let us see what that wisdom will be able to accomplish. In the proceedings of the 5th inst. long and fl'owry harangues appear on the ...

... | To RICHARD PRESTON, ESQ. M. P. Sin,-I have read your pamphlet throughout with great attention, and, with the best judgment I can form, it seems that you have made a very fair display of the general suffering and dis. tress that pervades this great and mighty nation. I shall not trespass on your time by a ceomment on particulars, but there is one observation that I cannot avoid making:. you ...

... COMMON'S DEBATE ON TIlE lsr FEB. - (Cidnaledfrom Page 192.) If this odious tax could be dispensed with-if there -were any other means of going on without it, no man in his senses- still less would the Right Honourable Gen- tleman, on the very first opening of Parlia- mnent, intimate an intention of renewing it. Such an intimation surely could arise only from the consciousness of there being no ...

... ToTHfE RADERS OF THE REGISTER. . . {f~~inchester, Feb. .i2d, 1816. At'a time when so many important matters press forward for notice, I am sorry to have to disappoint, though only for a week, any expeetationg wltich. rny .have been formed with regard to my el- ertions. Bat, on Tuesday, when I ivas about to begin the performance of my weekly lalours, I saw, by accident, in the Morning Chronicle ...

... ON TnE N-ATIONAL DEBT AND SIN KiNG FUND. Edinburgh^, JJaw. 17, 1816. MR. COBBETar,-The National Debt has always been an object of great impart- ance; hut as it swells in magnitude, it swells equally in importance. You, Sir, have written on the National Debt in a masterly manner. You have pointed out its rise, progress, and effects, so that any: person of a moderate capacity, may have a ...

... STR -It is not flattery to assert that your writings will be consulted so long as right and wrong notions of political economy have anv influence on the hap. piness of nations; but why, Sir, indulge in so much sarcasm against the farmers they are prostrate opponents, and this course-from your pen may do harm, for you cannot be ignorant that numerous classes harbour a deadly hatred against the ...

... EXTRACT 'FROM THE INTERESTING PAM- PFHLET OF MR. PRESTON, ON THE RE- MEDIES NOW NECESSARY.TO BE APPLIED TO OUR DISTRESSED STATE. cc Portionists have no other right than 6 to receive their principal with the stipu. rated interest. Their principal is to be paid in full, and unless their- interest a shall be reduced, the principal, if pay- 4 able, may be discharged. Mortgagees will also ...

... REMEDI.ES. MR. CoBBnTT,-1 desired the Fund- holder, in a former letter, to compare his baker's and butcher's bills for 1812 and 1815, in order to reconcile him, in some measure, to the attack I found myself r&- luctantly compelled to make upon his pocket,for the public good. I am not sure that the law of Moses would bear me out in this expedient; but of this I am sure, that neither Moses nor ...