sion the Crown is enabled to secure the peaceable and loyal part of the people against the machinations of the seditious and traitorous.' "The Funds, that certain criterion of public confidence and credit, are rising every day, so that a person who bought into the Funds before the meeting of Parliament, before it was known what measures Ministers would adopt for the security of the subject, and ere the financial arrangements of the year were made public, has gained more than 20 per cent. on the money invested. Let us trace, therefore, a few of the consequences of such an occurrence; and see how they bear on the great question of public prosperity. The wretches who spread sedition and treason throughout the country build all their hopes of success in their detestable projects, on the distress of the labouring classes. That distress is of course produced by want of employment. The want of employment originates in the withdrawing of capital from circulation. Every rise in the value of funded property is an additional temptation to throw it into circulation; but here is a rise of 20 per cent. Capital must therefore rapidly flow into all the channels of circulation. Credit must revive. The small farmer, whose capital has been exhausted, whose credit is nearly at an end, and who therefore has fallen behind-hand in his rent, discharged his labourers, and impoverished his fields, will now. recover his credit, will be able to revive the productive powers of the land, will take the starving labourer again into employ, and eventually, by the payment of his rent, will induce his landlord, who may have emigrated to the Continent for retrenchment, to return, and live in his usual comfort and respectability at home. Hence, the home-market for manufactures must at every step grow better; and the manufacturing poor, who have become the dupes of incendiaries and traitors, must begin to see through and detest their delusions, and bless the Legislature for those wise, patriotic, and constitutional measures, which have saved the country from impoverishment, desolation, and massacre. Reverse the picture, and consider what would have been the consequence, had the Habeas Corpus Act not been suspended. Funded property would have become daily more insecure, and of course daily less valuable. Capital would have been more cautiously locked up. Credit would have vanished. Employment, both in agriculture and manufactures, would have become more rare; distress more intense, the temptations to insurrection more powerful, the efforts of the seditious writers and speechifiers more audacious, the plots and conspiracies more extensive, more consistent, more tremendous! In this down-hill course toward revolution and ruin, nothing could have stopped us but measures of the utmost energy, measures infinitely more remote than the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus is from constitutional liberty — nothing, in short, but martial law and military force, the lamentable but indispensable means of putting down open and systematic rebellion. But if, to the happy prospects we have first anticipated, Providence in its bounty, as there is every appearance of its doing, should add the blessing of a plentiful harvest; if our emigrant gentry should listen to the voice of duty and of prudence, and return to the land which they have shamefully quitted in the moment of distress; if a general feeling of indignation should overwhelm the seditious and blasphemous libellers with disgrace; and if the Government, armed with temporary powers, should employ them to the complete extirpation of Conspiracy and Treason, we may yet indulge the hope of seeing our glorious and beloved Country as great in Peace as it has been in War—an example to Nations for its enlightened patriotism, its steady considerate. loyalty, its morals, its greatness, and its freedom.” THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: LONDON GAZETTE GENERAL EVENING M.Post-M.Herald Morning Chronic. Times-M. Advert. P.Ledger&Oracle Brit. Press-Day St. James's Chron. Sun-Even. 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'Tis thine, when every earthly comfort fails, Pointing to mansions fair above the skies Where undisturb'd tranquillity prevails, A crown of joy, which shall for ever bloom; If, rightly taught, by each afflictive stroke, June 6, 1816. REMARKS FROM VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS. A FRIEND TO ACCURACY informs "A Constant though young Reader," (see page 253 of the present Volume,) that he may find the Account of William Walker, of Darnal near Sheffield, which he wishes to see, in Gent. Mag. vol. XXXVII. (1767.) p. 548-9. A Correspondent expresses his fears that the remarker on Eccles. Hist. (p. 323, 397, &c.) is no friend. He certainly, skilled," or not skilled, is an ample dealer "in legendary lore." If he continues to sail at large, not "with supreme dominion, in the desert fields of air," our Correspondent hopes, Mr. Urban will clip his wings, and save others the unwelcome trouble. Verbum sat. 46 The intelligence from Rugby (p. 442) is not quite correct. For Joseph M. Hamilton," read "Joseph Harriman Hamilton." Omit "H. Rogers ;" and for R. Churton," read, "Thomas Townson Churton and William Ralph Churton." "The lines on Browne Willis (p. 446) may be seen in the Oxford Sausage, p. 158, but without a name. I suppose your Correspondent has some ground for "attributing" them to "Richard, Lord Viscount Cobham." In the third stanza the public peace, and disgraceful to those "In compliance with the wish of Mr. P. 511. 1. ult. The excellent Historian of Selborne was not "Vicar," but grandson of a former Vicar of both his names, who was instituted in 1681. See History of Selborne, p. 330. "All your Correspondents must hope that your Leicestershire Friend is not near the end of his Tour. "They have also to thank J.W. (p. 524.) for the account of Mr. Johnson; and to hope he will give you many more particulars of one so well deserving of public notice, and which he appears so well qualified to give." A. Z. |