appear very forward in this subscription.  An Archbishop and a Bishop assisted at the forming of the scheme.  Now then, observe that there has been given out of the taxes, for several years past, one hundred thousand pounds a year, for what, think you?  Why for the relief of the poor clergy!  I have no account at hand later than that delivered last year, and there I find this sum!—­for the poor clergy!  The rich clergy do not pay this sum; but it comes out of those taxes, part, and a large part of which you pay on your beer, malt, salt, shoes, etc.  I daresay that the ’decent firesides’ of these poor clergy still connect themselves with the Government.  Amongst all our misery we have had to support the intolerable disgrace of being an object of the charity of a Bourbon Prince, while we are paying for supporting that family upon the throne of France.  Well!  But is this all?  We are taxed, at the very same moment, for the support of the French Emigrants!  And you shall see to what amount.  Nay, not only French, but Dutch and others, as appears from the forementioned account laid before Parliament last year.  The sum, paid out of the taxes, in one year, for the relief of suffering French Clergy and Laity, St. Domingo Sufferers, Dutch Emigrants, Corsican Emigrants, was one hundred and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds; yes, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds paid to this set in one year out of those taxes of which you pay so large a share, while you are insulted with a subscription to relieve you, and while there are projectors who have the audacity to recommend schemes for preventing you from marrying while young, and to induce you to emigrate from your country!  I’ll venture my life that the ‘decent firesides’ of all this swarm of French clergy and laity, and Dutch, and Corsicans, and St. Domingo sufferers ’still connect themselves closely with the Government’; and I will also venture my life that you do not stand in need of one more word to warm every drop of blood remaining in your bodies!  As to the money subscribed by regiments of soldiers, whose pay arises from taxes in part paid by you, though it is a most shocking spectacle to behold, I do not think so much of it.  The soldiers are your fathers, brothers, and sons.  But if they were all to give their whole pay, and if they amount to one hundred and fifty thousand men, it would not amount to one-half of what is now paid in Poor-rates, and of course would not add half a pound of bread to every pound which the unhappy paupers now receive.  All the expenses of the Army and Ordnance amount to an enormous sum—­to sixteen or eighteen millions; but the pay of one hundred and fifty thousand men, at a shilling a day each, amounts to no more than two million seven hundred and twelve thousand five hundred pounds.  So that, supposing them all to receive a shilling a day each, the soldiers receive only about a third part of the sum now paid annually in Poor-rates.