The Rhode Island Republican

MISCELLANEOUS.

STATE OF ENGLAND.

Part of a letter from an American gentleman now in England, to his friend in Savannah Georgia.

"England, with all her fancied greatness; flushed with her victory at Waterloo; was never in so distressed a state--a pampered crew are feasting on the vitals of the people; whose blood they have been sucking until the last drop is likely to create such a convulsive struggle, as will make the myrmidons about the throne-the minions of a depraved government, tremble for their fate. The people are becoming clamorous; they have been incensed to outrage; they see the wickedness, not follies, of their rulers: they find their purses are drained to supply funds for pensions and sinecures; to support a standing army in France to keep or protect on the throne of that kingdom--an over-fed pensioner of England, weak and priest-ridden; and to minister to the unparalleled extravagance of the royal family. The people find themselves oppressed with taxes.--More than ever borne down with their yet increasing weight; their trade diminishing to every quarter of the world; the price of labour consequently lowered; thousands entirely out of employment, craving subsistence, and prowling on their neighbours; the price of bread increasing every day: and without a large supply--an immense supply--the prospect of starvation staring them in the face.--This is no fancied picture. It is one of reality; but the worst is to come. Every day increases the price of grain, and all kinds of bread stuffs: as oats, barley, rye, &c. In Ireland the state of things is worse-a more impoverished crop, and a more oppressed people. In Scotland the harvest is worse than England. All this scarcity in grain has arisen from the most extraordinary weather this year. But to the people-I hear of vast collections in different parts of the kingdom assembled to declare their wants, and to demand redress. In Manchester, there is to be one on Monday, which I propose to attend. It is supposed there will be from 30 to 40,000 persons present; and I have reason to think they will not disperse as quietly as they assemble. When such a mass assembles, the circumstance of their assemblage is fraught with danger. They meet under the stimulus of being wronged—that they are injured by the government; with their passions inflamed, and encouraged by each other it will be surprising if they disperse without first wreaking their vengeance on some whom they may suppose to be aiders and abetters in the work of iniquity which has brought them to distress and goaded them to revenge."