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Jttotives , ) which hare brought the general Teputation of political writers to ft Very low ebb . Surely it is desirable , that men who have the management of such formidable engines , for good or for ill , as The Times or the Morning Chronicle , should have the check of public opinion placed on them by the consciousness that they were known and narrowly watched by those who are so deeply interested in their integrity as well as ability / Two protests have been sent us , and are subjoined , against opinions expressed in this work . They are not accompanied with any comment , because both subjects may probably , before long , be brought under the attention of our readers in a more ample and satisfactory manner than that of rejoinder on the present occasion : —
To the Editor o * the Monthi /* Repository . e , —You conduct your publication upon a principle I very much approve—con * necting a review of the moral and political state of the community with its religious objects . The attempt to separate these interests from what may be considered doctrinal , would be to make more of faith and less of practice , while the latter is the essential , the former involuntary , and not absolutely in the power of any individual . Under your own classification , then , I claim a right to remonstrate with you on your mixing up the large interests of the community , the landowner , the silk
manufacturer , the timber merchant , and the shipowner ,- —these composing the vital interests ! of the country , —with the slaveholder . The struggle these respective interests ( except the slaveholder ) are making against the innovations imposed upon them by theorists , is a matter of too great importance to admit of sarcasm , and is making too great ravages amongst the labouring poor , which , remember , constitutes a great portion of the morals of the country . If profitable labour is destroyed , all motive to industry is considerably lessened . The former protection , under which the country flourished , being withdrawn , and foreign competition being encouraged , is demonstrably the
occasion of most of the misery that exists ; with the want of taxation being taken from property instead of poverty . It is too much to witness these direful effects , and have the attempts that are making by all practical men for their removal , stigmatized as monopoly and slaveholders . I am sure I am too well known in your connexion t <* be accused of wishing to uphold injustice . It is , Sir , the principle of justice to ourselves , without any personal or partial interest , that has rendered me the uniform and constant enemy to what is called free trade , better known by the name of robbery ,- — designating- the persons in power , acting upon it , as better fit for Bedlam or the Tower than statesmen : they have introduced a system upon which no reciprocity ( the
pretext for it ) can exist , and the effects are ruin to the master and starvation to the men . These facts ought to engage every moralist ( in which term I include religionist ) to exert every means for the removal of so great a calamity to our sufferiug country as that foreign competition that does not meet with reciprocity . Hoping you will be more cautious in your future classification , and not stigmatize honest endeavours for that protection to our labour , which the burthens of the country render essentially necessary and just to our well being , ( I remain , Sir , truly yours , < Hackney , 12 / fc Jan . 1832 . ' < Jambs YotWG .
c To tub Editor of the Monthly Repository . ' Sm , —I am indebted to your liberality for the insertion of the slight notice I sent you-of Dr . Hincks'a recent pamphlet on Irish Tithes , assuming the torm which it did , and not being , as I am sorry to perceive , in accordance with your own sentiments You and I agree in the grand principles , that the present Protestant Established Church has no claim to its revenues , but that which is founded on Act of Parliament ; and that the sooner it is deprived of them , consistently with justice to individuals , the better . It seems we cannot quite agree as to the manner in which tithe ought to be
disposed of , nor , perhaps , as to what it is which justice towards individuals , now holding situations in the Church , requires . You say , in your note , that it is the doctrine of our ablest political economists , that tithe falls on the consumer . Certainly this is the doctrine of very able men , whose opinions ought always to be received with respect ; but the question is not to be settled by authority , and , if it were , it is difficult to nay to whom we ought to listen . Ricardo , Mill , and M'Culloch , assure us that taxes on land fall on the consumer ; but Adam Smith lays it down as positively that they all fall on the landlord ; Perronet Thompson now defends the same doctrine ; Smith is also supported by Jean-Baptiste Say . Among such men , who shall presume
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/71/
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