Star. — London, England, 1816-03-29 00:00:00

,• - •4 ""7' *o o" d a ms of the community. Their disttesi was satelyettributable to the depreciation of their The Country Banks also had been a great re duce. assistance tie them; but they had withdrawn their ad vance since 180. Since that period the Country rakers had withdrawn of the circulating medium n aions; and of this there was withdrawn from • the f ar mers at least twelve millions. This certainly Brost pee been one of the great causes of the de preciation of Agricultural produce. The crop of 1 814 was very plentiful ; but this he could not think was a sufficient cause for the great depreciation, as , if the 'produce of the country was greater, the was less ; and he was convinced there I m portation was not so great a surplus in the country as to justify e ny thing like the depreciation that had taken place, if t h e quantity of the circulating medium had re wined. But when on ce an article began to get d ow n in price, and there was a sufficiency though i ot a superabundance of it in the market, the alarm se a* desire of getting a better bargain continued fa long time to depress it farther than the quail. t i t/ or surplus of it would justify. He would - men tion one instance of this which came within his know. le ap Barley had been offered at a certain place fee io e 6d. a cleaner, and this instead of producing; s quicker demand for the article at even a lower r o b produced an entire stagnation in the sale olio s oil though the possessors of barley were willing to sell it for any thing they could get for it, no purchasers could be found. But though the produce of last year was so abundant, he confidently looked for ward to a t he in the price of coin. And this would be as bene ficial to the labourer and manufacturer as to the boded proprietor, for every person must perceive that the lower the price of corn was, t h e t ower the wa ges of the labourer and the manutactuier must be. Th e mantifactiirer surely could hardly but perceive t h at the low price of corn would be as injurious to him as to any other person in the community. There wer e two million six hundred thousand men em ployed in agriculture in the country ; and by the de preciation of corn, the reduction in their wages and Ithe inconws of farmers and landed proprietors, amounted to at least 2u millions a year. Now as those 20 millions could not be given for the produce of the menufacturers, of course the wages of the auerufacturers must be lowered. and they could wore afford to buy corn even at a low rate, than they could when their wages were at a high rate. Alter much falba Mail and argument, the remedy which the Honourable Gentleman thought most likely to be poductwe of the desired effect, and roost e•esible, en what was formerly afforded in periods of s et s ; teas to the mercantile interest, namely, that of lendieg the farmers by Exchequer Bids, or any other means, assistance, os their own security aid slut of their 'landlords, and he thought twelve miiliens distributed is this manner, would relieve the egricuione ef the country in a very material degice. The Tithes and the i'our Rates, he thought very proper objects for anendrnent or alteration ; but they were too c•enpli. eased to hope that any thing could be immediately done with regard to them. The Poor Rites should be sent to a Select Committee, and if any thing were altered in them, he thought the entire system of them ought to be dune away. He begged 'seam for having detained the House so long; but he thought it his duty, on such an important subject, to deliver his views, imperfect as they were. Mr. LESLIE FOSTER. contended that nothing .but protecting the farmers rif the country by heavy duties on importai ior, could be of material or perma nent advantage in removing the agricultural distress tithe country. SeJOHN NEWPORT thought that the produce of agriculture should be protected as well as that of manufacture, and that either the protecting duties should be taken off from manufactures, or slicUid beaffordet to agriculture. Mr. PEEL wished patticidarly to call the atten tion of co Committee to the state of Ireland, which hof seffeed all the evils which this country had hew subject to.; and what was still harder upon her, s!:e wourd not es o ri e enCe that relief, on the conclusion of ;ix war, wind.: this country would do ; for, whilst Chat Britain, by getting rid of the Property and Malt Tez. would get rid of near 17 millions, al molt a foarth of the whole sum raised in the year, the only relief which Ireland, in her present situation, hold leek stir would be about 4100,000 a year War Tar, not an eighteenth part of her taxation.— 1:tlt •thisitceofthiegs, all which could be done f or Ud i j be to protect her agricultural produce neseitcoespetition from the foreign grower aIe.ROBINSON felt the agricultural interestoof thecountry had, in two most substantial instances, re nised the meet efficient re li ef. He objected to the &Liming of a bounty, as ',to used by the H ii"ser, as nut too. •l4 onourable .ly to produce any good. He also objected to protection by prohibition, because he hue then 'anti ]himself to effectiwg a total exclusion of die produce of the . Continent. Last year he had bte (oo pinion that it was impossible to protect our 4ition. b agriculture without a certain extent of foreign poolii utthat wey a ceoe which set ordinary teoliti c"!lrodes at d efiance . At prevent he found no diffi ,..,4lj in laying, t h at no hi g h e r rate should be ins "used On the import of foreign corn. As to the bat-' ofi t " t trt, a prohibition might be impose ; but oil that and hides it would be impossible. ; because, bldaeg so, we stiould deshoy our trade with South i n r itto n 4 . He was afraid, that on the syeterreof pror ns. they had already gone soo fat ; and he therefore did not k tow how to accede to all the pro. Pena l! so f t he Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Western), es te JO in that of butter. M. e , nintry 8 1 12._ . 1-I , AM stated, that in his part of the tne small farmers were either gone, or I remained would work for him at Is. and I ‘ 6l fee eke h oe „, • _ c . al ! For his pa r t, h e thought that the tit : 6 ' s ' l 7k of relief for the farme ; s would be to n absolute prohibition of forein corn, es t`pt''l • hi cases of extreme difficulty. • • ti ,: i :• st r. LEWIS said, i t w as net this or that par. eiest which was now in danger; it was that 4tl W I t, e t r ‘ ' i tch put England herself in danger, by put °e landheldies down For although this island : ,1 1 ei:m a b d e sunk in the sea, yet its efforts would be hotected.n lie called if the landholders were not , ttat hAvin a l ready f called on the House to consider, effected their capital by a forced ficulationg Wthe curre ncy paper, and a corietquent depreciation evils at .n 'icy rut' the country, it could alone remedy es, 4ll l '; fr om . such a practice. The mode in Legislature had allowed the estestoion of Im.. i - . ,_. ! • r- LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1416. PRICE OF SIOC/ii THIS DAY Al' 1 WELVE O'CLOCK rtluced (sbut)—Com. mo. 6t —for ace. G!. 4 yrr Cent. (sbur.)--.5 prr Cot:. P.:91 !Po—Bond: par, 13, pr. Omn. pay. Nit —Exch. 131114 4.. I a. ths. The present state of the Agricultural interest came before a Committee oldie Commons last night; when a Resolution was moved to lower the daties on Milt s Beer, and Spirits, by way of bringing the question practically betdre the House. 'that the stAte of Agri., cultute is at preterit most deplorable is a fact too evi dent to be disputed ; but so is that of our frfanufac totes : nor Oil it be so easy to apply a remedy as some people stem to imagine. In fact the present difficulties are the natural fruit of a long continued Lysttru, nor is it in the power of human ingenuity to remedy them in a day ; and Parliament might as well am nip: to regol.ce the rising and setting of the sun— the quantity of wet and dry weather by an Act of Parliament—as attempt by mere enactments to limit and d:rect the eperation of moral causes which affect the prestra question. It is a mt.st intricate subjcct, and if any thing hopeful is to be expected from the labours of Parlia ment, it can only be from their probing the wound to the bottom, and ascertaining without equivocation or reservation the real cause of the malady. fa, our humble opinion the House is yet wide of the mark. Some of the speakers have approximated, but none of them have laid hold of the cause and brought it forth to vitas ; yo this mast be done, or we shall b. exposed to all the dangers of quackery. We speak not now of the first political cause; that is toss obvious to be mist.iken, namely, the long war in which we have been engaged, and load of taxation which it has created ; but of the secondary causes, operating with this and tending to destroy the qui. librium of property. We have only been able to take a very hasty view of this intricate subject, and we may fail hi the few lines we can now devote to it tomato ourselves intelligible; but we think it a duty we owe to the public, to throw out a hint which may perhaps lead wiser heads to a right perception of one of the leading sourdcs of the present evil. The public have laboured till this moment under a dreadful mistake respecting the real prices of corn and other manufactures—for corn is a manufacture—and sane have been more under the effect of this delusion than Parliametwirself. ,In fact, when corn was at the highest, the grower was getting only at the rate of itl for every 27 of his nominal price ; r T--^ tot 275. Wis then the Worth n 1 'the guinei.— Where did the (tiff. mice go ? What came of it ? It has been divided in bonturt to the Proprietors of Bank Stock, and in additions m ide to the price of that commodity. The Bank. w:.en cash payinents were interdicted, should have been restricted from all increase of dividends, and the surplus should have been monthly laid oat in the purchase of h.,llion at tie market prirr. For want 'of this foresight the relative valor, of property has been deranged. The Bank has pocketed the difference, ,and the rest of the commu nity have lost it. These inferences are as certain and infallible in i political arithmetic, as any result be the regular working of the rules of Cocker. To shut our eyes against them would be only to procrastinate the evil. By what fatality has the time for Cash payments been again deferred ? rs it too late to apply the remedy ? If it is, you do not yet appre chte the evil as you ought—Y,:u must suffer greater distresses than you have yet Jobe, n d the country must endure a prolongation of its miscry.—We shall return again to this subject. Philadelphia Papers to the 21st ult. arrived this morning, but they contain no news of importance —.- Our transatlantic neighbours appear to see the neces. city of retrenchinents as well as ourselves. To-day we received the Paris Papers of Ttresday. Their contents are not of the most :king importance. The marriage of the Duke de Bituat is about to be celebrated in the plainest and most economical way. The manner in which this union is spoken of in the Chamber of Deputies is In'some in the extreme. The French Institute has been completely new modelled. It is now divided Mu; live Royal Academies of music, painting, sculpture, kc. MARCII The King being perfectly restared to health, heard grand Mass yesterday. He was received wjth the loudestmati uns of joy. The must perfect tranquillity prevails in Carsica under the government ot the Marquis de Riviere and General de 1Vi;I:a. General Debelle has not yet appealed against his sentence. The'Members of the Court which k to try G...neral Drouot are not yet nan►:d. The beautiful balloon in which MaJemoiwlle Gar. ncrin aicencLd, has not yst .ten beard of. It most have gooc an irn:nense dista!ice. COVIt:EIt FArl:Ao:ll)lN.litY oF TETEIDAY 11011,71 NC. An Ordonnance of tlae t!lst instant fixes the new Constitution of the Institute. We shall publish it to-T110: r ,, w. 'rile King wishing to rtcona;ens , ! the bravery an.l fideiity of the lUch Ragiment of the line, has ordered tfiat its colours shall be'depusied in the roostconspi. coons place t,l the Chal,el of the •l'huillerics. - Last night, at hall-past eight, the guard being as. sembled and tinder arms, the Secretary to the Council of War read to Genet al lichen:: the sentence 01 dsath. The General heard it without b:traying any emotion, then turned In the S:aliiers and said, " My looks are not altered, for my heart is pure. It the clemency of the Nang shall be excited towatds a subject whn wit* only lrd :astray, my whole life shall be em ployed in tepairing my foul : my .!eath alone can expiate them I am read) to die !" ;five L Rli—Pive /e h 1" PARIS, MARCH 23. The affair of Messrs. Brice, limchinson, and Wit son, will be definitively turd next month. It is thought that the cause will be broaght before the Jury early in the month. Several questions of laws having been proposed by M. DUpts, the defender of Sir Rupert. Wilson, 'and Messrs. Bruce and Hutchinson, they have been offi cially transmitted to Londois, 'and answered by three English lawyers ;n the tollawing letter, addressed to Lord Castlereagh : " Mr Luau—We have had the honour of receiving the or ders of yoi,r Lordship by a letter front Mr. Hamilton, dated the 7th, transmitting to ut several papers from Sir Charles Stuart, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of France, relative to the course of eroceednig which it is propwed to adopt against Sir Robsrt Wilson, Messrs. Bruce and Hutchinson, anirto which our attention is chiily called with relation to the qu.-stions which conclude the statement of M. Dupls. Your Lordship cars upon us to turtiLlt the official statement required in answer to these questions. Pager to obey your Lordship's orders, we have the honour tit ohs. swing, that when a foreigner is accused of a crime or offence arras: the "taw of England, he is tried according to the i tiles of that law—his guilt or innocence is established ac cerdnig to the established mezinis of the English law. " With respect to the right of being tried by a Jury,compossd partly of English and pertly of flreigners, this right is secured to the accused by the statute, 20th Edward 11l chap. 13, and for nwily recognized by the Staztee Bth Henry VI. chap. 29. " When a foteigner under accusattoti is called upon to defend law seli against the charges brought against him, he has the right of dereaeding that the Jury by whom he is to be tries shall be composed hati of foreigners, and half of English subjects. It is not necessary that the foreigners should he of the same country with the accused; if, however, a sufficient number of the same country are to he found within tko Bailiwick, or tinker charged with returning the Jury Panne!, they are always chosen in prefe rence. If it should happen that there are not a sulficient number of foreigners of the sante country with the accused, the number may br completed by utruti. of English subjects. " It is the Sheriff, or the Ulbccr whoi!e duty It Is to return the Jury Panneb, who also returns the list of foreign Jurors, an.t he ought to take care to select twelve of every descrietiot., in order that six of each twelve may hr chosen by ballet to serve tin Juries. It is not necessary that the foreign Juryntan should have the same qualification with regaid tie property as the Eng -I.sh Juryman. 'lbis is provided for by tit: statute of Henry to which we have Chided. " It a foreigner and an Englishman are included in the same indictment, and the foi*igner demands a Jury of half abesis, the persons accused ma) be tried *tiara-ay, in order to secure to the foreigner the advantage of a Jury of ledf aliens, And to the k.nglishman that of an English Jury. " Such is the general principle established by the Statutes of which Illetitkot has been made. '1 he Statute, however, of Ist Philip and Mary, chap. 10, which enacts that all procettliugs in treason should be prosecuted according to the Common Law, has repealed the Statute of 28th Edward 111. and taken away this privilege of a Jury half aliens, in casts of high treason. It is so stated in 1..0rd Hale's Pleas of the Crown, vol. 2, page 271, and in the cases there cited. " lu all the proceedings which take place In England, what ever may be their nature, if letters or written papers In a foreign language are produced, they are translated by an interpreter, who is sworn to interpret and translate fairly and truly. " We believe we have answered all the questions which have been proposed to us In the name of Sir Roses's. Wi tam+, Messrs. BILIICIS and HUTCSIN so N ; and we have the honour, &c. (Siimed) " CHRIST. ROBINSON. " W. GARZOW• 44 Lord Viscount Castlereagh." "S. Smarm tan." I ~-- --- --r-~s • , Comte/ teaks,' oat, above *ll, the tfhost loin measure for this country. He contended, that the funded system of this countrl ought sot to be f urther pressed t for if it were, the consequence would, be further depreciation of the currency of the country. The proportion of taxes required for the exigencies of the State, he trusted, might he diminished. But those for the liquidation of the National Debt could not be decreased. The consequence must be, that, unless the taxation on Agriculture were diminished, no relief of any effectual kind could be afforded to the Agricultural interests. With this view he was pleased that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had relinquished the War Malt-Tax. There were other duties which pressed severely on land ; kilt he agreed that prohi bitory duties were those which they ought to a INt only on the most pressing occasions. The manufac turing interests had alone been in the habit of applying for laws to give them the monopoly of the home mar ket; while the agriculturalists had (until they could bear it no longer) never applied for such a measure as that of prohibition in their own favour. He in stanced' the CAS, of a prohibition as to timber, in order to protect the forests of Canada. But his object was to have all these prohibitory laws done away; and that would give the greatest relief to the land and avicul ture. For this purpose he wished the Duty ou Wool to be taken J, and an additional duty imposed on foreign wool imported, of so small nature as would not operate as a jomplete prohibition to the importation of that article. He had hoped the subject of the Corn Lawp would never have been again brought before the House, at least as far as related to the giving a bounty for the exportation of corn, which he regretted to find among the Resolutions now be fore the House. On the subject of Tythes, many people thought that they should be done away ; but that would be extremely difficult ; for an exchange must be made, and there Bever was any thing yet so difficult as estimating the value of lands by way of exchange. He believed that if a proposition for such an exchange were ma ;e, there would be scarcely a landholder in England who would accept of the offer. There ought, in his opinion, to be an en- j inrcemisnt of the Poor Laws, so AS to make all! those work who were enabled to do so. lie would submit his Resolutions to the Ginimittre.—There existed a prohibition from exporting Wool; and an other from exporting live Siieep. Tile fast was under a penalty which was a disgrace to the Smtute Book; namely, that the person offending w..s to have his kit hand cut off, and be imprisoned for 12 months. These prohibitory and petal enactments should be done away ; and be would move two Resolutions to that effect. The detail of the Revalutioqs for collect iog a duty on wool impcirted nest be a subject of future regulation. He then moved a Resol.nien, that at all times wool shOuld be etp , tted, du:y tree, front Great Britain and Ireland. He also moved, that it was expedient, that Tobacco should be allowed to be cultivated in Great Britain. The CHANCELLOR. if the EXCHEQUER said, that, consideri.,g the lAtei:esi of t h e hour, and the impossibility of coming to'a do,:ision. he should move that the debate be a.. l . j.nirned. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and asked leave to sit again on Tuesday twxt, which was granted. 7:be Repnrt of the Committee of Supply was or dered to he received ou Monday next. Aclk)strned at Half•past Twelve o'Clnck. TuE EVENING STAR. AltitY& .0111•••m1161• The Oth tegithent Marched into Colchester Tuesday, to relieve the depot of the 80th, which marched yesterday Morning fiord that place tot Ipswich. The half of the 121 refitment will shnrtly march from Edinburgh to Glasgow, to be qoarered in the environs of that City, to prevent smuggling. Thursday se'nnight, the depots of the '2lst, 71s1 79th, and 91t Regiments arrived at Eitobtirgh, and are now qu meted in Qieendlerry-hotv. e irracks. A company of the :31 ltoyil Veteuto Ltatt,lion are under orders to march to Dimhatton The Forlarsiiire Militia arrived at Montrose ott ld V.".•to l! ; tin h.,: 1 ie. i M o nd.,y. S ,y, the of Co r k Militia re di:ernh-lih died in the Barracks there by M Genet.ll DON. North Cork Militia ha* marched in these to be discilbodied. NAVAL INTLLLIGENCR. PLY MN? I :-I,4IARCti 27. Came in t!!e tiot;r. sloop nt w3r from a ettl;Ze- 1 Arrived tie Ra:kes, GAitosea, trom Sailed the 'i2.l : the R..tik..s, i her pas sage from Itmaic.t, lost her Chief Nl. , te civet-boar.!, and ;Allied away lier butw.uki :—stle will s.il f.r London as soon as the wind will Pat iii the sloop Johnson; Asnuowts, from Gislipoli, bound to liud.—Wind E. DrAL, MARCH 2/1. ' • The Fortittide traits,ort. NAPlkit master, hound to Embden, wit!' a detachment of the 7th Regiment of Font on hoard, is still detained in the Divrit, by the strong easterly winds. Sailed the Comma. war to Nort`i Yarmouth. Remain in the Doxitt the GANT/112DR fler :) ate and several revenue vessels. RAMSGATE, MARCH 28. The Lord Liverpool packet, which sailed hence, for Ostend, on Sunday morning last, arrived from that prat last night at ten o'clock, atter a fine nen •:iver in eight hours and a half, with several passen gers, and the Flanders Mail, which was immediately forwarded on to London. It apve.an that no Donee packet had reached Ostend for some days, owing to the strong easterly winds, which was the cause of the Liverpool bringing over the Mail : and we nu. diTt.tancl, from good authority, that the Lot d Duncius. [)over packet, only sailed from that port yester.l4 fop ennon for (Mend, alter haying had the Fl ,nd. rs M fil on b.iard ever since Saturday—chewing, :nest indisputably, that this must be uge most pief table port for the passage to and from Ostend, and strongly invites Government to run their Flandets M Packets from hence, particularly as East and Wei: - terly winds are the winds most prevalent in this CI: 'noel. Sailed tlrs day at noon the Prince of Wm. ter 100 p.tfAer, for attend, with passengers. A, eved, from Wend, Eliza transport with S.orekeeper General's stores, and regimental baggage, w!.:cti :5' lant.ing here for C.lnteri;ury. Tha Lliz i hes also - on hoard a clulut:ty of empty casks and cutn-baga, with which she is to proceed to Deptford. Gaman Papers were received this morniv. but their contents are uninteretting. We understand the follovring arrangements are announced as those suggested by his Roy Hien"s the PRINCE Rat for the marriage of his belastd atuAluer 1. 'the pacelent of her Royal filehnew the Melees t f Deus/NICK in be nt Hely frelowed, to cuitmequence of whteit, DO distiaction of t'st: Roy2l Family of England is to be continued to her Royal Highness, and even Cie Royal Liveries are got to ha worn by her servana,but done of the dime inus hoer.: t•t Coihntre to be sttbstitu:rti iti !heir room; Jul the esclitent taste of Royal Hlahnegs w i 1 be consul-ed on the enhject. g. 'l' he Princc or CUSAURG if to be created Duke of Kitimat., by whielf creation, her Royal lilgiusrvetne Primes, t !lAA t..)r of Watts. Heiress Presumptive of dui hrone, woi tH wir e DuehesS of KCXDAL, a title only known in ttAt t c i .mtry by L v . lug tsven bOrne the °ern= Princess or OttOltllL 1. The GJrnians are highly offended at our eirisarnisg the Prince who is about to x my the Plesatnpt.ve Heir to the British Crown by the Frenchitied term of Cont , cao, Iris rell, oattie being C'obergi. They have Ll:sittissed the French terms illo , :veter and Atahnsv, not from Actors anti Actres.es only, but frottiali per. sons; and the oil terms of Her, Fran, and Anterees, for Mr. !distress, and Miss, ate generally resumed. The following particulars of the Woolwich smog. gling have b,•en transmitted to us :—On the voyage home, a carpenter employed in scenting the packages discovered the secret. linmediately on i V4l he g sve information at the Custom-house, but it was ten days after before the ship was inspected ; in the mean time much of the smuggled goods fur certain persons were got away, and only those were lett for men of less note. There were to the valve of £7OOO fir one man packed up as—return Congreve rockets. There were many rare things which were got out of the way. In - the mortars were laces, gloves, cambries,.&:. and in the tumbrils were claret, champagne, Su. Many peg. ple have long supplied themselves and friends with wine in this way, and their wives with finery. T;iis is only a itersel which has been detected, but the trade has long and successfully been earl -led on to a great extent. The man who informed got about £lOOO. Why not call him before Parliament The Affidavit of John Jackson, which appeared in an Advet tisernent in the Sr sit, in wnich the proteg. sional character of Mr. K/CRNAN was treated with disrespect, must have originated either in a mistake 'or from a more blameable cause. We can now state, on an authority not to be questioned, that Jackson n was a patient of Mr. KIERNAN, nor did he ever even erev see that Gentleman . tut Wednesday last, mown some legal proceedings, in consequence of the Affi• davit referred to, made his presence necessary, and when he acknowledged before respectable witnesses, that till the time of that interview lie had never seen Mr. KIERNAN. CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.—We had very little fine Wheat at market this morning, and prices are rather higher than on Monday. Barliy is dull sale, in consequence of Cie uncertainty that prevails it. spect'ing the time of reducing the duty upon Malt. Oats maintain Wednesday's prices. In Peas and Beans there is no akeralion. SMITHFIELD MARKET, MARCH 19. Dad ai 0.1 to Ss Oct Vaal is Oil to as al Mutton 4r od to 5, Od I P•rk as 0(1 m 5. 6(1 !Saws 760—Sheep and Lambs 3,190—C3h-es I4o—rags 160 HAY AND STRAW, PERLOAD. Meadow Hay :raw , *. t e o l sl lo4 ii t i o CkLIS gs. s l OS to 61 6s. . . , ---' ~~. til 1 ,--