and Foreign, decrease in consump. tion; another very good moral sign, which we have noticed before. Starch, the ladies can account for, they do not seem to have used less than before; but on the contrary, are more starched than ever. Stone Bottles are too insignificant to waste a line about. Sweets are going on very well, and will better, provided the Radicals don't turn them into sweats. Tea; this is an ad valorem duty, and is but little increased. The old ladies and dandies appear to have left off Snuff, in some small degree; a very wholesome alteration. Tobacco too is less chewed, and this is a moral improvement. Vinegar is as sour as ever, and in undiminished demand for pickles, &c. Wine appears to have given way to John Barleycorn; but a great decrease in this foreign article is not inconsistent with national prosperity. The Portuguese too are turned Radicals, and are inclined to act. We should go to France for wines, and send them back "home brew'd beer." Wire is the ast article in the catalogue, and has remained as before.

We have now gone through the comparative state of our finances up to the present time, and have run through (perhaps the Chancellor of the Exchequer may think somewhat flippantly) all the items one by one; but we are provoked to see the daily papers following one another, like geese across a common; each with his own peculiar groanabsolutely ashamed to own that, which ought to be a matter of honest congratulation. One thinks, our export trade has increased our revenue, and that our own population is neither richer or happier another thinks that one portion of the people may be spending in foreign luxuries and exciseable commodities, those sums which should have gone into the pockets of the farmers and their labourers, in order to preserve the agriculture of the kingdom in a healthful condition.

God help us, and save us from such every-day politicians; as if foreign commerce did not enrich us; and as if those who buy foreign luxuries and exciseable commodities, did not eat bread and butter and cheese, and eggs and bacon, and ham and chickens, and such like agricultural commodities. Now from the recapitulation of the various items of Excise, and consequently of Revenue, which we have made, it appears, that an increased demand is at this moment in activity for all those articles which are considered as of home consumption; and we have little doubt in our minds, but at this moment the frame of society is righting itself in the lower orders of the people. The working classes are certainly much better off than they had been; and if the demand for labour be not so very intense as in the period of war, yet the money for the labour engaged, enables the labourer to live better on less work than he did with more money and harder work. Even from this single document of one year's revenue, we could by inference, and reference, scatter to the winds all the idle nonsense of national bankruptcy, and liquidation by composition of the national debt. The Minister who should dare to put his finger upon the public faith with an improper touch, would deserve a scaffold, and the writer who can advocate such a system, must be ignorant of the resources of his country. It does so annoy us to read the one-sided theories of christianized Jews upon these matters, who fancy they can by a flourish of counting-house figures, put us all to rights; and who have yet to learn, that men of real knowledge and practice, see difficulties where others are blind, because they are ignorant. In our next Number, we shall take up attentively the question of public credit, upon which we repeat, as we began THAT THE DANGER IS

PAST.

1,905,276 1,898,699

2,844,231 8,765,865 8,149,226|| 26,471,363

2,231,873 1,960,703 1,882,816 2,670,683 8,746,105 2,117,659 6,439,543 5,876,335 6,620,609 7,552,021|| 26,488,508|| 6,315,737 5,707,590 6,298,810 4,814,717 2,874,752 4,782,135 2,976,258 15,418,862||

4,734,522 2,856,311 4,683,043 3,047,336 15,321,212

13,486,233 10,711,790 13,285,590 13,199,962 50,683,475 13,167,918 10,469,177 12,880,552 14,040,793 50,558,440 11,491

8,544

5,317 14,314 39,666

2,605

981

8,172 17,881 29,639

13,474,472 10,703,246 13,280,273 83,185,648 50,643,809 13,165,313 10,468,196 12,872,380 14,022,912 50,528,801

No. II. ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRODUCE OF THE REVENUE OF GREAT BRITAIN, (Exclusive of the Arrears of War Duty on Malt and Property,) in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October, 1820, and 10th October, 1821; shewing the Increase, or Decrease, on each Head thereof.