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I HAVE to address you upon two very important affairs: first, the cost and the management of the navy; and, second, the expense, the tax upon your labour, which is at last brought upon you by the hypocrites and the deluded people engaged for so many years in bawling about negro slavery, while a very great part of them were in much greater slavery than the negroes themselves. I shall take these two subjects distinctly; and request you to endeavour to make yourselves well acquainted with them, and particularly with the former. THE NAVY. [Price, 1s. 2d. aristocracy and the clergy of the country, that they form a great branch of power, a great order in the state. The army, which is quite a new thing in England, forms another great branch or order, and is equally connected and interwoven with the aristocracy and the clergy. Indeed, there are now five branches, or orders in the state: the royal branch, the nobility and great landowners in general, the clergy, the navy, and the army. All these are intimately connected, except the first, which has a foundation of its own to stand upon, and which takes, comparatively, a mere trifle of the money which is raised from us. The clergy may take a little more than they used to take, but they are of long existence. The other three branches are now. become one and the same; or, are all so interwoven with one another, that, if The aristocracy do not stand before us you touch one you touch the whole. look into the navy and the army, we as a body costing us money; but, if we shall see how closely this branch is connected with these two latter. I am, however, at present, to speak of the sums of money, and to show particularly navy as a thing which costs us immense what is the description of persons of which this body is composed. It is to cost us this year four millions, six hundred and fifty-eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-four pounds; a sum much larger than ought to be exWe used to look upon this affair as pended upon navy, army, and ordnance, something perfectly necessary to the all put together. In the year 1792, maintenance of the honour, the inter- the whole of the annual expense of the ests, and even the independence of the navy, including charges of every dekingdom: it was so in fact. There scription, amounted to only one milmight be, and there doubtless was, lion, nine hundred and eighty-four some unnecessary cost in the uphold- thousand, four hundred and eighty-two ing of it; but still the cost was mode- pounds. Now, then, what are the rate compared with the importance of causes of this immense difference? We the thing. Now the cost is become have now five thousand and seventy-two enormous; perfectly enormous, and officers in the navy, of whom a hundred the persons who receive the greater and seventy are ADMIRALS, and one part of the money, are so numerous, so thou and, six hundred and eighty-four connected and interwoven with the CAPTAINS and COMMANDERS; M Lieutenants.... 3,218 Captains and Commanders.. 1,684 170 Total, 5,072 Now let us see how this matter stood in 1792. Let us see how the numbers of this body have increased. What should it be increased for? We have been at peace now nineteen years; and we have been told every year that there is not the smallest prospect of war with any power upon earth. Let us see, then, how this formidable body stood in that year. Lieutenants.... Captains and Commanders.. Admirals.. 1,441 622 and three thousand, two hundred and We have often been told of their "imeighteen LIEUTENANTS. In figures mortal glory," of their "imperishable as follows: renown; but we have never been accustomed to hear of immortal and imperishable bodies, except, indeed, of clergy, of monastries, of corporations, and of select vestries. These, to the grief of our unreasonable impatience, our "ignorant impatience of taxation," as CASTLEREAGH called it, we find never to die! It is curious, too, that it is the commission which appears to communicate immortality to the body; for, upon looking back, we perceive, that the warrant officers and seamen have died off from upwards of a hundred thousand to twenty-seven thousand men. Alas! poor souls! they are gone to their long home; but the bearers of commissions, like the wearers of aldermen's gowns, never die; for here are our admirals in precisely the same number that they were in 1810, while the captains, commanders, and lieutenants, seem actually to have increased, as suckers Here were quite enough, God knows; grown out from the sides of the bulb of but what has the increase been for? a tulip. In plain words, there have been We have to pay a hundred and seventy made, since the peace, a hundred and admirals, and we have 12 afloat; we ten admirals, six hundred and sixty-nine have to pay 1,684 captains, and we captains; besides these three hundred have 54 afloat; we have to pay 3,218 and forty-five superannuated commandlieutenants, and we have 414 afloat.ers made from lieutenants, and these are We have to pay 5,072 commissioned to be added to the promotions that have officers, and we have 480 afloat. We have a goodly company on shore, then, of these sea-gentlemen. It is pretty curious, that we have more admirals now, more captains, more commanders, more lieutenants, than we had in the very height of the war! Let us take the numbers of 1810, the height of the war. 54 Total, 2,117 Lieutenants.... 3,097 Captains and Commanders.. 1,582 Admirals... 170 Total, 4,949 All these statements are made out from a return moved for by Mr. Hume and laid before this present House of Commons. What, then, can be the REASON for keping up this immense body of officers, who would seem to be immortal, physically as well as in fame? and taken place since the peace. There are Sir G. Ah! how d'ye do, Mr. LANCET? Lady J. Oh, Mr. Lancet, Sir Giles tells me, that we shall get the malt tax taken off. What a fine thing that will be! It will save us fifty pounds a year in the house. LANCET musing. hundred a year difference to me. Lady J. What a dear good honest man that Lord Althorp is! Lancet. But, Sir, pray think of “national faith!”? ances, and other things of that sort, in- Sir G. Yes, yes; we shall get it off. cluding what is called half-pay. It is A rap at the door. Enter Mr. LANCET. useless to rail: railing and swearing, and even praying, are useless in such a case. All that we can do is, to make the thing well known to one another; and to think seriously about the means, the real practical means, of endeavouring to effect a change in this state of things. This body of men ; this neverdying corporation, is one of the great estates in the kingdom; and, therefore, Sir G. Ah, but that's a mere trifle. to touch it, is a matter of no slight All my farmers will save a good deal, moment to the party who ventures to too; and the labourers will all brew at make such touch. 5,249 gentlemen home; and the poor-rates will come to have, at least, five times that number; next to nothing. I dare say, that it I might say ten times that number of will be a matter of a couple or three brothers, sisters, brothers and sistersin-law, and fathers and mothers-in-law. So that you will find, that here are fifty or sixty thousand gentlefolks, who are more or less interested in the upholding of this corporation. The “ country gentleman" seems, if you look at him and at his house and his fields, to be as independent as the rock of BEN LOMOND ; but, if you can find me one of these in this whole kingdom; aye, if you can find me one single man of them, who is not, on the right or on the left, by the head or by the tail, connected with navy, army, church, or Downing-street, will suffer you to fry me alive. Either he is a tax or a tithe-eater himself (which is not unfrequently the case), or he has some one connected with him who is. It seems downright madness in Sir JOLTERHEAD not to demand, that the tax shall be taken from the barley that grows in his fields; but when the Squire begins to put two ideas together, or is taught by his wife, who has been taught by the attorney or apothecary, how to perform the difficult work of putting two ideas together, the Squire smells out that he shall lose more than he shall gain by taking off the malt tax. Lady Jolterhead (meeting the Knight at the door). Well, my dear, what good news do you bring from London ? Lady J. Oh! Faith, indeed! We can be very good Christians without paying a tax upon our malt. Lancet. I beg your Ladyship's pardon; but I meant the payments to the fundholders (of which Lam one), [Aside. Sir G. Poh! Fundholders! don't tell me about fundholders! Lady J.. Why you know, Mr. Lancet, that it's the land that supports every thing. Sir G. Very true, my dear; and the devil's in't if we that own the land ought not to be able to make beer of our barley, without paying for it to the fundholders. Lancet. Very true, very true, Sir Enter servant with a letter. Lancet. Oh, my Lady, it's a great way out in the ocean. Lady J. Well, poor boy, he is getting on famously in the service. Sir G. Ah, Doctor, that boy's pro Sir Giles Jolterhead. Oh, my dear,vided for at any rate; soon have five most excellent news! We shall get hundred a year; and, you know, they the malt tax off. have it for life. Lady J. Indeed! That's a very good thing. Lady J. And so there's his share, you know, Doctor, to give to his sister. Sir G. Aye, Doctor, and she'll not get | PIG says, it would destroy the institua husband the later for that. tions of the country; and .... Lancet. Very true, Sir GILES; but This is the sort of conversation that you know, that, if the honest Minister do not get the taxes, your son can't have the five hundred a year! Lady J. What? What dy'e say Mr. is going on amongst them continually; and here it is that people ought to see where lies the impediment to their being relieved from their burdens. I should like to see one single country Lancet. I say, my Lady, that Lord gentleman in England who is not bound ALTHORP can't pay money without up in this way; and the people being having it first. Very honest man with-well apprized of this truth, they ought out doubt; but if he don't get the money how is he to pay it? Sir G. Oh! but he can get it out of the house and window tax, and such taxes as that, which produce so much, and of which we pay so little. to be assured, that they never will or can receive relief through the instrumentality of this description of persons. As to those who are actually in receipt of taxes, it is absolute madness, it is idiocy to suppose that they will vote for the lessening of their amount; and, unless the people be convinced of this truth, and act accordingly, there is no remedy but in the extremity of the evil. Lancet. Yes, Sir, but if you will not give the malt tax, the shopkeepers will not give the house and window tax, and then poor Lord ALTHORP will have no money at all; and then how is your Now, from this digression; if, inson to get the five hundred a year, and deed, it be much of a digression, I how is your daughter to get the addition return to the subject of that great corto her portion? Oh, no! Sir Giles, it|poration commonly called the navy. is not for your interest that the malt I have asked before what this immense tax should be taken off the present system is the system for such folks as you let those clamour for the taking off of taxes who live by their industry of one sort or another. body of officers can be kept in pay for; and for what reason new men are continually brought into it, in order to keep it up to the full amount? We had, in 1825, 3,773 lieutenants. Now, Sir G. Why, Mr LANCET, now I while there was only about 420 of these think of it, it's best to be cautious what in employment; while there were 3,773 we do in taking away taxes from the in pay, and only 420 in employ, what Minister. reason was there for making Lord Lancet. Yes, yes, Sir; say you no-GREY's son, the Hon. Frederick William thing about the matter; you get more Grey, a lieutenant? What reason was than you lose by the taxes. Let those there for adding this one more to that grumble at them who pay them, and already over-number? I do not pretendTM who receive nothing back out of to characterize the act; but I have a them. Lady J. (who has been in a brown study for some time). Very true, Mr. LANCET! I see, I see how it is! Lancet. Yes, my Lady, it would be a levelling system. right to ask for the reason of it, and ask for that reason, I will. Then again, while, in 1829, we had 3,712 lieutenants, and only about 400 in employ, if so many, what reason was there for making the Hon. George GREY a lieuLady J. Yes, and there's my brother tenant? What REASON was there, I WILLIAM, who is a distributor of say, for making this addition to the stamps, and there's my father, poor prodigious number? Since the times man, who has so long had his quiet here mentioned, these two gentlemen little place. have been made, one a post-captain, and Lancet. Yes, my Lady, it would dis- the other a commander, though there turb the happiness of so many respect-must have been about 3,000 lieutenants able families. who stood before them upon the list. Lady J. Aye, and as Dr. TITHE- Very likely, there may be others intro |