1790; but a tenth that your hus-as if nothing were the matter of bands pay four times as much him; if he talk coolly; if he rea

son; listen to him with all due attention; but, if he change colour; if his lips quiver, and if he begin to rail against the writer, and to accuse him of "sedition and blasphemy," get rid of him as soon as you can, and make up your mind, that he is wrong and that I am right.

3. Now, then, it being manifest that ruin must finally fall on every farmer, however rich he may be, that has present taxes, rents and tithes to pay out of the prices of 1790, it is equally mani

taxes to get as they paid to get a tenth in 1790, makes the tenth now a very different thing from the tenth then!-Now snuff the little bit of candle. If I have a ten-acre field of wheat, on which I have expended no tax, and another, in all other respects like, on which I have expended ten pounds in tax, does not the parson take away a pound more from the latter field than from the former Yes, as clear as daylight-And now let his Grace's bit of eandle expire in the socket; for, you must not be that sensible woman *that most farmers' wives are, if fest, that the present rents ought any parson can now persuade to be reduced to those of 1790, you, that the tenth of 1822 is the and that three-fourths of the p e presame thing as the tenth of 1790; sent taxes ought to be taken off. or, if he can make you believe, You will say, that your husbands that he does not now, in addition have not the power to cause taxes to a tenth of the crop, get from to be taken off. I know that very husband an amount equal to well. And I also know, that that of a tenth part of all the taxes many of them are bound by lease that the farm pays. Get the to pay, not only rents as high as Rector or Vicar of your parish, those of 1790, but a great deal ́if he should happen to live any higher. How to get them out of where in your part of the country, these bonds, I know not; but, to come and see you, and to parwhere they are not bound, they take of a comfortable Bucking-can, surely, get out of giving up ham dish of tea; read this to him your last gown to go to deck out (without telling him who wrote the waiting gentlewomen of the it), and just watch him a bit, and landlords and parsons' wives! hear what he says! If he look For mind, this is what they are

your

one; that their places will be supplied by a species of bailiffs; that rents will cease, by degrees, all over the country; that the

now doing. Every penny (except | rents as long as they have a in a few peculiar instances) that shilling left; that they will drop the landlord and parson get from off into the pauper-list one by the farmer, comes, not out of the gains, not out of the increase, not out of the produce, of the farm, but out of the capital, or stock, of the farmer, who is, and who must landlords will become of little be, every day becoming a poorer account; and that, at no very and poorer man; while the land-distant day, the land being unable lord and the parson, if one get to pay taxes and tithes too, these his rent and the other his tithe, latter will be "dealt with accordare gaining, as they long have been gaining, by the farmers' loss.

ing to law," as so many of the Radical Reformers have been; and that, at last, if no unexpected event occur, the taxgatherers, under some name or other, will appoint the bailiffs to the farms.

I may be deceived as to these forebodings, and I wish I may; but (and I beg you to remark and remember it) those who bid the farmers to have hope, bid them to hope that their prices will rise. This (and let your husbands note it well) is the only ground of hope,

If, therefore, no alteration be made in the rent and tithe, it is madness for any man to remain in a farm. I know how unwilling farmers are to quit, I know how many thousands have remained till they became paupers; and I know what pains base and wicked and covetous and fraudulent men have taken to persuade them that "things will come round again." Alas! things will never come that these silly, or knavish, men round again! Things can never have to rest on. They have no come round again! And, every hope but this; and they talk of thing that I have seen, and that no hope but this. And, such I yet see, convinces me, that the being the case, what a shame is course of events will be this: that it, that there should be one single the main body of the farmers, farmer in all England so weak, so actuated by the fear of being out childish, so miserably foolish as of business on the one hand, and to believe them; and so scandabuoyed up by false hopes on the lously unmindful of his duty to other hand, will continue to pay his wife and family as to keep any

farm (that he can, by any means, even then, though they will sink

more slowly, they must become mere bailiffs to the taxgatherers.

get rid of) at any rent at all! How can prices rise, when there is a law in existence that must Yet, this Mr. HUSKISSON is make the circulating money less one of those, who would persuade in quantity than it now is? Have the half-ruined farmers that things not your husbands seen a bad will mend; that things will come crop and a wet harvest, and have round; that prices will rise; when they not seen their prices continue it is as impossible as it is to make to fall? What will convince them yesterday return. All the time, then? What will open their eyes? however, that the farmers can be In 1814, just after the peace, made to believe this, they are hasI said, that it was impossible to tening on to utter ruin. In some, pay the present taxes unless the cases they are led along by reducprices were high. Mr. Huskisson, tion of rent and tithe. Those now one of the King's Ministers, who reduce, doubtless, in some said the same. He said, that, cases, mean well; but, they are even if the landlords were to give deceived themselves as much as up all their rents, fifty or sixty the farmers are. They are not millions of taxes could not be necessarily wise men, because paid without prices twice as great they own land. They think, that as they were in the year 1790. it is impossible that things should This gentleman, has now changed not come round; but, they can his tone; but he is now a Minis-give you no reason for this. Let ter, and was not one in 1814! me hope, that no farmer who reads Truth does not change, however; this will be encouraged to proceed and it is unquestionably true, that with a farm by having a part of the present taxes cannot be paid his rent taken off. Take off the by present prices, even if all rents whole, and then the whole of the be given up. That is to say, tithe, and he may get along for a even though the landlords give up little while; at least, he will be able all rents and become paupers to quit when he likes; and, in the themselves, still the farmers can- meanwhile, let me beseech you not go on with the present taxes to lay by some few pieces of gold without sinking into beggary. against a rainy day; for, there They must have the tithes taken is no one can tell what may hapoff as well as the rents; and, pen.

We all know that some taxes

But, you will ask, is there no come forward and ask for this means of giving relief. Yes, reform, unless the yeomanry do taking off the taxes, or a great this, reform will never be obtained part of them; not a shilling a in the manner that all good men bushel on malt, but a large part could wish it to be obtained. of the whole of the taxes. This would leave the farmer money to are necessary to the support of pay fair rent with, and would make his tithe much less than it is now, as I have clearly shown you above. And, if you ask why the taxes are not taken off, you bring me to my third point, namely, that, to obtain this there must be a re-ed during the last peace? What form of the House of Commons.

government, and that without government, there can be no peace. or safety in society; but, do you think, that we want a more expen sive army and navy now, in time of profound peace, than we want

must you think, then, when you are told, that the army and navy

when you are told, that a navy of twenty thousand seamen and marines costs nearly three times as much as a navy of the same numbers cost in the last peace?

III. Lord Castlereagh said, the costs more than four times as other day, that a reform of par-much now as it did during the last liament would not raise the price peace? But, what must you think. of corn a farthing a bushel. And, who ever said it would? and who but very foolish or very wicked men ever wished the price of corn to be raised! But, all good men, all men who do not wish to see the Here are the things that ruin farmers and tradesmen utterly the farmers; here are the things ruined and the labourers starved that call for a reform of parliaor made paupers of, wish to see ment, it being the opinion of every the taxes reduced. That is the man of sense, that these things thing that a reformed Parliament never will be altered, unless there is wanted for, and that is the first be a House of Commons chosen thing that a reformed Parliament by the people at large. I have would do, and do effectually and before mentioned the immense instantly. This, and this alone, sums received by the family of can save farmers that cling to their Grenville. Now, do you think, farms; but, unless the farmers that, if the people at large had throughout the country manfully the choosing of those who manage

the money concerns of the nation, account of later date) 24 Ministhat that family would ever have ters at Foreign Courts; and we received all that money? I sup- had 45 such Ministers in pay pose that a farm of 400 acres besides these; so that we had in pays, at least 500l. a-year in all, 69 Ambassadors and other taxes of all sorts and in all man-Ministers. The whole 45 received ner of ways. So that the two in the year 1808, 57,5897., though uncles of this Duke of Bucking-performing no service at all; and ham now receive out of the taxes some of them had been paid in a sum equal to the taxes paid by this way for upwards of 40 years! fourteen 400 acre farms, on which A Mr. DUTENS, who had been a farms about 460 people (old and charge d'affaires at Turin for young) depend in some way or 13 months, from June 1761 to other. They take as much for July 1762, had, in 1808, been' doing nothing as would support receiving a pension of 3007. 233 labourers' families at 30 a-year during the whole of the pounds a-year each family! Is time; that is to say, during fortythis what the farmers can like? six years; that is to say, 11,800l. And yet it was against, and is for thirteen months' as charge against, these things that the Radi- d'affaires! cals complained and still comWhen we think of these things, plain, and that they did want, and is it any wonder that farmers are do want, to put an end to. Can impoverished, and that the layou see any good reason, why Mr. | bourers become paupers? That WYNN, the cousin of this Duke of which is taken away to keep these Buckingham, should have re- people and their troops of serceived 1,2007. a-year for doing vants, cannot be kept for the nothing from 1807 to 1822, merely feeding and clothing of you, your because he had been receiving a husbands and children, and to large salary for four years before help keep the labourers from bethat time? And, will any one coming paupers. There was a pretend to say, that the taxes were Mr. GEORGE CANNING that you necessary that went to pay this may have heard of, who was sent man these large sums of money? as an Ambassador to Portugal As I am speaking of this Ambas- (where there was no king or queen sador, I will speak of the whole. or sovereign) with a salary of We had, in 1808 (I can find no 14,0007. a-year; or enough to