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    iup ^ l # p £ tliem *? ' her raanu ^ ure 5 5 and thufr both countries will be acting the true part , which seems to be allotted to them by providence . Different sentiments have been expressed by some of our politicians , who , notwithstanding the vigour

    s . hewn by France after the ruiu of her finances , conceived that America was from the same cause incapable of prolonged resistance . But what could war do but injure both countries , which by peace are capable of rendering" each other incalculable tood services . We trust that the return of to the lovers of

    peace will give peace many advantages in their future arguments with the advocates for war . The employment of the faculties of man in making * the elements subservient to his use and for public convenience , is in agreement with the roag * na eharta granted to him at his creation . When lie abuses

    these powers in the destruction oi his t ellow-creatures , whatever glory may be thrown over military exploits , he only pj&ves what a degraded being he is , and hew unworthy of the high character with which he was invested by the God of nature . Steam is now applied to

    passageboats and to the draft of wag-g-ons , but little Was it thought that it would become serviceable to literature . With great satisfaction we record it , and we esteem the author of the invention hig-her than all the generals of the age , that a printing press has been put in action by steam , which entirely sffperscdes the labour of the press-men , and

    brings the whole of their work within the compass of children . A steam-engine of two-horse power , puts in motion certain cylinders and the form on which the types are placed , so that the whole work of distributing the ink and pressing the paper , is performed by machinery . Man has notliiag else to do but to put the paper on tilQ 1 cylinder , and to take it off again when

    il is printed . The benefits of this discovery are incalculable , and relieve the wind , depressed by the scenes of bloodshed and slaughter , which it will be the business of the historian to record of this winked age . Happy should we be , if England afforded continually these proofs of glorious conquest , but the last month exhibits an

    instance which is a sad proof of depravation of manners . A wretched man conceived a criminal attachment for the yister of his departed wife , and this sister was the w » fe of a nobleman of high rank , and a mother . In spite of such obstacles he seduced her , to whom he ought to have been a protector : carried her from a noble

    Mansion , and the miserable female wais a s » ort time after taken half dead fr < tan the ^ einej into , which remors ? had driven her . J-ar ^ e damages have been obtained by the husband , and a divorce will take place at th next meeting of Parliament , Could

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    the seits and daughters of dissipation see into what misery they plunge themselves , would they thus madly violate the laws of man and of God ! We feel unfeigned grkf in recording" that this example has been s « t where we should have hoped for better things , for . the depraved seducer is the grandson of the amiable author of Search ' s Light of Human Nature . u Let him who tbinketh hestandeth take heed lest he fail . *

    The property tax and the price of com have excited a great deal of ttae pnWie attention , and meetings have been held oa these subjects :, and on the former very generally . The tax itself is assuredly liable to great objections , and the mode of raising * it , to many more } aad it may deserve remark , that in tbe account of Poor Richard's

    aphorisms on economy , he enters upon them , by comparing- the folly of people ' s taxing * themselves by their own extravagance , with the cruelty of a government , if it could be supposed to exist , that should exact a tenth of every man ' s industry . The tax made no difference between a man whose five hundred a-year

    was derived without exertion , and was permanent , and that which was precarious , and arose from labour . It is true , that the best mode of taxing * a people is to do it according to the means which each man possesses of paying * the tax , or in other words , that all men should pay in proportion to the advantages which they derive from the community for whose support the

    taxes are raised ; and to reg * ulate taxation in this manner is not so difficult as is generally imagined . But then society must be on a different plan from its present state , and a principle of honour must exist , which would , instead of each man ' s endeavouring * to throw the burthen from his own shoulder on that of his neighbours ^ urg « him not only to bear his own but to endeavour to alleviate that of those around

    him . The contrary principle is , however , the prevailing one , and marches forward with unblusing face in most companies , where the idle laugh to scorn the industrious . In such a state , however , the aggravations of the property tax . will be felt , and the inquisitorial scheme has a natural

    tendency to break down the spirit of a people . This has been verjrg-eneraJJy felt , and is plainly expressed in the petitions t © Parliament ; so that most probably the tax will expire at the appointed time , and the funding system affords sufficient means of compensating for its loss .

    The diminution in the price of eorn hai excited fin alarm among the-farmers-anil landholders far beyond what such an advan tttg-e to the community at large cotritl be expected to produce among' the most self-interested . It is said , that the farmer cannot exist , if the corn continues at the present price ; or in other words that the landlord must diminish his vents . But is

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    State of Public Affairs . ( 33

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1815, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1756/page/63/