The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-15 00:00:00

,''Y CV oull 44AM 4, r - - .r" - mow . • p,•-. I - rut •- . , . " '•••". $ 4, • . _ •••• ; e't vi • - iF.9 .• • tatolArria . i 11 kr. ' 6 ' t". 2 ¶ 4l • MONDAY, MAY 13, 1820. • .fefl an the Field, and SIDNEY died on the Scaffold!" PRICE SEVEN PENCE. t t, I r A• if I if , r - N) • L iN 1)0 N, -17!1 " Couxe for :flitch HAMPDEN TIIE C:,t liicr in I. . iv. to liiiv real vos i . ItEiitT l ?. Iti i. 4. rul FLOOR- I arts. '4 • 1N 1! I: it:it't • the Is prir ri.! ths! his • , ..ly esr_sitei. niessure is , ..t !'able llatt • Doyleys, is rev • •, It is Cit. Old 510.7, No Its. n• .! e •••• . .vitts 1.1 . . ..):.10C ll:suse in Loudon. .IGli I tI'I, Tt'lt.lL ASSOCIATION. Without staying to inquire whether the Doctor is correct in all these branches, it is sufficient here to state that this estimate having been prepared anterior to 1814, and published in that year, it could not be fabricated to serve the purpose of the agriculturists; and if we check his estimate by the payment of the Property -tax, we shall he astonished at the corrobora tion which the Doctor's estimate derives from this cri terion. I therefore take the estimate eltogether for better for worse, in all i's branches, as sufficiently Accurate to draw a ronspisrionn of the stational profit on each branch, and which, when analyzA, will appear as follows: j a I 7.!:.'" h.•,; sh• Pu'.li. • ••••, •tstity 1. .:ravv,.. The 'l.lO Fie. , t ; Not receive. iti a( :don 210.000 t Ttic I • VII• 1.01 iL l'-ize% of .f..r,o)i of lii ?i ,1 .11: Pricer of OW ,::TEKTS it(ILI CAslrmi. ,:n!..1.1 AND ent.:llLX. T!el.t • 7i• . .3r, ore (Ai Saie at p 4463' e Yie:A. %u. S . I; 11. lf , •tbora: "S. fitywarLet • •.I4 IN. Ott r• - 4.1: where they mild tat tut:qwlitat'apii.d.s. draw v rtril Di:6 : tie. 11.614 . PriTt: Of •••• • • • • t20,V10 MAO a Prize of Three per (*.eat. l ".14.45. MATCIII.FAS 111. EL. TEXT TRURSUA Contractor. ... . 4. ...411....Z*000 Ctins:t's....t 110,000 /11.1100 Con Llgfi• . • • • . ;i4OOO 4 1.090 M0.:1.y ... . 1,000 4 10 4OU Coouois 4.000 111 3OO (:ursoLi 3.0)9 14 2119 lltt.n . t.s ...... V.SOO 30. Ilt , ides the full proportion sof t 10u. 139, stri .t 16 Prizes. 'IWO PRIZES OF TEN TIIOUAAND POL NDS Must be drawn in the First Five 0111tites. MAT THURSDAY. Wingate/I Undl•swn Tickets and Sl.nres nee selling by 4: 4, l'.•utrsetor, No. 19, turtshiil, aad Yd, Oxford street. TAndon, who :Attired moJ sold. in inelast few ths, 2.1147 P MAIM 7.093 !LOW 796 21.010 2,Vti Y OOO _ 4,133 20.9Uit &e. &r. CARROLL shared ■nd sold F..tar Capital Priitta that la ere drawn the First Day, Y7lh Copyitultk. Twickenham. TO BE SOI.;) BY AUCTION. 1:y Mr. LANGDON, itSic George inn, Tw ickenham, on THURSDAY. May IS, Iw,u, at Ind u'Clock, k Order of the Proprietor, in Six Lots. lIX COPYHOLD subai - tr.tial Brit:!‘ DWF:LLING - b 7 HOUSES. Militate in iiteatt-nliey. Twieitenham, let to 1304 Ililleeetable tenants-at-a :t rental of n 11) &4 pomade fourteen per *Nese premises bate reetatlycuderrnne a th :rough repair, anJ are held at a small annual quit-rent of one •Itilling. Fell particulars n:ay be heel at the Mtar and Outer, Rirh mood: Phoenix, Islet/or:it: Mr. Wertern. Nn. $B, Castle street. ilolborn; sod Jolin Lr ngdou. Auction Rooms, Broad way. near Ludgate-hill, and Blaelltmathddll. ANGEL INN. uts.-r.II"IS7tAL OFFICE. !'UIt TRAVELLING. THE following. AI .1i LS and oilier COACHES Co irom the ahoTe Ina :- - Paris ttoy at Mail, via Dover Tuesday and Friday Nights, at •vielr e. Portsmouth and Gosport Mall. through Godsluting. Pe tersield, and Ponies, ever : I:sc.:lag at a quarter past 7, and Sunday at half past 6. tin its ►rritd a packet sails to tat. isle of Wight, to comey passengers and parcels ; and a Mail Coach sets off to Chichester, through Drayton, Havant, Ernan orth, &c. _ . Gloucester and Milford Mail, through Henley. Oxford, and Cheltenham, every Eve..i.vg a quarter past 7, and Sun da y at half-past O. Dover and Canterbury Mall. throneh Gravesend. Chat ham. and Foversham, ever) , remit at a (p.urter past 7. and Sunday at half past 6. From. Canterbury. passengers and par cels are conveyed to Deal. Margate. Itainsgate, Sandwich, te.: and from Dover, parcels arc conveyed to Follstoue, bandeate. ily the, Dimcaurch. Romney. and Ly dd. Arundel and Bognor Post-roach, through Billinglturst, Monday. %% ednesday, and Friday, a quarter before 7. Cath and Bristol Pout-cerrh. to carry only four inside, through Rending. Marlborough, Caine, and Chippenham, every Moraine at 6. Its% and Br( stol Light Post-coach, every Afternoon at half past 2. Bath Light Post-coach, in two days, to carry four inside, Armtek Maidenhead. Reading. Marlborough, Desires, and Alulkshals, Monday. K erinesday, and Friday Morning... at N. This !Oath is chiedy intended for the accommodation of families. Invalids. &e. sem cannot undergo the fatigue of such a distance in one dsv. _ _ Ilrightssu Light Post-coach, through Reigate and Cuck held. every Morning at 8. Post-coach, to carry only four inside, through Henley and Oxford, every Morning at a quarter before O. 01k-heater. Bognor. and Petworth Post-coach. Monday, AT , -Inestlay, and Friday 'Mornings. at a quarter before 7. Doter and Canterbury Liyht Post-coach. Monday, Toes d3:.. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday Mornings. at 7. Dolt'lasing and Golldford Telegraph Coach. through Ash abitd, Erma. Leatherhcad, are. Tuesday, Thursday, and nsturday Murniugs. nt 9. Littlehampton. Arundel, and Petworth Coach, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at a quarter before 7, except Sunday. Kendal. Liocaster. Preston. Kirby, Lonadale, Bolton, Iliorley. Or utkh rk , and Uarstang, Post Coaches, every a fter t:oon at Fite 1,--Itearded. Doialmitig and Guildford Telegraph Coach. through hi 'Exton, Dillon. Cold:cm. and Ripley, on Monday. Weil ..rstts y, and Friday Mornings, at 9. and every Sunday !..rning at 7 precisely, and returns to London the saute Outtlolteing and Guildford new Coach. through Merrow. Laudon. Horseley. Ettin!zlinri. Leatherhead, and Epsom, lorry Afternoon at 3. except sundae. NORTHERN COACHES. York. Newcastle. and Edinburgh Poaches , and to all parts of the North, et mil Morning. at a quarter past S. Manchester, Lancaster, Kendal. Rochdale. Huddersfleid, Bradford, Leeds, Hallifax, Rotherham, and Sheffield. cos , !,es, daily. CARRIERS, To Twickenham. Brentford. and Isleworth, every Mon th). Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. EAMES and Cu., Proprietors. Parcels and Packages are safely and expeditiously Mill ie) ~.1 from this inn to ever) City, Ton u, Village. and Cowry Seat in thc foilow Ceunties, viz. t Berks. Ducks, Cornwall, Devon. Dorset. Hants. llerec.trtt. Oloneester, Oxford. Somerset, Surrey. Sussex. Wits. Worcester. South Wales, all par:s of the 141 e of W Wit. Jersey. littera try. aid all parts of France : and to all Pars of tht North • Take notice, that no package. containing ;lass, china, lialehrs, plate, cash. or Hank notes. however small the Wee, will be accounted for, if lost or damaged; nor any Eher parcel or paiseug, is luggage. of more than 31 value. unless specified ns such when delivered at the Office and P*4l for accordingly Neat Port-Chaises, &c. at Ilsc shortest notice The following is the Report of George Webb Hall. Esq. Chairman of the General Committee of Manage ment f9r the Agricultui al Associations in Great Britain and Ireland, !Haile to the said Committee at Hender son's Ilote!, on 'Alonday, the Ist day of May, 1820, and approved of by the same :.-•- " lientlensen—l have to report to you, that in exe cution of the triNts rev bt . fl in this Committee by the General alc •ting held in this place, on Monday, the totk day of Oct. last, I have ta;,rn upon myself to send to the I }lief Magistra:e in every town in Eng land, Walt It, Scotland. and irelaii.l, on.i to circulate, in (ration:: other parts if the l'nite,l hingdum, copies of the origin and proceedings of tl.e Agricultural As societies's in Gnat tiritain, which has produced a very considerable etrect in confirming, eremling, anti en larging the Associations then formed, and has added many new associations to the general cause: that I have held a most extensive correspondence with almost every county ;n England, •nd with several in Wales, in Scotland, and in Ireland, as will appear by the bundles of letters now laid on your tr.l.le for your In spection and perusal; and I have particular pleasure in reporting to you, that the Associations generally, hare acquired nu inconsiderable and consistency since 1 had last the honour of meeting you in this place. Vetelenien—We are now assembled for the pur pose of ente.ing tot one of the most arduous tasks ever before confided in this or :my other nation to so small a number of men ;—tnen too that are inexperienced and untried in the path u Welt lies before them—an aided by power—unstr e ported by patronage—and unprotected by interest : in short, I may fairly de scribe ourselves as men destitute of every supposed rs quisite for the nudertaliug in stirch we are about to embers, except the energies of our own minds, and the justice of our cause :—and supp , rted only by those who have hitherto hero considered—but most mis takenly so considered, as I shall prove in the sequel— as the most incotoideralde r:ass of men in the nation, vim the Cuitivators of the Soil of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bat, Gentlemen, what we want in patronage we will supply by facts ;what we want in interest by ar guenents, and what we want in political power, we will ntstain by train and ;iistice, which, wp►n respect fully and iiroreriy sitiimitt-ci to the British Legisla ture, have never yet been pleaded in lain. With the example, therefore, be:*ore our eves, of the final suc cess and triumph of 11r. Wilberforce in the instance of the slave trade, after su many defeats, I urge you to think of nothinz lint ultimate success; well know ing that until Heil>h agriculture shalt receive apigl i protection with her Commerce and manufactures, it will be impossible to carry it on with advantage to the country or ; e;.elit to the I tiltivator, and that the declension of our agriculture must prove the destruc- tion of both one commerce and our inanitto tures. Gentlemen, I will not cont.' isl front ~on that the most ilitfit uit point we shall have to encounter, is the , opinion which men of all ranks and descriptions, not only in the United in, but throughout Europe, have imbiLeti, viz. That the amazing wealth and psi .ver which this mighty nation has flisylayed, is de. rived from her commerce and manufactures, rather than from her agriculture: and therefore it is that the interests of our agriculture have been fur centnrics past more or less sacrificed to the supposed, although mistakes, interest of her commence and manufactures. But those who investigate this question more pro foundly will ascertain that it is from the unceasing industry and energies of her inhabitants, protected as they are by her udrivalled Constitution, the fertility of her soil, her bonnilless mines of coal, and the union of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, in one and the same people, that the United Kingdom of Ureat Britain and Ireland has surpassed the whole world in wealth and power, as she has in arts and in arms; anti that all the present sufferings of her people arise simply and solely for want of preserving a due equilibrium between her agriculture, her commerce, and her manufactures. She has sacrificed the former to the mistaken interests cf the two latter sources of her wealth and power; aid being well assured that no redress can be expected until this Committee shall satisfy the legislature, his Majesty's Ministers, and the public, of the dependance not only of the com merce and manufa lure of this country, but of the re venue also upon her agriculture. I have spared nei ther time nor pains to demonstrate this fact by such a comparative statement of the profits of etch to the country at laige, as I doubt not, when it shall be tho roughly investi_ated, will set this question at rest for ever. _ I therefore crave your must serious attention,. and your most minute iuvestigatian of the following comparative view of the profit to the United Kingdom of Oreat Britain and Ireland, arising from her agricul ture, her commerce, and her asAtintActures; by which it is clearly demonstrated, that the depreciation of her wealth, occasioned by the import of foreign produce, duty free—and which she might grow on her own soil—amounts to a mush larger sum than she ever' cleared by all hee commerce and manufactures put to gather, whether for home consumption or foreign markets: from whence it may be fairly inferred, that all her present embarrassments arise from this single cause. Dr. Colquhoun, in his " Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire," estimates the property created in Ureat Britain sad Ireland in the year ISI t-13, as follows: Agriculture, and all its branches C 318.817.814 Minas aid minerals, coals, dm. 9.000.000 Alaueractures in every branch 114.130.01.10 Inland trade in all 04 branches 31,800,0110 Foreign rommercJ and shipping 46.373.70 Coastiag trade %OMNI) Fisheries, exclusive of the colonial fisheries of Newfoundlan t - 1.100.000 ' i Chartered sad rrirste Isaakers 11,1100,00 ti Total 1 4114111.3 n Agriculture, and all its hrtinehey. inOreat 3ritain and Ireland Of this creation, I ma. (*iffy est'inate one-fourth therrenrator profit I.i the landowners for frrnaldritain and Irv!awl - - - 34,981,406 To the cultivators of the t.oil for the profits of stock, skill, and capital, 1 allow three-fourths of this sum as clear gain. viz. for Great Britain and Ireland, 40,053.304 i., of which I estimate, for the cultivators of Great Britain. four-fifths 39,312.664 To the cultivators of the soil of Ireland, one-fifth 8.130,889 'tithes for Great Britatu alone, in 1814 - - 1,7114,808 Deduct these four sums from the amount created, and we leave 110,237,01 N. for wages, maintenance of working cattle, seed, poor's rate and taxes, de. Mines and minerals, coals, de. 9,000,0401. Of this creation I reckon 111 per cent., or one eighth, for the lord's share - - - - 1,124.000 The like for the farmers or workers of the mines 1,123,000 Deduct these two sums from the amount created, sad we leave 6.7110,00111. for wages and working the mines, de. de. Total profits on the production of the soil in 1813£99,814,608 By which it appears, that in 1313, the productions of the soil of Great Britain and Ireland yielded to the owners and occupiers thereof, the net clear profit of 99,940,608/. to be expended in the c untry, whereby all ranks and conditions of men were alike benefitted and employed, and the tuxes were paid with facility; bat in 1614, by the import of foreign produce, ditty free, or nearly so, the productions of the soil were de preciated one-half of their former value, and they have since averaged a depreciation of ab ut one-third of their value in I 613, whieh depreciation has diminished the currency of the United Kingdom, and reduced the value of every other specie. of property in the same peopor.ion, and produced that universal stagnation in every other business of which all complain, but of which so few can solve the cause. Manufactures in every branch, 114,240.000 i. Of Ibis creation. I cannot reckon more, and I pre. lame the manufacturers will not claim, as net profit, than 1911 per cent. The residue of the nom treated is nil capital, wages, and dead charges ; the total profit therefore to Great Bri tain sod Ireland on all her manufacture* Is - 14,174,7110 Inland trade in all its branches, 31.500,00 W. Of this creation, I reckon for the same reasons, in AR.. RAM rip i titisereiii Io n , the same IV, Coasting trade. 9,000,0001. Of this creation. the sense WI per cent, net profit 230,000 Fisheries, 2,109,0001. Of this creation, the same 131 per cent. net profit 209.300 Chartered and private banker.. 3.3110.000/. This being a creation of profit upon a capital of 40,700,0001. we carry the whole as profit - 3,300,000 Total net profit to the nation on all the hos‘ted commerce and manufactures of Great Britain-- and Ireland only !!1 - - - - .2 46.020.4410 I will now proceed to cheek these results by the se veral payments on the property tax. First, I deduct one-fifth of the sum of 54,204,106/. above stated, as the rental of Great Britain and Ire-1 land, for the snare of rent on land in Ireland, not l charged to the property tax, which leaves the sum of 43,383,5251. as the net rental of Great Britain,accord lag to Dr. Colquhoun's estimate. The payment to the property tax in Great Britain in 1814-15 to Schedule A. property in land, was 4,297,247/. which, multi plied by in, ascertains the rental of Great Britain, according to the payments on the property tax, at the sum of 42,972,4701. leaving only the trifling differ ence between the Doctor's estimate and the actual payment un the property tax, of 391,11551. The first item, theret , re, may be taken to be proved to demon stration as the profit from rent in lin-at Britain and Ireland. The next item is for profits to the cultivators of the soil of Great Britain, 32,522,844/. They were charged and paid to the property tax the sum of 2,176,228/. which, at the rate of 7i per cent. on their pr rfits for England and Wales, and I believe less for Scotland, charges them with a profit of 29,016,373/. So that here again we have demonstration, almost to a frac tion, of the truth of the Doctor's estimate, and of the propor:i in of it which I have allotted to the cultiva tion of the soil of Great Britain as profit ;—for I ap prehend the allowances made to small tenants will fully balance this difference. 1 have no mode of checking the estimate of profit for the cultivators of the soil of Ireland, but the amonnt is so reasonable anal so prop .rtioned to what we can check, that I think no roan will diartrie any ,slight variation which might exist between the sum I have estimated and the fact. The next item is for tithes 2,732,8981.: this being the amount returned to Parliament for 1814, no man can deny that this was so much net profit from the soil of Great Britain in that year. The last item is for mines, minerals, and coals ; and supposing that Dr. Colquhoun is right in the aggre gate, no man can assert that the respective proportions of profit which I have assumed, are at all unreason able, but the fair and usual returns of profit actually derived from the working of mines in general. Thus have I established, by facts and figures, borne out and corroborated in every instance by the actual payments to the property tax, which amount to de monstration, that the net clear income of Great Bri tain and Ireland, arising from the land, and the skill, capita!, and industry of the cultivators of the sail, did amount, in the year 1813, to the enormous sum of at least ninety-nine millions eight hundred and forty thorium, six hundred and eight pounds ; and we have the evidence of facts before us. that, up to that year. Ind as lung as this rtr.-am of wea!th was re:eived lair, lEPollio,llol. per cent. net profit 3,796.718 and flowed through every vein and artery of the State: our taxes were paid with facility, our labourers were fully employed, our commerce and our manufacture.: flourished, and all ranks prospered in defiance dor s heavy taxation—at that time much gre:lter than it i.ll - But, in Inl4, as soon as for; gn productions, which might be grown upon our soil, were admitted duty-free, or nearly so, to compete in our own markets with our own productions, the agrieulture of t'• country was first paralised, most of our productiors fell 50 per cent., while sales were made with difficulty even at this depreciation; confidence in men and in property were alike annihiLted in a moment, and all our subsequent embarrassments are. but the effects d f that mistaken policy which luduced the Legislature i 1814 to &ten M the popular, but fatal cry of eheao bread; and to permit the import of any productiors which might be Weed from our own soil upon terms which might produce an artificial reduction in the value of our own produce. Bat let us now compare the Doctor's estimate c f , property created by our comittercz and manufactu:e,, and the profits which I have uliotted on such creation, with the payments which the merchants and Ul4l3lafat:- hirers have made on the property tax. Estima t ing the profits all round, on the sums cre4t ell, at 121 per cent., except the ..hartered and private bankers, which, on a capital of 411,700,000/. the Doc tor has estimated at considerahl> 1.-ss than 1•24 per ern:. we obtain a sum total for the prol.s on mannfactur.. in every branch, inland trade in all its brancht•, foreign commerce and shipping, roasting trade, fitlo cries, and chartered and private hankers, of no moro than the nnm of 25,1125,•111 - /. for Great Britain and Ireland. Of this sum I write off une-fifth for the share of Ireland, which leaves a net total for Great Britain alone of 2.2,1241,375/. for profit, and no more ; and I then turn to the payments under the property tax, anti find, schedule 11, trades pia 2,000,C00 which again proves to a tlemonstratii n how nearly th.. Doctor's estimate of the truth is to the fact.—For if the merchants and manufacturers of Great Britain really paid to the property tax u:.on profits to ti.e amount of 20,e00,0110f., and actually made to mere than 22,420,3751. no man can say, when all the con tingencies of trade are taken into the aecuun!, that they did not pay most handsomely and honouraitl) :o the property tax. '1 bus, Gentlemen, have I at last placed upon a rm k, which all the merchants and wanticturers in (=rt .t Britain can never assail with effect, the true Trorer tions of profit to this great nation arising hem her agriculture, her commerce, and her manufactures. The productions of the soil of the United King dom.. to IBIS, did yield? prptit to *a maim— - • lemlAin • • . 9 1 3,414111.0(14 While her commerce Mad snanufattures, during the same period, yielded a profit of only % i ( ,4' i Leaving a preponderance in favour of agriculture and the productions of the soil, over commerce and manufactures, of - - - 71.81.5, I:0 Or considerably more than twice the amount of I the profits made by all the boasted commerce and ma nufactures of Great Britain and Ireland put together. Yet this agriculture, this unfathomable mine of wealti., as long as it shall he duly prate led, has this great nation sacrificed to the mistaken views of her niere haws and manufacturers, who contend that they cannot rovi pate with foreign manufacturers in foreign nsari:--t-, with their woollens, ther earthenware, their liarduar-, and their manufuactures generally, unless bread be artificially cheap in this country; and by w •ich artificial reduction, a defalcation in the retums the productions of our own soil for the last *lt years, of considerably more than twice the amount of all the profits ever it arse by our commerce 5...4 manufactures for both our ho.iie and um foreign markets have amounted to, has arisen, ;,:al a great proportion of our labourer., both agricithiral a,•4 manufacturing, h.-ye been thrown upon their pa 1. , •• 4 for subsistence. Such, gentlemen, are the fact', the figures, and the results on which we ground our alp plicatioit to the Legislature for that protection, on all the productions of our soil, which the merchants and manufacturers have so long enjoyed, fur their capital, and industry ; but the princiele anti policy on which these claims rest, have been so fully enlarged on in a former Report, that I will nut trespass on your time by here repeating the arguments, and shall only recommend to this Committee, and the whole British nation, the most serious examination of the estimate which I have now the honour to lay befare you, that the same may be received, admitted. and acted upon, if true, and if it shall bear the test of exantioaticol; or be detected and exposed, if it shall be found to be ineerrect and fallacious. I cannot conclude this Report, gentlemen, withont e ugratalating each of you, and ti e whole class of cul tivators of the soil tlirougbont Great Britain and Ire land, that I have at last established our pretensions to the superior importance of the agriculture of this coun try over her commerce and manufactures, upon a basis which it will be difficult for all the skill and ingenuity, all the industry, and all the power of figures, in tt e hands of the most able and ingenice.s bankers, mer chants, and manufacturers this kingdom can produce, to impugn, or even to shake. The data which Docti.rlquhoun has afforded me are corroborated and borne out in every instance by the payments of the property tax ; and from the stay , spent of profits respectively which I have formed, we have this glorious result, viz. That the cultivators • f the soil of the United Kingdom, did, their skill, capital, and industry employed in ag it -gluier in l t. 13, earn for the landowner., the clergy, and taentse.ves, a net clear profit of 99,840,60 W. while, in the &oar period, all the boasted results of all the toot erte and manufactures of the United hingdo.r•, both at home and abroad, amounted to nu more than a prcfit of 28,0 t 5.-168/. If this statement will not convince the Legisl It•tre, bis Majesty otinistrrs, at d the itriash publt.•. of t..e ,stetice tit, po!icy, and the nest vit.) of Csi.t.,l Ft otet ‘.....