The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

A CRUMB FOR MONARCHISTS

The NEW TAXES to be laid in Great-Britain the present year, agreeably to a statement submitted to Parliament, amount to seven millions one hundred and thirty-six thousand pounds sterling! upwards of thirty millions of dollars.

It would seem by the additional burthens every year imposed upon the oppressed and impoverished people of that unfortunate nation that their government (like the man who, because he could carry his calf day after day without feeling the additional weight, imagined he could continue to carry it daily until it should become an Ox) believe that the people can bear any load they may think proper to lay on, & are disposed to make the experiment how much they can exist under. We cannot, however, believe, that the People of Britain can much longer bear up under the rapid accumulation of poverty, taxation & misery.

Ungrateful must be the wretch who can think of the peculiar blessings with which we are surrounded without a heart full of thankfulness to the "Giver of every good and perfect gift," for his unbounded munificence towards us. Unworthy to breathe a free air must he be, who would barter our peace and prosperity, our freedom and happiness, for that iniquitous system of government which has dragged those highly-favored countries which compose the British empire to the depth of wretchedness, degradation and despondence--to the brink of bankruptcy and starvation!

Let that man forever be distrusted who, to bring republicanism into contempt, prates about the petty inconveniences and disadvantages which attend republican governments--their want of energy, liability to faction, &c. All the evils we have ever experienced or have a ground to anticipate from our system, are blessings compared with the best fruits of monarchy-Britain is boasted of by royalists as the happiest nation in the old world: and in Britain COBBETT declares that "all the laborers having families are paupers"--and that "a man with a wife and four small children, cannot, out of his labor possibly provide them, and himself with the means of living."--He does not mean, he says, that they cannot live comfortably, for, with comfort, such men have long ago bid farewell; but, (he continues) I assert, and am ready to prove, that he cannot provide them, without parish aid with a sufficiency of food, not to satisfy their cravings but to sustain life."

What a picture is here of the most powerful, free and happy monarchy in the world! !!--And instead of lightening the enormous load under which the nation is groaning--more than thirty millions of dollars a year of new taxes are just imposed!
May the people of America so estimate and improve the invaluable and innumerable blessings they enjoy, that a kind Providence may not, in punishment for an ungrateful use of his distinguishing favors, give them over to hardness of heart and blindness of eyes, and permit them to bring upon themselves that greatest of all earthly curses--a monarchy!--or a government administered upon monarchical principles.

VER. T. American.